President weighs arms embargo as Mexico crisis looms
Washington reports a high level conference on Mexico with hints Washington may soon ease arms embargo for constitutionalists. Senators caution over intervention while Huerta regime worsens, and talks cover arbitration treaties with Britain Japan Italy Portugal and Panama canal toll changes.
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Wilson
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Rio Grande
Mexico
United States
Huerta
Great Britain
Japan
Italy
Portugal
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Colombia
Panama
Itis
California
State Department
King Alfonso to Visit Argentina in June
A Madrid dispatch reports King Alfonso will visit the Argentine Republic in June. He will be accompanied by the premier and the minister of marine.
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Argentina
Paris
Madrid
Alfonso
Marine
Australian States Named for Panama-Pacific Exhibit
Positive assurances indicate Victoria and New South Wales of Australia and New Zealand will be represented at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The announcement comes from Melbourne with plans for participation at the fair.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
New South Wales
New Zealand
House Democrats Approve Mine Disorder Inquiry
A House Democratic caucus voted 149 to 17 to launch a congressional inquiry into strikes at a Colorado coal mine and a Michigan copper mine. The investigation, led by Foster of Illinois and Keating of Colorado, aims to assess peonage, legal blockages, and possible arms shipments, with hearings expected in Denver Pueblo and perhaps Trinidad within two weeks. In Trinidad, state cavalry charged strikers near San Rafael hospital, injuring one striker and causing a trooper to break a rib when his horse fell. Nineteen people were arrested, four women released later.
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Colorado
Michigan
House Democrats
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Foster
Ilnois Ie
Keating
McDonald
Denver
Pueblo
Trinidad
Naturalization
Colo
San Rafael Hospital
Mary Jones
Chase
Siegel Offers To Settle Creditors In Reorganization Plan
New York announces a first draft of a settlement proposal by Henry Siegel and Frank E. Woge. Creditors of the Fourteenth Street store would receive 45 cents on the dollar, Stimpson Crawford creditors 40 cents, while the store’s bank depository would be offered full payment with some cash. The plan envisions reorganizing and relocating the store in Boston.
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New York
Henry Siegel
Frank E. Woge
Fourteenth Street
Stimpson- Crawford Company
Toston
Five Die In Storm Toll Rises In California Deluge
Five persons drown in the storm that swept Los Angeles with record rains totaling 15.92 inches. Hugh Spear Haven of Chicago is among the dead as floods wreck homes, damage railroads, and an estimated $500,000 in losses is reported. A blizzard hits the north Pacific coast.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Hugh Spear Haven
Chicago
North Pacific Coast
Hotel Walton Fire Forces Guests Into Snow in Homestead
Fifteen guests fled in their night clothes to the snow covered street as a blaze gutted the first and second floors of the Hotel Walton in Homestead Pittsburgh area. The loss is estimated at $30,000. Fire crews battled the flames through the night.
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Pittsburgh
Walton
Homestead
Daredevil Dan Flies 67 Loops in One Flight
Antwerp reports aviator Jan Olislaegens known as Daredevil Dan looped the loop 67 times in a single flight on Monday. He completed several full back somersaults during the stunt.
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Antwerp
Jan Olislaegens
Daredevil
Dan
Wreck Kills Five on Michigan Road
Jackson Michigan January 27 five persons were killed and about twenty injured Sunday night when Michigan Central passenger No 70 from Saginaw collided head on with a freight train three miles from Jackson. The smoker and baggage car were crushed trapping passengers while rescue work continued into the night. Engineer Cal Johnson was identified among the deceased and the crash is blamed on a mis understanding of orders.
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Jackson
Mich
Michigan Central
Saginaw
Cal Johnson
James B. Cheney
Detroit
Alaska Railway Bill Passed by Senate
In Washington the senate voted 46 to 16 to approve an Alaska railway bill authorizing the president to purchase or build up to 1000 miles of railroad in Alaska at a cost not exceeding 40 million dollars. A similar bill is under consideration in the house. The president would select the route from tidewater to the interior and oversee construction equipment operation or lease of the lines. The measure grants broad powers to the president.
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Senate
Washington
Alaska
House
Tidewater
Elliott resigns as Boston & Maine chairman
Howard Elliott, chairman of the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad, resigns as chairman and director of the Boston & Maine. He cites retirement in light of negotiations between Attorney General McReynolds and the New Haven company over dissolving the New Haven system.
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Boston
Howard Elliott
New York, New Slaven & Hartford Railroad Company
Boston & Maine Railroad
Elliott
Boston & Maine
McReynolds
New Haven Company
New Haven
Sayres At Capital After Honeymoon Visit
Mr and Mrs Sayre reached the White House with the Wilsons after a two months honeymoon trip. They accompanied the president and Mrs Wilson to a theater Saturday night. In New York on January 16 Miss Margaret Wilson climbed the side of the steamship Majestic at quarantine to greet her sister Jessie Sayre and her husband Francis Howes Sayre.
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Washington
Sayre
White House
President
Wilson
New York
Margaret Wilson
Majestic
Jessie
Francis Howes Sayre
Post office bill passes House with record 305 million
Washington January 27 the post office appropriation bill carrying a record total of 305 million dollars was approved by the house. An amendment provides one year full salary for on duty injuries and two additional years at half salary with a 2000 death benefit. extending to clerks carriers and messengers. A separate item notes a train accident near Amsterdam where Oscar Miles and a woman were killed at a crossing while warning Miss Hiamann.
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Washington
House
Amsterdam
Noted Southern Soldier Dead
Washington January 28 Captain Bo P Thomson of the Gordon Rangers in the Confederate army died at Clarendon Via in his seventy sixth year. Death was due to pneumonia.
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Washington
Bo P. Thomson
Gordon Rangers
Clarendon
Via
Pneunonia
Bandit Robs Michigan Central Train Near Jackson
A lone bandit on Michigan Central No 7 held up the westbound train near Jackson Michigan at 1 45 am seizing under 300 dollars from passengers and forcing Pullman porters into the spotlight The robber identified as Louis Thombs used a cautious exit by leaping from the slowing train near Parma Michigan after courage and precision by porters and crew prevented further raids.
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Chicago
Michigan Central
Jackson
Mich
Detroit
Central Station
Holtop
Louis” Thombs
Parma
Millionaire for a Day McDevitt Hires Train to Washington
Wilkesbarre supports John J. McDevitt known as Millionaire for a Day as he plans a special train to Washington February 3. He paid 450 dollars for the train to Lehigh Valley railroad and has hired the United States Marine Band to escort him with four guards. He will use the remainder of the 3000 dollars raised to secure comforts for a one day journey and presentation to Congress and the nation.
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J. J. McDevitt
Washington
Wilkesbarre
John J. McDevitt
McDevitt
Congress
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Roosevelt opposed to amalgamation with Republicans
Springfield, Jan. 2. At a Progressive round-up in the Twenty first district Raymond Robins of Chicago said Theodore Roosevelt had authorized him to declare Roosevelt's unalterable opposition to any merger with Republicans. Robins said Roosevelt would make three speeches in Illinois in the coming campaign. A Sangamon County Progressive banquet decided to field complete tickets.
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Withelson
Springfeld
Progressive Party
Twenty-first Congressional District
Raymond Robina
Chicago
State Central Committee
Theodore Roosevelt
Repub Ictans
Roosevelt
Witnois
Sangamon County
Gompers to be summoned by United Mine Workers
Indianapolis Jan 28 The United Mine Workers of America meet and vote unanimously to request Samuel Gompers president of the AFL to appear before their convention and explain the federation's stance after Charles H Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners accused AFL inactivity in the Michigan copper strike deliberations.
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Samuel Gompers
Indianapolis
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Michigan
American Federation of Labor
Inlted Mine Workers of America
Federation
Aviator Temple Dies In Hendon Air Disaster
George Lee Temple, the first aviator to fly upside down in Britain, was killed when his aircraft plunged to the ground at Hendon aerodrome. He was twenty two years old.
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Temple
London
George Lee Temple
Odi
Hendon
Noted Astronomer Sir David Gil Dies at 69
London tributes poured in for Sir David Gil a renowned Scottish astronomer who died here on Saturday aged seventy and described as one of the world’s most widely known scientists.
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London
Sir David Gil
Sir David
Teachers Meet in Indianapolis For Historic Sessions
The Indiana State Teachers' association history section will meet February 13 14 at the Claypool hotel Indianapolis joining with the Indiana Historical Society. Sessions feature talks on civics history and a state constitution with officers to be elected and reports on finances and membership.
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Claypool Hotel
History Section
Indiana State Association
Historical Society
Indianapolis
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Claypool
Indiana Historical Society
Harry W. Wood
Manual Training High School
Oscar H. Williams
Bloomington
Thomas F. Moran
Purdue University
Indiana
Harlow Lindley
Earlham “College
United States
Jacob P. Dunn
Demarchus C. Brown
James A. Woodburn
Indiana University
John A. Lapp
Progressives Elect District Chairmen in Indiana Conventions
The Progressives held conventions in ten of Indiana's thirteen districts and elected district chairmen who will join the reorganized state central committee, possibly in May. Resolutions favored separate tickets and opposed fusion with other parties. District committeemen named include Adams Rockport, Richards Patricksburg, Stalker Horden, Newson E Town, McNutt Brazil, Roberts Green, Lenich Union City, Lye Noblesville, Coffin Monticello, McGreevy Wabash.
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Indiana
State Central Committee
William F. Adams
Rockport
Renosa Richards
Patricksburg
Z. B. Stalker
Horden
Will H. Newson
Elizabethtown
Lewis McNutt
Brazil
Howard T. Roberts
Greenfield
L. Ray Lenich
Union City
William Holton Lye
Noblesville
Pr. K.R. Coffin
Monticello
Neil McGreevy
Wabash
State Postmasters Named in Senate Nominations
Nominations for Indiana postmasters were sent to the Senate in Washington D C listing W H Shultz Middlebury Robert L D Bible Waynetown William O Wilson Mount Vernon Charles A Durrenberger Bedford Jacob Kisler Hoombville John W Rand Columbia City George P Schurn Covington William K Livengood French Lick John A Herzog Mishawaka John T Dilley Mitchell Frank B Vawter Tipton Richard M Robingoy Vincennes
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Indiana
Senate
Washington, D. C
W. H. Shultz
Middlebury
Robert LD. Bible
Waynetown
William O. Wilson
Mount Vernon
Charles A. Durrenberger
Bedford
Jacob Kisler
Hoonville
John W.rand
Columbia City
George P. Schurn
Covington
William K. Livengood
French Lick
John A. Herzog
Mishawaka
John T. Dilley
Mitchell
Frank
Vawter
Tipton
Richard M. Robingo
Vincennes
Coal Dealers Set Midwest Convention in Indianapolis
The Michigan Ohio and Indiana Coal Dealers association will meet in Indianapolis this year after directors accepted an invitation from the Retail Coal Merchants Credit Association of Indianapolis. Date likely around June 15, with twelve directors present. H. H. Deam of Bluffton and B. F. Nigh of Columbus attended. John A. George was the Indianapolis director. The Indianapolis group hosted a dinner at the Columbia Club for visiting directors.
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Reta
Indiana
Indianapolis
Indiana Association
Cc. W. Lang
Bedford
C. E. Foster
Valparaiso
Harry C. Scearce
Mooresville
George J. Maas
C. D. Meeker
Monticello
Albert Greely
Munc
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana Coal Dealers’ Association
Coal Merchants’ Credit Association of
H. H. Deam
Bluffton
Ape Bh. F. Nigh
Columbus
John A. George
Retail Coal Merchants’ Credit Association of
Columbia Club
Population rise in Indiana state institutions outpaced state growth
Indiana board of state charities reports over ten years the inmate count in state and county supported institutions grew by 1.2 percent while the state population rose 7.3 percent. At year end 191? the total inmates reached 17,494, up 3,066 since ten years prior, with state facilities up 8.2 percent, county jails and poor asylums up 11 percent, and orphans homes up 3 percent. The data illustrate a trend cited by eugenics and sociology advocates.
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Indiana
Amos W. Butler
Board of State Charities
Indiana Board
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