Cloture Rule May End Long Fight On Ship Purchase Bill
Senate resumes consideration of the government ship purchase bill after a brief truce ends. Democrats and Republicans prepare for a long siege with continuous sessions and speaker relays to press for a vote. Senator Kern declares ongoing sessions while Wheeler Senator Smith faces a challenge over unemployment figures in New York City.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Kern
Stone
Senator Smith
Michigan
Walsh
New York City
Mrs Florence Carman to Face Second Murder Trial
Freeport New York February 1 district attorney announced that Mrs Florence Conklin Carman will be tried again for the murder of Dr Edin Carman whose office was shot June 30 in the village. The first trial ended with a hung jury and she remains free on 25000 bond as a second trial is planned for May or June in Mineola.
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Associated Press
Freeport
N. Y
William Bailey
Edin Carman
Lewis J. Smith
Nassau Courty
Florence Conklin Carman
Smith
Mineola
Three Die as Train Hits Sleigh at New Gallilie
Beaver Falls news reports Lorettie Gentile, a crossing watchman, tried to halt a sleigh carrying Lintei Barstili and Guizeppi Farloli as a Pittsburgh Fort Wayne Chicago train struck it at New Gallilie. All three occupants died instantly.
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Associated Press
Beaver Falls
Lorettie Gentile
Lintei Barstili
Guizeppi Farloli
Pittsburgh
Fort Wayne
Chicago
New Gallilie
Aoean
Brumbaughs Stand Ends Campaign For Local Option
The Anti-Saloon League convention set for Chestnut Street Auditorium today is canceled as Governor Brumbaugh signals support for local option. Leaders say there is no need to press the issue.
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Anti-Saloon League
Chestnut Street
Brumbaugh
Weather forecast Harrisburg and vicinity
Rain tonight and Tuesday with warmer temperatures. Winds shift, river levels rise to about 5.4 feet by Tuesday morning as the Susquehanna and tributaries swell. Pacific storm system moving east brings snow sleet and rain across the region. latest readings show a high of 28 and a low of 20 with mean 24. Moonrise 7 13 p m. Sunset 5 22 p m. River stage 4 8 feet.
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Harrisburg
Susaquehanna
I Love Him but Divorce Follows Odd Demands
Marie Middlekoff told Judge McCarrell she spent her husband Oliver G Middlekoff’s savings of over 2000 dollars and refused to work as he would not. He demanded she supply and launder two shirts and silk stockings daily and press his trousers each morning. After his disappearance she searched states from Newport News to Norfolk while seeking legal separation in January 1911.
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Oliver G. Middlekoff
Newport News
Norfolk
Marie Middlekoff
J. M. McCarrell
Mrs. Middlekoff
Bride Hope Stirs Washington as Justice McReynolds Linked
Rumors swirl in capital society of a match between Associate Justice McReynolds and Miss Lucy Burleson daughter of the Postmaster General. Sightings of a possible engagement ring and public flirtations at a theater fuel reports of a betrothal, though details remain unconfirmed.
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United States Supreme Court
Washington
Capital Society
Lucy Burlero
McReynolds
Miss Burleson
Marshall
Justice McReynolds
Preferred Land of Mormons to Life on a Farm Ends in Divorce
Dell Crowder, a long-traveled salesman, moved his family to a Fish ing Creek Valley farm seeking rest. Upon arrival he found his wife Goldie Shannon Crowder and relatives missing. In January divorce court he sought legal dissolution while admitting her whereabouts were unknown. She allegedly told neighbors she planned to go to Utahe.
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Fishing Creek Valley
Dell Crowder
Goldie Shannon Crowder
Dell
Crowder
Kunkel
Preachers Urged to Back Brumbaugh in Local Option Fight
Local clergy urged to support Governor Brumbaugh and anti liquor laws during a Day of field services led by Dr. Charles F. Swift of the Anti Saloon League. Women's Christian Temperance Union plans to distribute 5000 pamphlets listing liquor license applicants and owners of saloons. A Lutheran ministerial conference prep for the pre Lent season was noted and a Steelton prisoner of war letter described his safe treatment in Russia.
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Brumbaugh
Methodist Ministerial Association
Young Men's Christian Association
Charles F. Swift
Washington County
Anti-Saloon League
Swift
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Dauphin County
Revivalist uses baby doll to mock modern dress
In Baltimore on February 1, Rev. Dr. Weston Bruner of Fuller Memorial Baptist Church staged a dramatic illustration to condemn what he called irregularities in modern feminine attire. He produced a rosy faced blonde baby doll from a hidden recess and used it to illustrate his sermon stunt.
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Baltimore
Billy
Fuller Memorial Baptist Church
Weston Bruner
Taylor Selects Lloyd as Royal Firehouse Architect
City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor awarded the contract for preparing plans and specifications for the new Thirteenth ward fire house to C. Howard Lloyd after consultation with a Royal Fire Company committee and Fire Chief John C. Kindler. Bids will be solicited within weeks.
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Royal Fire Company
Edward Lewis
John G. Hauck
George B. Sprout
Lewis Lickel
Millard M. Tawney
John C. Kindler
Ed. Halbert
M. Harvey Taylor
Thirteenth Ward
C. Howard Lloyd
Philadelphia man drops dead during billiards game
R. R. Vantine a 47 year old Philadelphia traveling representative for Barber Asphalt Paving Company died of heart failure at 2 PM while playing billiards at the Lester Holtzman parlors 323 Market Street Harrisburg. He had heart attacks in the past and had made Harrisburg his headquarters on Central Pennsylvania trips for four years. He leaves a widow and one son. body to Philadelphia tonight. he was a close friend of Charles E. Covert of Central Construction and Supply Company.
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R. R. Vantine
Philadelphia
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
Lester Holtzman
Market Street
Vantine
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Otorm Brings Joy 106 500 Youngsters
More than 8 500 pupils are excused from the afternoon session due to city street conditions from snow sleet and rain. Central and Technical high schools attended all day. Rain totals near 1 5 inches in twenty four hours, two inches of snow yesterday. Groundhog day brings rain forecast. Susquehanna rivers rising to 5.6 feet. One hospital accident reported as Daniel Sornberger dislocated shoulder after slip on Chestnut street. Traffic delayed citywide.
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Central and Technical High Schools
St. Louis
Susquehanna
Harrisburg
E. R. Demain
Harrisburg Hospital
Daniel Sornberger
Sylvan Terrace
Chestnut Street
Sinking of Tokomaru Stirs French Press Fire
Paris reports the British steamer Tokomaru was torpedoed in the English Channel off Havre by a German submarine with no warning to the crew. The incident spurs French indignation and references Admiral von Tirpitz’s interview advocating commerce war by submarines.
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Associated Press
Paris
Havre
von Tirpitz
Submarine Not Seen After Steamer Tokomaru Sinking
London reports a crew member from the British steamer Tokomaru describes the sinking after a torpedo attack in the English Channel. The ship was nearly stationary when the explosion struck. a heavy list followed and lifeboats were launched with most crew lost. No submarine sighting was reported by survivors.
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Associated Press
London
English Channel
Beidleman to push park extension and county bridge bills
Senator Edward E Beidleman will introduce a 300 000 park extension bill to complete property purchases in the Capitol Park district noting the 2 000 000 original appropriation will run out next year. He will also present a uniform sales bill and an act amending 1913 bridges law requiring plans profiles and public inspection before bids with patent design clauses to govern contracts.
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Capitol Park Extension
Senate
Edward E. Beidleman
Brumbaugh
Aot
Beidleman
Commission
L Egal
Con- Bau Cea
Despondent Real Estate Operator Kills Wife and Daughters
Special to The Telegraph New York February 1 Armed with a magazine rifle and automatic silencer Herman Auerbach a wealthy real estate operator driven by financial reverses shot and killed his wife and two daughters as they slept with dum dum bullets then killed himself leaving one son Lester surviving.
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New York
Herman Auerbach
Lester
Central Iron and Steel Work Day and Night
The Central Iron and Steel Company will run all departments around the clock this week to meet a bridge order from Memphis Tennessee. General Superintendent Robert H Irons warned that activity remains uncertain with weekly idle periods likely and no clear prospect of sustained demand.
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Central Tron and Steel Company
Memphis
Tenn
Robert H. Irons
Central Iron and Steel Company
Germans Sink British Steamers in Irish Sea and English Channel
The German submarine U-21 attacked Saturday afternoon near Liverpool, sinking three steamships the Ben Cruachen Linda Blanche and Kilcoan whose crew was landed on the Isle of Man. A second U-boat torpedoed two more British steamers Tokomaru and Icaria near Havre.
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London
Irish Sea
Liverpool
Isle of Man
English Channel
Havre
Threat Trouble Causes Kaiser's Return to City
A report from Berlin via Amsterdam says Kaiser Wilhelm II returned to Berlin from the front due to ill health. He plans to consult his medical adviser about the threat that has troubled him, and observers note his voice is barely audible when he speaks.
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Kaiser
London
Berlin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
Revival campaigns decried by former Senate chaplain
Philadelphia report quotes Rev Ulysses G. Pierce former United States Senate chaplain as saying religious revival campaigns degrade Christianity by appealing to baser emotions rather than intellect. He spoke in Washington as the campaigns drew public attention.
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Philadelphia
Ulysses G. Pierce
Washington, D. C
United States Senate
Germany Opens Campaign to Destroy England's Commerce
Front line fighting resumes on the Warsaw front with reports of trench battles near Borsimow where Germans were driven from positions. The Russian War Office says Tabriz in Northern Persia has fallen to Russian forces and Greece plans to aid Servia if Austro German forces invade. German newspapers claim a new policy of submarine warfare against British maritime commerce with five ships torpedoed recently, highlighting long range of submarines up to 1 000 miles.
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Kaiser’s
Greece
Servia
Warsaw
Poland
Petrograd
Vistula
Borsimow
Tabriz
Persia
Russian War Office
Athens
Germany
England
Trish Sea
English Channel
Russians Pleased With Gains At War's Half Year Mark
A Russian aide de camp to Emperor Nicholas reports the second line of troops is larger and soldiers tougher after six months of fighting. He notes Russian territory has been occupied in East Prussia and Galicia, while German gains remain similar to the war's start. The report comes from Petrograd via London.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
London
Nicholas
Caucasus
East Prussia
Galicia
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