River coal wharf plans eyed to ease Market street traffic
City officials will inspect Verbeke street and Paxton street loading points to shift coal traffic from Market street. Aimed at closing a wall gap, the plan includes legislative steps to create a coal wharf on Verbeke Island and may mark the ultimate elimination of Market street docking.
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Verbeke Street
H. Bowman
M. B. Cowden
Market Street
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
Paxton
Verbeke
Bowman
Paxton Streets
Commissioner of Public Safety
Board of Public Works
D. S. Seitz
City
Stucker Brothers Construction Company
Denied Entrance to U S He Shoots Himself Dead
Carl C Mogensen, ordered deported by Ellis Island after admitting moral turpitude, killed himself in a room adjoining the board room. He had arrived from Copenhagen and faced charges over bonds taken from the Danish National Bank where he was employed.
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New York
Ellis Island
Carl C. Mogensen
Mogensen
Board Room
Copenhagen
Danish National Bank
Hope Persists for Ship, Philippine and Shields Bills
President Wilson conferred with Senators Stone Simmons and Fletcher and reiterated at the White House that he has not abandoned hope for passage of the ship Philippine and Shields water power bills in the final seven days of Congress. Senate work resumes on big appropriation bills ahead of adjournment as Congress pushes to clear pending legislation. In Cambridge, Prof. Pickering says Metcalf's comet discovery was an error caused by mistaking asteroid lampetia for a celestial wanderer, and that the comet would be far less brilliant than the asteroid.
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Francis Shunk Brown
General Assembly
Attorney General
Associated Press
Washington, D C
Wilson
Congress
Stone
Simmons
Fletcher
White House
Washington, D. C
Senate
Cambridge
Mass
Metcalf
E. C. Pickering
Weather report for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Rain and cooler tonight with partly cloudy and cooler conditions Thursday. Winds shift to west tonight as rivers rise due to high temperatures and rainfall. Harrisburg area forecast shows about 8.5 feet river level Thursday morning. full moon March 1. Mean temp 48, high 59, low 37.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Arrest Three For Getting Boy Drunk
Three people were arrested for furnishing liquor to Joseph Cleckner a 15 year old boy. Nelson Graybill former policeman and Mr and Mrs Edwin Troyman were taken into custody at their addresses. The boy, found drunk in a gutter near Calder and Wallace streets, recovered at Harrisburg Hospital and testified that he drank at Graybill s wagon. The case goes before Mayor John K Royal tomorrow. Graybill posted bail.
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Joseph Cleckner
Nelson Graybill
Calderstreet
Edwin Troyman
Lochiel Row
Cleckner
Calder and Wallace
Graybill
Grand Street
Troyman
Buch
Schelhas
Mehring
Harrisburg
Troy
Checkner
John K. Royal
Germans Lose 50000 Men in Russian Front Attack
Paris reports Ludovic Naudeau, Journal correspondent, witnessed German losses of at least 50000 men in the Rawka river region and Borjimov Gumbinnen operations. He says the general situation favors the Russians as German forces melt away amid feverish activity and costly sacrifices.
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Associated Press
Paris
Rawka River
Borjimov
Gumbinnen
Ludovic Naudeau
Journal
Posoed Entrenched Near Indian Camp
Durango Colorado February 24 Tse Ne Gat a Piute Indian sought by federal officers for murder remains at large. Marshal Nebeker and his force are entrenched west of Bluff Utah with the fugitive and his band nearby in Butler Washington eight miles west of Bluff. Havane son in law of Old Polk wounded while escaping and in serious condition after guards opened fire.
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Durango
Colo
Tse-Ne- Gat
United States
Nebeker
Bluff
Utah
Polk
Butler
Wash
Shiprock
Havane
British Transport Sunk Reported By Berlin
The report claims a British transport was sunk off Beachy Head with Berlin noting a possible reference to a British naval collier. Paris sources add risk of wider invasion delays and Russian defeats cited in ongoing eastern battles near Przasnysz and the Carpathians.
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Poland
Petrograd
Przasnysz
Berlin
Russia
Paris
Carpathians
Russian War Office
Beachy Head
England
London
Desperate Russian Resistance to German Push Reported
A Russian official communication describes the Twentieth Corps in East Prussia holding out after being cut off from the Tenth Army. Despite being surrounded between Goldap and Suwalki, they inflicted heavy losses and repelled four-front attacks until exhausted. Nearby notes report Carpathian gains of officers and men.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
East Prussia
Tenth
Goldap and
Suwalki
Acklin Nominated for Pittsburgh Customs Collector Post
President Wilson announces George W. Acklin of Pittsburgh as collector of customs for the Pittsburgh district. Benjamin F. Davis of Lancaster is named collector of internal revenue for the Ninth Pennsylvania district. Melville J. France of Brooklyn is nominated as United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
George W. Acklin
Pittsburgh
Benjamin F. Davis
Lancaster
Internal Revenue
Pennsylvania
Melville J. France
Brooklyn
N. Y
United States
New York
21 Cities Query Morton for Tractors and Trucks
Morton Truck and Tractor Company reports an order from the Russian government for 300 large tractors and notes bright prospects for additional sales. Negotiations are underway with fire departments in twenty one cities for gasoline fire trucks and inquiries arrive from western grain states for heavy farm tractors. British government communications about a large tractor order may arrive soon.
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Morton Trucks and Tractor Company
Pittsburgh Seeks $2 Million Rail Material Order
The Pittsburgh Foreign Trade Commission reports a Russian Imperial government inquiry for railroad materials to aid wartime railway extensions. Prices are requested for 5,000 axles and wheels, 30,000 to 60,000 tiles, 30,000 rough axles, and 10,000 rough wheels, with the order valued near $2,000,000.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Foreign Trade Commission
Rumanians Promise to Take Field in April
Paris dispatch reports Nicholas Misu the Romanian minister to London will return to England with a note from Bucharest promising the Romanian army will enter the field in April. In Illinois a grocer John H. Stutzman and three of his children were burned to death when their home burned early today. a 17 year old son escaped.
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Paris
Associated Press
Nicholas Misu
London
England
Matin
Bucharest
Nish
Malta
East St. Louis
Ill
John H. Stutzman
Woman Jumps From Washington Monument Killed
The first successful death by own action from the Washington monument occurred yesterday afternoon when Mae Varny Cockrell of Covington Kentucky leaped from a landing 470 feet high three floors below the top. The elevator was up at the time. She fell about 500 feet into the pit below ground level.
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Washington
Washington Monument
Mae Varny Cockrell
Covington
Beekeepers Seek $50,000 for Apiary Inspection State Beekeepers press for state funds
At their convention the Beekeepers adopt resolutions urging the Legislature to appropriate 50 000 to permit immediate statewide apiary inspections. They argue quick inspection saves colonies and boosts honey output and push laws to ban spraying fruit trees in bloom to protect bees. Speakers include J George M Speele Y Hoke A N Coons KE A Weimer Dr H A Surface and H C Klinger. Dr Surface re elected president.
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J. George M. Speele
Philadelphia
Y. ‘Heke
York
A. N. Coons
Couders
Port
Hoke
KE. A. Weimer
Lebanon
E. F. Phillips
Harrisburg Jitney Plan Moves Fast Toward Charter
A charter for Harrisburgs proposed jitney motorbus service will be applied for on March 18. The Harrisburg Jitney Transportation Company of Harrisburg stockholders will submit incorporators plans to the Public Service Commission for a hearing date. Attorney Charles C. Stroh serves as counsel. The venture, valued at about 25000 dollars, aims to place a central Market Square terminal with a large garage on the city outskirts likely for housing the new buses.
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Harrissburg
Jitney
Jitney Transportation Company of
Harrisburg
Public Service Commission
Charles C. Stroh
Pennsylvania
Market Square
Direct tax urged to cover New York state obligations
Albany reports Governor Whitman urged a direct tax of 18 813 308 dollars for state needs this year and asked lawmakers to withhold appropriation bills until a comprehensive funding plan is ready. Berlin dispatches note rising obstacles to Russia invasion and continued hard fighting in the Carpathians with stubborn engagements and Russian resolve.
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Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Whitman
Berlin
London
Russia
East Prussia
Hangs by Coat-Tail at Tenth Story
Chicago, Feb. 24. Carl Olson, 62, an asbestos worker, dangled ten stories above the street from his coat while repairing at City Hall. He slipped but his coat caught, saving him until rescuers freed him.
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Chicago
Ill
Carl Olson
City Hall
Marine Corps Captain Shoots and Kills Self
Philadelphia February 24 Captain A. E. Harding a United States Marine Corps officer shot and killed himself at the Racquet Club where he was a nonresident member. Police have not yet determined a cause. Harding served as an aide to President Taft, was born in Illinois in 1873 and joined the Marine Corps in 1899.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
A. E. Harding
United States Marine Corps
Harding
Taft
Illinois
Marine Corps
Second American Steamer Destroyed in North Sea
A second American steamer, the Carib, has sunk in the North Sea with a valuable cotton cargo. Two British steamers were torpedoed in the last 24 hours. England closes the Irish Channel entrance except a narrow daylight strip near the coast. Navigation restrictions imitate those once used in the English channel.
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London
North Sea
England
English Channel
Texas man named football coach for Carlisle Indian School
Victor M. Kelley of Texas was appointed by Indian Commissioner Cato Sells as coach of the Carlisle Indian School football team for next season. He will report in time for fall training after having played quarterback for Carlisle in 1908 and later attending Texas A and M College. The announcement came as a surprise to the Indian School community.
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Victor M. Kelley
Texas
Carlisle Indian School
Carlisle
Washington, D. C
Cato Sells
The
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Berlin Studies U S Food and Submarine Proposals Note
Berlin newspapers show interest in the American note to the Foreign Office of February 22. It outlines informal civilian food supply proposals and submarine activity terms. The German government is now considering the note.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
Foreign Office
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