Militant Leader Pankhurst Receives Three Year Sentence
London April 3. A prison record shows Emmeline Pankhurst militant suffragist receiving three years for conspiracy in a bomb plot after a long series of prior sentences and protests. She pledged good conduct and was released on bond after a hunger strike.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
House of Commons
Downing Street
Pethick Lawrence
Christabel Pankhurst
Oxford
Regent
Bond Street
Paris
Emme line Pankhurst Convicted At Old Bailey
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst militant suffragette leader was found guilty of inciting the destruction of property by a jury at Old Bailey in London. She was sentenced to three years penal servitude as supporters hissed and jeered throughout the verdict.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Old Bailey
Central Criminal Court
Unlucky Push Sparks Divorce Case In Chicago
Mae Dolph testified that a mistaken button press by a tailor led to a blackout in her home. The incident prompted suspicion and deteriorating home life. Dolph, a former law partner of Senator Albert J. Hopkins, seeks custody of his children.
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Chicago
Mae Dolph
Dolphs
Dolph
Albert J. Hopkins
United States
Illinois
Wife May Defend Professor Olson in Murder Trial
Mrs. Cathrine Olson, wife of Professor O M Olson, likely will testify for the defense in the murder trial of Clyde N Darling. The defense plans insanity or home defense claims, alleging Darling had threatened to kill Olson and others after pursuing Olson’s wife.
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ST. Paul
Catherine Olson
O. M. Olson
Clyde N. Darling
Olson
Darling
D. C. Jones
Co. A. Fosness
Despoiler
Florists Refuse Flowers Alongside Cubist Pictures
Chicago April 3 Exhibitors in the spring flower show of the Horticultural Society refuse to display their blooms in the Art Institute galleries with Cubist pictures. The show is staged in the Art Institute where old master works are hidden by rows of rare flowers.
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Chicago
Art Institute
The
Horticultural Society
Twenty Immigrant Girls Missing From Train to Chicago
Twenty young immigrant women from New York bound for Chicago on a Baltimore and Ohio train vanished at Newcastle Pennsylvania. Officials believe they may have fallen into white slavery hands. The group, of Polish Danish French and Norwegian descent, left New York March 17 with 150 in the party. Investigation opened in Chicago and New York with federal and state officials reviewing potential abduction.
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Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
New York
C. F. DeWoody
Federal Department of Justice
DeWoody
Newcastle
United States
Pittsburg
Nels Juul
Illinois Senate
Juul
C. C. Quayle
Welfare Committee
Quayle
Quayie
Andrew Silverson
Baltimore & Ohio Today
Stanley W Finch
Department of Justice
Chippewa Flood Raises River Here
The river at Chippewa Falls rose seven inches in twelve hours after ice gorge breakage. Forecasts predict over a foot rise in the next forty eight hours at this point. Government reports note high water above St. Louis and in the upper river, with potential slight impact on the Mississippi below.
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Chippewa Falls
St. Louis
Ohio
Mississippi
Ten years over split big stake in Swift estate
Chicago April 3 Following a will clause Gustavus Franklin Swift founder of the packing company and refrigerator car system heirs may divide the estate ten years after his death. Since his passing heirs have tripled the value. the estate now estimated near 25 million dollars. Fight children to share the inheritance. Louis F. Swift eldest heir heads the Swift interests with Edward F. Swift Charles H. Swift Gustavus H. Swift Jr George H. Swift Harold H. Swift and Mrs Edward Morris and Mrs E Hammond Everz as co heirs.
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Chicago
Gustavus Franklin Swift
Packer
Swift
Louis F. Swift
Packing Company
Edward F. Swift
Charles H. Swift
Gustavus H. Swift, Jr
George H. Swift
Harold H. Swift
Edward Morris
E. Hammond Everz
Brewers Reach New Three Year Contract Ending Strike Threat
The brewers and brewery workers agreed to a new contract effective April 1 for three years. Negotiations spanned about thirty days with Otto Kowalke John Gannon Otto Martin Sheldon Weber H Heberlein and Louis Schreiber representing workers and John Rae and John Rader assisting. Officials from breweries attended. The pact, not fully public, is described as highly satisfactory and preserves the existing beer allowance per day. Both sides denied claims that the wage or beer provisions differed from prior terms.
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Messrs
Otto Kowalke
John Gannon
Otto Martin
Sheldon Weber
H. Heberlein
Louis Schreiber
John Rae
John Rader
Milwaukee
International Union
Fred H. Hartwell
Bottlers’ Union
Weather outlook and river flood update for La Crosse area
Temperature in La Crosse ranged from a low of 4 to a high of 52 with .26 inch precipitation. The forecast calls for rain or snow tonight and Friday with mixed clearing from the northwest. River flood stage shows La Crosse at 5.8 feet, rising about a foot in 48 hours.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Texas
Lake
Atlantic
Montana
Wyoming
Middle Atlantic
North Pacific
Rocky Mountain
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Colorado
Nebraska
St. Paul
Red Wing
Lansing
Winnebago Indian funds settled on $900000 split
Interior Department finalizes trust distribution for the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska and Wisconsin. Wisconsin receive $534,354.73 and Nebraska $344,932.18 from the joint funds, with about $425 per person. Wisconsin will get annuities unless a member proves suitability for lump sum. Distribution begins with $27,000 advanced to L. M. Compton at the Tomah school.
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Interior Department of the United States
Nebraska
Wisconsin
John J. Esch
Department of the Interior
Wisconsin Winnebagoes
Interior Department
Minnesota
Usher’s Landing
Dakota
Heinze Reconciles With Wife Before Her Death
F Augustus Heinze, copper magnate, reconciled with his wife on her death bed and prepared to accompany her body to Toledo Ohio for burial. The couple's 18 month old son F Augustus Heinze Jr. was cited as the bond that united them as doctors warned of Mrs Heinze's critical condition.
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New York
F. Augustus Heinze
Bernice Golden Henderson-Heinze
Toledo
Ohio
F. Augustus Heinze, Jr
French Arrest German Officers After Zeppelin Landing
In Luneville France on April 3 German army officers in uniform were seized by French authorities after landing in a disabled Zeppelin. They claimed to have departed from Lake Constance and were forced down by a broken propeller. General Lescault detained them despite their protests of not spying, signaling potential international tensions.
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Luneville
France
Lescault
Lake Constance
Ennobled Waitress Weds Danish Noble in Prince Albert
Lena Roy a 18 year old dining room girl at the Wilburn hotel in Fall River becomes countess by a Danish court decree. She marries Hon Huno Von Holstein Rathbon heir of Lord Frederick Emile Von Holstein Rathbon in Prince Albert. The couple depart for a US honeymoon then Denmark via Fall River to visit her sister.
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Prince Albert
Sask
Lena Roy
Huno von Holstein Rathbon
Frederick Emile von Holstein Rathbon
Denmark
Christian
United States
Fall River
Mass
Wilburn
Morgan Protegee A La Grosse Man
Albin Polashek Philadelphia art student and former La Crosse resident, credited with making the death mask of financier J. Pierpont Morgan and sponsored by Morgan for European studies. A small, muscular Bohemian in his early thirties, Polashek previously worked at Hackner factory and created the St. Michael statue for the Chapel of Perpetual Adoration.
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Albin Polashek
Philadelphia
Satterlee
J. Pierpont Morgan
la Crosse
Hackner
St. Michael
Ninth Street
Chapel of Perpetual Adoration
Polashek
Institute of Art
Philadelphia Institute
American Institute
Rome
Morgan
Mr. Polashek
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
America
Old Country
Miss Brooks to Wed Chicago Reporter
Miss Virginia Brooks a militant suffragist faces a pending wedding to Charles S. Washburn a young newspaper reporter after Washburn obtained a license in West Hammond Indiana. Brooks could not be reached earlier and denied prior engagement reports before latest announcement.
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Chicago
Virginia Brooks
West Hammond
Charles S. Washburn
Washburn
Wiss Brooks
Sheas
ShawneeTown Flood Crisis Surges at Cairo
River at Cairo reaches new record height six inches higher than ever. Shawneetown endures widespread flooding as residents and relief workers race to safeguard homes and evacuate at risk areas amid rising waters. Local officials declare emergency and coordinate aid efforts.
Guardsmen Saved From Flood At Bird Point Crumbling Levee
Evansville Indiana April 3 guardsmen were rescued after being marooned on a deteriorating levee at Bird Point amid the Ohio and Mississippi river floods. Caseyville Kentucky reportedly wiped out with 500 residents. A relief boat was dispatched to Caseyville as three flood deaths were tallied in Hickman Kentucky and 1500 people destitute in Columbus Kentucky.
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Bird Point
Evansville
Ind
Caseyville
Morganfield
Wabash River
Ohio
Wabash
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
Hickman
Columbus
Ohio River rises toward 55 feet near Cairo
The Ohio River crested at 54.6 feet by 2 p m with forecaster Lindley predicting a rise past 55 feet by Friday. Levees around Cairo are reported in good shape as the river’s increase slows toward Sunday.
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Cairo
Ohio
Lindley
Shawneetown Wiped By Ohio Floods In Historic Cascade
Shawneetown residents fled to hillside ruins as the Ohio River swept homes away. Levees failed along the north and east, water 10 to 30 feet deep, no confirmed deaths. Cairo faces critical levee pressure as rescue efforts surge. Missouri National Guard units rescued on Bird's Point strip amid rising floodwaters.
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Shawneetown
Iill
Ohio
Cairo
Ill
Hickman
Mississippi River
Company G
National Guard of Missouri
Bird's Point
Chicago Naval Reserves
M. J. Jamieson
Chicago
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Congressman Esch
Esch
Nebraska Indians
Court of Claims
Morgan Protegee A LA
Hackner’s
Europe
Philadelphia Art Institute
Miss Brooks
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