Bandit to be released in New York case spurs extradition clash
Enrico Alfano, an Italian bandit linked to the Camorra, may be released tomorrow unless Italy sends requisition papers or Washington intervenes. He arrived in New York after eluding Italian detectives, was captured after a police raid, and appeared in court denying crimes while citing political arrests in Italy. Strong ties are alleged to shield him from extradition as authorities pursue a resolution.
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New York
Enrico Alfano
Ialy
Italy
State Department
Washington
Alfano
Cammaristi 4
Napoli
Camorra
America
Cuacolo
Cuocolo
United States
Peary presses ahead despite funds question for polar bid
New York explorer Robert E Peary plans to depart by late June or early July for a new Roosevelt expedition to the pole. He aims to reach the prize in February and return about fourteen months after leaving New York. He notes money remains the sole hurdle as promises of support waver and he seeks to raise at least 100000 dollars, despite claims of 200400 secured.
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New York
Robert E. Peary
Pole
Roosevelt
Grantland
Scientists to Study Seismic Disturbances in Aleutians
Seattle's T A Jagger Jr of MIT leads a party of eminent scientists to Alaska to study seismic and volcanic conditions in the Aleutian islands. The research aims to ease engineering seismic challenges, using powerful apparatus and a large camera. The group includes Prof H V Gomers of UC and Dr Van Dyke of San Francisco.
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Seattle
T. A. Jagger, Jr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Dutch Harbor
HV. Gomers
University of California
van Dyke
San Francisco
Large Sum Promised Training School
The General Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church South voted $50,000 to establish a training school at Palo Alto California with Stanford University. The grant is conditional on raising another $50,000 in California. A California donor pledged $200,000 in money and property to the school.
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St Louis
General Board of Education
The
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Palo Alto
Cal
Leland Stanford University
California
Cotton Growers Prosperous At National Meeting
Boston reports the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers holds its annual meeting with president James R. McCall of Providence declaring world wide demand and activity. He notes rising foreign spindles, higher production costs, and the need to maintain U S leadership in labor saving methods as foreign mills adopt American innovations.
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Boston
James R. McCall
Providence
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
England
Sioux Indians Willing to Lease Lands at Cheyenne Reservation
The Indian bureau reports the Sioux at Cheyenne reservation ready to lease about 100000 acres to the band of 300 Utes who left Utah last summer and wintered at Camp Meade. Utes have not stated their stance, but plan to stay near their current location, and the bureau will not oppose if terms are satisfactory.
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Washington
Indian Bureau
Cheyenne Reservation
Utah
Camp Meade
Bureau
Lard Fire Devours Alegheny Packing Plant Warehouse
A massive blaze swept the William Zoeller Packing Company plant in Alegheny across the river, igniting a large fireproof warehouse with half a million pounds of lard. Firefighters struggled amid exploding ammonia tanks and streams of hot grease, later sealing the burning yard as the inferno raged. Officials estimated losses near $300,000 as the fire finally subsided around eight o'clock.
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Pittsburg
William Zoeller Packing Company
Alegheny
Uncle Sam seeks horses and mules for military service
Washington May 1 1912 Quartermaster General Humphrey called for bids for cavalry artillery and draft riding horses and mules. The requirements total 725 cavalry 2 fourteen draft and riding horses and 252 mules for use in the United States Porto Rico and the Philippines with bids to be opened simultaneously in horse markets nationwide.
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Washington
Humphrey
United States
Porto Rico
Philippines
Dead Letter Office Breaks Daily Return Record
The Dead Letter Office returned 23,803 letters on Monday, breaking the previous daily high of 14,488 set on March 28. On hand letters awaiting return have fallen to zero, after over 200,000 were pending about a month ago, with national babe notes noted as a fraction of the money in circulation.
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Washington
Fleet A waits visitors at Hampton Roads in 1907 exposition buildup
Three hundred thousand tons of floating steel anchor off Norfolk as visiting foreign battleships and cruisers begin arriving for the Jamestown tercentenary exposition. The Atlantic fleet lines a wide harbor of modern ships headed by the Connecticut with the Texas serving as a permanent exhibit. The British, Austrian and Japanese squadrons are scheduled for arrival around the opening ceremonies with reviews by officials and a grand parade featuring 1500 American sailors.
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Hampton Roads
Norfolk
Britain
Germany
Austria
Alberts
William
Connecticut
Evans
Fortress Monroe
Texas
Norfolk Navy Yard
Maine
Congress
Tennessee
Washington
Denver
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Schley
Santiago
Presigent
Exposition Plaza
New Stamps for the Filipinos in Peso Denominations
The Philippine government adopts a distinctive stamp series aligned with U S values but denominated in pesos and centavos. Portraits include Rizal Magellan Legaspi Lawton Lincoln and others on stamps under one peso, while those at or above one peso bear the coat of arms. A new silver certificate series is issued, with denominations of 2 5 10 25 100 and 500 pesos bearing portraits and stating face value is secured by deposits in the Insular treasury.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
United States Postal Service
Rizal
McKinley
Magellan
Islands
Legaspi
Lewten
Lincoln
Lampoon
Wton
Franklin and Corriedo
Philippines
Congress
Lawton
United States
Sacramento hosts national irrigation congress fund drive
A meeting of about a hundred prominent Californians from twenty counties authorized a $50,000 fundraising effort to entertain delegates for the fifteenth national irrigation congress in Sacramento next September. The board of control will appoint county subcommittees to raise funds, with options for rail fare discounts and potential travel stipends. Speakers included Governor Gillett, Rep James Needham, and board chair George Peltier. Invitations to President Roosevelt, Vice President Fairbanks, and Secretary Wilson were noted, with expectations they may attend.
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Sacramento
Board of Control
Fifteenth National Irrigation Congress
Congress
Fresno
W. A. Beard
Gillett
James C. Needham
Modesto
George W. Peltier
Roosevelt
State Board of Trade
Fairbanks
Wilson
Warship Rivet Holes Allegedly Plugged With Wood
In Boston at a Faneuil Hall mass meeting, Congressman George Waldo of York urged the National League of Employes of Navy Yards to expose defects in privately built warships. He cited rivet holes allegedly filled with wood, putty, and soap before the ships were sent to the Brooklyn yard for repairs, claiming several hundred rivets were affected in at least one case.
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Boston
George Waldo
York
Faneuil Hall
National League of Employes of
Navy Yards
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Stromboli Volcano Erupts With Explosive Stones in Sicily
The Stromboli volcano near Catania Sicily erupted with loud explosions and a torrent of incandescent stones. The eruption included artillery like detonations and a dense shower of rocks before the crater activity subsided and the volcano returned to its normal state.
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Catania
Sicily
Nature Plays Funny Freaks in Ohio River Flood
In Columbus Ohio a barn lifted by ice from a farm near Tort Creek rode a flood downstream about a quarter mile before becoming lodged in an ice gorge. An eddy carried it back toward its original spot where Samuel Hambright secured it with ropes. The barn sheltered eight pigs during the journey and the farmer expects about $40 from them.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ahl
Samuel Hambright
Abolish Greater Military Divisions
Washington announced the long expected abolition of the great military divisions. The divisions will be discontinued by end of the current fiscal year, with the U S territories reorganized into military departments except the Philippines where current organization is retained. Missouri moves to the Texas department. Major General J F Weston will become the sole division commander in the U S army, replacing Major General Leonard Wood in the Philippine division.
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J. F. Weston
Department of Luzon
Philippines
United States Army
Leonard Wood
Pure food law defied over meat preservative claim
Topeka Kansas Dr Crumbine state health secretary announced discovery of a meat preservative containing charcoal and sulfur that when burned releases sulphur dioxide to imitate borax. He says manufacturers openly violate both state and federal pure food laws and notified all inspectors to warn butchers.
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Topeka
Kas
Crumbine
Board of Health of
Kansas
Girl Takes Strychnine Study Its Effects
A 21 year old girl Carrie Mattison of Sioux City Iowa reportedly took strychnine for curiosity and died within an hour. The young woman, daughter of a farmer, appeared in good spirits with no love affairs or dispassionate ointments noted.
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Chicago
The
Tribune
Sioux City
Iowa
Carrie Mattison
Pier Collapse Kills Six at Locust Point Dock
A 500 foot section of a new pier at Locust Point for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway and North German Lloyd collapsed, trapping 20 to 25 workers. Six dead include civil engineer Howard T. Ellender. W N Edson and Tony Wolf among the injured. Four unidentified men drowned. the pier cost about 400000 and measured 1000 feet long. The count of missing was later raised to sixteen.
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Baltimore
Locust Point
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
W. N. Edson
Baltimore Bridge Company
Howard T. Ellender
Tony Wolf
Robert Sweetman
Edson
Coal Smoke Claims Thousands Die in London Fog
London physician Sir Frederick Treves warned that coal smoke in the air stains lungs black to their innermost recesses and fuels disease. He cited London fogs as deadly, noting experiments show six tons of soot per square mile during severe fogs as the nuisance worsens.
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iLondon
Sir Frederick Treves
London
land convention called for Denver summit in June
Acting Governor E R Harper issued a call for a public land convention in Denver on June 18 and 19 to discuss the relation of western states to public lands. Governors will appoint ten delegates, and each business group five delegates, with a program committee to outline the current situation and discussion lines, including grazing.
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Denver
Colo
E. R. Harper
Missouri
United States
Penned-Up Miners Signal by Taps at Flooded Mine
Johnstown reports twelve large pump operation for two days at Mine No. 38 of the Berwynd-White company at Foastwell. Several men have been imprisoned since Friday by flood water from abandoned workings. Tap counts are seven but meaning unclear. Rescue declared unlikely before tomorrow afternoon after inspectors touring the site.
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Johnstown
Berwynd-White Company
Foastwell
Evans
Thomas
Scene of wreck recalls bombardment in 1864
Victoria B C reports the Mongolia wreck near Shimonoseki straits where daimyo of Choshu led a battery during the 1864 bombardment by eighteen foreign ships including US vessels. Currents are swift, collisions common, near Nagasaki dockyards and salvage plants.
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Nagasaki
Man Eater Alfred Packer Found Dead in Cabin
The body of Alfred Packer known as the Man Eater, died Wednesday in a Deer Creek canyon cabin. An army scout who guided five Salt Lake City men to New Mexico in 1873, he survived a six foot snow trap while the others were killed. Convicted of murdering his companions, he served forty years and claimed innocence. He admitted eating some of the dead to survive and was paroled in 1901.
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Denver
Col
Alfred Packer
Deer Creek Canyon
Littleton
Packer
Salt Lake City
New Mexico
Notorious Bandit Captured After House Demolished
The notorious brigand Lis, author of many works, was wounded and captured at Lubly after the house he sheltered in was blown apart by artillery. He fired on police as they closed in, killing several officers before troops aided the siege. The building was leveled by eight shells, and Lis was found mortally wounded while reloading his revolver.
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Lis
Lubly
Three Americans Granted Stay of Death in Mexico Appeal
Emil Richardson Mason and Harle, Americans condemned in Chihuahua for murder to collect insurance, were given another chance after Juarez federal court denied a habeas corpus writ and granted an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mexico.
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el Paso
Texas
Emil Richardson
Mason
Harle
Chihuahua
Mexico
Juarez
Supreme Court of the Republic of Mexico
Fragmentary Quote From Patient and Mrs Lapsting
A damaged OCR fragment shows dialogue about illness. Mrs Lapsting remarks on suffering from defam atory rheumatism while noting personal indisposition. The text lacks full context and clear events.
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