Hold Up in Broad Daylight on Rector Street
A taxi hold up in Manhattan yielded between 33600 and 25000 dollars from East River National Bank messengers in broad daylight. Three men hijacked the cab, struck the driver, and escaped in a large auto, leaving officers to scramble for descriptions of the robbers and the getaway vehicle.
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Natocal
Wham Smith
Prooklyn
Frank Werrell
Paterson
New Jersey
Reetor
Park place
Chuck street
Church street
Mack
ccuves
Exchange bank
MOThA nyags
Nien
Vanger
Submarines Cruise Twenty Miles Under Chesapeake Bay
Norfolk Va February 15 Led by the Moccasin and the Viper twenty submarines slipped beneath the surface of Chesapeake Bay beginning a remarkable cruise twenty miles under the ice The test aims to show how accurately subs can navigate by chart and compass when conning towers are unusable The three hour cruise is described as safe as the ice is about two inches thick and boats can surface quickly if needed.
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Chesapeake Bay
Norfolk
Sword of Suleiman the Great allegedly hidden at palace
In Constantinople authorities search the palace gardens and Hamid's former home for the famed sword of Suleiman the Great. Tahir Pasha says the relic may be buried in the Yildiz kiosk but lacks its precise location and suspects he sold it abroad. Nearby, in Viterbo, Italy, 22 Camorra members are ordered released after five years.
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Ha-Sultan's
St. Constantinople
Hamid
Suleiman the Great
Turkey
Tahir Pasha
Abdul
Tahir
Yildz
Paris
London
Mainmast of Battle Ship Maine Erected as Memorial
Washington reports the mainmast of the ill fated battleship Maine was removed to Arlington National Cemetery for permanent monument to the Maine dead. The ceremony marks fourteen years since the Havana harbor explosion with dedication plans including reburial of recently recovered remains and final rites at the hull site. In Boonton New Jersey James Van Duyne suggests snowballs as a remedy for hens setting.
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Maine
National Cemetery
Washington
Havana Harbor
Leonidas
National
Arlington
Virginia
navy department
Atlantic
Havana
explorer claims dogs have humanlike faces in Africa
Los Angeles Feb 15. Dr Carl Kumm, an explorer, says he found negroes on the dark continent with faces like dogs. Members of another tribe reportedly hop about on one foot like storks.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Carl Kumm
Confident of Convictions in Labor Leader Indictments
Indianapolis Feb 15 Forty seven of fifty four labor leaders indicted by the U S government for dynamite conspiracy are in custody. Seven more to be arrested tonight. Each defendant faces about thirty two indictments. Conspiracy and illegal transportation of dynamite are charged. Government officials expect convictions. Labor officials debate seeking a special judge to hear trials and discuss a defense fund.
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Indianapolis
United States
Miller
M. J. Young
Boston
John J. McCray
Wheeling
West Virginia
Milton H. Davis
Philadelphia
J. W. Irwin
Peoria
Frank J. Painter
Omaha
Patrick Ryan
Chicago
William K. Benson
Detroit
Federation of labor
James L. Kinney
Central Labor union
Anderson
Kenney
Ernest G. W. Busey
Edward Clark
Cincinnati
Hiram Cline
Muncie
Indiana
James M. Lynch
International Typographical union
international labor unions
Lynch
Will Call Gompers In Dinamite Conspiracy Inquiry
Washington reports President Gompers and Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor may be summoned to Indianapolis to testify in the McNamaras dynamite conspiracy trials. DOJ says Gompers and Morrison had no knowledge of the plot but questions under oath may clarify the federation link. Additional arrests possible as new evidence is pursued.
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Thomas Neale
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
McNamara hothers
William JD. Huber
United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and Joiners of America
Robert Glackling
International Association of Book , Binders
Edwin Perry
United Mine Workers of America
imen
Frank J. Hayes
Gompers
Washington
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Indianapolis
McNamaras
Times
department of justice
department
Miller
Taft campaign to use films and canned speeches
The Taft campaign plans to employ movies and phonograph speeches to boost the bid in coming battles. Films of the president and White House aides will be shown nationwide, backed by proxy speeches. socialists are also rumored to use phonographs in stumping.
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Washington
Taft
White House
phonograph
Trainman Chloroformed to Ease as Fire Claims Life
Portland Me Feb 15 A Grand Trunk freight wreck near Yarmouth leaves Harry Corliss and two others dead. Corliss pinned under wreckage as fire nears him. a country doctor chloroforms the injured man to ease his agony, while onlookers fail to aid. Wreck caused by orders mis understood.
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Portland
Harry Corliss
Grand Trunk railway
Yarmouth
Corliss
Grand Trunk
Caneva to Lead Tripoli Campaign Return
Rome reports General Caneva will return to Tripoli to assume command of the campaign against the Turks after being recalled. In Washington, Dr. Harvey Wiley and Mrs. Wiley urge artistic paper covers for bread loaves as Consumers' League leaders discuss new standards.
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Rome
Tripoli
Wileys
Washington
Harvey W. Wiley
Wiley
the
Consumers’ league
Pennsylvania Train Wrecked at Warriors Ridge
A Pennsylvania Limited derailed at Warrior Ridge near Altoona after a broken truck caused two locomotives and cars to derail. Officials report four dead and twenty five injured, with telegraph lines down hindering details. Wrecking crews and relief trains were dispatched to the scene.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania limited
Warriors Ridge
Pennsylvania railroad
Chicago
New York
Warrior Ridge
Zangwill Leads Fight Against English Stage Censorship
Israel Zangwill heads a campaign to abolish the British stage censorship system which bans serious dramas while allowing risqué music hall acts. His play The Next Religion was barred unless altered, a change he refused. He plans to publish the work and stage it in America, noting censorship limits on literature.
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London
Israel Zangwill
Zangwill
Zangwil
England
America
Firebug Haunts Roscoe as Coshocton Youths Aid Marshal
Coshocton O February 16 Fire Marshal Zuber closed in on the firebug blamed for torching the village of Roscoe after a conference with four Coshocton boys near RetfHey’s store and the post office. The youths reported two men seen around the buildings and one was possibly identified. Flames followed soon after. Arrests are expected today amid the investigation. Love of applause ends up driving many a near actor.
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Coshocton, O
Zuber
Roscoe
Coshocton
RetfHey
Roosevelt Speech Goes to Printer for New Platform
Roosevelt speech called the T. R. platform has gone to the printer in Columbus Ohio with approval from leading progressives including Governor Johnson of California and editors Nelson Van Valkenburg and Record. The plan endorses initiative recall and recall of judges but few radical recommendations. Senator Clapp visited but gave no comment. Delaware Prohibition convention set for April 4-5 with Mayor Leas and F W Lough.
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Roosevelt
Columbus
Ohio
T. R. platform
Outlook office
Johnson
California
William R. Nelson
Kansas City
E. A. Van Valkenburg
Philadelphia
George IL. Record
New Jersey
Flynn
Pittsburgh
Clapp
Minnesota
Delaware
Leas
F. W. Lough
Incendiaries Still Active In Roscoe School War
Threatening letters continue as a single or multiple incendiary targets tuition pupils and instructor Miss Florence Osborn in Roscoe. A new note delivered to Mrs. Julia Brewer and another to the Coshocton Tribune claims the banner bord is right and vows not to be scared. The letters avoid federal mail routes, being left in public places, with nine total sent and no arrests yet.
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Roscoe
Julia Brewer
Coshocton
Florence Osborn
Columbus
Brewer
Chicago Man Has a Charmed Life
Frank John bears a charmed life after falling seven stories in an elevator shaft and breaking a leg in Chicago on February 15. A year earlier he survived a live wire incident that killed two companions in the Windy City.
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Chicago
Frank John
Windy City
Yuan Shi Kai Elected President. Sun Yat Sen Resigns
In Nanking on February 15 Yuan Shi Kai was elected president by the national assembly after Sun Yat Sen’s resignation. Sun urged support for Yuan and urged ministers’ selection soon. Tang ShaoWi may take prime minister post. Sun will stay until inauguration. Concerns arise of potential military dictatorship despite Sun’s advisers.
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Iuan
United Nations
Sun
Nanking
Yuan Shi Kai
national assembly
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan
Tang Shao Wi
Dr. Sun
Rebels Explode Bridges and Attack Troop Train in Mexico
In Guerrero, Zapatistas dynamited Ixtle and Naranjo bridges causing a troop train to crash into the Amacusa river. Thirty seven federal troopers were killed and many injured as rebels surrounded Torreon and thousands of Americans fled. An American unit mistakenly crossed into Mexico at Juarez, triggering a brief diplomatic incident.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Ixtla
Guerrero
Zapatistas
Ixtle
Naranjo
Amacusa
Torreon
Armory Site Deed Signed Ending West Marion Fund Drive
After a long campaign the deed for the armory site at West Church street and Olney avenue was signed this afternoon. The West Marion Progressive Association and Dr E Q Richardson aided in fundraising as the final day for funds ended. The ground will be broken in spring for a $20,000 state built armory at no cost to the town.
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west Church street
Olney avenue
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