Messina Earthquake Devastates Sicily King and Queen Aid
World leaders and rescuers rush to Messina as a catastrophic earthquake devastates eastern Sicily and western Italy. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena join relief efforts alongside British French and Austrian forces amid fires collapses and thousands dead or missing.
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Regeda
Pompeli Bagnara
Itaruina
Sicily
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Roaring Mount
Adtna
Victor Immanuel
Helena
Pope Pius
Great Britain
France
Auegala
Fleet Enters The Red Sea Heads For Suez
Telegraphic reports from Perim say the American fleet passed Port Said and entered the Red Sea at noon The fleet is due at Suez by January 3 and will head toward the homeward or theater of operations as commanded.
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London
Perim
Suez
Tremors Recorded for Italian Earthquake Sighting
Washington recorded the Italy earthquake aftershocks with the aeismograph at the weather bureau and coastal and geodetic stations. The event drew widespread concern as readings registered the tremors and their possible impact.
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Washington
Italy
Weather Bureau
Louisiana Man Kills Himself in Missouri
Lautisttina Missouri man Daniel F Jig field three years old committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid He leaves a wife and one child.
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Lautisttina
Daniel F Jigfield
Pittsburg
da A. Law
Messina Earthquake Refugees Pour Into Catania In Turmoil
Survivors flee the Messina disaster as the first pre dawn quake collapses buildings in town. Refugees arrive in Catania by train and steamship in terror with wounded and dead scattered among ruined streets.
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Catania
Messina
Many Americans Anxious In Quake-Ravaged Italy
Reports from Washington indicate many relatives of Americans in the Messina area seek news as Ambassador Griscom and other officials work to identify missing travelers. Consul Arthur of Mesina and his wife are named victims, while a Romanian dispatch notes the consulate building's destruction.
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Washington
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Taly
State Department
Griscom
Mesaiin
Rome
Portland
Ore
New York
Italy
Pittsburg Council Stand Behind Bribery Suspects Amid Arrests
Pittsburg council members vow to back seven colleagues charged by the Voters' League with accepting bribes as arrests from the so called big six begin. District Attorney Blakely says no more arrests for at least ten days while President William Brand’s offer to resign is unanimously rejected.
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Voters’ League
Pulica Suiitendent McQuaid
Public Safety
Common
Smoky City
Blakely
William Brand
The
Common Council
Presidet Brand
Samuel McElroy
Jacob Soffel, Jr
W. H Melaney
Probe no result of message investigation of the president
Acting Chairman Hale says the senate appropriations committee will conduct a thorough inquiry into the secret service. He denies plans to summon President Roosevelt before March unless necessary, and emphasizes the probe will proceed independently of the president and not as an inquiry into him. He notes secret service scope has expanded beyond its early counterfeiting focus.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Secret Service
Hale
Roosevelt
Senate
New York
Standard of
Missouri
John D Johnson
St. Louis
Bank Looted in Wells ton Oklahoma by 6 Armed Robbers
Six masked gunmen dynamited and robbed the Wells ton Bank in Oklahoma, taking over $5,000 after a three hour hold up. Fourteen blasts shattered safes while townspeople watched. A posse pursued the robbers as three residents squared off but were driven back.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Wellston
Ruef Sentenced to Fourteen Years in San Quentin
Abraham Ruef former San Francisco political boss was sentenced by Judge William P Lawler to 14 years in San Quentin for bribing a member of the Schmitz Board of Supervisors in the granting of an overhead trolley franchise to United Railroads.
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San Francisco
Cal
Abraham Ruef
San Quentin
William P Lawler
Ruef
Schmitz Board of Supervisors
United Railroads
Rich Girl Weds Mexican in Tucson Society Page
Manuel Saribla an alleged member of a Mexican revolutionary group wed Elizabeth Trowbridge, a wealthy Boston girl, in Tucson on Tuesday. The couple had met during his Los Angeles confinement, and Saribla is currently out on $14,000 bail. Dallas Furniture House Burny reports $40,000 of furniture destroyed in a Strickland Furniture warehouse fire in Dallas, insured for $23,600, with the building valued at $10,000 also lost.
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Sicily
Messina
Catania
Paterno
Mondint Etna
Ittoria
Naro
Mineo
Patth
Castroreale
Tucson
Ariz
Manuel Saribla
Elizabeth Trowbridge
Boston
Saribla
Los Angeles Jar
Sambia
Dallas Furniture House
Burny
Dallas
Tex
Strickland Furniture Company
Head of Duma resigns after tense session
St. Petersburg Nikolai A Khomyakov, president of the Douma, resigns his office following an exciting session in which he was severely criticized.
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Duma
St. Petersburg
Nikolai A Khomyakoff
The
Douma
Nine Killed in Freight Work Train Wreck at Mid Canyon
Nine men died when a freight train and a work train collided at Mid Canyon on the Great Northern Railway. A relief train carried injured. some may die. Carpenters were among the deceased and injured as details remained unavailable.
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Great Falls
Mont
Mid Canyon
Great Northern Railroad
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