Fire devastates Equitable Life building in New York
A massive five alarm fire engulfed the Equitable Life Assurance Society building in New York, causing seven million dollars in losses. Four people died, three missing, including Deputy Fire Chief Walsh. The blaze spread rapidly from the basement aided by a strong southwest wind, with firemen battling flames from roofs and enduring icy conditions as crews attempted rescues and containment.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Nassau, Pine and
Cedar Streets
Broadway
Walsh
William Champion
Mercantile Safe Deposit Company
John Conti
Savarin
John Lazzi
Financial District
Equitable
Giblin
William Giblin
Kenton
Foley
Davis
Dela
Brooklyn
Fire Department
James Hazen Hyde
August Belmont
Pine Street
Harriman
William A. Reid
Lawyers’ Club
The
Life Assurance Society
Cedar and
Nassau Streets
American Surety Building
American Exchange Bank
Bravest in Basement Fire Rescue Heroic Clergy Aid
Frederick Petersen and Delk narrowly escaped death in a basement blaze on Broadway. Delk forced through a police line, dragged from a burning area, helped by firemen after hammering a hole to the surface. Chaplain McKeon lowered by rope to administer last rites, Petersen rescued. both men hospitalized.
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Frederick Petersen
Broadway
Delk
Petersen
Broadwa
Eire
Russia moves to seize Mongolia amid partition plan
Russia begins transporting Cos sacks into Mongolia under the pretext of maintaining order. Moscow aims to block Chinese participation, establish garrisons, control trade, and extend the trans Siberian Railway. Britain reportedly opposes the plan as Mongolia declares independence and aligns with Russia.
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Russia
China
Mongolia
Pekin
Kidnappers Try Six Times To Steal Boy In Brooklyn
In Brooklyn a five year old boy Morris Byrnes narrowly escaped six kidnapping attempts. His father Matthew Byrnes, contractor, ran to the Fourth Avenue Police Station to report the danger aimed at his son. A familiar Italian follower had previously harassed Morris’s sister Anna, leading to police warnings. Rose Byrnes aided in fleeing a man offering an apple and a movie, as detectives Dittman and Fay took up the investigation.
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New York
Matthew Byrnes
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Fifty-eighth Street
Morris
Anna Byrnes
Byrneses
Anna
Margaret
Rose
Fifty-eighth
Fifty-ninth Streets
Dittman
Fay
Democrats Pick June 25 for National Convention
The Democratic National Committee set June 25 1912 as the convention date and debated city selection with Baltimore, St Louis and Denver among contenders. Chicago lobbyists pushed for the site while Missouri Governor Francis and Denver boosters argued their cases as the committee fixed the date and planned thirty minute city presentations.
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Washington, D. C
Bryan
Shoreham
Joline Letsere
Wilson
Baltimore
St. Louis
Denver
S. D. Warfield
Harry Covington
Maryland
Arizona
Porto Rico
Chicago
National Democratic Committee
Mryan
Democratic National Committee
Mack
Francis
Missouri
Cole
Calfornia
Conention
Lynch
Minnesota
Charles W. Franklin
George Knifton
Franklin
Roger Sullivan
Fred Upham
Upham
J. “Ham" Lewis
Henry Gassaway Davis
West Virginia
Lewis
Illinois
Talbott
Wee
Bbaltimore
Ile
Tallimore
O<. F. Hershey
War Secretary Seizes Alexandria County River Land
Secretary of War Stimson on January 9 took forcible possession of about thirty acres of reclaimed riverfront land in Alexandria city bounds. An armed tug landed and fenced the area despite riparian owner objections, prompting Colonel Caton to seek Governor Mann’s intervention. The land fronts the Potomac and has long been taxed to its owners.
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Richmond
Stimson
Alexandria
City
Virginia
Potomac River
Francis L. Smith
James R. Caton
Mann
Caton
Torpedo Boat Terry Safe in Norfolk Harbor
A torpedo boat destroyer named Terry, part of a flotilla, was caught in a terrible storm off the North Carolina coast. The vessel was separated from the rest of the flotilla but is reported safe in Norfolk Harbor, Virginia.
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Wttle Torpedo Boat
Norfolk
Terry
North Carolina
Notable Vessel Arrives at Hampton Roads Under Convoy
The proceeding arrived in Hampton Roads today, entering unassisted but accompanied by the cruiser Prairie. The movement underscores ongoing naval operations and coastal security.
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Hampton Roads
Prairie
George C McGillivray Dies in Staunton at About Forty-Five
George C. McGillivray of Staunton Virginia is dead at about forty five. He leaves a wife, the daughter of Major S. M. ost.
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George C. McGilvray
Staunton
George C. McGillivray
S. M.ost
Chinatown Tongs Clash in Shootout at Mock Duck’s Place
In New York City a gang war between the On Leongs and the Hip Sings erupts at 21 Pell Street. Gunmen kill Lung You, wound Chong Pun Sin, as rivals clash during a Fantan game leaving police to track two arrestees amid vague evidence.
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New York
On Leongs
Hip Sings
Munner
Chinatown
The
Four Brothers Society
Hip
Warren W. Foster
Bow Kum
San Francisco
On Leong
Boston
Mock Duck
Pell Street
Lung You
Chong Pun Sin
Lung
Hudson Street
Chanz
Varue
Eiven the Hip Sings
Mack Ducke
Prince
Arctic Blast Reaps Heavy Death Toll Across West
Chicago dispatch reports the Central West hit by extreme cold with heavy death tolls and widespread suffering. Many states tally crop losses, cattle deaths, and water and gas shortages as coal famines bite. Deaths surge in Hammond, Gary, Norfolk, St. Louis, and Memphis, with a Utah snow slide killing three and Oklahoma deaths noted. An ice cutters wages surge as ice crops promise large yields.
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Chicago
Ili
Central West
Hammond
Ind
Gary
Wisconsin
Memphis
Tenn
Norfolk
Neb
St. Louis
Utah
Oklahoma
Joliet
Ill
Steamer in Distress Near Marshfield
A passenger steamer is reported in distress off this port amid heavy seas. Poor visibility prevents identifying the vessel or giving details on its name or condition.救
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Marshfield
Obe
Richeson Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder
In Boston this afternoon Rev Clarence V T Richeson pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree for killing Avis Linnell. He was immediately sentenced to be electrocuted the week of May 19, 1912. He appeared pale and weak and was carried in a chair from the jail to the courthouse. The confession was read by District Attorney Pelletier before the sentence.
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Boston
Mass
Clarence V.T. Richeson
Avis Linnell
Sweetoo
Richeson
Charles Street
W. T. Richeson
Suffolk County Court
Daniel A. Cronin
Cronin
United States
McGarr
Armstrong
Roonery
Lynch
William A. Morse
Richeson Counsel
Bhoy
Kelly
Burns
All
Dr. Sargent
Dr. Lothrop
Sanderson
BPSI
Lue Superior Criminal Court
Pelletier
Richesen
Neocan
Lane
John IT. Lee
Philip R. Dubar
Nichoson
Manning
Clarence V. T. Richeson
Judge imposes electric chair on Richeson in Boston murder case
In a Boston court, Judge Sanderson sentences Clarence V. T. Richeson for first degree murder. The state will execute Richeson by electric chair after ten days, with the execution scheduled the week of May 19. Richeson offered no further statement beyond previous remarks, and spectators reacted with restrained protests.
Woodrow Wilson to Speak in Richmond
Richmond council endorses inviting Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey to address the city on the earliest available date. An amendment allows Wilson to choose his own subject, replacing a municipal government topic, with official invitation sent as Democratic nomination prospects loom.
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Richmond
Harry K. Pollard
Conneil
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Gilbert Pollock
Wilson
Ines
Sinte
American Troops to China Under Quick Dispatch
Washington dispatch says 600 American troops now in Manila will sail today on the transport Thomas for Tien Tsin China. They are to guard America's share of the Pekin to coast railway as the War Department finalizes movement details.
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Washington, D. C
Manila
Thomas
Tien Tsin
China
America
Pekin
War Department
Molten metal blast kills eight at French arsenal
Eight workmen burned to death and eleven injured when a gun mould exploded at a government arsenal near Angouleme France today. Gases triggered the blast in a mass of molten metal.
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Ruelle-Sur-Touvre
France
Angouleme
Christian Endeavor Convention Postponed in Clifton Forge
Special-Vice President C M Compher of the Virginia Christian Endeavor Union says the Clifton Forge convention today is postponed due to weather and will be held in May. Lynchburg, Virginia context notes the weather as the cause.
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Lynchburg
C. M. Compher
Virginia Christian Endeavor Union
Clifton Forge
Elder Dies in Front Pew at Staunton Church
Staunton Virginia special report describes J Samuel Robertson a sixty nine year old Confederate veteran elder of old Providence Church dying of heart failure in the front pew at the Second Presbyterian Church during Sunday communion service after passing wine. A woman fainted during the excitement. He leaves a son who was in the church.
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Staunton
J. Samuel Robertson
Second Presbyterian Church
Old Providence
Itswood
Passenger Train Collides With Engine in Snow Storm
Lake Shore passenger train and a light engine were severely injured when the train’s engine crashed into the light engine near Brig ham Road with a blizzard raging. The seven hour late train derailed a coach, wounded moved to a hospital, and the storm caused drifts eighteen feet high in Dunkirk New York.
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Dunkirk
Lake Shore
Brigham Road
Trooks Memorial Hospital
Two Dead From Open Fire in Clarksburg West Virginia
Mrs. Andrew J. Sheets aged twenty one died from burns after her skirts swished into a grate fire at her father in law Jerome W. Sheets home in Davidson's Run. A three year old, Charles Colinski, son of Anthony Colinski of Simpson, also died from similar burns. These deaths bring to six the total from open grate fires in the area recently.
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Clarksburg
W. VA
Andrew J. Sheets
Jerome W. Sheets
Davidson
Charles Colinski
Anthony Colinski
Simpson
Government Department Stores Proposed in Washington
Representative Victor Berger, Socialist, introduced a bill in the House to create government owned department stores in Washington for about 60,000 federal employees. The plan seeks a $1,000,000 appropriation to operate stores modeled on canal zone and military commissary outlets.
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Washington, D. C
Victor Berger
Washington
Canal Zone
Army and Navy
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Ee York
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Actavenien
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Chamber of Commerce
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Equitable Society
National Auditing Company
Cedar Street
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Corps of Engineers
Hedley
Interborough
Wrecking Corps
Greenwich Street
Porter
Great Britain
U.S. Grabs
Alexandria County
Dennis Hourrigan
Elizabeth Street
Richeseu
Commonwealth
Christian Endeavor Convention
May Ron
Supreme Bench
Luray
Thomas W. Harrison
Shenandoah
Frederick
Clarke Counties
Supreme
Johnna A. Buchanan
Harrison
Pace County
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