Glass factory fire devastates Richmond plant at Byrd Street
Fire of unknown origin swept the Binswanger factory at 525 Fast Byrd Street destroying the sash doors blinds glass and mirrors plant. Loss estimated at 170000 with building valued at 50000 and stock at 120000. Firefighters battled near-freezing water and ice while hundreds watched as walls fell and the roof collapsed.
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Richmond
Orion
Binswanger & Co
Fast Byrd Street
Griffin Sutton
Sutton
Hitchcock and Taft Respond to Telegraph Ownership Rift
Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock who favored government owned telegraphs was summoned to the White House after his views. A rumor of friction with President Taft was denied by an official statement denying any misunderstanding between the two leaders.
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Frank NW. Hitchcock
United States
Telegraph
Hitchcock
President Taft
White House
Taft
Prisoner More to be Pardoned After Atlanta Illness
Reports from Washington indicate Charles W. More may receive a pardon within twenty four hours due to the prisoner’s serious condition in Atlanta. An important conference on his case occurred this morning here.
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Washington, D. C
Chares W. More
Atlanta
Cuba intervention seen not necessary say Stimson
after talks with the President and Secretary Stimson the secretary stated intervention in Cuba would not be necessary though the expected Cuban government note had not been received.
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Washington, D.special
Stimson
Cuba
Head for Doctor's Bequest Prompts East Kentucky Trip
Middlesboro Kentucky dispatch reports Dr Blair of Apache Oklahoma travels through the mountains to Whitesburg to claim the head of Smith Fouch promised as payment for saving Fouch life after a gunshot eye injury. Fouch died recently after a brain lobe operation.
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Middlesboro
Blair
East Kentucky
Whitesburg
Smith Fouch
Fouch
Peevish Person in Car Complains of Hatpin Prick
In a crowded car a man complains a hatpin pricks his cheek. A stylish woman replies she sterilizes it daily, downplaying the incident with a matter of fact tone.
Train kills man blocks uptown subway traffic
In New York a Dyckman Street train Fatally struck Thomas Lawler a track walker between Sixty and Sixty first streets during rush hour causing heavy uptown subway delays. Police said the trackman was at fault and no arrest was made.
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New York
Thomas Lawler
Fire Frenzy at Palace Laundry Drives 100 Workers Out
Chicago report states more than one hundred employees at Palace Laundry Company on Lake Avenue were forced into the street as a fast spreading fire attacked the drying room and threatened total destruction of several big buildings.
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Chicago
Ill
Ila
Palace Laandry Company
Lake Avenue
Richmond Gets New Bishop O Connor Appointed
Pope named Nasiliery Bishop O Connor of San Francisco to head Richmond Virginia. Father Patrick McGovern named Bishop of Cheyenne Wyoming. O Connor, about sixty, well known in Richmond, has served at St Peter's Cathedral and as rector of Catholic University. He will delay arrival to complete San Francisco duties.
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Rome
Italy
Totes
Nasiliery Bishop
O'Connell
San Franvisco
Richmond
Patrick McGovern
Cheyenne
Wyo
St. Peter's
Keane
Winchester
American College
Catholic University
Washington
University of Washington
San Francisco
Charleston
Father Bowler
Evening Journal
Journal
Virginia
Dairymen Convene in Richmond for Joint Institute Session
The Virginia State Farmers' Institute and State Dairymen's Association opened in Richmond with reports from committees and talks on lime use soil fertility and coop farming. A proposed tuberculin test bill with $20,000 funding drew endorsement and a new board of directors was elected.
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Richmond
Virginia State Farmers’ Institute
State Dairymen’s Association
C. L. Goodrich
Iltest States Department of Agriculture
Cyril G. Hopkins
University of Illinois
Hopking
Illinois
John Lee Coulter
United States Department of Commerce and Labor
Virginia
Virginia State Dairymen’s Association
Westmoreland Davis
Farmers’ Institute
Linw
General Assembly
Henry C. Stuart
W. K. Brainerd
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
R. R. Welch
United States Department of Agriculture
Corporation Commission
Supreme Court of Virginia
John Hamilton
N. S&s. Mayo
A. F. Howard
T. C. Sandy
Saunders
D. S. Jones
Newport News
A. R. Scott
Leesburg
Blacksburg
O. A. Thomas
Remington
T. O. Sandy
Burkeville
James Bellwood
Chesterfield
J. A. Turner
Hollins
W. D. Saunders
Hunter Hall
Farmville
Believe Jewelry Mystery Solved
Pittsburgh special reports grand jury indictments and a city detective confession partly clear the theft and return of the Thaw Jewels and other jewelry from Isaac Kaufmann's home. Indictments name Nellie Prince Harry Robinson Joe Birtsch and George Bisdett of Chicago linked to the Kaufmann robbery and a recent related theft valued at 35 600 with a 20 000 reward.
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Pittsburg
Isaac Kaufmann
Nellie Prince
Harry Robinson
Joe” Birtsch
George Bisdett
Chicago
Kaufmann
Firemen Crushed Under Falling Walls in Richmond
Richmond special reports two firemen trapped when a factory wall collapsed at the Binswaneer plant. Charlie H. Revitz and Ladderman R A Woodward are in critical condition with severe injuries. Lieutenant Heints is paralyzed from the waist down with a spinal fracture. Chief Wise had ordered evacuation from the danger zone but the three men stayed to attempt rescue.
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Richmond
Charlies H. Revitz
R. A. Woodward
iLieutenant Heints
Memorial Hospital
Charles F. Taylor
Board of Mire Commissioners
Ralms
Wise
Laddermiay
Woodward
Ladderman Woodward
Charles &. Taylor
Board of Fire Commissioners
Taylor
C. A. Labenburg
Firemen Injured in Big Binswanger Fire
Reported this morning at the Binswanger building on Iron Avenue, seven firefighters sustained injuries as a wall collapsed during efforts to contain the blaze. Lt. Revitz and Ladderman Woodward were seriously hurt. multiple others were overcome by smoke or struck by debris and taken to hospital or home for care.
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Fire Department
Hull Street
Forest Hill
Virginia Railway and Lower Company
James River
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Fifth Street
Malin Street
K. & Binswanger
Alleghany Box Company
Binswanger
Mr. Binswanger
Box Company
Mr. Ainswanger
Memphis, Tenn
Richmond House
Allen & Ginter
Richmond
R. A. Woodward
Q Street
North Wall
C. FL. Revitz
East Marshall Street
Woodward
Memorial Hospital
Edward Hall
Richard A. Normant
North Twenty-sixth Street
L. J. Wade
East Main Street
Charles Hirschberg
North
Virginia Bill Seeks End to Saloon Treating Practice
A Virginia House bill by Wil lam Fitzhugh of Northampton targets the habit of treating in saloons. It declares treating a misdemeanor with fines up to 25 dollars and defines the act as giving away or purchasing drinks for others, except for purely medical scientific or religious uses.
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Richmond
Virginia
House of Delegates
Willam &. Fitzhugh
Northampton County
Willams
Fitzhugh
Virginia House opposes renewal of convict lease contract
The Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly opposed renewing the Thacher Shoe Company convict lease contract and favored placing convicts on roads. Delegates Hill Montague and Edwin P. Cox led the opposition in impassioned speeches urging road work over shoe production. A joint legislative committee will draft a plan for using convicts on state highways.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
Senate
Thacher Shoe Company
Hill Montague
Edwin P. Cox
Virginia
House
Byrd
Colonel Bowman
Finance Committee
Eee
Fear Anarchists May Use Dynamite to Attack Governor
Boston police guard Governor Foss and his Jamaica Plain home after threats by an anarchist band tied to the Lawrence mill strike. Italian patrolmen search the North and West Ends for three New York Italians linked to the plot while State police assist Lawrence officers in a city-wide hunt. Information points to a New York origin for the plan.
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Boston
Mass
Foss
Lawrence
Jamaica Plain
Boston Police Department
Aire
New York
State House
Cuba Averts U S Intervention With Pro-Cuba Stand
In Havana the Cuban government moves to preempt a U S intervention. President Gomez and veterans leaders decide the reply to Secretary Knox will be conciliatory, pledging to meet treaty obligations. Ignacio Ramirez says Cuba’s political strife has not harmed business or the sugar crop.
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Havana
United States
Gomez
Veterans Association
Taft
Insular Republic
Knox
Cuba
Ignacio Ramirez
President pleas for patriotism to avert Cuban intervention
The text reports that authorities seek to uphold law and protect life and property in Cuba without US intervention. It notes the Miatt amendment limits U.S. action, while Platt amendment governs intervention, and President Gomes may offer guarantees to uphold the republican government amid rising tensions.
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United States
Cuba
Gomes
Denial by Richeson Father Over Boston Disownment Report
Thomas Warland Richeson, father of Rev. Clarence Richeson, repudiates a Boston dispatch claiming he disowned his condemned son. He tearfully asserts the boy remains his son and refuses further discussion as he and another son travel to Lynchburg to sell tobacco.
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Lynchburg
Thomas Warland Richeson
Clarence Richeson
Avin Linnel
Boston
Manchu Servants Beheaded in Palace Plot
Two Manchu eunuchs once close to the Forbidden City were executed for complicity in a plot to destroy the royal family. A third suspect was held incommunicado as authorities report a confession of payment by Republican agents to poison the rulers. Premier Poincare is described as a lawyer philosopher writer parliamentarian and French Academy member aged fifty five.
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Pekin
France
Premier Poincare
French Academy
Ada Elis case shows long pattern of grand larceny in New York
Ada Elis twenty three and secretary to Joseph Cushman & Co faced magistrate after confessing to misappropriating about $1200 to fund theater parties and a life in the city. Shortage later estimated at $2000 as Cushman confirms evasive spending and Elis admits guilt while stating personal matters do not concern the public.
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New York
Ada M. Elss
Fler
Elis
Joseph Cushman
Joseph W. Cushman & Co
Cushman
Englewood
Magistrate House
Andrew Reissner
Miss Elss
Cushman & Co
Steamer Wistar Hall Foundered Off Scotland
Aberdeen reports the steamer Wistar Hall foundered off the coast with thirty eight lives lost in the stormy weather. The Staunton Leader notes ice is a small relief for the poor.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Wistar Hall
Staunton
Architect Gustav Friebus Dies in Norfolk at 69
Gustav Friebus, a German native and longtime Washington government architect for forty two years, died at his son G S Friebus home in Norfolk. He helped draft plans for the State and Navy buildings in Washington during the Civil War and was the first to reach the unfinished top of the Washington Monument. He later served as architect in the Indian Bureau until 1910.
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Norfolk
Gustav Friebus
Washington
D. C
G. S Friebus
Germany
Hen flees to old home as hobo in North Tarrytown
A white leghorn hen owned by John Grohan leaves his North Tarrytown flat to return to Glenville. The bird uses trolley routes Grohan knew from childhood and even pays its fare with a nickel, aided by Fred Muskat who first buys a weekly paper then returns payment via the hen. The tale ends with the hen boarding a Glenville trolley and crowing at freedom as neighbors report it enjoys its hobo life.
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John Grohan
Groham
Glenville
North Tarrytown
Grohaan
Muskat
Grohan
Tarrytown
N. Y
New York Sun
Revere House Fire in Boston Leaves One Fireman Dead
A blaze at the historic Revere House in Boston caused panic as two hundred people fled the building. Fireman Kippenberg fell from a ladder and died as crews evacuated women from the fifth floor and battled flames that started in the basement kitchen.
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Boston
Mass
Bowdoin Square
Revere House
Kippenbure
Saime
Fames
Kippenberg
Box 23
Henry Fox
McGonighz
William Farman
Jonathan Murphy
William McDonald
Frank Merritt
Joy Street
Cambridge
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Ens
Maries
Biscuit Works
William H. Joynes
Raffo
North Wall Falls
Jaynes
Walla
Carter C. Jones
South Richmond
Seventh Street
Sixth Street
Arch Streets
Gamble’s Hill Park
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Louis Ner
Hutcher
City
William H. Thompson
Speights
Adjutant Wiggins
Robert Lecky
W. D. Crenshaw
Bishop O'Connell
James T. Hewitt
Manchester
England
Hewitt
Lintenent Reint
Ladderan Womlward
Iron A.M
Keinte
Heintz
Richard Bk. Watts
Wendward
Revitz
Renniz
Laddderman Woodward
Truck Company No. 4
ROYAL
Gi Ie
Wien
Raymond Poincare
DEAB
Washington Monument
George Howard Parker
Harvard University
Parker
Thames
Mullen
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