Carranza orders inquiry into Benton death amid British demand
After a Cabinet meeting in Nogales Gen. Carranza named a commission to probe the killing of W. S. Benton, a British subject killed while a prisoner of Villa. Sir Edward Grey said Britain would seek reparation if the U.S. does not act, easing Mexican tensions and shaping Carothers's mission. Gov. Colquitt urged Bryan to let Texas Rangers chase Mexican raiders across the border.
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Nogales
Sonora
Carranza
W. S. Benton
Villa
Edward Grey
House of Commons
United States
Benton
Great Britain
Washington
Sir Edward Grey
George C. Carothers
Mondell
Taft
Mann
Tampico
Yerreon
Huerta
Colquitt
Texas
Bryan
Texas Rangers
Carranza appoints panel to probe Benton case
A commission to investigate the Benton death was appointed by Gen. Carranza after a Cabinet session in Nogales Sonora. Members Ramon Fraustro Miguel Silva and Miguel Letra depart for Juarez to pursue the inquiry while American officials and the fate of Gustav Bauch remain unsettled. George C. Carother said his mission to Juarez is separate from Benton. Washington offered no reply to Carranza notes.
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Nogales
Sonora
Benton
Carranza
Juarez
William 38S Benton
Ramon Fraustro
Miguel Silva
Michoacan
Miguel Letra
Hidalgo
el Pauso
George C. Carother
Torreon
Carothers
American State Department
Washington
England Willing to Wait on Mexican Situation
In London on March 4 Sir Edward Grey pledged patience in handling the Mexican issue and Benton case while reserving the right to seek reparation if the United States deems further steps unnecessary. British editorials view the policy as cautious and deliberate.
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New York
London
House of Commons
Sir Edward Grey
William 8
Benton
United States
Sir Edward
Bride Bravely Rides Snow to Wedding in Long Beach
Gertrude La Croix of Pearsall Avenue Lynbrook braved a heavy snowfall to wed Irvings Molitor, Lone Beach village clerk. With four horses, snow shovels, and a cleared path, the couple traveled six miles in three hours to the ceremony, which was unexpectedly postponed by the snow.
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New York Times
Bynbrook
Gertrude la Croix
Pearsall Avenue
Lynbrook
Lochinvas
Sherdan
Miss la Croix
William la Croix
Metropolitan Opera House
Irvings Molitor
Lone Beach
Lerg Beach
Molitor
la Croix
Noted Gangster Jim Curley Gunned Down in Street Front
James Cariggio known as Jim Curley and Gold Mine Jimmy was shot to death outside John Morelli's bookstore at 418 East Thirteenth Street at 7 30 last evening. Four shots struck him, witnesses say he had past arrests for robberies, and police held papers from his pockets as clues.
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James Cariggio
Jimmy
Curley
John Morelli
East Thirteenth Street
Rancis Edwards
Grace Chapel
East Fourteenth Street
Thirteenth Street
Lieut
Hennessy
Bonano
Grotano
Morelli
Tony Copdica
East Thirteenth Ae
Andrew Enea
John Sicca
Second Avenue
Fifth Street
Rutgers Square Park
J. A. Roulston
Tf. W. W
Tannenbaum
Miller
Geer
Canal Street
Bowery
Bowery Mission
Rutgers Park
Rich heir runs from mother as boy seeks habeas corpus
George H Loeffer, 12, heir to an $800000 estate, refuses to return to his mother Mrs Dorothy Anderson. He stays with his aunt Mrs Mary Loefler at 804 Jefferson Ave Brooklyn. Justice Jaycox signs writ directing Aunt to produce boy in court next day. Mrs Loefer claims she shelters him from strangers.
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George H. Loeffer
Polytechnic Preparatory School
Dorothy Anderson
Mary Loeffer
Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn
Jaycox
Supreme Court
Rockefeller Goes South for Rest and Golf
John D. Rockefeller plans a trip from Pocantico Hills to Jekyll Island with his baggage moved to New York by driver. Reasons given include desire for rest after notoriety and to play golf, which he has not done since returning from Cleveland. His brother William is reportedly at Jekyll Island and may join. Heavy snow hindered the six cylinder auto's move, requiring planks and five hauling teams.
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John PD
Rockefeller
Pocantlco Hills
Jekyl Island
New York
Mr. Rockefeller
Cleveland
William Rockefeller
South
Bronx pupil vanishes after snowstorm walk to school
Anna White, a Public School 18 student from Courtlandt Avenue and 148th Street in the Bronx, disappeared after insisting on going to school during a severe snowstorm. She did not return by nightfall, with her father Robert White warning against the trip and her sister Mary age 18 helping with the family.
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Anna White
Courtlandt Avenue
148Th Street
Bronx
East 143d
Robert White
Hir
Mary
Atlantic Coast Line Florida Special heads to Havana
Fragmentary notes indicate a train known as the Florida Special on Atlantic Coast Line preparing for a trip to Havana within a 52 hour window. The snippet mentions a 12:34 noon departure and various line references.
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Havana
Florida
Hiway
Tei
Mad
Legislators Await Goethals Answer on Police Bills
A legislative committee will not report on police reform bills until all ambiguities are removed. Officials acknowledge measures are in doubt and await clearer guidance from Goethals.
Investigation Shakes Old Theories on Subject
A careful study just completed delivers a jolt to accepted ideas. Read about it in next Sunday’s Times for full details and implications.
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TIMES
Not a Word Says Goethals on Police Post
A dispatch summary from Albany quotes legislators pressing Col. Goethals to declare whether he will accept the New York Police Commissionership. At midnight in Washington he refused to answer, replying only with silence. The Times correspondent reported the exchange at the railway station as Goethals boarded for New York.
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Washington, D. C
Albany
Col. Goethals
New York Police
New York
TimMus
Wilson to Address Congress on Tolls
President Wilson plans a joint session address to urge repeal of the tolls discriminatory provision of the Panama Canal act. The move comes as House leaders, including Underwood, oppose repeal, signaling aefe conflict with party discipline and possible strain on Senate House relations.
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New York Times
Washington
Congress
Wilson
White House
Representative Underwood
Alabama
Ways and Means
House
Underwood
Canada
Senate
Chamberlain
Oregon
Great Britain
O'Gorman
New York
Committee On Interoceanic Canals
Committee On Foreign Relations
Europe
Mexico
United States
Japan
Itusata
Colombia
Panama
Roosevelt
Russia Planned War Against Germany Claims Stir Europe
A Cologne Gazette telegram alleging Russia prepared to wage war on Germany caused German officials to dissociate from the report. Other papers discuss a potential War Party maneuver. In Budapest Marmaros Sarget, 32 of 55 Ruthenians were sentenced for inciting rebellion. Father Alexius jailed four and a half years. Penalties ranged to two and a half years with fines. 23 acquitted. The case alleges Russia sought to convert Ruthenian peasants to Orthodox faith to draw them from Austria Hungary.
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Tut
New Yorker Times
Berlin
Germany
Cologne Gazette
St. Petersburg
Russia
Imperial Foreign Office
Cologne
The
Germania
Budapest
Marmoroa-Sarget
Alexius
Mount Athos
Alexander Kabalyuk
Austria-Hungary
Hungary
Goethals Decision Sought On Police Commissioner Offer
Senator Cullen and other lawmakers pressed Mayor Mitchel to obtain a direct pledge from Col. George Goethals on whether he would accept the Police Commissioner post if the Mitchel bills pass. They warned Goethals’s silence risks the bills and questioned the good faith of using his name as a decoy. Senators and Assembly leaders urged a clear stance before action.
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Albany, March
Thomas K. Cullen
Brooklyn
Senate Cities Committee
Mitchel
Tin New York
Timwa Today
George W.W. Goeth Als
Col. Goethals
New York
Cullen
Senator Cullen
Placin
Opnion
Awa
Alfred K. Smith
Assembly
James J. Frawley
Frawley
George I. Thompson
Niagara
Aso
Thompson
John I. Murtaugh
Heming
Stevenson Will Filed for Probate in Santa Barbara
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson’s will leaves $120 500 estate to her daughter Mrs. Isobel Strong with $300 monthly to Lloyd Osbourne for life. Five dollars goes to Katharine Durham Osbourne. Edward Salisbury Field gets a sand lot in Carpenter Iowa. The feud between Mrs. Osbourne and Mrs. Stevenson’s daughter was public years earlier in Y.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lloyd Osbourne
Edward
Salisbury Field
Stevenson
Testatrix
Carpenter
Iowa
Mellen’s Plea Overruled in Westport Wreck Case
Judge Joseph P. Tuttle in Bridgeport overruled Mellen’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and to vacate the arrest warrant. Charles S. Mellen, former president of the New Haven Road, is charged with manslaughter in the 1912 Westport wreck. No trial date set. decision says bench warrants follow long established practice and changes must come from higher court.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Joseph P. Tuttle
Criminal Superior Court
Charles 8. Mellen
New Haven
Mellen
Westport
Southern Railroads face $10 million premium to Morgan firm
Representative Collier of Mississippi charged in the House that the Southern Railroad must obtain $50 million in funds to meet maturing bonds and that J P Morgan & Co would demand an extra $10 million in bonds as a premium. He cited Mississippi Alabama Georgia Florida and other states bearing the freight and interest costs.
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Washington
Collier
Mississippi
Southern Railroad
J. P. Morgan & Co
He Morgan Company
Alabama
Georgia
Porida
Carolinas
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Morgan & Co
Unemployed Rally at St Pauls Shows Deep Divisions
The Industrial Workers of the World led a march of about 220 men to St Pauls Chapel at Broadway and Vesey Street for food and shelter. A quarrel erupted among the protesters over alleged anarchists and home status, with Dr W Montague Geer mediating and ordering music to defuse tension.
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Little Army of “Church
Frank Tannenbaum
Industrial Workers of the World
Old St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Chapel
Broadway and
Vesey Street
George Washington
W. Montague Geer
St. Paul's
Dr. Geer
Wat
Tannenbaum
Veney
Church Street
Harry Klein
Baltic and Augste Victoria anchored near Sandy Hook
Latest Shipping News reports the Baltic, on White Star Line service from Liverpool to New York, 1106 miles east of Sandy Hook at 7 PM. the Auguste Victoria, Hamburg America Line, 1226 miles east of Sandy Hook at 7 39 PM. and the Lusitania, Cunard Line, 1150 miles east of Sandy Hook at 8 50 PM. Solid steel trains to Florida advertised by Seaboard Air Line from Pinehurst to Birmingham and Atlanta.
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Marconi Wireless
Baltic
White Star Line
Liverpool
New York
Sandy Hook
Matserin Auguste ‘Fetoria
Hamburg-American Line
Hatpurg
Cunard Line
Florida
Pinehurst
Southern Pines
Camden
Atlanta
Birmingham
Seaboard Air Line
Ady
Hurricane devastates Cook and Akutaki islands in Pacific
A fifty year record hurricane hits Cook Island and Akutaki Island south of the Society Islands. A massive wave sweeps Mauko island destroying a village. Inhabitant condition described as pitiable. Lily Drinking Cups noted as office accessory from P Service Cup Co, B'Alya.
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Sydney
S. W
Cook Island
Akutaki Island
Society Islands
Mauko Island
Lily
P Service Cup Co
B'Alya
Post Races With Death On Special Train to Rochester
Millionaire C. W. Post of Battle Creek Michigan travels by special train toward Rochester Minnesota for urgent surgical treatment. He is accompanied by Mrs. Post and a physician from his Santa Barbara winter home. Health deteriorated after arrival in Santa Barbara a month ago.
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Los Angeles
Cal
C. W. Post
Battle Creek
Mich
Rochester
Minn
Post
Santa Barbara
Million Dollar Volga Dredging Contract Report
A Russian government contract to an American syndicate funds large scale dredging on the Volga and its tributaries. An American engineering staff will supervise a five year program costing about 250 million dollars. The deal grants toll rights on vessels and cargoes for fifty years.
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New York
Timms
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Volga
Father Egan Resigns From St. Clements Church
The Rev William F P Regan rector of St Clements Church at Mariners Harbor resigns after four years and says his successor will take charge on Saturday. He declines to discuss reasons for departure. A police probe in Manhattan cleared an officer named in a separate case and recommended reassignment.
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William Fp.regan
St. Clement's
Mariners’ Harbor
S. 1
Patherman
Button
West Brighton
Susan Beattie
Georgie Hesse
Fleatalton
Besen
Wan
Manhattan
Roosevelt Works at Auction Fetches 30 Cents Bid
At Grant Square clubhouse the defunct Union League Club of Brooklyn archives including six Roosevelt works were sold for only thirty cents. A bidder offered twenty cents each and the crowd reacted with disbelief as the sale concluded.
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Grant Square
Union League Club of
Brooklyn
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
James Plew Hanged for Murder in Connecticut
James Plew was executed by hanging at the State Prison in Wethersfield early this morning for the June murder of William Wakefield in Middlebury. He was taken from the death house near midnight, had no visitors besides the chaplain, appeared calm, and showed no remorse, saying he killed Wakefield to marry Mrs. Wakefield and was ready to pay the penalty.
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Hartford
Conn
James Plew
William Wakefield
Middlebury
Women Police Withdrawn After Disorderly Protest
Chicago reports Chief Gleason removes women police who failed to subdue disorderly female protesters at a downtown restaurant boycott. Mounted officers helped scatter crowds as prisoners resisted arrests. Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams figures arraigned with waitresses for picketing and disorderly conduct.
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Chicago
Gleason
Ellen Gates Starr
Hull House
Jane Addams
Poisonous bean incident ends in hospital serious condition
Samuel Dwokin a pharmacy student at a Manhattan school obtained a portion of a poisonous bean at a lecture. He swallowed a fragment about five-eighths inch long and was admitted to Harlem Hospital in serious condition. The lecture noted that a one four hundredth part could be fatal. The bean from India is used for licorice and medicinal purposes.
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Samuel Dwokin
East 12Th Street
Sixty-eighth Street
Broadway
Harlem Hospital
India
City Breaks Free From Snow Grip After Storm
New York and the metropolitan district regain rail and wire contact with the outside world as snow cleanup continues. Three deaths reported nearby. telegraph lines down across New Jersey and upstate New York gradually restored. Eight hundred miles of wire and 1000 poles were down. street cleaning crews mobilized with 17000 workers, cost near 1100000 since mid February. Mayor Mitchel remains snowbound but expected to reach the city today.
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New York
New Jersey
New York City
Lackawanna
Tts
Jersey Central
Atlantic City
Whitings
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New York State
New England
Transatlantic
Caledonia
Glasgow
Caa
Twenty-fourth Street
Cunard
City of
Fetherston
Mitchel
Adirondecka
Snow Removal Team Clears City After Major Snowfall
Temperature rise and bright sun aid 17 000 workers as they melt and remove snow across Broadway Fifth Avenue Haarlem Brooklyn and Harlem. About 10 000 snow contractors and 7 000 city employees involved carting 80 000 cubic yards in Manhattan alone. far more productive than the first storm day.
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Ciity
Fetherston
Gunther
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Haarlem
Bronx
Sirecklyn
Department of Sewers
Manhattan
Riverside
Times Square
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England
Gov. Colquitt
Benton Case
Snow
Goethals
Ures
Southern Road
Old St. Paul's
Klein
Samuel Hardman
Henry Sandwirth
Sandwirth
Hardman
Frank Hamilton
Army
Prince Street
St. Paul's Chapel
Spring Street
Worth Street
Mauko
Millionaire
Minnesota
Tributaries
Egan
Wakefield
Wethersfield
Student of Pharmacy
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