Women Watch Duel Of Russian Generals
St Petersburg report on a duel between Lieut. Gen. Smirnoff and Lieut. Gen. Fock at the Chevalier Guard riding school. Smirnoff wounded in the abdomen. Fock's coat perforated. both fired four shots under supervision with witnesses including officers and possibly women. The duel stems from Smirnoff’s Port Arthur memorandum criticizing Fock.
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ST. Petersburg
Smirnoff
Fock
Chevalier Guard
Vladimir M. Purishkevich
Duma
Schultz
Navy
Sido
Stoessel
Lieut. Podgursky
Port Arthur
Kireieff
Report on Port Arthur defense triggers court martial cases
Generals Stoessel Fock and Reiss faced life court martial after a secret defense report by Gen Smirnoff. Fock was reprimanded for disciplinary offense, Stoessel accused of cowardice and incapacity, and Fock of incapacity and poor judgment. Smirnoff’s biased report fueled bitter enmity toward Port Arthur officers.
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Smirnoff
Port Arthur
Russia
Stoessel
Fock
Gen. Stoessel
Gen. Fock
Czar Praises Garrison For Port Arthur Defense
The imperial ukase lauds the garrison at Port Arthur for tenacious defense and self sacrifice after the fortress surrender. It praises bravery, fidelity to oath, and the acts adding to Russia’s heroic annals, with Nicholas IIs signature and intention to remember.
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ST. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Far East
Russia
Nicholas
Montreal Extradition Sought in Paris Express Robbery Case
Special to The New York Times. Kid McManus, once jailed in Kingston for safeblowing, is to be extradited to France amid Paris robbery probes. The Paris Express Office was looted of 30000 dollars in 1901 following a 50000 dollar Lyons bank heist. Notable figures Guerin and May Churchill, aka Diamond May and Chicago May, play roles in the case with varying prison outcomes. McManus has a long criminal record and now faces extradition from Canada.
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New York Times
Montreal
Quebec
Kid
McManus
Kingston
Ottawa
France
Amerve Express Company
Paris
American Express Company
Bank of Lyons
Edward Guerin
General Crook
May Churchill
Continents
Diamond May
Chicago
Guerin
Devil's Island
Dutch Guiana
London
Canada
Britain's Great 1911 Fleet Declared Superior
In the House of Lords Lord Tweedmouth defends delaying mass battleship orders as experimental. He asserts Temeraire ships surpass Dreadnoughts and St Vincent type vessels would improve the Temernaire fleet. By spring 1911 Britain would field three squadrons of four St Vincent ships, claiming no power could match it.
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London
House of Lords
Lord Tweedmouth
Admiralty
Great Britain
St. Vincent
Diamonds Face Shake From American Demand Dip
Sir Michael Hicks Beach warned at the Bank of Africa meeting that South African diamond trade suffers from U S demand slump. He noted US demand could rebound as conditions improve, boosting prices. Dutch firms plan Cape Colony cutting venture with Amsterdam experts and possible export duty on uncut stones. Kimberley Jaegersfontein Mine cuts output by half.
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London
United States
Michael Hicks- Beach
Bank of Africa
America
Cape Colony
Amsterdam
Cape
Jaegersfontein
Roosevelt Visit Suggested By Australian Senate
In Melbourne on March 18 the Australian Senate debated inviting President Roosevelt to Australia as the guest of the Commonwealth during the U S battleship fleet visit next summer. Vice President of the Executive Council Mr Best opposed the idea saying a US president rarely leaves the country and the invitation seemed impractical.
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Melbourne
Roosevelt
Australia
Commonwealth
Best
Executive Council
United States
Governor Magoon Plans Protest After April Meeting
Havana dispatch says Governor Magoon will protest after an April meeting as political tensions rise amid feverish unrest in the capital. Tallon is reported ill, and officials promise decisive action on the issue.
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Havana
Defense Commission rejects 1908 battleship credits report
The Commission on National Defense adopted a report rejecting 1908 battleship credits and accepting credits for ongoing battleships torpedo boats and submarines. Duma likely to adopt the report. Paris report notes French fishing crew captured near Cape Juby. rescue planned. Guayaquil plague up to fifty one cases with smallpox and yellow fever. officials plan measures. Fire threats loom as old town hall to be destroyed. An urgent naval port and fortress inspection ordered by the Emperor to be completed in a fortnight.
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ST. Petersburg
Commission On National Defense
Duma
Paris
Cape Juby
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Perry
Lloyd
Quito
Sebastopol
Baku
Cronstadt
Reval
Libau
Sveaborg
Skrydloff
Divorce Suit At Paris Court Sparks Public Controversy
Maitre Labori and counsel for Mrs. A Hart McKee and Mr. McKee clashed in a Paris divorce hearing. Labori charged Mrs McKee with misconduct linking her to Lord Roslyn and an Italian Marquis while denying his client’s cruelty claims. The session drew a large crowd and will resume March 25.
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Paris
Maitre/Labori
A. Hart McKee
McKee
Maitre Labori
Col. Baxter
Tevis
Lord Roslyn
Mr. McKee
Refugees Leaving Haiti Under Government Safe Passage
Haitian authorities authorize refugees sheltered in French German and Spanish consulates to depart by boat to St Thomas aboard the French cruiser D Estrees. Six officers face a court martial over conspiracy charges as warships deter unrest and calm foreign residents.
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Port AU Prince
Aurel Madou
Washington
State Department
Haiti
Furniss
Berlin remembers 1848 revolution as crowds protest peacefully
On March 18 Berlin on the east side held silent tributes at Friedrichshain Park graves for 1848 revolutionists. Socialist meetings recalled the uprising while crowds marched toward Unter den Linden, clashed with police, and the Reichsbank area. A temporary hospital treated the wounded.
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Berlin
Friedrichshain Park
Halle
Friedrich Street
Unter den Linden
Reichsbank
Castile
Th Schloss-Platz
Schloss
PAPAL NUNCIO IN TROUBLE
Vienna reports a clash between the Austrian government and the Papal Nuncio over Dr Wahrmund a university professor who attacked Catholic doctrines. The Nuncio says he acted alone in seeking Wahrmund’s removal. Austria may ask the Vatican to recall the Nuncio.
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Vienna
Wahrmund
Austria
Vatican
Corelli questions Shakespeare memorial trust fund
Marie Corelli in a London letter ridicules the plan for a 2,000,000 memorial statue for Shakespeare by international subscription. She doubts sustained public zeal and notes Stratford on Avon uses Shakespeare as a trademark on beer bottles.
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NEW York Times
London
Shakespeare
Washington Irving
Sir Walter Scott
Thomas Moore
Samuel T. Coleridge
Marie Corelli
Corelli
Stratford-on-Avon
Postmaster Fights Robbers in West Nyack Safe Theft
West Nyack postmaster David J. Smith rushed the post office on hearing a blast. He fired on three burglars who had dynamited the safe. one assailant was gravely wounded, the others escaped with about $4 in cash. Smith was uninjured in the confrontation.
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Nyack
N. Y
David J. Smith
West Nyack
Smith
School Board Divided Over By Law Change And Exterior Doors
The Board of Education will discuss Senator Agnew's bill to cut the board size from forty six to fifteen and a Fire Department proposal to install exterior opening doors. Some members back the reduction while the By-Laws committee opposes it. the exterior doors proposal faces strong board opposition due to intrusion concerns.
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Board of Education
Agnew
Fire Department
School Board
Firehouse Queen Bess Delivers Eight Pups for Engine 26
The pet Bess of Fire Engine Company 26 on West Thirty-seventh Street gave birth to eight puppies two days ago. Firefighters try to keep her home but she rides with the engine when the gong sounds. Her sire Oakie came to Engine 39 from Reginald Vanderbilt. Minnie the mouse catcher at William Kornreichs saloon on Clinton Street also blocked by owner and bartender, jumping atop the bar at noon yesterday. six kittens were later found after Minnie leapt at a customer’s head.
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Bess
Fire Engine Company 26
West Thirty-seventh Street
Oakie
Reginald Vanderbilt
Minnie
William Kornreich
Clinton Sreet
Mr. Kornreich
Minnies
Mrs Maude Mosher Homan Remarries Six Days After Husband's Death
In Plainfield New Jersey on March 18 an announcement stated Mrs Maude Mosher Homan remarried quickly after her first husband died March 8. She wed Leonard Crosby of New York at her West 134th Street home last Saturday night with Rev W W Davis officiating. The bride is the daughter of John P Mosher of Plainfield.
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New York Times
Plainfield
N. J
Maude Mosher Homan
Leonard Crosby
New York
West 134Th Street
Church of the Redeemer
Seventh Avenue
136Th Street
John P. Mosher
Short Circuit Halts Manhattan Elevated Trains
A power fault halted the entire elevated system in Manhattan yesterday afternoon. The outage occurred at 1:58 PM affecting cables between the Seventy fourth Street generating plant and Division Street Sub Station 5. The circuit was cut out and service resumed in twelve minutes with trains once again moving. There was no power or light on trains or platforms during the stoppage.
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Manhattan
Seventy-fourth Street
Division Street
Wanmaker Plans Democratic Office At Port
Appraiser George W. Wanmaker announced plans to run his port office on democratic lines. He will not use his private office much and will spend most time in the outer office to personally greet visitors.
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Wanmaker
George W. Wanmaker
Mural Unveiled At Hebrew Technical School for Girls
After graduation, the Hebrew Technical School for Girls on Second Avenue and Fifteenth Street will unveil a 40 by 16 foot mural titled Womanhood by F. L. Stodd. The painting was presented to the school by Adolp Lewisohn.
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Hebrew Technical School For Girls
Second Avenue
Fifteenth Street
F. L. Stodd
Adolp Lewisohn
City Brevities: Lectures, meetings and a fatal trolley crash
The Rev Dr C Campbell Morgan spoke at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church as part of a New York Bible Teachers' Training School series. A joint LEP and City History Club conference comes to the Museum of Natural History at 4 pm, with the exhibit extended to March 29. A Pilgrims dinner honors Lord Fairfax of Cameron at Delmonico's tomorrow evening, with George T Wilson, William Curtis Demorest and Louis C Hay on the Dinner Committee. Policeman Robert J Fitzgerald, of the Brooklyn Bridge squad, was found dead after being struck by a trolley while preventing a jump into the river. Congressman Joseph A Goulden plans a West Point candidate from the Eighteenth District. exam details via Morris High School principal John H Denbigh. John Phillips of 452 East 145th Street, father of eight, was killed by a trolley at Third Ave and 140th St. motorman Bernard Gilbride faced a coroner’s inquiry over a fatal misaction.
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C. Campbell Morgan
London
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York Bible Teachers’ Training School
League For Political Education
City History Club
Museum of Natural History
Pilgrims
Lord Fairfax of Cameron
British Pilgrims
Delmonico’s
George T. Wilson
William Curtis Demorest
Louis C. Hay
Robert J. Fitzgerald
Brooklyn Bridge
Joseph A. Goulden
West Point
John H. Denbigh
Morris High School
John Phillips
East 145Th Street
Third Avenue
140Th Street
Westchester Avenue
Bernard Gilbride
Schwannecke
Gilbride
Phillips
Duke of the Abruzzi awaits King Victor Emmanuel consent
Washington reporting circles say the Duke may wed Miss Elkins after King Victor Emmanuel approves the match. The Abruzzi's arrival at the Italian Embassy sparked an informal dinner with notable guests while sources note a marriage to Princess Patricia of Connaught is unlikely.
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New York Times
Washington
Duke of
Abruzzi
Victor Emmanuel
Miss Elkins
Rome
Patricia of
d'Aosta
Count
Turin
Elkins
K Street
Meyer
Isabella Howard
Florida
Italian Papers Question Abruzzi Morganatic Marriage
Rome reports public interest in a possible engagement between the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Elkins. Observers doubt a morganatic match, noting royal blood rules and the likely need for the prince to renounce succession if wed. The last Savoy morganatic link involved Victor Emmanuel II and Rosina Vercellana.
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Rome
America
Miss Elkins
Madrid
Cort
The
Abruzzi
House of Savoy
Victor Emmanuel II
Rosina Vercellana
Mirafiori
Wasserman Testifies Before Grand Jury in Payoff Probe
Sergt. Joseph Wasserman formerly with the District Attorney’s staff appeared before the morning Grand Jury investigating Wasserman’s charge that Daniel Slattery, secretary to Commissioner Bingham, demanded $1,000 before advancement to Police Sergeant. The probe continues today.
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Wasserman
Joseph Wasserman
Daniel Slattery
Bingham
Marrin Sentenced to Four Years for Mail Fraud
Philadelphia March 18 Frank C Marrin also known as Franklin Stone convicted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the Storey Cotton Company and sentenced to four years imprisonment and a $5,900 fine. He was released in $10,000 bail pending appeal.
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Philadelphia
Frank C Marrin
Franklin Stone
Storey Cotton Company
City May Lease Ward's Island
New York City is authorized to lease Ward's Island to the State. The bill, introduced by Senator Grady, passed the Assembly and has already cleared the Senate.
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New York Times
Albany
New York City
Ward's
Assembly
Grady
Senate
Born Firebug Confesses to Bayside Club Fire
Stephen J. Ingalls, held on arson charges for the Bayside Yacht Club house fire, admitted to Detective William H. Allen that he was the man in a prison photograph. He also claimed responsibility for arsons at McKnight's barn and Bayside Lumber Co. property, with losses around 23000. Ingalls cited irresistible impulse, noting prior fire-settling in Gloucester and two separate prison terms.
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Charlestown
Mass
Stephen J. Ingalls
Bayside Yacht Club
William H. Allen
Yacht Club
McKnight
Bayside Lumber Company
Can
Ingalls
House of Correction
Massachusetts
Gloucester
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