Striking Coal Miners Face Prolonged Labor Battle
London reports a decisive Unionist opposition to the Minimum Wages bill aimed at ending the coal miners strike. Miners demand the bill include full wage figures, while leaders warn of a possible general election if the Government falls. Unemployment rises across sectors as the strike deepens and labour disruptions spread nationwide.
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Marconi Transatlantic
New York Times
London
A. J. Balfour
Miners’ Federation
Labor Party
House of Commons
the Times
Marquis of Volpicelli and Fraulein Adams Dead in Naples
Reports from Rome and Naples recount a double murder suicide at Hotel Risorgimento and a separate suicide pact on Lake Garda. The Marquis Salvatore Volpicelli and Fraulein Adams died after a quarrel and gunfire in Naples, with police citing possible self-inflicted deaths. A Padua nobleman Count Barbera killed his partner and then died by suicide nearby.
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London
Daily Mail
Rome
Marquis of Volpicelli
Naples
Hotel Risorgimento
Salvatore Volpicelli
Fraulein Adams
Franlien Adams
Hotel Excelsior
Marquis Volpicelli
First Day of Spring Arrives Early After Thunderstorm
The vernal equinox fell a day earlier this year after a pre dawn thunderstorm. An afternoon warm spell and light rain followed, with a heavy downpour at 4 15 am before daybreak.
Hobble Skirt Cars Win In Washington
Washington officials authorize fifty new street cars with lowered steps to suit hobble skirts. The Washington Railway and Electric Company placed the order with a Philadelphia firm, ending months of debate over privacy and accessibility for women.
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New York Times
Washington
Washington Railway & Electric Company
Philadelphia
Boston
Cleveland
Pankhurst
Gypsy King's $6000 in Gold Stolen in Providence
In Providence on March 20 six thousand dollars in twenty dollar gold coins, the late Gypsy King’s fortune, was stolen from William Stanley, a horse trader. Police nationwide have been alerted for a German named Oscar, linked to the robbery, who disappeared with the gold from a cellar where he was employed. Oscar claimed to come from New York and to have worked at Coney Island last summer.
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Providence
R. I
King
William Stanley
New England
New York City
Oscar
Stanley
New York
Coney Island
Train Bandits Steal Over $30,000 Near Corinth
In Corinth Mississippi March 20 after a daylong search of the Tus cumbia River bottoms railroad and express detectives with local posses failed to locate five robbers who stopped a Mobile and Ohio passenger train last night. Officials would not disclose the exact loot but the express safe contents were valued above $30,000.
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Corinth
Miss
Tuscumbia
Railroad and Express Company
Mobile & Ohio
Express Company
Socialist mayor loses in Milwaukee primary race
Milwaukee March 20 With one precinct missing in yesterday's primary Dr Gerhard A Bading non partisan candidate for Mayor shows 26248 votes defeating Congressman William J Cary by 11878 for Mayor Emil Seidel Socialist carried va pti The election will be held.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Gerhard A. Bading
William J. Cary
Emil Seidel
Va Pti
Woman killed in feud linked to Monaco lover case
Nicolina Lenore, 20, heiress and daughter of Mrs. Pasquarella Spinelli, watched as two men shot her mother at 835 East 108th Street and fled down Second Avenue. Detectives pursue Monaco associates, suspecting revenge for the lover’s murder two years earlier.
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Nicolina Lenore
Pasquarella Spinelli
Little
Italy
East 108Th Street
van Weisenstein
East 104Th Street
Weisenstein
Paul
Kahn and
Dietsch
Ravvo
Spinelli
Nicolina
Francisco Monaco
East 109Th Street
Gaetano Naplitano
Italan
Napolitano
Monaco
Lieut. Lasky
Girl Loses 1000 In Subway With Cash And Checks
The National Surety Company investigates the disappearance on Tuesday afternoon of more than 400 in checks and about 1000 in cash belonging to William G. White Haberdashery Company. Pearl Gowrie, cashier, reported loss while riding a subway from the Metropolitan Bank area to Broadway and Fourteenth Street. Police questioned her. the case is now with the bonding company which vouches for her.
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National Surety Company
William G. White Haberdashery Company
Fifth Avenue
Pearl Gowrie
National Security Bank
Eighteenth Street
Broadway
Miss Gowrie
Metropolitan Bank
Chambers Street
Fourteenth Street
Misa Gowrie
Astor Place
Easter Sunday Times Print Run Sets 200000 Copy Cap
The New York Times reports unprecedented demand for next Sunday’s Easter issue. Demand exceeds supply and the edition will be limited to 200000 copies with no extra prints available.
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New York Times
the Times
Carnegie Discovers the Prettiest Girl in the World
Andrew Carnegie declares Miss Virginia Lee, 20, a Pittsburgh stenographer, the prettiest girl in the world after receiving her photo from Hot Springs, Arkansas. Lee, a Margaret Morrison Schools graduate, works as a typewriter at Loughridge Engineering. Carnegie hopes a lucky prince may pursue her, while she requests not to be announced as the object of his praise.
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New York Times
Pittsburgh
Penn
Virginia Lee
Andrew Carnegie
Lee
Margaret Morrison Carnegie
Laird
Skibo
Hot Springs
Ark
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Bonnie Virginia Lee
Miss Lee
Mr. Carnegie
Carnegie
Margaret Morrison
Loughridge Engineering Company
Bridal gift from Carnegie to Nashville librarian bride
An drew Carnegie sent a wedding gift of 1000 dollars to Miss Mary Hannah Johnson librarian of the Carnegie Library in Nashville. She is to marry Dr. P. H. Claxton United States Commissioner of Education. A note in Carnegie's handwriting praised her devotion to public service.
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Nashville
Tenn
Andrew Carnegie
Mary Hannah Johnson
Carnegie Library
P. H. Claxton
United States Commissioner of Education
Mr. Carnegie
Miss Johnson
Investigate Knoxs Valet Question Sparks House Inquiry
Washington March 20 Chairman Hamlin of the House Expenditures Committee says he uncovered another outrage in the State Department centering on Secretary Knoxs Black valet Archibald Pinkert. Pinkert is listed at 1200 annually in the mailing room and reportedly spends much time at Knoxs home over the past three years. The secretary may be subpoenaed after he returns from a Pan American tour.
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New York Times
Washington
Hamlin
House Committee On
State Department
Beiieves
Knox
Robert F. Clayton
Archibald S. Pinkert
Clayton
Pinkert
Rare Knox
Tropics
Senator Taylor III Stricken with Illness in Washington
Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee is gravely ill at his Stoneleigh Court apartment in Washington. He had been preparing to travel south for recuperation when his health suddenly deteriorated, with alarming symptoms and a rapid decline noted by aides and physicians.
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New York Times
Washington
Robert L. Taylor
Tennessee
Stoneleigh Court
South
Symptons
Plan for eight year Philippine independence under Democrat bill
A draft Democratic bill proposes eight years of qualified independence for the Philippines from July 4, 1913 to July 4, 1921, with a Philippine Congress and President, a U S backed judiciary, and American control of foreign affairs during the probationary period, leading to full independence thereafter. The plan mirrors 1902 provisions and lacks a failure‑of‑capacity clause.
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New York Times
Washington
Philippines
House of Representatives
William A. Jones
House Insular Affairs Committee
F. J. Garrett
Benio Legarda
Manuel Queson
House
Philippine Islands
Jones
Virginia
Jones-Garrett
Congress
Senate
United States
Supreme Court
Fight for Free Canal in House Toll Protest
The House toll controversy for the Panama Canal opens with a minority report from the Inter-State Commerce Committee. The bipartisan dissent, signed by Rep. Broussard, Doremus, Knowland, and Calder, argues tolls harm free commercial intercourse and would boost railroad charges on eastern to western seaboard freight.
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New York Times
Washington
House
Panama Canal
Inter-State Commerce Committee
Broussard
Louisiana
Doremus
Michigan
Knowland
California
Calder
New York
San Francisco
Ash Handle Duty Exemption Passes Chamber of Deputies
Paris March 20 A bill to exempt ash handles for agricultural tools from duty was approved by the Chamber of Deputies and awaits the Senate, with the Tariff Committee backing it. The 1910 tariff had taxed ash handles mainly from the United States at 12.50 and 7.60 cent minimum, impacting French implement makers.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Senate Tariff Committee
United States
No Second Rosalsky Bomb Investigation Stays Quiet
No new developments in the search for the person who sent an internal machine to Judge Rosalsky last Saturday. Police say a score of detectives are on the case at headquarters while Commissioner Doughan remains in contact with higher officials as they discuss progress.
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Rosalsky
D Dougnatty
Joined in death as in life three aged sisters die
Mary 80, Alice 78 and Susan McCrain 78 set out for Orange County New York two weeks earlier seeking health. After catching the grip in Searsville Mary died March 16, Susan March 17, and Alice March 19. Bodies sent to 885 Wales Street Jersey City Heights New Jersey for funerals today.
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Mary
Alice McCrain
Susan McCrain
Orange County
New York
Searsville
Alice
Wales Street
Jersey City Heights
N. J
$50,000 Gift For Harvard Science Lab
Boston March 20 A gift of 50000 dollars to the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science includes a high tension electrical laboratory expected to outrank all others The donor’s name is withheld Officials plan a large transformer to deliver alternating current at 1000000 volts and provide a direct current of 100000 volts for the laboratory.
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Boston
Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science
J Pierpont Morgan Gifts 100000 to Peabody College
Nashville report states J Pierpont Morgan donates 100000 to Peabody College for Teachers. The George Peabody Fund trustees offer 500000 more to Southern college if it raises 1000000 by Sept 1, 1913, with Morgan's gift count toward the total. Southern alumni commit 200000 toward the drive.
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Peabody College
Nashville
Tenn
J. Pierpont Morgan
George Peabody Fund
Southern College
Mount Holyoke College Sees $300000 Raised for Fund
In South Hadley Mass on March 20 officials report more than half of the $500000 Mount Holyoke College fund has been pledged. The General Education Board of New York will contribute $100000 and Mrs John Stewart Kennedy of New York promises another $100000. An anonymous gift of $50000 is also announced.
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South Hadley
Mass
Mount Holyoke College
General Education Board of New York
John Stewart Kennedy
New York
President Emeritus Eliot Celebrates 78 Aboard Steamship
Cambridge Mass March 20 President Emeritus Charles W Eliot of Harvard University is 78 today and enjoying renewed health aboard a North German Lloyd steamer in the Pacific. He travels with Mrs Eliot from Colombo after leaving Ceylon on March 10 en route to Hongkong. Cablegrams of congratulation arrive as Eliot, recently operated on for appendicitis near Kandy, chronicles a slow return voyage toward China and Japan.
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New York Times
Cambridge
Mass
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Pacific Ocean
Eliot
Ceylon
Hongkong
China
Colombo
Samuel A. Eliot
Kandy
Japan
Feud Trial Sparks Fatal Panic at London Court
Shots rang out as a fire alarm misled crowds into thinking a feud battle near the London Kentucky courthouse was underway. Mrs. W H Murray collapsed dead from shock amid rumors of a man known for killing four others being sought for a separate murder in Clay County.
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London
Court House
May
W. H. Murray
Sherman Merida
Clay County
Snake in Waldorf Astoria Causes Alarm in Peacock Alley
A live green water snake, 18 inches long with black eyes and a red tongue, wriggled from under a gold chair in Peacock Alley at the Waldorf Astoria yesterday afternoon. Women nearby fled in alarm, a bell boy captured the creature, and it was placed in the Lost and Found Room, likely a guest’s pet.
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Peacock Alley
Waldorf-Astoria
London
Surgeon McAllister Faces Thumb Amputation After Needle Infection
Dr. John J. McAllister chief surgeon of the New York Central Railroad had his right thumb amputated at Mount Sinai Hospital after a needle prick during a demonstration caused blood poisoning. He remains hospitalized for several days as doctors decide whether further amputation of the hand or arm may be needed to save his life.
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John J. McAllister
New York Central Railroad
Mount Sinai Hospital
Howard Lilienthal
McAllister
Jenthal
Seizes Single Taxer's House for Debt
Wilmington March 20 Constable L C Jones surprised Arden followers by raiding James M Beane's bungalow over a 276 debt to a grocer. The Arden group linked to Henry George and Upton Sinclair return to headlines as quiet affairs erupt in local tax colony news.
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
Arden
Upton Sinclair
L. C. Jones
Henry George
James M. Beane
Roosevelt Attacks Taft at Carnegie Hall Rally
Col Theodore Roosevelt spoke at Carnegie Hall defending recall of judicial decisions and advocating popular supervision of government. He attacked Taft's representative system, warned of minority tyranny, and argued Americans must govern themselves. The crowd cheered as he defended Lincoln’s governance ideals and denounced special interests.
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Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Carnegie Hall
Taft
Columbus
Justice Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Abraham Lincoln
Supreme Court of the United States
Arnegie Lyceum
Oscar S. Straus
Gifford Pinchot
Amos
Jacob A. Riis
Frank A. Munsey
George W. Perkins
Collector Loeb
George B. Cortelyou
William Barnes, Jr
Mr. Taft
Republican Party
Chicago
Col. Roosevelt
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