British miners near settlement as strike ballot urged
The Miners' Federation rows toward a settlement with a vote planned on resuming work under the Minimum Wage act. J Ramsay MacDonald urges acceptance while troops guard collieries and police protect pits amid mounting concern across English coal fields. Royal assent to the measure expected soon.
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Marconi Transatlantic
New York Times
London
Miners’ Federation
J. Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Durham
South Wales
North Wales
Yorkshire
Staffordshire
Warwickshire
McKenna
Home Secretary
Chirk
Denbighshire
Miners Accept Minimum Wage Bill as Strike Fails to Widen
London reports that mine owners accept the Minimum Wage bill ending the protracted dispute. About 115,000 workers opposed striking, and a general ballot is expected to favor returning to work after Easter. Rioting flared at Cannock as troops were readied. coal and food prices rise and relief efforts mobilize with schools cancelling Easter holidays.
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London
House of Commons
Cannock
Aldershot
Lichfield
Brynkinalt
Stoke-Upon-Trent
Henley Longton
Burstam
Newcastle
Under-Lyme
Girl Drowns After Canoe Capsize Off Fort Washington Point
Miss Sadie Gray, 17, daughter of Julius and family, drowned when a canoe capsized in the Hudson River off Fort Washington Point after being struck by swells from two midstream freight boats. Her brother Louis, 21, was rescued in critical condition as the tug Gen Sorrell recovered him.
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Fort Washington Point
Hudson River
Sadie Gray
Julius Gray
Nathan Hale Apartments
Fort Washington Avenue
Miss Gray
Louis
Rose
Louis Gray
Hudson
Normal
Interstate Boat Club
206Th Street
178Th Street
Gray
Sarah A. Jenks
Ossining
Benjamin Franklin
Yonkers
Robbery at Fort Washington Avenue Jewel Heist
Mrs. Mery Wright returns to her fourth floor apartment at 454 Fort Washington Avenue to find the door jammed and a barricade of furniture. A thief fled via a rear window onto the fire escape and the home is missing about $1,000 in gems. Police at West 152nd Street Station are notified.
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Mery A. Wright
Nathan Hale
Fort Washington Avenue
Sadie Gray
Stone Expects Narrow Strike Vote On Eastern RRs
The locomotive engineers committee met at the Broadway Central Hotel to decide a union referendum on striking to press demands. Grand Chief Warren S. Stone predicted over 90 percent support on the fifty eastern railroads. He said promoted engineers from the firemen likely would strike with the rest and that voting ballots would be sent to local divisions today with results announced on April 10 in New York.
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Committee of Locomotive Engineers
Broadway Central
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Enineers’ Brotherhood
Engineers
New York
Koenig
Republican County Committee
New York County
Roosevelt Committee
Roosevelt
Taft
John Boyle, Jr
Republican County Organization
Roosevelt City Committee
Boyle
Fall and Catron Win New Mexico Senate Seats on Eighth Ballot
In Santa Fe on March 27, A. B. Fall and T. B. Catron, both Republicans, were elected to the U S Senate on the Legislature's eighth ballot. Catron was backed by W H Andrews from Pennsylvania, a Quay lieutenant, while Fall, a former judge, was linked to Col Greene's copper influence in the region. Four lawmakers were arrested during bribery probes, with witnesses still under examination. The defense seeks the arrest of mounted officers seen as conspiring against the candidates and as clashes between branches of state government.
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New York Times
Santa FE
N. M
A. B. Fall
T. B. Catron
United States Senate
Thomas B. Catron
Congress
W. H. Andrews
Pennsylvania
Quay
Albert B. Fall
Col. Greene
Arizona
New Mexico
Greene
Senate
Shots Fired From Car In Brownsville Ambush
A car stopped at Sutter and Alabama Avenues fired on a man waiting outside a drug store run by Samuel Praisner. The target escaped. police have the car number and say Mary Lewis of 159 Delancey Street Manhattan rented the vehicle. Authorities suspect Daniel Twist gang members were involved and aimed at a witness against them.
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Sutter
Alabama Avenues
Brownsville
Samuel Praisner
Mary Lewis
Delancey Street
Manhattan
Daniel Twist
Suicide Ends Elopement Tragedy of Hichborn in Washington
Philip S. Hichborn, son of Rear Admiral Philip S. Hichborn, shot himself at his sister’s home near DuPont Circle after learning of rumored elopements with Horace S. Wylie and a possible child born near Monte Carlo. He died instantly from a self inflicted wound after barricading himself in a second floor room.
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New York Times
Washington
Philip S. Hichborn
Horace S. Wylie
Servce
John Lee Carroll
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
Hichborns
Wylies
Henry Hoyt
Mrs. Hichborn
Rome
Nice
Wylie
Martha Hichborn
Philip
James G. Blaine, Jr
Marie Nevins
William T. Bull
New York
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Blaine
Miss Hichborn
Young Hichborn
Eleanor Hoyt
United States
Pennsylvania
Hichborn
N Street
Gov. Carroll
Mrs. Pearsall
Admiral DuPont
Admiral Hichborn
Phil
Oung Hichborn
J. Ramsey Nevitt
Pearsall
Carroll
St. Thomas's Episcopal Church
Boardmans
Wadsworths
Lesters
Pattersons
Westinghouses
DuPont Circle
Herbert Wadsworth
Mabel Boardman
Philip Hichborn
West
Samuel B. Swayze
Tourchase
Philip Hibhborn, Jr
Judge Wylie
Thomas Circle
New York Times Reporter Promises Impartial Coal Regions View
An unprejudiced observer from The New York Times visited hard coal areas to report on conditions there. He notes the forthcoming Sunday publication will detail his findings and insights into the region's situation.
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The
New York Times
Kaiser's Daughter Loves Count in Vain at Court
Berlin reports Princess Victoria Luise, Kaiser's daughter, is in a romance with Hereditary Count Fugger Habenhausen. Her parents seek a rest cure for her, sending her to St Moritz and then to the Mediterranean. faith and rank block marriage plans. Count George Fugger, born July 24, 1889, is a Prussian Guards lieutenant and Bavarian noble.
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Marconi
New York Times
Berlin
Victoria Luise
Prussia
Mediterranean
Fugger
Gardes du Corps
Potsdam
Europe
Fuggers
Kaiser
Kaiserin
St. Moritz
Germany
Corfu
Count Fugger
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Prince of Wales
George Constantine Fugger- Habenhausen
Fugger-Habenhausen
Holy Empire
Eleanore of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein
Fredericka Marie
Vienna
Adrien Carton de Wiart
Fourth Regiment of Dragoons
Brighton
George
Marie
Christopher ‘of
Roosevelt Fights for Primary Reform in Chicago Visit
Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago urged Illinois voters to back preferential primaries or face a third party and a clash with the Republican establishment. He denounced New York returns, taft ally actions, and corporate influence, while signaling a possible insurgent path if the party fails to adopt reform.
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Chicago
Taft
New York Times
Ill
Theodore Roosevelt
Illinois
United States
Col. Roosevelt
Congress Hotel
Cook County
Union Station
St. Louis
New York
Jury awards $900000 against Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
In Cincinnati on March 27 Mrs. Jean McKell for the McKell estate won a $900000 verdict against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad after eight hours of deliberation. The suit sought $3575000 for damages over alleged breach of a coal contract in West Virginia. The trial followed a decade of state and federal court litigation to determine damages from a supposed output acceptance failure.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Ohio
Jean McKell
Thomas McKell
Chillicothe
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
United States District Court
McKell
West Virginia
McKells
Judson Harrison
De Forest Arrested in Stock Scam Case
Lee De Forest of the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company was arrested in Palo Alto on an indictment from the Southern District of New York charging misuse of the mails. Co-defendants include James Dunlop Smith Samuel B Darby Elmer E Burlingame and the Ellsworth Company.
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San Francisco
Lee de Forest
American de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
Palo Alto
Cal
New York
James Dunlop Smith
Samuel B. Darby
Elmer E. Burlingame
Ellsworth Company
de Forest
Fiscal Agency Company of New York
Radio-Telephone Company, & New York Corporation
Great Lakes Radio-Telephone Company
Atlantic Radio Company
Pacific Radio
Arizona
Radio-Telephone
Smith
Radio-Telephone Company
United States
Radio Telephone Company
Samuel E. Darby
Platon ic Marriage Alters alimony Ruling in Philadelphia Suit
In an equity case Judge Orlady reverses a $100 monthly support award to Mrs Irene D Cunningham against husband Clement Remington H Cunningham. The couple married December 4 1895 at 4017 Baring Street and testified to a premarital vow of perfect purity. The judge noted the marriage is a civil institution, not merely a contract.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Orlady
Superior Court
Magill
Irene D. Cunningham
Clement Remington H. Cunningham
Cunninghams
Baring Street
Cunningham
Roosevelt Suffer Huge Defeat in New York Primary
Roosevelt editors urge Gov Dix to order fresh primaries after Taft delegates win every district. Opponents argue new elections impossible under law, citing missing ballots and lengthy precinct delays. Roosevelt Duell urges immediate legislative action to restore voter rights and calm public outrage.
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Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Republican
John R. Voorhis
Charles A. Duell
Roosevelt City Committee
Duell
Dix
John A. Dix
New York
Albany
N. Y
New York County
State of
Carmody
Koenig
Women Win Assembly Support in New York Suffrage Drive
Albany reports a vigorous canvass led by Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch yields sixty three assemblymen signing a petition to the Rules Committee to bring the woman suffrage measure to the Assembly. Mrs Elateh says only thirteen votes shy of a constitutional majority remain and aims to secure them by tomorrow.
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Albany
Harriet Stanton
Rules Committee
Mra. Elateh
Triangle Waist Company owners cleared of indictments
Justice Seabury dismissed yesterday the five indictments against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck of the Triangle Waist Company after the fatal fire occurred one year ago last Monday in which 147 people died. The motion was by Max D. Steuer and the District Attorney offered no objection. The $25,000 bail bond was discharged.
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Justice Seabury
Isaac Harris
Max Blanck
Triangle Waist Company
Max D. Steuer
Editor Killed by a Fall in Elevator Shaft
James P. Chalmers editor and proprietor of the Moving Picture World died from injuries after falling into an elevator shaft at the Convention Hall in Dayton Ohio during the Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America session. He was from New York City and 125 East Twenty-third Street.
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New York Times
Dayton
Ohio
James P. Chalmers
East Twenty-third Street
New York
Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League of America
Chalmers
The
Moving Picture World
Democrats Defeat Bid to Rescind Battleship Stand
In a caucus the Democrats refused to reverse their prior stance opposing battleship funding. A motion by Rep. Padgett to rescind was tabled 117 to 2. Underwood then pushed to classify the earlier action as a party measure, passing by a large majority.
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Washington
Democrats of the House
Padgett
Tennessee
Naval Affairs Committee
Underwood
Burnett
Maillard's Vanilla Chocolate Delights Finest Confection
A vivid praise for Maillard's Vanilla chocolate as an unmatched treat suitable for cooking or as a bonbon. The note extols its peerless quality and declares no equal, inviting interest in the product.
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