Fleet of battleships returns to home waters at Coronado
The American fleet anchors off Coronado California after a Pacific traverse. Governor Gillett and officials welcome Rear Admiral Thomas and officers aboard the Connecticut. Night illumination and ceremonies mark the arrival as ships undergo four days of celebration and inspection.
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White House meets Watson on adjournment and battleship plan
President Roosevelt and Indiana Republican whip Watson conferred about the House agenda and an early adjournment. The President backs passing key measures including four battleships and a District of Columbia child labor bill but foresees limits. Watson plans a Republican caucus to discuss the Aldrich financial bill next Tuesday.
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White House
Roosevelt
Representative Watson
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House
Congress
Watson
Cannon
Capitol
District of Columbia
Julia Marlowe III Kept from Public After Illness
Miss Julia Marlowe lies seriously ill at the Plaza after a nervous breakdown following ten weeks of one night stands. Her doctor orders the Shuberts to cancel all engagements for two weeks. May return to Lyric Theatre possible. Physician Dr. M Allen Starr and attorney Herbert L. Satterlee advise against discussing divorce suit. No visitors allowed.
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Plaza
Shuberts
Lyric Theatre
Miss Marlowe
M. Allen Starr
Herbert L. Satterlee
Boston
Artist Promoter Walter Russell Declares Bankruptcy
Walter Russell, eminent artist and builder of studio apartment structures in New York, filed for voluntary bankruptcy listing debts of 330/862-90 and assets of 28 95913. Major creditors include Commercial Trust Company and Hotel Ansonia related contracts. he holds multiple directorships in real estate and construction firms. He formerly contributed as a magazine illustrator and war correspondent for Collier’s Weekly and The Century Magazine.
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West 67Th Street
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Commercial Trust Company
W. E. Stokes
Hotel Ansonia
Frank Highes
Passaic
N. J
Alwyn Ball, Jr
Collier's Weekly
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Century Magazine
No Change Planned for Anti-Trust and Interstate Laws
The Tribune reports Washington sources expect no legislation this session to amend the anti trust or interstate commerce laws. Leaders in both parties foresee amendments attached to any bills, making action unlikely. Republicans insist on preserving prosecutions and deny Democrats a chance to undermine the statutes.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Elkins
Foraker
Repulican
Congress
Clowns Win Heir to $2 500 000 Fortune
Pittsburg April 14 Charles Meredith longtime clown with Cole Brothers Circus quits the sawdust ring to settle in. David B. Keating New York attorney proves Meredith is an heir to an uncle Richard Blaine who died in Glasgow eight months ago. The other heir is Meredith s brother William found in Australia after being mourned as dead. Estate valued at 2 500 000 dollars.
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Pittsburg
Charles Meredith
Cole Brothers’ Circus
David B. Keating
New York
Meredith
Richard Blaine
Glasgow
Scotland
William
Australia
Admiral Evans Improves At Paso Robles Baths
Paso Robles California April 4 Rear Admiral Evans shows further improvement. Burgeon P McDonnald reports his left knee pain has disappeared and he has been kept quiet a day or two but visited the baths this morning. He remains confined to his room, able to move in a wheeled chair.
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Paso Robles Hot Springs
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Black Hand bomb shocks East 12th Street tenement
A bomb exploded in the hallway of a ground floor tenement at 336 338 East 12th street injuring a resident and shocking twelve families. Police tie the blast to Black Hand demands linked to local Italian merchants. Several residents were injured or panicked as windows shattered and stairs wrecked.
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Josephine Scarafino
Black Hand Society
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Dominick
Elizabeth Street
Giuseppe Pallozola
5Th Street
John Trentacoste
Anthony Bravia
Italy
Charles Salandale
East 11Th Street
Moss
President asks four battleships to bolster navy strength
The President urged Congress to provide four new battleships of the most advanced type. He argued that only a rapid build up can preserve peace and deter aggression, noting Britain and other powers are expanding their fleets while the United States lags. The message stressed arbitration treaties and warned against passive reliance on others’ restraint.
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South Africa
Hauser Lake Dam in Montana Partially Gives Way
The Hauser Lake dam on the Missouri River near Helena partially failed shortly before 3 PM causing about 250000 dollars in damage. No lives were reported lost and by 9 PM the floodwaters had not caused serious damage to towns north of Helena as power is rerouted from Canyon Ferry dam and a Butte substation.
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Mont
Hauser Lake
Missouri River
Butte
Amalgamated Copper Company
Anaconda
Canyon Ferry
Driver kills attacking Newfoundland to save child
Joseph Payne a Brooklyn driver on Tilbury street halted his team when a Newfoundland rushed Irene Kelly six, tearing her clothes. He killed the dog with an iron bar aided by boys with bats. The six year old was taken home and treated. she was not seriously hurt.
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No. & Tilbary Street
Brooklyn
Irene Kelly
No. 6
Third Avenue
Payne
Football demonstration fatality in Baltimore youth dies
Thomas L. Seth a 21 year old nephew of General Joseph B. Seth President of the State Senate died from a fractured skull after a skylarking football demonstration with Robert L. Dew at Forest Glen Baltimore County. Seth and Dew collided head on causing Seth to be crushed and Dew to suffer a serious scalp wound.
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Thomas L. Seth
Joseph B. Seth
State Senate
Robert L. Dew
Forest Glen
Baltimore County
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Dew
Bourke Cockran Proposes National Automobile Highway Bill
Washington April 14 Repres Bourke Cockran introduces a voluminous measure to create a national auto highway from ocean to ocean. The plan details a ten foot wide route with city carve outs and includes provisions for sick care facilities, factories, housing, guards and varied road surfaces for cars and bicycles. Critics say it reads like a utopian auto dream and some colleagues joke he did it to humor supporters.
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Washington
Bourke Cockran
Congress
Ocean
Boston Man Sentenced for Worthless Check Passing
Samuel Ward, detained six months on suspicion of involvement in the 1865 New York arson attempt, was sentenced in Superior Court to two and a half years in state prison for passing a worthless check. Geencer's Toric eyeglasses with Hold-firm guards sold at Maiden Lane.
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Boston
Samuel Ward
City
New York
Superior
Congo Denies Charges in British White Book Reply
Brussels April 14 The Congo Independent State government replies to the British White Book denying reports of labor tax payments in place of money Congo River transportation as a state monopoly Katanga tax collection farmed out and a death sentence reassessed and denies hindering private traders.
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Congo Independent State
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Congo River
Katanga
Gould Roads Indicted in Federal Rebates Case
Indictments with fifty eight counts returned against Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads a former general freight traffic manager and T Howard Punch charging granting and receiving of rebates. If convicted each defendant faces about 1 160 000 dollars. Warrants served on Bunch and railroad representatives.
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Ark
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Iron Mountain
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Jacob Triber
Bunch
Jockey Club Tightens Track Rules Against Minors
Stewards of the Jockey Club and racing association representatives meet in Windsor Arcade to enforce a rule banning minors from courses unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. A minor is defined as a boy under 21 or a girl under 18. The move aims to elevate racing standards amid reform discussions.
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Windsor Arcade
Cuban parties at sea in Havana editorial critique
Havana April 14 shows no meeting yet by Cuban parties to select replacements for American provincial governors appointed by Governor Magoon. The editorial in the Discussion laments the search for impartial Cubans as a poor showing and notes Magoon outmaneuvered locals.
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Magoon
Conference of Powers to Discuss Maritime Warfare Laws
Berlin reports that the great powers plan an autumn international conference to discuss maritime warfare laws following Hague peace talks. No official confirmation is available at this time.
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Berlin
Hague
Lower Fare Bill Faces Setback in Albany
The Senate Railroads Committee refused to report the assembly bill cutting fare from 10 to 5 cents NYC to Coney Island. Senator McManus warned he would seek to discharge the committee and wait for Tammany Democrats before action. Witnesses for Brooklyn interests warned the measure could provoke riots and urged Public Service Commission handling.
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Coney Island
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Tammany Democrats
Friends
Supreme Court
Hatch
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Winters
Duke
Coney Island & Brooklyn Railway Company
Lewis E. Carr
Delaware & Hudson Company
Boys Escape From Jersey Jail By Blanket Rope
Sixteen year old Gonn O'Leary and Charles Catony escaped the Hudson County Jail Jersey City last night using a rope made from blankets. They were jailed after being committed from Jersey City for trial on store robberies. Earlier, two youths sawed a window bar but the exit had not been repaired. police reserves were sent to search the area.
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Charles Catony
Hudson County
Jersey City
Democratic State Convention Adjournes Over Bryan Row
Strife and party infighting marked the opening session at Carnegie Hall as the Bryan faction faced a gag rule and failed to read a Bryan resolution. Justice Crane later modified an injunction allowing the convention to proceed with a temporary organization amid contested credentials and calls for uninstructed Denver delegates.
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Bryan
Edward E. Coatsworth
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Erie
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Brooklyn
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William Jennings Bryan
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