Canadian cruiser seizes American halibut schooner Levi Woodbury
The Canadian cruiser Kestrel fired on and captured the American fishing ship Levi Woodbury off Vancouver Island after warnings and a chase through the Pacific. Bullets damaged sails and mast, engines stopped, and the crew surrendered with the vessel towed to Bull Harbour. Captain Sinclair claimed high seas jurisdiction despite proximity to Canadian shores.
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West
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Pacific Ocean
High Seas
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Hayek Island
Dynamite to Break Niagara Ice Jam in Lewiston
State officials with War Department approval plan dynamite blasts to relieve the Niagara River ice jam. Two carloads will be rushed to Youngstown to begin at dawn with Albany supervising and observers noting a twelve mile long, sixty foot high ice field threatening Lewiston and Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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N.Y
War Department
Washington
Hughes
Niagara River
Albany
F. ¢. Stevens
Henry A. Kunze
Charles A. Tuttle
Stevens
Youngstown
Buffalo
Niagara-on-the-Lake
United States
Fort Niagara
Messrs
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Tuttle
Allds
Senate Finance Committee
Assemblyman
Merritt
Assembly Ways and Means Committee
Department of Public Works
Seizure of American Schooner Pushes Talks With Britain
The Charles evi Woodbury seizure may hasten a formal understanding between the United States and Britain over the Northwest Passages and the Strait between the mainland and Queen Charlotte Island. Canadian observers note the strait is fifty miles wide at its narrowest. The incident underscores the need for an early agreement on cross border maritime rights and term definitions.
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Washington
Charles Evi Woodbury
Briton Selumbia
Queen Charlotte Island
Tragic Grand Street Fire Kills Mother Protecting Daughter
Fire at 445 Grand Street drives Mrs. Rachel Mathewson and daughter Rose from a fourth floor window. Mathewson falls to the street, acting as a cushion for Rose who escapes with serious injuries. Fire started by 12 year old Fannie Ganz dropping a lit match. Both women and child rushed to Gouverneur Hospital.
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Rachel Mathewson
Rose
Grand Street
Vault Door Reveals Empty Wall Behind Bank's Vault
Los Angeles April 21 The vault door of William H Carlson's defunct bank was removed revealing a hollow plastered hole behind it. The so called vault contained no securities or money, and Carlson appeared as a millionaire without funds. The bank's affairs are in the hands of a receiver.
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Tribune
Los Angeles
William H. Carlson
Carlson
Consolidated Bank of Los Angeles
Restore Old Fort Ticonderoga for Champlain Tercentenary
Colonel R M Thompson funds $500 900 to reconstruct Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain as it stood in 1776. Mrs Stephen H P Pell initiates the project, plans by Alfred C Bossum, with 45 workmen already shaping the west barracks ahead of a planned display and summer residence. The Pell family owns the site and hopes to complete the restoration over ten years.
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Ticonderoga
Lake Champlain
Fort Ticonderoga
Sir Guy Carleton
Benedict Arnold
Revenge
Trumbull
Enterprise
Tornado Leaves Cleveland in Darkness and Destruction
A five minute tornado swept through Cleveland and northern Ohio injuring at least seventy people and causing over 1.9 million in damage. Seven fatalities include Jasper Cromwell and Olive Phalen among others. 12 schools and several colleges suffered damage as roofs and chimneys were blown away.
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Jasper
Cleveland Furnace Company
Phalen
Olive
State Hospital
Vessla
Joseph
Cleveland Frog
Petro
Louis
Slazer
Smith for immigration post here
Secretary Nagel weighs Herbert Knox Smith for Commissioner of Immigration at New York as a possible successor to Robert Watchorn. Smith, head of the bureau of corporations, has studied the immigration problem and could be assigned if Watchorn leaves the service.
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Washington
Robert Watchorn
New York
Watchorn
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Herbert Knox Smith
Bureau of Corporations
Young Turks plan to dethrone Abdul Hamid and seize Constantinople
Dispatches report Hassan Riza Pacha on the way to Adrianople to command a division. The Young Turks allegedly aim to dethrone Abdul Hamid, execute sedi tion organizers, hang ulemas tied to the counter revolution, and overhaul Constantinople garrison. A state of siege is said to be proclaimed in Constantinople tomorrow night.
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Sofia
Hassan Riza Pacha
Adrianople
Abdul Hamid
Constantinople
Albanians in revolt reported in Macedonia
A Salonica dispatch states 1.24 Albanians have rebelled in Monastir killing a colonel and many Young Turk officers and the mayor. Reports say the uprising spread through Northern Macedonia as eight thousand armed Albanians overawe remaining troops. Christians flee. crowds seek refuge in Greek and Servian consulates as the Young Turk Committee raises ten thousand volunteers to quell the uprising.
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Berlin
Salonica
Monastir
Uskub
Macedonia
Young Turk Committee
Constantinople
Pope opposes equal rights for women in speech to Catholics
The Pope told the Union of Italian Catholic Women that women should not seek equality in all things. He warned that public life would ruin family and society and urged women to be companions to men with authority tempered by love.
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Rome
Deserter Baron von Schiller Freed Upon Washington Papers
Baron Frederick von Schiller grandson of the poet is to be released from Governor's Island military prison after five months for desertion once Washington papers arrive. He enlisted in 1907 as a private in Company H U S Engineer Corps, served six months, then left without leave. He was confined at Castle William. A foreign-influence effort aided his release. a woman with a foreign accent visited the island. He may sail for Germany in two weeks and stay with relatives in New York. His home is Hanover, Germany, and his mother resides in Marseilles.
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Schiller
Governor's Island
Washington
Company H
United States Engineer Corps
Germany
Castle William
Baron von Schiller
Hanover
Marseilles
France
Civil War Menaces Turkey As Sultan Faces Deposition Calls
Constantinople reports rising conflict between the Sultan and the reformist Committee of Union and Progress. The cabinet debates siege measures while naval forces sail for the Mediterranean. A court martial has executed Hodjas and arrests rise among militants as factions split over the Sultan’s fate and governance.
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