Berlin Suffrage Uprising. Police Use Sabres on Socialists
In Berlin on January 12 a massive Socialist demonstration for direct general suffrage turned violent as police used sabres to disperse crowds. Thousands, including many women, clashed with authorities near the Landtag and the imperial palaces. Several injuries were reported, with hundreds dispersed and orderly processions broken up across the capital and suburbs.
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Berlin
von Billow
Landtag
Prince von Binlow
Prussia
Palace Square
Alexander Platz
Emperor's Palace
Unter den Lin- Gen
Branfenbure
Tiergarten
Friederichstrasse
Wilhelmetrasse
von Biilow
Friedrichstrasse
Fiot
Uneasiness in Japan grows over American exclusion bill
Tokio reports incoming cables showing strong U S support for exclusion measures. Japanese political leaders fear such sentiment signals real American intent to discriminate against Japanese. Unease deepens as Washington delays replying to Japan's December 31 note.
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Tokio
America
Washington
Climax in Ship War Signals Britain Faces Clash
London reports a rate war among Atlantic steamship firms rising to a climax as the Hamburg American and North German Lloyd form a 1 652 450 tonnage alliance approved by the Emperor. The International Mercantile Marine gains Berthage at Southampton and a midweek service with White Star lines, while Cunard moves potential line restructures amid rival expansions and surging third class sailings to America.
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London
Atlantic Steamship
North German Lloyd
Hamburg-American
International Mercantile Marine
Southampton
White Star
Adriatic
Lloyd
Sustania
Mauretania
White Star Company
New York
Cherbourg
Liverpool Journal of Commerce
Messrs
Mutiny on Ship Chesapeake Suppressed at Philadelphia Dock
A mutiny by forty two Chinese sailors and firemen aboard the British steamship Chesapeake at the Atlantic oil wharf opposite Point Breeze was quelled after a standoff with forty two white officers and wharf watch men. The Chinamen surrendered to Captain Gray after police and a police boat arrived following a phone tip. The ship planned to move toward Rotterdam, while investigators believe China town residents sought to place the crew as cheap labor in city laundries.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Chinatown
Atlantic Oil
Point Breeze
Gray
Rotterdam
Marcus Hook
Singapore
Invents New Armor Plate Process in Carnegie Sale
Lieutenant Commander Cleland Davis of the U S Navy has patented a hardening armor plate process sold to Carnegie Steel. The method reportedly replaces Krupa and Harveyized systems, lowers costs, and promises uniform hardening. It raises questions about government-employed inventors profiting from discoveries.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Jan
Cleland Davis
Washington
Carnegie Steel Company
United States
Army
European steerage fare cuts shake transatlantic market
Boston January 12 fares to Europe by steerage may fall to 10 dollars as White Star and Cunard slash eastbound rates. The Cymric bound for Liverpool now lists 16 dollars 25 cents, after a 75 percent reduction. Cunard vows to meet the cut at once.
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the Tribune
Boston
Europe
White Star
Cunard
Cymric
Liverpool
Bishop Fallows Attacks Mrs Eddy In Sermon
Chicago Jan 12 Bishop Samuel Fallows of the Reformed Episcopal Church denounces Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science as presumptive doctrine in a sermon favoring his Christian psychology which urges reliance on skilled physicians. The bishop argues faith aligns with God's laws while presumption disobeys.
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the Tribune
Chicago
Samuel Fallows
Reformed Episcopal Church
Christian Science Cult
Mary Baker Eddy
Lawson Survivor Arrives After Wreck at Scilly Islands
Edward I. Rowe, engineer on the schooner Thomas W. Lawson wrecked December 13 on Scilly Islands rocks, reached New York aboard the St. Paul. He and the captain were the sole survivors. The captain is critically ill on one of the islands. Rowe has not spoken publicly beyond submitting a full report to Thomas W. Lawson and Standard Oil.
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Edward I. Rowe
Thomas W. Lawson
Scilly Islands
St. Paul
Standard Oil Company
Rowe
British Board of Trade
Harvard Captain Brown Wrenches Knee Ends Career
Boston Jan. 12 Captain T. S. Brown Harvard varsity basketball player from New York City was taken to Stillman infirmary with a badly wrenched knee forcing his resignation from the team and feared to end his career. He had struggled with the injury for about a year and suffered a second accident in practice last week.
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the Tribune
Boston
T. S. Brown
Harvard
New York City
Stillman Infirmary
King couple die together at old Providence farmhouse
Providence January 12. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan King died tonight after long quiet lives in an old Providence farmhouse. Death attributed to age. Mr. King was eighty four and his wife eighty eight.
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Providence
Jonathan King
Boston Sewer Search for Body of Leonardi
Telegraphed Boston report says police and friends scoured Boston sewers and Park Square skating rink for the body of Charles E. Leonardi a prominent lawyer believed murdered after taking money to pay a rink manager who is also his client Leonardi was found locked in his twelfth floor office unaware of the chase and disappearance.
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Tribune
Boston
Park Square
Charles E. Leonardi
Leonardi
Texas to attend Western rail rate conference in Oklahoma City
The Texas railroad commission will join a January 28 conference of railroad commissioners in Oklahoma City to discuss regulating freight and passenger rates toward uniformity. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas and Iowa will be represented.
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the Tribune
Austin
Tex
Texas Railroad Commission
Oklahoma City
Texas
Oklaahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Arkansas
Iowa
Physicians Form A Union In Greater Boston
About two hundred physicians from greater Boston met in three suburbs and formed the Physicians' Protective Association a union like body. They adopted a new scale of prices which was distributed to newspapers for publication.
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Tribune
Boston
Physicians’ Protective Association
Brinking Typhoid Sickness Strikes N. Y. Figure
W Gould Brokaw lies ill with typhoid fever at his private hunting preserve. A physician has stayed by his bedside for a week. Brokaw and Mrs Brokaw, along with a party of friends, arrived at the reserve several weeks ago for a hunting sojourn.
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Hich Point
W. Gould Brokaw
Mr. Brokaw
Weather in a Medley Delivers Rain Hail Fog and Wind
A tempestuous mix of rain hail fog and strong winds swept yesterday as a warm-up for January. Fog trapped harbor traffic delaying ferries and railroad boats while hail battered streets near Park Row. The St Paul clung to its pier as gusts raged and a thunderstorm closed the day in Ossining with a late electrical display.
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St. Paul
Father Boreas
Park Row
Weather Bureau
Lower Broadway
Ioncal
Emory
North River
Lackawanna
Pennsylvania
Erie
West Shore
Annex
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Ossining
Rip van Winkle
Tarrytown
Waves Flood Havana as Gale Pummels City
A northwest gale drives high seas into Havana flooding the Malecon and lower Prado areas to several feet. Vedado and Gulf Avenue suffer extensive inundation with a fireman drowning during a rescue. Hotel Miramar damaged and harbor access cut off as Morro waves spray 60 feet above the lighthouse. the storm is subsiding tonight.
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Malecon
Prado
Vedado
Miramar
Gulf Avenue
Thunderstorm Closes Warm January Day in Philadelphia
A heavy thunderstorm moved over Philadelphia at dusk ending a day of unseasonable warmth. The storm featured high winds and lasted nearly two hours. Weather Bureau notes only one January storm similar since 1871, as the day peaked with temperatures about 18 degrees above normal.
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Philadelphia
Weather Bureau
Hurricane damages in Crawford County Ohio
A hurricane swept over Crawford County Ohio causing notable damage with reports continuing on page four. The bulletin notes Briarcliff Milk expanding supply due to healthy Jersey herds and offers contact details for orders.
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the Tribune
Bucyrus
Ohio
Crawford County
Sig East 46Th
Fight at Pernambuco Involving Torpedo Sailors
Dispatches from Rio de Janeiro report disorders among torpedo flotilla sailors on shore leave in Pernambuco. A clash with police left many injured, twenty arrested for drunkenness, and Lieutenant Commander Cone pledged to curb further trouble. Sailor Edward Gray aboard the Lawrence drowned after falling from a ladder into the sea.
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Rio de Janeiro
Pernambuco
Cone
Edward Gray
Lawrence
Taft At Capital Again After New York Trip
Secretary Taft returned to Washington from New York where he spoke on capital and labor at Cooper Union. He will appear before two Congressional committees this week, before the House Library Committee on the Grant Monument and before the Senate Committee on Inter oceanic Canals regarding Panama Canal affairs. He will also address the Ohio Society of Philadelphia Tuesday night.
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Washington
Taft
New York City
Cooper Union
Congressional
House Library Committee
Senate
King Alfonso May Visit Mexico in LatAm Tour
Madrid reports enthusiasm across papers for a possible King Alfonso voyage to Mexico and Latin America next year. Leaders argue Spain should renew ties with the Hispano-American world, viewing culture as key to counter Anglo-Saxon influence. Amado Nervo praises the idea. no US trip mentioned.
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Alfonso
Mexico
Imparcia
Spain
America
Europe
Africa
Rome
Cavité
Santiago
Black Hand Collector Shot Down in Florence Penn
Frank Lee, alleged Black Hand collector, was killed by Joe Cruzzo in Florence Pennsylvania after a dispute over a five dollar weekly levy. Cruzzo says Leo demanded a chatelaine bag from his wife, drew a stiletto, and was shot after a struggle that ended with a fatal heart wound.
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Florence
Penn
Frank Lee
Joe Cruzzo
Leo
Mrs F P Gibb Shoots Herself in Virginia Home
Mrs Frances P Gibb of Warrenton Virginia shot herself in the abdomen after returning from a drive. She was taken to Providence Hospital Washington in critical condition with an operation performed. Her husband denied domestic trouble and divorce plans, noting the shooting as accidental.
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Washington
Frank P. Gibb
Warrenton
Providence Hospital
Gibb
Brooklyn
Hen Devoted to Tobacco Egg habit shocks anti tobacco women
Youngstown Ohio Jan 2 Bert Miller an attorney has a hen that will not lay eggs unless given a pill of Anecut chewing tobacco. The odd behavior draws attention from anti tobacco activists though no harm comes to the bird.
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the Tribune
Youngstown
Ohio
Bert Miller
Battleships Reach Rio Harbor in Formal Welcome
The American fleet of sixteen battleships entered Rio de Janeiro's port at 3 pm after a Trinidad passage of over three thousand miles. Crowds of about fifty thousand onshore and fifteen thousand aboard launches welcomed Rear Admiral Evans and his crews. The Connecticut led the line, with salutes exchanged with Brazilian and German ships as ceremonies and illuminations marked the arrival.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Culgoa
Glacier
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Cape Frio
Connecticut
Evans
Bremen
Alencar
Gebs Anderson
Cape St. Roque
Minnesota
Thomas
Pernambuco
Father Neptune
Neptune
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United States
Washington
South America
International Bureau of American Republics
Joan Barrett
Xe Farrhces Ik SD
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