Courageous Skater Drowns Saving Friend at Violetville Pond
In Baltimore suburb Violetville, 14 year old Karl Nowick died attempting to rescue his older companion Albert Schmidt after Schmidt broke through ice. Nowick reached the struggling boy but fell through himself as onlookers watched unable to assist, and both bodies were recovered.
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Companion
Baltimore
Violetville
Karl Nowick
Albert Schmidt
Nowick
Schmidt
Train strikes car. couple killed near Emans
Allentown Pennsylvania February 4 Mr Menno Genman 55 and his wife fatally injured returning from a funeral when their carriage was hit by an empty freight engine of the Philadelphia and Reading road near Emans Their adopted son John Fidler was seriously hurt The couple are described as Zionville residents and the man a farmer.
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Allentown
Emanus
Menno Genman
Zionville
John Fidler
Philadelphia & Reading Road
Emans
Gehmen
Wedding tragedy as uninvited guest shoots self in New York
In an apartment doorway during a wedding in New York an unknown man, identified as Alderic Hugron of Waterbury Connecticut, shot himself and died instantly. The ceremony at James Feeney's Amsterdam Avenue home for niece Bessie Feeney and Michael Leyton was halted as guests, shocked and hysterical, observed the scene amid a coroner’s improvised inquiry.
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New York
Alderic Hugron
Waterbury
Conn
James Feeney
Amsterdam Avenue
Feeney
Bessie Feeney
Michael Leyton
Catholic Groups Proclaim Support for National Guard in Coal Region
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on February 4 the Catholic Total Abstinence Union Regiment and the Junior CUAM held meetings to rebuke a Coast Artillery inspector Captain Henry H Whitney. They denounced claims that independent militias seek to oppose the national guard during strikes and labor troubles and passed resolutions praising the guard’s work. Copies were sent to Secretary Taft.
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Wilkes-Barre
Catholic Total Abstinence Union Regiment
Junor Cuam
Henry H. Whitney
Coast Artillery
Whitney
Pennsylvania
National Guard
Taft
War Department
Aged Woman Burned to Death Near Telford, Pa
Mrs. Sarah Ann Dunkard, an elderly hermit neighbor near Telford on the county line, was found burned to death outside her home after a fire likely started by a clay pipe. Her charred remains were discovered on snow by a Philadelphia and Lehigh Traction car crew amid a night of unclear timing.
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Allentown
Sarah Ann Dunkard
Telford
Philadelphia & Lehigh Walier
Couple Accepts Death Pact in Auburn Hotel Tragedy
Asa Renrez of Oneonta and Mrs. Marie Dedrick of Syracuse attempted suicide by laudanum in the Exchange hotel room. Mrs. Dedrick died. Renrez, under arrest, is reported recovering. The pair had been in Auburn a week and confessed they chose death from weariness of life.
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Auburn
Asa Renrez
Oneonta
Marie Dedrick
Syracuse
Exchange Hotel
Dedrick
Kenyon
Mrs. Dedrick
President's Daughter Suffering From An Attack of Grip
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth wife of Representative Longworth of Ohio and daughter of the president is ill at her Washington home with a grip like illness. The president and Mrs. Roosevelt visited her and were told by the physician her temperature rose to 162. She contracted a severe cold at the White House reception and has been bedridden for three days.
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Washington
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Longworth
Ohio
Roosevelt
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James F. Burke, A Member of the Military Committee of
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David Peck Rhoades
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Panama Canal
William J. Oliver
William J Oliver
Knoxville
Tenn
United States
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John Peirce
Portsmouth
Chicago
Washington Post Ofice
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International Contracting Company
P. T. Brennan
Brennan Construction Company
Washington, D. C
John H. Gerrish
Eastern Dredging Company
Boston
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Walsh Contracting Company
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Tobacco Company
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Mexico
Edwardo Arnold
Johanna Welf
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Atarica Operarea Wn
Thomas Baile
Alfiraeh
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Comre Pee Peary
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Market and
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Doll & Albaugh Building
S N. Market Street
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Ernest Helfenstein
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