Provisions for Navy Battleships Stir House Debate
Sentiment favors maintaining naval strength with two battleships. Congress faces large permanent costs and revenue questions as proponents urge immediate action to fund ship construction. Senators may seek amendments, while river improvements and public works weigh into the broader budget outlook. An accompanying note mentions Paris London telegraph experiments claiming 40 000 words per hour with rapid telegraphic apparatus.
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House
nowean
debri
Phe hose
congress
comanithey navid provera
senate
Paris
London
Tollal
Vicay
Langer Broke Rope at Hanging. Murderer Dies in Fall
Bridgeton February execution of Rank Rasinger ends in disaster as rope breaks during a hanging shot. Witnesses gasp as scaffold fails and the body falls, while officials rush to manage the broken apparatus and pronounce death. Rasinger had confessed to planning suicide but killed his wife instead.
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Bridgeton
Rasinger
Rainger
Albert
Albert Rainer
Frank Newkirk
Albert Rasinger
undertaker's
sheriff's office
Dr. Saltz
Dr. Saltz, as well as the sheriff. The latter said that Mrs. Rasinger
Rusinger
ami
himeef
Dr Chase's Blood and Nerve Food Promises Wide Health Cure
An advertisement for Dr Chase's Blood and Nerve Food from The Dr Chase Co Philadelphia claims to strengthen blood and nerves, relieve headaches nervous dyspepsia sleeplessness debility and even serious conditions like neurasthenia dementia and locomotor ataxia. It urges self weighment before use and offers pricing of two dollars for a box set of five with bank credit and a local druggist in Frederick Maryland guaranteeing the product.
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Pierce
Edwin H. Gardner
Egypt
Plymouth Co
Mass
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Dr. Chase
Dr. Chase Co
Philadelphia
Clinton E. Main
Frederick
Death warrants withdrawn in Greason Edwards case
Governor Brown suspended the death warrants for Mrs Kate Edwards and Samuel Greason and ordered the Pennsylvnia Supreme Court to hear new evidence. The Board of Pardons will reconvene next month to decide continuation or reopening, with four new depositions to be examined.
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Vartisturg
Pabebo
M Edwards
Edwards
Greason
John H. Rothhermel
William H. Sadler
Creasap
Geysher
supreme court
Samuel Greason
over
othestir
fenups
Gevernor brown
Berks county
Respite Hailed as Mrs Edwards Weeps Over Fate
In a fragile scene Mrs Edwards thanks supporters amid a tense retrial atmosphere. Greason faces continued scrutiny as her plea for mercy is weighed. Alma and others witness emotional testimony and insistence on truth, while Mrs Edwards declares her innocence amidst relief and grief.
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Mrs. Edwards
Alma
Greason
Vanderbilt Funds for First Normal Bill Stir Some Charges
The report outlines William K. Vanderbilt sending multiple checks to settle a disputed normal bill. Professor Gander of Piivis faced charges from Me aid Mrs. WW, Vaaiter DI over the bill. Vanderbilt sent a check ten times the requested amount and another for Gob to establish a dispensary, marking the first time in years such charges were raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gander
Piivis
Prison Warden Halts Gallows Work After News Reaches Mrs Edwards
Warden DeTurk ordered construction stopped immediately after news was conveyed to Mrs Edwards. The scaffold was in place and workers were assembling it when ChenWes Rage arrived and orders to quit followed, leaving the carpenters relieved to have lost their job.
Opposition to Zemsky Sobor Revival Sparks Imperial Debate
In St Petersburg on February 16 the court party resists reviving the Zemsky Sobor arguing it could threaten autocracy. Emperor Nicholas weighs arguments for and against, amid fears the assembly could threaten the Tromanedl dynasty and the throne. An editorial in the Moscow Gazette warns such a national assembly could clash with the emperor and end autocracy. Third Pacific Squadron Sails from Palau on the 16th with the battleship Vladimir Monomakh and other ships sailing out by nightfall.
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St. Petersburg
Fen
Nicholas
Zemaky Soelor
Leo
Moscow Gazette
Ssortol national assembly
Che
Alexander TV
Alexander II
Pacific Squadron
Palau
Bebo
Moiurk
Viadimir Menomad
San Domingo treaty in senate and other notes
Washington Feb 16 the president's message on a new San Domingo protocol was read in executive session after mass unobjected pension bills. The Monroe doctrine argued for U S guarantees over debt and sovereignty in South Central American republics and the West Indies. Memorial Bridge proposal in New York would cost 3 5 million. Japs plan to add fifty vessels to navy. President Wilson returns to Princeton after medical leave.
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Washington
senate
San Gomingan proto
Unitad
West Indies
San Domingo
south
shensdan
committee on
New York
plas
Spayten Dinyvil creek
Hodis
Hendrick Huntsen
Parmley Broawit
Peekskill
Wil- Mam Donovan
Ver
jdanehs Polt
Wilson
Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
New York city
Palm Beach
Fla
Negro Shot by Rail Detective in York Coal Theft
A Black man named Johnson was shot and killed in York while stealing coal from a railcar in the yards of the Northern Central Railway. Detective Albert Brenneman says Johnson tripped him then fled, Brenneman fired, while Johnson claims the revolver discharged as he stumbled. The incident prompted a formal inquiry and Johnson died at York Hospital.
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York
Charles Johnson
York hospital
Albert Bregneman
Northern Central railway
Johnson
toose
Brenneman
Cold closes collieries halt freight in Wilkesbarre
Severe cold slows coal movements in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania forcing major mines including Lehigh Valley Coal to suspend operations for three days. Difficulty moving coal to ports and returning empty cars leaves shipments at reduced levels.
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Wilkesbarre
Lehigh Valley Coal company
Indian On Warpath Near Tonopah
Indian went on the warpath miles south of Tonopah and killed three squaws and a fellow Indian. He fled into the mountains and is still at large as a posse closes in.
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Rena
Nox
Tonopah
Death of General Wallace After Prolonged Illness
The long time illness of General Wallace ended in his death in this city. He had struggled with an inability to assimilate food for years and never confessed belief in an imminent end. Present at his deathbed were Mrs. Wallace and his son Charles Wallace of Indianapolis. His last words offered cheer to his grieving family before lapsing into unconsciousness. No funeral arrangements were announced.
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Crawfordscuie
Tew
Willace
Swern
Tarkey
tetera
Wallace
watts
Cereral Wallace
Edison
Wilmington
Del Peth
United States
Thomas A. Titchisen
Thomas A. Edison, de, Chemical company
Death by Own Action Believed Murderer Is Hiram McCollum
Police traced a man who died by morphine and chloroform to Bryant McCollum an employee of the War Department. He left Washington February 11 after being identified by the description sent from Boston. A traveling bag bearing the initials IL Mec and the address Washington D C helped confirm the guess amid limited clues.
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Hiram McCollum
War Department
Boston
Touraina
S. B. Neal
Chiicago
ward
Washington
Bryant McCollum
McCollum
New York city
Lockport
N. Y
satcir
IL Mec
Washington, D.C
MacArthur Sails For Japan
Major General Arthur MacArthur and his wife sail with Majors baggage for Japan aboard the Korea to observe the war in Manchuria as a U.S. army representative. The voyage includes a cargo of war materiel bound for the Japanese government.
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MacArthur
Japan
San Praneises
Pacfile Mall
Korea
Tenolulu
Arthur MacArthur
Parker West
Mancharia
United States army
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