Prison Break Ends in Seven Deaths at Oklahoma Penitentiary
Three inmates led an escape from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Monday. They overpowered guards and abducted Miss Mary Foster to a buggy before a pursuing posse halted them. seven men died and an injured woman survived. Judge John R. Thomas, former Illinois congressman, helped in the incident.
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C. B. Woods
Thomas
Muskogee
Ilinois
State Code Commission
Kegypt
Reed
Lane
Kuntz
F. C. Rice
Miss Mary Foster
Lee Cruce
Oates
Miss Foster
Rail strike on Delaware & Hudson ends after 5,000 walkout
Albany report says the Delaware & Hudson strike began Monday, paralyzing the system until mediation led to a settlement. Two discharged employees, engineer James A. Lynch and conductor F A Slade, were reinstated and all strikers will return to duty. G W W Hanger facilitated the agreement.
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Albany
N. Y
Delaware & Hudson
James A. Lynch
F. A. Slade
G. W. W. Hanger
Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Rescue Efforts Fail to Find Sunken Submarine A-7
Plymouth reports an all day search by torpedo boats with cables to sweep Whitsand bay failed to locate the sunken British submarine A-7 after it sank during maneuvers. Lieutenant Gilbert M. Welman and 11 crewmen were aboard. officials fear all have perished. Rescue boats plumbed the bay until night without result.
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Plymouth
Whitsand Bay
Welman
Gilbert M. Welman
Disappearing Evansville Miser Valued Estate
Evansville Indiana Henry Alves aged seventy is missing after leaving a hospital and police seek him. The man reputed to be a miser owns property valued over 100000 dollars. Local authorities request aid in locating him.
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Evansville
Ind
Henry Alves
New York
John Fox
National Democratic Club
Richard Croker
Fox
St. Petersburg
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Gorky
France
Cape Town
South Africa
Johannesburg
Sixty passengers and crew of Acilla perished at sea
A German steamer Acilla of 3800 tons with 48 crew and 60 passengers found afloat. a telegram from Punta Arenas says the bodies of two officers were recovered among wreckage in Moat channel near Picton Island, Tierra del Fuego, with locals noting a prior sinking by a large steamer.
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Hamburg
Germany
Punta Arenas
Chile
Moat Channel
Picton Island
Tierra del Fuego
Goethals Named Permanent Panama Canal Zone Governor
Col George W. Goethals is appointed permanent governor of the Panama canal zone. He will wield near autocratic power in appointing about 2500 operating personnel, chosen to avoid the politics and delays of a commission system.
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Panama
Washington
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Public Health Service Bill Advances to Clean Trains
The House passed a bill to supervise sanitary conditions on interstate railroad trains and stations by the federal public health service. The measure focuses on cleanliness and health standards across common carriers.
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Washington
Federal Public Health Service
House
Sakura Jima eruptions force mass evacuation on island
geologist Okada predicts ongoing eruptions for a month and 70 percent of Sakura Jima to be lava desert. About 1,500 of 2,000 houses buried and damage estimated at 5 million dollars. 9,000 of 19,000 residents accounted for, as refugees drift at sea and looting reported. Bluejackets rescue 16 starving refugees from a drifting native craft.
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Kagoshima
Japan
Sakura-Jima
Gulf of Kagoshima
Sakura
Okada
Tokio
Interior Department
Gorgas Nominated Surgeon General of the Army
President Wilson sent to the Senate the nomination of Col. L Gorgas to be surgeon general of the army He would succeed the late Surgeon General Torney Gorgas heads the sanitation department in the Panama Canal Zone and the nomination honors his work there
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Col. L. Gorgas
Army
Torney
Gorgas
Department of Sanitation
Panama Canal Zone
Eugenics Bill Killed in South Carolina Senate
Columbus South Carolina January 17 The state senate killed a bill requiring that male applicants for marriage licenses present satisfactory medical certificates.
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Columbus
S. C
State Senate
Extradition Move in Michigan Copper Strike Case
Houghton County prosecutors will seek extradition of Charles H. Moyer and six Western Federation of Miners officials from Washington after they were indicted for conspiracy. The case ties to the Michigan copper strikes and alleges use of force to hinder company employees. The Democratic rules committee in Congress declined to order a federal probe of the strikes, deferring to the Senate’s Michigan and Colorado inquiries.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Michigan
Colorado
West Virginia
Senate
House
Houghton, Mich
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Houghton County
Charles TH. Mayer
Moyer
Thaw Denied Immediate Bail in New Hampshire Case
Judge Edgar Aldrich denied immediate bail for Harry K. Thaw in a New Hampshire ruling. Bail awaits habeas corpus hearing. Thaw gains 20 days for brief filings. In New York, William Travers Jerome received threats to stop efforts to return Thaw to Matteawan after turning letters to investigators.
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Concord
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Edgar Aldrich
United States District Court of New Hampshire
Thaw
New Hampshire
Aldrich
New York
William Travers Jerome
Schooners Abandoned as Crew Is Saved at Sea
Boston Jan 19 L W Clarke aboard the five masted schooner Fuller Palmer reports to owners by wireless that the vessel is abandoned and sinking All hands were saved and are en route to Baltimore on a steamer that picked them up
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Boston
L. W. Clarke
Fuller Palmer
Baltimore
Merchants Plan Annual Meeting at Terre Haute
Indiana Retail Merchants' association schedules its January 21 22 gathering in Terre Haute with talks on Instructions in Salesmanship and Fire Insurance. Officials include Ralph B. Clark of Anderson president H. N. Tolles and Harry P. Cooper of Chicago will speak, plus derailed sessions and officer elections.
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Indianapolis
Ralph B. Clark
Anderson
Indiana Retail Merchants’ Association
Terre Haute
H. N. Tolles
Chicago
Harry P. Cooper
National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
O. C. Hornung
John E. Sulger
Donn M. Roberts
T. F. Palfrey
Vincennes
R. B. Clark
R B. Clark
Terre Haute Association
Edgar Goldsberry
Jafayette
Fire Insurance
Fred Mason
Niagara Falls
N. Y
National Merchants’ Association
Roll Call
George B. Green
Ilinois Association
G. B. Slaymaker
Covington
A. B. Carter
Indiana Veterinary Medical Association
Denison Hotel
H. G. White
Kokomo
A. F. Nelson
J. W. Klotz
Noblesville
Board of Censors
Aaron 8. Johnson
New Albany
Charles Morse
Milroy
W. S. Hinkle
Mer
Indiana Millers’ Association
Board of Trade
Alexander G. Caving
A. P. Husband
The
Millers’ National Federation of Chicago
F. D. Fuller
Purdue University
Ralston
W. W. Bonner
Greensburg
Indiana Bankers’ Association
Bonner
Charles B. Jenkins
Nolesville
Carl Sims
Frankfort
T. S. Blish
Seymour
Charles B. Riley
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Illinois
State Penitentiary
Oklahoma
Way
Liberty
Girl
Shield
Posse
Union
Goethels Canal
Kermit Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
Belle Willard
Miss Willard
Spain
Richmond
United States Army
Rules Committee
Mich
U. 3
Slayer
Jerome
Merchants Plan Annual Meeting
State Democratic Club
Indiana Democratic Club
Dick Miller
Thomas Taggart
Timothy P. Sexton
William E. Gavin
Fred E. Barrett
Elliott R. Hooton
Frank H. Gavin
Joseph O. Carson
Bert Hendren
Mr. Taggart
Taggart
Miller
Frank L. Bridges
Harry P. Mayer
Kern
Bell
W. H. O’brien
Mr. O'Brien
Perrott
Kenneth Woolling
Joseph O’brien
William J. Gavin
William A. Gibaon
Samuel J. Miller
Frank EK
Gavin
Director
Leroy J. Keach
Frank F. Woolling
Earl Cox
Frank T. Dowd
Harold Bachelder
Gideon W. Blain
Pearle A. Davis
Eugene Runyan
Josephb. Spiegel
Jesse T. Johnson
Indiana National Guard
Grig
W. J. McKee
First Infantry
Julius Blum
Caleb K. Wheeler
Orion Norcross
Leutenant
Arthur J. Miller
St. Vernon
Merle Weissinger
John Alles
Mt. Vernon
Harry B. O'Dell
Byvansville
James A. Nolte
Mt Vernon
Ofmge
Ft. Wayne
Indiana
Ohio
Tri- State Sheriffs’ Association
J. W. Wilson
van Wert
Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association
Denison
Co. H. Kramer
Bedna Young
Walter Crim
Salem
Edward Richardson
Joseph Buckley
Brookville
Henry H. Hornbrook
W. A. Guthrie
W. W. Wright
Association
CC. H. Barnaby
Greencastle
George Palmer
Sheridan
J. W. Stimson
Huntington
Samuel Burkholder
Crawfordsville
Claude Maley
Frank Galbraith
Sunman
Jaynes Egbert
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