Independence at stake as Cuba faces US troop threat
Washington warns of troops into Cuba if political disturbance erupts. President Gomez meets with Veterans Movement leaders to frame a response. Cuban patriots warn independence may end if US troops occupy the island. General Nunez says Americans would face prolonged resistance.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Veterans' Movement
Gomez
Washington
Ciupan
Nunes
Nunez
U S Repdy to Invade Cuba Prepared Occupation
Washington January 17 Officials rush War Department preparations for armed occupation of Cuba if needed but believe a threat to overtly seize the island would quell any outbreak and troop dispatches may not be necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington War Department
U. S
Washington, D. C
War Department
Cuba
Troops Ordered to Prepare for Cuba Mission
Washington dated January 13 reports two thousand marines four thousand blue jackets and at least six regiments of infantry ordered to be ready for voyage to Cuba to support President Gomex in suppressing the threatened revolution.
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Washington
Cuba
Gomex
Pension Burglar to Be Feted by Jewelers in Chicago
Chicago January 17 A robber known as Padded Brick said to be too clever to be caught is expected as guest of honor at a Wholesale Jewelers Association banquet. Reported plan to offer him a pension in exchange for retirement. He accepted an invitation to discuss business after the invitation was publicly issued.
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Chicago
Burelor
Wholesale Jewelers' Association
G O P Fight in South Splits Republican Forces
Washington reports show a three way preconvention clash within the GOP as Taft La Follette and Roosevelt factions conduct organized campaigns in the South. McHarg, dismissed assistant secretary, leads Roosevelt supporters while Nelson heads La Follette efforts and Hilles oversees Taft interests.
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Washington
South
Republican Party
Taft
la Follette
Roosevelt
Ormsby McHarg
McHarg
Nelson
Hilles
Taft Urges Economy in Government Affairs
President Taft sent to Congress a message on economy and efficiency in government service. He calls for reforms including pensions for aging workers, streamlined filing, labor saving devices, improved copy work, reduced waste in document distribution, asset use reforms, ending insurance against dishonest officials, lower transportation costs, better accounting and purchasing methods, and an annual budget. He asks to renew the economy and efficiency commission with $200,000 for investigations and $60,000 for publishing results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington D. C
Taft
Congress
Commission On Economy and Efficiency
Harper's withdraws Wilson from editorial page
New York January 17 Harper's Weekly drops Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey from its presidential editorial page at his request. Governors Wilson and allies say Harper's ties to Wall Street interests could hurt his chances.
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New York
N. Y
Harper’s Weekly
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
United States
Wilson
Harper
Wall Street
Toronto Mother Confesses to Killing Nine Month Old Infant
Mrs Maud Gilbert, 25, says she shattered by her infant's nine months of crying deliberately sat on the baby, crushing it to death. She confessed and was arrested in Toronto on January 17.
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Toronto
Canada
Mra Maud Gilbert
Judge Willis Brown Urges Pendleton Boys to “Play Square”
Judge Willis Brown spoke to about 200 Pendleton schoolboys in the city hall assembly room urging them to “play square” at all times. He described an “honor plan” for incorrigible youths, using the fictional Boyville town in Gary Indiana to illustrate rehabilitation through self control and responsibility.
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Play Square
Pendleton
Wilia Brown
Brown
Boyville
Gary
Indiana
Boy Town
Reform School
Judge Brown
Thieves Arrested After Keyhole Witness
Officers Cheer and Hughes watched George Gardner and Pat King through a Penland lodging house door as they pried open a stolen suitcase. The pair were arrested and face a hearing before Justice Parkes after another lodger, Mykranz, reported the loss and led police to the scene. Gardner claimed King owned the room. King said he found the suitcase. A jail informant noted the older man was warned to keep quiet.
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George Gardner
Pat King
Penland Lodging House
Cheer
Hughes
Justice of the Peace Parkes
Mykranz
Penland House
Gardner
King
Accused minister to face murder charge in Tennessee
Pittsburg Jan 17 That the Rev McFarland pastor of the United Presbyterian mission at Greenville Tenn who is under arrest at Cedar Creek Tenn for two criminal operations on Miss Coe will waive extradition and return here to face a murder charge was the word received by officials McFarland denies the charges as not based on facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
McFarland
United Presbyterian Mission
Greenville
Tenn
Cedar Creek
Miss Coe
Babe Falls In Tub Fatally Scalded
Special correspondence from Umititia Oregon reports Elinor McNurlin two and a half years old fell into a tub of boiling water during family wash. She was not pronounced dead at noon but body severely burned and survival deemed unlikely. The accident occurred while a physician was unavailable and efforts to obtain care were underway. City Recorder Baylor also injured after a fall on the sidewalk, suffering painful but not serious head injuries.
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Umititia
Ore
Elinor
John T. McNurlin
Hermiston
City Recorder
Baylor
State Federation Denounces Taylor Plan At Convention
The State Federation of Labor in The Dalles Oregon denounces the Taylor system of scientific management in government works. It endorses the eight hour law before Congress and pledges support to the Columbia River Fishermen's Union to protect the salmon industry. Governor West is slated to address the convention tonight.
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Dalles
Ore
State Federation of Labor
Congress
Columbia River Fishermen's Union
Governor West
Idaho Legislators Fight Over Tax Commission Plan
Boise January 17. In the Idaho house an effort to secure sentiment on Governor Hawley’s revenue measures failed. A fifteen member committee decided to raise the issue of creating a state tax commission for the house to decide before other measures. Opponents focus on blocking the tax commission bill.
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Idaho
Boise
House of Representatives
Hawley
Special Commission
House
Tragic Turnout at Portland Factory Workplace Death
James G. Turner aged 54, was killed in a Portland factory when pulled into a rapidly revolving pulley. His legs were torn away and he suffered a fractured spine and multiple injuries, dying almost instantly.
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Portland
Ore
James G. Turner
Farley Welcomed Home By 100000 Catholics In New York
Cardinal Farley returned from Rome to New York greeted by about 100000 Catholics. A reception for 500 gathered aboard the steamer Rosedale and at Hoboken, then a procession to St. Patrick's Cathedral where 700 priests officiated. Farley read Pope Pius XII's message praising American liberty and the nation’s openness to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cardinal Farley
Rome
Berlin
Hoboken
Rosedale
Loss of Leg Fatal to Aged Pendleton Pioneer
B F Beck a Pendleton pioneer aged about 75 died at St. Anthony's hospital after leg amputation for senile gangrene. Funeral Friday at 2 pm from the family home 108 Beauregard street. Survived by second wife and five children. He had lived in Pendleton since 1887 and was a veteran of Civil War Co G. G A R and Masonic lodge ceremonies to be held by both orders.
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B. F. Beck
Pendleton
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Beauregard Street
Taylor Hardware Company
Masonic
A. R
Co. G
Gus Byers
James
Fred Beck
Gontee Pratt
Tacoma
H. G Thompson
Portland
Nonsupport Claimed Sues for a Divorce
Hugh Taylor, a well known Athena farmer, files for divorce claiming non support after arrest for failure to support wife and children. He alleges his wife deceived him about marriage, boasted of past misdeeds, and that their union began under false pretenses. He seeks a decree and custody of two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Taylor
Athena Farmer
Athena
Moges Taylor
Madam Schumann-Heink Denies Affair and Husband as Manager
Cedar Rapids Iowa Jan 17 Madam Schumann-Heink the songstress who was here today denied that there was another man in the case or that her husband Ramos whom she is suing for divorce was ever her manager and declared he was her secretary and paid handsomely for his services as she would prove in court
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Schumann-Heink
Rampos
Manigal Reopens Testimony On Labor Leader Dynamitings
Ortie McManigal resumed federal grand jury testimony in Indianapolis and expanded his confession naming twenty plus labor leaders tied to multiple dynamiting outrages. He detailed eastern dynamitings and named figures linked by John McNamara. The inquiry, touching Buffalo Boston Cleveland Wilkes Barre McKees Roost South Chicago and Omaha, was expected to conclude by week’s end.
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Indianapolis
Ortie McManigal
Burns
McManiigal
McManigal
East
John McNamara
Buffalo
Boston
Cleveland
Wilkesbarre
McKees Roost
Chicago
Omaha
Is This Man To Join Teddy's Ananias Club
Washington January 17 The same forces that dominate steel banking sugar and other trusts control the harvester trust says J F Lowe representing independent harvesting concerns testifying before the house committee on rules Lowe sought Roosevelt support for his resolution to investigate the Harvester trust but was read only an editorial implying the steel trust is clean while Roosevelt gave a sanctioned but indirect reply
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Washington
Harvester Trust
J. F. Lowe
House Committee On Rules
Lowe
Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Washington piem guilty of 8 toll law violation
In Bellineham Washington a jury in superior court found Washington piem guilty of eight hour law violations for women workers. The case stemmed from women employed ten hours a day at the Pacific American fish cannery. A communication from State Labor Commissioner Hubbard about cannery exemption was admitted. Prosecutor Bixby asserted former deputy labor commissioner Blanche Mason had ordered longer hours and was recently dismissed. The prosecutor also linked Hubbard to political activity.
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Bellineham
Wasit
Jin
Uperior
Hubbard
Bixby
Blanche Mason
Victims Buried After Lamp Fumes Tragedy
In San Francisco on January 17 the coroner allowed the funerals of Jennie Sonberg and Edward Conners who boarded at her home, believing they were accidentally suffocated by lamp fumes.
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San Francisco
Jennie Sonberg
Edward Conners
Fires destroy warehouses in Terminal Storage company
New York reports two fires on January 17 causing about 13.25 million dollars in losses at the Terminal Storage company warehouses along the North River front between Twenty seventh and Twenty eighth streets. Five general alarms summoned all available firemen to Manhattan stations before the blazes were contained.
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New York, N. Y
Terminal Storage Company
North River
Manhattan
City and fair board near decision on Block for new Moyre-Structure
After a Pendleton meeting of the Umatilla Morrow county fair board and city citizens, agreement nears on buying the Ida Boyd and Sybil Clapton block east of Round-Up Park to erect a permanent fair building. Councilman Dyer favors purchase if a cement block structure is promised, with land sale pending council action. The site would extend Round-Up Park and strengthen Pendleton as a regional amusement center.
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Umatilla-Morrow County
Hurd
Stanfield
Ilness
Bickers
Dyer
Inland Empire
Pendleton
American schooner and all on board lost
Aberdeen Scotland January 17 bulletin reports a United master steam schooner believed to fly the American flag foundered off the coast with all hands lost. Attempts to identify the vessel name failed.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Rumors Fly Over Oregon Congressional Candidacy
Judge William R. Ellis may seek the Republican nomination in the new eastern Oregon district as Sinnott, Pierce, and other figures linger in doubt. John P. Rusk S Fred Wilson Cochran are listed as current Republican hopefuls while Walter Pierce looms for a Democratic bid.
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William R. Ellis
House of Representatives
Oregon
A. W. Lafferty
East Oregonian
Sinnott
Pendleton
Eastern Oregon
John P
Jerry) Rusk
la Grande
S. Fred Wilson
Athena
George Co. Cochran
Walter Pierce
Congress
Will M. Peterson
Hag
Walter M. Pierce
Umatilla
Union Counties
Hart Lake
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Mesage
Babe
Mother
Grip
Farley
Pope Pius
America
Nonsupport
Madam Schumann-Heink
Manigal
Teddy
Ananias Club
Washington Piem
Gotham
City
Association
Adjoins
Roundup Park
Ellis Hum-Sinnot
RAGE
NEW
Congressional Post
N. J. Sinnott
Portland Oregonian
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