Seigel failure devastates workers and secrets urged
New York March 14 With Seigel company collapse the closing tonight leaves 2300 girls destitute and jobless. District Attorney Whitman claims Seigel and partners are culpable and must pay. About 850 girls lost savings and sick fund money loaned to a private bank. One seasoned worker died after bankruptcy, while a sister of the deceased was buried in the potter's field. Frank Champion, Seigel's private secretary, offers to turn state's evidence regarding alleged diversions.
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Whitman
Seigel and Partners
New York
Seige Company
Henry Selgel
Selgel
Selgel Bank
Frank Champion
County School Principals Meet At Court House
Principals from nearly every Umitalia county school gather at the courthouse to discuss county school life. County Superintendent Young notes a proposed rule exempting eighth grade pupils with 90 percent yearly average from finals, a decision he may accept or oppose. They also consider intercounty athletic meets at Pendleton to unite west and east end schools, and spelling contests. Principal Allen of Nolin is absent.
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Umitalia
Court House
Young
West End
East End
Pendleton
Allen
Nolin
Ceangelman Phelps
McComas
Warren Construction Co
West Court
Jackson Streets
Dolarway
Court Street
Jackson
Pankhurst Freed From Holloway in Critical Health
London march 14 Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst released from Holloway jail after completing her seventh term on the same sentence for militancy A hunger strike left prison physicians warning she may die if not fed and forcible feeding could prove deadly Six suffragettes armed with hammers smashed Home Secretary McKenna's front windows at dawn They did not flee and were quickly arrested and sentenced to six months hard labor in Westminster court
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Holloway
McKenna
Westminster
Westminster Police Court
Man Confesses Murder of Woman to Police
Cleveland March 14 police charged Frank Sticka with first degree murder in the brutal killing of Mrs. Anna Podogil, housekeeper for Sticka's father. Sticka confessed, his father saying he is insane and that his dead mother was once an asylum inmate. The victim was tied to a bed and hacked to death Wednesday night.
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Cleveland
First Deatree
Frank Sticka
Anna Podogil
Sticka
Evidence of Frontier Era Vice Probe Near End
The grand jury, after a week investigating gambling bootlegging and prostitution with police protection, is expected to issue its final report this afternoon. It already filed seven indictments, none linked to the vice probe, and will likely name several more gamblers and game-table operators. One indictment targets James Honder for a serious offense against Violet Green. another reindicts Lafayette Christian on noon-support charges. Five more indictments await arrest. D C Connell, an insurance agent, testified before the panel as part of the Bulgin evangelist inquiry.
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Vice
James Honder
Violet Green
Lafayette Christian
Hermiston
D. C. Connell
Evangelist Bulgin
Protest Fights East Court Street Hard Surface Plan
A remonstrance against paving East Court Street to city limits with hard surface pavement gains traction among property owners. Council and backers debate excluding 700 feet, while McComas seeks to macadamize that strip. council rejects change and moves to proceed. John Bageena circulating a protest against Lee Street too.
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East Court Street
BE. W
McComas
John Dyer
McComss
Khatteney
Psns
Special Election On Charter Amendments Set For April 28
Pendleton will hold a special election on Tuesday April 28 for charter amendments after the city council adjourned session. A one week earlier date was considered but rejected to ensure full legal compliance. A reassessment amendment petition signed by 359 voters and another to increase bonded indebtedness 40000 for the gravity water system received more than 15 percent support and were approved. Two thousand copies of the reassessment amendment were ordered printed for voter distribution by the city recorder.
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Pendleton
City Recorder
German settlers to be brought to Oregon lands
A deal made at St Paul transfers two hundred thousand acres of central Oregon land in Crook county to Hill interests. The Oregon Western Colonization Company will colonize the area this spring with German farmers, placing the land in cultivation and building traffic on Central Oregon railroads. Louis Hill and W P Davidson are among principal backers of the plan.
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Portland
Ore
St. Paul
Hill Interests
Chicago
Oregon
Crook County
J. L. D. Morrison
W. P. Davidson
Oregony Western Colonization Company
Louis Hill
The
Great Northern
Morrison
Eleanor Wilson
William McAdoo
Huerta
Mexico City
Villa
Torreon
Wilson
Koowland
Man Who Supplied Indian with Liquor Arrested
Thomas MoKeave known as a heavy law breaker is jailed charged as the bootlegger who sold liquor to Ander son Shippentower the Indian who assaulted his wife. Sheriff T D Taylor and Officer John Russell arrested him after Shippentower named him and confessed to buying whiskey for 75 cents per pint. The victim’s condition improves and expects recovery from a fractured skull.
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Thomas MoKeave
Anderson Shippentower
T. D. Taylor
John Russell
Shippentower
John Kearney
Mokeave
Blind cigar merchant sues for gambling debt
San Francisco on March 14 Herbert Kaunitz a blind cigar dealer filed suit to recover $39 from Charles O Toole who contends the debt is illegal as it arose from gambling while playing with a blind man in a Las Vegas style dispute rejected as a debt rests on gambling activity and is not enforceable.
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San Francisco
Cal
Herbert Kaunitz
Charles O'Toole
Engagement of Miss Eleanor Wilson and William McAdoo
The announcement confirms the engagement of Miss Eleanor Wilson to William McAdoo. In political and war context, references to Huerta and rebels appear amid interwoven items on public affairs and indictments.
Attack on Wilson tolls policy in Congress
March 14 Congressman Knowland filed a minority report on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee's proposed repeal of the canal tolls exemption clause. He charged that Wilson is advocating England's cause and protested any effort to force Congress into a British interpretation of the Hays Pauncefote treaty, threatening U S economic and strategic rights.
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Washington
Wilson
England
Knowland
House
Interstate Foreign Commerce Committee
United States
Congress
America
Treasury plans bronze tablets and window brasures
Washington notes Senator Harry Lane views the Port land post office building expense as extravagance. The treasury department proposes bronze tablets at 600 dollars each and window embrasures at 1900 dollars each, a figure Lane finds riotous and excessive.
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Washington, D. C
Harry Lane
Treasury Department
Portland
Lane
Miss Wilson to Wed Treasury Chief in June
Washington March 14 Form 4 announcement from the White House confirms the engagement of Eleanor Randolph Wilson, youngest daughter of the President, to William Giggs McAdoo, secretary of the treasury. McAdoo is 50, has six children, and the wedding is likely at the White House in June, the 14th such ceremony held there.
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Washington
Eleanor Randolph Wilson
Wilson
Miss Wilson
White House
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Boyes Sayre
McAdoo
Sarah Houston Fleming
France
Treasury Department
United States Express Dissolves in New York Directors Act
The United States Express company dissolves following a directors meeting in New York on March 14. The action comes after the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a rate reduction affecting the company.
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U. 8S. Express
New York
United States Express Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Revival meetings end with sermon on Sunday night
In a tabernacle service last night Dr. Bulgin led a revival with questions answered. The evening’s topic, The Feast of Belshazzar, opened with praise for the church and a sermon on Christian Science. A union meeting is planned Sunday at 2 30 pm with Dr. Bulgin preaching and a 7 30 pm closing service. A freewill offering will be collected.
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J. M. Cornelison
Tabernacle
Belshazzar
Bulgin
Dr. Bulgin
Dinuba
Cal
Shephard
Paul
Tiny One
Hoston
Kiddy
Mexican Civil War Tensions Rise and Fort Bliss Holdouts
Reports from Mexico City warn Huerta may burn the capital if captured as mutinies threaten federal garrisons at Jojutla Morelos where officers and civilians were killed after a mutiny led by four lieutenants. In Washington officials weigh which envoy to send against habeas corpus releases for Mexican federals held at Fort Bliss while McReynolds pursues court action.
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Mexico City
Huerta
Jojutla
Morelos
Alatrista
Bryan
Wilson
Washington
Garrison
McReynolds
Fort Bliss
Houston
General Bliss
Supreme Court
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Rail Income Tax Filing
Frank Brushaber, a Union Pacific stockholder, files in U S district court seeking restraint on filing an income tax statement this year and on paying the 1915 tax, alleging the income tax law is unconstitutional.
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New York
Pendleton Considers County Baseball League Formation
Pendleton withdrew from the Western Tri-State league prompting talks of a county league with Pilot Rock Weston Athena and other towns. The plan envisions Sunday games, a commercial committee weighing details, and Pendleton possibly fielding semi pro or amateur teams.
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Pendleton
Pilot Rock
Weston
Athena
Commercial Association
Pendleton Club
Western Tristate
Areceiver
Faker
Vale Ant Lewiston
Pendieton
Near
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Owen R. Lovejoy
National Child Labor Committee
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Mis. Pankhurst
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Thomas McKeave
Central
Lowal
Baker
Milton Coeds
Senator Lane
William M’adoo
W.C.T.U
Christian Science
Christ
Fdersheim
Niiin
Ft. Bliss
Baseball Enthusiasts
Talking County League
Northwest
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