Oscar S Straus Nominated by Progressive Party in Unanimous Vote
In Syracuse Oscar S Straus former secretary of commerce and labor was unanimously acclaimed the Progressive nominee for governor at a dramatic convention. A wild scene followed when a delegate named McGee attempted a nomination, shouting for Straus as the chosen candidate amid cheering and pandemonium.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Oscar S. Straus
Commerce
Aabor
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Timothy L. Woodruff
William H. Hotchkiss
Wiliam A. Prendergast
New York
New York County
Jack’ McGee
Straus
McGee
Chairman Straus
Hotchkiss
U S Troops Battle Rebels Near Douglas Arizona
U S soldiers clashed with Mexican rebels on the Long ranch about 50 miles east of Douglas. Fourteen troopers repelled about 25 raiders, with five killed and one wounded among the Mexicans. Rebels reportedly led by Inez Salazar, with actions also near Hachita, New Mexico.
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Douglas
Ariz
United States
Long Ranch
Inez Salazar
Hachita
N. M
Airships Claim Two Victims in British Loss
Stevanage England two British army officers died in a flight accident Captain Patrick Hamilton and Lieutenant Stewart were passengers when a wing collapsed. Their bi plane plummeted from about 250 feet and exploded, with both bodies recovered at the crash site. Hamilton earned his pilot certificate on March 15.
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Stevanage
England
Patrick Hamilton
Stewart
Hamilton
Massachusetts Wins Dryden Trophy At Seagirt Meet
Massachusetts won the Dryden trophy match at Seagirt New Jersey with 1104 points out of 1200 in the Seagirt shooting tournament. The 4000 dollar trophy was presented by the late United States Senator Linden of New Jersey along with 150 dollars in cash. The District of Columbia took second with 1088 points and Maryland placed third with 1066. New York finished fourth with 1058 points.
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Massachusetts
Seagirt
N. J
United States
Linden
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Maryland
New York
Burglar Gang Hits Eleven-Story Loft in New York
Police traced a massive burglary at an eleven story University Place loft building. Thieves went through eight occupied floors of clothing manufacturers, rifling stock rooms and offices and removing several truckloads of merchandise.
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New York
New York City
University Place
36 Lives Lost in Storm Rips Across Pennsylvania WV
Torrential rains in Pennsylvania and West Virginia killed 36 people and left many missing. Foreigners in Colliers West Virginia plus others in Burgettstown Pennsylvania and Woodlawn near Pittsburgh were among the dead. Floods toppled houses, washed out railroad tracks, and caused landslides, crippling towns and transport.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Colliers
W. Va
Burgettstown
Woodlawn
Newcastle
Holliday’s Cove
Caused Reign of Terror in Massey Station
In Memphis Tennessee Lon Callis opened fire with a shotgun after a revolver incident. Three men were wounded and two women narrowly escaped as the community hunkered down for hours. Callis was later disarmed in a store but returned firing through windows at two women, keeping residents in a state of panic while posses hunted for him.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fred
Massey Station
Lon Callis
Callis
Britain to Demand Arbitration Over Panama Toll Act
London confirms the British government will formally demand arbitration with the United States on the Panama canal toll act claim, asserting it violates the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. No further details are released, but it is believed instructions are en route to the British embassy in Washington.
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London
England
Iit
United States
United States Congress
Washington
Soldier in Virginia Field Artillery Wounded in Accident
Norfolk reports Private James A. White of Battery C First Battalion Virginia Field Artillery wounded in the head at King’s Daughters hospital Portsmouth from a stray shot during camp. Soldiers say intruders near picket lines in darkness refused to stop. sentry says he fired into the air.
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Norfolk
James A. White
Virginia Field Artillery
King’s Daughters’ Hospital
Portsmouth
White
Death of an American Citizen in El Paso under rebel attack
American Joshua Stevens died defending his two daughters in Colona Pacheco as rebels threaten nearby settlements southeast of Juarez. Report initially blamed an American but was corrected to avoid trouble with rebel forces. Local agents in Mexico continued to monitor the volatile border area.
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el Paso
Texas
Joshua Stevens
Colona
Pacheco
Moray
O. P., Brown
Morma
Mexico
Stevens
Juarez
Lone bandit robs southbound train near Michaud
A single robber boarded the Louisville and Nashville express near Michaud Mississippi, robbed mail cars and five Pullmans, and looted cash before being knocked unconscious by Engineer Baer with a brass torch. He was captured and taken to Bay St. Louis, may die from injuries.
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New Orleans
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Michaud
Baer
Bay St. Louis
Louisville and Nashville Express
Canals Standard Depth Advocated For Atlantic Ports
Congressman John H. Small urged standard deep canals along the Atlantic coast at the Atlantic Deep Waterways convention. He cited a 12 foot canal from Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet, NC, costing 3 30 million, with aim to connect 148 harbors and rivers into a single waterway linking seven thousand miles of coastline.
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New London
Conn
Atlantic Seaboard
John H. Small
North Carolina
Small
Charles Elmer Smith
Philadelphia Builders’ Exchange
W. H. Bixby
United States
Norfolk
Beaufort Inlet
N. C
Sixty Miners Dead in Clarence Pit Fire at Lens
The Clarence pit near Bruay in Lens reports sixty miners killed by a fire damp explosion. Many bodies mangled, twenty one recovered before a further blast and renewed fire forced rescuers to abandon efforts. engineers say the mine must be sealed.
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Lens
France
Iit
Clarence
Bruay
Thirty Girls Leap to Safety in Chicago Explosion
An explosion caused by benzine vapor wrecked a Chicago dyeing and cleaning building. Thirty girls leaped from second story windows to escape the blaze. Foreman Rudolph Spinner was crushed to death, his body recovered by firemen. One jumper was found unconscious with both legs fractured. Others were injured in the stairway rush.
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Chicago
Rudolph Spinner
Experiment Station Barn Fire Wipes Georgia Plant
Lightning struck the Georgia Experiment Station barn near Griffin igniting a blaze that destroyed the guano house carpenter shop packing house and silo along with several cattle dying in the flames. High winds drove the fire across the facility, lasting about two and a half hours before being checked.
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Experiment Station
Griffin
Georgia Experiment Station
Experiment
Policeman Killed by Cattle Thieves in Monore
Monore, Louisiana police officer W. O. Roberts was shot through the heart and killed while pursuing cattle thieves who had looted twenty head from Iron Mountain railroad pens. Roberts fired once with his revolver as he fell, a searchlight nearby.
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Monore
W. O. Roberts
Iron Mountain
Roberts
Vermont election results show no statewide popular choice
White River Junction Vermont reports the rise of the Progressive party and a shrinking Republican majority for the first presidential year in a decade. The result suggests no direct people’s election for governor with Allen M. Fletcher likely chosen by the legislature, as Republican reps remain enough to influence the outcome.
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White River Junction
Vermont
Allen M. Fletcher
Rural Telephones Spur County Farmer Lines
The Durham Sun notes many county farmers recently installed telephones linked to the Durham exchange. The service enhances safety, quick access to medical aid, and business efficiency by letting farmers check market prices and decide when to travel. The paper predicts broader rural coverage as more adopt the service.
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Durham Exchange
Durham
N. C
Sun
Guards hold Michigan State Penitentiary with guards outside
Five Michigan National Guards units surround the Jackson state prison with rifles drawn amid an inmate outbreak described as the worst in the institution’s history. Authorities report all convicts confined to cells and no prisoners seriously harmed, per the warden’s statement.
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Jackson
Mich
Michigan National Guardsmen
State Penitentiary
Martial law quiets Kanawha strike zone in West Virginia
Governor Glasscock declares martial law across districts including Paint and Cabin creeks. State militia, strikers, mine guards and operators remain alert as civil authorities cease duties and law enforcement shifts to regular warfare in several incorporated towns.
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Charleston
W. Va
Glasscock
Paint and
Cabin Creeks
Treasury Revenues Jump for August and July Compared to 1911
Treasury figures show August and July customs receipts each $4,000,000 above the same two months in 1911. Ordinary internal revenue taxes for the two months are $3,000,000 higher than last year, signaling a strong first two months of the current fiscal year.
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Washington
Treasury
Man fined for love assault after trial over stone-age remedy
John Mahoney of 2013 Princeton Avenue tried to win Julia Chemeleske by following a physician's savage courting prescription. He choked and struck her after tailing her from Halsted street to a dark alley. Municipal Judge Hopkins fined him $50 and costs.
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Chicago
John Mahoney
John
Mahoney
Princeton Avenue
William F. Waugh
Bennett Medical College
Jefferson Park Hospital
Julia Chemeleske
Albany Avenue
Halsted Street
Julia
Halsted
Thirty-fifth Streets
Living edition of religious works on recruit’s chest
In Muncie Indiana Army recruiter Sergeant Finney enlisted Joseph A Benson after finding on his chest a tattooed Lord’s Prayer, globe with US ships, a chicken, a hog and wild animals. The globe map matched Mercator projection. The officer quipped about art and cost of living.
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United States
Globe
Mercator
Kremlin picnic delays school tax election
Town residents gathered for a community picnic causing the only legally allowed election to be postponed. Kremlin schools will operate on a reduced schedule this year due to the missed election window.
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Kremlin, Ok
Kremlin
Arctic Brotherhood: Skagway Lodge Leads Northern Fraternity
The Arctic Brotherhood based in Skagway Alaska requires members to have traveled north of the fifty eighth parallel. Originating after the 1898 Klondike gold rush, the group links lodges in Dawson Nome Fairbanks Cordova and Seward and resolves disputes by member vote. It promotes charity at Christmas and bears the motto No Boundary Line with insignia a pan and gold nuggets.
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Skagway
Alaska
Arctic Brotherhood
Klondike
United States
Arctic Brothers
Northwest
Dawson
Nome
Fairbanks
Cordoba
Seward
A. B
Brotherhood
RATS GNAW GIRLS FACE FOUND IN ROOMING HOUSE
Omaha police break into a rooming house after Miss Mamie Carter, missing since Saturday, is found dead with her face badly gnawed by rats. Proprietor Christ Kalmpack discovered the body. death is listed as heart failure with initial gunshot wound suspicion. A letter to a younger sister in Cuba suggests prior residence there.
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Omaha
Neb
Mamie Carter
Christ Kalmpack
Com
Cuba
Miss Carter
Danger in pools tests reveal microbes in wealthy club natatoriums
Scientists report pools in upscale clubs and urban basements harbor disease microbes despite clean water claims. Studies at Chicago Hamburg Purdue Brown Yale show bacteria thrive after bathers enter, contradicting hygiene scruples and prompting an international bath officials conference in The Hague.
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New York
the Hague
New York City
American Association For Promoting Hygiene and Public Baths
H. F. J. Porter
Department of Bacteriology
University of Chicago
K. N. Atkins
Hamburg
Purdue
Brown
Chicago
Yale
Alpine tragedy as brother saves sister on icy cliff
In Haute-Garonne near Toulouse, engineering student I. M. Van Goethen and his sister Mlle Goethen, with M. Lombardier, climbed Mt Laurousse. The sister slipped toward a deep precipice on an ice incline. The brother clutched her skirts to prevent a fall, while Lombardier sought help. After eight hours a rescue party pulled the sister to safety but the brother collapsed from shock and exposure.
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M. Lombardier
Mt. Laurousse
Revel
M. van Goethen
Sheriff Outwits Seventeen Brothers in Kidnap Murder Case
Benn Vann charged with kidnaping and murdering 14 year old Oliver Layden. Sheriff Reid moved the prisoner to the state penitentiary after a chaotic pursuit as Layden’s seventeen brothers raided and searched the train but failed to find him.
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Raleigh, N. C
Benn Vann
Oliver Layden
State Penitentiary
Layden
Reid
Eithter
Reptiles the First Birds of Earth
The article asserts that the earliest birds on earth appeared as flying reptiles. It frames birds as a later evolution from reptilian forms and notes that flying reptiles predated true birds in the fossil record.
Hermit Garret Leaves Annual Gift for Pure Beauty
Chanbury France. Garret a former chamber of deputies member has died and left a will providing for a yearly gift of 2000 dollars to the most perfect girl morally and physically.
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Chanbury
France
Garret
Chamber of Deputies
Blondy the Boston bull dog dies in New York funeral cost
Blondy a small Boston bull dog owned by the late John W. Gates has died in New York. The animal was given a funeral costing 1000 dollars reflecting its owner’s wealth and status.
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New York
Blondy
Boston
John W. Gates
Chauffeur Inherits 100000 From Uncle In Bay Shore
Bay Shore New York chauffeur Frank Knight learns he inherited 100000 from an uncle. He vows to stay in his job with J P Beales despite congratulations from his employer. Knight plans to save the money while thinking of ways to spend it. Mrs Percy Proctor returns from Europe with animals to gift among friends including a parrot a guinea pig ninety five dogs and cats and a monkey.
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Bay Shore
N. Y
Frank Knight
J. P. Beales
Frank
Mr. Beales
Knight
New York
Percy Proctor
Europe
California county orders poorhouse with sleeping porches
Santa Barbara County supervisors ordered a new poorhouse featuring sleeping porches and roof gardens to be built at an estimated cost of $200,000. A Los Angeles architect won a $500 prize in a competition to design a building harmonizing with the Santa Barbara area estates. Government scientists in Washington study the causes of holes in Swiss cheese and how to reproduce them.
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Wil
California
Santa Barbara
Cal
Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles
Uncle Sam
Washington
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