Six Automobiles Race From New York to Paris on Arctic Route
Six cars started from Vine Square at 11 15 today in a race to Paris via the Bering Strait. Crews of foreign machines praised as odd as they travel west through Albany Buffalo Cleveland Toledo Chicago Omaha Cheyenne Reno and San Francisco toward Alaska and Siberia with an eight to nine month time estimate. Authorities note ptomaine illness in one reporter and several riders. ten are reported ill.
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East Cape of Siberia
German baron impostor von Veltheim jailed for bigamy and blackmail
London reports Carl Ludwig von Veltheim a German born naturalized American posed as a baron and received 86 000 from a London financier after a long string of frauds and bigamous marriages. He allegedly married seven women including a Yankton South Dakota bride and a Paris ceremony with a mock priest. He faces 20 years in prison for attempted blackmail and related theft charges.
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Carl Ludwig von Veltheim
von Veltheim
Yankton
New York
Europe
Paris
Contactor Days Burglary Confession Shocks Alton
Henry Scheulle a wealthy building contractor is jailed in Alton Illinois on burglary charges. The man allegedly confessed to years of stealing from neighbors at night and keeping the goods before burning or discarding them. He admitted the urge to steal proved overpowering despite lying to himself.
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Alton
Henry Scheulle
Taft Sweeps Ohio Primaries No Foraker Delegates Secured
Taft won a complete victory in the Ohio Republican primaries with four delegates at large and 22 district delegates to the Chicago convention. Foraker failed to secure a single delegate as opposition collapsed in Cuyahoga and In-Keex counties. Only 85 of 88 counties reported voting with minimal opposition to Taft.
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Ohio
Taft
Foraker
Chicago
Supreme Court
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Keex
Bryan to Speak on Five Topics in Buffalo Tour
William J. Bryan arrives in Buffalo from Canada and will deliver five addresses on different subjects. An address to women, a religious sermon to clergy, a general political talk to the public, a patriotic talk at a private club, and a fraternal address to a club of which he is a member are planned for today and this afternoon.
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Buffalo
William J. Bryan
Niagara Falls
Democratic Committee
Bryan Clubs in the State Forming Illinois Democrat Editors Meet Feb 21
Springfield February 12 The Democratic editorial association of Illinois calls a February 21 meeting in Springfield to organize a state federation of Bryan clubs Speakers will be W J Bryan and A E Stevenson of Bloomington Illinois former vice president Bryan and Stevenson will address the gathering as editors form a campaign federation
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Springfield
Democratic Editorial Association of
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A. E. Stevenson
Bloomington
Ridgely Named President of National Bank of Commerce
Ridgely, the controller of the currency, has accepted the presidency of the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City, replacing W. B. Woods after a bank failure. Salary set at 25000 dollars annually. bank to reopen soon.
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W. B. Ridgely
National Bank of Commerce
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Ridgely
Washington
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Mast and Co. Receivers Named to Wind Up Ohio Firm
P. P. Mast & Co. agricultural implement makers of Springfield Ohio were placed in receivership by a US circuit court order in Cincinnati. Receivers will continue operations but wind up the business at speed due to financial stringency. Assets are listed at 1 000 000 with 400 000 in debt. The firm’s attorney says debts will be paid as money becomes easier.
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Springfield
Ohio
United States Circuit Court
Feee
Mince Pie and Ice Water Declared More Harmful Than Liquor
Washington February 12 The National German American Alliance argued before the House Judiciary Committee that mince pies and ice water are more injurious to health and morals than intoxicants. Theo dore Sutro, speaking for the alliance during the Littlefield bill debate, claimed excess food can drive crime as much as alcohol. He argued law could penalize both wine and mince pie, warning that dyspeptic overindulgence may lead to murder as readily as intoxication.
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House Committee On Judiciary
Theodore Sutro
National
Molten steel blast furnace explosion injures workers at McKeesport
Pittsburg February 12 A dozen men were burned three fatally in a blast furnace explosion at the National Tube company plant in McKeesport. A 100 foot furnace burst its top hole and fifty tons of liquid metal splashed onto workers as explosions followed the spill.
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Pittsburg
National Tube Company
McKeesport
Dynamite Bank Robbers Loot Rich Hill Bank
Five heavily armed bandits dynamited the Farmers' and Manufacturers' bank in Rich Hill Missouri securing 22000 dollars in cash. After a midnight explosion residents and a sheriff's posse exchanged fire but no injuries were reported as the robbers fled into rough country north of town. The bank building was wrecked and cashier Jamison confirmed all cash was taken.
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Here
Jamison
Fifty Women Suffragists Choose Month in Prison
Nearly 50 suffragists who raided the house of commons were sentenced in London to pay a fine or face a month in prison. All but two chose jail over the fine. In Monte Carlo, Violet Goold’s death sentence for murder was commuted to life imprisonment.
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London
House of Commons
Monte Carlo
Violet Goold
Vere St. Leger Goold
Emma Levin
Trial Ends as Dora McDonald Is Acquitted of Murder
Chicago February report says Dora McDonald, widow of Michael O McDonald, was acquitted after six and a half hours deliberation in the Webster Guerin murder case. Guerin was shot in his studio February 21, 1907, and McDonald’s involvement stemmed from a ten year intimate relationship and alleged blackmail. The trial revealed family tensions and ongoing civil suits, with McDonald expected to retire to a sanitarium.
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Chicago
Dora McDonald
Webster Guerin
Michael O. McDonald
McDonald
Mary McDonald
Guerin
Dynamite Attack on Santa Rosa Mine Terrifies Mexican and American Workers
In Sonora near Douglas, Mexico, dynamite was planted beneath the boarding house, store, and managers quarters during dinner, injuring 15 American miners. Foreman’s house exploded. superintendent’s office damaged. no fatalities. Eighteen Mexicans arrested as possible revolutionists sympathizers on Los Angeles prisoners case. Rurales on site.
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Santa Rosa
Sonora
Douglas
Los Angeles
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Vaudreuil
Farmers Institute Opens with Science in Farming Keynote
Peoria Illinois February 12 with an attendance of 1000 the 13th annual meeting of the Illinois state farmers institute opened in this city yesterday President Charles W Farr of Chicago presiding Science in farming was the keynote and it promises to be the topic throughout the entire meeting The tenth annual meeting of the Illinois Association of Domestic Science is also in session.
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Illinois State Farmers’ Institute
Charles W. Farr
Chicago
Ilinois Association of Domestic Science
Five Indictments Return in Federal Bank Probe
New York Feb 12 A federal grand jury voted five indictments in the inquiry into national bank affairs. Three charges name Charles W Morse and a former National Bank of North America official for over certification and misappropriation of funds. Morse, due in on the steamer Etruria from Liverpool Saturday, had also been indicted by the New York county grand jury which is probing city bank transactions.
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National Bank of North America
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Etruria
Liverpool
New York County Grand
Pontiac Board of Managers Acts on Reform School Death
The Illinois state reformatory board at Pontiac discharged Captain A. J. Reno and guard J. W. Rogers for the death of inmate William Hamlin on January 2. Hamlin died after an alleged failed escape attempt and injuries from a leap to the cell floor. The board found no substantiation of a deathbed claim that guards kicked him.
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Illinois State Reformatory
Pontiac
A. J. Reno
J W. Rogers
William Hamlin
Hamlin
Reno
Rogers
Caruso Arrest Incident Leads to Tiny Fines
Mrs Hannah Stanhope the woman who caused the arrest of tenor Sirico Caruso at the Central Park monkey house last year was fined 1 cent for intoxication and disorderly conduct in Morrisania police court. Her half sister Mrs Mary Graham living at 1847 Bathgate avenue received the same fine after a downtown shopping trip they shared ended in a saloon altercation.
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Monkey House
New York
Hannah Stanhope
Sirico Caruso
Metropolitan Opera House
Central Park Monkey House
Morrisania
Mary Graham
Bathgate Avenue
Tin box containing Hopkins papers stolen from desk
In Minneapolis on February 12 a tin box with papers valued at 50000 belonging to Daniel C. Hopkins, vice president of Hopkins Land Co, vanished from his Metropolitan Life Insurance building office. Hopkins believes bonds and securities were taken while he briefly left his desk to a rear room.
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Daniel C. Hopkins
Hopkins Land Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins
Congress reports heated currency debate and bills
Yesterday in Congress the Senate debated the Aldrich currency bill with focus on railroad bonds as emergency security and valuation methods. The bill was read, amended, and set for further acts, with adjournment at 5 04 p m. The House criticized the president over inland waterways appointment and addressed the urgent deficiency, Indian appropriations, and the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, adjourning at 5 13 p m.
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HOUSE
Tawney
Committee On Appropriations
Inland Waterways Commission
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Harrison
New York
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Russia
United States
Lowden
Tiingis
Davis Family Objects Declares Engagement Denied
Miss Maud Ashford disavows any current engagement to former Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and states she ended the relationship last night amid social stir in Washington. She cites public press as the cause of the rift and clarifies her position.
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West Virginia
Arthur Lee
Miss Ashford
Davis
Washington
Maud Ashford
Henry Gassaway Davis
Not Sufficiently Radical Calls Reform of Banking System
Senator Rayburn warned in the senate against the Aldrich currency bill and urged a complete reform of the banking system. He argued the current reserve setup harms ordinary depositors and benefits special interests, insisting permanent relief requires root changes. He noted the bill would pass despite its flaws. A separate item reports the House Military Affairs Committee backing increased pay for enlisted men in the army appropriation bill, with officer raises undecided.
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Rayher
Senate
House Committee
Minnesota funeral directors condemn viewing the dead
Minneapolis report shows Minnesota undertakers declare viewing deceased bodies at funerals a barbaric relic and urge it to stop. They assert modern practices should replace open casket viewing and call for changes in funeral customs statewide.
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