Rebels Battle in Mexico City Prompts Fire and Looting
Civil conflict intensifies as rebels under Diaz shell the capital and seize Belem jail freeing thousands. Federal troops fight with artillery and machine guns near the palace while residents flee, loot rises, and foreign legations face fire. American and other foreign visitors are trapped amid shelling and blackout conditions.
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
Felix Diaz
National Palace
UENS
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Zapatista
Porter’s Hotel
American Club
Belem
Madero
United States
Wilson
Weather and Mexico Crisis Report for Rosk Island Area
The forecast for Rosk Island Davenport Moline and vicinity shows fair weather tonight and Thursday with temperatures near 10 degrees above zero and a high 23 yesterday. NOAA style notices include astronomical events Venus Saturn Saturn Jupiter Mars and a note on political tension with plans to move the capital if Diaz persists in bombardment.
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Wilson Wins Presidency as Electoral Count Concludes
Washington on February 12 Congress declared Woodrow Wilson elected president and Thomas Marshall elected vice president. Electoral certificates opened in joint session, business suspended, and a formal notice issued confirming a majority. The count involved leading senators and representatives as tellers with initial troop movement plans announced for Vera Cruz and Newport News.
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Woodrow Wilson
United States
Thomas R. Marshall
Senate
House
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House of Representatives
Wilson
Marshall
Webb Anti Liquor Bill Repassed by the House
Washington February 12 the house repassed the Webb anti liquor bill by a viva voce vote after senate passage removing a parliamentary obstruction. The measure bans shipment of intoxicating liquors into dry states. Representative Clayton used a rule to consider a Senate bill substantially the same as one from a house committee. Speaker Clark overruled points of order and the bill passed without debate.
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Senate
Congress
Clayton
Alabama
Mann
Fitzgerald
Clark
Terra Nova Arrives in Port With News of Scott Deaths
Christ Church New Zealand Feb 12 Terra Nova, the vessel that once carried Scott to the south pole and returned to bring him back, arrived this morning bearing news of Scott and his companions deaths.
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Christ Church
New Zealand
Scott
Pole
Campbell Says Story Is False In Arkansas Politics
Washington reports Treasurer Campbell of the Arkansas Republican state committee told the Clapp committee he knew nothing of the charge by former Postmaster Camp of Beebe that he was removed for refusing to contribute to the 1912 campaign. Campbell admitted soliciting from other postmasters and said Camp’s resignation was asked before his solicitations began.
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Campbell
Republican State Committee of
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Clapp Committee
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Ark
Standard Oil ouster order stands in Missouri
Jefferson City Mo Feb 12 The Missouri supreme court refused to modify the ouster judgment against the Standard Oil company and the original order ousting the firm from the state remains in effect issued four years ago Disbarment motion allowed in Springfield Illinois The Chicago Bar association sought to disbar Roy O Gilbert and Lawrence Otis Harrison and the court allowed the motion with a rule returnable at the April term Gilbert is accused of taking 225 from Catherine M Bobb a dependent woman who received 2000 alimony Harrison is charged with misappropriating post office funds in Chicago
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Supreme Court of Missouri
Standard Oil Company
Springfield
Chicago Bar Association
Roy O. Gilbert
Lawrence Otis Harrison
Supreme Courts
Gilbert
Catherine M. Bobb
Harrison
Chicago
Turks Massacre Many Christians in Buyuk-Cekmedje
Sofia reports Turkish troops gathered the male Christian population of Buyuk-Chekmedje in a village school and massacred them. Women and children were killed or carried off, with young girls taken aboard a ship. No fighting on Gallipoli or Tchatalsi lines. Adrianople bombardment continues. London says the Turkish government asked Sir Edward Grey to seek European intervention to stop the Balkan war.
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Buyuk-Chekmedje
Gallipoli
Tchatalsi
Adrianople
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Sir Edward Grey
Suffragets Leave New York for Washington March Pageant
New York today sees crowds at Hudson Terminal as suffragists depart for Washington to join the March 3 pageant. Sixteen regulars vow to walk the full 230 miles with about a hundred sympathizers joining for at least the first day, led by General Rosalie Jones. They wear pilgrim cloaks and carry sacks of suffrage literature.
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New York
Washington
Wilson
Hudson Terminal
Illinois senators open probe into Chicago vice trade
Springfield Ill Feb 12 The Rockefeller fund for white slave traffic inquiry will be drawn upon to assist Illinois investigation announced by Lieut Governor Barratt O’Hara who named a senate commission to begin work in Chicago Saturday The panel includes F Jeff Tossey T Woodard Edmund Beall and Niels Juul The commission will wield grand jury power and demand real names from witnesses with no protection for anyone Suffragists burn hail in Regents Park London and in Washington the Supreme Court hears a challenge to convictions of officials of the turpentine trust under the Sherman act.
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Ill
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Illinois Senate
Illinois
Barratt O'Hara
Chicago
State Commission
F. Jeff Tossey
Toledo
Cumberland County
T. Woodard
Benton
Franklin County
Edmund Beall
Alton
Madison County
Niels Juul
Senate
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O'Hara
Blease Refuses Out-of-State Duty for SC Militia
Governor Blease blocks South Carolina militia from going to Wilson's inauguration after learning negro troops will lead the march. State troops stay home despite emerging plans for the event in Washington.
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S. C
Blease
South Carolina
Wilson
Rioting in Osaka Injures One Hundred in Japan
In Osaka on February 12 crowds celebrating a constitution anniversary clashed with police. Sabres were drawn as officers dispersed mass meetings, leaving about one hundred injured. Bureaucratic offices newspapers and several diet residences were damaged.
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Osaka
Japan
Suit to dissolve a paying combine
Cleveland, Feb 12. A civil antitrust suit for dissolution of the Cleveland Stone company and subsidiaries was filed by order of Attorney General Wickersham. The “stone trust” allegedly influenced architects by money or favors to specify its stone, fixed prices for building, paving and curbing stones in central states, and controlled grind stone prices. Defendants include Cleveland Stone company and Bedford Quarries company among others in Ohio Indiana New York and Illinois.
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Ohio
Cleveland Stone Company
Wickersham
Stone Trust
Bedford Quarries Company
Indiana Quarries Company
Bedford
Ind
New York
George H. Worthington
Charles W. Walters
Thomas J. Vernia
Chicago
Orion Child Run Over by Wagon in Fatal Accident
Special to The Argus. Walter Forsell, nine, was run over by a wagon while returning from school in Orion Tl on Feb 12. He climbed the wagon expecting a ride but fell under the wheels, the wheel passing over his stomach. He was taken home for care and remains in serious condition. Also, Charles Major, author, who has been ill since summer, grows weaker in Shelbyville Ind on Feb 12.
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Orion
Walter Forsell
Walter
Ena
Shelbyville
Ind
Charles Major
No Headway on Senators in Assembly
Springfield February 12 The Illinois Senate ratified on Lincoln's birthday a direct election amendment for U S senators by popular vote 40 to 0 The measure now sits on the table for house concurrence as progressives push for roll call votes and possible party realignments emerge around Sherman Funk and Boeschenstein in a volatile bid for the Senate.
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Lincoln Birthday Observances Prompt Closures and Tributes
The birthday of Abraham Lincoln was observed nationwide as a legal holiday with bank and courthouse closures in Rock Island. Public schools held patriotic programs featuring music and recitations highlighting the life of the martyred president.
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Abraham Lincoln
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