Socialist Questions Slow Miner Strike Hearings
In Hancock Michigan witnesses refuse to reveal socialist affiliations as mining conditions and union tensions surface during copper strike hearings. In Denver Colorado a company president cites rising fatalities per coal ton production, while a Michigan murder case nears verdict and a Philadelphia conference on central competitive field funding ends without agreement.
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Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
J. F. Welborn
House
Primere
Starkville
Welborn
Houghton, Mich
Berville
Phiadelphia
Pen
Georgia Senator Bacon Dies in Washington
Senator A. G. Bacon of Georgia died in Washington at 75 after a month long illness from kidney trouble. A Democratic leader and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Bacon earned praise from President Wilson for his work on the Mexican situation.
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A. G. Bacon
Georgia
Washington, D. C
Bacon
Senate
Wilson
Delays Decision on Suffrage Act in Illinois Courts
Springfield, Feb 14. Illinois Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the women’s suffrage act challenging the right of women to vote on the wet or dry issue. The case, brought by William J. Scown against the Chicago election board, may affect local option and April elections. Attorneys spar over briefs and timelines as judges caution on a swift ruling.
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Ilinois Supreme Court
Alfred 5
Austrian
Levy Mayer
Chicago
William J. Scown
Chicago Election Board
Charles 8. Cutting
John J. Herrick
Charles H. Mitchell
Willard M. McEwen
McEwen
Owens
Illinois Woman's Suffrage Association
Supreme Court
Mayer
Favors Hanging Newspaper Owners Debate In Dated Memo
Washington report notes H B Joy urged an interstate trade committee with lifelong tenure and power to hang newspaper owners who criticized its setup. Ademson warned the committee scope stops short of such penalties as Joy seeks price fixing for manufacturers. The dialogue touches press freedom and trade regulation boundaries.
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Washington, D
H. B. Joy
Detroit
House Cogerce Committee
Iterstate Trade Committee
Ademson
Joy
Village Annihilated in British East Africa Region
Report says an entire village of men women and children in the southern protectorate has been exterminated by Boran tribesmen after ongoing harassment by Randilas. The event underscores ethnic violence in the region during February.
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British East Africa
Sourthern
Protectorate
Sho
Atlantic Flight Promise Set For 24 Hour Crossing
Liverpoo England February 14 A flight across the Atlantic in 24 hours is promised as Lieutenant John Cyril Porte and the British naval flying service prepare to depart for America to demonstrate air capabilities for the fleet project.
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Liverpoo
Eng
Atlantic
John Cyril Porte
America
El Imparcial Attacks Wilson Over Peru Government
The Mexican daily El Imparcial blames President Wilson for the collapse of 150 Southern banks amid criticism of U S recognition of Peru’s new government. The report cites Wilson’s alleged iniquitous Mexican policy as a cause for the banking failures.
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el Imparcial
Mexico City
Mexico
el Imparcial Today
Wilson
United States
Mayer and McEwen Clash Over Women's Suffrage Scope
Debates over whether the word all in suffrage laws means every proposition or only those lawfully permitted for women. Attorneys argue that courts narrow the term to fit constitutional limits and that some local option or school votes may be excluded. Also notes Governor Dunne and Mrs. Dunne accepting to dine with Secretary and Mrs. Bryan in Washington on February 19.
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McEwa
Appellees
McEwen
Dinnes
Bryan
Springfield
Dunne
Washington
Gore claims bond suit plot to ruin testimony
A news item reports that Gore alleges a plot by disappointed office seekers to bring a bond lawsuit for heavy damages and to ruin his testimony. The claim centers on a political dispute with alleged actors unnamed.
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Gore
Bond Suitis
Snow storms sweep New York and nation in sharp winter burst
The first big snow of the season hits New York with seven inches and drifts up to two feet in some areas as storms rack the east coast. Rail traffic delays, ships delayed, and cold winds spread from New England to the Ohio valley with widespread storm warnings and distress reports.
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J. W. Laws
Oklahoma City
Robertson
Bond
Gore
Senator Gore
Laws
J. Harp
New York
Earp
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Campania
America
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Arizona
Kansas
Stock Exchange
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D. C
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United States
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Middle Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake Region
South Atlantic
Bryan Editorial Not President’s in Illinois Fight
Chicago Feb 14 A record says Sun e Bryan attacked Roger Sullivan in the Commoner and the White House says President Wilson remains neutral in the Illinois Democratic senatorial race. Bryan takes responsibility for the Commoner piece and rejects direct administration endorsement. Ban Johnson discusses a new eight club league under organization for next season.
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Chicago
Fil
Sune J. Bryan
Rogér_ C. Sullivan
White House
Wilson
Ilinois
Sullivan
Bryan
Commoner
Washington
Ban Johnson
Mason S. Peters dies of pneumonia in Kansas City
Former Congressman Mason S. Peters known as the Jack Rabbit Statesman dies at his home in Kansas City after a weeklong illness. Elected to Congress from Kansas Second district on a 1906 fusion ticket, he led as a populist before his term.
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Kansas City
Mason S. Peters
Kansas
Peters
Weather Forecast For Rock Island Davenport Moline
Generally fair tonight and Sunday. colder tonight with near zero low. Wind northwest 5 mph increasing variable. high 23 yesterday, low 8 last night. no precipitation. Humidity 84 at 7 pm and 83 at 7 am. Astronomical events note Venus Saturn Mars Jupiter and Great Bear visible.
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Davenport
Moline
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Jupiter
Vedrines Home Refuses Duel Demand in Paris Quarrel
Aviator Jules Vedrines arrived from Egypt and sought seconds for a duel with Rene Quinton head of the French Aerial league, demanding pistols. The dispute traces to Vedrines' slapping Henry Roux and Quinton's order to fight Roux with Vedrines promising to fight in Paris.
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Paris
France
Jules Vedrines
Egypt
Rene Quinton
French Aerial League
Vedrines
Quinton
Henry Roux
Cairo
Roux
Railroads Seek Time Extension For Lake Steamer Holdings
The New York Central petitions the Interstate Commerce Commission to extend beyond July ownership of Western Transit and Mutual Transit steamship lines serving Buffalo Chicago Duluth Milwaukee and other northern lake ports. Also seeking extension are the Duluth South Shore Atlantic Grand Rapids Indiana in Mackinac Transport, and Michigan Central over Mackinac ferries between St Ignace and Mackinaw City. In Quebec an earthquake shock was felt at about 5 40 am with no damage reported.
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Washington, D. C
New York Central
Interstate Commerce Commission
Great Lake Steamship Companies
Western Transit Company
Buffalo
Chicago
Duluth
Milwaukee
Mutual Transit Company
Cleveland
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic and
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway
Michigan Central
Oklahoma Senate Threats Highlighted In Gore Inquiry
Special agent Webster Sparks testified he overheard Robertson threaten to get the senator and traveled to Oklahoma to testify with expenses expected from Senator Gore. Depositions described meetings involving James Jacobs Kirby Fitzpatrick and Robertson with Mrs. Bond, with Read and McMurray present. Fitzpatrick testified to the attack, Robertson testified, and Jacobs was slated for rebuttal testimony.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Minnie Bond
Gore
A. F. Fisher
Webster Sparks
Department of Justice
Robertson
Sparks
Oklahoma
Howard D. Read
Washington
James Jacobs
Kirby Fitzpatrick
Bond
J. F. McMurray
Read
Fitapatrik
Jacobs
Eugenics Fails in Claims Address by Stanford Doctor
San Francisco February 14 Dr A W Mayer of Stanford medical school argued that nature s laws are immutable and breeding methods cannot be applied to humans He supported eugenics but said its advocates claim too much Coughs Up Small Blacksnake Pana Ill February 14 William AustinShelbyville expelled a small black snake from his throat after a two year mystery bout of coughing and distress Laundry Burns at Dixon Dixon NL February 14 The City Steam laundry owned by H E Pumphrey burned yesterday hindered by cold weather and bursting hose with a loss of 6000
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el Paso
Texas
Ysleta
A. H. Davidson
13Th Cavalry
Davidson
Scott
Cape Haitien
Washington
San Francisco
Haiti
Harrison
Navy Department
Zamor
Theodore
Mmits
Cal
A. W. Mayer
Medical School
Stanford University
Pana
Ill
William Austin
Shelbyville
Austin
Dixon
Dixon, NL
City Steam
H. E. Pumphrey
Wilson Back at His Desk Monday
Washington report says President Wilson, recovering from a cold, will not attend tonight’s gridiron dinner but expects to be at his desk in the executive offices Monday. The president remains confined to his bedroom but shows improvement under treatment.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Insane Fathers Take Nine Lives Near London
Londoners were stunned as two fathers unleashed deadly violence. Walter Johnson, a street car official, strangled his wife and three children then hanged himself. Standen, a laundry owner, shot his family and killed his three children before likely taking his own life.
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London
Eng
Walter Johnson
Standen
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