Mills Check Is Found No Cash In Bank Claim
A Chicago report says a $41,000 check payable to H. L. Stevens was found in a black purse by a saloonkeeper and turned to police. Mrs Mabel Mills, allegedly connected to the sum, was traced to Kansas City and later to San Antonio, while her husband calls the episode nonsense. The check’s signature was questioned by banks, and Mrs Mills has been traveling as investigators pursue details.
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Chicago
Fiest State Bank
Elkhart
Ind
H. L. Stevens
Mabel Mille
North Clark
William Dibos
Tone Eneck
Wille
Stevens
Mila
San Antonio
Cine
Dibo
Union ‘Trust Company Bank
Sunsense
Kateas City
BW. Mills
Mabel Mills
Mills
Kansas City Hotel
Tex
Evanston
Kasas City
E. J. Stout
Mrs. Mills
W. Mills
Kangasity
Shaffer
Mrs. Mille
Shaffi
Weather forecast for Rock Island area tomorrow
The 1 p m forecast for Rock Island Davenport Moline and nearby areas calls for fair but continued cold tonight with a low near 10 degrees. Friday will be increasingly cloudy and warmer. Temperatures yesterday reached 44 and dropped to 4 last night. Wind at 7 a m was 9 mph. Precipitation 0.05 inches. Relative humidity 75 percent at 7 p.m. M Jam Sherier local forecaster. Astronomical events run from noon today to noon tomorrow with sunset at 1st and rise at 6 27 evening stars Mercury Venus Saturn. morning stars Jupiter Mars.
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J. M. Sherier
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mara
Emilio Madero Escapes Mexico Across Border
Mrs Emilio Madero arrived from Mexico City asserting Francisco Madero was killed two days earlier and tortured. Emilio and Raoul Madero crossed from Torreon to Marathon and reached San Antonio after two attacks, meeting Gabriel Madero. family to confer in New York as 10,000 Huerta loyalists loom. Across the border, Mexican and American forces clash as gunfire and machine guns kill Mexican soldiers while American troopers suffer no injuries.
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Brownsville
Texas
Emilio Madero
Mexico City
Francisco Madero
San Antonio
Raoul Madero
Mexico
Torreon
Marathon
Gabriel Madero
New York
Alfonso Madero
Hawais
T. R. Beltram
Maderos
Saltillo
Carranza
O Ulisea
Huerta
Guaymas
Sonora
Colorado
Sth
Wilson to study data before changing foreign policy
Washington reports indicate no immediate policy shift as Secretary Bryan approves dispatches to ambassadors abroad. President Wilson plans to review all received data before any radical alterations to existing policies, signaling cautious consideration amid unfolding international events.
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Washington
Bryan
Wilson
Young Woman Found Murdered in New York Flat
New York reports a young widow, Mrs. Katherine Godfrey, murdered early today in her apartment. Her head and face were badly battered, apparently with a club. Police attribute the crime to gangsters. Three men who notified authorities were detained as witnesses.
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New York
Katherine Godfrey
Mrs Levi Leiter Dies of Apoplexy in Washington
Washington March 6 Mrs Levi Z Leiter widow of a Chicago merchant is dead of apoplexy She leaves four children including Mary Victoria who married Lord Curzon viceroy of India Son Joseph Leiter lives here He once attempted a corner in wheat on the Chicago board of trade and reportedly lost substantial money.
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Washington
Levi Z. Leiter
Chicago
Mary Victoria
Lord Curzon
India
Joseph Leiter
Chicago Board of Trade
Adee to Stay in His Place Under Bryan
Assistant Secretary of State Alvey Adee will retain his post under Secretary Bryan. In office since 1877, he is known as the department’s “wheel horse.” Bryan named Manton Wyvell as private secretary. Cabinet text noted Bryan’s first official meeting and Wilson’s patronage rule in action.
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Washington
Alvey Adee
Bryan
State Department
Manton Wyvell
New York
Cabingd Weeting
Lane
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Marshall
Wilson
Bryan and
Fletcher
Florida
Baron Chinda
O'Brien
Senator Smith
Michigan
Thomas J. O’brien
Italy
Michiev
Smith
Clark
Iowa
Lane Mack
Austria
Democratic National Committee
Norman E
Professor Olson Charged in North St Paul Homicide
In St Paul on March 6 Professor Oscar Olson of the University of Minnesota awaits arraignment on charges of shooting and killing Clyde Darting, a laundry driver. Olson surrendered and police say he waited for a deliberate chance, saying it was the unwritten law. Wife and daughter are away in Montevideo. Darting was shot entering Olson’s summer kitchen door last night.
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St. Paul
Oscar Olson
University of Minnesota
School of Agriculture
St. Anthony Park
Clyde Darting
Olson
Montevideo
Minn
SHOW HARVESTER GOOD TO FARMER SHOW HARVESTER GOOD TO FARMER
Omaha Neb March 6 The farmer was never so well cared for so far as concerns the use of farm implements according to the testimony of witnesses for the defense in the trust suit against the International Harvester company today. Witnesses testified that although the defendants did 0 per cent of the business in their territory in binders and mowers they had not advanced the price as much as in other lines of farm implements.
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Omaha, Neb
International Harvester Company
Dead in German wreck total 71
Berlin report states 71 killed in the ramming of the destroyer Sts by the Yeres off Heligoland. Most victims froze to death clinging to spars after the vessel sank as terrific seas hampered rescues and many bodies were recovered only by morning.
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Berlin
Sts
Heligoland
Paraders Laugh At Police Report
Washington March 6 The senate committee began hearings to determine police responsibility for riotous parade scenes. Police Chief Sylvester testified that 50 officers per city block would not have controlled the crowd while suffragists jeered during the reading of his report.
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Washington
Congressional
Senate Committee
Sylvester
Celebration of Romanoff Election Marks Centenary
St Petersburg marked the ter centenary of Michael Feodorovitch first of the Romanoffs as emperor with pomp across Russia. The imperial procession to Kazan cathedral featured the emperor and empress greeted by the metropolitan with a cross and holy water vessel.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Michael Feodorovitch
Kazan
Fifty Thousand Women in Chicago Paid Five Dollars Weekly
Springfield March 6 more than 50 000 women in Chicago receive a salary of 5 or less per week reports to Acting Governor O Hara by investigators of the senate white slave commission. At a conference O Hara said many live in furnished rooms underfed and subsist on two meals a day. He asked if any woman is inherently bad.
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Chicago
O'Hara
Senate
White Slave Commission
Rioting Strikers Injure Many in Rochester Demonstration
In Rochester on March 6, about 1,500 garment workers rioted in the clothing district. They wrecked taxicabs supplied by factories, pelted workers with ice and snow, and smashed windows. Police used clubs. numerous arrests followed. police justice Chadsey vowed penitentiary sentences for all disturbances.
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Rochester
N. Y
Chadsey
Major General Wood Held As Chief Of Staff Pending Decision
Washington March 6 Secretary of War Garrison ordered Major General Wood to remain chief of staff until further orders to give President Wise time to decide on a permanent designation.
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Wood
Washington
Secretary of War
Garrison
Wisen
Wilson Listens To Dunne Plan In Senate Fight
Washington March 6 Inquiries at the White House today on the limola senatorial situation showed President Wilson had approved Governor Dunnes proposals but had not yet committed himself Dunne backs Lewis a Democrat for the long term and Sher Ges a Republican for the short term in the plan
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Washington
White House
Wilson
Dunne
Lewis
Sher Ges
Repubican
Federal Aid
American Automobile Association of New York Highway Commissioners
Greeks Take Janina With 32000 Turks Victors Lose 3 Ships
The Greek army captured Janina after a brutal two day bombardment that silenced Turkish batteries and forced a surrender. Greek forces used a feint to outmaneuver Turkish defenders and seized key positions on Bizani Sakni and Eijas hills before the city walls fell. The Turkish garrison of 150 guns was overwhelmed, and Athens celebrated as Crown Prince Constantine announced the surrender. Meanwhile the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh attacked and sank three Greek transports carrying Servian troops en route to Scutari or Gallipoli, near Hagian Oros in the Aegean.
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Athens
Janina
Cheras
Pizani
Manolara
Sakni
Thhe
Bizani
Eijas
Sen
Constantine
Greece
War Office
Vienna
Hamidieh
Scutari
Constantinope
Neue Freie Presse
Hagian Oros
Aegean Sea
Gallipoli
Dardanelles
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