John F Stevens predicts Panama Canal failure
Former Panama Canal chief engineer John F Stevens warns the canal will cost more than expected and fail to benefit US interests in South America or the Pacific. He pins finishing date at January 1915 and argues naval defense should fund a larger navy instead.
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John F. Stevens
Panama Canal
New Haven
Conn
Stevens
United States
Orient
Pacific
Far East
Police may solve Janesville assaults with arrest
Janesville Wisconsin March 9. Police arrest Norwegian Otto Wallin on a burglary charge and they say he matches the description of the man who assaulted women. Authorities believe Wallin is probably insane.
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Janesville
Wis
Otto Wallin
Wallin
Twenty One White Caskets Buried at Collinwood Cemetery
Cleveland March 9 twenty one white caskets were buried in the Collinwood cemetery after the Lake View schoolhouse fire. Seventeen held unidentified children. four contained identified children, marking a grim toll from the disaster.
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Collinwood
Cleveland
Lake View
Army Officer's Daughter Saved After 1200 Foot Snow Fall
Miss Eleanora Greene daughter of Major Frank Greene U S A was ordered to Atlanta Ga when a fall sent her sliding over a steep slope more than 1 2 feet in a thrilling accident. She survived the peril with minor injuries and was rescued by snow observers during a treacherous trek in Los Angeles California on March 9.
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Mount Wilson
Miss Greene
Rim
Los Angeles
Cal
Eleanora Greene
Frank Greene
U.S. A
Atlanta
Taft repudiates paper claim of independence from Roosevelt
Washington March 9 Secretary Taft acting for his political manager Arthur L Vorys rejected a morning paper story credited to the Taft news bureau in Ohio. The report purportedly showed he would be independent of Roosevelt if elected president.
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Washington
Taft
Arthur L. Vorys
Taft News
Ohio
Roosevelt
Short Line Railroads Seek Higher Mail Pay
Washington reports more than 200 short line railroads have joined a congressional petition for a fair readjustment of mail transport pay. They argue current rates of 42.75 to 64.13 dollars per mile yearly favor larger roads and cite rural free delivery costs and potential star route substitutions as costing the government more.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Powers Loses in Politics in Prisoner Candidate Row
Caleb Powers, jailed in Georgetown, loses the first round for the Republican nomination in Kentucky's Eleventh District to Don C. Edwards and Taft forces. At Corbin a June 6 convention date was chosen, while Powers and Fairbanks allies push for a late date hoping for his release.
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Congress
Lexington
Caleb Powers
Georgetown
Don C. Edwards
Edwards
Taft
Powers
Fairbanks
Corbin
French Car Breaks Down Amid Paris Race Delays
Reports from March 9 detail the New York to Paris race with Italian and French entries facing repairs and dispatch delays. American driver Matthewson, Indian attempts, and protests over propulsion caused by American car power draw. Docs note rail regulators denying extended enforcement for telegraph hours.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Maroh
Omaha
New York
Paris
Marshalltown
Iowa
LeGrand
St. Chaffray
Autran
Disabled
Tamasoiey
Re Tech
Rochelle
Roberts
Wheelso Matthewson
Denver
Jerome Denies All the Charges
Albany report states District Attorney Jerome of New York filed with Governor Hughes his answer to charges from William F. King former president of the New York Merchants association seeking Jerome's removal. The document is a general denial and the governor will outline next steps after review.
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New York
Albany
Jerome
Hughes
William F. King
New York Merchants’ Association
Emma Goldman Cancelled Chicago Speaking Event
A planned Emma Goldman talk at the Masonic temple in Chicago was canceled after the building declined the lease and refused the meeting, disappointing many attendees. The Social Science League organized the event, which was to be held in hall 412.
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Emma Goldman
Chicago
Masonic Temple
Hall 412
Social Science League
Pope Excommunication for Abbe Loisy in Modernism Clash
Rome March 9 Pope Pius inflicted the severest excommunication on Abbe Loisy for his synoptic gospels and response to the encyclical against modernism. He is expelled from the church and stripped of ecclesiastical privileges with Catholics forbidden to communicate with him.
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Rome
Pius
Abbe Loisy
Paris
Convicts Wield Penknives in Libery Dash at Deer Lodge
Three life prisoners, including Rock and Hayes, attempted a prison escape at Montana State Penitentiary in Deer Lodge. Warden Frank Conley was wounded and First Assistant Warden Robinson killed as blades slashed throats and hands. Conley fought back with a revolver, Hayes and Rock were shot. authorities believe Conley will recover. Separate fire at Apollo hall in Blue Island, Chicago, injures several firefighters and causes about $85,000 damage.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
Frank Conley
Montana State Penitentiary
Robinson
Conley
Hayes
Rock
Chicago
Blue Island
Ice men released from prison in antitrust case
Toledo reporters say Judge Brough of the common pleas court freed Baird Leman and Milly three ice men who were sentenced to six months for violating the antitrust laws.
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Trio
Toledo
Brough
Common Pleas Court
Baird, Leman
Milly
Bishop Urges Unmarried Women to Pray for Husbands
Buffalo March 9 The Bishop of Buffalo Rt Rev Charles Henry Colton urges all unmarried women under his guidance to pray for suitable husbands as part of the churchs new marriage rules Pope Pius recently specified The letter to parish rectors calls contemplative prayer for a vocation to marriage and notes matrimony as a sacrament blessed by God unless one plans holy orders
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Buffalo
N. Y
Charles Henry Colton
Pius
Harriman Owns Central of Georgia Railroad Revealed
E H Harriman has authorized disclosure that he owns the Central of Georgia railroad. The Georgia railroad commission was informed that Harriman bought the road for four million dollars after Southern Railway’s stock sale to Oakleigh Thorne and Marsden J Perry, with a commission of five percent. The move would give the Illinois Central an outlet to the Atlantic at Savannah and connect with the Georgia Central at Birmingham, Alabama.
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Atlanta
E. H. Harriman
Central of Georgia Railroad
Georgia Railroad Commission
Harriman
Ilinois Central
McLendon
Géorgia Central
F. J. Hansen
Winburn
Southern Railway
Oakleigh
Central of
Georgia
Atlantic Seaboard
Savannah
Illinois Central
Georgia Central
Birmingham
Ala
Old couple found dead after home burned in Chicago
Theodore Engelbreck aged 70 and his wife Anna aged 75 were found dead in their daughter's home in Chicago. Police say death resulted from asphyxiation by illuminating gas after their house burned on Saturday. They may have entered a personal crisis pact following the loss of their home.
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Chicago
Theodore Engelbreck
Anna
Letter writer is caught charged with threats to speaker
Hiram Main aged 64 was arrested in Indianapolis on a warrant sworn by William L Fletcher United States attorney Fletcher charges Main with threatening Speaker Cannon and others following an incident Saturday afternoon in the city.
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Hiram Main
Speaker Cannon
Indianapolis
Ind
William L. Fletcher
United
News of Threatening Letters From An Anonymous Writer
A post office inspector is charged with drafting threatening letters to Speaker Cannon and Indiana Congressman Overstreet. The letters, linked to their opposition to pure food legislation, have haunted them for about two years. Despite extensive actions by the post office and secret service, no clues to the author were found until recently. The writer claims to be a top reformer and says he will save the United States from ruin.
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United States
Pensacola Station Communicates With Pacific Fleet
The U S Navy reports Pensacola wireless station linked with the Atlantic battleship fleet in a historic Gulf to ocean relay. Messages say the fleet, off Magdalena Bay, aims for target practice, drills, then visits to San Diego Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Chicago cruiser heads toward the Atlantic, while an American torpedo flotilla ends a Lima farewell banquet.
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Washington
Navy Department
Pensacola
Gulf of Mexico
State of Texas
Mexico
Thomas
U. S. S. Georgia
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Magdalena
Magdalena Bay
St. Louis
Connecticut
Callao
Equator
Panama
San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Chich
Rio Janeiro
Chicago
Pacific
Atlantic
Lima
Radgada
Almirante Grau
Dynamite under Blackwell's Island bridge probe
John C. Jay of the Pennsylvania Steel company reports an investigation into a claim that eight sticks of dynamite were found Friday beneath the western pier of the Blackwell's Island bridge. The project has faced union tensions and previous stoppages since work began in 1901.
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Pennsylvania Steel Company
Blackwell's Island
New York
John C. Jay
York
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Blackwells Island Bridge
Pelham Bay
Cleveland
Change in staff of the Third Brigade
Adjutant General Scott issued an order appointing Elmer E Morgan of Moline to rank as major in the adjutant general's department of the Third brigade upon General Kittilsen's recommendation. Malcolm McKinnon of Moline is appointed first lieutenant and aide de camp in the Third brigade.
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Springfield
Argus
Scott
Elmer E. Morgan
Moline
Adjutant General's Department
Kittilsen
Malcolm McKinnon
Swedish Republicans Meet in Aurora for 16th Convention
The Swedish-American Republican league of Illinois holds its 16th annual convention in Aurora with over 400 delegates. Resolutions reportedly endorse President Roosevelt's administration as Richard Yates William E. Mason Fred Sterling John J. Brown William Lynch and Bert McCann address the gathering. A banquet is planned with speakers including La Follette Olson Hopkins Knight Hesler Lenroot and others.
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Aurora
Wheaton
Hopkins
Thomas M. Knight
The
Hamilton Club of
Hamilton
C. C. Hesler
Bloomington
I. L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
Boston & Maine President Proposes 5 Percent Cut
Boston March 9 Lucius Tuttle president of the Boston and Maine railroad asks conductors trainmen and firemen to voluntarily accept a temporary five percent wage reduction. He promises it will end July 1 when new schedules take effect without further discussion. He calls the emergency the gravest he has known.
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Boston & Maine
Boston
Mass
Lucius Tuttle
Boston & Maine Railroad
Tuttle
Well Known Judge Dead In Grand Rapids Water Cases
Judge Alfred Wolcott of the circuit court died of apoplexy in Grand Rapids Michigan yesterday afternoon. He was 48 and in his second term. He gained prominence six years ago amid the Grand Rapids water scandal cases involving many council members and other officials.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Alfred Wolcott
Circuit Court
Wolcott
Common Council
Williams Measure Backed by House Banking Panel
Democratic members of the House Banking and Currency Committee agreed to report to the full House the minority currency bill by John Sharp Williams as a substitute for the Fowler bill. In Washington the Supreme Court ruled that a campaign contribution request by letter is the same as a personal request. In Denver the jury selection began for Giuseppe Alia, accused of killing Father Leo Heinrichs on February 23.
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House Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency Today
House
John Sharp Williams
Supreme Court
Alia
Denver
Col
Giuseppe Alia
Leo Heinrichs
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Hal C. Wyman
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