British Crisis Eases Asquith Assures Ulster Moves
March 23 Belfast and London report a calmer mood in the British Isles after Prime Minister Asquith stated troop movements to Ulster were precautionary and to protect government property. Seeley briefed MPs on possible officer dissent, while Ulster officials and Curragh depots monitor defections with alarm as officers resign en masse.
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London
England
British Isles
Asquith
Ulster
House of Commons
Seeley
Paget
Ireland
Bonar Law
Belfast
Provisional
Curragh
Associated Pres
Dovisional
Sir Arthur
Irish Leader Urges Calm Amid Home Rule Crisis
John Redmond, Irish Nationalist leader in Parliament, calls on home rule partisans to desist from violence and maintain calm. A Nationalist parade planned for Sunday in Londonderry was canceled at his request.
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John Redmond
Londonderry
Professor Peck Takes Own Life in New York Area
Stamford March 23 Harry Thurston Peck longtime Columbia professor of ancient languages died by suicide in a rooming house. He had faced a 350000 breach of promise suit by Esther Quinn and a second pending suit. He had a nervous breakdown and had been hospitalized in Ithaca.
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Stamford
Conn
Harry Thurston Peck
Columbia University
Esther Quinn
Peck
Ithaca
Springfield Judge Names Receiver for Insurance Firm
Springfield March 23 Circuit Judge Creighton granted a petition by State Superintendent Potts to appoint a receiver for the Assured National Mutual Fire Insurance company. The action came after a dispute over mailed matters attacking Potts' character.
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Springfield, II
Insurace Potts
Assured National Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Creighton
Potts
Jap Parliament Prorogued Over Navy Appropriations
Tokio march 23. The Japanese parliament was prorogued by the emperor due to the inability of the house of peers and house of representatives to agree on naval appropriations. Political circles expect the cabinet to resign.
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Tokio
Japan
House of Peers
House of Representatives
Villa closes in on Torreon with 12 000 troops siege near
Washington reports that an ongoing Villa offensive against Torreon is nearing completion. About 12 000 troops push through El Paso era lines toward the city while elaborate trench defenses and barbed wire hamper federal stops. Foreign observers note no formal negotiations with Mexico yet.
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Washington
D. C
Vera Cruz
John Lind
Rojas
Mexico
Torreon
Bernejillo
Durango
Villa
Yermo
del Rio
Texas
Constitutionalist
Las Vacas
Mex
Benton
Early vote for repeal measure in Washington scene
Washington dispatch says the president aims for an early vote on repeal of the Panama tolls exemption once rivers and harbors work clears. He expects some Republicans to back repeal and notes satisfaction over New Haven Railroad dissolution settlement.
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Washington, D. C
Panama
Wilson
New Haven
Chinese Brigands Slay 300 Opponents Near Siang Yangfu
In central China brigands linked to the outlaw White Wolf rampage through Hupeh and Hunan provinces killing and looting. A market town near Siang-Yangfu saw 100 residents massacred as attackers entered and burned seven tenths of the town. Local troops under Kingtaekwan failed to resist.
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Peking
China
White Wolf
Siang-Yangfu
Hupeh
Kingtaekwan
Hunan
New French Machine Gun for War
A description warns that if US intervenes in Mexico the French machine gun could annihilate a regiment in three minutes. Weighing 35 pounds and operable by two soldiers, it fires 200 to 500 steel bullets per second and can be assembled in 10 seconds. Range is set with field glasses and 20 objects miles away.
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Washington, D. C
Sam
Mexico
Uncle Sam
Theother
Roosevelt party meets accident on unknown Brazilian river
New York March 23 Colonel Roosevelt's family and friends await advices after his expedition lost its entire equipment in rapids of a Brazilian river. News from Anthony Fiala dated Santarem Brazil states we lost everything and asks his wife to be told of his safety. The river, called Rio Duivata by Theodore Roosevelt Jr, was anticipated in a January letter describing plans to explore unknown Brazil.
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New York
Roosevelt
Anthony Fiala
Santarem
Brazil
Para
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Rio Duivata
Brigand Chief Given Army Post Amid Revolt
The former brigand chief received an army appointment during the recent revolution. Government measures are inadequate and brigandage may grow beyond control. The revolutionary element remains strong nationwide with frequent arrests and executions. The northern army is to be deployed to suppress brigandage.
Supreme Court upholds Michigan local option law
The Supreme Court today upheld Michigan's local option law of 1909 as constitutional. The ruling also sustained the constitutionality of Massachusetts’ ten hour law for women.
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Supreme Court
Michigan
Wasington
D. C
Massachusetts
Bluebeard of Germany Beheaded for Serial Murders
Frankfort on the Main Germany March 23 Carl Hopf a druggist known as the Bluebeard of Germany was beheaded today for murdering his father his first wife his two children and for attempting to murder his second and third wives and several other persons
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Frankforts
Main
Germany
Carl Hopf
Bluebeard
Weather and Astronomical Brief for Local Area
Increasing cloudiness tonight with unsettled conditions Tuesday. Warmer, tonight's low near freezing. Temperature 7 am 24, yesterday's high 37, last night 24. Winds 7 mph, no precipitation. Humidity 7 pm 62, 7 am 87. Stage of water 3.2, no change. Mars Venus Saturn visible evening. Jupiter Mercury morning. Aldebaran bright red star south of the Pleiades in Taurus.
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J. M. Sherier
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mercury
Pleiades
Aldebaran
Constellation
Taurus
Bull
President Sees Boy Near Death In White House
In the Blue Room at the White House on March 23 a frail 12 year old boy on a stretcher sat beside the president. Harry Winthrow Davis of Swickley Pennsylvania had traveled by motor ambulance for a brief meeting after a pleading letter from his mother to Mrs Wilson. The president spoke with the boy for several minutes, gave flowers, and told news of Mrs Wilson before the boy was carried away toward Atlantic City for treatment.
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Washington, D. C
White House
United States
Swickley
Mrs. Wilson
Atlantic City
Mercalli Slain in Naples Fire Mystery
Naples authorities believe Professor Mercalli, director of the Vesuvius observatory, was murdered after his murder was followed by a fire. Thieves reportedly took fourteen hundred dollars and concealed the crime with petrol and arson.
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Mercalli
Naples
Italy
Professor Mercalli
Vesuvius Observatory
French Cabinet Faces A Crisis Amid Rochette Case
Paris reports churn as cabinet prospects dim amid Rochette trial post ponement controversy. Caillaux denies urging lawyers for Rochette. Madame Caillaux reappears before magistrate. Guards line courts. 800 inmates at St Lazare threaten mutiny over privileges and treatment. A demented woman fires three shots at judges in the palace of justice.
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Paris
France
Henri Rochette
Finance Caillaux
Chamber of Deputies
Rochette
Madame Caillaux
St. Lazare
Palace of Justice
Pastor Is Among Rogues In Rogues Gallery
Rev W H Book pastor of the Tabernacle Christian church in Columbus Indiana verified at police headquarters that his photo appeared in the rogues gallery but had been recently removed. He is known for active enforcement of liquor laws during his seven years in the post.
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Columbus
Ind
W. H. Book
Tabernacle Christian Church
Book
Veteran manager Thomas McGuire dies after tongue removal
New York report states Thomas B. McGuire, a longtime theatrical manager who lived and spoke for ten years without his tongue after its removal due to cancer, died yesterday of tongue cancer. He supposedly smoked 25 to 30 cigars daily for two decades.
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New York
Thomas B. McGuire
Mother Jones Taken Again by Military in Colorado
News of Mother Jones being seized from a train in Walsenburg Colorado and placed under military guard at the county hospital. Attorney Mitchell seeks habeas corpus. In Congress John Mitchell defends miners life in Butte and attacks copper operators in Michigan. Moyer conspiracy indictments denied.
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Denver
Colo
John Lawson
The
United Mine Workers
Jones
Walsenburg
Supreme Court
Eadet
General Chase
County — Hospital
Mitchell
Washington, D. C
Butte
Mont
Michigan
John Mitchell
House
Calumet
Taylor
Western Federation of Miners
Socialist Party
Emery
Oklahoma Launches Superdreadnought in New Jersey Yard
The battleship Oklahoma, among the largest and strongest in the American fleet, was launched today at Camden New Jersey by the New York Ship Building yards. Invited guests included officers from the Argentine and Chinese navies.
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Philadelphia
New York
Camden
N. J
Teacher Ends Her Life in Bloomington Home
Bloomington Indiana March 23. A 24 year old arithmetic teacher Misa Vanessa Ratcliff left a note saying she was insane and shot herself in the heart in her rooming house. Fellow teachers heard the shot, found the note pinned to a pillow. Her home was Kokomo.
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Bloomington
Ind
Misa Vanessa Ratcliff
Kokomo
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Belmont
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Edward
Insurance
Percival
Juarez
Constitutionalist Investigating Committee
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Houghton
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