Foreign Turmoil Leaves Tiensin Quiet Amid Looting Fears
Foreign troops guard key sites as rail links stay open and trade stalls in Tiensin. Looting concentrates on pawnshops with widespread destruction in the native city. Japan hints at garrisoning Peking, while Sun Yat Sen seeks $20,000,000 for Nanking troops amid a fragile republican crisis.
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Associated Press
Tien Tsin
Here
Peking
Japan
Twit Piatt
Pirlo
London
Daily Telegraph
China
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan Shi Kai
Nanking
Anxiety grows in Berlin over China's crisis
The Chinese situation unsettles Berlin as the German admiralty sends 100 men from Tsingtao to Peking to bolster the legation guard. Reports say Dr. Schreyer, slain in Tien Tsin, was an American, not a German subject.
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Berlin
Associated Press
China
Foreign Office
Tsin Tao
Peking
Legation
Schreyer
Tien Tsin
Foreign Property Safe in Tien Tsin Amid Disturbances
Dispatch to the Methodist board reports serious disturbances at Tien Tsin with native city fires but foreign concessions safe and mission stations in Peking Chang Li and Paian Fu stated as safe. A 200 marine detachment is ordered to sail to reinforce Tien Tsin alongside the Cincinnati cruiser.
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Associated Press
New York
N. Y
Tien Tsin
Methodist Board of Foreign Missions
Peking
Chang Li
Paian Fu
U. S
Shanghai
United States
Cincinnati
Fighting erupts in Tsitsikhar Manchuria clash
Advices from St. Petersburg report fighting between Chinese regular army troops and an expeditionary corps at Tsitsikhar in Manchuria. Many killed and wounded. The first outbreak began in a theater and continued in the streets.
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Hting
Manchuria
Associated Press
ST. Petersburg
Tsitsikhar
French troops ordered to reinforcing Tien Tsin and Peking
Paris reports the French government ordered 200 soldiers from Tien Tsin to Peking to reinforce the legation guard. Tongkin military authorities must supply troops to Tien Tsin to replace the departing detachment and hold a regiment in reserve for emergencies.
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Tien Tsin
Associated Press
Paris
Peking
Legation Guard
Tongkin
Japanese Troops Ordered to Peking Reinforce Legation Guard
Washington dispatch reports one thousand Japanese troops are being sent to Peking to reinforce the legation guard, per the Japanese embassy announcement.
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Peking
Associated Press
Washington
Legation
Corporations File Financial Statements Promptly In Texas
Corporations in Texas are rapidly filing reports on their financial condition to March 1 1912. Chief Clerk D A Gregg notes hundreds of statements have already been received since blanks were sent out.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
D. A. Gregg
State Department
Calderon sentence commuted to life imprisonment
Governor Colquitt commuted Alejandro Calderon now to life imprisonment after the pardons board recommendation. Calderon had faced a March 9 hanging in San Antonio for the murder of A Morales.
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Colquitt
Austin
Tex
Alejandro Calderon
Board of Pardons
Calderon
San Antonio
A. Morales
Roosevelt Taft Clash Seen at Texas Republican Meet
Fort Worth Texas March 4 factions of the state Republican executive committee clash promised as Roosevelt and Taft sides contest control. Cecil A Lyon arrives to set headquarters at Westbrook and endorse Roosevelt third term while Taft leaders led by H F MacGregor and Joseph B Kealing arrive. Lyon says Taft camp lacks enough members to force a fight.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Tex
Roosevelt
Taft
Republican Executive Committee
Cecil A. Lyon
Westbrook
Joseph B. Kealing
Indianapolis
H. F. MacGregor
Houston
Texas
Lyon
Jury finds claimant not George Kimmel in insurance case
In St Louis on March 4 the jury in the Kimmel insurance suit said the claimant is not George A. Kimmel but did not resolve whether Kimmel died in 1904. Judge Amidon ordered the jury instructed anew.
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George Kimmel
Kimmel
Associated Press
Sv. Louis
Kimmel Insurance
George A. Kimmel
Amidon
Roosevelt Leads in Oklahoma Convention Delegates
Returns to noon show Roosevelt with 287 instructed delegates to the state convention. Transmission errors credited 14 delegates to Taft, reducing Taft to 113. Taft campaigners offer no claims. Harris, once a national committeeman candidate, is reported defeated. George C. Priestley of Bartlesville appears likely to win.
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Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
Taft
Harris
George C. Priestley
Bartlesville
San Antonio Weather Tonight Through Tuesday
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for unsettled conditions tonight and Tuesday with rain possible tonight or Tuesday and cooler temperatures Tuesday.
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San Antonio
Weather observations from multiple cities with cold air
Morning readings across the region report subfreezing temperatures in several cities. St Louis and Chicago show 20 and 16 degrees with cloudy skies and strong winds. Milwaukee and New York hover around 6 and 24 with snow in some areas and prospects of snow on Tuesday.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
San Antonio Light Holds Exclusive Leased Wire Claim
A statement asserts that the rated press leased wire into San Antonio is carried wholly or partly only by the San Antonio Light and has no basis in other newspapers or sources.
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San Antonio
Crews of Ships and Factories Hit by Coal Strike
London reports a nationwide coal strike shutting factories across the United Kingdom. Over a million miners out of work and more than 200000 workers in other industries idle as negotiations are expected to resume. Coal carrying ships are discharged and railroad service is cut back. Some isolated mine entrances are blocked but overall good will remains between miners and owners.
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Associated Press
London
United Kingdom
Yorkshire
British coal strike boosts U S soft coal purchases
The British coal fields strike drives heavy buying of nearly all soft coal stocks in coal ports around New York Philadelphia and Baltimore to meet foreign market needs.
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Associated Press
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Steamship Lines Plan Double Coal Load For Atlantic Route
Local coal market prices rise for immediate deliveries as steamships are to be loaded with a doubled coal supply for round trips to America. This extra cargo reduces space available for general freight on these vessels.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Miners Strike Breaks Out in Bochum Germany
A sudden miners strike at three Bochum mines on March 4 prompts workers to quit over alleged unjust wage deductions. The National Miners Federation condemns the action for breaking union discipline and calls for a return to work, warning of a potential wider strike.
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Associated Press
Bochum
Germany
Miners’ Union
National Miners’ Federation
Lightfoot Heads East for Telecommunication Inquiry
Attorney General Lightfoot and assistant John W. Brady depart Austin for an undercover inquiry into telegraph and telephone line operations in Texas. The trip aims to probe rumors of antitrust law violations and assess why Standard Oil and Waters-Pierce Oil remain active in Texas, with a stop in St. Louis to gauge public talk.
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Austin
Tex
Lightfoot
John W. Brady
East
Texas
Standard Oil Company
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Three Die in Fire on Hanover Street in Boston
Three persons died and about seventy others escaped as a fire swept Hanover street in Boston early today. Fire department fought flames through the night with no further injuries reported.
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Boston
THE
Associated Press
Mass
Hanover Street
London suffragettes raid West End stores amid damage and arrests
March 4 dispatch reports suffragettes armed with hammers and stones smashing shop windows in Knightsbridge and Compton Road. Police called reinforcements after offenders dispersed, thirty women arrested and losses pegged at 1250 dollars. Ellen Pitfield, linked to a prior post office arson attempt, committed for trial.
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Associated Press
London
Knights’ Bridge
Compton Road
West End
Marquis of Crewes
Lord Chancellor
Ellen Pitfield
General Post Office
Elevator Fall In Chicago Store Leaves Occupants Unharmed
In Chicago on March 4 seven-floor elevator descent in a State street department store ended with no serious injuries as safety cogs prevented harm between the first and second floors.
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Chicago
State Street
Uruzgo Joins Rebels May Be Named President
A Mexican border clash near Columbus New Mexico reports four killed as Americans and Mexicans fight at Rancho Las Palomas. U.S. troops are ordered to Columbus while Orozco’s defection to the rebels is confirmed in Chihuahua.
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Uruzgo
Columbus
New Mexico
EL Paso
Tex
Palomas Ranch
Mexico
United States
BE. Z. Steever
Hill
Twenty-second Infantry
Steever
Cattlemen’s
Rancho Las Palomas
Stanton Street Bridge
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Pascual Orazed
Madero
State Department
Summers
Chihuahua
Orozco
Paso del Norte
Asarco
Torreon
Germany May Act on Mexico Withdrawal Advice
Berlin reports that Germany has not yet ordered German citizens to leave central Mexico despite U S guidance. A semi official statement says action may be taken at any moment, as the German government weighs the advisory.
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Associated Press
Berlin
United States
Mexico
Foreign Office
Anticipation Grows Over Taft Mexican Action and Monroe Doctrine Bluff
In Texas headquarters and Fort Sam Houston a strain of anticipation remains as Taft’s stance on Mexico and possible congressional intervention looms. Rumors of orders for field troops cross the border circulate, while an officer offers a view that the Monroe doctrine is an international bluff now challenged by foreign moves.
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Taft
Congress
Department of Texas
Fort Sam Houston
United States
Orozco holds Chihuahua as Villa fails to take city
Vasquez forces claim Pascual Orozco now controls Chihuahua after Villa’s failed assault. telegram says Villa retreated six miles from the city as Vasquistas reinforce from Juarez. Governor Gonzales fled the palace amid a 5000 strong crowd while fighting rages near Chihuahua early yesterday.
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EL Paso
Tex
Vasquisetas
Pascual Orozco
Madero
Mexico
Vasquistas
Chihuahua
Pancho Villa
Villa
Doniciano Ponce
Juarez
Orozco
Ponce
Abram Gonzales
Gonzales
Sauz
Salazar
Juareg
Braul Hernandez
Campa
Samu bin
Philadelphia
T. C. Rie
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Tien Toi
Am Seeer
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Foreman
England
Daffrablttes
Edgar V. Steever
Fort Bliss
N. M
Duncan
War Department
Hernandez
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