Camorra Trial Opens in Italy With 360 Witnesses
In Viterbo March 11, the Camorra trial began for 41 defendants charged with murders and robberies. Cavaliero Bianchi led the inquiry into defendants records as guards and carbineers protected the cages. The court set 360 defense witnesses and 400 state witnesses, with key documents including a Petrosino police report.
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Associated Press
Viterbo
Italy
Camorra
Cavaliero Bianchi
Generro Cuoccolo
Marie C. Cuoccol
Erricone
New York
Europe
Petrosino
Cuocedos
Lorenzo da Viterbo
Vitozzi
Andhe
Cavalerio Santoro
King
New York Police Department
Joseph Petrosino
Ciro Alfano
London
Bishop John Forest Dies After Forty Years of Service
Bishop John Anthony Forest died at Santa Osa infirmary after nearly half a century serving the church in San Antonio. He led the diocese as bishop for sixteen years and spent thirty two years as missionary and parish priest. Bishop J W Shaw served as administrator and attended the bedside with clergy and Sisters of the Incarnate Word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diocese of
San Antonio
John Anthony Forest
Santa” Osa
J. W. Shaw
Sisters of the Incarnate Word
Forest
Major General Carter assumes command in San Antonio mobilization
Major General William H. Carter arrives at Fort Sam Houston to take command of the expanding division. Brigadier General J. W. Duncan relinquishes control while Gen. F. A. Smith Gen. M. P. Maus and Gen. R. W. Hoyt are noted as brigade commanders. Troops from Fifteenth Infantry to engineers arrive, camp, and train amid a busy storage of trains and equipment in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Carter
San Antonio
United States Army
Fort Sam Houston
J. W. Duncan
Carter
M. P. Maus
W.&. Schuyler
F. A. Smith
R. W. Hoyt
Signal Corps
W. 8. Schuyler
Movement of Army Rail Cars Clears East Yards
Maj Gen William H. Carter orders all rolling stock cleared for the army. Government cars unload and move to new sections. A transfer hitch between S P and J G N is resolved after Lieut Col Daniel B McCarthy liaises with Southern Pacific. Trains arrive hourly and troops head to camp, with most in by tomorrow and the rest by Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. P
Daniel B. McCarthy
New York
CalLaghan Answers Commission Charter Contest
Mayor Callaghan filed a typewritten answer in the Fifty-seventh district court disputing the Commission Government league’s charter contest. He and allies deny intimidation and conspiracy claims, say ballots were lawful, and allege the league used fraud and job promises to secure votes. They seek permission to file an amended answer naming emissaries and boosters before trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission Government League
Bryan Callaghan
Fifty-seventh District
Houston
Boyle
Storey
Davis
Court of Justice
Warships Patrol Coasts of Mexico
Washington March 11 The gun boat Princeton now at Panama will be ordered northward touching at Acapulco and probably other Mexican points The gunboat Yorktown will sail southward soon from San Diego with orders to stop at several Mexican ports This is part of a patrol of United States war vessels along both coasts of Mexico
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Washington
Princeton
Panama
Acapulco
Mexico
Yorktown
San Diego
Cal
Army maneuvers prompt call for reorganization
Special military writer H. Lee Clotworthy arrived in the city to observe maneuvers at Fort Sam Houston and critique U S troop mobilization He argues the army is poorly organized dispersing units nationwide and that centralized divisional structure would speed mobilization while praising the personnel as capable. He plans to publish views in The Light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Lee Clotworthy
Fort Sam Houston
Clotworthy
the Light
War Department
San Antonio
Washington
Wireless men held for federal grand jury action
After a five day hearing U S Commissioner R L Edwards ordered William A Bomar secretary of the Texas Fiscal Agency and Charles H Beauchamp trustee of the Texas Collins Wireless company held for court under bonds of 2000 each awaiting the May grand jury. J B Dickinson manager of the Texas Fiscal Agency also held on 2000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bomar
Guarantee Bank and Trust Company of Dallas
Spear
Columbia Finance Corporation
Cameron Spear
Martial Law Declared in Mexico
Mexico City March 11 report that the government suspends constitutional guarantees across the republic in a mild form of martial law. Civil trials for rail destruction, plant arson, telegraph raiding, and plantation raids will cease and summary military action will be used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mexico City
Mex
Republic
Earth slide at Panama canal kills three workers
A major earth slide at the Gatun lock on the Panama Canal buried a steamer and killed two Spaniards and an Italian. The disaster occurred last night in Colon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Associated Press
Colon
Gatun
Panama Canal
Engineers With 480 Men Join Rio Grande Maneuvers
The U S Army engineers from Fort Leavenworth totaling 480 men will participate in the Fort Sam Houston maneuvers joining Major Merriweather Walker in command. The force arrives ahead of a vast pontoon bridge display described as the most elaborate ever used, enabling a crossing across the Rio Grande if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Sam Houston
Merriweather Walker
San Antonio
Galveston
Mexico
Rio Grande
Session Ends As Texas Legislature Adjourns Sine Die
Austin March 11 The governor expresses regret at needing an extraordinary session and declines to set a reconvening date Senate and House committees notify readiness to adjourn The legislature adjourns sine die at noon ending the present session until further instructions from Governor Colquitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Suem
Senate
House
Colquitt
Grand jury probes killings in Port Arthur raids
Port Arthur Texas March 11 the Jefferson county grand jury examines the scene of the killings of three negroes during sheriff office raids on alleged gamblers. Interest runs high and a report may be submitted to court late this afternoon.
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Associated Press
Port Arthur
Tex
Jefferson County Grand Jury
Sheriffs Office
Record of legislative timing on prohibition question
The article notes there is no fixed date for a special session and questions whether action will come soon or after the July primaries on the prohibition issue. It emphasizes reliance on omission and hints at possible future legislative steps.
Bailey Subpoena Sought For Deposit Slip Tied To Lorimer Case
State's Attorney Burke obtained a subpoena duces tecum for United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey to testify in the Chicago case against State Senator John F. Broderick. Holtslaw alleges a $2500 payment for Holtslaw's vote for Lorimer, with a Chicago deposit slip central to the accusation. The slip vanished after Bailey said it was a forgery, and Broderick's trial is set for March 20.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Burke Today
United States
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
John F. Broderick
Chicago
Davis H. Holtslaw
Holtslaw
Lorimer
U. S
State Bank of
Bailey
Senate
Broderick
Cockrell Named U S Boundary Commissioner for Texas New Mexico
President Taft appoints former Missouri Senator Cockrell as U S boundary commissioner to trace and fix the line between Texas and New Mexico. Texas will appoint a commissioner as well.
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Associated Press
Washington
DD. C
Taft
Cockrell
Missouri
United States
Texas
New Mexico
Division hospital to be established near division HQ
The division hospital will be set up this afternoon beside the division headquarters on the western edge of the military reservation. Col Birmingham and Major Gilgrest of the US medical corps will command the hospital. The Seventeenth infantry hospital is the sole established unit today. A mixed force including the Ninth Cavalry with twelve troops and band, and other regiments are to assemble, with camps arranged around the parade area and a signal corps camp near headquarters. Major George Squier, famed for the telephone patent, is arriving from Washington to assist.
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Birmingham
United States Medical Corps
Gilgrest
Seventeenth Infantry Hospital
Ninth United States Cavalry
Eleventh Cavalry
Eighteenth Infantry
Austin Road
Company D
Signal Corps
Engineer Corps
George Squier
Allen
United States Army
Washington
Squier
Rio Grande
Coast Artillery Regimen to Receive Typhoid Shots
The entire provisional coast artillery regiment in San Francisco numbering 1235 men and 45 officers will be inoculated with typhoid serum today to boost readiness for deployment to the front.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
Provisional Regiment of Coast Artillery
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Gen. Carter
Ft. Sam Houston
Callaghian
Commission League
Painter
Santa Rosa Infirmary
Bishop J. A. Forest
Gen Carter
Walter 8. Scott
Fifteenth Infantry
Southern Pacific
Fort Douglas
Utah
Fifteenth
Thirteenth Infantry
Kan
Grayson Street
Robert H. Loughborough
Leavenworth
M. Tu. Walker
Fort Benjamin
Harrison
Indiana
Katy
Fort McKensie
Wyoming
Ninth Cavalry
Fort D. A. Russell
Colorado & Southern
Fort Worth
Third Field Artillery
Fort Myer
Virginia
L. J. Berry
Quartermaster’s Department
WM. H. Carter
Callaghan
Sv Vaveos Ctowese
Congress
H. L. Clotworthy
Federal
Edwards
U. S. Army
Seventeenth Infantry
John T. van Orsdale
Seventh Infantry
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