Panic in Constantinople as rivals press for cabinet shakeup
Disorder erupts as two battalions march on the parliament in Constantinople. Crowds panic, shops close while the cabinet resigns and Kismil Pasha is pressed to form a new government. Hilmi Pasha now Grand Vizier, with Young Turks control shaping events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Ministry of War
St. Sophia
Kasmil Pasha
Turkey
Hilm{ Pasha
Kismil Pasha
Hilmi Pasha
Interior
Macedonia
Ali Riza Pasha
Young Turks Party
Comittee of
Union and Progress
Committee of Union and Progress
Karmil Pasha
Himi Pasha
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Back’s Death Before Second Trial Shocks Broome County
On the eve of his second trial for embezzling Broome county funds Arthur W. T. Back former clerk to the Broome county board of supervisors custodian of county buildings and former chairman of the county Republican committee shot himself dead. Indicted in 1907 on eight forgery and grand larceny charges tied to his offices he controlled road work funding and built a political machine. State officials reported about 500000 dispersed from the treasury under his orders about 106808 paid to Back and 178380 to a clerk in his employ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghampton
Broome County
Arthur W. T. Back
Clark
Glynn
Back
Girl Refused To Marry Him Sparks Fire Attack
In Wheeling West Virginia Joseph White twenty eight was arrested after an alleged attempt to burn to death Magdalena Fortuna a fifteen year old girl who refused to marry him. He carried gasoline to her room saturated her clothing and the room poured vitriol on her and set the place ablaze. Help arrived and the flames were put out but the girl was seriously burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Joseph White
Magdalena Fortuna
White
Whiteside Seeks Pardon After Confession to Bank Theft
Madison April 14. Kaolan R Whiteside, jailed for burglary, may be pardoned by Governor Davidson within days to prevent insanity over religion. He confessed a five year old theft of 700 dollars in jewelry from banker J M Hanks, aiding his early 1900s sentence in Wap upun District. Hanks supports Whiteside's release and may donate land in northern Wisconsin to help him start anew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Kaolan R. Whiteside
Sentere
Wrupun
Davidson
Whiteside
Minneapolis
J. M. Hanks
Wapupun
Mason
Mr. Hanks
Wisconsin
Will Wrestle for the Championship in Chicago showdown
The world wrestling title bout features Fran Gotch defending against Yussiff Mahmout in Chicago on April 14. The two falls out of three match offers a $10,000 purse and could decide whether the title stays in the United States or moves to Bulgaria. Gotch, long established, faces Mahmout, a durable challenger who has defeated several notable wrestlers abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Bulgaria
Fran
Gotch
Yussiff Mahmout
Mahmout
Hackenschmidt
Tion
Tragic shooting in Kelster injures three in Minnesota
In Blue Earth County Kelster a farmer named John Olson shot his wife and daughter then turned the gun on himself. All three were alive but in critical condition tonight. Olson’s actions shocked the town as medical teams treated the victims and authorities investigated the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Earth
Minn
Kelster
John Olson
Supreme Court issues order on Waters-Pierce fine
Washington April 14 The Supreme Court in the Waters-Pierce Oil Co cases has issued a man date addressed to the Texas attorney general. It grants authority for the collection of the $1,600,000 fine imposed by Texas courts on the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Texas
Fires Raze Rochester as Two Blazes Loom
In Rochester New York on April 14 two major fires broke out simultaneously amid 30 mph winds. The Selden building at Gibbs and Main, linked to St Peters church and Berith Kodesh temple, burned, with a large apartment block destroyed and many homes evacuated. Firefighters and militia aided by Buffalo and Syracuse crews fought flames as the First Reformed church burned. residents fled, a girl reported missing, a woman rendered insane from fear, and total damage topped one million dollars.
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Rochester
N. Y
Buffalo
Syracuse
Selden
Gibbs and
Main Streets
St. Peter's Church
Grove Street
Len
St. Peter's
First Reformed
Nas Bau
Edgerton
Palmer
Gibbs
Stillson Street
University Avenue
North
Delevan
Train Stranded by Deep Snowdrifts on Moffat Route
Denver reports an eastbound Denver Northwestern and Pacific passenger train with seventy five passengers was blocked at Corona on the Continental Divide. A blizzard menaced the stranded train for days while two rotaries failed to clear a drift nearly twenty feet deep, forcing resort to Earl where provisions are plentiful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad
Moffat Railroad
Hart
Continental Divide
Corona
Divide
Earl
Wall collapses at New Brighton pottery plant
A wall collapse during a Sherwood Bros pottery fire in New Brighton Pennsylvania killed fireman George Hartman and fatally injured Benjamin Carr and Charles Fell. Several others were slightly hurt as the wall fell while crews battled the blaze in the mineral department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Sherwood Bros. Company
New Brighton
George Hartman
Benjamin Carr
Charles Fell
Works
Chicago Women Urge Illinois Municipal Suffrage Delegation
A Chicago suffrage contigent arrives in Springfield to advocate for the municipal voting right. About twenty speakers address joint committee hearings while Governor Deneen and Mrs. Deneen host a reception. Notable participants include Jane Addams Ellen Henrotin Ella Stewart and Mrs Algernon Smith with several children accompanying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wlinoia
Springfield
Chicago
The
Algernon Smith
Nurse on Trial for Killing Physician in Harlem
New York April 14 nurse Sarah Katen, a young Russian woman, goes on trial in the ennal branch of the supreme court for killing Dr. Martin Auspitz in a Harlem doorway. She says the physician raped her and she acted in a sudden despair over her condition. Her child, born since the shooting, figures prominently, with claims Auspitz fathered the baby. She has remained hospitalized on Blackwell's Island since the birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sarah Katen
Martin Auspitz
Harlem
Ennal
Supreme Court
Dr. Auspitz
Blackwell's
Tsland
Lease to Soo Is Approved
Milwaukee April 11 The control of the Wisconsin Central railway has been fully transferred to the Soo line and thus made a part of the Canadian Pacific system. The transfer was performed at a special meeting of the Wisconsin Central Railway company stockholders in Milwaukee where the lease to the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway and the previously authorized agreements between the two companies were approved by the largest vote ever cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Central Railway
Soo Line
Canadian Pacifice
Wisconsin Central Railway Company
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Receiver Named by Court In Bankruptcy Action
An involuntary petition was filed in the U S district court against Ennis & Stoppanl, Consolidated Stock Exchange members, and the Chicago board of trade. Alleged assets total 1,500,000 and liabilities 409,000. Linjeay Mussell was appointed receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States District Court
Ennis & Stoppanl
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Linjeay Mussell
State to Fix Passenger Fares in Special Order
In Jefferson City Missouri on April 12 the house of representatives unanimously ordered engrossment of a bill giving the state railroad commissioners authority to fix passenger fares. The measure was set as a special order for Tuesday for final passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferama City
House of Representatives of
General Assembly
Three Girls Killed by Train Near Dubuque
In Dubuque county a Central Flyer train fatally struck Anna Feldorf eight, Mabel seven, and Ruby fourteen, daughters of Fred Feldorf, four miles west of town. Severe wind kept the girls' heads down as they walked the track toward the train. In Springfield, David Anderson, eighteen, will hang in Chicago on April 23 for the murder of Policeman Callaghan after the supreme court denied a rehearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque, Ta
Anna
Mabel
Ruby
Fred Feldorf
Springfield
David Anderson
Chicago
Policeman Callaghan
Supreme Court
Anderson
Boyle and Wife Indicted Again in Kidnapping Case
Cleveland reports Mr and Mrs Tamea Boyle were indicted by the Cuyahoga county grand jury on child stealing and harboring a stolen child following their March arrest in Mercer Pennsylvania. Previous charges included blackmail as authorities seek to prevent escape by Pennsylvanian abductors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Whitla
Keystone State
Ohio
Cleveland
Tamea H. Boyle
Mercer
Sharon
Cuyahoga County
Grand Jury
Boyles
WhitIn Bay
Self-Defense Tale in Forgery Case at St Louis
Louis O Graves a Yale graduate charged with forging a check defended himself in court. He questioned the legitimacy of a college education while claiming amnesia about the alleged forgery. Judge Taylor called the defense unique and Graves was remanded to await grand jury action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Louis O. Graves
Yale
Jraves
Six Men Fight for Girl in Mining Town brawl
In Manifold, a mining town above Pittsburg, six men fought over a girl named Tizzie Movela. The clash left several seriously injured with two fatally. Revolvers sparked the melee as suitors drew lots to decide a claim, a fight that drew more blood and vowed vengeance from the remaining five suitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Manifold
Sla Fer
Tizzie Movela
Chenzo
Prominent lumberman suicides in Muskogee hotel grief strike
M J Boyles a 71 year old Oklahoma lumberman died in his room by drinking carbaric acid. A note blamed grief over his wife's death. He was once a leading figure in lumber in Keokuk and Centervilla Iowa and in Kansas.
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Muskogee
Oklo
M. J. Boyles
Bayles
Keokuk
Centervilla
Kansas
Wedding Gift of $500000 Unites Two Prominent Families
Baltimore April 14 The Society of Baltimore New York Philadelphia Washington joined in today's wedding of Miss Harriet Brown and T Suffern Tatler of New York The bride daughter of banker Alc under Brow received a 500000 check from her father Mrs Tatler brings beauty of her former life in Baltimore Mr Tatler a New York banker his second marriage, former wife now wed to Hon Cecil Baring of London The bride had been Maud Lorillard sister in law of Mrs Pierre Lorillard whose recent Washington death was noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Harriet Brown
T. Suffern Tatler
Alc Under Brow
Bilmore
Wheat Breaks Records in Chicago Wheat Pit
Wheat prices surged in early Chicago trading with July at 1175, September at 1083 to 109% after opening. May delivery climbed to 128, driven by a New York house closing out trades, amid broad market record highs and limited May activity.
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Chicago
New York House
Southern Conference on Education Opens in Atlanta
The three day South wide conference on education began in Atlanta to awaken inform public opinion and boost school reputation and revenues. Robert C. Ogden of New York presides with Hoke Smith Clar ence Ousby Gifford Pinchot Elmer Ellsworth Brown Lida Shaw King Edwin A. Alderman and Charles Van Hise among those contributing speaker roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
South
Robert C. Ogden
New York
Southern Education Board
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Gifford Pinchot
The
Forest Service
Washington
Clarence Ousby
Fort Worth Record
Fort Worth
Tex
Elmer Ellsworth Brown
United States
Commissioner of Education
Lida Shaw King
Woman's College
Brown University
Providence
R. 1
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Charles van Hise
University of Wisconsin
Man shoots three at Green home in Hutchinson
Horace Schwartz wounded his wife and her brother Marian Green and a man named Phin Spain in Green's residence. He attempted suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs Schwartz is in critical condition. The two men sustained non life threatening injuries as Spain and Green aided the injured woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson, Kan
Horace Schwartz
Marian Green
Phineas Spain
Mra. Schwartz
Green
Spain
Must Serve Her Sentence In Elgin Club Case
Marion Grey, young matrimonial agent who ran the Search Light club at Elgin AL, must serve a one year prison sentence. She appealed a US district court declarory conviction, but the court of appeals affirmed the lower court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Marion Grey
Searchlight
Elgin
United States District Court
Court of Appeals
Third Fire Destroys Main Hospital at Fort Supply
Woodward Oklahoma April 14 The third fire in a week at the Oklahoma State Insane asylum at Fort Supply twenty five miles northwest of Woodward destroyed the main hospital building. No lives were lost but fifty six of the fifty nine patients had to be carried out of the building.
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Woodward
Okla
Oklahoma State Insane Asylum
Fort, Supply
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Hwindis
Pennsylvania
J. H. Boyle
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