Treaty on Canal Tolls Seeks Equal Charge for All Nations
President Wilson discussed with callers a move to guarantee equality of tolls for all vessels at the canal, including American ships, and to use influence to remove exemptions from the Panama Canal Act. The issue has stirred controversy since 1912. Senator O Gorman, chair of the interoceanic canals committee, led the Senate fight for exemption.
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Washington
Wilson
Rolle
United States
O'Gorman
Interoceanic Canals Committee
Senate
Hans Schmidt Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Hans Schmidt was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Anna Aumuller, whom he married in a self performed ceremony at St. Joseph's church. The penalty is death by electric chair at Sing Sing prison. Aumuller's body was dismembered and disposed of in the Hudson River. the head was never recovered. Schmidt claimed he obeyed a command to sacrifice the girl from a patron identified as Lt. Elizabeth. The Justice Department ordered immediate release of all wartime munitions seizures in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona except those used as evidence against violators of neutrality laws.
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New Yort
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumiler
St. Joseph's Church
Sing Bing
Anna Aumullet
Schmidt
Hudson River
Aumuller
DMI
Elizabeth
Washington
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Department of Justice
Ade urged to enter Indiana Senate race as Shively declines
George Ade, noted playwright and author, is pressed by Indiana Progressives to run for the U S Senate. Senator Shively, a Democrat, refuses and may seek a House seat. A separate report laments rising parcel post delays in western mountain districts. In Chicago a boating accident on Lake Michigan ends with three men drowned as a dredge barge implicated in the tragedy returns to port.
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Indiana
George Ade
United States
Shively
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Tragic Suffocation After Cumbre Tunnel Disaster
In Juares Mexico the fate of forty Amoti Mexicans remains unknown following the February 4 collapse of the Cumbre tunnel. Rebels captured twenty-two Castillo loyalists a day earlier, retaliated by wrecking a freight train into the tunnel, trapping a passenger train inside. Rescuers with oxygen gear recovered only charred remains.
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Juares
Mexico
Cumbre
Mexicas
Castillo
Rancher On The Warpath Shatters Utah Header
Tremonton Utah rancher Reaper Phillips was shot early Friday by Jesse Orwin of Garland. A bullet pierced Phillips jaw and lodged in his neck. doctors Bowman and Pitt removed it. If blood poisoning does not follow he is not in danger. Reported motive stems from domestic troubles and a recent divorce between Orwin and his wife, with Phillips connected through marriage.
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Tremonton
Utah
Phillips
Jesse Orwin
Arashman
Garland
Orwin
Phillipa
Marines to Protect Foreign Residents in Haiti Riots
Washington marine units landed a gunboat crew to guard foreign nationals and their property in Cape Haiti after rioting and pillage spilled into Friday. Commanders Heatwick and Boatwick acted at foreign consuls' request to shield Americans and foreigners.
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Washington
Cape Haiti
Boatwick
Nashville
Heatwick
Peruvians Rebel as Palace Attack Kills War Minister
The rebellion led by Colonel Benavides stormed the presidential palace in Callao and Lima after four in the morning. General Enrique Varela was killed as Augusto Durand seized the palace. Civilians fled as troops fired to disperse crowds amid political upheaval tied to budget reforms.
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Callao
Rubsie
Benavides
Enrique Varela
Augusto Durand
Walt
Lima
Peru
Billingharst
Faith by Works Prompts Crime Decline in Sunbury
Sunbury Pa doctors and city leaders Dr H T Kelser mayor and Merle Kanmon police chief both converted at a revival meet announce they will close gambling houses immorality places and slot machines. Jury frebe women Mrs Laura M Reuter saved not guilty of complicity to murder of husband Charles T Reuter after second trial in district court Bartlesville Orio
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Sunbury
H. T. Kelser
Meyor
Merle @Kanmon
Bartlesville
Orio
Laura M. Reuter
Charles T. Reuter
Political figures convicted and sentenced in New York case
Joseph Cassidy a former Democratic boss of Quesnescounty and others including William Willett were sentenced in Marvel Pear and Ale months and ordered to pay $1090 in restitution. The vote on Wednesday afternoon stood 241 to 126 in favor of Gribere Gent to Prisca, New York.
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Gribere
Prisca
New York
Joseph Cassidy
Quesnescounty
William Willett
Comprossusa
Convieted Trier
Marvel
National Drainage Congress Stalls Over Funding
Washington report says financial starvation halts the national drainage congress efforts to guard against repeats of last year’s floods. Damune TF, president, cannot continue due to lack of funds and warns the Red Cross may be called to cope again after a mealier crisis cost many lives. The congress has not moved to avert looming food and drought threats amid international concerns.
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Washington
National Drainage Congress
Damuné
Mexico
Risa
United
Provo Utah Water Rights Case Filed Seeks Beneficial Use Ruling
A Utah filing in district court challenges all claimants to water diversions from the Provo River. The Provo Reservoir Company seeks a judicial pronouncement on the beneficial use doctrine affecting appropriators rights, potentially impacting Provo and Heber cities and nearby communities.
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Provo
Utah
Provo River
District Court
Uiteruarias
Heber
Islands and Kagoshima Suffer Major Volcanic Eruption
The text reports Sakura Jima and nearby areas buried by lava flows and rocks with hundreds feared dead. Kagoshima city partly destroyed and eastern mainland villages swallowed by molten lava, making exact death tolls unknown until digs finish. In Washington, a Navy centennial bill aims to reinstate Marine Corps officer Lieut. Vineed who left active service.
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Sakura Jima
Kagoshima
Golden Gate
Japan
Sore Bit
Akamiden
Yokoyama
Kourike
Washington
Daniels
Congress
Marine Corpe
Marine Service
Weabington
Reine Himacif With Ax in Connecticut Incident
A report from Greenwich describes a man using the blunt end of a heavy ax to smash a weapon, with earlier thefts of gambling paraphernalia traced by Colonel Yaweon and others from Coppertald and Huntingtos last month. The incident followed orders from Governor West and occurred on a Sunday.
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Reine Himacif
Greenwich
Conn
Yaweon
West
Military units ordered back to Mesho amid aviation bets
Soldiers of the Meshean army were recalled on Sunday after completing aviation training. They are to return to Mesho and report to their regiments at once, under government orders issued in Washington.
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Mezien Vernallies
Geventern Wificars
Assertion on Senate commerce panel in interagency talks
The representative chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Commission asserts that three or four convention members were aware of a gathering. He describes the meeting as the most questionable session held.
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Tee Ieeaing Wenerdias
Ife Interetats
Feign Commerce Commission
Convention
Merger of Mining Unions Shapes U S Labor Front
Western Federation of Miners and United Mine Workers of America unite in a merger pushing labor consolidation in the United States. The measure faces federal statute questions as a key union gains scale and political influence. Washington reports note agricultural extension bills progress with Senate support. Watonga Oklahoma mourns White Antelope, a Cheyenne leader who helped cede tribal lands decades ago.
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Weetern Federation and
Mine Workera
American Plan
Dearer, Cole
Western Federation of Miners
United Mine Workers of America
Disorder in Barcelona Era Leaves Governor Targeted
In 1909 an assassination attempt wounded Benor Onscrio alarda the Barcelona governor amid unrest. Escaped exiles and a citizen death followed as authorities pursue three Convicted suspects while a broader inquiry targets penitentiary inmates and hospital totals in South Carolina.
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Marcelons
Benor Onscrio
Alarda
Barcelons
Cenvieta
Columbia
D. C
Gaw
Cole L. Wanee
South Carolina
Pricamore
State Hospital
Se bey one atic Teme Se bey one different retircede
The text reports varied items from forest service advisories in Utah and Washington to a Navy yard death note. It mentions Forest Supervisor T H Cleche and efforts to secure grazing permits, plus a premature death claim related to Mark Twain. A Utah alfalfa seed price decline and cost report for 1000 sheep are also noted.
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Utah
T. H. Cleche
Wasetch National Forest
Forest Service
Helena
Mark Twals
Klepetko
South America
W. McClure
Byuto
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