Parliament Building Fire in Ottawa Kills Six
Canada’s Parliament building on Parliament Hill in Ottawa was destroyed by fire believed to be caused by a bomb or infernal machine. At least six people died and many were injured. several MPs and civilians are among the missing or harmed. The blaze raged six hours before being brought under control, with soldiers saving thousands of library volumes.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mme. Bray
H. A. Bray
Quebec
George Tanguay
Executive Council
Mme. Morin
Louis Morin
St. Joseph de Beauce
Que
William S. Loggie
Northumberland
N. B
Frederick F. Pardee
House of Commons
Sarnia
Ont
Parliament Hill
Martin Burrell
Sir Robert Borden
Mme. Sevigny
Miss Tag
Atlantic City
N. J
Overbrook
Pacific
Mount Vernon Avenues
Richard Mott
Paul Hendricks
Chambersburg, Pa
Child Labor Conference Debates South Textiles Welfare
In Asheville on February 4 the twelfth annual Child Labor Conference discusses a Southern Textile Association telegram questioning education and relief for mill children. Owen R. Lovejoy explains the committee's funding and aims, noting the vast public school budget and mothers' pension efforts, and describes Keating bill scope for tenement shops amid 13,000 child workers.
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Asheville
N. C
National Child Labor Committee
Owen R. Lovejoy
Southern Textile Association
Maade
South
New York
Lovejoy
United States
National Committee
Mrs Shevlin Among Richest Women in America
Widow of Yale football coach becomes one of the wealthiest women as nearly 20 million dollar estate and 1.5 million dollar life insurance are settled on her.
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Yale
America
Cotton Rate Case Hearing Features Legal Clashes
Repeated clashes between attorneys marked the second day of the Mobile cotton rate case hearing before Examiner Karl G. Gartner in federal court. The Interstate Commerce Commission reopened the case after Mobile Chamber of Commerce complained that southern railroads discriminated against Mobile in favor of Savannah for cotton export rates. Witness W B Wright of Central of Georgia explained the railroad offered no defense previously due to lack of testimony and mobile terminal control. attorney for the Chamber pressed continuing arguments.
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Mobile
Karl G. Gartner
Federal
Interstate Commerce
Commission
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
South
Savannah
Wright
W.B. Wright
Central of Georgia
M. T. Calloway
Alabama
Birchmore
Chamber of Commerce
War at a Glance notes on aerial raids and evacuations
Berlin denies Lusitania illegality. Turks allegedly evacuate Erzerum in the Caucasus per Novoe Vremya. Austrian airmen claim raids on Durazzo and Avlona. Eastern and western fronts see frequent air operations with Russian raids on Buczacz and Volhynia. A second Zeppelin raid on Saloniki is thwarted by allied batteries.
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Germany
Berlin
Erzerum
Caucasus
Petrograd
Novoe Vremya
Durazzo
Avlona
Albania
Balkan
Vienna
Buczacz
Galicia
Nu. Volhynia
Saloniki
Athens
British collier Franz Fischer sunk by raiding Zeppelins
The collier Franz Fischer left Hartlepool Monday afternoon and was sunk at sea by a Zeppelins raid on England. Thirteen crew members, including the captain, drowned.
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London
Franz Fischer
Hartlepool
England
Morgenthau Heads Home From Turkey to the United States
American ambassador Henry Morgenthau and his son arrived in Berlin en route to the United States. Morgenthau plans to stay four days or two before departing to New York via Rotterdam or Copenhagen. Smallpox also reported at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Berlin
London
Henry Morgenthau
Constantinople
United States
M Morgenthau
New York
Rotterdam
Copenhagen
R G Cobb clarifies statements on Mobile rail rates
The Mobile Item reports Cobb says he did not claim all ten thousand rates vital to Mobile were under fire. He states the dispute concerns potential changes to thousands of rates affecting destinations North East and abroad, not rates from every cotton point. He cites I C C rulings and notes some East West lines were discriminatory while North South lines largely remained reasonable.
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Mobile
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi
Tennessee
Alabama
R. G. Cobb
Chamber of Commerce
Register
Cobb
Mr. Cobb
Ala
Mobile Publication
Mobile Item
Messrs
Blank
Walter
I. C. Cc
Southeast
Louisville and Nashville
Ohio
New Orleans
Chicago
Mobile and Ohio
Savannah
Want Men Taught for Foreign Work
Dr. Glen Levin Swiggett of the University of Tennessee chairs a 15 member committee named by Commissioner Claxton to study how to establish schools and college courses to prepare young men for careers in the U S foreign service. The panel will work in the United States and abroad and includes leaders from Stanford Tulane Harvard and other institutions plus business figures.
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Washington
Glen Levin Swiggett
University of Tennessee
Commissioner of Education
Claxton
Foreign Service
Dr. Swiggett
E. D. Adams
Leland Stanford Junior University
Morton A. ‘Aldrich
Tulane University
John ‘Clausen
Crocker National Bank
San Francisco
Cal
William Fairley
Brooklyn
N. Y
J.S. Fish
Chicago, IL
Edwin F. Gay
Harvard University
Appam Prize Row Forces U S Germany Clash
Secretary Lansing said the United States will follow the Prussian American treaty to govern the Appam case and only interpret the treaty terms notably how long the liner may stay in American waters. Britain demands the ship’s return as tensions rise over prize rules and possible recapture.
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Washington
Lansing
United States
Appam
Germany
Virginia Capes
Hampton Roads
Cecil Spring-Rice
Great Britain
Germany refuses illegal sinking label in Lusitania note
Berlin reports no admission that the Lusitania sinking was illegal and that Germany will not concede illegality in its note. The eight word formula omits the term illegal, aiming to satisfy Washington without yielding on the central issue.
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Berlin
London
Associated Press
Germany
Lusitania
von Bernstorff
United States
Wilson
Lansing
Washington
Zimmerman
Alfred Zimmerman
Russians Capture Erzerum Evacuated by Turks
Petrograd reports from Novoe Vremya that Turkish forces evacuated Erzerum a fortress on the Caucasian front. Berlin dispatches note Austro Hungarian air raids on Durazzo and Aviona. Prussian casualty lists for January total 2 337 096 with airmen and generals named. Zeppelin L 19 damaged off North Sea with crew survivors.
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Petrograd
London
Novoe Vremya
Erzerum
Caucasian
Berlin
Vienna
Durazzo
Aviona
Italien
Daily Mail
Copenhagen
Bavaria
Saxony
Luxemburg
Jaeger
Russian Losses Put At Three Million In War
Copenhagen dispatch says Russia estimates its total casualties at 3,000,000 and reports 1,000,000 German and Austrian prisoners moved to interior Russia or Siberia.
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London
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Russia
Siberia
Turkish Campaign Fails in Cauca sus near Erzerum
German sources acknowledge setback in the Caucasus as heavy fighting rages ten miles south of Erzerum. Turks sent reinforcements from Trebizond but were halted and compelled to retreat. The dispatch reports eighty wounded Turkish officers and five thousand wounded men arriving at Trebizond.
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London
Cauccsus
Amsterdam
Erzerum
Trebizond
Austro Austrian torpedo destroyers bombarded Italian lines
Four Austrian torpedo destroyers aided by a cruiser bombarded the San Vito Chietina and Ortona railroad south of Ancona at 7 this morning. Italian coast batteries returned fire and forced the ships to retreat with only slight damage reported. A separate note says a Zeppelin raid on Saloniki was driven off by British batteries.
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Ancona
Italy
Paris
San Vito, Chietina
Ortona
Here
Saloniki
Athens
London
The
Hestia
Chalcidice Peninsula
Alabama and Mississippi Weather Forecast Tonight Through Saturday
Fair conditions in Alabama and Mississippi tonight and Saturday with warmer temperatures. Fresh easterly winds expected as a new warm spell moves in from the Gulf.
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Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Japanese liner Daijin Maru sinks in collision. 160 dead
The Japanese liner Daijin Maru was sunk Wednesday night in a collision with the steam ship Linan near Shanghai. One hundred sixty lives were lost and twenty-one persons were saved. The Linan, badly damaged, is returning to Hong Kong.
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Shanghai
Hong Kong
Congress Deliberates Philippine Bill and Defense Issues
The day in Congress opened at noon with resumed debate on the Philippine bill. Lt Governor Eshleman urged relief for oil prospectors before the public lands committee. Senator Thomas denounced the Canadian parliament building destruction as incendarism. Senator Works challenged the president's defense campaign before the military committee. Indian appropriation bill debated. Governor Goethals spoke on Panama Canal reopening timing as slides complicate plans. Major General Scott and Rear Admiral Blue testified on national defense before their committees.
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Eshleman
California
Public Lands Committee
Thomas
Works
Military Committee
Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Appropriations Committee
Scott
Blue Besore
Naval Committee
Barrett and Turner funeral notices with details
Barrett Annie Barrett wife of Richard A Barrett entered into rest February 3 1916 funeral from residence 812 Palmetto street tomorrow Saturday morning at 9 o clock and from St Vincent s church requiem mass at 9 30 o clock interment Catholic Cemetery Murphysboro Ill and New Orleans papers to copy Turner widow of Noel Turner entered into rest February 4 1916 funeral from residence of her son W Turner 1 North Monterey tomorrow Saturday morning at 11 o clock interment Magnolia Cemetery Lost a black silk scarf between Br iton and St Emanuel streets return to Glass Co
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Canada Parliament
Mem
Bers
Thomas Shevlin
Casimir Tag
Hancock Street
Carolina Tag
Fire Department
Morgenthau
Turkey
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Havana
Ralph G. Cobb
Britain
Kaiser
Zeppelin
North Sea
Grimsby
William Martin
King Stephen
Nes
Ameland
Hollum
Senate
Desbate
St. Emanuel
Glass & Co
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