Taft vetoes Dillingham Nagel backs literacy test clash
President Taft vetoed the Dillingham Arnett immigration bill aimed at a literacy test for immigrants. Secretary Nagel denounced the provision as fallacious, while organized labor supported the measure and opponents pressed for a congressional override slated for next week. Cleveland veto history cited.
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Associated Press
Washington
Taft
Dillingham Arnett
United States
America
Senate
Nagel
House
Dillingham
Simmons
Representative Burnett
Lodge
Organized Labor
Auto Bandit Is Finally Landed
Robert Webb, a notorious automobile bandit and slayer of Patrolman Hart, was captured after a gun battle and hand to hand struggle in Chicago. Officers tracked him from the South Side hideout to a corner rendezvous, where he was pursued, chased through buildings, and finally subdued and jailed. Webb claimed to be elsewhere during the Hart killing and blamed Michael Casella for the shooting.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Robert Webb
Peter Hart
Webb
Hart
Patrick Courtney
St. Louis
Michael Casella
Patrick Lavin
Mobile
Ala
Three Auto Bandits Put Up Game Fight
Police arrested three of five alleged automobile bandits in Los Angeles after a gun battle that left officers with burn powder and torn uniforms. The others, including a woman, escaped with a betrayal by the captured men, police said.
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Auto Bandits
Los Angeles
Cal
Bert
Congress Pays Tribute To Dead Vice President Sherman
Washington February 15 memory of the late Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman honored in the senate chamber the senate and house abandoned legislative work for memorial exercises joined by President Taft cabinet supreme court and diplomats. Taft spoke marking a rare president address in the senate while it was in session drawing crowds and special invitations to many notable leaders.
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Washington
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Senate
Capitol
House
Taft
Cabinet
Supreme Court
Diplomatic Corps
Senate Committee
House of Representatives
Senate Chamber
Root
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Wilson
Marshal
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Levi P. Morton
Champ Clark
O’gorman
Oliver
Gallinger
Kern
LaFollette
Wiliams
Curtis
Martin
Lodge
Thornton
Cummins
Germany takes over monopoly in petroleum sense
Berlin February 15 The proposed German petroleum monopoly was placed under government control by an imperial parliamentary committee amendment. The empire will hold 52 percent of voting shares with the government subscribing one fifth of capital and banks and others the rest. The solution credits the Socialist party for removing the main objection that the bill shifted monopoly from Standard Oil to German banks. The measure now seems assured of final passage.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Standard Oil Company
Socialist Party
Mule Stamps Wagon. Driver Severely Hurt in Runaway
A mule frightened by a whistle toppled a city garbage wagon on Davis avenue near Marinette street and injured driver Frank Morrow, 32, of 212 Lexington Avenue. He was taken to city hospital in serious condition. doctors expected to need another day to assess recovery. Witnesses aided Morrow before Superintendent J. J. Heller called Dr. Jackson to the scene.
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Frank Morrow
Lexington Avenue
J. J. Heller
Davis Avenue
Marinette Street
Morrow
Heller
Dr. Jackson
Rosy Cheeked Young Woman Lands Man in Jail
Frank Butcher, living ten years as Miss Anna Butcher, was jailed after a hair salon incident exposed his disguise when a wig maker noted a facial stubble. He claimed he preferred housework and better pay, though authorities detail his long deception.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Frank Butcher
Anna Butcher
Butcher
Jury expects return in Charleston bribery probe
A special grand jury investigating alleged bribery in the United States senatorial campaign was to resume in Charleston with many legislators at the courthouse ready to testify. Judge Black warned that senators and representatives may refuse to obey jury summons under the law.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
United States
Court House
Neighbors Find Woman Beaten to Death in Oklahoma Home
In Stigler Oklahoma neighbors discovered Mrs Sarah Kendrick dead on the floor of her home believed to have been killed with a hatchet. A small child cried that they were cold and mamma was asleep. The woman may have been dead since Sunday and her two children were nearly starved and frozen.
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Associated Press
Stigler
Okla
Sarah Kendrick
Weather forecast summary for Alabama and Mississippi
Forecasts project generally fair conditions tonight and Sunday. Alabama sees slightly warmer temperatures tonight, while Mississippi notes generally fair weather with a modest warming trend into Sunday. Light variable winds across the region.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Madero Seeks End to Hostilities Amid Mexican Crisis
Reports from Mexico City indicate a special Senate session pressed for Madero's resignation, while officials say he hopes to end the crisis without bloodshed. Rebels bombard the national palace as Diaz refuses armistice without official resignation. civili ans flee areas under fire.
Peage Reigns in West Virginia
In Charleston two National Guard companies guard the capital and 560 soldiers patrol the Kanawha coal field as Governor Glasscock and Adjutant-General Elliott report control. Mother Jones remains at Paint Creek Junction with limited guards. Casualties are incompletely tallied and burial rites proceed quietly in mining camps.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia National Guard
Kanawha Coal Field
Glasscock
Elliott
Kanawha River
Mother Jones
Hansford
Paint Creek Junction
Civil War Veteran Honors Pea Ridge Anniversary
Major George Cooper aged seventy six who fought for the Confederacy marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Pea Ridge in Tennessee by having surgeons remove a bullet from his leg. He has traveled widely since the war and carries papers proving service with Russian, German and French armies.
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Associated Press
UNION
Hill, N. J
George Cooper
Pea Ridge
Tenn
North Hudson
Cooper
Johnson weighing new device for umpires
Ban Johnson announces he will study a Medford inventor’s telescope like device claimed to render perfect ball and strike calls. A letter describes the invention and its potential as a useful field addition for baseball umpires.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ban Johnson
American League
Medford
Mass
League
Appointment of Hamilton Confirms Rumor of Slate
News from Mobile Friday night confirms the appointment of Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile as federal judge at Porto Rico and that a state slate may be filling federal positions. Names linked to the Mobile race for marshal and other posts include Stephen Touart United States marshal Lawrence W. Locklin Monroe county post, J Blocker Thornton postmaster, Bob Neill Selma Journal editor, and candidates for collector of port W H Greenwood Joseph Norville and George Gaillard.
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Mobile
Peter Joseph Hamilton
Porto Rico
Senate
Hamilton
Aeto
Stephen Touart
United States
Lawrence W. Locklin
Monroe County
Port
J. Blocker Thornton
Bob Neill
Selma
Selma Journal
W. H. H. Greenwood
Joseph Norville
George Gaillard
Ite
T. Mca
Mayor orders mass raid under vacrantcy ordinance
A Friday meeting produced an order for a city raid with four hundred arrests expected under the vagran cy ordinance.
Mayor Hints Restriction Might Allow Evacuation
Mayor Laz Schwarz says his order under city code does not imply mass arrests of inmates in the restricted district. He believes residents could be warned and allowed to leave the city before any action. He does not expect the anti-vice crusade to start immediately, adding that his order speaks for itself.
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de la Barra
Diaz
Madero
de la O
Geneveve de la O
Laz Schwarz
Schwarz
Mayor orders strict enforcement of Mobile vice law
Mayor Laz Schwarz directs Police Chief Crenshaw to arrest about 400 inmates of the restricted district under section 1001 of Mobile city code, with bonds or deportation. The move follows a mass meeting seeking removal of houses of ill fame near the University of Alabama Medical School.
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Laz Schwarz
Frank W. Crenshaw
Schwarz
Medical Society
University of Alabama Medical School
Mobile
Harry Pillans
Pat J. Lyons
B. B. Boone
Po-lce
Crenshaw
F. W. Crenshaw
City
City of
Phillans
Lyons
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