Storms cripple Mobile harbor and rail lines
Squally weather and a southeast storm near Mobile damaged rail tracks telephone and telegraph wires and roads. In the stream at Government street two schooners the General Whiting and the Dora Allison lay piled up while the Mary Hale wreck hull and the river steamer Beaver plus a concrete barge and mud remained stranded.
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Mobile
Government Street
General Whiting
Dora Allison
Mary Hale
Beaver
St. Anthony Street
Cooke endorses scientific management for city hall
Chicago speech by Morris E. Cooke outlines a plan to remove politics from municipal work. He envisions doubled efficiency in fire and police, the board of public works empowered, and merit-based promotions tied to civil service examinations. He argues wages and productivity should rise together.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Morris E. Cooke
Rote
Philadelphia
Cooke
Western Ecoomic Society
Fire and Police
Board of Public Works
Blankenburg
Fire
Fire and Police Departments
Civil Service Commission
Marshall
Funds and Supplies Bush Earthquake Sufferers Aid
Government authorities and the public in Guatemala respond with funds and relief supplies after the March earthquake in the Santa Rosa department. The tremor caused buildng damage and loss of life in Cui and Cuilapa with reports suggesting Izalco origin and strong aftershocks heard in nearby regions.
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Associated Press
Guatemala
Cui
Department
Santa Rosa
Cuilapa
Izalco
Sallor
Sir Thomas Lipton Plans Reply To Club Challenge
Sir Thomas Lipton will respond through the Royal Club next week to the challenge noted in this terse dispatch. The reports indicate a formal reply is expected as part of ongoing discussions regarding the contest.
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Thomas Lipton
Associated, Press
Tondon
Thomason
Storm Injuries Report From Nashville Area
A Nashville dispatch lists numerous storm injuries in McNairy and nearby counties. It names Mrs Bud Cox and Miss Lessie Nixon among the injured, plus multiple residents of McNairy Culleoka and Glendale, with several serious wounds and at least two suspected fatalities near Ewing Station.
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Nashville
Tenn
Bud Cox
McNairy County
Elise Stanfield
McMahon
Lessie Nixon
John Price
Josh Davis
McNairty County
Tinie McCaskey
Miss Nixon
Hooper
John T. Williamson
Columbia
James R. Williamson
Culleoka
Charles S. Williamson
Will Craig
M.S. Smith
Beatty
John Chadwell
Glendale
Mitchell
E. J. Park
T. H. Park
Mat F. Ballenfant
Wallace Dugger
Marshall Reeves
Ewing Station
Marshall County
Emma Thorne
Glenn Threadgill
Lexington
Threadgill
Seven Teenagers Killed in Western Tennessee Storm
Memphis dispatch reports seven teen fatalities across five Tennessee counties and similar deaths in seven Mississippi counties. Injury counts are unavailable. property damage from the Thursday storm is noted.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Mississippi
Conn Defends Woman Arrested In San Francisco Case
Owen D. Conn the "gentleman burglar" faces grand jury as Milwaukee police seek a probe into Mrs. Kate Pope. Conn says Pope acted innocently and had no criminal connection after learning his crimes. Pope had been arrested yesterday in Detroit.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Owen D. Conn
Grand
Mooney
Kate Pope
Detroiter Nurse Detained In Conn Burglary Case
Mrs. Katherine W. Pope a 37 year old nurse is detained at Detroit police headquarters in connection with the Owen D Conn burglary case in San Francisco. She admits acquaintance with Conn and says she will waive extradition and return if needed there. She left San Francisco February 27 and says she did not know Mrs. Mabel Clark son detained in Milwaukee.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Katherine W. Pope
Owen D. Conn
San Francisco
Conn
Mabel Clarkson
Milwaukee
Mother's Money Went for Jewels for Actress
Jack Stevens son of Mrs. Mary Stevens a Washington widow was arrested as he tried to enter the home of Miss Aylis Carlson Edith Duchl to seek consent to marry. Detectives produced a DC Supreme Court requisition charging him with forging his mother's name on a $75 check. Carlson says Stevens spent at least $10,000 on her in six weeks and wore diamonds and jewels. He is twenty.
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Associated Press
New York
Jack Stevens
Mary Stevens
Washington, D. C
Aylis Carlson
Edith Duchl
Brooklyn
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Young Pass Christian Man Becomes Mississippi Lawyer
Hid well Adam of Pass Christian aged nineteen becomes the youngest to pass the Mississippi bar exam. Emancipation granted by Chancellor Stevens after court approval. He graduated Pass Christian high school at eighteen entered Millsaps College and will graduate with the senior law class next June. He is KE. J. Adam Jr.’s brother, a Harrison County attorney, who also passed the exam young.
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Gulfport
Miss
Hidwell Adam
Pass Christian
J. J. Adam
Mississippi
Chancery Court
Stevens
Pass Christian High School
Jackson
Milsaps College
KE. J. Adam, Jr
Harrison County
Washington police defend conduct before senate panel
Washington March 15. A further defense of the conduct of the Washington police was presented before the senate sub committee investigating the disorder at the March 3 suffrage parade. Captains in charge of the marching sections were questioned about the disturbances.
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Washington
Senate
Man on Sickbed Confesses Embezzlement Tale
Charles A. Baker former Crocker National Bank assistant cashier admitted to embezzling about 200000 dollars. He spoke from his sickbed with two US marshal guards nearby detailing how stock gamblers and financiers influenced his actions and how he fell into gambling to try to make up losses.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
Charles A. Baker
The
Crocker National Bank
United States Marshal's Office
Baker
Remarkable Statement From Condemned Man in Ossining
John Mulraney, to be executed Monday for the Paddy the Priest murder, writes Governor Sulzer seeking a sixty day reprieve to present new evidence. He claims innocence and says he was framed by the police after a whiskey intoxication led to a signed confession.
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Associated Press
Ossining
N. Y
John Mulraney
Paddy
New York
Sulzer
Underworld
Many Firms Rally For Item's Big Cash Prize
The Item's Merchants and Manufacturers Prize Selling Contest invites votes in exchange for labels trade marks and sales slips. The first prize is 1000 cash plus a 1000 library a 750 piano a Victrola and other prizes totaling 4000. Neal the contest manager can explain details at The Item office by phone 52 with no purchase required.
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Neal
Bell
Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi Sunday
Forecasts show fair to night and Sunday with a cold wave tonight. Alabama and Mississippi expect generally fair conditions, with moderate to brisk northwest winds and temperatures around 36 degrees.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas gubernatorial dispute moves to court
In Arkansas, Senator J M Futrell filed mandamus to force the secretary of state to recognize him over Governor W K Oldham. Futrell and Oldham each run gubernatorial headquarters in the state house as court battles proceed in Pulaski County.
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Litle Hock
Ark
Arkansas
J. M. Futrell
State Senate
Mandamus
Secretary of State
Futrell
W. Kk. Oldham
Oldham
State House
Pulaski County
State Supreme Court
Tillman Won’t Press Claim on Senate Chair
Senator Tillman announced he would not continue his bid for the chairmanship of the appropriation committee. He planned to offer a resolution to replace Senator Martin but would yield if the caucus rejected it. The steering committee led by Senator Kern prepared the full Democratic committee lists after a week of contentious work.
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Washington
Tillman
Senate
Martin
Kern
Negro Fatally Burned at Gulfport Naval Stores Plant
Gulfport Miss March 16 William Mitchell a negro laborer at the Yarran naval stores plant five miles north of Gulfport was fatally burned Friday afternoon when gases from an automatic sprayer exploded and set him ablaze his clothes burned off before assistance could reach him Mitchell was en route to New Orleans when the accident occurred
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Gulfport
Miss
William Mitchell
Yarran
Mitchell
Orleans
Hawthorne Mining Fraud Trial Ends with Convictions
In New York on March 15 the Hawthorne mining trial ended with three convicts Julian Hawthorne Dr William J Morton and Albert Freeman and acquittal for Josiah Quincy once Boston mayor and assistant secretary of state. Sentences ranged from five years to one year and one day.
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Associated Press
New York
Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne
William J. Morton
Albert Freeman
Josiah Quincy
Boston
Cleveland
Morton
Freeman
Quincy
United States
Mayer
Atlanta
Nathaniel Hawthorne
W. J. Morton
W. T. G. Morton
Railroaders Plan Dissolution For UP SP Merger
The Associated Press reports modified dissolution plans for the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger were to be presented to Judges Sanborn Adams and Smith in St. Louis. Union Pacific chairman Robert Lovett and Southern Pacific chairman Julius Kruttschnitt attended with their lawyers. Opposing views were voiced by Western Pacific counsel F W M Cutcheon. plans were filed February 24.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
United States Circuit
Sanborn, Adams and Smith
District Court of Tah
Robert S. Lovett
Julius Kruttschnitt
Wickersham
F. W. M. Cutcheon
Western Pacific
Gulfport Preparations for Mobile Train Poster Visit
Gulfport hosts over a hundred Mobile posters arriving by the Bay St. Louis Mobile train Sunday night. They will be entertained at the Great Southern Hotel with a 7 30 arrival and a dinner served at 9 o'clock.
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Gulfport
New Bay St. Louis
Great Southern
Last Mormon Relic in Missouri Gone
The destruction of a cabin five miles north of Kingston ends the last building at Far West, once the Mormon church headquarters site. The crop of plans and preparations hints at a much larger city once envisioned there.
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Missouri
Associated
Kingston
Mormon Church
Murder May Be Charged In Sangamon Street Fire Case
Chicago March 15. The arson trust investigation links four deaths in a September 1911 Sangamon Street fire to possible incendiary action. State's Attorney Johnson received startling confessions via John Daniels and Ben ink. Fugitive David Korshak, now in China, could face extradition on murder charges if connected to the blaze.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Sangamon Street
Johnson
John Daniels
Benink
China
David Korshak
Korshak
Strenuous Day as Wilson Faces Appointments and Proclaims Policy
President Wilson conducts a busy day at the White House amid plans for an extra congressional session and public works. Officials like Dudley Field Malone and William F. McCombs are named as potential appointees while clerical, civic, and legal figures visit. The afternoon includes meetings with the commerce court, court of claims, and twenty-five Washington clergy members.
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Washington
White House
Wilson
Congress
Dudley Field Malone
New Yo
Customs Court
William F. McCombs
Carl E. Grammer
The
Indian Rights Association
J. Horace McFarland
Richard B. Watrous
American Civic Association
Olney Declines Offer to Be Ambassador to Great Britain
Boston's Richard Olney declines President Wilson's offer of ambassador to Great Britain. He cites family health and age concerns. Mrs Olney is in poor health and he wishes to remain in this country. Speculation follows about alternative candidates, including Charles W Eliot.
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Associated Press
Washington
Richard Olney
Boston
Wilson
Great Britain
White House
Olney
Tumulty
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Eliot
Taft
Hyde's Fate With Jury in Reopened Murder Trial
In Kansas City on March 15 Dr B G C Hyde faced a third trial for the murder of Company officer Thomas Sumed. Deliberations lasted over six hours before the jury retired.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
del Tions
B. GC. Hyde
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Mobile and
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Dope
Washington Police
Gov
Madero
Francisco Madero, JR
Mondragon
Mexico
Ky Associated Press
Naval Stores
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
Biclan
Scheffers
George Graham Rice
St. James
Hyde
Jury
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