Women march for equal suffrage in New York parade
Seventeen thousand women of all ages marched up Fifth Avenue New York in a silent disciplined parade for equal suffrage. The event drew immense applause and showcased a diverse line of participants including students veterans physicians and notable marchers such as Miss Josephine Beiderhase and Mrs C P Belmont. The demonstrators celebrated progress even as the ballot remained elusive.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Cause
Josephine Beiderhase
Womens Political Union
Eleano Brannan
Torras crevasse breach floods Pointe Coupe area in Louisiana
A 1400 foot breach in Torras crevasse releases a wall of water eight to ten feet deep and half a mile wide, threatening New Roads and Pointe Coupe parish. Townspeople rush exit preparations as farmers bring livestock away from Fordoche and refugees swell. Looters in skiffs rob homes as families, including a mother with sixteen children, seek relief.
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Pointe Coupe Parish
Abolition of Commerce Court Passed by House Vote
Washington May 9 The house voted 120 to 49 to abolish the court of commerce. Many Republicans voted with the Democrats. Cases pending before the court under the abolition provision would be transferred to the federal courts.
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Washington
The
Society for Protection of the Alleged Insane Forms
New York May 9 The Society for Protection of the Alleged Insane applies for incorporation under New York law. The group seeks to prevent sane people from being detained as insane and cites cases where individuals were pronounced insane, sent to institutions, and discharged after legal fights prompted by clergy lawyers and physicians.
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New York
Society For Protection of
Brewery Strike Expands as Non-Union Drivers Walk Out
Kansas City May 9 A brewery strike spreads as non union drivers deliver beer and union bartenders may join the walkout. Saloons stop serving schooners and switch to younger, smaller portions.
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Kansas City
Turks Deny Rhodes Victory Claim
Rome reports an official note refutes a Rhodes governor dispatch claiming a Turkish victory and 1000 Italians captured. It states the governor and secretary are prisoners of the Italians and will be sent to Italy.
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Rome
Rhodes
Italy
Gomez Held Prisoner at Juarez Customs House
Emilio Vasquez Gomez is reported prisoner at the Juarez customs house. A guard was thrown about the building and Orozco is not expected to confirm Gomez as a prisoner.
Police Capture Eagle After Fight Near Golden Gate
San Francisco dispatch reports two policemen treated for wounds from an American eagle near the Golden Gate. The bird was clubbed into submission and taken into custody after the encounter yesterday.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Ark
Morrocan Revolt Says Markesh Suburbs Rise in Violence
In Casa Blanc Morocco on May 9 tribesmen in the Markesh suburbs rose in revolt injuring and killing officials as the Calif was assassinated and government residences were looted and pillaged by rebels.
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Casa Blanc
Morocco
Markesh
Calif
German Ambassador to Britain Resigns
Berlin May 9 Count Paul Wolff Metternich resigned as German ambassador to Great Britain.
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Berlin
Paul Wolff Metternich
Great Britain
Wyoming in Taft column reports split Wyoming delegations
Roosevelt gaining lead in late returns from Texas. Bear Lake County selects a solid Taft delegation though uninstructed. Wyoming counties thirteen choose Taft delegates for Chicago. Democrats instruct three for Clark and Washington. Taft state convention in Cheyenne May 13. President Roosevelt arrives for a 24 hour stay and then proceeds to Princeton, New Jersey.
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Roosevelt
Texas
Bear Lake County
Taft
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Chicago
Clark
Bulkheads Left Open at Titanic Inquiry
London says four watertight bulkheads were opened after being closed from the bridge to allow engine crew access to pumps in boiler room No 5. Thomas Dillon testified he swam for about twenty minutes. he saw thousands of men but no women. J Bruce Ismay’s conduct was discussed. steward James Johnson called it exemplary.
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London
Thomas Dillon
Dillon
J. Bruce Tamay
James Johnson
Johnson
Ismay
Texas Convention Returns with Wilson Leading Taft
Dallas report says May 9 results keep Wilson ahead in Texas with Taft far behind. The state convention tally shows Wilson sweeping the state and maintaining a clear lead over Taft.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Woodrow Wilson
Poseever
Taft
Bear Lake For Taft Delegates Elected At Paris Convention
Republican county convention in Paris chose ten Taft men as delegates to the Lewiston state convention May 16. Delegates were uninstructed though Taft administration endorsed and W E Borah praised for senate work. In county phase by elections Taft led Roosevelt 170 to 95 and La Follette 3. County endorses Lincoln McKinley Taft and pledges allegiance to the party.
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Paris
Lewiston
Idaho
Taft
W. E. Borah
Senate
Roosevelt
LaFollette
Bear Takes
Lincoln
Striking Miners Picket Mountains Surrounding Minersville
Miners from the idle anthracite industry form picket lines along the mountains near Minersville Pennsylvania warning workers to stay away from collieries. Police dispersed pickets near Mount Carmel and Centralia and arrested a man after a rock throwing incident. An attempted disruption of a Reading freight train at Locust Gap failed.
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Pottsville
Minersville
Lehigh Valley Coal & Tron
Mount Carmel
Centralia
Locust Gap
Reading
Death Toll of the American Railroads
An Interstate Commerce Commission bulletin records 242 killed and 4706 injured in U S train accidents in Q4 1911, a drop of 6 deaths but 77 more injuries than the same period in 1910.
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Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
May Wheat Closes Higher in Chicago Trade
May wheat closed at 1.18 in Chicago trading on May 9 as market activity reflected modest gains amid thin demand and nearby supply concerns.
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Chicago
National respect voiced for Taft and senators in homestead bills
A national administration praise emphasizes Taft’s constructive statesmanship and a firm people’s stance. It lauds United States Senators Borah and Heyburn, especially Borah’s West advocacy and efforts on the three year homestead bill and the enlarged home loan bill recently enacted.
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Taft
United States
W. F. Borah
W. B. Heyburn
Borah
West
Congress
Bennett Hl. Young Elected Commander in Chief
Bennett Hl. Young of Louisville Kentucky was chosen commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans in Macon Georgia on May 9. He leads the Army of Tennessee and succeeds the previous head in a ceremony marked by ceremony and tribute to Confederate history.
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Macon
Bennett Hl. Young
Louisville
Army of Tennessee
United Confederate Veterans Today
Big Gold Strike Reported in Alaska Creek Find
Fairbanks Alaska May 9 a mail carrier from Koyu kuk reported a rich gold strike on Hammond creek with thirty thousand dollars worth of nuggets recovered yesterday in a major mining find.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Koyukuk
Hammond Creek
Women Seek Licensure to Preach at Methodist Conference
Memorials to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church flood in from Minneapolis in May. Delegates debate amending paragraph 260 to leave amusements to individual conscience and consider women preaching. The church previously forbade women ministers' ordination.
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General Conference of Methodist Church
Minneapolis
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Supreme Court Hears Life Sentence for Murderer in Missouri
In Jefferson City Missouri the state supreme court ruled Walt er Dipley must serve a life term in the Missouri penitentiary for the murder of Stanley Ketehel, middleweight champion. Goldie Smith, already serving a life term, was discharged as evidence against her deemed insufficient for conviction.
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Jefferson Ty
Walter
Dipley
Stanley Ketehel
Missouri
Supreme Court
Goldie Smith
Corviet
Arbitrators to form board for engineers demands
Danny Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio and P H Morrissey former Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen president expect to meet in New York today to appoint five more arbitrators to form a seven member board to hear the engineers demands.
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New York
Danny Willard
Baltimore & Ohio
Eastern Railroads
P. Ht. Morrissey
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Rebels Move South In Mexican Conflict Report
Fecalon Mexico May 0 Orozco's rebel army advances southward with no skirmish reported. Federals are not believed to be far south, though scouts note a gradual northward Fed advance from Torreon.
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Fecalon
Mexico
Orozco
Here
Torreon
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