English Mine Strike Near End As Vote Favors Return
London officials report miners mostly back returning to work under the minimum wage bill while a strike may end within 24 hours. Albert Stanley warns a two thirds pro strike is unlikely and urges resumption, as Cannock Chase miners prepare to return to pits. Engineers on fifty eastern railroads show strong strike support, with an April 10 vote due. Philadelphia notes more idle miners as railroads ship coal from anthracite regions.
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London
Sandringham
Cannock Chase
Staffordshire
Albert Stanley
M. P
Midlands Miners’ Federation
Great Britain
Stanley
Miners’ Federation
New York
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Engineers’ Committee
Philadelphia
Arrest Allen Relatives in Hillsville Va
Detective scouts pursuing Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards arrested Jordan Edwards, a kinsman, for aiding the escape by maintaining and secreting both outlaws. The case charges a felony under Virginia law and notes the clan’s relatives often supplied food to the fugitives.
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Hillsville
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Jordan Edwards
Allen
Koombana wreckage seals fate of missing ship
Wreckage recovered off the northwest coast of Western Australia confirms the Koombana disaster. The British steamer carrying 50 passengers and 80 crew went missing during a late March typhoon. The vessel, of 2182 tons net, was built in Glasgow in 1900.
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Perth
Western Australia
Glasgow
Ice Breaker Clears Channel From Port Arthur to Lake Superior
Ice breaker James Whalen from Port Arthur is cutting a channel through Lake Superior ice on April 4 to aid early grain movement. The channel runs fifteen miles out from the port toward open water.
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Lake Superior
Duluth
James Whalen
Port Arthur
Women Lead Direct Market Purchases In New York Rally
Thousands of New York housewives from the 160000 member Housewives league flood Washington Market in carriages taxis and on foot. Guides help unfamiliar buyers navigate stalls while butchers and grocers dress for the event. Mayor Gaynor visits as brides and suburban delegates shop in a historic market day.
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New York
Housewives’ League
Washington Market
Washington
Gotham
Gaynor
Wilde’s Son Edits New Review in Paris
Paris reports the first issue of an eccentric magazine named Mainant has appeared. Arthur Craven, described as Wilde’s nephew and one of his two sons, edits and manages the publication. Craven reportedly changed his name with his brother after Wilde’s prison condemnation. The issue contains a detailed piece on Wilde said to be written by his son.
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Paris
Arthur Craven
Oscar Wilde
Craven
Wilde
Taft Confers on Arbitration Treaties With Peace Groups
President Taft met with four major world peace representatives to discuss arbitration pacts with Great Britain and France. The talks occur as the senate amended the treaties, with a decision pending Secretary Knoxs return from Central and South America. Representatives included Bartholdt Burton Marburg and Holt.
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Washington
Taft
Great Britain
France
Senate
Knox
Bartholdt
Missouri
Interparliamentary Union
Senator Burton
Ohio
American Peace Society
Theodore
Sperry Prince Honored Among Paris Legion of Honor Officers
Paris reports Prince Andre Poniatowski husband of Miss Sperry of San Francisco named an officer of the Legion of Honor. He serves as president of a bank on Rue Pillet. The princess Sperry is daughter of Admiral Sperry.
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Paris
Journal
Legion of Honor
Prince Andre Poniatowski
Miss Sperry
San Francisco
Rue Pillet
Admiral Sperry
Johnson Faces Smuggling Prosecution Over Diamond Necklace
Chicago April 4 Jack Johnson world boxing champion is to be prosecuted by the U S government for smuggling unless a 9600 penalty is paid for secretly bringing a diamond necklace valued at 6000 into the United States from Europe without customs duty. The charge cites his return from King George coronation in London.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
United States
Europe
Treasury Department
George
London
Governor Osborn Injured in Woods Fall
Governor Osborn slipped on a snow covered path in southeast Lansing and fractured the instep of his left foot. He hobble to a nearby factory a mile and a half away and telephoned for help.
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Osborn
Lansing
Mich
Governor Osborn
Sailor Nichols Confession Keyed to Dixie Wireless
Wireless from the Dixie cruiser shows Seth Nichols, who confessed to killing Dr. Helen Knabe in Indianapolis in 1911, was aboard the Dixie in the gulf on the murder date, contradicting his claim. The report undermines Nichols statement and places him on ship during the act.
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Pensacola
Fla
Seth Nichols
Portsmouth
N. H
Helen Knabe
Indianapolis
Ind
Dixie
Nichols
Gulf
Miss Pankhurst Sails Home From Lecture Tour
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst daughter of Mrs Emma line Pankhurst sails for home on the Mauretania from New York after a lecture tour in the eastern states and Canada since January 11. She held a midnight reception in her stateroom surrounded by suffragettes before departure.
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New York
Sylvia Pankhurst
Emmaline Pankhurst
Mauretania
Pankhurst
Canada
Clabby Defeats Mehegan for Welterweight Title in Sydney
Jimmy Clabby the American boxer and Australian welterweight champion won on points from Mehegan the light weight champion in a twenty round contest at the stadium in Sydney on April 4.
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Jim Clabby
Sydney
Australia
Jimmy Clabby
Mehegan
Doctor on Trial for Murder Opens in Mich. Court
Raul Axe April 4. The trial of Dr. Robert A. McGregor begins in Mich. for the alleged murder of Scyrel Sparling by poison.
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Raul Axe
Mich
Robert A. McGregor
Scyrel Sparling
Tubes and yards drive fashion costs cited by cotton leaders
Washington reports that twelve yards of cotton goods per woman are paid by fashion to sustain the tube skirt and minimal undergarments. George W. Neville of the New York Cotton Manufacturers' Association claims fashion authorities now demand more fabric, noting the mathematical estimate of fabric cut per adult woman and its impact on finished-goods demand.
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Washington
George W. Neville
New York Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Neville
Mr. Neville
River flood relief grows with new federal aid line
The House appropriations committee weighs a 250000 emergency grant to aid Mississippi valley flood victims beyond 350000 already set for levees. National Red Cross plans distribute 500 to Kentucky and Missouri survivors as vast inland floodwaters threaten Memphis and New Orleans.
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National Red Cross
Kentucky
Missouri
Washington
House Appropriation Committee
Mississippi Valley
James
Russell
Red Cross
Mississippi
Pit
Memphis
Gulf
New Orleans
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Carrollton
Louisville
Cumberland
Paducah
Weather Bureau
Vicksburg
Ata Bat Rouge
Viity
Natchez
Miss
Baton Rouge
Bell Urges Uniform Alphabet for International Speech
Alexander Graham Bell urged the House Foreign Affairs Committee to consider a universal alphabet to standardize pronunciation. He argued current spellings misrepresent sounds, complicating global communication as English grows as the commercial language. Bell noted the need for an interior secretary inquiry into an international agreement on a uniform system.
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Washington
Alexander Graham Bell
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Bell
Secretary of the Interior
Professor Bell
Committee On Foreign Relations
Engineer blamed for Kinmundy wreck in ICC report
The Interstate Commerce Commission assigns responsibility to engineer Stuart for the Kinmundy wreck on January 22 on the Sinois Central. The report notes Kinmundy was a key night telegraph office with trains spaced ten minutes apart and says the engineer should have approached under control to avoid the collision and deaths including J.T. Hara han and other officials.
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Washington
Kinmundy
Sinois Central Railroad
J.T. Harahan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Stuart
Twenty Seven Black Hand Stowaways Detected in Boston
Twenty seven Italian stowaways on the White Star steamer Cretic, arriving from Naples, were nabbed in Boston. Information from Italy led to the roundup, with knives and revolvers found concealed on some suspects. Also, the US protected cruiser Albany departed Amoy for Olongapo after Swatow passage.
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Boston
White Star Line
Cretic
Naples
Italy
Amoy
China
United States
Albany
Swatow
Has
Olongapo
Philippines
Lincoln School Pupils Save Pennies Reach $1600
Three hundred pupils at Lincoln school Indiana Harbor started saving last September. The school savings bank reports penny deposits totaling nearly $1,600, showing strong student thrift and community effort.
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Hammond
Ind
Lincoln
Indiana Harbor
School Savings Bank
School overdressing drew attention from education bureau
Washington April 4. The problem of older high school pupils dressing too is attacked by the bureau of education in a circular written by J H Painter Dayton O It is pointed out that a vile arising from overdress are two fold the more serious being the tens ency of children of poor families leave school because they are to dress like more favored mates.
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Washington
Bureau of Education
J. H. Painter
Dayton, O
Two Yankee Horses Win at St Cloud Race Meeting
Paris April 4. Two American owned horses triumphed at St Cloud. W. Vanderbilt’s Hightly won the Prix Sh monian and Thomas P. Thorne’s Monsieur Guerin captured the Prix de Maredi.
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Paris
St. Cloud
Vanderbilt
Hightly
Monian
Thomas P. Thorne
Monsieur Guerin
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