Free Trade and Senate Rule Changes Dominate Haste
Washington notes outline Franklin Mace Veagh predicting a distant shift to free trade while tariff walls fall for future generations. Senate may amend rules to allow quorum with fewer than a majority amid anti trust debates. War Department to spend 300000 on automatic pistols. Hitchcock denies resignation rumors. Taft returns to the capital with allies from New York and North Carolina.
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Franklin MaceVeagh
the Treasury
United States
National Metal Trades’ Association
New York
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Stimson
National Guard
Treasury
Mitchell
Congress
Taft
Charles P. Taft
Root
BE. C. Duncan
Republican National Committee
North Carolina
Tobacco Trust
Cummins
Iowa
Pomerone
Ohio
Standard Oil
American Tobacco Companies
Hitchcock
West Side Railroad to Electrify Paris Suburban System
Paris officials report the West Side railroad will electrify its Paris suburban network. The move aims to modernize a busy system with hundreds of daily trains.
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Paris
France
West Side Railroad
Mississippi River flood spreads chaos into Arkansas counties
Flooding from Red Fork breach drives residents from Desha and Chicot counties as water reaches Arkansas City. Levee deterioration at Panther Forest worsens while Yazoo levees hold. Telegraph links to Luxora Osceola and Marked Tree fail as water rises inch by inch.
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Redfork
Arkansas City
Desha
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Arkansas
ER. M. Worthington
Chicot County
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Tensus River
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Senate Passes Two General Supply Bills in Washington
The senate approved the army appropriation of 95 million dollars and the diplomatic and consular bill for 3.79 million. It removed legislative features from the army bill that the house had estimated would save 5 million, aligning the measures with the larger budget plan.
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Washington
House
Inherits Nickel At Time
Louise Remsen left a will after her March 26 death. Harold Remsen receives five cents per installment from a 5 total, with $1000 each to her sister and brother and Degnon Nielson in Copenhagen. The remainder of the 2500 estate goes to her son Carl. The couple's addresses are listed.
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New York
Louise Remsen
Harold Remsen
East Sixty-second Street
East One Hundred and Twenty-second Street
Degnon Nielson
Copenhagen
Carl
Woman voter barred by New Jersey high court ruling
Justice Jethce Kalisch of the New Jersey supreme court holds the 1884 act calling a constitutional convention to decide women’s suffrage establishes the state’s fundamental law and denies women the vote. The ruling arose from a Passaic county registration test case.
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Trenton
N. J
Thce Kalisch
New Jersey Supreme Court
New Jersey
Passaic County
New Bishops Elected in Episcopal Church Here
Rev Herman Page of Chicago was chosen bishop of New Mexico and Rev George Bellers Jr formerly of New Jersey was chosen bishop of South Dakota at the Episcopal house of bishops closing session in the Cathedral of St John the Divine New York. The house has met for two days.
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New York
Herman Page
Chicago
New Mexico
George Bellers, Jr
New Jersey
South Dakota
Episcopal House of Bishops
Royalist Plot Uncovered in Lisbon Army Units
In Lisbon on April 13 excitement rose over a fresh royalist conspiracy. The plan originated in the Seventh Infantry, with several officers and privates arrested. Additional troops are under suspicion as investigations continue.
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Lisbon
Seventh Infantry
Morse to Enjoy Life Despite Terminal Diagnosis
Florence April 13 Charles W Morse, given six months to live by experts, abandons cures and plans a final tour of southeastern Europe. He remains calm about his prognosis and travels from the city to the region choosing an expensive itinerary and luxurious accommodations. Hillsville April 12 Outlaws Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards reportedly seen in eastern West Virginia mountains. The Allen gang trial is set for April 23 in Carroll county courthouse where Judge Massie and four others were shot.
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Florence
Charles W. Morse
Morse
Bright
Carlsbad
Europe
Hillsville
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
West Virginia
Allen Gang
Carroll County
Massie
Trial set for Hillsville murders I as six charged
Carrol County courthouse Hillsville to host trial of Floyd Claude and Fred Allen Sidna Edwards and Byrd Marion for the killings of Judge Staples prosecutor sheriff a juror and a spectator. Sidna Allen and Wes ley Edwards remain at large.
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Lynchburg
Carroll County
Hillsville
Staples
Roanoke
Floyd
Claude
Fred Allen
Sidna Edwards
Byrd Marion
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Bank Thief Near Death in New Berlin
Frank T. Arnold a long time respected New Berlin business leader and embezzler of about 250000 from the First National bank lies near death in Utica New York. He led a showy life despite a small 1800 annual salary.
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Utica
N. Y
Frank T. Arnold
New Berlin
First National Bank
Arnold
Beating Child With a Chain Leads to Fine
Joliet Nh April 13 After confessing to beating his four year old daughter into insensibility with a dog chain because she could not understand his commands Joseph Janowiak a Russian was fined 200 dollars in the case reported from Joliet New Homes district court.
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Joliet
Joseph Janowiak
German Fleet To Visit America In Two-Prince Officers Plan
Berlin April 18 The final composition of the German fleet visiting America to reciprocate the prior U S Atlantic fleet visit has been set. The division includes the protected cruisers Moltke Stettin and Bremen with captains specified and Lieut Prince Henry of Reuss aboard Moltke and Lieut Prince Christian of Hessen Philippathal Barchfeld aboard Stettin. Prince Albert of Prussia will not sail.
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America
United States
Kiel
Moltke
Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler
Stettin
von Krosigk
Bremen
Beebohm
Germany
Prince Henry of
Reuss
Prince Christian of Hessen-Philippathal Barchfeld
Albert
Prussia
Bomb Explodes in Taxi in Paris During Strike
A bomb detonated in a taxi on Fue de Lyon Paris injuring the chauffeur and several pedestrians. The blast shook most of the city and wrecked the car. Authorities suspect chauffeurs on strike for over two months staged the attack.
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Lyon
Sun Yat Sen Soon To Succeed Yuan As President
Dr Sun Yat Sen is expected to become president of the Chinese republic, with L Bergholz stating Sun may withdraw in favor of Yuan Shih Kai as provisional president to pacify Manchu adherents.
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San Francisco
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan Shih Kai
L. Bergholz
United States
Canton
Orient
Sun
Manufacturer Is Slain in Lynn Mass Near Point of Pines
The body of George E. Marsh, president of a local soap company, was found beside the Point of Pines boulevard with five bullet wounds. Police classify as murder. Also noted, Fred H. Bailey, vaudeville actor star of The Top of the World, died at his Lod home at age thirty eight.
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Boulevard
Lynn
Mass
George E. Marsh
Pines
Marsh
Fred Bailey
New York
Fred H. Bailey
Ralph Austin
Lod
Clara Barton founder of American Red Cross dies at Glen Echo
Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross dies at her Glen Echo Maryland home at age 90 from chronic pneumonia. She established the Red Cross in 1881 and led relief efforts in the Civil War and beyond, earning honors and shaping international disaster aid.
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Red Cross
United States
Washington
Clara Barton
American Red Cross Society
Glen Echo
Stephen Barton
Heston
Miss Barton
Oxford
Mass
Barton
New England
America
Florence Nightingale
Gener
Carlsruhe
Rome
Vienna
St Petersburg
New Jersey
Congress
Taft
Missa Barton
Sipper
Potomac
Peking to Paris Air Race Prize Money Revealed
The Matin reports the first prize will be 20000 dollars for the Peking to Paris air race with 5000 dollars for second and 2000 dollars for third. The route spans Peking Harbin Irkutsk Tomsk Moscow Warsaw Vienna Trieste Geneva Paris.
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Peking
Harbin
Irkutsk
Tomsk
Moscow
Warsaw
Vienna
Trieste
Genda
Seilles
Pastor Denies Bigamy in Beecher Arraignment
Pastor vonet Joan Horton from Beecher pleaded not guilty to bigamy at arraignment. He had been sentenced two months earlier but freed due to a court error and was rearrested on the same charges related to Amanda B Renker.
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Vonet
Joan Horton
Beecher
Amanda B. Renker
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