Armed mob storms Juarez jail in Chihuahua rescue bid
Riot forces attacked the Chihuahua penitentiary to free Antonio Rojas and followers. Three rural guards were killed as Captain Mendoza led the assault. troops reinforced, white armbands distinguished defenders. Juarez garrison mobilized and a special train sent south. Governor Colquitt warned Taft to curb cross border firing. Emilio Vasquez Gomez offered as provisional Mexico president if the Chihuahua uprising succeeds.
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Mexico City
Chihuahua
Antonio Rojas
Moris
Dolores
Department of the Interior
Juan Alatorro
Rojas
Emiliano Vasquez Gomez
Mendoza
Pascual Orozco
Salgado
Silvario Orozco
Orozco
Juarez
Taft
Mexico
Austin
Tex
Colquitt
el Paso
Gomez
San Antonio
Emilio Vasquez Gomez
Francisco Madero
Taft greets Iowa girl breadmaker and prize boys
Twelve year old Lois Edmonds Iowa champion girl breadmaker and a group of Iowa school boys who won prizes for raising corn visit Washington to meet President Taft and Secretary Wilson. Officials present diplomas for the farming feats.
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Washington
Lois Edmonds
Iowa
Taft
Wilson
Cost Him Million to Die
London is Feb 3 report that Charles II Sofer-Whitburn aged 76 cost more than 1 million dollars to die under England inheritance tax laws. The estate valued at 7.5 million with most left to relatives was taxed 1.2 million in death duties. The remaining 500 dollars went to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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London
Charles II
Sofer-Whitburn
England
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Anita Stewart Aids King Rivalry Fund
Paris, Feb 3. The Radical reports Dom Miguel of Braganza lent Manuel several million dollars sourced from Anita Stewart of New York widow of James Henry Smith. The funds aim to back Manuel in his bid to regain the throne.
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Paris
the Radical
Dom Miguel
Braganza
Manuel
Anita Stewart
New York
James Henry Smith
Parachute Jump From Statue Of Liberty Ends In Accident
F Rodman Law, a Brooklyn steeplejack, leapt from the Statue of Liberty with a parachute, falling 345 feet. The chute opened midway, saving a near miss with the statue as Law landed on the pedestal lawn, stunned and with a wrenched right leg, after earning $1,500 for the stunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
F. Rodman Law
Law
Hbedloe’s Island
Violinist Jan Kubelik Injures Finger Forcing Cancelation
Chicago reports violin virtuoso Jan Kubelik pierced a finger with a manicure knife causing the cancellation of his Auditorium engagement. The hand is insured for $225,000.
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Chicago
Jan Kubelik
Auditorium Theater
Amputation in Davenport for Rainauds disease
Davenport Feb. 3 surgeons amputated the left foot of Nevin Morrison second son of Bishop T W Morrison of the Iowa Episcopal diocese due to the rare and mysterious Rainauds disease with blood circulation halted and gangrene setting in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Nevin Morrison
T. W. Morrison
Episcopal Diocese of
Iowa
Fire destroys Cloquet hospital in Carlton county
Fire razed the Cloquet hospital in Carlton county, Duluth reports say no lives were lost. Patients were carried to safety amid risk and excitement in the lumber town of Cloquet, a Weyerhaeuser operation community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minn
Cloquet
Carlton County
Weyerhaeuser
W. J. Bryan's "Double" Frank A. Abby Dies
Manchester Conn Feb 3 Frank A Abby a man who bore a strong resemblance to William J Bryan known as his double is dead at age fifty eight He often played the confusion for amusement and to entertain friends spreading the likeness for laughs in daily life.
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W. J. Bryan
Manchester
Conn
Frank A. Abby
Wiliam J. Bryan
Bryan
Women Lead Strikers in Brisbane Riot Charge
Vancouver reports serious rioting in Brisbane Australia as troops with fixed bayonets charged a defiant crowd of strikers. The procession led by women aimed to display strength and officials ordered troops to restore order at any cost. Many were wounded in the clash.
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Vancouver
B.C
Brisbane
Australia
First Leap Year Bride Married After Impromptu Trip
Mrs. Frederick Carr of Germantown Pennsylvania became the first real leap year bride of the east after proposing and paying the car fare to Wilmington for the wedding. She, Miss Margaret E Molenkopf, told Fred Carr she was tired of living alone and he agreed.
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Germantown
Frederick Carr
Wilmington
Margaret E. Molenkopf
Carr
Fred
Kaiser Plans Art Palace in Berlin for 1913 Exhibition
Kaiser William II proposes a grand Palace of Art in Berlin to mark his 25th reign anniversary and host a world art exhibition in 1913. He reportedly invites France to participate in the project as part of the monument to his rule.
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Paris
Kaiser William II
France
Berlin
Germany
Fifty Years Ago Today Feb 3 Highlights
The piece recalls Farragut setting sail from Hampton Roads to open the Mississippi and the Kearsarge cruising from Boston against Sumter. Nashville fled Southampton while Tuscarora watched, and Biot died in Paris at eighty eight. Twenty five years ago Stanley left Cairo for Zanzibar to aid Emin Bey in Sudan.
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Farragut
Hampton Roads
Mississippi
United States
Kearsarge
Boston
Sumter
Spain
Nashville
Southampton
England
Tuscarora
Jean Baptiste Biot
Paris
Stanley
Cairo
Zanzibar
Emin Bey
Sudan
Hero Mammoth Steer Slaughtered for the Poor
Fifty years ago this Sunday February 4 a hero mammoth steer raised in Franklin County Massachusetts weighing 3600 pounds was slaughtered in New York for distribution to the needy. Its closest rival weighed 2300 pounds while the beast measured 4 feet in width 11 feet in girth and 9 feet 6 inches in length. Foote's fleet lay six miles below Fort Henry ready to attack.
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Hero
New York
Franklin County
Mass
Foote
Fort Henry
Diet and Health Hints Favor Mono Diet for Breakfast
The article urges readers to avoid mixing foods and adopt a mono diet for meals, especially for invalids. Lettuce is best among greens, with cabbage and various fruits as acceptable components, and recommends light summer breakfasts like bananas and prunes for sedentary workers, noting figs and raisins provide complete nutrition and energy.
Dix denies clemency and seals Brandt case records
Governor Dix refused clemency for Foulke Engel Brandt despite recommendations by District Attorney Whitman and Prisons Superintendent Scott. He ordered all records reports and papers in the matter sealed. Brandt had pleaded guilty to first degree burglary at the Schiff home and served five years of a thirty year sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Whitman
Joseph F. Scott
Dix
Foulke Engel Brandt
Brandt
Sing Sing
Mortimer L. Schiff
France to receive 87 aero planes named by departments
Paris reports that 87 French departments are likely to donate aero planes to the army. The aircraft would bear the departments' names, a move driven by insufficient air division funding and concern that Germany may outpace France in aviation.
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Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Wisconsin youth kills family then ends own life
William Mathland aged 21 of Binghamton killed his father Louis 66 with a gun then killed his brother John 8 and sister Oprah 16 before taking his own life. He threatened to kill the family but three brothers were away at school.
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Appleton, Wis
William Mathland
Binghamton
Louis
John
Oprah
Broker's Suicide Ties to Cotton Exchange Shakeup
Charles D. Finley, a member of Finley & Simpson, killed himself in New Orleans as the cotton brokerage firm failed. Thecotton exchange floor announced the firm's collapse shortly after. The episode marks the second failure in two days among local exchange members amid rising futures prices.
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New Orleans
Charles D. Finley
Finley & Simpson
Cotton Exchange
Local Exchange
Pension Bill Passed by House in Washington Vote
The pension appropriation bill of about 152 million dollars cleared the house 245 to 33 after a roll call was demanded by southern Democrats. A provision banning out of country pensioners failed 160 to 133. The measure eliminates seventeen pension agencies in various cities.
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Washington
House
United States
Rich man a bread thief in Woodcliffe arrest
Mathew Harbeson a wealthy Woodcliffe resident and principal heir to a $1,000,000 estate was sentenced to thirty days in jail for stealing a loaf of bread. A grocer said Harbeson took the bread from a box in front of his store at four in the morning.
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Jersey
Woodcliffe
N. J
Mathew Harbeson
Harbeson
Teachers Strike Locks Winton School in Stanton Borough
Twenty four Winton teachers strike over delayed December salaries as the borough treasury runs dry. Schools remain closed with 1000 pupils on enforced vacation until funds arrive around February 15.
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Stanton
Winton
Corbin to wed Mrs Babbit to claim extra will payout
Hartford dispatch reports Charles Corbin, son of late Philip Corbin, set to win an extra 75000 from his father’s will if he remarries. He plans to wed Mrs Bonita Babbit in Mansfield Massachusetts on February twenty eighth, after a saga involving past wives and family objections.
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Hartford
Conn
Charles Corbin
Philip Corbin
The
Hardware Trust
Bonita Babbit
Mansfield
Mass
Corbin
Lilian Blakeslee
Oak Bluffs
Martha's Vineyard
Mrs. Babbit
Like a River of Fire
Fire caused by spontaneous combustion in the Standard Oil canning department at North Twelfth street Williamsburg damaged the long dock and thousands of five gallon oil cans were ignited. Four alarms brought fireboats and apparatus from miles around. the creek flowed with burning oil as flames spread. Damage estimated at $50,000.
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New York
Canning Department
Standard Oil Company
North Twelfth Street
Williamsburg
Long Dock
Far East
McClellan, Hewitt and Zephar Mill
Woman Confesses Fire Set at Berkshire Hills Sanitarium
Mrs Emma Clapp wife of John Clapp confessed she set fire Wednesday night to the Berkshire Hills sanitarium in North Adams Massachusetts a basement blaze was checked with no serious damage and about a dozen patients were present She said she acted to force her husband from his job after a separation and was held in district court awaiting grand jury action.
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North Adams
Mass
Emma Clapp
John Clapp
Berkshire Hills
Wireless record broken by Honolulu station in Hawaii
Wireless messages between Kansas City and San Francisco were intercepted at the Honolulu wireless station. Operators report overheard messages establish a new record for the Honolulu station likely due to its higher altitude.
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Kansas City
Honolulu
San Francisco
Fourteen Go to Watery Grave in Submarine Disaster
British submarine A3 sank after a collision with gunboat Hazard off the Isle of Wight during diving and torpedo exercises. All 14 aboard perished, including three on board for instruction. The Hazard rescued no one as the submarine vanished beneath the sea.
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Portsmouth
England
Hazard
Isle of Wight
Aieutenant
British Navy
Whch
Pope appoints New Papal Delegate to the United States
In Rome on Candlemas Mgr Giovanni Bonzano is received by the pope for the first time as papal delegate to the United States succeeding Diomede Falconio. Bonzano expresses the weight of responsibility while the pope commends his fitness for the post. Americans attend the ceremony and candle offerings mark the occasion.
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Rome
Italy
Mgr
Giovanni Bonzano
Vatican
United States
Diomede Falconio
Mgr. Bonzano
College of the Propaganda of Faith
Thomas F. Kennedy
American College
Mer. Bonzano
Nobleman Addresses House on Universal Peace
Washington February 3 Count Francid Luetzow of Bohemia chamberlain to Emperor Francis Joseph Austria spoke to the House of Representatives during a fifteen minute recess urged by Democratic Leader Underwood. Victor Berger a Socialist congressman from Milwaukee protested saying such a foreign nobleman addressing the House would be seen as a foreign Socialist.
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Washington
Francid Luetzow
Bohemia
Francis Joseph
Austria
House of Representatives
Underwood
Victor Berger
Milwaukee
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T. J. Allen
Army
Wisconsin
Wall
Pennsylvania
Joseph B. Bowles
PULL
Crowad
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Joplin
Standard Plant
Lot of Wight
Pope
Count von Luetzow
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