Stenographer Blumenberg Quizzed In Lorimer Inquiry
Milton Blumenberg official reporter for the special senate committee on Lorimer was ordered to answer questions before the bar. He testified he believed dictograph notes were artificial and did not recall conversations with Hines or Haneey. The committee resolved to terminate his employment and cite him for contempt if needed.
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Washington
Milton W.lumenberg
Senate
Lorimer
United States Senate
Dillingham
Blumenberg
Sheridan
Senator Kern
Senator Lea
Hines
Mr. Hines
Edward Hines
Jclone
Sen. Blumenberg
Senator Ia
Demolition of 20 Cars Sparks Narrow Wabash River Plunge
Eight men riding in the caboose of a freight train escaped death when twenty cars plunged 170 feet into the Wabash river near Cayage Indiana. The engine crossed a bridge before the cars broke through. The caboose tipped for the plunge then the coupling gave way and the car slid back onto the rails.
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Newport
Ind
Wabash River
Cayage
Five Hundred Thirty Four Descendants Notice Mother’s Death
Five hundred and thirty four descendants in the fifth generation survive Mrs. Sylva A. Sandford who died in Spring Valley Utah at age ninety seven.
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Spring Valley
Utah
Sylva A. Sandford
La Follette Supporters Rally After Mental Break
Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette faces a nervous breakdown but supporters announce the Republican nomination bid will continue. His condition is unimproved but rest at a country retreat is planned within two to three weeks.
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Washington
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Philadelphia
la Follette
Houser
la Follette Committee
Senator la Follette
England Greets King Great Place Returns From India
London crowds flocked to Victoria station and the route to Buckingham Palace to cheer King George and Queen Mary as they return from the Delhi durbar. The Medina escorted them to Portsmouth and a royal greeting featured a salute to the Stars and Stripes and a balcony appearance. Excavations at Nazareth claim to reveal Joseph the carpenter's workshop and a site for Christ's transfiguration.
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London
King George
Queen Mary
Delhi Durbar
India
Victoria Station
Buckingham Palace
Medina
Portsmouth Harbor
Nazareth
Joseph
Mary
Jeeus
Fight It Out Says Caruso In Slander Case
Rome reports the cable from Caruso's lawyers urging to fight the case to the end and settle it once and for all against Ada Giacchetti indicted on a charge of maliciously slandering Caruso.
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Rome
Caruso
Ada Giacchetti
Blizzard Locks Five Trunk Lines From Mason City Trains
Mason City Ia Feb 6 five trunk line railroads centered at Mason City were tied up by the blizzard since Saturday night. No passenger or freight trains moved in 24 hours. Snow piles reach 15 feet in places.
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Mason City
Claudia Hains Remarries After Noted Bay Side Shooting
Claudia Libbey Hains, once central to the 1908 Bayside shooting involving Capt. Peter C. Hains, wed Reginald F. Bolles, a Boston artist, at her Milton home, as reported from Boston.
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Boston
Claudia Libbey Hains
William E. Annis
Peter C. Hains
Bayside
L. L
Reginald F. Bolles
Milton
Busch Opera Gift Promises 50 000 for St Louis House
Adolphus Busch, residing in Pasadena, California, offers to subscribe 50 000 toward a 500 000 opera house in St Louis if the rest is raised within six months. The proposal awaits action by the St Louis grand opera committee.
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St. Louis
Adolphus Busch
Pasadena
Cal
Woman's theft of $6118 at New Bethlehem post office
Miss Ella Latimer twenty three year old trusted employee in the post office here was arrested charged with embezzling six thousand one hundred eighteen dollars The shortage was found by Postal Inspector Charles H Thomas in New Bethlehem Pennsylvania on February six year unspecified.
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New Bethlehem
Ella Latimer
Charles H. Thomas
Fort Henry Falls to Union Fleet After Brief Bombardment
Fifty years ago today Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, a Confederate post guarding Nashville, fell to flag officer A. T. Foote's naval fleet after a bombardment of about one hour and fifteen minutes. The Union victory saw four armored vessels and three wooden boats in action and General U. S. Grant’s land forces capture the fort. A Boston petition was read in the Senate urging focus on business over the Negro question.
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Fort Henry
Tennessee River
Nashville
A. T. Foote
U. S. Grant
Boston
United States Senate
Congress
Murder Suspects Cloud Oklahoma City Fire Deaths
In Oklahoma City investigators report indications that Harvey Hurst his wife and 16 year old Elsie Adams were murdered before their Delaware Avenue home burned. The victims suffered severe head wounds prior to cremation. In Grand Forks North Dakota Agnes Grogan died during a snowstorm while attempting to walk six miles to her mother’s home.
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Oklahoma City
Kla
Harvey Hurst
Elsie Adams
Delaware
North Dakota
Grand Forks
N. D
Agnes Grogan
Trenton
Sardines recommended for oil content per Lancet
The Lancet says sardines should be recommenced for the oil they contain, even if the fish are herring and the oil is peanut or cottonseed oil. Many neglect to take enough oil, which offsets protein excess. Adding uncleaned fish or sprats does not improve the oil. olive or peanut oil is easier to obtain with less risk of substitution.
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Sardinia
Italians Begin Bombardment of Hodeida
London reports Italian fleet shells Hodeida on the Red Sea with part of the Turkish port damaged according to a news agency dispatch from Constantinople.
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London
Hodeida
Red Sea
Constantinople
Young Sister Killed in Rifle Accident in Leonardtown
Leonardtown Md Feb 6 Helen Owens seven is dead after her sixteen year old brother Ned pointed his rifle at her during play and believed he had drawn the load in Red Gate neighborhood authorities report a fatal shooting involving a minor in the home.
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Leonardtown
Ned
Helen Owens
Red Gate
Fire destroys grain elevator at North Ashland avenue
A blaze at the Northern Malting grain elevator 1825 North Ashland avenue injuries to two firemen and a watchman occurred. The wall collapsed sending staff down an embankment while twenty firefighters battled flames from railroad tracks. Fire Marshal Seyferlich will seek a fire attorney to probe the origin as the Northwestern Yeast company nearby faced fumes and danger to adjacent facilities.
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Chicago
Northern
Ashland Avenue
Seyferlich
Sulley
Northwestern Yeast Company
Masons of Five Nations Meet in Louisiana Centennial
New Orleans La Feb 6 Ad dresses in five languages in response to toasts by representatives of Masonic lodges will highlight the centennial celebration of the Masonite grand lodge in Louisiana. More than fifty guests have been covered for the banquet and high Masons are expected from several states.
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New Orleans
Grand Lodge
Louisigna
House Nixes Vote On Slayden Resolution Aimed at Roosevelt
Washington Feb 6 the house sidestepped a roll call vote on the Slayden resolution opposing a third term for any president. Slayden’s bid to bring up the measure under suspension failed 90 to 51.
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Washington
House
Slayden
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Boxing profits rise as New York clubs report gate receipts
Fifty boxing clubs under the New York state athletic commission have taken in nearly $500,000 in gate receipts since the Frawley law began operation last August. About $20,000, reflecting a 6 percent tax, has been paid to the state treasury.
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New York
New York State Athletic Commission
Girl of Seven Killed by Her Brother in Maryland
Leonardtown Md Feb 6 A seven year old girl Helen Owens was shot and killed by her sixteen year old brother Ned at Red Gate He fired while aiming at the road and is in critical condition with paroxysms of Pelmors according to local reports
Chinese leader Sun Yat Sen proposes provisional govern ment setup
Times reports Gen Feng Kwo Chang persuades Manchu troops to accept abdication. Sun Yat Sen says after abdication a provisional government would stay for a year, then a representative assembly electorate would elect a new administration. Yuan Shi Kai wires his acceptance of terms. Berlin notes US-led negotiations aim for a general joint agreement.
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England
Times
Feng Kwo Chang
Imperial Guards
Nanking
The
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan Shi Kai
Sun
Berlin
Germany
United States
China
Sinclair Nears Freedom After Second Hearing
New York Feb 6 Marshall Mar den, referee in the second hearing of Upton Sinclair's divorce action against Meta Fuller Sinclair, involving Harry Kemp, recommended that a decree be granted. The first hearing under Referee W G Kelly was void due to Sinclair's testimony about Kemp and his wife.
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New York
Marshall
Marden
Upton Sinclair
Meta Fuller Sinclair
Harry Kemp
W. G. Kelly
Sinclair
Kemp
Goebel Memorial Honors Kentucky Political Turmoil
In Frankfort on February 6 the legislature holds exercises honoring William Goebel, shot to death during the Taylor Goebel governorship contest. The city recalls Frankfort as an armed battleground amid Kentucky political strife a dozen years ago.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
William Goebel
State
Young vaudeville wand performer dies in theater accident
Kansas City, February 6. George Rudolph, eighteen, died after an accidental rifle discharge in a theater dressing room. Rudolph had for months held a wand in his mouth balancing an egg as part of a vaudeville act, when John C. Ray, a crack shot, fired while cleaning the weapon, the bullet striking Rudolph in the chest.
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Kansas City
George Rudolph
John C. Ray
Ray
Ridolph
Conditions In Mexico Grow Alarming In Official Report
Washington reports 6 000 troops in readiness for border action and 25 000 prepared overall as the Madero regime Weakens compared with Diaz. Interventions considered amid fears for 50 plus American prisoners and possible Zapatist resistance.
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Mexico
Madero
Diaz
Washington
Republic of Mexico
War Department
Paso
Mexican
Mobile Army
Texas
Wilson
State Department
United States
Zapatists
Miss Harrison Weds Harry A Williams Jr in Washington
Miss Martha Harrison granddaughter of former President Harrison married Harry A Williams Jr of Norfolk Virginia at the bride’s home The ceremony took place in a rose and fern decorated drawing room The bride wore her mother’s ivory crepe gown with lace from Mrs Harrison’s collection Attendants were her cousins Miss Katherine May Brooks and Miss Alice Lewis
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Washington
Marthena Harrison
President Harrison
Harry A. Williams, Jr
Norfolk
Killarney
Katherine May Brooks
Alice Lewis
Mother and Child Die Together At Crossing
Lincoln Nebraska February 6. Mrs U S Milliken refused to release her five year old Phoebe's foot from a beard crossing on a railroad track. As a locomotive approached she stayed with the child and both were struck and killed instantly. Their bodies were hurled about fifty feet.
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Lincoln
Neb
Phoebe
Unloaded gun kills Cleveland boy in accident
In Cleveland Ohio a three year old boy was accidentally shot and killed when his father John Nagy, while shaving, picked up a revolver he believed was unloaded and pointed it at the child saying get out of my way. The gun fired fatally.
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Cleveland
Ohio
John Nagy
Anton
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