Assassination Attempt on Chinese Premier Across Shanghai
A cable from Shanghai reported Yuan Shih Kai survived a bomb attack in Peking as two killed, several wounded, and the envolved plotters captured. Witnesses say revolutionists plotted bombs along Yuan’s route and a public executioner stood guard at the scene.
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Peking
China
Yuan Shih Kai
Imperial Palace
Yuan
Charles Young
American Board of Missions
Union Medical College
Wang
Yuan Shih
Representative Ayres Backs Six Month Potato Duty Suspension
Washington Jan 17 Representative 8 B Ayres of New York has introduced a bill to suspend the duty on potatoes for six months. Ayres argues the high price makes potatoes a table luxury under the Payne tariff law which sets a 25 cent per dushel duty.
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Washington
8. B. Ayres
New York City
House of Representatives
Nicaragua promoter crash sparks U S protest in congress
In San Juan del Sur on January 17 the congress reported that Franklin M. Gunther the U S chargé d affaires urged delaying promulgation of Nicaragua's new constitution until United States Minister George T. Weitzel arrives to propose amendments. The move stirred great indignation locally.
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San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Congress
Franklin M. Gunther
United States
George T. Weitzel
Two Big Ocean Liners Planned by Harland & Wolff
Belfast Jan 17 The Harland and Wolff shipyard will construct two ocean liners larger than the Olympic for White Star to serve Australia and Atlantic routes. The contract also includes building a $2,000 ton vessel for the Holland American Line.
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Belfast
Harland & Wolff
White Star Company
Australia
Atlantic
Bill to endow agricultural colleges nationwide
Washington January 17 measures introduce a bill to fund agricultural colleges with federal and state aid. Aimed at placing trained county agents in every agricultural county, the plan scales from under one cent per capita to about three cents as funding grows from 500000 to over three million dollars annually.
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Washington
House
Representative Lever
South Carolina
Senate
Page
Hoke Smith
National Soil Fertility League
Agricultural Colleges
United States
Rioters in Prison as Lawrence Mills Reopen
In Lawrence Massachusetts riot ers were sentenced to two years each for riot and weapons offenses after 12 defendants faced court. Yesterday's rioting was not repeated by 25 000 striking textile workers as militia kept order with seven companies. Over 300 troops remained to guard the mill district while most mills reopened. The North Andover strike saw 200 workers walk out at four worsted mills.
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Lawrence
Mass
House of Correction
Everett
Lawrence Duck
Pemberton
North Andover
Cardinal Farley greeted by 300000 mournful followers in New York
Cardinal Farley arrived in New York to a crowd estimated at 300000 people. The enthusiastic reception marked a major moment for the Catholic church in the city.
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Prince
New York
Labouchere, Noted Editor, Dies in Florence Villa
Henry Labouchere known as Labby, editor of Truth, dies in his Florence villa. Born in London in 1881, he became a leading radical and long-serving MP, famed for his independence including a minority report on the Jameson raid.
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London
Henry Labouchere
Florence
Italy
Labouchere
Labby
All England
Truth
Charges Against Hitchcock and Stewart over Post Office Safety Devices
Washington reports charges against Postmaster General Hitchcock and Second Assistant Postmaster General Stewart for allegedly spending $1,000,000 of post office funds on railway mail car safety devices. Urban A Waters, editor of the Denver Harpoon, testified that roads never installed the devices and clerks were forced to file false reports. The civil service committee hinted at a special inquiry but took no action.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Stewart
House Committee On Civil Service Reform
Urban A. Waters
Denver Harpoon
Waters
Congress
Civil Service Committee
Heiress Nettle Ott target of suit over alienation claim
Louisville filed suit on January 17 naming Miss Nettle Bryant Ott heiress and granddaughter of late Sam Bryant racehorse owner as defendant. Plaintiff Mrs Josephine Surman Hubbard seeks $50 000 for alienation of her husband Joseph Mackling Hubbard a horseman from Ott and Hubbard.
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Louisville
Nettle Bryant Ott
Sam Bryant
Josephine Surman Hubbard
Joseph Mackling Hubbard
Fallieres Grants Release After Briand Request
Paris reports President Fallieres signed Briand’s order freeing Royalist Lacour, sentenced in 1910 for assaulting Briand during his premiership, after the Jules Feery statue unveiling in the Tuileries Gardens. In Las Vegas New Mexico promoter OMalley offered Curley 100000 for a July 4 Johnson Flynn fight, noting statehood voids federal glove restrictions.
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Paris
Fallieres
Briand
Lacour
M. Briand
Jules Feery
Tuileries Gardens
Las Vegas
N. M
Charles O'Malley
Jack Curley
New Mexico
Governor and Labor Figures Seek Arbitration in Wool Strike
Governor Ross sent his private secretary Dudley Holman to confer with Joseph J. Etter of New York, the national IWW figure, and it is understood arrangements were made for the state board of conciliation and arbitration to arbitrate. President William M. Wood of the American Woolen company declines to meet a striker committee to arrange arbitration.
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Ross
Dudley N. Holman
Joseph J. Etter
New York
Industrial Workers of the World
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Fire Kills Rail Official In Missouri Train Wreck
Guy L. Stewart agricultural and industrial agent for the Cotton Belt railroad of St. Louis died after being burned in his private car during a three line collision wreck near Kelso Missouri. The crash involved trains from three different roads and occurred January 17.
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St. Louis
Guy L. Stewart
Cotton Belt Railroad of
Kelso
Montenegro Mobilizes for War with Turkey
Salonica dispatch says Montenegro arms frontier population and prepares for conflict with Turkey. Local Turkish garrisons are being reinforced and Mohamdan Albanians request rifles from Turkish authorities.
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Montenegro
Vienna
Salonica
Turkey
Four Die in Wreck of C and O Train Near Louisville
Four were killed and three fatally injured when a Chesapeake & Ohio special crashed into a Louisville & Nashville passenger near Long Run, about 20 miles from Louisville. Dozens of others, all Kentuckians, were hurt as both engine crews were buried in the wreckage and bodies recovered.
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Louisville
Chesapeake & Ohio
Louisville & Nashville
Long Run
Frozen in Mothers Arms In Broome Street Tragedy
In two cold rooms in Broome Street Surgeon Markel finds a two month old infant frozen to the mother's breast as rescuers try to move the wife to Gouveneur hospital. The mother, rheumatic and half starved, fights to keep the child with her before she faints and is carried away.
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New York
John Coulititka
Broome Street
Markel
Gouveneur Hospital
Age question prompts X ray in Kansas City murder case
In Kansas City on January 17 an X-ray exam of the bones of "Buster" Thomas and seven other young negroes was proposed before Judge Porterfield to decide if he should be tried in criminal or juvenile court. Thomas is charged with stabbing a veterinary student to death last October.
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Kansas City
Buster” Thomas
Porterfield
Thomas
Vardaman Named to Succeed Percy in Senate
Mississippi legislators named James K. Vardaman to succeed U. S. Senator Leroy Percy in separate balloting by houses. The joint session ratified today, confirming Vardaman who defeated Percy in the prior summer primaries with the term expiring March 1913.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
James K. Vardaman
United States
Leroy Percy
Vardaman
Percy
United States May Involve Itself Over Cuba Crisis
Washington reports warn of possible American military intervention in Cuba to protect the government and restore peace. A note to Havana threatens interference if the veterans movement is not quelled, signaling a grave, escalating political standoff.
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United States
Washington
Cuba
State Department
Beaupre
Havana
Veterans’ Movement
United
Republic of Gad
Gomes
Pittsburgh pastor arrested in death case abroad
Rev Wo McFarland former Pittsburgh pastor in the death of Miss Hisle Dodd Cee was arrested twelve miles from Creek Green County by Sheriff Charles Bewley. He was held in Greene County jail awaiting Pittsburgh officer transfer. The preacher remained calm. his wife and sixteen year old daughter wept.
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Bristol
Tenn
Wo McFarland
Pittsburgh Eator
Hisle Dodd Cee
Creek
Greenn
Charles
Greene County
Bewley
Pittsburgh
Fifa City
Indicted Bank President McClure Dies in Ohio
Cincinnati January report states Phor F. McClure former president of Metropolitan Bank and Trustee of Cincinnati died after being indicted by the Alabama county grand jury for receiving deposits while the bank faced insolvency.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Phor F. McClure
Metropolitan Bank
Clos State Bank Examiners
McClure
Alaton County Grand Jury
Supreme Court confirms validity of workmen's compensation law
The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the workmen's compensation act as constitutional. The act creates an insurance fund financed by employer and employee contributions and provides benefits from 1 500 to 3 400 dollars for industrial injuries and weekly stipends from 5 to 12 dollars for six years in certain cases. The law is optional for employers and employees.
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Columbus
O. Jan
Supreme SS
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San Francisco
Cal
Shanghai
Jehol
GOV
B. Colquitt
Texas
of Ev
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Cardinal Farley
London Truth
England
Ungle
Samuel
Duda
Ultimatim
Count Moltke
Denmark
Barrimore
FagMers
Mangua Bank
Baltimore
Herman Ridder
Postmaster General
Cecil Rhodes
Foreign Office
Frank Ss. Ober
Garfield Hospital
Josephine Robb
Miss Cee
Thomas F. McClure
Federal Building
Stockholm
Jan. Ife-Womel
Sweden
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