Asquith Eyes Government Control to End British Coal Strike
Premier Asquith signals government ownership of coal mines if owners refuse the minimum wage. Sixty percent of mine owners back the plan, but 40 percent must agree. With 1,049,407 miners on strike, rail service halts and ports face coal shortages as talks resume.
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Asquith
London
Ceale
United Kingdom
France
Great Britain
Wales
Miners’ Federation
Executive Committee
Couny
Roosevelt Accused in Panama Canal Conspiracy Claim
Senate adopts resolution demanding President Taft submit all correspondence with Colombia on the Panama canal zone. Senator Hitchcock accuses former President Roosevelt of involvement in a plot to provoke Colombia’s loss of Panama and transfer of the canal zone to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Taft
Colombia
Panama Canal Zone
United States
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Panama
Canal Zone
Lawmaker Urges Tough Penalty Over Child Toothbrush Use
Washington March 2 Representative Cyrus Sulloway of New Hampshire rails against giving a child a toothbrush calling it a penal offense. He praises tobacco chewing and dipping as the better practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cyrus Sulloway
New Hampshire
Sulloway
Woman Celebrates 103rd Birthday in Newburyport
Mrs years old marks 103rd birthday on March 22 in Newburyport Massachusetts born March 4 1809 she enjoys good health and recalls events from the war of 1812.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sean
Newburyport
Mass
Makes Perilous Trip Jumps From Aeroplane and Salis Gently to Earth
Capt Albert Berry leaped from an aircraft at Jefferson Barracks reaching 1500 feet and landed safely by parachute as hundreds of soldiers cheered. He credits experience with balloons and said he was not nervous during the descent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Jefferson Barracks
Albert Berry
John Berry
Indiapanolis
Colonel Wood
Berry
Franklin Fined Four Thousand For Jury Corruption
Los Angeles March 2 Bert H Franklin former chief detective of the McNamara defense confessed to using money to corrupt jurors. Judge George Cabanissere fined Franklin four thousand dollars and gave a severe castigation. Assistant DA Ford said Franklin’s testimony helped convict the ring and explained the defense inner workings. Franklin stated his knowledge and received a stern warning from the judge about the lack of prison sentence. The report also describes war zone fighting near Jimalco and skirmishes along the Texas border with Ojinaga amid growing tension and border evacuations.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Bert H. Franklin
McNamara
George Cabanissere
Ford
Franklin
Cabaniss
Strikers Refuse Five Percent Wage Increase
The I W W ex executive committee voted to urge strikers to refuse a five percent wage increase. Mills had posted notices of at least five percent raises starting next Monday. The move affects about thirty thousand workers in Lawrence and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Mass
The
Industrial Workers of the World
State Dinner for Knox in Costa Rica
A brilliant state dinner at government house in San Jose honored Secretary of State Knox. He arrived by special train from Port Lim on and spent the night with President Alvarado after being met by government officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Costa Rica
Knox
Port Limon
Alvarado
Flynn Johnson heavyweight world title bout scheduled in Utah
Jim Flynn and Jack Johnson will fight for the heavyweight championship in a 20 round bout near Wendover Utah on July 24, announced by promoters led by Jack Curley. The event is described as the world title clash with financial backers involved. A separate item notes the unearthing of the largest mammoth skeleton found at Steinheim Germany near Schiller's birthplace.
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Salt Lake City
Jim Flynn
Jack Johnson
Wendovar
Utah
Jack Curley
New York
Steinheim
Germany
Schiller
Harvard Student William Whitwell Declared Legally Dead
Boston March 2 The supreme court rules Harvard student William Scollay Whitwell who disappeared February 26 1903 is legally dead. The ruling fixes his date of death as the day of disappearance resolving a dispute over a trust fund payment.
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Boston
William Scollay Whitwell
Harvard
Supreme Court
Ossified Man Breaks Joints for Burial
Fort Wayne on March 2 George P. Stewart aged forty five died with all joints ossified except jaws. It was necessary to break the joints in preparing the body for burial.
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Fort Wayne
George P. Stewart
English Ship Rammed by Steamer in Dover Collision
The English channel packet Nord was rammed by the steamer Lockwood of this port near Dover and towed here in a sinking condition. Passengers were landed safely.
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Dover
England
Nord
Lockwood
Emperor rules sportsmen may stop express trains
Vienna says a man who is a sportsman may pull the communication cord to halt a train even if it runs as an express. The ruling grows from a Budapest racegoers case en route to Alag where expresses do not stop.
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Vienna
Austria
Budapest
Alag
Miners Raise Their Demands
Illinois miners demand an average two cent rise per ton for coal mined in addition to the ten percent increase sought by the international union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfieyl
Illinois
International Organization
Noted Persian to Speak in Washington April visit
Abdul Baba Abbas, a noted Persian reform advocate who has toured Paris and London, plans to visit Washington in April to address the Persian-American Educational society convention. He campaigns for modernization in Persia and will speak at the event.
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Washington
Abdul Baba Abbas
Paris
London
Persia
Honor Woman Sleuth Becomes First Grade Detective
Mrs Isabella F Goodwin promoted by Police Commissioner Waldo to first grade detective in New York. She helped solve a taxicab robbery in which two bank messengers were robbed of 25000 dollars, by overhearing gang meetings while living as a domestic in West Twenty Fourth Street. Her son ranks below her in the department.
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New York
Isabella F. Goodwin
Police Department
Waldo
Goodwin
West Twentyfourth Street
Jury grants sole custody to father in Brooklyn case
In Brooklyn, Justice Moreau rules that all children are selfish and a mother is not necessary. Leroy Thompson, nine, is awarded to his father with visitation rights for the mother revoked. The decision cites the child’s focus on toys and pleasure as reasons he needs no maternal influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Suffering Suffragette Demonstrations Rock London
In London March 2 suffragettes carried out violent protests across several districts. A revolver shot shattered a colonial office window, three premier Asquith residence windows were broken, and many shop windows in Piccadilly Strand Haymarket Oxford Circus Bond Street were smashed. Between fifty and sixty arrests followed, including Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst. Police reserves were deployed at Scotland Yard.
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London
Eng
Colonial Office
Premier Asquith
Piccadilly
Strand
Haymarket
Oxford Circus
Bond Street
Emmeline Pankhurst
Oxford Street
Whitehall
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Charing Cross
Scotland Yard
WANTS REVOLT IN CANADA
In the Manitoba legislature William Molloy denounced eastern Canada’s defeat of reciprocity as hostility to the west and signaled support for a resolution to separate western Canada from the eastern dominion. He called the defeat a great blow to western Canada.
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Winnipeg, Man
Manitoba
William Molloy
Canada
Western Canada
Dominion
la Verandrye
Actors Plead For Censor In London Petition
Prominent actors and actresses led by Sir Herbert Tree petition the king to retain the censor amid controversy over Eden Phillpotts The Secret Woman. The motion comes as striking playwrights demand the censor's removal.
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London
Eden Phillpott
Herbert Tree
Hoe Estate Suits Ended
In New York on March 2 suits against the estate of Robert Hoe printing press maker were settled in the supreme court. Mrs. Margaret Johnstone Johns claimed damages of 230000 dollars alleging he gave her securities before death. Terms of settlement were not disclosed in the papers.
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New York
Robert Hoe
Margaret Johnstone Johns
Supreme Court
Morgan Buys Rare Coptic Manuscripts From Fayoum
J. P. Morgan will bring back from Egypt a unique collection of Coptic manuscripts found at a Fayoum monastery. Morgan paid 400000 dollars for the priceless relics destined to enrich a major museum collection.
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New York
J. P. Morgan
Egypt
Fayoum
Morar
Rebels Reported Approaching Matamoras Town
Brownsville Texas says Mexican rebels are approaching Matamoras opposite here. The group is reported to have captured Mendes and Burgos.
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Brownsville
Tex
Matamoras
Mendes
Burgos
Fatal Operation in Sterling Lancing Carbuncle
Nelle Cole died after a neck carbuncle lancing in Sterling when an artery was severed during the procedure. The incident occurred March 2 with medical staff attempting to treat the infection. The death is reported as the result of the operation.
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Sterling
Lit
Nelle Coleburg
Massacre and Mutiny in Peking Amid Looting and Fire
Reports from Peking describe mutinous soldiers looting and burning dwellings while aiming at foreign legations. Ten looters were executed by loyal troops. foreigners faced threats as casualties mounted. Separate dispatches recount mutiny near Fengtai and a San Francisco recovery of details on eight victims of a missionary massacre in Shensi.
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Peking
Yoan Kai
Wenner
Legation
Yes
American Legation
United States
William J. Calhoun
Edward Williams
A 1
Ife
Yuan Shi Kai Ha
Nanking
Fen
Tientsin
China
Fengtai
Pekientsin
Railwa
Somerset Infantry
Chang Kuesti'e
Yuan Shi Kai
San Francisco
Shensi
George Alstrand
Richard Beekman
Zelma Beckman
Ruth Kman
Hulda Bergstrom
Oscar Bergstrom
Hilda Nelson
Cacae Vantne
Sianfu
Philip Nelson
Nelson
Pinchow
30000 Tailors In Strike Across Germany And Prussia
Berlin dispatch reports thirty thousand tailors in Germany and Prussia striking for higher pay as of March 2. The action involves workers across major cities seeking improved wages and conditions.
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Berlin
Germany
Prussia
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Salis
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Lady Decies
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Darrow
Jimalco
Coahuila
Mexico City
Torreon
San Juan Guadelupe
Coronel Santibanez
Ojinaga
Rio Grande
Presidio
Valentine
Polvo
J. Flynn
Jurist
U. S
Calhoun
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