Anarchy Reigns as U S Hostage Fear Grips Mexico
Report from Mexico City says Mexican officials warn Americans and other foreigners will be held as hostages if foreign troops land. The government refuses arms, as Sanctioned violence grows with rebels threatening Guadalajara and states like Zacatecas Sonora Tabasco and Oaxaca defying the federal government. Consul General Arnold Shanklin plans to depart for Washington to urge action.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Manuel Calero
Senor Ancona
Madero
Zacatecas
Sonora
Tabasco
Chipias
Oaxaca
Guadalajara
Arnold Shanklin
Washington
State Department
Ice Holds Five Boats Near Racine Wisconsin
A Wind Point lightkeeper report states two car ferries are stuck in the ice several miles off shore, bringing the local total to five vessels icebound including the Goodrich line boat Racine and the C R M line tug Langlois.
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Racine
Wis
Wind Point
Here
Goodrich
Living wig cures baldness demonstrated in Budapest
Dr. Franz Szekely unveiled a new baldness cure described as a living wig to the Royal Medical society. A nearly invisible gold wire forms a loop holding sterilized hair placed on a needle point and implanted into the scalp, allowing 300 to 500 hairs to be inserted per hour without pain.
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Budapest
Franz Szekely
Royal Medical Society
Ship on Virginia Shoals sinks near Cape Charles
The four masted schooner Helen Thomas from Port Tampa bound for Baltimore with phosphate rock ran aground on the Cape Charles shoals while entering the Virginia capes in thick weather and will likely be a total loss. Eleven crew members were saved.
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Norfolk
Helen Thomas
Lermond
Boston
Port Tampa
Fla
Baltimore
Cape Charles Shoals
Virginia Capes
Baby swept from ship during harbor incident in Costa Rica
The seven teen months old child of Mr and Mrs A C Brooks of Kansas City Missouri was swept from the deck of the steamer Oreachian in the harbor at Port Limon Costa Rica and drowned. The tragedy was learned when the boat reached this port.
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Port Limon
Costa Rica
New Orleans
A. C. Brooks
Kansas City
Coal strike cripples UK public schools and transport
The coal strike closes public schools across Britain as heating fails and cold weather persists. Discontent grows over the government wage dispute with miners while compulsory arbitration is debated. Suburban travel slows, stations close, and many workers are laid off as cross-channel and Atlantic sailings face disruption.
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London
United Kingdom
Asquith
American Line
Philadelphia
New York
Southampton
Taft Busy in White House Working on Speeches
President Taft canceled cabinet meeting and his calling list today at the White House. He spent hours in study drafting speeches for his upcoming trip to Toledo and Chicago later in the week.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Toledo
Chicago
French Warship Sent to Mexico From Paris
The French government ordered cruiser Descartes to proceed to Mexico after considering fears of an anti foreign movement. The ship, then at Rio Janeiro, heads to Mexican waters. A Pacific Mail train in Omaha caught fire upon arrival, carrying 910 bags of mail and is described as a solid mass of ice.
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Paris
France
Mexico
Ministry of Marine
Descartes
Rio Janeiro
Pacific Mail
Omaha
Neb
Pacific Coast
Owen health measure would create an independent national bureau
Washington March 6 An Owen bill proposes an independent national bureau of health with a director appointed for six years at 6000 dollars annually. The director would lead three health commissioners and would operate outside any department, subject only to the president.
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Washington
National
Bureau of Health
Senate Committee On
Owen
Federal
Man Dead as Horses Frozen in Canyon Near Wagon Mound
The body of an unidentified man was found upright in a wagon in Carrizo canyon near Wagon Mound Mora county. The two horses chained to the wagon were frozen to death.
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Trinidad
Colo
Carrizo Canyon
Wagon Mound
Mora County
MacFarland Beats Hogan In Ten Round Bout
Packey MacFarland toyed with Ho gan for ten rounds at the Fairmount Athletic Club in New York. The California youth bound Hogan, dazzling and knotting him, with only a first round slip and slight ring marks. Weighs were Packey 186 pounds and Hogan 137 1/2.
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New York
Packey Mace-Farland
Hogan
Fairmount Athletic Club
California
Chicago
Packey
MacFarland
Woman Dies in Fire at Oak Park Home
Chicago reports the death of 75 year old Mrs Mary A Whiting during a blaze that seized the home of her son George Whiting at 131 South Scoville Avenue Oak Park Her daughter in law and the family maid escaped with difficulty after the elderly woman crawled to a second story window for help as crowds watched Firemen attempted rescue but could not save her
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Chicago
Mary A. Whiting
George Whiting
South
Scoville Avenue
Oak Park
Ex Mayor Schmitz Freed In Graft Trial Acquittal
Former San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz was acquitted in Judge Lawler's court of bribery charges involving former Supervisor Wilson. The judge instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, stating insufficient evidence for conviction.
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San Francisco
Eugene EB. Schmitz
Lawler
Wilson
Rail Clerk Heir to Million Dollar Estate
Omaha agreement reports Edward Mather a Rock Island railroad clerk as heir to one million dollars from the estate of his brother Robert Mather former head of Westinghouse Company. The court certificate confirms the inheritance.
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Omaha
Neb
Edward Mather
The
Rock Island Railroad
Robert Mather
Westinghouse Company
RABENAU UP FOR LIFE
Chicago reports John Stacey collapsed in the county jail after a 26 year sentence for the Kaufman slaying. William Rollin Channell received the same term, while George Rathenau known as Towhead was sentenced to life. Families fainted as verdicts were read and defendants were returned to cells.
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Chicago
John Stacey
Hattie Kaufman
Stacey
William Rollin Channell
George
Towhead) Rathenau
Nome
Military Activity Intimation Aimed at Rock Island Arsenal
The War Department notified Congress on March 6 of an expected military push and sought a $250,000 appropriation to enlarge the Rock Island Arsenal capacity in Illinois. The move signals planned expansion of wartime logistics and munitions storage.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Rock Island
Roosevelt Candidacy Endorsed by Texas Republican Committee
The Texas Republican executive committee endorsed Theodore Roosevelt for president in Port Worth on March 6 by a 27 to 1 vote. The move solidifies statewide party support for Roosevelt in the upcoming campaign.
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Texas Committee
Roosevelt
Port Worth
Tex
Theodore Roosevelt
Texas State
Republican Executive Committee
Woman Is Sentenced to Die for Hull Murder
In Plymouth Massachusetts on March 6 1912 Lena Cusumano of Hull was sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week of June 2 for the murder of her husband Frank in 1914. Enrico Mascioli alias Harry Marshall also drew a death sentence for participation. A crowd near two thousand gathered as Judge Joseph F. Quinn pronounced the sentence the first such ruling by the judge. Cusumano pleaded innocence saying she had done nothing.
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Plymouth
Mass
Lena Cusumano
Hull
Joseph F. Quinn
Frank
Enrico Mascioli
Harry Marshall
Quinn
Wheeler
Albert F. Barker
Cusumano
Stimpson Has Busy Day in Chicago During War Secretary Visit
Henry J. Stimson, secretary of war, in his first Chicago visit since Taft's cabinet. He gave interviews, met reception committees, and left for an inspection trip to Fort Sheridan. He denied Roosevelt ever stating he would not run again.
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Chicago
Henry J. Stimson
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Fort Sheridan
Stimson
Jennings Is A Cripple
Hughie Jennings remains in poor condition after a car accident last autumn. Trainer Larry Tuthill works to ease injuries, but recovery may keep him out for most of the upcoming season. Secretary Knox, in Corinto, Nicaragua, arrives with the Nicaraguan minister and his wife aboard the Maryland.
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Monroe
Hughie Jennings
Larry Tuthbill
Jennings
Tiger
Knox
Corinto
Nicaragua
Senor Piza
Maryland
Dr Sun Yat Sen to Make Peking the Chinese Republic Capital
Reports from Hwang Hsién near Chi Fu say imperial troops blinded and executed Christian converts. In Wei Hai Wei 1,000 killed as republican troops seize control. unrest spreads in Kwang Tong and Kwang Si with looting. Dr Sun Yat Sen plans to travel to Peking to establish a provisional capital as mutiny and disorder rise. Two U.S. gunboats ordered to Taku amid ongoing tension at the Pei Ho estuary.
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Peking
Hwang Hsién
Chi Fu
Wei Hai Wei
China
Kwang Tong
Kwang Si
Bun
Xankug
Sum Yat Sen
New Republic
U. S
Taku
Tientsin
Uall
Pei Ho
Thls
Pearl in Oyster Rescues Passenger Aboard Ocean Liner
Miss Bessie Swift of Cincinnati loosened by a doctor on the steamship Oceana after a coughing fit. A lodged oyster, discovered during the sea voyage from Bermuda, yielded a large pearl.
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New York
Bessie Swift
Cincinnati
Bermuda
Rosenburg
Oceana
Miss Swift
Five Die in Fire at Beaver Boarding House
A blaze at a Koppel boarding house near Beaver Pennsylvania killed five residents including the landlord his wife and three children all foreigners. Two others escaped after boarders flung them from a second story window into a crowd outside.
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Beaver
Koppel
Plot A Republic In Siam Uncovered In Bangkok
Bangkok March 6 A revolutionary conspiracy in Siam to establish a republic has been unearthed. Numerous army officers and prominent civilians were arrested and documents show the plot involved both the navy and the army in a coordinated effort.
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Bangkok
Siam
Father sues pastor over underage wedding claim
Montgomery Mo March 6 A novel suit filed names Benjamin Winsor farmer suing Rev Ika Palmer Baptist minister for 2000 dollars claiming he performed the wedding of Winsor’s daughter Frances to William Boone while the girl was underage The father says she was fifteen and the minister ignored parental objections The bride allegedly wore a shoe filled with numbers to appear over eighteen.
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Montgomery, Mo
Benjamin Winsor
I.ka Palmer
Frances
William Boone
Senate orders Percy resignation demand motion in Mississippi
The Mississippi Senate adopted a resolution demanding United States Senator Percy resign, asserting he promised to quit if he failed to win the Democratic primary. The measure moves to the House for action.
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Percy
Jackson
Miss
Senate
United States
House
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