United States and Foreign Powers Respond to China Turmoil
U S cruiser Cincinnati may reach Taku and 200 marines arrive from Shanghai. Manila plans add battalion to North China expedition under Gen Bell. Foreign ministers protest Chinese troop presence near the Tientsin concessions as looting spreads in Shantung and Peking. Military options discuss foreign troop movements to deter anti foreign outbreaks.
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Tientsin
Taku
Manila
P. L
J. Franklin Bell
North China
Fifteenth Infantry
Liew
Edwin A. Root
United States
Warren
Calhoun
Peking
China
Yuan Shi Kai
Shantung
Tsiwan
Weihaiwei
Tsingtao
Japan
Liaotung Peninsula
Chinwangtao
Senate approves reopen-judgment bill in Brandt case
Albany March 8 the senate passed a bill allowing a judge to reopen a case after conviction if newer developments cast doubt on the verdict. It was drafted to address issues in Folke E. Brandt who was sentenced to thirty years for burglary at Mortimer L. Schiff’s New York home.
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Albany
N. Y
Senate
Folke E. Brandt
Mortimer L. Schiff
New York
New York Central Accused of Paying For Influence
Clarence J. Shearn charged that the New York Central paid about $50 000 yearly to Tammany Hall and that influence over legislatures helped kill bills including death avenue. He urged passage of the McManus Murray act to remove railroad tracks from Eleventh Avenue in New York City. The claim drew a sharp rebuke from Senate Railroads Committee chair Thomas Hardin.
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Albany
N. Y
New York Central
Tammany Hall
Epictetus
Death Avenue
Clarence J. Shearn
Eleventh Avenue
New York City
Thomas C. Hardin
Senate Committee On Railroads
Shearn
Legislature Passes Presidential Primary Law in Michigan
In a special session the Michigan legislature approved a presidential primary law effective immediately. It will direct voters to express preference for nominees and issue binding instructions to delegates to the national conventions.
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Lansing
Mich
Gates Seeks Witness Fee Vouchers For Memorial Purpose
Charles G. Gates asks Chairman Stanley of the steel investigating committee for vouchers for his father John W. Gates witnesses fees and mileage. The claimed amount is about 28 dollars.
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Washington
Stanley
The
Steel Investigating Committee
Charles G. Gates
John W. Gates
Gates
Knox Heads Toward Corinto Amid Guarded Mission
Secretary of State Knox and party depart San Juan del Sur for Corinto with a pilot engine leading the special train. The government provides an armed guard for Knox during his stay in Nicaragua. He cancels plans to visit the city of Granada.
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San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Knox
Corinto
Granada
Notable hotel man killed in fall from roof in Fond du Lac
Qicharles LD Devoin, a leading hotel entrepreneur in Wisconsin, died after a fall from the roof of a four story flat building in Fond du Lac. Police and coroner investigations are expected to follow.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Qicharles LD
Devoin
American Ponies Triumph At Auteuil Meeting
American horses won two races at the Auteuil meeting in Paris. Coppee owned by Thomas P. Thorne captured the Prix Ro nan Oak a selling hurdle over 5600 yards one mile seven and a half furlongs. Le Miracle owned by Eugene Fischer took the Prix Mandeville a steeplechase handicap over two and a half miles worth 2046 dollars.
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Paris
Thomas P. Thorne
Coppee
Eugene Fischer
Ohio convention backs women’s vote in elections
The fourth constitutional convention of Ohio adopted a proposal to amend the state constitution to permit women to participate in all elections. Delegates forwarded the plan for ratification by male voters along with other amendments.
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Columbus
Constitutional Convention of
Ohio
Sensational flight as Salvi nears nonstop London return
Paris reports Salvi, flying from Jasy Aerodrome, reached Issy after 227 miles in 325 minutes on a nonstop attempt to London. He endured cold rain, was helped from his monoplane, then warmed with hot drinks and blankets. Coffyn in New York gave a nine minute bay flight circling the Statue of Liberty with hydro-aero penne.
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Paris
Salvi
Jasy
London
Issy
Hendon
New York
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
Frank T. Coffyn
Coffyn
South Pole
Pole
Scott
Australia
New Zealand
Ross Sea
Roald Amundsen
Norway
Amundsen
South America
Penalties Recovered for Hours of Service Violations
The Interstate Commerce Commission announces penalties for federal hours of service violations. Judge Dietrich fines the Oregon Short Line railroad eight hundred dollars. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley and Illinois Central receive one thousand dollars each, and the Southern railroad pays five hundred dollars for safety appliance violations.
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Washington
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dietrich
United States Circuit Court of Idaho
Oregon Short Line
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Illinois Central
Southern Railroad
Denver Millionaire Thomas S. Hayden Dies Suddenly
Denver March 8 Thomas S Hayden president of the Denver Union Water company and a prominent Colorado figure died suddenly of acute indigestion in Denver.
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Denver
Colo
Thomas S. Hayden
Denver Union Water Company
Colorado
Two Explorers Claim South Pole in Global Race
Europe debates Scott and Amundsen pole claims as Amundsen reports progress from Hobart and Christiania cites a Fram dispatch. Peary and Nansen offer cautious praise while Scott’s voyage, aided by scientific aims, remains unconfirmed.
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Europe
London
Robert Falcon Scott
South Pole
Christiania
Norway
Roald Amundsen
Wellington
New Zealand
Amundsen
Hobart
Tasmania
Scott
Fram
German general strike in Prussian coal fields expected
Cologne March 8 officials forecast a general strike in the Prussian coal fields next Monday after a prepared strike order. troops are deployed at labor centers to protect non union workers while Christian unions oppose the walkout. Workers demand a 15 percent wage rise despite some owners granting 9 percent. Coal stocks dropped several points.
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Cologne
Alimony Granted Wife Wins Divorce in Seattle
Mrs Edna Hackett aged 59 obtained a divorce from John Hackett 63 on proof of habitual drunkenness The court decreed she should pay her divorced husband 40 dollars a month for his support during his life The couple's property valued at 26000 dollars was awarded to Mrs Hackett
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Seattle
Wash
Edna Hackett
John Hackett
Fast Train Derails Near Cleveland Destroys Shack Kills Switchman
Five Pullman cars of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train No 26 the Twentieth Century Limited derailed near Collinwood yards Cleveland. They smashed into a shanty killing Peter Mauer a switchman. A few passengers were injured. John G Shedd of Marshall Field and Co elected to Baldwin Locomotive Works board of directors in Philadelphia.
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Cleveland
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Twentieth Century Limited
Chicago
Collinwood Yards
Peter Mauer
Confess Their Guilt Former Gets Year Dating From Last December
George Graham Rice and Bernard H. Scheftels of B. H. Scheftels & Co pleaded guilty to conspiracy and misuse of the mails in a U S district court case. Rice drew a year in jail dating from December 29 with good behavior credits. Scheftels received a suspended sentence. other defendants were discharged. The firm’s offices were raided September 29, 1910 by justice department agents.
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New York
George Graham Rice
Bernard H. Scheftels
B. H. Sheftels & Co
United States District Court
Rice
Scheftels
Charles F. Beiser
Charles B. Stone
Ralph E. Waterman
B. H. Scheffels & Co
Broadstreet
Department of Justice
Swing to Madero Gains Momentum in Mexico
March 8 report from Mexico City notes General Orozco's Chihuahua defection and rebel discord boosting support for President Madero. Church and wealthy classes shift to his side as cadet enlistment from prominent families strengthens confidence. Morales and Guerrero show improved conditions.
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City
Mexico
Orozco
Chihuahua
Madero
Morales
Guerrero
Landslide halts work train. flagman saves twenty
Prompt flagman action saved twenty lives on a work train when a massive rock slide of about 75,000 tons roared onto the Columbia and Port Deposit railroad above Port Deposit Maryland. The slide was the largest on the Susquehanna east shore, with a single boulder estimated at 20,000 tons. Joliet farmers banquet marks wealth near five million in Will County. Two hundred landowners attended as James Patterson, age eighty, presided.
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Port Deposit
Columbia & Port Deposit Railroad
Susquehanna’ East Shore
Joliet
Will County
James Patterson
Woman Convicted of First Degree Murder in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City on March 8 reports Mrs. Bessie Gentry convicted of first degree murder for the death of her husband. Her punishment was fixed at life imprisonment by the court.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Bessie Gentry
Senate Ratifies Arbitration Treaties Leaning Toward Peace
Washington March 8 the senate ratified taft era arbitration pacts with England and France by 76 to 3 after a three day debate. Amendments questioned Monroe doctrine alien admission to states and school terms. Opponents claim the treaties are badly altered and unlikely to be pressed by the president.
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Washington
Taft
England
France
Senate
Am ‘le Cault
Knox
Free Seeds to Constituents Under Scrutiny in Congress
Washington reports continued gifts of free seeds to constituents funded by the sar ment amid weeks of turbulence. A 26 item in the cultural department appropriation faces reconsideration as lawmakers oppose the gratuity. An amendment by Represen tackson of Kansas would shift the seed program to the department or to Congress itself.
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Washington
Representackson
Kansas
Department of
Strike situation improves as miners reopen talks
London reports a first sign of easing in the strike with some North Wales miners resuming negotiations to return to pits. While settlement prospects brighten, conditions in other industries worsen with widespread layoffs and growing distress among workers.
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London
England
North Wale
Corbett to Pitch for Beaumont in Texas League
Winona Minnesota March 8 In response to a telegram from manager Eddie Wheeler of Beaumont Ted Corbett former Rochester manager joins the Beaumont pitching staff in the Texas League after leaving Rochester last season.
Fears of Big Strike Spur New York Coal Rush
New Yorkers rush to stockpile coal amid fears of a 180 000 miner walkout on April 1. Railroads report shortages and tightening supplies, prompting dealers to raise prices from the regular March level as miners and operators prepare for possible disruption.
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New York
Tron
Nea
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Cyrus Sulloway
New Hampshire
Brandt
M’cormick
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District of Columbia
Medill Mc Cormick
Women's Welfare Department
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McCormick
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Cal
San Geronimo
N. Y. Central Railroad
Michigan
Young Gates
Weats
Airman
Statue of Liberty
Peary
Nansen
Commodore Peary
Fridtjoff Nansen
Arctic
Captain Nansen
Robert Falson Scott
Port Chalmers
Royal Geographical Society
Shackleton
Twentieth Century
Doane
William C. Doane
Bishop Doane
Flagman
House
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