Englion Miners Strike Will Continue Awhile
London dispatch reports Premier Asquith rejecting the miners amendment to the minimum wage bill, closing the door to immediate settlement. The dispute threatens renewed deadlock as unions face wage losses estimated at 26.4 million pounds.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
Enoch Edwards
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain
Edwards
Andrew Bonar Law
Scotland
Women Fight Fire Save Hopkins Town in Bucket Brigade
In St. Joseph Missouri on March 23 women aided by joining men to form a bucket brigade as a blaze destroyed several stores and threatened Hopkins. They helped control the fire and save the town.
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St. Joseph
Hopkins, Mo
Train Wreck Injures Fourteen in Fort William
Fourteen passengers were badly hurt when five coaches of the second section of the Vancouver express left the rails at Jackfish and rolled down an embankment. They are hospitalized at Port Arthur. Hamburg reports the steamer Augsburg bound for Cape Town has not arrived, raising disaster fears.
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Fort William
Ont
Vancouver Express
Canadian Pacific Railway
Jackfish
Lake Superior
Port Arthur
Hamburg
Augsburg
New York
Capetown
Blaze in Grand Boulevard Garage Wrecks Cars and Endangers Tenants
A Chicago fire at the Grand Boulevard garage caused $100,000 damage injuring three people and destroying 27 automobiles. Spectators watched Abraham Meens leap from the second floor amid flames and be saved by Mamie Lawrence. An electric spark ignited gasoline as Chief Seyferlich and firefighters fought the blaze.
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Chicago
Grand Boulevard
Abraham Meens
Union Avenue
Mamie Lawrence
Joseph Weiss
Seyferlich
Car Plunges Into Canal Injuring Dozen in Peru
An electric car from the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana line derailed in Peru and plunged 12 feet into the Wabash and Erie canal. Among the injured were Mrs. L. A. Edwards Mrs. Juanita Chapel Mrs. Maude Hackermayn Frank Farrell and William Mullican of the Missouri Girl show company plus ten others. No fatalities were reported.
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Peru
Ind
L. A. Edwards
Juanita Chapel
Maude Hackermayn
Frank Farrell
William Mullican
Missouri Girl” Show Company
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Heroic Rescue Saves Father and Neighbor in Mountain Flood
John 8. Hardy aged nineteen Nes at his Laurel Ridge home near Uniontown Pennsylvania. He suffered lacerations and dislocations from a swollen torrent while aiding in the rescue of his father and an elderly neighbor. The incident occurred March 23. Hardy acted with bravery amid dangerous flood waters.
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Uniontown
John 8. Hardy
Nes
Laurel Ridge Mountains
Fourteen Boys Open New England Bank in Quincy
Fourteen boys with an average age of fourteen form the youngest bank in New England in Quincy Massachusetts. They will deposit 50 cents weekly until the fund can invest in a business venture. In Washington, Senator Jones proposes a resolution stating Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin was not legally elected and should have his seat vacant.
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Quincy
Mass
New England
Washington
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Jones
Hetty Green Returns to Hoboken Friends
Hetty Green the wealthiest woman in America moves from her East Ninetieth street mansion to a Hoboken flat to reconnect with old neighbors. Colonel Edward H. R. Green explains she misses the simple life and evening chats with longtime friends.
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New York
Hetty Green
America
Hoboken
East Ninetieth Street
Col
Edward H. R. Green
Colonel Green
Caracas Welcomes Knox With Holiday, Arches and Flags
Caracas celebrates Secretary of State Knox with a triumphal arch and fluttering flags as Venezuela declares the day an official holiday in honor of his arrival. The city is festively adorned and marching bands may be seen at key avenues.
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Venezuela
Caracas
Knox
Bodies of 84 Found at Sans Bois Mine
In McCurtain Oklahoma 84 bodies have been recovered after a gas explosion entombed 116 miners at Sans Bois Coal. Twenty five were saved, seven more miners remain missing and a task force digs graves as 65 widows and 250 fatherless children mourn. Volunteers aid the burial effort as the town copes with the disaster.
Bachelors’ Tax Bill Nears Passage Then Killed
In Boston the lower house swung from near passage to a unanimous vote to kill a bachelor tax bill after substituting it for an adverse committee report by 76 to 48. The assembly regretted the reversal and moved to reject the measure.
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Boston
Committee On Taxation
One Below Zero Sets March Record in La Crosse
The La Crosse Wisconsin report for March 23 notes the temperature at one below zero, the coldest reading this station has recorded in the latter half of March.
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la Crosse
Wis
Worth $15 per week, western grads top value claim
President Thwing of Western Reserve University in Chicago estimates western college graduates are worth at least 15 dollars weekly, contrasting with eastern opinion of 6 dollars. He notes a million dollar endowment for RC medical school, including a quarter from John D. Rockefeller, and criticizes elective study for easy credits.
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Chicago
Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
Auditorium Hotel
East
Thwine
R.T. Crane
John D. Rockefeller
Thwing
Army Officer Dismissed for Drunkenness on Duty
President Taft has approved the dismissal sentence of First Lieut. Orra L. Houser Philippine scout. He was convicted by court martial of drunkenness on duty and inflicting cruel and unauthorized punishment on enlisted men under his command. Houser is native of Ohio and rose from the ranks.
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Washitalon
Taft
Orra L. Houser
Houser
Ohio
Roses
Resignation of Dr Harvey Wiley Cited in Senate Discussion
Washington March 23 Senate resolution expresses profound regret at the resignation of Dr Harvey Wiley head of the pure food bureau. Sen Martin of New Jersey introduced the measure seeking immediate consideration while Sen Gallinger objected and the resolution was read aloud. St Louis March 23 Dr Lindsay Wynekoop of Chicago urged adoption of babies by all earners, saying one child for those earning twenty dollars weekly and two for forty dollars weekly.
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Washington
Senate
Tarvey W. Wiley
Pure Food Bureau
United States
Martine
New Jersey
Gallinger
Heine
St. Louis
Lindsay Wynekoop
Chicago
National Congress of Mothers
Sidna Edwards II Captured in Virginia Courthouse Shootout
Sidna Edwards II, one of five original fugitives, is jailed in Hillsville Virginia as the Allens demand a second degree murder trial and venue change. Officials refuse the offer to plead guilty to second degree murder or relocate trials, insisting on first degree charges in Carroll County. Edwards, 22, tall and strong, was found wandering hungry with a limp after the courthouse shootout that targeted judge, sheriff, prosecutor, a juror and a woman witness.
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Hillsville
Allens
Sidon Edwards
Tin
Roanoke
Carroll County
Young Edwards
Sidna Edwards
Edwards Brothers
Edwards
Jasper Allen
Jack
Sidna
Richest enlisted man aboard cruiser Denver
At Mare Island California in March a crewman on the cruiser Denver, Chief Gunner's Mate B. Tommke, described as the richest enlisted man, is noted for medals from the Spanish War and a fortune of about $100,000 due to his grandmother’s death. He will continue to serve as a petty officer for at least two more years.
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Mare Island
Cal
March
Denver
B. Tommke
Tomko
General John W. Noble Dead at Eighty in St Louis
Gen John W Noble longtime terror to President Harrison era dies in St Louis after recently celebrating his eightieth birthday He was born in Lancaster Ohio graduated Yale in 1801 practiced law in St Louis married Elizabeth of Northampton Mass in 1864 his wife died in 1894 and he had no living children
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St. Louis
John W. Noble
Harrison
Noble
Lancaster
Yale
Lizzabeth
Northampton
Mass
Mrs Emleal C Johnson Dies in Cincinnati at 83
Mrs Emleal C Johnson mother of B B Johnson president of the American league and baseball commissioner died in Cincinnati at age eighty three. She was a native of Wooster Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Emleal C. Johnson
B. B. Johnson
American League
Baseball Commission
Wooster
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Lillian Sucher
William Burger
Burger
Rosalsky
Folke E. Brandt
Schiff
Canadian Pacific
Indiana
Lad
Start Bank
Stephenson
Marty- Sty
Peaker
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Clark
Federal Furnace
U.y
Federa Furnace Company
Charles Lionhood
Escanaba Avenue
Harry Falberg
Anthony Avenue
Gus Anderson
Avenue L
John Smelski
Houston Avenue
Anderson
Falberg
Lionhood
Smelski
H. C. Heslitt
Heslitt
Mhaca
N. Y
Ralph Stockmann Tarr
Cornell
Brown Stone Palace
Enfete
Oklahoma
Massachusetts
Virginia
John P. Chadwick
Maine
Havana Harbor
Arlington Cemetery
Havana
Western College
Eastern
Wiley
Sidna Edwards II
Jack Tar
U. S
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