Suffragettes threaten more attacks on government property
The Washington Post reports suffragettes in London attacked the Tower of London jewel room with stones and threatened broader damage to government property. Leaders warn of further acts as police guard Winston Churchill and other officials. Mrs Pankhurst urges US suffragists to help, while royal palaces close to the public amid fears of incendiary attempts. The piece notes heightened security around Churchill, Asquith, Lloyd George, and Grey as the movement presses for votes for women.
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Speria Ubir
Washington
Edward Grey
Sloane Gardens
Lloyd George
Winister Asquith
Kensington
Hampton Court
Kew
Holyrood
Crystal gazer sentenced in murder case delays appeal
Mrs. Louisa Lindloft, a crystal gazer, was sentenced to 25 years for poisoning her son Arthur. The verdict and penalty were temporarily set aside due to a late attorney, with action deferred to February 21. Prosecution linked her to deaths in the family amid claimed embalming fluid use and medicine dependence.
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Catcago Web
Louisa Lindloft
Crystal Gazer
Arthur
Windes
Tr Seeress
Atorney
Mra Lindloff
Milwaukee
Favorable Senate action on workers compensation bill
The Senate judiciary committee approved a modified workers compensation act extending to express companies and railroads. It sets monthly wage bases at up to 120 dollars and provides eight years of payments for death or long term disability, with a life term for permanent total disability and a safety clause preserving other rights. Effective July 1, 1913.
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Senate Workmen’s Compensation Act
Expres
Hauge Judiciary Committee
Senate
Treasury power loss case shifts duty rate control
After six months study the Customs Court stripped the Treasury Secretary of the power to set maximum tariff protection on articles grown or manufactured in the United States. The court ruled that when an importer protests a higher duty, the government cannot confess judgment to avoid a test. the issue must go to trial and be binding for similar cases. The Newark case involving jute bagging was remanded for a new trial, allowing an American producer to seek greater protection through the courts.
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Customs Court
Secretary of the Treasury
American Manufacturing Company
Newark
Board of General Appraisers
Iowa lower house moves to bar mixed marriages
Des Moines February 1 the lower house indicated it would pass a bill to prevent intermarriage between whites and negroes, rejecting the judicial committee report by 24 to 46. The committee had proposed indefinite postponement.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Judicial Committee
Gunmen hunt Dynamite Kid and Slim Jim after Jersey City shooting
In Jersey City the shooting of Thomas Conroy is linked to gunmen known as Dynamite Kid and Slim Jim. Delegate Burke accuses union leaders and vows to expose conspirators. Detectives cordon the Buffalo Cafe area as they search for the two attackers who fled after the saloon assault.
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John W. Burke
Structural Iron Workers
Jones Street
Jersey City
Detective Bureau
Thomas Jersey City
New York Union
Burke
Lee
Ernest Wilhaber
Bey Pal
Judge Butler
Union
Salong
Oak Street
Brock
Buffalo Cafe
James Street
Park Row
Big Slim
Thomas Conroy
Bowery
Buffalo
Kid Dynamite
Jim
Wife's Bullet Kills Him During Arrest in Henderson
Deputy sheriff Gupton went to arrest Charles Snyder and his wife after a disturbance at a cotton mill village. Mrs. Snyder fired first wounding the deputy in the shoulder, then the second shot hit Snyder in the heart, killing him instantly as he ducked behind his wife.
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Henderson
N. C
Gupton
Charles Snyder
Charity Appeals For $14,000 To Aid Poor In DC
The Associated Charities and Citizens’ Relief Association report half of $28,000 needed has been contributed. Fourteen thousand dollars remains to enable the two groups to meet duties for relief and distress prevention in the District of Columbia. Receipts lag 25 percent behind last year, while December relief and family aid rose 25 and 30 percent respectively. Joint Finance Committee thanks donors and urges further gifts to support the ongoing work. Milton E. Alles chairs the committee. Corcoran Thom and John Joy Edson head Associated Charities. Michael Weller and William J. Finather head Citizens Relief Association.
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Associated Charities and Citizens’ Rebert Association
District of Columbia
Joint Finance Committee
Milton E. Alles
Howard S. Reenide
Associated Charities
Corcoran Thom
John Joy Edson
Catizens
Relic Association
Michael Weller
William J. Finather
Farmer interrupts suffrage speech with marriage proposal
In Danielson Connecticut on February 1, John Frisbie a wealthy Mechanicsville farmer interrupted Dr. Anna Howard Shaw during a National Suffrage Association address at the Danielson Theater. He proposed marriage after claiming eighteen years as a widower. Shaw rejected the idea saying she only wants the vote.
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Anne Howard Shaw
Danielson
Conn
Anna Howard Shaw
National Suffrage Association
Danielson Theater
John Frisbie
Mechanicsville
Miss Shaw
Frisbie
Dr. Shaw
Plan to grant indefinite leave and pensions for postal workers
A proposed amendment to the appropriation bill, backed by Senator Penrose, calls for indefinite leave of absence for superannuated postal employees. An examining board would review cases. if approved, the employe receives 600 dollars per year to cover a substitute at 3600 dollars annually, with promotion in the regular path and related duties during peak mail seasons without extra pay.
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Senatorsylvania
Ame
St. Ing
Penrose
House
Flood
Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Shively
Indiana
Mr Works
Cummins
Jonas
Police Aid Swindler Clew To $223000 Booty
Boston prison confession alleges a major swindle run from a New York house on West Seventy second Street. Big Bill Kelper says George W. Coleman stole from National City Bank of Cambridge and that $223000 of the funds were recovered or lost among Boston and New York players. He names a New York police lieutenant as a key participant and claims victims include bankers, a Harvard-connected pawnbroker, and several lawyers. The confession is being checked by John L. Bates and federal prosecutors, with potential arrests if corroborated.
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Bates
Massachusetts
Sam
G. W. Coleman
New York
Washington Post
Boston
Mass
Bill’ Kelper
Charlestown
Kellher
John L. Bates
National City Bank of
Cambridge
George W. Coleman
Bby
Faro Switdlers
Coleman
Kelcher
West Seventy-second Street
Harvard
West
Seventy Second Street
Kelither
State Prison
Leutenant
Walsh
Kesther
Keliher
I Walsh
Taft Receives Gridiron Club Token at Willard Dinner
President Taft, honored by the Gridiron Club at the New Willard Hotel, receives a large golden gridiron as a friendship token. The event blends celebratory caricature with sober notes as guests mock crises and discuss future administration plans amid a lively program featuring Taft, Wilson, Bryan, and other notables.
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Taft
New Willard Hotel
United States
Wilson
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Rip van Wankle
Shipping rate regulation urged by Pacific Mail executive
R P Schwerin vice president of Pacific Mail Steamship Co urged creation of a U S Ship Commission to oversee rate and traffic agreements among ship lines. He warned other government controls would ruin shipping and said railroad owned fleets would be forced from the trade under current laws, with possible further restrictions from the Wilson bill affecting Chinese crews.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Shipping Trust Innvestoating Committee
House
R. P. Schwerin
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Schwerin
Schwerm
Harriman Railroad
Lnes
Fortune tellers blamed as wife jumps into river
Mrs Agnes Walsh of Philadelphia, after a year of hallucinatory fears spurred by fortune tellers, leaped from the White Star pier into the river. A longshoreman saved her, and she was taken to Bellevue Hospital psych ward. Her husband had planned to send her to Ireland to calm her mind after a seer warned of a great fire in Ireland. She had been awaiting the Cymric’s sailing.
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New York
Agnes Walsh
White Star Line
Bellevue Hogpiat
Ireland
Walsh
Death of Ernest E Hart Former Iowa GOP Leader
Ernest E Hart banker from Council Bluffs and former Republican National Committee man for Iowa died today in Long Beach California after being ill. He was a prominent figure in Iowa politics and banking circles.
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Iowa
Council Bluffs
Ernest E Hart
Long Beach
Cal
Seven Years For Banker Mills in Bank Misuse Case
David S. Mills former president of Audubon National Bank was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for misapplying 350000 of bank funds. A jury found him guilty after a witness testified Mills enabled a loan by directing notes signed by washer women and newsboys to secure 50000 from the bank used to buy control of bank stock.
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New York
Audubon National Bank
David S. Mills
Atlanta
Mills
United States District Court
Boy Scout Tramp Finds Dead Inventor Near Jamaica
New York February 1 Troop of Boy Scouts found the body of Ferdinand Hook an inventor near Jamaica Long Island the revolver in his head and a bullet wound indicate suicide Arthur M Miller a Brooklyn boy of 16 located the body and may receive a reward of 11.00 for news of the missing inventor who vanished January 3.
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New York
Jamaica
Long Island
Ferdinand Hook
Arthur M. Miller
Brooklyn
Steel Strike Declared In Pittsburgh Against U S Steel
The American Federation of Labor calls a nation wide steel strike beginning in the Pittsburgh district, involving about 40 000 workers with plans to extend to Chicago Gary Ind Cleveland Buffalo Pueblo and other mills. The federation pledges a strike fund for up to a year and vows a broader fight for recognition by the steel trust.
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American Federation of Labor
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Washington Post
United States Steel Corporation
Frank L Morrison
Steel Corporation
Morrison
Steel
Gary
Ind
Cleveland
Ohio
Buffalo
Pueblo
Colo
Morrigan
Steel Trust
Federation of Labor
Matsui Promoted to Vice Foreign Minister in Japan
Tokyo announces Keishiro Matsui, former counsellor at the Japanese embassy in Washington, is appointed vice foreign minister. Tetsukichi Kurachi resigns as does Juichi Soyeda, president of the Industrial Bank, who leaves today.
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Tokyo
Japan
Febi Keishiro Matsui
Washington
T Day
Tetsukichi Kurachi
Juichi Soyeda
Industrial Bank
Castro to Have a Guard Cancels Banquet Speaking
New York february 1 Gen Castro canceled his plans to speak at a Northwestern Society banquet on Wednesday night. He authorized George Kerr to announce that after mature consideration he would not make a public appearance pending a federal court decision. Kerr said Castro wants to avoid situations that could spark controversy or be construed as hostile to his remaining in the United States. Friends say Castro plans to stay in America until the right to be admitted indefinitely is settled, possibly for a week or longer. He walked in Central Park and will remain in his quarters unless attended.
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New York
Castro
Northwestern Society
George Kerr
Committee On
Kerr
Gen Castro
United States
Gil
Owe six year term measure goes to house
The house will consider a six year term measure tied to a proposed amendment. If endorsed, states will be asked to ratify the amendment. The contest is close as supporters and opponents lobby heavily.
Senate vote seals six year presidential term amendment
Senate approved a proposal to amend the Constitution to a six year presidential term with no second term eligibility. The measure, needing two thirds, passed 47 to 2 after a three day debate, and now goes to the House and then the state legislatures for ratification.
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Senate
Works
du Pont
Houece
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French Lick Springs
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U. S. Ship Commission
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Keishiro Matsui
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