Bomb Kills Woman As Husband Arrested In Hallway Package
In New York Bronx a woman named Magdalen Herredo was killed instantly when a bomb in a package exploded in their hallway. Herredo and boarder Sarah Fughtmann were badly injured. both were Cuban. Police arrested both as material witnesses. The incident echoes a prior case involving actress Helen Taylor.
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New York
Mra
Magdalen Herredo
Bernardo Herredo
Bronx
Herredo
Sarah Fughtmann
Miss Fughtmann
Healey
Dougherty
Fayrot
Manhattan Exe War
Parcel Post Dinner Serves Dishes From Far Cities
Mr and Mrs A J Chies of Peekskill staged a parcel post dinner with a menu of foods sent from distant locales. Out of town guests mailed items from their homes before arriving, including chicken and bones from Houndbrook, bread and cheese from Virginia, meat products from Chicago, fruit from Washington, and pastry from New York.
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Washington
A J. Chies
Puckskill
Parcel-Post
Parcel Post
Peekskill
Harry White
Houndbrook
Herbert
Chicken thief fined after long chases in Missouri
In Columbia Missouri on February 2 Frank Jackson stole a chicken from the Whegans household. He was spotted by a neighbor who alerted poultry traders to detain him. Officers recovered the fowl and the hen returned to roost near the Whegans home, prompting a fine of one dollar.
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Washington Post
Columbia
Frank Jackson
William Whegans
Wiggans House
Jackson
Explosion Kills Ten in Havana Hardware Store
An explosion at a hardware store in Clenfugos, Havana, yesterday killed ten people including the proprietor, his wife, and their two children, with many others injured. The Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company office across the street was damaged and several staff were hurt. communications were interrupted but restored today. Authorities believe blasting powder stored for sale caused the blast.
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Havana
Clenfugos
Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company
Sala
Seine Flood Threatens Paris Subway Work
River Seine rises due to heavy rains swelling tributaries and flooding Paris wharves. authorities warn water may climb another two feet in 24 hours while engineers rush to build dams to shield subway workings and protect navigation.
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Seine
Paris
Defy Steel Strikers Rally 50,000 May Involve If Strike Spreads
Pittsburgh report details steel strike at Rankin and Braddock with about 2,000 on picket and 200 volunteers for duty at multiple mills. United Mine Workers pledge aid, organizers to mobilize 60,000 more workers if strike extends beyond Pittsburgh. Pickets disrupt commutes. a foreign boarding house burns amid unclear cause.
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Pittsburgh
Rankin and Braddock
American Steel and Wire Company
United States Steel Corporation
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Rankin and Braddock Mills
Rankin, Braddock
Edgar Thomson
Duquesne
Homestead
Carrie Furnaces
United Mine Workers of
Amerca
United Mina Workers of America
T. H. Flynn
Steal Corporation
Burgess J. Knox Milligan
Rankin
Charles Carr
Carr
Paby
Warrant Issued in Jersey City Labor Conspiracy Case
In Jersey City on February 2 a warrant for Peter J. Murphy walking delegate of the hoisting engineers union was issued on a conspiracy charge. John W. Burke accuses Murphy of plotting with Ernest Wildhaber Kid Dynamite and Big Slim to harm labor leader Thomas Conroy who remains near death after a shooting.
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Nail Burke
Murphy
Army Reorganization Creates Three Infantry Divisions
President Taft directed a four department U S army reorganization effective February 15, creating three infantry divisions and one cavalry division, with four geographic departments and three coast artillery districts. Major generals and brigadiers were assigned to command departments, divisions, brigades, and districts, while Hawaii gains a new infantry brigade under Brig Gen Montgomery Mc Macomb.
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United States Army
Taft
War Stimson
Continental
United States
War College
General Staff
War Department
Governors Island
Chicago
San Francisco
San Antonio
Cavalry
Eastern
Thomas H Barry
Central Department
William H. Carter
Southern
Tasher H Bliss
Arthur Murray
Philippine Department
Franklin Bell
Luzon
Clarence R. Edwards
Mimdanao
John J. Pershing
Hawaiian Department
Frederick Funston
Marion P. Maus
Robert K Evans
Carter
Ramsay D Potts
Frederick A. Smith
Ralph W Hoyt
Walter S Schuyler
Tasker H. Bliss
Frank West
Second Cavalry
Steever
Charles A. P. Hatfield
Thirteenth Cavalry
Hawaii
Philippines
Coast Artillery
North Atlantic
Delaware
Fort Totten
N. C
Tngether
South Atlantic
Baltimore
Galveston
Charleston
D. C
Pacific
Fort Miley
Cal
Thlevy
Montgomery Mc Macomb
Secretary Stimson Advocates Army Reorganization Plan
In an outline of the new army plan Secretary Stimson says for any emergency only a single order will mobilize a division or brigade. Immediate movement of large forces is not required as the department studies the problems and will issue transfers later. Staff officer assignments to commands under the new plan will be announced in the future.
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Coast Artillery
Lavalry
Stimson
Former Napoleon equerry commits suicide in Paris
Antoine Fardet, 78, a former equerry in the service of Napoleon III, strangled himself today with the cord of his eyeglasses in Paris. Officials attribute the act to long standing mental troubles.
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Napoleon I
Paris
Antoine Fardet
Napoleon III
Park-in-the-Pines Hotel Burns In Aiken South Carolina
A large three story Park-in-the-Pines hotel in Aiken South Carolina burned at noon trapping few guests who fled with personal belongings scarce. Manager Cal A E Dick was rescued unconscious from smoke. The fire spread rapidly through an elevator shaft and caused extensive losses including cash jewelry and furniture.
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Park-in-the-Pines
Col. Dick
Baltimore
Aiken
Park-in-the-Pries
Cal. A. EB. Dick
Joss Iz
John” W. Nary
Trenton
N. J
C. Th
Coal Baron Denies Engagement To 21-Year-Old Bride Hopeful
Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, a wealthy coal man, reportedly to marry Mabel Moredock at Jefferson in Green county after divorcing Blanche Gardner Thompson who received a $1,000,000 settlement. The 58 year old, once linked to Mary Anderson, and known as a prominent race figure, avoided confirming the engagement at his Uniontown home.
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Trivorce
Washington Post
Pittenburgh
Josiah van Kirk Thompson
Blanche Gardner Hawes Thodpson
Mabel Moredock
Jefferson
Green County
Mr. Thompson
Thompson
George N. Moredock
SONS DEAD MOTHERS HELD IN GAS DEATH CASE
East St Louis February 2 Mrs Pearl Bell Stebbins and Mrs Nell Carpenter mothers of two boys found dead of gas asphyxiation on the same bed are under arrest. The boys George Stebbins thirteen and Ralph Carpenter six were found dead as Mrs Carpenter returned with a man. A gas pipe in an adjoining bedroom fed the fumes. At the coroner inquest late last night Mrs Stebbins entered the house with a man while a woman and man waited outside.
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East St. Louis
Pearl Bell Stebbins
Nell Carpenter
George Stebbins
Ralph Carpenter
Pigeon Delivers Note From Ocean About Missing Skins
A carrier pigeon on the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm carried a message to a New York hotel noting that Mrs. Schubach left two sable skins in her suite before sailing to Europe with her husband. The birds had been kept at the hotel since the couple’s 15 month stay and were taken on the voyage. The bird released at sea reached the hotel by wireless.
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New York
Bremen
A. Schubach
Seattle
Wash
Griswold Divorced Over Desertion in Divorce Suit
Special to The Washington Post New Haven Connecticut February 2 a divorce has been awarded Helen Bancroft Griswold from Daniel Eddie Griswold on the ground of desertion. She is the daughter of Mas Bancroft a retired army officer and formerly prominent in Washington society. The Griswolds moved to New York City in 1907 where Mrs Griswold alleged she was deserted.
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Washington Post
New Haven
Conn
Helen Bancroft Gris‘wold
Daniel Eddie Griswold
Mas. Bancroft
New
London
Washington
National Capital
Griswald
Griswold
Govermnor
Connagueur
Pie
Mowmendon
Ships Crash At Sea In Collision Off Delaware Breakwater
The Hamburg American liner Prinz Oskar returned to Philadelphia after aiding the sinking four-masted schooner City of Georgetown, which foundered near Five Fathom Bank Light in calm seas. The City of Georgetown sank in eight minutes, seven crew rescued. Prinz Oskar with a hole in bow carried passengers and will be repaired at New York Shipbuilding.
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Philadelphia
Hamburg
Lana
City of Georgeown
Delaware
New York
Savannah
A. J. Slocum
New York Shipbuilding Company
Five Fathom Banks
George Town
Cape Hatteras
Panic at East Side theater leaves two dead
A boy cries fire as a reel explodes in a crowded East Side theater in New York. A stampede through a single exit and steep steps injures eleven and kills two women. About 100 additional people wait in the vestibule as police and Fire Commissioner Johnson note perilous conditions in dozens of similar venues.
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New York
East Side
East Houston Street
Mdewalk
Aets & Police Station
Johnson
Honor to Mrs Laughlin private audience with king
London dispatch says Mrs Irwin Laughlin, wife of the American chargé d'affaires in London, is to be honored with a private audience by the king and queen immediately before the first official court next Friday. She will then join the royal supper party.
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King
Washington Post
New York
London
New York American
Irwin Laughlin
Four Die as Fire Ravages Sacramentos Apartment House
In Sacramento on February 2 a blast and flames tear through the Bt Nicholas apartment building after an oil burner fumes leak. Four persons are dead. another dying. ten injured with burns or broken bones. search for more bodies continues. Names listed include Nora Lawrence of Wells Fargo Express, Albert Fear Southern Pacific machinist, W J Dunn local manager of a typewriter company, and engineer Harold Protztian. Dunn, an artist of magazine covers, jumped from windows along with others. Property loss estimated around 7000 dollars.
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Sacramento
Cal
Nicholas
Nora Lawrence
Welle-Fargo Express Company
Albert Fear
Peneloner
Southern
Famous Resort Hotel Burned
A renowned resort hotel was destroyed by a blaze, with investigations into causes and the extent of damage ongoing. Fire officials reported the incident as a major urban fire affecting tourism and local economy, with no immediate word on casualties.
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Neo
Wilson
Meyer
Castro
Congressional Club
Federal Control of
Expulsion of 466 Texas A&M Students Sparks Senate Debate
A special legislature committee investigates the expulsion of 466 students at State Agricultural and Mechanical College by President R. T. Miller for insubordination. The juniors, sophomores, and freshmen demand reinstatement of all dismissed students, setting a tense course toward a House and Senate review.
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Texas Collegians
Hazers
Washington Post
Austin
Tex
R. T. Miller
State Agricultural and Mechanical College
House
Senate
Turks Hold Back Fire and Balkans Debate War Duty
Ottoman delegates in London urge restraint to avoid carnage and duty to Europe while Balkan powers press for forceful terms. Daneff portrays Balkans as Americans of Europe, urging Turkey to quit Europe or face renewed war and isolation. Adrianople siege and internal Turkish tensions referenced as Berlin weighs peace terms.
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Turkey
Daneff Déclaris Moglem
Europe
Lenden
London
Porte
Constantinople
Alizes
Daneft
Daneff
Balkan
Oqeman Nisam Pasha
Adrianople
Daily Mail
Ers
Nazim ‘Pasha
Tehatalja
Berlin
the Express
Sofia
Ferdinand
Cabinet Choices Near Final Selections for Wilson Era
Obadiah Gardner of Maine and William G. McAdoo of New York gain high favor for Agriculture and Navy posts. William J Bryan and Mitchell Palmer emerge as top picks for Secretary of State and Treasury, with Henry Henry for Attorney General after support from Bryan and key senators.
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Palmer
Treasury
Smith
Henry Morganthau
New York
Henry
Bryan
Apedal
Washington
Trenton
William J Bryan
Mitchell Palmer
Pennsylvania
Robert L Henry
Texas
Wilson
Messrs
Gov. Wilson
Mr. Bryan
Hoke Smith
O'Gorman
Gore
O’gorman
Smirtin
Representative Henry
Miami
Congress
Sheppard
O Gorman
Guv Wilson
Mr. Henry
Mr Henry
Obadiah Gardner
Maine
William G. McAdoo
Agriculture
Navy
Shot Dead by Burglar in Ansel Road Home
Cleveland Ohio report says Captain Ralph E Byrns a retired lake steamer captain was shot and killed by a thief who forced him to raise his hands as he and his wife returned from church. The gunman fired hitting Byrns in the forehead. He had commanded an ore steamer owned by Kinney Steamship Company before retiring.
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Cleveland
Unio
Ralph E Byrns
Ansel Road
Byrns
Kinney Steamship Company
Day-old Becker baby dies in New York hospital
A baby girl born to Mrs. Charles Becker at Women's Hospital Saturday died today despite physician efforts. Mrs Becker remains seriously ill, hospital staff hopeful for her recovery. The infant's father Charles Becker learned of the birth, while the baby’s death follows a weak heart cited as the cause.
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Washington Post
New York
Charles Becker
Women's Hospital
Wee
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