Tax Law Ratification Promises Revenue Boost
Congress plans to pass the income tax measure soon, expecting an increase of about $100 million. Delaware Wyoming and New Mexco legislatures endorse the bill likely drafted by Representative Hull of Tennessee. Tax assessment to be collected from individuals firms and corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Wyoming
Hull
Tennessee
Senate
Brown
Nebraska
Cordell Hull
House
Ways and Mans
Flouse of Representatives
Ila
Congress
Nein
Wooden Wilson
State Department
Gms
Scates Wese Sieg
Wromin
New Mexico
Income tax amendment ratified by Utah and Delaware
The sixteenth amendment to authorize income taxes gains ground as Delaware and Utah ratify. Delaware’s vote advances to 36 states, while Utah Senate approves the amendment 13 to 4. New Mexico delay noted. Wyoming and others yet to act. The move positions Congress to enact an income tax structure replacing the corporate levy, targeting individuals and firms.
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Su Steener
Congress
United States
Vicumn
Delaware
Pratt
Wromms
House
Utah Senate
Salt Lake City
Utah
Wilson confirms Tumulty as Secretary in coming administration
President elect Wilson declares he will run the cabinet process his own way and will not divulge future actions. He confirms Joseph P. Tumulty will continue as secretary, visits by Gov Osborn and others noted. Senate hearing on seven antitrust bills proceeds with opposition from Tidewater Oil and U S Steel counsel, adjournment set to Wednesday.
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Reimner
Osborn
Washington Post
Trenton
Wilson
United States
Joseph P. Tumulty
Tumulty
Mr Wilson
State House
Gov Wilson
Stanley
Kentucky
Goodwin
Arkansas
Callaway
Texas
Trible
Georgia
Russell
Missouri
Barrett
National Farmers’ Union
Agriculture
Charles G. Heifner
Seattle
Democratic Committee of
Washington
Heifner
Michigan
Senate Committee On Judicary
Gov. Wilson
William Lewis
Tidewater Oil Company
Richard ¥. Lindabury
United States Steel Corporation
Lewis
Samuel K Robbin
Talkpes
Joseph F Tumulty
Corps of Washington
Wife Too Fond of Society in Baker Divorce Trial
Thorne Baker testifies in Cincinnati that his wife Lucie Lawson Baker favored society life over family duties. He describes dinners, dances, moonlit strolls, balls, card parties, and car rides as sources of distress. Senator C W Baker seeks to have the petition dismissed and to obtain the decree.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohio
Baker
Thorne Baker
C. W. Baker
Lucie Lawson
W W Lawson
Wife Gore, He Dies After Despondent Suicide
William Crump Blick, 19, killed himself with carbolic acid after his wife Evelyn Franken Blick left him three months earlier. The couple married in April after a courtship of two weeks. Blick had threatened to die for weeks. he died en route to Homeopathic Hospital. The youth worked for his brothers as a clerk and had been drinking heavily since the separation.
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William Crump Blick
Q Street Northwest
Blick
Edward A. Bhek
Caroline
Salade
Edward
Ambler
Samuel
William
Florida Avenue
Second Precinct
Hughiett
Gibson
Hia
John 5S
Wallace Blick
Florida Avenue Northwest
Jonn S. Blick
Buck
Ivelyn Josephine Franken
Ireland
A A. Snyder
Sixteenth Street
Plot to Kill King Alfonso and Maura Arrests Reported
A Spain France French authorities disclose an anarchist plot to assassinate King Alfonso and Senor Maura. Suspects Francisco Sanchez Emiliano Barras and Antonne Oliveira are arrested in Huelva for involvement. Early reports say conspirators planned multiple life threats to monarchy officials. A note mentions Maura as conservative leader and ex premier. Later text advertises travel south via the Southern Railway.
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Cerbere
France
Huelva
Spain
Francisco Sanchez
Barcelona Modern School
Emiliano Barras
Antonne Oliveira
Alfonso A
Sanchez
Antonio Maura
Senor Maura
Conservative
Chamber of Deputies
Ghostly Arm Haunts Latrobe Homes in Chilling Encounters
In Latrobe Pennsylvania on February 3 a reported ghostly arm swept dishes from tables and lifted stoves, allegedly encircling the waists of young women. The phenomena disrupted homes including the Relig and Senrek families and prompted landlords to post To Let signs.
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Latrobe
Washington Post
Herman Relig
Waideriek
Rich Young Man Missing After Lakewood Party
Cleveland, February 3. Homer Everett, 2 years old, son of Sylvester Everett, a Cleveland millionaire, disappeared after stepping outside a Lakewood house party Saturday night. Police delay in search followed a failed canvass of his frequent clubs. his wife Flora Morris Mor ris is estranged and distraught.
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Homer Everett
Cleveland
Ohio
Sylvester Everett
Everett
Lakewood
Flora Morris
Calvary Morris
Police Graft Confessed by Patrolman Fox in Bribery Case
Washington press report details Patrolman Eugene Fox pleading guilty before Justice Goff after a confession to District Attorney Whitman. Fox admitted taking about $500 monthly from seven Raines law hotels from 1908 to 1912 and turning it to a police captain, claiming no personal protection money. He offered to aid Whitman with further evidence to expose higher officials.
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Washington Peet
New York
Eugene Fox
Justice Goff
Whitman
Fox
George A. Sipp
Harlem
James Brady
Sipp
District Attorney’s Office
Raines Law
Accused of Hiring Gunmen in Jersey City Conspiracy
Jersey City February 3 A sequel to the Thomas Conroy shooting emerged with the arrest of Peter P Murphy Hoisting Engineers Union business agent on a warrant charging conspiracy to kill John W Burke of the same union The affidavit from Burke claims the crime occurred before he planned to expose Murphy s actions Police pursue Kid Dynamite and Big Slim who fled after the shooting Conroy may recover
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Jersey City
N. J
Thomas Conroy
Peter P. Murphy
Hoisting Engineers’ Union
John W. Burke
Conroy
New York
Burke
Murphy
Union
Kid
Big Slim
Will Question Keliher About Bribery Probe
New York prosecutors plan to question William J. Keliher after he allegedly claimed paying protection money to a police lieutenant. The statements could lead to his being brought to New York to testify before an extraordinary grand jury probing graft and gambling operations linked to Kelcher and Walsh.
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New York
Grohl
Boston
William J. Keliher
Kelcher
Martin J. Walsh
Keliher
Steel Strike Breaks at Rankin and Braddock Plants
In Pittsburgh on February 3, about 200 of the 1,500 plus striking ironworkers at the Rankin plant returned to work, followed by more as the day wore on. Some pickets sought old jobs after realizing no impact. Braddock plant also resumed with an estimated 600 strikers back. A Donora mission to organize further failed to start a strike there.
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Pittsburgh
Rankin
American Steel and Wire Company
Braddock
Donora
Stees
Four Girls Rescued After Capsized Nanticoke Trip
A party of four girls and three boys set from Bethel for a river trip in a gasoline launch. After engine failure the boat drifted, a storm capsized it, and two girls who could not swim were saved with difficulty. All survived after clinging to the overturned craft until a sailboat rescued them. Names include Gladys Quillen, Hulda Hale, Linda Virden, Nettle Walls, Jennings Quillen, George Elzey Jr., and William Sauerhoff. Quillen and Elzey praised for saving others.
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Washington Post
Seaford
Del
Bethel
Nanticoke River
Miss Gladys Quillen
Misa Hulda Hale
Misa Linda Virden
Lewes
Misa Nettle Walls
Georgetown
Jennings Quillen
George Elzey, Jr
William Sauerhoff
Quillen
Elzey
John D Rockefeller gains 10 million from Standard Oil dividend
John D Rockefeller becomes about 10 million richer after Standard Oil of New Jersey declares a 339,332,000 total distribution on capital stock at 40 per share. The 46 percent melon is payable February 15 following the Supreme Court dissolution decree and adjustments to the parent company account.
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Rockefeller
Standard Oil
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Forth
Ib Hes
Njadé ‘Paymenta
Robber Was Gridiron Star
Chicago February 8 James Higgins the highwayman killed by Detective Otten while attempting a saloon hold up was a West Side college graduate and star football player in the last two years of his course. Higgins aged 23 and a friend of “Triby” Thompson who escaped Joliet penitentiary last year is sought by police in connection with recent robberies.
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Chicago
James Higgins
Otten
West Side College
Higgins
Triby’ Thompson
Jolst Penitentiary
Fine Edge to Gut Throat In Barber Shave Scare
Chicago era Feb 3 John Holm a newspaper man escaped serious harm after barber Perry Hall teased of cutting his throat during a shave. Holm, fearing insanity or drugs, joked back until the blade was finished. Hall remarked on the sharpness and threats. Holm left to file police charges as a hearing is set for tomorrow.
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Chicago
John Holm
Perry E. Hall
Holm
Hall
Frotm
Helm
Epidemic of Appendicitis Hits School Near Philadelphia
At the St. Francis Industrial School in Eddington near Philadelphia twenty nine boy students were operated on for appendicitis at a Philadelphia hospital. Four more were to undergo surgery next day. Dr Elwood Kirby suspects a microbe disorder and will investigate.
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Philadelphia
St. Francis Industrial School
Eddington
Here
Elwood Kirby
Br. Kirby
GEMS TO MAS TAFT PRESENTS JEWELLED TOKEN OF ESTEEM
Washington women raise a discreet fund to gift Mrs. Taft a diamond necklace and farewell keepsake, following a Roosevelt precedent. Miss Mabel Boardman leads the effort with support from Mrs. Richard Townsend and Mrs. Ellis, aiming for presentation shortly before Wilson's inauguration. The gift format and amount remain undecided, with subscriptions ranging up to a hundred dollars possible. The project mirrors the 1909 Roosevelt farewell gift and includes a companion friendship book for signatories.
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William Howard Taft
United States
Land
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Mabel Boardman
Miss Boardman
Mrs. Taft
Mrs. Pratt
Sris Boardman
Taft
Richard Townsend
Eilis
Mrs. Roosevelt
Miss May Willams
Robert Hitt
Henry Cabot Lodge
Hitt
Charles C. Glover
Miss Williams
States Ratify Income Tax Deeply Silent on Cabinet
The issue index notes the state ratified income tax while a cabinet crisis unfolds with a deceased spouse and police graft cases in New York. Trial testimony is expected as key figures test the official lines.
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New York
Beach
Adrianople
Taft
White House
Alies
House
T—Society
Automobile News
U—Financial
Leiter
Roumanian Demands Split by Bulgarian Leak
A London signed protocol between Roumania and Bulgaria leaks details of frontier claims. Roumania seeks Turtukal, Silistria, Dobruch, Kavarna, and Baltjik while Bulgaria limits to Kavarna east of Baltjik, excluding Silistria. The discrepancy centers on the Danube frontier and the Black Sea coast near Baltjik.
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Bulgaria
Bucharest
Roumanis
Roumania
London
Turtukal
Danube
Silistria
Baltjik
Black Sea
Dobruch
Turtukai
Kavarna
Beach Millionaire to Face Trial for Wife Stabbing
Frederick O Beach prominent New York millionaire will be tried in Aiken on assault with intent to kill Camilla Morse Havemeyer Beach. Prosecution rests on a prima facie case. defense cites Beach's innocence. Eight witnesses named. jury from 36 farmers. Miss Lallah Wyman testified by consent as ill witness. defense waives some objections. Judge J M Spain to preside. Beach and wife stay at a hotel amid lengthy legal preparations.
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Aiken
D. C
Frederick O Beach
New York
Camilla Morse Havemeyer Beach
R. L. Gunter
Beach
Herbert J. Gylen May
Wham Beach
H. H. Howard
HE. Holly
A. K. Lorenz
Heach
Tiss Marion Hollins
Gray
Gunter
Lallah Wyman
Mise Wyman
Boyden Mims
Columbia
J M. Spain
Aiken County Court
Allies shell city skirmish at Tchatalja reports surge toward peace
Balkan envoys hear rumors that Porte yielded and that the Turks may sign peace if terms are accepted at once. Reports describe mutinies in the Turkish army under Enver Bey, with Adrianople’s defenses and Scutari developments shaping a tense fight near Adrianople and Tchatalja.
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Scutamn
Adrianople
Nazim Pasha
Edward Gies
Osman Nizami Pasha
London
Berlin
Arabia
Izzet Bey
Tripoli
Enver Bey
Fethy Bey
Tchatalja
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Daily Mails
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Adranople
the Times
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