Brainy four hour war of words in Senate heats crowds
A crowded Senate chamber witnessed a four hour clash over the Santo Domingo treaty and party discipline. Senator Patterson of Colorado defended his stance while Senator Culberson and Senator Bailey delivered sharp counterattacks. The debate featured intense exchanges, a packed gallery, and a dramatic confrontation over caucus rules and political loyalties.
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Santo Domingo
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House
Renate
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Speever
Romacien
Cenator
Colodoan
Santo Kemingh
Daes
Tillman
Spooner al Trough
Dynamite Found at Astor Theater Construction Site
A dynamite blast threat was found in four bored holes in a derrick at the Astor Theater under construction on Forty-fifth Street and Broadway. A half burned fuse neared the explosive as detectives hunt for the culprit, unsure if this was a wrecking attempt or a publicity stunt.
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Washington Post
New York
Astor Theater
Forty-fifth Street
Broadway
Triek
Wiether
Fim
Burglary at Wormser Home Ends With Park Pursuit
Miss Carne Wormser awoke to a burglar rifling her room and stealing a jewelry assortment valued highly. Leopold Wormser fired four shots toward Central Park, drawing police and hotel guests into a pursuit that traced the thief to the park. No arrest had been made by daybreak.
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Central Park
Wormser
Arso
Iotel Majestic
Barnard
Adyganing
Connor
Seventy-first Street
Reprieve Granted for Mrs Tolla in Hackensack Murder Case
Gov Stokes in Trenton granted Mrs Antonette Tolla a reprieve until March 22 to allow her counsel Quackenboss to present further evidence for a new trial. The board of pardons requested the reprieve. A new execution warrant will be issued for Jerry Rossi, convicted of murder in Bergen County.
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Hackensack
Trenton
Stokes
Antonette Tolla
Quackenboss
Board of Pardons
Jerry Rossi
Bergen County
Rossi
Fifty Die in Chile Labor Riots at Oruro Kholar
A telegram from Artofagasta reports railroad laborers in Oruro Kholar on strike. About fifty men are said killed during rioting as authorities seek to pacify the protests. Cruisers are ordered to Antofagasta with troops to restore order.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Artofagasta
Bay of Morena
Oruro Kholar
Antofagasta
Field Maneuvers Extend Across Luzon for China Service
Major General Leonard Wood orders extended field maneuvers across Luzon to fit troops for possible service in China. The plan uses additional regiments arriving to broaden operations on the island and prepare units for potential deployment, signaling intensified readiness.
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Luzon
Manila
Feo
Leonard Wood
China
Pat Crowe on Trial in Douglass County Court
The trial of Pat Crowe, charged with robbing and kidnapping in the Cudahy case, began in Douglas County District Court in Omaha. Prosecutors aim to secure a jury as the proceedings open today.
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Cudahy
Omaha
Nebr
Pat” Crowe
Collateral Behind Hanover Bank Deposits Tied to 1905 Notes
The Washington Post reports in New York that Walter Guy Furnald, the last of six defendants in the Imperial Trustee Underwriting swindle, was located in Toronto. Evidence links John A Thompson and Jacob L White to certificates of deposit and collateral tied to Hanover Bank, with Furnald facing arrest and connections to Leary and various aliases. Foster Hooper of Hanover Bank explains the collateral arrangement and a pending court action in Boston and New Jersey.
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New York
Imperial
Toronto
Walter Guy Furnald
William B Weary
Hanover Bank
John A Thompson
Wall Street
Jacobs
Jacob L White
Imperial Trustee Company
Furnald
Capital Securities and Purchasing Company
Thompson
Fhe
Walter
Furnall
Rogues’ Gallery
Tunald
Robert T Simpson
J VY Scudder
William Furnald
London
San Quentin
California
Foster Hooper
Cortelyou Hooper
Leary
Fred W Jacobs
Boston
Mass
United States Post Office
Cortelyou
Hangier Bank
Scranton, Factoryville and Tunkhannock
Hooper
United States
Haly
New Jersey
United States District Court
Cortelyot
Savings Bank Commissioners
Supreme Court
Bank 2
Cleveland Declines Buffalo Address Invitation
Former President Grover Cleveland, in a letter to the Erie County Bar Association and the Lawyers' Club of Buffalo, declines delivering an address at the annual banquet, citing his health and a planned Southern trip that would prevent a visit to the city.
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Buffalo S Y
Grover Cleveland
Erie County Bar Association
Lawyers’ Club of
Buffalo
Delver
Delirious mother kills newborn, wounds child in Pittsburgh
In Allegheny, Mrs. R. Kavel, in delirium, killed her newborn and fatally cut her three-year-old daughter Margaret with a penknife. Kavel is in critical condition with pneumonia, recovery doubtful. The incident shook Pittsburg authorities February 7.
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Pittsburg
Great Goal Strike on Loyal to the Union Cause
Washington Post dispatch from Pittsburg reports a Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal strike spreading as 10 000 miners 2000 railroad workers and 500 shop men are ordered out after wage scale talks failed Aimed at securing a unified wage demand, the stoppage prompts halted coal shipments from Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railway and planned mass meetings in Punxsutawney and Reynoloaville to organize actions, with Johnstown miners eager for a nationwide walkout and convention debates continuing on strike strategy
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Washington Po
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Dubois
Clearfield & Jefferson Coal and Coke Company
Yatesboro
Helvetia
Sykesville
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad Company
Punxsutawney
Reynolisville
William Curtis
Indianapolis
Sesmon
Rumors of Fresh Negotiations Stall Miner Meeting
Objections grow that public support for miners may not endure as in the past. President John Mitchell of the Mine Workers' Union postpones travel from Wilkes-Barre to Indianapolis and New York, fueling talk of new talks with soft coal operators and possible Civic Federation involvement in settling disputes.
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Wikerbarre Pa
John Mitchell
Mine Workers’ Union
Indianapolis
New York
Civic Federation
Coleman’s Stock Theft Case Fades in West Side Court
New York February 7 George Coleman testifying in the West Side Court admitted he found a envelope with 50000 dollars worth of stock in his trunk while packing for Philadelphia He returned to find his wife and two men had fled and later discovered the envelope in his wife’s trunk He denied threatening to shoot his wife and clashed with defense counsel over alleged publicity of his stock
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Washington Post
New York
George Coleman
Frank Stanley
West Side
Coleman
Philadelphia
Mother Kills Lover Witnessed by Daughter in Parkersburg
Robert Whiteman of nearby Elizabeth, Wirt County, is jailed on charges of murdering Edward Deevers. The crime occurred after Deevers, favored by Mrs Whiteman’s daughter, was forbidden access to the house. The mother admitted shooting him from about one hundred feet as he approached the Whiteman home, and the daughter witnessed the killing.
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Washington Post
Parkersburg
W Wa
Robert Whiteman
Elizabeth
Wirt County
Edward Deevers
Wood alcohol kills smuggled into Castle William prison
Mass poisoning at Castle William on Governors Island leaves private Robert Howell dead and Richard Sullivan dying after drinking smuggled wood alcohol. Eleven more prisoners are ill with eight in serious condition as Gen Mederick Dent Grant orders a rigid inquiry. A private from New England was the first to cry out Help I am burning up and perish within minutes.
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Tech
Castle William
Governors Island
Mederick Dent Grant
Department of the East
Robert Howell
New England
Cohol
Fie
Richard Sullivan
Sullivan
Mondas
Yale Professor Dies After Horse Fall
New Haven Conn Feb Dr John Slade Ely professor of theory and practice of medicine at Yale Medical School died from a fractured skull after a fall from his horse last Monday He was thrown onto an asphalt pavement and never regained consciousness.
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New Haven
Conn
John Slade Ely
Yale Medical School
de Bly
Secret Double Wedding Ties St Louis Couple to Clayton Ceremony
St Louis on Feb 7 reports a secret double marriage in Clayton performed by Justice Campbell. Monnay James B Hopkins, heir to a wealthy vice president of the Diamond Match Company, wed Miss Kelley. Julius Meyer and Mary E Smith also tied the knot at the same ceremony. Hopkins listed Detroit and Kelley Buffalo as addresses. Meyer and Smith reside in St Louis. The four, close friends, traveled to Clayton together for the ceremony. Hopkins' father had gone East a week earlier and his mother yesterday, unaware of the nuptials.
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Monnay
James B Hopkins
James Hopkins
Imamond Match Company
Mise 1
Kelley
Clayton
Justice Campbell
Julius Meyer
Mary E Smith
Hopkins
Detroit
Miss Kelley
Buffalo
Mr Meyer
Miss Smith
Cummins After Third Term Announces Candidacy
Pringhar Iowa Feb T-Guy Cummins virtually announced his candidacy for a third term saying a formal announcement would occur in a few days The governor spoke at the Farmers Institute during a special visit urging railroad-rate legislation to cheers The piece also notes Moet & Chandon White Seal champagne imports in New York totaling 99387 cases in 1905, a rise over prior years.
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Pringhar
Iowa
Guy Cummins
Farmers’ Institute
United States
Moet & Candon
New York
Governor Signs Greater Pittsburg Consolidation Bill
Governor signs the bill to unite Pittsburg and Allegheny under a joint vote. The action, reported from Harrisburg, specifies one consolidated city as the outcome of the measure. Details list a local advertiser and address variant for context in the notice.
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Harrisburg
Goor
Tennis Star William Clothier Injured In Horse Accident
Philadelphia reports tennis star William Clothier badly injured from a fall while riding near Linne rc. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon and was disclosed today. His planned February 21 wedding to Anita Porter is postponed. Gardener Jeffrey Powers died after helping clothier upstairs, triggering heart failure.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
William J Clothier
Lyire
Wynnewood
Linnerc
Clothier
Moss Anita Porter
William W Porter
Walnut Street
Jeffrey Powers
Ballitore
Clothier Place
Powers
Isaac Heiohfer
Use of wine at wedding robs private affair of decorum
Finances W Graham asserts wine at Miss Alice Roosevelt's wedding breakfast is private and not the business of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. He says public figures' nuptials should not be dictated by any organization and that protests to bottle discipline are improper, though some Western branches have feebly objected.
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Washington Post
Lockport N
Alice Roosevelt
Womans Christia Temperance Unions
W Graham
Cit
WCTL
Yes
Gramm
Wink
Roosevells Slaughter
Misa Alice
New York State
Pleas in Rebate Case Against Railroad Officials
Chicago February 1914 Pleas of not guilty to illegal rebates were entered before Judge Bethea in U S District Court by Chester M Dawes for Chicago Burlington and Quincy and officials Claude Burnham and Darius Miller. The corporation and officers were indicted for rebates to United States Steel Products Expert Company. Judge Bethea accepted the plea and Dawes asked for no immediate trial. Assistant District Attorney Childs said delay agreeable to the government.
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Bethen
United States District Court
Chester M Dawes
Burlington and Quincy
Claude Burnham
Darius Miller
United States Steel Products
United States Steel Corporation
Bethea
Dawes
Childs
Three Killed by Dynamite at Utah Camp
An explosion at the Utah Construction Company camp at Tank Point on the Western Facis¢ Railroad line 40 miles west of Grantsville Utah killed three men and seriously injured four others. No names released. A surgeon was dispatched to the camp. The report arrived today. Robert M Sutton Dead. Baltimore man and head of the dry goods arm of R M Sutton Company died tonight of heart disease after weeks of illness. He was born in 1831 in Westmoreland County Virginia. Moses February Furniture Sale offers furniture for every room at reduced prices.
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Hken
Western
Pennsylvania
National Executive Board
Salt Lake City
Utah
Utah Construction Company
Tank Point
Grantsville
Robert M. Sutton
Baltimore
Robert M Sutton
R M. Sutton Company
Westmoreland County
Accused offers to help firm cited in federal probe
The Washington press report recounts statements by E Virgil Neal former president of Life Chemical and Tirgit Neal about a Post Office inspector pressuring him and a brother of an Assistant US Attorney General offering to revive the company’s literature for pay The cross examination also describes Neal’s allegation that the Postal Department was crooked and that the inspector pressed him to cooperate with a government case accusing Life Chemical of mail fraud and conspiracy with other officials and lawyers involved in the matter
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The
Concern
Washington
New York
Ray
United States
Ridgway
Force of Life Chemical Company
Tirgit Neal
Quael
Post Office Department
United States Attorney General
John S Cooper
Cooper
S Andrews
County Medical Society
Ve Post Office
Force of Life Comany
Mr Neal
Syracuse
Neal
Eal
Economeite
O Kerry
Never Ft
Pideu
United State Dstrict
Lanter Vause
Mutiny Aboard Marblehead Reported By Special Telegraph
Special dispatch details a mutiny aboard the Marblehead during a southern voyage. Captain Mulligan faced a crew protest over coal and rations, with several sailors refusing to work until promised better conditions and fresh provisions at San Diego. Some crew admitted limited discipline, while others denied widespread trouble.
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Pichting E
San Francisco
San Diego
Mulligan
Severr
Post Office Robbery Sparks Shootout Near Verr
Two African American suspects surprised at Verr post office near here last night. They opened fire on Keefer Burkett and Henry while fleeing with letters and packages. A coat with a bullet hole was found on the road, and men escaped in a running pursuit as officers recovered some mail. Sandusky Merchant’s Downfall, Sandusky Ohio Feb. T- John J Esch, a prominent local merchant, was convicted of embezzlement by a jury and faces jail after bond default. Esch was secretary of the Eagles lodge and accused of diverting over 37.
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Ala
Thei
J M Christian Nis
Christian
Alabama
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Ile
Verr
George Keefer
Frank Burkett
Wiliam Henry
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Ohio
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Esch
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Fussell
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