Roosevelt Aims to Assure Latin Nations US Respect in Rio Talks
The Secretary of State will travel to Rio de Janeiro for Pan American conferences. He intends to assure South American nations that the United States seeks not to dominate but to foster development of resources. Reports from multiple sources indicate Latin America welcomes dialogue, while European powers watch closely for any implied claims.
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Rio Janeiro
United States
Washington
Europe
Juartess
Latin America
James G. Blaine Seme
Elise Ae
Mewlization
Mnite
Wistinetio
Uruguar
Nial Montevideo
Roosevelt
Roaseaye
North
Tme
Argertin
Armerican
Utsraml
Evelt
Americas
Manrore
Mrr
South America
Stooseyvelt
Root
America
Func
Monroe doctrine to gain new life in Latin America
A discussion predicts a revived Monroe doctrine through a Rio de Janeiro conference. It argues for a specialized tribunal to settle Latin American European credit disputes, with roots in Roosevelt era policy and possible U S influence via Secretary Root on a South American tour.
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United States
Europe
Sont Tribunal
Bureau of American Republics
Washington
Roosevelt
Santo Domingo
Root
South America
Firemen Rescued as Blaze Ravages Broadway Building
A six story store and factory at 26 38 Broadway suffered a $250,000 fire today. Four upper floors burned out and lower sections flooded. Firemen were injured trapped under burning packing boxes but saved by fellow crews. Occupants included Phillips Anderson & Co hats Helier & Co pants J and F Goldtone cloaks Louis Auerbach neckwear Cohen Lang clothing and Slipita Dinkelspiel cloak makers.
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New York
Broadway
Theames
Phillips, Anderson & Co
Helier & Co
J. & F. Goldtone
Louis Auerbach
Cohen & Lang
Sliplita & Dinkelspiel
Tariff to Have Field Day in Pittsburg Banquet
Congressmen Charles E. Littlefield and Eugene N. Foss arrive in Pittsburg for a tariff discussion at a Merchants and Manufacturers Association banquet. Foss supports reciprocity. Littlefield will reply. Other speakers include Charles H. Grosvenor and Joseph H. Gaines. Plus note on Moet & Chandon champagne imports showing strong demand in New York.
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Pittsburg
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
Eugene N. Foss
Boston
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Foss
Ohio
Joseph H. Gaines
West Virginia
Moet & Chandon Champagne
Lst
United States
New York
Mort & Chandon Champagne
Mort & Chandon
Miners Handed a Weak Majority Rule Clash Over Wage Scale
Patrick Dolan of the Pittsburg district United Mine Workers explains his Indianapolis vote to maintain the present wage scale and criticizes John Mitchell. He argues small districts can block agreements, warns a nationwide strike looms, and recalls past soft coal battles, coalfield woes, and agency leaders’ roles.
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Pittsburg
Indianapolis
John Mitchell
Patrick Dolan
United Mine Workers of America
Dolan
Illinois
Perry
Hinois
Lingis
TlHnois
W. D. Ryan
United States
Michigan
British Columbia
New York
Tle
Dail
Wny
American Federation of Labor
Mitchell
Haskins
Ohio
Hi Ins
Colorado
Virginia
Central
Cabin Creek
West Virginia
Meyersdale
Alabama
Ilx
Irwin
Miner Leader Speaks On Duty To Tell Truth To Miners
A veteran unionist from Scotland and America rallies miners with a pro truth platform. He cites thirty five years in the trades union movement and lessons learned from renowned labor figures including Alexander McDonald. He vows to stand with his platform before the miners and the public, even if it costs him.
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Mitchell
Trades Union Movement
Scotland
America
Alexander McDonald
Burglars Steal Edson Villa Silverware at Irvington
Three burglars forced entry to Franklin Edson Jr.s country villa at Irvington-on-the-Hudson and stole 2500 dollars worth of silverware. A pursuit by a posse covered three miles before the thieves fled. Detectives Fee and Shay later nabbed three suspects on a White Plains trolley after one bundled bundle revealed the loot.
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Washington Post
White Plains
N. C
Franklin Edson, Jr
Edson
Manhattan
Irvington-on-the-Hudson
Eugene Fee
Shay
Fee
Wee
Police Staton
Tivington
Mr. Eolson
Thomas Nesiy
Rioters Besiege Chicago Parish House Over Priest
Police defend Father Edward Stefanowicz as six officers and four attackers are injured in a riot by about three thousand Lithuanians near the Providence of God church in Chicago. Women led the crowd, bricks and stones flew, windows were broken, and fifteen rioters were arrested after an hourlong siege.
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Chicago
Washington Post
Catholic Church of the Providence of God
Fighteenth
Union Streets
Edward Stefanowicz
John Tammalis
Styme
Maurice Moore
Canalport Avenue
Stefanowice
Three Killed by Train Near Selizland York Pa
Three crew members of a fast freight were killed when their locomotive wheel burst near Selizland, sixteen miles south of York. Conductor Silas Alder of Baltimore Engineer John Baughman of New Freedom Pa and brakeman Frank McFadden of Baltimore died after a passenger train struck them while they examined the wheel, the escaping steam obscuring the oncoming train.
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Washington Post
York
Northern Central
Selizland
Silas Alder
Baltimore
John ©. Baughman
New Freedom
Frank McFadden
Leitzland
Two Died by Asphyxiation at Fort Wadsworth
Concord New Hampshire February 11 Private Frank M Norton Coast Artillery stationed at Fort Wadsworth and Mrs Nellie Fagan of Concord were found asphyxiated by gas today in a room broken open after they were last seen shortly after midnight Authorities could not determine whether death resulted from suicide or accident.
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Concord
N. Hi
Frank M. Norton
Coast Artillery
Fort Wadsworth
Nellie Fagan
Bryan speech sparks Chinese boycott fears in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong the Bryan speech at a Chinese merchants dinner is said to have triggered Chinese agitation against American labor and proposed exclusion changes. Reports say Shanghai Canton and Hong Kong delegates outlined twelve changes and urged passage in Congress, prompting stronger boycott pressures. A Canton dispatch also cites anti foreign sentiment tied to the Canton viceroy’s actions.
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Spokane
Wash
Samuel Glasgow
Seattle
William Burtt
William J. Bryan
Hong’ong
Bryan
Shanghai
Canton
Hong Kong
Congress
Mr. Bryan
Labor Party
Bréan
Hongkong
United States
Predicted massacre in China alarms American friends
Cincinnati visitor Wong Fong, former secretary of the Six Companies in San Francisco, warns that Boxer trouble in China could trigger a great massacre. He telegraphed Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco to leave China by February 24 and seek German protection. He says orders to expel foreign elements came from the Chinese Reform Association.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Il—Wone Fong
San Francisco
China
Seattle
Los Angeles
Germany
Ah Tiong Wai
Train to Havana Planned by Flagler for Cuba Run
Henry M Flagler, famed Standard Oil figure, orders Florida East Coast engineers to develop a through train service to Havana. He envisions ferry-like barges carrying train cars to navigate all weather, enabling riders to board in Jersey City and stay aboard to Havana without changing cars. If feasible, boats will be built to carry all through trains, linking the Florida coast line with the Cuban capital.
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Washington Post
Mobile
Ala
Cuba
Florida East Coast
Henry M. Flagler
Florida
Florida Coast System
Havana
Flagier
Florida East Coast Line
Jersey City
Gen Sherman Bell to star in Denver melodrama
Denver notes Gen Sherman Bell famed for Rough Riders and Cripple Creek riot suppression will appear on stage at the Broadway Theater. He plans to select about a dozen of his former troopers to join the production. He will wear the $1,000 uniform worn during the Worlds Fair reception with Gov Peabody at Planters Hotel.
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Denver
Washington Post
Colo
Sherman Bell
Cripple Creek
Gov. Peabody
Ewell
Planters Hotel
Death by self inflicts tragedy at South Orange home
Charles C. Cameron grain broker and South Orange social figure shot himself in the forehead with a .22 revolver on the lawn at 118 Vose avenue. Once Chicago firm McReynolds & Co. representative, he had worried over business after the firm’s failure. A Maryland born 42 year old with a widow and two young children.
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Washington Post
South Orange
N. J
Charles C. Cameron
Vose Avenue
South Rye
Cameron
McReynolds & Co
Chicago
Wealthy Ithaca Woman Falls From Hotel Window
Mrs. Mary N. Hulse a wealthy resident of Ithaca fell from a fourth story hotel window to the pavement just before noon and was killed almost instantly. Investigators believe a sudden fainting spell caused the accident as she opened the window for air and lost balance.
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Hulse
Ithaca
Mary N. Hulse
Death of Third Agnostic Ends a Frightful Trio
Cincinnati reports the sudden death of Jar Knox Polk Bigger, last of a trio of agnostics who drew public attention over three months. Earlier, William Drinker, once wealthy New Yorker, shot himself after composing pipe odes and letters. Dr T Tanski died after a fall from a grate. The Bigger case, tied to a dispute over cremation for Miss Tanski, closed with Bigger’s sudden death as legal appeals continue. Rieger, a Confederate veteran and resort operator, is also noted in connection with secret societies.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohio
Knox Polk Bigger
Sunda
William Drinker
Society of Agnostics
T. Tanski
Dr. Tanski
Bigger
Miss Tanski
Rieger
Fiflih Street
Barker Goes to Pelham With Suspect in Jewels Theft
Chief of Police Br. H. Marks of Pelham N Y escorted Robert Barker the negro butler to Pelham after his arrest on a charge of robbing the house of Thomas H McInnerny of Pelham Manor. Barker is accused of stealing 2000 worth of jewelry. most pieces were recovered though some pawned items remain missing.
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Ansewer
BR. H. Marks
Pelham
Robert Barker
Thomas H. McInnerny
Pelham Manor
Barker
McInnerny
Threw dynamite into stove in revenge attempt
Brownsville Pa February 11 George Carter a Slav was arrested tonight for attempting to blow up a boarding house with dynamite at Whitsett a mining settlement in Fayette County Carter quarrelled with two fellow countrymen then returned and tossed dynamite into the stove causing an explosion that seriously injured two Slavs who were hospitalized in Connellsville.
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Brownsville
George Carter
Whitsett
Fayette County
Carter
Connellsville
Peril of Troops in Tibet Denied
London reports both the foreign office and the India office had no knowledge of a British garrison in Tibet being surrounded by hostile tribes. The item notes official denial amid the Tibet situation. A separate banking notice invites savings accounts at Union Trust Co with 4 percent interest on surplus funds.
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Tibet
London
Foreign Office
India Office
Banking Dept. of Union Trust Co
Social and Person: & Sporting News and Cossip
Index to 10-day issue listing sections on Europe’s eyes on South America Dolan sues no hope of averting strike Bryan’s influence in China more money for mail service workers leap safely from fire vase supply for Philippines bad answers legislature fist fight in colored church what Congress has done Adams defends whipping post let week in Wall Street reviewed editorial comment talks with Washington’s visitors events in nearby straw friends rope a peace meeting
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Europe
South America
Dolan
Bryan
China
Wodmen
Vase
Philippines
Congress
Adams
Wall Street
Washington
Sporting News
Cossip
Straw
Fire destroys trolley power plant in Poughkeepsie
A fierce early morning blaze consumed the power house and rolling stock of four trolley lines in Poughkeepsie. The three story brick building housed the trolley shed, generator, engine boiler, and drying rooms, with estimated losses of about 15000. The fire began at 1230 a.m. in the drying room and engulfed the interior within minutes, reducing the structure to ruins in an hour.
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Poughkeepsie
Wa Poughkeepsie
Iirolley
Poughkeepsie City and Wanpingers Alls Fledtric Railway Company
Fire Panic in Tenement at Bramuller Piano Factory
Fire at Bramuller piano factory on Tenth avenue and Titty first street caused damage around 10000. The blaze threatened several adjacent four story tenements forcing occupants to flee. Police ordered evacuations but crews confined the fire to the factory.
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New York
Bramuller Piano
Tenth
Velutini Secret Deal Linked to Venezuelan Cable Row
Dispatches report General Velutini aligned with Paris and blamed for unrest over the French cable concession. Venezuela’s army is about 4000, with limited modern arms and a large stock of old rifles. treasury shows 206000. Castro boasts on Monroe Doctrine as turmoil grows and foreign residents face expulsion.
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Velutini
Paris
Castro
Curacan
Venezuela
Une
Vincente Gomeu
Antonio Velutici
France
Pany
Commissariat
van Kestern
Railways Mail Service Funding Faces $43 Million Ask
A Government hearing outlined proposed increases in the Railway Mail Service budget including a next fiscal year appropriation of 43.25 million for railway post office cars and 621 thousand for postal cars, with detailed figures on current year spending, maintenance, and payrolls. The testimony noted rising route lengths and mail volumes, concerns over railroads paying inflated salaries to clerks, and the influence of railroad management on postal car use and costs.
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Ira E. Bennett
Post Office Department
Millwiy
Beta Tenis
Dunwre Fd
Imchi
Shallenberger
Overstreet
Lia House Committee
M Shallenberger
Afton
Sappipu
Fini
Sa Ea
Duel Fears Spark Between Press Figures in Atlanta
Special to The Washington Port Atlanta Ga. editors Joan Temple traves of the Atlanta News and Col James W English Jr governor staff chief have denounced each other in published cards amid litigation over the News after an injunction to prevent Graves from landing on its editorial pay They are long time rivals with sharp reputations Cal English a veteran military officer and Graves claim Southern chivalry and Grady’s successor They are due in court tomorrow sparking fears of a personal confrontation if the dispute cannot be restrained
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Washington
Atlanta
Joan Temple Traves
Atlanta News
James W. English, Jr
Povvernor
News
Graves
English
Gov. Terrell
Cal ‘Harry
Silverman
New Orleans
Cal English
Georgia
Cal. Graves
Henry W. Grady
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Brazil
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Littlefield, Foss, Grosvenor
Ryan
Mark Hanna
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Kentucky
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J. H. Corning
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