150 Perish in Sea Disaster Off Rhode Island
Block Island observers report a night collision between three masted schooner Harry Knowlton and steamer Larchmont near Watch Hill. About 150 passengers and 60 crew were aboard. 48 bodies recovered, 19 survivors, many frozen. Cause under investigation. pursers list lost in sunken ship. accounts conflict between captains.
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Larchmont
Harry Knowlton
Rhode Island
Block Island
R. L
Yiersons
Block Island Sound
Toy Line
Providence
New York
United States Steamboat Inspectors
Lfe
Watch Hill
South Amboy
Boston
George McVey
Knowlton
Haley
Larchmont Disaster Toll Reaches Fatal Night Sinking
The sidewheel Larchmont, with 150 to 200 aboard, collided with the coal laden schooner Harry Knowlton off Fishers Island. Water flooded the hold, lifeboats and rafts were launched as passengers froze, many perished or remained missing, and Captain McVey credited the schooner’s course as a cause while crews faced a seven hour struggle before Block Island. The wreck left numerous named officers and passengers identified in survivor lists.
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Sana
Larchmont
Joy Line
Providence
Narragansett Bay
Acyund
Block Island Sound
Watch Hill
Fishers Island
George McVey
Harry Knowlton
South Amboy
Boston
McVey
Fishers Point
Burser
Block Island
Massachusetts Lawmaker Warns Against Federal Power Grab
New York Feb 12 Rep S W McCall of Massachusetts told the Republican Club of New York at the Waldorf Astoria that federal overreach threatens state autonomy. He argued states are best suited to handle personal government questions and warned against constitutional constructions expanding national power.
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Massachusetts
New York
Republican Club
8. W. McCall
Lenis City
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Congressman McCall
James M. Beck
Republican Party
O. O. Howard
James H. Wilson
Job &. Hedges
McCall
Washington
Nce
Mas x
Lincoln
South Carolina
Mr. Root
Webster
Congress
Former Gov Frank Wayland Higgins Dies in New York
Former New York Governor Frank Wayland Higgins died at 8 40 p m at his home in Olean after kidney disease worsened his long heart trouble He served as state senator from the Fifty first district and governed 1905 1906 He attended the inauguration of his successor in Albany despite illness and his death ended a long public career with family at his bedside and several officials cited in the report
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Hughes
Albany
Enior
Washington ‘Post
Olean
Frank Waylam Hieging
Higgins
Josephine Higgins
T. Harri
F. S. Smith
Angelica
Hibbard
Allan R. Williams
B. G. Janeway
New York
Hipeina
Frank
Wayland Higgins
New York State
Rushford
Allegheny ‘County
August
Orrin Trall
Locla Cc
Hapgoca Higgins
Riverview Miliary Academy
Poughkeepsie
New York City
Stanton
Mich
Kate C. Noble
Sparta
Wis
Pennsylvania
D. Cady Herrick
Chautauqua Assembly
Home For
Jumps on Bridge Endangers Train Passengers
Passengers on the Lehigh Valley Black Diamond Express were jolted by a derailed section on the Delaware River bridge in Blagton Pa. An iron girder kept the cars from plunging seventy feet to the river below. two cars skimmed the ties and edge, with several passengers injured by glass.救
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Blagton
Lehigh Valley
Delaware Bridge
Pennsylvania Railroad
H. Seaton
Bethlehem
Charles Cousins
Dias
M. HE. Colamas
Athens
Negro Porter
Irs Rena
Art treasures stolen in London burglary at Park Lane
A sensational London art theft at Wertheimer's on Park Lane is reported. Two Gainsborough canvases and a Reynolds work, valued around 80 000 dollars, were cut from frames. French snuff boxes and miniatures were also taken. The burglars exit with the loot and authorities seek the missing items. The case is described as the era’s greatest art burglary since the Morgan Duchess.
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London
Gainsbor
Duchess of Devonshire
J. Pierpont Morgan
Harry Raymord
Charles “‘Wertheimer
Park Lane
Gainsborough
Rey
Gainsboroughs
Plan to bar Japanese immigrants and San Francisco clash
President and Secretary Root pursue a plan to amend the immigration bill to exclude Asiatic immigrants from US insular possessions and the mainland, aiming to halt Japanese influx from Hawaii and Japan, with a treaty to follow. Secretary Root and Japanese diplomats exchange views as San Francisco school board pressure grows.
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Root
San Francisco
United States
California
Hawaii
Japan
Viscount Aoki
Wright
Tokyo
Jerome Stirs a Foe Alienist Only Witness
Dr Evans declares the thaw was insane yet the mind has improved suffering from brain storm a fulminating condition of mental unsoundness California lawyer angered by district attorney s charge that defense sought to mislead jury regarding surgical operation on Evelyn Thaw
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California
Evelyn Thaw
Thaw trial testimony cites insanity defense and brain storm
Dr Britten D Evans of the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane Morristown testified Thaw was insane and not responsible for shooting White. He described Thaw as suffering brain storm and stress since August and said he has shown improvement. A clash revealed Evelyn Neabit Thaw surgery was for appendicitis and the mother provided a long statement to the district attorney.
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New York
Jerome
Delphin M. Delmas
Harry Thaw
California
Evelyn Nesbit
Europe
Mr. Jerome
Britton D. Evans
State Hospital For the Insane
Morris Plains
N. J
Hary Thaw
Miss Nesbit
Mr. Delmas
Delmas
Britten D. Evans
New Jersey Hospital For the Insane
Morristown
Thaw
White
Evelyn Neabit
Dr. Evans
Comstock Society
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James Varn
Martin “Liebert
John Logan
Walter Louis Macfarland
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N.C
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Brook
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Claude W. Lynd
Fred H. Mooney
John Lewis
John Campbell
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Fred Ellsbree
Richard Swan
Quinsigamond Corp
Salvation Army
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John’ Molin
Ebmma. Breckland
Alma Johnson
Anna ' Oden
Evan Critchelow
J. D. Pitts
James McCloud
Benjamin Steiner
Benjamin Winieker
Stephen FE. Hedges
Koren Horajian
Olneyville
Rimes
Korajian
Robert Biggard
Claude BE Reed
Williard Franklin
North Aitleboro
Protto Dereco
Emanuel Lyon
Frank Wilson
Benjamin Cohen
Macktaz
Woonsocket
Ephriam Kaptan
Jennie Shugarman
Bertha Shain
Morris Baimholz
Jacob Michailson
Belmare
Sadie Michailson
B. J. Hazard
Robert Gay
Bridgeport
George Wyman
Taunton
Caster Hess
Herrick
J. B. Harris
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Walter George Smith
John Scott
Osborne
Mhs. Scorgan
Gil Chas
Sehmg
Ste Big
Gov. Higgins
Hicor
Ington
Frank W. Higgins
Black Diamond Express
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