Arrest of J W Irwin in Chicago Triggers Wider Labor Conspiracy Probe
Indianapolis February 18. Federal indictments allege a dynamite plot involving 52 labor men with Frank M Ryan and Herbert Hockin among key figures. Evidence includes letters, telegraphs, and McNamara confession trials set with witnesses from unions. Irwin’s Chicago arrest advances case with two defendants still at large. Grand jury witnesses say telephonic monitoring aided the investigation.
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J. W. Irwin
Chicago
Bond
Indianapolis
Inn
Charles W. Miller
Inter= hational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
M Ryan
Herbert Hockin
Atener Caphle
Onwaricus
Ryan
Rile F McManikal
Hl Ij McNamara
John J. McCoy
Wheeling
W. Va
Patrick Ryan
Trace Irwin
John W. Irwin
Peoria
Structural Ironworkers’ International Union
United States
Mark Foote
Irwin
Anylum
P. H. O'Donnell
Grand Rapids
Mich
Walter Drew
National Erectoral Association
Frank M. Ryan
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Frank Ryan
Iabor
Han
Herbert S. Hockin
William Lehoupe
James Cooney
Richard
Obituaries and funeral notices dated February 1912
Multiple brief death notices list names such as Charles Farrar George Say, Martha Flasher Finer, Harry Travelman, Jane S Lindsay, Amanda Nairs, Margaret Stod and others. Entries indicate dates February 16 to February 19, 1912, with residence locations in Washington and surrounding areas, and funeral arrangements at local churches and cemeteries including Congressional Cemetery Mount Olivet Mount Auburn and Glenwood.
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Moas
Pont Street
Charles
Pautine Heckman
Council
Garfeld Hospital
Ste Vis
John Ana Annie Farrar
William H Sarde & Co
Pintow
Ates Foe
Tlamp- Son
Hese Chase Lake
Ghorge
Say Finer
Rock Creek
AL Ustralsraima
Martha
AU Tesuthcany
Gatarly
Jann Fitzeral Sols
Tiavetman
Saspom
Harry
Halp H
Macy M Millptran
Donaldson
Twenty - Forth Street
Monta
Peteuary
Hoon Hoaas
Pebrumry
Ree
Sunes
Mattie
Atraeta
Daniel Ty
Tacoba
Nots
Willa
Sapedo
Faneral
Hervatter bin Ty
Fathaul
Anntheast von Tursidas
Percy
Tyra
Vchule
Jane
Maryn
Hiadelphia
Lawrence County
Roope Pyress
Toorse
So Tees
SP Vinvstiat
Tives
Eflenda
Raya
Lenaste
Second Baptist
Virgina
Betanves
Mary Rogers
Wmit
Glenwood
Oamanda
James Noirs
Marly
Suom
Baltimore Pa
Chauncey Stodvat
Mattsburgh
Nys
Pitas
Atreet
Margaret L
Edwinstron
Tnter- I
Congressional Cemetery
LV Anc
May H
Wash Emriday
Thomas
SW Ams
Mana
SS Aloysius' Church
Mount Cilver Cemetery
White
Baltimore
Margaret White
Mee Tutt
J. Paul White
Woodmen Fight High Rates In Insurgent Convention
Minn, Feb 18 Officers of the newly formed National Woodmen assembly plan an insurgent convention in Minneapolis on February 22 to protest the Mobile list raising assessment rates. Delegates from camps nationwide will gather to consider withdrawing from the absorbable bill as Woodmen heads oppose the change.
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Minnexpols
Minn
National Woodmen Assembly
Amerlca
Virginia Education Commission Urges Single State Medical School
A Virginia educational commission report to the General Assembly urges uniting two medical colleges into one great state medical school and recommends shifting state support to a mill tax. The plan envisions three directions for the Polytechnic and calls for university extension and a permanent education commission to coordinate state institutions.
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Charlottesville
Virginia Educational Commission
General Assembly of
Virgina
General Assembly
Alderman
Hapkis
van Use
University of Wisconsin
University Civic Club
Will Pease
Virginia
Medical College of Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Agrcultural and Mechanical College
State University
University of Virginia
Showlt
Despondent Ohio man dies by shotgun self harm
February 13 Findlay Ohio North Galtimore MG Turk, a well to do man, killed himself at his home using a single shotgun blast to the throat amid ill health. He leaves a wife and two children.
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Findlay
MG Turk
North Galtimore
Ohio
Turk
Southern Development Meet Set In Baltimore
Representatives from sixteen Southern states and transportation firm officials will convene in Baltimore Tuesday morning to map agricultural growth and migration effects. The 16 states include Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia and West Virginia. The committee is led by J Davicas Warfield of Flatlore, origin of the plan traces to a December conference on Southern immigration with governors and railroad leaders.
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Baltimore
Few
South
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missourii
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Davicas Warfield
Fialticiore
Northwestern miners seek Interior Dept policy change
Protesting Interior Department water power site supervision, the Northwest mining convention adopted a resolution for policy revision. It also opposed government leasing of coal and mineral lands and called for ending charges for transporting coinage from mints to Western banks. The group backed Secretary Fisher’s plan to fund $190,000 to establish mineralogical test stations nationwide.
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Northwestern
Interior Department
Spokane
Wash
Northwest Mining Convention
Western Banka
Secretary of the Interior
Fisher
United States
Master Masons to Meet Taft to Attend Mount Vernon
The George Washington Masonic Memorial Association hosts its second annual meeting in Alexandria beginning Wednesday with many grand masters of Masons in the United States attending. Taft will join the afternoon wreath ceremony at Mount Vernon after the meeting ends February 24. Other events include an Alexandria-Washington Lodge banquet declined by Taft, with other speakers named.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association
United States
Washington
F. J. Kemper
Alexandria-Washington Lodge
Taft
Mount Vernon
Alexandria-Wallington Lodge
Alexandrian Light Infantry
A. J. Montague
Virginia
Thomas
Pennsylvania system takes over Dayton road to Cincinnati
The Dayton Lebanon and Cincinnati road is reported to be taken over by the Pennsylvania system, gaining a new entrance into Cincinnati and shortening the Dayton to Cincinnati route by about one mile. Eugene Zimmerman, president of the local road, says a direct Lebanon to Cincinnati line will operate within six days.
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Penasy
Sy & C
Dayton
Ohio
Dayton, Lebanon
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Eugene Zimmerman
Lebanon
Printers Back Lynch War On Presidency Referendum
Progressive members of the International Typographical Union endorsed candidates for office at a Typographical Temple meeting. Lynch led with 171 votes for president against Fred Barker’s 14, amid talks of an inner circle the Wahnetas. May 15 referendum will choose candidates endorsed by nine unions, with officials and trustees listed among those receiving votes.
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International Typographical Union
James M. Lynch
Ayracuse
Fred Barker
Spokane
Wash
Barker
Lynch
T. C. Parsons
Columbia Union
Nome
Frank M. Hatley
Wahnetas
Francia Benzler
Syracuse
James M. Duncan
Newark
George A. Tracy
San Francisco
M. Cobb
Cincinnati
J. W. Trays
Minneapolis
James B. Rosa
Cleveland
Hugh Stevenson
Toronto
T. W. McCullough
Omehe
Charles Hertenstein
St. Louis
F. J. Bennington
Franklin Hynes
A. B. Rodriguez
New York
Young German Sculptor Arrested in New York
Martin Bichke a 23 year old German and Munich Academy of Fine Arts graduate was arrested in New York charged as a purveyor of shoes and produced photos of work he claimed as sculpture in police court His father an alderman in Württemberg Germany died after a quarrel prompting him to seek work in America The police court hearing followed this confession of background and motives
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New York
Martin Bichke
Wurtemberg
Germany
America
Academy of Fine Arts
Munich
Oil Plant Fire Wipes Out Large Refinery Units
A blaze at the Atlantic Refining Company works in Point Breeze Philadelphia raged over twelve hours destroying the still house receiving works pump house and several buildings and large tanks. About 500000 gallons of lubricating oils were burned with damage estimated around 80 000 to 20 000 for the loss of equipment.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
Point Breeze
James
War Department Not Advised on Lieut Bloom Arrest in Wyoming
Army officials refuse to discuss the case as War Department inquiries find no Washington reports on Lieut Joseph A Bloom of the Fourth field artillery said to face court martial at Fort Russell Wyoming for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Fort Russell dispatches offer few details beyond the intended court martial. Officials emphasize the matter is for Fort Russell authorities with no department interference unless warranted by authorities.
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Army
Fort Russell
Fort
D. A. Russell
Wyo
Joseph A.bloom
Fourth Feld Artillery
Fort Myer
Praaident Taft
Cal
Joseph Géhrard
Mr. Bloom
War Department
Washington
Bloom
War Departent
Department
Adjutant General's Office
Col. Garrard
New York
Rabbi Simon
Sabbath Breakers Listed As Blue Laws Tighten in City Suburbs
Baltimore February 3 marshal Fanon and about 1000 patrolmen compiled a harvest of law violators for the grand jury to present tomorrow the list targets those who violated the states blue laws by selling newspapers soda water candy cigars and tobacco or running trolley cars on Sunday while some small dealers closed others pressed on Abraham Rodbell of 12 South Bond street was arrested for delivering bread in a wagon and released on collateral for a hearing tomorrow
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Baltimore
Marshal Fanon
Po- Meemen
East Baltimore
Abraham Rodbell
South
Bond Street
Witkingon
Justice O'Neill
Mrs Boyce to Testify at Sneed Trial
In Alstriet court, Mrs. Boyce widow of Capt. A. G. Boyce, is slated as the first prosecution witness when the trial resumes tomorrow. Her testimony may close rebuttal evidence and aims to show captains Boyce did not aid his son or encourage Mrs. Lera Sneed to flee to Canada with the defendant's wife from a Fort Worth sanitarium last November.
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JB. Sneed
A. G. Boyce
Alstriet
Yellow Fever on British Ship Akails Quarantined at Salina Cruz
Five crew members aboard the British ship Akails showed yellow fever symptoms and the vessel received medical aid at Salina Cruz last week. The ship was placed under quarantine though officials said there was no danger of the fever reaching the town. Additional cases emerged onboard.
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San Diego
Uae
Akails
Salina Cruz
Death by own action a bluff in swindle case
Victims doubt a note found with clothes identified to L Dar rault Hines proves he drowned. The note says he planned to end it all after a hotel swindle using bogus checks in High Point and Reidsville, with a similar attempt in Spencer thwarted. Witnesses believe Hines is alive, calling the suicide claim a bluff.
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Charlotte
N.C
L. Darrault Hines
Tol Veidge
Yadkin River
Spencer
Hines
High Point
Reldaville Br
Quleide
Only & Blutt
Coachmen Make President of Reichstag in Berlin
Berlin February report notes Henry Kaemph's seven royal coachmen voting to elect him president of the Reichstag. Though nominally liberal, Kaemph is seen as radical by some, backed by merchants and conservatives with radical votes, marking a pivotal political shift in Berlin.
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Washington
Berlin
Henry Kaemph
Thereichetag
Keafaer
Kaemph
Reichatag
Mert Kaemph
Germany
Merchants’ Association of
Kalner
Reichstag
Satisfied With Thief Chase In New York Robberies
New York officials voiced optimism over detective work after a spate of high value robberies. Deputy Commissioner Dougherty said arrests were not yet made but expected in days, with Gino Montani kept in custody as evidence is strengthened in the bank messengers cash heist.
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New York
Gino Montani
Tagtcab
Dougherty
Glass Faces Growing Opposition in Sixth District
Lynchburg Va February 18 Congressman Carter Gigs of this city who has represented the Sixth district for several terms may face opposition as another nominee emerges. Report lists five contestants for Mr Glass seat including Bowman Halses Harper and City Sergeant Tillett with others possibly joining. Some Montgomery county residents urge Sidney Shellman to run.
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Lynchburg
Carter Gigs
Haing . &. Bowman
Salem
Glass
Bowman
Don F. Halses
Fred Harper
Tillett
Roanoke
Montgomery County
Sidney Shellman
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Sergeon
M. Hindle
Mote
H. Sardo & Co
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Roe
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W. R. Speare
F Street
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Stanger
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George P. Zurhorst
Sole
Capitol St
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Virginia Board
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the Jewelers
Seventh and
D Streets
Master Masons
Micou Saila
R W. Micou
Episcopal Tmicological Seminary of
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George F. Maxard
Thurador
Edward F. Maxfield
W. J. Morton
Presbyterian
Richard A. Lacey
Tuke Street
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Virginia E
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Columbus Street
Elizabeth City
N. C
Holy Cross
Notre Dame
Ind
Order of the Holy Cross
University of Notre Dame
Gilbert Francais
Order
Canada
Europe
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Weil
Wyoming
Sneed
Washington Post
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Uriah M. Palmer
Wolfville
Rey
Bony
Columbia Grafonola
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Creatore
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Rerture
Poet
Peasent
Mozart
Columbia Phonograph Co
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Kaiser
W. F. Frederick
Piano Co
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