Western Federation of Miners Links To Murder Plot
A purported confession by Harry Orchard is used to implicate Western Federation officers in the Steunenberg assassination and related killings. Detectives verify details, with arrests in Denver and Idaho. prosecutors seek to prove conspiracy and isolate the accused from the actual crime.
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Steunenberg
Roise Fdatia
Harvey Ovenard
Assas
Snate Tormer Gor
Denver
Colo
Charles J. Moyer
William D. Heywood
Aml
Western Siene of
G. A. One
Ex- Prades
Steunend
Orcha Feed
Isolano
Steunenberes
Telluride
Coloradas
Coeur d'Alene Yesina
Idaho
Steunenbergy
Westma Federation of Miners
Tve
Harry Eehard
Steuneberg
Parnds
James Peabody
Colorado
William Lt. Gabbert
Colorado Super Doan
John Campbell
Orchard
Stern Federation of Miners
Denve
Ripple Creek
Cripple Creek
McDowal
Federation
Te Idano
Idan
Vincent St. John
Burke
Miner Union
Col
Arthur Colling
Smurgl Vrion
Burglars Terrify House on West 11th Street in New York
Special to The Washington Post from New York shows two men, one masked, breaking into Benjamin Bergfield’s home at 209 West 11th Street. A bright dining room light startled a servant, delaying alarm until Bergfield called police. The robbers fled before officers arrived, taking a rug valued around $8,000.
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New York
Benjamin Bergfield
West
Mary Schmidt
Bergfield
Holls
Berghcld
Russian Cabinet Disruption Deepens as Advisers Quit
St Petersburg reports a cabinet shakeup with Premier Witte and Minister Durnovo remaining while Nemedhaiefé and Filossosoff are expected to retire. Discontent grows over police arrests of railroad workers impacting service as ministers plan political moves and blame-shifting targets Interior minister Durnovo.
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St. Petersburg
Witte
Durnevo
Nemedhaiefé
Empire
Filossosoff
Kutler
Timiriaseff
Shipoff
M. Nemechaseff
National Assembly
Department of Commerce
M. ‘Yimiriazeff
Party of Commerce and Industry
Monarchist Federation
Durnove
Moscow
Fast Mail in the Ditch in Missouri Wreck
A fast mail train on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway wrecked near Carondelet Missouri. Twelve crew members including conductor and engineer injured seriously. all expected to recover. Engine and first car telescoped, second car toppled on riverbank. the train carried mail and express cars only.
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Leis
St. Louis
River Des Peres
Poisoning tale unfolds in New York recluse death
Coroner Schwannerke probes Maria Corsa mystery after an anonymous letter claims slow poisoning by a relative aided by a Third Avenue chemist. The aged woman, who died two weeks ago at 100 and Highly Fourth Street and Moria Avenue, reportedly left a sizable estate, authorities say.
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Washington Post
New York
Schwannerke
Maria Corsa
Third Avenue
Cardoza
Supreme Court affirms railroad rate case ruling
The Supreme Court affirmed a Western District of Virginia ruling in New York New Haven Hartford vs Interstate Commerce Commission and ICC vs Chesapeake and Ohio. Justice White said a carrier cannot act as a dealer to bypass published rates, upholding the anti-discrimination aim of the Interstate Commerce Act in coal freight disputes and contract dealings between Chesapeake and Ohio and New Haven. The decision signals Congress on how the Court may handle future railroad rate cases and emphasizes equal rates and forbids favoritism in interstate commerce.
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New Haven
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Supreme Court
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
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Justice White
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Hartford
Chesapeake and Ohio Road
Iign
New Haven Road
Chesapeake and Ohio Company
West Virginia
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Tower Court
White
Eiher
Sixteen Die in Maitland Mine Explosion in Colorado
Special to The Washington Post. Walsenburg, Colo. Feb 19. A gas explosion at Victor Fuel Company’s Maitland coal mine left sixteen believed dead after eleven bodies were recovered. Nearly two hundred men were at work. fifty in an adjoining room burned but all escaped. Dead are Italians or Austrians, with two Americans Miller and Moran. Names include Anchie Miller fire boss Billy Moran James W. Titters Battista Robera Corona Costa Joe Costa Nicholas Yockibetx. Grieving crowds gathered as rescue efforts unfolded and bodies were brought out. The blast occurred in the oil workings.
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Maitland
Colo
Washington Post
Walsenburg
Victor Fuel Company
Dam
Miller
Moran
Anchie Miller
Billy Moran
James W. Titters
Kansas
Battista Robera
Corona Costa
Booris
Joe Costa
Nicholas Yockibetz
Mrs Mizner Denies Rift as Mizner Heads to San Francisco
Mrs Wilson Mizner denied any trouble with her husband and said she would not contest Mr Yerkes will. She confirmed plans for a Chicago hospital funded by a million dollars and noted Mr Mizner was in Washington then San Francisco on important business with detectives shadowing him. She expected a Chicago telegram and said gossip about a quarrel is untrue.
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New York
Wilson’ Mizner
Yerkes
Chicago
York
Broadway
Yung Mizner
Fifth Avenue
Mrs. Yerkes
Starving Lawyer Found Wandering on East Side
Clark B. Augustine of 557 West 148th Street and the firm Augustine & Hopping of 99 William Street was found in a demented state on the East Side after seven weeks missing. Taken to Bellevue Hospital doctors said overwork caused the condition. Police noted his wild behavior and his claim of being hungry with no food for days. He had $21, railroad tickets, and a fine emerald in his clothes. Family joyful at news of his recovery.
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Washington Post
New York
Clark B. Augustine
West 148Th Street
Augustine
Second Avenue
Hightenth Street
Woll
Augusting
Bellevue
Mob Clamoring At Jail After Murder Of Margaret Lear
A mob gathered in Shreveport after a 15 year old girl, Margaret Lear, was attacked on a public road near her home. A negro, Charles Coleman, shot her in the neck when she resisted, killing her. Coleman was captured by a sheriff led posse and jailed, with a lynching threat forming by nightfall.
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Shreveport
Margaret Lear
Port Royal Alarm After Insane Gunner Fires at Sea
Kingston Jamaica February 19 Port Royal garrison is startled by a gun and shell from Apostles battery. The bombadier in charge of the magazine, believed insane, fired a -inch shell that landed east of Port Royal. A possible near miss on a French warship heightened the incident. The bombadier was arrested. Also notes sale of the Nathan Collection at Sloan Gallery with sessions at 1 and 3 pm and wine from Harriet Lane Johnston estate in the 3 o'clock session Friday
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Port Royal
Jamaica
Kingston
Apostles' Battery
Bombadier
Murdered Roanoke City Official Found With Axe Blows
J B Traynham former city sergeant and longtime jailer was found murdered in his Roanoke room near the city hall. Police say the head wounds and throat slashing show an ax or hatchet used. robbery not the motive as money and a gold watch were left intact. Traynham was a Confederate veteran with five children and a stepdaughter.
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J. B. Traynham
The
Washington Post
Roanoke
B. Traynham
Halifax County
R. L. Traynham
Wilcox
Drowned by tidal wave fifty two families missing in flood
Panama reports that on February 5 President Reyes learned the tide of January 21 at Telemi Cauca and nearby towns rose over twenty feet. Fifty two families disappeared as the coast was swept by the flood and vast underground disturbances were felt. Dead birds and fish covered the shore after the water receded.
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Panama
Colombia
Reyes
Teleml
Cauca
Aml
Injunction Halts Delivery of 4 Percent Bonds in New York
Special to The Washington Port reports Comptroller Metz was served with a Brooklyn court injunction blocking delivery of a large issue of registered 4 per cent corporate bonds. The 320 million issue faced bids averaging 3108,002. Lawyer William D. Cook filed the suit for plaintiff of record Seitz and others, with un disclosed additional clients. Rumors tied Wall Street interests to city bond markets and to the 4 percent stock issue potentially harming 12 percent issues. Cook did not confirm or deny backing by those interests.
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Metz
Washington Port
New York
Justice Butr
Brooklyn
William D. Cook
Wall Street
Cook
Seitz
Suit Against McCurdy Prompts Separate Restitution Actions
New York, Feb 19. The Mutual Life Insurance Company files suits for restitution against Richard A. McCurdy former president G H McCurdy Robert H McCurdy Louis A Thebaud and Charles H Raymond. Suits seek specific sums and may include further actions for alleged accounting. Five parties named. papers prepared in eight suits. grounds of action not fully disclosed.
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Richard A. McCurdy
Robert H. McCurdy
Louis A. Thebaud
Charles H. Raymond
New York
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Richard A. Aighard
the Mutual
Robert HW. McCurdy
Charles TH. Raymond
Mutual
McCurdys
John S. Wise
Thebaud and Raymond
Mr. Raymond
GC. Hy Raymond & Go. S
Mutual Life
Joseph H. Choate
Julien T. Davies
Washington Post
Peabody
Raymond & Co
McCurdy
Young McCurdy
Thebaud
SHOOTS HERSELF ON STAGE IN CRYSTAL THEATER
Mrs C A Weilder shot herself on stage at the Crystal Theater in Denver as a performance continued after bystanders mistook the act for part of the show. The wound appeared likely fatal. she was carried away unconscious with the revolver and a photograph believed to be of her son.
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Denver
Colo
Crystal Theater
C. A. Weilder
Dewey Heard From Naval Tug Potomac West of Las Palmas
The Potomac reports the Dewey left dry dock 590 miles west of Las Palmas Canary Islands and arrives at the port all well. Also notes a continuation sale of Cropley stock at 13 M st. aw. today at 10 a.m. with some of the best goods yet to be sold. A parlor car service will operate March 6 from Washington to Old Point via Richmond and C&O Railway.
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Las Palmas
Canary Islands
Potomac
Dewey
Brown & Tolson
Old Point
Washington
Richmond and
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Freshington
Dissolution of Hungarian Parliament Sparks Street Rally
Budapest dispatch reports the Wingarian Parliament dissolved by royal decree amid police and militia massing outside. Deputies protested as they left, singing the Kossuth hymn, while the president read the rescript unopened. Coalition leaders Apponyi and Kossuth hailed the sequence as a constitutional stand, with plans to reconvene Wednesday.
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Coalition Party
Budapest
Tech
Veirl
Cowition
Ilegal
Marlament
Celock
Gen Wyili
Aid Herr Justic
Hens
Gen. Nyili
Francis Ossuth
Albert Appansi
Pre Dent Dusth
Bakovsy
Rakovsky
Nyici
Herr Rakovsky
Nen- North
Te House
Gen Nyiri
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