Gompers Defends Himself Amid UMW Convention Turmoil
At Indianapolis on January 30 the United Mine Workers conference erupted as Duncan McDonald accused Samuel Gompers of being "glorious drunk" at Seattle and other times. Gompers denied the charge, saying he faced a biased jury, while Charles Moyer and McDonald clashed with him over AFL support for Michigan copper strikers and political funding.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Duncan McDonald
Niners
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Seaate
Gompera
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Michigan
Gompers
Moyer
McDonald
Federation
Seattle
Mar
Atlanta
Grace Lawrence
Johnny Walker
Chicago
Democratic Party
Ben Caldwell
Congress
David Ross
Miners’ Organization
John Walker
Danville
MacDonald
Levy
Relief Association I8 Host Ladies Night in Washington
The Washington Railway Relief Association hosted its annual ladies night at the National Rifles Armory last evening. Attendees enjoyed a Vaudeville and concert program featuring Mrs. Albert Quell, Anna Senn, Jack McPherson, Marva Rehn, and Marine Band selections, followed by dancing. Organizers included J. T. Moffett as house committee chair and Walter Mclean among other officers and assistants.
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Washington Railway Relief Association
National Rifles Armory
Albert Quell
Anna Senn
Vio
Kniste
Jack McPherson
Mack
Irwin
NasBketen
J. E R. Shaw
Thomas Halil
F. J. Embers
W H. Glasscock
C H. Smoot
William N. de Neale
M. E Sanda
50 000 View New Lamps On Pennsylvan ia Avenue
In a ceremony between the Peace Monument and the Treasury 148 new 1 500 candlepower lamps flashed on at 7 30 pm before over 50 000 observers. The upgraded lamps replace lights of 7 candlepower and mark a years long effort by the Retail Merchants Association lighting committees. Similar lamps are planned for Eggat street and other areas.
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Penneylvania Avenue
Treasury
Hich
Chamberlain Sees Bourne as Worthy Opponent
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon meets with former Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr as Bourne leaves the Department of Justice. Chamberlain presses Bourne to decide on candidacy and expresses preference to be beaten by Bourne over others if defeat comes.
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Senator Chamberlain
Oregon
Department of Justice
Jonathan Bourne, Jr
Jack
Senator Bourne
Wrecking firm seeks $2 million from Panama canal sale
The Chicago wrecking company claims about 200,000 tons of scrap material from the old French canal works should be delivered to it, with an estimated market value near $2,000,000. Col. Goethals expects court action to settle the ambiguity in the sale contract.
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Panama
Chicago House
Isthmian Canal Commission
French Canal Company
Wrecking Company
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Commission
Goethals
U S Envoy Accused Villa Plans Civilized War
A clash over letters between American Consular Agent Hamm at Durango and Gen Calixto Contreras fuels tensions as Villa proclaims civilized warfare and pledges to stop executing captured foes. Wilson urged to lift arms embargo. Torreon faces impending assault amid Mexican civil conflict.
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Culiacan
Sinales
Mexico
Hammat Durango
Calixto Contreras
Heinm
Torreon
Washington
Contreras
Carranza
Hamm
Durango
Isido Fabela
Constitutionalist Foreign Relations Department
State Department
Feneric Simpich
Norgales
Carransa
Villa
Wilson Wilpe
Torrech
Huerta
Idzumo
Mexico City
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Plea Leads to Suspended Sentence in Knights of Columbus Libel Case
In Philadelphia on January 30 Charles Megenigel and C H Stage pleaded guilty and noise contendre to libel and conspiracy to libel the Knights of Columbus over a printed oath they distributed. Supreme Knight James A Flaherty said the order was vindicated and requested a suspended sentence, which the court granted.
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Philadelphia
Charles Megenigel
C.H. Stage
Knights of Columbus
James A. Flaherty
Order
Suits Against Roads Stand in Missouri Case
Kansas City January injunctions against John T Barker Missouri attorney general to stop suing for 24000000 in railroad charges were dissolved by Judge Smith McPherson in federal court. The railroads’ suit to block Missouri two cent passenger and maximum freight rate laws was dismissed following a Supreme Court ruling upholding the laws.
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Kansas City
Jan
John T. Barker
Missouri
Smith McPherson
United States Supreme Court
Japan's Notes Held Back In California Dispute
Tokyo baron Makino the foreign minister refused to reveal notes of protest to the United States on the California question. He said disclosure would harm negotiations in progress and that the issue involves the honor of the Japanese people. The American government understands the seriousness of the matter here.
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Tokyo
Jan. W
Baron Makino
United States
California
Japan
Pacific
Swami Called As Witness In Bangor Will Contest
In Los Angeles a diamond bedecked swami named Majji Rajji testified in the $500,000 will dispute over Frank H. Holyoke of Bangor Maine. Sydney A. Holyoke seeks to invalidate his father's will alleging insanity and undue influence. The swami claimed Holyoke was sane and able to concentrate his thoughts under psychic healing before his death in October 1911.
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Los Angeles
Cal
India
Frank H. Holyoke
Bangor
Sydney A. Holyoke
Holyoke
Swami
Majji Rajji
Norfolk Judge Overrules Demurrer in Lending Case
Circuit Court Judge McLemore overruled the demurrer in a suit by Fidelity Corporation of America against Mutual Savings and Loan Company and others. The ruling holds the Morris plan of industrial banking as a proprietary right protected in equity. Fidelity operates in many states.
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Norfolk
McLemore
Fidelity Corporation of America
Mutual Savings and Loan Company, Incorporated
Bank run drains savings bank amid shaky assurances
New York reports a banking panic at the Bank of Savings with over 200 depositors, mainly poorer patrons, withdrawing funds in the forenoon. Nearly $1,000,000 has been paid out since Tuesday's run, despite State banking department assurances of soundness. Depositors declined offers of help from other banks. Also: King George and Queen Mary plan a state visit to President Poincare in Paris in April.
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New York
Bank of Savings
Poincare
London
King George
Queen Mary
President Poincare
Paris
Navy to survey American Samoa and install wireless station
Commander Milton Updegraff and a staff of navy engineers arrived in Tutuila from San Francisco to conduct a fifteen month survey of American Samoa. A site for a powerful wireless station has been located and preparations for a temporary station are underway ahead of permanent construction.
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Pago Pago
American Samoa
Milton Updegraff
United States Navy
Tutuila
San Francisco
Updegraff
Buried in Rock Hewn Tomb at New Hartford Estate
Frank W. Jones eccentric millionaire died Tuesday and was buried today without a church service in a rock hewn grave on a granite crag atop his estate. Tomb sealed with Soncrete as directed. In Santo Domingo, President Bordas and cabinet ordered immediate release of Federico Velasquez former finance minister and presidential candidate along with other prominent political detainees.
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New Hartford
Conn
Frank W. Jones
Santo Domingo
Bordas
Federico Velasquez
Obituary notices for Roth Cutler and Magruder
Obituary notices report Philip W. Roth of Brookland dies at 65 with services at Irving Street home under King David Lodge and burial at Glenwood. Survived by widow Sadie, brother Jacob, daughter Antoinette. Also funeral for Pauline Estes Cutler at 1016 Massachusetts Ave NW with interment at Glenwood. survivor Clifford B. Cutler Jr. and two nieces. Dr G Lloyd Magruder memorial rites with Requiem Mass at St Matthew’s Church and burial at Rock Creek Cemetery.
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Philip W. Roth
Brookland
Irving Street
King David Lodge, No. 2
Roth
Glenwood Cemetery
Sadie Roth
Pauline Estes Cutler
Clifford B. Cutler
Massachusetts Avenue
Ilingas
Mra Cutler
Neldon County
Clifford B. Cutler, Jr
Charles Burch
Ida Estes
E. V. Regester
Mount Vernon Place Church
G. Lloyd Magruder
Georgetown Medical School
St. Matthew A Church
Myree
Alphonsus Donon
Georgetown University
Rocksereck Comoperys
Boston Campaign Cost Curley Four Thousand Dollars
James M. Curley contributed 4000 dollars to his successful mayoralty campaign, with returns filed today. He will be inaugurated Monday in Boston.
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Boston
Curley
James M. Curley
Virginia Pardon Board Bill Advances in House
Richmond delegates approved a bill creating a three member State board of pardons to serve two four and six year terms starting July 1 1914 with the governor ex officio president and the state board of charities and corrections secretary. The house also passed measures to curb improper lobbying for appropriations and to extend general assembly sessions. The senate set longer session length and approved a judge retirement pension plan at age 70.
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Washington Fune Richmond
Brewer
House
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Senate
General Assembly
Supreme Court of Appeals
Naval Academy to see formal transfer of command
Annapolis January 30 The relief of Captain John H. Gibbons by Captain W. F. Fullam as superintendent of the Naval Academy will take place February 7 with ceremonial transfer aboard ship. The brigade and full corps will assemble as orders relieving Gibbons and naming Fullam are read, after which Fullam will assume command in the administration building.
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Washington Post
Annapolis
John H. Gibbons
W. F. Fullam
Naval Academy
Gibbons
Fullam
Capt. Fullam
Academy
M A C Alumni Banquet Tonight Speakers Include Patterson
The sixty fourth annual Alumni Association banquet of the Maryland Agricultural College will be held at the Emerson Hotel Baltimore with about 100 members attending. President Harry J. Patterson, W. W. Skinner of the U S Department of Agriculture, State Senator Benjamin Watkins Jr J B Gray and William P Cole Jr are among the speakers. Henry Kolzapfel Jr of Hagerstown will be toastmaster.
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Patterson
College Park
The
Maryland Agricultural College
Emerson Hotel
Baltimore
Harry J. Patterson
W. W. Skinner
United States Department of Agriculture
Benjamin Watkins, Jr
Anne Arundel County
J. B. Gray
William P. Cole
Henry Kolzapfel, Jr
Hagerstown
Chinese Murder Jesuits in Liuan Chow Raid
Advices report bandits sacked and burned Liuan Chow in Mngan-Hwei province on Thursday. They murdered Father Rich, a French Jesuit missionary, captured two Jesuit priests Fathers Allain and Tatlle for ransom, while Father Albert escaped.
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Shanghai
Jan. W
Liuan-Chow
Mngan-Hwei
Father Rich
Fathers Allain
Tatlle
Father Albert
Movements of Ocean Steamers Reported
Shipping news lists multiple vessel movements including ap FunA Way from New York to St Louis and Antwerp with arrivals and departures. Vessels such as Cedric Majestic Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Megantic Carmanis Sontay and others sail between New York New Orleans London Rotterdam Hamburg Liverpool Queenstown and Antwerp with docking times noon Tuesday and 5 pm posted.
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Funa
St Louis
New York
Southar Lapland
Antwerp
France
Havre
Nieuw Amsterdam
Nesy York
Hotterdam
President Lincoln
Hamburg
Cedric
Liverpool
Majestic
Southampton
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Megantic
Queenstown
New 7
Finland
Carmanis
Sontay
Jurist Favors Suffrage Chief Justice Invokes War Principles
Richmond speech by Walter Clark, North Carolina Chief Justice, before Virginia Equal Suffrage League. He links revolutionary taxation without representation to women paying taxes yet lacking voice, argues civilization cannot progress with half the population denied governance, notes southern states fall behind in the movement.
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Caroline
Richmond
Walter Clark
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
Seven Injured When Two Passenger Trains Collide at Pembroke
In Pembroke North Carolina fog delayed sighting at a rail crossing as Seaboard Air Line westbound No 19 collided with Atlantic Coast Line southbound No 79. Seven people were injured none seriously including engineer Charles Shaver who jumped from his engine. Passengers named include Mrs Nancy Emanuel Latta G C Mrs Rosabel Cartwright Laurinburg Tom Ford Hope Mills William Freeman Lumberton Allen Peary Pembroke. Pembroke Chief of Police Dixon was struck by a fallen ladder from a signal stand.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Atlantic Coast Line
Pembroke
Charles Shaver
Seaboard
Nancy J. Emanuel
Latta
G. C
Rosabel Cartwright
Laurinburg
Tom Ford
Hope Mills
Willam Freeman
Lumberton
Allen Peary
Dixon
Coast Line
Militant Suffragette in Prison Hospital Finds No Signs of Distress
London report says Miss Peace, jailed for arson, was found in a well warmed remand hospital cell with no emaciation or distress. Bishop Ingram, authorized by the Home Secretary, offered release if she refrains from militancy. she refused, denying shrieks or torture allegations.
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London
Arthur Ingram
Holloway
Home Secretary
Rachael
Peace
Florence Ansell
Helloway
Aauffragette
Miss Peace
Social and Political Union
Miss Ansell
Mizs Peace
Ingram
Bishop Ingram
Hia Vialt Goncludes
Milas Ansell
Firemen Missing At Blaze In Five Story Piano Factory
Four firemen were injured and several reported missing after a gas explosion at a five story piano factory on East Sixty third Street. A wall collapsed during the blast, the fire spread to a public school and nearby tenements, and hundreds of working girls were forced into the street outside Baron de Hirsch Home.
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New York
Jan. i
East Sixty-third Street
Fie
Baron de Hirsch
Prussia launches 90 million lottery redeemable notes
Berlin reports the new Prussian loan of 90 million dollars in treasury notes with annual drawings over sixteen years. Holders may convert drawn notes to 4 percent bonds and redeem at par. subscribers pay 97. The plan aims to fund railroad and canal expansion, with a possible 50 million issue later this year.
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Berlin
Germany
Treasury
Prussia
Kipling Said to Move Wilson on Canal Toll Exemption
A Washington dispatch reports Rudyard Kipling influencing President Wilson toward repealing or deferring the Panama Canal tolls for coastwise vessels. Walter H. Page allegedly convinced Wilson Kipling was right about violation of the Hay-Paunceforte treaty, though the tale lacks confirmation.
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President Spectal
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York Times
Rudyard Kipling
Wilson
Washington
Kipling
Walter H. Page
London
Page
Want Judge Dayton Ousted
Petitions signed by thousands of union laborers circulate in Wheeling asking President Wilson to remove Federal Judge Alston G. Dayton from the bench for sentencing two coal miners to five days in jail for alleged violation of an injunction against striking miners at Colliera.
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Washington Pace
Wheeling
W. Va
Wilson
Alston G. Dayton
Federal Court
Dayton
Daya
Colllera
Kills Farmhand by Mistake in Virginia Incident
Frank Massie son of State Senator Bland Massie of Virginia accidentally shot and killed John Campbell on a farm near Tyre in Nelson County. Massie fired at dogs jumping a fence at dusk and hit Campbell, a young farm employee. Other brief items note a bigamy release in Rockville, funeral services for a former judge near Redland, a Bristol lawyer's candidacy for Sullivan and Bristol, a tobacco packing house fire in Martinaville, a poison fat death among Gypsies in Lugo Spain, Admiral Capps ill from overwork, and a bank vault dynamite robbery in Lyerly Georgia.
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Massie
Virginia
Lynchburg
Frank Massie
Bland Massie
John Campbell
Tyre
Nelson County
Campbell
Prussian Academy Opposes Embassy Plan in Washington
The Prussian Academy of Architecture objects to Ernst von Inne’s embassy design for Washington and rejects the three competition winners. It calls for a new restricted competition limited to four architects.
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Prussian Academy of Architecture
Berlin
Washington
Ernst von Inne
HALT HIGH SCHOOL PLAN PROPOSAL SPURS COUNTY MEETING
Riverdale Park Company offers to donate a site for the proposed high school and prompts Prince George county legislators to reverse a Hyattsville decision. Mayor Harry W. Shepherd calls a joint Berwyn Riverdale Bladensburg Brentwood and Mount Rainier citizens meeting in the local armory next Thursday evening with county senator and delegates present.
Women Held as Polloners in First Husband Death
Special to The Washington Fest reports Mrs Zelda Keller Gerhold and her mother Mrs Jenny Ricker were arrested in Franklin county and jailed in Chambersburg on murder charges in Floyd Keller's 1912 poisoning death near Brandt's Church. John Lewis Gerhold, 18, married Keller's widow on December 31. Mrs Gerhold denied guilt, claiming another man poisoned her husband.
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Hagerstown
Zelda Keller Gerhold
Jennie Ricker
Reuben Ricker
Franklin County
Chambersburg
Gerhold
Floyd Keller
Brandt
John Lewis Gerhold
Keller
Brandt’s Church
War Telegraphist George Deets Dies at 78 in Cumberland
George M. Deets aged 78 died today from paralysis after a stroke at the Masonic Temple. A Knight Templar and Royal Arch Mason, he served as a telegrapher for the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War and built Cumberland to Piedmont telegraph lines. He later worked as a Baltimore and Ohio agent in Cumberland for many years.
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Washington
Cumberland
George M. Deets
Masonic Temple
Royal Arch Masons
Deetz
Army of the Potomac
Piedmont
W. Va
Martinsburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Cullom Estate Values Over 100000 in Stocks and Bequests
The late former Senator Cullom leaves an estate over 100000, excluding personal effects. Sister-in-law Victoria Fisher receives 20000 plus household items, granddaughters Eleanor Ridgely Parker and Phelps Brown get 40000 each. Judge Otia Humphrey of Springfield is named executor.
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Senator Cullom
Springfield
Til
Victoria Fisher
Eleanor Ridgely Parker
Cullom
Harry Parker
Phelps Brown
Otia Humphrey
Cullom's Body Entered Home Then To Capitol For In State Honor
The body of former Senator Shelby M. Cullom arrived in Springfield Illinois today and lay in the home of Mrs. Charles Ridgely for intimate attendance tonight. Tomorrow at noon the casket will be moved to the capitol for in state display. A funeral procession is planned to travel the Lincoln route to Oak Ridge Cemetery, with graveside rites and flag displays at public buildings. Delegations from across the state expected Sunday as memorial observances begin.
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Springfield
Ilia
Shelby M. Cullom
Charles Ridgely
Capitol
CuHom
Abraham Lincoln
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Bremner Better Not Dying After Setback
Representative Robert G. Bremner of New Jersey, undergoing radium cancer treatment at a Baltimore sanatorium, showed marked improvement after a minor setback last night. Doctors said reports of his death were groundless as his condition improved with his sister Rose Bremner arriving from Washington to visit.
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Baltimore
Robert G. Bremner
New Jersey
Rose Bremner
Washington
Wshington
One Man Formally In Charge In Albany Senate
In Albany Senator Thomas H. Bussey of Perry N Y presided today calling himself to order. He introduced several bills and spoke before offering an adjournment motion carried unanimously. Among the measures were proposals by Mayor Mitchel of New York City to reform police regulations urged by Goethals.
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Albany, N Y
Jane
Thomas H. Bussey
Perry N
Mitchel
New York City
Cok Goethals
Del Val Reported Likely New Chamberlain of the Church
Rome January 3 Reports say Cardinal Merry del Val probably will be appointed chamberlain of the church filling the post left vacant by Cardinal Rampolla's death. The chamberlain ranks high, directing church and political governance during interregnum periods.
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Cardinal
Rampolla
Rome
Merry del Val
Warrior Yacht Believed Doomed Off Colombian Coast
Wireless reports from Colon on January 30 indicate Frederick W Van derbilt's yacht Warrior is breaking up off the Colombian coast. The crew has reportedly abandoned ship as a wrecking tug and the steamer Almirafton stand by the distressed vessel.
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Colon
Frederick W Vanderbilt
Warrior
Ig Sahorg
Almiraifte
New envoy Hohler sails for New York from Liverpool
Thomas B. Hohler, first secretary at the British legation in Mexico, acts as charge d affaires during Sir Lionel Carden's absence. He plans to sail aboard the Lusitania from Liverpool to New York tomorrow, heading to Mexico via the United States.
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Thomas Hohler
England
Vatican Bars Maeterlinck's Books in Rome Decision
Rome January 30 The sacred congregation of the index expurgatorius ruled that all works by Maurice Maeterlinck the Belgian author are forbidden literature to Catholics.
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Rome
Sacred Congregation of the Index Expurgatorius
Maurice Maeterlinck
Workman Killed in Quarry Tragic Truck Accident
Martinsburg West Virginia January 2 Louis Oliani was instantly killed another man fatally injured and a third seriously hurt at the Big Spring quarry when a truck fell onto them in a hole due to an accidental engine start. Oliani is survived by family members.
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Martinsburg
Louis Oliani
Big Spring
Qoliani
Stolen Mail Funds Report in Rostov on Don
Fifty thousand dollars in cash was stolen today in Rostov on Don during transfer from a railroad train to the post office. The government official in charge of the mail was arrested. Meanwhile in Hagerstown Maryland a general merchandise store and the post office in the same building were burglarized last night. About 200 worth of merchandise and maps were taken.
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Rostov-on-Don
Russia
Jan. C
Hagerstown
D Nicodems
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