President-Elect Wilson Backed on Panama Toll Amendment
President-elect Wilson reportedly favors passage of Senator Root's amendment to repeal the Panama Canal toll exemption for coastwise ships. He has expressed views to several Democratic leaders, though action before the new Congress is unlikely. Knox received Britain’s note and will defer final judgment until after inauguration.
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Senate
Root
O'Gorman
New York
Wilson
Bryce Phoush
Brora
Edward Grey
Taft
Palmer
Ois
Fane
State Department
Bethiser
London
Ueyond
Ailsen
Laud Wilson
EXPECT PEACE IN BALKANS
Junden Fer reports that peace in the Balkans seems imminent after Ottoman representatives paid visits to the foreign office. No concrete terms were disclosed about offers to end hostilities or the cession of Adrianople. The proposal is believed to redraw Turkey’s frontiers from Midia to Enos in exchange for relinquishing Adrianople, a plan Bulgaria is not expected to oppose.
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Tevak Pasha
Elikki Pasha
Foreign Office
Adrianople
Bulsari
Turkey
Midia
Black Sea
Enos
Aegean Sea
Bulgaria
Poison in boot linked to bandit death mystery
A Washington Post and New York Times dispatch report a convict motor bandit Carouy died by self administration of prussic acid hidden in the heel of his left boot. Prison authorities found the poison secreted among several gang members during arrests and noted enough remaining to kill ten people.
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Washington Post
New York
Daris
New York Times
Carouy
Carony
China Gets Railway Loan
Peking announces that work on the Hukuang Railroads will start promptly after an agreement among American, English, French, and German banks to supply funds pending the reorganization of Chinese provincial transit revenues. The initial loan of 330.000.0900 was secured on these revenues, which were halted due to the revolution.
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Peking
China
Astor's Yacht Nome Reaches Safe Harbor in Gale
Norfolk Va Feb 28 The Nome bound for Fana ina with Vincent Astor son of John Jacob Astor on board reached safety today after a southwest gale forced the vessel off course. The ship ventured 66 miles below Cape Virginia last night and ran short of water, but crew reported no injuries.
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Norfolk
Fanaina
Nome
Vincent Astor
John Jacob Astor
Tumulty Arrives in Washington to Aid Wilson Inauguration
Joseph P. Tumulty secretary to president elect Wilson has arrived in Washington to assume duties as the president elects assistant. He is settling into a new home on Calvert Street and preparing to ease the president's burden during the inauguration period.
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Joseph P. Tumulty
Wilson
Washington
Calvert Street
Wilson aide Tumulty to guide White House work
The article notes Joseph Tumulty, wife and six children, will for four years be the President's closest contact at the White House handling petty office work and easing the President’s day. It references Tumulty’s prior work with Wilson when governor of New Jersey and describes the secretary to the President as a stepping stone to higher positions. The image shows Tumulty and his children.
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Mr. Tumulty
Presi
Dent
White House
Mr. Wilson
New Jersey
Mr. Tumuity
Eight Men Rescued From Schooner Zaccheus Sherman
Norfolk Va Feb 2 Eight crewmen from the three masted schooner Zaccheus Sherman were saved by Gulf Short life savers after gale winds thwarted early attempts. Lines were shot to the ship but the crew struggled with the rope and tangled the breeches buoy before a hawser finally brought them ashore late in the day. Capt Scranton commanded the lumber laden vessel bound to New York from Charleston.
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Zaccheus Sherman
Gulf Shorts
New Intet
Kinnaket
Chicamicomico
Sherman
Scranton
New York
Charleston
Monastery Saved by Nuns in Bucket Brigade Fire
Special to The Washington Post New York February 2 Monastery of the Catholic Society of Atonement at Graymoor near Garrison saved by nuns who formed a bucket brigade and fought flames. They risked their lives until Peekskill help arrived led by Rev Mother Mary Lauranna. No waterworks at Graymoor five miles north of Peekskill with dormitory fire badly damaging the building attributed to a defective line.
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Washington Post
New York
New York American
Graymoor
Catholic Society of Atonement
Garrison
Peekskill
Mother Mary Lauranna
Garment Strike Ends After Wage and Policy Reforms
In New York the garment workers strike, active since early January and at its peak involving over 150000 workers, was officially called off. Workers accepted manufacturer terms including higher pay, revised conditions, arbitration on hours, and adoption of the open shop.
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New York
Garment Workers
Have Faith in Huerta and Refugees Freed in Texas
Widespread actions signal support for Huerta with refugees freed on the U S side and Col de la Fuente granted safe conduct to San Antonio for a peace conference. Executions cited as peace moves, while Mexican warships resume drills off Guantanamo and Diaz seeks the presidency amid factional shifts.
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Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
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Col. de Ila Fuente
San Antonio Peace Conference
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California
Texas
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Juarez
San Antonio
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Raoul Madero
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Durango
Yucatan
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Oaxaca
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Diaz
Senate
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Taft
Cullom
Foreign Relations Committee
Fali
Eight of Gonzalez's Men Shot in Juarez Conspiracy Case
Juarez Mexico February 28 Augustin Ravansat former Chihuahua police chief and seven colleagues were executed by order of Provisional Governor Rabago for alleged conspiratorial links to former governor Abram Gonzalez to blow up the barracks. Gonzalez's fate remained unsettled as friends reportedly lost hope for his salvation.
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Washington Post
Juarez
Mexico
Augustin Ravansat
Chihuahua
Rabago
Abram Gonzales
Gonzales
Edwards Sent to Texas to Command Sixth Brigade
Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards formerly chief of the bureau of insular affairs at the War Department is assigned temporarily to command the Sixth brigade to be mobilized at Galveston. He will succeed Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Hoyt who is ill and unable to accompany the command. Edwards is ordered to the Philippine division to take command for Luzon, but the orders will be suspended. Brig. Gen. Edgar Z. Steever, commanding the Second cavalry brigade, is ordered before a retiring board at San Antonio after recent duty on the Mexican border.
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U. 8.4
Bureau of Insular Affairs
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Ralph W. Hoyt
Department of Luzon
Edgar Z. Steever
San Antonio
Tex
Cuban Refugees Arrive as Maderos Safe in Havana
A Cuban gunboat Cuba brought Senora Francisco I. Madero Jr and the Madero family to Havana after they fled Mexico. Crowds cheered the exiles as they were taken to a hotel for a likely weeklong stay before moving to New Orleans. Raoul and Emilio Madero were reported safe in San Antonio.
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Freyre Andrade
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New Orleans
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Malecon
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Gomez
Sanguilly
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Ithaca
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Cornell State College of Agriculture
New York
Carlos
Wisconsin
Evaristo
Train Bandits Routed After Dramatic Freight Hold Up
Masked men attempted to hold a fast freight on the Norfolk and Western near Alwick West Virginia. Two of the three attackers were wounded in a gunfight with train crew, and the remaining bandit fled into a mountainside area as posses spread through the region.
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Huntington
Norfolk and Western
Alwick
Williamson
W. Va
Hauls body on sled seven days to bury friend
James Wyman, a mining prospector from York Nebraska, recounted dragging a companion's frozen body on a sled for seven days across the North after the miner fell sick with pneumonia. He strapped provisions to sustain the journey and slept under a heavy blanket until reaching a mounted police depot for burial.
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Washington Post
York
Nebr
Wyman
Canada
Murderer Sullivan Executed in Virginia Electric Chair
Roy Maxwell Sullivan, 30, was executed at 7:20 am at the State prison for the murder of guard John Howard during a forged road force incident in Pittsylvania County. He hired a man to place a shotgun near work site, fired, and Howard died days later. Sullivan received three electric shocks, died without a tremor, and his body to be sent to Wachula, Florida.
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Richmond
Roy Maxwell Sullivan
State
John Howard
Pittsylvania County
Sullivan
Howard
Wachula
Fla
Sullivans
Mob Lynches Two In Georgia After Police Killing
Cornelia Georgia February 38 two unidentified black men accused of killing policeman John Gibby were seized from a posse and hanged from a telegraph pole in front of hundreds in Cornelia and Clarksville. Gibby was shot as he cuffed one suspect, dying instantly. fugitives later captured with bloodhounds. The mob overpowered the posse en route to Clarksville jail.
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John Gibby
Clarksville
Gibby
Farewell to Judson Critic of Public Opinion
Gen John A Johnston and Commissioner Rudolph led a farewell luncheon for Col W W Judson, retiring engineer commissioner, with heads of thirty departments praising his work and a plan to liquidate District debt hailed as second only to the organic act. Attendees included numerous district officials and city employees.
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John A. Johnston
Cuno If. Ruedolph
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Commercial Club
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William Tindall
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Snowden Ashford
Capt
Mark Brooke
T L. Costigan
J. W. Dare
Thomas J. Wisher
D. &. Garges
J. B. Gordon
L. R. Grabill
Morvis Hacker
J. O. Sargrove
M. C. Hargrove
M. C. Hazen
J. ‘P Healy
E. E. Heim
Gen
J. A. Jahmston
Trueman Lanham
D. E. McComb
A. R. MacGonegal
James M Crea Seriously Ill As Railroad Leader Fights Kidney Trouble
Former President James McCrea of the Pennsylvania Railroad is ill with kidney trouble at his Ardmore home. Specialists deem recovery doubtful as his vigor waned during his tenure, and after retirement at the start of the year his health deteriorated with a weakened heart.
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Washington Post
New York
Philadelphia Dispatch
New York Sun
James McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Ardmore
Great Corporation
Dropts Bathtub Indictment In Detroit Case
Detroit, Feb 28 Attorney General Wickersham ordered the district attorney to quash the pending indictment against members of the bathtub trust previously convicted of criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade. The second indictment also alleges restraint of trade. A group of defendants had sought a new trial and then agreed not to protest sentences if the second indictment were dropped. Fifteen defendants paid fines levied by Judge Sesatons on February 15.
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Mich
Wickersham
Bathtub Trust
Sesatons
FEARS IDIOCY KILLS SELF IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Despondent by ill health Maynard Vilas 28 son of New York hotelier Charles N Vilas leapt into the Mascoma River in Lebanon sight of hundreds. Body recovered after hours of dragging. He had come from Newton Massachusetts for sanitarium treatment and left a note to his father. Eleven drownings in two weeks in Connecticut as ice fails on Five Mile River claiming Eva Bode and Jennie Boisselle among others. George Cleveland known as the baking powder king died at 73 in Orange New Jersey, founder of a major firm and longtime multimillionaire.
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Maynard Vilas
Charles N. Vilas
New York
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Newton
Mass
Danielson
Conn
Eva Bode
Jennie Boisselle
Five-Mile
Connecticut
Orange No 1
George Cleveland
Officials Plan Tests of Friedmann Tuberculosis Vaccine
An order authorizes exhaustive tests by the public health service after Dr. Friedrich Friedmann of Germany claims a positive cure for tuberculosis. Treasury Secretary MacVeagh and Surgeon General Dr. Rupert Blue led talks in Washington with Friedmann, who will start a culture in New York and send portions to Washington for analysis. Public health officials caution that the method is not endorsed until thorough testing confirms its value.
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Germany
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
Friedmann
New York
Rupert Blue
Public Health Service
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In. Friedmann
Sicherman Allen
the Treasury
Anderson
Dr. Friedmann
United States
Washington
John H. Anders
Fort Stanton
Ariz
The
Office
United States Public Health Service
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Nso
Colombia None Arbiter Over Panama Dispute Remains Demand
Colombia demands full arbitration of all Panama questions after rejecting U S offers. Government published a full statement of negotiations with the United States on partition of Panama and the insistence on arbitration or direct compensation. The exchange followed a probe about a higher offer of 16 million dollars if other provisions were dropped. The foreign minister urged arbitration of the entire matter.
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Colombia
United States
Pana
Andria
Providencia
Atrato
Panama
Cahn
Statemnt
James J DuBois
Urrutia
Doctor Kept Morgan Alive During Nile Trip Medical Rescue
New York report cites Dr. Tribe saving financier Pierpont Morgan during a severe illness on the Nile voyage. Morgan fainted repeatedly and lay unconscious for hours as cramps and illness persisted, delaying plans to sail to Europe. Authorities and Morgan relatives credit the physician with life-saving care.
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Washington Post
New York
Camp Santarra
Cairo
New York American
Pierpont Morgan
Tribe
Nile
Forger Gouges Eyes Out in Milwaukee Self-Punishment
A. J. Hei, founder of a Milwaukee manufacturing company, was arrested after a spree of small forgeries and then gouged out his eyes with a small knife in a self punitive act. He reportedly exclaimed he no longer believes in suicide but would not forge another check.
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A. J. Hei
Milwaukee
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