Witness in conspiracy case tests suspected police spies
Miss Harriet Wheeldon and her family face trial for conspiring to kill Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson as she testified that she would have stopped any prison plan to protect her people from supposed police spies. The case details a coded family plan and alleged plots with moral and legal implications amid wartime Britain.
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Lloyd George
Arthur Henderson
London
Harriet Wheeldon
Alice Wheeldon
Alfred George
Labor
War Council
Gordon
Footh
Morrison
England
Toerson
Ue Orame
Floyd George
Wigan
Nodro
Maciner
Wheeldon
Quest Syed
Lloyd +orge
Henderson
Carriead Ant
Iim
Yorder
Premer Lloyd George
Lord Kictchener
Petrograd
Esco
Fatal chlorine gas incident at Deerfield Pulp plant
Three men died and four others were seriously injured in a chlorine gas poisoning at the Deerfield Pulp Company plant. Dr William J. Jeffers of Wilmington Del died at the scene after being overcome near a vat. Donaldock and Newton Carpenter, both plant workers, collapsed while attempting to assist him. Officials from E I de Nemours Powder Company had come to install a new bleaching system. The incident left Jeffers, Cook, and Carpenter dead when a physician arrived.
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Mountain Mills
Deerfield Pulp Company
William J. Jeffers
Wilginston del
Onaldock
Newton Carpenter
Tmn
Jeffers
E Iean’ de Nemours Powder Company
del Company
Cook
Carpenter
Cannot Expel Kaiser Over Honorary Club Action
Debate over Kaiser’s honorary club status flared March 9 as members argued whether to expel him. Reports say expulsion unlikely unless council evidence proves misconduct, with the matter tied to a controversial sale of a club’s prized asset.
Kaiser Mourns Zeppelin In telegram from Wilhelm II
Berlin reports Emperor Wilhelm II mourns Count Zeppelin noting his genius and service in the war as the German people join in sorrow. Zeppelins death followed an intestinal operation with lung troubles, and his niece Ursula Dagenfeld cites failures of airships in wartime. Countess Dagenfeld lives in Ventnor Heights and has resided in the United States for years.
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Amsterdam
William
Berlin
Zeppelins
Count Zeppelin
Wilhelm
Philadelphia
Ursula Dagenfald
Ferdinand
Capt
Koenig
Countess Dagenfeld
Ventnor Heights
Peace commission urged at Maas meeting in New York
A Maas meeting in New York under the Emergency Fence Federation adopted a resolution urging the appointment of a Saint high commission to settle issues with Germany. Another resolution pressed President Wilson to convene major powers for peaceful relations. William J. Bryan said the government should not arm vessels carrying munitions, and if asked, the American people would favor keeping Americans off belligerent ships and barring arms from neutral ships with U S passengers.
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New York
Saint
Germany
Maas
Emergency Fence Federation
Wilson
William J. Bryan
United States
Europe
New Railway Coal Rate Rise Proposed for Great Lakes
Kanawha and Michigan Railway announces a new tariff filing with the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise coal shipments by 15 cents per ton from West Virginia fields to the Great Lakes, including Toledo lake loading, effective April 16 if approved. Chesapeake and Ohio Virginian and Norfolk and Western seek a 10 cent per ton increase from West Virginia mines to water. Romney editor changes as Hampshire Review shifts publishers and staff. In Lonaconing, 150 miners strike in sympathy with foreman at Detmold mine Maryland Coal Co.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha and Michigan Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
West Virginia
Great Lakes
Toledo
Chesapeake and Ohio
Virginian
Norfolk and Western
Veteran Police Officer J A Hebrew Dies at 66
John A Hebrew of the Sixth precinct died at 133 Tenth Street Northeast after months of illness. A 27 year veteran who joined in 1903, he served in multiple precincts and the White House squad. Survived by wife and grown children. Member of Porter Garrison Army and Navy Union Capital Lodge Knights of Pythias and Policeman's Relief Association.
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John A. Hebrew
Tenth Street
Hebrew
Philadelphia
United States Navy
Capital Lodge Knights of Pythias
The
Policeman’s Relief Association
Many Would Wed Her How She Escapes Marriage Offers
Miss Rose Shampanter of Paterson New Jersey has been flooded with marriage proposals since learning she will inherit a $38,060 fortune from Michigan widow Mrs. Catherine Ward. She complains the offers range from $1 000 per inheritance to daily claims of affection, with responses arriving from across the United States and Canada.
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New York
Rose Shampanter
Paterson
N. d
Catherine Ward
Michigan
United States
Canada
Flags at church doors torn down in Baltimore incident
In Baltimore on March 9 vandals ripped and tore to shreds three Stars and Stripes flags from Sec ond Presbyterian church entrances during a patriotic meeting. Elders say the act showed contempt for national symbols and would provoke strong local reaction in a heavily foreign-born district. One elder, a former Navy man, warned that others attempting the act would face severe consequences.
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Baltimore
Second Presbyterian Church
United States Navy
Peach
Ushers and Pastor at Odds at Fifth Avenue Church
All ushers at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church resigned after a dispute with Rev John Henry Jowett over seating policy for visitors. The pastor insists vacant seats be held until 11 am, and warned he would read names of pew holders if more seats remained empty. Long-serving volunteers quit in protest.
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New York
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
John Henry Jowett
DIPLOMATS SEE CARRANZA IN MEXICO TRIP
Gen Carranza spent last night at Pen damo on his route from Guadalajara and is due in Queretaro today or tomorrow to attend Sunday elections. He was joined yesterday at Capita station by Henry P Fletcher Antonio Ajacio Eliaco Arredondo Venacio Bonillas and Foreign Secretary Agwlar before they boarded a special train for Mexico City.
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Queretaro
Mexico
Carranza
Pendamo
Guadalajara
Capita Station
Henry P. Fletcher
Antonio Ajacio
Eliaco Arredondo
Washington
Venacio Bonillas
Agwlar
Mexico City
Gonzales Visits Fort Bliss Cavalry Review
Gen Pablo Gonzales of the Gonzales army of the north toured Fort Bliss cavalry units in El Paso district. Brig. Gen George Bell Jr hosted him with staff and Andres Garcia as inspector general of Mexican consulates. Capt. Nicholas W. Campanole met them at the international bridge. The division, commanded by Brig. Gen Eben Swift, was described as the largest US cavalry assembly since the Civil War.
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Fort Bliss
Tex
Pablo Gonzales
Gonzales
Treasury seeks funds to fix old bureau sewers
The Treasury Department plans to urge during the next session a $42,500 appropriation to remove obnoxious sewerage conditions at the old bureau of engraving and printing now used as auditor's building. Storm water and sanitary sewage flow into one sewer, causing river contamination during overflows. An additional $45,000 would create a new Treasury room and extra office space.
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Treasury Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Department
Treasury
Nearing Quits University Over War Criticism
Toledo March 9 A Toledo University economics professor Scott Nearing tendered his resignation citing interference by an antiwar element. He had drawn sharp criticism for public submarine speeches and plans to meet with the board of trustees in Detroit next Monday to consider the action.
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Toledo
Ohio
United States
Germany
Scott Nearing
Toledo University
Nearing
University of Pennsylvania
Detroit
Board of Trustees
Probes Grain Elevator Fire in Detroit
United States district attorney John E. Kinnan began investigating the March 9 blaze that destroyed the Detroit Elevator Company’s million bushel grain elevator. Officials aim to determine if arson or neutrality violations occurred as estimates run over a million dollars in losses, with 700 000 bushels of wheat, corn and rye destroyed.
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Detroit
Detroit Elevator Company
United States
John E. Kinnany
Kinnans
U. S. Sends Belgium Relief Donations Under Four Percent
The Commission for Relief in Belgium reports the United States has given 8,080,402 dollars for Belgian relief, a figure under four percent of the roughly 325,000,000 spent by the relief effort in Belgium and Northern France.
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New York
United States
Commission For Relief
Belgium
Commission
Chicago lists millionaires for tax figures
March 9 income tax figures being compiled show four Chicago individuals including three family members and three estates with incomes of 1,000,000 dollars a year or more. Notable estates include Marshall Field and Otto Young, with totals of 225,000,000 and 20,500,000 respectively, plus 1,025,000 for G B Swift estate and others earning above the million mark through corporate dividends.
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Chicago
Marahald
J Ogden
Otto Young
Swift
American Seeress Fled London After Deportation Fined
Elmira Brockway of Chicago fled from London to Paris after being fined fifty pounds and ordered deported for fortune telling. She paid the fine, withdrew her appeal, and joined her son in Paris. The Daily Express questions how she obtained a passport and hints at possible collusion with an influential figure. Her son serves as a captain in the French army overseeing Red Cross ambulances on the western front.
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London
Daily Express
Elmira Brockway
Chicago
Paris
the Express
Brockway
Wast London
Red Cross
Railroad Line Dedicated Bridge Opens Through Service
New York March 9 the New York Connecting Railway and its Hell Gate bridge costing 27000000 were dedicated to enable through service from New England and eastern Canada to the south and west. Samuel Kea president of the Pennsylvania led the simple ceremony. The first train ran from Pennsylvania Station through the Hell Gate tubes to the New Haven junction in Bronx.
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New York
Hell Gate Bridge
Pennsylvania
New Haven
Hartford
Samuel Kea
The
New England
Canada
Haat River
Bronx
Uncle of Daniels Dead at Cove Point Lighthouse
Baltimore reports Josephus Daniels, secretary of the Navy, died of heart disease at Cove Point Maryland yesterday while speaking with Captain T. J. Milea of the lighthouse tender Mapie. The deceased, aged 72, had served forty years in the lighthouse service as maritime observer at Cove Point.
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Baltimore
Richard & Daniels
Unds
Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels
Cove Point
T. J. Milea
Mapie
Daniele
Against new U S Navy base in Gulf of Fonseca
Salvador’s central court of justice upholds its claim in the Nicaragua canal treaty dispute. It holds that the United States proposed naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca would threaten Salvador and violate Nicaragua’s treaty obligations and joint gulf ownership.
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Salvador
Republic of Salvador
Central American Court of Justice
Nicaragua Canal
United Sates
Gulf of Fonseca
Nicaragua
United States
Gulf
Doomed game cocks sent to soup pots after raid
Pittsburgh March 9 37 game cocks worth about $10000 captured in a raid February 25. Several prominent men were arrested and the birds are in Humane Society custody. Attorney George W Allen sought an injunction to prevent killing but Judge Shafer refused. Some birds valued at $1000, one costly Cuban import at $1200.
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Pittsburgh
George W. Allen
Shafer
Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania
Storney Alen
Humane Society
Cuba
N. B
The
Post
Sporting Department
Allied Bazaar Opens In Armory With 166000 Tickets Sold
Baltimore March 9 The Allied Bazaar ticket campaign has sold about 166000 tickets for the Fifth Regiment Armory exhibition opening tomorrow evening John F Bland heads the 13000 member association with Washington society women among the 63 booths including Mrs Hartett Beale McClintock Cushman and others A special Washington train is planned for Wednesday American night opens at 8 o clock Cardinal Gibbons will give an invocation The event features a British and French war exhibits valued at 900600 and daily themed days through Saturday
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Baltimore
Allied Bazaar
Fifth Regiment
John Fr.bland
Washington Society
Washingtonians
Bezaar
Arctic Explorer Stefanseon Aboard Polar Bear In Ice
Word from Stefanson says Arctic explorer Vihjalmur Stefanseon is wintering with the gasoline schooner Polar Bear at Prince of Wales Strait. Captain Lenauzee of Herschel Island traveled 200 miles to Fort McPherson with the news. Eskimos in the Bear Lake region are jailed awaiting transfer for the 1913 14 Catholic missionary murder.
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St. Lawrence
Montréal
Jean Baptiste Rouviers
Guillaume Leroux
Bear Lake
Fort Norman
Herschel Island
Fort McPherson
France
Lenauzee
Coronation Gulf
Bear Laks
Unrest in Peru persists as Pardo rejects party talks
In Tima on March 7 unrest continues across Peru. President Pardo refused to confer with civil party committees. Javier Prado released a manifesto accusing the cabinet of losing the country’s confidence and risking disaster. Lima later reported Jose Garcia Bedoya’s replacement by Dr. Ezequiel Munoz as interior minister.
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Pardo
Tima
Peru
Javier Prado
Lima
Jose Garcia Bedoya
Ezequiel Munoz
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Cusio
Marcel Prevost
French Academy
Prapananda
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International
Ywe Bervi
Kaiser
Eastern Yacht Club
Neastern Yacht Club
Zeppelin
Count
Romney
W Va
John J. Cornweill
Hampshire Review
Cromwell & Dinkle
Lewis K. Dinkle
Lonaconing
Detmold
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J. A. Hebrew
White Houses
Gen. Bell
Old Bureau
Nearing Quits
Toledo Board
U. S
Rea
Great Hell Gate Bridge
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Secretary of Navy
Navy Yard
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Redio
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Mack
Boteler
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Duckpin League
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Howner
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Pezzaro
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Schott
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Price
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Lerch
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Mohawks
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McOa Fogitt
Hancock
Plos Helmer
Kidsness
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Anacostia Dusefin League
Bug Seventeenth Street
Mantey
Af Dennison
Farre
Naylor Lusby
Scherrer
Curtin
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Netionala
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Wa Lynch
Wolstenh
Montgom
Benton
Phetpa
Anderson
Lindsey
Co Mayhew
Blumen
H.sherw
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McGorrick
Hornback
Benmidt
Hartman
Johnson
Capital City
Be Renu
Indians
Las We Sullivan
Copeland Loran
O'Nelie
Ui Au ‘Rotals
U. S. Navy
Fonseca Gulf Project
Riles
Stefansson
Explorer
Wales Strait
Sth Ave
46Th ST
N.W
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Grom Eee
Newin
Blackistone
Blackistone's
Washington Loan and Trust Company
Oonn B. Larne
Rep
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