Border Battle at Nogales Ends With Rebel Victory
Constitutionalists seized Nogales Sonora after a twelve hour clash and heavy casualties on both sides. Private Allen Umfeet of the Fifth Cavalry was wounded, and several Mexicans fell as fighting raged near the international line. Obregon ordered a cease fire. rebels crossed into the United States and surrendered to Colonel Wilder as the attack subsided.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Allen A. Umfeet
Fifth Cavalry
U.S. A
International Line
United States
Col. Tate
Fifth Cavalry Patrol
Obregon
Coats
Kesterhusky
Reyes
Wilber BE. Wilder
Ada M. Gibson
Pablo Rubio
Cananea
Du Pont Boy to Keep Name Defeats Name Change Bill
Dover Delaware March 13 The lower house of the Delaware legislature defeated Alfred I du Ponts plan to rename his son Alfred Victor du Pont to Dorsey Cazenove du Pont after learning Mrs du Pont objected The bill had passed earlier then was sent back to committee after a petition prompted revival_sources say the chairman refused to report it_
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Delaware
Dover
Del
Alfred I. du Pont
Alfred Victor du Pont
Dorsey Cazenove du Pont
Must Not Ride Astride In Confederate Parades
Nashville reports United Confederate Veterans ban on riding astride by horsewomen. Gen John P Hickman, Tennessee division commandant, orders side saddle only in future parades, reviving pre Appomattox ideals and sparking debate among local women about participation.
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United Confederate Veterans
Washington
Nashville
Tenn
John P. Hickman
Tennessee Division
Appomattox
United Veterans
Kentuckian Ben Johnson Keeps District Chair Amid Inquiry
Representative Ben Johnson of Kentucky, chair of the House District committee, conferred with President Wilson about District legislative matters. The visit signals his intention to stay as chairman while pursuing an investigation into the District's financial dealings with the federal government, including bonds issued in the 1870s to fund improvement expenditures and a claimed federal indebtedness.
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Burleson
Ben Johnson
Kentucky
House
President Wilson
Wilson
White House
Johnson
United States
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Iwo
Houage
Washington
Commerce
Redfield
Vommercial
Plan to widen patronage by civil service tests discussed
President Wilson and advisers weigh postmasterships placed in the classified service by Taft. Burleson and McCombs plan a distribution system that prioritizes Democratic platform faith and personal fitness, reducing factional weight. Ambassadors and other posts hinge on ability, not wealth, with McCombs undecided on France. Wilson declines many social invitations to stay focused on tariff. Cleveland birthplace dedication note from Wilson praises the former president.
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McCombs
Taft
Wilson
Cleveland
Burleson
Civil Service
Rooosevelt
Democratic National Committee
Baltimore
France
National Committee
Rival State Senators Claim Arkansas Governorship
In Little Rock on March 13 two Arkansas state senators asserted control of the governor's office after Gov Joe T Robinson resigned to join the United States Senate. Senator Willan Oldham and President pro tempore John M Futrell established offices at the capital and claimed leadership, while Futrell sought to lead from the governor’s position and Oldham contested from another area of the capitol as the legislature adjourned.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Capitol
Joe T. Robinson
United States
Eanator Willan
F. Oldham
Rebingen
State Senate
Senate
John M. Futrell
Futrell
Oldham
Jessie Swirl Popular in Chicago Hair Styles
Chicago women have adopted new hair fashions named for President Wilson's daughters. The Jessie swirl, Margaret fillet, and Eleanor Bandeau spread as hairdressers note women tire of artificial bundles. A stylist predicts these simple styles will sweep the country and lend a soft air to wearers.
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Chicago
Margaret Fillet
Eleanor Bandeau
Washington Post
Wilson
Jessie Swirl
Eleanor Bandesa
Boats collide in harbor. 11 missing after Wyckoff wreck
In New York on March 13 a harbor collision left 11 men missing and feared drowned. The steam fighter Wyckoff was rammed off Governors Island by an unidentified vessel likely a laden tug. Survivor Jess Rawson, found clinging to a beam, is the lone apparent survivor of the Wyckoff’s crew.
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New York
Governors
Jess Rawson
Amnesty Veto by Cuba President Delays Amnesty Bill
President Gomez vetoed the amnesty bill after a cabinet meeting and a note from the State Department. A message is planned for Congress to seek a new bill extending amnesty to prisoners in Oriente and other purely political offenders.
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Habana
Mar
Gomez
Senor Sanguily
Senate
House of Representatives
State Department
Washington
Lenora Rivera
Hugh F. Gibson
Oil King Flees From Aero Over Rockefellers Head
Ormond Florida March 12 aviator George A Gray tied Burgess Wright biplane on golf course and dipped close over John D Rockefeller prompting a sprint to safety. Rockefeller abandoned clubs but escaped unharmed while his physician Dr Biggar rode the plane for 27 minutes reaching 1800 feet.
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Washington Post
Ormond
Fla
George A. Gray
Burgess-Wright
John D. Rockefeller
Gray
Standard Oil
Mr. Rockefeller
Biggar
Jewelers Safe Looted In Bowery Burglary
Burglars blew the safe at Herman Shapiro's jewelry store at 20 Bowery between 9 30 and 1 o clock this night and escaped with diamonds and jewelry valued at five thousand to four thousand dollars. A light burned before the safe as the thieves worked quickly to avoid street view.
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Washington Post
New York
Mar
Herman Shapiro
Bowery
NAMES FIVE TO SENATE ROOSEVELT NOMINATIONS
President Wilson sent nominations to the Senate including Franklin D. Roosevelt for Assistant Secretary of the Navy and John Skelton Williams for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Also named were Beverly Galloway for Agriculture and Birdwin Street for Commerce, with James Axton as Post Office purchasing agent. Senate confirmed several appointees and additional Army posts.
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Wilson
Senate
John Skelton Williams
Richmond
Yedrerey
Daniel C. Roper
South Carolina
Alexander M. Dockery
Missouri
James I. Blakeleg
Pennsylvania
Army
Robert W. Wooley
Secretary of the Treasury
Sherman Allen
The
Treasury
Revenue-Cutter Service
Public-Health Service
Fight for Women Repulse Fifty Collegiants
Glasgow scene at St Andrews Hall as 300 stewards and 50 dock laborers clash with 300 university students during a suffragette meeting. Miss Janie Alan introduces Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst amid fighting. 60 students are dragged into the streets, one head injury reported, crowd disperses after 30 minutes. Pankhurst defends militancy. King’s Speech cited as incitement. Scotland Yard uncovers suffragette destructive tool cache in Campden Hill Gardens tied to Olive Hocken case.
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Glasgow
Glasgow University
St. Andrew’s Hall
Emmeline Pankhurst
St. Andrew's Hall
Janie Alan
Pankhurst
Lord Hugh Cecil
Border Battle Halted and Wilson Cabinets Discussed
Index to today's issue covers Pare l Americans Stop Border Battle and President Confers on District. Wilson may create places for 25,000, five nominations sent to Senate, suffragette battles, a man-rocket explosion with thirteen dead, and various political moves. Included are trade, unions, church theft cases, and Senate actions. Other items note Democrats split on commissioners, Tillman prospects, and canal law debates.
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Wilson
Senate
la Follette
Lane
Gore
S-House
Washington Gas Company
Human Fly Rocket Explodes During Stunt. Performer Unhurt
New York on March 14 a steel rocket carrying Rodman Law the human fly exploded during launch. Law was hurled 25 feet from his seat but escaped serious injury, with hair and eyebrows burned. Spectators panicked and several women became hysterical as the six foot rocket disintegrated. Law vows another attempt once a stronger rocket is built.
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New York
Rodman Law
Law
Moving Picture
Olney Slater Trustee Named Amid Slater Will Dispute
Richard Olney is named one of three new trustees of the Slater mill trust, with Col. Thomas Livermore and Jacob F Brown also chosen by Judge Braley. Robert Homang appointed guardian for the Slater children. The $20 million estate's legal battles center on continuing the mill business versus selling the property, opposed by Mrs. Mabel Hunt Slater.
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Washington Post
Boston
Richard Olney
Mill Trust
Horatio H. Slater
Webster
Judge Braley
Supreme Court
Col
Thomas Livermore
Jacob F Brown
Robert Homang
Slater
Olney
Great Britain
Mabel Hunt Slater
Explains High Meat Prices at Union Stock Yards
Union Stock Yards President A G Leonard says beef supply is 200 million pounds short from last year after a telegram from Mrs Julian Heath of New York. He cites declines of 131000 cattle calves 300000 hogs and 226000 sheep totaling 645000 fewer animals and predicts six to seven years to raise cattle supplies enough to lower beef prices.
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Union Stock Yards
Washington Post
Chicago
A. G Leonard
Union Stock Yards Company
Julian, Heath
New York
Heath
National Housewives’ League
Fatal midair collision during aviation maneuvers
In Rheims France on March 13 two sergeants of the army aviation corps were fatally injured when two aircraft collided midair during a maneuver involving a flotilla of five planes. The crash disrupted the training flight and prompted a formal inquiry.
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Rheima
France
Army Aviation Corps
STUDENT'S SLAYER GUILTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
In Warsaw County Court a two week trial concluded with Alphonze Prince found guilty of second degree murder in the shooting of Frank Bentley, a Cornell agriculture graduate. Prince, a North Worthwhile area farmer, confessed jealousy linked motive. He collapsed when verdict read and lies in jail awaiting sentencing conditional on medical recovery.
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Washington
Buffalo
N. Y
Warsaw
Alphonze Prince
Prince
North Wetherfield
Frank Bentley
Cornell University College of Agriculture
Bentley
Deadly storm bolts Louisiana and surrounding states
A wind and rain storm swept portions of Louisiana Texas Alabama Mississippi and Tennessee killing at least thirteen people and destroying property valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Provencal Much of the town wiped out two churches several mercantile houses and two percent buildings demolished. Brookeland Texas damage around one hundred thousand dollars with multiple injuries. Gadsden Alabama reported one death one missing and property destruction in Etowah and Calhoun counties. Middleton Tennessee fatalities include Henry Stanley Joseph Waldrop and others. Selmer Tennessee tornado tallies three dead and many injured with homes wrecked in McNairy and Hardeman counties.
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Texas
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Manasco
Many
Provencal
James Harrlson
Duke
Ala
Brookeland
Tex
George Williamson
Pleasant Grove
Tenn
Henry Stanley
Joseph Waldrop
Middleton
J. BE. McMahon
MacNatty County
B. Johnson
Burt Cox
MacNatry County
Gadsden
Etowah
Calhoun
Maury County
Lexington
Camden
Tupelo
Corinth
Saltillo
Guntown
Jte
McMahon
Standfield
Cox
Doctor Borden Refuses to Pay Gambling Debt After Coin Toss
New York March 12 Dr Matthew S Borden physician son of M C D Borden says two men drugged him before he gambled away 2660 dollars in a coin toss The note was signed under influence and later claimed invalid as a gambling debt in a suit brought by John M Richmond to collect the amount plus interest
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Matthew Borden
New York
Matthew S. Borden
M. C.D. Borden
Borden
Fall River
Mass
Dr. Borden
John M. Richmond
Flagler's Condition Alarms Palm Beach News
Palm Beach March 13 reports say Henry M Flagler, oil capitalist and Florida East Coast Railway owner, remains injured from a fall but voices indicate his condition may worsen. Flagler fell three weeks ago and suffered a possible hip fracture. initial reports of recovery were denied.
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Washington Post
Palm Beach
Bla
Henry M Flagler
Florida East Coast Railway
Flagie
Insap
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