Russians in Flight from Tie Pass into Mountains
Russian forces retreating from Tie Pass fall back toward Kirin as Japanese troops press the pursuit. Reports say Kuropatkin’s shattered army might reach Harbin, with Singking and nearby towns contested. fires burn stores and railway facilities as Japanese advance continues through Fushun and Yentai areas.
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Kuropatkin
Kirin
Kuanchentzy
Harbin
Singking
Mukden
Loto
Offi i
Tokwo
Shung
Reuzhout
Tienabtrig
Mearch
Kaoshemsh
Voyazemsky Redross
Cbrri
Russians Face Critical Push Toward New Commander
A March dispatch from Gen Kuropatkin reports troops moving through The Pass in good order and ready for action after interruptions. He notes regiments from Russig in fine condition and that fighting had not resumed by his departure. An April 14 telegram confirms some reports of no further fighting after a Japanese repulse, while losses and artillery casualties remain unclear. London reports an unconfirmed claim that Russians lost artillery and that Japanese cut the railway north of Changtufu forty miles above The Pass.
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Fraesio
Muhuen
Bern
Richmairis
Amy
Gens Nog
Vukden
Kuropitkin
Pussius
Sangam
Fushun
Yentai
Tie Piss
At East
Associated Pro
Kuro- Pitkin
Kuropatkin
Europatian
Nicholas
Gen- Kuropatkin
Russig
Fen
London
St Petersburg
The
Times
Changtufu
Tre Pass
Keeps Promise To Mother Dying Deluca Boy Dies
Dominick Deluca ten years old died in Chester County Hospital after being beaten and kicked into unconsciousness during the assault that killed five year old Mary in an old blacksmith shop in Hawallville. He whispered that his mother told him not to tell, and authorities opened a fresh inquiry into three possible theories including vengeance on the parents or the witness role of the boy.
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West Chester
Dominck Deluca
Mary
Hawallville
Chester County Hospital
Jeferson
Deluca
Howellville
Rolice
Lack
Ann
Motorman Viciously Endangered Trains In City Collision
In New York two trains collided on the elevated line at Seventy second Street and Columbus Avenue during the afternoon rush. William McClusky suffered a severe head wound and Edward Frank a knee fracture as hundreds panicked. Passengers blamed the rear train motorman for trying to spy how close he could run to the ahead train and causing the crash. Police reserves were called. officers refused to arrest the motorman.
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New York
Siuth Avenas
Seventy-second Street
Columbus Avenue
William McClusky
Edward Frank
Would Banish Pillory Delaware House Votes Against Torture
Delaware's House of Representatives moved to concur with the Senate and abolish the pillory. The measure faced debate over whipping posts with Chief Justice Lore’s appeal cited. Only one representative, Prettyman of Farmington, opposed abolition. if approved by the governor, wooden pillories statewide would be destroyed, though many relics have already been offered for museum use.
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Delaware House
Washington Post
Dover del
Delaware
Senate
House
Hoidee G Knowles
Lore
Prettyman
Farmington
Hooker Inquiry Opens in Albany Session
Albany March 16 Supreme Court Justice Warren B Hooker appeared before the assembly judiciary committee for an inquiry into his conduct in office. The hearing opened after a months delay caused by missing engines in a railroad wreck and is expected to be protracted with three hours of preliminary discussion followed by an adjournment to allow a representative to travel to Washington to verify letters related to relatives' appointments in the Fredonia post office.
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Albany
Ingines
Supreme Court
Warren B Hooker
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Justice Hooker
Washington
Fredonia Post-Office
Peabody Seated Governor After Colorado Contested Race
James H Peabody won the Colorado governorship in a contested joint ballot, replacing Alva Adams. Adams refused to resign amid pressure from some Republicans while others supported a McDonald replacement. The compromise left Peabody as governor with Peabody pledging to retire if seated. Adams surrendered the office as Peabody was sworn in by Chief Justice Gabbert amid a tense clash in the executive office.
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Adams
Peabody
McDonald
Denver
James H Peabody
Colorado
Jesse F McDonald
D B Fairley
Deal
Dainsiy
General Assembly
Gev McDonald
Gov Peabody
W S Boynton
Gus Adams
Executive Chamber
Gov Adams
Joint Assembly
Ofice
Gabbert
Sherman Bell
Gov. Peabody
Alfred Patek
Alva Adams
Opposition to Frazier Sparks Tennessee Caucus Furor
March 16 Knoxville reports unprecedented Democratic bitterness over Gov James B Frazier's nomination for the U S Senate to replace the late Bate. Taylor leads talks to unseat Frazier with strong sentiment for him and threats to vote Republican for governor. Protests, open letters, and hissed applause mark a growing statewide rift as Evans’ loyalty and promises are questioned amid caucus maneuvering.
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Washington Post
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
James B Fravier
United States Senate
Senator Bate
Robert Ll. Taylor
Jim
Frazier
Senate
Irrazier
Hfelong
H Clry Evans
Taylor
Cox
Delaware
Missouri
Investigation summons in Missouri senatorial deadlock
Jefferson City March 16 special grand jury summoned Thomas Niedringhaus Republican caucus nominee for United States Senator Charles Morrishi campaign manager Hugh Meindoe representative F R Cook and Charles Smith Kerens campaign manager among others Judge Martin convened the jury. an attachment was issued for Col W I L Phelps for failure to respond. In joint ballots Niedringhaus gained ground but deadlock persisted with Cockrell leading on later ballots. session dissolved until tomorrow noon.
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Jefferson City
Thomas K Niedrimghaus
Republican Caucus
United State
Charles F Morrishi
Hugh Meindoe
F R Cook
Charles Smith
Kerens
Judge Martin
Circuit Court
Col W IL Phelps
St Louis
Spencer
F J Cockrell
Cockrell
Niedringhaus
Pettijohn
Parker
Warner
Bartholdt
Pettionn
PettHohn
Spence
Harrington
Railroad Plan Replaces Canal In New York Legislature
Albany March 16 A proposal to abandon the barge canal and build a freight railroad on the Erie Canal bed will be introduced as a constitutional amendment. The plan allows state or private operation and proposes a state water conduit from Lake Erie. Reports say three railroads offer to fill the canal and run lines guaranteeing freight at or below barges, with speeds of at least thirty miles per hour.
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New York
Albany
New York Railroad
Lake Erie
Bank of Petersburg Robbed in Tennessee Heist
Petersburg Tennessee March 16 the vault of the state Bank of Petersburg was blown open and cash, about 7000 dollars, stolen. The steel vault was breached with nitroglycerin and the strong box emptied. Burglars escaped.
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Petersburg
Tenn
Bank of
Girl Bride Obdurate Held as Witness in Jersey City Case
Mrs Florence Evans, eighteen, wife of Lee M Evans of West Virginia, was arraigned in Gates Avenue court on vagrancy charges and held for extradition of her husband. She allegedly forged her father in law's name to a $200 check in Brooklyn. Evans, a former street car conductor, was arrested in Jersey City while she was later caught in Brooklyn. The case involves grand larceny possibly, with further testimony planned for March 20 in Brooklyn.
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Lee M. Evans
Jersey City
Washington Post
New York
Florence Evans
Lee M Evans
West Virginia
Gates Avenue Court
Brooklyn
Lee Evans
T Springer
Evans
Washington
Hunter Evans
Clarksburg
W. Va
Miss Springer
Brooklyn High School
Sprague National Bank
Evars
Strike Breakers Revolt Against IRT Pay Delays
Open rebellion by strike breakers brought to New York by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company over delayed pay and meals. Police reserves were stationed at the company barns on Third Avenue and 179th Street as tensions rose after workers demanded full payment for all hours worked and proper meals.
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New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Third Avenue
179Th Street
Calle
Minister Too Old Bradley Beach Refuses Pastor
Bradley Beach Methodists refuse Rev J Swan as pastor, claiming he is too old. They back Rev E D Vanbright of Lamberton, 31, as first choice, and set a 35 year age limit for the church. Women in the choir threaten nonparticipation if an older pastor is appointed.
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Bradley Beach
Methodists
Fleas Convey Disease In Spotted Fever Theory
Yale zoological curator Prof Addison E Verrill today proposed that spotted fever now prevalent in New Haven is spread by fleas or similar insects carrying a minute blood parasite. He notes irregular distribution and urban insanitary areas as supporting evidence for flea borne transmission. In New York City two meningitis deaths in a Little West Twelfth Street house follow dirty conditions and neglect, with two more family members hospitalized and not expected to recover.
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Yale
New Haven
Conn
Addison E Verrill
Yale Zoological Collection
Verrill
New Havens
New York
Little West Twelfth Street
James Frawley
Train wreck halts express near North East
Elkton Md March 16 The New York and Washington limited Express No io northbound on the Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington Railroad wrecked at North East while at high speed Rain fell on several Pullman cars a dining car and several coaches The dining car jumped the track followed by three coaches The coaches overturned passengers shaken windows broken and track damaged Northbound track blocked for hours traffic used southbound line Physicians rushed to scene Injured include Mr Stevens on of Brooklyn and two unnamed ladies both only slightly hurt
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Elkton
New York and Washington Limited Express
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
North East Station
Stevenson
Brooklyn
Lower price for hard coal across the coal roads
At a presidents meeting of coal carrying lines in New York the spring reduction of 50 cents per ton on anthracite coal price at tidewater will begin April 1 making shipping point price 4 dollars 50 cents per ton. From May 1 wholesale price rises by five cents monthly to 5 dollars by September 1. Coxe Brothers plan pea coal 2 cents below last winter and buckwheat 8 cents lower while contracting for over 700000 tons to boost patronage back from bituminous firms.
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New York
Coxe Brothers
Wafted Fat in a Burly Con Artist Nabbed in Hotel
Special to The Washington Fest from New York on March 11 reports a thin elderly guest at Smith & McNeil's Hotel in Washington street was found transformed into a corpulent impostor. Police, led by Hyer, uncovered he carried many blankets and towels to disguise his figure. Samuel J. Koenigin, once pictured in rogues' gallery as inmate 15, confessed to four prior prison terms for the same crime. Magistrate Barlow held him for Special Sessions.
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New York
Mwan
Smith & McNeil's
Washington Street
Waddell
Policeman Hyer
Church Street
Police
Samuel J. Koenigin
Xalery
Barlow
Index to Today's Issue Highlights Various Local and World Topics
The page lists sections and story teasers across politics crime society sports and finance including Russians fleeing from the pass a hotel murder case in progress local interest in equitable life and stock market notes. Also featured are editorial comment on Maxim Gorki and St Patrick's Day celebrations with district building contracts and stock quotations.
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Peabody
Colorado
Equitable Life
Russia
Wall Street
Morgan Scents
Piot
Santo Domingo
Castro
News
Virginia
Maryland
Maxim Gorki
Mothers’ Congress
Fishman
Taft
Lega
General Hawley Sinking Health Forcing Senate Retirement
Gen Joseph R Hawley former Connecticut senator and Civil War veteran lies critically ill at his Washington home IsIe N Street northwest Doctors say his recovery is unlikely A special act of Congress placed him on the army retired list as brigadier general after his fourth Senate term His health has deteriorated since early 1903 with a long illness and a recent dangerous sinking spell, endured by his wife and three daughters during a largely homebound period anchored at 1716 N Street.
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Joseph R Havwley
Connecticut
Isle N Street
Northwest
Sinclair Bowen
Congress
Hawley
Senator Proctor
Military Affairs Committee
Senate
New York
Washington
Atlantic
Potomac
Chesapfire Bay
Annipais
Chesapeake
Delaware and Raritan
Long Island Sound
New London
Harper, Perry
W Smelair Bowen
Gen Hawlet
Washington Residence
N Street
Mis, Miraret
Miss Marian
Edith Hawey
Insurance policy denied on Charlottesville mayor's murder case
Milwaukee March 16 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance refuses payout on Samuel McCue life policy held for about 15000 to 60000, saying paying would violate public policy after his execution for murder. Court appeal expected. policy owners linked to murder case face denial in several companies.
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Washington Post
Milwaukee
Wis
Northwes Term Mutual Life Insurance Company
Samuel McCue
Charlottesville
Sail
J W Skinner
Northwestern
United Steres Supreme Court
McCue
Emperor to visit Budapest may end Hungarian crisis
Vienna March reports say Emperor Joseph plans to travel to Budapest on Sunday hoping to resolve Hungary’s crisis ongoing since January. Neither side has shifted positions despite the Emperor’s interview with Hungarian leaders, but his presence is seen as a possible turning point in the stalled dispute. Updated travel and train offers appear in the same dispatches.
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Vienna
Joseph
Budapest
Hungary
Crown
Woman Found Dead in Newark Hotel Registered As Wife
A young woman, 22 to 23, was murdered in a Newark hotel whose license had just been revoked. The man she traveled with left and returned with a package claiming headache. The body lay fully dressed, face up, with a scarf over the face and a throat mark. Shoes bore a Jersey City dealer’s mark. the man left after locking the door. The couple registered as Oldwards and wife and were later found missing as the 24 hours expired. Police opened a full investigation. the hotel license was revoked following the incident.
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Newark
Jersey City
Trenton
Jersey
Wallane
Orange
Victim of plot seeks annulment in Chicago court
Herbert Mo Johnson, son of a wealthy Detroit carriage manufacturer, files to annul his marriage to Marmie Lassie Johnson. He alleges entrapment began in 1898 and accuses his former wife, once a domestic in the Johnson home, of fabricating the union to gain money from his father. He cites immature intellect and coercive statements made after marriage. The defendant is about forty five.
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Chicago
Herbert Mo Johnson
Detroit
Marmie Lassie Johnson
Detrait
Johnson
William Mae
Port Huron
Wich Johnson
J Johnson
Worthless life preservers prompt inspection orders
New Orleans March 16 Capt John Cutter supervising inspector of steam vessels urges action after discovering a large batch of life preservers shipped from New York to a New Orleans firm. Inspectors found straps detached and the items poorly sewn, failing to meet government standards. The entire local lot was deemed unfit, and a sample was sent to Washington for review.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
John Cutter
United States
Lfe
New York
Morgan City
Kelly and Park
Dace
Cotti
Washington
Government Mail Destroyed In Pittsburg Postmaster Rampage
John F Johanamsohn twenty four, postmaster at Autzig, Pittsburg, terrorized Spring Garden Borough for three hours. He demolished stock, poured oil on the floor, rolled a barrel of oil and set fire to it, threatening government property. He was arrested after a hard struggle. damages unknown but store stock largely destroyed. A separate note: Alabama postmaster William Donald of Platteau faces embezzlement charges and a hearing in Mobile.
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Pittsburg
John F. Johanamsohn
Autzig
Spring Garden Borough
Alabama
Mobile
Ala
Vwiliam We Donald
Platteau
Post-office Department
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Miedlinghaus
Tennessee Bank
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Part
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Court of Appeals
Emperor Francis Joseph Wall
Cabin John Bridge
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Slim Crews
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7Th St
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