Bandits loot U S Mail in Coffeyville robbery
Four masked men dynamited the safe of a northbound St Louis Iron Mountain train near Coffeyville Kansas, stealing mail and about $20,000 in currency. The robbers fled in a buggy toward Oklahoma after a nearly hourlong hold up, as investigators estimate total loss under $500 not including damaged money.
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St. Lows
Iron Mountain Railroad
Coffeyville
Kans
Coffeyside
St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad
Oklahoma
Foner Earls
Safe H W Walker
Pacfic Express Company
Walker
James Lynch
Lenapah
Oklo
Sheriiff
Ten Thousand Dollars Stolen In Transit Between Tampa And Clearwater
Ten thousand dollars in currency vanished from a mail pouch traveling from Tampa to Clearwater. An eight inch slit and torn registration indicated theft, with the money recovered in St. Petersburg as the pouch arrived. The cash, sent by Exchange National Bank to Bank of Clearwater, was likely taken while multiple bags waited on a Tarpon Springs platform eight hours late.
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Tampa
Fla
Clearwater
St. Petersburg
Exchange National Bank
Bank of Clearwater
Points South
Tarpon Springs
Atlantic Coast Line
SHERWOOD HEADS PENSIONS CHAIR UNOFFICIALLY NAMED
Gen Isaac R Sherwood of Toledo Ohio is reported to become chairman of the House committee on invalid pensions picked by the Democratic ways and means panel. Tim Ashbery and Carl Ansberry had vied for the post, with Ansberry favored despite Anderson endorsement from the G A R tabloid.
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Isaac R. Sherwood
Democrati
Toledo
Ohio
House
Democratic Waya and Means
New House
Timothy Tinsberry
Defiance
Carl C. Anderson
Fostoria
Tragic three step death at Storey Building
Wesley Churchill, 40, swallowed poison then cut his throat and leaped from the eleven story Storey building in Los Angeles. He landed in an alley and was crushed to a shapeless mass. Churchill had lost his job due to poor health and left a large family.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Wesley Churchill
Churchill
Iie
Bachelor Tax Bachelors? Women Propose Tax on Unmarried Men
Dr Anna Howard Shaw condemns a proposed bachelor tax as coarse buncombe. She argues motherhood pensions should be funded by general taxation, not a tax on bachelors, and blasts Roosevelt for race death talk inspiring such measures. She warns a statewide law would affect all, urging marriage as companionship and equality.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Anna Howard Shaw
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Finais
Theodore Roosevelt
Throne of Heaven
Dr. Shaw
Oconto
Wis
Roosevelt
Custody Fight Over 2 Year-Old Child In Murder Case
Justice Stafford dismissed a petition seeking custody of the 2 year-old daughter of murdered mother and jailed father. He ruled jurisdiction lay with the father upon the mother’s death and found no habeas corpus grounds. The suit was dismissed without prejudice, allowing another tribunal to act. The grandmother filed for legal guardianship in a separate court.
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Charles Baston
Two Women Burn to Death in North Carolina Fire
In Olive Branch North Carolina on March 24 Miss Grace Baucom and Miss Wilma Davis were burned to death when a lamp kerosene outbreak exploded and set their dresses alight in a fire that destroyed the home of H L Baucom last night.
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Olive Branch
N. C
Grace Baucom
Wilma Davis
H. L. Baucom
Baltimore conference delegates gather for 127th M E Church session
Delegates and members travel to Douglas Memorial Church Eleventh and H streets NE for the 127th annual session of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop William F. Anderson to preside and arrive tonight, with Epworth League anniversary Tuesday night featuring Rev. C F Risner.
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Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church
Douglas Memorial Church
Eleventh
H Streets
William F. Anderson
Washington
G. W. F. Swartzell
Madison Place
Commercial Club
Epworth League
C. F. Risner
D. D
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wil
Bishop Anderson
City
Taft to address church congress opening in D.C.
President Taft will open the Twenty-ninth congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church at the G A R Hall starting April 25. Invitations extended by Bishop Harding Justice Lurton and Rev J Russell Townsend were accepted. A Taft reception for delegates and speakers is set for 2 30 p m the same day. Local committees under Justice Lurton include Finance Rev Randolph H McKim. Arrangements Rev wv C F Bratenahl. Publicity Rev J Townsend Russell. Hall Rev J Henning Nelms. Hospitality Rev Herbert Scott Smith. Music and program Rev George F Dudley.
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Taft
Protestant Episcopal Church
G. A. R Hall
Bishop Harding
Justice Lurton
J. Russell Townsend
J. Townsend Russell
Hall
J. Henning Nelms
Church of the Ascension
Herbert Scott Smith
D. D
St. Margaret's Church
George F. Dudley
St. Stephen's Church
Rescuer Falls With Wife During Baltimore Fire
In Govans a ladder broke as Col Jerome Wood and his wife were carried from a burning two story home. Wood broke his left leg and injured his back while his wife is in critical condition. Their invalid daughter was trapped inside until Roy Bottrill brought her to safety with a second ladder. The blaze started from a coal stove explosion as Wood moved a heater to the door.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Jerome Wood
Govans
Col. Wood
Roy Bottrill
Bottrill
Cox Case Ruling Awaited in Cincinnati
After five days of legal turbulence in the George B. Cox perjury case, the week likely ends with Judge T. A. Jones presiding. The injunction blocks further action as Jones is delayed until Monday while prosecutors seek to show bias by two circuit court judges against Judge Gorman.
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Cincinnati
George B. Cox
T. A. Jones
Jackson County
Circuit Court
Will Lecture on Mexico by Former Mexico City Editor
Robert S. Barrett longtime editor of the Mexico City Daily Record will speak at the Columbia Theater tomorrow night. An alumnus of George Washington University, Barrett lived in Mexico from boyhood and led the Daily Record to wide circulation. He will discuss the Mexican revolution and the Diaz regime, plus the American border army.
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Robert S. Barrett
Mexico City
Daily Record
Mexico
Columbia
George Washington University
Afternoon Daily Record
Republic
Record
Barrett
Mexican Republic
War Department promotes Daly and Saxton shifts roles
Charles P Daly is promoted to chief clerk of the quartermaster general s office at the War Department, succeeding Henry Saxton who becomes chief of the administrative division. Saxton served since 184 and as chief clerk since 1898. Daly served 22 years in the department and since 1906 in the quartermaster general s office. H M Fridley becomes chief clerk of the personnel division succeeding J L Beattie, who is made principal clerk of the property division.
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Charles P Daly
Quartermaster General’s Office
War Department
Henry Saxton
Saxton
Daly
H. M. Fridley
J. L. Beattie
Naval Officers Acquitted In Burrows Grounding Inquiry
The board appointed by Rear Admiral Raymond Perry Rodgers concluded there was no finding of responsibility for the torpedo boat destroyer Burrows grounding during a March storm. The Burrows remains undamaged and will join the Atlantic fleet at Hampton Roads. Details cover officer leaves, assignments, and adjutant general station changes across multiple commands as ap pointed by the examining and retiring boards.
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Washington
Newport
R. I
Raymond Perry Rodgers
Burrows
Hampton Roads
English Cut Suits and Raglan Top Coats Sale Notes
The store advertises English cut suits and raglan top coats with sizes and prices. English grades priced at 25, 30, and 35 dollars, Rough Blue Cheviot suit at 25 dollars. Hat with low crown and wide brim priced at two dollars, Ward English Cloth Hat exclusive block at 3 dollars. Mark Cross gloves offered at 1.50 per pair, emphasizing exclusive Washington availability.
Fort Riley Officers Sent on Medical and Supply Missions
Fort Riley in Kane is sending Capt William R Davis of the medical corps to Cleveland for medical department business. Maj Franklin O Johnson is relieved from pay department detail. Capt David B Case is sent to Akron to inspect subsistence. Col Millard F Harmon is relieved from inspector general detail. Capt Carper H Conrad Jr to New York City. IL F Landis to continue treatment at Mare Island Naval Hospital. Lieut A C Kail to Puget Sound Navy Yard. J D Little to Philadelphia as executive. Lieut D P Wickersham to navy recruiting in St Louis. Surg Re Ledstathr to home with wait orders. Surg A B Peck to Naval Station Cavite.
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Joseph P. Tracy
Coast Artillery Corps
George H McMaster
Eighth Infantry
Charles P Summerall
Second Field Artillery
Fort Myer
Third Field Artillery
Frederick 9. Soltz
Fifteenth Cavalry
Peter C. Harris
General Staff
Washington, D
Robert E Bvans
U. 8 A
Edmund Wittenmyer
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Wicut
EBRN
San Francisco
Cal
Department of California
Gol. Ladd
Samuel W. Dunning
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
William M. Wright
Philippine Islands
Army
Board
John P. Wilber
Clarence Derme
James D. Glennan
Medical Corps
Arthur W. Chase
WM. A. Powell
Richard Furnival
Morris K. Barroll
New York City
Samuel D. Sturgis
Port Sam Houston
Ten
Tuird Feta Artillery
Laroy S$ Upton
First Infantry
Maj
Peyton
Sixth Field Artillery
Fort Riley
Kane
William R Davis
Cleveland
Ohio
Franklin O Johnson
David B Case
Communery
Akron
Millard F Harmon
Inspector General
Carper H. Conrad, Jr
Comdy
F. Landis
Naval Hospital
Mare Island
A. C. Kail
Navy Yard
Puget Found
J. D. Little
Philadelphia
DP. Wickersham
Navy Recruiting Station
Bt Louis
A. BE. Peck
Naval Station
Cavite
Pol
Naval Vessel Movements At Several U.S. Ports
A list of ships including Arrived Drayton Stringham at Washington Burrows Newport Navajo San Diego Petrel Santo Domingo Grayting Bonita Salmon Snapper Stingray Tarpon Annapolis Vulcan Guantanamo and more with movements to Hampton Roads Norfolk Guantanamo Mare Island Tangier Sound and related drill grounds.
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Drayton and Stringham
Washington
Burrows
Newport
Navajo
San Diego
Petrel
Santo Domingo
Grayting
Annapolis
Vulcan
Guantanamo
Connecticut
Michigan
North Dakota
Minnesota
Idaho
Vermont
Georgia
Nebraska
Rhode Island
Virginia
New Hampshire
Hampton Roads
Louisiana
Kansas
South Carolina
Southern Drill Grounds
Sterett
Prestey
Lamson
Bailey
Norfolk
Birmingham
Safled
Caesar
Puerto Cortez
Hopkins
Mare Island
Missianippi
Bretus
Tangier Sound
Teagier Sound
Starett, Preston, Lamson, and Bailey
Miss Martha R. Jones Dead at Boyds Md
Martha R. Jones aged 81 died tonight at the home of her niece Mrs Remus R Darby in Boyds Maryland from general debility Interment will be at Goshen Maryland on Sunday
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M. R. Jones
Boyds
Washington Post
Boyds,Md
Martha R. Jones
Remus R. Darby
Goshen
City Beautiful talk inspires residents to beautify Washington
David Fairchild and Glenn Brown lectured Park View Citizens Association members at Whitney Avenue Christian Church. They urged fixing the ugly building line at a Flowerless house site and showed Maj. Le Enfant plans for a city to rival any in the world, stressing plantings as essential.
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Washington
David Fairchild
People’ Garden Association
Glenn Brown
American Institute of Architects
Park View
Mr. Fairchild
Maj.l Enfant
Street Car Mail Boxes to Be Installed in City
Negotiations between electric street car officials and the Post Office Department aim to install mail boxes on all street cars. A funnel shaped receptacle would allow dropping letters or packages, with routes feeding to the main post office or branches for pickup.
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Post Office Department
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Kansas City
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Dark Horse
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Protestant Episcopal
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COX
Will
The
Charles P. Daly
I Laecee
Mark Cross
NAVAL
City Beautiful
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