Plea by Writers Blames Police For Jewish Massacres
The League of Russian Writers urges Russians to resist anti Jewish violence seen as planned for Easter. The appeal accuses police and gendarmes of staging attacks on Jews and cites Kishineff Odessa and other outrages as government instigated, urging unity and action. Premier Witte’s absence from council meetings fuels retirement rumors.
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Witte
St. Petersburg
League of Russian Writers
Russia
Kishineff
Semel
Qdessa
Plehve
Neidhardt
Count Podgorichanle
Nel
St. Bartholomews
SS Petersburg
Odessa
M. Nassousky
Hussia
Ekaterinoslav
League of Writers
Alexandrovak
Minsk
Brest-Litovsk
Rostov-on-Don
Krementelnig
University of Idaho Building Burns in Fire
The main University of Idaho building in Moscow burned down early today. the structure contained seventy five rooms including president and registrar offices and the agricultural experiment station lab. The fire left the rest of the campus unharmed and a single man from the University of Washington and Idaho slept in the building but escaped injury. Origin of the fire is not known.
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Moscow
Idaho
University of Idaho
Agricultural Experiment Station
Chemical Laboratory
University of Washington
Mrs Tewkesbury Extradited After Coercion Claim
London report says Mrs Violet Tewkesbury, arrested in 1903 with husband Lewis G. Tewkesbury for passing bad checks, jumped bail and fled to France. She was extradited from Paris and arraigned at Bow Street Police Court, insisting she acted involuntarily and fled London due to her husband's coercion.
Reid speaks on education at Colston Society Banquet
Special Cable Dispatch to The Washington Fest Bristol England March 30 Ambassador Reid at Colston Society Banquet jokes about discussing education being political in Britain. He notes ongoing university reform toward scientific and practical aims as the local college moves toward university status.
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Cabe
Bristol
England
Reia
Colston Iety
Great Briain
Premier backs Labour bill to shield trade unions in debate
London March 30 Premier Campbell-Bannerman sides with the Labour party in the House of Commons to support their trade disputes bill. The measure, passed at second reading 458 to 66, grants immunity to trade unions from damages claims linked to members actions, aiming to balance capital and labor and curb judge-made law. The premier argued unions prevent conflicts and should be protected while details are worked out in committee.
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Waplee
March WY
Witte
Cornelior Kokovaos
Rainistir
Anencee
Vount Witte
Kokovsoff
M. Goremykin
Interior
Count Ignatieff
Reactionary
Gen. Ignatieff
Count Witte
Constitutional Democrats
Ysarkee-Selo
Peterhof
Senolensk
Russia
M. Gladisheff
Wis
Ure
Iloscow
Prince Dolgoroukot
London
Labor Party
Campbell-Bannerman
House of Commons
Trades Unions
Thersto
Natal natives executions aired in cabinet debate
London March 30 Lord Elgin said Natal sent explanations and the home government would not interfere with Natal's governor and ministers in martial cases. The British cabinet discussed whether imperial intervention was needed as imperial troops remained in the colony. Elgin noted satisfaction with evidence and that decisions rest with Natal authorities, while regretting delayed information.
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London
Lord Elgin
Solonia
House of Lords
Natal
Colonial Office
Pietermaritzburg
Duty Free Baptismal Font Defeated in Steubenville Import ruling
The United States general appraisers sustained a protest against Chicago customs in assessing duty on a baptismal font imported for the Church of the Holy Name in Steubenville Ohio. The font of veined marble was taxed 10 percent ad valorem as marble manufacture but is now classified as sculpture casts.
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New York
United States General Appraisers
Chicago
Church of the Holy Name
Steubenville
Ohio
Wwe
of & Religious
Aucien
Death of F A Stier Stricken With Paralysis
Frederick A. Stier cashier of the Lincoln National Bank died at his home in Washington from paralysis after a week of illness. A longtime figure in church and banking, he served Mount Vernon Place M E Church South as treasurer and Sunday school superintendent and was active in Beacon Lodge and Acacia Masons. Survived by wife and three children, funeral at Mount Vernon Place Church followed by burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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Lincol National Bank
Ninth Street
Hope
Iis
Stier
Ity
Washington
Newmarket
Baltimore
H. Clay Stier
Second National Bank
Beacon Lodge
Grand Lodge
Acacia Lodge of Masons
Mount Vernon Place
M. 1
Wilde
Rock Creek Cemetery
F. Hl. Stier
Philadelphia
W. Stier
W. W. Millan
Red Cross meeting at Belasco praised by Taft and Boardman
Secretary Taft and Mabel Boardman urged reorganized American National Red Cross at Belasco Theater. They cited need for war readiness, praised Japan and European Red Crosss, and highlighted nurses and medical aid planning amid possible future conflicts.
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David A. DeArmond
Missouri
Mabel ‘S
Navy
Walter Wyman
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
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Congress
Army
Ware
Pteaucast
Reorganized
National Red Cross
Miss Bourdiman
Red Cross
Japan
Miss Boardman
Whleh Hag
War Department
American Red Cross
Valery Hayard
Charles Lynch
Manehiri
Peace Fund Sought for Second Hague Conference
Secretary Root urged Congress to provide 50000 dollars so the United States may participate in a second international peace conference. The czar of Russia initiated talks, with the president favoring a meeting likely in summer or autumn, to finalize agreements from the first gathering. The draft bill specifies the conference will be held at The Hague.
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Root
Secretary of the Treasury
Czar
Russia
Hague
Mass. Meeting Demands New Excise Board Over Evading Law
A Georgetown mass meeting at Congressional Street Church, led by W T U supporters, denounced the District excise board. Speakers cited saloons evading statutes, urged replacing the board with officials already in place, possibly headed by the Juvenile Court judge, and endorsed the Hansbrough bill.
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Congress Street
Georgetown
Congreas Street
Congress
2. H. Copp
Creed M. Fulton
James L. Ewin
Anti-Saloon League
N. B Davidson
Ralph P. Barnard
Fenton Smith
H. H. Darnetlle
Hansbrough
Babbitt's Washing Powder Advertises Pack Size
Ad copy notes Babbitt's Washing Powder priced 22 par per package, with a dozen implied in the offer.
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Babbitt
McCarthy Speech Cited in Jamestown Exposition Funding
Ohio legislators approved 75000 dollars for the Jamestown Exposition, rather than 100000. Mayor Carlton McCarthy of Richmond is alleged to have spoken two flag remarks influencing the cut. Commissioner John Whitehead returned with a copy of the exposition bill and said the higher sum would have passed without opposition. Many governors and Virginia residents urged boycott of the event. The item also promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and consumption with prices.
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Ohio
Speerh
Washington Post
Norfolk
Carlton McCarthy
Richmond
Exposition Company
John Whitehead
Whitehead
McCarthy
Virginia
Collision in a tunnel halts New York express near West Philadelphia
Special from Washington Post reports a rear Pullman car on the New York to Washington train was wrecked and set on fire after a collision in the tunnel north of West Philadelphia station. Locomotives failed to pull clear due to fog and a steep grade, passengers were evacuated, a cook was scalded, and firemen quickly controlled the blaze.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
West Philadelphia
New York and Washington Express
New York
Presbyterian Hospital
Mayors Speak at Banquet in Pittsburg
At the annual board of trade banquet in Pittsburg Ohio today Mayor Ton L. Johnson of Cleveland and Mayor-elect George W. Guthrie of Pittsburg were principal speakers. Johnson urged municipal home rule while Guthrie spoke on Great Pittsburg.
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Pittsburg
Board of Trade
Ton L. Jounson
Cleveland
George W. Guthrie
Slavor Johnson
Guthrie
Isaac T Smith dies as Lincoln elector and Siam consul general
Isaac Townsend Smith aged 79, longtime Union League Club member and consul general of Siam to the United States, died in New York after pneumonia. Born in Boston in 1913, he was a presidential elector in 1860, a former New York immigration commissioner, and a banking official. He leaves a daughter, Mrs George B Loring. March 30. Also notices of Maj Samuel T Hamilton and Staff Capt Robert Fields and Myron M Buck memorialize other deaths. Iowa anti-pass bill advances, awaiting Senate approval.
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Siam
New York
Isaac Townsend Smith
Union League Club
United States
Boston
Lord Townsend
England
Roogvelt
Elihu Root
Cornelius N. Buse
Andrew
Lotos
George B. Loring
Port Herrisburg
Samuel ‘T. Hamilton
Beaver, Pa
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