Horrors In Wreck: Thirty Dead In California Disaster
Santa Barbara May 12 Thirty dead and a score injured mark the Ismailia special wreck near Honda yesterday. The train carrying 145 Shriners and friends from Ismailia Temple Buffalo Rajah Temple Reading and nearby cities derailed after striking a defective switch, the locomotive somersaulted into sand, cars crushed and set afire. Names include Doug las Hipple H Fittlem an W Roth Gilbert Steffe D W Wasson W Cutler and others from Reading Buffalo and nearby towns. The dining car passengers perished, many scorched, with two sanitariums housing the injured at San Luis Obispo. The wreck halted near Santa Barbara as rescuers searched the debris.
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Cal
Honda
Mystic Shrine
Imperial Council
Los Angeles
Douglas Hipple
Reading
H. K. Fittleman
L Roth
Gilbert Ste
W H. Boyd
Martin L. Henry
Shamokin
Bee Oraigsburg
Logan
Buffels
Hartsel
Easton
Ismailia Temple
Buffalo
Rajah Temple
Meading
Pacific Ocean
San Luis Obispo
Hendsa
Frank Champlain
Divne
Paintings Undervalued In Importation Case At New York
Secrecy surrounded imports by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr as paintings were entered at the New York customs house. Appraisers found many entries undervalued and raised values by over 45 percent during review, with penalties potentially totaling 100 percent. If she gains possession, she faces 20 percent regular duty plus additional penalties up to 50 percent, as the board deems.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Washington Post
New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York Customhouse
Edward 8. Fowler
Hecht
Michael Nathan
Fine Arts Department
Fowler
Vanderbilt
Gladys
Europe
Paris
Plans to study Mars in Andes high desert
New York May 12 The Lowell expedition led by Prof David Todd of Amherst College sails to South America to photograph Mars from high Andes points in northern Chile. With an 18 inch telescope and specially designed camera the party aims to settle whether Martian canals and markings indicate artificial life or natural causes.
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David Todd
New York
Mars
Lowell
Prof Todd
Amherst College
South America
Andes
William Herschel
Percival Lowell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Flagstaff
Ariz
Panama
Todd
Amhherst
Prof
Ifn
Amisherst Observatory
Lima
Peru
Chile
Will Rue Wedding Faints Twice In Church
William Ellis Corey, president of United States Steel, faces public uproar as his wedding to Mabelle Gilman is planned after midnight. Amid vertigo episodes and intense scrutiny by detectives, Corey and Gilman prepare to sail on the Kaiser Wilhelm II to Europe, with details of ceremony and travel kept tightly guarded.
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Europe
Washington Post
Pittsburg
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Gilman
Laura Corey
Ellis
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
J. B. Corey
Corey
Coreys
Cherbourg
France
Fifth Avenue
Miss Gilman
Mr. Corey
Gov Little May Resign Return to Arkansas Uncertain
Special to The Washington Post from Little Rock Arkansas May 12 reports Gov Little expected to return in a few days but his ability to resume duties by August 75 is doubtful. If unable, he will resign and call a special election. All current legislators are barred from the gubernatorial contest by the constitution.
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Washington Post
Little Rock
Ark
Little
Arkansas
Thursdany
Chicago gets cuarter metropolis charter expands home rule
Illinois lawmakers approve a metropolitan Chicago charter creating a 50 member city council with Ward elected aldermen at 3500 each and a nine member park commission under mayoral control. The lakefront is planned as a 20 mile park boulevard with lake drives linking to parks. Also passes interstate fare law pure food and banking reforms. Shelby M. Cullom re elected to Senate.
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New City Council
New Park Commission
Chicago Park
Chicago
State Assembly
Lake Park
Lake Shore
Lagoon
New York
Massachusetts
Shelby M. Cullom
United States
Senate
Ottawa Man Dies at Christian Science Lecture
E B Johnson a leading Ottawa resident collapsed during a Russell Theater Christian Science lecture by William G Ewing, died within five minutes of heart failure in the theater’s ladies waiting room. His daughter accompanied him earlier but was sent home. The lecturer and church leader George Lowe were unaware of the death until after.
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Washington Post
Ottawa
Ontario
Russell Theater
William G. Ewing
Chicago Supreme Court
Johnson
George Lowe
Christian Science Church
Ninety Die in Mexican Copper Mine Fire
Mexico City dispatch reports ninety miners believed killed in a fire at the Tenares copper mine in Velardena Durango, owned by the Guggenheims. Fire remains out of control with thirty-five bodies recovered and seventeen survivors.
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Guggenheims
Mexico City
Shot-Ready Orchard Confession Looms in Haywood Trial
Boise Idaho May 12 interest in the Haywood trial centers on Harry Orchard whose confession ties William D Haywood and others to the Western Federation of Miners. Orchard is guarded in the penitentiary amid rumors of plots to shoot him from hills back of the prison as jurors are summoned. health good, he is expected to repeat his confession.
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Gooding
Boise
Idaho
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Haywood
Harry Orchard
Western Federation of Miners
Orchard
State Penitentiary
Lewiston
Thaho
Whitney
Spitz
Pettibone
Hodgin
Richardson and
Darrow
Clarence Darrow
Unitarian Church
Walt Whitman
Plot to kill czar high officers in palace plot uncovered
London dispatch reports a large conspiracy by Russian Social Democrats in London to abduct and murder Emperor Nicholas at Tsarskoe Selo. Eighty conspirators were to act in groups, with arrests after thirty four men were seized at Tsarskoe-Selo. Police fear renewed revolutionary activity and monitor meetings in Whitechapel. Rosa Luxemburg and Maxim Gorky were present as observers. The government plans to stop or arrest Social Democrats returning from London at the frontier.
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Maxim
Daily Telegraph
St Petersburg
Nicholas
Tsarskoe-Selo
St. Petersburg
White Chapel
Rosa Luxemburg
Maxim Gorky
Retcnd
Russia
Socialist Sunday School and British Talks Reach Washington
London May 12 a Taondon County Council Sunday school service held for Socialist children in Fulham with hymn books and lessons on labor and citizenship. Also report on a delayed conference between Sir Edward Grey Lord Elgin and Canadian Premier Laurel discussing US Canada questions at the foreign office, with further talks planned in Washington.
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Washington Post
London
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Edward Grey
Lord £Igin
Sir Wilfrid Leurter
United States
Canada
Imer
Foreign Office
Laurel
Bryce
Washington
Clearing Way for Beyce in James town Contest
An opportunity for other candidates to win one hundred free trips is announced. Contact Exposition Department, Post Building, to learn particulars.
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Exposition Department
Poxt Building
Iearn
Lealars
Boy Confesses Murder in Bowdoinham Killing
Sydney Preble, 15, confessed to shooting Morris Heath, 18, two weeks after a quarrel. Heath’s body was found buried under pine needles near a swamp by his father, M. J. Heath. Preble was arrested in Brunswick, Me., on May 12.
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Sydney Preble
Morris W. Heath
Bowdoinham
M. 3
Heath
Preble
Son Murd ers Father Held In Indiana Killing
Indianapolis May 12 Paul Edward Green a traveling salesman for a Chicago shoe house is held at the police station as investigators probe the death of his seventeen year old son Newell Green. The boy was found with two bullet wounds in the head in front of his father’s house. Green says the boy came to the home early this morning and fired upon the door before four shots rang out, later awakening to news of the death. The father has been staying with his first wife at Muncie.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Paul Edward Green
Chicago
Newell Green
Green
Muncie
Richard Mansfield Sails for England Amid Health Concerns
Special to The Washington Post. Richard Mansfield, the actor, appeared frail as he boarded the Atlantic Transport Liner Minneapolis in New York with attendants. His physician conferred with ship surgeons, and Mrs Mansfield supplied dietary instructions. The voyage follows talk of a temporary retirement in England.
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Washinton
New York
Richard Mansfield
Minneapolis
Floyd M. Crandall
England
Treasury Aids Study On Government Bank Deposits
New York May 12 A Treasury committee studies the relation of the Treasury to national banks over government deposits. The process reveals a larger problem than expected as officials weigh political factors and aim to place deposits where they best serve the public and facilitate nationwide business.
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Treasury
Washington Post
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Cortelyou
Foraker Stands Firm Against Early Taft Endorsement
Ohio Senator Foraker rejects any binding effect from a planned harmony conference in Columbus next Wednesday. He reiterates he will not support or be bound by Taft's factional declarations and warns Taft managers he will not run from conflict. The row over endorsements threatens GOP unity ahead of primaries and the national convention.
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Cleveland
Burton
Foraker
Harmony Conference
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Representative Burton
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George B. Cox
Senate
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Ry Taft
Republican Party
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Washington
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