Milanno pleads for clemency in murder case
Antonio Milano known as Tony the Shoemaker seeks executive clemency from President Wilson to commute his 1911 DC murder sentence to life imprisonment. He describes a frenzy during the September 11 incident and says he did not testify at trial hoping the jury would doubt his account.
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Hammer
Shayer
Antonio Milano
Tony
Milano
Wilson
Daniel W
United States
James F. Kelly
Department of Justice
Tony Milano
Supreme Court of the
District of Co Ymbia
Amrav
Pmt
Saee Heen
Live Fowls Land-Stuffed in New York Trade
New York May 20 live fowls and twenty carloads of chickens were held in Jersey City as New York jobbers refuse to handle birds with weighted crops. Dealers claim receivers stuff crops with sand and gravel to cover shrinkage in transit. Until receivers stop the practice dealers threaten a boycott of all five poultry buyers.
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New York
Jersey City
Teray
Leg Broken but Wins Race at Michigan Meet
Harmbaugh, Wolverine veteran runner, ran 2 miles with a broken leg and won the race in a bit above 10 minutes at the Syracuse-Michigan meet in Ann Arbor on May 20.
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Washington Post
Ann Arbor
Mich
Michigan
Syracuse-Michigan
Harmbaugh
Wolverine
Disguised as Woman Tells Story of Queer Life Trial Tale
James Arthur Baker, arrested in Kansas City, confesses to theft in Summerland Cal after a life of posing as a woman to secure teaching jobs in Iowa Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma. He claims an Idaho teaching post under the name Alice Baker and a Los Angeles marriage to a young attorney who led him into counterfeiting and forgery. They stole 24 money orders in Riverside and Pasadena cashed 14 and 2 respectively. Baker says he later married and divorced an Iowa woman twice. He awaits California police.
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Iowa
California
Kansas City
James Arthur Baker
Summerland
Cal
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Pacific Coast
Idaho
Alice Baker
Baker
Los Angeles
Japan
Summerfind
Riverside
Pasadena
Charmer in Dress Surprises Principia School Gala
Clarence H. Howard president of Commonwealth Steel posed as Miss Smith of Chicago at Principia School Maypole festivities. His 18 year old son Thornton and wife and her parents were among those fooled. Guests greeted the elegant visitor as women admired the disguise while some men noticed oddities in the attire. A reveler kissed Miss Smith and Howard revealed his hat and wig in laughter.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
Clarence H. Howard
Commonwealth Steel Company
Miss Smith
Chicago
Thornton
Howard
Davidson
War Insurance Rates In 191? Five Percent Cover
May 20 Lemtin underwriters quote five guineas per cent to cover three months war risk between United States and Japan. A higher light rate of guineas per cent was set for six months to cover a similar risk.
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Lemtin
Tostay
United States
Japan
Roses Supplant Missiles in Cincinnati Strike Ending
The Cincinnati street car strike ended as service resumed on all lines after city officials dismissed the suit for a receiver for the Cincinnati Street Car Company. Arbitrators met to name a third member, with disruption replaced by a poetic display of roses and carnations showered on cheering crowds from a skyscraper balcony.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
State Board of Arbitration
Agents of Destruction
Blackmailers Convicted in Wilson Letters Case
Newark era report says Seeley Davenport and Dunn, Wharton wood choppers, were found guilty by a Federal grand jury of sending two threatening letters to President-elect Woodrow Wilson. Letters demanded 1000 and 5000 dollars under death penalty. one threatened to shoot. Evidence showed letters mailed from a Wharton route and delivered to Tumulty. Dunn admitted writing but later denied it.
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Newark
N. J
Seeley
Davenport
Jacob Dunn
Mountain Woodchoppers
Wharton
Woodrow Wilson
Warren ¥.Johnson
Tumulty
Ledgewood
McKinley
John T. Webber
Frank A. Butler
Dunn
Fight to Bud Anderson ends in knockout in twelfth
Joe Mandot of New Orleans was halted in the twelfth round of a scheduled twenty round bout with Bud Anderson of Vancouver Washington in Los Angeles California. Mandot failed to rise after the final round and referee Eyton stopped the contest as Mandot stood incoherent and staggering.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Joe Mandot
New Orleans
Slashed Skirts Not Barred in Pittsburgh Council
Pittsburgh council refused to regulate women’s dress, dismissing aresolution by Councilman Hoevier. He and his family campaigned for the measure while opponents, including the council majority and no attending women, blocked the issue as President Goehring ruled it out of order. No appeal followed.
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Washington Post
Pittsburgh
M Hoevier
Hoevier
Heevier
John M. Goehring
U S May Make Armor Seek Information Abroad
Secretary Daniels signaled a Board of Inquiry may study armor plate abroad as Congress weighs costs. Senator Ashurst charges profits in private plants run high, with prices possibly double costs. Daniels plans government plants but may not move abroad himself, instead using others for research.
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Secretary of Navy
Board of Inquiry
Ashurst
Navy Department
Daniels
Taft
Meyer
Arizona
Senate
Double suicides in Boston after hurried marriages
In Boston last night two couples, registered under fake names, died by double suicide in separate hotels. One couple was William Jannine and Margery Quinn of Roxbury, who planned a Woburn wedding that never occurred. The other was Charles Huber and Mrs. Benjamin Gortley of Roxbury. Each left a revolver beside the hand, no sign of struggle.
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Boston
William Russell
Providence
Charles Young
Manchester
N. J
William Jannine
Woburn
Margery Quinn
Roxbury
Jannine
Charles Huber
Benjamin Gortley
Not Her Mother's Slayer. Camden WA Murder Probe
In Camden Washington the murder of Mrs. Mary Prondero is investigated after her hacked body is found in her South Camden home. The slain woman’s daughter Mary and her sweetheart Dominick Bonhart were taken into custody after a dramatic morgue scene where the girl learned of her mother’s death. Bonhart resisted police during questioning as investigators press the case.
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Camden
Mary Prondero
Mary
Dominick Bonhart
Benhart
Poisoned Macon Banker Hopes for Kidney Transplant
Doctors at Johns Hopkins weighed a kidney transplant from a recently deceased donor as a potential life saver for B Sanders Walker Jr a Macon banker who misused a mercury compound. Despite sparks of optimism a Johns Hopkins physician called the case hopeless and predicted Walker will die as the mercury poisons spread through the body.
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Johns Hopkins
Macon
Baltimore
B. Sandera Walker
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute of Research
Carrel
Walker
Lfe
Czar to Berlin for Victoria Luise wedding
Emperor Nicholas left St. Petersburg for Berlin to attend the May 2 wedding of Princess Victoria Luise, daughter of the German emperor, to Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland. The departure marks a formal royal engagement between Russia and Germany on the European wedding event.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Berlin
Victoria Luise
Ernest August of Cumberland
Lipton Accepts America's Cup Challenge For 1914 Races
The New York Yacht Club cable confirms acceptance of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge to defend the America's Cup. Races are set for September 1914 under NYYC rules with 75 foot challenger Shamrock IV and plans underway in Gosport for a seaworthy vessel. Lipton notes it may not matter if he cannot tow the yacht across the Atlantic.
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Sir Thomas
Challenger
Atlantic
London
New York Yacht Club
Royal Lister Yacht Club
Sir Thomas Lipton
Charles E. Nicholson
Ee Gosport
England
Nicholson
Thomas Lipton
New York Yachtsmen
Mgr. Nicholson
Maresh
Army Cable Misset Sends Mine Wire to San Francisco
Five reels of cable intended for Portland harbor were shipped to San Francisco after orders from Washington. The submarine mine cable, arriving at Forts McKinley and Williams, is not to be used in Portland. Each reel powers an electric current to nineteen mines, and the cable will likely be sent to the Philippines.
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Portland
San Francisco
McKinley
Williams
Washington
Philippines
Confessed crimes loom in today’s intrigue and trials
An array of items dominates the page with criminal confessions, disguises, a banker poisoned, and trials hinted. Names like Lipton and Roy appear among sensational claims, while other notes mention racing, boxing, and political events shaping the day’s news.
Happy Jack Mulraney Confesses in Farewell Letter
New York May 9 A few minutes before his execution for the Paddy the Priest murder "Happy Jack" Mulraney wrote a letter to his attorney Joseph A Bhay that amounts to a confession He says he seeks heaven where no one can make him suffer and that there is no revenge only mental torture He thanks Bhay for honesty and expresses remorse while stating he faced three honest men and hopes for pardon and God’s blessing.
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New York
May Sr
Siad
Jack Mulraney
Union Seminary Debate Sparks Presbyterian Assembly Split
In Atlanta amid two days of debate the Northern Presbyterian assembly referred negotiations with Union Theological Seminary to a special committee, with report due in 1914. The united assembly adopted a resolution barring denominational badges or uniforms from government schools and approved other committee actions.
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Union Theological Seminary
United Assembly
Atlanta
Northern Presbyterian Assembly
Union Theological Seminary of New York
General Assembly
Mark A. Matthews
Seattle
Wash
Southern Presbyterian Assembly
United States
J. A. Wilson
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh
Northern Assembly
Northern
Judi Commission
Home Missionary Board
Wii de Yead
Exert Committee
Ford
Cadet Company K Wins Washington High School Drill
McKinley Manual Training School Company K wins the twenty sixth annual high school cadet drill at American League Park in Washington. Capt Nash receives a prize medal and replica of the Allison Nailor Trophy as Maj Koester and judges tally scores for eleven companies while Brig Gen George Andrews and officials review the parade. Spectators cheer as the winning unit is announced amid a large crowd and military regalia.
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Nash
Allison Nailor
American League Park
McKinley Manual Training School
Yeater
Wat
Washington
J. iSoester
R. O. van Horn
R. R. Ralston
U. S. Aw
Fifteenth Cavalry Band
George Andrews
United States Army
Genoa
Chamber of Commerce
Samuel J. Leonard
Reuben Schmidt
Maj
Koester
Gen. Andrews
Adit. Schmidt
Tech
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