Manchu throne abdicates ending 1300 years of rule
China ends the Manchu dynasty era with Pu Yi's abdication following three imperial edicts. The throne accepts the republic and conditions are reportedly unconditional. Sun Yat Sen becomes president as Yuan Shikai negotiates a peaceful turnover amid revolutionary gains. Imperial forces suffer heavy losses near Su Chow.
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Peking
China
Yuang Shi Kai
Pu Yi
Kwang Su
Prince Chun
Nanking
Sun Yat Sen
Tibet
Turkestan
Mongolia
Manchuria
Peculiar Coincidence In Arizona Admission
Phoenix reports a historical coincidence as Arizona’s admission date marks the 50th anniversary of its entry into the southern confederacy. The Feb. 14 1862 proclamation by Jefferson Davis never made Arizona a Confederate state, and Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation established territorial government after federal troop movements from California.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Jefferson Davis
California
Lincoln
Yaqui Indians Told To Accept Government Land Offer
Yaqui leaders friendly to the Madero government say they can persuade discontented factions to take land offered by the government and settle. Most hostile groups remain in the Sierra Macatetca and no new depredations are reported. Peace largely prevails in Sonora with little anti Madero sentiment among citizens. In Chihuahua a rebel band led by Braulio Hernandez was defeated west of Chihuahua City by federal troops with several reported dead and prisoners. Capt. Salgado was killed and Hernandez fled.
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Cananea
Sonora
Mex
Madero
Wibe
Macatetca
Chihuahua
Juarez
Braulio Hernandez
Moqui
Salgado
Senate to tackle primaries role amid Stephenson probe
The Wisconsin case centers on Senator Isaac Stephenson with a minority report arguing the Senate may inquire into senatorial primaries as well as the election. The report claims $107,000 spent by Stephenson heavily influenced primaries and that the seat may have been won by corrupt means.
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Washington
State Committee On Privileges and Elections
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Senate
Kern
Kenyon
Lea
Jones
Clapp
Stephenson
Minority Report
United States Senate
Discoverer of antiseptics dead in London
London reports the death of Joseph Lister first Baron Lister known for his antiseptic system of surgery. He served as sergeant-surgeon to the crown and was professor of surgery at Glasgow Edinburgh and King's College London.
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London
Joseph Lister
Baron Lister
Glasgow
Edinburgh
King’s College
Young Men's Republican Club Opens Missouri Meeting
The Young Men's Republican Club of Missouri began its annual meeting in St. Louis with a banquet to be addressed by Missouri Governor Hadley and Illinois Governor Deneen. The morning session covered business organization topics as speakers San Felice and Scolzar presented remarks.
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St. Louis
Eluy
Missouri
FH. S. Hadley
Charles
Deneen
Illinois
Infant Ruler Abducts Throne as Pu Yi Abdicates
The tiny child emperor Pu Yi abdicates the throne today, ending a reign that began November 14, 1908, while Yuan Shi Kai, Premier of the deposed monarchy, remains a leading statesman in China.
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Pu Yi
Yuan Shi Kai
China
Taft Heads to New Jersey New York for Lincoln Day
President Taft leaves Washington at 8 AM for New Jersey and New York. He will lunch with former Governor Murphy in Newark then go to Orange before addressing banquets in New York at the Lincoln Day event. Secretary Knox accompanies and plans a Central and South American trip discussions en route.
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Washington
Taft
New Jersey
New York
Newark
N. J
Franklin Murphy
Orange
New York Republican Club
Retail Dry Goods Association
Graduate Club
Knox
State Department
Florida
McGregor Builds $40,000 Depot Near Completed
A McGregor Iowa visitor reports a new $40,000 depot by the C M and St P railway is nearly finished. The structure measures 40 by 100 feet, with a swamp filled and piles driven to 60 feet, foundations laid on sunken timbers as McGregor with about 600 population awaits opening.
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McGregor
Iowa
The
Courier Today
C., M. & St. P. Railway
Indifferent Madame X in Davenport Murder Trial
Anna Kilduff sits in Scott County jail awaiting her murder trial after calmly shooting her husband on Oct. 30. Insanity probable defense eyed as evidentiary details of the couple’s troubled domestic life emerge. her father’s suicide and an inmate relative hint at possible hereditary insanity.
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Davenport
Anna Kilduff
Scott County
Kilduff
Five Aeroplanes Ordered for Army
Washington reports the war department has let contracts for five war aeroplanes despite a small 1913 appropriation. Delivery will take months to reach the College Park Md army aerodrome as the aeronautical squad returns from Augusta Ga. Brig. Gen. Allen said more planes would be ordered soon.
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Washington
House
Army
War Department
Armiy
College Park
Army Aeronautical Squad
Augusta
Allen
Woman Fires At Husband In Marksville Assault
Mrs Will Knights aged about 40 fired four shots at her husband this morning two hit his arm as he fled through the back door. She was placed before insanity commissioners in Allison Arkansas for evaluation amid questions of her mental state and prior marital trouble.
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Marksville
Will Knights
Allison
Jta
Commissioners of Insanity
WL Knights
Clarksville
Roosevelt to address Ohio constitutional convention
Theodore Roosevelt will speak to Ohio's fourth constitutional convention delegates in Columbus on February 21. He accepted the invitation after earlier declines, saying it is a duty and pleasure to aid the state and its citizens under the circumstances.
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Columbus
Senate Rejects Sherwood Pension Plan and Approves Smoot Substitute
Washington reports the senate committee rejected the Sherwood dollar a day pension bill. The Smoot substitute, costing about 22 million annually, was adopted 17 to 2 while the Sherwood bill failed 1 to 4. The Smoot plan targets Civil War veterans and Mexican War survivors with graded monthly pensions up to 30 dollars for older, longer-serving veterans.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Pensions
Smoot
Utah
Brown
Nebraska
Curtis
Kansas
Senate
Sherwood
Pension Bureau
Science to Play Important Part in Murder Trial
Kansas City Feb 12 Science will play a key role in the murder case of Charles Hedges the tinker accused of killing Mrs Lacy Dorsett a widow who befriended him by lending mares Dr Trimble pathologist at University Hospital visited the crime scene and examined blood spots aiding police with laboratory analysis He noted the spots and items near the body but declined to offer a verdict while science may help solve the mystery
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Kansas City
Phi
Charles Hedges
Lacy Dorsett
Ting Bys
Kansas
Choy
Dorsett
Trimble
University of Ka Hospital
Rosedale
Wilson pledges reform as recall foes clash in campaign
Governor Whodo Wilson of New Jersey launches a Tingks campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He blasts recall of judges, vows to abolish laws enabling special interests to control the judiciary, predicts Democratic victory in November, and notes reformists face brickbats in politics.
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Chicago
Whodorew Wilson
New Jersey
Tieree
Mattter
Fire destroys Carlson home three miles southwest of Janesville
A. Carlson and family lost their home and contents in a mysterious afternoon blaze. Grandfather Robert Barker, 79, was home, fled to neighbors, piano among the destroyed possessions. Carlson seeks jury excusal to secure a new residence as the family stays with neighbors. Jury retires to deliberate in the tar and feathering case of Dr. J. P. Freeman at Glenville.
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Janesville
A. Carlson
Here
Robert Barker
Carlson
Waterloo
Pop Bottles Explode. Fire Spares Nearby Buildings
In Colesburg Iowa on February 12 a string of bottle explosions from overheated pop bottles at the Wiffer restaurant drew a neighborhood alarm. Firemen battled flames and saved the adjacent structures as the scene prompted attention to a fire in the restaurant.
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Colesburg
Morgan's Art Treasures Valued Over 100 Million
New York reports J Pierpont Morgan’s plan to move part of his London collection prompts estimates that his total art treasures exceed 100 million dollars. London holdings top 20 million with New York pieces about twice that. loaned works to museums add around 10 million, with similar amounts given away.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
London
Mr. Morgan
Mine Fire Claims Dozens of Fatalities in Silesia
Automienhuette in Prussian Silesia reports a coal mine fire last evening. Seven bodies recovered at the surface, with at least twenty more feared dead. Many workers remained trapped near the shaft bottom, with escape cut off for all but those far from the main shaft area.
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Automienhuette
Prussian Silesia
New Dairy Lunch Room to Open in Loomer Building
Negotiations by James Gardiner Land Co lead to a ten year lease for Washington Dairy Lunch Co in M. A. Loomer building beside the ten cent store on Fourth street east. L B Tamson arranged the deal. The company has parlors at Sioux City Cedar Rapids and Davenport. Before occupancy 3500 will be spent on improvements including marble counters tile floor and expensive fixtures.
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James Gardiner Land Co
Washington Dairy Lunch Co
M. AH. Loomer
Ten Cent
Fourth Street
L. B. Tamson
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Waiting for signal to arrest forty in dynamite cases
Indianapolis February 12 waiting for the signal described by officials as the method for arresting more than forty men indicted in dynamite conspiracy cases. The U S district attorney’s office checks receipts of captuses across districts and telegraph warrants to order simultaneous arrests. General Homer Lea in Shanghai is critically ill and unconscious. Washington Seligman a New York broker shot himself at the Hotel Gerard.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States District Attorney's Office
Lea
Shanghai
Homer Lea
Sun Yat Sen
New York
Washington
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