Senate considers Wilson appointments amid steering committee lull
Washington March 11 A short Senate session focused on President Wilson appointments as Democrats and Republicans jostled for committee influence. Opposition to Dr C P Neill for Japan statistics chief stirred Southern Democratic resistance rooted in a 1911 labor report.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Nell
C. P. Neill
Japor Statistics
Tillman
South Carolina
Overman
North Carolina
Dr. Neill
Suffragists Sentenced For Petition Ride To King
Five suffragists named Lillian Wilcox Dorothy Smith Kathleen Paget Gertrude Vaughan and Grace Stewart were jailed 21 days to one month for obstructing police while attempting to reach the king on his way to Parliament. Two others received a month for smashing windows at the Home Office.
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London
Lillian Wilcox
Dorothy Smith
Kathleen Paget
Gertrude Vaughan
Grace Stewart
How Street
Home Office
Croxley Green
Police Hear Reports On Suffrage Pageant Disorder
Washington March 11 Investigation into police responsibility for the disorder at the woman suffrage pageant continued before the senate committee with suffragists and police witnesses. Edward S. Droop said Pennsylvania avenue was clear before the parade. Clergyman Dr James Mythen testified parade marshals faced jeers and that officers failed to restrain rowdies. Commissioner John A Johnston presented police-suffrage permit correspondence.
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Washington
Senate Committee of Inquiry
Edward S. Droop
Washington Board of Trade
Pennsylvania Avenue
James Mythen
Baltimore
Maryland
Jeern
Mythen
Mary Melvin
John A. Johnston
District of Columbia
American Aid Finances Mexican Revolt Charged
Mexico City March 11 Charges that an American syndicate funds the revolt of former Governor Jose M Maytorana in Sonora were raised in the chamber of deputies. Dispatches report a serious situation at Piedras Negras with Carranza forces in control and railroad lines disrupted. Ojeda's federal troops near Agua Prieta face threats from state forces, risking international complications. Cabral advances with 600 constitutionalists toward Nogales as border tension rises.
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Mexico City
Jose M. Maytorana
Sonora
Chamber of Deputies
Querido Modena
Washington
James Parker
First Cavalry Brigade
Ft. Sam Houston
Tex
War Department
Piedras, Negras
Mexico
Carranza
Aubert
Monclava
Piedras Negras
Central
Woverimi
Ojeda
Cabral
Nogales
Magdalena
Hermosillo
Juan Cabral
Col. Kosterlitsky
Federal Rurale Police
Government Tests of Friedmann Tuberculosis Vaccine Begin Today
Washington March 11 Government tests of Dr Friedmann s tuberculosis vaccine began in the hygienic laboratory. Director John F Anderson chairman of the board appointed by Surgeon General Blue of the public health service to investigate the new remedy returned today with cultures placed at the government s disposal by Dr Friedmann and tests on animals and other culture media were at once begun.
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Washington
Friedmann
John F. Anderson
Surgeon General
Blue
The
Public Health Service
Olney Offered Ambassador Post to Great Britain
Washington March 11 Neither President Wilson nor Secretary Bryan had word today from Richard Olney of Massachusetts who has been offered the post of ambassador to Great Britain. The president expressed hope that Mr Olney would accept. Tennessee senators and the state delegation back former Governor Benton McMillin for a diplomatic post as well.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Garrison
War Department
Gore
Oklahoma
Stone
Lodge
Smoot
Kennedy
Connecticut
Campbell
Texas
Johnston
Richards
Alabama
Henry W. Dooley
Porto Rico
United States
United States Court of Customs Appeals
United States Commerce Court
Court of Appeals of
District of Columbia
Philippine Islands
White House
H. W. Dooley
Porto
Winthrop
Beekman Winthrop
Navy
Daniels
Franklin R. Roosevelt
H. W. Sawtelle
Tucson
P. A. Stovall
Savannah
Bacon and Hokemith
Bryan
Richard Olney
Massachusetts
Great Britain
Olney
Tennessee
Benton McMillin
McMillin
Murder mystery in Des Moines deepens as Schnellbacher dies
Des Moines police report another unsolved murder case after John Schnellbacher of Marshalltown is found beaten with head injuries and knife cuts. He stayed at the Northwestern hotel and was identified by papers in his pocket. Coroner notified. Marshalltown relatives to be informed.
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Des Moines
John Schnellbacher
Marehalstown
Schnellbacher
Schmellbacher
Northwestern
Lee
Marshalltown
GAYNOR FACES PULITZER CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE
New York March 11 Ralph Pulitzer son of Joseph Pulitzer and head of the Press Publishing Company owner of the New York World Evening World and the St Louis Post Dispatch sought to begin criminal libel proceedings against Mayor Gaynor. The bid failed but may progress tomorrow based on a February 4 speech by the mayor attacking the Pulitzers and their father. Magistra te Kernochan reported that a summons was sought and if action is to be taken it will be today.
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New York
Ralph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
The
Press Publishing Company
New York World
Evening World
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Gaynor
Pulitzers
Ralph
Welter
Kernochan
Waterloo man Hurt in Cedar Falls Car Yard Accident
Harry A. Brown of Waterloo sustained a serious foot injury in the Rock Island yards at Cedar Falls while coupling two cars. He was taken to a local doctor and later released to his Waterloo home. Doctors hope the foot can be saved. Brown, a member of the local switching crew, was finishing the coupling when his foot was crushed between a drawbar and bar.
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Cedar Falls
Harry A. Brown
Waterloo
Rock Island
Brown
Sycamore Street
George
Theodore
Kansas City
Leo Brown
Restaurand
Dominican reports proved erroneous in presidential nominations
Washington March 11. President Wilson sent to the senate nominations for Robt N Sutherlin register of the land office Great Falls Montana and Thos guna novodad receiver of public moneys Great Falls Mont. A cablegram from the Dominican minister to Dr Peynado quoted as Nothing doing stated the island remained normal with Archbishop Nouvel having left the capital only for a brief visit.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Register of the Land Office
Great Falls
Mont
Robt
N. Sutherlin
Thos
Guna Novodad
Peynado
Cholera Damage In Barclay Township Estimated At 30000
Two thousand hogs died of cholera in Barclay township last year as per assessor figures to County Auditor J J Rainbow. At 165 per hog the loss is 30000 in this township, and extrapolating to 19 townships suggests county cholera losses could exceed 500000 if other townships fared similarly.
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Barclay Township
J. J. Rainbow
Black Hawk
Barclay
Prince to Visit Germany from Oxford Term End
The prince of Walesia plans a post Oxford term visit to Germany ending in Stuttgart with time spent at his mother's relatives. He will not visit Berlin.
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Berlin
Prince of Walesia
Germany
Oxford
Stuttgart
Prussia Plans $136 Million Rail Loan for Expansion
Berlin March 11 The Prussian government introduced a bill in the diet authorizing loans totaling 136 million dollars for state railways. Major items include new lines and tracks 27.5 million, buildings 25 million, rolling stock 47.5 million.
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Berlin
Diet
Babe falls from second story window in freezing Sunday accident
The eighteen month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Evans narrowly escaped death when he fell from a second story window at 948 Berth Avenue. He punched out the screen and toppled to the frozen ground, striking his head and shoulders and sustaining extremely serious injuries while under care of siblings.
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Lawrence Evans
Berth Avenue
Ambassadorship names hover as Switzerland option discussed
The report notes plans to send a representative to Switzerland while no definite post has been fixed. Justice J. W. Gerard of New York remains a prominently mentioned candidate for an ambassadorship.
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Switzerland
J. W. Gerard
New York
Resignations Submited From Commerce Department Officials
Secretary Redfield announced that Assistant Secretary Cable and Luther Conant Jr commissioner of corporations handed in their resignations. Cable requested relief by March 20. Corina, queen of Havana cigars. cadvertigemant
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Washington
Redfield
Cable
Luther Conant, Jr
Department of Commerce
Corina
Queen of
Havana
Cadvertigemant
Governor Seeks Iowa Probe Into White Slavery Conditions
Gov. Geo. W. Clarke urged the Iowa legislature to authorize a two year commission to investigate the white slave situation in Iowa. The measure follows Illinois findings and proposes a state inquiry with a two year term. A separate report in Chicago notes possible wage impacts on store workers and the drive for a $12 weekly minimum.
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Des Maoines
Geo. W. Clarke
Iowa
Senate
Illinois
Chicago
State Senate
Hotel la Salle
Billa
General Assembly
Merchant
William C. Thorne
Montgomery Ward & Co
State Street
Wisconsin
Indiana
Thorne
Cedar Rapids Voters OK Vocational High School Plan
Cedar Rapids Iowa March 11 the school district voted to build a vocational high school and two grade schools with a total expenditure of 180000 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Dies After Long Sleep of Thirty Four Days
Rock Island report of Mrs. Rose Havens a 45 year old Mahersville resident dying after a continuous sleep of 34 days. The aged woman had previously slept 121 days fourteen years earlier. In France seven crew members of the submarine Foucault were injured two fatally by a motor explosion during a trial trip near Cherbourg.
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Rock Island
Rose Havens
Mahersville
Cherbourg
France
Foucault
Last Survivor of John Brown Raiders Dead at 76
Whi. Caine, viewed as the last surviving raider from John Brown's band, died in Winona Minnesota today at age 76. He had attended a semi centennial event recently at Osawatamie Kansas.
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John Brown Raiders
Winona
Minn
Whi. Caine
John Brown Raidera
Osawatamie
Kan
Light Brigade Survivor Viscount Tredegar Dies at 82
London reports Viscount Tredegar, one of the few survivors of the Balaklava Charge, has died aged 82 with no heir to the title. Courtenay Charles FE Morgan, a grandson of the first baron, succeeds as Baron Tredegar.
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Light Brigade
London
Viscount Tredegar
Balaklava
Courtenay Charles FE. Morgan
Baron Tredegar
Indiana ratts author of rat killing law
Indiana lawmakers conclude the sixty-eighth general assembly with major bills, including creating a public utilities commission and a remeasure. They ratified the constitutional amendment for direct U S Senate elections and memorialized Congress on polygamy prohibition. a ratting day may be proclaimed by the governor. Senator Oscar Ratts introduced the measure.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Public Utilities Commission
United States
Congress
Oscar Ratts
Bucket Shop Crusade Ends with Guilty Pleas and Fines
Washington reports Joseph Gatins of New York and Virgil P. Randolph of Keepe Va each fined 9000 for conspiracy against the United States in bucket shop indictments. William H. Price of Baltimore 1000, Edward Everett Taylor of Washington 600, Edward Weldon and James Anderson 260 each. The case closes the nation wide bucket shop crusade begun in 1910 with 78100 in fines on others. Some indictments against Randolph Moorehead Kemble Albberger were dismissed.
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Washington
Joseph Gatins
New York
Virgil P. Randolph
Keepe
Wm. H. Price
Baltimore
Edward Everett Taylor
Edward Weldon
James Anderson
District Supreme Court
United States
Harry M. Randolph
Chac. T. . Moorehead
Thomas H. Kemble
John T. Albberger
Suffragists Plan Weekly Walks To Reach Voters
Ida Craft leader of the Votes For Women Walking club announces a new effort to bring suffrage to the public. Beginning April 5 members will walk every Saturday into the countryside to reach laborers, farmers, and women with strollers, expanding beyond parlor conversations.
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New York
Austria Objects to Servian Move on Scutari
Belgrade March 11 Austria declares it objects to Servian troops aiding the siege of Scutari the Turkish fortress seen as aiding Montenegro. Baron von Agron von Abranfalva informed Premier Pasitch of recall for any Servian troops sent. The Servian premier cited treaty obligations to assist allies despite Scutari implications. The situation is described as extremely delicate with high tension over Austria's stance.
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Belgrade
Servia
Scutari
Baron von Agron von
Austria
President declines to interfere in Sharretts case
President Wilson refused to intervene in the dismissal of Thaddeus Sharretts a member of the US General Board of General Appraisers in New York on charges of malfeasance Senators Lodge Smoot and Stone urged reinstatement but the president referred them to Secretary McAdoo for action.
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Washington
Wilson
Thaddeus Sharretts
United States General Board of General Appraisers
New York
Taft
Lodge
Smoot
Stone
Sharretts
McAdoo
Young Greek in Own Behalf at Murder Trial Testimony
Gust Bekiares, a 23 year old Greek laborer and interpreter, testified at length detailing his life from Greece to Iowa and his movements in Waterloo on the day of Selem Mehmet’s murder near Dewar. He described meeting locals, visiting Greek restaurants and saloons, and boarding a southbound train, while denying knowledge of the crime.
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Guat Beklares
Selem Mehmet
Dewar
C. W., Mullan
Oelwein
Waterloo
Mr. Mullan
Gust
Goura
Corinth
Greece
Gunt
Fairbank
Big Cut
East Side
Mike Pappas
Will Bekiares
Gust Bekiares
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Martin
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