Aegelo Invades Streets of Chihuahua
An American with insurrecto forces reports ten civilians executed by rebels including a judge. Federals guard Navarre at Pedernales as insurrectos seek reinforcements, while warnings prompt citizens to stay indoors after 5 PM. Government troops advance from Sonora toward Tiverero amid a large siege buildup.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Navarre
Pedernales
Gerald Brandon
Mexican Herald
War Office
KF. A. Sommerfeld
Sommerfeld
Insurrecto
Ccity
Dleathut
Sonora
Tiverrero
Etiviieholds
Passenger train Porc to Return to Juarez
An El Paso train running toward Ciudad Juarez was halted when the track was torn up seventy seven miles south at Gueman. The 150 passengers were evacuated and the locomotive and car abducted by revolutionists lie south of Juarez. Fifty soldiers arrived from Chihuahua to reinforce Juarez garrison. A scouting party reported a deserted insurgent camp twelve miles west with no definite sightings of the rebels.
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Juarez
el Paso
Texara
Northwestern
Ciudad Juares
Gueman
Chur Man
Chihuahua
Poundao
Gimpoof
Diiereg
Mormon Colonists in Telex Zone Near Cybras Grandes
Telegraph wire reopening after a railway robbery reveals a train stolen by Insurrectos at Truzman station. About 1,000 armed men are camped nearby. Communication lines were cut before details emerged. Mer mot colonies near Cybras Grandes feel uneasy as this area is placed in a hostile zone.
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el Paso
Texas
Dew
Mexico Northwestern Railway
Mexican Northwestern Train Returns After Bridge Fires
El Paso Texas December 23 The Mexico Northwestern passenger train, en route to Casas Grandes, ran without orders and returned late tonight reporting bridges burned below Lena station. The train was halted sixty five miles below Juarez by dynamited track. An eighty foot trestle between Lena and Conejos burned and many key bridges burned for miles.
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el Paso
Texas
Mexico Northwestern
Casas Grandes
Lene Station
Juarez
Lena
Conejos
Aviator Hoxsey Surveys Los Angeles Harbors Aerially
Aviator Areh Hoxsey flew a Wright bi plane over Los Angeles inner and outer harbors from 4200 feet. He reported seeing docks and ships clearly and said he could have drawn an accurate war map of the territory if his hands were free. The flight lasted twenty eight minutes with an average speed above forty miles an hour.
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Los Angeles
Areh Hoxsey
Hoxsey
Crop Reports Clarified for Readers by Board Chairman
Washington December 22 Victor H Olmentead chairman of the crop reporting board outlines plans to make monthly crop estimates from the department of agriculture more intelligible. He proposes including quantitative interpretations to help the public grasp the rowing season figures.
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Washington
Der
Department of Agricultural Department of Argiculture
Victor H. Olmentead
Crop condition reports to include final production estimates
The article explains that condition reports will continue to be issued monthly in percentage form and will also publish the final production quantities indicated by the condition figures. It notes that yearly inclusion is uncertain, but near maturity reports may estimate final production based on the condition data.
German claims United States wants Cuba
Berlin reports in this evenings Post that Washington seeks Cuba through biased dispatches. It accuses the United States of aiming for Cuba's complete annexation as soon as possible and seeks to portray Cuba as a dependent ally rather than independent.
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United States
Cuba
Berlin
Woman Convicted in Dynamite Plot Against Judge and Family
Isabella J. Martin found guilty of dynamiting the home of Superior Judge Ogden on March 11 1907 after nine hours of deliberation in her second trial. She acted as her own counsel and was previously sentenced to life when convicted in the first trial. Evidence tied her to hiring "Hazy" Jobe Martin and claimed her child "Baby John" testified.
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Oakhind
Cal
Isabella J. Martin
Ogden
Tontcht
Supreme Court
Tria
Martin
Oxden
Hazy
Jobe Martin
Chimay
John
Jewish philanthropist Baron David Gueenzberg dies in St. Petersburg
Baron David Gueenzberg dies in St. Petersburg at 64 after a cancer battle. He is son of Ho race Oasipeviteh Ciueensberg, president of the central committee of the Jewish Colonization company, known for his generous benevolence to Jewish causes and organizations.
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St. Petersburg
David Gueenzberg
Hocrace Oasipeviteh Ciueensberg
Jewish Clonization Company
Wiho
New Chilean President Inaugurated Amid Formal Ceremonies
Ramon Barros Licco was inaugurated president of Chile today with traditional rites as diplomats and military officers from Argentina attended. President Iuco was elected on October 1 to succeed Montt, who died in Europe on August 16.
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Santiago C
Chile
Ramon Barros Licco
Iuco
Montt
Europe
Haitien Borrowing Propels Million-Dollar Plan
The Hastien commissioners visiting Washington seek to borrow up to 1,000,000 dollars to fund government operations amid talks with Haitian lenders. Experts doubt it signals a French-backed bank seizure, viewing it as a prep step while bank issues in Haiti are resolved.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Hastien
Te Wrrearé
Siularjee
Haytien Thin
Hayti
United States
Turnbull Claims Forgeries in Baldwin Will Contest
Mrs. Lillian Turnbull, star witness in the Baldwin $11 million will contest, denounces letters as base forgeries by a Wood associate. She denies contracts with A T Anderson and a prior marriage promise, recalling a notorious Osborn photo incident.
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Star Witness
Incarnation of Honesty and Charity Trial Shocks Tours
Aulby de Ciatigny and Countess charged with swindling Duchess de Choleeul-Prastin, formerly Mrs. Charles Hamilton Paine of Boston. Court actions stir drama with witnesses claiming charity and honesty while prosecutors and judges shape the sensational proceedings in Tours.
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Morning Journal
Tours
France
Aulby de Ciatigny
Duchess de Choleeul-Prastin
Charles Hamilton Paine
Toston
Waulby
M. Diot
Tours Agsociation of
D Aulby’s Trial Hearing Details on Antiope Sale
Testimony in the case of the Antiope painting sale to the late Mr Paine describes D Aulby insisting on a clause denying authenticity and his lack of business sense. Diot notes D Aulby and wife’s naive finances, music passion, and alleged charitable acts as prosecutors’ witnesses defend him amid court room sobs and a prolonged French sensorium.
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Mr. Paine
D'Aulby
M. Diot
D Aulby
Boston
Desmoulin
Paris
D’aulley
No Tidings of C o Brition Aviator
London December 238 with midnight near no tidings yet of Cecil and Grace the intrentd young orator who disappeared Thursday afternoon while essaying a return crop flight from Calais to Dover in an aeroplane. Boats and searchers for the machine or wreckage prove vain as of morning. Grace carried petroleum for about five hours and wore a cork jacket but heavy fur boots risked drowning if water found him.
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London
Cecil & Grace
Calais
Dover
North Sea
Grice
Grace
Fire captain dies as stockyards blaze toll reaches twenty four
Alexander Lannon, captain in Chicago fire department, dies after being injured in the stockyards fire. The inquest opens next Wednesday morning. The Citizens Relief fund gathers at a downtown bank with $156,000 goal and $50,000 subscribed so far. Edward Doyle, son of Captain Doyle, found his father’s body after forty hours at the ruins.
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Lannon
Hoffman
Denndla Siovle
Edward Doyle
Nicholas Doyle
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Harlow N. Higginbotham
John J. Mitchell
Medical men plan campaign against causes of insanity
Dr N Allen Starr urged moderation to curb the hustle of American life and prevent insanity. He spoke at the Academy of Medicine as part of a plan to reduce cases caused by nervous strain and loose living, mirroring the anti tuberculosis campaign.
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New York
N. Allen Starr
Academy of Medicine
Dr. Starr
Albert Warren Ferris
State Lunacy Commission
Homer Folks
State Charities Aid Association
Ferris
Folks
Mack Endorses Sheehan Candidacy for Senate
Norman E. Mack democratic chairman returned to Buffalo after a ten day absence and said he is pleased by the tribute paid to a former Halfallan and that William Sheehan is well qualified for United States senate though he does not back any individual claim.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Norman E. Mack
William ’. Sheehan
United States Senate
Mack
Sheehan
United States
Norris seeks to amend house rules after holidays
Representative Norris of Nebraska duels over a rule change after holidays to allow reading the title only on a motion to discharge a committee. He argues Speaker Cannon erred in ruling that the full bill must be read.
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Washington
Norris
Nebraska
Cannon
Steam fire engine quiets unruly prison rioters
Morning Journal reports a steam fire engine subdued twenty Industrial Workers of the World prisoners in a county jail riot. The demonstration lasted about twenty minutes as water-soaked bedding and inmates faced a bread diet after the protest.
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Morning Journal Special
Freeno
Cal
Jall
Industrial Workers of the World
Prisoners Resisted as Fire Engine Quelled New York Courthouse Protest
Prisoners used improvised ladders and cries from high windows in the courthouse park as jailors warned them to desist. Jailor Jones sprayed a weak hose, then police called a fire engine. The water stream subdued the rioters who remained defiant at the windows.
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Court House Park
Jones
Murder of French mission priest in China shocks Hong Kong
Father Meriel a French missionary active in China since 1903 was killed by locals in Yungpeh Yunnan province. An investigation into the murder is under way as the district around Yungpeth remains unusually quiet.
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Hong Kong
Merixel
China
Yungpeh
Yunnan
Yungpeth
Miners Sentenced to Jail in Colorado Strike Case
Sixteen Lafayette Colorado union members of the United Mine Workers of America began year long sentences in county jail for violating a temporary injunction that barred picketing and gatherings during a northern Colorado coal strike. Judge Greeley M. Whitford denied bonds and stayed appeals.
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Denver
Lafayette
Colorado
United Mine Workers of America
Greeley M. Whitford
Northern
Colorado Coal District
Marty
Whitford
American Red Cross sends initial aid to famine in China
Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson cabled $5,000 to Mr Calhoun in Pekin as the first contribution from the American National Red Cross for famine relief in the Hual river valley. The minister will decide on further aid, as the number of sufferers grows to between two and three million in diasgrams.
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Washington
China
Huntington Wilson
Calhoun
Pekin
Ted Cross Society
Hual River
State Department
CHPEGT BILL REFERRED ON LAND DONATION FOR SCHOOLS
Morning Journal reports Delegate W I Andrews introduced a bill to donate 800000 acres of public land in New Mexico to the Christian Brothers of Saint Louis for a manual training school. The measure was sent to the committee on territories.
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Mexico
Peace Near In Engineers Ispute Averts Historic Railroad Strike
Labor Commissioner Neill arranged a last minute compromise between railroad managers and locomotive engineers in Chicago on December 23. With strike orders imminent, the plan offered concessions on both sides and could be signed by noon if accepted by both factions.
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Morning Journal
Chicago
Neill Lite
Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Mr. Neill
Mr. Stone
Neill
Neil
Medillion
Ide
Mir
Fatal Train Wreck in Mexico Involves Mexican International Railroad
Eagle Pass Texas December 23 W J Reynolds engineer and an unidentified man killed when a Mexican International passenger train collided with a freight train after passing an open switch at Jaya Mexico Several trainmen were injured and no passengers were hurt
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Eagle Pass
Texans
W. J. Reynolds
Mexican International Railroad
Jaya
Mexico
Jury acquits man on trial for murder in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on December 23 a jury acquitted J Howard Green after ten minutes of deliberation in the murder case of Thomas K B Skidmore. The defense argued Green shot in fear of a knife threat by Skidmore over Green's wife. Skidmore's dying statement was read and Green was exonerated.
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Los Angeles
J. Loward Green
Thomas KB. Skidmore
Green
Skidmore
Cuba plans six coast defense vessels reconstruction
Washington reports Cuba contemplates rebuilding six vessels for coast guard service with speed at least ten knots and draft not more than six feet. Roosevelt to visit New Orleans on March 11 to dedicate Tulane University field and engage with local groups.
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Washington
Cuba
State Department
Roosevelt
New Orleans
Theodore Roosevelt
New Orleana
Tulane
Progressive Union
Ruet Appeal Denied in San Francisco Bribery Case
Abraham Ruet former political boss sentenced to fourteen years for bribery had his petition for a rehearing denied by the district court of appeals in San Francisco on December 23. He will appeal to the state supreme court for a new trial.
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San Francisco
Abraham Ruet
District Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Postmasters Graduate from Banking School
Washington December 23 AN reports forty eight postmasters from second class offices have completed training at the Postmaster General Hitchcock office. They have prepared to start the postal savings banks nationwide on January 3.
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Washington
Hitchcock
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