Life Saving GORPO for Rescue Work in Coal Mines
The United States Geological Survey plans rescue stations in major coal fields to train miners and bosses in modern rescue apparatus. Engineers will reply to disasters with oxygen helmets and airtight gas rooms, with stations at Urbana Illinois. Raton New Mexico. and Salt Lake City Utah to cover surrounding mining districts.
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Morning Journal
Washington
United States Geological Survey
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Urbana
Illlnois
Indiana
Michigan
Missouri
Kentucky
Raton
N. M
New Mexico
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Trinidad
Salt Lake City
Washington Fields
Busy week for process servers in Stockyards
Chicago December 27 A major investigation into the beef packing industry and its railroad relations begins its grand jury run to February. Nelson Morris & Co. subpoenas lead off the witnesses with Morris & Co. expected to be questioned on transport rates and packing house shipments while deputies prepare to serve subpoenas on other witnesses at the Stockyards.
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Chicago
Nelson Morris & Co
Ims
Sime
Morris & Co
Itme
Mareshale
Eleven Chinese in car seized at Duran New Mexico
A dated dispatch reports eleven Chinese detainees found in a box car near Duran New Mexico. They were guarded and supplied with water and linens and had traveled from Redlands California toward Chicago. Officials suspect an organized smuggling ring operating through El Paso as the broader smugglers’ activity appears to be waning.
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Iry Morning Journal
Paseo
Texas
Duran
N. M
Redlands
Cal
Chicas
el Paso
Tug Rhine wreck claims four lives in gale near Frankfort
The 15 ton fish tug Rhine from Frankfort was driven ashore during a strong southwesterly gale. Four crewmen, Captain Henry Hanhart, and mates Charles Kirkby and Ludwig Dorkry, perished when the vessel broke apart.
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Prankfort
Mich
Dee
Rhine
Henry Hanha
Lius Dorkry
Charles Kirky
Straubrel
GURAND REJOICE IN RESTORATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Havana reports the evacuation of Cuba by United States forces begins New Year Day with marines and infantry ships sailing from Havana and Matanzas. Troops depart in phases through January and February to Newport News and Forts, as a Cuban army nucleus forms under Gen eral Pino Guerra. Public sentiment greets the withdrawal as completion of independence.
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Cuba
Aay
Pacification
Cran Columbia
Prairie
Newport News
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Sumner
Matanzas
Guanajay
Gaines
Port Snelling
Misa
McClellan
Armary Pottery
Third Field Artillery
Washington Barracks
Ffteenth Cavalry
Nen Juegos
Placeras
Santa Clara
Myer
Sheriden
Sherieventh Cavalry
Columbia
Pinar del Rio
Mountain Artillery
Fifth Infantry
Cardenas
Sagua
Caibarien
Vlatteburg
Eleventh Infantry
Santiago
Holguin
Fort D A. Russell
Seventeenth Infantry
Caraguey
Fort McPherson
Companion of Engineers
Pitcher
Camp Columbia
Ciomes
Megoon
Pino Guerra
Independent
Serious Falling Off in Trade With Foreigners
The Wallington dispatch reports a drastic drop in global trade with the United States in 1908. Imports from Europe fell from 625 million to 426 million during ten months, while exports to Europe declined only 2 percent. North America and Asia show large decreases in both imports and exports, reflecting overall reduced commerce and lower merchandise movement.
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Wallington
Dee
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Europe
North America
North American
Asia
South America
Modest Plan to Invite Britain for War of 1813 Anniversary
Cleveland report notes plans to invite the English government to participate in a centennial commemoration of Perry’s defeat on Lake Erie. Ohio organizers push a peace carnival and industrial exhibition on Put-in-Bay to mark the anniversary and promote Anglo American goodwill.
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Cleveland
England
America
Perry
Lake Erie
Ohio
Put-in
Lawmakers to Hear 1918 Bay Plan Budget Request
A governor appointed commission has drafted a program to study the bay issue and recommend a concrete plan. This winter the state legislature will be asked to appropriate funds to implement the proposal.
Harvard President Shuffle Rumor Links Storrow to Eliot
Boston banking figure James S. Storrow is said to be the immediate successor to Dr. Eliot as Harvard president, with Nicholas Murray Butler slated to take over within months. Report unconfirmed tonight though Storrow’s potential temporary tenure is noted.
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New York
Harvard
James S. Storrow
Eliot
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Storrow
Boston
Lee, Higginson & Co
Butler
Natives Resist Order Aimed at Opium Cultivation Near Amoy
Reports from Amoy China describe a clash at Tungan twenty miles north where natives refused an anti opium order. In the resulting rioting one officer and ten civilians were killed as troops were dispatched to restore order and enforce the edict.
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Amoy
China
Tungan
Austria-Hungary Masses 155000 in Bosnian Front
Vienna dispatch reports 155000 Austrian troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina ready to invade Serbia at a moment's notice. Typhus and cold expose soldiers to high sickness and deaths. War minister and general staff depart for inspection of the Herzegovina frontier.
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London
Vienna
Daily Express
Austria-Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Servia
Daily
Heney May Figure In Pittsburg Graft Probe
Pittsburg rumors center on Franklin Heney asked by President Roosevelt to investigate city graft ties to federal banks. Ministers across churches focus sermons on municipal corruption as hearings reveal possible $176,000 misused to secure bank depositories.
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Pittsburg
Smoky City
Pitteburg
Jar
Pran Vie J. Heney
Oregon
Hoosevelt
Washington
Murder Attends Church Scrap in Greek Catholic Fight
Chicago police theorize a factional feud at Holy Trinity Greek Catholic church led to the murder of an unidentified Greek man found near a Jewish cemetery. Clothing fragments and a partly empty revolver were found. the victim was shot after a beating amid a Christmas morning church melee.
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Chicago
Fanatu
Holy Trinity
Canada Mexico to Attend Conservation Conference in Washington
President Roosevelt invites Canada and Mexico to send representatives to a conservation conference in Washington in February. The outreach emphasizes regional cooperation and shared resource preservation between the nations.
Roosevelt Plans North American Conservation Conference
President Roosevelt announces a proposed February 18 conference in Washington to coordinate conservation of natural resources across the United States Canada and Mexico. Gifford Pinchot carries invitations to Canada and Mexico City inviting officials to join governors and agencies in shaping a continental plan. The aim is mutual interests and cooperative action beyond borders with a advisory outcome to improve resource knowledge and protection.
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Washington
White House
North America
Roosevelt
Canada
Ding
Mexico
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Commission
United States
Pinchot
Diaz
Mexico City
Government of
Republic of Mexico
Gev
Gifford Pinechot
States
Mery Tee
Theodore Rooseveli
Funeral Services Set for Beloved Mansion Resident
The large rooms of the mansion host visitors paying respects to the deceased. Services will be exceedingly simple per the family wish. Honorary pallbearers include Dr Earl EF Hopkins Robert Onxard W G Irwin John Scott Wilson Captain H L Bb Meyer Dr L L Door and Charles Holbrook. Interment at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Taft Skips Church on Sunday and plans to meet Atlanta delegation about a date for a visit. Frank H Hitchcock to arrive Tuesday for talks with Taft.
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EF. W. Hopkins
Robert Onxard
W. G. Irwin
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H. L. Bb. Meyer
L.L. Door
Charles Holbrook
Cypress Lawn Cemetery
Taft
Chumreb
Augusta
Atlanta
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
President Cannot Intercede For Gompers Case
White House statement says the Gompers Mitchell and Morrison contempt of court case remains before the courts and the president cannot grant a pardon or express opinion on the merits, regardless of his view.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federation of Laws
California Outlaws Turn Down Overture
President Ban Ji Johnson of the American Baseball League and President Harry Pulliam of the National League met with California officials after a Pacific coast conference. Johnson says there is no chance to bring the outlaw group into the recognized class as they refuse national commission requests.
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Chicago
Ban Ji. Johnson
Pacific Coast
Harry Pulliam
National League
California
Effort 10 Rescue Russian Refugee From Extradition Wrongs
William J. Calhoun led a mass meeting in Chicago urging overturn of United States Commissioner Foot's extradition recommendation for Russian refugee Christian Rudowitz. Rudowitz faces charges in Courland for a 1905 murder. Calhoun argued the evidence is flimsy and extradition risks American liberty, urging federal court review over mere commissioner action.
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My Morning Journal
Chicago
William J. Calhoun
Roosevelt
Panama
Venezuela
Christian Rudowitz
United States
Foot
Rudewits
Spreckles Burial Tomorrow to Honor Sugar King
Claus Spreckles, the San Francisco sugar magnate, died yesterday of pneumonia at his home. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Spreckles residence with the body resting in a massive bronze casket on a silk‑enshrouded bier, in state since the death.
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Spreckles
San Francisco Dee
Claus Spreckles
Protest Over Jail Sentences For Gompers Support
The Central Federated Union plans a 206000 strong labor protest next Sunday against jail terms for Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. It says it will use legal means to defend them but opposes urging pardons, stating no crime was committed. It also notes a telegram to the defendants and announces committees to organize the demonstration.
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New York
Dre
Toon Ramuel Gompers
John Mitehell
Frank Morrison
Central Federated Union
Hoosevelt
Federated
Treasury deficit risks rivers and harbors bill prospects
Washington on December 27 faces a growing treasury deficit harming hopes for a rivers and harbors bill this session. Senators Frye and Burton acknowledge pressure for funding while lawmakers struggle to guarantee any action. Advocates seek about 25 million for new and existing projects, including a proposed deep waterway from Chicago to the Gulf.
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Treasury
Frye
Senate
Burton
House
Chicago
Gulf
American in Jail in Lower California
Theodore V. Johnson of San Diego sails to Trinidad Lower California to aid William G. Morse who is detained on a homicide charge. Morse, son of a Yale affiliate, is reportedly connected to the Campbell ranch near Trinidad and is believed to be ill. Johnson responds to urgent appeals from New York friends.
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San Diego
Cal
New York
Theodore V. Johnson
Trinidad
California
William G. Morse
Fo BL Morse
Telegraph Fame
TafUa
Yale
Campbell Ranch
Morse Comes Of Prominent Family In New York City
New York reports that William J Morse, once a New York resident and now arrested in Lower California for shooting a Mexican, is about fifty. He married Jennie Cecile Lyon in 1893. His mother Sarah Morse died in Berlin in 1901 leaving no mention of him in her will. His daughter Lelia Morse is a noted singer and his sister Cornelia Morse was married to pianist Frank Rummell. Morse left New York for California about two years ago to investigate mining properties.
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New York
Willam J Morse
California
Jennie Cecile Lyon
Sarah Elizabeth Morse
Berlin
Wiliam G. Morse
Lelia Livingston Morse
W. G. Morse
Mies Cornelia More
Frank Rummell
Morse
British Consul Promoted in New Orleans
New Orleans December 27 Henry Cureen Hunt local consul for Great Britain has been promoted to the rank of consul general The promotion makes the New Orleans post equal in rank to those in New York San Francisco Boston and Philadelphia
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New Orleans
Henry Cureen-Hunt
Great Britain
New York
San Francisco
Boston
Philadelphia
John Doe Warrants Issued in Bank Robbery Case
Three warrants were issued for alleged Egat Side bank robbers in Portland Oregon. A detective agency leads the search and says two suspects may be in eastern cities while one is on the Pacific coast. The $2409 sent from Ogden was traced to Charles Price and returned to him after he claimed the money. Negotiations continue between East Ride bank and Ogden bank for return of funds.
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Portland
Ore
Dee. Ti
Egat
Pacific Coast
Ogden
Charles Price
Hyas
East Ride Bank
Ogden Bank
American Ball Veana Laces Out
The All American baseball team on tour in the Orient was defeated 4 to 3 by Lieutenant Johnsons army team. This marks the Americans only loss of the tour.
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Manila
Des
Orient
Johnson
Army
Venezuelan exile return signals hopeful Gomez regime
Wireless dispatches report U S cruiser North Carolina approaching La Guaira with special commissioner Buchanan while Maine follows at 200 miles. Exiles from Caracas welcome Gomez’s effort to unite factions, clear prisoners, and invite banished leaders home. General Ribera joins exiles as Maracaibo officials adjust to new government.
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Willemstad
United States
North Carolina
Curacao
la Guaira
W. Jf. Buchanan
Venezuela
Maine
Caracas
Gomez
Zulia Arived
Maracaibo
General Belle
Fort San Carlos
Ta Grain
Caraeso
Addreu
Gregorio Ribera
Curaene
Curnene
Carneas
Senate Candidates Inva de Ohio Capital
Columbus Ohio Dec 27 Congress man Theodore Burton returned to Columbus today Charles P Taft and Senator Foraker will return tomorrow with other candidates for United States senator Burton maintains optimism about his chances for the senatorship His friends seek to have the legislature define candidates attitudes before voting and some suggest open voting in the legislature instead of a Republican caucus
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Columbus
Ohio
Theodore Burton
Charles P. Taft
Foraker
United States
Burton
German Princes Enter 10 Yachts in Bay State Races
Boston wired report from December 27 notes international yacht contests and long distance races in Massachusetts. German princes and crews from Prussia anticipated official participation as Marblehead hosts the third renewal following past successes at Marblehead and Kiel. Prince Henry plans to ship a boat for the trial race in Germany.
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Ih Bay
Boston
Bermuda
Massachusetts
Menty
Pracgta
Mite Prederteh
Bnoger
William
Marblehead
Kiel
Prince Henry Bus
Toredo
G Ormany
Preparations For Hamburg Regatta Yachts Accelerate
Preparations for the 1909 Hamburg regatta are under way as nine new yachts are built here. Two vessels are allotted to the crown prince and Prince Kitel, with the final German selection from three boats to compete in the international contest at the Kiel regatta.
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Hamberg
Hamburg
Crown Prince
Prince Kitel
Germany
Kiet Regetta
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