Bennetts Leadless Agreement Shrinks Victory Margin in Silver Bow
Contests in Silver Bow county largely dismissed by Judge McClernan as Republican challenges to election results are withdrawn. Bennetts gains three voters’ inclusion, Sullivan loses several ballots, and disputed residences determine two votes. The case, with Judge Bourquin absent, proceeds to further decision.
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Silver Bow County
Sullivan
Gilbert Bennetts
McClernan
C. 8. Henderson
John K. O'Rourke
Hector Chevrier
M. Kerr Beadle
Henry Recksik
Tom Prendergast
W. D. Fenner
Anthony Shovlin
Bennetts
Harry Hahn
C. V. Winans
John Lee
Jefferson County
Cadets and Montana Girls Meet at White House
A group of West Point cadets led by Senator Dick of Ohio and Montana school girls chaperoned by Senator Carter visited the White House. The encounter, intended for greetings with the president, produced chatter about possible romances as they paused in the reception room and moved to the presidential office.
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Washington
West Point
Ohio
Montana
Carter
White House
Hape
Woman Confesses to Infant's Death at Hamilton
A Hamilton woman recounts the infant's death and makes a full confession of the deed. The case details the sequence leading to the tragedy and the admission of responsibility by the woman.
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Hamilton
Pathetic tale of Viola Kelley in murder case
Special Dispatch from Hamilton reports Viola Kelley, 29, confessed to murdering her infant born in the Ritchie orchard. She tied a string around the child's neck and hid the body in a vault. Raised by foster parents after being married at 13, she traveled to Hamilton to visit relatives, leaving five living children. County attorney to file formal murder charge.
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Standard
Hamilton
Viola Kelley
Ward
C. M. Fletcher
R. Lee McCullough
Missoula
Kelley
H. S. Lord
J. G Ritchie
Conductors And Trainmen May Get Their Increase
Chicago Dec. 28 Discussion of demands by conductors and trainmen on 61 railroads north south and west of Chicago who recently won an engineers wage increase proceeded amicably today. Railway Managers' association said a settlement may be in sight without mediation or arbitration possible before Sunday.
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Chicago
Railway Managers’ Association
Savings of Lifetime Are Stolen by Stranger
Pittsburg Pa Dec 28 Carried in his pockets 500 the savings of a lifetime Adams Pryce of Warrior Ridge near Huntingdon Pa came to Pittsburg today to give his daughter a present of 100. The remainder he planned to bank He was met on the train by a stranger who offered to guide him to his daughter's home At the Pennsylvania bridge over the Allegheny river Pryce was knocked down and his money stolen.
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Pittsburg
Adams Pryce
Warrior Ridge
Huntingdon
Pennsylvania Bridge
Allegheny River
Pryce
Engineer Dies In High Speed Train Run
Philadelphia, Dec 28 With the Pittsburg express traveling at nearly 50 miles an hour engineer H C Beck was found dead in the cab by the fireman as the train neared Bird In Hand Pennsylvania about 60 miles west of Philadelphia. Death attributed to heart disease.
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Philadelphia
H. C. Beck
Pittsburg
Powder Explodes in El Paso Smelter Slag Pile
In El Paso Texas on December 28 an explosion of nearly 4000 pounds of powder in a slag pile at the American Smelting and Refining plant killed two men and injured many, with four others dead and three men still trapped. Three tunnels bored for slag removal were buried as the pile slipped after the blast. Seventeen or more workers were affected, and several were rescued alive.
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el Paso
Texas
American Smelting and Refining Company
el Paso & Southwestern Railroad
Federal Troops Massed for Imminent Battle in Chihuahua
Mexican capital reports federal forces under General Luque have joined Navarro near Pedernales Chihuahua forming 2800 to 3000 troops. Officials expect a battle within 24 hours as rebels are targeted and dispatches awaited. Luque’s men avoided ambushes by scaling Mal Paso canyons to reach Navarro’s camp. No clashes reported in five days, but engagement expected hourly.
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Mexico City
Luque
Navarro
Pedernales
Chihuahua
Mal Paso
Battle rumors swirl as Chihuahua hospital readies beds
From Chihuahua Mexico on December 28 reports say the main hospital is ordered to prepare beds for 60 or more patients. Rumors of clashes between federals and insurrectos west of the city circulate with no confirmation. Ojinaga district reports growing revolutionary strength and a claimed plan to seize Chihuahua during west engagements. a wounded train was later dispatched from the area.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Laredo
Texas
Here
Ojinaga
Three Men Confess to Missoula Robbery
Special Dispatch to the Standard Missoula Dec 28 Sheriff Davis Graham says he secured a confession from two soldiers John Murphy and Archie Primrose both of Fort Missoula and A B Van Duser a tailor of this city admitting they robbed John R Collins of Darby of 140 dollars The robbery occurred Christmas Eve in a Higgins avenue rooming house the arrest followed a quarrel between one of the soldiers and the tailor The men intend to plead guilty tomorrow and learn their fate at once.
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Standard
Missoula
Davis Graham
John Murphy
Archie Primrose
Fort Missoula
A. B. van Duser
John R. Collins
Darby
Higgins Avenue
Man arraigned for theft of steel cable from railroad
Ambrose McFar lane was arraigned before Justice Dyson in Missoula on a charge of stealing a $250 steel cable from the Northern Pacific railway. He pleaded not guilty and is held on $600 bond after months of investigation.
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The
Standard
Missoula
Ambrose McFarlane
Dyson
Northern Pacific Railway
Taft to Set Tolls on Panama Canal
Washington reports that Taft and top officials carpent committees agreed on immediate canal legislation to establish tolls and trade terms. Discussion covered tolls, coal yards, drydocks, ship sales stations, and possible government operation of certain facilities ahead of the canal’s January 1 1915 opening.
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Taft
Panama Canal
Washington
White House
Knox
Dickinson
Flint
California
Brandegee
Connecticut
Mann
Illinois
Flint and
Congress
Meyer jeers at Maxim criticism
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Meyer rebutting Sir Hiram Maxim in a public letter to President Taft. A War Department memo by Brig. Gen. William Crogier refutes Maxim and an Engineering article, deeming further experiments unwarranted and Maxim’s statements about smokeless powder unworthy of serious consideration.
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Washington
Hiram Maxim
Taft
United States Army
Navy
Meyer
William Crogier
Ordnance
Engineering
London
International Railroad Commission Proposed for U S Canada
Washington reports a plan after talks between Judge Martin A. Knapp and J. P. Mabie to create an international railroad commission. The body would supervise rates between the United States and Canada and require through joint rates when needed.
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Washington
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. P. Mabie
Railway Commission of Canada
International Railroad Commission
Mabie
United States
Canada
Nail Driven Into Brain Fatality Over French-Canadian Rivalry
Montreal, Dec. 28. Ernest Bigras, a young French-Canadian, died after a nail was driven into his brain. He was taken to hospital earlier today. Police seek Raul Cassavant, alleged to have struck Bigras with a club from which the nail protruded during a quarrel over a French-Canadian girl.
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Montreal
Quebec
Ernest Bigras
Aftnoon
Raul Cassavant
Illeras
Cassavant
Spokane Adopts Commission Government Plan
Spokane Washington votes 6 488 for the commission charter and 4 111 against with only one small precinct missing. The decisive majority is 2 327 in favor of the new city government plan as many women registered since the petition.
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Spokane
Wash
Jewel theft case held over for Ogden train court
A defendant charged with jewel theft is held for trial in Ogden after a train-related incident. Police report details were not disclosed, but the case centers on alleged theft aboard a moving train and the suspect is in custody awaiting further proceedings.
Woman Arrested In Sacramento Diamond Robbery Case
Ogden police charge Mrs. A. O. Blackwoods with robbing a Sacramento man of diamonds worth thousands. She denies theft, expresses willingness to return without extradition, and shows anxiety over a large trunk while detectives prepare to transport her to California.
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Ogden
Sacramento
Cal
A. O. Blackwoods
Southern Pacific
W. M. Ahern
California
Police Bring Back Couple in California Bank Robbery Case
Sacramento chief of police flies to Ogden to recover Mrs A Blackwords and her husband who robbed W E Gerber, president of a California National Bank, of jewelry and furs valued at $6000. The wife, posing as a servant, gained access to valuables and stole over two weeks, including a $1000 diamond necklace. The couple's spree spanned the West from Denver to Seattle and San Francisco. A trunk with the goods, used by the wife, was found with a local expressman in Ogden. The husband was arrested at Sparks, Nevada.
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Sacramento
Cal
Ahern
Ogden
A. Blackwords
W. E. Gerber
California National Bank
Blackwords
Gerbers
West
Denver
Seattle
San Francisco
Sparks
Nev
Killer Washington? Atlanta farmer fires fatal spree ends in suicide
In Atlanta Texas on December 28 Will Johnson, a black farmer, killed his father-in-law, seriously wounded his wife and a 10-year-old daughter, and shot seven other people after setting fire to his house and a cotton gin. He then killed himself, after setting the gin ablaze with cotton burning.
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Atlanta
Texas
Will Johnson
Johnson
Stolen jewelry case ties bank accounts across states
St. Louis reports Lillian McDowell held on charges of stealing about $6,000 in jewelry from attorney H Chateau Dwyer while serving at his home. Dwyer attached McDowell’s $12,000 deposit in Pittsburg Bank of Savings. Ira Mix of Chicago linked to the arrest also filed an attachment. Police pursue whether she holds other bank accounts as detectives widen a country wide inquiry into jewelry valued at least $75,000.
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St. Louis
Lillian McDowell
H. Chateau Dwyer
Pittsburg
Bank of Savings
Dwyer
Ira Mix
Chicago
Ben Pitman Dead, Noted Stenographer and Inventor
Cincinnati Dec 28 Ben Pitman author lecturer and inventor died after an illness once thought serious Pitman born in Tunbridge Wells England in 1822 authored works on stenography and introduced in America a shorthand system he developed
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Ben Pitman
Pitman
Tunbridge Wells
England
America
Robins vanishes after bank closure operation
Joseph G. Robin whose scheme closed the Northern Bank of New York appeared briefly in Jersey City with his sister Dr. Louise Robinovitch and then fled. District Attorney Whitman said Robin is in the city and will be produced on request. The case ties to a $800,000 shortage and state actions to restrain related insurers.
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New York
Joseph G. Robin
Northern Bank of
Yeater- Day
Jersey City
Louise Robinovitch
Whitman
William Travers Jerome
Robin
Mr. Whitman
Jerome
Sanitarium
Carlo MacDonald
Max G. Schlapp
Justice Amend
District Attorney Office
Austin Fling
Valentine
Schlapp
Louise Rabinovitch
Title and Guarantee Company of
Rochester
Aetna Indemnity Company
Northern Bank of New York
State Insurance Department
Hotchkiss
MacDonald
Connecticut Insurance Department
Aetna Indemnity Company of
Hartford
E. E. Rittenhouse
Colorado
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
James M. Gifford
East high school teacher dies after horse accident
Lewistown reports the death of Miss Irene Vankleek, a popular East high school faculty member. The Cornell graduate and former secretary to Andrew D. White was riding from the Sipple ranch near her homestead when her horse shied, tossing her fatally. She had joined the local staff last summer to lead the commercial department and had recent ties to a New York magazine.
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Standard
Lewistown
Irene Vankleek
Miss Vankleek
Sipple Ranch
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell
Andrew D. White
Germany
New York
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Priart Si
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