Many Events Mark Week in National News
The Ashton Gazette reports a busy week with diverse items. Irish visitors planned for next summer, Canada delaying tariff ratification, and the death of George Francis Brown in Chicago. Emancipation Proclamation anniversary noted, and U.S. investigations into living costs discussed. Multiple political and legal developments appear, including Shonts’s death, Canadas canal plans, and taft administration moves.
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Canada
United States
George Francis Brown
Pullman Company
Calumet Club
Chicago
Lincoln
U. S
Cook
Washington
Taft Fires Pinchot in Forest Service Shakeup
President Taft ousts Gifford Pinchot chief forester, along with associate forester Overton Price and law officer Alexander Shaw, removing supporters of Ballinger in the Ballinger Pinchot controversy. Roosevelt looms as a figure behind Pinchot amid signs of a Republican party storm and a possible broad cabinet shakeup.
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Gifford Pinchot
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Taft
Overton Price
Alexander Shaw
Forestry Service
Forest Service
L. R. Gravis
Pinchot
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Ballinger
Ballinger- Pinchot
White House
Washington
Republican Party
Slayer's Story Frees Three in Kansas City Case
Ward Mower of Falls City Nebraska confessed to murdering Neil McCoig on December 27. McCoig's brutal body with a bullet wound was found near Kansas City Kansas. Mower says the motive was fear he would be accused as thief of notes McCoig had stolen, leading to wrongful arrests including William Nelson and Mrs Alice Barber and Bert Boyd.
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Ward’ Mower
Falls City
Neb
Neil McCoig
MecCoig
Kansas City
Kan
McCoig
Mower
William Nelson
Alice Barber
Bert Boyd
General Rucker Dies First U S Army Retired Officer
Gen Daniel H Rucker the oldest retired U S Army officer died at his Washington D C home at 98 Born in New Jersey he joined the army from Michigan and rose from second lieutenant in 1837 to major general for gallantry He served in Indian campaigns the Mexican War quartermaster general and was retired in 1882 He was married twice and Phil Sheridan was his son in law
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United States Army
Daniel H. Rucker
Washington, D. C
New Jersey
Michigan
Rucker
First
United States Dragoons
West
Southwest
Phil Sheridan
Oklahoma Women Seek Vote as Petition Passes
Oklahoma suffragists filed petitions to amend the constitution allowing women to vote. In the governors presence, 38 543 signatures were detached, about 500 over the required amount. Additional items note Taft era mail economy plans in Congress, Mississippi Senatorial appointment to Col James Gordon, and Cleveland two railway franchise decisions with a 25 year term and 3 cent fare system under consideration.
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Oklahor
Oklahoma
Taft
Congress
Gov
Noel
Mississippi
James Gordon
Okalona
United States Senate
Senator McLaurin
Col. Gordon
Lincoln
Canada
Cleveland
Cleveland Railway Company
Friends of
Johnson
Taylor
Cleveland Railway
Forest City Railway
Basi
Knox Seeks Universal Peace and Arbitral Justice
Secretary Knox announces the United States has sent a circular note to great powers urging universal peace through an international court of arbitration. Taft backs the effort as embassies report favorable responses from England, with support seen among other powers to curb war and rally global conscience.
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Hughes
New York
Knox
Mann
House
Keifer
U. S
State Department
Washington
United States
Thea
England
Taft
Czar
Russia
Great Britain
Germany
France
Seven Insane Flee Asylum Inmates Escaped
James Hill, from a wealthy Pittsburgh family, arranged a mass escape from the County Home insane department by sawing door locks. Six fellow inmates were released before the seventh was found, nearly frozen. Hill remains at large, believed hiding with affluent Pittsburgh acquaintances.
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James Hill
Pittsburg
Hill
Liberty
Deaf educator present at Lincoln assassination dies at 80
Prof. W. H. Demotte, a leading American educator of the deaf, died in Indianapolis aged 80. Born in Harrodsburg Kentucky, he served as Indiana’s Civil War military agent and was at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was slain, later teaching via sign language. In a separate incident, three armed men robbed a Greenpoint bank and one robber was shot during the exchange.
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Dien
W. H. Demotte
United States
Indianapolis
Harrodsburg
Washington
Indiana
Ford
Lincoln
Demotte
Greenpoint
Williamsburg
N. Y
Insurgents win struggle over Cannon in House
In a pivotal House vote 26 Republican progressives and 123 Democrats joined to override 146 Republican conservatives and strip Speaker Cannon of appointing House members on the joint committee to investigate Secretary of the Interior Balts and former chief forester Gifford Pinchot. The 189 to 146 result means members will be elected, with Cannon largely sidelined from selection.
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Congress
House
Cannon
Ich
Interior
Balths
Gifford Pinchot
Forester
Joint Committee
SLAIN BY BLACK HAND KILLER IN CHICAGO MERCHANT HOME
Benedetto Seneni, a 60 year old Italian merchant at 500 West Oak Street, was dragged from bed by three masked men in a Black Hand demand for 5000 dollars. His wife, 54, watched in fear as he was shot twice in the head and once in the heart during the attack.
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Benedetto Seneni
West Oak Street
Chicago
Lanai Sold to Honolulu Company for 825000
Land company in Honolulu purchases the entire island of Lanai for 825000. Lanai, a 150 square mile Hawaiian island, will be used to grow cotton and other agricultural products. A separate dispatch reports 26 Muslims executed at Adana amid April massacres with large public demonstrations.
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Lanai
W. G. Irwin
Honolulu
Constantinople
Adana
Chaves
Corinto
Medina
Zelaya
Constantine
Stops Lameness with Sloan's Liniment Advice
Chronic lameness in horses stems from neglect and early signs require prompt treatment. Sloan's Liniment penetrates to the spot, relieves soreness, and loosens joints and muscles, with a testimonial from G T Roberts of Resaca Georgia praising a cure for saddle soreness and removal of a mule spavin.
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Sloan
G.T. Roberts
Resaca
R.F.D
Sweeney
Airship Etiquette From a bygone era of flight manners
A brief spoof on early air travel etiquette lists comic rules for gentlemen and Epworth League members. It nods to hat tipping when passing a woman with another, warns against dropping a lady into Pittsburg, and ends with quips about behavior and finance.
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Pittsburg
Epworth League
Epworth
Woman Doctor Credits Postum For Relief From Coffee Poisoning
A reader recounts 12 years of neuralgic headaches tied to coffee, weight loss, and despair. After a doctor recommended Postum, she gained weight, headaches faded in two weeks, and she gained confidence to go out alone. She praises Postum as the cure and notes the book The Road to Wellville.
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Wellville
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