Christmas Holiday Tragedies Across Cities
A Christmas celebration yields multiple deaths and injuries across Louisville Birmingham and beyond. Theresa Houseman, 18, killed by a boy firing a ball cartridge among blanks. George Doll, 12, implicated. George Harper, 14, died when a broomstick driven contact with a firecracker caused fatal neck wound. Hila Barrett dies from a stray bullet amid revelry. In Birmingham no accidents due to police precautions. In Mississippi a card game dispute turns fatal in Mescal or Mirand? News uncertain. In Houston a toy lamp explosion kills a 3 year old Thelma Cupper and a Santa-costumed man burns. In Philadelphia Charles Hansen and his daughter Edna killed by a train. In Washington Mary Kennedy dies from a revolver shot through a door. In Memphis Frank Poston, prominent attorney, fatally shot by Negro celebrants.
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Louisville
Theresa Houseman
George Doll
George Irving Harper
Harper
Hila Barrett
Birmingham
Als
Mires
al Cura
Ada Reco Tapper A
Philip Nerl
Gingiglio
Tapper
Houston
Tex
Thelma Cupper
A. Anderson
Santa Claus
Philadelphia
Charles H. Hansen
Edna
Cate Hil
Cibr
Washington
Hazelldrk
Mary
James Kennedy
Frank Poston
Memphis
Tenn
Poston
Hils Home
Fire destroys six story Webster street factory in New York
A six story factory on Webster street in New York was gutted in a blaze that caused an estimated 300000 dollars in damage. Five firemen were injured but returned to work. No occupants were present when the fire began and the cause is unknown. The building housed firms such as Cohen & Mulendorf and Gold Schmidt Karnff among others.
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New York
Webster Street
B. Damsky
Cohen & Mulendorf
Gold
Schmidt & Karnff
L. Mendelsohn & Company
Josep, Brandland & Broter
J. Dent Furs
Nothing Doing on Walshs Railroad Delays in Polis
In Polis Indiana December 26 construction work on Polis division of the Southern railroad John R Walshs engine suspended and over ten men without employment due to orders from headquarters all work halted with no crews assigned pending further instructions.
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Walsh
Polis
Ind
Cee
Polis Division
Southern Railroad
John R. Walsh
En“Een
Lea
Decisive Slaughter Fails to Halt Moscow Revolt
London reports from St Petersburg describe heavy casualties in Moscow with 6000 killed and 14000 wounded as barricades hold. Civilians are confined indoors after seven, while troops exchange cannon fire near railroad stations. Rebels defend positions amid looting and royalist sentiment, with no decisive action emerged. fear and hatred drive violence, and revolutionists consider terrorism if the uprising fails.
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London
Daily Telegraph
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Kursk
Tsarskoe-Selo
Tate
Vellora
Pardoned Atlanta Soldier Paul McDonald Granted Clemency
Paul H. McDonald of Atlanta, once a promising U.S. Army officer, has been pardoned by President Roosevelt and released from Fort Leavenworth. After a court martial and two-year confinement, the decision reflects his past good military record. his future residence remains uncertain.
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Paul H. McDonald
Atlanta
Tenth United States Infantry
Roosevelt
Will Ba Ilber
Fort Leavenworth
Kana
McDonald
Allan
United States
Bop
Strike Is Repudiated In New York Trade Accord
In New York on December 25, about 100,900 skilled building trades workers welcomed the news that every union except Housesmiths and ridgmen had signed a one to three year trade agreement to start January 1, officially repudiating the strike.
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New York
Housesmiths
Ridgmen
Striica Aos
Gold In Crops Of Fowls Led To Discovery Of Mine
An Antonio Texas dispatch reports miners employed by Albert Talpas and two Mexicans found gold in the crops of fowls on land between Talpapa and San Gabriel. The placer find, developed on a tract bought from Mexicans, has been sold in Guadalajara for $60,000. The land measures 100 meters by 500 meters and covers 400 parténencia.
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AN Antonio, Tex
Minera
Albert Talpas
Talpapa
Mexico
Guadalajara
Defending His Mother Son Killed in Family Row
A fight at 138 West Cumberland Street left Joseph Pollock 22 dead after a blow from his son who defended his mother. William Pollock, the husband, struck the son then was struck by him, fracturing the elder Pollock’s skull on the kitchen stove.
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Joseph Pollock
West
Cumberland Street
William Pollock
Pollock
First Medal of Honor Awarded to a Fireman
George Poell, county clerk elect, received a letter from President Roosevelt announcing the first Medal of Honor awarded under the February 23 1905 act. Poell, a locomotive fireman, risked his life near Island Nebraska by saving a child from a passing train but was badly injured himself, losing a leg.
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George Poell
Roosevelt
GI Island
Nebr
Peel
Horse Pulls Buggy Against Fast Train in Delphos
Dec 25 waxne reports a horse hitched to a buggy ran into a Pennsylvania train at Delphos Ohio. Henry Honherst and daughter Rose were instantly killed and Mrs Barney Wahom hoff was severely injured. Trainmen learned of the crash only after car inspectors found a buggy curtain in a car door. An inquiry followed along the line. Inmates of Jeffersonville reformatory were paid interest on money from extra work for the first time in the facility's history.
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Waxne
Delphos
Ohio
Henry Honherst
Rose Honherst
Barney’ Wahomhoff
Weffersonville
Ind
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Christmas Tree on Board Train Delights Guests
A Christmas tree on a train welcomed forty eastern newspaper men as guests of the Los Angeles Limited in San Diego California. The tree, laden with gifts, was unveiled in a Pullman vestibule as a festive surprise to reporters traveling home for Christmas.
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Diego
Cal
Los Angeles Limited
Los Angeles
Inden
Pullman
Mien
Cason Released on Bond in Hartwell Murder Case
Hartwell Ga December 25 special Judson Canon who killed Raber Adams the coroner's jury reports Cason released on bond in connection with the case.
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Cason
Hartwell
Judson Canon
Raber
Adams
Drunken Cossacks Battle Described In Petrograd
Reports from St. Petersburg describe brutal fighting with machine guns cannister and grapes used against insurgents. Cossacks allegedly drunk with vodka fled and charged. barricades held by revolutionaries as shells and bombs caused heavy destruction.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Roosevelt Removes Baxter as Nebraska District Attorney
Washington December 25 Baxter United States district attorney for Nebraska has been removed by President Roosevelt. Baxter prosecuted the Richards and Comstock cattle case against public lands fencing. No successor named yet. Schooner C H Verner grounded off Townsend inlet near Atlantic City but floated undamaged. Matthew Patterson Wood, age 50, noted New York consulting engineer, scientist and author, died suddenly?
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Washington
Ieving Baxter
United States
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Baxter
Atlantic City
N. J
C. H. Verner
Wiseaset
Philadelphia
Townsend Inlet
Matthew Patterson Wood
New York
Christmas Charity Feeds 200000 in New York City
The city marked Christmas with wide charity from public and private sources. About 200000 poor people received meals in hospitals asylums missions and Salvation Army efforts. Thousands more were aided by the Bowery mission and Newsboys Club while hospitals on Ward’s Island served four thousand insane patients. A tragedy marred the day when two visitors were found dead at a family home.
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New York
Salvation Army
Volunteers 2 America
Grand Central Palace
Bowery Mission
Randolph Cis Gendrimer
Newsboys’ Club
East Fourth Street
Newsboys
Langrerrman
Timothy D. Sullivan
Bowery
Manhattan State Hospital
Wards Island
Paul Raymond
John Magcow
Casman
Bee
Russia
Weather forecast by regions and calmer patterns
The report details a December forecast across states from Georgia to Florida and Texas. It notes fair conditions for Tuesday and Wednesday in Georgia Virginia and the Carolinas with light to fresh southwest winds, rising temperatures in Florida, and generally fair, warmer or variable wind patterns in Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Western Texas and New Mexico.
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Washington
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Texas
New Mexico
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