Gas Fatal at Foster Grand Ave Home in Des Moines
Des Moines reports two people William Foster and Louis Bemis found dead of asphyxiation in Foster residence on Thi ry-ninth street and Grand avenue. Foster lit heater then returned to bed. Bemis slept opposite him. Doctor Grimes said Foster sparked burners but failed to notice heat loss. Funeral for Foster set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Bemis to Spencer, Iowa, for burial once arrangements are completed.
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Des Moines
William Foster
Foster
Qupera House
Louis Bemis
Fosters
Mr. Foster
Thiry-ninth Street
Grand Avenue
Russell Fopes
L. R. Grimes
Bemis
Spencer
Fire Wipes Out Winfield Iowa Six Stores In Blaze
A devastating Winfield fire destroyed six brick business buildings including Carse Drug Store and the postoffice. The blaze began in the drug store rear and wiped out the drug store, jewelry shop, furniture store, meat market, and hardware store, sparing only the postoffice and jewelry shop. Insurance is good but losses likely exceed $50,000. town lacks fire protection.
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Carse Drug Store
Mount Pleasant
Winfield
Postoffice
Faris Jewelry Store
Anderson Furniture Store
Farvis Meat Market
Bloomer’s Hardware Store
Des Moines Wins 1910 Poultry Show Schedule
Des Moines members of the Iowa State Poultry Association won the bid for the 1910 exposition in the capital city. The event is set for the third week in January with officers elected: President J. A. Pease Fort Dodge, Treasurer Fred Townsend Albia, Secretary H. A. Guthrie Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Poultry Association
J. A. Pease
Fort Dodge
Fred Townsend
Albia
H. A. Guthrie
Doctor Falls Dead on Patient Bed in Willow Springs
Report from Willow Springs Missouri dated December 31 details 17 year old Miss Johnny Peterson shooting herself after incurring small debts at a store. Dr Abraham Mullinix aged 72 attended her and collapsed dead from apoplexy after informing the parents of the wound.
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Willow Springs
Johnny Peterson
Abraham Mullinix
Shenandoah Man Weds Twice In Shenandoah Wedding
Edward Mathewson of Shenandoah gives consent for his daughter Hish Mathewson to wed Cora Thompson. Mathewson and his daughter each marry in a ceremony as Judge Leslie presides. Andrew Clements wed Hish Mathewson with the same license, all in Omaha on December 31.
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Omaha
Neb
Edward Mathewson
Shenandoah
Hish
Mathewson
Cora Thompson
Andrew Clements
Leslie
Couple Hit by Rock Island Train Near Greene Iowa
Charles City Iowa December 31. While driving into town Mr and Mrs Crosby seven miles east of Greene were struck by the Rock Island express train about one mile from Greene Mrs Crosby suffered a crushed head injury and is not expected to live Mr Crosby had minor wounds One horse was hurled about half a mile
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Rock Island
Charles City
Dee
Crosby
Greene
Rocl: Teland Express
Switchman Dies in Davenport Switch Engine Accident
Davenport loses two railroad workers in a switch engine overturn on a new grade. Dee, 31 P. J. Ovans, a switchman, was killed. Robert Witt, a fireman, probably fatally injured.
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Davenport
Dee
P. J. Ovans
Robert Witt
Morse Loses Bid for New Trial in Banker's Case
Chelsea W. Morse, the convicted banker, failed to gain a new trial as Judge Hough denied the motion on grounds that jurors drank during the trial. The stay was vacated and Morse’s further appeals were deemed unlikely after the U S Supreme Court previously refused review. The case now awaits possible writs of error as Morse faces a 15 year sentence.
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New York
Chelsea W.W. Morse
Hough
United States
Morse
Martin W. Littleton
Morse Gete
Charles W. Morse
Lacombe
United States Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Wise
Henry L. Stimson
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Littleton
Secret Service
Th Court
HITS TAFT WHISKY RULING
Gov Campbell will uphold Texas law defining whisky in line with Dr J B Abbott food commissioner and will require rectifiers to comply with Texas statutes despite President Taft's definition. Abbott and the governor discussed the issue Wednesday and will inform rectifiers accordingly in Texas' response to Warwick M Hough of St Louis.
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Austin
Tex
Campbell
Abbott
Taft
Texas
Warwick M. Hough
St. Louis
Wireless electric grit promises new melting era
New York December 31 Nikola Tesla says a wireless electric current run by wireless waves will replace all present melting methods within 20 years. The claim cites a shift to wireless power, asserting rapid adoption and transformation of industrial heating processes.
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New York
Nikola Tesla
Mexico envoy declares Zelaya asylum in accord with law of nations
Governor Creel of Chihuahua, Mexican special envoy, says Zelaya’s resignation and Mexico’s asylum align with international law and U S policy. He cites grateful results from his Nicaragua mission, notes ongoing collaboration with the United States and Mexico to stabilize Central America, and plans to return home after January 1.
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Zelaya
Law of Nations
Washington
Enrique Creel
Chihuahua
Mexico
United States
Creel
Madriz
Nicaragua
National Congress
Jose Madriz
Knox
Taft
Central America
International Court of
Cartago
Wage surge for 2300 rail workers in Los Angeles
H E Huntington boosted wages for 2300 motormen and conductors on the three electric lines he controls. Every worker will gain 24 to 5 cents an hour with longer service increasing by 30 cents. the starting rate rises to 2 cents per hour.
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Los Angeles
Cal
H. E. Huntington
Alx
Fire Toll For One Year Is 48000000
Washington reports the census bureau found 158 large U S cities lost over 48 million dollars to fires in 1907 with insurance at 42 million. It costs these cities about 38 million annually to run paid fire departments. The article contrasts US fire costs with Europe where sleep costs are far lower and cites building restrictions fireproofing and department funding as factors.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Berlin
London
Milan
United States Geological Survey
Europe
Mine Hero Rescued Alive After Coal Mine Collapse
McAlester Oklahoma December 31 After 28 hours entombed in a smoke filled cut of Bolen Darnell Company coal mine near here superintendent John Brown was rescued alive though unconscious His condition is serious but mine physicians believe he has a fighting chance He is a mining man from Hartford Arkansas who risked his life to rescue Angelo Asnicar a shot firer entombed after an explosion in a lower level Tuesday.
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McAlester
Okla
Bolen-Darnell Company
Here
John Brown
Brown
Hartford
Ark
Angelo Asnicar
Spotted fever not typhus confirmed in tests
Washington reports that recent experiments with guinea pigs confirm Rocky Mountain spotted fever is not typhus. The Public Health Service notes experiments by Director John F. Anderson of the Hygienic Laboratory and Passed Assistant Surgeon Joseph Goldberg. Sufficient time has elapsed since inoculations with typhus blood into rabbits and monkeys to confirm prior results with pigs.
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Washington
Rocky Mountain
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
John F. Anderson
Hygienic Laboratory
Joseph Goldberg
Harvard chair of drama endowment drive in New York
New York and Paris reports detail Harvard plans to fund a nine member playwriting chair at ten thousand dollars yearly. Alumni seek two hundred fifty thousand dollars to endow the choir, hoping ten wealthy donors contribute twenty five thousand dollars each. In Chad a French force outpost near Mao was attacked by two hundred Borku warriors in revenge for Abeshi’s capture, leaving twenty killed or wounded including a lieutenant.
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New York
Harvard
Paris
Col. Moll
Chad
Abeshi
Mao
Pittsburgh in Peril Cold Cause of Suffering
A flood threat from heavy snowfall and zero weather leaves Pittsburg with nine inches of snow in two weeks and a six foot river ice pack. Over 500 homeless sheltered at police stations as coal and food scarce. Nearby cities report subzero temps and widespread suffering in Scranton and Chicago with four cold wave deaths.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ohio River
Board of Health Office
Philadelphia
Weather Bureau
Scranton
Pocono Summit
Gouldsboro
Wilkesbarre
Williamsport
Harrisburg
Reading
Easton
Schuylkill River
Delaware River
Chicago
Mexican rurales battle near Altar in Sonora
News from Tucson reports a four day old clash between Mexican rurales and bandits near Altar Sonora. Four bandits were killed or captured while rurales escaped unharmed. The outlaws had been stealing horses and cattle crossing the line through No Man's Land west of Sasabe.
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Tucson
Ariz
Teller Accused of Theft in Pittsburg Bank
Charles Vererka, a teller at the Workingman's Savings Bank & Trust Company on the north side, was committed to jail on embezzlement charges. Bail was set at $20,000. Authorities allege he took $30,000 of bank funds on or before December 29, according to a bonding company.
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Pittsburg
Charles Vererka
Workingman’s Savings Bank & Trust Company
Warm well yields 82 degree water in New York
A well at West Hampton N Y driven 64 feet produces water at 82 degrees F with pumping not lowering the temperature near an ice plant. In Indianapolis Indiana two Santaclaus village children died by burn injuries after their clothing ignited while playing. mother found them in a room where they had been left an hour earlier.
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West Hampton
N. Y
Indianapolis
Ind
Santaclaus
New Japanese Envoy Seeks Treaty Haste
Baron Uch da, newly appointed Japanese ambassador to the United States, arrives to push a new treaty before the 1912 expiration. Japan aims to resolve California racial segregation fears by expediting talks, potentially altering the current pact and seeking favored nation status. Washington weighs Britain’s stance before acting on Pacific coast policy.
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Washington
Baron Uchda
United States
California
Japan
Great Britain
Australia
British Columbia
Tongland
Nippon
Taft Seeks Peace in Northwest Railroad Strike
President Taft intervened to avert a widespread railroad workers strike, joining a White House conference with striking switchmen, Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Labor Commissioner Neill. Taft favored using the Erdman Act as a settlement channel, with results still unclear.
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Washington
Railroad Department
American Federation of Labor
Taft
Northwest
White House
Strikng
Kuapni
Interstate Commerce Commission
Neill
Henry B. Perham
Federation
St. Paul
Messrs. Knapp and Neill
Mr. Taft
Beck Named Sugar Trust Counsel After Parson’s Departure
James M. Beck, counsel for the New York Sun, is chosen as successor to Parsons Closson Mellwaine as counsel for the sugar trust. Beck, ex assistant attorney general, prosecuted the Neely case and led actions against the sugar and paper trusts before moving to private practice in New York.
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New York
Parsons, Closson & Mellwaine
Sugar Trust
James’ M. Beck
New York Sun
Beck
United States
Neely
Northern Securities Company
Paper Trust
May Mean Saving of Seals
Bootewain Judson Thurber of the revenue cutter Bear, now in San Diego, has orders to report to Washington and explain his method of raising orphan fur seal pups he brought alive from the Pribiloff islands to San Diego. His method could mean saving seals that are disappearing due to poachers who kill mothers and abandon the young to starvation.
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San Diego
Cal
Bootewain Judson Thurber
Bear
Washington
Pribiloff Islands
Alaska
Thurter
Killed in War of Tongs in New York Chinatown
Ah Hung, a Chinese actor, was shot and killed in the hallway of his tenement home in New York's Chinatown just before daybreak as renewed Tong warfare claimed another victim. Stone River Veterans Celebrate. Verre Haute, Ind. Dec. 31. The National Association of survivors of the Battle of Stone River marks year’s end with its annual reunion recalling the Civil War clash on December 31, 1862, and January 1 and 2, 1863.
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New York
Chinatown
Ah Hung
Stone River
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Lewis Bemis
Foster Grand Ave
Tesla
Dyer
Peage
Huntington
Los Angeles Electric Lines
Harvard Chair OF Drama
Smoky City
Desperado
Sonora
Savings Institution
America
Switchmen
Sugar Aid
J. M. Beck
Monopoly Buster
Combine
Sailor
Capital
Papa
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