China Ruler Dead Dowager Empress Near Death
Peking report states the emperor is dead or dying with the dowager empress fainting during a Grand Council session. Edicts name Prince Chun regent and Pu Wei heir presumptive as China braces for a regency amid uncertain confirmation and palace intrigue.
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Peking
China
Prince Chun
Pu Wei
Winter Palace
Forbidden City
Grand Council
Kuang-Hsu
Kuang-Esu
Grand Coucil
Prince Ching
Board of Foreign Affairs
Kuang Hsu
K’ang Hei
Ch'ien Lung
Emyress
Pu Chun
Prince Tuan
Kuanwuen
Ene
True Bills Against Coopers in Carmack Murder Case
The grand jury Friday afternoon returned a loud will against Keyin Cooper Col D B Cooper and ex Sheriff John D Sharp charging them with the murder of Senator B W Carmack.
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Coopers
Nashville
Eas
Grand Jury
Keyin Cooper
D. B. Cooper
John D. Sharp
B W. Carmack
Lost tenth year mystery marks find of ex weather chief
Prof Mark W Marrington former head of the U S Weather Bureau who vanished a decade ago is found as a mentally ill patient in Morris Plains New Jersey asylum He wandered Trenton streets last year and was identified only after his son Raymond Hartington read a Western paper Then his wife Mrs Harrington confirmed the identity noting he no longer recognizes her He had left home ten years ago after serving as chief from 1891 to 1895 and later led the University of Washington Se attle before fading from view
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New York
Mark W. Marrington
United States Weather Bureau
New Jersey Asylum
Morris Plains
Trenton
Weather Bureau
Asylum
Harrington
Prof. Harrington
Raymond Hartington
Enid
John Doe No
Raleigh
S. C
Washington, D. C
University of Michigan
Harrison
Cleveland
University of Washington At
Seattle
HIRES MEN TO KILL HER MOTHER
Chicago story of May L Otis a6 years old who plotted murder to inherit $7500 after paying $100 and signing a $2400 note. She planned to identify her mother to a hired killer and demanded a "good job" not an ambulance death. Conspirators named include a private detective agency head and two city detectives.
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Chicago
L. Otis
Miss Otis
City
Torney Named Surgeon General of the Army
Washington November 14 The secretary of war announced the appointment of Col George H Torney as surgeon general to succeed Surg Gen R M O Reilly The vacancy will occur January 14 Torney, then in charge of the general hospital at San Francisco, earned the post for his administrative and surgical record and was not a candidate for the position.
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Washington
George H. Torney
Army
R. M. O'Reilly
Secretary of War
Col. Torney
General Hospital
San Francisco
Wright Makes First Start Without Derrick At Le Mans
Le Mans France November 14 Wilbur Wright the American aeroplanist succeeded to make a start with his flying machine without the derrick previously employed He circled the field twice in the flight and then landed.
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Wright
le Mans
France
Wilbur Wright
Negroes Flee Tennessee After Night Rider Attacks
In Cheatham County near the Montgomery County line, a gang of night riders forced several Negro families to abandon the state. The departures followed attacks in the Henrietta area, Nashville, as part of the broader unrest.
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Nashville
Tenn
Henrietta
Cheatham County
Montgomery County
Michigan Town Threatened After Benton Harbor Fire
Benton Harbor Michigan saw Friday night’s blaze threaten the business district causing about 125000 dollars in damage. The fire started from unknown causes and the incident prompted a wide area inspection by local authorities.
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Michigan
Lenton Harbor
Mich
Busness
Benton Harbor
Death of Jackson Smith at age seven in Missouri
Jackson Smith aged seven died at home in this city following an illness of one week. The Missouri court of appeals records him among late juvenile cases. The obituary notes his ties to local families and community life.
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Micsouri Dutge
Sangea Chy
Jackson Smith
Migsouri
Dua
Witley
Lamphere Case Defense Wins First Ruling On Evidence
Laporte Ind November 14 Defense in the Lamphere case loses a bid to bar the coroner verdict as primary evidence. Judge Richter allows the coroner report while instructing jurors to disregard it for proving Mrs Gunness death. Jury is seated amid testimony about bodies found in ruins and bones including a jaw and vertebrae.
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Laporte
Ind
Teegarden
Richter
Union Mills
William Glasgow
Washington Township
Jared Drollinger
Wills Township
Richard H. Holland
Center Township
Bruce McCormick
Carpenter
Charles P. Nelson
Scipio Township
Charles Travis
Joseph Bentz
Coolspring
Gifford Hull
Smith
Gunness House
Mack
Sutherland
Coronier
Tobacco and sake weigh in tariff readjustment hearing
Washington November 14 tobacco and tobacco products under schedule F of the Dingell tariff law were reviewed by the house Ways and Means Committee as it prepares tariff readjustments for the next special session. Sake the Japanese rice wine drew debate with court cases pending on its proper duty and classification between still wine and manufactured article.
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Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
Congress
Board of General Appraisers
Supreme Court of the United States
Read near death after extortion attempt in Denver
Mrs Allen F Read, accused of threatening Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps with dynamite, remains critically ill in Denver as police learn of the extortion plot.
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Reed
Denver
Allen F. Read
Genevieve Chandler Phipps
Armstrong
Read
Dead Miners Number 400 at Radbod Mine Disaster
Rescue efforts fail to reach entombed workers after firedamp explosion at Radbod mine Hamm Westphalia. Authorities fear 260 miners remain below ground with no hope of salvation. Fifty more bodies retrieved. 27 injured taken to hospital. Authorities wall shafts to prevent further blasts. public kept away. Wives of trapped men protest as dynamite stores heighten danger. Prince Eitel Frederick visits, relief funds opened in Berlin Cologne and Frankfurt.
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Hamm
Westphalia
Germany
Prince Eftel Frederick
Berlin
Cologne
Frankfort
Treasury Job for G Terry Named Assistant Treasurer
Washington November 14 The president appointed George G Terry as assistant treasurer of the United States succeeding Hamilton Fish Terry previously served as assistant treasurer of the Republican national committee under George B Sheldon He was endorsed by Representatives Van Wyck Olcott and Herbert Parsons and by Sheldon Terry long chaired the Union League club of New York and was connected with the New York park commission
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Washington
George 3. Terry
United States
Hamilton Fish
Terry
Republican National Committee
George B Sheldon
van Wachten Olcott
Herbert Parsons
New York
Sheldon
B. Hedges
More Power for Reichstag Demanded in Fundamental Law Change
Berlin reporters note that socialist and centrist Reichstag members called for a constitutional shift making the imperial chancellor answerable to the Reichstag rather than the emperor. Two motions were presented to extend chancellor accountability to imperial utterances and to empower the Reichstag to demand the chancellor's dismissal.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Prairie City Oil plant burns in Winnipeg ruinous blast
Flames erupted Friday afternoon from the Prairie City Oil Company warehouse on Notre Dame avenue near Winnipeg causing total loss estimated at 100000. The blaze destroyed the warehouse and the oil plant, with firefighters battling the fire through the day.
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Winnipeg
Man
Prairie City Oil Company
Notre Dame Avenue
Unsuccessful Bandits Try Train Robbery at Yekaterinburg
In Yekaterinburg on Friday a group of 25 men attempted to seize a railway train carrying $12.5 million in specie bound for St. Petersburg. Five attackers were arrested and one was killed. the remaining assailants escaped.
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Yekaterinburg
Russia
St. Petersburg
Prosecutor Heney Shot in Court in San Francisco
Francis J. Heney, a leading figure in municipal corruption prosecutions, was shot in Judge Lawlor's courtroom by Morris Haas, a juror once accepted then rejected for being an ex convict. Heney survived with a non fatal bullet lodged behind the left ear. Haas claimed Heney exposed his record and ruined him.
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San Francisco
Cat
Francis J. Heney
Alorris Heas
Lawlor
Abraham Ruef
Heney
McCabe
Haas
Hans
Central Emergency Hospital
Hanas
Emperor of China Reported Dead Amid Censorship
New York dispatch says confirmation is unavailable as censorship blocks reports on the Chinese emperor and empress dowager. Peking later adds the emperor died at 4 PM from Gastrilla while the empress dowager reportedly dies from shock leaving Prince Chun as regent and Pu Wei as heir presumptive.
Bandit Receives $625 In Gold From Knoxville Police
In Minneapolis on November 14 Sheriff W. Dreger of Hennepin county received an express package from Knoxville Tennessee containing 625 dollars in gold. It was to be turned over to Frank Shercliffe held on a train robbery charge. Shercliffe claimed the money was sent by his brother. The Knoxville police found the money on Shercliffe at arrest and sent it to him, but could not prove he stomped it.
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Knoxville
Minneapolis
Minn
W. Dreger
Hennepin County
Knoxville, Tenn
Frank Shercliffe
Sherman W. Morris
Dreger
Shercliffe
Shereliffe
Publication of Allison Memoirs Planned in DC
Washington Nov 14. Senator William B Allisons papers likely to be published within months. He wrote no memoirs though urged to do so. His papers and letters span nearly fifty years from the Civil War era to last summer, offering historical insights.
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Allison
Washington, D. C
Willam B
Twenty One Hunters Dead in Wisconsin and Michigan
Milwaukee reports the deer hunting season opened at midnight with a deadly start. The tally runs twenty one hunter deaths this year and thirty seven wounded across Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, marking the most terrible slaughter in recent memory.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Death of E. B. Shaw prompts new Iowa bank receiver
Washington reports the death of E B Shaw bank examiner for northern Iowa and head of the First National Bank of Carroll. Controller Murray reappoints L D Fowler as receiver, a southerner not an Iowa resident, with no reasons given. Iowa delegation to discuss Shaw successor upon arrival.
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Towa
E. B. Shaw
Northern Towa
First National Bank of Carroll
Theaam Reintment
Murray
L D. Fowler
Boowwr 1B
Southern Man
Iowa
Shaw
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Philadelphia
Ignatius Spira
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