Inter State Commerce to Probe Northwest Car Shortage
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission will investigate the car shortage, starting in the Northwest. Officials say railroads are diverting freight, delaying grain to markets like Minneapolis and Chicago, while farmers pile wheat in elevators and bins despite available terminal capacity in Chicago Milwaukee Minneapolis Duluth and Superior.
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Dakotas
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Milwaukee
Duluth
Superior
Threatened Harriman Man Committed After Letter
Brooke Mackall, sixty, a retired real estate man from Washington, is arrested for threats against President Harriman and Union Pacific officials. He was examined as insane and ordered confined to a government asylum after a threatening letter to Harriman was found. Police say Mackall had complained for weeks about losses from the Illinois Central presidency change.
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Washington
Brooke Mackall
Hi Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Harriman
Mackall
Illinois Central
Coal Train Raid Paralyzes North Yakima
North Yakima Washington faces a coal famine as a raid on a passing coal train interrupts fuel delivery. Trainmen were threatened and blocked from stopping the seizure. Public buildings lack fuel and several district schools may close after only four carloads arrived since Wednesday.
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North Yakima
Wash
Suits Brought Against Railroads Over Safety Equipment
Acting on reports from the interstate commerce commission Attorney General Moody orders suits against numerous railroad companies to recover penalties for violations of the safety appliance law by failing to keep equipment in proper condition. A similar order had targeted other roads earlier.
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Washington
Dec
Interstate Commerce Commission
Moody
Tomb of Cicero Feared Found at Formiae Hill
Near Formiae an excavation unearthed remains believed to be the tomb of Marcus Tullius Cicero. The site sits on a commanding hill and has drawn attention as a potentially landmark archaeological discovery related to the famed orator's era.
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Naples
Formiae
Cicero
Riot Between Americans and Italians at Arden Works
In a night riot at the Arden works of Meadow Lands Coal Company two groups clashed. American George Wagner was shot through the lung and hospitalized. Arch Parrell is under arrest for leading the attack on Italians, who defended themselves with clubs knives and stones in a fight lasting over two hours.
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Washington
Arden Works
Meadow Lands Coal Company
George Wagner
Arch Parrell
Alleged murderer captured after desert pursuit in Texas
A. R. Sibley, a sheep buyer accused of murdering and robbing B. M. Cawthorne, J. W. Barston, and another rancher in Calverde county, was captured after a pistol battle with officers near Sanderson. He was shot multiple times and is housed in jail, believed mortally wounded.
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el Paso
Tex
A. R. Sibley
B. M. Cawthorne
J. W. Barston
Calverde County
Sanderson
Dr Alger Crapsey Delivers Farewell Sermon in Rochester
In Rochester on December 3, Dr Algernon Crapsey preached his farewell at St. Andrew's church. The service drew a full house with many parishioners moved by his departure, though he made no direct remark about retirement.
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Rochester
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Algernon &. Crapsey
St. Andrew's Church
Black man Caleb Brown shot by officer in Huntsville
In Huntsville Alabama on December 3 Caleb Brown a Black man attacked a white woman on the street. A policeman fired at him but he escaped later Brown was found dead at his home.
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Brown
Wreck on Coal Belt Line Kills James Joyner Near Marion
Lieutenant James Joyner is dead and several others injured in a Coal Belt electric railway wreck at Donahue five miles from Marion.
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James Joyner
Coal Belt Electric Railway
Donahue
Remains of late Southern Railway President laid to rest
Samuel Spencer late president of the Southern railway was buried in Oak Hill cemetery. A service at St. John’s church drew railroad officials, financiers and public figures led by Bishop Satterlee. At 2 PM trains nationwide halted as thousands of employees observed a moment of silence. Mrs. Spencer chose hymns for the service.
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Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Oak Hill Cemetery
St. John's Protestant Episcopal
St. John’s Church
Fairbanks
Justice White
Supreme Court
Foraker
Ohio
Hitchcock
Wetmore
Dr. Smith
Spencer
John Hay Honored by Jews in Philadelphia
A memorial window for the late Secretary of State John Hay was unveiled at Keneseth Israel temple in Philadelphia. Attending were Secretary of State Elihu Root, Oscar Strauss newly named secretary of commerce and labor, Andrew D. White, and six Hay relatives. Rabbis Krauskopff Berkowitz and Landman assisted as Dr. Krauskopff gave the consecration address.
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John Hay
Keneseth Israel Temple
Elihu Root
Oscar Strauss
Roosevelt
Secrtary of Commerce and Labor
Andrew D. White
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Germany
Hay
Jos. Krauskopff
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Saloon Keeper Fatally Shoots Man in Linton District
In Linton Indiana a keeper of a “blind tiger” saloon killed a man with a blow to the head during an incident at the establishment. The motive and full details remain unclear as authorities investigate the lethal event.
Murderous Assault Ends In Fatality In Local Street
An art dispute escalated into a fight with a gardenkeeper. A mace strike on Stewart knocked him unconscious and he died hours later. Saunders was arrested. This follows two prior deadly incidents in the area last week including W A Watson’s killing and Constable Bouderé’s shooting.
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Stewart
Saunders
W. A. Watson
Louis Shulley
Constable Boudere
George Whipps
Baseball Star Kelley Barred by American Association
Michael J. Kelley longtime American Association player and former Minneapolis manager was found guilty of knowledge of filing false affidavits in a bribery charge over a Minneapolis Columbus game last July and is barred from all AA affairs. Spire Owens amid accusations of unfair decisions was exonerated. L. A. Lydiard, Minneapolis secretary, was expelled for alleged conspiracy with Kelley to ruin Owens.
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Chicago
Michael J. Kelley
American Baseball Association
Minneapolis
American Association
Kelley
Spire
Clarence K. Owens
Columbus
Owens
L. A. Lydiard
Kelly
Registered Mail Carried by Wagons in Chicago Ends
Officials replace wagon service with tunnel system linking the general post office to Chicago’s railway stations. Registered mail remains in wagon use temporarily while tunnels are expanded for mail conveyance. Six hundred mutineers sentenced at Cronstadt reported as a separate item.
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Chvegu
Chita
Dec
General Post Office
Chicago
Postoffice
Sailors Sentenced in Mutiny Court Martial Action
Eighty three sailors implicated in last summer mutiny receive imprisonment or service in disciplinary battalions for varying terms. Seven lifen seven hundred and seventeen sailors were acquitted.
Education congress closes with three conscience talks at Colonial
Boston on December 3 reports the three day social education congress ended with three addresses on the education of the conscience delivered before a large audience at the Colonial theater.
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Social Education Congress
Boston
Colonial Theater
Socia Education Congress
Explosion at Home stake mine claims James Gillespie
James Gillespie was killed in a blast at the Home stake mine in Lead. The incident follows a brief report of a mine explosion resulting in his death, with no further details provided in the readable fragment.
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Home Stake
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