Taft Notifies St Petersburg on Russia Treaty Termination
President Taft moves to end the 1832 treaty with Russia by notice to St Petersburg and seeks Senate ratification. He avoids direct religious references, praises long friendship, and signals possible new treaty talks. Debate centers on authority and House opposition.
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Washington
Russia
St Petersburg
United States
State Department
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Sulzer
Lodge
President’s move to act without Congress stirs Senate clash
Edwin L Norris Mortana Governor presides as Western Conference debates action to back the president in taking the matter from Congress after the Sulzer resolution. Democrats complain the president is stealing thunder while Republicans pledge to defend his course, arguing the House sped to act to prevent a diplomatic incident with Russia.
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Senate
Heyburn
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Sulzer
House of Representatives
Representative Sulzer
Russia
House
Employee Heroism Saves Marky Lives on KC Leavenworth Line
In a Kansas City collision of two trolley cars near Walcott Kansas three were killed and eight injured. Roscoe Agers a railroad employee acted heroically in the smoking southbound car crawling from the wreckage he kicked burning coals from a stove away with his bare hands and saved others by preventing a fire his hands burned to the bone.
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Kansas City
Kansas City-Leavenworth
Walcott
Kan
Roscoe Agers
Agers
MacVeagh Urges Immediate Banking Reform and Tariff Legislation
Washington reports Secretary MacVeagh urges swift reform of banking and currency systems and science based tariff laws. He cites customs service experience as pivotal and predicts a treasury surplus of about 29 million at year end 1913, excluding Panama Canal expenditures.
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Washington
Customs Service
Penama
Farmers Are For Wilson In Rural Voter Poll
Springfield mass December 19 The Farm and Home reports a poll of more than a million rural voters. Among Democrats 57 percent preferred Wilson for president, 19 percent Clark, 8 percent Harmon. Bryan also received scattered votes. In Ohio Harmon led Democrats, La Follette led Republicans with 65 percent, Taft 25 percent, Roosevelt 10 percent.0
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Springfield
Mass
United States
Farm and Home
Wilson
Clark
Harmon
Emorg
Bryan
Ohio
la Follette
Mr. Taft
Roosevelt
Harri man to dedicate life to socialist doctrine
Job Harriman, once Los Angeles mayoral candidate, plans to quit his lucrative law practice in the city and devote the rest of his life to spreading socialist doctrine.
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Angeles
Job Harriman
Los Angeles
Awful Wreck on Milwaukee Line
Ten killed and nineteen injured when a silk train on the Milwaukee line crashed into the Columbian sleeper near Odessa Minnesota. Rescue crews worked amid fire and chaos as bodies were removed to the town hall morgue and hospitals treated the seriously hurt.
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Minn
Milwaukee Road
Aberdeen
R. C. Myera
Newcastle
Ind
C. W. Barber
Terry
Mont
McKone
Ray R. Whetstone
Minneapolis
R. F. Whetstone
J. F. Richards
Mobridge
Vessie Richards
Wobridge
Peterson
Greer Jay
Wis
Odesse
Sil
Extel
Milbank
Ortonville
Judge Adams appoints receivers for Wabash Railway
Judge Adams issues an order appointing receivers to manage the Wabash Railway Company. The action aims to preserve assets, ensure ongoing operations, and protect creditors during the court supervised remedy. The ruling sets terms for the receivers to conduct business and report to the court.
Wabash Railway Placed Under Receivership
In St Louis on December 19 the Westinghouse Air Brake Company asked a U S circuit court to appoint receivers for the Wabash Railway. Frederick A Delano Edward B Pry and W K Bixby were named receivers with bonds set at 200000 each. Wells H Blodgett named counsel for the receivers. The road’s immediate need cited is 7500000 for new cars and equipment.
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Pryor
New York
St. Louis
W. K. Bixby
Railroad
Alvin W. Kreéh
Equitable Trust Company of
Robert Goelet
Wabash Executive and Reorganization Committee
Eastorn
Toledo
Deluxo
H. R. Winthrop
Arabs Suffer Heavy Loss in Homs Engagement
Rome reports a fierce clash at Homs where about one thousand Arabs were killed or wounded. Italian cruisers suppressed heavy fire as troops attacked from the rear. Five hundred Arabs were taken prisoner and Italian losses were described as small.
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Rome
Homs
Receivership Planned for Wabash Railroad
The New York announcement describes the appointment of receivers for the Wabash Railroad as amicable and the result of a directors committee meeting to readjust finances. The move aims to strengthen the line after months of financial concern and to place the railroad on solid footing.
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New York
Wabash Railroad Company
Wabash
Wells Delivers Knockout In Eleven Rounds
London reports Bombardier Wells knocked out Fred Storbeck, the South African heavyweight champion, in the eleventh round. The bout was scheduled for twenty rounds and Wells dominated with a sharp right to Storbeck’s jaw ending the fight.
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London
Bombardier Wells
Fred Storbeck
South Africa
Wells
Storbeck
Western governors seek federal land law to aid settlement
At the governors congress in St Paul Secretary Fisher faced Western requests for new classification and disposition laws. Governor Norris of Montana summed five needs: faster reclamation and lower settler costs, speedy land withdrawal reentry, complete western land surveys, eased filing rules for proofs, and a law governing retained lands and reservations. The meeting remained harmonious with mutual cooperation pledged.
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Fisher
McEed
Department of the Interior
Western States
Norris
Montana
Washington
Crops Show Bigger Value As Production Drops
Washington reports eleven key farm crops excluding cotton declined in production but totaled 3.7696 billion dollars in value for this year. The figure, up nearly 190 million from last year, reflects revised acreages from census data after a November preliminary estimate.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Gorman Knocked Out by Chipp in Fifth Round Bout
Akron dispatch reports Joe Gorman champion middleweight of the Pacific coast was kayoed by George Chipp of Pittsburg in the fifth round of a twelve round scheduled fight.
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Akron
Joe Gorman
Pacific Coast
George Chipp
Pittsburg
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