Mysterious Bluffton Woman Key Witness In Arson Case
Fort Wayne authorities identify Helen Barcus of Bluffton as the mysterious woman and alleged informer against Ben Kahn and Ben Franklin in the South Bend arson of Rosenberg’s clothing store. Barcus, 19, once lived with Rosenberg as his wife and allegedly authored the tip that sparked investigation into an organized firebug gang.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Helen Bercus
Bluffton
Ben Rosenberg
South Bend
Ben Kahn
Ben Franklin
Rosenberg
South Calhoun Street
Barcus
George Barcus
Chicago
H. H. Barcus
Rosenbergs
Calhoun Street
Ben
Mrs Gunness Story Revived In Indiana Fire Claim
The tale that Mrs Belle Gunness survived the 1908 fire at her farm was revived as Charles Meyers alias Reed, a paroled convict, testified that Ray Lamphere told him she escaped in an automobile toward Chicago with a tin box of money.
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Chicago
One Blackmailer Held in Wilson Letters Case
Newark report states Jacop Dunn alone among three mountaineers charged with sending threatening letters to President-elect Wilson was held for the grand jury after a preliminary hearing. Heely Davenport was discharged and Dunn’s bail was reduced from 2000 to 1000 dollars.
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Newark
N. J
Jacop Dunn
Wilson
Heely Davenport
Dunn
Greeks Use Airships Over Bizant Fort Action
In Athens on December 19 a violent cannonade occurred between attacking Greeks and Turkish defenders at Bizant fort. A Greek aviator flew over Bizant and Janina. Turkish fire damaged his planes slightly and he replied by dropping bombs.
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Athens
Gree
Bisant
Bizant
Janina
Supreme Court Bars 65 Per Cent Coal Contracts
The Supreme Court ruled against the government in the anthracite coal case, voiding 65 per cent contracts where railroad coal companies bought output from independent mines. Justice Lurton said the contracts violated the Sherman act. The court also found the railroads attempted to exclude a competitive road via Temple Iron. Minor combinations were dismissed without prejudice.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Lurton
Temple Iron Company
Hearst Produces Letters on Archbold and Standard Oil Ties
Senate campaign investigating committee hears Hearst present new letters about John D. Archbold and Standard Oil. Hearst says he does not know origin of the letters and claims to have seen only photo facsimiles, while questioning authenticity and source via John Eddy of London.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
William R. Hearst
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Hearst
Archbold
Foraker
Ohio
Joseph C. Sibley
Pennsylvania
Clapp
John Eddy
London
Eddy
Reid Ends With Death Ship Return in London
President Taft declines to name a successor to Ambassador Whitelaw Reid in London and lets the post stay vacant until after March 4. Mrs Reid's body is conveyed to Portsmouth on a gun carriage after a Dorchester departure, with the Reid family boarding the Cunard train at Euston. Washington notes the delay due to the approaching Wilson administration.
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London
Taft
Asquith
Reid
Portsmouth
Dorchester Ough
Euston
Cunard
Washington
Taft Monday
Whitelaw Reid
Elgin Butter Board Abolishes Quotation Committee
Elgin Illinois with a wild session the Elgin board of trade voted to abolish its quotation committee. The move came as a bolt from the dissenting faction during the annual meeting before the United States government has served notice of suit for dissolution upon its officers.
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Elgin
United States
Elgin Board of Trade
News From Far and Near
United States judge Paul Charlton of Porto Rico resigns amid a case involving his son Porter Charlton in New Jersey jail for the alleged murder of his wife in Italy. Taft names Dr. Carl J. Alsberg to head the Bureau of Chemistry. Four armed men rob Kyle State Bank of 3000 dollars in Texas after binding the night watchman. Wilson ends vacation in Bermuda and returns to New York aboard the Bermudian.
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Washington
Paul Charlton
United States
Porto Rico
Charlton
Porter Charlton
New Jersey
Lake Como
Italy
Supreme Court
Taft
Carl J. Alsberg
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Austin
Tex
State Bank
Kyle
Ralph Guinne
New York
Eleet Wilson
Hamilton
Bermuda
Seven Die As Lake Shore Coal Train Hits Street Car
Seven people were killed and seven injured when a Lake Shore coal train collided with a street car at the Center Street crossing in Ashtabula Ohio on December 17.
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Ashtabula
Lake Shore
Center Street Crossing
German Baron Killed in Auto Accident Near Antwerp
Berlin report says Baron Von Zuy ten Vannyvelt died in a automobile crash near Antwerp on Wednesday. Barons Goffinet Mile Debassompierre and Miss Woods were injured.
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Berlin
Baron von Zuyten Vannyvelt
Antwerp
Baron Goffinet
Mile, Debassompierre
Miss Woods
Thief Steals $6000 In Transit From Subtreasury Route
Secret service agents reported a $6000 misappropriated by theft from a consign ment sent from the New York subtreasury to a Marietta bank. The loss was discovered when agents reached Dennison Ohio on Wednesday.
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Gila Staten
Dennison
Secret Service
Flynn Named Chief of United States Secret Service
William J. Flynn of New York was appointed chief of the United States Secret Service by Secretary MacVeagh, succeeding John B. Wilkie. The appointment was announced in Washington on Tuesday, December 19.
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Flynn
Secret Service
Washington
William J. Flynn
New York
United States Secret Service
MacVeagh
Treasury Department
John B. Wilkie
Indictments in Little Falls Riot Leaders Case
The Herkimer grand jury returned indictments Tuesday against several Little Falls strike leaders arrested after the October 30 riot in which two police officers were shot in Little Falls N Y search positions and authorities proceed with charges.
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Little Falls
Herkimer
Tveitmoe Charged as Leader in Times Explosion Case
Indianapolis Ind December 19 Olaf A Tveitmoe San Francisco labor leader is charged as the man who directed the Los Angeles Times explosion in the dynamite conspiracy case before Judge Anderson in federal court. Special District Attorney James W Noel outlines a complete story tying leaders to the crime while urging the jury to protect society from organized crime.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Olaf A. Tveitmoe
San Francisco
Los Angeles Times
James W. Noel
Anderson
Noel
Treitmoe
Times
J. B. McNamara
Tveitmoe
Los Angeles
Tveiltmoc
Herbert
Hockin
Gunness Alleged Escape From Fire At Murder Farm
In Laporte Indiana police report Belle Gunness did not die in the fatal blaze as claimed. Convict Meyers says Lamphere drove a red car with Gunness away at dawn, carrying a box of victims’ blood money toward Chicago.
Miss Helen Gould to Wed Finley D Shepard
New York announces the engagement of Helen Miller Gould to Finley D Shepard a St Louis railway man as disclosed by George J Gould on Sunday. In Berlin a Chinese official predicts war with Russia if Mongolia demands persist. In Wabash Indiana William Colbert a fifty year old blind man dies after starving himself for ten days.
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New York
George J. Gould
Helen Miller Gould
Finley D. Shepard
St. Louis
Berlin
China
Russia
Dr. Wang
Mongolia
Wabash
Ind
William Colbert
Morgan Testimony Highlights Interlocking Directorates
Washington, Dec. 20. The Pujo committee heard J Pierpont Morgan testify about the vast web of interlocking directorates linking Morgan standards and allied groups across finance, transportation, insurance and utilities. The charted holdings show 180 directors in 145 corporations totaling $25.8 billion in capitalization with major banks, trust firms, insurers, railways, and shipping interests connected through principal firms and eighteen financial houses.
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Washington
House Money Trust
J. Pierpont Morgan
Samuel Untermyer
Satterlee
J. P. Morgan, Jr
George B. Case
T. W. Lamont
Pujo
Morgan
New York City
Philadelphia
Mr. Untermyer
Mr. Morgan
Parta
New York
Paris
London
J. P. Morgan
H. P. Davison
W. P. Hamilton
H. F. Lloyd
A. A. Newbold
Wiliam H. Porter
Charles Steele
E. T. Stotesbury
Temple Baldwin
House Money Traat
Pable
J. P. Morgan & Co
First National Bank
Guaranty Trust Company
Bankers’ Trust Company
National City Bank
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
National Bank of Commerce
Hanover National Bank
Chase National Bank
Astor Trust Company
New York Trust Company
Blair & Co
Speyer & Co
Continental and Commercial National Bank
Chicago
Minors Trust and Savings Bank
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Boston
Lee, Higginson & Co
Aged Man Dies of Fright in Indiana Infirmary
Bert Jackson eighty five, inmate at Wabash county infirmary, dies from fright after the sudden deaths of two other inmates. Jackson had a mortal fear of a corpse. Also in Columbia Missouri two women found dead in their home with heads crushed by an ax. Mrs George Moore sixty one and her mother Mary J Wilson eighty two were slain.
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Wabash
Ind
Bert Jackson
Jackson
Columbia
George Moore
Mary J. Wilson
Explosion Destroys Roundhouse in Rochester
An explosion in the boiler room of the New York Central roundhouse at Summerville Wednesday destroyed the stone structure. Fifteen locomotives were damaged.
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Rochester
N. Y
New York Central
Summerville
Swindle Trio Fours Poles Nabbed On Parisian Cash Scam
Four Polish Jews involved in a long running Paris swindle targeted victims with a fake banknote production scheme. They claimed to manufacture new notes via an electrical process, using a box to con dupes into paying large sums. A shrewd man exposed them after discovering two banknotes in the box, leading to their arrest by M. Guichard and police.
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M. Guichard
Wicked Imagination and the Sin of Suspicion
An Ohio State Journal excerpt urges guarding the heart against wicked imaginations and unfounded suspicions. It argues that harboring deceitful thoughts harms the holder more than the accused, advocating a clean, open heart and hopeful regard for others.
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Ohio State Journal
Making a Luxury of Sorrow and the Blues
An essay contrasts dwelling in sorrow with facing sunshine. It argues many cling to blue moods as a comfort, resisting efforts to clear the fog and reveal brighter possibilities. It urges balancing joy and sorrow by weighing reasons for happiness against those for lament.
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Robinson Crusoe
Cheese customs span Swiss ceremonies with aged brie ritual
Swiss households honor guests with heirloom cheeses dating back to the French Revolution. Births, weddings, and funerals trigger specific cheeses named for the child and couple, preserved until adulthood. Guests toast with cheese portions lifted in celebration.
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Switzerland
Zermatt
Tia
Bwitzerland
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