King Leopold Relapse and Toll From Fires Across Nations
A wide array of events across nations and states during the period includes King Leopold's relapse, deaths of notable figures like Patrick Sheedy and former Attorney General Hamlin, a ferries wreck toll in Lake Erie, fatal Chicago wrecks, Pulpwood export tax plan, Taft addresses, and calls for football reform, with political and economic fallout noted nationwide.
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King Leopold
Belgium
Patrick Sheedy
Hamlin
Hlinots
Shelbyville
Lake Erie
Railway Rate Act Clash Looms in Congress Over Interstate Commerce
Senate consideration focuses on Cummins plan to broaden Interstate Commerce Commission powers. Proposals require uniform freight classifications, rate statements, and on motion rate reasonableness tests, with court review limited. Restrictions on carrier consolidation and stock issues are outlined, plus post 1911 interstate carriers limited to common carriage. Separate Zelaya action resolution seeks authorization to pursue punishment for murder.
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Congress
Cummins
Iowa
Commins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Zelaya
Nicaragua
State Department
Senate
Rayner
Grace and
Cannon
Zelara
Trade Review Signals Progressive Business Amid Weather Hurdles
R G Dun and Co Weekly Review notes general business progress despite weather and railroad delays in the Northwest. Bank clearings rise, demand for money remains strong, and factory outputs in key industries exceed prior totals. Calumet district capacity grows and South Chicago furnaces operate. fashion and seasonable goods see brisk demand. Snowstorms hinder crop markets and logistics, but lower temperatures boost apparel and luxury goods. Chicago steam rail earnings rise. bank clearings reach 270,717,579, up 6.5 percent from last year. Chicago district failures number 20.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Calumet District
South Chi- Gao
Leake Navigation
Chicago Steam Roads
Chicago
Two Die As Flyer Wreck Near Chicago Evanston Boundary
The Chicago and Northwestern No. 5 flyer at noon left the rails on Howard Avenue straddling Chicago and Evanston. The train tore apart two baggage cars. two immigrants were killed and at least eight injured as the locomotive derailed beyond city limits.
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Northwestern
Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern Flyer
Milwaukee
Howard Avenue
Boundary Line
Evanston
Smithereens
Grocers Allege Conspiracy Behind High Food Prices
U S District Attorney's office in New York investigates high prices on feed and foodstuffs after complaints from leading wholesale grocers. Manufacturers have reportedly been summoned to Wise to discuss contracts claimed to restrain trade and violate anti trust law.
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Went
United States District Attorney's Office
New York
Fore
Wise
Large Kalamazoo Fire Destroys Major Property Overnight
A massive blaze in Kalamazoo started in the Star Bargain House basement at 10 PM and burned into the night. The fire swept along Main Street consuming the Burdick House four story hotel several stores and an arcade with about 300 hotel guests evacuated to the street. Firefighters from Kalamazoo Battle Creek and Grand Rapids battled the flames amid low mains pressure and limited water supply from artesian wells.
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Kalamazoo
Battle Creek
Grand Rapids
Star Bargain House
West Main Street
Main Street
Burdick
Water Street
Postal Telegraph
American Ex Press
Chase's
Cowlbeck
Kennedy’s
Trains Hits Street Car Injuring 35 In Indianapolis
Thirty five passengers on a street car were injured when an inbound Pennsylvania train struck the car at the South street crossing in Indianapolis and hurled it thirty feet onto a cement sidewalk. The engineer stopped the train to avoid a second collision. Most injuries occurred in the ensuing panic.
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Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
South Street
Army Navy push to promote younger officers now
An Uslerization campaign in the army and navy has been inaugurated. Secretaries Dickinson and Meyer announce in their annual reports that younger men should occupy top ranks. The navy reforms ease this shift amid ongoing reorganization. Current promotion favors seniority with limited retirements, and changes are urged.
Sailors lost as storm sinks twenty ships in Mediterranean
From Rome comes word that the Duke of Abruzzi has been promoted to rear admiral. Twenty sailing vessels sank in a Mediterranean storm from Port Said to Gibraltar with unknown fatalities. Also noted are moves to involve the United States in Nicaragua peace efforts and Canada's naval plans including Bristol class cruisers and river class destroyers with projected costs and maintenance.
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Rome
Duke of
Canada
Mutiny at Davao Plaza Leads to Executions of Native Constables
Fourteen members of the Second Company of native constabulary at Davao Mindanao were sentenced to death for mutiny and murder. The charge stems from the June 6 attack on the town that killed planter Roy Libby. Trials were in Davao with Junge Gate presiding. 23 mutineers total, eight killed resisting arrest, one turned state's evidence.
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Native Constabulary
Davao Plaza
Davao
Mindanao
Roy Libby
Supreme Court
Junge Gate
Child's Murderers Get Lee in Milwaukee
Hattie Zinda's confessed killers Carl Wojciechowski and Adam Pietrzyk pleaded guilty in Municipal Court Milwaukee after a three hour hearing. Pietrzyk sought clemency claiming Wojciechowski committed the murder while he stood guard outside. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment and arrangements were made to transfer them to state prisons before daylight.
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Hattie Zinda
Milwaukee
Carl Wojciechowski
Adam Pietrzyk
Pietrzyk
Wojciechowski
Boys Seized as Murderers in Saloon Holdup Case
Kansas City police identify two of three arrested youths as Ralph Clyne and Louis Dye, both 19 and 21 respectively, accused of shooting M. A. Spangler during a Nov. 24 holdup at his saloon. Samuel Spangler wounded in both arms. Harry Shay linked to Dye and Clyne in multiple expeditions.
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Kansas City
Ralph Clyne
Louis Dye
M. A. Spangler
Spangler
Samuel Spangler
Harry Shay
Dye
Clyne
Ruinous Storm Brings Joy to Coal Regions
A severe storm in eastern Pennsylvania relieved a long drought, enabling thousands of miners to return to full work. While wind and rain caused property damage and disrupted electric lines and roofs, the drought relief outweighed the losses as mines resume full operation.
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Pennsylvania
Derailment Injures Eight on CB&Q Train at Exeter
An east bound Denver to Chicago CB&Q express derailed at Exeter Nebraska injuring eight passengers with one in severe condition. Local authorities and railroad officials investigated the wreck and aided the injured.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Exeter
Neb
Mills and Pope Nominated for New Mexico Roles
President Taft sent to the Senate the nominations of William J. Mills and William H. Pope of New Mexico to two high territorial posts Governor and chief justice respectively.
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Omelaly
New Mexico
Taft
Senate
William J. Mills
William H. Pope
Frozen Missionary Found Dead In Minnesota Swamp
Rev Ole O Fugleskie a United Lutheran missionary and associate of Rev Frank Higgins known as the Lumberjack Sky Pilot was found frozen to death in a swampy area southeast of Spooner Minnesota. He had left Silver Creek at 2 PM for Clementson thirteen miles away to hold services that evening and was found near a floating bog with his Bible open.
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Ole O. Fugleskie
United Lutheran Church
Frank Higgins
Sky Pilot
Spooner
Minn
Nels Rippes
Silver Creek
Clementson
Rippes’ Place
Trains Collision Kills Four on Lake Shore Line
Eastbound Twentieth Century Limited rear-ended Lake Shore No 10 at North East Pennsylvania. Four passengers on No 10 were killed and many injured. Limited passengers escaped injury. Wheel failure on No 10 reportedly caused the crash.
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Lake Shore
North East
Freight Bonanza and Rail Expansion Across The Plains
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway shifts from an independent import stance on Puget Sound traffic to cooperation while ordering one hundred miles of eighty five pound rails for the Central branch. The Missouri Pacific system traverses Kansas as Governor Stubbs warns of receivership without swift improvements amid huge freight activity and vast annual trade totals.
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Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Puget Sound
Central Branch
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Stubbs
Trade and weather ease season’s holiday pressure
New York reports colder weather and the approaching holidays lifting trade across the North and West and aiding southern activity. The railway strike seems to lose its impact as a trade deterrent, wholesale markets quiet but not slowing industrial output. U.S. business failures total 259 for the week ending Dec 9, vs 230 prior week and prior years. Canada shows 30 failures.
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United States
Canada
Market price roundup for cattle hogs and grains across cities
Chicago to New York markets show varied ranges for cattle hogs and sheep with prices for wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs and potatoes. Regional figures include busy spreads from Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati and New York with notable high and low bounds across goods.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
Cincinnati
New York
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Bessemer
Michigan
West Point
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Adv
Jonaire Brokaw
Feator Rayner
Leopold
Fielding
United States Steel Corporation
Oklahoma
Illinois
Deneen
Agnes Claypool
Harvey Bissell
California
William Wade Dudley
Bright
Washington
Arbuckle Brothers
American Sugar Refining Company
National Geographic Society
Peary
North Pole
Cook
Ohio
J. P. Morgan & Co
Cyrus H. McCormick
Farmers’ Hall of Fame
University of Illinois, Urbana
Charles W. Morse
Walter Lonsdale
Frederick A. Cook
Copenhagen
Captain Loose
Asquith
Ireland
Savannah
D. M. Abernathy
San Francisco
Gridiron Club
Rama
Sowa
Uniforga
Kear
Zelaya, Era
Grocers
Lee
Twentieth Century Limited
RoStiEakee Krone
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