King Leopold Relapse and Other World News
The Bessemier Herald reports King Leopold of Belgium suffers a relapse. Notable deaths include Patrick Sheedy, famed gambler, and former Illinois Attorney General Hamlin. A lake wreck claims are deadly. 9 refugees found frozen in Lake Erie. A Chicago wreck leaves 2 dead and 18 injured on the Northwestern flyer. Canada imposes pulpwood export tax starting Sept 1. West Point treasurer pleads guilty to embezzlements. Taft addresses Bowery audience and speaks on the economy to New York businessmen. Many universities call for football reform amid concerns over injuries.
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Patrick Sheedy
Hamlin
Illinois
Shelbyville
Lake Erie
Canada
West Point
New York
Taft
Bowery
Jonaire Brokaw
Ator Rayner
Zelaya
Railways Rate Clash Looms in Congress Over Interstate Law
Senate opens with Cummins plan to uniform freight classifications and rate standards under ICC. proposal would curb court review, require commission approval for changes, and restrict cross ownership among carriers. After 1911, interstate railways barred from noncarrier work. Senate resolution seeks action against Nicaragua's President Zelaya for murder of two Americans.
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Congress
Cummins
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Zelaya
Nicaragua
State Department
Senate
Rayner
Grace and
Cannon
Zelara
Two Die In Flyer Wreck Near City Boundary
The Chicago and Northwestern No. 5 limited at noon ran off tracks at Howard avenue, between Chicago and Evanston. Two immigrant passengers died, at least eight injured as the jammed train split into halves beyond the city limits, the locomotive dislodging a rail.
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Northwestern
Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern Flyer
Milwaukee
Howard Avenue
Boundary Line
Evanston
Smithereens
Conspiracy Probe Into Grocers Singled Out
United States District Attorney’s office in New York investigates high food prices amid complaints by large wholesale grocers that manufacturers conspire to keep prices high. Leading manufacturers have been called before District Attorney Wise to inform that contracts used to force wholesalers to maintain prices violate antitrust laws.
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United States District Attorney’s Office
New York
Fore
Wise
U S Wants Young Fighters In Army and Navy
An Oslerization campaign in the army and navy has been inaugurated. Secretaries Dickimson and Meyer announce in their annual reports that younger men should lead the armed services. Navy reform aided by current reorganization. Officers are promoted by seniority. urged changes include selection for promotion and increased retirements.
Fire devastates Kalamazoo hotel district in blaze
A major Kalamazoo fire began in the Star Bargain house basement at 10 o clock, spreading along Main street and destroying the Burdick House, a four story hotel and adjacent shops. One life likely lost, hundreds of guests and firemen overcome by smoke as 6000 dollars in property burns, water mains fail, artesian wells provide poor supply, standpipe offer brief aid.
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Kalamazoo
Zoo
Battle Creek
Grand Rapids
Star Bargain House
West Main Street
Main Street
Burdick
Water Street
Postal Telegraph
American Express
Chase's
Cowlbeck
Kennedy's
Thirty-Five Hurt as Street Car Struck by Train
Thirty five passengers on a street car were injured in Indianapolis at the South street crossing when an inbound Pennsylvania passenger train struck the car, hurling it thirty feet. None were fatally hurt, most injuries occurred during the ensuing panic as the train was brought to a stop across the track.
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Pennsylvania
Indianapeolis
Heried
South Street
Indianapolis
Dread Mediterranean Storm Claims Sailors and Ships
From Rome comes word that the Duke of Abruzzi is promoted to rear admiral and twenty sailing vessels were sunk with unknown loss of life in a storm sweeping the Mediterranean from Port Said to Gibraltar. Reports also note efforts to draw the United States into Nicaragua’s revolution via a petition urging U S peace intervention. Canada’s naval plans include three Bristol class cruisers and four improved river class destroyers with estimated costs of 75 million and 1.5 million respectively and annual maintenance of 2,000,600.
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Rome
Duke of Abruzzi
Mediterranean Sea
Port Said
Gibraltar
United States
Nicaragua
Canada
Mutiny at Davao Leads to Death Sentences for 14
Fourteen members of the Second company native constabulary at Davao Mindanao were found guilty of murder after mutiny on June 6. They are to be executed at Davao plaza if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling. Trials were in Davao with Judge Gate presiding as 23 mutinied, eight killed resisting arrest, one became a witness for the state.
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Native Constabulary
Davao Plaza
Davao
Mindanao
Roy Libby
Supreme Court
Judge Gate
Milwaukee murderers of 14 year old girl jailed for life
Hattie Zinda's killers Carl Wojciechowski and Adam Pietrzyk pleaded guilty in Milwaukee Municipal Court after confession. Pietrzyk claimed Wojciechowski committed the murder while he stood guard. A three hour hearing led to life imprisonment and arrangements to begin serving before daylight at state prisons.
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Hattie Zinda
Milwaukee
Carl Wojciechowski
Adam Pietrzyk
Pietrzyk
Wojciechowski
Boys Seized as Murderers In Saloon Holdup Case
Police arrest three youths aged 17 19 and 21 in Kansas City suspecting them of numerous robberies and a fatal shootout. Witness identifies Ralph Clyne and Louis Dye as the men who killed M. A. Spangler in his saloon Nov 24. Spangler’s son Samuel was wounded. Harry Shay linked as accomplice on multiple expeditions.
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Kansas City
Ralph Clyne
Louis Dye
M. A. Spangler
Spangler
Samuel Spangler
Harry Shay
Dye
Clyne
Ruinous Storm Restores Drought Relief for Coal Miners
Eastern Pennsylvania coal regions were hard hit by wind and rain yet the storm ends a long drought, allowing thousands of miners to return to full work after sixty days of idleness. Storm damage included downed electric lines and uprooted buildings, but the economic relief outweighed the losses.
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Pennsylvania
Train wreck injures eight on CB&Q line at Exeter Neb
An eastbound Denver to Chicago CB&Q train derailed near Exeter Nebraska. Eight passengers were injured, one severely, with responders rushing the injured to nearby facilities. Railroad officials investigated the cause as crews cleared wreckage and restored service.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Exeter
Neb
Officials of New Mexico Named
President Taft sent to the Senate the names of William J. Mills and William H. Pope, both of New Mexico, to be Governor and chief justice of that territory.
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New Mexico
Taft
Senate
William J. Mills
William H. Pope
Frozen to Death in Swamp Near Spooner Minn
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 edge near Spooner Minnesota. He had left Silver Creek at 2 PM for Clementson thirteen miles away to hold services that evening but never arrived. A search party of homesteaders found him exhausted with his Bible open at his side near a floating bog.
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Ole O. Fugleskie
United Lutheran Church
Frank Higgins
Sky Pilot
Spooner
Minn
Nels Rippes
Silver Creek
Clementson
Rippes’ Place
Lake Shore Limited Collides With Eastbound Train
Eastbound Twentieth Century Limited rear collided with Lake Shore No 10 at North East Pennsylvania shortly before 11. Four people were killed and many injured, all from the slower Lake Shore train. One wheel failure on No 10 reportedly caused the crash.
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Lake Shore
North East
Railway lines and freight scales in transcontinental trade
The Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway ended its independent import traffic posture for the Puget Sound extension. It orders eighty five pound rails for the Central branch in Kansas, while Governor Stubbs presses for quick improvements. The system presses sweeping freight volumes with nearly two and a half million freight cars and fifty thousand locomotives, handling nineteen million imported and fifty two million exported gross tons yearly with a global trade value of about three and twenty one billion dollars.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and
S St. Paul
Puget Sound
Central Branch
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Stubbs
Business prospects brighten despite weather and rail hurdles
R G Dun & Co says general conditions point to progress with rough weather and Northwest rail issues. Bank clearings rise 6.5 percent year over year, demand strong for commercial funds, and factory outputs in principal industries exceed prior aggregates. Calumet district capacity grows, South Chicago furnaces run, and brisk demand for winter wares follows cold snaps. Lake navigation ends season with favorable vessel-owner outcomes. Chicago rail earnings show notable gross gains. Chicago district failures total 20 versus 30 last week and prior years.
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Northwest
Calumet District
Chicago
Lake Navigation
Chicago Steam Roads
Trade activity steadies as holidays near across regions
Colder weather and holiday approach boost trade in the North and West, with Southern trade aided. The weekly review notes the railroad strike appears lessening as a trade deterrent and wholesale activity quieting seasonally, while industrial output remains steady. U.S. business failures for the week ending Dec 9 total 259, versus 230 prior week and higher historic levels. Canada reports 30 failures, up from 25 last week.
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United States
Genada
Bradstreet’s
Market price table of livestock and grains across cities
The report compiles prices for cattle hogs sheep and grains by city including Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati New York and Chicago. It lists ranges for cattle hogs and sheep plus commodity prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and hay with monthly or seasonal variations and measurement units.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
Cincinnati
New York
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Bessemer
Michigan
Leopold
Belgium
Fielding
United States Steel Corporation
Oklahoma
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
Towa
Radical
Grocers
U. S
Elaya
Twentieth Century Limited
Qanroas
Sot
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