Senator Elkins Visits Coal Region Seeks Trade Restoration
US Senator Stephen B. Elkins arrived in the coal field and plans a Gary plant visit to discuss coal and coke trade, ship subsidies, and tariff reforms. He advocates American vessels handling American trade, favors a gas tax but warns on its delicacy, and sees Republican strength rising from tariff settlements.
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United States
Stephen B. Elkins
West Virginia
Congress
Isaac T. Mann
Bramwell
Williamson
H. D. Hatfield
McDowell County
Welch
Gary
United States Steel Company
Bluefield
Henry G. Davis
Connellsville
Elkins
Senate
James Madison
Democratic Party
Alabama
Virginia
New Stat Board of Control
West Virginia and Virginia Weekend Weather Outlook
West Virginia: Friday and Saturday bring increasing cloudiness. Virginia: Friday fair with warmer interior south portion, Saturday fair with light to moderate variable winds and onshore waves along the coast.
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West Virginia
Virginia
South Portion
Preventable Diseases Kill 200000 Yearly
New Haven reports a Census Bureau study showing 200000 children die annually from preventable diseases in the United States. The infant mortality conference at Yale University opens with many educators social workers physicians and medical school leaders in attendance.
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New Haven
Conn
nWov
United States Census Bureau
United States
Clemens von Pirgwt
Vienna
Joins Hopkins Medical School
James H. Mason Knox, Jr
Johns Hopkins Medics School
Tal‘ont
Women'’s Medics
College of Pennsyvnia
Albert G. Keller
Scienc of Society
Yale
Caroline Hedger
United “Porties of Chicago
Charles “Teomond Henrderen
University of Chicao
Parliament Opens in Ottawa with Navy Bill on Agenda
The Dominion parliament opened in Ottawa with ceremonial rites. The government plans a bill creating a Canadian navy and Canada’s role in imperial defence. An insurance bill from the last session remains key, and there may be rule changes to speed public business.
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Ottawa
Ont
Domin
Amises
Canada
Parnent
Turkey for President
Providence Rhode Island November 11 Horace Vose of Westerly famed for supplying turkeys to presidents from Grant to Taft seeks the finest local bird for President Taft’s Thanksgiving table. Rhode Island and Connecticut growers vouch for Vose and offer prime birds for the honor.
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Providence
R. I
Horace Vose
Westerly
Grant
Taft
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Vose
Cairo Mob Lays Violent Hold on Suspect
A crowd of African American residents lynched a suspect in Cairo after an alleged crime. Women reportedly pulled the rope and a partial confession tied Arthur Alexander and a second man to the incident as an enraged search continued for others involved.
LYNCHING OF WIL JAMES IN CAIRO ILLinois
A mob killed Wil James a Black suspect in Miss Annie Pelley’s murder in Cairo. The mob hanged him at the city arch. shots damaged his body and it was burned after being dragged through the streets. About ten thousand people witnessed the lynching. Officials were overwhelmed and James implicated Arthur Alexander before the mob acted.
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Cairo
Wil James
Annie Pelley
James
Arthur Alexander
Eighth
Twenty-sixth
Elm Streets
Davis
Karnak
Ills
Belknap
Mrs Mary A Barlow Dead In Roanoke Coal Operator Widow
Mrs Mary A Barlow widow of Alfred Barlow prominent coal operator died at Trout Sanitarium aged 68 after eighteen years in Roanoke. Survived by six children including Mrs R H Angell and Miss Mellie R Barlow of Roanoke J K Barlow of Logan W V W H Barlow of Appomattox R B Barlow of Igan and W N Barlow of Pittsburgh Funeral at home 619 Jefferson Street at 10 30 Saturday morning.
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Roanoke
Mary A. Barlow
Alfred Barlow
Trout Sanitarium
Barlow
Roanoke Drug Clerk Dies From Suspected Opium Poisoning
Luther Moomaw 23 son of Mr and Mrs B F Moomaw of 339 Salem Avenue Roanoke died at a hospital from opium poisoning at about 2 AM He worked five years at Fox Patsel drugstore and disappeared after leaving the store Wednesday at 1 PM returning only at 10 30 PM stating he felt very sleepy His death followed a failure to revive after arrival at home and a physician could not save him No poison found in his room and no note was left indicating intention or location of the drug taken.
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Roanoke
Luther Moomaw
B. PF. Moomaw
Salem Avenue
Fox & Patsel
Luther
Italy celebrates King Victor Emmanuel birthday
Rome marked the fortieth birthday of King Victor Emmanuel with a general holiday. Businesses closed, buildings were decorated, and fetes were held nationwide while greetings poured in from patriotic groups and many parts of the world.
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Italy
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Quirinal
Victor Emmanuel I
Humbert
Europe
Labor Urges Industrial Education in Public Schools
A report to the American Federation of Labor convention, chaired by John Mitchell, calls for schools tied to public education to teach trades to ages fourteen through sixteen. It criticizes high school graduates as misfits and argues workers need educated hands and minds to keep efficiency high.
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Toronto
Organized Labor
Baseball group meets in Chicago after closed sessions
Memphis reports the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs closed its sessions and chose Chicago as the next meeting place. A protest by the Ohio State League for Huntington and Charleston was denied along with counter claims from the Virginia Valley League.
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Memphis
Roosevelt report denied by Nairobi supply agents
Supply agents in Nairobi state there is no truth to reports that Colonel Roosevelt has fallen ill. They say he is in good health while camping on the Guasindgishu plateau in British East Africa.
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Nakuru
British East Africa
Nairobi
Roosevelt
Guasingishu
Bank Robbery Ends in Lynching Scare Across River
A Louisville man identified as Arthur Hall robbed Merchants National Bank in New Albany Ind. shooting cashier J Hungary Fawcett and president John K Woodward. Hall fled by skiff, was captured by New Albany police, then moved to Jeffersonville reformatory to avert a mob. He claimed no link to chauffeur James Tucker and refused to reveal his name.
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Louisville
Arthur Hall
Merchants National Bank
New Albany
Ind
J. Hungary Fawcett
Bashier
John K. Woodward
James R. Tucker
Walter Eecot
Kentucky
Adams
Indiana Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Reformatory
Tucker
White man lynched in Cairo jail break incident
At 11 15 tonight a mob battered down the county jail steel cell and lynched Henry Saizner, accused of murdering his wife last August. Five militia companies were rushed to Cairo by Governor Deneen to restore order.
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Cairo
Henry Saizner
Deneen
City of Cairo Becomes Seething Mob After Lynching
In Cairo Illinois a white photographer Henry Salzner who killed his wife with an axe last July was taken from the county jail by a mob and hanged from a telegraph pole after a brief ploy for confession. Earlier in the evening a black man Wil James was lynched. The mob insisted on confession and later held a brief prayer service for Salzner's soul before the execution. Salzner was a local native.
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Cairo
Henry Salzner
Wil James
Selzner
Salzner
Salzner Slays Wife as Children Crash in Blood
The article reports Salzner about troubled marriage and neglect leading to murder. Neighbors saw him near the house before dawn. A fractured skull and a bloodstained axe were found, his wife died, two small children present. His mother’s home held him after discovery.
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Salaner
Salzner
Salazner
Murder Case in Paris Exposes Motives for Two Deaths
In Paris the prosecution argues Madame Steinheil killed her husband to marry Maurice Borderel and deflect blame onto burglars for the death of her stepmother. The defense cites affection for both husband and stepmother as exculpatory, while the jury weighs unpremeditated involvement and possible acquittal.
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Paris
Steinheil
Maurice Borderel
Freenard Rielle
Judge Advocate
Borderel
Mme. Jap
Steinhell
Madame Steinweil
Madame Steinheil Renewer
DeValle
Chauffer
Steinherl
Rome
M. Schiffer
Taft and Sherman to be Doctors of Law at Wesleyan
President Taft and Vice President Sherman will receive LL L D degrees at Wesleyan University in Middletown California. Attorney General Wickersham joins the trip aboard the private Mayflower to discuss department copies.
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Taft and
Sherman
Law
Washington
Opies
Attorney General’s Department
Gen. Wickerham
Labor Party Proposed by Railway Workers Union
Delegates of the association of street and electric railway employes of America urged the affiliation of the American Federation of Labor with international bodies. A resolution urged that wage workers become factors in politics and called for the early formation of a labor party.
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Toronto
Ont
American Federation of Labor
Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America
Plano and
Organ Workers
After Sugar Trust Indictment Targets Sugar Refining Execs
Evidence on a mysterious figure in sugar weighing schemes surfaced as the government prepares a federal indictment against nine top officials of the American Sugar Refining Company.
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New York
Freuds
American Sugar Refining Company
Marriage at St Patrick’s for Susanne Henning and Marquis de Charette
In New York a large crowd witnessed the wedding of Susanne Henning of Kentucky to Marquis Antoine de Charette son of General de Charette head of French Royalists. He and Susanne eloped after parental opposition and were later accepted with chaperones and royal sponsors present.
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New York
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Archibishop Farley
Susanne Henning
Kentucky
Marquis Antoine de Charette
General de Charette
Britain
Marjorie Curtis
Helen D. Hibbs
Washington
Emily L. Helm
Louisville
Am-de Des Cars
Garon J. de Meyronneht Saint Marc
Tia Marguy de Chaligny
Paris
Britann
Hennings
Cable
Tos Marquis de Charette
Paria
Duchess of Madrid
Don Carlog
Germany
Duke of Orleans
Portugal
America
James Williamson Stennipe
Tuxed
Laymen in Convention In Washington D C
Two thousand delegates from 100 leading churches attend the laymen's missionary movement convention in Washington. Speakers include Admiral Mahan former Secretary Foster Robert Speer John R Mott Arthur Lloyd and J A McDonald. The event opens a winter spring series across seventy cities to spur active missionary work.
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Washington, D. C
Five Deaths From Elopement Spark Clan Feud
San Francisco date, Jin Kong Fook is the fifth victim in a feud arising from the elopement of De Gue, wife of a Yick Tong member, with a Yee family member. He was shot and fatally wounded today. Tensions rise as both Tong clans vow retaliation and extermination of all connected with opposing Tong factions.
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San Francisco
Jin Kong Fook
de Gue
Yee
Opening prices higher as stocks drift amid demand
New York trading opened with most stocks higher though declines appeared in key issues. The market drifted downward as investors faced a firmer call money rate, with railroads notably affected and some weakness in low priced shares.
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New York
Navy
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