Glasscock Congress Stays Hands Off Federal Posts
Governor elect Glasscock vows to limit duties to state affairs and will not seek or influence federal appointments. He goes to Hot Springs to study state institutions, aiming for reforms and full understanding before returning to Charleston. Senator White and many candidates circle for Washington office while Daw son's candidacy for internal revenue chief shocks Kanawha action.
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Glasscock
Seakers
Hot Springs
Charleston
West Virginia
John” Miller
Legislative Committee
Swisher- Scherr Muddle
Taft
State House
Springs
New House
William M. O. Dawson
Internal Revenue Collectorship
Washington
Dawson
Elect Glasscock
Fred Paul Grosscup
Republican County Committee
Kanawha County
George Work
Sistersville
Harry Woodyard
Panhandle
Taylor Vinson
Huntington
Grosscup
Parkersburg
White
Downstate
A. B. White
Charles W. Swisher
J. A. Viquesney
M. S. Hodges
N. G. Keim
BE. W. Martin
C. P. Light
William T. George
Frank Reynolds
A. R. Stillings
H. S. White
Mingo County
Senate
Bluefield
Senator Johnson
Fayette County
Tom Gartland
Wood
Fred O. Blue
Barbour
Blue
John T. Harris
Mont Topping
Wheeling
Charley Henning
Ohio County
Mont
Henning
M. S Hodges
Pendleton County
Hodges
Topping
H. Roy Waugh
Upshur County
Waugh
J. H. Strickling
Tyler County
J. A. Strother
McDowell
E. R. Kingsley
Strickling
Kingsley
John Thayer
Kanawha
Hu Maxwell
Forestry Bureau
Direcor
James H. Stewart
Experiment Station
Statue of General Sheridan to be unveiled in Sheridan Circle
Washington plans a $59,000 statue of General Phil Sheridan centered in Sheridan Circle at Massachusetts Avenue and 23rd Street to be unveiled tomorrow with President Roosevelt expected to attend. Borglum modeled the statue in New York and a military display will accompany the ceremony with the widow and family present.
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Washington, D. C
Washington
Phil” Sheridan
Gutzon Borglum
New York
Sheridan Circle
Massachusetts Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Roosevelt
General Sheridan
Lynching of Three Negroes Near Tiptonville
Three brothers Marshal Edward Jim Stineback Stineback were captured after murder of Special Deputy Burrus and wounding of Deputy Hall. A mob overwhelmed Sheriff officials before militia arrived. Trial found them guilty with death sentence but a lynch mob hanged them at a large tree in Tiptonville, firing volley after volley as the bodies were raised.
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Union City
Tenn
Tiptonville
Reelfoot Lake
Richard Burrus
John Hall
Marshal Stineback
Edward Stineback
Jim Stineback
Ridgley
S. J. Caldwell
Haines
Lee Davis
Davis
Patterson
Rhode Island Turkey Sent to White House Thanksgiving
In Westerly on November 24, Horace Vose prepared the Rhode Island turkey for the president as part of his annual White House Thanksgiving tradition.
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Westerly
R. I
Rhode Island
Horace Vose
White House
Good Luck Cakes Boost With Blue Ribbon Vanilla
Blue Ribbon Vanilla is the reason for the cakes marked as good luck. Sold by all reliable grocers with the product advertised for home bakers.
Notice to Tax-Payers on Discount Window
Taxpayers have five days to pay taxes to earn the discount. If not paid by Monday November 30 Hawley deputy sheriff warns of a 20 percent annual penalty.
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W. P. Hawley
Business Block For Sale On Princeton to McCullough Avenues
Listing advertises a commercial block with three store rooms and flats above on a 738 by 140 foot lot running from Princeton to McCullough. Auction notes indicate Kinzer's Monday Sales beginning November 30 and Booker & Crenshaw of Kelly & Moyer Building handle the sale.
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Princeton
McCullough
Booker & Crenshaw
Kelly & Moyer
Thanksgiving turkey gifts and tariff talks at Washington
A 26 pound chestnut ted bird shipped to Washington is singled out as the best of a flock offered as a Thanksgiving gift tradition dating back to President Grant. In Washington Speaker Cannon arrived for the Sixty first congress and denied plans to dictate to the house while affirming faith in elected representation and issue of tariff revision.
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Washington
Grant
White House
Cannon
Iinois
Lamphere murder trial nears Thanksgiving verdict
Laporte Indiana reports that the evidence in Ray Lamphere's trial for the murder of Mrs Belle Gunness and her three children is complete. Attorneys will present arguments to the jury tomorrow with a Thanksgiving day verdict anticipated. the session this day lasted under two hours and judges' instructions were to be settled before 9 am.
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Laporte
Ind
Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
Atorneys
Music hall performer dies after head wound during act
Herbert Lee, a music hall performer, died in London today from a head wound received during the William Tell act last night. Madame Clementine fired at a ball placed on Lee's head from about 50 feet, then surrendered. Lee had performed the act for 18 years.
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London
Herbert Lee
Lee
Madame Clementine
Can non Backs Tariff Revision in Republican Platform
Chicago on November 24 Joseph G Can non declared his support for tariff revision in line with the Republican platform. He said his vote would help ensure the revision policy is written into national laws as soon as possible.
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Chicago
Joseph G. Cannon
Republican Party
Conference Sets Atlantic Fleet Visit Schedule in Manila
Manila officials and the fleet reception committee plan to host the Atlantic fleet from Thursday to Monday. The Army and Navy club will honor Admiral Sperry and his officers with a Saturday night reception.
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Manila
Army and Navy Club
Admiral Sperry
Indiana Governor Heads to Georgia for Civil War Prison Monument Dedication
Governor Hanly and staff with 50 Indiana delegates depart Indianapolis for Andersonville Georgia to attend the dedication of the Indiana monument to the Civil War prison. On Thursday the monument commission will present the shaft to Governor Hanly, who will then hand it to the federal government.
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Indianapolis
Hanly
Andersonville
Indiana Monument
Indiana Monument Commission
Woman Held in Rochester Murder Case
Mrs. Georgianna Sampson of Palmyra widow of Harry Sampson was arrested in Rochester on November 24 charged with murdering her husband whose death had initially been reported as a possible suicide.
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Rochester
N. Y
Georgianna Sampson
Palmyra
Harry Sampson
Iowa selects A B Cummings as U S senator
Des Moines reports the Iowa legislature elected Hon. A. B. Cummings to the U S Senate to fill the Allison vacancy. The assembly also named Hon. Warren Garst to become governor as Cummins leaves the governorship, Garst inaugurated at 3 p.m. after Cummins won 109 to 35.
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. B. Cumming
United States
Allison
Warren Garst
Cummins
Lown
Senate
Garst
Rockefeller testifies in government suit over Standard Oil holdings
John D. Rockefeller testified in the government lawsuit against Standard Oil Company that at the 1899 organization of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey he owned 256,854 of its shares, out of 88,583. Counsel Kellogg read a list showing 442,797 shares, but Rockefeller said his ownership was far smaller and that he did not own that many.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company Today
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Kellogg
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Testimony on 1876 Contracts in Oil Trust Case
Rockefeller recalls a 1876 contract with Schofield Schurmer and Teasle to exclude their refinery in exchange for payments from Standard. He notes possible similar deals with Pioneer Oil and mentions a secret 1879 trust, while denying clear memory of railroad rebates. Re-direct by Milburn follows. Archbold then questions.
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Rockefeller
Schofield, Schurmer & Teasle
Standard
Schofield Company
Ohio
Pioneer Oil Company
Kellogg
Standard of Ohio
John G. Milburn
John D. Archbold
Columbus Man Confesses to Killing Romanian in Wayne County
Detectives report Frank Lewis, 25, colored, confessed in Columbus Ohio that he killed a Romanian man in Wayne County West Virginia on October 3. He said the Romanian advanced with a knife, he shot to disable the leg but killed him, then fled and assumed the name Thompson in Columbus.
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Columbus
Frank Lewis
Dunon
Wayne County
W. Va
Thompson
Michigan Grants Cattle Quarantine After State Officials Meet
Detroit Nov 24 after a conference of Secretary Wilson and Chief Melvin with state officials a quarantine was ordered against Michigan cattle similar to measures in Pennsylvania and New York to control cattle disease and movement.
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Detroit
Mich
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New York
Concern for safety of American hospital ship Relief
In Manila on November 24 authorities express worry over the hospital ship Relief, which departed November 15 for Guam and had not arrived by the prior Friday. The supply ship Supply has been ordered to search for the Relief.
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Manila
Relief
Guam
Agreement to Arbitrate Casa Blanca Incident Signed
Berlin reports an agreement to arbitrate the Casa Blanca affair between France and Germany. The case involves German deserters from the French army who aided the German consul at Casa Blanca to flee Morocco. The settlement was signed today.
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Berlin
Casa Blanca
France
Germany
Morocco
Firemen Hurt as Hotel Monroe Fire Rages in Butler
Three firemen were seriously injured and ten others overcome by smoke during a blaze at the new Hotel Monroe in Butler Pa. The hotel slated to open December 1 sustained $25900 in damages. No guests were in the building at the time.
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Butler
Monroe
Watts Verdict in Suit Over Peery Dealings Noted
In Tazewell Virginia on November 24 special court action awarded plaintiff Watts 12481.23 dollars plus two years interest in the case against J. G. Peery et al. Embezzlement charges against former justice Thomas Wingo resulted in a five year penitentiary sentence. The grand jury reported about fifty indictments for murder felonies illicit whiskey sales and other misdemeanors led by foreman Jeff Ward. Three murders listed include suspects Shee Thompson colored Robert Lester and Lock Mitchell with a killing in Hoissevaine mining district last week.
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Tazewell
R. Bowen Watts
J. G. Peery
Thomas H. Wingo
Cedar Bluff
Wingo
Commonwealth
Jeff Ward
Shee
Thompson
Robert Lester
Lock Mitchell
Hoissevaine
Mitchell
Baker Carl Loose Kills Daughter and Wounds Son in New York
In New York on November 24, Carl Loose a baker fatally shot his 17 year old daughter Mete and probably fatally wounded his son Frederick pastor of the Lutheran church at Yale. S. D. Loose is charged with murder and his son John 19 disarmed him and is held as a witness. Frederick had come with his wife to aid his mother in reclaiming Loose.
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New York
Carl Loose
Mete
Frederick
Yale
S. D
Loose
John
Farmer Roos Amuck in Winona Tragedy
In Winona South Carolina on November 24 John Haynes shot at his wife and child with a shotgun then wounded Henry Moore in the leg as others attempted aid before Haynes killed himself in the house.
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Spartanburg
8. C
John Haynes
Winona
Henry Moore
More
Haynes
Edward Stellwagen Named Chair of Inaugural Committee
Edward J. Stellwagen, president of the Union Trust Company and a leading capitalist in Washington, was named chairman of the inaugural committee. The appointment was announced this afternoon.
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Washington
Edward J. Stellwagen
Union Trust Company
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Rabbit Metal
Superior Supply CO
M. Smith
F. L. Black
J. Lee Harne
American National Bank, Telephone Building
B. Carter, Prec
J. N. Vance
D. R. Wood
Union Bank and Trust Company
Bluefield, W. VA
Flat Top National Bank OF
L. E. Tierney
R. E. Bolling
W. H. Thomas
W. B. Hicks
L. A. Hooper
Cashier Bank
Murplus
Phil Sheridan
President Roosevelt
Peking
Nanking
War Board
Trops
Turkey
Kinzer
KEG F. C
the Miller Supply CO
Bluefield, W, VA
William Tell
Jackies
John DD. Archbold
Bowen Watts
Roos
Troy Steam Laundry
Busy Bee Restaurant
Princeton Ave
Blueriell, W. VA
Henry Rodgin Jeweler
Optician
Princeton Avenue
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