Francis Heney Shot In San Francisco Courtroom
Francis J Heney a top figure in prosecuting municipal corruption was shot and badly wounded in Judge Layiers courtroom by Morris Haas a saloonkeeper and ex convict He vowed to live to prosecute Haas who said Heney ruined his life and forced his ex convict label The shooting occurred during a recess in the Ruef bribery trial at Lane Hospital doctors said Heney would likely survive.
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San Francisco
Francis J. Heney
Morris Haas
Layier
Abraham Ruef
Heney
Lane Hospital
Haas
Duke
Matricide Plot Bared As 86 Year Old Heiress Hires Killers
Chicago reports Mayb Otis, 86, plotted to murder her mother to gain a $7,300 inheritance. She paid over $100 and signed a $2,400 note to hire a contract killer and warned for a “good job” not an ambulance death. She planned to point out her mother to the killer four days ahead, with two detectives and a private agency head named among alleged conspirators.
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Chicago
Otis
Miss Otis
Rehearing Denied in Oil Company Appeal
United States government petition for a rehearing of Standard Oil Company of Indiana’s appeal from a 29,240,000 fine was denied by Judges Grosscup Baker and Seaman of the U S circuit court of appeals. The court’s original reversal of Judge Landis’ decision was upheld in a brief opinion. New head for Wesleyan New York. Wesleyan University in Middletown Conn elected William Arnold Shanklin as president, succeeding to the post after leading Upper Iowa University since 1905. Receivers for Cleveland Car Lines Cleveland federal court named Warren Bicknell and Frank A Scott as joint receivers for the Municipal Traction Company and the Cleveland Railway Company.
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Chicago
United States
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Landis
Grogscup, Baker and Seaman
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Grosscup
Wesleyan
New York
William Arnold Shanklin
Upper Iowa University
Fayette, Ia
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Shanklin
Hamilton College
Cleveland Car Lites
Cleveland, O
Taylor
Federal Court
Warren Bicknell
Frank A. Scott
Municipal Traction Company
Cleveland Railway Company
True Bill Returned in Carmack Murder Case
A Nashville grand jury returned a true bill against Robin Cooper Col D B Cooper and ex-Sheriff John D Sharp for the murder of Senator E W Carmack. The indictments name the three defendants in the high profile case concerning the state senate leader.
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Coopers
Nashville
Tennu
Grand
Robin Cooper
Col
Cooper
John D. Sharp
Be, W. Carmack
Shaw Is Stricker While Alone in Carroll Hotel
Iowa State News National Examiner Shaw, summoned by the death of First National Bank President W. L. Culbertson, is found dead alone in his hotel room. He died at 10:00 am on November 12 from an apoplectic brain hemorrhage after being discovered by a Burke’s hotel clerk who forced the door open. Shaw was alone when the fatal event occurred.
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National Examiner
Shaw
Stricker
Carroll
National Bank
W. L. Culbertson
First National Bank
Burke's Hotel
Mr. Shaw
Bishop Lewis to Sail Soon for China Mission
Sioux City reports Bishop Wilson Seeley Lewis will depart San Francisco aboard the Wongkong Maru on November 17 for China. He will hold a first conference at the West China mission in Chung King on February 8 with Foo Chow as his Chinese base. Mrs. Lewis travels to join him. he attends a bishops board meeting in Topeka. His Morningside College presidency remains vacant.
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San Francisco
Sioux City
Wilson Seeley Lewis
China
West China Mission
Chung King
Foo Chow
Lewis
Bishop Lewis
St. Louis
Board of Bishops
Topeka
Morningside College
Oskaloosa Board Tests Iowa Truant Law in Court
The Oskaloosa school board has begun a test case under Iowa’s 1907 educational statute requiring parents to send children under fourteen to school. Frank Risney, father of truant children, was arrested on a warrant under the law. This appears to be the first case of its kind in the state. The board plans further action against other families with children out of school.
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Oskaloosa School Board
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Frank Risney
Board of Education
Risney
Odd Fellows sue on notes in Nora Springs
Nora Springs lodge seeks $4,000 from administrator FP Schnedler over two $2,000 notes given five years ago by the late James Donahue for the Odd Fellows lodge and the Rebekahs. Schnedler says the estate lacks funds and refuses payment. suit to collect expected.
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Nora Springs Lodge
Nora Springs
Odd Fellows Lodge
James Donahue
Sult
Odd Fellows
Luft
Sioux City Prominent Men Form Backing Corporation
Sioux City business leaders organize a new corporation to back all future industrial ventures with a $100,000 capital. The plan aims to energize commercial interests and spur growth for a city of 100,000, offering participating businessmen the chance to own a stake through shares before January 1.
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Sioux City
Bad year for cement mills at Mason City meeting
Secretary McCourtis of Northwestern States Cement reports a hard year for cement output due to eastern panic and reduced building. Despite mill shutdowns elsewhere, the local plant operated full tilt, paying regular dividends, with 3500 barrels daily production and about 400 workers employed as kilns run at full speed.
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Mason City
McCourtis
Northwestern States Cement Company
McCourtie
Wight
Miners President Will Not Seek Re election in Iowa District
W White of Jerome Iowa district II of United Mine Workers of America announces he will not run again in January referendum. Possible swap with J P White who may return as Iowa president. Iowa union finances show sound status with $6000 in death claims paid. 71 claims allowed, 52 for miners and 20 for wives.
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W. White
Iowa
Oskaloosa
W. W. White
Jerome
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Missouri
J. P. White
National Organization
Iowa Union
Bound Over to Grand Jury on Rape Charge
Earl W. Lindsay formerly manager of the Jasper County Telephone at Colfax was bound over to the grand jury on a rape charge involving an 8 year old girl, after a preliminary hearing before Justice J W Allfree. Bond set at $2000, Lindsay in Newton jail pending bondsmen. Grand jury to convene December 2, state presented limited witnesses, defense offered none.
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Newton
Earl W. Lindsay
Jasper County Telephone Company
Colfax
Grace Hopkins
J. W. Allfree
Lindsay
Whch
Webster City Man Is Sentenced Five Years
Judge C E Albrook sentenced John Butler to five years in the state penitentiary at Anamosa for assault with intent to commit manslaughter, for an Aug 1 incident against Wight Policeman Young. This marks his first criminal case and the maximum sentence signals little clemency for convicts. Owa to Selco Center Sac City tobacco center prospects noted as W L Strum yielded 140000 pounds with high per acre and quality. Secretary Wilson praised sample. two experts to visit to study viability of the project.
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Webster City
C. E. Albrook
John Butler
Anamosa
Young
Albrook
Owa
Tor“Selco
W. L. Strum
Wilson
Tribute to McFarland at Des Moines church
A public memorial service honored Silas McFarland late United States consul general at large for the European district. Col Lafayette Young editor of the Des Moines Daily Capital delivered the eulogy at Congregational church on the afternoon of November 11.
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McFarland
Marshalitown
Silas
United States
Congregational Church
Col
Lafayette
Des Moines
The Epidemic Abates as City Water Tests Begin
The dysentery outbreak subsides not by purifying city water but because residents now bail water before drinking. Tests are under way to locate decomposing organic matter, with samples collected from filter galleries and hydrants across the city.
Lawsuit Aims to Recover $3737 From Big Brewing Firm
Joseph Leder and Martin Leder of Solon Johnson County sue a foreign brewing company for money paid for lager beer between June 26 1899 and Oct 3 1905 alleging they were wrongfully sold stock by Val Blatz Beer company and that the firm operated a Cedar Rapids Dewey Avenue establishment at the time of sales.
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BIG Brewing
Waterloo
Val Blatz Brewer Company
Joseph Leder
Martin Leder
Solon
Johnson County
Brewing Company
Dewey Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Dowager Empress and Emperor Die in China
Tsze Hei An the dowager empress and Emperor Kuang Hsu died in Peking within days of each other. Prince Pu Yi is named heir, with regent Prince Chun guiding affairs and a hundred days of mourning ordered. Foreign legations notified. court to observe three years of mourning as Beijing undergoes symbolic transformations. The deaths occurred without medical attendance.
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Peking
Tsze Hei An
China
Kuang Hsu
Prince Pu Yi
Prince Chun
Pu Yi
Prince Chin
Monte
Negro desperado Deckard opens fire killing officers
In Okmulgee Oklahoma on November 16 Jim Deckard a negro desperado fought law officers at the St Louis and San Francisco station. He fled to his house barricaded the door and killed Sheriff Robinson and five negro deputies. A mob burned his house and Deckard was shot and his body burned in the blaze. Armed patrols remained after the riot.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Jim Deckard
St. Louia
San Francisco
Steve Grayson
Grayson
Pol Iceman
Klaber
Deckard
Robinson
Deckards
Miss Elkins Announces No Engagement With Italian Duke
Washington November 1 The public statement by Senator B Elkins declares that no engagement exists between his daughter Katherine Elkins and the Duke of the Abruzzi of the Italian navy. The disclosure comes with Miss Elkins’s knowledge and consent to quell public interest.
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Miss Elkins
Washington, D. C
B. Elkins
Katherine
Abruzzi
Frisco Churches Get $100,000 Grant After Earthquake
The Methodist Episcopal church home missions committee appropriated $100,000 for rebuilding churches damaged or destroyed in the San Francisco quake. A further $100,100 was described as badly needed. Grand Duke Alexis Dead in Paris is reported from St. Petersburg, with little reaction in Russian society.
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Topeka
Kas
Committee of the Home Missions
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
San Francisco
Grand Duke
Alexis
St. Petersburg
Fire destroys Indiana Reformatory and Jeffersonville plant
A blaze at the Indiana Reformatory and nearly the entire Indiana Manufacturing plant in Jeffersonville across the Ohio River caused about 250000 dollars in losses. No fatalities occurred as inmates remained in cells while firemen fought the flames.
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Indiana Reformatory
Louisvile
Indiana State Reformatory
Indiana Manufacturing Company
Jeffersonville
Ind
Hundreds Die In A German Mine Disaster
The Radbod mine near Hamm Westphalia suffered a violent explosion and fire on Thursday morning. Of 380 miners underground, six escaped uninjured, 35 were badly injured, 37 died at the mouth of the pit, and 302 were declared lost. Rescue efforts faltered as flames and smoke impeded work. A special rescue corps arrived but could not enter. By afternoon the fire spread and flooding was ordered, ending further attempts. The cause remains uncertain, with initial coal dust explosion theories challenged by injured testimonies.
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Hamm
Westphalia
Germany
Radbod Ming
Courrieres
France
Bank examiner is dead in Carroll Iowa tragedy
Carroll Iowa report of the death of E B Shaw bank examiner in charge at a Carroll bank. Shaw, from West Union, Ia, died in a hospital after being found unconscious at his hotel. Cause listed as hemorrhage of the brain following a night of illness after undressing to retire.
Life Sentence for Train Wrecker in Spartanburg Case
Clarence Agnew, charged with murder and wrecking a passenger train near Dungan on the Southern railway, was found guilty on Thursday and sentenced to life imprisonment. The wreck resulted in the deaths of the engineer and fireman.
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Spartanburg
Clarence Agnew
Southern Railway
Dungan
Fire Devastates Acme Harvester Yard in Blamarck
A serious blaze in Blamarck North Dakota gutted the yards and warehouse of the Acme Harvester Company, burning with unknown origin and causing about 150000 dollars in losses.
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Blamarck
N. D
Acme Harvester Company
Kaiser William censured in Reichstag interpellations
The Reichstag grilled Kaiser William II over the Telegraph interview published October 28 in London. Critics blasted the emperor and his ministers for constitutional handling and freedom of speech, leaving Chancellor von Buelow restrained and the chamber in icy silence as conservatives and radicals pressed the issue.
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William
Reichstag
London Daily Telegraph
von Buelow
national-Hberala
Six Chinamen drown in Buffalo breakwall wreck
A motor boat carrying ten Chinamen and three white men was wrecked on the Buffalo breakwall near Michigan street. Six Chinamen were drowned, four survivors were rescued by a police boat crew, and the three white men escaped. Mack Quong, rescued, spoke fair English learned in a South Bend class. The men had left Toronto a week earlier and were kept in a barn on the Canadian side before being taken to the lake at night by three white men. They were afloat about thirty minutes before the disaster.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Michigan Street
Mack Quong
South Bend
Ind
Toronto
United States
Emperor of China Dies Reported In Beijing
The emperor of Ching was reported dying Saturday morning but no official confirmation. He moved to the death chamber Friday afternoon and was said to be breathing at that time. Imperial edicts named Princes Chyn as regent and Pu Wei as heir presumptive.
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Peking
Ching
Chyn
Pu Wei
Fatal Boiler Explosions Hit Mills in Kentucky and Virginia
Four men killed and four injured in a Miller Lumber Company boiler blast at Pound near Pound Gap Kentucky. In Wise County Virginia a sawmill explosion killed three, fatally injured two, and seriously hurt two others Friday.
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Sergent
Miller Lumber Company
Pound
Pound Gap
Norton
Wise County
Pauper Found With Cash at Bartonville Institution
Peoria asylum attendants discovered more than 1000 dollars in cash and certificates of deposit along with deeds hidden in the clothing of Mary McMasters an elderly woman long described as poor and shelter seeking The money was reported to Superintendent Zeller as efforts to locate her next of kin proceeded amid concerns she had threatened to burn her home and herself
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Peoria
Bartonville
Mary McMasters
Zeller
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Francis J, Honey
Iowa State News
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Alona
Negro
Willie
Carroll, Ia
Blackmall
Denver
H. C. Cones
Genevieve Chandler Phipps
Lawrence Phipps
Pittsburg
Mis. Phipps
Cones
Kaiser William
Canada
Emperor OF
Dowager Empresas
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