Taft Reads Message to Congress Addresses Foreign Policy
President Taft delivers the annual message to Congress outlining U S relations with nations Europe the Near East and the Americas The address notes arbitration in The Hague on fisheries disputes cooperation with Britain Japan and Russia on fur seals and Persia and Bolivia Peru boundary settlement as key diplomatic moments The speech emphasizes protecting American citizens abroad and weighing national benefits in promoting enterprises overseas.
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Great Britain
Permanent Court of Arbitration
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Russia
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Sugar trust inquiry stalls without administration approval
Washington reports say a congressional probe into New York port sugar trust dealings will not proceed unless the Taft administration approves. Attorney General Wickersham gathers evidence for court cases while Taft contemplates limiting any inquiry to avoid hindering the justice department. Two Republican resolutions for investigation were introduced in the House, and Taft plans two special messages on natural resources and interstate commerce within ten days.
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New York
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Senate
Taft
New York Customs House
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Department of Justice
Sugar Trust
Cambell
Kansas
Garner
Pennsylvania
President Zelaya Faces More Trouble in Nicaragua
Washington reports private dispatches indicate a new revolt against President Zelaya has erupted in southern Nicaragua near the Costa Rican border led by exiled General Cardenas. Provisional government under General Estrada at Bluefields readies for a decisive battle with Zelayan forces.
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Zelaya
Nicaragua
Cardenas
Costa Rica
Bluefields
Estrada
Adams Bros sue City of Cambridge over unpaid contract sum
Albert Adams and William H. Adams doing business as Adams Bros filed in Common Pleas Court a suit against The City of Cambridge Ohio seeking 2450.65 with interest at six percent from 1908 for severing streets under a August 14 1907 contract. The case follows prior city actions and a rejected restraining petition by Judge McGinnis with City Solicitor Enos opposing payment.
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Albert Adams
Wm. H. Adams
Adams Bros
Cambridge
Common Pleas Court
H. C. Pugh
Zanesville
City of
Bradford
Board of Public Service
B. F. Enos
Service Board
Adams Brothers
J. M. McGinnis
Phenix Insurance Faces Fraud Investigation In New York
New York December 7. The Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn is under inquiry for irregularities causing a suspected million dollar surplus erosion and potential criminal action. President accused of overdrawn salary and dumping doubtful securities while using company assets for personal speculative accounts. George B. Sheldon named as long time president since 1887 amid claims annual reports may have been false for at least ten years.
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New York
Phenix Insurance Company
Brooklyn
Hotchkiss
State Insurance Department
George B. Sheldon
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Phenix
Insurance Department
Hugh High School Blue Dedication Set for January
The Brown High School Building on East Steubenville avenue will be dedicated to taxpayers with afternoon events on Friday January 1. State School Commissioner Jones may attend to deliver an address. Dr O F Lowry and A R Mc Culloch will join the program committee. The board also closes schools December 24 for Christmas holidays and resumes January 10 1910.
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North Ninth Street
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A. R. McCulloch
Troops Remain at Bridgeport as Strike Threats Persist
Wheeling dispatch notes the Eighth Regiment staying near Bridgeport to keep order amid the tinplate strike. Private Welty Injured by a train in Akron, no strikebreakers yet arrived. Troops planned to stay indefinitely with 700 soldiers held, rations ordered for 800, while strikers vow peaceful picketing.
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John C. Sparks
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Aetnaville
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Railroads Prepare for 10 Percent Wage Demands by Trainmen
Eastern railroad officers, including the general managers' association, move toward negotiations with trainmen seeking a 10 per cent wage increase to avert a potential strike involving about 101,000 workers. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen may align with the locomotive firemen and conductors unions, totaling roughly 110,000 members, in a united wage push.
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Es Sectation
General Managers' Association
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Out West
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Order of
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Charles Wilson
The
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Keyhole View Sours Wedding Plans in Indiana
Florence Alvin, eighteen, changed her mind after glimpsing the man she promised to marry through a keyhole. Herman W. Schroeder, a hard of hearing Oklahoma farmer, announces marriage. she later has him arrested on larceny charges.
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Herman W. Schroeder
Freedom
Okla
Schroeder
Crocker leaves funds to fight disease at Columbia
George Crocker gave Columbia University at least 50000 to study the cancer that killed his wife and was dying from himself. He planned larger cancer funding and before Bull's death had arranged a 1 million endowment for Cornell medical school, then redirected to Columbia for a broad endowment.
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New York
George Crocker
Columbia University
Crocker
William T
Pierce Acquitted of Perjury Charge
President H Clay Pierce of The Waters Pierce Oil Co was acquitted today after a trial on the perjury charge. The verdict came in Austin Texas with Pierce not found guilty on all counts.
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Austin, Tex
H. Clay Pierce
Waters Pierce Oil Co
Warning by flashes of light at refinery dock trial
In a U S circuit court hearing the government presented two labor witnesses, Frederick Sander and John Rochefort, who testified to an electric light signal system used to warn Havemeyers and Elder refinery checkers on Williamsburg docks of approaching inspectors and agents. The testimony sparked mild sensation in the crowded courtroom.
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New York
United States Circuit Court
James F. Bendernagel
Oliver Spitzer
Havemeyers and Elder
Williamsburg
Frederick B. Sander
John Rochefort
Sugar Company
Cowan Alleges Hypnosis in Divorce Case
Atlanta says E B Cowan wealthy businessman claims his wife hypnotized him into signing a $20 000 note to withdraw her divorce suit. He resists payment saying he signed after hypnosis. Mrs Cowan denies hypnosis and says he offered $20 000 to withdraw and to be good.
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Atlanta
E. B. Cowan
Cowan
Judge May Revoke Ohio Divorce Over Quick Second Marriage
In Wheeling West Virginia Judge Corn of Fronton Ohio plans to revoke the divorce decree granted to Mrs Willie Hall of Proctorville Ohio after she admitted no sweetheart existed yet she married Leo Smith of Huntington West Virginia last Tuesday Their honeymoon began in Catlettsburg Kentucky and they planned to reside in Huntington upon return from Chicago where they currently stay amid the pending action.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Leo Smith
Huntington
Sullivan Selected as Stakeholder for Jeffries Johnson Fight
New York Dec 7 Big Tim Sullivan was named stakeholder for the Jeffries Johnson bout next July at the Albany hotel. Upon his designation $40 000 was turned over to him as all money collected so far.
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Sullivan
New York
Albany
Big Tim Sullivan
Weather forecast for Western Penn and Ohio and West Virginia
Weather outlook for Western Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia calls for rain or snow today Wednesday with colder temperatures and generally fair conditions overall.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Ohio Governor seeks graft suits over state funds deposits
Attorney General A G Denman announced plans to sue the estate of W S McKinnon and others over alleged private deposits of state funds and large interest. Governor Harmon backs the move and calls for uncovering private deposits while defending the probe as a business effort to protect the state.
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Union National Bank
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Courtright
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Commercial National Banks
Harmon
McKinnon
Ohio
Denman
Denman Republican
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