Stuck to Throttle and Died in Columwood Yards
Mereland Ohio reports Frank Us 30 died minutes after clambering from his engine amid serious illness. Other brief items recount drownings in Cincinnati Ludlow crossing deaths in Columbus school commissioner bid and family tragedies including a mother burned to death and a man who hanged himself in Springfield township.
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Mereland
Dee
Lake Ore
Frankus
Columwood
Krag
Buffalo
Tom
Walter Viall
Ameregu Sewer Pipe Plantat Tion
Springfield Township
Tra Viall
Brutalities Reported at Manhattan State Hospital
New York December hearing before the lunacy commission reveals alleged cruel treatment of patients at Ward's Island. John McCarthy, former attendant, recounts frequent knocks and kicks for minor offenses and episodes described as hangings and drugging. He says assaults often occurred before 50 to 60 patients with little provocation.
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New York
Lunacy Commission
Hughes
Manhattan State Hospital
John C. McCarthy
McCarthy
Taft Arrives in Washington After Ocean Voyage
Secretary of War William H. Taft and his son Charles Taft arrived in Washington on the Pennsylvania Railroad. At the station, officials from the War and other departments greeted him warmly. Taft expressed happiness to be home, looked well and hearty, and was noticeably tanned from the ocean voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William H. Taft
Charles Taft
Pennsylvania Railroad
War
Taft
Two Women May Join Bryan Delegation at Democratic Convention
In Denver on December 21 a Colorado voter movement may place two women delegates at the Democratic national convention. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, Bryan's eldest daughter and Denver club president, could be chosen, while she travels in Europe with her mother. Economy cited for the plan. The Union Pacific announces plant shutdowns from Dec 24 to Jan 2, affecting 1,700 Omaha workers and 600 in Grand Island and North Platte.
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Whitle
Wwe
John Tullis
Omaha
Neb
Dec
Union Pacific
Grand Island
North Platte
Negroes in Montgomery plan for 1908 president race
In Montgomery Alabama on December 2 a meeting was called for January 2 where local African Americans cover the entry with placards urging Foraker for president in 1908. The cards bear his picture and are signed by prominent southern Black leaders.
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Montgomery
Ala
Foraker
South
Fleet moves as battleship fleet nears St Thomas landmarks
On board the U S S Connecticut Dec 20 wireless from New York reports the fleet 280 miles north by northwest of St Thomas at noon. Weather remains fine with light winds. The Missouri jet the fleet to land. Fireman Sb Northway ill with perhonitis.
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U. S.S Connecticut
Bs Wireless
New York
Island of
St Thomas
Missouri
Sb Northway
Fatal accident ends life of worker at Wagner plant shaft
21 year old Thomas Zachariah was fatally injured when caught in a belt shaft at the Wagner stone quarries. He broke his collarbone and tore two ribs as the machine whirled him for a minute. Authorities report the injuries as fatal. Agricultural department cites 28,132,000 acres winter wheat, 17,079,000 spring wheat, 99,9s1,000 corn, 31,897,000 oats in the season.
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Kenton
Thomaas Zachariah
Washington Dee
Agricultural Department
Straits of Magellan
Los Angeles
Cal
United States
Washington
Rio de Janeiro
Navy Department
E IF Greene
United States Army Transport Service
Straits
Live Stock and Grain Prices From Buffalo to Toledo
Market report lists cattle and hog prices across cities including Buffalo Pittsburg Cleveland Cincinnati New York and Toledo. Prices cover steers heifers cows calves bulls sheep lambs and hogs with various weight categories and grain notes.
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EAGT
Chicago
Vows
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Cincinnati
New York
Toledo
Dual NY broker suicide after falling market shocks Wall Street
James H. Oliphant of Oliphant & Company was shot by customer Charles A. Geiger of Charleston who then killed himself. Geiger, 30, left a panting record of speculative trading and a money-draining portfolio. Oliphant died in hospital hours later.
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New York
Financial
James H. Oliphant
Stock Exchange
James H. Oliphant & Company
Charles A. Geiger
Charleston
Geiger
Fifth Avenue Bank
Oliphant
Nathaniel B. Barnwell
Broadstreet
Linton Dee 2
Greene County
Georgia
Hich
Lafayette Fire Insurance Company
St Lawrence River
Tithe Guarantee and Trust Company
The
Chamber of Commerce
New York Athletic Club
Taft Trip Returns With Assurance on Japan Ties
Secretary of War William H. Taft, returning from a world tour, asserts Japan desires peace and refutes war talk. He supports trade, notes Pacific naval practice cruises, and says Philippine independence should wait a generation. Taft highlights cooperation with Filipinos and open-door policy in China.
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New York
Japan
United States
William H. Taft
Taft
Philippines
Pacific Ocean
Russia
Pacific
China
America
Shanghai
Carnegie In Civil War Service Document
Washington reports official certification that Andrew Carnegie served in the military telegraph service of the war department during the Civil War. General Oliver acting secretary of war authorized the certificate under a special act of Congress. The records show Thomas Scott, then assistant secretary of war, summoned Carnegie to Washington to establish a military telegraph system.
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Carnegie
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
War Department
Oliver
Congress
Department
Thomas Scott
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Porter A Porter Recognized as Republican by Speaker
Washington December 21 officials indicate that Representative Peter A Porter of Niagara Falls New York is acknowledged as a Republican after Speaker Cannon appointed him to committees. The move settles, for now, the dispute over his party status following his exclusion from the Republican caucus.
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Washington
Peter A Porter
Niagara Falls
New York
House of Representatives
Tal Ballerine
Cannon
Porter
Notable Victims And Disasters Across U S In Briefs
Summary of multiple 19th century incidents including suicides in Tennessee Illinois and Minnesota, a fatal train collision in Indiana, a Macedonian rebel leader killed in the home, a deadly hotel fire in West Virginia, bank indictments in Brooklyn, a wife and then self slain in New York, a fatal elevator plunge in New York, a Pembroke Ky grain fire, a Petersburg Va furniture blaze, and political shifts with Oklahoma senators and Cripple Creek strike end. Also lists cabinet nominations and commissions.
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Jacob Victor
New York
Pembroke
William Rudd Furniture Company
Petersburg V
Robert Lathan
Owen
Thomas Prior
Gore
United States
Oklahoma
Western Federation of Miners
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
William L. Merry
California
Charles A Prouty
Vermont
Armenian Priest Murder Suspect Arrested in New York
Paul Sarkasian, linked to the May 26 murder of Armenian priest Father Kusyer Vartorian, was arrested after returning to New York from Marseille where he fled following the crime. Vartorian was killed for money he carried, with possible ties to his political ideas.
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New York
Paul Sarkasian
Kusyer Vartorian
Sarkasian
Marseilles
Father Vartorian
American Woman Detained After Paris Scene
An American woman, Mrs Patterson formerly Virginia Knot, caused a sensation in Paris's Avenue de Opera. Police took her to a hospital for detention while arrangements, led by her nephew and Frank H Mason, American consul general, are made for transfer to a New York asylum.
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Paris
Patterson
Virginia Knot
Avenue de Opera
Passenger Train Derails in Minnesota Killing Baggageman
Passenger train No. 15 on the Soo Line derailed at Kensington near St. Paul. Baggageman O L Anderson was killed and about 20 passengers injured.
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St. Paul
Minn
Soo Hne
Kegaington
O. L. Anderson
Burns Faces Palmer in London Title Bout at Wonderland
World heavyweight champion Tommy Burns will defend his title against Jack Palmer of New Castle in London at Wonderland Whitechapel. The bout runs December 21 through February 1 with a purse and side bet of 32500 pounds.
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Burns
Palmer
London
Tommy Burns
Jack Palmer
New Castle
Wonderland
Whitechapel
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First National Bank of Brooklyn
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