Infamous Robin ID Faked Exposed in Sanatorium Flight
New York December report says Robin, once blamed for a bank closure, left a sanitarium with his sister Dr Louise Robin Ovitech and vanished in Jersey City. Detectives and DA Whitman hunted him. insurance magnate EB Rittenhouse warned public in 1908 of Robin. bank directors cite a possible eight hundred thousand dollar shortage.
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New York
Joe
Robin
Bank of Northern
Jersey City
Louise Robin Ovitech
Whitman
William Travers Jerome
Prospect
EB. FB. Rittenhouse
Colorado
Aetna Idemnity Company
Rittenhouse
Provident Life Insurance Company
Macdonald
Jerasy City
James H. Gifford
Gifford
Montrose Sees First Deep Snow in Eight Years
Montrose Colorado reports heavy snowfall with three more inches overnight bringing nine inches in town. Lanes and hills show a foot to two feet of snow in surrounding areas, signaling splendid sleighing for the first time in eight years.
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Montrose
Colo
Panama Canal Tariff Plan Discussed At White House
Washington reports a White House conference debated immediate Panama canal legislation to set tolls within distance tonnage and cargo limits. Officials considered a lower rate for American vessels but did not decide if government power allows discrimination.
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Washington
White House
Tariff Commission Plan Outlined in Washington
Chairman Payne said a permanent tariff commission would be created before session end. Emery discussed salaries with Payne as Longsworth returned with a draft bill. The plan establishes five members with $7000 salaries, limited to three from any one party, empowered to investigate but report only on demand.
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Washington
Payne
House
Ways and Means Committee
Emery
Tariff Board
Longsworth
Tariff Commission
Father's carelessness causes boy's death in hunting accident
In Greensboro North Carolina on December 28 Fred Ward aged 15 was instantly killed when a shotgun in his father Richard Ward's hands accidentally discharged during a squirrel hunt. The shot struck the boy in the heart as the father knocked a hollow tree with the gunstock.
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Greensboro
N. C
Fred Ward
Richard Ward
Two Found Dead in Des Moines House
Des Moines Iowa December 28 two men unidentified were found dead in a rear room of a house in East Des Moines. Four half emptied whiskey bottles lay beside them. Police arrested Seover and Smithberg on suspicion of drugging and robbery. The corpses were identified as Otto Bark and Gusb Eberg coal miners.
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Des Moines
Seover
Smithberg
Otto Bark
Gusberg
Postoffice aims for self sustaining system under Hitchcock
Washington reports that Postmaster General Hitchcock intends to make the Post Office Department self supporting. The annual report shows total postal receipts for the year 1910 at 224,128,037 dollars, a gain of 10.10 percent from 1909. Expenditures exceeded receipts by 6,848,560 dollars, with adjustments for losses bringing a net deficit of 5,881,481 dollars, and registry fees totaling 3,593,946 dollars. Denver ranks twentieth in registry business, with a 9.2 percent rise from 1909. Mailings of second class matter and parcel post figures are listed, along with radio postal expenditures and total weight changes.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Postoffice Department
James T. Britt
Denver
Malaga
Social scene as bribers face court in vote buying case
Grand jury probes into last election vote buying in West Union Ohio. A Peeble woman is accused of selling her son's vote for 5 dollars and a farmer in Jacksonville precinct confesses he was paid three times on election day 12 dollars 50 cents 10 dollars and 2 dollars for straight Republican Democratic and specific Democratic votes. Judge Blair uses informal pleas and light sentences to extract fines and ensure future good behavior.
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West Union
Peeble
Jacksonville
Blair
Inman
John
Johan
Mquor
Adame
Wilson urges government publicity to moral conduct
Woodrow Wilson told the City Club in St Louis that more publicity is needed in government. He said no better corrective exists than exposing government affairs to public view and proposed building all government houses of glass so they can be watched by all.
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St. Louis
Woodrow Wilson
City Club
Packers Fight Criminal Prosecution In Beef Trust Case
Chicago December 28 ten Chicago packers indicted on criminal charges of forming the beef trust began a legal battle to protect themselves from prosecution as the hearing on the government's motion to dismiss the civil suit to dissolve the National Packing Company opened before Federal Judge Koummat. The motion to dissolve the civil suit was filed yesterday by the United States Attorney Sims, with the government seeking to prevent the packers from claiming immunity after attempting to obstruct the case.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Ernment
National Packing Company
Koummat
Dlewls
United States Matriot
Sims
Tim Tlying
Olytl
Man Dies After Massive Mercury Poisoning in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on December 27 Elmer Dew consumed twenty seven grains of bichloride of mercury, a dose that could kill 150 people. A physician was summoned and he initially seemed improved, but his condition worsened and he died twelve days later.
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Pittsburg
Christ
Woman Fights Death Away For Six Hours
Homer Parker, passenger from Captain Stuart Bennett’s yacht Lebra, survived six hours clinging to wreckage as heavy seas claimed Mrs Bennett. Parker was rescued and taken to Malonvy hospital. Captain Bennett and his wife drowned, three crew members were saved.
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Key Boat
Fla
Homer Parker
Stuart Bennett
Lebra
Bennett
New York
Parker
Malonvy Hospital
Explosion at slag dump kills six at smelter
In El Paso on December 28 an accidental blast from nearly two tons of powder at the American Smelting and Refining Company slag dump killed six men and injured about fifty. Two confirmed dead, four others feared dead. rescue and investigation ongoing with extended coverage.
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Paso
American Smelting and Refining Company
Hi Paso & Southwestern Rail
Battle near Pedernales Sparks Hope of Engagement
Mexico City dispatch reports federal troops under Gen Luque joining Navarro near Pedernales, with about 3000 men in position. Authorities expect a clash soon as reconsolidated forces move through Mal Paso to avoid ambushes while no fighting has occurred for five days. A separate note from El Paso says a work train on the Mexico Northwestern railroad was halted after a nearby derailment, with repairs proceeding further north.
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Mexico City
Luque
Navarro
Pedernales
Mal Paso
Rebela Hold
el Paso
Mexico Northwestern
Aeurrectos
Paso
Madame Steinheil linked to journalist’s divorce case
Paris gossip alleges Mme. Steinheil, central figure in a famed murder case, caused a journalist to divorce his wife after meeting her in prison. The journalist reportedly followed Steinheil abroad while his wife, unable to reconcile, divorced him citing the affair.
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Paris
Mme. Steinheil
Mme. Steinhell
France
Mme. Stelnbel
Fourteen Recover From Ptomaine Poisoning in Salida Reunion
Fourteen adults from the families of Captain T. J. Hampton of Salida are recovering after ptomaine poisoning from eating pressed chicken served at a family reunion Monday night. The chicken, prepared at the Hampton home days earlier, tainted the meal and affected the elderly couple most.
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Salida
Colc
Captain
T. J. Hampton O Salida
Hampton
Captain Hampton
Secretary Meyer Denies Maxim Ignorance on Explosions
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Gen. William Crobier Meyer rebutting Sir Hiram Maxim’s claim that AAA explosions in the army and navy result from U S power forms. Meyer calls Maxim ignorant of government powder and unworthy of consideration.
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Washington
Hiram Maxim
Army
Navy
United States
Meyer
William Crobier Meyer
Maxim
Labor Leaders threaten nationwide strike on Italian rails
Rome reports union leaders of the railway workers with 144 000 members declare readiness to strike and warn sabotage or obstruction will be used to secure demands. Government officers say they are prepared to adopt measures to avert disruption.
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Rome
Uniontown Woman Appointed Deputy Sheriff Leader Receives Badge
Miss Jones, a Uniontown society figure, has been appointed deputy sheriff. The ceremony saw her presented with a badge a revolver and handcuffs by fellow deputies in December.
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Uniontown
Dev
Missy Jones
Uniontown Society
Sherif
Demand for swift justice after Weston lynch attempt
In Weston West Virginia December 28 a sensational rescue of felon William Furby sparked mob anger. J L Townsend was arrested for inflammatory street speeches and attacking county officials. Furby, accused of assaulting Flora Anglia, was moved to Clarksburg then to Moundsville penitentiary under guard for trial.
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Weston
W. Va
J. L. Townsend
Furby
Flora Anglia
Lewis County
Clarksburg
National Guard
Moundevilleu
Doctors assess Gaynor shooter mental condition
New York December 28 James J Gallagher who shot Mayor Gaynor faced another medical examination today. His trial was tentatively set for January but if found insane there will be no trial. he will plead insanity. Physicians offered no official statement.
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New York
Jamcs J. Gallagher
Gaynor
Jan
Artificial 10K Plant to Be Operated Here
H J Buell commercial manager for Northern Colorado Power announces Cheyenne Light plans to build a local low factory at the West plant. The facility will have a fifty ton daily capacity with power from the West Cheyenne plant. Construction to start in January and equipment installation to follow promptly.
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H. J. Buell
Northern Colorado Power Company
Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power Company
West
Lee
Cheyenne
Fatal 10 Aviators Fall in Paris Flight Disaster
A passenger monoplane carrying aviator Alexander Laffort and Marquis Mario Pola crashed shortly after takeoff from Issy les Moulineaux en route to Brussels. Both men were killed in the first major passenger flight disaster in aviation history. Laffort’s wife witnessed the tragedy and collapsed from grief. The crash followed motor failure and a sudden wind gust that sent the plane into a fatal corkscrew before it smashed to the ground.
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Paris
Alexander Laffort
Fla
Mario Pola
Issy-les-Molineux
Brussels
Hisory
Aviation
Laffert
Automobile Club of France
Issy
Laffort
Pola
Miley
Thelmney
Weather Note From Forecaster Wrather
Fragmentary forecast suggests colder conditions in the north with a changeable pattern. No clear dates or specific towns named.
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Wrather Moron
Thuradar
Exorbitant Freight Rates Strike Coal Markets
A State Leader report notes that coal price spikes in Wyoming are driven by steep freight charges from Union Pacific. Readers urge regulatory action to curb railroad rates affecting coal from Union Pacific mines to Cheyenne and southern Wyoming points. A letter from J Rom Carpenter echoed calls to reduce transport costs and ease the burden on local coal buyers.
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Lander Yeaterday
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Pattie
Cheynoe
Wyoming
Carpenter
Glate
J. Rom Carpenter
Yenterday
Mofaide
Kilitor
Weyonne
Wyomin
J. BR
Wyomin Bilmewies Scutinm
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Panama Canal
America
Longworth
Commission
Illinois
Wilson
Nestate
van HK
Bubscinke
Oomeleuer
Mexico
Madame Steinheil
Seoretary
Shnrifn
Lien
Texas
Atlanta
Will Johnson
West Virginia
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