Infamous Robin ID Faked Linked to Sanatorium Exit
New York reports Robin, said to trigger the Northern New York bank closure, left a sanitarium with sister Dr. Louise Robin Ovitech and vanished after detectives pursued him. District Attorney Whitman alerted by William Travers Jerome, with Robin engaging counsel, while bank directors warn of an $800,000 shortage and preparations for possible recoveries on collateral.
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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 Splendid Sleighing in Eight Years
Montrose Colorado reports heavy snow with three more inches falling overnight. The city has about nine inches on the level and hills report from a foot to two feet, creating ideal sleighing for the first time in eight years.
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Montrose
Colo
Tariff plan debated for the Panama Canal tolls
At a White House conference on December 28 officials discussed Panama canal legislation to let the public know tolls in advance. The plan would empower the president to set tolls within limits of distance tonnage and cargo while considering a lower rate for American vessels. The issue of government discrimination was not resolved.
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Washington
White House
Tariff Commission Planned By House Leaders
Chairman Payne of the house ways and means committee said a permanent tariff commission should be created before session end. Longsworth returned with a draft bill for a five member panel with $7,000 salaries and limited party affiliation, empowered to investigate on demand and report to the present.
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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 Squirrel Hunt
In Greensboro North Carolina on December 28 Fred Ward aged 15 was killed when a shotgun in his father Richard Ward's hands accidentally discharged. The pistol was being used during a squirrel hunt and a rifle stock struck a hollow tree causing the load to pass through the boy's head.
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Greensboro
N. C
Fred Ward
Richard Ward
Two Men Found Dead in Des Moines. Skeletal Homicide Suspect
Des Moines Iowa December 28 two unidentified men were found dead in a rear room of an East Des Moines house with four half emptied whiskey bottles nearby. Police suspect drugging and robbery and arrest Seover and Smithberg. The corpses were later identified as Otto Bark and Gus Berg coal miners.
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Des Moines
Seover
Smithberg
Otto Bark
Gusberg
Postoffice Department to Become Self-Sustaining
Washington reports the Postmaster General aims to fix the postal service on a self-sustaining footing. The annual 1910 report shows receipts at $224,128,037, a 10.10 percent rise, but expenditures at $272,977,224 exceed receipts by $48,? million. Details include registry fees, Denver’s rank, and mail rates.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Postoffice Department
James T. Britt
Vote Buying Confession Marks Grand Jury Day
In West Union Ohio two indictments grow from a grand jury probe into vote buying. A Peeble resident is accused of selling her son's vote for five dollars while a Jacksonville precinct farmer confessed to taking twelve dollars and fifty cents for a straight Republican vote and ten dollars for a straight Democratic vote. Court scenes mix social familiarity with informal pleas and fines as judges enforce penalties and remind offenders of workhouse terms. The county remains dry and the court docket shows growing indictments.
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West Union
Peeble
Jacksonville
Blair
Inman
John
Johan
Mquor
Adame
Wilson Says Government Needs More Publicity
St. Louis December 28 Woodrow Wilson told the City Club there should be greater public exposure of government affairs. He urged that all government houses be built of glass so the people can see and learn from them.
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St. Louis
Woodrow Wilson
City Club
Chicago Packers Fight Civil Suit Dismissal
Ten Chicago packers indicted on beef trust charges open a federal hearing on the government’s motion to dismiss the civil case against the National Packing Company. U.S. Attorney Sims filed the motion. the government seeks to prevent immunity claims as the defendants plead.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Ernment
National Packing Company
Koummat
Dlewls
United States Matriot
Sims
Tim Tlying
Olytl
Pittsburg Man Dies After Massive Mercury Poisoning
In Pittsburg on December 27 Elmer Dew swallowed twenty seven grains of bichloride of mercury, a dose enough to kill 150 people, and died twelve days later after initial relief and a worsening condition despite medical help.
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Pittsburg
Christ
Woman Fights Death Away For Six Hours
Homer Parker, a passenger aboard Captain Stuart Bennett's yacht Lebra, survived a wreck off Key Boat in which Captain Bennett and his wife perished. Parker said Mrs Bennett clung to the wreck for six hours before the sea claims her. an unidentified boat nearby did not aid him. Parker was rescued and taken to Malonvy hospital after sustaining bruises and exhaustion.
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Key Boat
Fla
Homer Parker
Stuart Bennett
Lebra
Bennett
New York
Parker
Malonvy Hospital
Explosion at slag dump kills workers in El Paso
The premature blast of nearly two tons of powder at the American Smelting and Refining slag dump in El Paso likely killed six men and injured fifty. Two bodies are confirmed. four others are believed to be dead or alive uncertain. Continued on page 3.
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Paso
American Smelting and Refining Company
Hi Paso & Southwestern Rail
Battle near Pedernales as reinforcements join Navarro
Reports from Mexico City say federal troops under Gen Luque linked with Navarro near Pedernales. About 3,000 troops now arrayed. an engagement expected soon while rail work trains face obstruction near El Paso after repairs halted by gunfire.
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Mexico City
Luque
Navarro
Pedernales
Madame Steinheil Breaks Up Journalist’s Family
Paris report claims Mme Steinheil, infamous figure in a major murder case, has wrecked a journalist’s marriage. The journalist, who divorced his wife after meeting her during imprisonment, followed Steinheil abroad and left his spouse behind.
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Madame Steinheil
Paris
Mme. Steinheil
Mme. Steinhell
France
Mme. Stelnbel
Fourteen Recovering From Ptomaine Poisoning in Salida
Fourteen adults from the families of Captain and T. J. Hampton in Salida are recovering from ptomaine poisoning after eating pressed chicken at a family reunion Monday night. The chicken, prepared at the Hampton home days earlier, tainted the meal and older residents suffered more.
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Salida
Colc
Captain
T. J. Hampton O Salida
Hampton
Captain Hampton
Secretary of Navy Denies Maxim Ignorance Claim
Washington December 28 Secretary of the Navy Meyer and General William Crobier Meyer rejected Sir Hiram Maxim’s assertion that the United States government’s power form caused AAA explosions in the army and navy. They called 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
Italian Railway Labor Leaders Threaten Strike and Sabotage
Rome with December 28 reports that leaders of the railway employes union announce readiness to strike and may employ sabotage or demolition to force favorable terms amid government readiness to adopt measures against this action.
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Rome
Uniontown Society Leader Appointed Deputy Sheriff
Miss Jones, a Uniontown social leader, has been appointed deputy sheriff. She was presented with a badge revolver and handcuffs by fellow deputies.
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Uniontown
Dev
Missy Jones
Uniontown Society
Sherif
Farm tragedy as man kills kin and self in fire at cotton gin
In Atlanta Texas on December 28 Will Johnson a Black farmer killed his father in law wounded his wife and daughter and set fire to his home before barricading himself in a cotton gin where he fatally shot himself after a final burst of gunfire. He also shot seven others two of whom likely will die.
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Atlanta
Texas
Will Johnson
Demand for swift justice after Weston rescue of Furby
In Weston West Virginia on December 28 the sensational rescue of negro William Furby sparked calls for swift justice. J L Townsend was arrested for inflammatory street speeches and assault on county officials. Furby, accused of assaulting Flora Anglia, was moved under guard to Moundsville Prison for trial.
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Weston
W. Va
J. L. Townsend
Furby
Flora Anglia
Lewis County
Clarksburg
National Guard
Moundevilleu
Trial on Mayor Gaynor shooter shifts to insanity plea
New York December 28 Jam es J Gallagher who shot Mayor Gaynor was subjected to another medical examination today His trial is postponed to January but if the state finds him insane there will be no trial He will plead insanity Physicians offered no official statement today.
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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 announced Cheyenne Light plans to add a local low factory at the West plant. The Lee works will yield fifty tons daily, power from the West Cheyenne electrical plant. Construction starts in January with machinery installation soon after.
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H. J. Buell
Northern Colorado Power Company
Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power Company
West
Lee
Cheyenne
Fatal 10 Aviators in Paris Monoplane Crash
Paris reports a passenger monoplane flight ending in tragedy as aviator Alexander Laffort and passenger Marquis Mario Pola die after takeoff from Issy-les-Molinaux toward Brussels. The motor failed causing a loss of control and a fatal plunge witnessed by a crowd and Laffort’s wife.
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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 forecast fragment reports colder conditions in north
A brief weather note indicates colder temperatures in the northern area with a forecast for Thursday.
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Wrather Moron
Thuradar
Exorbitant coal freight rates spark rate reform talk
Readers in Wyoming react to Union Pacific coal shipments amid rising charges from mines to Cheyenne and southern points. Letters to the State Leader argue rates are Verbrauchly high, prompting talk of regulatory action and a coal price crisis plan.
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Lander Yeaterday
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Pattie
Cheynoe
Wyoming
Carpenter
Glate
Kilitor
Weyonne
Wyomin
J. BR
Wyomin Bilmewies Scutinm
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Panama Canal
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Longworth
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Illinois
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Nestate
van HK
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Oomeleuer
Mexico
Mal Paso
Rebela Hold
el Paso
Mexico Northwestern
Aeurrectos
Seoretary
Shnrifn
Lien
West Virginia
Gaynol
J. Rom Carpenter
Yenterday
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