Militia Captains Testify On Frankfort Arm Preparations
In Lexington on December 2, testimony in Caleb Powers’ trial showed intent to arm mountain men before Goebel’s death. Captains Hawn and Watkins described Powers seeking militia arms in Frankfort and in citizen’s clothes. The defense fought to exclude a letter about war advocacy, while other witnesses recounted warnings and preparations at the Agricultural Building.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Commonwealth
Caleb Powers
Frankfort
Goebel
Powers
John Hawn
Barboursville
Caleb
John Powers
John
Adjutant General
Captain Hawn
J. W. Watkins
Ed Porter Thompson
Henry Broughton
P'neville
Bell County
Broughton
Powers Ag
M. J. Moss
Barbour- Ville
Judge Black
J. A. Stevens
Barbourville
Capitol Hotel
Bradley Trial Hangs On Jury Verdict In Utah Senator's Murder
In Washington a three week trial of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley charged with murdering former Utah Senator Arthur Brown ends with the jury unable to reach a verdict. Judge Stafford outlines sanity and possible accidental shooting defenses as the jury remains undecided.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Annie M. Bradley
United States
Arthur Brown
Utah
Powers
Hoover
Brown
Stafford
Bradley
Mount Temple Strands After Snowstorm Rescue By Breeches Buoy
The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple with 680 passengers and 100 crew ran aground off La Have Island during a fierce snowstorm. Captain Boothby led a dangerous aerial landing using a breeches buoy to shore where islanders aided. Women and children were first, seven hours of peril left all aboard ashore with food scarce but no deaths.
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Commercial
Tribune
Halifax
N. S
Annals of the Sea
Canadian Pacific
Mount Temple
Antwerp
St. John
N. B
la Have
la Have River
Here
Boothby
Kingsburg
Quarrel Over Money Ends In Double Tragedy In Brooklyn
Peter Vogel a 60 year old builder shot his wife Minnie 45 in their Putnam avenue home Brooklyn then killed himself. Police found Vogel dead in the kitchen and Mrs Vogel slumped by an open trunk amid a torn collar broken china and overturned furniture. Neighbors heard a violent money dispute prior to the fatal shots.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Peter Vogel
Killea
Minnie
Putnam Avenue
Brooklyn
Joseph Lizotte
Vogel
Gates Avenue
Mrs. Vogel
C. Bungert
Vogels
Constanty
Hope for Miners After Abandoned Mine Disasters
Pittsburg December 2 The fate of two American and forty two foreign miners remains uncertain after a mine pumper’s body was found near the Naomi mine entry at Fayette City United Coal Company. Died from suffocation and likely others have perished from after damp gas fumes.
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Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Pittsburg
Tvo American
Naomi
United Coal Company
Fayette City
Pirates on the Eastern Seas Reported By Steamer Mont Eagle
Victoria B C December 2 A story from Nagasaki relayed by the steamer Mont Eagle claims a runaway Russian destroyer with a mutinous crew is raiding in the eastern seas. A German steamer near Nagasaki was boarded by the Russian ship after being intercepted north of Tsushima Island in the Sea of Japan.
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Victoria
B. C
Nagasaki
Mont Eagle
Tsushima Island
Sea of Japan
Smugglers Capture 19 Chinese War Junks
Report from Shanghai describes a battle at Quinsan between imperial war junks and a smugglers fleet. The smugglers won, seizing all nineteen war junks with heavy loss of life on both sides. One imperial officer was mutilated and died after being cast ashore.
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Victoria
B. C
Shanghai
Quinsan
Indictments Against Hegeman Dismissed But Perjury Stand
Seven forgery indictments against John R. Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, were dismissed by Justice Dowling in the New York Supreme Court. The perjury charges against Hegeman were sustained, and a conference followed as an appeal from the decision was announced.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
John R. Hegeman
Metropollitan Life Insurance Company
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
Hegeman
Jerome
Morgan J. O’brien
Justice Dow
Burns Wins From English Publicist With A Knockout
Tommy Burns of America knocked out Gunner Moir of England in the tenth round at the National Sporting Club London securing the world heavyweight title. Burns dominated from early rounds with superior science and power, Moir failing to rise at the bell in the tenth.
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Gunner Moir
America
England
National Sporting Club
Moir
Gunner
Burns
Slavin
Murder of Mission Worker Agnes Templeton Shocks New Mexico
Miss Agnes Templeton, the sole white woman missionary at the Baptist Indian Mission in Valvero, Rio Arriba County, was killed. Suspect David Martinez Y Sanchez is jailed. judge and district attorney investigate with a Taos posse. Templeton’s body found near the schoolhouse. prior missionary Phoebe Howard had a similar fate.
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Commercial Tribune
Santa FE
N. M
Agnes Templeton
Baptist Indian Mission
Valvero
Rio Arriba County
Templeton
David Martinez
Y. Sanchez
Taos
McFi
Sumoning
McFie
Gortner
Velarde
Miss Templeton
Sanchez
Baptist Missionary Board of
New York City
Phoebe Howard
Embodo
Jennie Templeton
Velardo
N M
Mauck Resigns from Athens State Hospital Trustee Post
Roscoe J. Mauck of Gallia County resigns from the Board of Trustees of the Athens State Hospital. He sent the resignation to Governor Harris and it was accepted. He cites distaste for the duties of the position.
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Gallia
Commercial Tribune Bureau
OutLook
Columbus
Ohto
Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Roscoe J. Mauck
Gallia County
Athens State Hospital
Harris
Manék
Vladivostok Fight Causes 280 Casualties Reported
The British steamer Port Maria met fugitives from Vladivostok and reported 280 killed or wounded in severe fighting. The page notes December 12, the Czar’s birthday, as a planned outbreak that revolutionaries hoped would mark Vladivostok in Russian history.
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Victoria
B. C
Port Maria
Nagasaki
Vladivostok
Cannon Repeats as Speaker in Sixtieth Congress
The Sixtieth Congress opens with Joseph G. Cannon elected Speaker amid cheers from Democrats and Republicans. John Sharp Williams leads the minority, while new members are sworn in and committees inform the President of Congress’s readiness. The ceremony includes guest Sir Courtenay Ilbert and a roll call showing Cannon with 207 votes to Williams’s 154.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Congress
Joseph G. Cannon
John Sharp Williams
William Jennings Bryan
Jonn Sharp -Williams
Cooper
Wisconsin
McDowell
B. S. Pierce
Sir Courtenay Ilbert
Palace of Westminster
Cannon
Hepburn
Iowa
Illinois
Clayton
Mississippi
Representative Williams
Williams
James
Kentucky
Sulloway
New Hampshire
United States
Congress of the
Repub
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