Tillman flags financial faults in Senate session
Senator Tillman delivered a sharp senate speech on his finance resolutions. He attacked clearing house certificates and bond issues, questioned Treasury actions, and criticized the President for not taking harsher steps against financial wrongdoing. He denounced Wall Street links and highlighted concerns over bank officials and currency policy.
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Washington
Senate
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Mr. Tillman
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
New Jersey
Secretary of the Treasury
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Omaha
Ananias Club
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Yolande Mine Explosion Kills Dozens in Alabama
A Yolande Coal and Coke No 1 mine blast at 10 25 am in Alabama leaves estimates of dead from forty to sixty. Rescue teams fight debris heat as 14 escape, many burned. officials cite windy shots as cause while inspecting the wreckage near the fifth or sixth entrance.
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Commercial Tribune
Yolande
Ala
Virginia City
Here
Yolande Coal and Coke Company
T. C. Huckabee
J. M. Gray
James Hillhouse
Lower Cross
Rifle Thought to Be In Georgetown in Goebel Case
Georgetown reports that the famous rifle used to kill William Goebel may appear in court the next day. Caleb Powers claims information that the weapon is in Georgetown, while Youtsey says it has long been in the possession of the defense. Powers contradicts witnesses and admits bringing mountain men to Frankfort for peaceful petition.
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Commercial Tribune
Georgetown
William Goebel
Kentucky
Caleb Powers
Powers
Goebel
Youtsey
Owens
Commonwealth
Noakes
Wharton Golden
Frankfort
Riot in Austrian Chamber of Deputies Injures Several
In Vienna on December 16 a riot disrupted the Chamber of Deputies as Ruthenian party members interrupted proceedings and a Ruthenian Deputy threw wood at the Speaker. Christian Socialists responded with chair-throws injuring several deputies.
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Vienna
Chamber of Deputies
Union Market Hales Question Over Union Potatoes
Delegates of the Chicago Federation of Labor debated what a union potato is as a union market in Chicago aims to supply labor with foods. Questions on labeling and union cards sparked humor and confusion about unionization of produce and even earth.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
Nockets
Organized Labor
Fitzpatrick
Taft and Roosevelt News Delays on President Grant
The President Grant with Secretary of War William H. Taft and family is delayed by severe storms en route from Hamburg to New York. Charles Taft ill, while Taft discusses Roosevelt’s non nomination remarks and addresses a Russia and the Czar talk onboard. Wireless news reported from Cape Race indicates possible retransmission of signals and a late arrival near New York.
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William H. Taft
Taft
Charles
New York
Hamburg
White House
Roosevelt
Russia
Commercial Tribune
Newfoundland
Sensational duel follows dispute in Laurel streets
In Laurel Mississippi on December 16 a planned duel ended with Edward Bragg dead and ex state senator B W Sharborough wounded. Bragg allegedly urged Sharborough to fetch a gun. Sharborough bought a shotgun and shells, Bragg fired three times but did not fatally wound him until a close struggle for the gun ended with Sharborough mortally wounding Bragg. A small boy spectator was lightly wounded.
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Comercial Tribune
Laurel
Miss
Edward Bragg
B. W. Sharborough
Bragg
Sharborough
Crane
Lives of Fifty Depend on Cable Standing Strain
An accident at the Bellevue Incline near Elm street endangered fifty passengers when a Clifton Elm bound car on a truck surged from the bottom toward the top. The operator brake failed to slow it, but the car rode the tracks into the station where motormen reset trolleys. No serious injuries were reported despite several shaken, one woman fainting. The incline is leased by Cincinnati Traction Company and resumed service at midnight after repairs.
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Bellevue
Elm Street
Clifton-Elm
Cincinnati Traction Company
Militia Ordered to Hopkinsville from Louisville
Louisville dispatch reports Governor Willson ordered Company H of the First Kentucky militia to depart Louisville Tuesday morning for Hopkinsville. Adjutant General Johnston and Colonel Haldeman accompany the unit to assess threats while a county-backed demand for troops is cited to restore confidence and aid prosecutions.
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Louisville
Johnston
Willson
Kentucky
Hopkinsville
W. B. Haldeman
R. J. McBryde
Frankfort
B. Haldeman
Negro minstrel dies in mob lynching in Louisiana
Homer Rogers, a Black member of a traveling minstrel troupe, was hanged by a mob in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. His body was riddled with bullets after he reportedly resented a white man calling him a Yankee nigger. This marked the third lynching in the parish in ten days.
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Commercial Tribune
Shreveport
Homer Rogers
Morehouse Parish
Rogers
Moorehouse Parish
Auto Cab Tragedy In Brooklyn Ends In Double Death
In Brooklyn, a cab ride ends in murder suicide. Elsie Kerlin, 22, telegraph operator, dies from a gunshot to the temple after Wallace, 18, a Commercial Cable Company worker, shoots her and then kills himself near Eastern Parkway and Williamsburg Bridge. Police indicate Wallace fired first.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Brooklyn
Elsie Kerlin
Bernard E. Wallace
Commercial Cable Company
Wallace
Williamsburg Bridge
Eastern Parkway
Great Fleet Set For Pacific Voyage Under Roosevelt
The Navy sails a 16,000 ton flagship group led by Commander-in-chief with Rear Admiral Evans. Ships include Connecticut Louisiana Kansas Vermont Georgia Virginia New Jersey Rhode Island Minnesota Ohio Maine Missouri Kearsarge Kentucky and fleet auxiliaries Culgoa Glacier Panther Yankton. Wives and sweethearts wave farewells as band plays Girl I Left Behind Me.
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Miral Robley D. Evans
Connecticut
Mander-In-Chief
Hugo Osterhaus
Robert B. Higgins
Louisiana
Richard Wainwright
Kansas
Charles E. Vreeland
Vermont
William P. Potter
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Georgia
Henry McCrea
Virginia
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New Jersey
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Rhode Island
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S. M. Thomas
Mander
Minnesota
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Ohio
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W. Bartlett
Maine
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Missouri
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Fourth Division
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Sperry
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Ilinois
John
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Kearsarge
Hamilton Hutchins
Kentucky
W. CG. Cowles
Culgoa
John B
Patton
Glacier
William S. Hogg
Panther
W. S. Nelson
Walter R. Gherardi
Drive of 16 US battleships sails to the Golden Gate
Sixteen steel-bolted American battleships sail from Hampton Roads under President Roosevelt on the Mayflower for a 14 000 mile voyage to the west coast. The fleet, in four columns, departs amid cheering crowds as the president leads the ceremonial launch and signals a modern, mobile navy.
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United States
Roosevelt
Anchorage
Hampton Roads
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