Two Years in Penitentiary for an Insurance Official
George Burnham Jr general counsel for Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company was convicted of larceny and sentenced to two years in State prison. Justice Greenbaum ordered a stay of execution until next Thursday for an appeal. The case arose from a 7500 theft related to a loan settlement for James D Wells, with Burnham’s brother Frederick A Burnham and George D Eldredge also implicated and awaiting trial.
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Mutual Reserve Company
Commercial
Tribune
New York
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Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
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Frederick A. Burnham
Mutual Reserve
George D. Eldredge
James D. Wells
Wells
Liberty
Cincinnati Council Adopts Broad Pay Increases and Zoning
Cincinnati council approved a wide pay raise for city officials led by Fire Chief Archibald from 5000 to 6000 dollars annually and raised police and clerical staff salaries. The body also approved sewer and street improvements and a gun club shooting ordinance with limits on live birds and dwellings. A resolution urged bonds for waterways and a Beechmont avenue sewering measure passed over the mayor's veto.
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Finance Committee
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Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Council of Cincinnati
Congress
Committee On Sewerage Council
Beechmont Avenue
Jerry” Mulroy
Marx
Board of Public Service
Dempsey
Windisch-Mullhauser Brewing Company
Twelfth and Vine Streets
H-s
Lowman
Cornell
Sergeant At Arms of Police Court
Belmont Avenue
Committee On Streets
Victoria Luise Aground After Nova Scotia Coast Landing
The Hamburg American Line passenger steamship Prinzessin Victoria Luise ran ashore off Port Royal Jamaica while returning from New York. Captain Bruinswig killed himself in his cabin after the collision. Passengers were landed safely and authorities worked to save the vessel as breakers flooded her hull.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Hamburg-American Line
New York
Port Royal
Bruinswig
Victoria Suise
Victoria Luise
Alleged Car Wrecker Arrested After Track Tie Incident
John Daly was arrested by Special Officer Clark in Hamilton Ohio on December 17 for attempting to wreck an interurban car on the Cincinnati Northern Traction Company line. A tie placed on the track near the State dam caused the next car to strike it, injuring Daly and breaking his wrist. He was jailed in Middletown prison as the car stayed on the track.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
John Daly
Clark
Cincinnati Northern Traction Company
Daly
State Dam
Middletown
Chancellor Day Decries Attacks on Wealth in New York
Chancellor Day of Syracuse University denounces moves to regulate wealth, calling them "millionaire phobia" and predicting a crisis if efforts continue. He argues government ownership should precede regulation and criticizes legislators and courts for overreach while praising industrial leaders and the prosperity of the nation.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Day
Syracuse University
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Leslie's Weekly
Cardinal Drawn Through Streets By Young Men
Cardinal Richard archbishop of Paris voluntarily left the episcopal palace and stayed at Denys Cochin's Rue de Babylone residence. A vast crowd of bishops priests nobility and about three thousand people lined the route shouting long live Pius X and the cardinal. The procession lasted about an hour with guards keeping order as the cardinal blessed the crowd before reaching Cochin's home.
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Richard
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Denys Cochin
Rue de Babylone
Episcopal Palace
Mgr. Amiette
Pius X
the Cardinal
M. Cochin
No Reconciliation Denied Between Booths and Volunteers
General Booth denied reports that the Volunteers of America would reconcile or consolidate with the Salvation Army. He stated there is no common ground for union and no present chance of reconciliation with his father General William Booth. Maud Ballington Booth accompanied him on the trip to England.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Ballington Booth
Volunteers of America
England
Maud Ballington Booth
Salvation Army
War Minister Picquart in Patrie Balloon Flight
War Minister Picquart rode the Lebaudy dirigible La Patrie on a flight that lifted from Meudon and hovered over Paris for more than an hour, marking a notable demonstration in aerial military tests.
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Paris
la Patrie
Picquart
Meudon
Shea Trial Witness Tells of Labor Leaders Demands
James Abbott, court stenographer, testified that labor leaders said they had no grievance against firms except Montgomery Ward & Co. Nonunion hotel workers were forced out after threats of supplies cuts. Franz Aberg, livery group president, said Shea threatened force on State Street and to drive colored men into the lake. Aberg’s remark: he told Shea he ought to be hanged. Shea replied to President Roosevelt’s letter seeking a transcript of the exchange.
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Anedal Dienatch
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
James Abbott
Commercial Association
Teamsters
Shea
Abbott
Montgomery Ward & Co
Edwin A. Frost
Windsor-Clifton
Michael Kelley
George Golden
Franz Aberg
Livery Men's Association
Roosevelt
State Street
Loeb
Foraker Presidential Boom Builds Outside Support
Ohio lawmakers report simulated talks here linking Senator Foraker and Governor Harding in a Foraker Dick alliance. Harding would back Foraker for President and in return gain Harding’s allies’ support for Foraker’s Senate succession, strengthening the regular Ohio party against insurgents.
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Monser Burley
Ashington
Special
Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Ohio
Senator Foraker
Warren G. Harding
Congress
Foraker
Harding
W. D. Guilbert
Monfort
Cincinnati
Minor G. Norton
Cleveland
Julius Whiting
Canton
Foraker-Dick
State Organization
Harris
Burton
United States
Roosevelt Tells Of His Wit To The Canal Site
President Roosevelt speaks about his wit and approach at the Panama Canal site noting few complaints made justify his methods. Special Messages on the Navy personnel bill and public lands are also read at the session.
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Roosevelt
Roosevelt’s Special Messages On Canal, Navy, and Lands
A digest of Roosevelt remarks urging canal efficiency, centralized governance, and public lands reforms. He criticizes excessive saloons and praises canal work, calls for single commissioner structure, and warns of canal slander. Navy notes promote earlier promotion to Captain and Admiral and naval parity. land policy seeks two years residence before patent use and forest fund advances.
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International Council
Naval Action
Local official beaten by Catholics at Dunkirk church
A Dunkirk official trying to enter a church during mass to note a law infringement was driven out, beaten with umbrellas and canes, thrown down, and kicked by enraged Catholics.
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Dunkirk
France
Spain Objects to Handling Papal Archives in Paris
Rome reports Spain objects to taking charge of the Papal Nunciature archives in Paris amid France Vatican diplomatic rupture. Spain would have accepted earlier when Nuncio Lorenzelli was recalled, but after expulsions and searches it would be seen as hostile to France and against Spain’s policy.
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Vatican
Paris
France
Spain
Mer. Lorenzelli
Mgr. Montagnini
Ohioan Thurman McCormick Joins Catholic Church
Mrs. Eliza beth Thurman McCormick daughter of the late Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio and widow of R. C. McCormick former Governor of Arizona was received into the Roman Catholic Church today at St. Patrick's Cathedral Chicago. She was baptized by Rev. Richard J. Cotter of Lake Placid. Originally baptized Methodist, she has lived in New York City since her husband’s death in 1901.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Elizabeth Thurman McCormick
Allen G. Thurman
Ohio
R. C. McCormick
Arizona
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Richard J. Cotter
Lake Placid
Only Experience Makes Experts
Admiral Dewey voiced concern over Navy personnel structure and praised the President's message. He said old captains and admirals reach grades late and serve short times, hindering essential experience for skill and efficiency in fleet actions. He argued experience, not birth, makes seasoned leaders.
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Tribune
Washington
Dewey
Government loses certiorari appeal in Morgan timber case
The Supreme Court held that the government is not entitled to a writ of certiorari to review original cases decided against it by circuit courts of appeal. John C. Morgan was convicted in Colorado district court for cutting timber on public land. the Eighth Circuit reversed on several points. Chief Justice Fuller announced the decision without explanation.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Supreme Court’ of
United States
Circuit Courts of Appeal
Supreme Court
John C. Morgan
Morgan
United Statess District Court For
District of Colorado
Court of Appeals For the
Eighth Circuit
Fuller
Operator Held Responsible for Wreck in Virginia
The Southern Railway official inquiry concludes that G. D. Mattox, block operator at Rangoon Station, Va., caused the rear end collision at Lawyers, Virginia on Thanksgiving Day that killed President Spencer and six others. General Counsel A P Thom announces the findings.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Southern Railway
Lawyers
Spencer
G. D. Mattox
Rangoon Station
A. P. Thom
Panama Canal Visit Described In Presidential Message
Three messages from the President were read by Congress detailing public land laws the navy personnel bill and the Panama Canal visit. The Panama report, richly illustrated, described November insights into the isthmus weather, the Culebra cut, dredging, steam shovels, and inspections of hospitals schools and police facilities.
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Panama Canal
Panama
Canal Zone
Colon
United States
French Canal Company
Panama Raiway
Pacific
Canal
Commission
Ancon
Constabulary
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