Inferno gutts Walker Building and adjacent shops
A severe fire at 25 27 West Second Street destroyed the upper floors and roof of the Walker building, home to Gruner Beckwith and Standard Extract. Fire crews battled icy conditions as a water tower accident injured Archie Johnson and a bystander, with total losses around 26 000 for the building and stock.
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West Second Street
Gruner & Beckwith
Gruener& Beckwith
Standard Extract Company
Goody
Frank Payne
Stork Delivers Baby to McLean Family in Washington
Special Dispatch reports Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beale McLean welcomed a son today at the home of Mrs. McLean's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh in Massachusetts Avenue. Both families have strong Cincinnati and Washington ties, with marriage occurring in August 1908 at the Walsh home near Denver.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Edward Beale McLean
Mclean
Thomas F. Walsh
Massachusetts Avenue
John R. McLean
Washington McLean
Cincinnati
Walsh
Colorado
Denver
Orchestra Plays Dixie To Quell a Panic At Fire
A theater fire in a Murray Hill dressing room caused minor damage during a matinée. The audience nearly panicked, but the Dixieland number by the orchestra and calm staff prevented a stampede for the exits.
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New York
Associated Press
Murray Hill Theater
Fourth Victim Added to Lift of an Insane Man
Dayton, Dec 18. Mrs. Levi Minnich, one of Clyde Weaver’s shooting victims, died at her Gettysburg, Colorado home. Four people wounded by Weaver have died, easing the toll of the Greenville man’s rampage.
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Dayton, CO
Associated Press
Levi Minnich
Clyde Weaver
Greenville
Gettysburg
Weaver
King Manuel Accepts Cabinet Resignations
King Manuel accepted the resignations of his cabinet today and will receive the presidents of the chambers, the peers, and deputies tomorrow in Lisbon.
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Manuel
Lisbon
Associated Press
Menuel
Seven Die In Cleveland Train Wreck
Seven people are reported killed and more than twenty injured when Lake Shore passenger train No 1 crashed into a switch engine at East Twenty sixth Street Cleveland Ohio early today The dead include H T Adams George Butcher George Bramley Burns The fatally injured include Jacob Carrick Leroy Fields W H Stevens Lew F Smith and others The train was speeding and cars piled in wreckage No passengers were killed but many were hurt Train No 1 is a fast through line for Cincinnati and St Louis leaving New York at 1030 Friday morning.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Cleveland
Lake Shore
East Twenty-sixth Street
Collinwood
George Butcher
George Bramley
Burns
Jacob Carrick
Buffalo
Leroy Fields
Pullman Porter
W. H. Stevens
Watertown
N. Y
St. Luke’s Hospital
Lew F. Smith
Lackawanna
Cincinnati
St. Louis
New York
Wreck of Oriental Limited Injures Over Twenty Near Western Springs
The Oriental limited on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy derailed by a snake rail at 4 30 a m near Western Springs Illinois. More than twenty injured though none killed as the train plunged down a fifteen foot embankment and cars overturned. Vassar girls aided passengers and were uninjured. notable injuries included A J Atwood and wife Franklin Indiana.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Oriental Limited
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Western Springs
Ill
Tiree
Vassar
A. J. Atwood
Franklin
Ind
Rail derailment near Fulton New Mexico leaves no fatalities
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe officials report Kansas City train No. 10, operating as No. 8, derailed near Fulton New Mexico. No one was killed or seriously injured, and no injuries were reported to crew or passengers.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Fulton
N.M
Kansas City
N. M
Train wreck near Monticello kills fireman and injures none
North bound Winnipeg flyer on the Great Northern derailed four miles north of Monticello Minnesota at 7 30 p m The fireman Robertson was crushed beneath an engine and killed No passengers hurt Cause reported as a split rail Twelve corpses burned in the baggage car were consigned to various points west The baggage and man were saved
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ST. Paul
Minn
Great Northern
Ray
Monticello
Robertson
Wild Street Car Rampage Ends With Slayings in East St. Louis
An uncontrolled street car in East St. Louis ran four miles after a highwayman shot conductor and motorman. Conductor N. P. O'Brien survived only with serious wounds while motorman E. V. Goody died. The assailant escaped with a small sum. The car finally halted at the downtown terminal.
Taft Attends Funeral of Brother's Wife in Watertown
Watertown Conn December 18 The funeral of Mrs Horace D Taft sister in law to the president was held at the Taft home with Episcopal services. President Taft arrived from Washington and attended along with family members. The body will go to New York for cremation Monday and ashes returned for burial later here.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Watertown
Conn
Horace D. Taft
Episcopal Church
Taft
Washington
Mr. Taft
Horace
Henry
Louise Taft
Charles Taft
Butts
Anna A. Thompson
Niagara
A.B. Williams
Springfield
Mass
Bridgeport
Federal Express
Dr Doxey and Wife Held for Murder in Erder Case
Dr Loren B. Doxey of Columbus Nebraska and his wife Dora E. Doxey are held in the St Louis city jail on first degree murder charges in the July death of William J. Erder. Communication is limited to written notes post approval by the jailer after bench warrants issued at the circuit attorney's office.
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St, Louis
Associated Press
William J. Erder
Loren B. Doxey
Columbus
Neb
Dora’ E. Doxey
Circuit Attorney's Office
Home of Former Governor Beckham Is Voted Wet
Nelson county voted wet by a 653 majority in a local option election. The county has twelve saloons, four of which are in Bardstown, the home of former Governor Beckham.
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Beckham
Bardstown
Associated Press
Nelson County
Bards‘town
Abuses Reported Under Zelaya Prompt Calls for US Marines
San Juan del Sur reports women plead for US protection as husbands and sons are tortured in prisons amid Zelaya loyalist arrests. In Washington, officials insist US Mexico relations are cordial and no war plans exist, with Creel in place to handle negotiations on Nicaragua. Consul Caldera faces death threats while Jose Madriz travels toward Corinto to gauge the situation.
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San Juan del Sur
Managua
Zelaya
Amercan
Corinto
United States
America
Washington
Assocated Press
Mexico
State Department
Creel
Diaz
Nicaragua
Moffat
Bluefields
Bluefields Steamship Company
Escondido
Rama
Knox
Wilson
New York
Guatemala
Zélaya
United ‘States
Nicargua
Anabel Chavez
Grace
Caldera
Jose Madriz
Madriz
Davila suspends laws after siege declaration in Spanish Honduras
President Davila moves to ease unrest by suspending certain laws after declaring a state of siege on December 7. Congress had enacted a statute that had effectively paralyzed the ship-?building policy, stirring widespread opposition in a large section of the country.
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Port Cortez
Spanish Honduras
New Orleans
Associated Press
Bitter cold wave grips Rocky Mountain slope
The West slope from Central Wyoming to New Mexico shivers as a severe cold wave hits. Lander Wyoming reports 80 degrees below zero, Cheyenne 10 below, Denver 13 below, with El Paso at 18 above. Snow spans Texas to Northern Mexico, four inches deep already and ongoing.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Denver
Col
Rocky Mountains
Wyoming
New Mexico
Lander
Wyo
Cheyenne
Corona
Divide
Pueblo
Leadville
Durango
el Paso
Texas
Automobile Collision Fatal to Grace Todd in Amsterdam
Grace Todd of Arcola Illinois field secretary for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America died in a hospital in Amsterdam New York after injuries from a collision between her automobile and a carriage she drove.
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Amsterdam
N. Y
Associated Press
Grace Todd
Arcola
Ill
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church of America
Rumor of Abyssinian King Menelik Death Not Confirmed
In Rome on December 18 an Associated Press report said a rumor of King Menelik II of Abyssinia being dead circulated, but there is no confirmation. Latest Abyssinian dispatches dated December 12 cite the king's illness without details.
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Menelik
Rome
Associated Press
Abyssinia
Two Stores Looted by Hold-Up in Newport South Fourth Street
A stranger armed with a revolver and blackjack robbed George Weidinger's grocery on Fourth and Overton, taking over $70 from the cash register. A similar earlier theft at Philip Koehler’s Bellevue store netted $35. Police pursued but could not locate the suspect, who fled toward Newport and Fall street.
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George Weidinger
Fourth and
Overton Streets
Newport
Billy
Weidinger
W. M. Mange
Overton Street
Mr. Mange
East Third Street
Fourth Street
Philip. Koehler
Center Street
Bellevue
Weidinger’s
Koehler
Mill
Peeweeeae
Fall Street
Watsons Holistic Attack Believed Fueled by Illness
William Watson the British poet, recently to America, is said to be under a recurring hallucination. Robinson Watson claims the poet’s anti Asquith remarks are not his but a mental malady alien to him. The family in question is Premier Asquith’s household, according to Robinson’s interview from Montreal.
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I. L. Walker
Highlands
Associated Press Dispatch
New York
William Watson
Dr. Cook
Robinson Watson
New York Evening Mall
Montreal
Tennyson
Gladstone
Iie of
Wellington
Royal Bounty Fund
America
England
Premier Asquith
Copenhagen University wary on Cook North Pole claim
A Copenhagen university committee found existing records insufficient to prove Frederick A. Cook reached the North Pole. The consistory voted to continue investigation and to withhold public results, with anger voiced by some officials and doubt emerging in several Copenhagen papers.
Despondent Clifton Woman Dies By Own Action
Mrs. Elizabeth Meier aged 45 wife of tailor Joan Meier of 2538 Guy Street Clifton slashed her throat and abdomen in her kitchen late yesterday afternoon Coroner Coe notified. Servant Mary Campbell recounted asking for meat at 4 pm and finding Mrs Meier on the floor in a pool of blood. She had been ill and despondent for weeks with motive not known. Neighbors and doctors could not save her at German Deaconess hospital.
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Elizabeth Meier
Joan Meier
Guy Street
Clifton
Coe
Mary Campbell
Meier
National Geographic edges toward Cook Pole claim proof
In Washington officials of the National Geographic society push for absolute proof from Dr. Cook after the University of Copenhagen report found no evidence supporting his North Pole claim of April 21, 1908. If no proof is produced, the society will declare Commander Peary the pole’s discoverer.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
University of
Peary Responds With Silence to Cook Pole Claim
Commander Robert E. Peary smiled broadly upon learning a Copenhagen dispatch quoted a high authority saying the examination committee failed to prove Dr. Cook reached the North Pole. He offered no comment beyond "Absolutely nothing to say" at the Hotel Imperial.
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Peary
New York
Robert E. Peary
Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
Cook Prepared To Go North in Case of Not Proven Verdict
New York dated dispatch reports Dr. Cook's close friends say he informed Rector Torp that if the Copenhagen consistory rules against him he will not appeal. He may expedition to Greenland next summer to retrieve records and instruments if the verdict is not proven. Funds for the expedition are pledged and John B. Hammond offers a yacht.
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Torp
Rector Torp
Cook
New York
Associated Press
Greenland
Geneva
Brussels
London
Royal Geographical Society
Dr. Cook
John B. Hammond
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