Cape Breton Widower Builds Rooms for Dead Wives Shrine
John MacFarlane of Whycocomagh has added a new mourning room to his house, a seventh or eighth in a row, after marrying Ruth McDonald at age 61. Neighbors describe the ritual as macabre yet admired in the Lake Ainslie settlement. The first wife Mary McLean died after childbirth, prompting years of mourning and a banquet served in a death chamber. Subsequent wives followed similar fates, each greeted with fresh rooms and vows to never reference prior spouses.
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Commercial Tribune
Whycocomagh
John MacFarlane
MacFarlane
Lake Ainslie
Mary McLean
McFarlane
Margaret Elfatrick
Vote on Union Divides Presbyterians in Cincinnati
Reported at First Presbyterian Church the vote on uniting the Presbyterian Church in the United States with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church sparked sharp debate. In the Cumberland body 33 for and 31 against, while Presbyterian members faced similar contention and potential splits across branches.
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Cincinnati
Cumberland Church
Presbyterian Church
Cumberland
First Presbyterian Church
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Peter Rot
United States of America
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
McKibbin
Robertson
Cola Selemenes
Twelve killed by falling wall at Crocker Hotel fire
In Minneapolis on December 20 twelve Crocker Hotel occupants are feared dead after the O H feck building collapsed in a fire started by gas. Firemen report four bodies recovered by 2:30 am and the hotel is burning with wooden structure endangering the block. Names listed include landlord William Crocker and several guests and workers among the missing.
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Commercial Tribune
Minneapolis
Minn
O. H. Feck
Crocker
William Crocker
Leclaire
Jennie Morris
William Morris
William Broy
Hans Anderson
James —— Hestlers
Peter Albert
Williams
Maybie
Hostler
Vincennes University students save classmate life
The 23 women of Vincennes University donated blood to Miss Katherine Organ during a medical operation, saving her life the day before her initiation into a secret society. Doctors warned friends of the gravity of her condition, and the society members declined to discuss the incident.
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Vincennes
Ind
Wee
Hersiam
Vincennes University
Miss Katherine Organ
Mies Organ
Miss
Lost daughter found after fifteen years in Washington forest
James B. McDonald of Cincinnati locates his kidnapped daughter Lillie McDonald in a Twisp forest near Okanogan County. She had been taken June 10, 1889, near Plainfield New Jersey. The girl, now nine years old, was living as the adopted daughter of Mary L. McCabe of Bellefontaine Ohio. Mrs McCabe and Lillie will learn their true parentage and plan to return to Cincinnati with McDonald.
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Commercial Tribune
Tacoma
Wash
James B. McDonald
Cincinnati
Twisp
Okanogan County
Rairoads
Lillie McDonald
Plainfield
N. J
Lillie
McDonald
J. P. Caugney
Pittsburg
Catawba Island
Elizabeth
Verdi
Stuart
Attorney Creates Scene At the Gillespie Trial
In Rising Sun Indiana on December 19 Harvey Hill testified about shotgun spread from16 gauge and larger bore guns during the Gillespie trial. Tensions rose as a spectator shouted It’s a lie prompting Judge Cornet to warn against further disruptions.
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Gillespie
Commercial Tribune
Rising Sun
Ind
Harvey B. Hill
James Gillespie
Harry McMullen
Coles
Cornet
Legislation Sought in Interest of Shippers
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports to Congress on regulating rail rates. It urges tightening Elkins law provisions and extending them to other transportation agencies to curb concessions to shippers. The commission notes no amendatory law yet grants power to enforce reasonable rates. Continued on Fourth Page.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Commission
Fort West of East Kekewan Fell to Japanese Forces
Tokyo report says Japanese infantry captured the north fort of East Kekewan Mountain after mine detonations and a fierce hand grenade battle. Five 9 cm guns and two machine guns were seized with enemy losses reportedly forty to fifty dead. defenses were under construction as occupation became firm. Fighting near 203-Meter Hill and Liacti Mountain and the Port Arthur area continued.
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Tokyo
East Kekewan Mountain
Nogi
Semeamiam
Liacti Mountain
Port Arthur
Shangshu Mountain
Capture of Kekéwan Fort Shocks Russian Garrison
Japanese army using dynamite and sappers breached Kekéwan Fort while siege guns shelling Russian troops. A premature Japanese rush left sixty buried in debris, but a second force seized the parapet and, after fierce fighting, the fort fell to Japanese forces by midnight as Russian survivors retreated to the city.
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London
Kekéwan
Four More Die From Beaver Big Sandy Wood Poisoning
Ashland Kentucky report lists ten dead after wood alcohol poisoning at Beaver Big Sandy on Friday night. Names include Captain Henry Spriggs of Buffalo and Henry Salmons of Tom Salmons, with several others reported dying or missing.
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Commercial Tribune
Ashland
Beaver Big Sandy
Henry Spriggs
Buffalo
Field and Shade Daniels
Muddy Branch
Sam Harmon
Henry Spencer
Tom’s Creek
Curtis Adams
Sultan of Morocco Dismisses All Foreign Military Instructors
Paris reports the Sultan of Morocco has fired every foreign military instructor including French staff. Officials note the move follows the Perdicaris affair and UK French treaty influence, with Italian and British officers also released as the Sultan seeks to push his own military program.
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Paris
Foreign Office
London Times
Morocco
Perdicaris
France
Japanese Minister's Daughter Weds German Attaché in Tokyo Cathedral
Dec 19 Hannah daughter of Viscount Aoki and former Japanese minister to Germany married Count Alexander Von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg at a crowded Catholic cathedral in Tokyo. The ceremony combined Japanese and German civil rites with the German minister Count Von Arco Valley performing the civil marriage before the religious service.
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Tokyo
Hannah
Viscount Aoki
Germany
Alexander von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg
Count von Arco Valley
No Disorder in Panama Election Across the Republic
Panama December 19 A peaceful municipal election across 53 municipalities with no disorder reported. The opposition claims 25 municipalities won while government supporters carried Colon Bocas Del Toro Los Santos and Sona. Agua Dulce and Santiago went to the opposition by slim margins. Chiriqui saw no opposition to the nonpartisan ticket.
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Panama
Colon
Bocas del Toro
Los Santos
Sona
Agua Dulce
Santiago
Chiriqui
Reynolds admits waiting on note may be indicted
Cleveland banker Sir Reynolds confesses to the county grand jury that he knew for years of the forged 5,000,000 Carnegie note and that the writing on the back is his own. He denies seeing the 10,000,000 deed of trust and says Mrs Chadwick’s parole papers are missing from the Ohio Penitentiary files.
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Reynolds
DeVere
Cleveland
Carnegie
Chadwick
Commercial Tribune
Cleveland, O
Sir Reynolds
Grand Jury
Mrs. Chadwick
Harvey R. Keeler
Keeler
Nan Patterson Testifies Denies Fatal Shot in Caesar Young Case
In New York court Nan Patterson, on trial for Caesar Young's murder, denies firing the revolver and recounts the cab ride and Young's threats. She says there was a flash and the end, and offers to give her life to bring Young back, claiming she never saw the weapon.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Caesar Young
Nan
Levy
Nan Patterson
Miss Patterson
Young
Southampton
Mr. Young
Mr. Levy
Alimony Not an Ordinary Debt, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court rules alimony and child support obligations are not ordinary debts and cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. Wetmore sought to halt alimony from the 1892 divorce, amounting to 6000 dollars yearly, arguing bankruptcy relief. The New York state court ruling denying relief is affirmed.
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Supreme Court
Commercial Tribune
Washington
W. B. Wetmore
A. B. Markoe
Supreme Court of the United States Today
Markoe
Wetmore
Supreme Court of the
State of New York
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Margaret Gillespie
Philip Castner
Joseph Small
James Gillespié
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East Kekewan
Mikado
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Tien Tsin
Small Boy
Sisters
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Sandusky, O
Wood Algorol
Kentucky
Caesar
Lawyer Levy
Nan” Patterson
Caesar” Young
Sultan Dio Mioaba
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Earl of Suffolk
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