Powers Defense Tries to Impeach Youtsey Story in Trial
Georgetown Ky December 19 The Powers trial centers on impeaching key witness Henry Youtsey as defense attorneys disclosed statements and the case featured McKenzie Todd private secretary to Governor Willson and testimony about Youtsey with a gun in the Executive Building. Regulators pursued conflicting accounts of Youtsey and Powers amid jailhouse confessions and a dramatic turn as two convicts refused to answer questions under cross examination.
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Commercial Tribune
Georgetown
Powers
Henry Youtsey
The
Commonwealth
Caleb Powers
James A. Scott
Frankfort
Youtsey
McKenzie Todd
Willson
Taylor
Martin Lawrence
Franklin County
Tallow Dick Combs
Tallow Dick
Harlan Whittaker
Judge Williams
Lawrence
Yourgey
Goebel
Todd
Culton
Stephen G. Sharp
William Mullins
Lloyd Heltoi
Howard
Mullins
Helton
Eli Collins
Reuben T. Miller
Indianapolis
Auditor's Office
Secretary of State
Grant Roberts
Japanese Leaders Promise Cordial Welcome to Fleet
A Pacific dispatch says the American fleet is 600 miles east of Jupiter Inlet and moving at eleven knots in double column. Tokyo officials express readiness to welcome the vessels and hope for a safe voyage, with Admiral Togo and Admiral Saito noting friendly reception if the fleet reaches Japan.
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Tokyo
Japan
Pacific
America
Far East
Viscount Hayéens
Adrestvensky
New York
Count Togo
Admiral Saito
Admiral Evans
New York County GOP Defers Hughes Endorsement
The Republican County Committee of New York County rejected an immediate Hughes endorsement. A motion to defer to a January meeting passed 377 to 95 after a heated session. Delegates distributed buttons praising Speaker Carmon before the meeting adjourned.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Republican County Committee
New York County
Charles E. Hughes
Herbert Parson
Hughes
Harry W. Mack
Fifteenth Assembly
Chicago
Opper
Carmon
Robbery in broad daylight targets boy during holiday crowd
Riess Light Co reports a $50 theft from a boy messenger at First National Bank. A suspect with a Derby hat and tight coat was identified by the boy, but the man proved not near Fourth and Walnut. the boy remains convinced he was the thief.
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Riess Light Company
Vine Street
First National Bank
Fourth and
Walnut Streets
Fourth Street
Fourth
Harden Received With Icy Silence In Berlin
In Berlin on December 19 Maximilian Harden, once the popular editor of Die Zukunft, arrived to face the Harden-Von Moltke case to a crowd that offered icy silence. Harden, accused of offending society with his writings, showed a cautious evasiveness unlike his earlier impassioned appeals.
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Berlin
Maximilian Harden
Criminal Court
Harden-Von Moltke
Harden
Die Lukunft
Brickmakers Enjoined in Athens County Labor Dispute
Judge J. M. Wood issued a temporary restraining order at Nelsonville brick plant restraining fifty men mostly former workers from interfering with current employees. The action ends weeks of conflict at the Nelsonville company plant. Charles Hank of Chicago, president of the International Brick Tile and Terra Cotta Workers’ Union, was present.
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Commercial Tribune
Athens, CO
Nelsonville Brick Company
Charles Hank
Chicago
International Brick, Tile Am Terra Cotta
Early executed: life pleaded for by Cincinnatians
Howard West alias Thomas Anderson and Frank Earl, known in Cincinnati, was executed at the Ohio Penitentiary after Governor Harris refused commutation. Witnesses recalled Earl's bitter insistence on innocence and his prior acts, including a reforming episode at Chester Reformatory.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Howard West
Washington, D. C
Thomas Anderson
Illinois
Frank Earl
Cincinnati
William Legg
Sidney
Ohio Penitentiary
Earl
Kelly
Lima
W. H. Frazier
Rescue Home For Men
William D. Yerger
Brotherhood of Man
Harris
Legg
Walker
Barl
New Jersey
Trenton
Clinois
Chester
Brieg Piteonsay
Ims
Carl
Cincinnatan
Frank Whiting
Frank Walker
Cart
S _ Hari
Blood in House Fight Between Williams and DeArmond
In Washington on December 19 a long simmering feud between John Sharp Williams of Mississippi and David A. DeArmond of Missouri erupted on the House floor. DeArmond bloodied Williams with a facial blow while friends intervened to end the scuffle. DeArmond left with a bruised nose as the episode paused after a heated exchange over a committee assignment matter involving Booker and Booher.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
John Sharp
Williams
Mississippi
House
David A. DeArmond
Missouri
House of Representatives
Representative DeArmond
DeArmond
Booker
Cannon
Committee On Coinage, Weights and Measures
Italian Protest Against Night Riders In Kentucky Tobacco
At the request of the Italian Ambassador Secretary of State Root urged Kentucky Governor to stop further night rider violence against Italian government tobacco stored in Kentucky. The issue follows a Hopkinsville warehouse fire and asks states to protect Italian laborers facing abuse and peonage in Mississippi and Florida. Governor Willson said he would investigate and communicate with state executives.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Root
Kentucky
Hopkinsvie
Italy
Mississippi
Florida
Louisiana
Third Disaster In Bituminous Field In December
A gas explosion in the Darr mine of Pittsburg Coal Company at Jacobs Creek Pa entombed an estimated 100 to 200 miners. Rescue teams and explosions of this scale have marked a deadly December in Western Pennsylvania and neighboring West Virginia with thirteen bodies recovered early and many more feared dead.
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Commercial Tribune
Jacobs Creek
Pittsburg Coal Company
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Naomi
Fayette City
Monongah
W. Va
Darr
Mapleton
William Kelyington
Explosion in Palermo Powder Magazine Kills 25
A massive dynamite blast in Palermo's military powder magazine causes fires and panic. About 25 people are reported dead and 100 injured as flames spread to nearby ruins amid multiple smaller detonations.
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Palermo
Italy
Millitary
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