Millionaire James E Martin Dies In Auto Crash
James E Martin, wealthier New York social figure and yacht club member, is killed instantly when his car overturns after striking loose dirt near Flushing Long Island. His wife and party in a following car are injured. chauffeur charged with criminal negligence.
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New York
James E. Martin
New York Yacht Club
Metropolitan Club
Country Club
Flushing
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Baron Komura AweS Chinese On China Japan Treaty Mission
The Japanese Commission led by Baron Komura left Peking for Tien Tsin on a special train after negotiating the China Japan treaty. Yuan Shi Kai drove the talks, attending meetings and guiding discussions as Li Hung Chang’s successor in influence. The group, with General Fukushima and H W Denison, was escorted in ceremonial fashion. The treaty will open sixteen Manchurian downs to foreign trade after Russia’s eighteen month evacuation period.
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H. W. Denison
Manchurian Downs
Russia
Fire in Hankow destroys thousands of homes
Mail dispatches from Shanghai report a great Hankow fire, dubbed the Chicago of China. About 5,000 houses were razed and an estimated 600 lives were lost or feared lost in the blaze touching Hankow, a major industrial hub.
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Victoria
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Fire Destroys Los Angeles Van Nuys Broadway Hotel
The Van Nuys Broadway Hotel at 412 422 South Broadway burned in the largest hotel fire in Los Angeles history. About 110 guests fled in night clothes with most losing baggage and valuables. Five firemen were injured. chief Lipps cut. Estimated losses near $200,000 with building owners Martz estate and August Winstel facing $100,000. Fire origin undetermined, fire under full control by 10:30 PM and extinguished by afternoon. interior collapsed around 1 AM.
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Vermont Abolishes Death Penalty Movement Gathers
Special Dispatch reports Vermont moves toward abolishing capital punishment after the Mary Rogers hanging. Governor Bell supports replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment for murder. Women’s groups rally statewide, petitions aim for 100000 names to back the proposed bill when Legislature convenes.
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Mary Rogers
Windsor
Vermont
Forty Injured in Downtown Street Car Wreck
A three-car street train crash at Second and Spring streets in Los Angeles injured forty or more people. A West Second street car ran out of control on a steep incline, colliding with another Second street car, which in turn hit a Hollywood car crossing at right angles. The Hollywood car overturned, and both Second street cars were demolished. Passengers on all three cars sustained injuries. the motormen and conductor of the runaway car and the Hollywood car driver were uninjured.
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Commercist Tribune
Los Angeles
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Hollywood
Second Street
Spring Street
Mrs A B Dibble Dies Union Founder in Grass Valley
Mrs A B Dibble first president of the National Christian Temperance Union died at her Grass Valley home after a long illness. She helped found the organization with Frances Willard and was among California’s early settlers.
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Grass Valley
Cal
A B. Dibble
National Christian Temperance Union
Frances Willard
California
Banker George M. McKelvey Ends Life in Ill-health Crisis
George M. McKelvey a 57 year old Youngstown banker and businessman died by suicide at his home after a year of nervous prostration. He had undergone a New York surgical procedure that failed and returned home to arrange church attendance for his family before his death. McKelvey led the Commercial National Bank and held posts with Hubbard iron furnaces Youngstown Steel Roofing Company Republic Rubber Company and other concerns. He was born in Indiana County Pennsylvania in 1847 and moved to Youngstown in 1883. He leaves a widow Mrs McKelvey and children Flor ence Gertrude Lucius and Leetia Morris and Charles Owsley.
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Youngstown
George M. McKelvey
New York
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Indiana County
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Charles Owsley
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Bandits Blow Toledo Car Barn Safe In Early Morning Heist
Seven bandits robbed the Central avenue car barn office of the Toledo Railway and Electric Light Company at 2 45 am. They seized about 700 dollars and failed to take 7 000 dollars in the strong box. Two employees were overpowered but Night Dispatcher Will Condon escaped and alerted police.
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Commercial Tribune
Toledo
Central Avenue
Toledo Railway and Electric Light Company
Will Condon
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Merchants Murder Stuns Christmas Shoppers in Wathena
In Wathena Kansas on December 24 John Schulz a leading local merchant was stabbed to death outside his store after telling Edward Morris a farmer the price of shoes was too high. Morris allegedly expressed anger over the price and attacked, stabbing Schulz in the store doorway as about fifty shoppers watched in shock.
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Commercial Tribune
Wathena
Kan
John Schulz
Edward Morris
Major Miller Defends Mrs Fitzsimmons in Elopement Row
Franklin Pa December 24 Major Charles Joseph Sibley Miller denounces Bob Fitzsimmons as irrationally jealous and threatens to “let daylight through him” if he harasses Miller over alleged elopement with Fitzsimmons wife Julia May Gifford. Miller states he has known her eight years, spent Christmas at home, and did not elope.
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Commercial Tribune
Franklin
Bob Fitzsimmons
Charles Joseph Sibley Miller
Robert Fitzsimmons
Major Miller
New York
Julia May Gifford
Fitzsimmons
May Gifford Fitzsimmons
Hundred Mules Perish in Flames in Illinois Coal Shaft
The shaft building of the Marquette Third Vein Coal Company near Spring Valley Illinois burned today. Estimated loss 250000 with no insurance. Fire began at 8 am in the weighing room. LaSalle Fire Department fought till night but could not save the shaft. The 500 workers will be reassigned by Spring Valley Coal. One hundred mules suffocated in the blaze.
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Commercial Tribune
Spring Valley
Ill
Marquette Third Vein Coal Company
LaSalle Fire Department
Spring Valley Coal Company
Woman Accused of $7,000 Theft in Oakland
Lulu Bowen, a clerk at Substation No 1 Oakland Postoffice, was arrested on embezzlement charges. Authorities say her accounts are short by $7,000, alleged to cover one month during the Christmas rush. Bowen, daughter of Mrs Mary F Bowen, lives with her mother in a fashionable district. The disappearance of the money remains unexplained.
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Commercial Tribune
Oakland
Cal
Lulu Bowen
Oakland Postoffice
Bowen
Mary F. Bowen
Carmania Arrives After Successful New York Voyage
The Cunard Line turbine steamer Carmania reached the Mersey from New York at seven this morning after a voyage marked by heavy weather. Passengers report the ship remained steady and comfortable throughout the trip, marking another notably successful voyage for the liner.
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Cunard Line
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Mersey
New York
Admiral Dewey Sends Christmas Message to Navy
Washington December 24 Admiral Dewey prepared a Christmas greeting for the officers and men of the American navy worldwide urging unity for the country and the service. The message began its world tour and will reach nearly every warship by Christmas Day with additional seasonal wishes sent from Navy wireless stations under Rear Admiral Manney.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Dewey
George Dewey
Admiral Dewey
Navy
Manney
Bureau of Equipment
Three Day Gulf Storm Delivers Yacht Rescue Near Biloxi
J Brown Lewman cashier of First National Bank arrives from Biloxi with a sea tale of a Gulf voyage gone wrong. Thaddeus W. Spindle and others accompanied him on a duck hunting trip aboard a forty foot naphtha launch. After engines failed and a ferocious storm battered the vessel, the crew battled to stay afloat for two days. Italian fishermen finally rescued the group and ferried them to Biloxi while the rest remained in Scranton to recover.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
J. Brown Lewman
First National Bank
Biloxi
Miss
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Thaddeus W. Spindle
Kentucky National Bank
Hughes Moore
John Thomas
J. C. Dodd
Gulf of Mexico
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Scranton
Providence
Riot erupts in Chicago Italians versus blacks
In a race riot at Eighteenth and Dearborn streets, December 24, two Italians were shot and severely injured, a colored man stabbed but not fatally, as police used clubs to restore order. Over twenty arrests followed a fight lasting more than twenty minutes with hundreds involved. Tensions between communities in Dearborn Street have risen recently.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Eighteenth
Dearborn
Twenty-second Street
Dearborn Street
Steamer Mionera Reports Coconut Island Cabins Lacking Provisions
Victoria B C Dec 24 The steamer Mionera from Australia reached Fannin Island and found the cable staff there living on coconuts due to a lack of provisions. The crew noted the crew's hardship and ongoing supply delays on the island.
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Banquet at Torreon Kills Four in Mexico
Mexican Central passengers arriving in El Paso report four dead and one dying after a banquet in Torreon. Leading citizens were present. officials suspect wood alcohol in some refreshments caused the tragedy.
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Commercial Tribune
Paso
Tex
Mexican Central
Torreon
Mex
Italian Cabinet Gazetted in Rome This December
The Italian Cabinet was officially gazetted in Rome as of December 24. The lineup mirrors the prior dispatch, with Fortis acting ad interim as Minister of Agriculture.
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Rome
Fortis
Flemingsburg Seizes Blind Tiger Operators
Acme Secret Service detectives in Flemingsburg Kentucky issued sixty five warrants against operators of alleged blind tigers after weeks as book agents and peddlers. Dr H C Kehoe fined 100 dollars on one charge and faces sixty four more. Gambling den raids reveal prominent locals. trials set for the coming week as arrests create a sensation.
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Commercial Tribune
Flemingsburg
Acme Secret Service
Cincinnati
H. C. Kehoe
Senator Bard Hart Injured in Runaway Accident
Senator Bard Hart of San Francisco suffered a dislocation and left hip fracture after being thrown from his buggy in a runaway near Oxford yesterday. He was seriously injured but conditions were not immediately released.
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Commercial Tribune
San Francisco
United States
Bard
Oxford
State of Mexico Bank to Double Capital to $3,000,000
The State of Mexico Bank will double its capital from $1,500,000 to $3,000,000. A new issue of $1,500,000 will be sold at a premium of $15 per $100 share as the bank reports strong prosperity.
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Mexico City
State of Mexico Bank
Battle rages in Moscow as revolutionaries resist siege
Moscow reports recount artillery and rifle fire across Trabnois Square Sadovia Karemaia amid heavy casualties and civilian harm. Revolt supporters inflict some losses on gendarmes while dragoons burn debris and rail yards report car looting. A British telegraph correspondent notes street fighting and a possible political response with an upcoming electoral ukase.
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Trabnois Square
Sadovia
Karemaia
Karetnia
Revolutionaries threaten civil war as Moscow clashes escalate
Reports from St Petersburg describe the revolutionaries vowing to transform the strike into armed rebellion. They warn the next forty eight hours could decide if civil war erupts, while the government bets on weak arms and army loyalty to quell the uprising.
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