Nude murder victim found in Passaic River pond
Special Dispatch reports a nude female body found in a pond formed by Passaic River overflow near Harrison. Witnesses describe a short stout man seen with the woman, who was last seen crossing the meadow with him. Police detained two yacht workers as investigation proceeds.
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Commercial Tribune
Newark
N. J
Hackensack Meadows
Harrison
Passaic
Peter Coogan
Marine Engine Company
Coogan
Powers Evidence Expected 10 Gee In By Saturday
Georgetown Ky December 26 The fourth trial of Caleb Powers for alleged complicity in the Goebel murder nears end with defense witnesses nearly finished. The Commonwealth plans brief rebuttal and all testimony by Saturday night. Grant Roberts recalled denies ordering a gun box. Police find a body near a pond with strangulation marks and items from the Idle Hour yacht.
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Commercial Tribune
Georgetown
Caleb
Powers
William Goebel
Commonwealth
Morris
E. F. Sherman
Superior Court of Massachusetts
Grant L. Roberts
John Sheets
State House
Robert
Henry E. Youtsey
J. B. Mathews
Pineville
Barbourville
Henry Broughton
Frankfort
Caleb Powers
Goebel
Mathews
Lap
KR Cc
Kinkead
Davis
Youtsey
F. M. Peer
Board of Trade
Howard
Grant Roberts
Third Powers
R. B. Franklin
Franklin
Albert Helton
Taylor
Howell Scott
Indiana Republicans Endorse Fairbanks For Presidency At Love Feast
Indiana Republicans unanimously adopted resolutions urging Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks to be nominated at the Chicago National Convention. Governor J Frank Hanly introduced them and United States Senator Albert J Beveridge presided delivering a speech urging tariff revision after election and calling for child labor laws and updated Sherman railway rate law. Also present were Senator Hemenway and other Indiana Republicans and state officials.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Charles W. Fairbanks
J. Frank Hanly
United States
Chicago
Albert J. Beveridge
Oar
Congress
Republic
Supreme Court
Marshall
Hemenway
Iquique nitrate strike aftermath reports heavy losses
A Chilean official statement recalls the Iquique clashes between nitrate strikers and police, noting about 210 workers killed and around fifty wounded. Leaders escaped capture, and idle nitrate plants reflect extensive labor emigration. Antofagasta sees sporadic strikes while some workers resume. The scene includes Iquique’s arid port and nearby Huantajaya silver mines.
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Valparaiso
Iquique
Arica
Huantajaya
Unicams Hurt In Powder Explosion At Mills
Dayton Ohio December 26 The third blast in as many weeks at the King's Powder Mills injures two workers Alonzo Young and Andrew Sears. Young loses his left arm while Sears sustains severe burns as caps explode while primers were being shaken.
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Commercial Tribune
Dayton
King’s Powder Mills
Alonzo Young
Andrew Sears
Young
Sears
Flood Threat Upstream Brings High Water Worries
Special Dispatch from Gallipolis reports sharp rises at the headwaters push the Ohio and Great Kanawha Rivers upward with a thirty foot stage in low districts. Residents fear inundation of extreme low lands though a valley wide flood is not expected.
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Commercial Tribune
Gallipolis
Ohio
Great Kanawha
Ohio Valley
Drowning on Ice Claims Three at Northfield
Word came today of a Northfield accident in which Enos Pieno’s daughter and two sons drowned after the ice they played on broke beneath them. The incident occurred yesterday as the trio explored the ice in Bridgewater.
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Commercial Tribune
Bridgewater
N. H
Northfield
Enos Pieno
Fire rescue saves sick girl as cellar stove explodes
A smoke filled room at 422 Plum street forced a fire alarm when an oil stove exploded in the cellar. Captain O Keefe of Hook and Ladder Company No 7 carried 13 year old Margaret O Connor from the rear first floor to a neighbor for resuscitation. The Seabrook coal dealer John Scroggins owned the cellar stove. The Verkamp estate owns the building and damage was small.
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Margaret O'Connor
Plum Street
O’keefe
Hook and Ladder Company, No 7
J. B. O'Connor
John Scroggins
H. H. Verkamp
Father John seriously ill in St Petersburg reports
St Petersburg December 26 Father John of Cronstadt is seriously ill with the recurrence of an old malady in an aggravated form. He is unable to eat and because of his great age and debility his recovery is problematical.
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ST. Petersburg
John of
Banks May Refuse Cash Withdrawals Under Panic Rules
The piece argues banks may legally temporarily refuse cash for withdrawals during crises. It explains deposit types, clearing house certificates, and why banks need to limit cash demands to prevent broader economic collapse, citing historical panic data and the role of solvent banks in maintaining operation.
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Comptroller of
John Smith
William Brown
Brown
Mr. Smith
Clearing House
Mr. Brown
New York
Chicago
Gibraltar
Denver Editors in Street Fight
A warrant was sworn for arrest of Fred G. Bonfils after a morning melee with Senator Thomas M. Patterson at Denver. Patterson says Bonfils struck him from behind and beat him. Bonfils claims justification over Patterson’s threats. Patterson age 70, Bonfils about 44, Patterson's son-in-law Richard C. Campbell present.
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Commercial Tribune
Denver
Col
Fred G. Bonfils
Denver Post
United States
Thomas M. Patterson
Patterson
the Post
Senator Patterson
News-Times Publishing Company
Mr. Bonfils
Bonfils
News
The
Times
Richard C. Campbell
Fleet Officers Attend Horse Races at Port of Spain
The Captains of American battleships and staffs dined with Governor Sir Henry Moore Jackson and attended races in Port of Spain on December 26. American horses dominated the event as ships coal off by tomorrow noon, with bluejackets granted shore leave. The Yankton tender sails to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow and the Marcellus colliery returns to League Island after arriving December 18.
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Port OF Spain
Henry Moore Jackson
Trinidad
Yankton
Vision
Rio Janeiro
Marcellus
League Island Navy Yards
Naval row over surgeon command divides line and staff
Washington dispatch reports acute friction between line and staff officers as Admiral Brownson defies presidential orders to assign a naval surgeon to command a vessel. Debates hinge on the 1899 personnel act and the legality of staff officers commanding ships, with Congress expected to weigh in amid looming naval expansion.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Brownson
United States
Roosevelt
Navy
Congress
Rixey
Admiral Brownson
White House
Congressional
Stokes
Browngan
Bureau of Navigation
Cameron McRae Winslow
Bureau
Winslow
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Finement
Hack
Ensack Meadows, Near
Passaic River
Idle Hour
Albert Thompson
Elizabeth
Frederick Kirkman
Thompson
England
C. Mengel
Louisville
Louisville Legion
D. W. Gray
Lillie Jones Bell
James B. Howard
Jim McKnight
Enos Johnson
Frank
James Gross
McKnight
Ndana
Fairbank
Hanly
Beveridge
Senate
McKinley
Otrike
Iquigque
Antofagasta
Antofagasto
Chill
Pacific
Ockati
King’s Mills Works
Ioquique Bay
Plaza Iquique
John
Cronstadt
Frank C. Harper
Street Fight
WAVY
Halls of Congress
Rew
the Navy
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