Moyer Leaves Horror Scene Under Duress in Copper Strike
Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners was deported from the copper strike district after families refused relief and Citizens Alliance pressure. He met with relief committee officials in Hancock then boarded a guarded train to Chicago with two companions while union leaders warned of ongoing mobilization and federal probing.
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Commercial Tribune
Calumet
Mich
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Citizens ’Alliance
Federation
Moyer
Citizens Alliance
Mahoney
National House of Representatives
Citizens’ Alliance
Sala Tought
Michigan
Michigan Federation of Labor
Ite
Hancock
Alliance
Union
Houghton
Copper Range Railroad
Chicago
Robbed and killed because of woman says train bandit
John Bostick confesses to Sheriff Hammel that the Sunset Limited robbery and the murder of railroad official Horace E. Montague were meant to fund a pursuit of a hotel chambermaid believed to be in Phoenix. He planned to return to Los Angeles with her on a trip after the crime, but the plan unraveled amid a crowd at the County Prison.
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Commercial Tribune
Los Angeles
Cal
John Bostick
Sunset Limited
el Monte
Horate E. Montague
Bostick
Hammel
Phoenix
Ariz
Athe Gu
Lee
Hamm
British Marines Land to Halt Filibustering in Mexico
Excerpted notes describe British Marines landing to counter filibustering in southern Mexico. A New York candidate, Miss Ida, enters a separate scene amid remarks on arranged marriages and a $500 prize offered by The Medical Review of Reviews to study eugenic marriage standards.
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Mexico
Ida
New York
Medical Review of Reviews
Riage
On Hold Up, Holder Turns Tables in Ohio Grocery
Mont Lavell, 22, entered a Columbus, Ohio grocery with a revolver and aimed to rob. Store owner William T. Abbott ducked behind the counter and fired, wounding Lavell below the heart. Lavell survived and confessed the plan. he said hunger drove him from Coshocton area and Pennsylvania home.
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Columbus
Mont Lavell
William T. Abbott
Lavell
Lovell
Pennsylvania
President's Uncle Dies In Chillicothe
Henry W Woodrow uncle of President Woodrow Wilson died suddenly at his Chillicothe home. A lawyer by training and active in local business, he was a prominent Democrat in the Eleventh District and had sought the Internal Revenue Collector post for the Columbus district. The president declined to appoint relatives to office. He was about 65 years old.
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Chillicothe, O
Henry Ww. Woodrow
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow
Chillicothe
Eleventh Congressional District
Internal Revenue
Columbus
Berlah E.williamson
Mohawk Church Choir Leads Community Christmas Concert
December 28 event at Mohawk Presbyterian Church features the choir aided by the Caledonian Society and Masonic Band players. Twenty children perform with pieces including Silent Night and Joy to the World under Rev. Peter Robertson.
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T- Square
Presbyterian Church Choir
The
Caledonian Society
Masonic
Star Divine
Wyiall Infant Redeemer
Savior
Solo
Jesus
Ohio cities face gas supply test for factories demand
The Utilities Commission will decide if factories can compel gas supply when domestic use is tight. Mt Vernon protests a Pittsburg Plate Glass petition for 1,500,000 feet daily, arguing domestic users would lose gas and face higher costs. The ruling would set a state precedent affecting Cleveland Cincinnati and others.
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Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Utilities Commission
Ohio Funl Supply Company
Mt. Vernon
Ohio Fuel Supply Company
Plate Glass Company
Upham Gas Company
Knox County
the Utilities Commission
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Commission
Pittsburg Glass Company
East Ohio Gas Company
Ndw
Ohio
Cincinnati Railway Mail Service appoints McChesney chief clerk
A Washington dispatch reports CG. McChesney will become chief clerk of the Railway Mail Service at Cincinnati with a goal of eventual promotion to Assistant Superintendent. Superintendent John Clark favors the elevation and Representatives Bowdle and Rouse in Washington received the news today of the prospective promotion.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
McChesney
Cincinnati
Duelists Die in Peculiar Left Handed Vest Clasp
From Pineville Kentucky word arrives of a bizarre duel where Solomon Jackson and Tate Souders met, clasping left hands with pistons in each right hand to simulate a shootout over a land lawsuit. Both men died in the confrontation yesterday.
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Pineville, Ky
Solomon ‘Jackson
Tate Souders
Manasanid
Breakfast Interrupted as Ocean Wave Floods Hotel Grill
In Ocean Park California on December 26 twenty foot breakers from the highest tide swept over bulkheads and flooded the basement hotel grill where 30 to 40 people were breakfasting. Windows shattered and seven blocks of the cement shoreline bulkhead gave way as water filled the area and guests escaped before a second wave.
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Commercial Tribune
Ocean Park
Cal
Ward's Invalid Sister Receives $35000 Inheritance
Philadelphia December 26 Montogmery Ward the Chicago mail order pioneer left an estate of millions and devised 35000 to his sister Mrs Hannah M Kayser of Germantown. She had been an invalid for seventeen months and is the wife of a retired policeman. The telegram announcing the gift reached her as a Christmas present.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Hannah M. Kayser
Germantown
American Descends 1212 Feet Into Vesuvius Crater
Frederick Burlingham, an American, descended 1,212 feet into the crater of Vesuvius near Naples on December 21. He and three Italians faced dense sulphur fumes and a risky tunnel ascent while filming with a cinema camera.
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Crater
Old Vesuvius
Gable
Commercial Tribune
Naples
Frederick Burlingham
Vesuvius
Burlingham
Mercalli
Vesuvius Observatory
Malladra
Formassino
Gaudino
Sonnino
Pastor charged in animal cruelty case over horse injury
Rev W A Jones of ont Ohio was arrested today on cruelty to animals charges. An incident during sheep shearing saw him jab shears into a horse, the animal died a week later, according to officials. Officer Travers filed the charge.
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Commercial Tribune
W. A. Jones
Ont, O
Travers
Pursuit by Militia Bandits Near Four Mile Kentucky
Acting Adjutant General J Tandy Bilis ordered the Pineville National Guard to Four Mile to pursue the Hendrickson band said to be sheltering in a mine. Civil authorities hold the area under tight surveillance while more bandits are believed to join. Dr Grege of Ely Knox County treated wounded Hendricksons but would not reveal meeting place. Two men with Pres Happy Hendrickson and George Horn were identified. more than twenty bandits are said to be at Eye Hollow Mine near Four Mile.
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Commercial Tribune
Pineville
Ldec
J. Tandy Bilis
McCreary
Pineville Company
National Guard
Four Mile
Hendricksons
Hendrickson
Eye Hollow Mine
Twelve Lives Lost In East Coast Storm Toll Rises
A severe December storm wrecked barges and huts off Barnegat New Jersey causing extensive property damage estimated up to 750000 dollars. Seabright Mayor Elliott said the flood is the town’s worst and no outside help is needed. The storm damaged Seabright hotels factories and fishing facilities with at least 25 000 dollars in damage to the Octagon Hotel and grounds.
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Octagon
Seabright
Possum Parcel Post Christmas Gift
A live possum delivered by parcel post as a Christmas gift to Thomas J. O'Brien in Flushing New York. The unusual delivery took place on December 26.
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Parcel Post
Commercial Tribune
Flushing
Dee
Thomas J. O’brien
Three Cornered Move Planned by Federals in Mexico
El Paso December 26 Rebels have not yet reached Ojinaga to attack the federals but Ojinaga garrison plans a sally toward Juarez before the rebels reach them. Jose Estrada of the Ojinaga garrison arrived in El Paso today and said a skirmish occurred on Tuesday.
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Commercial Tribune
EL Paso
Ojinaga
Juarez
Jose Estrada
Estrada
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