Priest Lost Life After Loft Plunge In Mt Adams Church
Father John Agatha aged 29 superintendent of Holy Cross School Mt Adams fell eighty feet from a steeple loft while helping store statues. He suffered cerebral hemorrhage and died after weeks of nervous strain. He had believed an operation would kill him yet faced surgery for a floating kidney before burial in Dunkirk.
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Holy Cross School
Mt. Adams
Good Samaritan Hospital
Clifton
Father Agatha
Jerome Ruetermann
Holy Cross Church
F.cermann
Agatha
West ‘Hoboken
N. J
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John Clifford
Dunkirk
N. Y
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Jesus
Mary
Joseph
Bethlehem
New York
Cincinnati
American Battleship Fleet Sails From Port of Spain
Thousands witness a grand view as the American battleship fleet led by the Connecticut breaks from Port of Spain Trinidad. The 14 000 mile voyage to Rio Janeiro begins with supply ships Culgoa and Glacier trailing. Admiral Evans aims for Rio Janeiro around January 10 after a delayed departure due to coal handling.
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Trinidad
Rio Janeiro
Culgoa
Glacier
Evans
Connecticut
Maine
Fortuna
Gulf
Bocas
Grand Boca
Admiral Evans
Henry Moore Jackson
Swain
Butterfield Kills Mother in Law Then Ends Own Life
Ed ard Butterfield, a Barton Vermont farmer, shot and killed his 70 year old mother-in-law Lydia M Durkee then drove his wife and children from their home. Surrounded by a sheriff s posse all day Saturday he was found dead in bed today, believed to be self inflicted after a liquor induced frenzy.
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Commercial Tribune
Barton
Dee
Lydia M. Durkee
Edard Butterfield
Butterfield
Woman Drowned by Her Slayers in New Jersey
In Harrison on Hackensack Meadows the nude body of Agnes O Keefe, a domestic for Orange families, was found. Autopsy shows two fatal blows to the head then she was pitched head first into a pool and drowned. Detectives pursue clues to identify and arrest the murderer.
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Commercial Tribune
Newark
N. J
Hackensack Meadows
Harrison
Agnes O’keefe
Orange
C. H. Schultze
New York
Seven Transatlantic Steamships Reach New York Harbor
A fleet of seven steamships, the Campania, Cedric, St. Louis, Pannonia, Pretoria, Caronia and Minneapolis, arrived in New York bearing battle scars from a severe Atlantic storm. Christmas Day chaos kept many passengers indoors, but no ships were seriously damaged and officers used oil to calm seas. The Campania carried 3 million dollars in specie and the Cedric 1.2 million.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Campania
Cedric
St. Louis
Pannonia
Pretoria
Caronia
Minneapolis
Atlantic
Grave Exhumation in Open Druce Case at Highgate
Work begins to open the coffin at Highgate Cemetery to verify whether a body lies within or a 200 pound sheet lead roll as claimed in the Druce perjury case. The investigation aims to resolve the Portland Dukedom inheritance dispute tied to Thomas C. Druce.
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London
Thomas Charles Druce
Highgate
Druce
Herbert Druce
Baker Street Bazaar
George Hollamby Druce
T. C. Druce
Duke of Portland
Portland
Lord Howard DeWalden
Duke of
Thomas C. Druce
Robert C. Caldwell
New York
Caldwell
Staten Island
Herbert Cruce
Ward
Misfortunes Mount For New Orleans Banker Adler
William Adler a premier New Orleans banker and wholesale grocer faces a cascade of losses. His Praattane resignation, the bank’s closing, his firm placed in receivership, a shipwreck loss in Belize, and the Alps total loss threaten his fortunes. Moses Schwartz loses his foundry in the same wave of calamity.
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Commercial Tribune
New Orleans
William Adler
South
Adler
Belize
British Honduras
Praattane
State National Bank
Moses Schwartz
Mr. Adler
Glover’s Reef
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
Transatlantic Fire Insurance to Liquidate in Hamburg
The Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company of Hamburg votes to liquidate after losing more than half its capital in the San Francisco fire and earthquake. The decision was announced from Hamburg on December 29.
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Transatlantic
Hamburg
Frisco
Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company
San Francisco
Recognition of Marriage Wanted in Florence
Florence authorities are asked to legalize the marriage of Enrico Toselli and Countess Montignoso. The pair wed September 25 in London, but no divorce was legalized by Italian courts, as they had refused to recognize marriages abroad by Italians who became foreign citizens for divorce.
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Florence
Enrico Toselli
Montignoso
Saxony
London
Sparks to Call Nevada Legislature in Special Session
Governor John Sparks announces a special session of the Nevada Legislature to convene in about two weeks at President Roosevelt's request to avert troop withdrawals from Goldfield. The move follows labor unrest and a Grand Jury recommendation for a Board of Arbitration amid the Goldfield strike.
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Roosevelt
Nevada
Goldfield
Sparks
Esmeralda County
Grand Jury
George A. Wingfield
Mine Owners’ Association
Grand
Notice Served On Eddy Trustees Over Gift Fund
Boston December 29 Disputes over Mrs Mary Baker Eddy head of the Christian Science Church prompt formal notices to Trustees McLellan Fernald and Baker. They are ordered not to use 1 000 000 of Eddy estate to found a charitable institution or for any other appropriation while litigation continues. A new suit from George W Glover and others is planned, challenging the deed of trust dated March 6 1907 and the proposed 1 000 000 appropriation. The action parallels another pending case regarding a 125 000 deed of trust authorization for Eddy's son and granddaughter.
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Commercial Tribune
Boston
Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Christian Science Church
McLellan
Chandler
Mrs. Eddy
F. S. Streeter
Politicians Turn Eyes Toward Taft and Hughes
Washington dispatch notes a revival of Taft and Hughes as Republican nomination front runners with Roosevelt wary of open conflict. Cannon Fairbanks Knox La Follette favored in several states, New York party divisions loom, and Taft's three Boston speeches aim to broaden support while balancing Roosevelt ties.
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Hughes
Taft
Boston
Roosevelt
War Department
New York
Cannon
Illinois
Fairbanks
Indiana
Knox
Pennsylvania
White House
Nevada Governor to call special Nevada Legislature session
Senator George S. Nixon said he had positive information Governor Sparks would convene a special session of the Nevada Legislature to address the Goldfield miners strike and ensuing troubles. Nixon disclosed a telegram from Goldfield stating the governor would call for an extra session.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
United States
George S. Nixon
Nevada
Waldorf-Astoria
Sparks
Goldfield
Nixon
Immigration crackdown in Transvaal targets Asians
Pretoria reports strict enforcement of the immigration restriction act. British Indian leaders including a noted lawyer are ordered to leave within forty eight hours, many others arrested. Chinese individuals face similar action. Since the act passed, 5000 British India residents have left. 7000 remain and refuse to register.
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Pretoria
Transvaal
India
Cannon Conference Held With Missouri Republican Leaders
Speaker Cannon met former Missouri Republican Committee chairman Thomas Niedringhaus and U S District Attorney Joseph Kealing in St Louis at the Planters Hotel for a late night conference. Cannon arrived and did not register. no statements were issued.
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Missouri Republican Committee
Commercial Tribune
ST. Louis
Cannon
United States
Joseph B. Kealing
Indianapolis
Thomas K. Niedringhaus
Missouri State Republican Committee
Planters Hotel
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