Eight-Hour Day Granted to Switchmen by Federal Board
A federal board of arbitration granted switchmen at thirteen eastern and midwestern railroads an eight hour day and a 5 cent per hour wage increase with pro rata overtime. The decision, noting eight hours equals a day, cites high living costs and job hazards as reasons, and says overtime is calculated on actual minutes worked. The rise is the largest such increase in arbitration, though unions sought 10 cents.
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New York
Federal Board of Arbitration
Brutal murder spree shocks Minden Louisiana
Neighbors found John N Reeves and his wife slain in their home with an ax and a bullet. An 11 year old boy and two younger siblings were badly mutilated. The oldest child died in Shreveport hospital. An 11 year old survivor alerted authorities. Three African Americans have been arrested and charged.
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Minden
John N. Reeves
Reeves
Shreveport
Bank Robber Henry Jones Caught After Bold Bickleton Hold Up
A man named Henry Jones was captured by a posse after allegedly robbing the Bank of Bickleton in Bickleton Washington. He admitted the theft and yielded about $960 of the $4,000 taken, most of which had been recovered, with the robber fleeing through brush on foot after abandoning his horse.
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Golden Dale
Wash
Henry Jones
Bank of
Bickleton
Jones
Germans Wager Peace In August
Frankfurt dispatch says heavy betting on the Berlin exchange predicts peace signed before August. The message notes the German emperor will return to Berlin for conferences with the American and Spanish ambassadors.
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London
Frankfurt
Exchange Company
Rotterdam
Berlin
Jealous Man Slays Woman in Bingham Utah Tragedy
Crazed by jealousy Mike Morris a Bingham miner fatally shoots Connie Mack proprietor of the Union rooming house in Bingham. A bullet also passes through the necks of Frank De Laney and Charles Evans who attempted to intervene and protect her.
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Bingham
Utah
Mike Morris
Bingham Miner
Connie Mack
Union
Frank de Laney
Charles Evans
Car Shortage Delays Mails in Washington
Midweek shortages of mail cars and insufficient handlers at large railway terminals cause delays in Christmas deliveries and mail processing in the Washington area.
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Washington
Women Condemned as Spies in Parie Court Martials
Two more women were sentenced to death by court martial for spying. One, named Dus, born in Calais to a German mother and Luxembourg father, is identified. the other, widow Tichelly, is listed as of Swiss nationality.
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Dus
Calais
Luxemburg
Tichelly
Long May Succeed Osborne Washington
Breckenrilke Long of St. Louis is a likely nomination by President Wilton to be secretary of state, succeeding John B. Osborne of Wyoming who resigned recently.
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Washington
Breckenrilke Long
St. Louis
Wilton
John B Osborne
Wyoming
Three Die in Explosion at Kiuhsallteg Acetylene Plant
An acetylene gas plant at the home of John Peaborg near Kiuhsallteg, Iowa exploded killing three people and fatally injuring three others while ten more were seriously hurt. Investigators are tracing the cause of the blast.
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Dee Moloes
John Peaborg
Congress Breaks For Holidays As Sessions Adjourn
Washington Congress adjourned for Christmas and will reconvene January 2. In three weeks the House approved five government supply bills while railroad legislation drew limited attention. The Senate moved immigration and District of Columbia prohibition bills and reported the Susan B Anthony amendment, while both chambers favored the Borland food probe.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate Commerce Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Joint Commission
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Villa Attacks Torreon Reported by American
An American arriving via Eagle Pass reports Villa attacking Torreon while All American and other foreigners have evacuated. The last foreigners left about a week ago as troop trains bound for Torreon were seen en route to reinforce the garrison.
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el Paso
Texas
Torreon
Villa
Eagle Pass
Polar Expedition Planned Under Bartlett Leadership
Arrangements for the American polar expedition led by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett have advanced to a stage where a launch next summer is possible. Bartlett, Peary’s navigator, will head a venture similar to Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition.
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Washington
Robert A. Bartlett
Peary
North Pole
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
W D Stephens to Succeed Johnson as California Governor
Lieutenant Governor W D Stephens will assume the California governorship when Hiram Johnson moves to the United States Senate.
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W. D. Stephens
California
Hiram Johnson
United States Senate
Armed ships declared as war vessels in German reply
Berlin asserts Germany may treat England’s armed merchant ships as warships even when carrying passengers. The Berlin Rundschau cites Berlin’s position that vessels stopped and searched before torpedoing are unnecessary, signaling expanded submarine warfare and a negative tone toward Lloyd George’s peace offer.
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London
Exchange
Copany
Amsterdam
Berlin
England
America
Lloyd George
Stock Prices Slaughtered On Frantic Friday Selloff
New York saw a historic stock market drop after Wilson's note to belligerents and Lansing's explanation. Prices fell 5 to 15 points and one stock slid 38 as 3,176,000 shares changed hands, unmatched since 1901.
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New York
Wilson
Lansing
Germany
Northern Pacific
Germans Welcome Nine As Wilson Peace Overtures Rise
Berlin greeted President Wilsons peace effort with a tremendous welcome in noon editions. Display headlines revived interest in German circles after a lull caused by Entente statesmen declarations.
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Berlin
Wilson
Order to Return Foreign Cars to Owners
The Interstate Commerce Commission on Friday issued an order requiring railroads to show cause at a December 28 hearing why they should not immediately return all foreign coal and refrigerator cars to their owners after unloading at their destination, without diversion or misuse.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Exonerated Slayings Case Ends in Not Guilty Verdict
Chicago Mrs Ioe M Barnes was cleared of the murder charge in the death of her husband James N Barnes a traveling salesman. The jury returned the not guilty verdict after three hours of deliberation in criminal court.
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Chicago
Bank Robbery Strikes Bickleton Bank in Washington
A bank in Bickleton Washington was robbed of 4000 dollars late Friday by a man who rode into town on horseback and escaped. The incident occurred twenty miles southwest of Mabiom in Yakion county.
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Robe Bank
Yakion
Wash
Bickleton
Mabiom
Gale Rips through New York Area Causing Telecommunication Havoc
A seventy two mile gale following a thunderstorm and mild weather on Friday disrupted telephone and telegraph lines across the metropolitan district. High winds were reported generally from New York to Buffalo and Washington, passing through Pittsburgh.
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Gothem
New York
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Washington
German Officers Killed After Siberian Prison Escape
Three German army officers including a captain and two lieutenants were killed in Mongolia by Russian soldiers after escaping a Siberian prison camp, the Chinese foreign office reported.
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Peking
Wells Fargo to distribute $1 million bonus to employees
Wells Fargo announced a $1,000,000 employee bonus to about 6,000 workers earning $2,000 a year or more. The plan, disclosed on Friday, outlines a capital distribution among the staff.
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New York
Wells Fargo Company
Fri
President Wilson urges belligerents to discuss terms of peace
The note dispatches to all warring nations and neutrals state the president will not offer mediation or peace. He proposes only that belligerents share views on terms to end the war and prevent renewal, aiming to gauge distance to a peaceful haven and seek a world anew.
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Washington
Wilson
Portuguese Expeditionary Corps for France Denoted
Portuguese troops slated for service with French forces in France will be called the Portuguese expeditionary corps, per a quotation in the Portuguese Official Journal.
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France
Paris
Chancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg Story
Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, chancellor of the German empire, acted as the channel for the Kaleer’s peace proposal. The brief item notes his role in relaying a bid for peace during the ongoing crisis.
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DR. von Bethmann-Hollweg
Ratification of Danish West Indies Sale Treaty Passed
After brief reading the assembly adopted the bill ratifying the treaty for sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The vote stood 90 in favor and 16 against ratification.
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Ratifics Islands
Copenhagen
Folkething
Danish West Indies
United States
Trick of Wily Ghinee Tactics Tied to San Prancisco Port
Edward White commissioner of immigration holds information alleging dead men’s names from China were used to facilitate illegal entry at the port of San Prancisco. The claim links schemes to misrepresentations and passport fraud.
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Ghinee
Bomb Placed at Governor Spry Home in Snow
Salt Lake City police uncover a bomb buried on the sidewalk leading to Governor William Spry’s front porch. Officials believe the device was part of an I W W plot to assassinate the governor and destroy his home, with six I W W members jailed for investigation.
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Salt Lake City
William Spry
Bomt
Washington
Governors Home
Richard F. Neslen
Burlington
Spry
Friends
Chief White
Joseph Hillstrom
Ninth South
Jordan River
Murray
Edward
Till
Charles
John Eselius
Oscar
Robert Erickson
Offcers
James E. Jennings
Jennings
J. Parley White
L W. W
Jennings Home
Governor's Home
Governor's Yard
Bank Wrecker Pardoned In Albany Christmas Act
Governor Whitman granted a Christmas pardon to William J. Cummins of Albany who has served three years and two months of a four year eight month sentence for his role in the Carnegie Trust Company wrecking in New York years ago.
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Albany
N. Y
Whitman
William J. Cummins
Carnegie Trust Company of New York
War Aide Juvenile Crime Increases in War Years
London reports show crime rising among youths and adults during the war. Home Office statistics for nine towns including London indicate theft by children up about fifty percent.
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London
Home Office
Christmas Eve Bandits Target Chicago Homes
Four well dressed youths under seventeen carried out nearly twenty robberies in Chicago across forty eight hours before Christmas Day. They stole more than $1,000 as well as watches rings stickpins and coal.
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Chicago
All American Dinner for President Washington
President Wilson finished his Christmas at the White House with an All America dinner. He hosted a large group of relatives and friends and received delicacies from many parts of the country as Christmas presents.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Convicts Battle With Prisoners at Arkansas Cotton Compress
Two escaped convicts fought a three hour siege from an improvised fort at a cotton compress in Kewport Arkansas with a posse of citizens. The leader was mortally shot and two posse members were seriously wounded. The second convict escaped.
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Kewport
Ark
Not Guilty Verdict in Bribery Case for Two Harbors Mayor
William Towl former socialist mayor of Two Harbors Minnesota was acquitted of accepting a bribe from a hotel proprietor in exchange for protection of alleged blind pig operations. The trial focused on alleged bribery related to local vice and law enforcement tolerances.
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Two Harbors
Minn
William Towl
Thin Town
T « Hotel
Liquor Demand Surges for Dry States Aboard Baltimore Lines
Christmas rush for liquors in dry Virginia West Virginia and Carolinas floods Baltimore express services. Demand strains shipments as customers seek spirits and wines supplies despite temperance limits.
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Baltimore
Virginia
West Virginia
Carolinas
British troops gain in Dobrudja as Mackensen assaults
British mounted forces with aircraft support seize a strong position at Maghdaga near El Arish after Isakisha fell to Turkish and German forces. Reports say 1,130 prisoners taken and heavy matériel captured, while Russians claim losses on Austro German lines in the Carpathians.
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London
Roumania
Walachia
Buze-Kimnik
Dobrudji
von Mackensen
Matchin
Isakisha
Danube
Tultcha
Maghdaga
el Arish
Carpathians
Macedonia
Julian
North Sea
Bandit Robs Passengers On Chicago Milwaukee Train
A bandit attempted a robbery in the smoking car of a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train approaching Bronx City Iowa. He fled with about 10 in cash after exchanging with passengers and leaping through a window as the train moved.
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Bronx City
Iowa
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Marshall Calls on Desert Holiday in Phoenix
Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall arrived in Phoenix Arizona on Saturday morning to spend holidays at their desert bungalow. The vice president declined to discuss foreign affairs or public matters, stating he had come for a complete fee.
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Marshalla
Arizona
Phoenix
Ariz
Marshall
Desert
Duel Offense to France Abandoned After Formal Declaration
Paris reports a proposed duel between the seconds of Deputy Adrien Weber and Captain Charles Traseyre was abandoned after a formal declaration condemning the act as a patriotism offense. The incident reflects wartime tensions and adherence to propriety.
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Paris
Adrien Weber
Charles Traseyre
Montana legislators to hear farmer needs this session
Agricultural interests in Montana plan to present ten measures before the upcoming legislature. The proposals address chiefly farming conditions and related issues needing action or consideration by lawmakers.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Sentry Wounds Three Guardsmen in Colorado Incident
Three guardsmen were wounded by a Colorado guardsman while attempting to escape from the guard house in Douglas Arizona. They were hospitalized with light injuries and the incident prompted an investigation by military authorities.
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Douglas, Ariz
Colorado
Villa Captures San Pedro de las Solon
An American close to Francisco Villa reports Villa has captured San Pedro de las Solon, northeast of Torreon, as of Sunday.
Nevada Towns Dark From Break in Power Lines
Tonopah and all southern Nevada towns relying on city lighting went dark Sunday after a break in power lines crossing the White Mountains. Tolper is Found Guilty. Buffalo murder verdict sets second degree. John Edward Teiper charged with killing his mother. State Constabulary Plan. Denver discusses replacing the state militia with a Constabulary in proposed legislation before the session. Two Pariah in Fire. Oliver K Buckley and cousin Frank J Weller burned to death in a Brooklyn home during Christmas decorations.
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Nevada
Tonopah
Nev
White Mountains
Tolper
Buffalo
Wali John Edward Teiper
Lan Jon
Denver
Colo
New York
Oliver K. Buckley
Frank J. Wel
Buckley
Brooklyn
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