Explorer of Human Links Rumor Claims Congressman Father
Telegraphic notes reveal claims in Cumberland Maryland that Congressman George A Pearre is father to a man named George A Pearre Jr. The unnamed man asserts a family fortune and plans to claim nearly 56000 after prison release. In Cincinnati a dramatic fire rescue saves many occupants including a baby dropped to bystanders.
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Cumberland
George A. Pearce
Maryland
Joseph DeGrace
Danville
George A. Pearre, Jr
Pearre
Tie
Cumberland,s
Cincinnati
Ohio
Nicholas Berri
Richard Wheeler
Big Piano Plant Burned In New York City Fire
A five story piano factory owned by Hardman, Peek & Co. on West Forty-eighth Street suffered near total destruction. The blaze spread to the adjacent Pabst Brewing Company plant, burning stables and the main facility. Estimated losses range from 300000 to 400000. In Etna Green Indiana a severe fire destroyed four two story brick structures within two hours, with losses around 40000. Thomas M. Jones, a major claimant, suspects arson while others cite possible spontaneous combustion.
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Hardman, Peek & Co
West Forty-eighth Street
New York City
New York
Pabst Brewing Company
Pabst Jlant
Etna Green
Ind
Thomas M. Jones
Miss Lizzie Haldeman Dead In Paris
A cablegram from Paris reports the death of Miss Lizzie O. Haldeman daughter of Col W B P Haldeman editor of the Louisville Times. The family has been in Europe six months and reached Paris about three weeks ago. No details beyond death from appendicitis are available.
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Lizzie Haldeman
Louisville
Paris
Lizzie O. Haldeman
Col. W. BP. Haldeman
Louisville Times
Sunday through Friday World Briefs Across Events Listed
A sprawling digest notes incidents from Sunday to Friday including a Fort Dex Moines shooting that killed three officers, mourners at Dr Edward Everett Hale’s Boston funeral, a New York jeweler died en route to Philadelphia with a $20000 necklace, and Nagel's Commerce and Labor shakeup to boost trade. Other items mention marriages in New York, Roosevelt insiders writing a book, Illinois Carhesie Foundation issues, and various political and legal developments across the country.
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Fort Dex Moines
Iowa
Edward Everett Hale
Boston Church
New York
Renure
Philadelphia
Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Helen Hale
William Hodge
Roosevelt
James R. Garfield
Gifford Winchot
University of Ilinois
Carhesie Foundation
Ilinois
Arsenic Found In Bread Linked To Farmer's Death
A bread sample tested by the State Board of Health laboratory shows arsenic, connected to the May 24 poisoning of Spencer Spriggs in Sullivan County. Flour samples await testing while Flora Haddon suspects the bread was meant to kill her, citing recent anonymous skull and crossbones letters. Spriggs died. the Whitfields survived.
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Food and Drug Laboratory
State Board of Health
John C. Cheney
Sullivan
Ind
Spencer Spriggs
Haddon Township
Sullivan County
Spriggs
Sam
Howard Whitfield
Whitfields
Flora Haddon
Anonymous Woman Gifts 40000 At Lutheran Convention
An anonymous donor woman gave an estimated 40000 in Des Moines during the national convention of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The gift value was announced but the donor remains unnamed.
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Des Moines
United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
National corn exposition dates set for Omaha
The National Corn Association fixed December 6 and 16 for the national corn exposition in Omaha. Other notes include a Minnesota drain-tile labor suggestion from Seventh District Bankers in Marshall and bread price hikes in New York City as bakers shift costs to the poor. James J. Hill forecasts a fair but not large wheat crop due to limited acreage.
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The
National Corn Association
Omaha
Minnesota
Seventh District
Marshall
New York
James J. Hill
Army Captain Shot at Fort Des Moines Injures Several
Captain John C. Raymond of Troop B, Second U S Cavalry, was wounded in a pistol attack at Fort Des Moines after reprimanding Corporal Lisle Crabtree for overstaying leave. Crabtree killed himself after wounding Raymond and others. Raymond, 37, paralyzed from the neck, may die. his father is Brigadier General Charles W. Raymond.
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John C. Raymond
Second
United States Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Raymond
Lisle Crabtree
James H. Washburn
James H. Washburn, the Third Hit Captain Raymond
Elijah Such
Bratton
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Charles W. Raymond
Engineer Corps
West Point
Taft Seeks Constitutional Amendment For Income Tax
President Taft asks Congress to propose a constitutional amendment enabling an income tax without state apportionment. He favors a 2 percent excise tax on net income of most corporations, excluding banks, and argues this raises revenue while increasing federal oversight of corporate earnings. He notes Pollock v Farmers’ Loan limits current authority.
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Isfinoig Central Railroad
Central of Georgia Railroad
Charles W. Morse
Hughes
New York
Congress
Taft
Supreme Court
Pollock
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Two Iowa Men Murdered In South Dakota Well Find
Mike Maloney was arrested at Cottonwood South Dakota by Marshal Wiltfang and confessed to killing J Goodwin Rock Valley Iowa and W D Toney Sioux City Iowa. Bodies found in a Kadoka area well with skull injuries, motive robbery. Maloney to Fort Pierre jail. he used alias Mike McCann in Sioux City.
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Mike Maloney
Cottonwood
S. D
Marshal Wiltfang
Kadoka
W. D. Tohey
J. Goodwin
Sioux City
McNally Ranch
Maloney
Fort Pierre
Mike McCann
Kansas City
Toney
Goodwin
Rock Valley
Iowa
W. D. Toney
McNally
Phillip
Soldiers Confront Kansas Liquor Law At Fort Riley
A carload of liquor ordered by soldiers at Fort Riley Kansas arrived but Col Ward the commandant barred entry and ordered the car back to Kansas City. The new laws enacted by the Legislature make liquor purchases in Kansas illegal.
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Fort Riley
Kan
Col. Ward
Kansas City
Nquor
Kansas
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