Taft faces mixed crises as Taft selects judge for high court
Sunday reports Taft nominates Judge Lorton for the Supreme Court while Cuba's politics hint at resignation for President Gomez. Taft orders an inquiry into cotton speculation amid textile worker pressure. Global unrest touches Europe with Paris violence and whispered intrigue as Alabama voters reject a prohibition amendment. Details span Roosevelt's 1912 bid, strikes, and fiscal shifts in Washington.
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Judge Lorton
Supreme Court
Gomez
A. Cook
General Verand
Paris
Vallieres
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Grand Duke
Alexis
Steinhell
Alabama
Howard Chandler Christy
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
US Navy Orders Warships to Nicaragua Port
The Secretary of the Navy directed the cruiser Albany and gunboat Yorktown to sail to Corinto on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. Secretary Knox cut off diplomatic relations with Zelaya’s government and recognized the belligerency of the Nicaraguan revolutionists. Passports were issued to Zelaya officials for possible exit, while Estrada’s or the revolutionists’ envoys would be received as appropriate. This move signals no declared war, but sets the stage for reparations over two American citizens executed under Zelaya’s direction.
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Magdalena Bay
Lower
California
Corinto
Nicaragua
Washington
Zelaya
Zalaya
Zelaya Revolt Evades Peace Yet Faces Crushing Blow
A wireless dispatch from Colon via Bluefields reports revolutionists under General Matuty repelled 1000 government troops near the Topaz mine shore Rama after five hours of fighting. Zelayan forces suffered eighty dead and many wounded while the revolutionaries lost twenty. The note from the Secretary of State hints at significant repercussions for Zelaya.
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Colon
Bluefields
Matuty
Topaz
Rama
Moorish Chiefs SubmIt to Spain in Formal Submission
Chiefs from Kabyles Beni Bouffar and Bani Sidel in Morocco presented formal submission to General Marina with ceremony. They offered to raise a native force to join Spanish troops against Moora who remained hostile.
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Kabyles
Beni-Bouffaur
Bani-Sidel
Marina
DAYS LOSE IN ALABAMA Voters reject constitutional prohibition amendment
In Alabama the anti amendment bloc swept the vote. Early tallies show a landslide against the prohibition measure with Montgomery Mobile Jefferson Colbert and Barbour counties voting no. Governor candidate Mallory without strong support except in Dallas. Total vote likely near 100000 with a possible 16000 margin.
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Montgomery
Mobile
Jefferso
Colbert
Carmichael
Dale
Barbour
B. B. Comer
Weakley
D. Mallory
Dallas
Woman shoots moose to save husband in Minnesota
Mrs. H. B. Parker of Chicago, hailed as one of Illinois' best shots, fired at a charging moose near Lutson Minnesota to save her husband and an Indian guide. The moose charged, mauling Parker before she fired a single bullet, causing the animal to stagger and fall. The Indian later dispatched the beast.
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H. HB. Parker
Chicago
Minnesota
Lutson
Minn
H. B. Parker
Illinois
Political debate on suffrage and central banking terms
Miss Mary Johnston defends the suffrage amendment in a signed statement while Editor Watterson denounces socialism and Universal suffrage education as leading to revolution. The New York Tribune notes a Taft administration movement backing Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. George B. Roberts endorses the Aldrich central bank concept to bankers in Kansas City.
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Watterson
Loutaville Courier-Journal
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Parla
Saya
New York Tribune
Taft
Theodora Roosevelt
Central Bank
George HB. Roberts
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Mint
Kansas City
Aldrich Central Bank
Calabra brothers tied to Berwick Black Hand crimes
Antonio Calabra and his brother Fortunato, residents of West Berwick, were arrested in Philadelphia and Tamaqua and sent to Berwick amid a police probe into a "black hand" gang accused of murders. The pair and another member had been linked to nine killings in 1906 with bodies disposed of, cellars dug up, and later pardons and time served notes.
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Berwick
Antonio Calabra
State Constabulary
Fortunato
Tamaqua
West Berwick
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Eastern Penitentiary
Fortunate
Gov
Stuart
Weaver Slays Five Then Kills Self Near Greenville Ohio
Clyde Weaver killed his mother and a deputy sheriff, wounded a farmer and his wife, then turned a home into a barricade and fatally shot himself. The killings occurred in Franklin Township nine miles east of Greenville. Weaver had returned from Illinois after a Dayton workhouse parole and was under threat of arrest for threatening James Hapner’s family.
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Franklin Township
Greenville
Ohio
Weaver
Levi Minnich
Minnich
Illinois
Rising Railroad Dictator Seizes Frisco Lines
Edwin Hawley gains control of the Frisco system and links to the Toledo, St. Louis & Southwestern, Chicago & Alton, Minneapolis & St. Louis, Chesapeake & Ohio, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and others. He isolates the Frisco from Rock Island and aims to rejuvenate the network on a paying basis.
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Frisco
Hook Island
Edwin Hawley
Western Railroad
Toledo
St. Louis
Rock Island
Explosion at Marietta Torpedo Plant Kills One
A nitroglycerin magazine exploded at the Marietta Torpedo Company plant near Washington Pa causing one death. A wall shooter named Shuster perished as windows shattered in 500 houses, chimneys toppled, and ornaments were thrown from mantels. Cause remains a mystery.
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Marietta Torpedo Company
Shuster
Gameron
Mani Tela
Grave Robbers Steal Infant Body From Highland Cemetery
Hatfield Conrad mourns as unknown thieves snatch the infant son’s body from a grave in Highland Cemetery near Great Falls Mont. The coffin was left at the gate to appear undetected and the theft is believed to be for ransom.
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Hatfield Conrad
Highland Cemetery
Great ‘Falla
Mont
Banker Is Given Ten Years For Bank Embezzlement
Phil Allen Jr former vice president of the First National Bank of Mineral Point Wisconsin pleaded guilty before Judge Sanborn in Madison to four of twenty six counts in the indictment and was sentenced to ten years in federal prison at Fort Leavenworth Kansas the maximum on any one count Allen 63 had already been jailed for weeks after pleading not guilty in La Crosse to the indictment and appearing in court unexpectedly bowed head and without comment.
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First National Bank of
Mineral Point
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Sanborn
United States District Court
Madison
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Allen
Mineral Point Bank
la Crosse
Auto Crash Kills Five In Los Angeles Suburb
A street car collision six miles from Los Angeles left a father Nicholas Jacobs and his five children dead. The mother and a 2 month old baby were badly injured. Surviving siblings Peter and John Jacobs and Josephine Sofon, 19, escaped with minor injuries.
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Cal
Nicholas Jacobs
Kate Jacobs
Mamie Jacobs
Anthony Jacobs
Clemant Jacobs
Jacobs
Peter
John
Josephine Sofon
Edward to adjust dispute mediation request by nations
The United States and Chilean governments asked King Edward in London to mediate the Alsop claim dispute. The King had previously been informally consulted but offered no firm commitment at that time.
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Calteda
Edward
Alsop
Chile
United States
Foreign Office
London
Barons and Bribery Scandals Stir Global News
Baron Liang Ki ei arrives in Washington on a special mission. A Kiel navy yard defalcation could run into millions, tied to covert selling of copper and steel by a dealer ring with junior officials. In Bristol Theresa Garnett, the suffragette who whipped Winston Churchill, is jailed for disturbing the peace amid threats of retaliation against cabinet ministers. A second suffragette faces hard labor for stone throwing.
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Liang Ki'ei
China
Washington, D. C
Berlin
Kiel Navy Yards
Avan
Bristol
Theresa Garnett
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Thanksgiving trade holds steady in Chicago weekly review
SHTCAGO, R.G. Dun & Cos weekly review of Chicago trade reports robust activity in leading retail lines, solvent payments improve and bank trading defaults decline. Industrial demand remains strong with machinery, cars, ships, and hardware production rising. prices for key factory materials steady with some prospect of gains. Agricultural returns stay profitable, interior merchandise depletes quickly, and money remains in demand by manufacturers and merchants. Bank clearings top 231 million, up 8.2 percent from 1908.
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Shtcago
Chicago
Andes
New York Retail Trade Signals Holiday Season Uptick
Cold weather and holidays boost retail trade while wholesale activity shows mixed signals. Industrial output remains record or large for season with steady demand in finished goods. Bradstreet's reports weekly U S business failures at 211, Canada at 24 for week ending Nov 25.
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New York
United
Canada
Sempares
Bradstreet’s
Livestock and grain prices across multiple markets
Chicago cattle and hog futures show ranges from $4.00 to $9.25 for cattle and $3.50 to $8.35 for hogs with sheep and other commodities listed. Prices from Indianapolis, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and New York include wheat No. 2 around $1.15–$1.24, corn No. 2 about 61¢–72¢, oats around 40¢–48¢, rye 75¢–78¢, butter 29–82¢, eggs 27¢.
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Indianapolia
St. Louise
Detroit
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
New York
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