Packers in control advance in Kansas City terminals case
Swift and Armour, the packers, have required the stock of the Union Depot, Bridge and Terminal company, owner of valuable terminals and river land on both sides of the Mississippi at Kansas City. Officials say a double deck bridge and a major depot will be built near the Kansas City end, with the company spending about four million dollars in the past year to improve terminals and buy river land for new packing houses and possibly stock yards.
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Swift and Armour
Kansas
Kaneng City
Union Depot, Bridge and ‘Terminal Company
Missouri River
Star
Kansas City
Curran Testimony Highlights Wages and Violence Claims
J J Curran of Wilkes Barre testified before the coal strike commission arguing miners deserve higher wages. He said miners’ children compare well with others and condemned violence used by owners to resume work, calling it unjust to the community.
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J. J. Curran
Wilkesbarre
Scranton
J.J. Curren
Coal Strike Commission
Curran
Eastern States Barred Cattle Quarantine Expanded
Springfield dispatch reports the Livestock Commission announces quarantine against Rhode Island Massachusetts Connecticut and Vermont due to foot and mouth disease. Cattle sheep and other ruminants and swine from Maine New Hampshire New Jersey Pennsylvania New York and Quebec Ontario may enter Illinois only with certificates proving no contact with the quarantined states in the prior thirty days and that the animals are free from disease and exposure.
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Springfield
The
Livestock Commission
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Vermont
Ferguson On Filipinos and Governor Taft Admiration
Arthur Ferguson, secretary of the Philippine commission, met Washington officials to discuss conditions in the Philippines. He said Filipinos idolize Governor Taft, who is seen as their best friend and deeply engaged in aligning them with American ideals, with health fully restored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Arthur Ferguson
Philippine Commission
State and War Departments
Philippines
Ferguson
Taff
Sdeag
Islands
Fergueur
Bank Robbers In Illinois Escape With Cash
A four man gang attacked the Cropgey bank twenty miles east of Bloomington last night, forcing open the vault and escaping with a horse and buggy stolen from a nearby stable. Deputies and armed citizens pursued for about thirty miles but lost the train near Sibley. the safe held $5,000.
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Bloomington
Til
Cropgey
Lwre
Gyn
Sibley
Big tunnel completed under Lake Erie for Cleveland
Cleveland December 6 The last spade ful of earth removed today ends six years of continuous labor on the big water works tunnel under Lake Erie. The work cost about a million and eight hundred thousand dollars and fifty lives were lost to date in explosions and other accidents.
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Lake Erie
Cleveland Water Works
Cleveland
Big Water Works
Rubber workers threaten national plant tie up strike
Chicago December: Amalgamated Rubber Workers' International Union endorses the Rubber Workers' Union strike and warns that unless a settlement is reached in a few days they will attempt to shut down all plants controlled by the rubber trust across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amalgamated Rubber Workers’ Union
Chicago
Dunn
Rubber Workers’ Union
Amalgamated Rubber Workers’ International Union
Rubber Trust
Dillon Returns to New York as Ireland Leader Plans Dublin Christmas
John Dillon, the Irish leader, has recovered enough to travel to New York tonight to meet Mrs Dillon, who is due from Ireland Sunday night. He says he plans to spend Christmas at his Dublin home.
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John Dillon
Chicago
New York
Weekly Bank Statement Declines in Key Figures
New York reports a bank statement showing loans up 1,611,000 while deposits fall 4,074,200 and reserves drop 6,831,100. Surplus declines by 5,812,550 and excess U. S. deposits decrease 8,818,475.
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New York
Miner Paid Only Once In Thirty Years In Debt Slavery Tale
James Gallagher testified he earned $50 in wages once in thirty years and never received regular pay while working in Marble mines. He described company stores, debt bondage, and a boy breaker earning four cents an hour with due bills showing a growing family debt. Settlement talks continue without formal action.
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James Gallagher
Telia Commission
Scranton
Naver
Burt
Gray
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Markle
Pension Appropriation Bill Passes At $139,847,000
The House approved a pension appropriation bill totaling 139 million dollars without debate and spent the day advancing other calendar measures. A point of no quorum halted a motion to block private bands from competing with military bands. Committees were called and resolutions on holiday adjournment from December 20 to January were introduced by Payne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. A. Smith
Michigan
House
South Dakota
Missouri
Payne
ICC offers hearing on freight rate increases to New York
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced a hearing in Washington on December 16 to consider proposed freight rate increases from the Missouri River to New York. The order requires chief traffic officials or qualified representatives of the affected roads to attend and provide information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri River
New York
Prize goes to Iowa at international live stock show
At the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago the Spoor trophy went to Iowa for top three student scores in stock judging. Clay and Sanders awards totaled 500 dollars to top individuals from Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and Ontario. Separate report notes Berlin reports cities aiding unemployed with substantial subsidies amid cold weather.
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Chicago
Agricultural Colleges
Farmers’ Sons
Spoor
Agricultural College
Clay and Sanders
John Clay, Jr
A. N. Sanders
Charles Gray
Iowa
W. A. Linkater
Wayna Dinsmore
W. C. Edwards
Rockland
Ont
Oscar M. Olsen
Minnesota
Sis
D. A. Gau Tla
Fln
Reid
Ontario
Ex Speaker Reed Dies in Washington
Thomas B. Reed former speaker of the U S House died in his Arlington hotel rooms after a long illness. The immediate cause was uraemia linked to Brights disease with kidney trouble developing late. Reed, born 1839 in Portland, Maine, had a long career in law politics and served as speaker December 1889 and 1895.
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Reed
Washington
Araemia
Thomas Brackett Reed
House of Representatives
Arlington Hotel
United States Supreme Court
Capitol
Congress
Gardiner
Reen
Miss Kittle
W. C. Goodwin
Philadelphia
Thomas B. Reed
Portland
Bowdoin College
Maine
United States Navy
State House of Representatives
State Senate
Edward Staples
Agron Clark
James B. Campion
People’s Party
Soldiers to Get Bounty in Marshall County
Court finalizes the soldiers bounty case and 149 claimants are eligible for about 50 dollars each. The fund, created by a 1863 to 1865 tax, totaled over 350000, with 266 soldiers paid 150 dollars early. Remaining balance and heirs with unknown addresses may claim after proof and localization. Distribution begins this week through the court clerk.
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Marshalltown
Dev
Board of Supervisors
Marshall County
Cloud H. Brock
Britain Prohibits Landing of Live Stock from New England
Washington December 8 Official notice from the Agricultural Department reports Britain has banned landing live animals from Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Vermont Rhode Island and Connecticut due to foot and mouth disease. Secretary Wilson orders 20 veterinarians to New England to assist Dr Salmon and stamping out the outbreak with additional inspectors reassigned from export duties to Great Britain.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
New England States
Department of Agriculture
State Department
Willis L. Moore
Board of Agriculture of
Great Britain
New England
United Kingdom
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Vmont
Rhode Island
Connecticut
British Board of Agriculture
Salmon
Boston
Wilson
Moore
Bureau of Animal Industry Service
Agriculture Growth Noted In Wilsons Annual Report
Secretary James Wilson in his just released annual report highlights vast gains in agriculture. Fixed capital in farming totals about 20 billion dollars, over half the U.S. population lives on farms, and farm products value nears 5 billion dollars annually. He asserts science for farms is in early stages, government support outruns other nations, and ongoing research spans many projects across the department.
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Washington
United States
James Wilson
Wilson
Colorado Football Armor Shocked Denver Crowd
Denver report shows Colorado football players wore four armor pieces at a game. A sheet iron breast plate protected the lungs and ribs, strapped under the uniform. Additional sheet iron reinforced shoulder pads and a central hand protector.
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Colorado
Denver
University of Colorado
Thomas Nast Dies in Guayaquil After Yellow Fever
Celebrated American cartoonist Thomas Nast died in Guayaquil on December 8 after three days of illness from yellow fever. He served as consul general since this year, arrived in July, and was buried at 5 PM. Nast shaped political cartoons and created the Tweed money bag and party symbols.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Thomas Nast
Hawae
Mr. Nast
South America
Afp
South
Gen. Grant
Tribute to ex Speaker Thomas B Reed Honors House
Washington dispatch reports the House paid a remarkable memory tribute to ex Speaker Thomas B Reed. Sherman of New York offered a high parliamentary tribute before the body adjourned with no business conducted amid the somber scene. Rochester endures a severe blizzard with 20 degree temps and 45 mph winds, coal shortages, and many suffering residents.
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Washington
House
Thos. B. Reed
Sherman
New York
Reed
Satira
Rochester
Sodus
Freak Fish Captured on Mississippi Exhibit From St Louis
A live aquatic freak named Meno branchus is shown in a large glass jar at the Chicago, St. Louis and Peoria railroad ticket office in St Louis. Caught by fishermen near Chautauqua, Illinois, it resembles a snake headed eel with two feet and four toes on each foot, gills, and a rattlesnake like pattern. Its meat is untested. The creature is lazy and unbothered by crowds.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Chicago, St. Louis and Peoria
North Fourth Street
Webster
Mississippi River
Flehermen
Chautauqua
Til
Thie City
The Two Are One Wife Cannot Steal From Husband
In Portland on December 8 county attorney Whitehouse ruled that under common law a husband and wife are one person so a man cannot steal from himself. The state against Raymouth S Bunting will be discharged. Mrs Harrison claimed she gave the money to her sister and husband. Bunting admitted receiving $1000 but argued no theft occurred.
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Portland
Whitehouse
Raymouth S. Bunting
Thomas Harrison
Unusual Coincidence in Deaths at Local Hotel
Indianapolis reports two men, musician Robert Kilian and resident Thomas Sharp, both from unrelated backgrounds, died by self harm in Little's hotel on Sunday morning. Kilian took morphine, Sharp rat poison. Sharp died at City Hospital that afternoon, Kilian was found dead in his hotel room about the same time. Both had rented rooms at roughly the same hour and were strangers to each other.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Robert
Kittian
St. Louis
Thomas Sharp
Meekstreet
Little's Hotel
Kil- Man
Sharp
City Hospital
Killian
Severe Winter Weather Grips Much of the Nation
A broad cold wave drives temperatures to zero or below from the Dakotas to Minnesota and Illinois, with five fatalities linked to the cold. Nebraska and western Iowa report zero readings but improving conditions. coal shortages threaten Omaha. Also notes Prince Oscar’s minor collarbone fracture from a fall.
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Chicago
Dec
Gulf
Illinois
Iowa
South Dakota
Montana
Minnesota
North Dakota
Mississippi River
Weat
Wisconsin
Michigan
Missouri
Ohio
Ilinoi
Kansas
Omaha
Mercury
Nebraska
Oldest Maritime resident Maxim Gogan dies at 108
Maxim Gogan of Cocagne New Brunswick dies at 108 after a life of wealth and legend. Descendant of Louis Gogan who survived a 18th century wreck, Maxim reportedly found two treasure chests in 1838 and amassed a fortune. He drank heavily, lived outdoors, and remained strong into old age, reportedly lifting heavy loads until age 80. He left eight children and many descendants.
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Cocagne
N. B
Maxim Gagan
Maritime Provinces
St.’ Lawrence Gulf
Louis Gogan
Montcalm
Quebec
Louis
France
Gulf of St. Lawrence
New Brunswick
Count a'Hautreye
Cocagny Point
Gogan
Maxim Gogan
Gulf
Mquor
Goda
Draik
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Packers
Railroad
Ames College
Berlin
Germany
Dresden
Britain
Mark
Gulf States
Chicag
Dakota
Ploen
Prussia
Prince Oscar
Emperor William
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