Sicily Earthquake Disaster Reaches Sicily City of Catania
Reports from Rome say southern Italy suffered a serious earthquake centered in Sicily with panic widespread. Docks at Catania were damaged by a tidal wave. several towns including Caltanissetta Minso and Agosta reported collapsed buildings, multiple churches destroyed, prisoners escaped, troops deployed for rescue, and many casualties feared in Palmi and nearby towns.
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Haly
Sicily
Caltanissetta
Minso
Catania
Agosta
Syracuse
Lindua Glossa
Santa Saverina
NATO
Calabria
Stefanconi
San Noficio
Palmi
Earthquakes Hit Virginia City Power Plant Outage
Virginia City Montana endured a week long tremor sequence with over thirty quakes cataloged. The electric power and light plant ten miles from town was knocked out as tremors cracked buildings and toppled plaster and dishes across the area.
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Virginia Cuy
Virginia City
Mont
Hottentots on Warpath in German Southwest Africa
Word of renewed violence reaches Capetown as Hottentots raid cattle posts near the Bechuanaland border and kill European settlers. Seven German soldiers pursuing the raiders were shot, heightening anxiety among German colonial residents.
First Officer Alone Survives British Steamer Collision
A collision off Newcastle between the British steamer Advance and the bark Iverna sank the Advance with all crew lost except its first officer. The Iverna reached Newcastle leaking badly. Separately, St Paul brokers Geraghty Endicott building suspends due to dull grain market.
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Newcastle
Advance
T Here
Newcasle
St. Paul
Cut Toe Paring Corn Ends in Death of Sioux City Man
Patrick Teefey aged fifty four died at his home in Sioux City after a cut while paring corn led to blood poisoning. Doctors amputated his leg in a failed effort to save him. Teefey, a wealthy landowner in Iowa and Oklahoma, previously lived in Danbury Iowa before moving to Sioux City.
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Patrick Teefey
Sioux City
Mr. Teefey
Iowa
Oklahoma
Danbury
Gasoline Tank Explodes Injuring Union Blacksmith and Family
A gasoline tank exploded at a bracer’s furnace in Union, wrecking the home of Matthew Cox, a blacksmith, and badly burning Cox, his wife, and five children. Cox’s burns are very serious, with a risk of fatal outcome, while others’ burns are minor.
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Blacksmith
Union
Matthew Cox
Cox
Explosion Burns Clergy at Duncombe Church Lecture
Rev. Mueller Radcliffe and Rev. Collins of Duncombe suffered facial burns from a stereoptical machine blast during a sermon at the Duncombe M. E. church. The explosion caused a panic but the flames were put out and the audience escaped unharmed.
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Mueller Radcliffe
Collins
Duncombe
M. E
Mueller
Emmet County Meter Association Elects Officers
The Emmet County Meter Association in Estherville elected officers: President J f mstrong, Vice President AL ison, Secretary and Treasurer J P Richardson. E W Uachman of Estherville was chosen to attend the state convention. Frank Waters, 40, committed suicide at Marshalltown due to ill health. he was a nephew of Senator Charles Eckles of Marshall County.
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William Lavean
Des Moines
Thomas Cassady
Laveau
Emmet County Meter Association
Estherville
J. Fmstrong
Vic
Alison
J. PF. Richardson
E. W. Uachman
Esther Ville
Frank Waters
Marshalltown
Charles Eckles
Marshall County
Frenzied Murder and Deaths Mark Ohio and Dayton Edges
Edwin McNamara fatally shot his father Martin McNamara amid marriage disputes and property clashes in Mason City before attempting suicide. In Dayton, former Congressman Charles M. Anderson, 64, died at his Greenville home after Civil War service and long tenure as resident manager of the Central Branch Soldiers' Home.
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Mason City
Edwin McNamara
Martin McNamara
Dayton
Charles M. Anderson
Ohio
Greenville
Central Branch
Gale sinks Rhine. four drown in Frankfort harbor
A fifteen ton gasoline fishing tug named Rhine, owned by Harvey Henrath, was crushed against a harbor pier in a terrific south gale. All four crew members aboard died, perished in the Frankfort incident dated December 29.
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Frankfort
Mich
Harvey Henrath
Investigation Opens in Packing House Industry Probe
Chicago December 29 federal grand jury begins evidence in the packing house industry probe. District Attorney Sims omits course of inquiry while promising a thorough three week review. Subpoenas issued to several employees including Harry C Downing of Mortis Co referenced in rebate cases.
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Sims
Chicago
Federal Brand
Harry C. Downing
Mortis & Co
Srand
Ohio senatorial fight in doubt amid legislature stalls
In Columbus dozens of Ohio lawmakers have gathered as the race to replace Senator Poraker remains unsettled. Congressman Burton of Cleveland and Editor Charles P Taft lack enough votes on joint ballot. Taft supporters refuse figures while about sixteen pledged votes remain undeclared, keeping the outcome fluid.
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Ohio
Columbus
Aghk
Poraker
Basra
Burton
Cleveland
Charles P. Taft
Elling
Taft
Alleged Misappropriation In Mexican Plantation Assoc
Chicago reports a petition for a receiver in the circuit court against the Mexican Plantation association alleging that J R Warklay E D Graves D B Graves John B Welcome and Leo Mantell diverted large sums to themselves. Joseph Sanders says the affairs were controlled by the named individuals and trustees may be displaced to transfer property to the Mexican Plantation Company Incorporated. Teachers were among original stockholders.
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Chicago
J. R. Warklay
E. D. Graves
DB. W. Graves
John B. Welcome
Leo Mantell
Mexican Plantation Association
Joseph Sanders
Sanders
Marklay
Mexican Planitation Company, Incorporated
Congressmen Sail For Panama Canal Investigation
Fourteen members of the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce depart Charleston on the Panama Line steamer Alraneas to inspect canal work. They will reach Colon on January 1 and spend four to five days on the Isthmus before returning to Washington by January 14.
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Charleston
S. G
8. C
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Panama
Alraneas
Colon
Isthmus
Washington
UNIQUE COLLEGE ON WHEELS FOR IOWA FARMERS
Iowa farmers gain access to agricultural instruction via a two car college on wheels conceived by Professor P G Holden of the Ames institution. The program travels statewide with free rail transport, lectures, demonstrations, and a winter short course from December to February, including instruction for farm wives and stock judging displays to attract rural attendees.
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Towa
Iowa
High Chisa
Toler Found Not Guilty After High Court Verdict
In Foledo the jury acquitted W. F. Toler, accused of killing George W. Davis at Marshalltown after a tense trial. Toler, a Town Central railroad foreman, claimed self defense amid a countywide strike and violent clashes between strikers and nonunion workers. The case moved to Toledo on venue, and his wife fainted upon the verdict.
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Foledo
W. F. Toler
George W. Davis
Marshalltown
Toler
Town Central Railroad
Davis
Toledo
Man cremated in barn after drunken accident
R A Jones a Kingsley well digger and bachelor aged sixty died in a barn fire at Mrs Tibbits place. Police say he wandered near the barn with a lit pipe about midnight, was intoxicated, and may have fallen into the hay and manger pole causing the blaze that charred his body. The horse escaped.
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R. A. Jones
KR. A. Jones
Kingsley
Netherlands to hold line on Venezuela dispute pending Gomez plan
The Hague says the Venezuela Holland trouble is provisionally at an end and The Netherlands will wait for the Gomez administration in Caracas to develop proposals for a definite settlement.
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Hague
Der
Foreign Office
Venezuela
Holland
Netherlands
Gomez
Caracas
Wounded Cashier and Fatal Auto Incident Reported
A wounded assistant cashier George Hamstead of the People's Saving Bank of Vinton was injured when shot and later hurled from a bogey during a drive downtown. Separately Mrs Clara Courtwright, 60, died after an electric car accident in Waterloo, the machine circling the street twice with wheels running over her. Fresh water sources noted for Manama derive from ocean springs used by divers and bamboo pipes.
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George Hamstead
People's Saving Bank of
Vinton
Clara Courtwright
Waterloo
Manama
Sabrein Islands
The Mere Formality Won in a Suitor Visit
A pale suitor declares his wish to wed Mary's daughter, insisting the consent is a mere formality. Mary’s father questions who suggested seeking approval, and the young man evasively confirms it was Mary’s mother.
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Mary
Papa
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