Government Retrenchment Marks 1911 Treasury Report
The 1911 Treasury Department spending plan, released by Secretary Franklin McVeagh, emphasizes retrenchment and economy. It lists total estimated expenditures at 684,132,197 dollars, notes a deficit of about 34 million in ordinary receipts, and calls for changes in tax on bank circulation secured by U S bonds.
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Secretary OF the Treasury
U. S
Washington
Dec
Executive Department
Frankiin McVeagh
Panama Canal
State board probes hazing at Fairmont teacher school
Charleston reports the state board of regents opened an inquiry into hazing of Miss Mattie Taylor a Fairmont State normal school student. She was subjected to an ice bath and painted red after supporting the rival football team. Miss Taylor is a daughter of a prominent Elkins attorney.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Board of Regents
Mattie Taylor
Fairmont State Normal School
Fairmont
Taylor
Elkins
Peers Own Vast Land Holdings in Lords
London reports landowners in the house of lords would be affected by a proposed land tax. Peers collectively hold about 16,211,986 acres, roughly one fifth of the UK, with the defeated budget group owning about 10,078,977 acres. Dukes average 31, acres. marquises 47, acres. earls 30,217 acres. viscounts 15,826. barons 14,512. Leading brewers include Lord Iveagh Hindlip and Kenmare, with Iveagh acreage not yet listed.
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London
House of Lords
United Kingdom
Loria Iveagh
Hindlip
Kenmart
Lord Iveagh
Revered Andrew Gillies to Speak in Fargo
Rev Andrew Gilles famed Minneapolis preacher will address the Fargo Y M C A lecture course Tuesday December 14. The event is billed as a highlight of the Fargo season with high expectations for engaging sermons and illuminating talk according to Dr J M Buckley in The New York Christian Advocate.
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Andrew Gilles
Minneapolis
Fargo
Clty
Gillies
J. M. Buckley
New York Christian Advocate
Robbery Report: Northern Pacific Box Car Break-In
Police report: a Northern Pacific box car was broken into last night with a considerable quantity of merchandise stolen. The seal was broken by unknown culprits whose identities remain a mystery.
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Northern Pacific
Kingsley Named to Active Management at Equitable Life
Darwin Pearl Kingsley, born 1867 in Heu rs Vermont, rises to active management of Equitable Life after Morgan interests acquire controlling stake. A Vermont graduate, former Colorado state auditor, he was vice president of New York Life since 1897 and serves as director of L and N Railway and Central National Bank.
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New York
Equitatle Life Assurance Society
Morgan
Darwin Pearl Kingsley
Kingsley
Ileurs
Great West
Colorado
University of Vermont
New York Life Insurance Society
L. & N. R. R. Company
Central National Bank
Equitable
Fired On Strikers In Ohio And Pennsylvania
Pittsburg reports escalating labor violence in the five month strike by sitdown workers against the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. and U S Steel. A non union house was dynamited at Struthers Ohio injuring seven. A soldier fired on strikers at Bridgeport Ohio with no effect. Non union men were beaten at New Castle Pa as Wheeling and Martins Ferry brace for trouble. Officials hold secret talks in Pittsburgh and New York.
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Pittsburg
American Sheet and Tin Plate Co
United States Steel Corporation
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
B Struthers
Bridgeport
New Castle
Wheeling W. Va
Martins Ferry
New York
Rapid Trial and Death Sentence in Williamstown Lynching Case
Earl Thompson, a Black man, was indicted, tried, and sentenced to death within hours in Williamstown Kentucky after being accused of assaulting Mrs. Maggie Roberts of Dry Ridge. A mob of hundreds gathered, attempting to seize him, but the speedy conviction ended the threat and dispersed the crowd.
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Williamstown
Earl Thompson
Thompson
Maggie Roberts
Dry Ridge
Here
Lexington
Michael Carter
New Officers Chosen by Fargo Knights of Columbus
Fargo Council No. 788 Knights of Columbus elected officers for the year including Grand Knight Thomas C Dunn Deputy Grand Knight Thomas Hanna Recording Secretary J Manning Financial Secretary J Hannaher Chancellor W Clemens Advocate J Sullivan Treas A Charest Inside Guard Dan Smith Outside Guard W J Welsh Trustees Peter Hilcott O M Anhier J Burna The group plans a ceremonial session in February with many candidates ready for initiation.
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Dan Smith
Welsh
Trustes
Peter Hilcott
Anhier
Burna
Arrival of Cook Papers Sparks Peary Debate in Europe
Dr Frederick A Cook's polar observations arrived in Copenhagen aboard the United States with an iron box of his original papers guarded by Walter Lonsdale and detectives. The documents were handed to the University of Copenhagen for secure examination as a revival of the Cook Peary controversy emerges with claims that Peary supporters plan an anti Cook press campaign.
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Europe
Copenhagen
Frederick A. Cook
United States
University of Copenhagen
Bolitiken
Commander Peary
Greenland
Judge Woodruff resigns from Hawaii bench
Honolulu December 8 George Woodruff United States district judge for the territory of Hawaii cabled his resignation to President Taft. He accepted a position with Pocahontas Coal and Coke Co of West Virginia. The Hawaiiian Bar association will endorse Alexander G. M. Robertson for the vacancy. Woodruff appointed April 29 and was previously assistant attorney general for the interior department. He is from Pennsylvania.
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Honolulu
George Woodruff
United States
Territory of Hawaii
Taft
Woodruff
Pocahontas Coal and Coke Co
West Virginia
Hawaiiian Bar Association
Alexander G. M. Robertson
Department of the Interior
Pennsylvania
King Leopold III Stricken By Repeated Strokes
Private dispatches from Brussels report King Leopold of Belgium in grave condition after a paralytic stroke last Friday and a second stroke on Monday. Officials later said he is seriously ill with muscular rheumatism causing great pain, yet he was able to walk in his apartment.
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London
Brussels
Leopold
Belgium
Becker takes NYSE seat in big move from Milwaukee
Dean-Sherburn M. Becker once called the boy mayor of Milwaukee buys a New York Stock Exchange seat for 940000 dollars and plans to relocate to New York City to establish his residence.
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Milwaukee
New York
Dean—Sherburn M. Becker
New York Stock Exchange
Thaw Seeks Transfer From Matteawan Amid Claims of Mistreatment
In White Plains New York December the case moves toward Nyack where Justice orders Matteawan asylum leaders to justify why Harry K Thaw should not be sent to another institution. The petition by Mrs Mary Thaw alleges mistreatment at Matteawan.
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White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan
Nyack
Mary ©. Thaw
Rail strike claims shift as railroads gain advantage
Business leaders report improved freight movement and say the switchmen strike is weakening. Frank T. Hawley, head of the Switchmen's Union, heads east to confer with AFL President Gompers on the strike, with federation backing pledged and wage talks planned with railroad managers west of Buffalo.
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Gommers
Frank T. Hawley
Switchmen’s Union of North America
East
American Federation of Labor
Cincinnati
Switchmen
Northwest
Gompers
Morrison
Tion
Hawley
General Managers’ Committee
Buffalo
Cold Wave Deepens Across Plains and Midwest
Omaha reports 4 degrees below zero as a new winter low while Norfolk Nebraska endures 12 below and Deadwood reaches 17 below. Lander Wyoming records 20 below as southern South Dakota and northern Wyoming suffer the coldest weather of the season.
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South Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Norfolk
Neb
Deadwood
Lander
Wyo
Deserted Man Weds Sister of First Spouse
Ernest Pendleton a Los Angeles baker who has two wives and two households to support faces a legal puzzle after his first wife who joined a Holy Rollers group returns and reconciles. Pendleton had married a second sister several years ago after the first wife left. The first wife has since forgiven him and Pendleton continues to maintain two households while seeking a solution.
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Los Angeles
Ernest Pendleton
Mr. Pendleton
Denver
Pendleton
Divorce Suit Dismissed After Death by Husband
In Chicago, Dee and Mrs. Cecelia Taylor appeared before Judge Petit in the circuit court to dismiss the divorce suit against Walter S Taylor. The attorney stated the husband killed himself, saying death by own action, leading to the dismissal request.
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Chicago
Dee
Cecelia Taylor
Petit
Circuit Court
Walter S Taylor
Sugar trust tied to multiyear fraud in preliminary trial
In a New York preliminary hearing, James F Bendernagel Oliver Spitzer and Thomas A Doyle all trust employees are charged with frauds tied to fixed scales and false weights. The case hints at a broad graft network involving trust officials and customs agents with possible calls for congressional action. A former trusted insider claims over 30 million dollars stolen in the last 15 years.
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New York
Sugar Trust
Trust
Customs Service
James F. Bendernagel
Willameburg
Oliver Spitzer
Thomas A. Doyle
Spitzer
Treasury
Richard Parr
Bendernagel
President Sheldon Indicted in Grand Larceny Case
George P. Sheldon, former president of the Phoenix Insurance Co. of Brooklyn, deposed and critically ill in Greenwich Connecticut, was indicted today by a grand jury for grand larceny tied to alleged looting of the company’s treasury totaling $1,000,000 or more.
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New York
George P. Sheldon
Phoenix Insurance Co
Brooklyn
Greenwich
Conn
Allen's Story Cause of Arrest
Calvert Spensley, president of the defunct First National Bank of Mineral Point, was indicted by the LaCrosse grand jury. He was arrested and brought to Janesville by Chief Deputy United States Marshal Appleby and is expected to be admitted to bail in Madison. Thomas Tomkin offered bonds up to $100,000 for Spensley. Spensley did not resist arrest.
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Janesville
Wis
Calvert Spensley
First National Bank of Mineral
WANTS PROBE OF THE WIRE MERGER
A House resolution by Representative Hitchcock directs the secretary of commerce and labor to task the bureau of corporations with preparing for Congress a statement of the physical valuation of telegraph, telephone and cable lines and other tangible property of Western Union Telegraph, Postal Telegraph, and American Telegraph and Telephone. The data should cover through December 1 and include subsidiaries, capital stock, bonded debt, and approximate market value of stock and bonds.
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Washington
Dec
United States
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Corporations
Congress
Western Union Telegraph Co
Postal Telegraph Co
American Telegraph and Telephone Co
Dec. I
Identification Confirmed in Orange Bath Tub Mystery
In Mast Orange New Jersey a body identified as Mrs Ocey W M Nead was confirmed by an elderly woman who visited the morgue and then left without revealing her identity. Details of the case remain unclear and no further clues have been disclosed.
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New York
Dec
Mast Orange
N. J
Mre
Ocey W. M. Mnead
More Mysteries In Bathtub Case
New York dispatch reports rising questions in the East Orange bathtub murder of Ocey W. M. Snead. A Harlem druggist testifies a woman resembling a relative tried to buy chloroform before the body was found. Police theory holds the victim was chloroformed and drowned. Virginia Wardlaw, the victim’s aunt, remains jailed on murder charges.
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New York
Ocey W. M. Snead
East Orange
Harlem
Gould Interests Retired in Western Union Change
A large part of the Gould interests in the Western Union Telegraph Co was retired today at a board meeting. New representatives from the American Telephone and Telegraph Co, the Harriman and Moore interests succeeded the Goulds. Dividends remained at 3 percent annually with a quarterly 1 percent.
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New York, Dec
Gould
Western Union Telegraph Co
Goulds
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Harriman and Moore
Mother Fends Off Intruding Husband Protects Five
In Minneapolis a mother shielded herself and four children from an intoxicated husband armed with a butcher knife. She struck him with a stick, barricaded the family in a bedroom, and called for help as police arrived. The husband, a boilermaker, was arrested. The eldest child is six and the youngest about ten weeks old.
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Mineapolia
Mia
Steven Wealey
Twenty-fourth Avenue North
Mra. Wesley
Wesley
Jamd
Nicaragua Crisis Deepens With Zelaya Censorship Tight
Reports from Panama describe Nicaragua under Zelaya as censorship tight and distrustful as diplomatic break with the United States widens. Honduras inquires about events while General Toledo’s forces siege Grey town. A counterplot led by ex president Cardenas from Costa Rica gathers 500 men toward Managua. France will not send a warship to Nicaragua.
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Panama
Nicaragua
Zelaya
United States
Honduras
Salvador
Managua
Toledo
Greytown
Vasquez
Rama
New Orleans
Cardenas
Costa Rica
Estrada
France
Paris
M. Arlot
Central America
East Grand Forks Wide Open Town
Missionary Rev L J Anderson and editor K Kauteen report" East Grand Forks revelry and riot after 11 pm with crowds on the street and burning electric signs inviting indulgence. They cross the bridge to observe the first saloon opening at 11 10 p m and describe a night of disturbances to appeal for reform.
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East Grand Forks
Grand Forks
N. D
L. J. Anderson
Hillsboro
K. Kauteen
Anderson
Urge Change of Inauguration Day
Washington press reports a proposal to move Inauguration to the last Thursday in March to avoid weather dangers. Committees and officials discuss shifting the date to reduce risks from storms and bad conditions affecting ceremonies and attendance.
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Washington
Cal
Columbia
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MacVeagh
State Board OF Regents OF
W. Virginia
Willi
N. P
Darwin Pearse Kingsley
Steel and Tin Workers
Look's
U. 5
Hawaii
Cables Taft
Virginia Coal Company
King Leopold
Becker
Thaw
Omaha
James R. Coyle
Oliver Spetzer
Patrick Hennessey
Borah
Idaho
Boraah
Pres
Sheldon
Phoenix Fire Insurance CO
Allen
Wisconsin Bank
Toils
Harriman
Moore
Lelaya
Mexico
Uncle Sam
Saloon Row
District OF Columbia
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