Five Fatal Fires Kill Five People in Separate Incidents
A New Jersey home fire in Pompton Lakes ruins the dwelling, killing Mia Lin en McWitney and her two young daughters Helen aged years and Elizabeth aged 4, while two immigrants die in a car fire at St Joseph Missouri when a stove top tipped over. Another blaze in Rock Island yards, St Joseph claims Gilliland and an unknown man. Basketball schedule notes Columbia University teams will tour the West starting December 22 with games against Wisconsin Appleton and Chicago affiliate teams.
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New York
Alice Linen McWitney
Helen
Elizabeth
Pompton Lakes
N. J
Steve
Joseph
Dee
Grand
Rock Taland
Gilliland
Northboro
Manita
Columbia University
Hero
University of Wisconsin
Appleton Business College of
Miinois
Cams
Chicago Central
President Roosevelt Plans Message on Immigration Reform
President Roosevelt will address Congress after the holiday recess with recommendations for stricter immigration laws. He is expected to weigh reduced numeric remigration, educational costs or tax effects, and tighter steamship- company rules on transporting immigrants to the United States. The message will assess sociological and psychological aspects of the question.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
T Ie
Train Hit Victims Found Beside Automobile Near Tracks
Dec 22 El Paso Texas reports two men, Master Mechanic Kipp of the American Imelier Refining Co and a wire worker, were found unconscious beside their car near Southern Pacific tracks. They are believed fatally injured, likely struck by a train.
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el Paso
Tex
Brakeman Frosts Feet On Duty To Guard Trains
In Minot North Dakota on December 22 Frank Kirk a Great Northern brakeman remained at his post at Stanley in subzero weather to guard trains. He froze his feet badly and was hospitalized at Ward County, yet kept his post until relief. His condition was critical but stabilized. doctors hope to move his feet as recovery continues.
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Great Northern
Minot
N. D
Frank Kirk
Ward County Hospital
Stanley
Freight tie up in New York area hinges on rail conference
Eight railroads serving New York and Jersey City face a possible Christmas freight tie up. A conference at the Central Railroad of New Jersey office today will decide if ships and yards will be blocked. The roads include Pennsylvania, Erie, Lehigh Valley, Central of New Jersey, Long Island, Baltimore and Ohio, Lackawanna, and Staten Island rapid transit. Meanwhile the Pilgrim Mothers mark their fiftieth reunion with a Waldorf Astoria dinner, featuring addresses by Dr. Jenny De la M. Lozier and others.
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New York
Dec
Jersey City
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Erie
Lehigh Valley
Pilgrim Mothers
Waldorf Astoria
Jennie de la M. Lozier
Agnes McClelland Daulton
Mary Garrett Hay
Janet KE. Richards
States
Raw Silk Shortage Shrinks Global Production Outlook
New York reports a severe raw silk shortage with evidence of a smaller harvest from Europe, Japan, and China. World production last year fell about 5,000,000 pounds from the year before, and current year returns are incomplete but point to a record low.
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New York
Europe
Japan
China
Cost of Living Statistics to Be Published in Pamphlet
Boston December 22 statistics prepared by a well known expert will be published tomorrow in pamphlet form. They show the cause and effect of the increased cost of living. The early month high water mark rose from 1066.108.77 with greater advances in San Francisco and Pacific coast cities. Food prices now expected to be higher than any time since 1884.
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Boston
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Caffery in Bad Shape as Kidney Trouble Bites Senator
Aged Louisiana Senator Donelson Caffery, ill with acute kidney trouble, remains in poor condition with doctors offering only faint hope of recovery. The report comes from New Orleans with no signs of improvement since early today.
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Louisiana
Little Hope
New Orleans
Dee
United States
Donelson Caffery
Cage falls in 400 foot mine shaft near Carlyle
St Louis December 22 One miner is known dead five others believed dead and another seriously injured after a cage dropped from a 400 foot shaft at Brease Trenton Coal Mining Co ten miles west of Carlyle Illinois The cage with six men fell 300 feet after a momentary sticking point The known dead is August Foppry Buried under debris believed to be dead are Walter Shaffner Hernan Frater Henry Middeke Herman Holtman Frank Sarre and William Fritz
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St. Louis
Brease-Trenton Coal Mining Co
Carlyle
Til
Winera
August Foppry
Walter Shaffner
Hernan Frater
Henry Middeke
Herman Holtman
Frank Sarre
William Fritz
Shah Relapse Worsens Condition In Tehran
In Teheran Persia on December 22 the Shah suffered a relapse after a brief improvement. Doctors report his condition very bad with acute pain. A decree signed December 20 named Prince Ali Miran as regent amid earlier discussions of governing authority.
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Teheran
Persia
Prince al Miran
Captain Macklin Shot at Home in Oklahoma
Captain Badgar B Macklin of Co C Twenty-fifth Infantry remained conscious after being shot at his Oklahoma home. He identified the assailant as a Negro soldier recently discharged on President Roosevelt's orders. Bloodhounds aided the search, with no trace found by morning. Doctors said recovery looked likely as he improved.
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EB Reno
Okla
Bad‘gar B. Macklin
Co. C
Macklin
Army Captain Shot At Fort Reno During Rioting Fallout
El Reno Okla Dec 22 Captain Ragnar B Macklin of the Twenty fifth U S Infantry was shot twice and seriously wounded in his Fort Reno quarters by an armed masked Negro. The attack follows fallout from Roosevelt ordered discharges of troops tied to Brownsville riots. Captain Macklin, son of a retired brigadier general, was at dinner when a masked intruder demanded money. Macklin fired two shots. A war department court martial had previously been ordered against him for alleged negligence in preventing the Brownsville riot.
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el Reno
Okla
Ragar B. Macklin
Twenty-fifth
United State Infantry
Roosevelt
Fort Reno
Macklin
Woman Faints at Corpse Vision in Tennessee
Mia Martha Jackson traveled to the home of neighbor Charles Hood and glimpsed his dead body. The shock proved fatal as she collapsed and died moments later in Kington Tennessee on December 22. In New York, December 22, J Pierpont Morgan gave his son J Pierpont Morgan Jr a $600,000 mansion as a Christmas gift. Morgan had paid $600,000 for Isaac N Phelps mansion at Madison Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street on December 24, 1904. deeds list both Morgans as John H. instead of J Pierpont Morgan Jr.
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Kington
Tenn
Mia
Martha Jackson
Charles Hood
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
Isaac N. Phelps
Madison Avenue
Thirty-seventh Street
Morgan
Morgans
John H
J. Pierpont
Scandal in the Alton hints at big railroad shortfall
Rumor of an $8,000,000 deficit in Chicago and Alton railroad finances spreads unease. Irregularities said to exceed that amount are reported in the books. Directors announce expert accountants are revising the Alton records as officials meet. The whole affair stirs railroad circles and public curiosity.
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New York
Chicago & Alton
Alton
Broadway
al Ton
Another Chance for Mrs Meyers in Habeas Ruling
Judge Philipp grants a writ of habeas corpus for Agnes Myers jailed in Liberty Missouri. She faces a January 10 execution for the murder of her husband with a court order to bring her to Kansas City on December 31. Florida mullet fishery exports reach 3 516 400 pounds with Punta Gorda shipments to Jacksonville Savannah and Charleston.
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Philipp
United States Court
Kansas City
John P. Philipp
United States District Court
Agnes Myers
Liberty
Florida
Tampa
Fla
Punta Gorda
Jacksonville
Savannah
Charleston
Mrs Heyl of Milwaukee Seeks Divorce Amid Noted Will Case
Mrs. Clort S Neyl of Milwaukee files for divorce from Jacob Heyl in Milwaukee county court after the Schandeln will case drew national attention. She cites cruel treatment and threats to kill her, seeks custody of two children, and alleges extensive sums from the Bhandein estate. Heyl admits some points but questions her loyalty and education of the children.
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Mra. Heyl
Milwaukee
Wis
Clort S Neyl
Mra
Lisette Sechandeln
Jaco Heyl
Circuit Court
Milwaukee County
Jacob Heyl
Heyl
Christmas Gifts Burned In Mail Car Fire
A carload of Texas mail matter, mostly Christmas packages, was destroyed when a mail car burned on a northbound Missouri Kansas Texas train near Muskogee I T. The incident occurred late yesterday west of here. Wheat and flour shipments from Portland to China and Japan rise as new trade grows. Orders for grain export to England also increase due to Russian grain shortages. The government test today includes 2600 tons of wheat for Liverpool.
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Muskogee, I. T
Texas
Here
Oregon
Orient
Portland
Ore
China
Japan
Black Sea
Russia
England
Ivernm
Liverpool
Peck of coins marks boy’s dower in Indiana wedding
Frankfort Indiana records an ex county commissioner Zimri Sheets presenting his son Walter Ly Sheets and bride with a peck of United States coin saved over twenty years. Coins hidden beneath an apple tree weighed more than seventy five pounds and comprised pennies to silver dollars awaiting counting.
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Indiana
Frankfort
Ind
Zimri Sheets
Owen Township
Walter Ly Sheets
Sheets
The Great Northern Denies Superior Coal Train Tale
In St Paul on December 22 Superintendent of Transportation Bryan of the Great Northern dismissed the claim of an eight year coal freight train from Superior on a passenger schedule as nonsensical. He notes trains are sent out as fast as they can be made up, with coal trains departing Superior for Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota points, and emphasizes long sidings and car weight make such a train impractical.
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St. Paul
Bryan
The
Great Northern
Superior
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Relief Sought as Factory Closings Threaten Warsaw Deprivation
It is estimated that 42 000 people near Warsaw on the verge of starvation due to factory shutdowns at Lady. A large deputation appealed to the governor who promised provisional relief and reopening of factories shortly. A Panama-bound delegation tours the region seeking canal project insights and labor conditions aboard the steamship Alliance. The group includes Senators Flint and multiple Congressmen from California Missouri Illinois Minnesota Nebraska and others.
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Warsaw
Dee
Eek
Panama
New York
Congress
Imen
Alliance
Colon
Flint
McKiley
Knowand
California
Kulkerson
Missouri
Dickson
Rives
McKinney and Smith
Minois
Howell
Tah
Kinkaid
Nebraska
Steener
Minnesota
Special Inspector Probes Indian Agency Shortage in Muskogee
Special Inspector Charles P. Schooley arrived in Muskogee Indian Territory to audit agent accounts and determine a shortage estimated between 6000 and 7000 dollars, following the suspension of financial clerk Laman Ke Lane.
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Indian Territory
Muskogee
I. T
Charles P. Schooley
Interior Department
Tomy
Laman Ke Lane
Island Hikueru Vanishes in Pomotus Group Mystery
The Mariposa reports Hikueru, a small uninhabited coral isle in the Pomotus group, has disappeared after a hurricane. Scientists suspect a severe earthquake caused the atoll to sink. the island was not inhabited and had no vegetation, identified only with pearl fishing origins.
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San Francisco
Oceanic Co
Mariposa
Tahita
Hikueru
Pomotus
Wed on High Smokestack in Peoria Ceremony
Two Peoria residents will wed atop the 225 foot smokestack at the Peoria Electric Light Co building. Carl Applegate and Mixx Elizabeth Gale plan the midair nuptials as thousands are expected to watch the dedication of the new smokestack.
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Peoria
Constitutional League denounces Roosevelt over color troopers
William B. Sinclair president and N. F. Mossel secretary of the local Constitutional League issue a long statement to President Roosevelt condemning his dismissal of Twenty-fifth Infantry members. They protest his denunciation of colored troops and accuse white mobs in the South of continuing to attack colored people.
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The
Constitutional League
Philadelphia
William 8. Sinclair
N. F. Mossel
Roosevelt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
South
Dairy Congress for 1907 to be held in The Hague
Rotterdam Dec 22 The National Dairy congress to be held in The Hague in June has won full royal recognition with Queen Victoria taking strong interest. Topics include unification of chemical methods for testing milk butter and cheese and control. Exports from around the world will be represented.
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Rotterdam
Hague
Stole Christmas Boxes in Aberdeen Scotland?
Five boys aged 12 to 14 were arrested by Chief of Police Zribes for wholesale stealing Salvation Army poor boxes scattered in Aberdeen stores. Named youths include Hiner Fl o Grinsall and Walter Bolleau. Frank Wy recently stole $190 from Ward hotel cushions. Clyde Grinnell confessed that Hey Frank Fry and Elmer Flagg took boxes for the post office and eight other places. Fry denied involvement and the case was held over until Monday.
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Aberdeen
B.C
Pollen Zribes
Salvation Army
Hiner Flo
Grinsall
Walter Bolleau
Frank Wy
Ward Hotel
Janilee Jones
Alvation Army
Clyde Grinnell
Hey
Fry
Elmer Flagg Stile
Watil Munday
Russian official shot in Kiev noble hall
Count Alexie Ignatieff, former governor general of Kiev Volhynia and Podolia, was shot in the refreshment room of a nobles assembly hall. The assailant attempted suicide after the attack but was restrained and is under arrest. The victim died from six bullets in the body.
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Kiev
Tyver
Russia
Alexie Ignatieff
Council of the Empire
Volhynia
Podolia
Nobles” Assembly
Bryce Appointment as British Ambassador to America
London reports the British rush to assign Mr Bryce as ambassador to the United States to flatter Washington and move him from the cabinet, seen as old to handle the home rule bill next session. Mrs Bryce is expected to fit Washington socially while Bryce aims to engage senators, though Bryce himself is reluctant to accept.
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Str
Bryce
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Shah
BAD Wepa
Hoi
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