Labor Leaders Eye Federal Intervention in Rail Strike
St Paul Dec 28 All readers consulted indicate no new developments in the rail strike. President Perham of the Railway Telegraphers travels to Chicago and Washington to seek possible intervention by the Interstate Commerce Commission or President Taft. President Hawley of the switchmen warns against a broader sympathy strike while managers press on. A general strike in the striker camp is anticipated next Monday though speakers remain unnamed.
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St. Paul
Hawley
Perham
Railway Telegraphers
American Federation of Labor Railway Section
Chicago
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Taft
G. B. Howley
State Federation of Labor
Duluth
Falls ten stories dies instantly in Duluth tragedy
In Duluth on December 28 Tony Vilea an Italian worker fell ten stories from a new building at eight PM and died instantly. He tried to slide down the freight hoist cable but ice covered the rope preventing a grip and he plunged to the ground.
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Duluth
Tony Vilea
Viloa
Jack Daly Returns to Face Creditors in North Dakota
Munich North Dakota December 28. Reports say Jack Daly alias John Kimbrough who defrauded creditors of about 7000 fled to Canada. Canadian authorities notified the Pierce county sheriff to meet him at the boundary and take charge. Daly is expected Saturday evening and faces extradition costs and duty.
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Munich
N. D
Jack Daly
John Kimbrough
Wolford
Canada
Pierce County
Daly
Stevens Held for Murder in South Dakota Trial
Aberdeen South Dakota December 28 Stevens was held for trial for the murder of David G McKenzie at Lebeau two weeks ago Stevens claimed self defense but offered no testimony at the preliminary trial MacKenzie was the son of Murdo MacKenzie a wealthy Colorado cattleman New York December 28 George Hogg Snowden 26 of Seattle obtained a license to wed Louise Witherbdee Taft daughter of Henry W Taft brother of the president
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Aberdeen
Stevens
David G. McKenzie
Lebeau
MacKenzie
Murdo MacKenzie
Colorado
New York
George "Hogg Snowden
Seattle
City Hall
Louise Witherbdee Taft
Henry W. Taft
Aluminum airship Weatherby sails Mount Rainier summit
Reginald Weatherby, a two year old aviation experimenter from Spanaway Lake, completed an aluminum airship after three years of work. With two companions, he circled Mount Rainier’s summit and landed on the crater rim at about 15 000 feet before sailing off again. The craft uses undulating planes instead of a propeller, achieving 120 miles per hour with minimal vibration, and is steered from a neck like front. Weatherby trained at MIT and built the machine at his uncle’s home.
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Tocomo
Reginald Weatherby
Spanaway Lake
Weatherby
Mount Rainier
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Nicaragua Crisis Deepens As Madriz Proposes Peace
Washington reports General Estrada, Nicaragua’s revolutionary leader, rejects Madriz terms aimed at peace. Madriz’s telegram suggests a ceasefire pending a commission. Estrada refuses to recognize the assembly’s power or Madriz as legitimate. The alleged peace plan calls for disbanding armies, turning over arms, recognizing debts, and a six month path to elections with fair voting.
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Washington
Revolutionary Party
Legislative Assembly
Madriz
Estrada
Gun Totin Law Cures Crime in Kansas City
Statistics from Judge Ralph B. Latshaw show homicide and felonious revolver assaults in Kansas City dropped by one third since the anti gun totin law took effect August 17, 1909. For Aug 17 to Dec 17 last year there were 18 killings, 13 by revolvers. this year 11 deaths, 2 by officers, and felonious revolver assaults fell from 9 to 3.
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Kansas City
Ralph 8S. Latshaw
Criminal Court
Advertising drives modern business and reader engagement
The article argues every merchant should allocate ample advertising, citing Selfridge's praise of ad funded campaigns. It notes English readers overlook ads as news, while American readers absorb ads with news, highlighting Forum's large daily circulation and proven advertising value.
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Selfridge
London
Forum
Chinese gunmen arrive in New York amid Chinatown killings
In New York City detectives and patrolmen swarmed Manhattan's Chinatown as a tong war escalates. New assassins called gunmen arrived from Boston after six were executed for killing Leong tong members, aiming to avenge them. Celestial Low Jung, 75, treasurer of Four Brothers, was killed. Lu Yo Fong, wounded, assisted him.
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New York
Chinatown
Galvin
Tongs
Boston
Hip Sing Tong
Low Jung
Four Brothers Society
Lu Yo Fong
Telaya's Party Heads to Mexico City Amid Nervousness
Santa Lucrecia Mexico December 28 Former President Zelaya and associates including his ex secretary of war travel by private car toward Mexico City showing nervousness in Salina Cruz. They complained about American consuls and asked to meet Salina Cruz consul Ludlow Livingston. no instruction from Washington yet. due in Mexico City tomorrow morning.
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Santa Lucrecia
Mexico
Telaya
Mexico City
Zelaya
Salina Cruz
Man Realhe
Reques
Ludlow Livingston
Livingston
Washington
Vessel Capua Believed Lost With Crew of Twenty Three
Hamburg dispatch reports the German freight steamer Capua and its crew of twenty three are given up as lost. The vessel sailed from Hamburg on December 1 bound for Monona and was last sighted two days later. Capua was built in Glasgow in 1889 and registered under the new regime.
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Hamburg
Monona
Glasgow
Man Killed for $400 to Permit Wife’s Marriage
Ohio report details the murder of Agosta Do t leader in a large Italian community. Frank Benah confessed he killed the man for 400 dollars, paid by Jim Primer who wanted to marry the victim’s wife. Lync is threatened.
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Ohio
Agosta
Fire kills seven children at Bromsky home in Sykesville
A deadly blaze after a powder explosion destroyed the home of Stephen Bromsky a miner in Sykesville Pa. Seven children aged 2 to 12 died in the fire and two or more adults were fatally injured. The victims are believed to be foreign born.
Stockholders to share 2065500 from Great Northern deposits
Stockholders in the Great Northern ore properties will divide 2,065,500 on Jan 10 as royalties from United States Steel on the ore lands. The payment covers 1999 and equals about 1.37 percent on outstanding certificates. The lease bases 2 percent on $150 million, rising to 6.34 percent by 1917. Ore mined amount affects payments, even if no mining occurs unless lease lapses. Raymond Lloyd, 35, Yale graduate, committed suicide in Seattle by taking carbolic acid, fearing mental decline. son of Major P. Lloyd of New York.
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St. Paull
Great Northern
United States Steel
St. Paul
Great Northern of Properties
Steel Corporation
Seattle
Wash
Raymond Lloyd
Yale
Lioyd
Major P. Lioyd
New York
Raymond Lioyd
Pack of Wolves Attacks Illinois Man and Horses
Chicago dispatch reports eight timber wolves attacked Henry Lund while driving near Montgomery Illinois. The wolves bit the horses then leaped at the sleigh before Lund drove to safety with his exhausted team. Farmers form a search band to locate the wolves' den.
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Chicago
Henry Lund
Montgomery
Lund
Taft Supports Open Inquiry Into Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
President Taft and congressional leaders agreed on a joint five to seven member open investigation into the Ballinger-Pinchot dispute. Representative Dalzell said the probe will be carried forward and may be chaired by Senator Nelson of Minnesota.
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Taft
Senate
HOUSE
Nelson
Washington
Ballinger-Pinchot
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Liner on Fire Reaches Port
Liverpool reports a fire in the hold of the White Star liner Celtic four days from New York. The ship arrived safely with the blaze still burning among cotton bales in hold No 6. Hold had been flooded and 400 passengers were unaware of the danger. Extent of damage undetermined.
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Liverpool
White Star
Celtic
New York
Collision near Seymour claims seven lives near Fort Ritner
A head on collision between B&O Southwestern freight trains No 51 and No 58 near Fort Ritner, twenty miles west of Seymour Indiana, killed five trainmen and fatally injured two others yesterday.
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Seymour
Ind
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Fort Ritner
City funds charged as waste and favoritism in Buffalo report
Buffalo officials face charges of extravagant use of public funds and favoritism toward contractors in a chamber of commerce municipal affairs report. The document claims city payments for supplies and work run 33 to 700 percent above market prices, though no graft accusations are made against officials.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Brokaw Had His Wife Shadowed
New York December hearing on the separation suit by Mary Blair Brokaw against W Gould Brokaw resumes at Minola L L. Letters and dispatches from defendants cause embarrassment to the husband as telegrams reveal servants kept Mrs Brokaw under espionage. He says the surveillance aimed to protect his wife’s health.
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New York
Mary Blair Brokaw
W. Gould Brokaw
Minola
L. L
Mrs. Brokaw
Destructive floods devastate towns in Spain region
San Sebastian Spain December 28 reports detail the flood damage from last week. Santa Christiania has only three houses standing La Vicilla church barely withstood the storm. Ben Avenue a 5000 resident town thirty four miles north of Zamorra was under water five days with river traffic by boat. Villabeza village destroyed Castile plateau crops ruined.
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San Sabestian
Spain
Santa Christiania
la Vicilla
Ben Avenue
Zamorra
Villabeza
Castile
Chickens Find Gold in Stanley County Streams
Pierre South Dakota December 28 A small amount of placer gold exists in Stanley county streams and was first found by a chicken hunter N M May of Ask Creek who killed a chicken and found a gold nugget in its crop The hunt along Gray Ash Creek yielded no results and a prior search on War Creek last summer found nuggets in a hen crop but failed to produce more gold after extensive searching
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Pierre
Stanley County
Biddie
N. M. May
Ask Creek
Gray Ash
War Creek
Still No Clue To Murderers In Friel Case
Pittsburg Pa Dec 28 The murderers of 14 year old James L Friel who was maltreated manhandled and slain and his body flung into an abandoned house remain at large Police say they have no clue to solve the mystery and no arrests have been made.
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Pittsburg
James L. Friel
National Press Club selects new officers in Washington
At the annual election, Arthur J. Dodge of the Kansas City Journal was chosen president. Elmer E. Payne of the Associated Press was re-elected vice president and Arthur C. Johnson of The Denver News was named secretary.
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Washington
National Press Club of Washington
Arthur J. Dodge
Kansas City Journal
Elmer E. Payne
Associated Press
Arthur C. Johnson
Denver News
Republicans Name Griffith in Sixth Missouri Nomination
Butler Missouri Dec 28 Philip E Griffith of Greenfield was nominated by acclimation today by the Republicans of the Sixth Missouri district to succeed the late David A DeArmond. On Dec 23 Democrats nominated Col C Dickinson as candidate.
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Butler
Philip 8. E. Griffith
Greenfield
Missouri
David A. DeArmond
Cc. C. Dickinson
Taft to push anti trust reforms despite Standard Oil ruling
President Taft begins work on a special message to Congress outlining amendments to the interstate commerce and Sherman anti trust acts. A voluntary federal license plan for corporations is among proposals, with the message ready for reading January 5 in both houses.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Supreme Court
Standard Oil
Houses of
Philadelphia Faces Famine Amid Snow Blockade
Philadelphia residents faced food shortages and rising prices as the city remained cut off by a Christmas snowstorm. Only about a quarter of normal supplies reached the city with milk dealers predicting a 26 percent shortfall. Prices rose for bee, vegetables, and other goods while rail and streetcar traffic recovered slowly.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Railroads Tied Up by Snow and Wind in Deadwood Area
Heavy snow and high winds stall rail traffic in Deadwood region. Pierre passenger train stuck between Deadwood and Whitewood. In New York, Mayor George B. McClellan laid the cornerstone of a 23 story municipal building near the Brooklyn Bridge terminal, costing about 6 million dollars and expected to be ready in January 1912.
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Deadwood
Pierre
Whitewood
New York
George B. 7fc-Clellan
Brooklyn Bridge Terminal
Remarkable Increase in North Dakota Postal Money Orders
North Dakota domestic money orders issued for the year to June 30 1909 totaled 5 444 639 04 dollars. That represents a 10 year rise of 3 817 166 98 dollars or 235 percent. Only five jurisdictions show larger gains Nevada West Virginia Wyoming Alaska and Oklahoma. Minnesota 122 Wisconsin 112 South Dakota 101 Montana 190 Nebraska 75 and Kansas 68 percent. District of Columbia 60 percent and Iowa 62 percent were lower. This record reflects statewide progress.
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Post Office Department
North Dakota
Nevada
West Virginia
Wyoming
Alaska
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Wisconsin
South Daota
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
District of Columbia
Iowa
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Loomis
Fargo Laundr
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Griffith
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