Brief world news notes from the week recap
Taft backs panama canal tolls arbitration if talks with Britain fail. Inauguration plans for Wilson formed as Bacon Overman and Crane named to joint committee. Retrial of the bathtub trust case set for February 8 in Detroit. Wickersham rejects pleas except guilty pleas. FTC hearings open on trunk line rebates. Bailey resigns Senate seat. Johnston to succeed in Texas. Gompers Mitchell Morrison appeal in Buck's Stove case. Bailey delivers farewell floor speech. Booth named Chief Justice of claims court. Boutell to join court. Cincinnati Trust officials bond $10,000 each. Rockefeller subpoenaed. en route to Honduras. American Bar selects Montreal for 1913 meeting. Boston plans to study city gas tank pricing. Spanish American Atheneum formed in Washington. Gilli and Cook attacked in police incident.
Bail totals loom over Leavenworth dynamite case
The Chicago circuit court granted bail for 32 of 33 iron workers convicted in the Leavenworth dynamite conspiracy, setting bail at 10 000 per year of each sentence totaling 1 070 000. Inter Oceanic Marine boss J Bruce Ismay resigns as president, effective June 30. Blue Creek West Virginia loses 40 000 in a townwide fire.
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United States Circuit Court
Chicago
Leavenworth
International Mercantile Marine Company
J. Bruce Ismay
Arctic explorer Capitán Hijalmar Johansen commits suicide in Christina Norway
News from Christina Norway reports arctic explorer Captain Hijalmar Johansen, linked to Roald Amundsen's recent Arctic expedition, died by his own hand. The article notes his polar research achievements and service with the expedition.
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Hijalmar Johansen
Christina
Norway
Roald Amundsen
Notable Deaths of Early 20th Century Elite Mark Times
Personal Maj. Foxhall A. Daingerfield famed horse breeder dies in Lexington Kentucky from stomach trouble. Dr. Lewis Swift renowned astronomer dies at Marathon New York from paralytic stroke born February 25 1820 discovery of nebulae comets. Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger takes command of Atlantic fleet. Roswell Miller Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway chairman found dead in New York. Gen Edward Merwin Lea dies in New York private sanitarium aged seventy seven. 1869 Wyoming governor signs first equal suffrage bill. Funeral for White Law Reid at St John the Divine New York attended by President Taft and diplomats.
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Lewis Swift
America
Marathon
Binghamton
N. Y
Swift
Roswell Miller
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
New York
Edward Merwin Lea
Robert KE. Lee
Wyoming Territory
White Law Reid
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
Taft
Diplomatic Corps
Nfo
Road System proposal to form Indiana highway commission
Senator elect W G Woods of Windfall outlined a bill for a better roads system in Indiana to be introduced next session. It calls for a two member state highway commission with a civil engineer, unpaid but reimbursed expenses, and county advisory engineers. Each county would have a patrolman to keep roads in repair with party balance rules. Patrolmen receive 1.50 daily, 3.00 with teams, and must live on a principal road. Gravel fund distributed by town mileage.
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Noblesville
Dan
W. G. Woods
Tipton
Hamilton
Indiana
State Highway Commission
Dr. Woods
Woods
Say Girl Is Only Twelve in Richmond Case
Richmond reports a judge and juvenile court officer probing the marriage of Georgiana Doyle said to be twelve, despite her stating sixteen when wed to Benjamin S. Hensley. Grandparents allegedly signed an affidavit claiming marriageable age as prosecutors review the case.
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Richmond
Jan
Reller
Elizabeth Candicer
Georgiana Doyle
Joseph Allen
Benjamin S’. Hensley
Indiana News In Brief: Tragedies and Local Accidents
Madison-Thomas Johnson drowns after falling from the steamer Alma leaving a widow and six children. Linton-Ross Taylor, Southeastern Railway conductor, loses right leg in car-cut accident. Old Ladies' Hot Society of Jeffersonville to receive 1500 from Miss Mary Jane Rowland’s death. Reed Tipton reports a church reception with thirty six new members. Henry Dexaman burned when acetylene plant explodes at his home during birthday party. Omer Taylor sentenced to sixty days and $206 fine for assault. William Baxter receives thirty days. Fred Collins and Ralph Law fined. Amos J. Hitefield, 52, locked in a smokehouse and badly burned. Roy A. Winchester of South Bend pleads guilty to forgery. six months suspended and $50 fine. to leave city. Dell Stevens released from Shelbyville jail. Kansas City officials consider murder charge only if confession. Mrs Will A. Brown, Corimthus, badly burned after lamp explodes as she falls with lamp in hand. The lamp ignites hair. she fights flames and is severely burned. Rushville’s orthin Shar, one year old, burned when brother lights a match. Mishawaka crossing accident near where two girls were killed earlier leaves August Bokhent critically injured after being struck by Lake Shore train. horse unharmed.
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Jeffersonville
Old Ladies' Hot Society
Mary Jane Rowland
Tipton
Kemp M. I
Decker
Henry Dexaman
Shelbyville
Omer Taylor
Manlove
William Baxter
Fred Collins
Ralph Law
Lawrenceburg
Amos J. Hitefield
Ohio-Indiana
South Bend
Roy A. Winchester
Walter A. Funk
Winchester
Dell Stevens
Kansas City
Corimthus
Will A. Brown
Mishawaka
August Bokhent
Lake Shore
Bokhent
Evansville Prosecution to End Houses of Bad Repute
Evansville prosecutor John W. Sappenfield says starting March 1 he will enforce the state statute banning houses of bad repute and prosecute all who rent for immoral purposes. He plans to close wine rooms and gambling licenses with county detective help, ending a prior $15 quarterly fine system.
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Evansville
John W. Sappenfield
Spencer County Tobacco Crop Sold in Rockport
In Rockport on January 3 the Spencer County tobacco crop began delivery. An estimated one to two million pounds will be received at the Rockport warehouse. The American Tobacco Company bought the crop at 3.00 to 9.00 dollars per hundred pounds, about a dollar below last year, providing relief to tenants who earned nothing from the Green River pool. Delivery will take two to three months.
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Spencer County
Rockport
Spencer Eounity
American Tobacco Company
Green River Pool
Fined for Washing Fiis Friend's Feet
Terre Haute reports William Newkirk a plasshlower was fined $1 and costs by Justice McGuinn after forcibly washing the feet of Leo West a fellow worker. Newkirk claimed washing was needed but the judge ruled it an assault.
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Fiis
Terre Haute
Jan
Willian Newkirk
Justice McGuinn
Leo West
Newkirk
Tragedy at Mishawaka Crossing Kills Two Children
Marian De vinter aged nine and Rosalia Bevinter aged seven died when they were struck by a Lake Shore train at a crossing in Mishawaka. The incident occurred on December 31.
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Quirts
Booth Bend
Marian Devinter
Rosalia Bevinter
Lake Shore
Mishawaka
Violence Breaks Out as Newark Strikers Clash With Police
In Newark police faced 600 striking garment workers outside J L Taylor Co as 256 young women left work. Officers used clubs to deter strikers while autos ferried workers home. Five strikers were arrested and sentenced to 10 days in the workhouse for unlawful conduct.
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Western
Union News Service
New York
J. L. Taylor & Co
Priest Marries Nurse Secretly in St Louis
Louisville priest Father Daniel J. Gallagher assistant rector of the Cathedral of the Assumption wed nurse Florence Layer in St Louis with Rev Perceval Brown conducting. The marriage was kept secret and Gallagher had been missing from Louisville since a week before Christmas.
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Louisville
Daniel J. Gallagher
Cathedral of the Assumption
Florence Layer
Chicago suspect Cattlith linked to car bandits escape
Chicago police say Hubert Cattlith, alleged head of the automobile bandits, was arrested in a West Madison and Pauline street flat after a tip from an unidentified woman who aided detectives Morgan and team. The informant led to the capture following prior arrests of Mitchell, Charest and McNeff.
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Chicago
Hubert Cattlith
William Morgan
Cattlith
West Madison
Pauline Streets
Noteen
Mitchell, Charest and
McNeff
Cincinnati Market Prices for Wheat Corn Hay and Livestock
Grain bids show Wheat No 2 red at 1.12 1.15 and No 1 red 1.06 1.11 with various other futures and cash quotes for corn Hay timothy clover and multiple cattle hogs and sheep categories. Poultry ducks and other poultry products list per-pound prices along with live animal values for shippers packers and feeders amid steady to strong demand in a bustling market report.
Firecracker tied to pigeon shocks Branichdale stables plan
In Pottsville Pennsylvania a shooter tied firecrackers to a pigeon's legs and set them off to distract a rival at a shooting match. The bird fled toward a grubba area while part of the crackers remained burning. The pigeon finally landed and the blaze spread to a bay van, endangering 68 mules.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Bacon
Overman
Crane
Joint Congressional Committee
Wilson
House
Rucker, Garrett
McKinley
Illinois
Bathtub Trust
Detroit
Mich
Wickersham
Interstate Commerce
Harlan
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
Gallinger
R. M. Johnston
Houston
Lalley
Colquitt
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Buck's Stove & Range
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
United States Senate
Fenton W. Booth
Tinois
Court of Claims
Stanton J. Poella
Henry Sherman Boutell
Ilnois
Booth
Boutell
Switzerland
N. S. Keith
F R. Williams
Cincinnati Trust Company
George B. Cox
Cincinnati
William Rockefeller
Pujo
Honduras
Key West
Fla
American Bar Association
Montreal
Fitzgerald
Boston
Charles Gilli
James Cook
To . Oa
Blue Creek
W. Va
Samuel D. Felker
New Hampshire
Mr. Felker
Franklin Worcester
Rosalie Jones
William Sulzer
Albany
Edwin Ghirranelli
San Francisco
Portland
A. B. DuPont
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Margaret Johnson
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Amerika
Michael Karoly
Stephen Tisza
Budapest
Count Tisza
India
Baron Hardinge
Imperial
Romanones
Madrid
Spain
Canalejas
Alfonso
London
England
Foxhall A. Daingerfield
Lexington, Ky
James R. Keene
Wall Street
Charles J. Badger
Osterham
and District
Indiana News
Connersville
Wiliam Hahn
Hahn
Columbus
Januu
Thomas Bailey
Bailey
Riley
Aurora
Gustav T. Langley
Charles Il. Scharff
Hugh D. MccMulen
Harry R. McMullen
Cassius W. McMullen
William C. Henry
Fred Taylor
Madison
Thomas Johnson
Alma
Linton
Ross Taylor
Southeastern Railway
Newark
Priest
Nurse
Gaston Leroux
Paris
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