Bank Officials Arrested Over Chadwick Notes Forgery Probe
Cleveland reports that Oberlin’s Citizens National Bank officials Beckwith and Spear were arrested on federal banking law violations after disclosures linking the bank to loans tied to Cassie Chadwick. District Attorney Sullivan and others discuss forged note allegations bearing Andrew Carnegie’s name. Carnegie denies knowledge of such notes and seeks clarity from authorities.
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Andrew Carnecie
United States
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Cleveland
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Andrew Carnegie
C. L. Chadwick
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Carnegie
New York
Cleveland Dispatch
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C. T. Beckwith
Citizens’ National Bank of
Trains Collide Near Columbus Killing Four
Four men died and many passengers injured when passenger train No 27 on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided with a construction train two miles north of Columbus Indiana while traveling at 50 miles per hour. Victims identified include Samuel Crow Jeffersonville engineer Herman C Jones Columbus brakeman E W Achenbach Indianapolis foreman and Calvin Prather Sellersburg fireman. they died after hospital treatment.
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Jeffersonville
Herman C. Jones
E. W. Achenbach
Indianapolis
Freman
Calvin Prather
Sellersburg
Fifty-Eighth Congress Opens With Formalities and Respects
Washington opens the fifty-eighth congress with formalities. Senator Frye presides in the Senate, resolutions honor Hoar and Quay, and an early adjournment marks the day. In the House Speaker Cannon leads as 200 to 400 private bills are introduced and a probe bill on presidential electors is proposed. On Dec 7 the Senate hears the president's message, sees the merchant marine commission report, and Knox and Crane take office. The House adjourns after the president’s annual message with two routine matters checked.
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Quay
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Merchant Marine Commission
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Crane
Rumors of Japanese defeat near Rennenkampff flank
Descriptions from Mukden and Tokyo report a rumored Japanese turning force repulsed at a captured pass. Sources claim 500 Japanese dead with 1,000 more not collected. Russian losses cited as 30 to 40. An armistice at Port Arthur to bury dead lasted six hours. A Vladivostok dispatch then says the Japanese cruiser Adsuma was sunk by a mine near the Miaotao islands.
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Adsuma
Miaotao Islands
Linotte Channel
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Shantung Promontory
Navy seeks unmatched strength in future years
Washington reports Secretary Paul Morton demands a navy “in size style and sand” that no other power will envy. He notes the next fiscal year’s naval budget is the largest yet, cut by 17 million from bureau figures, justifying the need to deter war despite costs. Last year saw record ship launches, vessel for vessel performance, and pride in progress. The navy’s per capita cost was about one dollar, seen as prudent insurance against war.
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Paul Morton
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Prison life sentence for piracy on steamer West ern States
Detroit, December 6 Joseph Kirwin aged 26 was sentenced to life in the Detroit house of correction for piracy on the high seas He pleaded guilty to entering the stateroom of Mrs M B Sweeting of Jackson Michigan on the steamer Western States and robbing her of money and three diamond rings El Paso reports first snow in two years with a six hour storm bringing cold rain and sleet and warnings of potential cattle losses on the reopened plains
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Detroit House of Correction
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Jackson
el Paso
Tex
Deadly Revenge Ends in Double Murder and Suicide
Rochester Indiana December 7 three dead and one wounded follow jealousy as Wilson Burns fifty shoots through a window killing his wife and Joe Cripe at Cripe home where wife worked. Burns then shoots himself at his sister’s two miles away. Mrs Braman injured but to recover. Cripe’s mother unharmed. Burns accused Cripe of alienating his wife.
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Wilson Burns
Joe Cripe
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Cripe
Land fraud verdict in Portland jury finds four guilty
In Portland Oregon on December 7 the jury in the land fraud case returned a verdict of guilty for Emma L. Watson S A D Puter Horace G. McKinley D W Tarpley and Frank H. Weigamor with Marie L. Ware found not guilty after 45 minutes deliberation. Separate report from Sioux City describes robbers blowing a safe at Jolley bank but being frightened away as a running gun battle with locals leads to a posse pursuit.
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Portland
Ore
Bellinger
Marie Ware
Emma L. Watson
A. D. Puter
Horace G. McKinley
D. W. Tarpley
Frank H
Sioux City
People's Bank
Jolley
Calhoun County
Fatal Quarrel in Princeton Coal Town Ends in Death
In Princeton Indiana on December 5 a quarrel between coal miners Carl and John Wilson and Clayton Weist ended when Weist was struck with a brick and killed instantly. The Wilsons were arrested.
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Ind
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John Wilson
Clayton Weist
Wilsons
Holdredge
Neb
Clyde Lester
Peoria
John Lucas
Lester
Lucas
Roosevelt Plurality in Colorado Confirmed
Denver officials report the presidential election returns show Republican electors with a plurality of 34,583 in Colorado. The official canvass finalized December 7, detailing the statewide result and the margin by which the GOP carried the state.
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Roosevelt
Colorado
Denver
Col
Express Car Robbed Near Needles Daggett
Wells Fargo express car on the west bound Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line was robbed between Needles and Daggett. Express messenger Evan C. Roberts was fatally shot and the way safe rifled. A large pension shipment of about $200 000 was rumored, but Wells Fargo officials later said the loss would not exceed $400 and the main safe was not entered. The robber took the messenger’s pockets and keys.
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Cal
Wells Fargo
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Overland
Needles
Daggett
Evan C. Roberts
Wells-Fargo Company
United States Pension
Pridham
Wells-Fargo
United States
Fires claim two children in Pittsburg tragedy and more absences
A Pittsburg fire killed Mrs. Rock Perry and two children at 4 Chatham street. Her husband Rock and three other children watched as flames engulfed the home. A coal stove likely sparked the blaze while Mrs. Perry cleaned with gasoline.
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Pittsburg
Rock Perry
Chatham Street
Henry
Annie Perry
Panama Troubl es Adjusted With Roosevelts Approval
Washington reports Secretary Taft secured settlement of U S Panama disputes with President Roosevelt approving the agreements. Panama agrees to tariff cuts to ten percent except for alcohol and opium, lowers consular fees and port charges, grants free trade between canal zone and Panama, assumes US sanitation control, and adopts gold standard under a December 12 1904 effective order.
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Roosevelt
United States
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Canal Zone
Republic of Panama
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Fewer Immigrants Mark Annual U S Arrivals
Washington report notes a material drop in immigration last fiscal year while praising higher moral, intellectual and physical qualifications of admitted aliens. Of 812,870 residents, 263,770 were women and 549,100 men. earnings total $20,894,383. The figures show improved character and thrift in newer arrivals.
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United States
Frank P. Sargent
Death of James N Tyner Former postmaster general
Washington December 6 James N Tyner of Indiana former postmaster general under Ulysses S Grant and ex congressman died Monday from paralysis after a long illness He was 78 and had been removed from the department attorney general post in 1903 amid fraud allegations and subsequent acquittal Miles Accepts Adjutant General of Massachusetts Militia Boston December 5 retired Lieutenant General Nelson Miles accepts the post of adjutant general Rich Haul of Burglars Jewelry store A Low Vancouver December 7 burglars rob diamonds valued at 10000 A Valuable Cargo Siberia Silk and gold valued at 1000000 arrives San Francisco December 7
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Indiana
President Grant
Congress
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Boston
Nelson A. Miles
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A. Low
Week's News in Brief Summary of Events
The week covers Patterson’s second trial in New York for murder, a Greek band killing 24 Bulgarians near Soroviteh, Dr. James D. Barbee’s death in Nashville at 72, Ireland’s famine worsening, Merritt reappointed postmaster of Washington, Morris Abraham shot by robbers in Chicago, Rock Island arsenal fire in Illinois causing major losses, large grain sales to the east, WCTU anti liquor law stance, Benjamin Franklin’s death in Newark, San Francisco fire at Standard Woodenware with heavy losses, Pennsylvania presidential vote canvass showing Roosevelt leading by 445160, a Columbus Junction fire killing horses, Johns Wainwright’s murder, Los Angeles mayoral election and margin, Harrisburg bishop election, Detroit murder conviction, notable deaths and a major New York auto garage fire, electors’ travel costs to Washington, Blue Island slot machine clash killing a constable, WCTU officers reelected, C P Dorset’s death, and St Louis world’s fair attendance figures.
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Illinois
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