Fiend's Hand Kills Four in One Family in Albany Area
Italian farm hand is suspected in a brutal double murder on the Morner farm near De Freestville. Mrs Morner Edith and Blanche and Arthur Morner are found slain in the barn with hatchet wounds and a crushed skull. Suspect Ed Dennis is missing as authorities call the case possibly insane. In North Carolina, John and Hack Ross are jailed for the Dixons massacre after the mother and baby are found, with threats and mortgages tying to the crime. The community fears lynching as inquest continues.
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Albany
N.Y
Morner
de Freestville
Rensselaer County
Albury
Conrad Morner
Edith
Blanche
Arthur
Arthur Morner
Ed Dennis
Shelby
John Dixon
John
Hack Ross
Dixon
Wreck of Maine Reproduced For Taft Cabinet Demo
President Taft and his cabinet viewed a Havana made model of the battleship Maine in the White House cabinet room. Rear Admiral Vreeland and Chief Constructor Watt demonstrated how the Maine lay wrecked after the explosion, showing the model’s before and after states.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Maine
Havana
Vreeland
Watt
Navy
Maine Investigating Board
Havana Harbor
Banquet Honors Wabash Firefighters at Ben Star Hall
The Wabash fire department were entertained at a banquet held at Ben Star hall on Wednesday evening. Lewis Shatzer hosted the event to thank the crew for their prompt action during a recent fire that destroyed his property. The firefighters reported an enjoyable evening.
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Wabash, Ind
Fire Department
Ben Star Hall
Lewis Shatzer
Man of Mystery Fatally Hurt in Train Wreck Near Converse
George A. Kimmel of Niles Michigan, known as the man of mystery in an insurance case, was injured in a Chesapeake and Ohio train wreck near Converse Indiana. He suffered fractures and spinal injury and is not expected to recover. Charles M. Baney of St Henry Ohio was also badly hurt and twenty others injured as a wheel flange failed causing the derailment. The wreck at 5 20 last night left engine tender and cars off the track, with $1000 damage to equipment and Kimmel moved to the Fowler hotel in Marion unable to speak.
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Ohio
Converse
Kimmel
Marion
Fowler Hotel
Father and Son Train Conductors Farewell Fifty-Seven Years Combined
The Sentinel features B. F. Stonecifer and son Harry L. Stonecifer as veteran passenger conductors on the Lake Erie and Western line between Fort Wayne and Connerville. B. F. began as a brakeman in 1866, later became a yard manager, and still serves between Fort Wayne and Connerville. Harry L. joined the Lake Erie and Western fifteen years ago, rising quickly from freight brakeman to freight conductor and finally to passenger service. Both are active in Masonry, with B. F. holding the thirty second degree and long-tenured roles in O R C local affairs.
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Sentinel
B. F. Stonecifer
Harry L.’ Stonecifer
Lake Erie and Western Road
Fort Wayne
Comneraville
Whitewater
Jageman
Connersville
Stonecifer
Masonic
Ndt
R. C
Harry L. Stonecifer
Lake, Erie and Western
Algo
Perkins proposes a business court to aid big business
Washington reports financier George W. Perkins testifying to Congress proposing a Commerce and Labor Department business court to license interstate and international companies. He argues imprisonment for violations, publicity requirements, and a broader national incorporation study of the Sherman law, aiming to reduce uncertainty and boost domestic expansion.
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Washington
George W. Perkins
United States Steel Corporation
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Commerce and Labor Department
Court of Business
Perkins
Congress
Commission
House
Senate
Germany
Canada
Department’ of Commerce and Labor
Board of Control
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frederick Foos Breaks Collar Bone in Playful Fall
Frederick Foos, three, son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Foos of Decatur Indiana, fell from a barrel while playing yesterday morning. The injury fractured his right collar bone and a physician was needed to set it. He is expected to recover with proper care.
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Decatur
Ind
Frederick
Andrew Foos
Farmers Institute Set for Decatur January 4 5 1912
Decatur Indiana announces the Farmers Institute to be held in Meibers hall on January 4 and 5 1912 under the presidency of C Mumma. Arrangements are complete and a five session framing program is planned.
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Decatur
Ind
Mumma
Farmers’ Institute
Meibers
Juror Waldron Escapes Confines Then Returns Home
Kansas City reports Juror Harry Waldron, exhausted and malnourished, fled during the Hyde trial seeking air and freedom. He described days of wandering by rail and road, slept in a stable, then returned to his family after a judge declared the jury mentally unfit. He denied discussing the trial and blamed confinement for his distress.
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Kansas City
Harry Waldron
B. Clarke Hyde
Thomas H. Swope
Hom
Walilran
Porterfield
Hyde
Argentine
Emporia
Kas
Waldron
Taft Opens Federal Probe Into Dynamiting Conspiracy
Los Angeles December reports say President Taft personally initiated a federal inquiry into the dynamiting conspiracy involving the McNamara brothers. Oscar Lawler, aiding District Attorney Fredericks, urged federal action after local authorities balked, citing violations of federal statutes and the need to reach other implicated labor leaders.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Taft
Indianapolis
McNamara Brothers
Oscar Lawler
John D. Fredericks
McNamara
Washington
Fredericks
Lawler
United States District
Miller
Lawles
Congress votes to terminate 1832 US Russia treaty
The Sulzer resolution to end the 1832 treaty with Russia over discrimination against Jewish Americans passed the House 300 to 1. A Culbertson Senate measure mirrors the action, aiming to give Russia notice to abrogate the pact.
Local voting update from Arizona counties reported incomplete results
A fragmented Phoenix brief notes that last Tuesday’s fifteenth on was held but fourteen counties claimed full voter participation. Leadeta was cited saying results were incomplete and a complete vote was not yet tallied.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Bec. Jb
Leadeta
Wife Accused in Plot to Kill Husband in Indiana Court
Mrs. Lawrence Galivas of West Dundas street allegedly paid $13 and offered $37 more to men to poison or drown her invalid husband. Galivas was fined $15 for beating his wife. two young men, Joseph Anderson and George Frances, testified they were paid for the plot, with up to $25 promised if successful.
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South Bed
Ind
Lawrence Galivas
West Dundas Street
Galivas
Joseph Anderson
South Pulaski Street
George Frances
South Jackson Street
Anderson
Frances
Col New replies to Lee on Taft in Indiana
Washington December 13 Col Harry New newly elected chairman of the Republican convention arrangements committee issued a reply to Lee Indiana state central committee chair who said Taft cannot carry Indiana next year New charges that Lee acted under a pre arranged plan New asserts Taft remains the party choice for president and Indiana will vote for him despite Lee’s opposition
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Washington
Harry
New
Lee
Indiana
Republican State Central Committee
Taft
Col. New
Mr. New
New York
United States
Republican Party
Mr. Taft
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North Carolina
Man OF Mystery
George A. Kimmel
Jae
Rome
Cardinal Farley
CG Felic
Underwood & Underwood
Bage
Fasses Sulzer Reso
Mann
Sulzer
Melby
Culbertson
Texas
Russia
McCall
Massachusetts
Longworth
Mr. Longworth
St. Petersburg
South Bend
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