Yates Jewels Recovered After Chicago Pawnshop Find
Mrs Richrd Yates recovers almost all jewels stolen from her Springfield home last summer. A colored boy Harry Williams stole items, was paroled, later shot in Louisville to capture him, and jewels were recovered from a Chicago pawnshop and a Chicago girl. Ex Governor Yates weighs US Senate bid, supporting meetings in Cook County and Chicago. Railways seek copies of Illinois order reducing merchandise classifications by 20 percent.
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Washington
Caleb Powers
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Bloomington Woman Builds Kentucky Mountain College Monument
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott of Bloomington Illinois funds a college in the Kentucky mountains near West Liberty to educate mountaineers as a memorial to her deceased husband. The facility opened with 115 students under Presbyterian church supervision with Professor J W Thurman as first president and five assistant teachers led by a brother-in-law Vice President A I Stevenson who dedicated the site.
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Kentucky
Matthew T. Scott
Kentucky Mountains
Hold Up Considered a Sham in Peoria
Peoria Heights postmaster George Latham was arrested for embezzlement after a dramatic escape claim. His office books show a $178 shortage that a supposed robbery could not explain.
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George Latham
Peoria Heighgy
Latham
Golden Medical Discovery Aids Stomach and Liver Power
Mr W A Cain of Hastings Michigan attributes his recovery from severe dyspepsia to Golden Medical Discovery. After years of weight loss and poor appetite he reports regaining health and weight to 130 pounds and now eats freely. He praises the product for strengthening digestion and nerves and notesDr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a laxative aid.
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W. A. Cain
West Madison St
Hastings
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Mitchell to attend National Civic Federation meeting
President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers departed Indianapolis for New York for the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation. He will participate in the event, which surveys labor and civic affairs.
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New York
Indianapolis
The
United Mine Workers
National Civic Federation
Baltimore Pythian Initiation Sets National Record
Baltimore lodges initiated 1,116 new members simultaneously marking a national record in Pythianism on December 8. Local groups joined to celebrate this unprecedented enrollment surge across the city.
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Markets Report Chicago De c 7 Price Quotes
Chicago Board of Trade quotations for December through July options in wheat corn oats and meat futures with live stock and hay prices listed. Cash and futures ranges for hogs cattle sheep and lambs compiled from Chicago and East Buffalo markets.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Choice Prairie
East Buffalo Live Stock
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RAIL CRASH KILLS TEN MEN NEAR ROCK SPRINGS WY
Ten men dies and nineteen injured when the east bound Overland Limited collides with a freight five miles west of Rock Springs Wyoming. The dead include Stigers Ogden McKenna Lawless Bushee Rosenbaum Brink Smith and three unnamed mail clerks. Union Pacific officials blamed conductor Parrell and engineer Brink for the wreck. Local clerks Shafer seriously injured.
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Shafer
W. J. Park
Union Pacific Road
Roy Parrell
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Ahsnay
Pat Crowe Acquitted In Shooting Case In Omaha
Pat Crowe, on trial for shooting Officer Albert Jackson on September 6, was acquitted. He remains jailed to await trial on highway robbery linked to Eddie Cudahy kidnapping five years earlier. The prosecution plans to call witnesses from James Callahan case once the next trial starts in a few days.
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Pat Crowe
Albert Jackson
Eddie Cudahy
FE. A. Cudahy
James Callahan
Crowe
Senator Mitchell in Danger After Dental Extraction
United States Senator John H. Mitchell is reported in serious condition from blood loss after a tooth extraction. He was taken to a hospital as doctors worked from 2 p.m. to after 7 p.m. to stop the bleeding amid his advanced years and mental strain from land fraud trials.
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Ore
United States
John H. Mitchell
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Still Receiving Commissions After Harper Death
The insurance investigating committee notes Mutual Reserve Life paid 134000 to the widow of ex president Edward B. Harper since 1895. The widow, now remarried, continues to receive commissions based on Harper’s written business. In Milwaukee to Chicago, Albert Corey failed to beat Dan O Leary s 18 hour record on the 90 mile run, finishing 23 hours 10 minutes.
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Chicago Athletic Club
Dan O'Leary
Corey
O'Leary
Schandein Case and Estate Writ Remain In Place
Milwaukee December 8 Judge Tarrant refused to discharge the writ of no event against Jacob Heyl in the suit by Milwaukee Trust Company as special administrator of the Schandein estate seeking 10000 dollars. He also kept the injunction restraining Weyl from disposing of property until the merits are heard. Heinrich Conried Decorated for Austria’s Iron Crown with hereditary noble title. Change on the Rock Island: B F Yoakum elected to chair the executive committee, Mather remains president and general counsel. Senate confirms Bona parte as secretary of the navy and Truman Handy Newberry as assistant secretary.
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Milwaukee Trust Company
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Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
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Austria
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Washington
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Maryland
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Ile Navy
Berlin Refuses $125000 Bequest for Vegetarian Orphanage
Berlin authorities reject a $125000 donation intended for an orphanage run on vegetarian principles. The report notes Mrs. Chaffee of the U S Army staff may testify before Congress on canteen duties at army posts. Composer Sir Edward Elgar is cited as having earned extra money assembling quadrilles from operas.
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A. R. Chaffee
United States Army
Congress
Edward Elgar
Wagner
Experimental fruit varieties and cemetery scene report
Twenty peach varieties and fifteen Japanese persimmon varieties are described as introduced on an experimental farm in Cuban. A grim note mentions gamblers who killed themselves in Monte Carlo are laid to rest in a local cemetery adjacent to the engine house.
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Monte Carlo
Babt
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