Dynamite disrupts street car in Springfield sensational incident
Springfield Dec 11 dynamite placed beneath a street car wrecked it with front tracks torn free and glass shattered. No injuries. Seven mill workers jailed for property destruction. Walter Lasters Jack Smith Henry Hayes Rhiney Sehwan Joseph Geidel Joseph Bell Rodney Munson arrested later. Labor leader McLean calls for full punishment, linking Ridgely unrest to strike momentum.
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Springfield
Springfield Rolling Mill
Walter Lasters
Jack Smith
Tidgely
Henry Hayes
Sheriff Woods
Hayes
Rhiney Sehwan
Joseph Geidel
Joseph Bell
Rodney Munson
Street
Robert L. McLean
Tlinois Weder
West Virginia Sheriff Seeks Female Forger Ellis Glenn
In Hillsboro Illinois on December 11 the motion to quash the indictment against Ellis Glenn the forger who posed as a man was renewed by Attorney Oller and State's Attorney Creighton in the circuit court but Judge Dwight reserved his decision. William Richards of Parkersburg West Virginia arrived with requisition papers asserting Glenn is the same person sought for numerous forgeries around Parkersburg. Nellie Dukes sister of Glenns fiance and her father James Dukes watched the proceedings and later visited Glenn in jail where the two women embraced repeatedly. A Hillsboro charitable woman provided Glenn with clothing but she again appeared in court in male attire.
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Hillsboro
Ill
Ellis Glenn
Oller
Creighton
Dwight
William Richards
Parkersburg
W. Va
Miss Glenn
Nellie Dukes
Glenn
James Dukes
Miss Dukes
President Fish Makes Some Comparisons That Are Interesting
Springfield Ills Dec 11 Governor Tanner has received a communication from Stuyvesant Fish president of the Ulnois Central railroad comparing taxes paid by the railroad under the current and prior administrations. The figures show higher annual receipts under Tanner though totals vary by year. In Chicago Republican leaders plan a love feast and state committee meeting in Springfield Dec 20 with a Tanner caucus the day before.
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Springfield
Ills
Tanner
Stuyvesant Fish
Ulnois Central Railroad
Altgeld
Chicago
Springfeld
End of Mine Strike Celebrated by Five Hundred Decatur Miners
Five hundred Decatur miners and hundreds more from Moneaqua Pana Taylorville Riverton and nearby towns gathered Saturday night to celebrate the strike end and operators granting all demands. The feast featured a large turnout with businessmen supplying sheep hog and abundant food. Animals were roasted whole.
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Decatur, Jus
Decatur
Moneaqua
Pana
Taylorville
Riverton
Nen
Alton jury discharged after fifty five hours in school case
In Alton Illinois Judge Burroughs discharged the jury after fifty five hours of deliberation in the school desegregation case. It was the second trial with an earlier white verdict reversed by the supreme court and remanded for retrial. The suit involves negro residents resisting racial separation in schools.
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Alton, Ill
Alton School
Burroughs
Supreme Court
Roberts of Utah defends seat in secret committee session
Representative-elect Roberts of Utah acknowledged a court record of his 1889 misdemeanor under the Edmunds Tucker law during a closed session. He denied plural marriage since 1800 and argued jurisdiction questions for nearly two hours, urging the panel to consider his prima facie right to a seat. A Schroeder testified on possible evidence and suggested calling Roberts’ last two wives.
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Washington
Roberts
Utah
Congress
A. Schroeder
Chicago Crowned Western Football Champion
In Madison Wisconsin Chicago defeats Wisconsin 17 to 0 before at least 12 000 spectators to claim the western football championship. The Chicago eleven dominates with mass plays and sturdy defense while Wisconsin fails to score, mounting a lone late chance that is repelled on four downs.
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Madison
Wis
Dee
Chicago
University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin
Badgers
Wisconsin
Canadian steamer Niagara foundered east of Long Point
The Canadian steamer Niagara capt Henry McClory foundered about eight miles east of Long Point Lake Erie with sixteen aboard. Tugs searched from Port Colborne and Buffalo returning with wreckage as a severe gale and heavy snow lashed the lake. Known officers and passengers named include McClory first mate Archie McDonald first engineer Thomas Mills second engineer Dun MacAuley stewardess Annie Morrow and passengers Andrew Lehup James Davey.
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Buffalo
Niagara
Henry McClory
Long Point
Lake Erie
Port Colborne
Lake the
Ont
Archie McDonald
Toronto
Thomas Mills
Dunand MacAuley
Annie Morrow
Marine City
Andrew Lehup
Kingston
James Davey
Pardon Push For Notorious Rainbargers In Iowa
Friends of the Rainbargers press for life parole in the Iowa legislature for two brothers jailed for life after a central Iowa terror period. Four brothers were pursued after a deadly struggle that killed two citizens. A jail mob shot two of the fugitives, the others hidden by officers. Trial led to life sentences. Now advocates claim they are model prisoners after eighteen years.
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Mason City
Friends of the
Central
Iowa
State
Ife
Failure Caused by Hurricane at Felici Costa & Co
The Felici Costa & Co firm, a 35 year old coffee and general commission business based in Porto Rico, is declared bankrupt in the U S provisional court due to hurricane losses. Liabilities total 400000 with assets of 500000 largely non negotiable planter papers. Henry Fritze named commissioner and Herminio Armstrong receiver.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Felici Costa & Co
United States Provisional Court
Henry Fritze
Herminio Armstrong
Citizens Oppose Street Railway Licenses in Milwaukee
A large mass meeting Saturday condemned the street railway ordinance pending in Milwaukee's common council. If passed, it would extend Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light company's licenses ten years beyond 1924 in exchange for a cent fare during specific morning and evening hours for five years and twenty tickets for $1 usable any part of the day after five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Common Council
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
He Wanted to Get Rich Quickly Buck Pleads Guilty
Muncie Indiana December 11 day A Buck defaulting treasurer of Midland lodge Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers pled guilty and was sentenced to fourteen years in the Michigan City prison. He forfeits a $3 daily job at Midland Steel works and the United Presbyterian church Sunday school superintendency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
A. Buck
Midland Lodge
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Board of Trade
Michigan City
Midland Steel Works
United Presbyterian Church
Tragedy in Greenville Claims Two Men
In Greenville Mississippi on Saturday a business dispute led to a fatal fight that killed J. C. Connerley a Lake Village Arkansas lawyer and Alfred H. B. Duncan Read Leaf plantation and stores manager near Sunnyside Arkansas. The incident occurred December 11.
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Greenville
Miss
J. C. Connerley
Lake Village
Ark
Alfred HB. Duncan
Read Leaf Plantation and Stores
Sunnyside
Filipino leader Gregorio del Pilar killed in battle near Cervantes
Manila reports General Gregorio del Pilar commanding Aguinaldo's bodyguard was killed by Major Peyton March's 32nd Infantry Battalion eighteen miles northwest of Cervantes on December 3. America reports one killed and six wounded. Spanish accounts say March still pursues insurgents.
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Manila
Gregorio del Pilar
Aguinaldo
Peyton March
Cervantes
Young
Vigan
Major March
General del Pilar
Mareh
del Pilar
Ile
Oregon
Sanbig
Alejandrino
MacArthur
Twelfth Infantry
San Fernando
Angeles
Volunteers Not Assassins Major Logan Not Killed
San Francisco reports debunk a Chicago tale that Major John A. Logan Jr. was killed by his own men. The Sheridan purser is not George H. H. Koppitz, name unauthorized. In Tennessee, Frank Green was arrested for bigamy after a local dispute with his Tuscola, Illinois wife and three children.
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John A. Logan
San Francisco
Chicago
John A. Logan, Jr
Sheridan
Manila
George HH. Koppitz
Koppits
Coulling
Widow Wins Injunction Over Burial of Late Husband
Lincoln Nebraska December 11 Judge Frost in the district court granted in behalf of Gertrude King an injunction preventing the parents of her dead husband Clarence King from removing his body from the cemetery receiving vault and taking it to Illinois for burial. The widow asserts that when her husband became ill his parents took him to their home and refused to allow her to visit him or look upon his face when he died.
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Lincoln
Neb
Frost
District Court
Gertrude King
Clarence King
Illinois
Votes for governor and lieutenant governor tallied
Des Moines reports secretary of state completed official returns from the last election. Governor totals show Republican 289 548 versus Democratic 183 826 with minor party votes including Prohibition 7 000 and Populist 1 694. Lieutenant governor results list Republican 239 004 and Democratic 197 770 with Prohibition 7 062 and Populist 1 747.
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Des Moines
Dee
Republican
Democratice
Prohibition
Socialist-Labor
United-Christian
Democratic
United-Christhan
Illinois Steel plans $8 million Bay View plant upgrades
The Illinois Steel Co is pursuing improvements at its Milwaukee Bay View plant costing $8 million or more. Other notes report the Balle woolen mill at Enfield New Hampshire burned partially and under $100,000 in damage.
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Illinois Steel Compaany
Bay View
Milwaukee
Balle
Enfield
N. H
Pope
New York
Willis J. Abbot
Democratic National Committee
William J. Bryan
A. JD. Walker
Austin
Tex
Lye
Max Lange
Leipsie
Qne
Sisey
Wood
Washington
Howell
Maine
South Africa
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Chicago
Shan Pung
Daniel Shepardson
D.D
Shepardson College For Women
Granville
Henry C. Potter
Philippines
Untitled verse on small acts shaping destiny
A reflective passage on how simple gestures and encounters—a touch, a glance, a kind word—alter life. Small moments, seen as seeds, bloom into enduring influence, guiding hope and collective fate through everyday kindness and courage.
Yankee Drum Boy and Southern Girl Meet on Clayton Farm
A wounded drummer boy in blue asks a southern girl named Gladys for help after a small skirmish. She hides him with Auntie in a cabin among enslaved locals, while stern warnings to keep quiet about the Yankee boy echo from the plantation household and its black caretakers.
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Gladys Clayton
Yankee Boy
Clayton Plantation
Blue
Rebs
Old St
Gladys
Auntie
Young
Missy
Olzen
Yankees
How a Southern Trade Reopened After the War
A salesman recalls his Civil War drummer days and his modern mission to revive a southern trade for a firm, reuniting with Miss Gladys Clayton on the Clayton plantation. He notes wounds endured and a planned reunion with the Union as he returns to Virginia to rebuild ties. In another tale a dramatic Arizona train wreck ends with a woman's insistence to escape, highlighting steadfast character amid chaos.
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Hetle
Richmond
Walter
Virginia
Clayton Plantation
Lines
Darby
Gladys Clayton
Charles H. Day
Home Magazine
Unique Symbol of Freedom Observation in Surrey Village
A Surrey village custom marks a tradesman's headship during the wife's summer seaside holiday. Midnight climbers insert old brooms into roof chimneys as a sign of overseeing domestic affairs in addition to work. Eight brooms appeared on the Crown hotel house.
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Great Bookman
Surrey
England
Crown Hotel
Pittsburg
Puerto Rico Tours Depart Chicago In Winter
Three island tours are set to leave Chicago on January 11 February 15 and March 8. Guests travel by Pullman sleeping and dining cars to New York then aboard the steamships Ponce and San Juan. The itinerary includes rail auto carriage and boat travel around Puerto Rico with all expenses covered. Guided by Walter Boyd Townsend and managed by Tus American Tourist Association with Beau Campbell. Tickets and maps available through Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway agents.
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Puerto Rico
Chicago
New York
Ponce
San Juan
Walter Boyd Townsend
Tus American Tourist Association
Beau Campbell
Marquette Building
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Mexico
Republic
American Tourist Association
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y
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Tenn
Srrank Green
Appison
Green
Tuscola
Jine
R. A. Wilson
Louisa Green
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Outine
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Arizona
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Galena Avenue
Soldiers' Monument
E. Mayer
Sec
People's Column
Stephenson St. Mra
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Wemdkl
Onca
Deaconesa
Galena Ave
Eine Ars
A. di
Wisted
C. i. Byerly
Stephoengen Street
Butt
AOR
American Street
Leidin
Winslow & Co
Gale
Free Port
Court House
Stephenson Street
City Hall
Cly
C. K. Sheets
H.C. Burchard
AOK
House of Figs
F. R. Guiteau
Freeport
Cuban Land and Steamship Co
Ansonia
Seth Thomas
Bergen
Peddier
C. B, Sweet
Galen Street
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