Desperate Gunfight in Jail Kills Officer and Prisoner
Higbee Missouri December 19 city marshal Frank Cain was fatally wounded and Elmer Magruder killed in a jail shootout after three prisoners seized by Cain for robbing a railway station opened fire as a search of cells began. A prisoner was wounded in the clash and one escape occurred.
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Higbee
Frank Cain
Elmer Magrude
Cain
Salisbury
Fred Anderson
James Drener
Bud Drener
Magruder
Opening of Washington social season at Fairbanks mansion
Vice President Fairbanks hosts a formal opening tonight at his K Street mansion. President Roosevelt will dine as guest of his official subordinate amid recent strains linked to Delavan Smith and his Indianapolis News coverage of Panama charges replicated from the New York World.
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Washington
Fairbanks
K Street
Roosevelt
Delavan Smith
Indianapolis News
Panama
New York World
Hazel Trial Near End Seventeen-Year-Old Murder Suspect
Toledo December 19 Harvey Hazel the seventeen year old boy on trial for murdering his mother will hear his fate next week after all testimony has been introduced. Attorneys will present arguments and Assistant Superintendent Love of the Toledo State hospital testifies that Hazel is sane.
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Toledo
Harvey Hazel
Love
Toledo State Hospital
Trazel
Arrest Girl and Pastor Married Pontiac Minister Charged With Abduction
Chicago December 19 The Rev Harry H Goodin of Pontiac Illinois a Baptist minister was arrested on a charge of abducting Anna Blanche Edgerton age fifteen Sheriff John W Morse of Livingston county took Goodin and the girl back to Pontiac Goodin is forty one and has a wife in Pontiac.
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Pontiac, II
Chicago
Harry H. Goodin
Pontiac
Anna Blanche Edgerton
John W. Morse
Livingstone County
Goodin
Woman Dies After Car Strike By Former Comptroller
Kansas City dispatch reports Mrs Burl Greer died from injuries after being struck by a car driven by William B Ridgely, former comptroller of the currency. Ridgely was not in the vehicle at impact. Greer had recently sued Ridgely for 25000 dollars.
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Kansas City
Williamb. Ridgely
Burl Greer
Ridgely
Creer
Kaiser on the Wagon Pledges Teetotal Abstinence
Berlin reports the Kaiser has pledged lifelong abstinence from all alcoholic drinks as part of a personal reform effort. He selects non alcoholic beverages for meals and has them served in champagne bottles.
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Berlin
Jilted Lover Kills Girl in Somerville Shooting
James B. Hermon, eighteen, shot Maud Hartley, also eighteen, after she said she no longer loved him. He claimed, She'll never marry another as she fell. In a separate Manila report, ten soldiers of the eighteenth Infantry died after drinking acid served as bino in camp at Keithley, Mindanao.
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Somerville
Mass
James B. Hermon
Maud Hartley
Manila
Eighteenth Infantry
U.S. A
Keithley
Mindanao
Flames strike Altoona high school in Pec fire
A blaze damaged Altoona's Pec high school causing evacuation of students with no injuries reported. Fire crews contained the flames as pupils were dismissed safely and the cause remains under investigation. Local authorities dispatched multiple units to the scene, securing the building and preventing spread to nearby facilities.
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Altoona
Pec
Pay Harriman Road Conference to Fix Fee
Washington readers report a White House conference to determine payment to B H Harriman’s Southern Pacific for work during the Colorado river overflow that created the Salton Sea on the California Arizona border. Roosevelt previously urged Congress to grant 1,500,000 dollars as indemnity.
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Washington
B. He. Harriman
Southern Pacific Railroad
Colorado River
Salton Sea
California
Arizona
White House
Harriman
Congress
Roosevelt
Steel profits reach 704 million in 1907 hearing
Judge Gary testifies before the house tariff committee that U S Steel’s earnings show total profit on capitalization at 73-10 percent. Interest paid totaled 180,711,000 while dividends reached 262,354,600 and a 97,645,000 surplus accrued. Construction payments amounted to 163,694,000.
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Washington
House Tariff Committee
Gary
United States
Clark
United States Steel Corporation
Mrs McRaneys Experience With Kidneys Remedy
Mrs M McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi suffers kidney and bladder troubles for three months before Foley's Kidney Remedy. After two bottles she recovers, feeling like a new person and urges other women to try the remedy. H J Moogh and Wm F Jungkunz endorsers.
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McRaney
M. McRaney
Prentiss
Mias
Foley
H. J. Moogh
Wm. F. Jungkunz
First Jap to Win Phi Beta Kappa At Chicago
Chicago students elect Shiro Tashiro of Japan to the Phi Beta Kappa society at the University of Chicago. He becomes the first man of his race to win the honor. Patrick Cahill, 51, veteran police sergeant from the Haymarket riot, dies of cancer at Mercy hospital.
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Chicago
Phi Beta Kappa Society
University of Chicago
Shiro Tashiro
Japan
Haymarket
Patrick Cahill
Mercy Hospital
Personal appeal for Foley's Honey and Tar remedy
A persuasive appeal urges readers to choose Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble over unknown preparations. It claims forty years of cures and notes endorsements from H. J. Moogk and Wm. F. Jungkunz.
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Foley
H. J. Moogk
Wm. F. Jungkunz
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