Johnson Wins After Police Intervene in Bay Showdown
In Sydney December 26 Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns to claim the world heavyweight title amid a prearranged plan if police stopped the bout. The fourteenth round ended when police halted the fight as Burns struggled, Johnson landing decisive blows. Burn's bandages, eye and mouth injuries, purse of £35,009 split with Burns at £30,000 and Johnson £5,000, and large crowd attendance capped the event.
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Sydney
Jack Johnson
Big Negro
Galveston
Tex
Rushcutters' Bay
Tommy Burns
James J. Jeffries
Burns
McIntosh
Johnson
Sam Fitzpatrick
Mullins
Anholz
Lang
Bryant
Keating
O’keefe
O'Donnell
Burke
Russell
Bill Squires
Dun’s Trade Review: Holiday Slowdown Limited
R G Dun Co reports retail sales strong for holiday goods and staples. Jobbing and wholesale lines show seasonable dullness while iron and steel output rises with Gary blast furnaces added. Prices mostly steady with some cotton price complaints. overall activity up from last year and sentiment improving ahead of January dividends.
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Dun
New York
R. G Dun @ Co
Fall River Mills
Gary
Awakening for People Says Union Leader on Convictions
James Tole president of the Big Six Typographical Union argues the conviction and imprisonment of labor chiefs will awaken the people to danger. He says officers can be jailed for expressing opinions or legal actions for their organization despite judge rulings.
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Tole
New York
James Tole
Big Six” Typographical Union
Stabbed with Umbrella Leads to Man Slaughter Verdict
In San Francisco on December 26 Dr. Bruce B. Lee was sentenced to five years in San Quentin after conviction of man slaughter. He attacked Thomas McCarthy a year earlier during a dispute over attention shown to a girl Lee admired, stabbing him with an umbrella steel point, causing his death.
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San Francisco
Bruce B. Lee
San
Central Park Auto Crash Fatal to Librarian and Daughter
In New York a trolley car and automobile collided in the sunken roadway at Eighty Sixth Street. George C. Hurlbut, librarian of the American Geographical Society, and his daughter Iliane Husdhui were fatally injured. Chauffeur William Agg survived by jumping free.
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New York
Central Park
Eighty-sixth Street
George C. Hurlbut
American Geographical Society
Iliane Husdhui
William Agg
Mother Accidentally Kills Son in Loaded Revolver Incident
In South Chicago three year old Pearle Locke, son of Earl Locke of the Illinois Steel Company, begged his mother to shoot him so he could go to bed. She complied with a loaded revolver, and the child died instantly. The mother claimed she did not know the weapon was loaded.
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Chicago
Mamma
Pearle Locke
Earl Locke
Millnois Steel Company
South
George Washington West Dies In Middletown
George Washington West a well known railroad man is dead in Middletown New York. He passed away on December 25 following a long career in railroading.
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George Washington West
Middletown
N. Y
Blood Transfusion Fails To Save Atlanta Boy
Atlanta December 26. While David Schane manager of an Atlanta automobile agency was giving his blood to save Alfred Smart Grandy eleven, he had run over in his motor car at Grady hospital the boy dies. The child suffered a severed leg, a fractured other leg and internal injuries.
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Atlanta
David Schane
Grady Hospital
Alfred Smart Grandy
Governor Elect Lilley Faces Corrupt Practices Case
New Haven Connecticut February 26. The governor elect of Connecticut Congressman George L Lilley began his defense in court on charges under the state corrupt practices act alleging improper use of funds in the recent election. The case is brought by George I L Fox of New Haven with Chief Justice Simeon Baldwin naming judges Silas A Robinson and William L Bennett as the election court. Stiles Judson and Lucian F Burpee act as Lilleys counsel while Walter C Fleming of New York or the law firm Dexter Osborne Fleming is retained as senior counsel for Fox.
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New Haven
Conn
George L. Lilley
Connecticut
George IL. Fox
Simeon &. Baldwin
Silas A. Robinson
William L. Bennett
Stiles Judson
Stratford
Lucian F. Burpee
Lilley
Walter C. Fleming
New York
Dexter, Osborne & Fleming
Fox
Fleming
Hughes
Oklahoma City Brother-in-Law Kills Suspect During Arrest
Billy Bunch, a well known character, was shot dead by City Marshal Stouse his brother in law. Six shots were fired as Bunch resisted arrest after firing on Stouse and Constable Kennedy in Oklahoma City on December 26.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Billy Bunch
Stouse
Bunch
Kennedy
President Fallieres Mauled in Christmas Party Attack
Paris reports detail President Clement Armand Fallieres being assaulted at a Christmas gathering in the Place de l Etoile by politician Mathis. The two grappled, both bruised, as gendarmes intervened. Mathis confessed. The incident follows sensational tales linking Fallieres’s son and a widow to a prior death, with police guarding the scene amid public frenzy.
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Fallieres
Paris
Clement Armand Fallieres
Plare de Etoile
Mathis
Feaf
Astresz
Young Fallieres
Taft Attends Christmas Golf Event in Augusta
President Taft participated in the annual handicap golf tournament at the County Club, defeating Major J. B. Cumming. He rode a bicycle in the afternoon and dined with his family at the Langdon Tomes residence. Local reaction praised his reception.
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Augusta
Taft
J. B. Cumming
Denen Mies
Langdon Tomes
Aikeuw
S&s. CG
John Hays
James UU. Jackson
Robbers Torture Man To Open Safe In Toledo
In Toledo on December 26 Nickolas Sehabow was attacked by two masked men after they entered an office. They bound him gagged him and tortured his feet with lighted matches before he opened a safe and stole its contents. His children rushed to his room to wish him a merry Christmas as police search for suspects.
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Toledo
Nickolas Sehabow
Childen
Schadow
Indian to Get $80 000 for Cherokee Ancestry
Puckett, living north of Mattoon, is to receive about $80 000 from the federal government as an eighth Cherokee descendant. The heirs were driven from Wilson county Tennessee lands long ago. He also gains $1 700 from his father L A Puckett's estate in Chickasaw Oklahoma.
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Mattoon
Dee
Yeing
Puckett
Wilson County
Tenn
Vuele Sam
L. A. Puckett
Chickasaw
Okla
Cholera Continues to Rage in St Petersburg
A severe cold wave in St Petersburg coincides with a cholera surge. Reports say thirty new cases and thirteen deaths, with two hundred twenty five patients still suffering in the city’s hospitals.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Eyistads
Dorando Pietri wins relay in Fall River exhibition
In Fall River Massachusetts on December 26 Dorando Pietri defeated Floyd Doughty and Samuel Myers in a two lap exhibition relay by half a lap. Pietri clocked 1 03 39 while the Doughty Myers team posted 1 04 18.
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Fall River
Mass
Dorando Pietri
Floyd Doughty
Samuel Myers
Dorando
Doughty-Myers
Foley’s Oring Laxative Claim
A medicinal compound named Foley’s Oring Laxative is advertised as curing chronic constipation and stimulating the liver. The text asserts it regulates the bowels to act naturally without continuous purgative use and lists H. J. Moogk and Wm. F. Junogkung.
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Foley
Oring
H. J. Moogk
Wm. PF. Junogkung
Look for Wife Slayer In Druon New Jersey
Police search for Ian Ceore accused of shooting and killing his wife Marestet soon after a Christmas dinner at the farmer's home in Druon New Jersey. A separation of several weeks preceded the crime and the suspect fled after the woman refused to return.
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Dru On
Ian Ceore
Florien
Marestet
Cremation After Roanoke House Fire Suspected Explosion
In Roanoke Virginia on December 20 a fire that razed a home cremated J A Golla horne. Authorities believe an explosion from a rain barrel started the blaze while he lay ill.
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Roanoke
J. A Gollahorne
Duel Ends in Death in Knife Fight over Hatchling Case
In Cleveland on December 26 a knife duel between two men over the hatch of a fourteen year old yields Powell Fromich dead and Michael Milanovitch wounded, Milanovitch under arrest on murder charges.
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Geath
Cleveland
Dusty Pice
Powell Fromich
Michael Milanovitch
Weather Forecast Across Sinais Ilona Fall and Wisconsin
The forecast calls for cloudy conditions in Sinais Indiana Ilona Fall Michigan and Wisconsin. A stray science note mentions the human skeleton has 492 bones and sixty arteries while the carp is described with 536 bones and muscles per breath, plus 4320 seins and ninety nine muscles.
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Sinais
Indiana
Ilona
Michigan
Wisconsin
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