Doctor seeks hourly fee for 696 hours of detention at Kenoyah mansion
Milestone Sacramento street cable car gripman turned heiress husband Gopcevic is accused by Dr Walter H Fearn of detaining him for 696 hours in the Kenoyah mansion to treat the brother. Fearn claims a $10 per hour rate and seeks $6960 in a forthcoming suit, while Gopcevic cites love for his brother and silent payments.
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San Francisco
Konoyah
Lake County
Milos Mitrov Gopcevic
Chpman
Sacramento
Walter H. Fearn
Gopcevic
Gopsevic
Kenoyah Manson
Dr. Fearn
Gopeevie
Peter
Fearn
Kia
Gopeevic
Misa Floyd
Evacuation of Cuba Begins with Marine Regiments
Cubans greet the departure of American forces as the first provisional marine regiment, about 900 men, concentrates for Havana. The Prairie cruiser will sail January 1 bound for Newport News with the first wave, returning mid month to embark the rest with minimal ceremony. Departure signals progress toward independence and favorable Cuban sentiment toward troops.
Periodical Expulsions Target Finnish Jews
Helsingfors reports renewed expulsions of Jews in Finland with thirty families ordered to emigrate. Senate restricts residence to six months at a time, denying property and citizenship rights, while a 1850 exception protected 200 families. A bill to ban kosher slaughter faces opposition from Russian Hebrews fearing wider action.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Rpinland
Senate
Nociethes
Russia
Labor unions plan 200000 march over Gomperat jail sentence
New York labor leaders convene a committee of the Central Federated Union to organize a protest next Sunday against the jail terms of Samuel Gomper a John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. The federation instructs unions to discourage seeking pardon and asserts no crime was committed.
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New York
Samuel Gompera
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Central Federated Union
Roosevelt
Federated Union
Girl Sets New Record in Rapid Shorthand
Ruth Ohlson a 14 year old San Francisco girl set a world record for her age by writing 860 words in five minutes and reading them back correctly in a test before Superior Judge T EB Graham. The state statute requires 750 words in five minutes making her feat phenomenal given the material was a court transcript unfamiliar to her.
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San Francisaco
Ruth Ohlson
San Francisco
T. EB. Graham
Miss Ohlson
Miners Driven Out by Fire In Hastings Coal Mine
Fire at the Victor Puel company mine in Hastings rekindled Sunday after weeks of apparent control. A series of gas explosions and dangerous fumes forced workers to abandon the shaft while crews attempt to cut behind the blaze. Several men have been overcome by gas.
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Trinidad
Colo
Victor Puel Company
Hastings
Here
Guests Escape As Fire Sweeps Cal A Hotel
A blaze at the Occi dental hotel on South Hill Street Los Angeles caused $100000 in losses and seriously injured two firefighters Captain A J Eloy and Hoseman W A Burns. An explosion in the basement where Thayer Decorating stores held paints and oil contributed to the fire. About 100 guests were present but all escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Occidental
South Hil Street
Fourth
Thayer Decorating Company
A. J. Eloy
W. A. Burns
Growth of prohibition in the Southern states
A survey shows prohibition expanding across many Southern states with statewide laws taking effect in January in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Georgia experiments with near prohibition. Tennessee and Kentucky feature major activity as states push stricter liquor controls amid enforcement challenges and mixed social effects.
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Georgia
North Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
lLoulaiank
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Texas
Arkansas
Young Hargis May Escape Murder Verdict
Irvine Kentucky jury deadlocked on Beach Hargis murder charge against his father Judge James Hargis. The panel stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction, leading to discharge. Beach had been in a drunken stupor before the killing in the mountain town store confrontation ending with shots fired.
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Irvine, Ky
Beach Hargis
James Hargis
Hargis
Judge Hargis
Jackson
Littl Mountain
Beach
Riot in Amoy area over opium crop crackdown claims deaths
Orders to halt opium poppy planting in Tinian near Amoy sparked a riot. One officer and ten civilians were killed as 100 troops move into Tungan to restore order and enforce antiopium edict. Authorities vow strict enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amoy
Tinian
Tungan
Arma
Conservation conference planned at White House
Announced at the White House that a conference on conserving North American natural resources will be held February 18. Letters proposing the plan have gone to the Canadian governor general and premier and to Mexico's President Diaz. Gifford Pinchot will deliver them personally as chairman of the National Conservation Commission.
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Washington
White House
North America
Canada
Diaz
Mexico
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Commission
United States
Heir to Half Million. Powell Sentenced for Vagrancy
In Los Angeles, William Jefferson Powell is sentenced to 180 days in the workhouse on a vagrancy charge. He is described as handsome and educated, claiming a fortune of half a million and future social standing in Baltimore. Powell expects to gain his fortune at 25, three months after release.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Baltimore
William Jefferson Powell
Powell
Royalist Attacks French President on Christmas Walk
President Fallieres escaped injury when a well-wrapped assailant leaped from behind during a morning stroll near Rue de Stetl. Colonel Lasson and Secretary Romondu helped subdue the attacker, who was later identified as Jean Mattis, a 24 year old cabaret worker from Savoie, found with royalist materials and wartime memorabilia.
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Jean Mattis
Salt Lake City Teen Kept From Self to End Life
Charles Seinsoth a 16 year old Bell Telephone worker was found dead near gravel pits. Police note car bolic acid purchased by the youth and a claimed epileptic fit as possible causes. Charles Washington the accused man surrendered amid homicide suspicions.
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Salt Lake City
Charles Seinsoth
Seinsoth
Bell Telephone Company
Charles Washington
Washington
Christmas Cheer For Poor In New York City 1908
The city celebrated Christmas 1908 by expanding charity. rich and middle class funded meals and aid for the imprisoned, hospital patients, home poor, and institutionalized, with nearly 10 000 people assisted through donations and dinners.
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New York
Thia
Robbers Crack Bank Safe In California
Los Angeles reports a Pirat National Bank of Monrovia California robbed Sunday night with losses of about 20 000. Detectives work continues, no arrests, bank officers silent as president confirms the robbery.
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California
Los Angeles
Pirat National Bank of
Monrovia
Gal
John Partiet
Robbers Torture Farmer and Loot Home Near Toledo
Masked robbers forced H. A. Shadow of Currie to open a farm cafe and take 180 dollars. They tied him to a bed, gagged him, burned feet with matches, stole a horse and buggy, and fled. Toledo police seek the assailants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
H. A. Shadow of Currie
Behabow
Schabow
Labor Leaders Sentenced for Contempt in AFL Case
Washington justice imposed prison terms on AFL leaders Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison for contempt of court over the We Dont Patronize Buck Stove list. Gompers received one year Mitchell nine months Morrison eight or nine weeks bonds set. appeals filed by all.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Alx
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Justice Wright
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Buck Stove & Range Company
St. Louia
Mitchell
Jompers
Missouri Supreme Court dissolves oil firms and fines them
The Missouri Supreme Court ousts Standard Oil of Indiana and Republic Oil from Missouri and dissolves Water-Pierce Oil of St. Louis. Each company is fined 50,000 dollars. The Water-Pierce dissolution takes effect January 1 unless evidence is shown of plans to operate as a separate entity. The court finds the firms conspired to fix prices, restrain competition, and mislead the public about their independence.
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Jefferson City
Supreme Court of Missouri
Standard Ol Company
Indiana
Republic Oil Company
Missouri
WaterPierce Oil Company
St. Louis
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Supreme Court
Austria Refuses Compensation to Turkey Over Bosnia Annex
Vienna reports a complete shift by Baron Von Aechrenthal Austro-Hungarian foreign minister declaring under no circumstances will Austria compensate Turkey for the Bosnia and Herzegovina annexation. The move shocks observers amid fears parliaments will not approve any payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Algemeine Zeitung
Baron von Aechrenthal
Austria
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ita
Greek dynamiter Claudianes found guilty in San Francisco graft case
In Oakland Peter Claudianes was convicted of dynamiting the home of ex supervisor James J. Gallagher. The jury, after an eight minute deliberation on the first ballot, sentenced Claudianes to life imprisonment at San Quentin. The witness for the prosecution in the bribery graft cases testified in San Francisco.
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Oakland
Cal
Peter Claudianes
James J. Gallagher
San Francisco
Claud Janes
San Quentin
Korean shooter of American diplomat spared from execution
In Wan Chang, who killed Durham White Stevens in San Francisco on March 23, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a jury in Judge Carroll Cook's department. The trial concluded late Wednesday night with the verdict rendered just before midnight.
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San Francisco
Wan Chang
Durham White Stevens
Stevens
Carroll Cook
Department of the Superior Court
Name of Battleship Wyoming to Be Changed to Cheyenne
The Wyoming monitor, fitted for oil fuel experiments, left Mare Island and anchored in San Francisco Bay. At midnight New Year’s Eve its name will be formally changed to Cheyenne, remaining part of the fleet under construction in the Navy.
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Wyoming
Cheyenne
San Francisco
Mare Inland Navy Yard
Navy Department
Old Scandal Revived In Utah Mining Case
London report says the winding up of the Boma Mine company of Utah ends with only 6000 pounds to divide among stockholders. The Emma Mine scheme, once backed by General Robert Schenck and English nobility, collapsed after promoters and MPs clashed, harming Utah mining credibility in London.
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Salt Lake City
Herald
London
Boma Mine Company
Utah
Robert Schenck
Court of St. James
Trenor W. Park
Schenck
Nobiiity
England
Emma Mine Company
Shaires
General Schenck
Parlament
Airest
Europe
Tragedy over debt ends in double shooting at File home
In Reno near here Samuel File faced the Willefords after a two mile chase when they demanded admittance. Ruby File 19 was killed in the kitchen after a dispute over a $125 debt. Noah File 22 was wounded but will recover as John Willeford and James Willeford were jailed.
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Reno
Ruby File
Noah File
John
George Willeford
File
Willeford Brothers
Samuel
Willefords
Samuel File
Willeford
Ruby
George
Noah
John Willeford
Unemployed in London and shipyards on Christmas
In London and at Ginskow and Tyne shipyards many establishments have closed leaving thousands jobless. A ragged parade of unemployed men moved through fashionable streets as police watched. Over a thousand homeless men gathered on the Thames embankment nightly seeking Salvation Army shelter tickets.
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London
Ginskow
Tyne
Thames
Salvation Army
Night Rider Outrage Witness Demands Guard
Mrs Emma Jackson a key witness in the night riders trial refuses to leave the courtroom without armed protection after testifying that she and her daughter Dora Jackson 18 corroborated Fred Foubringers account. She identified at least twenty seven riders by name during Tuesday proceedings as other witnesses supported the tale.
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Dora Jackson
Oklahoma Bandit Offers to Surrender on Terms
Governor Haskell announced that Henry Starr, the noted bandit, offered to surrender to the state and stand trial if guaranteed immunity from extradition to other states. The governor refused to consent to such an arrangement.
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Oklahoma
Tubrle
Okla
Haskell
Henry Starr
Starr
Promantry
Starrla
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Morrison
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Republic Oil Companies
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Night Rider
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