Early Hearing Sought In Adamson Test Case
Washington reporters note expect favorable action on the motion for early hearing of the Adamson act case. Government and railroad attorneys say they are ready to argue. A decision before January 1 seems unlikely due to holiday recess and Monday opinion days.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
E. H. Harriman
Union Pacific
Northern Securities Company
Davis
G. Carroll Todd
Marvin Underwood
Frank Hagerman
Walker D. Hines
New York
Arthur Miller
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad
Department of Justice
Railroad
Congress
Nationwide boycott urged as cost of living rises
The department of justice concedes difficulty in reducing living costs by legal means and calls for a national boycott against high priced foods. Butter falls 3 cents on the Elgin board of trade as prices adjust. In York Pa six thousand sign a compact to boycott butter and eggs sellers. Du Pont Magazine suspends in Wilmington due to high white paper costs. Baldwin Works closes a Russia locomotive order worth about 3.7 million dollars. Lancaster Trust Company named receiver for Dr H M Alexander and Co Marietta with bond set at 106000. Reading Pa two pension bills for aged workers are planned for the next legislature including a disability pension and a governor appointed commission to study old age pensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
United States
Elgin Board of Trade
York
Wilmington
Del
du Pont Magazine
du Pont Powder Company
Philadelphia
Russia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Lancaster
Lancaster Trust Company
H. M. Alexander and Company
Marietta
Reading
James H. Maurer
Deaths and Funerals of Local Residents
Multiple obituaries list Robert Hickernell dying at 75 after a stroke at Susquehanna street residence. his wife and 8 children survive. Other notices: William H. Lane aged 1 died after long illness. Jefferson D. Farsdale died at the State Hospital with services at William Page undertaking. James L. D. Riddell dies at Harrisburg Hospital with services at S. S. Speese parlors. Martha Ramer, 51, dies at Harrisburg Hospital living with Zimmerman family. Emma S. Irwin, 271 Walnut Ave Trenton NJ, dies after long illness. funeral at their Trenton home. Burial details at Lincoln Cemetery and Harrisburg Cemetery. Funeral services and officiants named for several. private burials noted.
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Robert Hickerwell
Susquehanna Street
Wiliam
Clayton
Benjamin
Eugene
Mas.ord Bishop
Harry Seaman
W. D. Flury
William Farvinger
William H. Lane
Monroe Street
Lincoln Cemetery
Jefferson D. Farsdale
State Hopistal
William Page
North Sixth Street
A. J. Greene
Second Baptist Church
Jmes
Riddell
Mulbenry Street
Harrisburg Hospital
Ida Fisher
S. 5
Speese
Chestnut Street
Ellis N. Kremer
Reformed Salem Church
Harrisburg Cemetery
Enterprise Coffee Company
Gately and
Fitzgerald Supply Colny
Theemocratic Club
Martha Ramer
Samuel Zimmerman
Shinemanstown
Harrisburg
Emma
Irwin
Emma &. Irwin
Chester W. Irwin
Walnut Avenue
Trenton
N. J
Mrs. Irwin
Governor Brumbaugh Praises Rotary Unity in Harrisburg
Governor Brumbaugh told Harrisburg Rotary Club that cooperation among businessmen strengthens citizenship and society. He praised Rotary clubs for hospitality during Pennsylvania Day at the Panama-Pacific Exposition and asked to be an honorary member for the New Year dinner for Harrisburg’s poor children. Field HQ American Army in Mexico reports five days of fighting in Guerrero between Mexican factions near Babricora ranch, with locals aided by foreman Maximo Marquez winning several engagements.
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Brumbaugh
Harrisburg Rotary Club
Columbus Hotel
Ball
Rotarians
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Mexico
Guerrero District
Villistas
Babricora Ranch
Maximo Marquez
Guerrero
Marquez
Compensation Claim After Work Place Shooting
John Quamn, a McCreath Brothers driver from Harrisburg, seeks compensation for a work related shooting by a fellow employee. Referee E K Saylor begins hearings across Harrisburg Lebanon Meyerstown and Christiana on multiple cases including Glass vs Harrisburg Pipe, Matter vs Snyder, Howitt vs Mangan i Pugh, Dignacomo vs Caleite Quarry, and Linvill’s release from compensation.
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E. K. Saylor
John Quamn
McCreath Brothers
Harrisburg
Quamn
Saylor
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending) Company
Frank A. Glass
West Fairview
Harry C. Sheaffer
Lucknow
Pine Iron Works Company
Pine Forge
Ralph J. Matter
E. ©. Snyder
Matter
Snyder
Lebanon
Joseph Howitt
Mangani& Pugh
Howitt
Meyerstown
Pio Dignacomo
Caleite Quarry Company
Annville
Plainpa
Kinetic Engineering Company of
Philadelphia
Christian
Arrest Nips in Bad Plot to Smuggle Coolies Into This Country
Duluth Minnesota December 11 An alleged plot to smuggle Chinese coolies into the United States from Canada was uncovered with the arrest of Richard Blaikie an alleged deserter from the Canadian army Blaikie worked on the steamer Superior and was taken off on arrival from Cleveland Federal immigration officers say Blaikie and others conspired to bring Chinese across Lake Erie near Buffalo in small boats Blaikie denied the charges and will be held for the immigration bureau at Buffalo.
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Duluth
Minn
United States
Canada
Richard Blaikie
Blaikie
Superior
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Immigration Bureau
Jat
Villa Proclaims War on Yankees and Calls Mexicans to Arms
Francisco Villa issues a proclamation during the Chihuahua occupation calling for a revolutionary election, declares foreigners' claims null, confiscates foreign mining property, excludes Chinese and North Americans from ownership, suspends trade with the United States, and vows war shouting Mexico for the Mexicans signed by General-in-Chief Fran Villa.
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el Paso
Texas
United States
Carranza
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua City
Villa
Revolutionary Party
Mexico
Fran
Harrisburg Man Indicted in Major Postal Swindle
Indictments allege a $2,500,000 fraud tied to a network of about a dozen defunct gas companies. Leaders named include Clawson Bachman of Germantown, Joseph T. Hayden of Germantown, and Amos H. Nissley of Steelton. The arrest and charges come amid federal grand jury action.
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Annie Rhoades
Reading
Philadelphia
International Lumber and Development Company
Federal Grand Jury
Clawson Bachmar
Germantown
Allenne
Rufus Wallingford
Joseph T. Hayden
Bachman
Amos H. Nissley
Steelton
Steelton Bank
United States
Department of Justice to Transfer Probe to Grand Juries
The Department of Commerce prepared to shift the federal inquiry into the high cost of living to grand juries in Chicago New York Detroit and possibly other cities.
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Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Department of Commerce
Congress proceedings note Senate and House actions
Senate met at noon and took up an immigration bill in executive session. The House also met at noon with Secretary Daniels before the Naval Committee hearings on the Naval Appropriation bill. Hearings on the postal appropriation bill began, and the military committee continued hearings on the military appropriation bill.
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Washngton
Senate
House
Daniels
Naval Committee
Military Committee
Peace debate at Pennsylvanian Society dinner in New York
A large crowd attended the eighteenth annual Pennsylvania Society dinner at the Waldorf to discuss world peace. James M. Beck urged justice as the basis of peace while Nicholas Murray Butler warned against basing patriotism on prosperity. Sir George Foster supported continued efforts for peace, despite Britain’s stance against ending the war.
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New York
the Waldorf
James M. Beck
William Penn
Pennsylvania Society
Ware
Beck
Pacific
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
United States
George Eulns Foster
Richard T. Davies
Francis M. Gibson
Dr. Butler
Joshua A. Hatfield
Mr. Davies
William M. Garrett
John M. Reynolds
Charles E. Pettinos
William Perrine
Evening Bulletin
T. W. Siemon
Thomas G. Garland
Society
Charles M. Schwab
F.B. Fackenthal, Jr
Boies Penrose
C. S. Woolworth
Marcel Knecht
Herbert L. Wheeler
Henry P. Davis
Samuel Black McCormick
Charles A. Blakslee
R. E. Peary
George L. Low
James H. Darlington
Harrisburg
Paul W. Houck
Oliver Huckel
C. C. Heller
William H. Stevenson
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
H. B. Keiper
Herman LeRoy Collins
Frank H. Gordon
Fifth French Destroyer Reported Sunk in Crash
Berlin dispatch reports via Overseas News Agency that the French destroyer Yatagan, sunk in a collision with a British Transport, marks the fifth French destroyer lost this way in the war. The vessel of 307 tons displacement and 187 feet length, laid down in 1900, carried one 9 pound gun six 3 pounders and two torpedo tubes.
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Berlin
Yatagan
Lou Faust the Burglar Mugged by Police
Louis Faust the burglar has been captured by the detective bureau and placed in police records. He amassed a large quantity of stolen goods from various towns, starting with $600 worth seized from a local furniture dealer. Since his arrest, additions to the loot have appeared daily, including a $30 gas store item found at the Foster West ponvdence storage.
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Louis Faust
Faust
Harisburg Gas Company
Foster W
Defrauding Ring Sweeps Harrisburg Area in Stock Swindle
Hundreds of residents in Harrisburg Steelton and nearby towns were swindled out of about $100000 in an International Gas and Electric Company stock scheme. Former bank clerk Nissley left Steelton amid bankruptcy filings as victims—often older savers—face ruin while court proceedings continue in Philadelphia.
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Harrisburg
Steelton
William H. Nell
Nell
Nissley
Steelton National Bank
Lee Wilt
Elizabethtown
International Gas and Electric Company
Dauphin
Lancaster
Oberlin
Philadelphia
Romanian Last Stand Near Buzau River River Front Line Shifts
Reports indicate Romanian defensive line likely along the Buzau river after retreat from Bucharest with Moldavia northern province at stake. Russian offensives push toward Hungary while Danube front tensions rise with Bulgarian and Austro German units in play. On other fronts, Serbian forces claim gains northeast of Monastir as Somme artillery activity persists.
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Bucharest
Buzeu
Moldavia
Petrograd
Teutonic
Ploechti
Danube
Hungary
Rumania
Macedonia
Monastir
Somme
Sad Ardmore Christmas as Mother Loses Child and Husband Dies
In Ardmore Pennsylvania a new mother at University Hospital mourns as her child dies. Her husband, staying at a Lancaster Pike boardinghouse, shoots himself after leaving home. Police recover a revolver and notify the wife. Separate notice reports the Interstate Commerce Commission ruling that it cannot force railroads to supply oil tank cars, upholding a Pennsylvania Railroad injunction.
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Ardmore
John Clark
University Hospital
Lancaster Pike
Clark
James D. Winsor
Montgomery Avenue
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Railroad
Arrest Man After Long Chase For Powder Explosion
James Reed was arrested after a lengthy automobile chase in Pittsburgh in connection with the Fort Pitt Aetna Chemical explosion that killed three. Federal agents also scour for three others tied to explosions at Oakdale and Fort Pitt plants and a September 15 Oakdale blast that killed five. Reed worked at the nearby Oakdale plant. Navy to build a hospital ship, first of its kind, per Surgeon General Bris ted’s annual report.
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Pittsburgh
James Reed
Fort Pitt
Aetna Chemical Company
Oakdale
Aetna Company
Reed
Fort Pitt Works
U. S
Washington, D. C
Navy
Braisted
Supreme Court denies immunity in New Haven prosecution
Appeals from New York Federal Court rulings granting immunity to John L. Billard William Skinner and James B Elston were dismissed by the Department of Justice in Washington D C. The government argued they were not entitled to immunity for testimony in the Interstate Commerce Commission probe.
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Washington, D. C
New York
John L. Billard
William Skinner
James
Elston
New Haven
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
New London Ministry Praised Amid Broad Press Enthusiasm
London coverage notes little hostile criticism as Lloyd George earns praise for rapid formation of the new government. Commentators applaud his break with tradition and the swift handling of a difficult task.
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London
Lloyd George
Harrisburg Beauty Spot Dream Pushed by Speaker
Harrisburg aims to become Pennsylvania's beauty center as a speaker urges joint effort between the city and the State. He praises civic progress including streets and waterfront and envisions Harrisburg as a model beauty spot through collaboration and public spirit.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Local Real Estate Offers Mixed Houses and Stores
Listings describe several city properties for sale including 1727 N Third St a three story frame dwelling with eight rooms and bath on a 20x136 lot. 1415 and 1417 Shoop St two story frame dwellings. 1010 N Third St a three story store and apartment building with multiple units. plus 117 Reily Street a brick 3 story structure with all improvements priced at 10 dollars.
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Third St
Shoop St
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Bandits
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Nips
Lou” Faust
Buzeu River
Peril
Wallachia
Tchernavoda
von Mackensen
Silistria
the Telegraph Printing Co
Federal Square
Kondon
Ruggist
Kondon Company
Minneapolis
Frank R. Leib
North Third St
Reily Street
New York Stock Exchange
A. B. Leach & Company
S. 4Th Street
Penna
Baltimore
Boston
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Lee A. Laubenstein
S. Bite Bacen Wardedene, Pa
Uptown
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