Venezuela Sees End of Castro Rule and Plot to Kill Gomez
Caracas reports the fall of Clip iano Castro’s rule after a thwarted assassination of acting President Juan Vicente Gomez. Castro allies were arrested as Gomez and Dutch and German envoys negotiate a easing of tensions, with a new cabinet and talks to suspend transshipment decrees and a pending treaty.
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Castro
Gomez
Caracas
Ulpiruano Castro
Juan Vicente Gomez
Fon
Venezuela
Baron van Seckendorf
Holland
M. de Meas
Wilemstad
Dutchmanshipa
Forst
Aehig
Berlin
High Federal
Castro in Ignorance Says Attendants Unaware Crisis
Berlin reports Castro unaware of his downfall in Venezuela with observers thinking his power is broken. Attendants say the government and Castro’s circle have not communicated events, and a doctor notes possible kidney ulceration needing operation, with no definite diagnosis yet.
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Hia
Venezuela
Berlin
Castro
Bia
Bet Castro
Terae
Funeral of Major Orlaude Jay Smith in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
In Tarrytown New York on December 23 simple rites marked the funeral of Major Orlaude Jay Smith late president of the American Press Association. The service at his Dobbs Ferry home drew officials friends and members of the association and allied zones. Floral tributes framed the casket as dignitaries attended.
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Dare
American Press Association
Tarrytown
N. Y
Major ‘Orlaude Jay Smith
Sleepy Hollow
Major Smith
Dobbs Ferry
American Press Assaciation
Royal Degion
Taft Brother Signals Support For Caucus In Senate Fight
Taft and allies push for an immediate caucus to pick the party candidate to succeed Senator Foraker. Charles P Taft declines to join, claiming support within his circle. In Pittsburg, Allegheny county delegation backs George T Oliver for the U S Senate seat being vacated by Knox.
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United States Senate
Colubus
Charles P. Taft
Senator Foraker
Foraker
Burton
Friends of
Mgr
Taft
Oliver
Pittsburg
Allegheny County
George T. Oliver
Knox
Widow's Testimony Corroborated in Annis Killing Trial
In Flushing New York December 23 testimony of Bayside Yacht Club members corroborates prosecution stories in the murder trial of Thornton J. Hains for William B. Annis. Walter Knapp testified of hearing shots and seeing Mrs Annis on the float while John G. Stephens described the defendant's claim to protect his brother and readiness to shoot. Both witnesses cited an interval between shots as Captain Hains fired at Annis.
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Flushing
William BE. Annis
Thornton J. Hains
Walter Knapp
Bayside Yacht Club
McIntyre
Stephens
Knapp
Hains
William B. Annis
Molly Hillman Dead Former Bareback Rider Passes at Ninety Two
Molly Hillman once toured as a world famous bareback rider in Barnum and Forepaugh circuses. She died in Greenfield near Wilkes-Barre at age ninety two, after years in poverty. She married four times, each husband dying violently. Daughter of William Cook a New Jersey blacksmith, she had Indigenous ancestry through her mother’s line.
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Poorhouse
Wilkesbarre
Molly Allman
Ili
Europe
Greenfield
Here
Forepaugh
Gompers May Be Jailed For Contempt Today
Washington December 23 Justice Wright will deliver his decision in the contempt proceedings brought by Bucks Stove and Range against Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell leaders of the American Federation of Labor Officials announce they will go to jail if found guilty One outcome likely to go to the US supreme court on appeal Arrests Made for Lorala Murder Allentown Pa December 33 Ray Connor alias Sisson arrested for alleged murder of Chinese laundry workers at Lorla Ohio
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Bucks Stove
Washington
Justice Wright
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Bucks Stove and Range Company
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Compers
John Whitehell
Camels
Supreme Court of the United States
Lorala
Allentown
Ray Connor
Sisson
Lorgla
Snake and Whisky Play Story In Lackawanna County
A Geran emigrant in Pike County Pennsylvania was sent to clear stones when his employer gave him whisky to use if bitten by a rattlesnake. The man struck the snake, poured whisky down its throat, and the snake lashed about but survived. He later found the snake drinking at a spring.
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Lackawanna
Vike County
Pike County
Heroes Lift Boy From Fire in Daring Roof Rescue
Two firemen, Thomas Dugan and George Sythes, were hailed for forming a human chain to rescue a boy trapped in a room as flames raged around him. Dugan, off duty in plain clothes, and Sythes crawled along a roof to reach the boy through a window, pulling him to safety before the blaze could claim him.
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New York
Thomas Dugan
George Sythes
Young Dietz
Dugan
Dugin
Sythes
Man Walks on Clouds In Trip
Thomas Connor of Thunderopolia Ohio describes a near death escape while gathering arbutus as storm clouds formed a valley floor he stepped onto clouds and narrowly avoided falling to earth after sinking into the soft white mass and leaping between clouds to reach the mountain side in a terrifying ordeal
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Thomas Connor
Thunderopolia
Mr. Connor
Eliza
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Clipiano Castro
Dicuidor
Republic
Fornille
Yellow House
Carnaca
la Cguaira
Bank of Venezuela
Paris
Had Smith
Annis
Molly Hillman
Gompers
Chicago
Nursery
Miss Tinsley
Hirsch
Florence
Debrumer
West Second Atreat
Salt Lake City
Dietz
Indiana
Booth
Reymer's
Booh’s
Delician’s
Indiana Candy Works
Philadelphia St
Indiana, Pa
John F. Steving & Co
Americcan Seating Company
Sey
Remy
Indiana Motor Co
L. Pattison Co's
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