Patrick Gets Appeal Hearing Over Rice Murder
Albert T. Patrick, brought from Sing Sing, appeared before the New York Court of Appeals in Brooklyn for an appeal claiming he is legally dead due to the delayed electrocution in the William Marsh Rice murder case. He argues Justice O'Brien ruled the proceedings illegal and that he should have been dead when the governor commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.
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New York
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing Today
Brooklyn
William Marsh Rice
O'Brien
Court of Appeals
Patrick
Higgins
Students Plan Big Revolution in Odessa Crackdown
Odessa authorities closed the Taganrog and Zitomir seminaries and arrested 200 students after a widespread revolutionary plot was uncovered. Officials call it the greatest plot in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Russia
Taganrog
Zitomir
Thankful that Cannons' Days of Service Near End
Fort Collins November 29 Reverend Klene of the First Presbyterian church gave Thanksgiving day sermons praising the nation. He expressed gratitude that Uncle Joe Cannon, speaker of the national House of Representatives, was aging and nearing the end of his usefulness to the country.
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Fort Collins
Klene
First Presbyterian Church
Champ Clark Sees Democratic Gain From Republican Split
Champ Clark criticized Henry Watterson and argued the split between regular and insurgent Republicans helps the Democrats. He said Democrats could control the House after the next election and have a good chance to elect the president in 1912. He also noted it is early to discuss Missouri's potential presidential candidate.
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Ypsilanti
Mich
Champ Clark
Henry Watterson
Democrata
Congress
House
Missouri
Ten Barges Drifting In Severe Gale Off Montauk Point
Ten men aboard coal laden barges Conewago and Stetson face death as they drift in a furious gale off Montauk Point after breaking away from the tug Patoiico. Coast guards struggle to recover the vessels while fears grow they cannot weather the storm.
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New York
Conewago
Stetson
Thes Point
Philadelphia
Patoiico
Montauk Point
Tennessee Governor Pardons Eighteen
Nashville November 26 Governor Patterson granted eighteen Thanksgiving pardons ten whites and eight negroes. Clemency was justified by reason of old age or serious atonement.
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Nashvile
Governo Patterson
First Investigation of Telephone Merger Seeks Commissioner
Missouri Attorney General begins the first official probe into a proposed national telephone merger. The state seeks a commissioner to hear testimony and determine if anti trust ouster proceedings should be filed against the Bell company Missouri and the Missouri and Kansas Telephone company. All were chartered in Missouri.
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Jefferson City
Major
Missouri Supreme Court
Bell Company
Missouri
Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company
Murder youth on trial in East Cambridge case
James M. Harmon Jr is on trial for the murder of Misa Hartley in Somerville as she prepared to board a car. Hartley a teen and Harmon's childhood friend was killed in the morning ambush. A defense plea of insanity is anticipated.
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Boston
James M. Harmon, Jr
Misa Maud ‘Hartley
East Cambridge
Harmon
Mias Hartley
Somerville
Labor Leaders Meet Taft on Labor Legislation
AFL leaders Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison John Mitchell James OConnell met President Taft for ninety minutes in Washington to push for an injunction prohibition protecting individual liberty against property rights and to seek amendments to the eight hour law, Sherman Act exemptions for unions, child labor enforcement funding, and employer liability reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
James O'Connell
American Federation of Labor
Taft
District of Columbia
Boy of 14 Kills A Marvelous Deer In Sheridan
Sam Davis known as Bear Davis reports his son Sterling Davis aged 14 killed his first deer. The specimen reportedly has a 24 point rack, described as one of the finest heads ever taken in the region and will be mounted by a taxidermist.
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Sheridan Enterprise
Sam Davis
Bear Davis
Pass Creek
Sterling Davis
Davis
Steamer Brewster runs aground near Diamond Shoals
The steamship Brewster, bound Jamaica to New York with fruit, ran ashore twenty miles south of Cape Hatteras. The mate and four crew were rescued by a light ship as a gale worsened. the vessel is sinking amid heroic tug efforts.
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Baltimore
Brewster
King
Jamaica
New York
Diamond Shoals
Cape Hatteras
Brewster Baltimote
Heipsee
Thanksgiving Observed Across New York City
New York marked Thanksgiving with religious services and charity, huge turkey dinners for the poor, and special aid for newsboys and Ellis Island detainees. Evacuation Day was observed as Washington’s 1776 march anniversary with guard parades and flag ceremonies led by historical societies.
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New York
Ellis Island
Metropolis
Washington
Harlem
Lone of the American Revolution
Fire destroys fashionable bachelor apartments in New York
New York on November 26 reports a severe fire that gutted the Army and Navy club’s fashionable bachelors apartments. J J Howle sustained probable fatal burns while A B W Brackett, an elderly retired officer, slid down a banister to escape and was badly burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. J. Howle
Army and Navy Club
A. B W. Brackett
Man Dies From Self Inflicted Wound After Teeth Missing
Chicago reported J. J. Shepherd told a hotel clerk he could not eat Thanksgiving dinner without his teeth. He returned to his room and cut his throat, dying quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
J. J. Shepherd
Shepherd
Armour Company Profit Sparks Price Rise Debate
Charles Sprague Smith of the People’s Institute urges a federal probe into food price increases. He cites Armour and Company earnings, claiming a 35 percent return on capital for the year ending October 26, with figures allegedly kept secret until bonds were traded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Sprague Smith
People’s Institute
Stock Exchange
Armour Company
Smith
Armour
Thanksgiving Day in Chicago Feasts for Inmates and Public
Chicago on Thanksgiving Day saw extended services in most churches and closures of the board of trade and exchanges. Salvation Army Volunteers of America and charities provided dinners for the poor, while the county jail offered an unusually elaborate Thanksgiving meal to its 600 inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade
Salvation Army
The
Volunteers of America
Thanksgiving celebrated by American colony in Paris
Day observed in Paris with American residents marking Thanksgiving in traditional fashion. Hotels decorated with stars and stripes, special menus served. Festivities included merry gatherings at the Latin quarter, the American Art Association, and the American Girls Club.
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Paris
Latin
American Art Association
American Girl's Club
Day of Protest When Gompers Goes to Jail
Mrs Raymond Robbins of the National Womans Trade Union League advocates a day of protest in case Samuel Gompers Daniel Mitchell and Morrison are jailed. The plan calls for one and a half million men to refuse to work for one day.
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Chicago
Mra
Raymond Robbins
National Womans Trade Union League
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
Garfield Answers Archbold on Sherman Law Ruling
Garfield debunks Archbold's claim that the St. Louis decision shows the Sherman anti trust law is unsatisfactory. He defends the law as prohibiting unfair restraint of trade and notes Roosevelt's call for direct government control over industry and carriers. A Washington dispatch adds Secretary Garfield cites a sugar trust partnership with the Mormon Church and promises Congress will review seven years of minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Garfield
Archbold
St. Louis
Roosevelt
Washington Dispatch
Mormon Church
Sugar Trust
United States
Shipping Season Near Close in Belle Fourche
Belle Fourche reports the 1909 shipping season nearly finished with 1300 cars sent out, 300 more sheep cars than last year. Prices ranged from 21 to 2 cents per pound, with buyers already seeking contracts for 1910 at 24 cents, signaling rising wool prices ahead.
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Belle Fourche
Wright Brothers deny air monopoly claim in Curtiss suit
The Wright Brothers arrived in New York to pursue suits against Glenn Curtiss over alleged aeroplane patent infringements. They stated they are not seeking an air monopoly but will defend their rights and profits from their work.
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Wrights
ATR
New York
Wright Brothers
Glenn Curtiss
Fatal Train Wreck Reported In Spokane
Dispatches report a fatal train wreck in Spokane causing casualties. The incident follows earlier lava flow updates from Madrid noting mild eruptions at Mount La Zar as causing concern for nearby towns.
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Spokane
Justice Brewer Denies ICC Railroad Charges Case
Justice Brewer of the U S supreme court today denied the right of the interstate commerce commission to fix railroad charges for terminal facilities in the case against the Chicago and Great Western and other roads with Chicago terminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Commission
Chicago & Great Western
Chicago
Illinois mine disaster claims another life in Marion
In Marion Illinois today a gas pocket triggered explosions as miners entered a restricted section with a pit lamp. One man died another man Frank Marlow is killed, five burned and forty six overcome by black damp while four hundred were temporarily trapped before rescue teams freed them.
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Marion
Frank Marlow
Marlow
Pierce Trial Opens in Texas Oyster Suit Perjury Charge
The trial of oil magnate H. Clay Pierce began in Travis County District Court Austin on November 29. He faces perjury charges related to the oyster suit that halted Waters-Pierce Oil Co. operations in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
H. Clay Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Travis County
Jury delivers short verdict in Jim Ferro murder case
The Deadwood jury found Jim Ferro guilty of manslaughter in the May 8 killing of Ralph Walker on Coraine Hill after a two hour ten minute deliberation. Sentencing is expected Saturday December 4, with potential penalties from five years to life. The trial lasted a little over one day and drew general satisfaction from both sides. Judge Rice left to try a condemnation case, with civil cases and Joe Viena to follow.
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Deadwood
Jim Ferro
Ralph Walker
Coraine Hill
Rice
Pelle Fourche
Joe Viena
No Holiday for Taft Ends Quiet Washington Day
President Taft could not take a full holiday amid a heavy load of official business and visiting statesmen. He rode horseback and enjoyed a spin in his automobile late in the day as White House dinner was served at 6:30. The Pan American Thanksgiving service at St. Patrick's cathedral was attended by Taft along with cabinet members and many diplomats. Cardinal Gibbons and Apostolic Delegate Mer Falconio joined luncheon hosted by Rev Father Russell.
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Washington
Taft
White House
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal Gibbons
Mer. Falconio
Father Russell
Thanksgiving gloom as mine sealing ends hopes of rescue
In Chelsy Cherry UL on November 26 workers sealed the mine trapping 175 men entombed since the disaster. Residents face a bleak Thanksgiving as hopes fade of recovering all victims while awaiting official word.
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Cherry
Dreare Foot
Unconfirmed rumor of Calders detention in Nicaragua chaos
New Orleans reports an unconfirmed rumor that American vice consul Calders in Managua has been imprisoned by Zelaya forces. Messages say Calders is missing, with fear he is held to conceal executions of Cannon and Grace. Officials seek him as inquiries receive no reply.
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New Orleans
Calders
Managua
State Department
Parismina
Cannon
Grace
Estrada
Zelaya May Flee as 5000 Forces Clash in Nicaragua
Washington dispatches report General Toledo with 1500 government troops at Greytown pressed by Chamorro and 1400 insurgents. Zelaya’s Rama forces fight Estada’s revolutionists. Castrillo says Zelaya’s power will quickly break and he may flee for his life. State Dept. silent on deaths of Cannon and Grace. Zelaya reportedly threatened Vice-consul Calders at Managua and may flee.
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Washington
Salvador Castrillo
Nicaragua
Toledo
Greytown
Chamorro
Rama
Zelaya
Estrada
Castrillo
State Department
Cannon
Grace
Nav
Cannel
Calders
Managua
Zelaya Forces Close on Managua Capital in Colonial War Report
Advices from Bluefield Nicaragua report President Zelaya and a force of about 2,000 garrisoned at Managua, facing an army under General Same near five thousand. Managua is starved of provisions as rebel leaders aim to force surrender with possible U.S. intervention cited. Insurgents wielding gatling guns are said to be manned by Americans.
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Bluefield
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Minagua
Same
Monagua
Amare Ehy
Aelia
Sunes
Mangia
Washington
Matrada
Amerilcus
Conference on Wisconsin criminal law and criminology opens
A two day conference at the University of Wisconsin in Madison starts with judges, prosecutors, heads of penal institutions, probation officers, physicians, clergy, educators, lawyers, detectives and social workers in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
University of Wiaconesin
Thade
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