Uncle Ike’s toga to cost him more
Former Senator Joseph W Bailey of Texas has entered appearance as attorney for Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin in a $49,900 suit filed by Rodney Sackett in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Sackett alleges he is owed $50,000 for work during Stephenson election investigations, while Stephenson’s defense links to prior campaign spending and La Follette opposition.
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Bailey
Texas
Sackett
Washington
W. E. Black
Milwaukee
Joseph W. Bailey
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Rodney Sackett
Stephenson
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
la Follette
United States Senate
Senate
Sacket
Top College Coaches Shine in Season Close
The season’s top three coaches were Haughton of Harvard Wost of Michigan and Stagg of Chicago Harvard won the undisputed East title and the Midway eleven dominated the West Michigan beat Penn Cornell Syracuse and Vanderbilt Warner of Carlisle also receives praise as a leading coach in the business.
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Haughton
Harvard
Wost
Michigan
Stagg
Chicago
Midway
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Syracuse
Vanderbilt
Glenn Warner
Carlisle
La Crosse Man Seeks Pardon Over Lieber Shooting
Harry Dunn, a former La Crosse boy serving a life sentence in Waupun for the Lieber shooting case in Milwaukee in 1898, will plead for clemency before Governor McGovern. His attorney argues conviction was circumstantial and cites Dunn’s tuberculosis and professed innocence.
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Francis E. McGovern
Harry Dunn
la Crosse
Waupun
Emil Lieber
Milwaukee
Dunn
F. H. Hartwell
Lieber
Chauffeur Held for Trial in Duncan Deaths
Joseph Morevend, Isadora Duncan's chauffeur, awaits trial in the correctional court on homicide charges connected to the April deaths of Duncan's two children and their governess. He claimed he lost control of the car and was held for trial yesterday.
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Isadora Duncan
Joseph Morevend
Duncan
United States Steel Reports Decline in Unfilled Tonnage
United States Steel reports a drop in unfilled tonnage by 117 420. The total unfilled orders stood at 4 396 347 on November 20, down from 4 513 767 on October 31 002 385 on September 30 1913 and 7 852 883 on November 30 1912.
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New York
United States Steel
Will Insist On Egg Trust Trial
District Attorney Wilkerson notified lawyers for the Chicago Butter & Egg board and the Elgin board that he will urge before Federal Judge Landis an immediate trial of the government suit to dissolve butter and egg dealer combinations. Master in Chancery Morrison’s findings, filed with Judge Landis, uphold the government and grant an injunction against price fixing and restraint of trade.
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Chicago
Wilkerson
Chicago Butter & Egg Board
The
Elgin Board
Landis
Charles B. Morrison
Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices at Union Stock Yards
Hogs receipts 38,000 with market slow and mostly 50 lower. hag buyers $7.50 to $7.90. Cattle receipts 7,500 with steady market. beeves $6.05 to $9.50, cows and heifers $3.50 to $8.40, stockers and feeders $4.90 to $7.70, Texans $6.70 to $7.75, calves $7.00 to $11.00. Sheep receipts 38,000 with steady market. natives $4.25 to $5.60, western $4.25 to $5.65, lambs $6.50 to $8.00, western $6.50 to $8.00.
Livestock prices at Union Stock Yards
Hogs receipts 32,000. market dull, 10c lower. Mixed and butchers 7.40 to 7.80, good heavy 7.50 to 7.85, rough heavy 7.40 to 7.50, light 7.10 to 7.70, pigs 4.00 to 67.00. Cattle receipts 7,000. market steady to shade lower. Beeves 6.60 to 9.60, cows and heifers 3.30 to 8.10, stockers 4.80 to 7.40, Texans 6.65 to 7.70, calves 6.50 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 26,000. market strong. Native 3.90 to 5.10, western 3.90 to 5.10, lambs 5.90 to 7.55.
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Aaviistock
Union Stock Yards
Water Shortage Ends as Cincinnati Rejoices
Cincinnati returns to normal water supply after a major main burst left the city with minimal pressure. Laundries reopen and breweries curb output while hotel kitchens adapt, and 50 000 students regret the delay caused by the repair as residents celebrate plentiful aqua and a clean shave.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Five Hundred Dollar Fines Hit Wobblin Workers in KC
In Kansas City on December 10 three more industrial workers were fined the maximum 500 dollars for blocking traffic. The court noted a total of 25 inmates in the work house and said it would hire extra buildings to house prisoners if needed to clear the city.
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Kansas City
Dee
DRYS TAKE CAPITOL TO PUSH PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
A prohibition army of dry workers from across the country invaded the capitol in Washington demanding Congress pass the constitutional amendment prohibiting manufacture and sale of intoxicants. A mass meeting in the capitol rotunda preceded submission of arguments to Senate and House committees.
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Washington
Capitol
Congress
Senate
House
Charges of Sullivan in Santo Domingo Probe Open
Washington reports say decisions on bringing charges against James M. Sullivan United States minister to Santo Domingo will come in days. Sullivan allegedly mixed in instructions that influenced the provisional government and prompted a reassuring note from Secretary of State Bryan. James K. McGuire, under indictment in New York, says Sullivan wrote of fat contracts after visiting Santo Domingo.
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Washington
James M. Sullivan
United States
Santo Domingo
Republic
Bryan
James K. McGuire
Syracuse
N. Y
New York
McGuire
Sullivan
Greig Elected Honorary Foreman of Yeomen Lodge
D S Greig was elected Honorable Foreman by a majority of members at the Brotherhood of American Yeomen meeting. About two hundred members attended. Officers named for the year include Chaplain Alma Anderson, Master of Accounts John Whalen, Correspondent Clyde Brinston, and Master of Ceremonies Roy Gage.
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D. S. Greig
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Lodge
Alma Anderson
John Whalen
Clyde Brinston
Roy Gage
Storm Warnings Placed for Great Lakes Movement
Weather bureau reports posted storm warnings on Lake Superior with indications that a squall will rise from the southwest and sweep eastward across Lakes Superior Huron Erie and Ontario tonight and tomorrow.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lake Superior
United States Weather Bureau
Lakes Superior
Huron
Erie
Ontario
Flynn Favored Over Levinsky In Ten Round Bout
Pueblo Jim Flynn a former fireman is favored over light heavy Battling Levinsky in a ten round bout at Atlantic Garden Athletic Club tonight. Flynn's longer leg reach and a thirteen pound weight edge give him the betting advantage.
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New York
Pueblo
Jim Flynn
Levinsky
Atlantic Garden Athletic Club
Flynn
Coloradan
Dies in Chair as Soldier Should
Nelson Sharp of Rochester faced execution in the electric chair after admitting he killed policemen Frank Ford. He urged that only strong drink caused his crime and expressed readiness to die, invoking his army and navy service.
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Albany
N. Y
United States Army
Navy
Nelson Sharp
Rochester
Sharp
Frank Ford
Mr. Ford
Love tablets blamed for Danville slaying by Penman defense
In Champaign Illinois December 10 the defense argues that “love tablets” given to Gasoline Gus Penman caused an insane trance leading to the murder of his boyhood friend Harold Shaw. Penman showed immediate physical changes and remembered little after the Grove killing until midnight. The state counters that his confession omitted the tablets.
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Champaign
Ill
Penman
Danville
Harold Shaw
O. W. Dobbins
Dobbins
Shaw
Wabash Station
Philo
Pole top fall injures La Crosse lineman
Charles Vandergrift of the La Crosse Telephone company fell thirty feet from a pole near the fairgrounds and sustained a fractured left wrist and body bruising. He was found semi conscious by coworkers, transported to St. Francis hospital, with no internal injuries expected. He said the steel braces gave way under his weight after discarding his waist belt.
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Charles Vandergrift
la Crosse Telephone Company
Fairgrounds
St. Francis Hospital
Vandergrift
Floods Drive Richmond and Bay City to Standstill
Rosenbergs Texas flood reports four feet of water in Richmond shops and homes after a levee breach. Prisoners freed to aid rescues as winds lash marooned residents. Flooding may reach the gulf tonight with Bay City under five feet of water.
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Richmond
Town
Rosenberg
Texas
Gulf
Bay City
Banker William R. Kinnaird Dies During Idaho Trip
William R. Kinnaird, banker and president of the First National Bank of McGregor, died suddenly in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Born April 19, 1838 in Lancaster Kentucky he built a 60 year career in McGregor arriving to work in his brother's bank. Entombment will be in Idaho Falls due to Mrs. Kinnaird's condition.
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M’gregor
Iowa
Idaho Falls
Idaho
William R. Kinnaird
First National Bank of
McGregor
Mr. Kinnaird
Lancaster
Kentucky
Center College
Y M C A Victor In Indoor Baseball
The Y M C A team defeated the Business College 14 to 0 in a well attended indoor game at the Y M C A gym. Pitcher Young starred and the association collected 14 hits to none for the opponents. Physical Director H R Lee coached on the sidelines.
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Business College
Young
H. R. Lee
Association
Public ownership urged for telephone and telegraph lines
Washington notes say a broad public demand supports government control of wires. Postmaster General Burleson says administration will not act hastily and cites the need to balance costs from 100 million to 300 million dollars with the complexity of running the utilities.
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Burleson
U.S
Washington
United States
White House
Presbyterian Men's Meetings Engage Parishioners
The second in a series on living one's religion in daily life drew strong interest last evening in the Presbyterian church parlors. Rev. D. C. Jones spoke convincingly and connected daily duties with spiritual practice, sparking frank discussion. The series continues tonight with more sessions planned Thursday Friday and a Sunday finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
D. C. Jones
Suffragists in Washington Express Frustration with Wilson
Suffragists in Washington say they are peeved at President Wilson for sidestepping the equal suffrage question. Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs declares they will fight, noting Wilson's shift from supporting individual action to following the party platform.
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Washington
Wilson
Jessie Hardy Stubbs
Widow Brings in Christmas Ship
In Chicago Elsie Scheunemann widow of Capt. Herman Schuenemann sells Christmas trees from an old boat. The Rouse Simmons with its crew sank in a gale last December while returning to Chicago with a cargo of trees. She gathered trees in northern Michigan this year.
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Chicago
Elsie Scheunemann
Rouse Simmons
Herman Schuenemann
Michigan
Falk Funeral This Afternoon
Funeral services for Andrew A. Falk longtime Burlington railroad employee at Grand Crossing were held this afternoon. He died at his home 1320 Kane Street on Saturday. Services were conducted at his residence at 2 PM and at Bethel Lutheran Church at 2 30 PM. Burial will follow at Onalaska cemetery.
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Andrew A. Falk
Burlington Railroad
Grand Crossing
Kane Street
Bethel Lutheran Church
Onalaska
WANTS RETURN OF FRISCO PROFITS
Miss Bridget Duffy of St. Louis seeks to restore Frisco profits from the St. Louis Brownsville & Mexico deal. She owns 100 Frisco shares and has asked the receivers to sue 99 members of the synagogue that built and sold the railway, seeking about 3.5 million dollars in profits returned to the Frisco treasury.
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ST. Louis
Frisco
Bridget Duffy
Frigeg
Miss Duffy
Paul and
Daniel Dillon
Prig. Co
Syn. Cate
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
Walter H. Sanborn
Brownsville
Repeat charges of human vivisection at anti vivisection meeting
Frank Stephens of Philadelphia charged at the anti vivisection convention that serums from syphilis cancer and other diseases are used in human vivisection experiments. He cited Dr Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute testing a sterile syphilis serum on girls aged two to eighteen with 177 of 406 subjects syphilitic and 146 in normal health. He also attacked Friedmann tuberculosis treatment and Dr Alfred Lefingwell of Philadelphia compared vivisection to the Spanish Inquisition.
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Washington
Frank Stephens
Philadelphia
Noguchi
Rockefeller Institute
Stephens
Alfred Lefingwell
Harvestor Firm Founder William Deering Dies
William Deering founder of the Deering Harvester company died after a long illness at his summer home near Miami Florida. He left ten million dollars and started in Maine earning eighteen dollars a month. He built his fortune with the idea to make twine small and strong enough to replace wire as a binder and will be buried in Evanston Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Deering
Deering Harvester Company
Miami
Fla
Deering
Maine
Thaw Case May Stand Three Years
Washington officials estimated that the Thaw case may take three years to reach the Supreme Court. Without a motion to advance the questions certified by Judge Aldrich at Concord, hearing would wait on the congested docket and a final decision would not come for a year.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Aldrich
Concord
Wisconsin Manufacturers Exhibit Opens in Milwaukee
Three hundred manufacturers from across the state gather in Milwaukee for the annual Wisconsin Exhibit at the Auditorium. The displays exceed 100 exhibits and the event includes daily convention sessions during the fair.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
National League to Honor Pop Anson With Annuity
The National League will adopt a resolution to grant Captain Pop Anson an annuity for his contributions to baseball. Club owners agreed to contribute about $25 weekly for four or five years as a fund for Anson's honor.
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Teceecevee
New York
National Baseball League
Pop” Anson
Anson
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