La Follette Opens Progressive Campaign in Ohio
Wisconsin senator Robert La Follette spoke at the Youngstown Opera House to launch the progressive campaign in Taft's state. He urged recall of judges, direct primaries, and limits on capital and trusts while outlining Wisconsin reforms and national issues. His Ohio tour aims to counter Taft's upcoming Cleveland appearance January 29.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Youngstown Opera House
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Taft
America
la Follette
Supreme Court
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
Cleveland
Tippecanoe Club
Stock for Employees Under U S Steel Distribution Plan
United States Steel announces an annual distribution plan involving $1,450,600 worth of stock for employees through the trust. Prices are not yet announced but expected to be below current market quotations.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Richeson Fiancee Violet Edmands Chooses Charity Work
Miss Violet Edmands, Brookline heiress and fiancée of Rev. C V T Richeson held for murder in Boston, will devote the rest of her life to settlement work in New York. An intimate friend said she plans to conceal her identity while pursuing life among the poor.
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New York
Violet Edmands
Brookline
Maderod Likely to Pardon Reyes
President Maderod signals a probable pardon for Reyes amid belief in political stability and continued governance. Authorities anticipate public calm as negotiations and legal reviews proceed at the capital.
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Maderod
Reyes
Mexico City weighs Reyes pardon or prison term
The Mexican capital debates whether General Bernardo Reyes will be pardoned or jailed briefly after his Christmas surrender. President Madero, silent on the verdict, may exile Reyes to Europe if he pardons him. Reyes’ former staff chief Alexander Pezo will preside at the court martial and seek a lenient outcome.
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Mexico City
Madero
Bernardo Reyes
Reyes
Europe
Maderist
Alexander Pezo
Diaz
Pezo
Linarres
Mexico
Taft Rivalry Splits Indiana Republican Committee
In Indianapolis the Indiana Republican state committee splits over Taft. Edwin M. Lee questions Taft’s Indiana strength while Taft leaders push early reorganization and a presidential primary issue. A six to six split with Lee as kingmaker appears possible as votes on reorganization loom.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Republican State Committee
Taft
Edwin M. Lee
State Committee
Lee
Harrys. New
Governor's Wife Undergoes Appendicitis Operation
Minneapolis December 27 Mrs Adolph O Eberhart wife of Minnesota governor underwent appendicitis surgery at Swedish Hospital. Medical bulletin states condition is favorable and improving.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Adolph O. Eberhart
Minnesota
Veeder Testifies on Beef Trust Methods in Trial
Albert H. Veeder known as the father of the Packers trust resumes testimony with contracts and records. He traces pre merger efforts to consolidate via Kenwood and Aetna companies showing how packers controlled dressed meat prices. The government seeks to prove hidden profits and funded the National Packing company with loans repaid from those profits.
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Chicago
Albert H. Veeder
Packers’ Trust
Kenwood
Aetna
National Packing Company
Veeder
Pierce Butler
Wilkerson
National Packing
Acid destroys singer's beauty in Jealous attack
Bodna Rescoul, a Bulgarian jealous man, assaulted Italian operatic star Chiarana Giacomo by throwing vitriol in her face in Pucharest. A pedestrian and two policemen were shot dead while pursuing him. Rescoul killed himself near city outskirts as police closed in. The singer was hospitalized seeking to save her sight.
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Pucharest
Bodna Rescoul
Chiarana Giacomo
Rescoul
Snow ties up S. M. freights on C. M. & St. P.
Freight traffic on the Southern Minnesota branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul line has been completely halted for thirty two hours due to heavy snowfall. A large crew with a rotary plow works the division as passenger trains manage to pass. freight may not resume before tomorrow.
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Minnesota
Confession of John Henry Martin Declared Fake
John Henry Martin confessed to the murder of tobacconist William H. Mickle but was sent to an asylum as police deem the confession fake. A mysterious James Smith remains a suspect while Martin offered an unusually lucid account of the crime.
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Washington
John Henry Martin
William H. Mickle
James Smith
Martin
Woman on way to wed against father's wish in Berkeley
Miss Gertrude Gardner, 20, heads to Berkeley, California to marry former classmate Leo M. Smith, a newspaper man. Smith's father seeks to stop the marriage claiming son is under age. Gardner traveled with her parents' consent after receiving a diamond ring and a railroad ticket as a Christmas present.
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Lynn
Mass
Gertrude
Gardner
Berkeley
Cal
Leo M. Smith
Smith
Miss Gardner
High School Boy Believed Kidnapped
Denver police issued letters and telegrams to major city forces seeking Ralph Crabb a 17 year old missing high school student since December 4. His father Professor I N Crabb a math teacher at East Denver High School suspects kidnapping for ransom while police think a woman led him away.
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Denver
Col
Denver Police Department
Ralph Crabb
Crabb
Ralph
I. N. Crabb
East Denver High School
Thaw's Creditors Claims Are Settled
Pittsburgh Pa December meeting of Harry Kendall Thaw creditors confirms 22 percent dividend on claims. Distributable amount 59,963.57 from Thaw liabilities over 300,000. Many claims stem from the New York trial that led to commitment to Matteawan asylum. Thaw is claimed sane.
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Pittsburg
Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
New York
Matteawan Asylum
County Board Acts on Damages Claims and Sanitarium Site
The county board approves forming a three member committee and district attorney to handle damages claims by Mrs. Catherine Mackey and Mrs. Millie Nelson over two deaths at the county agricultural school. It selects a tuberculosis sanitarium site bounded by Twenty first and Twenty second streets and Market and Winnebago streets, owned by the J J Hogan estate, with sale promised for 2000 by J J Hogan Jr if the county pursues it.
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Catherine Mackey
Millie Nelson
Kille
Holland
Onalaska
Market
Winnebago
J. J. Hogan
J. J. Hogan, Jr
London Guarantee and Accident Company of
London
England
E. D. Loomis
Acord
Loomis
Industrial Commission
Mackey and Nelson
Dynamite Found in Leather Case in Rochester
Police investigate after twenty four sticks of dynamite twelve caps and ten yards of fuse are found in a small leather case at McDonald Hartman dealers in contractors supplies The dynamite was kept in a local hardware store magazine Rochester recalls a prior seizure of seventy two sticks in Monessen linked to George Bridges and a plan to blow a railroad bridge by the McNamara brothers
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Rochester
McDonald & Hartman
George Bridges
Monessen
McNamara Brothers
Pittsburg & Lake Erie
Clark for President club launches in Kansas City
Kansas City announces a Clark for President club with backing from the Commercial club and leading businessmen. It marks Clark's first organized push in the area, near Senator James A Reed, a Folk supporter, and signals growing regional support.
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Kansas City
Clark
Commercial Club
James A. Reed
Family Inoculated With Divorce Germ
RICHMOND Ind Dec 27 Four members of one family sue for divorce simultaneously in Cyrus Hicks household Cyrus files a cross bill against the suit by his third wife Anna Iva the daughter seeks a decree in her divorce from William Wood and William Hicks the son files for divorce from his wife
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Richmond
Ind
Cyrus Hicks
Cyrus
Anna
Iva
William Wood
William Hicks
Yuan Shi Kai weighs resignation amid Chinese peace talks
Premier Yuan Shi Kai, amid talks with revolutionists, weighs resigning after securing terms. Manchu princes say they will abdicate, Tang Shao Wei is accused of treachery, while Yuan faces opposition to a ten year presidency and a provincial delegate convention.
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Torio
Yuan Shi Kai
Pekin
Yuan
Tang Shao Wi
Tang
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Striking Workers Blamed for Wrecks on Illinois Central
Chicago December 27 police and private detectives guard the Illinois Central suburban system after three passenger trains and a freight wrecked and an attempted wreck of a fourth. No serious injuries. Company blames striking shop workers. strikers deny and cite neglected equipment.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
Schuettler
Aristocracy Blamed If War Declared in Commons Debate
The Labor Party leader in England's House of Commons warning that aristocracy is to blame if a war is declared. He argues international policies disregard democratic spirit and push war as a probability.
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Aristocragy
England
House of
Rich are Diplomats Scions of Aristocracy Dominate Policy
London dispatch reports J Ramsay MacDonald blaming the British foreign office for pro aristocracy influence on England’s diplomacy. He says public opinion is democratic while official policy stems from elite circles recruiting wealthy, Oxford tied diplomats. He calls for Commons oversight to curb aristocratic control.
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Ed. L. Keen
London
United Press
England
Germany
British Foreign Office
United States
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Labor Party
House of Commons
Foreign Office
MacDonald
Edward Grey
House
Fire tragedy case draws to close in New York
The Triangle Shirtwaist owners Isaac Harris and Max Blanck face a manslaughter trial over the 1911 blaze that killed 142. Assistant District Attorney Bostwick opened the final summary for the people, followed by Max D. Stener for the defendants and Rubin for the prosecution. Judge Marcus prepared to charge the jury after two hours per side.
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New York
Isaac Harris
Max Blanck
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Bostwick
Max D. Stener
Rubin
Marcus
Weather Summary for La Crosse Wisconsin and Midwest
Fair and very cold weather continues for La Crosse and vicinity with a likely fair Thursday and not as cold. Wisconsin sees fair today and Thursday, cooler tonight. Minnesota and Iowa report unsettled conditions with rain or snow along the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic coast, but plains and Rockies remain clear and cold. The northern storm tracks show temperatures dropping from Manitoba to the gulf states with subfreezing readings across the Dakotas and Minnesota.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Upper Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic States
North Pacific
Rocky Mountain Districts
Plains States
Manitoba
Gulf States
Dakotas
Kansas
Williston
Canadian Northwest
Minnesosa
Rocky Mountain
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Court of Corrections
Market Street
John Kindley
Committee On
Lemuel Cox
Onalaska Record
Cox
Illnois Central
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Effete European
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