Peace talks loom as Nicaragua factions plan conference
A conference is set for Saturday between Madriz and Provisional President Estrada amid peace talks. Madriz seeks a peaceful settlement with disbanded armies, recognition of his government, and a six month transition to elections. Estrada signals caution over assembly actions and ongoing war preparations continue in Managua.
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Bluefields
Madriz
Estrada
Consul Moffat
Revolutionary Party
Legislative Assembly
Managua
Zelaya
Santos Ramirez
Andrew Carnegie Injured in Central Park Slip
Andrew Carnegie rests at his Fifth Avenue mansion after slipping on ice in Central Park and injuring his left knee yesterday.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Nelson to Head Ballinger Pinchot Probe
A joint Senate House committee will investigate the Ballinger Pinchot controversy. President and Republican leaders reached the plan after conferences, with Senator Nelson of Minnesota likely to lead the panel.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Nelson
Minnesota
Football Rules Fight At Intercollegiate Meeting
New York Dec 28 Football comes under scrutiny at the fourth annual Intercollegiate Athletic Association session at the Murray Hill hotel. Following committee recommendations from West Point for mass play limits, neutral zone abolition, and a limited forward pass, the conference contemplates swift rule changes before adjournment. Harvard leads a dozen new member colleges as 69 schools attend amid western dissent over Yale and Princeton not joining. Purdue professor Moran denounces coaches for encouraging dishonesty and dirty play while thumbing at revised rules.
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New York
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Murray Hill
United States Military Academy
West Point
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Thos. F. Moran
Purdue
Phone trust may be proved fact
C E Gleed president of both companies testifies that American Telephone and Telegraph owns 55 percent of Bell Telephone of Missouri and 55 percent of Missouri Kansas and Eastern Telephone. He says AT T New York controls and elects directors. Bell operates in St Louis and MK&E in Kansas City. Hearing before Missouri supreme court special commissioner probes a telephone interest combination.
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Jefferson City
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Company of
Missouri
Missouri, Kansas and Eastern Telephone Company
C. E. Gleed
Topeka
Kansas
Bell Company
St. Louis
Eastern
Kansas City
Missouri Supreme Court
Major
Gleed
American Telephone and Telegraph Company of
New York
Chicago Railroads, Switchmen Keep Talks After Break
In Chicago on December 28, Vice President Heberling and Connors of the Switchmen's Union continued negotiations with Chicago railroads despite the northwest switchmen strike break. Some roads negotiating here refused Twin Cities demands though identical to those made locally, with efforts to maintain peace at Chicago terminals.
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Chicago
Northwest
Heberling and Connors
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Cicago
Twin Cities
Zionist Congress Splits Over Palestine Colonization Plan
Disorder marked the international Zionist congress in Hamburg as opposition to Dr David Wolff and the leadership deepened a split. A radical faction demands immediate colonization action and two separate organizations seem inevitable, hindering major business at the annual meeting.
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Hamburg
International Zionist Congress
David Wolffson
Cologne
Congress
Palestine
Subways Follow Chicago Merger
Chicago official Thos. Mitten of the Chicago City railway announced that a passenger subway will be one of the first outcomes of the recently announced merger of local traction lines. He said the subway is a certainty and that the first steps for construction should begin in 1910.
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Chicago
Thos. Mitten
Chicago City Railway
Paris asylum keeper accused in brutal absinthe murders
Leon Thabais, keeper of a ward for feeble minded inmates, is on trial in Paris for a spree of killings said to fund his absinthe habit. Police found a string of deaths averaging every other day over two weeks, with a twenty cent bonus cited for each death. Thabais claims self defense after an attack.
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Paris
Leon Thabais
Thabius
France
Rescue of Sixty From Foundering Ferry Charon on Ice Gorge
Sixty passengers including thirty five women and children were saved from the foundering ferryboat Charon on the Ohio river at Bellaire Ohio after night long peril. The vessel could not land and passengers were evacuated in small boats as ice blocked access to shore and men ferried women and children over the jammed ice to open water.
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Bellaire
Charon
Ohio River
Three Blanton Children Die In Kansas House Fire
Pratt Kansas December 28. The charred bodies of three small children of Henry Blanton were recovered from the ruins of the burned Blanton home. Mrs Blanton had left them alone to call on a neighbor and the fire started by unknown causes before rescuers arrived. An inquest is being held.
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Pratt
Kansas
Henry Blanton
Blanton
Child Dies Visiting Preston Family
A two year old child of Mr and Mrs Alexander Kerr of 1316 South Fourth Street died while visiting relatives in Preston Minnesota on Sunday. The remains were brought to La Crosse for a funeral at St Wenceslaus church this afternoon with interment in the Catholic cemetery. Undertakers Fessler and Dahl were in charge of arrangements.
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Preston
Minn
Alexander Kerr
South Fourth Street
la Crosse
St. Wenceslaus
Fessler & Dahl
Pinkertons Fired By Banks After Pay Dispute
Cashier E M Wing of the Batavian National Bank in La Crosse says Pinkerton detectives quit after banks demanded protection for under 30 thousand dollars annually. He alleges bankers prefer the Northwestern Protective association and an in-house force, calling Pinkertons less effective and the new guard stronger against thieves.
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Pinkerton Detective Agency
American Bankers’ Association
E. M. Wing
Batavian National Bank
Pinkertons
Wing
Pinkerton Agency
Train Wreck Injures Twenty Near Penns Grove
A West Jersey line from Penns Grove to Camden wrecked one mile from Penns Grove when a broken rail caused the engine baggage car and two coaches to topple. Twenty passengers are reported injured in the accident occurring at noon.
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Camden
N. J
Penns Grove
West Jersey
Neck of Woods
Jacobs Owns the Handsomest Bird at Wisconsin Poultry Show
The Western Wisconsin Poultry show crowned George F. Jacobs the owner of the handsomest male chicken, narrowly beating E. H. Hoffman. Judges Mrs. C. L. Hood, Mrs. E. J. Hall, and Miss McGuire selected the three disinterested women to decide, and after a close call awarded the prize to Mr. Jacobs.
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George F. Jacobs
Wisconsin
E. H. Hoffman
C. L. Hood
E. J. Hall
Miss McGuire
Western Wisconsin
Jacobs
Hoffman
Quest of Husband Made Child Thief in Chicago Court
Angela Schiavone a crippled 17 year old Italian girl testified in criminal court about stealing 97820 dollars from her father’s bank over two years. Her relatives are accused of inciting the alleged thefts by promising to marry her once she had stolen enough, and faced persistent cross examination to discredit her tale.
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Chicago
Angela Schiavone
Stock Exchange Probe On Rock Island Flurry
A special committee appointed by governors of the stock exchange met in New York to begin an investigation into the Rock Island stock movement at yesterday's market opening. The stock jumped 31% and then returned to its starting price within half an hour. The panel will hear evidence to determine if the rule against corners was violated.
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New York
The
Stock Exchange
Rock Island
Woman Murdered in Brutal Manner in Denver
The body of 28 year old Mrs Ernest Rupp was found in the Platte river with skull fracture after she vanished while going to report prowlers near her home. Detectives search the negro quarter for clues as husband and six children endure tragedy.
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Denver
Colo
Platte River
Ernest Rupp
Rupp
Woman Attempts to Burn Four Children in Cincinnati Fire
Mrs. Mary Lipp, 38, crazed and in a rage, set fire to an out house and threw a dog and chickens into the blaze. She then grabbed two children and tried to club them into the flames, felling the first rescuer with a chair before neighbors overpowered her.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Mary Lipp
Matricide suspect escapes after cabin standoff
In Memphis Tennessee a posse with bloodhounds pursues James Franklin Roach twenty unknown where he shot and wounded his mother. Roach fled a cabin where officers had surrounded it last night and, despite a suspected wound and bright moonlight, slipped away as dawn came.
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Memphis
Tenn
James Franklin Roach
Roach
Murder May Give Up Tong's Secrets
Police recover an iron box in Pell street linked to Low Jung who was shot and killed. Papers inside allege treasurer ties to the Four Brothers and condemnations by the On Leong tong. Sealed documents may reveal tong secrets and connect to Elsie Siegel’s murder.
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Tong
New York
Four Brothers
On Leong Tongs
Galvin
Low Jung
Pell Street
Low Ye Fong
Four Brothers Society
On Leong Tong
Elsie Siegel
Neglected Wife in Alimony Case Hears Doctor Ordered Separation
In Mineola New York Wm Gould Brokaw testifies his physician ordered him to avoid his wife claiming nervousness. Attorney Arthur Baldwin questions accusations of drug use and doctor exams. Friends of Mrs Brokaw offer to testify in her favor including Mrs J W Sands Lieut Gov Horace White and Mrs Frank Gould.
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J. W. Winthrop Sands
Horace White
Frank Gould
Nan Dennison
Balance of Kuhn plant is sold
The six lots near the Rose Street viaduct on the North side formerly occupied by Novelty Wood Works and related buildings, plus uncollectable accounts of the R C Kuhn Sash and Door, were sold by trustee Joseph Boschert. J E Wheeler bought the property for 1260 dollars to settle remaining claims. The downtown plant had earlier been purchased by Segelke Kohlhaus last May and made part of their manufacturing business.
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Rose Street Viaduct
Novelty Wood Works
R. C. Kuhn Sash and Door Company
Joseph Boschert
J. E. Wheeler
Sash and Door Company
Kuhn Ssh and
Read ing Railway Official Driven Insane After Storm
B H Bail Read ing railway second vice president and freight traffic manager collapsed into insanity in the Reading terminal offices. Officials say the stress of keeping freight moving during the recent big storm drove him to be committed to an asylum.
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Philadelphia
B. H. Bail
Reading Railway
Reading Terminal
Secretary Kittle Arrives for La Crosse Normal School Diploma Talk
William Kittle secretary of the state board of normal regents arrives tonight for a conference with President Fassett A. Cotton on diploma design for La Crosse normal school and other business.
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William Kittle
State Board of Normal Regents
City
Fassett A. Cotton
la Crosse Normal School
Two Words Bring Liberty to Them
Chicago December 28 The state supreme court freed Wm. D. Tilden and Chauncey L. Graham from forgery convictions two years after an indictment alleged the forged note. The reversal stemmed from superfluous words in the charging document.
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Chicago
Wm. D. Tilden
Chauncey L. Graham
State Supreme Court
Diaz to Honor Zelaya in Mexico City Reception
Mexican officials plan a warm welcome for former Nicaraguan President Zelaya in Mexico City. President Diaz will personally entertain Zelaya and attend formal receptions in Zelaya's honor.
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Mexico City
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Castro
Diaz
Ludefisk Dinner Hosted by Rev and Mrs Anderson in Madison Court
Rev and Mrs R Anderson entertained guests at a ludefisk dinner at their Madison Court home last evening. The rooms featured a red and green color scheme. Attending were Mr and Mrs Lewis Knudson A Engans S Lee and P Limoseth.
Col Kircheis Improves After Rough Night
Col Julius F E Kircheis, gravely ill at home, enjoyed a very restful night and his condition is reported considerably improved today.
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Kircheis
Julius FE. Kircheis
Captain Wilcox Remembered as Pioneer River Navagator
Longtime La Crosse steamboat captain Captain Wilcox age seventy died after months of illness at his home 909 Y Street His career spanned rafting early river days and ownership of several craft including the Comet and La Crosse He was born April 15 1835 at Leertown and moved to Wisconsin in 1856 He served as chief engineer on the Annie Gordon and later operated the packer upper river until 1905 He was a Master Mason and prominent member of Wah lodge No 14 A F and A M Funeral at his home and Wabasha will proceed with Masonic rites and burial He leaves three daughters Helen Adelaide Mrs Lyons and three sons Frank Harry and A Wilcox.
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Charles Hiram Cook Wilcox
Upper Mississippi
Wissin
Minnesota
Durat
Si River
Y Street
Attertown
Jefferson County
W: Sha, Minn
Adelaide Goodell
Bangor
Mich
Marri
la Crosse
Wilcox
Annie Gordon
Comet
Met
Waters
Mississippi
Masons
Wahlodge No
A. F
A. M
Kasha
Tain Wilcox
C. N. Molle
Wabashaw
Wab
Daug
Helen
Adelaide
S. Lyons
Plainview, N
Messrs
Frank
Harry
A Wilcox
Lincoln School Defeats Washburn In 34 to 15 Victory
The Lincoln school beat Washburn 34 to 15 in a fast game. John Weiss scored 12 baskets leading Lincoln with Worth and George in key roles. Weldon Mallette and Seth Dickens played as guards while Zeisler, Egelbert, and Lee supported Washburn.
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Lincoln School
Washburn School
John Weiss
Lincoln
Worth
George A
Weldon Mallette
Seth Dickens
Washburn
Zeisler
Joh
Egelbert
T and Lee
Weather note for Midwest regions forecasts cold spell
Cold across the Midwest with snow flurries and a chilly trend. Iowa and Wisconsin expect snow flurries and colder air tonight through Wednesday, with southeast portions facing the coldest conditions.
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Minn
Iowa
Wisco
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