Revolution in Haiti Nearing Clash as Simon Moves on Jacmel
Port au Prince reports Gen. Antoine Simon plans to attack Jacmel before resuming toward Port au Prince. President Nord Alexis faces resignations from most ministers while Louis Borno seeks asylum. The Des Moines and other foreign ships guard interests as tensions mount and possible uprisings loom.
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Port Au Prince
Antoine Simon
Revolutionary Forces
Jacmel
Department
Louis Borno
Legation
Leconte
Interior
Laleau
Marcelin
Celestin Cyriaque
Lannon
Alexis
Turenne
Jean Gilles
Solon Menos
Department of the South
Gilles
Simon
Nord Alexis
Des Moines
Tacoma
United States
Duguay Trouin
Scylla
Fieramosca
Celestinea
Vienna lights mark Emperor Francis Joseph jubilee blaze
Vienna scene erupts with unprecedented illumination as cathedrals and Hofburg glow. Crowds exceed millions, 4 killed and 150+ injured in stampede amid amnesty and honors to officials. Washington marks 60th accession anniversary with mass at St Patrick's Church.
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Vienna
Francis Josephs
Imperial Hofburg
Hofburg
Holz
Parva von Aehrénthal
Washington
Roosevelt
Austria-Hungary
Francis Joseph
St. Patrick’s Church
Supreme Court
Cabinet
Congress
Cardinal Gibbons
Falconio
Physician Accused of Murder in Mulkeytown
Mulkeytown Ill Dec 2 An indictment charging murder was voted against Dr B F Brayfield a prominent local physician after months of inquiry He is accused of poisoning Reuben F Parrish Illinois Central railway agent The Parrish wife also died soon after and Brayfield certified both deaths as natural causes without inquests
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Mulkeytown
Ill
B. F. Brayfield
Ilinois
Reuben F. Parrish
Illinois Central Railway
Parrish
Brayfield
Gin Label Men Convicted in Prohibition Case
In St Louis on December 2 Lee Levy and Adolph S Asher liquor dealers were found guilty in federal court of mailing improper advertisements and shipping liquors with improper labels. The case spurred the gin label controversy central to the Tennessee Prohibition campaign.
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St. Louis
Lee Levy
Adolphs
Asher
Express
Tennessee
Labor Leader Fatally Shot in Mascoutah Meeting
George Eppert, president of the Mascoutah local United Mine Workers, was fatally shot by Jerry Spegel during a union meeting Tuesday night in Mascoutah Illinois.
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Mascoutah, Ill
George Eppert
United Mine Workers of America
Jerry Spegel
Bryan Returns from Mexico on Brownsville Visit
William Jennings Bryan and Mrs Bryan arrived in Brownsville Texas on Tuesday after a search in Mexico that lasted several weeks.
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Bryan
Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
William Jennings Bryan
Mrs. Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Cold remedy ad with Grove signature
An old advertisement promotes LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine as a worldwide cold and grip remedy. It claims to relieve headaches and neuralgia caused by colds and urges readers to call for the full name and look for the signature E W GROVE. The price is listed as 25 cents.
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E W. Grove
Woman and Child Slain Appeal to President Not Successful
Reports from Pine Bluff Arkansas describe efforts to divert the Arkansas river to save the city from flooding. A plan to cut through higher ground failed for federal approval and workers rushed to anchor fascine mats as flood waters rose possibly into Wednesday night. The story also notes a Memphis poisoning death of Mrs Errington and her daughter as well as broader flood conditions in Oklahoma.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Roosevelt
Arkansas
Department of War
Washington
Arkansas River
War Department
Gen. Marshall
Army
Mayor Tooney
Therfore
Guthrie
Okla
Caney
Verdigris
John Sullivan
Black Bear Creek
Red Rock
A. J. Whitney
Farmers’ Union Ofl
Oklahoma City
Body of Chief Biggy Missing After Bay Search
In San Francisco officers searched the bay from the Golden Gate to Hunter's Point for Chief William J. Biggy who vanished from the patrol boat near Belvidere on Monday night. Despite boats and ferrycraft on alert, the body had not been found and feared carried to sea. Police commissioners met with Mayor Taylor and named A. D. Cutter acting chief pending a permanent appointment.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Hunter's Point
William J. Biggy
Belvidere
Taylor
A. D. Cutter
Hundred Miners Escape From Coal Mine Smoke
About one hundred miners in the Central Coal and Iron Company mine near Central City Kentucky escaped as smoke filled the workings after a dynamo pump blew out shortly before five o clock Tuesday. They fled to the ground through an airshaft to the reassurance of wives and mothers gathered above.
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Central City
Central Coal & Iron Company
Swarthmore College Votes to End Friends Control
Stockholders at Swarthmore College meet in Philadelphia on Tuesday and vote unanimously to abolish a rule that made the school a Friends institution, marking its shift to a non sectarian status.
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Swarthmore
Philadelphia
Swarthmore College
Friends
Black leg outbreak hits Ontario township
Windsor Ontario December 2 report says black leg a contagious cattle disease has appeared in Rochester township Essex county with about 14 or 15 head identified and scheduled for immediate slaughter to curb spread.
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Canada
Windsor
Ont
Rochester Township
Essex County
Suggestive Therapeutics Convention Opens in Nevada Mo
The National Association of Suggestive Therapeutics began its annual convention at the Weltmer Institute in Nevada Missouri with about 300 delegates from 40 states in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
National Association of Suggestive Therapeutics
Weltmer Institute
Plot to Overthrow Figueroa Frustrated in El Salvador
In San Salvador on December 2 a plot to overthrow President Figueroa was uncovered and thwarted. Martial law has been proclaimed amid the disruption and security measures.
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Salvador
San Salvador
Figueroa
Omer Hurst Plans New Building in Cambridge City
Omer Hurst, owner of the only overa house in Cambridge City, will erect a new building at a cost of $10,000.
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Omer Hurst
Cambridge City
Prague Riots Grow Worse Amid Martial Law Threat
Riots between Czechs and Germans in Prague Bohemia intensify with dragoons deployed. Czechs resist, public stones and clubs used, imperial flags torn. British consul Forbes mauled after being mistaken for a German. Troops occupy streets as fights continue late.
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Prague
Bohemia
A. W. W. Forbes
Trial reveals insurance motive in Dr. Frederick Austin murder case
In Omaha on December 2, the Charles E. Davis murder trial opened day two with the prosecution aided by insurance interests in Mrs. Austin's claim to the $75,000 life policy. Mrs. Rustin testified about her husband’s finances and the night of his shooting, describing how she found him on the porch after hearing a pistol shot.
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Omaha
Neb
Charles E. Davis
Frederick Austin
English
Austin
Fred
Yale Graduate Student Leaps 100 Feet to Death
John Alan White 20 years old of Walton New York, a Yale graduate student, killed himself Tuesday night by leaping from West Rock. His body found by roommate Harry L Agard, mangled at the base. A letter to his father indicates suicidal intent, with illness in his family thought to have disturbed his mind due to overwork and worry.
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New Haven
Conn
John Alan White
Walton
N. Y
Yale Graduate School
West Rock
White
Harry L. Agard
Diverting Paraphrases and Quips From a Grim Humor Page
The piece riffs on revenge and fate with dark humor and puns. It notes how wealth can come from dubious means and teases a forthcoming track meet among inmates while lampooning grim imagery and a mock Hades show.
Michigan hay dealers seek quarantine modification
About 100 Michigan hay dealers at a Saginaw meeting Tuesday adopted resolutions asking Secretary Wilson to modify the foot and mouth disease quarantine as it relates to hay straw and fodder. A committee led by George C. Warren Albert Todd and J A Heath was chosen to carry the resolutions to Washington.
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Saginaw, Mich
Michigan
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
George C. Warren
Saginaw
Albert Todd
Owosso
J. A. Heath
Lenox
Washington
Wrights Struck by Train Near Fremont, Neb
Joseph Wright of Lincoln and his uncle Gilbert Wright of Fremont were struck by a Union Pacific passenger train. Joseph Wright died instantly while Gilbert Wright suffered fatal injuries.
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Fremont, Neb
Joseph Wright
Lincoln
Neb
Gilbert Wright
Union Pacific
Peoria Enacts Curfew Law For Youth
Peoria Illinois council approves a curfew requiring children under 16 to be accompanied after 9 30 p m in summer and 8 30 p m in winter with only one dissenting vote recorded on Tuesday night.
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Peoria
Ill
Brother Kill Shot While Rabbit Hunting
Mason City Iowa December 2 Will Hough 18 shot and killed his brother Guy 25 while pursuing a rabbit. Will fired at a running rabbit and the bullet struck Guy in the throat. The brothers had separated prior to the accident.
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Mason City
Will Hough
Guy
Will
Knox County Votes Dry in Ohio Election
Knox county voters backed prohibition Tuesday by 2,485 to curb saloon traffic. Twenty two saloons will be affected after the dry result in Knox County Ohio.
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Knox County
Columbus
Inmate pair escapes through jail wall at Miami County
Gorge Bowman and Henry Holtz were confined in the Miami County jail when they dug through the wall and gained their freedom. The escape highlights security lapses and prompt inmate pursuit by authorities.
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Gorge Bowman
Henry Holtz
Miami County
Blizzard Rages Over Lake Superior Area
A 54 mile blizzard has swept across Lake Superior and the St Marys River region since early Tuesday. Navigation is at a standstill as Sainte Ste. Marie and surrounding areas endure heavy snow and visibility problems.
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Michigan
Sainte Ste. Marie
Mich
Lake Superior
St. Marys River
Debut of Ethel Roosevelt in New York Society
Miss Ethel Roosevelt the president's second daughter made her debut at Sherry's during the junior cotillon in New York on Tuesday night.
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Ethel Roosevelt
New York
Sherry’s
Newcastle saloon keeper shoots restaurant man
William Phipher a former saloon keeper of Newcastle shot and badly injured Clayton Brewer a restaurant man in an incident reported from the town.
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William Phipher
Newcastle
Clayton Brewer
Amusement Park Fire Threatens Conneaut Park
Fire at Exposition park Conneaut Lake in Meadville Pa began at one o clock Wednesday morning threatening the entire resort. A telephone message reported the Bismarck hotel burned in the blaze.
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Meadville
Exposition Park
Conneaut Take
Bismarck
Lied Convicted of Accepting $1000 Bribe in 1908
Columbus Ohio December 2 Fred Lied former service director was convicted of accepting a $1000 bribe January 19, 1908 from Henry Co Lang Columbus superintendent of the Cleveland Trinidad Paving Company.
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Columbus, O
Fred Lied
Henry Co. Lang
Columbus
Cleveland Trinidad Paving Company
Knights of Pythias Lodge in London Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Knights of Pythias in London marked the lodge's tenth anniversary with a banquet attended by 300 men.
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Knights of Pythias
London
Cranberry Meringue Dessert and Cuban Presidency Quip
A recipe for cranberry meringue and jelly topping is followed by a brief note that Cuba has elected a fat man as president and a question about why stout people are popular. The text blends culinary instructions with a political aside and a humor question.
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Cuba
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