Tariff Commission Bills Move Ahead In Washington
In Washington on December 28 talks at the White House and Congress advanced a bill to establish a permanent tariff commission. Representative Longworth drew a five member panel with $7,500 salaries, to study production costs and data, while Senators Beveridge and La Follette had earlier introduced related measures.
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Longworth
Tariff Commission
Beveridge and LaFollette
White House
Capitol
Ohio
Washington
Payne
House
Committee On Ways and Means
Houses
Congress
Senate
Ways and
Henry C. Emery
Tariff Board
Emery
Commission
Beveridge
Indiana
la Follette
Wisconsin
Senate Committee On Finance
House Committee On Ways and Means
Death of Ben Pittman noted in Cincinnati obituary
Cincinnati inventor and author Ben Pittman dies after an illness said to be serious only recently. Born 1822 in Tavistock England he authored works on photography and a system of short handwriting bearing his name. He settled in Cincinnati in 1853 and invented a process of engraving.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ben ‘Pittman
Sir Isaac Pittman
Mother Barters Cets 5 Dollars of Votes
Fragmentary note reports a mother bartering five dollars in exchange for votes. The wording is unclear but implies vote buying. No additional identifiable names or locations are legible.
One Man Sold His Vote Three Ways in Adams County
A special grand jury in West Union Ohio reported new voting corruption cases. A widow from Peebles sold her son's vote for five dollars, and a Meigs township farmer confessed to thrice taking pay to vote straight Republican, straight Democratic, and for a named Democrat. He was jailed, fined, and disqualified. Indictments rose to 998 with expected total near 1500.
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Associated Press
iWest
Union, Ohio
Adams County
Peebles
Jacksonville
Meigs Township
Stephenson
Boy Shot by Cousin Defies Odds in Evansville
In Evansville Indiana on December 28 a twelve year old colored boy Leroy Hackner lies semi conscious with a bullet three inches deep in his brain. The injury occurred when his cousin accidentally fired last Sunday. Dr Thomas M cer says the boy has an even chance for recovery and already shows partial paralysis on one side of his body.
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Associated Press
Evansville
Ind
Leroy Hackner
Thomas Macer
Turkish Troops Move Against Bedouins in Constantinople News
From Constantinople Dec. 228 dispatch says Turkish forces were sent against Bedouin tribes amid unrest. Additional details are sparse as reports filter through the censors and distant theaters.
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Associated, ‘Press
Constantinople
Nave
Missing asylum doctors explain missing asylum doctors explain
A partial report notes doctors connected to the asylum provide explanations for the absence of key medical staff. The timeline remains unclear as officials review records and interview witnesses to determine causes and impact on patient care.
Sister Doctor Involved In Asylum Case And Bank Smash
New York reports reveal Dr Louise Robinovitch and her brother Joseph G Robinin were involved in a bank collapse case. The bank of Northern New York faced a possible 800000 dollar shortage while Robinin was committed to a private asylum. Doctors certified his paranoia and commitment papers were signed by Justice Amend.
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State Superintendent of Banks
Bank of
New York
James M. Gifford
Robin
Carlos MacDonald
Louise G. Robinovitch
Louise G. Robinovitch To‘remove Mr. Robin
MacDonald
Max G. Schlapp
Justice Amend
District Attorney’s Office
Austin Flint
Valentine’ Wildman
Schlappra
Louise Rabinovitch
Rabinovitch
Juscethe’ Amend
Negro On Rampage Reports From Texas December 28
A report from Texas details a rampage event. Associated Press coverage notes the incident's context and evolving authorities response as of December 28.
Fatal Blasting Explosion at El Paso Plant
Five men were killed and many injured when 2400 pounds of blasting powder exploded at the American Smelter and Refining Company slag pile in El Paso. Eight workers in a distant tunnel were bruised but survived. two bodies were recovered near the blast site and three others were inside the tunnel and could not escape. All the dead are Mexican.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Tex
American Smelter and Refining Company
Sir Hiram Does Not Know It All In Explosives
The Navy head of U S smokeless powder disputes claims of complete knowledge. He says he is well posted on everything in explosives, yet admits some things remain beyond his grasp.
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Navy Head
Meyer
Centennial at Pittsburg and smokeless powder debate
Washington argues Sir Hiram Maxim overstated US smokeless powder flaws. Secretary Meyer calls Maxim ignorant of US navy powders, refuting his inventor claim. In Pittsburg, Ohio and Mississippi river steamboat centennial plans include the Orleans replica voyage and a river pageant with Theodore Roosevelt’s granduncle commanding.
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Washington
Hiram Maxim
Taft
United ‘States
Army
Navy
Meyer
White House
William C. Crosier
Ordnance
U.S. A
Engineering
London
Hiram ‘Maxim
United States
United States Navy
Naval Torpedo ‘Station
Newport
Re A
Naval Service
United ‘States Navy
Indianapolis
Ind
Ohio
Mississippi
Orleans
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Ohio Valley Historical Associatio
N. J. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
A. B. Hulbert
Marietta
Stork
W. A. McGee
Hulbert
The
Ohio Valley Historical Association
William H.stevenson
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Henry W. Temple
Washington, Pa
James M. Callahan
Morgantown
W. J. Holland
Carnegie Institute
G. A. M. Dyess
University of Pittsburg
C. C. Schmidt
Wheeling
W. Va
C. F. Leeper
Louis Schwab
Cincinnati
W. O. Head
Louisville
Charles F. Heisman
Evansville
George Parsons
Cairo
Ill
Frederick W. Keisman
St. Louie
Edward H. Crump
Memphis
Tenn
William G. Benbrook
Natchez
Miss
Jules Adlax
Baton Rouge
Martin Behrman
American Historical Association
Ohio and Mississippi Valley Association
Thomas R. Marshall
Frederick J. Turner
Weston mob demands swift justice after Furby rescue
West Virginia residents demand fast action after a mob freed William Furby the alleged assailant of Flora Anglia. Prosecutor Swint and Sheriff Alfred traveled to Clarkeburg to arrange an immediate special inquest to determine charges.
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Weston
W. Va
William Furby
Flora
Anglia
Swint
Alfred
Clarkeburg
Tsi
Lilly Mc Dowell Held In St Louis For Jewelry Theft
Lilly Mc Dowell, jailed in St Louis, stands charged with stealing jewelry valued at six thousand dollars from attorney H. C. Hoteau Dyer. Dyer reports twelve thousand dollars on deposit in a Pittsburg bank and attached accounts. Mix of Chicago is said to have filed an attachment. detectives pursue more bank balances and possible additional victims. The police estimate total stolen jewelry from various homes at no less than seventy five thousand dollars.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Lilly McDowell
H. C. Hoteau Dyer
Pittsburg
Dyer
Ira J. Mix
Chicago
Humperdinck Opera Debuts on New York Stage at Met
German composer Englebert Humperdinck visits American soil with Koenigskinder Children of Kings premiering at the Metropolitan Opera House. The three act work drew a brilliant New York audience led by Geraldine Farrar Louise Homer Hermann Jadlowker Otto Goritz and conductor Alfred Hertz.
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Englebert Humperdinck, Composer of “Children of Kings
Answers Call
New York
Englebert Humperdinck
Giacomo Puccini
Humperdinck
Metropolitan Opera House
Koenigs
Otto Goritz
Alfred Hertz
Indiana bill to require weekly wage payments in mines and factories
Indianapolis December 28. A bill to require weekly wage payments to workers in mining and manufacturing and to retail and wholesale dealers will be submitted to the legislature. The law would also require wages be paid in cash. The United Mine Workers of Indiana committee met and discussed safety bills for coal mine work, with strong backing from the miners union and State Federation of Labor.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine’ Workers of Indiana
Cross Examination Reveals New Motives in Cotterman Murder Trial
State witnesses press for admission of alleged family crime links as Cotterman defense rests. Jurors instructed to return by Saturday as testimony centers on a menacing chain of events involving Jo Brown, his father, and a dying confession linked by a Brown family house.
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Robert Co
Morgan
Brown
Parrot Greer
Howard County
Indianapo Journal
C Cotterman
Robert Ciman
Fi Terman
Ani
Thomas. L. Perry
Ithe
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Movement For
Pittman
Sale
Asylum
Sister
Detec
Tives Watch
Joseph G. Rob
Jersey City
Louise Robinovitch
Whitman
William Travers
Jerome
Associated. Press
Aehigive ‘Tex
Hiram
Britisher
U.S
Pon IO Aie
Emperor William
Berlin
William
Koenigskinder
Cotterman
Ing
Joseph ‘W. Brown
Green Township
Time
Fastene
Sue Parrott
Buck
Joseph
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