Bloody battle in Okmulgee Okla ends with mob slaying
At Okmulgee Oklahoma on November 16 a confrontation between Jim Deckard a black desperado and law officers left Sheriff Gar Robinson, assistant chief Klaber, and several black deputies dead and multiple others wounded. Deckard was killed as a mob surrounded his house and Ignited a fatal blaze. Governor Maskell ordered militia to Okmulgee and calm returned by nightfall.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Jim Deckard
Gar Robinson
Okmigee County
Henry Kiaber
Pallee
Chagman
Steve Greyson
Vic Fary
Uschard
St. Louis
San Francisco
Staton
Jill Deckard
Steve Grayson
Grayson
Poligemman Klaber
Deckard
Klaber
Robinson
Stone
Himaelf
Barnlay
Gov. Maskell
Guthrie
Muskogea
Nexno
Deckaret
No Engagement Declared Between Elkins Daughter and Duke Abruzzi
The Washington announcement by Senator Stephen L. Elkins states there is no engagement between his daughter Misa Katherine Elkins and the Duke of Abruzzi. The elder Elkins and Miss Elkins approve public disclosure to end persistent rumors and press attention.
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Washington
Stephen L. Elkins
Emmphatis
Misa Katherine Elkins
Abruzzi
Wetumka
Oxla
Ben Smilth
Johny Tebner
Ber Srith
Jett Smith
Dowager Empress Dies as China Looms in Mourning
Dowager Empress Cixi of China died Sunday afternoon at two. Kuang-Hsu died Saturday, and Prince Pu-Yi was named heir as regent Prince Chun ordered mourning for 100 days and the court for three years. Legations prepared for possible unrest while provinces are to continue administration. Foreign observers monitor the palace rites and edicts marking the transition.
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Peking
Texze Hel
Prince Pu-Yi
Prince Chun
Foreign Board
Pu-¥ Io
Kuang-Hav
Legation
Legations
National Prosperity association ends work statement
President EC Simmons of the National Prosperity Association announces in a letter to members that the association finished its work. He says it hastened prosperity, influenced public sentiment toward railroads and large corporations, and helped Roosevelt avoid attacks on industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
EC. Simmons
National Prosperity Associaten
Roosevelt
Wny More Messiaes
Congress
Simmons
National Prosperity Association
South
Pappie
Missing Alameda Student Found in Chicago Working Under Alias
Alameda art student FDow Clark who vanished October 27 was located safe in Chicago. A letter to Anita Y. Mack, the girl's mother, says she is living there under an assumed name and working. Oakland and San Francisco police had been seeking her.
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Chicago
Oakland
Cal
Fdow Clark
Alameda
San Francisco
We Girl
Anita Y. Mack
Brookings Gives 260 000 Toward Washington Univ Endowment
St Louis Nov 16 Announcement that at a recent board meeting Robert S Brookings president of the university corporation donated 260000 toward an endowment fund of 1900000 the university seeks to raise. The General Education Board has already subscribed 200000 to the endowment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Washington University
Robert S. Brookings
University Corporation
Yalsa
General Education Board
Taft to Call Special Session After March Inauguration
Washington reports that a special session of the Sixty-first Congress will convene soon after March 4 to tackle tariff revision. Taft, visiting Roosevelt at the White House, outlined plans to travel to Cincinnati, Hot Springs, and New York before a December stay in Augusta, with further arrangements to follow.
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Washington
Sixty-first Congress
William H. Taft
Eclect
White House
Roosevelt
Judge Tate
Cincinnati
Tutt
Ite House
Judge Taft
Taft
AN Souls Unitarian Church
Juschion
Root
Nicholas Longworth
Henry White
North Carolina Society
American Redross Society
Mabel Boardman
H. W. Tait and
New York
Augusta
Decisive Liberal Victory In Cuban Election
Partial returns from 1,960 polling places show Gen Jose Miguel Gomez with 183,825 votes to Gen Mario Menocal's 118,329. Liberals win every province, with Havana city and province carrying large majorities. Major gains also reported in Oriente Santa Clara Camaguey Pinar del Rio Matanzas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havang
Navy
Jose Miguel Gomez
Mario Menocal
Havana
Vibert
Iberai
Oriente
Santa Clara
Camaguey
Pinar del Rio
Matanzas
Tragic murder suicide in Frankfort claims mother and two children
In Frankfort Kentucky on Sunday neighbors found Mrs Agnes Lidner and her two children aged five and three lifeless in their home. Nine pools of blood and throat slashing were reported with a razor found clutched in the mother's hand in a grim domestic tragedy.
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Frankfort
Agnes Lidner
South Bend Post Office Robbed for Seventeen Thousand Stamps
South Bend Ind Nov 16 burglars Saturday night plundered the South Bend post office of eighteen thousand six hundred fifty three dollars in stamps and made a successful escape. Post police inspectors and police are without a crew to conduct the search for the thieves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Chinese Occupy Macao Reports Spark Serious Lookout
Dispatches from Macao report Chinese forces have occupied the Portuguese colony of Macao and warn the situation is most serious with fighting momentarily expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macao
Lisbon
China
National Council of Women Holds Seventeenth Annual Meet
The National Council of Women in Union City opened its seventeenth annual meeting on Sunday afternoon. The first session concluded with plans and a mast plan for continuing sessions through Friday, highlighting local organizing efforts and community participation.
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National Council of Women
Union City
Fnd
New
National Council of Wawen
Condensed specials with multiple notable deaths and incidents
A terse roundup notes William Reed, 76, of Vineland New Jersey murdered for $30000 in railroad bonds. Miss Margaret Conway sues for $25000 over a magazine photo. two Monmouth football players injured in a game. Rev George Brinley Morgan killed by auto in New Haven. Dr Adolf Stocker resigns from Reichstag. George A Burnham killed while duck hunting. Viscount Gort unintentionally causes death of Willam Prettie. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia dies in Paris at 58 after long exile and navy leadership.
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William Reed
Vineland
N. J
Margaret Lee Conway
Chicago
Monmouth
Knox College
MeKiericks
Richards
George Brinley Morgan
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church of
New Haven
St. Clair Flats
J. P. Verater
Viscount Gort
England
Willam Prettie
George Gilbert
Raleigh
Winnipeg
Prettie
Alexis
Russia
Nicholas
Paris
Posidorn
Navy
Inferno at Indiana Reformatory and Jetsonville works
Louisville fire spread across Jeffersonville across the Ohio River destroying five reformatory buildings and most of Indiana Manufacturing Company plant in Jetersonville. Loss estimated at 250000 with 1200 inmates remaining in cells as firemen fought the blaze and Louisville's department aided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louinville
Indiana State Reformatory
Indiana Manufacturing Company
Jet
Fersonville
Ind
Ghia River
Reformatory
Teffersonville
Fluince
Louisville
Mutinous Militia Officers Demand Regular Pay
Nashville dispatch reports that officers of the First Tennessee regiment in the Reelfoot Lake region threaten to resign if not paid regular wages for services rendered, following recent night rider troubles and effigy burning at Camp Nemo et Col. Pullman Company Wins in Texas rate case on appeal, reducing charges by about 20 percent. Atlantic Deeper Waterways convention to meet in Baltimore this week, after organizing in Philadelphia last year. Plow factory in Omaha partly burned, destroying west half of Nebraska Morine Plow Company's factory and stock, loss about 100000 dollars. Episcopal missionary Bishop Edward J Knight of Western Colorado dies at 44 in Glenwood Springs from typhoid fever.
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Nashville
Tenn
Camp Nemo
Harvey Alexander
Tennessee
First Tennessee Regiment
Reelfact Lake
Knight
Glenwood Springs
Col
Edward J. Knight
Western
Colorado
Destructive Frederic fire ruins town buildings
A major fire at Frederic damages about 75000 dollars in property including Payne’s hotel and saloon Frederic hotel junkee’s restaurant Diamond Bros barber shop Lunon & Taylors market Cod d ons clothing store Hed berg’s grocery Carlson’s hardware Hubbard’s saloon Insurance partially covers losses. In Burke a gas plant explosion at Frederick Niebuhr’s home destroys the farm and injures several family members.
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Frederic
Payne's Hotel
Junkée’s
Diamond Bros
Lunon & Taylor's Market
Coddon’s
Hedberg
Carlson's Hardware
Hubbard's Saloon
Burke
Frederick Niebuler
Frederick Niebuhr
Fond du Lac
Grant Poole
E. H. Orvis
Oskfeld
la Crosse
Anderson
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted For Female Ailments
A long promotional letter fragment extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy sparing operations for women with conditions from displacements to backache. It cites testimonies from Mrs Barbara Base and Mrs Arthur R House and urges sick women to write for advice from Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Barbara Base
Kingman
Kansas
Pinkham
Moorestown
N. J
Lydia E Pinkham
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Okmulgee Okla
Elkins
Cleveland
FPM
Kirby Company
Ten Cent
M. Phillipsborn Company
Salfa and Clanks
Euclid Avenue
J. Wageman Bons, Clothiers
Guardian Trust Company
Amoke
Kille
Jackson, Miss
Timothy Linehan
Detroit
Pu-Yi
Mr. Roosevalt
Gen. Gomez
Cuba
Indiana Institution
Los Angeles
America
Pacific Ocean
United States
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Railroad
Pullman Company
New Orleans
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas Commission
Texas
Atlantic Waterways Convention
Baltimore
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Philadelphia
Omabs
Neb
Nebraska Morine Plow Company
Wisconsin State News
Appleton
Anton Becher
Providence
Becher
Monroe
Clarence Foubel
Helen Howe
Freeport
Watertown
Wollan
Delle Guoness
Laporte
Mid
Wausiu
Stiney Roe
Recine
Corlies
Robert Bender
Ashland
Willows
Neillsville
BE. E. Frazer
Charles Schroeder
Carl Schroeder
Sheboysan
John Cuddy
Lake View
Cuddy
Manitowoc
Charles Schuetze
Madison
John Dworka
Wauzeka
Wisconsin Flyestock Sanitary Board
Harry L. Colman
Naomi Crocker
Colman
Tola
Thomas Hess
Charles Hess
Milton Hess
Rib Lake
United States Leather Company
Oconemowoc
A. W. Alexander
Wisconsin University At Madison
Pabst
Harry Brown
Phillips
Louis Bosle
Prentice
Johbn “A. Aylward
Joseph
D. Jayne
DR. D. Jayne
Jayne
Azce
T. A. Phillips & Company
Equitable Bldg
Tacoma
Waah
OE Doatle
Stanp
Laclement CO
Mele Melaty
Moedanatl
Guathar
Biz State Street
Os Coyne Bros
Water St
Defiance
Lllinois
U.S
Thompson, Mo
Lancaster
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