Blood Price and Moscow Barricades as Civil War Flares
London dispatch from Moscow reports 5,000 killed and 14,000 wounded as barricades rise and guns thunder through the capital. Civilians hide in kitchens and cellars while troops display loyal resolve amid street by street fighting and looting at the Kursk terminus.
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London
Daily Telegraph
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Kursk
Tsarskoe-Selo
Creohoffsueff
Bivousce
Dinner in New Palace on Riverside Drive
In Schwab's $5,000,000 Riverside Drive palace a Christmas banquet for 14 guests, including Charles M. Schwab, his wife, and his aged parents from Loretta, Pa., was held in the Louis XIV dining room. Masterful decor and lavish epicurean fare highlighted a feast worthy of modern finance royalty.
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New York
Charles M. Schwab
Riverside Drive
Mr. Schwab
Loretta
Seventy-third Street
Schwab Palace
Joseph Villegas
America
Arthur Thomas
Baxter Dismissed as Nebraska Prosecutor by Roosevelt
Irvin Baxter United States district attorney for Nebraska was removed by President Roosevelt for lukewarm prosecution in the Richards and Comstock case. The defendants were convicted of fencing public lands in Nebraska and sentenced to six hours under U.S. marshal custody. The marshal had allowed Richards and Comstock's lawyers to handle the six hour custody, prompting dissatisfaction and Baxter’s removal after his rejection to resign.
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Gase
Washington
Irvin Baxter
United States
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Baxter
Richards & Comstock
United States Marshal
Department
Killing Due to Drink In Philadelphia Family Tragedy
Joseph Pollock aged 22 of 138 West Cumberland Street killed his father William Pollock after intervening in a quarrel between his mother and the husband. Drinking and anger preceded the fatal blow leading to a skull fracture and death on the way to hospital. The son was arrested charged with murder.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Pollock
West Cumberland Street
William Pollock
Pollock
the Sun
China Demands British Action on Mixed Court Case
Shanghai reports the Chinese foreign office instructs its London minister to negotiate with Britain. Demands include dismissal of officers and insistence on accountability for police in the recent outbreak. Also notes are events in Barcelona and U.S. military relief, a wreck near Durango with multiple injuries, and unrest over President Morales in Santo Domingo.
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China
England
London
Bec
Morning Post
Shanghai
Oor
Conference Again Held Up Over Madrid Location Tug
Tangier Morocco December 26 the sultan rejects holding the international Moroccan reforms conference at Madrid preferring Algeciras. Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania December 28 well known Dr Beck dies at his home in this state.
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Tangier
Morocco
Madrid
Algeciras
Head
Wilkesbarre
Beck
Sailors Celebrate Christmas With Dewey Message Across Navy
Five hundred sailors and marines crowded Church street in Norfolk last night as fireworks lit the sky and traffic halted. Admiral Dewey’s Christmas greeting was transmitted by wireless to ships and stations along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, with responses reaching Washington and Guantanamo. The celebration included parades near the naval Y M C A, festive dinners, and officers marking the day aboard ships.
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Norfolk
United States
Church Street
Main
Cove
Stephenson
Church
Holt
Naval Y. M. C. A
Washington
Admiral Dewey
Navy
Dewey
Atlantic
Naval Service
Manney
Bureau of Equipment
Washington Navy Yard
New Orleans
Cujon
San Juan
Colon
Guantanamoo
Archie Has a Tree Christmas at the White House
Washington Christmas at the White House featured a brief presidential office visit and a family morning with exchange of presents limited to relatives. Archie Roosevelt with a Christmas tree distributed gifts to family and staff, followed by a long afternoon ride and a family dinner hosting guests including Representative Nicholas Longworth, the fiancé of Miss Roosevelt.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Archie
White House
Nicholas Longworth
Miss Roosevelt
Locomotive boiler explodes injuring two rail crew in Paterson
A locomotive boiler explosion in Paterson New Jersey on December 26 scalded fireman Charles Debarr of Stroudsburg Pennsylvania and conductor Mabel of Butler New Jersey. Debarr is expected to die. another crew member was badly injured.
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Paterson
N. J
Charles Debarr
Stroudaburg
Mabie
Butler
Debarr
Mitchell Asks Parley With Anthracite Miners Bosses
Philadelphia December 26 The United Mine Workers president Joan Mitchell seeks a conference with anthracite coal company presidents to discuss work continuance and eight hour demands. A major proposal is a new standing conciliation board with three miner and three operator members plus a seventh chosen by the six.
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Philadelphia
Joan Mitchell
United Mine Workers’ Union
United Mine Workers
Choked to Death: 14 Year Old Jeddediah Alten in Indianapolis
Indianapolis report details the death of Jeddediah Alten, once a leading Delaware attorney, who died by choking on meat during Christmas dinner at the Marion County poor farm. Once prosperous, Alten fell into poverty and spent years in county charitable care. Undertaker Blanchard recalls his Ohio Wesleyan education and former status. his son Whiting Allen works in Barnum & Bailey advertising.
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Indianapolis
Jeddediah Alten
Delaware
Marion County
Allen
Blanchard
Ohio Wesleyan University
Whiting Allen
Barnum & Bailey's
Circus
Banker McKelvey Ends Life in Youngstown Residence
George M. McKelvey age 57 banker merchant and manufacturer of Youngstown died by self inflicted gunshot while family attended church. In ill health for a year he served as president of the Commercial National Bank and vice president of Youngstown Sheet Iron, with ties to major local interests. He leaves a widow and five children.
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Youngstown
George M. McKelvey
Church
Commercial National Bank
Youngstown Sheet Iron Company
Youngstown Elit
Meet Fate at Crossing at Camp Hill
Charles H. Hansen, a wealthy farmer, and his 34 year old daughter Edna were killed when struck by a fast express at Camp Hill, 15 miles north of Philadelphia. They rode a runabout across tracks as the train appeared, blocked by a high embankment near their home.
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Philadelphia
Charles HH. Hansen
Edna
Camp Hill
Deaths from rail and street accidents and murders reach El Paso
Fort Wayne report tells of a horse pulling a buggy colliding with the 18 hour flyer near Delphos Ohio killing Henry Bonhorst and daughter Rose and injuring Mrs Barney Wahomshoff. In Wilmerding Miss Mary McCabe dies of heart failure on a Pennsylvania train. El Paso receives the bodies of Robert Rutherford and W Mc Murray murdered near Diaz Mexico with widow and sister traveling from Philadelphia.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Pennsylvania
Delphos
Henry Bonhorst
Rose
Barney Wahomshoff
Bonhorst
Wilmerding
Penn
Irwin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mary McCabe
Allegheny
el Paso
Tex
Robert Rutherford
W. McMurray
Diaz
Mexico
Rutherford
Anna Rutherford
Philadelphia
Fatal Trolley Collision Near Tamaqua Pa
Tamaqua Pennsylvania December 26 two trolley cars crowded with passengers collided at the foot of a steep incline on the Tamaqua and Lansford line near here injuring a number of persons George Knels a passenger was probably fatally hurt.
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Tamaqua
Tamaqua & Lansford
Hera
George Knels
Mass Lodge Supports Old Bay State in Senate Picks
Washington dispatch notes Senator Lodge’s influence to safeguard Massachusetts in committee assignments while Beveridge plans to push a statehood bill after the holidays. It also recalls the New York and Pennsylvania exchanges on sessions, Japan proximity, and opinions of Clark, Hoge, and others on far eastern policy.
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Alanka
Senator Lodge
Old Bay
Washington
Dee
Semitar Beveridge
Congress
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Senate
Roosevelt
Seniator
Beveridge
Massachsetts
Ledge
Chauimmiah
Philppines
Foreign Relations
Crane
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
Old Bay State
Japan
United States
Hun
Connecticut
Alaska
Far East
Hoge
Colorado
Champ Clark
Roy
Russia
West Virginia
Arthur W. Dunn
Murder at Cards in Italian Christmas Quarrel
In Moneda a Christmas card game ends in murder and wounding. Angelo Giniglio hosts the gathering where Giargio Becca Tappor and Philip Nari quarrel over cards. Becca Tappor lies dead from a heart wound, Nari shot twice and crawls toward a street car track before fainting. Giargio allegedly fired the first shot. A motorman finds Nari at daybreak and he is hospitalized.
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Moneda
L. B
Angelo Giniglio
Giargio
Becca Tappor
Philip Nari
Giaiglio
Tapper
Nari
Christmas Fire Destroys Factory as Firemen Save Tenements
Fire destroyed a six story factory at West Fifty eighth Street in New York City after flames swept from a third floor window threatening nearby gas tanks and tenement homes. Firefighters combined engines, battled high heat, and saved surrounding houses while hundreds of Christmas trees blocked the street. One fireman was injured by falling glass.
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New York
Dee
Fiftyelenth Seoet
Eleventh Avenua
Fifty-eighth Street
Consolidated Gag Company
Ames
Thern
Honecvelt
Fifty Eighth Street
Ivan
Hero Rewarded Receives Congressional Medal for Saving Child
Grand Island Nebraska December 26 George Poell county clerk elect received a letter from President Roosevelt announcing he had earned the first Medal of Honor under the February 1905 act for conspicuous bravery in saving a child on the railway. He rescued the child by leaping onto the pilot as his locomotive ran, but was struck and severely injured losing a leg in the process.
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Grand Island
Neb
George Poell
Roosevelt
Poell
Brother Murdera Sister. Mary Wore timinio Shot by Brother
In New York on December 26 Mary Wore timinio age 20 was shot dead at her East 104th Street home by her brother Cesare aged 25 who afterward leapt from a window and was fatally injured. The motive was his opposition to her planned marriage to a man he disapproved.
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Mary Wore
Timinio
Cesare
East 104Th Street
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