Senator Testifies On Equitable Funds In State Campaigns
New York November 23 Senator Thomas testified before the Insurance committee that Equitable Life contributed 10 000 annually to the Republican state campaign fund in cash. He said contributions were routed through his office and later turned over to the campaign fund. Other witnesses including Tarbell and Nichols described use of false names and money paid to protect Manning and influence legislation and elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Thomas Att
Equitable
Eepectea
Eepectea, In Return Ithe Qouitetbarlone
Tol
Legis- Ge Companies
Anita
Andrew
Eee Patel Eral
Platt
Piatt
Iregard
Aney
Audi
Cornelius NicBuse
Ava
Hughes
State Committee
Sonia
Moreys
Eta
Sahould
Tarbell
Gare
Tecess
Nichols
A. Nichols
Quarantine Commissionen
New Z Who
Senator Vine
Hhis
Khbla
Tse Tegultane ‘Society
Manning
Fichofs
Hines
Vital Idree
Dee
Senate
Pierson
Brooker
Balderson
The
Mutual Life In
Hughes Terments
Mutual
New York Life
Jordan Lends Hard To Heston In Buying Football Victories
Des Moines reports Ed ward S Jordan critiques Michigan football star Willie Heston in Colliers Weekly series on athletic conditions. The piece details Heston’s rise from Grants Pass to Michigan, later roles, and post college work including cigars named for him and employment on ships and Detroit streets.
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Des Moines
William Martin Heston
Michigan
Edward S. Jordan
Colliers’ Weekly
Middle West
Willie” Heston
University of Michigan
Drake University
Jordan
Hestton
James Murfin
Detroit
Heston
Grants Pass
Ore
Yost
San’ Jose
Call
Hetherington and Beasley
San Jose
Ann Arbor
Dan Guigin
Michigan Guard
McGuigin
Drake College
Eight Hour Day Backed by Labor Federation for Printers
Pittsburg reports at the AFL session endorse an eight hour day for union printers and authorize continued moral and financial aid after January 1, 1906. An assessment to fund printers' aid is set at 4 cents per member, expected to raise about $80,000, while the International Typographical Union approves a 50 cent assessment. Delegate Johannsen of Chicago attacks the Industrial Workers of the World, calling them enemies of free speech and government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Canada
International Typographical Union
Johannsen
Chicago
Industrial Workers of the World
Federation of Labor
Federation of Labor Was A Federation of “Crafters
The
Explosion Kills Four in Powder Works Laboratory
Four men Pierce Stafford Applegate Redpath were killed when a blast ripped the National Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company laboratory at Parlin South River New Jersey. Only the workers in the building at the time perished and the cause remains unknown.
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South River
N. J
National Smokeless Powder and Chemical ‘Company
Parlin
John Pierce
Frank Stafford
Zoun Applegate
Ws Redpath
Bulding
High Handed Takeover at Novoe Vremya Composing Room
In St Petersburg on November 23 three editors of the official workers council newspaper entered the Novoe Vremya composing room with revolvers and forced printers to set the paper, seizing 30 000 copies of the Workmens Gazette. Martial law in Poland looms as Witte aides discuss universal suffrage. A Polish delegation issues a manifesto calling for autonomy and language rights in schools and courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Workingmen’s Council
Novoe Vremyea
Witte
Poland
Russia
Swindle in Stocks Ties Broker to Unlisted Shares
Chicago police charge stock broker R. Levy with using the mails to defraud in a nationwide scheme. He allegedly obtained unlisted mining shares and sent them to the defunct Garfield National Bank in Chicago for disposal, then sold the shares for minimal sums. Levy was released on $2000 bond and case set for December 1.
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Chicago
United States
R. Levy
Medinah Temple
Levy
Garfield National Bank
West
Foote
Expel polygamist case rocks Mormon leadership
E H Conger and Pearl Gurrin, Utah residents, were arrested in El Paso after attempting a plural marriage. Conger claims he was refused a marriage license in Utah and sought to wed in Mexican Mormon colonies, but President Smith opposed the plan and ordered the couple expelled.
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Bel Paso
Tex
E. H. Conger
Pearl Gurrin
Utah
Smith
Mormon Church
Conger
Miss Gurrin
Mexico
Cheat Disrupts Allegheny Country Club Event
Pittsburg reports that a prominent society woman was found cheating at golf yesterday. Her score proved falsified and officials declared it false prompting threats to withdraw from the club amid tensions with other competitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Society
Pittsburg
Allegheny Country Club
Rockefeller Finds Cheese Healthful Despite Earlier Doubt
In a Fifth Avenue Baptist church session Rockefeller spoke about health and diet with humor. He recalled avoiding cheese but now loves it, praising open air exercise and slow eating as the elixir of youth. He noted cheese as healthful and said he eats a little twice daily.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Rockefeller
Cleveland
Dr. Eaton
Mr. Rockefeller
Hearst Hires Lawyer for Election Fraud Case
Clarence J. Shearn, Hearst's personal counsel, says ex Governor Frank S. Black will lead the criminal side of the mayoralty contest litigation, working with Attorney General Mayer. The grand jury subpoenas John J. Murphy and Charles F. Murphy, and James B. Gaffney, amid renewed fraud inquiries. William P. Hazen finds no evidence tying judges to ballot manipulation, attributing fraud to individuals who violated registration and voting laws.
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New York
Clarence J. Shearn
W. R. Hearst
Frank S. Black
Hearst
Black
Mayer
Grand Jury
John J. Murphy
Charles F.murphy
Tammany Hall
James B. Gaffney
Charles F. Murphy
Murphy
Gaffney
William P. Hazen
United States Secret Service
Fee Proposal for Civil Service Examinations
Chief Examiner Kiggins urges charging a fee to applicants for civil service examinations in his annual report to the commission. The current exams are free, but the examiner cites high costs for preparation rating papers correspondence recording printing photo lithography and related tasks and recommends applicant fees to cover privileges.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Kiggins
Commission
Riggins
Indictments for Manslaughter Linked to Myers Store Collapse
Albany grand jury charges contractor John Dyer Jr and supervising architect Clark L Daggett with manslaughter over the August 8 collapse of the Myers & company department store building. Thirteen died or were fatally injured and thirty others hurt.
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Albany, N. Y
John Dyer, Jr
Clark L. Daggett
The
Myers Company
Turbin Collier Believed Lost With All On Board
Halifax dispatches report that the collier Turbin is believed to have been lost with all aboard after last night’s gale near Cape Sable Island. The vessel vanishes after Friday night’s incident.
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Turbin
Cape Sable Island
Halifax
N. S
Senate rail rate regulation to be discussed this afternoon
Washington November 22 senate committee on interstate commerce will meet this afternoon to begin consideration of legislation relating to regulation of railway rates. Some members will be absent due to illness or prior engagements.
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Washington
Senate
Denver Bank Heist Nets $2000 In Robbery
In Denver on November 22 two masked gunmen robbed the South Denver bank of all its cash, forcing cashier Gabriel Jones to surrender $2000. A man and a woman who entered during the robbery were compelled to face the wall with hands up as the robbers fled in a buggy.
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Denver
Gabriel Jones
South
Revolutionary Upheaval in Poland and Russia Woes
Reports from Warsaw to St Petersburg detail police actions against patriots in Lodz with fatalities, while Moscow factions clash over a universal strike. Mutinies and famine threaten peasants as strikes evolve and roving troops loom, with broader implications for Russia and its allies.
London Must Be Wed As Illinois Divorce Law Bites
Chicago reports author Jack London faces a remarriage to Charmion Kittredge after a recent divorce. Due to Illinois and California law prohibiting remarriage within a year of divorce, London’s union must occur promptly to comply with the new statute.
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Chicago
Illinois
Jack London
Charmion Kittredge
California
London
Bernhardt Special Train Speeds Mile a Minute
Sarah Bernhardt travels from New York to Chicago on a New York Central special train today. The run from Buffalo to Toledo averages a mile per minute, highlighting the fast pace of the journey and the star's transit through Ohio.
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Toledo
New York Central
Sarah Bernhardt
New York
Chicago
Buffalo
Shaw Will Stay In Roosevelt Cabinet Through Session
Washington reports Secretary Shaw will remain as secretary of the treasury to end the current congress session and perhaps beyond. Roosevelt, after urging, affected a delay in Shaw's planned February retirement to support his presidential bid in 1908, with further renewal possible.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Washington, D. C
Shaw
Treasury
Roosevelt
Congress
Moody
Boston
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Teddy Roosevelt Jr Laid Out in Harvard Yale Freshman Game
Cambridge Mass November 22 Theodore Roosevelt Jr was battered and trampled by heavier Yale players yet fought on in the Harvard Yale freshman football clash. He was eventually carried from the field with cuts bruises and exhaustion after being knocked down and pinned under a scrum.
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Cambridge
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard-Yale
Roosevelt
Yale Giants
Infant at 19 Years Receives Election Recovery Praise
Miss Mary Scally of Morristown New Jersey rose from an eighteen month old state to a nearly twenty year old in less than two days. She had suffered a period of infant like behavior for about six months and then regained normal function. Doctors and friends linked her improvement to election excitement.
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New York
Mary Scally
Morristown
N. J
Miss Sealy
Miss Seally
Miss Scally
St. Mary’s Church
Mystery of the Lena in Honolulu
The Russian cruiser Lena arrived in Honolulu and reportedly tried wireless contact with Vladivostok but was warned to avoid aiding the uprising against the government. Officers reportedly split while the crew backed the revolt, though verification is lacking. The vessel left San Francisco for Vladivostok with ample coal but entered Honolulu with little fuel.
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Honolulu
Lena
Vladivostok
Sena
San Francisco
Love is Fatal to Two in Daverly Shooting Suicide
In Springfield Illinois on November 20 Clement Scott shot Nettie May Rogers after she refused to marry him. He then slashed his own throat with a razor and died shortly after.
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Springfield
Tll
Clement Scott
Nettie May Rogers
Daverly
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Depew
Thomas Comans
Board of Aldermen
Hoffman
Equitable Society
Workmen’s Gazette
Novoe Vremyev
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Japan
Warsaw
Lodz
Odessa
Reds
National Assembly
Penza
Kronstadt
Moscow
Ribinsk
Nagasaki
Vladimir
Boroneji
Rojestvensky
Tokio
Kappek
Harbin
Baronesi
Sarah
Teddy JR
Morristown, N. J
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