Taft Message to Lawmakers Focuses on Economy and Tariff
President Taft delivers first annual message in Washington. He stresses economy in expenditures and revenue sufficiency, warns against tariff revision without full data, and notes prosperity despite higher living costs. He highlights tariff, Nicaraguan issue, sugar frauds, and white slavery as debated topics. Future messages on conservation and anti trust laws promised.
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Taft
Congress
Zelaya
Central America
Woman's Day at National Corn Exposition in Omaha
Omaha Neb Dec 7 This is Woman's Club Day at the National Corn Exposition. The program was arranged by the president of the state federations of Illinois Iowa Kansas Nebraska Minnesota and the addresses were made by ladies from those states.
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Omaha
Neb
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
One Hope Left Morse
Charles W. Morse, jailed in Atlanta for misapplication of National Bank of North America funds, gains a new trial motion after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari. The motion claims juror protection failures and intoxication during the trial. He remains at the Tombs as ten days remain for final adjudication.
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New York
Chas. W. Morse
Atlanta
Supreme Court of the United States
Morse
Tombs
National Bank of North America
Pierce Jury Finds H. Clay Pierce Not Guilty
Austin Texas December 7 The jury in the H. Clay Pierce false swearing case returned a verdict of not guilty today. The verdict ends the high profile trial in the Texas court proceeding.
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H. Clay Pierce
Austin
Texas
Treasury Chief Seeks Retrenchment in 1911 Expenditures
Secretary MacVeagh presents the 1911 executive department estimates totaling 684 million dollars, signaling Taft era economy. He calls for reorganizing fiscal responsibility, shifting bank circulation taxes, and completing Panama bonds legislation to ease national debt while condemning political influence in the customs service and urging a civil service pension plan.
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Washington, D. C
Franklin MacVeagh
Panama Canal
Congress
MacVeagh
United States
M. MacVeagh
Panama
General Fund of the Treasury
Customs Service
Port of
New York
John Drew Thrown From Horse In Central Park
New York December 7 John Drew actor was thrown from his horse while riding with his daughter in Central Park and seriously injured. The horse trampled him as he lay on the ground and he was taken to a hospital for treatment.
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New York
N. Y
John Drew
Central Park
Drew
Taft's Docket Nominations and Policy Moves
President Taft sent 1200 nominations to the Senate many as recess appointments and reappointed Franklin Lane as interstate commerce commissioner. He discussed amendments to interstate commerce, anti trust laws, and Nicaragua policy, with plans to send a special message within ten days. Democrats caucused to name a new Senate leadership as Mann introduces white slave traffic reform and canal commission abolition moves.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Department of Expenditures
Senate
Franklin Lane
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
House
Yarner
Pennsylvania
Customs House
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Mann
Illinois
Hamilton
Michigan
New Mexico
Arizona
Culbertson
West Virginia
Keller
Taft
Commission of Immigration
Wickersham
Nagel
Canal Commission
Isthmian Canal Commission
Governor Refuses to Reinstate Sheriff Davis
Indignation meetings are planned in Cairo after Governor Deneen denies Frank E. Davis's bid for reinstatement as sheriff. Davis’s removal came under a statute that vacates Illinois sheriffs when prisoners are lynched, with Cairo accusing Davis of failing to protect Henry Salzner and Will James lynched November 11.
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Cairo
Hil
Deneen
Frank E. Davis
Davis
Illinois
Henry Salzner
Will James
Springfield
Wm. James
Grand Jury Indicts Wisconsin Bank Figure Over Failure
LaCrosse Wis Dec 7 United States Marshal Flint went to Mineral Point with a warrant for a prominent local citizen indicted by the federal grand jury on charges of fraud linked to a bank failure. Reports said only one other person besides Allen was indicted.
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LaCrosse
Wis
United States
Flint
Mineral Point
Federal Grand Jury
Allen
San Francisco plans bid to celebrate canal opening
In Washington a contest between San Francisco and San Diego for hosting an international exposition to mark the canal opening moves forward. Representative Kan of California introduced a bill favoring San Francisco, giving the city the first advantage in the Capitol debate.
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Canal
San Francisco
San Diego
Kan
California
Phenix Insurance probe spans Brooklyn firm under fire
New York December 7 The Phenix Insurance company of Brooklyn is under investigation for irregularities that may have impaired its surplus by at least 1 000 000. President George P Sheldon is accused of over drawing salaries unloading doubtful securities and using company assets for personal speculative accounts. Superintendent Hotchkiss says capital not impaired and no evidence securities are not intact though investigation is incomplete. Sheldon has headed the firm since 1887 and the last decade's annual reports are alleged to be false. The company has not been examined in about twenty two years.
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New York
N. Y
George P. Sheldon
Connecticut
Phenix Insurance Company
Brooklyn
Sheldon
State Insurance Department
Phenix Insurance Company of
Hotchkiss
The
Phenix
Insurance Department
Two Suspects Held in Zinda Case Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 7. Karl Wojciechowski and Adam Pietzschak were arrested and brought to Milwaukee today from Blany, Mich, as suspects in the Hattie Zinda murder case. The men disappeared from Milwaukee about the time the murder was committed and were not located until recently.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Karl Wojciechowski
Adam Pietzschak
Blany
Mich
Hattie Zinda
Plan campaign in fight with Bell Co
Independent telephone men from all parts of the United States met in Chicago on December 7 to discuss matters of importance in the contest with the Bell Company.
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Chicago
Ill
United States
Bell Company
Winter Wheat Seeding Up Significantly in Area
The report shows winter wheat condition at 95.8 with rye at 94.1. Seeded winter wheat area is up 2,449,000 acres versus last year, indicating a substantial expansion in planting.
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Washington, D. C
Black Hand Gang Heading to United States
Geneva reports police confirm a wholesale exodus of black hand members seeking new operations in America. At least sixty men, including forty expelled from Switzerland, are traveling by circuitous routes to the United States in search of a fresh field of activity.
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Geneva
Black Hand
America
Switzerland
United States
Christmas Time Brings Woe and Other Iowa News
Des Moines post office clerk Neil Peirce arrested by a postal inspector for rifling Christmas mail and held to the federal grand jury under $500 bond. Arte Wren a 37 year old Morningside teacher found asphyxiated in Soux City. Iowa board of control buys 11 acres from Dr Mighell for Soldiers Home grounds at $10 000. Iowa Central signs new wage schedules affecting 610 workers from Albert Lea to Peoria with pay raises and better shop conditions.
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Towa Evening Press
Des Moines
Neil Peirce
Federal Grand Jury
Iowa Evening Press
Soux City
Ila
Arte Wren
Morningside
Potsville
Iowa
Fort Dodge
Marshalltown
State Board of Control Today
N. E. Mighell
Mighell
Iowa Central
Albert Lea
Peoria
Three Die in Carp River Fire in Michigan Home
In St Ignace Michigan on December 7 William McDermott and two children perished as their Carp River residence burned. The mother saved a third child while the father died trying to rescue the other two.
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St. Ignace
Mich
William McDermott
Carp River
West in grip of cold wave brings heavy snowstorm
Chicago reports first real snowstorm of season with several inches of snow and travel delays. The storm blankets the west, with Missouri cold and ice jams on the Missouri River. Omaha shows two below zero, Lincoln twelve inches of snow and six below. Sioux City records two below and deaths from the storm. Colorado endures December cold, ten below and five above highs. Wyoming reports twelve below in Laramie. Janesville man Thomas Nolan, 63, dies after going missing in the storm.
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Chicago
Ill
St. Joseph
Missouri River
Omaha
Neb
Lincoln
Sioux City
Denver
Col
Colorado
Wyoming
Laramie
Widow Anna Kurz death report retracted in telegram
West Liberty Iowa December seventh special says John Kurz, Ella Kurz's father now in Des Moines, received a telegram from his daughter's boarding house landlady denying the Des Moines report that Anna Curtz attempted suicide. The message said Miss Kurz had a violent headache, was taken to hospital, and asked readers not to worry. The telegram called the earlier dispatch misrepresented.
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West Liberty
John Kurz
Ella Kurz
Des Moines
Anna Curtz
Doxey Named as Woman Known as Mrs Elder in St Louis
Nine men and five women identify Mrs Doxey as the woman they knew in St Louis as the wife of William J Elder, accused of killing him with arsenic. The inquest begins as health officials say Mrs Doxey is too ill to move to the coroner’s office.
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St. Louis
Doxey
William J. Elder
Health Department
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