Estrada’s Army Crushes Zelayan Forces in Rama Victory
Reports from Bluefields and Managua detail Estrada’s decisive success at Rama, with Zelaya’s forces routed. Casualties run high on both sides, 600 killed or wounded among the armies, and prisoners including Gonzales. American surgeons from the Des Moines treat the wounded as authorities confirm continued advances and strong positions captured.
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Washington, D. C
Associated Press
Nicaragua
Navy Department
Shipley
Des Moines
Department
Tacoma
Zelaya
Rama
Estrada
Gonzales
Vasquez
Managua
State Department
United States
Eagle
Bluefelds
Bee
Rocreo
Vasfuezg
Mena
Fotnos
Diaz
Alfredo Diaz
Chamorro
Matuty
Recreo
Godfrey Fowler
Thirty-third Infantry
Tatumbla
Zeldon
Monkey Point
Utstein
Christmas Spirit and Death Meet and Death Bins twice
Davenport scene reports Principal A. E. Whitney returning home for Christmas finding his wife unconscious from apoplexy. she died hours later. In Corning a woman identified as Mrs A G Okay was found dead by suicide in her attic as her family prepared for Christmas below.
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Iowa Evening Press
Davenport
A. E. Whitney
Pleasant Valley Schools
lowa’Evening Press
Corning
A.G. Okay
Warriner Sentenced Six Years for Embezzlement at Big Four
Charles J. Warriner former local treasurer of the Big Four railroad pled guilty to embezzlement and received a six year penitentiary sentence in Cincinnati. A separate Mason City report notes a Milwaukee Way freight wreck at Bassett with eleven cars derailed but no injuries.
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Cincinnati
Charles J. Warriner
Big Four Railroad
Milwaukee
Iowa Evening Press
Mason City
Milwaukee Way
Basset
Governor Praises State Board and Taft Support
Iowa City December 22 Governor Carroll commended the state board of education as the best men for the posts and said failure of the new system would be the system’s fault not the men’s He defended President Tafts course on public questions and predicted popular approval while addressing university students and referencing conditions in other state institutions.
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Iowa City
Iowa
State Board of Education
Taft
Rate ruling on Iowa railroad lines reaches short line
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a railroad with two lines between two towns may charge the fare of the shorter line for passengers traveling on the longer line. The decision was handed down today in Des Moines.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
Supreme Court Today
Iowa
Grand Jury Opens Probe of Alleged Smuggling Conspiracy
In Chicago on December 22 federal grand jury began investigating an alleged smuggling conspiracy. Mrs. M. Kk. Weber and Mrs. Kathryn Schwarz were arrested yesterday as officials allege the scheme has operated for years.
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Grand Juty
Chicago
Mra. M. Kk. Weber
Kathryn Schwarz
Federal
Canathan Counties Day Adds Eighteen Counties
Winnipeg Manitoba reports eighteen counties added to the local option list after yesterday vote. Twenty one counties voted in favor of license yesterday, expanding the districts carrying the local option.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
No Lives Lost in Asylum Fire in Jacksonville
No lives were lost when three wards of the north annex at the Jacksonville asylum burned last night. Some women suffered exposure but are not expected to die, per Superintendent Carrie. Patients will be moved to other state insane hospitals. Fire loss estimated at $40,000. Caelo Joe goes home as Speaker Cannon leaves Washington for Danville.
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Springfield
Jacksonville
Carrie
Resolutions for Joint Ballinger Pinchot Inquiry Slated
Washington D C December 22 Senator Jones and Representative Humphrey plan a January 4 joint inquiry resolution calling for the widest possible investigation into the Ballinger Pinchot controversy and related forestry service and interior department matters. Congress adjourned until January 4 after a lengthy session and party leaders move to shape the inquiry with cabinet backing.
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Washington, D. C
Jones
Senate Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger
Ballinger-Pinchot
Humphrey
Washington
Taft
Senate
House
Conpress
Congress
Forestry Service
Interior Department
Gore
Aldrich
Committee On Public Lands
Look Up Record of the Doxe y s Des Moines Detective Here
City Detective Smythe from St. Louis is examining records of Dr and Mrs L B Loxey during their residence in Des Moines Indiana dated December 22.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
Smythe
St. Louis
L. B. Loxey
Dawson Ready to Take Up Work in State Dept
Thomas C. Dawson of Iowa, former minister to Chile, has arrived in Washington and will immediately become chief of the division of Latin American affairs in the state department. He was closeted with Secretary Knox today.
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Knox
Tie Mvision
Washington
Buranu
Iowa
D. C
Thomas C. Dawson
Chile
State Department
Ete
King Leopolds Funeral Held Today in Brussels
The late King Leopolds funeral occurred today with a grand military procession through crowded streets. In St Mathia and St Gudule Cathedral the rites were observed with simple noble lines. The body then entered Laeken and was laid in the royal vault at St Marys church. Lucian and Philipp, sons of Leopolds, and Baroness Vaughan attended a special mass at Arronville.
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Brussels
Leopold
Sc. Mathia
St. Gudule
Laeken
Church of St. Mary
Baroness and Sons
Pontoise
France
Lucian and
Phillipp
Vaughan
Basin Court
Arronville
Strike settlement hinted but not admitted in St Paul report
In St Paul on December 22 a rumor spread that the switchmen’s strike is settled. Union President Hawley refused to confirm the settlement but implied that some development occurred.
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Hawley
THE
Switchmen
St. Paul, Minn
sWitchmen’s Union
Central City Mill Worker Killed in Shafting Accident
Thomas Liddington, 60, died at a Central City mill when he was caught in shafting while oiling machinery. The incident occurred in the mill at Central City, Iowa, on December 22.
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Central City
By Town Evening Press
Thomas Liddington
Couple elopes and wed in Mason City ceremony
Mason City December 22. Miss Carrie H Tursten and Henry Gilman Lee, children of prominent farmers, eloped today and were married at noon in Mason City.
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Mason City
Iowa Evening Press
Carrie H. Tursten
Henry Gilman Lee
Iowa News Service brings state coverage to journals
The Iowa News Service announces a new efficient network for Town Evening Press papers. Telephones link about a dozen papers three times daily to exchange items of local and regional importance. A corps of correspondents provides statewide coverage plus roughly 600 words daily added to each paper’s news service.
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Iowa
Town Evening Press
WINE AND WOMEN IOWAN'S UNDOING
John Love of Oskaloosa Iowa arrested in Spokane Washington for passing forged checks. Once a wealthy farmer and stockraiser here the case blames wine and women for his downfall.
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Jowavening Press
Oskaloosa, In
John Love
Spokane
Wash
Bankrupt Perjured Himself Is Charge
Corning Indiana December report: Robert Watson a young farmer is under arrest on perjury charges for concealing assets under the U S bankruptcy law. He posted bail and is to be tried before Judge McPherson in March.
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Fress
Corning
Robert Watson
U. S
Naional Bank
McPherson
Falls in front of saw injures man near Oskaloosa
James Perry, 6 miles east of Oskaloosa la, operating a power woods saw, fell before the blade and lost his left arm and part of his skull. doctors fear he will die. In Michigan, Probate Judge Grant of Manistique was named by Gov. Warner to fill the University of Michigan board of regents term of the late Arthur Hill of Saginaw.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa Evening Press
James Perry
Here
Lansing
Mich
Grant
Manistique
Gov
Warner
Arthur Hill
Saginaw
Board of Regents
University of Michigan
Egan Defends Cook as Honest Man Amid Pole Claim Debate
Dr Maurice F Egan speaks in New York on Cook affair saying Danish university ruling stands and that Cook may have erred from science limits, not deceit. Copenhagen discussions note Cook reputational flaws while some blame inadequate evidence and a misread Arctic feat.
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New York
N. Y
Maurice F. Egan
Jao Denmark
Cook
Copenhagen
Arctic
University of Copenhagen
Egan
Etah
National Tidende
Rasmussen
Wskimos
Hovgaard
Korean Premier Assassinated and Three Slain
Reported Dec 22 from Seoul states Prime Minister Yi of Korea was stabbed to death amid anti Japanese sentiment. The attacker Yie Chamm Yong, once in the United States, used a kitchen knife as Yi rode through the streets. Jinrikishaan killed. Yong arrested. Also cited: Russian police chief Col Narpoff killed by bomb in St Petersburg. Romanian premier wounded by a Roumanian anarchist in Bucharest.
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Seoul
Korea
Yie Chamm Yong
United States
Jinrikishaan
Yong
St. Petersburg
Col. Narpoff
Secret Police
Michael Vosskressensky
India
Bombay
British India
Jackson
Nasik
Stepmother Sues Daughter Fifteen Years Senior
In Iowa City Iowa a district court case features Lucy Hemstead aged sixty five as defendant and her stepmother widow aged fifty as plaintiff. The dispute centers on a land parcel the widow says was given as a deed while the daughter’s father I W Hemstead died at ninety six. The suit questions whether the deed was a gift or a mortgage.
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Iowa City
Lucy Hemstead
I. W. Hemstead
Terrible Crime by Crazed Fresno Man
Fresno Cal Dec 22 George C Cheuvrent a prominent resident killed his wife with a hatchet perhaps fatally injured his two children and then threw himself under a passing train and was killed He was probably insane.
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Fresno
Cal
George C. Cheuvrent
Hotel Manager Weds In Chicago Ceremony
George B. Maguire, manager of the Hotel Julien, of Dubuque, and Miss Johan Bernardt, also of Dubuque, were married in Chicago today. The brief ceremony marks the union on December 22 in the city.
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George 13. Maguire
Dubuque
Chicago
Iowa Evening Press
Dubuque, Ja
Dee
George B. Maguire
Julien
Johan Bernardt
Christmas for Cherry Aldermen Lead Gift Train
Chicago aldermen will tour to Cherry with a carload of Christmas toys candies and fruits for orphans and needy mothers. The December 22 event aims to bring substantial gifts to families affected by hardship in the community.
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Chicago
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