Viceroy and Lady Hardinge Survive Delhi Bombing
Delhi dispatch reports Baron Charles Hardinge and Lady Hardinge narrowly escaped an assassination attempt as their elephant procession entered Delhi. A bomb exploded striking the howdah. the attendant holding a parasol was killed and Lord Hardinge wounded in the shoulder while Lady Hardinge was shaken but uninjured. A reward was offered for the attacker, and the ceremony resumed with Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson presenting dispatches confirming only slight injuries to the viceroy.
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Delhi
India
Mardinge
Leeroy
Calcutta
iHard- Inge
Punjab
Chandai Chowk
Wardinga
Wea
Tota Hardinge
Hardinga
Bespteal
Mardingo
Hardinge
Vite Cogal
Guy Fleet Wood Wilsot
Genera
Imperial
Surdar
Guy
View Regnal Das
Garon Flardinge
Haron Hardidge
R Ile
Srong
Baron Hardinge
India Office
London
Chandal Chowl
Chanda Chowk
Des Moines Gas Fight Reaches Supreme Court Delay
Des Moines contest over an 80 cent gas ordinance stalls as the U S Supreme Court declines to enjoin Des Moines from enforcing the measure pending constitutional review. Justices adjourned until January 6 without ruling on union pacific stock or the southern pacific dispute, and the court held no jurisdiction in several matters. In another ruling, the court said cities may tax telegraph firms vending messages if firms meet 1850 act terms, invalidating a $25 fine for an unlicensed message by Western Union in Valladega.
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Whittington
D. C
Des Cloines
Iowa
Union Pacific
Southern Pacite
Union Pacific Railway
Supreme Court
Edwin N. Keathey
Federal Court of Northern Umoly
Chicago
American Guaranty Company
D. G. Williama
Western Union Telegraph Company
Valladega
Man Receives Twenty-Year Sentence in First Degree Murder Case
Frans Hicker, convicted of second degree murder for killing a Lackawanna boy, October 14, 1911, was sentenced in Buffalo to an indeterminate term in the state prison at Ambursa. The minimum is twenty years and the maximum is life. Judge Charles Brown presided and made no comment on the jury’s verdict.
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Hosepls Boy
Buffalo
N. Y
Frans Hicker
Lackawanna
Ambursa
Giharles Brown
Pardons Heard As Governor Seeks Christmas Delays
Governor Wilson sat with the pardons board in Trenton New Jersey on December 28 and heard applications of several convicts. To speed freedom before Christmas the governor directed expedited review with additional cases recommended for hearing.
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San
Acti
Imperial capital transfer celebrated amid bomb scare and pageantry
A royal procession in imperial purple and gold faced a bombing attempt as a native attendant was killed and others wounded near the viceroy Bar on Hardinge. Police arrested several suspects and city guards held the streets while reports tied the event to the transfer of the imperial capital to Delhi. Baron Hardinge, newly appointed viceroy, travels India preparing for the govern ment’s move to the new palace. Hardinge, 52, Cambridge graduate, carried a long diplomatic career culminating in ambassadorships and high foreign service posts.
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Dar
Yoray
India
Dallit
Baron Hardinge
Delhi
Imperial Palace
Gast Summer
Baron Hartiinge
Earl of Minto
Canada
Tada
Cambridge
Iju
Chicago
Berlin
Washington
Bucharst
Teheran
St. Petergyberg
Russia
Inas
Austro Hungarian Talks Speeds Peace Efforts Abroad
Vienna and Belgrade show renewed goodwill with Franz Joseph welcoming the new Serbian minister. The peace conference at St James Palace resumes with Turks and Balkan delegates offering cautious proposals. Key points include Adrianople and Janina, Aegean island cessions, and a future verdict on the Musulman prisoner and war indemnities.
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Aleuttia-Hungary
Gervia
Conan
Priszend
Vienna
Francis Joseph
MN. Tovanoviteh
Vienda
Belgrade
St. James Palace
Siplit
Adrienople
Slojan Novakovitch
Servia
Balkan
M. Novakovitch
Fanny
Jessie
Sententi
Adrianopla
Janina
Greece
U.S. Far Behind in Military Aviation
Washington report notes the United States lags other nations in air power. Capt Chambers cites France and Germany advancing rapidly with aeroplanes and dirigibles, while America trails in total appropriations and pilot training, with Germany and France leading in aerial research funding.
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Washington
N.C
Chambers
U.S. N
Navy
Aviation Corps
Ayia
Germarty
Sero
Fas
Prance
Germany
Gottingen
Prandtl
Franco
Somes Rossi
Fire destroys depot at Chicago Indiana and Southern line
A fire today damaged the freight depot of the Chicago Indiana and Southern railway at Kankareer Kavkelee Illinois. Total loss reported around 100000 pounds with storage warehouse affected. Firefighters battled the blaze but the building and contents suffered severe damage.
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Kavkelee
Flire
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railway
Siming
Labor defamation claim framed in dynamite conspiracy trial
Indianapolis December 29. Attorney Clifford Langsdale contends organized labor rejects violence while defending W. Bert Brown and William J. McCain in a Missouri River bridge explosion case. He disputes McNamara alibis and questions a Kansas City barber testimony about pay to blow up targets in Los Angeles.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Organized Labor
Atd
Cliford
Langsdale
Pardlcu~ Tarly
W. Bert “Brown
William J. McCain
Kansas City
Missouri River
Ortie MdcManigal
Tuwieg B. McNamara
Langedale
Janes B. McNamara
Salt Lake City
Brown
McCain
McNamara
Los Angeles
Langsdale Sud
Countrywide hunt for Logue murder suspects grows
A nationwide search targets two men believed to have killed diamond dealer Joseph H. Logue in his McVicker's office last Friday. Detectives issued descriptions: man one 10 inches tall, 170 pounds, sweater jacket and blue trousers. man two with a long nose, dark clothes. Four suspects remain in custody, others released as authorities weigh leads and possible links to a ring selling mamonds. Police recovered 3400 in postage stamps, prompting federal scrutiny of substation thefts.
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Chicago
Joseph H. Logue
McVicker
Logué
Logue
Spe Logue
Irs
Mamonds
Cam Misselon
Clyde Stratton
Wilversity
Oho State Penitentiary
Columbus
Frank Willams
H. J. Nanton
Margaret Johnson
North Side
Stratton
Tihker
Otto
Madame Bloch Acquitted in Paris Murder Trial
Paris December 23 Madame Bloch a French novelist was acquitted of homicide charges after shooting and killing Minnie Bridgeman wife of James J Bridgeman an employee of an American steamship line The defense argued the shooting stemmed from jealousy over her husband’s affair with Mrs Bridgeman daughter of Henry Herlinru Milwaukee The outcome was anticipated by her lawyers due to the peculiar circumstances surrounding the case
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Paris
Madame Bloch
Minnie Bridgeman
James J. Bridgeman
Paris Presch
Ste Imanrause Company
Assize Sonst
Pye
Mme. Weed
Bridgeuan
Henry Herlinru
Milwaukee
SCHOONER WRECKED FIFTEEN LOSE LIVES
British schooner Georgiana sailed from Montego Bay Jamaica on November 16 for Cayman Brac with cargo. It foundered in the November gulf storm near Lucca Jamaica. All ten passengers and five crew were lost. Cartagena, another regular West Indies trader, has not been heard from since November 17, believed sunk.
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Ala
Lucca
Jamaica
West Indies
Montego Bay
Cayman Bras
Cartegena
Gulf
Clits
St. Johns
N. F
Barr
Florence
St. Shotts
J. Nedley
Wrepasees
Hedley
St. Shotls
Isaerl- Pale
Morente
Halifax
Heller Charges Dismissed Against Former Secretary
In Milwaukee December a municipal court judge dismissed the embezzlement case against Frank J. Heller, former secretary of the Skarb Poliski Town and Building Society, after seven years of proceedings. Restitution is reported to have been made and Heller surrendered as required.
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Chilli
Milwaukee
Rusir
Frank J. Heller
Skarb Poliski Qfatual Town and Building Society
Tod
Bedew
Hellorcia
Sogiery
Finbezulings Ch
Thirteen Die in Barraques Cinema Fire Panic
In Mein Belgium on December 23 a cinema fire at Barraques caused thirteen deaths from internal hemorrhage due to crowding and crushing as patrons tried to escape. The theatre held 640 but over 700 were present and many were children. Fifty others were injured.
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Mags
Ildson
Lynching Suspect Cadore Found Hanging Near Jail
In West Baton Rouge, Sheriff Parker discovered Norm Cadore, a Black man convicted in the killing of plantation manager Joseph Norman, dead by hanging from a telegraph pole near the jail. The timing followed attempts to appeal, and a mob action is presumed to have inspired the death.
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Sherif
Baton Rouge
Parker
West Baton Rouge
Norm Cadore
Cadore
Joseph Norman
Newspaper men on trial for contempt in Boise case
Curtisher and editor of Vanda News face Boise court charges for contempt over publication of Cal Roosevelt's litheism and editorial comment on the Idaho Supreme Court decision. R. W. Sheridan publisher and C. O. Broxon managing editor of Capital News are named in the action.
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Curtisher
Vanda
Boise
Tale
R. 3
Sheridan
C. 0
Broxon
The
Capital News
Cal
Partners of Santa Claus venture completes Muscatine drive
The Journal reports the Santa Claus fund is fully subscribed with no more partners needed for Muscatine children. It notes remaining distribution work, urges continued support for other in need residents, and thanks all who joined the effort to spread Christmas joy.
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Fim
Santa Chasina
Muscatine
Santa Claus
Pitts
Wie Imoney
Crebing
Fuller back from Peru with report
American consul in Lima Stuart Fuller arrived in Washington and conferred with state department officials. His findings describe outrages against Peruvian Indians linked to British-run rubber operations, highlighting a grave Latino American problem for the diplomacy and the department to address.
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Wuashington
B.C. Bee
I Stuart Puller
Ainquites
Peru
Indiana
Washington
State Department
Fuller
White slave charge made against Sacco
U S district attorney files evidence with federal grand jury tying Sacco to traffic in women between Chicago and New York. Prosecutors allege indirect involvement in the murder of Jennie Cavalieri near Bridgeport Connecticut after raids tied to the Mann Act case. Sacco, arrested on conspiracy charges with Nemiro Marina of New York, owns a South Side resort once housing Cavalieri.
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Dee
U.S
Nemirio Marina
New York
Cavalieri
Jennie Bruno
Rosie Rosa
Jennie Cavalieri
Tno
Jennie Cavalleri
Grand Jury Indicts Heads of Two Railroads
A federal grand jury in New York indicted Jes S. Mellen president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad B J Chamberlain president of the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada and Jed W Smithers chairman of the Grand Trunk board charged with violating the Sherman antitrust law in an alleged monopoly agreement. The indictment cites a 1912 pact to deter parallel extensions and to block steamship and interstate commerce actions with seven overt acts alleged. State officials from Massachusetts and Rhode Island prompted federal action citing secret traffic and mileage agreements affecting New England rail routes.
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New York, XN. Y
Jes S. Mellen
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
B. J. Chamberlain
Grand Truck Railroad of
Canada
Jed W. Smithers
Grand Trunk Board of Directors
Federal Grand Jury
Mellen
Chamberlain
Suimers
Federal Department of Justice
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Afc
Wickersham
New Haven
Grand Trunk Ready
Grand Trunk
New Haver
Ersnd Jary
Noth Roada
Iso
New England
Pawnbroker Robbed in Wichita Heist by Two Men
Max Wolkow, a Wichita pawnbroker, was gagged and beaten as two men entered his shop posing as customers to buy an overcoat. While one assisted, the other restrained him with a cloth, tied his arms and legs, and hid him under clothing before stealing stock including jewelry and diamonds valued at $23.
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Wichita
Kansas
Max Wolkow
Wolkow
Woman collapses at inquiry over dead husband
Mrs Murry Rande fainted during an inquest into the death of Frank Rande in Chicago Illinois. Dr W Buremeister testified the viscera contained thirty grains of poison and wine grains of another. Rande was found dead after making a will leaving property to his wife.
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CIA
Chicago
Dee
Murry Rande
Frank Rande
W. 8
Buremeister
Reade
Meade
Porter Weld for Merimee Special Agent Murdered on Train
Mobile Alabama December 23 Alexander McGi special agent for the Mobile and Ohio railroad at Tuscaloosa Ala was shot to death Sunday in a baggage car of Mobile and Ohio passenger train No 105 and his body was thrown from the train onto a bridge over Gypsicreek where it remained hanging until discovered by a searching party today Napoleon Jones a porter on the train was arrested and charged with the crime
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Mobile
A la
Alexander McGi
Tuscaloces
Ala
Mobile and Ohio
Gypsicreek
Napoleon Jotes
One Dead And Three Hurt In Autos Accident
Decatur Ill Dec 23 Glen Blue was killed Phoyd Wright probably fatally hurt and Ray Dinsey and Ralph Blue seriously injured when a speeding automobile driven by Ployd Davis upset near Tenusfield. The victims were locals from the Mabosh neighborhood.
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Ill
Glen Blue
Phoyd Wright
Ray Dinésey
Ralph Blue
Ployd Davis
T Nenusfield
Meow
Chateishborhood
Mabomet
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