Missouri Launched at Newport News amid Navy Debate
Secretary Long defended a large navy and $100,000,000 spending while the battleship Missouri was launched at Newport News before about 15,000 spectators. Marion Cockrell christened the ship as a banquet followed. The ship, sister to the Uhir and Meine Wer, will be overhauled and is designed with a steel hull, armor belt, heavy turrets, and new torpedo tubes, expected to take months more before commissioning.
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Newport News
Missouri
Marion Cockrell
United States
Cockrell
Secretary Long
Jor
Edward Everett Hale
Altraise
Cambridge
New England Peace Society
Long
Wright
Congress
Borees
Carrie
Great Britain
Egypt
Africa
Navy Department
Senator Depew Wedding in Nice Aboard Riveria Celebration
Senator Chauncey M Depew junior NY senator wed Miss Mav Palmer in Nice France with religious ceremony at Notre Dame and a reception at the American church on Boulevard Victor Hugo. Guests included James Gordon Bennett and nobles. witnessed by Baron von Ayre and Baron Ne Cauttalouse.
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Nice
France
Chauncey M. Depew
New York
Riveria
Senavor Depew
Mav Pahner
Hotel Des Britanniqnes
Catholic Church of Notre Dame
Curat Abbe Crepaux
Boulevard Vistor Hugn
Depew
W. Potter
Lohengrin
Tannhauser
Restor Adamson
Mise Tucker
Gests
Deppen
James Gordon Bernett
Comte DeZervs
Miss Palmer
Baron von Ayre
Baron Ne Cauttalouse
Austro-Hungarian families seek new inquiry into Moorehead accident
In Pittsburg on December 28 Alexander Nuber of the Austro-Hungarian contingent says the Moorehead farm accident that killed ten should not end with the coroner's verdict. He claims evidence exists to yield a different result at a future jury, noting no expert testimony was heard by the coroner. Also in Derby Frederik Yocher is fined 160 and jailed six months for cutting a tree in Mount St Peter's cemetery.
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Pittsburg
Alexander Nuber
Moorehead
Austro-Hungary
Nahor
Derby
Dee
Frederik Yocher
Mount St. Peter's
Thomas Maxwell
Morenci
Ariz
Harry
Maxwell
Rav
Ralph W. Illingworth
Mareuci Presbyterian Church
Ilingworth
Mareuci
Maxell
Newton
Moranci
Burns
Randolph
Bounty on Cuban sugar plan proposed by US for Cuba
A plan to pay Cuban sugar planters a direct bounty of one third to one half cent per pound is proposed to aid Cuban sugar growers. The scheme would remove over 7 million dollars from the US treasury based on this year's Cuban crop of about 640 000 tons. A commission of senators' financial and foreign relations members would study the Cuban sugar interests.
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Washington Deg
United States
Cuba
United States Treasury
Senate
House
American Sugar Trusts
Congress
Rochester Murder Mystery Revealed by Deathbed Confession
Rochester police hear a new confession from Mrs. Gilbert McKee that her husband Samuel Stokes killed William Pearl in 1897. Pearl, son of a Rochester policeman, was found slain on Nazareth House lawn. The motive cited is jealousy.
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Kalle Wilits
Peart
Rochester
William Pearl
Gilbert McKee
Husarty
Samuel Stokes
Pearl
McKee
Burke
Nolise
Henle
Cleary
Widener
Nazareth House
Stokes
Bride Shouts Best Man and Christmas Wedding Tragedy
At Fontanay in Port Chester on Christmas Day Mrs Ricco Scalzi of Rye attacked guest Frank Castrelia with a revolver after the wedding. Scalzi allegedly sent for Castrelia to quiet jealousy, then fired. The woman fled Rye. Castrelia lies dying in hospital and cannot yet speak. Admiral Schley attended a Washington theater performance with Herbert, receiving an ovation on his first public appearance since the inquiry verdict.
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Port Chester
Ricco Scalai
Rye
Frank Castrelia
Cacirolia
Admiral Schley
Washington
Herbert
New National Theater
James K. Hackett
Don Caesar
Montville Murder Trial Opens In Village Hall
Montville Gardner William Gallivan and farmhand Thomas Wormsley face first degree murder charges in the Shumway case. A court scene features Gallivan’s family, a Norwich-educated co-defendant, and a stage jury setup as Justice Smith weighs whether the pair will stand a full jury trial. Witnesses recount a late night struggle and a dropped hat linked to Wormsley.
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Gallivan
Wormesley
Montville
Gann
William Gallivan
Thomas M. Wormsley
Norwich Academy
Jeromiah Shumway
Clayton B. Smith
New London
Justice Smiddy
Gatlivan
Myer Thayer
Desmond
Wemsles
Sti
Justice Smith
Galivan
Wornsby
Pianka
Thief Trapped in Cold Storage After Night Theft
John Reynolds, a Union Station thief, seized a young woman's traveling case at the St. Louis station. He entered a cold storage room, sealed himself inside, and was found nearly frozen, lying on the floor with the stolen grip in hand. Ellen Extine identified the missing case.
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Ney
Nislands
St. Louis
Afo
John Reynolde
Union Station
Reynolds
Miss Ellen Extine
Poplar #luffs
Murphy and
Kelleher
Oil Well Gusher Ignites Destroying Barboursville Gear
Barboursville Kentucky December 28 Promoters reportedly sank wells to sink prices on land leases by faking dry wells Then drillers went too deep a gusher six miles from Barboursville produced about 2000 barrels daily The oil ignited destroying machinery and timber shooting high into the air every 20 minutes
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Sundenty Gashen
Barbouraville
Barboursville
D Onofrio Trial Opens for Murder in South Norwalk
Benedetto D Onofrio's murder trial began in criminal superior court in Bridgeport for the November killing of Garrett Barry in South Norwalk with Judge Edwin B Gager presiding. Prosecutors and defense challenged talesmen over potential bias against Italians as Dr Samuel Huntington testified on the cause of death.
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Benedetto D'Onofrio
Garrett Barry
South Norwalk
Criminal Superior Court
Edwin B. Gager
Talesmen
Judson Stiles
Equuset
Fessenden
Samuel H. Huntington
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