Fleets Vanguard Sets Sail for Pacific Voyage
The second torpedo boat destroyer flotilla begins a 15000 mile voyage from Norfolk to San Juan and Trinidad. Arethusa will join later, convoying to San Francisco. The six ships carry crews of eighty and travel at ten and one half knots for comfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Pacific
Robly D. Evans
Norfolk Navy Yard
Hampton Roads
Hutchinson I. Cone
Whipple
Chesapeake Bay
Fotilla
Virginia Capes
San Juan
Porto Rico
Arethusa
Trinidad
San Francisco
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Shis
Philippines
Lieutenant Cone
Dale
Manila
Cook
Whinvie
Truxton
Lawrence
Lull
Hopkins
Stewart
Fol!ng
Bank Closes Prompt Suicide Attempt by Despondent Clerk
Ehrich Schumann, assistant bookkeeper at Jenkins Trust Co, attempted suicide by inhaling gas after bank closure cost him his job. A servant found him unconscious in his Gates Avenue boarding room and nurses aided his recovery at Kings County Hospital. He attributed the act to overwhelming worry rather than premeditation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkins Trust Company
Ehrich Schumann
Gates Avenue
Schumann
Kings County Hospital
Bryan barred from Derby Elks memorial by locked doors
William J. Bryan planned to speak at Derby Lodge of Elks memorial services in Sterling Opera House but found doors locked at 9 o clock and the hour not changed. An electric outage plunged the theater into darkness for half an hour, drawing strong public ire from about two thousand attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Derby
Conn
William J. Bryan
Derby Lodge of Elks
Sterling Opera House
Bryan
New York
Elks
Mr. Bryan
Torrington
Bridgeport
Archibald McNeil
New York Express
Charles M. Gross
Railroad gets new injunction in North Carolina case
Southern Railway filed an amended bill in the Eastern District of North Carolina with Judge Pritchard naming C H Cothren of Durham as a party to supplementary proceedings. A temporary injunction restrains Cothren from pursuing suits or collecting penalties for alleged new state freight rates. Fire in Houston blocks Main and Preston streets causes heavy loss. gold cargo valued at $3 500 000 is aboard the American liner St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Southern Railway
Pritchard
United States Circuit Court
North Carolina
C. H. Cothren
Durham
Mr. Cothran
Hopeful View Taken Tron and Steel Outlook
Cleveland reports a mixed outlook with curtailments in pig iron and steel but fewer plant closures than prior recessions. Production reductions continue in Eastern facilities as mills move to shorter hours while orders from foreign markets help offset domestic weakness. employment declines vary by city, with signs of cautious optimism and currency softness easing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Iron Trade Review
Cate
Pennsylvania
United States Steel Corporation
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Youngstown
East St. Louis
St. Louis
North American
American Aluminum Works
American Steel Foundries
Granite City
Ill
Cincinnati
Columbus
New England
Worcester
Milwaukee
National Enamelling and Stamping Company
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Dayton
Detroit
Indianapolis
Louisville
Philadelphia
Syracuse
Toronto
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Miners Entombed After Naomi Mine Explosion
Between fifty and sixty miners are entombed in the Naomi mine at Fayette City after a blast of black damp at 8 o clock. The explosion followed a miner with an open lamp entering old workings. Meilhaald was dispatched from Monongahela to Fayette City amid sparse details due to faulty telephone service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monongahela, Penn
Naomi
United Coal Company
Fayette City
Meilhaald
Monongahela
Miners Entombed as Fremont Mine Fire Breaks Out
Drytown Cal Dec 1 There is hope eleven miners entombed yesterday in Fremont mine may still be alive as they possibly found shelter in side drifts escaping smoke. Fire was controlled this afternoon and rescuers were lowered into the shaft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drytown
Cal
Fremont
Punishing Tribesmen Move Drives Insurgents Back
Algiers dispatch reports French forces numbering six thousand pushed Benis Nassen tribesmen back into Morocco. The plan concentrates on the frontier to push tribesmen into hills cut off supplies and compel them into plains for punitive combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Morocco
Seven Rescued at Sea by Brooklyn Police Boat
Seven men aboard the Tubal Cain a gaso line launch were saved after seven hours adrift off Coney Island. Police Sergeant Hallock spotted a white shirt on an oar and used a hawser to tow the disabled vessel to 38th Street Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallock
South
Brooklyn
W. A. Wheeler
A. A. Devine
Joseph Maxwell
James Hemlow
William Gibson
John Jackson
Harry Twine
No. 131
15Th Street
Tubal Cain
38Th Street
Coney Island Point
Auto in Deadly Dash Kills Guard Captain Near Escanaba
Militia Captain Frank E. Bent of Company T, 20th Wisconsin National Guard, is killed in a car crash near Escanaba Michigan. Four others injured including Isaac Stephenson Jr nephew of Senator Stephenson with arm broken and Sumner Prescott critically hurt. Chauffeur Earle McDonald dies after Brooklyn wreck. companion William King and two women were hospitalized with injuries. All victims from Marinette were traveling from Gladstone to Escanaba at midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Escanaba
Mich
Frank E. Bent
Company T
20Th
Wisconsin National Guard
Here
Sumner K. Prescott
Prescott Iron Works
Isaac Stephenson, Jr
United States
Stephenson
Joseph Duxberry
Albert Holquist
Marinette
Gladstone
Mr. Prescott
Captain Bent
Earle McDonald
Bay Ridge
Third Avenues
Brooklyn
William King
McDonald
Fulton Street
Ethel Ricard
BP Radwell
Fatal Automobile Crash Near City Kills Barton and Kearney
James Kearney and Arthur Barton are reported dead or dying after a car ran into a telegraph pole near a railway bridge. Kearney is from Baltimore. Barton is believed fatally injured in the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Dec. L
James Kearney
Arthur Barton
Barton
Kearney
Baltimore
Banker's Son Killed in Reading Auto Crash
Reading, December 1 Harry M. Schaeffer twenty one died from injuries after his car struck a telegraph pole last night He is the son of Charles H Schaeffer president of the National Union Bank in Reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Penn
Harry M. Schaeffer
Charles H. Schaeffer
National Union Bank
Mason cries bribery in Hopkins US Senate bid
Ex Senator William E. Mason accuses that over 70 000 dollars from party funds was spent to nominate Albert J. Hopkins. He says he will prove to a committee that Hopkins and his secretary Hoey sent checks to legislative members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Chicago
William E. Mason
Deneen
United States
Albert J. Hopkins
Hopkins
Hoey
United States Marshal
Senator Platt Goes to Washington for Opening Session
Senator Thomas C. Platt departed for Washington with Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Abel to attend the opening of Congress. He remains mentally alert but needs assistance to move. Mrs. Abel provides message treatment and the move facilitates continued care. The Abels previously hosted the senator at Manhattan Beach. He expects to occupy six rooms at the Arlington Hotel this winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Platt
Washington
Congress
Gustav Abel
West 7Th Street
Abel
Abels’ House
Oriental Hotel
Manhattan Beach
Senator Platt
Arlington Hotel
Death of High School Football Captain in Alabama
William Norwood eighteen year old captain of the Alabama Presbyterian College football team died from injuries suffered in a game with the 7th District Agricultural School a week earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anniston
Ala
William Norwood
Alabama Presbyterian College
Agricultural School
Poland Water Nature's Cure Purest Spring Water Ad
Advertisement for Poland Water describing it as nature's cure and the purest spring water in the world. Mentions Pars Til ford Acker Merrall Condit Co and Poland Spring Co with address 180 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Pars
Tilford, Acker, Merrall & Condit Co
Poland Spring
Broadway
One Hundred Three New Congressmen in 60th Session
The 60th Congress opens with 103 newcomers, including 41 Republicans and 62 Democrats. Most are over 40, many lawyers, few college graduates. Notable returnees include Ben Franklin Caldwell and William H. Jackson. mixed regional gains shift balances in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Craig
Alabama
Richmond P. Hobson
J. E. Purdy
Boston
Ben Cravens
Arkansas
George W. Cook
Colorado
Warren A. Haggett
Charles G. Edwards
Georgia
James T. McDermott
Illinois
Adolph J. Sabsth
Ilinois
Martin D. Foster
William E. Cox
John W. Langley
Kentucky
George K. Farrot
Louisiana
Harry B. Wolf
Maryland
Joseph F. O’connell
Massachusetts
Andrew J. Peters
Gerrit J. Diekema
Michigan
James C. McLauchlin
W. S. Hammond
Minnesota
Frank M. Nye
Charles A. Lindbergh
Joshua W. Alexander
Missouri
Charles F. Booker
Henry S. Caulfield
J. C. Strauss
Madison R. Smith
Joseph J. Russell
Thomas Hackney
Charles N. Pray
Montana
J. F. Boyd
Nebraska
George A. Bartlett
Nevada
le Gage Pratt
New Jersey
Eugene W. Leake
James A. Hamill
Charles W. Fornes
New York
William Willett, Jr
Samuel McMillan
George W. Fairchild
Cyrus Darey
George R. Malby
Peter A. Porter
Hannibal L. Godwin
North Carolina
Richard N. Hackett
J. Eugene Harding
Ohio
William E. Ton Velle
Timothy T. Ansberry
Matt R. Denver
Albert Douglas
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
House of Representatives
House
Chicago
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Olinois
Anthony Michalek
Adolph J. Sabath
Sabath
Michalek
Isaac R. Sherweed
Bohemia
Sweden
Ben Franklin Caldwell
Caldwell State Bank
Chatham
William H. Jackson
Courtney Walker Hamlin
Robert Lamar
A. P. Peabody
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Cone
J. G. Church
C. O. F. Dodge
H. G. Ene
C. 8. Kerrick
W. P. Gaddis
A. Meyers
FE. Friedrick
Comanding
R. P. Scudder
R. G. Culp
A. G. Howe
C. A. Richards
Been
Roberts
L. Herin
H. Mercado
Hull
F. McCommon
Cvli
C. E. Smith
Derby Elks
Railroad
Houston
Tron and Steel Outlook
Pittsburg
American Steel and Wire Company
Etna
Spang & Chalfont Company
Usher
Highbell
Service
Stephenson Hurt
A. J. Hopkins
Capital
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