Roosevelt Attends Army Navy Clash At Princeton
President Roosevelt and an immense party, including Elihu Root Taft and cadet corps from Annapolis and West Point, watched a spirited 6 to 6 tie between the Army and Navy at Princeton. The event drew 20,000 spectators and featured partisan gunfire, cheers, and a visible display of support for both services as the President moved between stands.
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West Point Military Academy
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Philadelphia
Cannon for Speaker Caucus Unanimous Renomination
Washington December 2 The Republican caucus renominated Speaker Cannon and all officers in a brief cordial session with Tawney as whip amid plans for a busy 59th Congress. Cannon pledged fair leadership, urged careful regulation of commerce, and stressed bipartisan cooperation and prudent spending.
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Infernos Raze Moscow as Europe Reports Telegraph Blackout
Meantime Warsaw dispatches confirm a great incendiary blaze in Moscow while telegraph lines to St Petersburg collapse. London Copenhagen and Paris lose contact with Russia as the Great Northern Telegraph Company notes severed links and Moscow-bound news travels via Helsinki or Nystad by cable and mail. Reports from Kiev and Lwow detail Russian officials courting post and telegraph workers amid strikes and political demands.
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Violent Palace Scene Report From Tsarskoe Selo
A St. Petersburg dispatch via Paris reports a violent scene at Tsarskoe Selo involving Emperor Nicholas and Grand Duke Vladimir over Grand Duke Cyril. The Journal notes guards’ disaffection and says the entire palace domestic staff plans to strike.
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Autoocrats Yielding New Election Law Promised
Advices from Petersburg report a wage compromise between strikers and employers. A new election law to be ordered tomorrow promises nearly universal suffrage and direct electors to choose deputies to the national Parliament. The improved situation reduces the risk of another nationwide strike.
Man Recovers Sanity After Brain Abscess Surgery
Ann Arbor reports William Dwyer thirty five, previously paralyzed by a Portland furnace injury and recent lunacy, restored to sanity after University Hospital operation. Doctors removed an abscess in his brain and fitted a silver plate. He expressed a wish to be killed if madness returned. He has a wife and two children.
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Eighteen Miners Dead in Diamondville Mine Explosion
In Diamondville Wyoming eighteen miners were killed when a blast believed caused by a blown out shot wrecked the Diamondville Coal and Coke mine. Rescue efforts were hampered by afterdamp and debris with bodies recovered after hours. Most victims are believed to be Englishmen and full operations may take about two weeks to resume.
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Snedder
Kemmerrer
Riots in Georgetown Fire on Wharf Laborers Turn Violent
British Guiana riots erupt as police fire on strikers killing seven and wounding seventeen. Delegates urged restraint but crowds invaded public buildings as Governor Hodgson and officials retreated to safety. Streetcars halted and windows smashed amid continued unrest.
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British Guiana
Suffrage Bill Debated in Austrian Reichsrat
Vienna December 2 The upper house of the Reichsrat discussed the government suffrage proposal. Count Franz Thun and Prince von Auersperg accused the government of inconsistency and weakness over recent suffrage demonstrations. Baron Gauth von Frankenthurn replied that the government would persist along its chosen path until it succeeded or fell.
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Reichsrath
Count Franz Thun
Prince von Auersperg
Austria
Baron Gauth von Frankenthurn
Ex Judge E H Gary Marries Emma T Scott
Ex judge Elbert H Gary president of the Federal Steel Co and U S Steel director married Emma T Scott yesterday by Bishop C C McCabe in the city The late Mrs Julia E Graves was his first wife who died June 21 192 . The couple wed at Aurora Hill on June 22 1869
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Federal Steel Company
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Emma T. Scott
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Julia E Graves
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Aurora H Ill
Senator Platt Not To Resign
Senator Platt of New York dismisses reports of plans to resign his Senate seat saying the idea is absurd and not worth denying. The comment came as the rumor circulated on December 2 in Washington.
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President and Mrs Roosevelt face missile incident on train
The Roosevelt party returned to the White House after a foggy trip from Princeton. A heavy cast iron plumb bob shattered a dining car window near North Philadelphia, narrowly missing Webb Hayes. Philadelphia police and U S Secret Service pursue the assailant as crews check for further danger.
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Oxford St
United States Secret Service
Broad St
Roosevelt
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Major Hayes
Wisconsin Freshman Fullback Deliriously Tackles Nurse
L C Roseth of the University of Wisconsin, who played all season without a nose guard and had a broken nose, was found to have a nose broken in four places. After surgery in Milwaukee’s Trinity Hospital he leaped from the operating table and tackled a nurse in delirium, echoing a prior game incident. Four men restrained him until he calmed.
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L. C. Roseth
University of Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
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Roseth
Sullivan Voices Concern Over Election Jobs In City
Big Tim Sullivan struck a philosophical note about the vote industry. He warned that a young man taking an election officer job may face uncertainty about pay or a stretch in Sing Sing.
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Tim” Sullivan
Sing Sing
Train Of The Century Takes The Century Ride
The Twentieth Century Limited is described as an 18 hour New York to Chicago service by the New York Central Lines. It departs New York at 3:30 p.m. and arrives in Chicago the next morning for a night-long journey.
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Chicago
New York Central Lines
Woodsman Kills Three Then Ends His Life in Lake Clear
George Carpenter a 25 year old woodsman at a Lake Clear Road farmhouse killed Miss Capitol Gilmette 19 and Henry McCaffrey 16 at the McCaffrey home on Thursday night after an attempted assault on Gilmette. He then killed himself with a rifle after washing his hands in the kitchen. Coroner Oliver of Malone suspects the motive was the attempted assault.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
George Carpenter
Lake Clear Road
Capitol Gilmette
Henry McCaffrey
McCaffrey
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Gilmette
Gilmette. Miss Gilmette
Frank Gilmette
Lake Clear
Henry
Malone
Oliver
Rector Horsewhipped in Public Near Chester
The Rev. Richard M. Doherty rector of St. Martin's Church Marcus Hook was horsewhipped on the public highway by Albert Hill a wealthy butcher who says the clergyman insulted his wife in the church graveyard. Doherty drove away and Hill seized the whip delivering several blows. Doherty refuses to discuss the incident.
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Chester
Penn
Richard M. Doherty
St. Martin's Protestant Episcopal Church
Marcus Hook
Pennsylvania
Albert Hill
Doherty
Post Road
Hill
Towns Hit by Fuel Famine Across Midwest
Telegraph report from St. Paul notes a fuel famine in South Dakota and many towns in North Dakota Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa. No coal or wood received for thirty days as railroads haul grain to Minneapolis leaving coal shortages for the Northwest. Thousands complain to state railroad commissions while residents burn hay and straw.
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St. Paul
South Dakota
North Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Minneapolis
Northwest
Puluth
Lone Woman Holds Car at Bay
Mrs. Ira Berry traveling from Washington to Tulsa on a St. Louis and San Francisco train at Farmington Kansas fired a revolver, shattered windows, and wounded a man in the wrist. The coach was detached at Girard and the woman remains with the car, defying arrest. Authorities suspect mental derangement.
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Kan
Ira Berry
Tulsa
Ind
Washington, D. C
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San Francisco
Farmington Station
Girard
Leeds's Son Fined Over Cigarette at Social Function
Rudolph Leeds, son of a New York railroad man, was fined five dollars and costs in Richmond Indiana after an officer saw him with a cigarette at a social function. Leeds is spending the winter with his mother and plans to appeal the ruling.
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East Stoke
Wareham
England
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F. M. Hodgson
Kumassi
Prempeh
Hodgson
the Tribune
Richmond
Ind
Rudolph Leeds
New- York
Young Leeds
Leeds
Supposed Lord's Son in Prison in Wisconsin
A Liverpool law student named James Leslie, 27, described as a well appearing young man, was sentenced to one year in state prison for theft in Racine Wisconsin. Reports say he is the son of Lord Alexander Baldowan.
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Racine, Wis
James Leslie
Liverpool
England
Lord Alexander Baldowan
Williams Leads Democrats to Solidify House Opposition
The Tribune reports John Sharp Williams will again lead the Democrats in the House. The caucus adopted a resolution to present a more solid and formidable opposition to Republican policies, citing the compactness of the new minority.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
John Sharp Williams
House
Annual Dororthy Cloaks Sale Poster in East Canterbury
From East Canterbury New Hampshire comes word of the annual sale of Dorothy Cloaks advertised by Waldorf Astoria scheduled for December 4. The notice lists location and event details for shoppers seeking stylish outerwear.
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