Plan to Abolish Secret Service and Create Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau
Washington discusses a proposal to abolish the Secret Service and merge all federal detective divisions under the Department of Justice. The new Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation would have a Washington chief and four regional districts, aiming to cut costs by about half.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Secret Service
Government
Department of Justice
Treasury
Congress
Bureau
Deat of
Criminal Investigation
Post Office Investigation Service
Customs Inspection Service
Internal Revenue Special Agents
Pension Examiners
Land Office
Wilkie
Committee On Appropriations
House
Max
Uncle Sam
New Orleans
Customs, Secret Service
Internal Revenue
Post Office Inspection and Pension Office
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Will Celebrate 109th Birthday in New Jersey
Mrs Ann Van Riper aged 106 living on a Ramsey area farm with two daughters aged 66 and 70 prepares for her 109th birthday in February. Born in Midland Park she lost her husband Rymer thirty years ago and managed the farm with daughter Maria until five years ago. She has been blind for years after a fall but remains mentally sharp. She calls Maria her baby daughter.
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The
Tribune
Hackensack
N. J
Ann van Riper
Ramsey
van Ripers
van Riper
Midland Park
Mary ¥. Far- Tell
Ives
Van
William Ives 105 Dies at Fredonia Home
William Ives, aged 105, died at his Fredonia residence after a brief illness. Born in Greenwich England, he came to the United States as a young man and voted in sixteen presidential elections. A lifelong vegetarian, he rarely required a physician until recently, retaining full faculties.
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Dunkirk
William Ives
Fredonia
Greenwich
England
United States
Ives West
Ena
Arrests Tie Up a Railway in Mexico
The entire general office force of the Vera Cruz to Isthmus Railroad at Tierra Blanca including train dispatchers was arrested by local authorities for nonpayment of the Government Sergo nal tax. They were held for several hours and traffic on the line stopped until an appeal secured their release.
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Tribune
Mexico City
General Office
Vera Cruz To Isthmus
Tierra Blanca
Sigher
Sugar bill soars in 1907 United States data
Bureau of statistics data on 1907 sugar use shows an average American consumes 82.6 pounds per person and the nation spends about 1,000,000 dollars daily on sugar. Total 1907 consumption reached 7,089,667,975 pounds with 37.9% domestic, 17.7% from possessions, and 44.4% imported. beet sugar output (967,000,000 lb) topped cane sugar (544,000,000 lb) for the first time.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
United States
Leiter Fights Flames At His Colliery
Joe Leiter the Chicagoan arrived with wife and secretary to assume charge of fire fighting at his local colliery. Firefighters struggle to contain the blaze and fear he may abandon the effort if not controlled soon, with months needed to repair damage if the mine can be operated again.
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Tribune
Zeigier
Joe” Leiter
Leiter
Priest Lost Overboard From Arabic On Atlantic Voyage
Father James A Kell of Paterson New Jersey drowned after falling from the steamship Arabic during the New York to Queenstown crossing. The 43 year old priest, ordained at Seton Hall College sixteen years ago, had been visiting Ireland for Christmas with his sister in County Sligo. Friends believe the death was accidental as no motive for suicide is evident.
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Queenstown
New York
Father Kelly
Paterson
N. J
Ireland
County
Sligo
New York City
Philadelphia
American Sugar Refining Company
James
Cambridge
Hall
Foskett
Recovery of Speech After Skull Base Fracture
Aleck Goodner of Camden, paralyzed and speechless for over eighteen months, shows signs of recovery after a delicate skull base fracture operation by Dr. Bacon at a Philadelphia hospital. After a trolley car crash caused the injury, a second diagnosis revealed the fracture and a small bone piece was removed enabling him to speak again.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Leing
Aleck Goodner
Camden
Bacon
Goodner
NO DAM AT CORNWALL CONFIRMED BY CANADIAN REPORT
Ottawa reports unfavorable findings on damming the St. Lawrence River at Cornwall. Canadian engineers say the plan would seriously hinder navigation and expect the government to deny authority for any dam on the Canadian side.
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Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Cornwall
New York
St. Lawrence River
Miss Clemens in Sleigh Accident in Redding
Miss Clara Clemens daughter of Mark Twain and Ossip Gabrilowitsch the Russian pianist were tossed from a sleigh when a frightened horse overturned it in Redding Connecticut. Clemens suffered a severe shaking and nervous shock while Gabrilowitsch sprained an ankle. the pianist escaped second thoughts as he jumped free and the narrator restrained the horse to prevent a runaway.
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Redding
Conn
Clara Clemens
Mark Twain
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Miss Clemens
Woman Starved to Death in Taunton Attic
Taunton Mass December 20 Mary Cryan thirty two denied herself food light and fire and starved to death in the attic of a house she owned. She willed twenty five hundred dollars to church and charity. Iss Cryan rented the rest of the house for twenty dollars a month and had more than twenty five hundred in savings plus over one thousand in small bills found under her pillow. Her bank books and money were tucked between Bible leaves. Neighbors say she spent hours daily with the Bible in hand.
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the Tribune
Taunton
Mass
Mary Cryan
Iss Cryan
Rebates Declared In Sugar Transfer Allowances
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that allowances for transferring sugar from refineries to trains are rebates and violate the law. The decision, issued in Washington on December 20, notes four key conclusions and urges carriers to conform their tariffs to the ruling without delay.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Philadelphia
Raid at Dracut cocking main nets 42 arrests
Lowell Mass December 20 a raid on a cocking main at a skating rink in Dracut arrests 42 men with 8 or 10 more escaping. Officers including district police deputy sheriffs and law order league agents led the sweep as an electric car carried prisoners to Lowell. Thirteen gamecocks valued 25 to 500 dollars taken.
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Lowell
Mass
Dracut
Lowell Hillmane Society
Law and Order League
Woburn
Lawrence
Nashua
Haverhill
An American Pompeii at Casa Grande Ariz
Smithsonian report describes excavations at Casa Grande near Florence Arizona led by J Walter Fewkes under congressional funding. Discoveries include a 200 foot long building with eleven rooms and a central plaza. A seat named the seat of Montezuma by Pima Indians marks the site’s significance and preservation value.
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Washington
Charles B. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Casa Grande
Florence
Ariz
J. Walter Fewkes
Montezuma
Castellane Children in Court Over School Placement
Paris court weighing transfer of Count Bon de Castellane children from Princess de Sagan to the Marquise de Castellane. Three judges and a prosecutor questioned the children at the Palace of Justice to determine fitness for school duties.
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Paris
Count Bon de Castellane
Princess de Sagan
Marquise de Castellane
Palace of Justice
Human salamander youth bathed in flames unharmed
Boston December reports Fred E. Foskett of Orange Massachusetts demonstrated extraordinary psychic powers before Professor William James and other physicians. He lit flames with bare hands and a lamp, then bathed in burning alcohol without injury. Tests continued at James's Cambridge home with dramatic claims of dematerialization, while experts remain skeptical.
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the Tribune
Boston
Fred E. Foskett
Orange
Mass
James
Harvard
American Society of Psychical Research
Prescott F. Hall
William James
Foskett
Niagara Falls Enforces Blue Laws Close Sunday Businesses
Niagara Falls officials led by Mayor Douglass closed saloons bazaars clothing stores barber shops and similar outlets to observe blue laws. Police served notices to merchants who typically stayed open and most complied. The move followed a Common Council demand to shut gambling houses and enforce the law.
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The
Tribune
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Douglass
Western Union Thefts Shake Pacific Coast Rail Lines
Portland officials report an organized theft system by railroad operators on the Pacific Coast. Western Union, after a six month probe, found hundreds of thousands of dollars lost as 60 percent of message payments failed to reach the company. Telegraph records were erased while dispatches were properly transmitted. Warrants issued for several Washington state operators with at least one confession claimed.
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Portland
Ore
Western Union Telegraph Company
Pacific Coast
Western Union
Washington
Campanini Threatened In Letter Alarm To Wife Of Conductor
Mme Eva Campanini Tetrazzini confronted a threatening letter found on a Navarre apartment table addressed to her husband opera conductor Campanini. She notified police after reading the message. Hammerstein urged forgetting it but later noted he keeps a scrapbook of similar epistles. Also promotes Dewey’s Wines holiday gift cases with prices.
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Mme
Eva Campanini
Tetrazzini
The
Navarre
Carnegie to Testify on Steel Tariff Schedule
Andrew Carnegie arrived in Washington to testify the next day as a witness in the tariff hearing on the steel schedule before the Ways and Means Committee. He declined to discuss the tariff question or the nature of his testimony when approached.
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Will
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Ways and Means Committee
Carnegie
Auto Kills Engineer In Queens Collision
M J McGuire, engineer for Elmore and Hamilton Contracting, was struck and killed by a car driven by Robert C. Watson on Hoffman Boulevard near Newtown Queens. Investigators report McGuire moved into the car's path after a failed passing attempt and died before reaching a hospital. Also in the auto were Archibald Gordon Louis Livingston and chauffeur Edward Taylor connected to the Plaza Hotel and local addresses.
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M. J. McGuire
Elmore & Hamilton Contracting Company
Forest Hills
Jamaica
Elmhurst
Queens
Robert C. Watson
West 55Th Street
Hoffman Boulevard
Newtown
Watson
McGuire
Mr. Watson
Archibald Gordon
Hotel Plaza
Louis Livingston
West 51Th Street
Edward Taylor
East 63d Street
Thieves Rob and Smash at Gates Avenue Home
Dr. Charles C. Limarth and wife found their Brooklyn home broken into last night. Jewelry silverware and instruments valued at 2000 were stolen along with Christmas presents and clothing, while furs and furnishings were destroyed. They exited at 5 and returned at 9 to a broken door and a jimmied office safe with a small sum missing.
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Charles C. Limarth
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Robbers Hang Victim Aboard Missing Train in Virginia
Charles Kreiar a father of twelve was found hanged near Graham Virginia after missing a train at Bluefield. Police believe robbery and murder followed a display of cash on board. His body was taken to Petersburg for burial. tickets and money found in his pockets.
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Roanoke
Esterhazy
Canada
Petersburg
Charles Kreiar
Graham
Kreicar
Bluefield
Kreiar
Mr Pulitzer's Voyage to Panama On Liberty Yacht
Joseph Pulitzer publisher of The New York World arrives off Old Point Virginia aboard the Liberty with friends and staff to study canal zone conditions and seek evidence for government Panama property purchases. The trip aligns with Taft’s arrival timetable and roosevelt era libel prosecution pressure surrounds publishers.
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Newport News
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
Old Point
Panama
Taft
Pulitzer
Roosevelt
Congress
Bonaparte Notes Libel Suit Still Under Consideration
Baltimore December 20 Attorney General Charles J Bonaparte said the libel suit urged by the President against Joseph Pulitzer owner of The New York World is still under consideration and no definite line of action has been agreed upon.
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Baltimore
Charles J. Bonaparte
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
Fears of Canton Riots Spread as Anti Foreign Feeling Grows
Hong Kong reports strong anti foreign sentiment in Canton after a coolie died on the Falshan. A British destroyer Hart has been dispatched and Moorhen and Canton recalled from Wu-Chow amid boycotts. Naval officers scrutinize arrival of Chinese vessels as native papers push agitation.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Falshan
Hart
Moorhen
Wu-Chow
Toronto Indian runner Tom Longboat to be baptized
Toronto Ont December report says Tom Longboat the Mohawk long distance runner who defeated Dorando will be received into the Anglican Church. He plans to marry Miss Maraole of the Mohawk reserve next Monday. His native name Ca W4 Ge meaning Everything and his bride Ka hon le Son meaning the Leader.
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Toronto
Ont
Tom” Longboat
Dorando
Miss Maraole
Longbeat
Ka-hon-le-Son
Passengers Pray as Storm Rages in North Atlantic
Boston dispatch details harrowing sea drama as four overdue steamers reach port after two weeks of relentless storms and hurricanes. Laurentian from Glasgow faced violent seas, forcing passengers below while the crew battled to keep the ship seaworthy. Stetson crew rescued from ice packs, Patrician stood by. Belgravia and Cambrian story underscored danger and aid delays.
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Sy Telegraph
the Tribune
Boston
North Atlantic Ocean
Laurentian
Glasgow
Yarmouth
M. B. Stetson
Newfoundland
Patrician
Stetson
Bacir
Farmer
Port-au-Basques
Cambrian
London
Hamburg
Hiscoe
Belgravia
Storm Taming Journeys of French Line Provence and Campania
The Provence and Campania, fastest vessels from Havre and Liverpool respectively, returned to port a day late after a ferocious Atlantic passage. Reported wave heights reached 150 feet, while captains claimed 60-foot combers. Both ships showed minor damage but kept to schedule, with the Campania notably four hundred miles ahead of the St. Paul before quarantine.
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la Provence
Havre
Campania
Cunard Line
Liverpool
Daunt’s Rock
Charles
St. Paul
Poncelet
Sandy Hook
Provence
Minneapolis
Lofiden
Overdue Kristina Near Port After Winter Navigation Start
The steamship Kristina, missing for two weeks, was sighted passing Cape Ray at 4 p m Saturday heading to Seven Islands 250 miles below Quebec. It marks the first bid to keep lower St Lawrence routes open in winter as the ship will load pulpwood for a British port.
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Montreal
Kristina
Cape Ray
Quebec
St. Lawrence
British Port
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Priest
Ocean
Commerce Commission
Pompei
Castellane
Campanini
Hammerstein
Dewey's
T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Broker
Man
MR. Pulitzer
Canal Zone
Mr. Taft
Port
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