Secret Service May Be Abolished
The President considers abolishing the Secret Service and consolidating all federal detective bureaus under the Department of Justice as the Department of Criminal Investigation. It would centralize control to four regional districts and reduce costs by about half, with chief supervision from Washington.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Secret Service
Department of Justice
Treasury
Congress
Department of Criminal Investigation
Post Office Investigation Service
Customs Inspection Service
Internal Revenue Special Agents
Pension Examiners
Land Office
Wilkie
Committee On Appropriations
House
Uncle Sam
New Orleans
Customs, Secret Service
Internal Revenue
Post Office Inspection and Pension Office
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Will Celebrate 109th Birthday at Ramsey Farm
Mrs. Ann Van Riper aged MB years and her two daughters aged sixty six and seventy plan a February celebration for Mrs Van Riper s 109th birthday on a farm near Ramsey New Jersey She was born at Midland Park and lived with her husband Rymier Van Riper on a farm near Allendale until his death thirty years ago The women ran the farm until five years ago when Mrs Martin Litchult gave them a home Four years ago Mrs Van Riper fell and was injured for years she has been blind yet remains mentally sharp She calls her daughter Maria sixty six her baby daughter
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Tribune
Hackensack
N. J
Ann van Riper
Ramsey
van Ripers
van Riper
Midland Park
Mary Y. Far- Tell
Death of 105 year old Dunkirk resident William Ives
William Ives of Fredonia died at his home after a brief illness at age 105. Born in Greenwich England he came to the United States as a young man and voted in sixteen presidential elections. He was a vegetarian and required no physician until recently, retaining full use of his faculties to the end.
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Dunkirk
William Ives
Fredonia
Greenwich
England
United States
Ves
Arrests Tie Up a Railway in Blanca
The entire general office staff including train dispatchers and the Master of the Vera Cruz to Isthmus Railroad at Blanca were arrested by local authorities for failure to pay the government personal tax. They were held several hours causing air traffic delays before an appeal led to their release.
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Thec. W
General Office
Vera Cruz To Isthmus
Blanca
Algher T
Sugar bill tops seven million daily as sugar per person hits half a hundredweight
Washington reports from the bureau of statistics that the average American consumed 82.6 pounds of sugar per person in 1907, costing more than a million dollars daily for the nation’s sugar. Total U S consumption reached 7,089,667,975 pounds with 43 million exported. Cane and beet sugar figures show beet sugar leading for the first time in production.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
United States
Leiter Fights Flames at Chicago Coal Mine Fire
Zeigler Dec 20. Joe Leiter the Chicagoan arrived with wife and secretary to take charge of the fire fight at his colliery here. Fire was raging beyond control and unless fighters improve Leiter may quit. If he wins he cannot operate the mine for months due to damage already done.
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The
Tribune
Zeigler
Joe’ Leiter
Leiter
Priest Lost on Ocean Aboard Arabic
Queenstown reports a passenger named Father James A. Kelly of Paterson New Jersey drowned after falling overboard from the steamship Arabic during a voyage from New York. Age forty three, ordained Seton Hall College sixteen years ago, he served in Ridgewood and Newark diocese before planning a Christmas visit to Ireland. Friends believe accidental death. no suicide motive seen.
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Queenstown
New York
Father Kelly
Paterson
N. J
Ireland
County
Sligo
Recovers His Speech After Skull Fracture Operation
Aleck Goodner of Camden, paralyzed and speechless for over eighteen months after a trolley car crash, is recovering at a local hospital. Dr. Bacon perfor med a delicate operation to remove a small piece of skull bone, after which Goodner sat up and spoke for the first time in months.
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The
Tribune
Philadelphia
Aleck Goodner
Camden
Bacon
Goodner
No Dam Proposed on St. Lawrence at Cornwall
Ottawa reports unfavorable findings on an American firm’s plan to dam the St. Lawrence River at Cornwall to serve northern New York. Engineers say the dam would seriously hinder navigation, making Canadian authorization unlikely. The ruling blocks damming on the Canadian side of the river.
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Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Cornwall
New York
St. Lawrence River
Miss Clara Clemens Injured in Sleigh Accident
In Redding Connecticut on December 20 Clara Clemens daughter of Mark Twain and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were tossed from a sleigh when a frightened horse toppled it. Clemens suffered only a severe shaking and nervous shock while Gabrilowitsch sprained an ankle and restrained the horse to prevent a runaway.
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Redding
Conn
Clara Clemens
Mark Twain
Ossip Gabrilowtsch
Miss Clemens
Woman Starves to Death in Taunton Attic
Mary Cryan thirty two years old starved herself to death in the attic of a house she owned in Taunton Massachusetts on December 20. She left 2.46 to church and charity and rented the remaining space for 20 dollars monthly. She held over 2.50 in a savings bank and more than 1000 dollars in small bills were found under her pillow, saved between Bible leaves. Neighbors say she spent hours daily with the Bible in hand.
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the Tribune
Taunton
Mass
Mary Cryan
ICC declares transfer allowances for sugar rebates under law
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that allowances for transferring sugar from refineries to trains amount to rebates and violate the law. The decision, issued in Washington on December 20, notes four conclusions on jurisdiction net rates and the illegality of transfer payments, urging carriers to conform promptly or face enforcement.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Philadelphia
GET 42 AT COCKING MAIN
Lowell mass dec 20 in a raid on a cocking main at a skating rink in dracut today forty two men were arrested eight or ten more aping through a window the arrests were made by eleven officers including district police deputy sheriffs and the agent of the lowell hillmane society and the secretary of the law and order league of this city the churches were just closing their morning services and thousands of people were on the streets when a special electric car containing the officers and prisoners arrived here thirteen gamecocks valued at 25 to 500 were taken in the raid
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Lowell
Mass
Dracut
Lowell Hillmane Society
Law and Order League
Woburn
Lawrence
Nashua
Haverhill
American Pompeii Unearthed at Casa Grande Arizona
Smithsonian report notes ongoing excavation of a prehistoric buried city at Casa Grande near Florence Arizona. Dr J Walter Fewkes leads work under a Congressional appropriation uncovering a 200 foot long building with eleven rooms and a plaza forming walls surrounding the central chamber known to Pima as the seat of Montezuma.
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Washington
Charles B. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Casa Grande
Florence
Ariz
J. Walter Fewkes
Montezuma
Castellane Children In Court For School Readiness
Paris court weighs placing Count Bon de Castellane’s three children in a school after transfer dispute with Princess de Sagan. Three judges and public prosecutor questioned the children at the Palace of Justice to assess their physical and mental fitness for school life.
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Paris
Count Bon de Castellane
Princess de Sagan
Marquise de Castellane
Palace of Justice
Ufe
Human salamander youth bathes in flames unhurt
Boston dec 20 a young machinist Fred E Foskett of Orange Mass stunned Harvard professor James and other psychical researchers with tests of his supposed psychic power He lit flames on his hands and bathed them in burning alcohol without burning himself He then dematerialized and re materialized before astonished observers The scientists remain cautious but intrigued by the extraordinary feats reported
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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
Cambridge
Hall
Niagara Falls Enforces Blue Laws Quiet Sunday
Niagara Falls citywide quiet observed as Mayor Douglass enforces blue laws closing saloons bazaars clothing stores barber shops and similar businesses. Police served notices on merchants habitual openers and most complied after Common Council demanded closure of gambling houses.
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City Telegraph
the Tribune
Niagara Falls
Douglass
Common Council
Western Union Thefts Reported On Pacific Coast
Western Union officials reveal an organized theft network among railroad operators on the Pacific Coast. An investigation over six months found hundreds of thousands of dollars lost as 60 percent of message payments failed to reach the telegraph company. Records were erased while transmissions largely stood. warrants were issued for Washington operators and at least one suspect reportedly confessed.
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Portland
Ore
Western Union Telegraph Company
Pacific Coast
Western Union
Washington
Campanini Threatened in Letter Alarmed Wife Says Hammerstein
Mme Eva Campanini Tetrazzini warns that wives of famous conductors face troubles too. She reported a threatening letter found on a Navarre apartment table addressed to husband Arturo Campanini and notified police. Hammerstein advised to forget it but acknowledged his own scrapbook of similar epistles.
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Mme
Eva Campanini
Tetrazzini
Navarre
Mr. Campanini
Mme. Campanini
Mr. Hammerstein
Carnegie to Testify in Tariff Hearing on Steel
Andrew Carnegie arrived in Washington to appear as a witness in the tariff hearing on the steel schedule before the Ways and Means Committee. He declined to comment on the tariff question or the nature of his testimony.
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Will
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Ways and Means Committee
Carnegie
Auto kills engineer in Queens near Forest Hills
M. J. McGuire an Elmore and Hamilton Contracting engineer was struck and fatally killed on Hoffman Boulevard near Newtown Queens by a car driven by Robert C. Watson stock broker of West 55th Street. Watson said he attempted to pass on McGuire who walked with him as the two veered left McGuire jumped and was struck and killed. Also in the car were Archibald Gordon Louis Livingston and driver Edward Taylor.
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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
Thieves Rob and Smash at Gates Avenue Home
Dr Charles C Limarth and wife found their Brooklyn residence ransacked upon return from 5 to 9 pm. Jewelry silverware instruments valued around 2000 dollars and Christmas gifts were stolen. Furs belonging to Mrs Limarth destroyed and rooms smashed. A safe in the office was pried open and a small sum taken.
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Charles C. Limarth
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Robbers Hang Victim Father of Twelve Found Dead
Charles Kreiar, traveling with his wife and twelve children from Esterhazy to Petersburg, Va., was found dead hanging by twine after being left behind on a train near Graham, Va. Police suspect robbery and murder after he displayed a large roll of money on the train. His tickets, five dollars, and two Canadian coins were found in his pockets. The body was taken to Petersburg for burial.
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Roanoke
Esterhazy
Canada
Petersburg
Charles Kreiar
Graham
Kreicar
Bluefield
Kreiar
Mr. Pulitzer's Voyage to Panama Investigating Canal Zone
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of The New York World, travels aboard his yacht Liberty from Newport News toward the Panama region with friends and staff. He aims to observe canal zone conditions and possibly gather evidence linked to government canal property purchases. The voyage aligns with Taft's expected Panama arrival and Roosevelt's call to prosecute publishers for criminal libel over canal coverage.
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Newport News
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
Old Point
Panama
Taft
Pulitzer
Roosevelt
Congress
Bonaparte Speaks On Pulitzer Suit Still Under Consideration
Baltimore December 20 Attorney General Charles J Bonaparte said the presidents urged action against Joseph Pulitzer publisher of The New York World was still under consideration and no definite line of action had been agreed upon.
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Baltimore
Charles J. Bonaparte
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
Fears of Canton Riots Reach Foreigners
Hong Kong dated December reports worry over an anti foreign movement in Canton sparked by a coolie death aboard the Falshan and a claimed kicking by a Portuguese watchman. The British destroyer Hart sails to Canton while Moorhen and Canton are recalled from Wu-Chow. Naval officers screen all Chinese vessels and passengers as native papers push anti foreign agitation.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Falshan
Hart
Moorhen
Wu-Chow
Longboat to be received into Anglican Church in Toronto
Doronto Ontario reports that Tom Longboat the Indian long distance runner who recently defeated Dorande will be received into the Anglican Church tomorrow. He is described as a pagan Indian and is planning marriage next Monday to Miss Maraole of the Mohawk reserve. Longboat’s native name Ca-Wao-Ge means Everything and his bride’s Ka-hon-leo-Son means the Leader.
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Doronto
Tom" Longboat
Dorande
Miss Maraole
Longbeat
Ka-hon-leo-Son
Passengers Pray As Storm Rages Over North Atlantic Fleet
Boston reports harrowing tales from incoming steamers as four overdue liners finally reach port after two weeks of storms. The Laurentian hove to eleven times, crews forced passengers below, and the Stetson sank after freezing wrecks and long pumps relays. The Cambrian and Belgravia narratives add endurance against 75 mile gusts with missing coal and costly near-misses at sea.
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the Tribune
Boston
North Atlantic Ocean
Laurentian
Glasgow
Yarmouth
M. B. Stetson
Newfoundland
Patrician
Stetson
Farmer
Port-au-Basques
Cambrian
London
Hamburg
Hiscoe
Belgravia
Cembrian
Storm battered Transatlantic Liners Prove Steadfast
La Provence the fastest French Line steamer arrives from Havre a day late after a rough westward passage. Campania of Cunard also docks from Liverpool, having endured a hurricane force gale with hail and sleet. Captains Charles and Poncelet claim crews slept little, while waves towered and rails splintered on both ships. Campania remained ahead of St. Paul by about four hundred miles at Sandy Hook arrival.
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la Provence
Havre
Campania
Cunard Line
Liverpool
Daunt’s Rock
Charles
St. Paul
Provence
Poncelet
Sandy Hook
Minneapolis
Loffden
Overdue Kristina Near Port on St Lawrence Run
The steamship Kristina, missing for two weeks, was reported passing inward Cape Ray at 4 p m Saturday bound for Seven Islands seventy nine miles below Quebec. It marks the first effort to keep lower St. Lawrence navigation open in winter as Seven Islands lies about six hundred miles from the open sea. The Kristina will load pulppwood to British port.
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Montreal
Kristina
Cape Ray
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New Jersey
Tierra Blanca
Priest
Ocean
Commerce Commission
New York City
American Sugar Refining Company
Pompeii
Castellane
Campanini
Hammerstein
Dewey's
Nh. T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Broker
Man
MR. Pulitzer
Canal Zone
Mr. Taft
Port
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