Congress Opens Amid Grief as Lame Duck Republicans Depart
In Washington taft era session opens with Taft's lengthy message read in both houses. Galleries crowded. 98 defeated Republicans attend farewell session in the house while 14 veterans sit in the senate. Amid sorrow, Uncle Joe’s re election remains secure as Democrats exchange greetings. A separate report from Ford City, Pa describes the discovery of a decomposed infant corpse wrapped in newspaper in a coal car from Charleroi.
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genate
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Uncle Joe
Joe
Ford City
Fittsburg Plate Glass Company
TH. B. Stone
Kittanning
Charleroi
Wife Murderer to Hang in February 1911
Beaver Pennsylvania reports Charles Hickman, infamous for a dramatic jail escape and a nationwide manhunt, has been sentenced to be hanged on February 14, 1911 for the murder of his wife.
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Beaver
Charles Hickman
Monongahela
Hickman
Counterfeiters Get Five Years in Federal Court
Roseon de Franco and Gae tano Giuero were convicted of counterfeiting in a United States district court in Paterson New Jersey. Judge Bell sentenced both to five years imprisonment in the Allaute penitentiary. An advertising note appeared in The News.
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Paterson
N. J
Dee
Bellstab
United States district court
Roseon de Franco
Gaetano Giuero
Joseph G. Cannon Serving His Final Term In
The brief item notes Joseph G. Cannon is serving his final term in office. Details on date, position, or successor are not provided in the readable text.
Former Judge Conway Nobie Dies After Window Fall
Ex common pleas judge Conway W Nobie age sixty eight in Cleveland Ohio leaped from a seventh story open window in the Society for Savings Building while seeking air after a chat with a client he was seized possibly by heart trouble and fell to the stone pavement below killing him instantly.
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Cleveland
Society for Savings Building
Common Pleas
Conway W. Noble
Nobie
Duke of Chartres dead grandson of Louis Philippe
Paris reports the death of Robert Louis Philippe Eugene Ferdinand d Orleans Duc de Chartres born 1846. He served on General McClellan s staff during the American Civil War under the name Robert Lafort and fought in the 1852 war, the Franco Prussian War of 1870, earning honors. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Army of the Potomac Society.
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Parle
Paris
Robert Louis Philippe Eugene Ferdinand d'Orleans
Duc de Chartres
Count de’ Parla
Louis Philippe
France
Count de Patis
George B. McCliellan
Robert Lafort
Selfering
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Legion of Honor
Grand Army of the Republic of the United States
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Germany to launch record warships next year
German reports claim the navy will commission six dreadnoughts and four armored cruisers, the largest wartime shipbuilding total by any nation, marking a major expansion of the fleet amid rising tensions.
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Werln
Dea
Dentsche Tagenzalting
Germany
Grandmother confessed to killing infant for daughter's sake
In Johnstown Pa Mrs Adelaide Robinson aged 66 was jailed after admitting she chloroformed her grandchild and placed the body in a traveling bag to protect her daughter's honor. The baby died and police say a postmortem confirmed chloroform.
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Adelaide Robinson
Hollidaysburg
Ebensburo
Altoons
Samuel Robinson
Robinson
E. M. Duffalgo
Pennsylvania railroad
John Schultz
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