New Warship Concept with Ten Torpedo Tubes Emerges
British Admiralty studies a novel battleship design resembling a submarine on top with heavy Krupp armor and a curved deck shield. It carries ten torpedo tubes, achieves about 25 knots cruising and near 30 knots sprint, and would cost roughly 2.5 million dollars, far less than a Dreadnought.
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Tritish Admiralty
Withel Nay
Das Nian
Puval
Arebhecmare
Dreddnought
Brondside
Halley Comet to Pass Near Sun on May 18
The Bar yard University Observatory notes Halley's comet will cross the sun's face on May 18. Gas from the comet's tail may be visible to observers, though unlikely. past passages caused meteor activity. Rev Father G B Searle estimates the event with careful calculations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Charlies
Pickering
Bar Yard University Observatory
G. B. Searle
Philadelphian Proposes Private Chapel in Every Home
Joseph R. Wilson of Overbrook advocates a national movement to set aside a small chapel in each house for daily worship. He cites his own 6 by 6 foot chapel in a Cedar Avenue home where family prayers and inspiration occurred and plans a permanent, larger addition at his Overbrook residence.
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Philadelphian
America
United States
Canada
England
Joseph R. Wilson
Philadelphia
Overbrook
Cedar Avenue
Taft cabinet vows to pursue sugar trust frauds
Washington November 17 President Taft and his cabinet agreed that the sugar trust investigations should be continued by the departments of justice and the treasury. Attorney General Wickersham is to push prosecutions, with rumors of more sugar trust officials likely to face charges for customs fraud. Officials deny that treasury influence tainted the prior administration.
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Washington
Taft
Sugar’ Trust
Trust
Department, of Justice
Treasury Department
Wickergham
Corporation
James
Reynolds
Dye
Knox
Northern Securities
Fungar Trust
Sugar Trust
Parr
Department
Indicted Men Seek Delay in Sugar Trust Fraud Trial
James F Bendernagel former manager of the Williamsburg sugar plant and five sugar company employees pleaded guilty before Judge Tidgie Hough in the criminal branch. They face conspiracy to defraud the government and false weight entries charges. Co defendants Oliver Spitzer Thomas Jehoe John Co Coyle Edward A Boyle and Patrick Hennessy also named. Jean M Voelker a sixth defendant did not appear. Attorneys requested venue change or postponement. judge refused and set trial for Nov 20 before Judge Martin with pleas to be modified.
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Little Fellows
York
James F.bendernagel
Willamsburg
The
Sugar Trust
Sugar Company
Roth
Tidgie Hough
Criminal
United States
Ant
Bendernagel
Oliver Spitzer
Thomas Jehoe
John’ Co. Coyle
Edward A. Boyle
Patrick ‘Hennessy
Jean M. Voelker
Hough
Martin
Parsons
Republican County Committee
Cannon
Bute
Albany
Tammany Hall
Migor Trust
Congress
Chauffeur Krulwich Pleads Guilty in Fatal Crash Case
William Krulwich, the driver who struck and killed Albert D Pries as a boy, admitted guilt in the supreme court changing his plea to guilty on indictments of second degree murder. Justice Marcia placed him on ten days probation with a $1060 fine to be paid to the boy’s father. Krulwich, of Baltimore, promised to produce the money.
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Buffalo
Nada
William Krulwich
Tittle
Albert D. Pries
Supreme Court
Marcia
Kralwich
Baltimore
Mountain Duel Ends in Killings and Wounding
In Greenabur two feuding families clash at a meeting turning deadly. A man aged twenty is dead from gunshot wounds and Lloyd Pile, seventeen, is dying from stab wounds. Both are under guard as authorities investigate the murder charge.
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Fightion
Fron Greenaburder
Lloyd Pile
Warriner and Ford Woman Under Arrest
Cincinnati reports Charles Warriner former treasurer of the Big Four railroad and Mrs Jeanette Ford the alleged blackmailer are arrested. A third man tied to the case is expected to be taken into custody. Warriner arranged a secret conference with Prosecutor Hunt before bail failed. Ford is said to have received 1000 dollars on October 15 1899. Ford appeared calm and walked to the cell. she is thirty eight years old and Ohio native. Her four year old child was left at her apartments with a negro maid.
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Cincinnati
Charles L. Warriner
Big Four Railroad
Jaynah
Jeanette Ford
Ford
Warriner
Hunt
Vaudemal
Meyers
Mrs. Ford
Bourne Sees Taft Promises Savings From Expenditure Study
Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon, after completing a probe as chair of the Senate subcommittee on public expenditures, said his findings would be submitted when Congress meets. He suggested the report would reveal striking conditions in government service and that following recommendations could save about 50 million dollars annually.
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Washington
Jonathan Bourne
Oregon
White House
Senate Committee On
Congress
Chase Morse pursued by gun threat in two week manhunt
In York on November 17 John M Briggs ice dealer of Cayeymans N Y testified that he chased Charles Morse former head of the American Ice Company for two weeks with a gun as part of a dispute. The testimony described a fearsome pursuit and threats amid the company tensions.
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York
John M. Briggs
Caeymans
N.Y
Inc
American Ice Company
Charles Www. Morse
Morae
Taft to Attend Cincinnati Shriners Festival
President Taft is expected to travel to Cincinnati next week for the Shriners festival. Ten men were killed in a cave-in during railroad tunnel work near Salon Creek, Winston-Salem, N C.
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Taft
Cincinnati
Shrinera
Winston, Salem
Salon Creek
Will provisions name heirs and tombstone for Brown estate
The Kansas City will of George Brown Jr includes repayment to executors for winnings with interest from the win date. A curious clause directs a tombstone bearing only the given names above the testator and his wife, omitting the surname Brown.
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Kansac City
George Brown, Jr
Abe
Motor Mishap Kills Boy in Hill School Car Crash
W Angus Douglass of Oak Park Michigan, a Hill school pupil, died from internal injuries after a Chadwick car rolled down Hahn's Hill embankment in Pottstown Pennsylvania. Driver Paul Dunlap remains hospitalized. An overheated tire caused the wreck. Douglass reportedly exclaimed that the ride was a “dandy” as it sped through a fence.
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Pottstown
W. Angus Douglass
Oak Park
Pottavilla Hospital
Chadwick
Hahns Hill
Paul Dunlap
Dougtags
King
Michigan sues railroad for 4 million in back taxes
The state of Michigan sues Michigan Central Railroad claiming about 4 million dollars in unpaid back taxes by not reporting taxable property. The case, filed in chancery court, was before Judge Welst and expected to last four to five weeks. A counter-suit from Wayne County seeks eight million dollars.
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State of Michigan
Wayne County
Fight for Millions in Welsh Inheritance Battle
In Pennsylvania and Wales a family dispute aims at more than 24 million dollars in cash and land valued at 20 million. The Cardiff widow Mrs Eyar Hees of Blakely seeks a share of the estate, which is divided into seventy five farms. Since the chancery court seized the property rents have been collected. A cablegram says the fight is nearly won and urges her husband to come at once.
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Pennsylvania
Helre Ieire
Wales
Acranton
Eyar Hees
Blakeley
Thiy ‘Elty
Jaar Cardif
Catate Fa
Court’ of Chancery
Disbar Bryan's Nominator for Contempt
Omaha attorney J Dunn, nominating William J Breen for president at the 1908 Democratic national convention, was found guilty of contempt by the Nebraska supreme court and indefinitely disbarred for language in a brief to a city court. Ruth Butler implicated in two infant deaths by chloroform administered by a mother. Belvidere, Ill saw heavy fines for liquor vendors under the local option law with Judge De Wolf and Reckhaw imposing 11,125 in fines and jail terms of 30 to 90 days.
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Omaha
Lincoln
Neb
J. Dunn
William J. Brean
Nebraska Supreme
Langigze
Elvad
Justice Roe
Belvidere
Ill
de Wolf
Reckhaw
Ho Sur
George Crocker Suffering From Gastric Cancer
New York Nov 17 George Crocker the millionaire is dying in his mansion at Sixty fourth street and Fifth avenue. The illness is cancer of the stomach disclosed by his elder brother William H. Crocker who has hurried back from Europe to see him.
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George Crocker
New York
Sixty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
William H. Crocker
Europe
Mr. Crocke
Governor Denies Memorial at Bloody Angle in Richmond
Governor Ewanson's request to place the Virgins Gettyabure Monument at the Bloody Angle in Richmond was denied by the War Secretary. No monument of any kind may be erected there at this time.
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Richmond
Ewanson
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted in Letter
A circulated testimonial extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long trusted remedy for female ills. The letter from Melbourne praises its effects on nervous and reproductive troubles, claiming the product has helped many women and inviting others to seek Mrs. Pinkham's free advice.
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Lydia
E.pinkham
Melbourne
Binkham
Heath
Clara Watermann
Downs
Watemianiti
Pinktiam
Pinkham
Reading Catholic heiress leaves vast will for masses and charities
The will of Catherine Archer of Reading Pennsylvania provides for masses for fifty years to a husband, aunt, and other relatives, with $1000 invested in government bonds. After fifty years, $6000 funds are dedicated to St Pauls Catholic Orphanage and church charities. Estate estimated between $700,000 and $3 million. Also reports train wreck attempt near Leesport by Mahlon Long and a death from needle pricking in Collegeville.
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Reading
Mre
Catherine
Archer
St. Paul's Catholic Orphanage
St. Paul's
Peter's
Leeaport
Mahlon’ Long
Teu
Con
Taft Speeches Noted In Historic Review Of Rhetoric
A fragmentary account surveys Taft’s long speaking tour, noting 13 000 speeches and days spent traveling. It mentions McKinley and Cleveland in historic context and references allied topics such as the Dreadnought and a world map project.
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Aponicuit
Taft
Satitee
Monde
Aphecen
Autotho
Vane
Levet
Caml Sry
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