Mrs Pankhurst Arrested in Devonport After American Visit
Militant suffragist leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst was rearrested near Plymouth as the Majestic neared harbor. Police used a swift mobilization with Scotland Yard detectives and a government tug to escort her to Exeter, while rival followers scrambled to shield her and a White Star liner carried police guards.
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Plymouth
England
Emme Nine Pankhurst
Devonport
Majestic
America
Panthurst
Flora Drunmond
Pankhurst
Scotland Yard
Vigilantes on Rails Case Draws Crowds at Yalo Court
Mud spattered buggies and crowds of farmers fill the Yalo courthouse as six women accused of riding Mrs. John Richardson on a rail present closing testimony. Defense calls the act an innocent charivari as egg boycott spreads in Chicago schools. Denver endures two feet of snow blocking streetcars and leaving downtown marooned overnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukegan
Volo
John Richardson
Yalo
Three Texas Rivers Overflowing With Floods
Heavy rains push Trinity Brazos and Colorado Rivers over banks across southern and central Texas causing widespread flooding. Smaller streams join the overflow as authorities issue flood warnings and evacuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Dallas
Tex
Trinity, Brazos
Colorado
Women Storm Congress for Suffrage Committee
In Washington the suffrage convention paused as delegates moved to Capitol Hill to press the House Rules Committee for no resolution to establish a Standing Committee on Woman Suffrage in the home. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw led the argument urging a House committee, with Ida Husted Harper, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt and others backing the effort.
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Washington, D. C
Capitol
House Rules Committee
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Senate
Ida Husted Harper
Helen Gardner
Jane Addams
Desha Breckinridge
Mary Beard
Carrie Chapman Cail
Grandfather Gifts $50,000 for Lincoln Highway Markers
Aurora Illinois magnate John Stewart 88 gives $50,000 to the Lincoln Highway Association. In a Europe tour he states his aim that every grandchild become a millionaire and asks markers at each end of the future cement highway strip as a memorial to him and to the martyred president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ill
John Stewart
E Burn
Hat
Lincoln Highway Association
Europe
Atlantic
Pacific
Supreme Court Upheld Freight Rate Law in Kentucky Case
The Supreme Court dismissed the Louisville & Nashville railroad suit enjoining Kentucky’s maximum freight rate law. It affirmed lower court rulings, upholding state power to regulate intrastate rates though not declaring the law fully valid. The decision notes reasonableness is a factual question and cites the Minnesota rate case as precedent.
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Washington, D. C
Kentucky
Supreme Court
Loulaville & Nashville Railroad
Railway Commission
Minnesota
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Kentucky Commission
Justice Hughes
Arx
Missouri
Oregon
West Virginia
Congress
Girl 13 Guilty of Murder in Canada Case
In Prince Albert Saskatchewan Cana da-Cathleen Oka Simmon, age 13, was found guilty of murdering her year old playmate Julia Jenex. The jury deliberated for one hour as Simmon tearfully testified she and Jenex gathered dry roots before a dispute over a dead prairie chicken led to a shovel blow and fatal beating.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Canada
Cathleen Oka Simmon
Julia Jenex
Jenex
Simmon
Bilbo Hobbs Indicted Over Bribe Allegations In Mississippi
Lieut Governor Theodore Bilbo and Sen ator G A Hobbs of Lincoln county faced indictments in Warren county for soliciting and receiving a 2000 bribe tied to a bill creating a new county with Belzoni as seat. Bonds of 5000 each were posted to guarantee appearance in Vicksburg circuit court.
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Theodore G. Bilbo
G. A. Hobbs
Lincoln County
Warren County
Delta
Belroni
Vicksburg
Tov. Bilbo
Jackson
Poplarville
Lew
Hyland
Hobbs
Alan
Billo
Bilbo
Rilko
Lieut
Dien
Ibo
Gov. Brewer
Brewer
Messrs
Hobbes
Nev. Bile
Town County
Castleman
Belsoni
Messrs. Bilbo and
S. Castleman
Heltons
Dan 8. Lehon
Byrne Detective Agency
New Orleans
Lehon
Bilbo and
Liewt
Mississippi
S.J. Taylor
Legislative Committee
National Grant
New Tariff Receipts Show Sharp November Decline
Washington reports customs receipts for November fell about 4.5 million dollars from November 1912. November was the first full month of operation for the new tariff, and the annual return from this source is likely to drop by more than 50 million dollars. Ordinary disbursements for November exceeded receipts by 2.72 million, versus a 4.82 million excess last year.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Three months for bigamist in Dozey case end
In Judge Wurdeman's Clayton court Dora Elizabeth Fuller Downing Doxey Erder Whitney pleaded guilty to bigamy for marrying William J. Elder, a St. Louis mail clerk. Agreement: three months in the city hospital with her latest husband at her bedside, plus a $100 fine and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Dozey
Wurdeman
Clayton
Dora Elizabeth Fuller-Downing- Doxey-Erder-Whitney
William J. Elder
City
Fred Whitney
Policy Call For Better Waterways At National Congress
Washington D C the tenth annual session of the National Rivers and Harbors congress opened with a call for a broad federal state cooperation policy to improve waterways and boost national commerce. Representatives from across the nation heard speeches stressing need for better waterways to support growing trade. Identity Marks New York vein photographing may replace fingerprinting for criminal ID, per Prof Tamaania of the University of Padua Italy. Fort Smith Petition For Pardon Will Bowman, serving life for a 1908 criminal attack conviction, asks Gov Hays to grant clemency. St Louis Mrs Jessie Fiala 22 shot and killed by husband Otto Fiala 28. he then shot himself.
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Washington, D. C
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
New York
Tamaauia
University of Padua
Italy
Fort Smith
Ark
Will Bowman
Monett
Hays
Kille
Self
St. Louis
Jessie Fiala
Otto Fiala
Henry Neustadter
Fiala
Minnesota Defies Cold in Wabasha Flower Record
Wabasha residents claim a weather novelty as Frank Stuetzel harvests a large bouquet of pansies from his yard narrating a second bloom this year. The scene highlights an unusual warm spell in Minnesota countryside this season.
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Minnesota
Wabasha
Minn
Frank Stuetzel
Indicted figures in dynamite transport plot and Pankhurst arrest
Indianapolis report says George E. Davis confessed dynamiter and Harry Jones, secretary treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, were indicted for conspiring to transport dynamite and nitroglycerin. A second secret indictment of national importance remains under seal prior to arrest. In Plymouth, England, Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested two miles offshore and to be kept in custody to serve an unexpired jail sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
George E. Davis
Harry Jones
Herbert 8. Hockin
Internatonal Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Reward Offered for Bandit Who Held Up Pullman Car
Southern Pacific railway officials post a 5000 dollar reward for the capture of the bandit who robbed a Pullman car near Los Angeles and killed Morace E. Montague, prompting a manhunt and renewed security measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Southern Pacific Railway
Here
Morace E. Montague
Rich Broker a Fraud Confesses to Cigar Theft Scale
Paris report states a man known as Father Christmas and deemed a prosperous stock broker confessed to stealing 1,250,000 expensive cigars over the past 15 years in the suburb where he resided. Police recognize him by the nickname and he faces charges for the long running theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Cooking Biggest Business In Cincinnati Analyzed
Cincinnati study shows cooking is the nations largest single business with American households spending 15,000,000,600 yearly on food. About ten percent of this is wasted before reaching the dining table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
America
Brewer Named District Attorney in Eleventh Circuit
Dan C. Brewer of Clarksdale was named by Gov. Brewer on a late Friday afternoon to succeed W. A. Alcorn as district attorney of the eleventh judicial circuit, succeeding the former circuit judge appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan C. Brewer
Clarksdale
Gov. Brewer
Eleventh Judicial Ccircuit
W. A. Alcorn
Commissioner Frank G Hoge Visits Governor Office
Frank G. Hoge, a commissioner of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, to be held in San Francisco in 1915, was a visitor here, and a caller at the governor's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank G. Hoge
San Francisco
State Teachers Association selects 1914 convention plans
The executive committee in session chose the time and place for the 1914 convention and decided to secure the attendance of men of high class and long experience. They hope to include visiting notables such as Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, and Gov. Adolphus Q. Eberhardt of Minnesota, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Teachers’ Association
Cass
P. P. Claxton
United States
Attorney General Moves to Advance Walters Habeas Appeal
Assistant Attorney General George Ethridge filed in the supreme court a motion to advance the case of W. C. Walters the alleged kidnapper of Robbie Dunbar of Opelousas La who is jailed in Columbia awaiting the supreme court decision on his habeas corpus appeal from a Columbia judge's ruling that Louisiana authorities may return the prisoner to that state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Ff Ethridge
Supreme Court
W. C. Walters
Robbie Dunbar
Opelousas
Columbia
Coluwabia
Louisiana
Brewer heads to Vicksburg with delta plans
Brewer left Saturday for Vicksburg where he would stay briefly before moving to delta points. He insisted his trip was unrelated to the Lieut Nieh case and the Bilbo Hobbs bribery inquiry by Warren County grand jury. No new Bilbo Hobbs developments reported. Soft shelled eggs suggest delayed lime intake.
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Legislative Committee
Bilbo
Hobbs
Anderson
Ripley
Bramlette
Awleon
Hobbs’ Bond
Maj
D. C. Casey
Thy County
Lieut
Fiev
Brewer
Vicksburg
Delta
Niev
A. Hobbs
Warren County
Bilbo Hobbs
Action of bishops will be indorsed at Mississippi conference
The Mississippi Centennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South opened with debate over Chancellor J. H. Kirkland and Vanderbilt University trustees and the Carnegie gift language. A five member committee was appointed to rewrite the contested resolution. Bishop Candler led preaching and quoted scripture while urging unity against business like ambition. Officers were elected and committees named. annual admissions and finances to be reviewed, with about 4009 expected church accretions.
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Mississippi
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
J. H. Kirkland
Vanderbilt University
Carnegie
H. W. Fratherston
Crisler
Cemdier
M. B. Stharborough
Cooper
Peatherius
F. Harmen
CW Crisler
House of God
Candler
J. I Chisholm
First Presbyterian Church
Soen
Atlanta
Cuba
Wesleyan
Tobias Gibson
Winans Sellers
A. F. Watkins
Jackson
Harmon
Meridian
John A. Moore
Magnolia
Pine Ridge
J. L. Neill
W. W. Pension
Mission Board
Nashville, Tenn
W. Crisler
Mattiesburg
R. W. Milleape
W. H. Morse
Tylertown
Epworth
Mississippi interest in New York cotton exchange case
Mississippi readers hear of a New York cotton exchange inquiry into charges against member Morris H. Rothschild. The Mississippi native, born in Wilkinson County, is accused of irregularities in dealings with a customer and had previously pressed charges against fellow member Joe Moyse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mississippi
New York
Cotton Exchange
Morris H. Rothschild
Rothschild
Wilkinson County
Joe, Moyse
Talbert Company Assignment in Grenada
The Talbert Company a dry goods firm in Grenada assigned its liabilities of about ten thousand dollars with assets likewise short by the same amount. G W Jones and FH H Coe were named receivers for the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grenada
Talbert Company
Dry Goods and Nations
G. W. Jones
F. H. H. Coe
Jackson Knapp Agricultural Day Set For Dec 19
Mississippi rural schools prepare an appropriate program for the Jackson Knapp Agricultural Day to be celebrated on December 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mississippi
Belconi Citizens Fight Misimpression on New County Effort
Belconi-Much residents defend actions surrounding the 1912 county proposition dispute. A fundraising fund of 1400.05 supported compiling data, printing maps, hotel and travel costs, and lawyers’ fees for presenting the case to the legislature. Officials insist every dollar was spent on legitimate purposes and records detail expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belconi
Wotckers
Equal Rights Denied Women at Mississippi Conference
Mississippi Centennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Youth session presided by Bishop Camiler of Atlanta adopted a majority adverse report on equal rights for women after a viva voce vote. Ro W. Millsaps of Jackson supported equality in minority view. Columbia won the next year’s conference nomination. Rev. Y. Hardin of Jackson elected clerical delegate and H. B. Watkins of Netches elected clerical alternate on eighth ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Rev. Y. Hardin
Jackson
H. B. Watkins
Netches
Dr Harvey Wile Addresses Public Health Lecture
Dr Harvey W. Wile former chief of the USDA Bureau of Chemistry spoke at Starkville chapel of the Agricultural and Mechanical College on The Public Health Our Greatest National Asset to a large audience, advocating pure food and public health awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starkrille
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
Harvey W. Wile
Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
Mississippi Bull Wins Grand Championship at Chicago Show
Mississippi sired bull Point Comfort XIV, raised at Levernet Stock Farm, won the grand championship at the international live stock show in Chicago. W. J. Davis received the telegram from Ver non T. Davis confirming the victory and noting the herd faced the continent’s best in the class.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Chicago
Mississipi
W. J. Davis
Levernet Stock Farm
Vernon T. Davis
Point Comfort
Hue Herd
Bert
Oxford to vote on switch to commission government
At the Oxford city meeting a citizens petition prompted an election order for January 6 to decide if the city should adopt the commission form of government, while Holly Springs reports W H Rowan of the Mississippi anti tuberculosis committee inspecting service places and lecturing on home hygiene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toevopola
Aml Bvant
Oxford
Holly Springs
W. H. Rowan
Mississippi Syndiical College
Mississippi
Clarksdale Club Backs Belt Line Bonds Plan
At a large meeting the Progressive Club urged passage of legislation to allow the city to issue bonds for building a belt line railroad to Webb and Friars Point. Webb lies about 1 mile away and Friars Point roughly 14 miles distant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksdale
Progressive Club
Webb and
Friars Point
A. M. E. conference opens with church institute session
The third day of the A. M. E. conference began with a theological institute led by Revs. S. S. Farrag F. Rogers and A. R. McGaughlin, after which Bishop J. M. Conner presided.
Tate County Teachers Association elects Crawford president
Senatobia report says Tate County Teachers Association held its first meeting at the courthouse. After balloting, Prof. Br. F. Crawford principal of Coldwater High School was elected president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senatobia
Tate County Teachers’ Association
BR. F. Crawford
Coldwater High School
Forest Forest-Circuit Court Concludes Short Term
The circuit court at Forest Forest, convened Tuesday, adjourned after what appears to be the county’s shortest term in years. The grand jury filed its final report and returned only 15 bills of indictment.
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Forest
Meridian Deposition Proceedings in State Rail Merger Suit
The deposition taking phase in the state merger lawsuit against the Southern and other railway lines under state control was filed and filed in the office of S. A. Witherspoon, Jr. The brief notes the ongoing pretrial discovery activity as authorities pursue evidence in the complex case.
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Meridian
Southern
S. A. Witherspoon, Jr
Five Volo women convicted in Mrs Richardson rail ride case
Five gray haired Volo women were convicted by a jury for riding Mrs John Richardson on a jail rail last July linked to alleged neighborly jealousy. One co-defendant, Kate Wagner, was freed for returning home before the act. A civil suit for $100,000 is pending. Edward Krepe also faced charges but disappeared.
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Waukegan
Volo
John Richardson
Gosatp
Fach
Emma Stad- Held
Levina Raymond
Alma Watson
Mary Sabel
Jonn Stad- Held
Kate Wagner
Richardson
Mra ‘Wagner
Edward Krepe
Yolo
Bing
German Emperor Orders Zabern Garrison Transfer
In Donaueschingen Germany Emperor William ordered the transfer of the entire garrison at Zabern Alsace amid soldier resident tensions. He also directed acceleration of court martial proceedings connected to the recent rioting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donaueschingen
Germany
William
Zabern
Alsace
Record Snow Falls in Weet Denver Colo
Snow blankets Weet Denver as Colorado endures a historic storm. The state reports depths from 36 inches to several feet, isolating towns for days. Meteorologists note this as one of the fiercest Rocky Mountain weather events on record, with broad outages and drifts delaying travel and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weet
Denver
Colo
Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Two Strike Breakers Shot in Indianapolis Riot
Two Cincinnati strike-breakers were shot in Indianapolis amid a violent attack by a mob of striking teamsters and sympathizers of a non-union wagon outfit. One worker may have been fatally wounded, with the chaos drawing police intervention and sparking investigations into labor unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Cincinnati
Mustn't Sign Petition Movement Spreads in Arkansas Churches
In Little Rock authorities report the Second Baptist church has launched a reform effort aimed at expelling members who sign petitions for saloon licenses. The drive is expected to gain momentum across Arkansas churches as it targets voting on liquor measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Second Baptist Church
Night lashings at Arcola target Harry Sieh
Five masked men seized Harry Sieh at his Arcola home tied him to a yard tree and whipped his bare back with a buoy whip in a nocturnal Whit Cappers method revival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Arcola
Harry Sieh
Declaration of War Allegedly Printed in Mexican Paper
El Adeliante of San Luis Potosi, reputed for anti American sentiment, printed what it claims to be a declaration of war by President Wilson against Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
el Adeliante
San Luis Potosi
Wilson
Mexico
Terrytown Teacher Is Bleeding Nose Victim
In North Terrytown, E F Giltrap a teacher at the local school suffered a broken nose when a classmate threw a piece of cardboard at him prompting medical attention and disciplinary action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrytown, N. Y
E. F. Giltrap
Terrytown
Aviation as Profession Gains Local Recognition
Paria aviation takes a professional turn as Lieut. Andre Beaumont of the French navy aero service is named among local experts to aid tribunals on technical points, marking a formal step in aviation becoming an accepted vocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aviation
Paria
Andre Beaumont
Navy
Aero Service
Bank Robbed in Primrose by Highwayman for $4000
A Primrose village banking incident reports a highwayman forced the cashier to surrender $4000 and fled. The Lincoln Neb message notes the robbery occurred at the local bank and the suspect remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Primrose
Suffragettes Burn House in Scotland Riot
Militant suffragettes, in retaliation for Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst’s arrest, burned the Kelly mansion near Skelmorle Ayrshire. In Boston, Mayor Fitzgerald, inspecting a low priced hotel collapse by a stone stair in Arcadia area, 28 men perished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skelmorle
Ayrshire
Scotland
Emmeline Pankhurst
Kelly Mansion
Here
Fitzgerald
Boston
Arcadia
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