Patrick Freed From Sing Sing As Governor Pardons
Albany reports Albert T. Patrick walks free after Governor Dix paroles him from Sing Sing. Patrick, once condemned for the 1900 death of William Marsh Rice, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Higgins after years of appeals.
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Albany
N. Y
Sing Sing
Albert T. Patrick
New York City
Dix
William Marsh Rice
New York
Patrick
Rice
Berkshire Apartments
Madison Avenue
Charles F. Jones
Jones
William Rice Institute
Texas
Seventh body recovered in Waukegan refinery explosion
The seventh body was removed from the Corn Products Refining plant ruins in Waukegan Illinois after an explosion. The dismembered remains cannot be identified and belong to one of three missing men Louis Moonpick Martin Mapuhuick or Mike Bunch. Death toll reaches nine with twenty four men hospitalized and some may die according to Superintendent Elbert.
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Waukegan
Ill
Corn Products Refining Company
Louis Moonpick
Martin Mapuhuick
Mike Bunch
Elbert
Fitzgerald Uses Alias in Chicago Embezzlement Trial
Strong testimony in Judge Carpenter's court alleges George W. Fitzgerald used an alias in private business to conceal holdings. The case involves the embezzlement of 173000 dollars from the U S subtreasury in Chicago. O R Shearman, secretary of the Illinois Car and Manufacturing Co, testified to Fitzgeralds interest in stock.
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Chicago
Carpenter
George W. Fitzgerald
United States
Illinois Car and Manufacturing Company
Fitzgerald
O. R. Shearman
Car Corporation
Rayner Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery
The body of late United States Senator Isidor Rayner of Maryland was laid to rest in Rock Creek cemetery after his death from neuritis. President Taft, cabinet members, and members of the senate and house attended the funeral to pay tribute to a leading senator.
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Washington
United States
Isidor Rayner
Maryland
Rock Creek
Taft
Senate
House
Con
Not guilty verdict in Ettor Giovannitti case
In Salem Massachusetts a jury cleared labor leaders Joseph J Ettor and Arthuro Giovannitti and accomplice Joseph Caruso of the murder of Anna Lopizzo amid the Lawrence textile strike riot last winter. The defendants thanked the court and jury after the verdict.
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Salem
Mass
Joseph J. Ettor
Arthuro Giovannitti
Joseph Caruso
Anna Lopizzo
Lawrence
Chicago Tops World Health Rankings In 10-Year Death Rate
Chicago health department findings show Chicago as the most healthful city among fourteen global metropolises with populations over a million. London follows, while data for Tokyo and Constantinople were not available. The bulletin credits Chicago winds for improved air quality and building ventilation reducing mortality.
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Chicago
Chicago Health Department
London
Tokio
Constantinople
Congressmen Clash Over Press Criticism in Committee Room
Two representatives, Johnson of South Carolina and Burleson of Texas, spar in the appropriation committee room after an interview in which Burleson was labeled a toady and flunky for proposing pensioning presidents. Burleson asked for clarification and asserted his plan was only a suggestion.
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Washington
Johnson
South Carolina
Burleson
Texas
Appropriation Committee
Morning Papers
Chicagoan Beal fatally shot during hunting outing
Arthur W. Beal of 2748 Spaulding Avenue Chicago was killed at Le Mont when a companion discharged a rifle while sliding down an embankment. The bullet pierced his lung and Beal died instantly.
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Joliet
Ill
Arthur W. Beal
Spaulding Avenue
Chicago
Lemont
Beal
County to Build $90,000 Infirmary in Kewanee
Henry county supervisors accept plans for a 120 room infirmary to cost 90000 dollars. The building will be erected on the site of the recently burned infirmary.
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Kewanee
Ill
Henry County
Ambassadors in Debate on Terms Amid Balkan Talks
Wireless dispatches from Adrianople report no foreign casualties and Turkish defenses holding while Bulgarians consider dropping Adrianople claims. In Tchataldja talks near Constantinople, peace terms remain inconclusive with both sides unreconciled.
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London
Eng
Bagtche
Constantinople
Adrianople
Vienna
Tchataldja
Baseball Magnate John T. Brush Dies on Moving Car
In Seeburg Missouri near St Louis John T Brush the wealthy president of the New York National League club died in his private car Oceanic as a Burlington train attached to it entered Seeburg at 12 15 am. He had suffered locomotor ataxia for over a year and passed peacefully.
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ST. Louis
John T. Brush
New York National League Baseball
Burlington
Seeburg
Chicago
Wah-Hah-Gun-Ta
Glacier National Park
National Capital
Jefferson
White House
Wolgast Loses On Foul In San Francisco Fight
In foggy Daly City Willie Ritchie defeats Wolgast by disqualification in the sixteenth round with two seconds remaining. Seven thousand fans celebrate as Ritchie is hoisted by supporters and declared winner after the foul.
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San Francisco
Cal
Daly City
Willie Ritchie
Michigan church calls Rev Thorn ton Mills to Battle Creek
Rockford Illinois dispatch says Reverend Thornton Anthony Mills pastor of the Church of Christian Union and son of Benjamin Fay Mills who lectures in Chicago has been called to the pastorate of the Independent Congregational church in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Michigan Church
Rockford
Ill
Thornton Anthony Mills
Church of Christian Union
Benjamin Fay Mills
Chicago
Independent Congregational Church
Battle Creek
Mich
Illinois general news the Proposition in Bloomington
Government representatives arrived in Bloomington to gather evidence for potential prosecutions of promoters behind the Sir Francis Drake Estate proposal. Efforts to obtain investor lists from central Illinois failed while the post office said a London cable about a Lords decision was a deceptive claim. In Champaign Urbana University of Illinois President Edmund J. James announced two Rhodes scholars from the University of Chicago, Robert Merrill and Charles Stewart, passed the Oxford tests.
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Bloomington
Ill
Francis Drake
Central Illinois
Post Office Department
London
House of Lords
Champaign, Ill
Edmund J. James
University of Illinois
State of Illinois
Oxford
England
Robert Valentine Merrill
University of Chicago
Charles Conger Stewart
Mystery in Death of Chicago Archery Champion Sullivan
Miss Julia Sullivan, noted archery champion of America and ice skate star of Canada, found shot dead in her apartment at 364 East Fifty Ninth Street. A revolver lay near her body. Mrs G I Lob, the other occupant, is detained by police who say Sullivan may have killed herself.
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Chicago
Julia Sullivan
America
Canada
East Fifty-Ninth Street
G. I. Lob
Peculiar Accident Injures Cabrini on Clark Street
Clayton W. Cabrini, 22, was severely injured when a United States Express wagon passed over his ankles as he kneeled to change a tire on his bicycle. The crash occurred in front of the county building Clark street entrance. He was taken to Memorial hospital. the driver did not see him.
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Chicago
Clayton W. Cabrini
United States Express Company
Clark Street
Dabrini
Memorial Hospital
Extradition Fund Exhausted in Illinois
Illinois has no money left to pay for fugitive extraditions. The last general assembly appropriation is exhausted. Sheriffs told to advance costs when sending officers to other states and await a new appropriation by the next legislature.
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Springfield
Ill
Llinois
General Assembly
Executive Department
Last Year's Bird Nest Causes Two Fatal Asphyxiations
Mount Zion police say an abandoned nest blocked a chimney flue at Henry Scott and his wife’s home. When a gas stove was lit in their bedroom, gas fumes asphyxiated the couple who were married last August.
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Mount Zion
Henry Scott
Church Debt Husking Drive Nets Corn Profit
Eighteen Baptist church women in Carmi Illinois husked thirty bushels of corn in thirty three minutes to pay off the church debt. Reverend E M Ryan drove the wagon while the group harvested the corn, sold at one dollar a bushel to a local dealer.
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Carmi
Ill
Baptist Church
E. M. Ryan
Five Hurt In Fog Collision Near Madison Illinois
A head on collision between a passenger car and a work car on a single track near Madison Illinois left five injured. The victims named include Mrs H H Wollbrinck of Edwardsville Jr Mrs Charles W Smith of Mitchell Iowa J B Ferry the East St Louis motorman Roy Ferry and George Smith.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Madison
H. H. Wollbrinck
Edwardsville
Charles W. Smith
Mitchell
J. B. Ferry
Roy Ferry
George Smith
Four youths play jail delivery. one shot wounded
In Decatur Illinois Albert W Boul thirteen year old fired a shot at Louis Maple during a jail delivery game. He and four companions also thirteen were present when the injury occurred. Maple sustained a serious wound and was treated locally. Police said the boys were playing a game when the incident happened.
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Decatur
Ill
Albert W. Boulwire
Louis Maple
Black Hand Bomb Shocks Chicago North Side at Grocery Store
A bomb exploded in front of Rosario Torest’s grocery at 530 North Peoria in Chicago causing loud tremors across the North Side and Lake Shore drive near Lincoln Park, waking residents late at night. In Peoria, William Nell and son Theodore reunited after 25 years, after separation and transfer of legacies spurred an effort to locate them.
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Chicago
Chicago North Side
Lake Michigan
Rosario Torest
Peoria Street
Lake Shore
Lincoln Park
Peoria
William Nell
Theodore
Indiana
Inauguration of Illinois Governor Edward F. Dunne Set for January
Springfield reports the general assembly fixed the inauguration date in mid January. Governor-elect Dunne and family plan to arrive the day before the ceremony. The piece notes the event will draw attention in the state capital.
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Springfield
Edward F. Dunne
Illinois
General Assembly
Five-Week Trial Yields $8000 Damages for Depue Farm Loss
In bureau county circuit court a jury awarded Frank Smith $8000 against the Sanitary District of Chicago for farm damage near Depue from Illinois River overflow. Also reported in brief: A H Ogie fined for contempt after attacking a grand jury. Mose Burton confesses to burning three stables. T W Ennis slashes throat in city hall detention room after forgery arrest.
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Bloomington
Bureau County
Frank Smith
Sanitary District of
Chicago
Depue
Champaign
A. H. Ogie
Daily
Illini
University of Illinois
Philbrick
Peoria
T. W. Ennis
Huntington
W. Va
City Hall
Millikin Faculty Backs Simplified Spelling Drive
Decatur report says the faculty of James Millikin University voted to back Illinois colleges adopting simplified spelling in all publications and correspondence.
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Decatur
James Millikin University
Illinois
Man Dies by Hanging on Pepples Farm Near Mount Vernon
Frank W. Henry hanged himself on the Pepples farm east of Mount Vernon after conflicts with his sweetheart. Local report notes the tragedy occurred on the farm site with details limited.
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Mount Vernon
Frank W. Henry
Pepples
Chicago Markets Report Grain and Live Stock Prices
Wheat and corn quotations across classes with No 2 red wheat at 1.02 to 1.03 dollars and No 3 white corn around 46 to 46 4 9 c. Hogs receipts 30,000 with heavy shipping quotes 7.75 to 7.80 and pigs at 7.10 to 7.60. Cattle receipts 16,500 with prime steers 10.50 to 11.00 and veal calves 9.50 to 10.25. Sheep receipts 25,000 with lambs 7.40 to 7.75. East Buffalo quotes—hogs 7.90 to 8.00, cattle market soft, sheep 5.00 to 7.50, calves 5.00 to 11.00.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N. Y
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