Ruef Trial Moves Toward Judgment in San Francisco
San Francisco December. Ruef, found guilty on bribery after a trial lasting three and a half months, will be arraigned for judgment before Judge Lawlor. Sentencing timing awaits defense intentions, with appeals likely. Ruef faces further indictments and a potential retrial as H A Honey conducts the next proceeding.
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Ruel
mad today
Hiram W. Johnson
Sullivan
J. J. Dwyer
Francis 3. Heney
Honey
Physician Shot and Killed by Dentist in Hazlehurst
Hazlehurst Mississippi December 10 Dr ALS Pitts a prominent physician was shot and killed today in his office by Dr Thomas Birdsong a dentist A negro witness offered only that Birdsong accused Pitts of interfering in his affairs Birdsong fled but returned and opened fire Pitts died and Birdsong was jailed Birdsong was related by marriage to Angie Birdsong once convicted in a sensational Monticello killing trial later pardoned by Governor Vardaman
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Dr. Butler
Monticello
Vardaman
Two Women Indicted for Killing Man in Media
Media, Pa. December 10. Mrs Florence Erb and her sister Mrs Catherine Belger were indicted by the grand jury for the murder of Captain J. Clayton at his country home Red Gables on October 6. The half bond of Mrs Erb was allowed to stand for her appearance, but Mrs Beisel was sent back to prison.
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MEDIA
Florence Erb
Catherine Belger
J. Clayton
Erb
Red Gables
Beisel
Training School for Hotel Employes to Open in Indianapolis
A $200,000 hotel to be used as a training school for hotel employes will be established at the Winona Technical School. The International stewards association pledges funds. The school will provide accommodations for 400 students. A separate fire in St Louis destroyed the Lohz Patent Deer plant, with losses around $100,000.
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INDIANAPOLIS
Winona~‘Technical School
International stewards association
ST. LOUIS
Lohz
Patent Deer company
New Trial Denied in Capitol Fraud Cases
Harrisburg report states a new trial was refused for John Anderson James Shoemaker William Snyder and William Mathaes in the capital conspiracy cases. Architect Joseph Huston severed. Four defendants convicted last spring. Appeals pending as others await trial in a major state capitol corruption saga.
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HARRISBURG
John #. Anderson
James 8. Shoemaker
Johnstown
board of public grounds
Wm. P. Snyder
Wm. L. Mathaes
Jos. M. Huston
Philadelphia
Huston
olpetea
Colbie
erregy
Covendinta
sen
Two Men Killed in Springfield Colliery Mine Explosion
Dec. 9 in Springfield 111. John Solomon and Frank Babinsky shot firers were killed by a dust explosion followed by a windy shot in the Springfield Colliery mine. Searching parties hunt for the victims.
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SPRINGFIELD
111
John Solomon
Frank Babinsky
Big Colleges Have Boat Race In Sight
In New York rumors place a forthcoming intercollegiate rowing clash between Columbia and Harvard on the water next spring, with both schools set to race at Anápolis in May and Harvard in a contest with Cornell in the same month. Paris reports France will expel Castes if he stirs disorder while Castro plans a private visit for surgery and will follow government wishes.
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SW YORK
Columbia
Harvard
Anapoli
Cornell
PARIS
Castes
France
Castro
Reno Ordinance 10 on Prostitution Regulated by Judge Pike Ruling
A Reno court declares Ordinance 10 unconstitutional citing a faulty title that fails to match the body and oversteps city powers. The judge notes the provision aims to regulate rather than prohibit vice and voids the measure, with police powers limited to suppression of ill fame.
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Reno
dines Pie
Caliina
polices
Nevada
Rena
il fame
Ren
Pike
King
Ruffians Shoot Mother and Assault Daughter in Cartersville
In Cartersville Georgia on a Saturday night a band of ruffians invaded the Gibson home and fired on Mrs Gibson while assaulting Livale Hardy 16. Bud Lanham Steve Heath and Tom Collins are named in warrants. Lanham and Collins jailed Heath at large. Judge Fite ordered protection for the distressed Gibson family amid mounting indignation.
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CARTERSVILLE
J. A. Gibson
Lanham
Collins
Heath
Gibson
Fite
Delirious patient leaps to death from third story window
A delirious patient, John Hanson, at Jefferson Park Hospital broke restraints and leapt from a third floor window to the pavement below. The act occurred in view of other patients today as authorities investigate the tragic scene.
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John Hanson
Jefferson Park Hospital
Bryan not arrested for violating laws in Galveston
W J Bryan and party returned to Galveston after days of hunting at Lake Surprise. They were not arrested yesterday for a violation of game laws, according to local dispatches from Texas.
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GALVESTON
Texas
W J. Bryan
Galvaston
Lake Surprise
Save Country From Socialism Says Leslie Shaw to Students
Leslie M. Shaw former Secretary of the Treasury urged McKinnon College alumni to save the country from Socialism. He criticized college commencement addresses sermons chautauquas churches newspapers and public libraries for promoting socialist ideas and warned that equalization of effort regardless of aptitude leads toward ruin.
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Leslie Shaw
NEW YORK
McKinnon College
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
len
DIES AFTER WEEK OF SLEEP IN LOGANSPORT
In Logansport Indiana on December 10 Peter Myer died after sleeping for a week. He had worked all day husking corn a week earlier and never woke when doctors tried to rouse him.
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LOGANSPORT
ind
Peter Myer
Miner Identified After Disaster Skeleton Found at Red Lodge
In Red Lodge Montana the third of six men entombed in the mine disaster was found this morning. Only a watch near the body allowed identification, otherwise the remains might not have been recognized.
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LODGE
Mont
Andrew’ Korejon
slx
Indicted Night Rider Dies in Hospital
Nashville dispatch reports Jesse Carter, indicted in the matter of Captain Quentin Rankin by Reelfoot Lake night riders, died of fever in a hospital tonight. Carter was brought to the hospital with eight other prisoners to be placed in jail by order of Governor Patterson.
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NASHVILLE
Jesse Carter
Quentin Rankin
Reelfoot
Lake night riders
Carter
Patterson
Morgan Hires Train At One Dollar An Hour.
New York December 11 J P Morgan returned from a record trip aboard a special train over the Lake Shore and New York Central lines. The 17 hour 1 minute run beat the Twentieth Century Limited by more than an hour with speeds from 60 to 67 miles per hour and locomotive changes, costing Chanlder about 100 dollars an hour.
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NEW YORK
Chicago
J. Flerpont Morgan
Lake Shore
New York Central railroad
Century’ Limited
New @ York
Mor- @ yan
andler
Committee to Address Teddy's Criticism in Congress
Representative Perkins of New York introduced a resolution for a five member special committee to study how to respond to the president's remarks criticizing Congress for prohibiting secret service detail outside their bureau. Perkins argued the president's statements merit consideration as they affect Congress's witness and respect. A similar Senate resolution is expected to pass soon to recommend action on the president's assertions.
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WASHINGTON
Perkins
New York
house
senate
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