Important News Notes Of A Week
Highlights from national politics and economy: US protests to Mexico over attacks on citizens and property. Philadelphia sugar fraud settlements totaling nearly 250000 dollars. inquiry into anthracite coal costs by Congress. Archbald impeachment denial in Senate. Stanley committee tax recommendations for interstate concerns. Bristow bill passes Senate lowering duties. DOJs view on beef trust dissolves National Packing. Democratic excise tax bill expands to individuals and firms with amendments on Canadian reciprocity print paper tariff and nonpartisan tariff commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Graft Charges Plague New York Police Ties
Sworn statements allege annual graft by high New York police officials from gambling houses reached 2.4 million dollars in the last year. Bald Jack Rose claims the money was collected as protection fees under Police Lieutenant Becker, linked to the Rosenthal case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Whitman
Bryan Gives 1000 to Wilson Campaign Fund
William J. Bryan contributed one thousand dollars to Governor Wilson's campaign fund. A Nebraskan check for the amount arrived with a personal, private letter not released. Roosevelt hinted Parker of New Orleans could be permanent third party convention chairman in Chicago. Ditlon of Columbus announces he will not run for governor. Taft's national and credentials committee defense released at the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Bryan
Wilson
Nebraskan
New York
Dixon
Roosevelt
John M. Parker
New Orleans
Chicago
Ridmund B. Ditlon
Columbus
Republican State Central Committee
Haines
Taft
White House
Republican National Committee
Death of Foreign Matsuhito Empowers Crown Prince
The one hundred and twenty first emperor of Japan, Foreign Matsuhito, dies in Tokyo from acute nephritis. Upon his death, Yoshihito, crown prince, becomes emperor at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matsuhito
Japan
Isles of
Nippon
Tokyo
Yoshihito
Whitlock Pleads Guilty in Vermilion County Funds Case
Danville former Vermilion County treasurer Hardy H. Whitlock fled legal trouble after diverting public funds to private use. He pled guilty, was fined $75,000, and ordered to repay $40 monthly to the county treasury. bondsmen covered shortages. Whitlock cites costly sheriff race as cause. he has since worked in Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermillion County
Danville
Hardy H. Whitlock
Vermilion County
Kimbrough
Whitlock
Detroit
Zapatista Defeat and Orozco Plea on Arms Purchase
Washington reports the war department rushing tents and sending $3,000 to El Paso for American refugee relief as about 2,000 Mexican refugees gather. In Mexico, Zapatistas attack near Santiago Tiaguisten co are repelled by rurales with heavy losses, while General Orozco urges U S arms purchases to end the Mexican conflict within sixty days. Federal forces falter at Juarez and Ojitos as rebels outmaneuver smaller garrisons, signaling a wider clash in Chihuahua and Sonora regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
el Paso
Mexico
War Department
Boride
Rio Grande
Mexico City
Santiago Tiaquistenco
Pachuca
Santiago Tiaguistenco
Tlalnepantia
Federal District
Juarez
Mex
Orozco
United States
Madero
Casas Grandes
Chihuahua
Ojitos
Here
Jose de la Luz Blanco
Blanco
Sonora
Darrow Cipher Telegrams Shown in Bribery Trial
Three cipher telegrams between Clarence Darrow and Leo Rappaport were translated by Ford to refresh Darrow's memory in the Chicago labor lawyer jury bribery trial. The notes suggest an authorization to spend 1000 for evidence on November 29 and a directive to not spend it on December 1, aligning with the Lockwood bribery timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Clarence Darrow
Leo Rappaport
Indianapolis
Darrow
Ford
Chicago
Hutton
Rappaport
McNamaras
Lockwood
London Dock Striker Dead in Riot
Seven dockyard strikers were shot during Wednesday rioting at Viatoria and other London docks. One man died later in hospital and twenty others were seriously wounded by sticks and stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Dock
London
Viatoria
Also Mentioned on This Page
General Orozco
Philadelphia
MacVeagh
Wickersham
House of Representatives
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
U .S. Senate
Robert W. Archbald
Commerce Court
House
Stanley Steel Investigation Committee
U. S. Senate
Bristow
Lodge
Department of Justice
National Packing Company
Morris, Swift and Armour Packing Companies
Arbitration Commission
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood Engineers
Eugene E. Grace
Atlanta
Daisy Oale Grace
Narragansett Pier
R. I
Annette Halliday
Alexander Antona
Elizabeth Fleming
Antona
Dorcas Snodgrass
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Catskill Creek
Catskill
Luis F. Correa
Nicaragua
Bluefields Steamship Company
United States District Court
D. B. H. Chaffee
Lynn
Mass
Cliftondale
St. Louis
Alexis
Mich
Toledo
Ohio
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Cousino
la Salle
Common Council
Wabash Railroad
Frederick P. Vose
Colorado Springs
Commercial Law League of America
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
Stanford White
Martin Keogh
New York Supreme Court
Thaw
Paint Creek
Bucklow
W. Va
William Springer
William Phaup
Springer
Phaup
Illinois News
Eighteenth Street
Christina Mayers
Conway Smith
Harry
Michael McGinnins
Franklin
Louisville & Nashville
Louisville
C. C. F. Brandt
Francis M Wright
Durrelo Here
Joliet
Adler
Josephine Schultz
Blackman Avenue
Stockton
Jane Clevidence
Kankakee
Louis Burkhalter
Paul Mastello
Vida Hemstock
Walter Webster
Hammond, Ind
Kankakee River
Rockford
Forbes Talcott
Walt Talcott
Princeton College
Tucson
Ariz
Talcott
Princeton Cottage Club
Springfield
Harvey G. Riggs
John F. Brenner
Quincy
Franklin T. Brenner
Lawrence
Anna Callahan
Caseyville
Frances Josephine Coe
Ill
Walter Wilhelm
East St. Louis
Wilthelms
Wilhelmj
R. C. Blackmer
Henry S. Coe
Auburn Avenue
R. H. Gradwohle
Gradwohle
Jacob Meyer
North Twenty-second Street
George W. Coe
Coe
Henrietta Hospital
John Meyer
Vienna
Thomas H. Sheridan
Sheridan
Harry Thacker
Thacker
F. B. Thacker
Decatur
Hawthorn
Decatur Trotting Association
Mutual Protective League
Freeport
F. M. Edwards
French
New Mexico
Josephine Edwards
Catherine Freesman
Tony Carlo
Mordecai Brown
Terre Haute
James Prosser
Morris
James Moran
Mr. Moran
Claire Dillon
Tinols
Clinton, TI
Mike Brevette
Columbia
Madison
Cairo
Johnson County
Zapatistas
Indiana
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!