Last Evidence Heard in Gillette Grace Brown Murder Trial
Chester Gillette’s murder trial nears end as witnesses finish testimony. District Attorney's reps present Grace Brown’s farewell remarks and Gillette’s suitcase search. Defense contends many statements were fabrications or cowardice acts. Bishop Seymour Rallies in Illinois recovery update.
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Big Mouse Lake
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Independent telephone lines plan Chicago conduit access
A national agreement by independent telephone groups will allow their wires to use Chicago company conduits. Key figures J D Powers and E L Barver spearhead combined interests across seven states including Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Kentucky Illinois Iowa and Missouri. A syndicate plans to furnish 2 million dollars to meet initial construction costs, with total needs estimated near 18 million dollars.
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the Tribune Today
Central West
Chicago
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Middleboro
American Bankers’ Association
E. L. Barver
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Chico
WRECK IN VERGENNES KILLS FOUR ON RUTLAND TRAIN
A gravel train crashed into a mixed Rutland train near Vergennes Vermont causing two passenger cars to be hurled down a 50 foot embankment and catch fire. Four people are dead and several injured including a possible Mrs. W A Lawrence of Bristol. Fire crews faced delays due to distance and limited water as rescuers pulled victims to a farmhouse for treatment. The Drury Opera company ferrying 21 members remained largely accounted for with seven others injured. A separate note reports the assassination of Chopoto police chief in Kazan Russia.
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Here
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Bristol
Lawrence
Addison County
Drury Opera Company of
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Prominent Santa Fe Editor Breaks Jaw Yelling at Office Boy
Santa Fe New Mexican editor Colonel Max Frost, longtime political figure, fractured his jaw in a rage after a telephone call went unanswered. The incident occurred while he was alone in his office. his condition worsened from a compound jaw fracture after the teeth fell and the jaw snapped. Frost is described as blind and paralyzed, unable to walk.
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Santa Fe, N. M
Max Frost
Santa Fe New Mexican
Hagerman
New Mexico
Frost
Sensational trial details in Shea bribery case emerge
Testimony in Chicago reveals a $1500 fund from Garment Workers' union to pay labor leaders including Cornelius Shea and Albert Young to press for a teamsters strike aiding Montgomery Ward garment workers. Witnesses describe meetings in 1905 and payments amid labor power plays. Roosevelt faced a wave of commendations and potential congressional action follows Brownsville incident. In Kentucky, 300 masked men burned two tobacco stemmeries in Princeton, seizing the night marshal as fires spread, amid anti trust agitation.
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Cornelius P. Shea
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamsters
Young
Albert Young
United Teamsters of America
Robert Noren
Garment Workers’ Union
Shea
Garment Workers of
Montgomery Ward & Co
Noren
Chicago Federation of Labor
Joliet
Princeton
Hopkinsville
Trust
Bassa Trust
Captain Fuller Dead Heroic Sea Master of Lucille
Captain Thomas Fuller veteran shipmaster died in Salem at 93 famed for handling mutiny on the Lucille off Sumatra with $25,000 aboard. He subdued the crew with a revolver and steered to Philadelphia. survived the fate of the brig Mexican in 1837 piracy.
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Salem
Mass
Thomas Fuller
Fuller
Lucille
Sumatra
Philadelphia
Central Engineers Win Pay Increase and Concessions
New York Central railroad and its steam and electrical locomotive engineers have adjusted their dispute. The men will receive a substantial pay raise and satisfactory consideration of all other claims, announced from New York on December 1.
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New York Central
New York
New York Central Railroad
Live Stock Show Opens With King Edward Entries
The seventh annual international live stock show and exhibition opens today at Union Stock Yards Chicago for eight days. More than 3,000 entries compete including horses owned by King Edward of England.
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King Edward
Chicago
Union Stock Yards
King Edward of England
Ruef and Dinan Indicted in Prostitution Protection Case
San Francisco reports Abraham Ruef and Police Chief Dinan jointly indicted by the grand jury on a conspiracy charge tied to alleged protection of a house of prostitution. Dinan faces a separate perjury indictment stemming from his testimony before the jury.
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Frisco Ross
Dinan
San Francisco
Abraham Ruef
Last of the McCurdys Out and Railroad Blast Fatalities
In New York Mutual Life Insurance loses its McCurdy link with the resignation of Peter Stuyvesant Pillott the $10 000 a year inspector of risks relation to Louis A Theband and Richard A. McCurdy. In Knoxville four men and a foreman were killed by an accidental explosive blast at a railway excavation west of the city.
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McCurdy
Peter Stuyvesant Pillott
Pillott
Louis A. Theband
Richard A. McCurdy
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Knoxville
Tenn
South & Western Railroad
Land Fraud Witness Quizzed Over Immunity Claims
In Omaha the Richards Comstock land fraud defense challenged Irvine D Hull a Mirange land locator on immunity and motive. Hull admitted arrests but denied indictment or promised immunity while detailing payments to soldiers and leases tied to final land filings and profits.
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Neb
Richards-Comstock
United States District Court
Irvine D. Hull
Mirange
Hull
United States
Thomas M. Huntington
Comstock
Huntington
James Hull
Cold Wave Grips St Paul Low Zero Night Temp
A cold wave from the northwest sent St Paul temperatures to zero at night with Devils Lake North Dakota recording 13 degrees below. London observed Queen Alexandra’s 1844 birthday at Sandringham with a large royal gathering and worldwide greetings.
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Devil's Lake
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Queen Alexandra
Sandringham
Macomb Banks Closed After Chandler Feud Crisis
Macomb and surrounding banks closed as C V Chandler and associates face a cash shortage. Liabilities reach 70 000 with real estate holdings around 100 000. Depositors promised full repayment, while Chandler’s network of banks and real estate investments stoke local alarm amid payback concerns.
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McDonowel County Financial Choice
C. V. Chan
Chandler Himee
Bank of Macom
C. Chandler & Co
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Colchester
Chandler & Smith Bank
Teedolph
Chandler
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Teok AM
Macomb Bank
Macomb & Western Electric Railway
New Peace Move Will Soon Be Captured
A coastal force under Major Murphy surprised the Pulajanes camp on Samar at daylight. Eleven Pulajanos were killed and the chief Pablo’s son and nine men wounded. Pablo escaped but his wife and daughter were taken. Only one other chief remains at large, with plans to capture or kill him. Governor Curty sees the action as the death knell of Pulajanism on Samar.
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Murphy
Pablo
Samar
Curty
Public Ownership Report Put on Fast Track by Civic Federation
The National Civic Federation committee on public ownership plans to present an adverse report to the federation by mid January. The commission found public ownership scientific and wasteful claims untrue, and to be morally desirable as a policy. The group is finishing up its findings after broad study across Europe and America.
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New York
the Tribune Five
Public Ownership Commission
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Bank robber in Bendena shoots self after alarm breaks out
J W Harrin a farm hand robs the Bendena Kansas bank and kills himself after releasing the clerk to spread the alarm as police and armed citizens rush in. Cashier W M Gillen stood with head lowered while the bandit faced the open drawers containing thousands in paper and gel. The robber fired a self inflicted shot just as the bank doors opened and citizens surged in.
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Bank of
Bendena
J. W. Harrin
W. M. Gillen
Harris
Theodore Bell
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