Indictments Hit United Mine Workers Leaders in State Strike
Pueblo Colorado December reports federal charges target national officers and organizers of the United Mine Workers of America and key leaders including John F White Frank J Hayes William P Green and others for conspiring to restrain trade and disrupt interstate coal traffic. Indictments also name miners and an editor Edward Wallace. A lengthy jury report condemns UMW methods and calls for stricter mining laws regulated ammunition sales and mine operation during disputes.
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Pueblo
Colo
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
John F. White
Frank J Hayes
William P. Green
John R. Lawson
Adolph Germer
Robert Whitick
A. B. McGary
Charles Hatey
Jemen Morgan
Edward Wallace
Trinidad
Colorado
Commonwealth
J. P. White
Frank J. Hayes
William Green
Robert Uhrrich
A. B McGary
James Morgan
Charles Batey
Edgar Wallace
Iowa Oasis Becomes Dry in Valley Junction
Des Moines suburb Valley Junction will be dry after today as two saloons close voluntarily. Proprieties cited overwhelming business and threat of closure following a Supreme Court decision. Des Moines police seized five wagon loads of intoxicants en route to Valley Junction, hastening the decision.
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Des Moines
Valley Junction
Supreme Court
Vuailey Junction
New York Speed Fiends Punished in City Crackdown
New York police courts heard nearly five hundred speeding defendants in a city crackdown. Fines totaled 2500 dollars with some defendants jailed up to five days after resisting. The National Highway Protective Society reports 38 deaths and 115 injuries in November, boosting year to date fatalities above Chicago’s entire previous year, with 277 killed in 11 months, 56 more than all of 1912.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt Pell
National Highway Protective Society
Chicago
Meets Speaker Hears President in Washington Visit
T A Pender of Rock Island arrived to attend the National Waterway convention as Illinois delegate. With Congressman Clyde H Tavenner he called on Speaker Champ Clark and heard President Woodrow Wilson deliver his message to the joint session of Congress.
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Argus
Washington
T. A. Pender
Rock Island
Ilinois
Clyde H. Tavenner
Champ Clark
National House of Representatives
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
Former Police Captain Indicted in Protection-for-Bribe Case
New York, Dec. 2 Former Police Captain Dominick Riley was indicted by the grand jury today on a charge of accepting 1906 for police protection from swindlers. The indictment stems from a sweeping probe into an alleged link between police and swindlers, still pressed by the district attorney.
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New York
Dominick Riley
Grand
Riley
Police slay one and injure three amid strike clash
In Indianapolis Claude Lewis, a Black man, was shot dead and three others wounded when six riot-gun equipped police in an ice wagon fired on a crowd confronting non-union drivers. Wagon patrols and jeers from Teamsters marked a tense day, while dynamite damaged a miner's home in Calumet.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Claude Lewis
Heavy fog plunges Chicago into darkness
A thick fog blanketed Chicago for hours, causing delays as streetcars collided injuring eight people lightly. Lamps were lit as night, leaving thousands late to work due to transport disruption.
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Chicago
State court test for suffrage law in bond issue case
Pekin Illinois December 2 The writ in the bond issue election case challenging the validity of Illinois women’s suffrage law was returned in court today The women’s vote is said to have carried the bond issue in this county It is believed the case will go to the supreme court on grounds of its constitutional ty.
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Pekin Il
Illinois
Supreme Court
Return to Spain Zelaya Verdict
Washington reports that former president Zelaya agreed to return to Barcelona after a day of talks at the State Department. Zelaya will leave New York on the next available boat, December 11, after which he will avoid political intrigues involving Nicaragua until he departs.
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Washington
Angeneh
Zelaya
Barcelona
Spain
New York
State Department
Folk
Cory M. Stadden
Nicaragua
Charles A. Douglas
Douglas
Chamorra
Foreign Office
Masaya
Miners Rescue Efforts Continue At Golden Cycle Mine
In Cripple Creek Colorado hundreds of miners work in half hour shifts to reach four men still entombed after a collapse between the third and fourth levels. Thomas Shindell and Frank Cabrie were rescued nearby, suggesting the slide caused the entombment.
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Cripple Creek
Colorado
Golden Cycle
Thomas Shindell
Cabrie
Farmers Offer Direct Egg Sales to Cut Costs
Illinois Farmers Institute proposes direct sales to consumers to lower egg prices amid rising costs. Chicago clubwomen leading boycott urged to provide steady market. Professor H A Bittenbander notes dairy cooperatives could reduce handling costs, easing supply and prices. Egg prices for ordinary firsts rose seven cents from yesterday, with lighter receipts and a 33 to 35 cent range.
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Chicago
Mil
Illinois Farmers’ Institute
Chicago Club
H. A. Bittenbander
Iowa State Agricultural College
Rebels Prepare to Occupy Chihuahua in Mexico Civil War
Juarez dispatch reports Mexican rebels led by General Villa moving to seize Chihuahua after evacuations by federal troops amid famine fears among its 35,000 residents. Villa vows to attack Mexico City ramparts within a month and predicts public demand for Huerta's downfall.
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Juarez
Chihuahua
Monterey
Guaymas
G . Villa
Mexico City
Huerta
Fear of Bloodshed at Zabern in Germany
Zabern Germany Dec 2 Such tension is felt against the 99th Infantry it is feared there will be blood shed unless the regiment is removed. Ill feeling stirred by troops grows as Lieutenant von Forstner attacked a lame shoemaker who jeered soldiers, inflicting a dangerous gash and head wound.
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Zabern
Germany
99Th Infantry
von Forstner
Arrest Marshal Hitch as a Dry Law Violator
United States Marshal Charles P. Hitch of the southern Illinois district faced two informations in a county court in Paris Illinois charging selling liquor in anti saloon territory and maintaining a common nuisance. Bond set at 500 dollars for each case. Hitch, a stockholder and manager at a park north of Paris, denies the charges and accuses political opponents of orchestrating them as retaliation for coverage of a Paris postmastership inquiry.
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Paris
United States
Charles P. Hitch
Southern Illinois
Hitch
Samuel Hybarger
Joseph Connery
Frank T. O'Hair
O'Hair
Washington
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area
Unsettled to tonight through Wednesday with likely rain and cooler conditions. Northeasterly winds. 7 am temperature 51. previous day high 52, low 50. humidity near 99 percent evening and night. no precipitation. astronomical events note Mercury and Venus in conjunction at 8 05 pm Jupiter the evening star and Mars, Saturn, Mercury and Venus as morning stars.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Jupiter
Mars
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Ten Drown In Nelan Creek Flood At Belton Texas
Ten persons drown and fifty houses are swept away as a 30 foot high flood wave from Nelan Creek roars through Belton Texas. Mrs W C Polk and four children perish. husband and another child survive. A camping family nearby dies as a main bridge at Temple is demolished. Four hours of continuous rain caused the sudden rise.
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Belton
Texas
Nelan Creek
W. C. Polk
Temple
Hints of Death by Own Action in Craig Defense
Shelbyville Indiana December 2 Dr W B Craig on trial for the murder of woman doctor Helene Knabe was portrayed as innocent by H N Span in the opening defense. The attorney said a Knabe cousin would be produced to show the doctor was despondent over professional failure and feared she might commit death by own action.
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Shelbyville
Ind
W. B. Craig
Helene Knabe
H. N. Span
Knabe
Jury selection in Waukegan rioting case names eight jurors
In Waukegan Illinois eight jurors were sworn for the riot trial of six women and one man led by Mrs. John Richardson of Volo The case includes Edward Krepel as defendant and mentions missing William Dunnill and a divorce suit by Dunnill's wife The trial relates to a summer night riot where Mrs Richardson and her crippled husband were present in court Peoria Illinois December 2 officers of the Illinois branch of the American Poultry Association were announced Parker president D E Hale Chicago J A Leland Springfield secretary treasurer T S McCoy Golconda Next annual meeting in Springfield New York December 9 Thomas W Hall 69 died of heart disease He had led early life as president of the American Hide and Leather Company and was an intimate friend of Henry H Rogers.
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Waukegan
Ill
John Richardson
Volo
Edward Krepel
William Dunnill
Richardson
Peoria
Illinois
American Poultry Association
State Election Commission
Parker
D. E. Hale
Chicago
J. A. Leland
Springfield
T. S. McCoy
Golconda
New York
Thomas W. Hall
American Hide and Leather Company
Henry H. Rogers
British Flyers Killed in Fall at East Church Ground
Captain Gilbert Wildman Lushington of the British naval flying corps was killed today at the aviation ground in East Church England when his machine collapsed from an unknown cause. Captain Fawcett, in the same craft, suffered only slight injuries.
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East Church
England
Gilbert Wildman-Lushington
British
Naval Flying Corps
Fawcett
Wilson Sees Huerta Fall Not Far Off
President Wilson read the first annual message to Congress in joint session, a brief document of about three thousand words. He urged early amendment of the Sherman law to curb private monopoly, endorsed Alaskan railway building, and favored rural credits, self government for Porto Rico and Hawaii, independence for the Philippines, and conservation and primary election revisions. The reading drew cheers, with focus on the Mexican situation and a stronger Sherman law.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Huerta
United States
Senate
Porto Rico
Hawi
The
Philippines
Bryan
Senate Democrats
Bristow
Owen
Shaffroth
Pin dell Renominated as Ambassador to Russia
Washington December 2 Henry M Pin dell of Peoria Ill was renominated by President Wilson to be ambassador to Russia The nomination failed to clear the extra session due to a row over correspondence with Senator J H Lewis Whitlock Brand of Toledo Ohio was named minister to Belgium George Fred Williams of Boston named minister to Greece and Montenegro W T Denison of New York re nominated as secretary of the interior of the Philippines Saloon Issue at Polls Boston December 2 Fourteen Massachusetts cities vote today with saloon licenses as the hot issue in several locales
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Washington
Henry M. Pindell
Peoria
Ill
Wilson
Russia
J. H. Lewis
Brand Whitlock
Toledo
Ohio
Belgium
George Fred Williams
Boston
Greece
Montenegro
W. T. Denison
New York
Philippines
Sulphur Fails To Route Buried Bandit
Bingham Utah December 2 The fate of Ralph Lopez slayer of six men remained uncertain at noon Deputies had prepared to shoot him dead if he attempted to escape from the Utah Apex mine where he is trapped by sulphur torches but no break for liberty occurred all night
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Bingham
Utah
Ralph Lopez
Utah-Apex
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Marshal Hitch
Craig
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Gilbert Wildman- Lushington
East Church Grounds
Grinte
Pindell
Senators
Man
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