Telegraphers Strike Struggles Persist Amid Naval Mutinies
Reports from St Petersburg describe continued telegraphers strike actions despite martial law at Kronstadt. Mutinies in the Fourteenth and Eighth divisions prompt troops and a court martial under Admiral Totmashviteh. Moscow signals encouragement as officers face casualties and threats.
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St. Petersburg, Dee
Crometai
Cronstadt
Cronmstadt
Totmashviteh
Cronstad
St. Petersburg
Dee
Eydtkuhnen
Dee 9
Moscow
Reserve Below Danger Line In Bank Statement
New York report shows a deficit of 1,246,525 below the 25 percent reserve rule. Loans fell 7,561,500 deposits declined 1,696,500 reserve dropped 7,566,100 ex U S deposits decreased 3,812,075.
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New York
Dec
U. S
Falling Further Behind In Six Day Bicycle Race
In New York on December s leaders lag over 400 miles behind the record. The score shows Redeb Bedel Root Fogler 2035 ties and a lapse for Vanderstuyf Sial Mac Lesa Moran 2153 Hopper Hollister Dow Sing Bowler St Logan Dow ney 20581 Galvin McDonald 20379 Doreflinger Duxsett 21285.
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New York
Dec. S
Redeb Bedel
Root-Fogler
Vanderstuyf'Sial
Maclesa Moran
Hopper Hollister
Dow sing-Bowler
St. Logan-Downey
Galvin McDonald
Doreflinger-Duxsett
BACK TO CHURCH STATE MAY PROSECUTE
Baroness Zedwitz and sister, once wards of Bishop Spalding, seek readmission to Catholicism or a peaceful reconciliation though she denies plans to rejoin. The visit to Peoria centers on a business matter, not pardon.
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Spalding
Peoria
Zedwitz
Marquise Desmonstiers
John Lancaster Spalding
Baroness
Marquise
Caldwell
Kentucky
Baltimore
Catholic College
Washington, D. C
AML Peoria
Dee
von Zedwitz
Bishop Spalding
Marquis de Montiers
Battleship Idaho Put Into the Water At Cramp Yard
The Idaho, sister to the Mississippi, launched at William Cramp Shipbuilding. Powered largely by electricity, it features wireless telegraphy and a 382 by 77 foot hull, 13 000 ton trial displacement, speed 17 knots. Miss May Gooding of Idaho governor’s family led the ceremony.
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Philadelphia
Idaho
William Cramp Shipbuilding Company
Mississippi
May Gooding
Santa Fe freight collision rocks Colorado town
Topeka Dec 9 An east bound California passenger train on the Santa Fe collided head on with an extra freight at Caddoa Colo early today. Engines were badly smashed and mail express baggage and Wells Fargo refrigerator cars in the passenger and seven box cars were demolished. Several passengers bruised. Express Messenger Strong and Mail Clerk Woods seriously injured. A misunderstanding of orders is blamed.
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Topeka
California
Santa Fe
Caddoa
Colo
Mail
Express
Wells Fgo
Strong
Woods
Big Concern Taxed Out of Iowa State
Colorado Springs, Colo. Dei. Portland Gold Mining company restructured under Wyoming charter and will surrender Iowa charter. Home office moved from Cornel Bluffs to Cheyenne. Reasons cited include Iowa tax attempts on stock totaling 400000, while property taxes on stock already paid in Colorado. Stabbed in police court New York Elsie Parker 24, killed. William Williams 19 charged.
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Colorado Springs
Cola. Dei
Portland Gold Mining Company
Wyoming
Iowa
Cornel Bluffs
Cheyenne
Wyo
Iown
Colorado
New York
Elsie Parker
West Side
William Wiliams
Mystery at Des Moines Cleared
Des Moines Iowa December report reveals George R Griswold an Iowa agent for State Mutual Insurance led a double life as Arthur Stockman with two families. A grocer John Basset disclosed the twin identities and two women confessed while Griswold’s body was found in the Coon River earlier. The Stockman women now unnamed, sisters and Chicago residents, offer little detail. Griswold was a prominent local businessman.
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Des Moines
Iowa
George R. Griswold
State Mutual Insurance Company
Worcester
Mass
Twenty4third Street
Ingersoll Avenue
Arthur Stockman
Ridge Street
John Basset
Griswold
Steckman
Coon River
Grace Stockman
Stockman
Theer
Chicago
Prisoner in Court Testimony Heard in Two Divorce Cases
The report covers indictments and court actions including murder charges against William Nagel, a divorce proceeding for Mrs. W Farquhar against Carl N Farquhar with cruelty claims, and a divorce case Anna M Tunnell vs August Tunnell for habitual drunkenness. It notes court reporting disputes, a criminal libel no bill for Thomas W Lawson, and a broad overview of 1907 federal appropriations requests with major increases in Navy and Post Office funding. It ends with Cooper predicting a tariff bill to relieve Philippine conditions and notes sugar tobacco hemp themes for the islands.
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Farquhar
W Farquhar
Moline
Carl N. Farquhar
St. Louis
Searle & Marshall
Anna M. Tunnell
August Tunnell
Lucian Adams
Sweeney Stops Here En Route To His Home
Jack Sweeney arrives from Portland to join the coast baseball season end, plans winter at Cincinnati home, prefers third base to short. He notes coast pitching is faster but finds coast baseball similar to Three-Eye play. Also reports on local Wood Workers union officers and a stove demonstrator in London reducing smoke with a tubular brick screen, plus a Pittsburgh power scheme proposal aiming to a central plant near Washington County.
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Jack Sweeney
Portland
Ore
Cincinnati
Sweeney
Federal inspector cleared of wrongdoing at port
Washington reports that Archibald Gerdon, a local inspector at the port, was found not guilty of incompetence or misconduct after a review by the department of commerce and labor. The committee concluded his conduct did not merit removal or censure.
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Washington, Dee
Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
Congress
War Department
Washington
Metcalf
Department of Commerce and Labor
World's Fair Navigation Company of
St. Louis
Archibald Gerdon
Gerdon
PLAN NOVEL LIFE RAFTS FOR SHIPS IN HARBOUR
Two Brooklyn navy yard workers propose life raft railings for excursion steamers and ferries. Made of sea rate sections, each raft forms part of a rail system with watertight compartments and rope networks. A lever release drops rails into water to aid lifeboat survival. Red Cross will exhibit the concept aboard a ship.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Red Cross Life Savers
New York
Merit Rule for Good Postmasters Reform in Appointments
Washington December 9 Postmaster General Cortelyou plans to apply civil service merit to postmaster appointments. Officials with expired terms may be continued if rated good or excellent. President Roosevelt reportedly supports the policy, seen as revolutionary and controversial by many Republicans. Some critics warn it would erode patronage while some exceptions exist.
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Washington, D. C
Cortelyou
Roosevelt
Hitchcock
Killed Family Condemned to Die
Independence Iowa December William McWilliams pleaded guilty to killing his wife and five children with a hammer. He was sentenced to death yesterday. The crime is described as one of the state’s most shocking cases. Judge Platt broke down and wept while pronouncing the sentence.
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Independence
Iowa
Deo
William McWilliams
McWilliams
Platt
Death of Mitchell in Oregon Sets Democratic Pickup
Portland reported senator Mitchell’s death clears path for Gov Chamberlain to name a successor within a week. A democrat is certain to win the seat, with about a dozen eligible men already suggested as potential appointees.
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Mitchell
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Chamberlain
Must Fight For Its Franchise In Pueblo Courts
Pueblo Chieftain editor Ray Van Ettisch set world records by typing 2 600 words in 30 minutes and 4 917 in one hour from Denver. The City Railway company defends its 2 million dollar property title as Iowa’s state entry joins the case. No appeal planned. courts to decide if the franchise is valid amid possible Sompronibice settlement.
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Pueblo
Col
Colo
Dee
Ray TL Vanettisch
Pueblo Chieftain
Denver
Des Moines
Iowa
The
City Railway Company
Civic League
State of
Troops Leave Manchuria Evacuation Proceeds Swiftly
Harbin evacuation continues with only slight disturbances nine days after the advices from Harbin. Efforts in Manchuria proceed as rapidly as transportation facilities allow.
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Chefoo
Dec
Harbin
Manchuria
First anniversary memorial for Dr. R. F. Sweet at Trinity parish
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Dr. R. F. Sweet death, longtime rector of Trinity parish. Memorial services will be held at 10 AM at the church where Rev. Granville Hudson Sherwood will deliver the memorial sermon.
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R. F. Sweet
Trinity Parish
Granville Hudson Sherwood
Wire wound cannon hailed as armor penetrator at Sandy Hook
Reports describe Mr John Hamilton Brown’s wire wound six inch gun tested at Sandy Hook. The device uses steel sheet tubes and wire wraps to withstand powder charges, promising long range 30 mile shots with 100 pound projectiles and deep armor penetration. Also notes a planned ten inch gun and predictions for battleship armor impact. Plus obituary of Annie, Galva pioneer and retiree cook, age 70, and Davenport union committee drafting resolutions for Vitlet J. French.
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Jobn Hamilton Brown
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
United States Army
England
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