Hughes to Get Job as Court Head
President Taft has made up his mind on the United States supreme court vacancies. Justice Hughes is listed as probable chief justice. Nine candidates are under consideration with two additional justices to be chosen from a lineup including Swayze Lamar Russel Hook Van Devanter Pollock Winslow Sutherland McHugh and others.
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Washington
Dec
Presidentia
United States Supreme Court
Justice Hughes
Francis J. Swayze
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Joseph R. Lamar
Georgia Supreme Court
Gordon Russel
United States District Court
Texas
William C. Hook
Eighth U.S. Circuit
Berlin 5,000 Behind Chicago in Census Figures
Berlin's official census preliminary figures show the capital with about 2,180,000 inhabitants, trailing Chicago's 2,185,2. Berlin since 1905 gains 129,582, or 6.8 percent. Hamburg follows with 926,000 and Munich 595,055 among Germany's largest cities.
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Chicago
Hamburg
Germany
Munich
Leipzig
Dresden
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Nuremberg
Hanover
Chemnitz
Magdeburg
Spain swept by cyclone wrecks ships and lives
Cerebere France reports western Spain devastated by a cyclone. Corunna harbor sank vessels and drownings occurred near Bilbao. In Korea and Japan fleets were lost off Mokpo with 391 sailors killed and 634 men aboard seven Japanese and two Korean ships wrecked, leaving 209 survivors.
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Cerebere
France
Corunna
Bilbao
Seattle
Wash
Mokpo
Korea
Weather Forecast For Rock Island And Vicinity
Increasing cloudiness with rain or snow late tonight or Saturday. Warmer tonight with a low near 25. Temperature at 7 am 15. Wind 6 mph. Humidity 56 at 7 pm and 86 at 7 am. High pressure and low temperatures persist in some regions. Saskatchewan storm moves east with more cloudiness and possible precipitation. Astronomical events note moon first quarter in Aquarius.
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Rock Island
Saskatchewan
North Pacific Coast
South Dakota
Rocky Mountain States
Missouri Valley
Lake Region
Middle
South Atlantic
Gulf
Oregon
Washington
Congressional Day in Washington Senate Passes Panama Heirs Indemnity
In the Senate, a bill granting indemnity to heirs of a government employee who died on the Panama railroad was passed after the morning session. Major measures to improve the postal service were postponed amid objections by Senators Herburn and Bacon. The Senate adjourned until Monday. The House spent most of the day on the Indian appropriation bill, the first of the large supply measures to appear.
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Senate
Panama
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Herburn
Bacon
Big Lumber Order Signals Price Rise in Northwest
In Seattle the lumber market eyes higher prices within 30 to 60 days after a Burlington railroad order jumps from 7 million to 20 million feet. Most of the surplus demand will be met by Pacific Northwest mills amid buoyant market activity. In Louisville, Mrs. Fannie Buell Oleson of St Paul was elected superior chief of the degree of honor for the AOUW auxiliary.
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Wash
Burlington Railroad
Pacific Northwest
Louisville, Ky
Fannie Buell Oleson
St. Paul, Minn
Woman's Auxiliary
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Dietz Pleas Refused by Wisconsin Supreme Court
Madison Wis Dec 9 The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined a writ of habeas corpus in the Dietz case and denied the request to reduce bail. The court also refused to order immediate serving of all warrants against Dietz.
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Madison, Wis
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Dietz
Early Christmas Gifts for Workers Behind Counters
The item urges buying gifts early in the day and early in December as the biggest holiday gift for workers behind the counters and on delivery wagons.
Cotton Market Frenzy Surges Amid Record Buying Spree
Orleans, Li, and Dee led a wild rush on cotton futures as prices jumped dramatically, with traders described as entering a frenzy unmatched in exchange history. The intense activity followed near-immediate signals from closing trends and market reports.
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Orleans
Dee
Tradon
Coal Carrying Roads Victor in Sherman Suit
Philadelphia December 9 United States circuit court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania ruled no general conspiracy among anthracite coal carrying railroads or coal companies to restrain trade. It found Templetran company a cartel in violation of the Sherman act and granted the government an injunction.
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Philadelphia
United States Circuit Court
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Templetran Cou Iy
Freedom in China Soon New Senate Scores
Peking December 9 reports the ancient absolute regime in China will exist only historically after the Chinese new year in January 1911. It is stated that the throne has decided to accede to the reform measures and events are moving toward constitutional change.
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Peking
China
Power-Shaped Reform Upheld in One-Chamber Plan
The throne signals compromise guiding China toward a single chamber government until 1913. General Prince Ching, longtime power behind the throne, is expected to retire and Duke Tsai-Tse is poised to become prime minister as the senate refrains from demanding immediate parliament.
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Senate
Ching
Boxer
Tsai-Tse
Political deadlock as coalition and unionists neck and neck
London December reports show 244 coalition seats to 207 unionists with late returns 235 to 206. Healy defeats at Louth and the House of Commons to remain practically unchanged prompting debate on the people’s verdict and future course between Asquith’s government and coalition leaders.
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London
Timothy Healy
Louth
House of Commons
Asquith
House of Lords
Government Wins One Point In Coal Trust Case
The Rural Free Delivery dispute ends with the government securing one key point in the Temple Iron matter. Judges Gray Buffington and Lanning issued three opinions, many coal firms named as defendants from Reading to Templetron, alleging a Sherman act conspiracy to stifle competition. The suit, filed June 1907 during Roosevelts presidency, mirrors a broad corporate cartel claim across the anthracite industry.
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George Gray
Joseph Buffington
William N. Lanning
Roosevelt
Reading Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Erie Railroad
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Lehigh and Wilkesharre Coal Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Hillsdale Coal and Iron Company
New York, Susquehanna and Western Coal Company
Templetron Company
May Cotton Soars On Market Amid Production Rise
Today on the New York cotton market May cotton rose sharply, trading $3.20 per bale above yesterday's close. The Agriculture Department reports total cotton production at 11,426,000 bales for this year, up from 10,004,949 last year, signaling a significant increase in output.
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New York
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Menlo Moore Cleared In Not Guilty Murder Verdict
Vincennes court room erupted in cheers as Menlo Moore theatre manager was found not guilty of the murder of Charles E. Gibson a wealthy oil operator. The sensational ten day trial ended with the crowd carrying Moore from the platform and the court taking no action to stop the moment.
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Moore
Indiana
Ind
Menlo Moore
Charles E. Gibson
Bedouins avenge death with Syria massacre
A Jerusalem telegram reports Bedouins slaughtered a Turkish garrison at Kerak in Syria and killed over 200 Christians in retaliation for a Bedouin chief's execution. Edward Henry Ozman, U S consul general, died in Constantinople after a brief illness. Siam appoints Phya Maha Nuphab as minister to Washington replacing Phya Akharaj Varadhara who moves to London.
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Constantinople
Jerusalem
Kerak
U. S
Edward Henry Ozman
Rochester
Minn
Siam
Phya Maha Nuphab
Washington
Pec
Phya Akharaj Varadhara
London
Venerable Col Crawford Dies After Lincoln Plotters Career
Colonel P W Crawford aged eighty longtime Iowa legislator and former guard commander at the execution of Mrs Surratt and other Lincoln conspirators dies in Dubuque Iowa He commanded the guard during the Lincoln assassination trial and execution and had resided in Iowa for seventy years.
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Pln. Crawford
Lincoln
Dubuque
Iowa
P. W. Crawford
Implement Men Score State Fair in Peoria Delegation Split
Peoria Ill Dec 8 after denunciation of the state board of agriculture by James G Baker and William L Derby leaders of national and Illinois implement dealer groups the convention voted to withdraw from the state fair at Springfield and formed a committee to seek a new location for an independent implement and vehicle fair. Three hundred delegates from major manufacturers and the largest implement and vehicle dealers attended the session at the National hotel.
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Peoria
Ill
State Board of Agriculture
James G. Baker
National Federation of Implement Dealers
William L. Derby
Illinois Retail Implement and Vehicle Dealers’ Association
Springfield
National Hotel
Farmers and Merchants Bank Fails to Open in Macon
The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Macon Illinois failed to open today after a bank run yesterday. Deposits are listed at about $100,000 and customers face uncertainty as the institution halts operations.
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Macon
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Reelection of rive rs and harbors officers and waterways plan
Washington dispatch reports the Rivers and Harbors congress reelected officers A Ransdei as president and J E Ellison as secretary treasurer while adopting resolutions urging Taft era waterway improvements. A $50,000,000 annual federal appropriation and ICC authority over competing carriers are urged along with enhanced terminal facilities.
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Washington
Ransdei
J. E. Ellison
Taft
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Insurrectos Hold Creel's Son as Hostage in Mexico
San Antonio reports Elias Bernabe, a Mexico to Francisco I Mad ero courier, says revolutionists captured Enrique Creel Jr., son of Mexico's foreign relations minister, and hold him hostage in the mountains near Chihuahua City. In Wisconsin, Ernest Kinney drowns after stepping through a furnace hole into the La Crosse River near West Salem.
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Tex
Bernabe Elias
Mexico
Francisco I. Maedero
Enrique Creel, Jr
Enrique Creel
Chihuahua City
la Crosse
Wis
Ernest Kinney
la Crowe
West Salem
Kinney
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