Massachusetts Rail Strike Prompts Washington Debate
Washington December 11. Lawmakers consider government ownership of railroads if Massachusetts unrest persists. House rules panel weighing New Haven monopoly inquiries as New England officials push for interstate investigation. Tariff hearings set to start January 6 with daily sessions. Senate probes price cutting by monopolies. European opposition hints at limits to Sherman Act reach.
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Louse Rules Committee
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United States
Kidnap Cashier Before a Crowd on Automobile Row
Chicago police report auto bandits in a crowd scene on South Michigan Avenue as four men abduct Merrit J. Wright, cashier of Pax River Butter, with a satchel holding 28 087 dollars. A robbery unfolds near an alley, witnesses shout police hoaxes, and the robbers flee after abandoning the money in the street.
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Pax River Butter Company
Wright
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First Regiment
McCulloch of
Elgin
Weather and Crime Report from Two Cities
The forecast for Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity calls for fair clear skies and continued cold tonight with a low near five degrees above zero. Tomorrow will warm gradually with a ight high yesterday reached 41 and a low of 13. In the morning the wind was 15 miles per hour with no precipitation and humidity at 7 pm 51 rising to 77 by 7 am. Astronomical events note Venus Jupiter Saturn visible at evening and Mars Mercury in the morning. In a separate incident Wright was robbed at gunpoint while a rubber cap was replaced by a cloth cap after robbers demanded dough. They found only a silver watch and $5, but warned him not to move. A passerby Earl Halgren found a dynamite-laden valise and coins spilling out. police were notified and the valise taken to the station. Wright identified nothing and could not read the car license.
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J.M. Sherier
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Earl Halgren
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South Park
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Fitzgerald Testifies On Dramatic Secret Service Case
George Fitzgerald charged with stealing $173,000 from the Chicago subtreasury tells how secret service men tracked him from the time of the robbery. He says he reported the shortage promptly after balancing the records.
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Secret Service
Landis Differs With Officials Over Oleomargarine Probe
Chicago reports Judge Landis clashed with Washington treasury officials over the oleomargarine investigation. He warned a possible compromise could mean a 7 cent on the dollar settlement, with 100000 dollars back taxes in dispute and no further witnesses until decision. Armour & Co and Moxley & Co implicated. In Quincy a doctor shot Samuel Bradbury after alleged threats, Bradbury in critical condition.
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Judge Landis
Treasury
Washington
Union Pacific in a Heavy Decline
New York Tec 11 weakness of Union Pacific unsettled the stock market to a point approaching demoralization during the noon hour on heavy offerings. Union Pacific declined to 157, five points from the best of the early morning. Today's low quotation is the low level for over a year. Other stocks moved down sympathetically with market excitement greater than at any time since aout.
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New York
Union Pacific
Perjury Charge Faces Detroit Union Agent Quigley
William H. Quigley of Detroit, carpenters union business agent, was held to the federal grand jury in Indianapolis on perjury charges tied to a dynamite trial. A handwriting expert testified Quigley’s signature on a June 1910 letter calling off explosions was genuine, though Quigley denies authorship of the letter detailing plans against non union jobs in Detroit. The case centers on attempts by Local unions to unionize trades using nitro glycerine.
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Carpenters’ Machini
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Wayne County Carpenters’ District Council
H. R. Cline
W. H. Quigley
London suffraget sentenced to two months in prison
London, Dec. 11. Essie Howey, a militant suffraget, received two months’ imprisonment for turning in false fire alarms. The action appears part of a coordinated protest, with similar outages reported in Manchester and Birmingham. Postcards reading votes for women and remarks Extinguish us if you can flooded five stations.
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London
Essie Howey
Manchester
Birmingham
Taft Party Set for Panama Voyage Aboard Arkansas
President Taft Mrs Taft and Secretary Hilles depart Washington December 19 by train to Key West then sail December 21 for Panama on the battleship Arkansas. They return December 31. Taft to visit canal for fifth time. Goethals civil governorship may be offered. Also: Clinton county court fines in county scandal cases. Osprey sunk near Weymouth believed to be small steamer from Waterford.
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13th Murder At Chicago Corner Closes North Side Death Corner
In Chicago on December 11 an unidentified laborer was shot from behind by one of two men near the North side Italian quarter, marking the 13th murder at that corner this year. Two shots were fired, both fatal, and the assailants fled the scene.
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Chicago
North Side
Taft Considers Kent Law Chair At Yale Law School
Washington December 11 President Taft weighs an offer to fill Yale law school's vacant Kent professorship. The post carries 5000 dollars yearly. Taft’s decision expected after next month as friends expect him to accept. The article notes the vacancy since Professor Phelps left.
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Kent Law
Yale School
Washington
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Yale Law School
Phelps
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Yale
Wilson Busy In Bermuda Refuses Further Speeches
President-elect Wilson said he will make no more public speeches before March 4. He will speak at three remaining engagements in New York, Staunton, and Chicago, and will spend his Bermuda week planning work for his upcoming administration. He plans to meet with Bryan after his return and will consider cabinet choices, but has not fixed definite dates.
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Rioting Miners Kill Policeman in Virden
In Virden Illinois near here Italian miners rioted after a local election. Policeman John Shaw and City Marshal Marion Cain were killed and two others stabbed including Dominic Bernardo. Don Cinone fired the fatal shotgun blast after opening a door. The slayer fled, later surrounded at Bernardo's house, but escaped as authorities arrived. Sheriff Elmo Ester and posse hunted him without success.
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John Shaw
Marion Cain
Dominic Bernardo
Miners’ Union
Bernardo
Mike Giozetti
Cain
Shaw
Don Cinone
Bernada
Elmo Ester
Carlinville
Lawyers desert Jack Johnson in federal court
In Chicago on December 11 two colored attorneys asked the court to strike their names from Johnson's counsel records. They disapproved of his marriage to a white woman and refused association with the pugilist.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Johnson
Brothers Send Evil Notes to New President
Newark report: Peter Dunn age 24 Jacob Dunn age 26 and Seeley Davenport age 42 described as mountaineers were arrested in Deer New Jersey on charges of writing threatening letters to Woodrow Wilson. They were moved to Newark for a preliminary examination scheduled for Monday. Post office inspectors say Peter accuses Jacob of authoring the letters with Jacob dictating the text noted for peculiarities and misspellings.
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N. J
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Jacob Dunn
Seeley Davenport
Deer
Woodrow Wilson
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Wilson
Cincinnati Fire Rips Gibson House Union Trust Store
Cincinnati reports a massive blaze that gutted the Gibson hotel, Bendigo Lothmann department store, and upper floors of the Union Trust building. Nine injured, no deaths, and a loss near a million as firefighters battled flames and residents fled amid smoke. A separate report notes robbers blowing the Citizens' State Bank safe at Brown Iowa, stealing four to five thousand dollars and a team.
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Gibson J
Bendigo-Lothmann
Union Trust
Gibson
Walnut Street
Fourth
Fifth Avenues
Iowa Bank
Brown
Goldfield
Iowa
Citizens’ State Bank
Colonel Roosevelt Backed by Progressives for 1916 Nomination
Chicago reports a Progressive conference where 1500 delegates debate strategy and nominate Roosevelt and Johnson for 1916. Colorado's Stocker urges action and gas shutoff while Mills and others push a bold Roosevelt Johnson boom.
Stock turnover figures shown in money trust inquiry
Lawrence Scudder, accountant for the committee, testified on December 11 before the money trust investigation panel. He described New York Stock Exchange activity to illustrate that only a small portion of the million shares traded changed hands in bona fide transfers, with some companies’ entire capital stock changing hands eight to ten times.
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Washington
New York Stock Exchange
Money Trust
Lawrence
Grace files for divorce amid life insurance shooting claim
Eugene H. Grace begins divorce action against Cassie Grace in Newman Georgia alleging his wife shot him to obtain life insurance. Cassie Grace was acquitted last June and has returned to Philadelphia to live.
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Eugene H. Grace
Cassie Grace
Five Years Term for Sidna Allen
Sidna Allen, leader of the Hillsville gunmen, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Wytheville Virginia and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
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Hillsville
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