Pope’s Christmas truce bid rejected by Russia and others
Vatican authorities released a document detailing the pope’s bid for a wartime Christmas truce. Germany reportedly agreeable if all powers consented, but Russia declined. Separate dispatches note two German submarines sunk off Firth of Forth, Gottorp Barracks destroyed, and Turkish bombardment near Batum with Russian casualties.
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Vatican
Germany
Russia
London
Edinburgh
Daily Mail
Firth of Forth
Admiralty
Gottorp
Copenhagen
Kiel
Fie
Batum
Constantinople
Berlin
Noted Escapee Carlson Captured in Illinois Wanderer
John Peter Carlson, an inmate at Watertown hospital, escaped days ago and was captured in South Rock Island yesterday afternoon. He was jailed and later turned over to Watertown authorities. Carlson, held at Watertexa for two years, previously stayed at the county infirmary. He wore shirt sleeves and rubber boots during the capture. Authorities had mistaken Lean der Carlson, missing from Moline since November 11, whose clothing was found in a South Rock Island cornfield days later.
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John Peter Carlson
Watertown Hospital
South Rock Island
Watertown
Carlson
Watertexa
Sears
Leander Carlson
Moline
South Hock Island
Return from trip on lower part district report
Engineer's office chief in charge of Upper Mississippi improvement returns from a district inspection. Stops included Hannibal Missouri Alton Illinois Keokuk Iowa with ongoing river work. Above Keokuk work halted for cold weather. below may continue longer. Bicycle found on Eighteenth Street alley near Bear Dart's warehouse. owner to call police with details. Memorial services held in Senate for late Iowa Representative Pepper.
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Meumean. Com
Upper
Mississippi
Hannibal
Alton
Keokuk
Washington, D.C
Senate
Representative Pepper
Iowa
Governor halts six executions in Arizona reform move
Phoenix report notes Governor Hunt acts to halt six executions at Florence penitentiary as voters repeal capital punishment. The measure, driven by a non demon voters coalition, absolves condemned inmates of the hanging sentences in Arizona.
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Ariz
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Dee
Agennes
Arizons
Hunt
Thaw Attorneys Make Final Play in Extradition Case
Washington header reports the Supreme Court weighing extradition of Harry K Thaw from New Hampshire to New York to answer an indictment for conspiracy to obstruct justice by escaping from Matteawan Insane Asylum. Arguments probe insanity status, legality of extradition, and potential plea strategy.
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Washington, D. C
Harry K. Thaw
New Hampshire
New York
Wan
Supreme Court
Aldrich
Federal District Court of
Thaw
Stanford White
Franklin Kennedy
Matteawan
Stannord White
White
Philander C. Knox
Knox
William A. Stone
Pennsylvania
Justice McKenna
McCormick Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Iowa Case
Oruumwa Iowa December 12 Clarence McCormick on trial for a week for the murder of J W Mellett pleaded guilty to manslaughter today He is to be sentenced next Tuesday Washington December 12 progress is being made concerning copper shipments plates to neutral European countries says the state department announce
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Oruumwa
Iowa
Clarence McCormick
J. W. Mellett
Washington, D. C
State Department
Weather forecast for Rock Island area
Snow is forecast tonight and Sunday with little temperature change. Averages show a low near 20 degrees tonight and a high of 26 yesterday. 7 a.m. reading 22. Humidity at 7 p.m. 74 percent. winds light. Evening stars Jupiter and Mars visible. morning star list includes Mercury Venus and Saturn. Constellations Cassiopeia Andromeda Perseus crowd the sky around 9 p.m. northwest to southeast.
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Davenport
Moline
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Mars
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Venus
Saturn
Zenith
Cassiopeia
Andromeda
Perseus
German Officer Found in a Trunk
London dated dispatch reports a Gravesend customs officer catching a German officer hidden inside a large trunk bound for Rotterdam. authorities believe he escaped a British camp and aimed to pass information to Germany.
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London
Gravesend
Rotterdam
Germany
Council Inspects Three New Sites for Sanatorium
The city commission conducted inspections of three prospective tuberculosis sanatorium sites. The properties include E H Guyer’s Forty sixth street and Sixteenth avenue tract at 1000 per acre, H Willms’ Seventeenth street site near the city limits at 5000 for four and a half acres, and William Novack’s tract south of the city at 1000 per acre. Also noted: Philip J Mackey, longtime Muscatine businessman and noted pearl buyer, died at his West Fourth street home at age 64 after a period of serious illness.
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E. H. Guyer
Forty-sixth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
H. Willms
William Novack
Muscatine, Sons
Philip J. Mackey
Muscatine
America
West Fourth Street
Railroads to Realize 6 Percent Freight Rate Increase
Washington December 12 formal ICC orders allow railroads in Central Freight to realize a six percent advance on freight rates approved August 1. The move affects shipments within the territory covered by the Central Freight act and marks a notable adjustment in transportation charges set by the commission.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mexico Border Tensions Drive Warned Withdrawal Urged
Reports from El Paso and Naco describe renewed U S border hostility with Mexican factions plus a second Washington warning to Governor Maytorena to withdraw from border range. A wounded American trooper brings U S casualties to fifty as Tasker Bliss seeks restraint. In Tampico two Spaniards are executed and a third faces death. Bevan appeals to spare Jules Zorilla with Bryan pressing Caballero for clemency.
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Naco
Ariz
Sonora
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Hill
Tampico
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Bryan
Bevan
Julien Zorilla
Zorilla
Caballero
Hoffman Guilty of Killing Relative in Davenport
The jury found Edward Hoffman guilty of first degree murder for shooting his father in law Chris Erps at the former home on Green Tree road north of Davenport last summer after a family quarrel. The defense plans a motion for a new trial within two weeks. verdict reached after eight hours.
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Davenport
Dward Hoffman
Chris Erps
Green Tree Road
Allies Seize Bankofyser With Costly West Front Fight
The English war office reports Allied forces regained an extended section along the west bank of the Yser canal in Belgium after German forces engaged in deadly fighting. German advance toward Warsaw reported checked. Also notes French and British observations on eastern theater activity and a royal Serbian counterattack led by King Peter. Minor items: 350 Russian prisoners and a French mine position in Argonne. Also reports a murder conviction in Minneapolis and the destruction of the Internations hotel in Virginia City Nevada.
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Brady defaults in $50,000 breach of promise suit
Mary Kuhns Brady sued State Auditor James J. Brady in Chicago court claiming a promise to remarry after a 1913 Illinois divorce. The judge entered a default after Brady failed to appear, while the plaintiff hailed a moral victory.
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Mary Kuhns Brady
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Brady
Charles Kuhns
Mary Quinlan Kuhns
State Auditor
Detroit
Mich
Illinois
Springfield
Forces a Record on Liquor Issue forces a record on liquor issue
Washington December 12. The house rules committee assured yea and nay votes on special rules for considering proposals to submit woman suffrage and prohibition questions for constitutional amendment. Prohibition will be brought up December 22 and after that woman suffrage. One day allowed for each proposition and the house kept in session until disposed of. Gardner's bid for a hearing on military preparedness investigation was voted down in committee by party line vote.
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Yea
Nny
House
Henry
Gardner
House Rules Committee
College Chief Is Shot In Bethany Dispute
Dr. Thomas Crambler president of Bethany College was shot and seriously wounded in Bethany W Va during a dispute over $100 owed to plasterer Howard Woods After a talk Woods retrieved a shotgun and fired both barrels wounding Crambler in the neck and back Two students detained Woods claiming he had been paid in full
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Bethany
W. Va
Dee
Thomas Crambier
Bethany College
Howard Woods
Woods
Dr. Crambler
Crambler
Dresden Ships Refuge Inlet Off Patagonia
Valparaiso Chile December reports the German cruiser Dresden has taken refuge in an inlet on the Matagonia coast. The Dresden is the sole remaining unaccounted vessel of the German squadron after the British fleet engagement in the South Atlantic on December 8.
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Nurnberg
Dresden
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Scharthorst
Argentine
Valparaiso
Chile
Matagonia
Stock Market Reopens In New York With Crowded Floor
The New York Stock Exchange reopened after a long hiatus with 192 issues approved for trading and 700 of 1100 members on the floor. Traders favored block sales with many transactions under 100 shares, led by Reading, General Motors, Lehigh Valley, Tennessee Copper and Central Leather as prices rose and the market closed strong.
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Stock Exchange
United States Steel
Trinity
Reading
General Motors
Lehigh Valley
Tennessee Copper
Central Leather
Woman Freed in Poison Pen Case in Detroit
In the poison pen letter case Mrs. Margaret Mc Cready of Ypsilanti was found not guilty in U S court. Prosecutors showed more than twenty unsigned letters targeting prominent Ypsilanti residents. Most letters alleged marital immorality and led to broken families.
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Detroit
Mich
Margaret McCready
Ypsilant
United States
Ypsilanti
Navy Seeks 200 Aircraft For Defense Plan
Washington Dec. 12 Captain Mark Brie tol chief of the aeronautical bureau of the navy says 200 naval aircraft are urgently needed for national defense plans. Ninety nine aircraft are for active service and 100 for reserve.
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Washington, D. C
House Naval Committee
Mark Brietol
Aeronautical Bureau of the Navy
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