Congress targets lumber trust amid subsidy and Mormonism charges
The House authorized an investigation into the lumber trust while a ship subsidy bill stalls as republican members oppose action. Senator Dubois accuses Roosevelt of aiding Mormon candidates in Idaho and Utah, citing church influence over Smoot. The Senate ratifies a Morocco treaty act with a Democrats’ opposition and a spelling dispute prompts a reform to adhere to standard English orthography. An Indiana preacher faces charges of assault and indecent conduct involving a 14 year old girl.
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Lumber Trust
Dee
Home Committee On Merchant Marine
Roosevelt
Senate
Idaho
Utah
Dubois
Reed Smoot
Algeciras
Spian
United States
Morocco
House of Representatives
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Tawney
Joint Committee On Printing
Platt
Representative Landis
Sheriff McGorray
James
Edgar L. Kimberlin
Minister in disgrace arrested on indictment in Decatur
Rev. E. L. James once assistant pastor of the First Baptist church of Decatur and leader in the Young society is jailed at St. Joseph Missouri awaiting trial after an indictment was returned.
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E. L. James
Decatur
First Baptist Church of
Young — Society
St. Joseph
Ex Senator Brown of Utah Dies After Hotel Raleigh Shooting
Former U S Senator Arthur Brown of Utah dies from kidney complications worsened by a gunshot wound. Mrs Anna M Bradley of Salt Lake City is held as the principal suspect after shooting at the Raleigh hotel in Washington. An actress Maude Adams' mother, Mrs Annie Adams, said a letter from Brown to her caused the tragedy.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Arthur Brown
Utah
Raleigh
Anna M. Bradley
Salt Lake City
Brown
White
Bradley
House of Detention
Adams
New York
Senator Brown
Washington
Anne Bradley
Annie Adams
Maude Adams
Heavy brokerage failure at St. Paul brokerage house
St Paul Minn December 13 the Cummings Commission company one of the largest brokerage houses in St Paul and Minneapolis suspended business today A falling off in business is given as the cause The company had branches throughout Minnesota the Dakotas and at Winnipeg Man
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St. Paul, Minn
Cummings Commission Company
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Dakotas
Winnipeg
Man
Repression in Odessa Ends In Mental Decline
A dispatch from Odessa reports police abuse including a man who served six months for a political offense being subjected to a phonograph playing the Russian national anthem day and night. The impact allegedly left him a hopeless idiot. Other prisoners endured blue-lit cells that allegedly caused imbecility within months.
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London
Odessa
Spentwife's Cash at Mercy of Japs in Panic
Peoria Illinois December thirteenth. Dan F Baum attorney who confessed to forgeries is held in home custody and talks incoherently asking for a revolver. Crimes exceed eighty thousand dollars. his wife reportedly loses about eighty thousand. Mortgage forgeries led to sheriff levy on Baum space and property heavily mortgaged. Honolulu rumor says Japanese regiments disguised as laborers near Honolulu and possible arms for Hawaii. US officials note many Hawaii Japanese could form soldiers. risk if war with Japan.
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Peoria
Dan F. Baum
Aurora
Baum
Board of Trade
Frank O. Cunningham
Raum
Honolulu
Tbig
United States
Shington
Ieee
Honolu
Washington
Dee
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii
New York Actor Duvall Kills Self at Sixth Avenue Saloon
Rankin Duvall, 40, entered a Sixth Avenue saloon in New York and stabbed himself with a cheese knife, sinking to the floor after multiple thrusts. He told witnesses he was a criminal, and doctors fear he will die.
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New York
Rankin Duvall
Sixth Avenue
Duvall
Congress Deliberates Tariff, Morocco Pact and Funding
Washington reports a Senate move to seek information on Mexico seizures and a virus outbreak with ten deaths while ratifying the Algeciras Morocco treaty in executive session after a House appropriation bill advances. Elsewhere Dixon Y M C A fund drive raises $20,000 in 30 days with rapid $500 milestones.
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Washington
Congress
Mexico
Silas Stearnes
Secretary of War
Nila
Raych
Senate
Algeciras
Morocco
United States
HOUSE
Wealthy Peoria figure sued for alienation in scandal case
Frank K. Whiting sues Charles Proctor alleging he alienated Whiting’s wife, Mrs. Whiting, for 25 000 dollars. The case ties into five years of alleged affairs with Proctor and Mrs. Whiting, with Whiting seeking damages as divorce proceedings unfold. Proctor, a former alderman, has faced scrutiny amid past local incidents.
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Charles Proctor
Frank K. Whiting
Peoria
Las
Proctor
Whiting
Moody and Bonaparte Confirmed to Supreme Court and Attorney General
The Senate confirmed William H. Moody for associate justice of the Supreme Court and Charles J. Bonaparte for attorney general amid staged opposition that was not strongly pressed. Victor Metcalf became secretary of the navy and Oscar Straus secretary of commerce and labor with no significant opposition.
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Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mr. Moody
Newbury
Mass
Harvard
United States
Washington
William H. Moody
Massachusettts
Charles J. Bonaparte
Maryland
Victor H. Metcalf
California
Navy
Oscar S. Straus
New York
Commerce and Labor
Moody
Bonaparte
Culberson
Carmack
House
Lodge
Metcalf
Straus
Catholics Break Law to Attend Early Masses in Paris
In Paris on December 1, Catholics defied the 1881 law by attending dawn masses in major churches including Notre Dame and St. Augustine. Police monitored services with interior and exterior officers taking notes for police reports. charges were filed where mass was celebrated, while some parishes sought applicatory exemptions.
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Paris
Associated Press
Notre Dame
Des Victoires
St. Germain D'Auxerrois
St. Bartholomew
St. Roch
Madelaine
St. Augustine
Mgr. Montagnini
Vatican
France
Treegular
Rome
Renaissance
Police
King Oscar’s Deteriorating Health Reported
News dispatches from Stockholm indicate King Oscar is failing rapidly with heart weakness and irregular pulse. The situation is described as critical, following yesterday's attack, as other reports note the shah’s condition worsening in Teheran.
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Stockholm
Oscar
London
Boy Robber Gets Minimum Sentence In Trials
Marshall Missouri December 13 Jesse Clyde a Chicago boy who robbed the Alton Burlington train near Glas near Rock Island limited on November 8 and the November 25 train near Alton Burlington faces minimal sentencing according to preliminary reports.
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Jesse Clyde Ramsey
Rock Island
Burlington
Marshall
Jesse Clyde
Say
Chicago
Am ‘Alton-Burlington
Glas
Governor Moves to Spare Patrick Life
The New York Supreme Court dismissed Albert T. Patrick's death sentence case upon motion by ex-Senator Lind say to clear the way for the governor to commute Patrick's sentence to life imprisonment for the Rice murder case.
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Washington
Albert T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Supreme Court
Lindsay
New York State
Patrick
Trust Companies Show $30 Million Decline in Resources
Total resources of New York trust companies dropped by 30 million dollars in three months, per the state banking department report based on figures up to November 14. Also note: Edouard Muller, vice president of the Swiss federal council, was elected president of the Swiss confederation on December 13.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
State Banking Department
Berne
Edouard Muller
Federal Council
Reichstag votes down budget ends German Southwest Africa accord
Berlin reports the Reichstag rejected the supplementary budget for German Southwest Africa by 178 to 168 votes and Chancellor Von Buelow announced the dissolution of parliament. He insisted the government would maintain troops in the colony. Bishop McCabe’s condition from apoplexy shows slight improvement in New York.
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Berlin
Reichstag
von Buelow
Africa
Bishop McCabe
New York
Methodist Episcopal Church
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