Record of Year in the Interior Depart ment
Secretary Hitchcock reports that timber land frauds are overdrawn and asserts few acres are involved. He warns against sensational claims of senators or massive losses, and notes 312 depredation cases totaling 3622 099 11 with declines from the prior year. Civil suits, settlements, and government receipts are detailed, while a broader full statement will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hitchcock
Interior Department
East
United States
Pacific Coast
Doctor left his tools in patient in Indiana tragedy
Hammond Indiana December 14 I B Washburn of Renssilaer Indiana died in a private hospital at Valparaiso after visiting with President Loring of the Kankakee Valley Medical association following a session. A forceps near the liver from the prior operation two years ago was found rusty and blamed for his death. His son a doctor accuses the forceps and demands action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Ind
I. B. Washburn
Renssilaer
Valparaiso
Loring
Kankakee
Dr. Washburn
Dr. Wastburn
Countess Diane d Ivry Dies After Accident While Dressed as Man
Paris reports the death of 20 year old Countess Diane d Ivry daughter of Count Ogier d Ivry after a pony cart collision. She wore male attire to avoid attention and was found severely injured with a skull fracture. She was removed to hospital where she died soon after.
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Paris
Diane Ogier Divry
Ogier d'Ivry
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
Ivry
President Roosevelt Will Keep Out of Illinois Politics
President Roosevelt told a party of Illinois officials and politicians that he would not take part in the state’s political contest. The delegation supported Gov. Yates, seeking his renomination, and included Rep. Snapp, Warden Murphy, P. F. Rowe, James Nevill, Hanley Jones, Senator Putnam, and Burke of Aurora. The president said federal office holders should not actively engage in the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Illinois
Washington
Representative Snapp
Warden Murphy
Joliet
PF. H. Rowe
Republican State Committee
James Nevill
Hanley
Jones
Pure Food Commissione
Putnam
Peoria Burke
Aurora
Yates
Germany breaks diplomatic ties over Servian regicide questions
Berlin reports Germany ends relations with the Servian court as King Peter I of Serbia prepares for season openings including balls and receptions. Ministers urged punishment for the murder of King Peter's predecessor and his wife, but their advice was ignored, pushing Berlin to act as the regicide ministers may be invited to gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Peter I
Servil
Belygrade
Peter
Belgrade
Many Rail Fatalities in Iowa Wreck
Ottumwa reports a major rail disaster three miles west of Albia on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line. Five killed and ten injured as a westbound passenger train derailed on Cedar Creek bridge and caught fire. Victims include Mrs. W. E. Mitchen and Mildred Mitchen a three year old child. Injured passengers from various states listed with multiple severe injuries. Rescue hampered by fire and bridge height. A separate Des Moines collision killed three trainmen and injured several, while other incidents near Glenova and Lewis Station produced more fatalities and injuries.
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Mildred Mitehen
Thomas Beatty
Franklin
Beatty
Albia
Ottumwa
Mildred Mitchen
W. B. Mitchen
Mitchen
Des Moines
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
Adel
Frank Franicum
Oscar Dyer
Walter Ward
Flynn
H. M. Bellman
Wheeling
W. Wag
Pittsburg
Kenova
Glenova
Thomas Murray
James Lanahan
Steville
Frank McKay
Lez
William Johnson
Frank Cartwright
Huntington
W. Ma
Chesapeake and Ohio
Lewis Station
William Hamilton
Russell
Ed Hamilton
Northern Securities Case Before the Supreme Court
The government filed its brief in the Northern Securities case, appealing from the federal circuit court of Minnesota. Prepared by Attorney General Knox and Assistant Attorney General Day, the document argues that the Great Northern and Northern Pacific rail lines are parallel and competing, forming a restraint on interstate commerce and a monopoly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Northern Securities Company and Others
United States
Federal Circuit Court of the District of Minnesota
Supreme Court
Knox
Great Northern Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Union Is Fined First Time A Labor Union Is Penalized
In Chicago on December 14 Judge Jesse Holdom fined Franklin Union No 4, a labor group, one thousand dollars for contempt of court for interfering with printers. It marks the first instance a U S court fined a labor union as a corporation. An immediate appeal was filed. vote distinctions noted the union was not Typographical, but a separate pressmen’s body. Pittsfield HL December 14 Fred M pleaded guilty to double murder of Newton Harris and his stepmother Mrs Adam Mink and was sentenced to sixty nine years in state penitentiary on each count. Mink killed Harris in a field then killed his mother at home, fled but later surrendered to authorities.
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Dewey
Chauncey Dewey
Berry
Alpheus Berry
Dewey Ranch
Department
Department of Justice
The
United
Chicago
Franklin Union No. 4
Jesse Holdom
Chicago Typothetae
Judge Holdoeurs
Judge Holdom
Franklin Union
Pittsfield
Fred Mi
Pike
Newton Harris
Adam Mink
Highie
Chester
Minsk
Ile
Si Main
Pist Id
Mink
In Memory of Bill Nye and Other Dec. 14 Items
A North Carolina memorial drive to honor Lill Nye continues as funds await a monument. The Sunshine Society and Mrs. Nye spearhead the effort at Battery Park Bank Asheville to memorialize the humorist, with donations invited from Nye’s admirers nationwide. Blair and wife James J. Blair depart St. Louis for Florida amid forgery indictments. Blair remains under $10,000 bond. Lord Abinger dies in Paris after a fall at a restaurant, leaving his mother as survivor. he was born in 1871.
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Asheville
N.C
Lill Nye
Arden
North Carolina
Sunshine Society
Calvary Episcopal Church
Plains
Nye
Jer
Suns
Hendersonville
Memor
Friends of
Battery Park Bank
N. C
Blair
St. Louis
James J. Blair
Mullanphy Hospital
Union Station
Florida
Eustis
Lord Abinger
Paris
tLord Abinger
Commodore Magruder
London
Fox River plants closed by workers stand down
Chicago December 14 three factories in the Por River manufacturing district in northern Illinois were shut down today as their 1400 employees refused to work. Firms include Appleton Manufacturing Company Challenge Wind and Mill Newton Wagon and United States Wind Engine and Pump Company.
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Chicago
Por River
Ilinois
Appleton Manufacturing Company
Challenge Wind & Mill Company
Newton Wagon Company
United States Wind Engine & Pump Company
House Votes Adjournment To Jan Fourth
In Washington today the House adopted a concurrent resolution for a recess from December 19 to January 4. Pension appropriation bill proceedings resumed. Senatorial caucus selected Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Boston as Senate chaplain starting January 1. Hale, a Congregationalist, is 83. In Milwaukee an elderly veteran Henry Brizts and machinist Henry Kimball were found dead from asphyxiation in a saloon rear room, suspected to be accidental gas exposure.
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Washington
Dec
House
Edward Everett Hale
Boston
Senate
Milwaukee
Henry Brizts
Henry Kimball
Thirty-fifth and
Clybourn Streets
Supreme Court decision questions arrests in St Louis
Notification of a Missouri Supreme Court decision received by Circuit Attorney Folk questions hundreds of arrests and convictions made on informations in St Louis. It, by habeas corpus, could open penitentiary doors to many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Lewis
Missouri Supreme Court
St. Louis
Attorne Folk
Rich widow is murdered in Washington home
Washington dec 14 Mrs Rachel Ann Beall a wealthy eccentric woman was shot in her kitchen. An Drew Weedon Charles O Oelrichs and Mrs Jessie Oelrichs are under arrest charged with the crime. The suspects deny guilt but blame each other. The Oelrichs home has long been shrouded in mystery with its boarded door. Weedon was ousted earlier the same day for alleged rent nonpayment. Beall heirs engaged in litigation after her husband’s death.
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Washington, D. C
Rachel Ann Beall
Herome
Andrew Weedon
Charles 0. Oelrichs
Fonithlaw
Jessie Oelrichs
Oelrichs
Weedon
It Was Not Frank Currie and War Paint In London
A federal grand jury indictment list misidentified Frank Currie of Davenport county Neb as ex State Senator Frank M Currie of Custer county. The confusion prompted correction. A separate Telegraph dispatch notes Russian and Japanese ships in Chinese waters now painted black.
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Frank M. Currie
Federal
Frank Currie
Daven County
Neb
Custer County
London
Daily Telegraph
Far East
Russia
Japan
Chinese
Panama Crisis Report on Colombian Moves Near Isthmus
A U S Marines ship Prairie landed at Colon under Capt Butter to reach Wanguu for operations south of Panama as reports claim Colombian troops have landed near Cape Tiburon and could invade Panama. Cartagenan forces reportedly assemble near Cartagena with up to 7000 troops while naval examination by Atlanta and Mayflower found no confirmed troop landings along the Gulf of Darien.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colon. Dev
Macrines
United States
Prairie
Butter
Wanguu
Panawa
Pamir
Cartat
Colon
San Blas
Atlanta
Mayflower
Gulf of Darien Alent
Kagena
Gulf
Mayflower Mante
Cartageny
Panama
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Iowa
West Virginia
W. P. Martin
C. BE. Blair
Limoni
Robert Ferguson
Mitchell
J. H. Robinson
Scott
Osceola
T. Browning
Yates’ Center
Kan
Briel Allen
Waiter
R. Price
Eock
William Branch
Cook
S. T. Williams
Flora
Victoria
B. C
Esquimault
Village Point
Northern Securities
UNION
Organization of
Fred Mink
Bill Nye
Fox River
Boston Divine
Benior
Buffalo
N. Y
Charrles Bonier
Franz
Johanna Frehler
Turkey
Athens
Spencer Young
Gen. Reyes
Marroquin
Rafael Reyes
Parim
Dians
Somaliland
East Africa
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