King on Job as Report of Death Flies Rumor
A rumor of King George's assassination spread in London and New York after a small fire near the Delhi durbar camp. Officials in Delhi and the India office denied any incident, confirming the king and queen-empress laid the cornerstone for the new Indian capital and were in good health.
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King
Delhi
India
London
George
Delhi Durbar
King-Mperor
Khorom Clain
India Office
New York
Associated Press
Negro Pastor Hanged in Georgia Theatre
Jackson Georgia December 15 1930s sheriff hanged Rev William Turner in the opera house amid fears of a lynching. Turner a Negro preacher confessed to firing the shot that killed Jesse Singley a prominent planter during a race riot.
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Jackson
William Turner
Turner
Jesse Singley
Singley
Fau
Atlanta
Heart Evidence Attempt Delayed in Slaying Trial
In Aurora, Estelle Dumas’s heart was offered as jury evidence against Henry W. Morris of Plano but the motion was halted by the judge. A masquerade at the roller rink drew a large crowd with many prizewinning costumes and giveaways for women and men alike.
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Aurora
Estelle Dumas
Henry W. Morris
Plano
Weather forecast for Rock Island area
Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with moderate temperatures and a low near freezing. Reported 7 am temperature 31, high 42 yesterday, wind 3 mph, no precipitation, humidity 74 percent at 7 pm, 9 percent at 1 am, stage of water 5.7 with no change. Astronomical events include sunset 4 30, sunrise 7 14, moon rising 3 30 am and Mercury stationary around 10 pm.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mercury
Venus
Hines balks at Lorimer inquiry questioning in 1909 Chicago room
Washington reports lumberman Nawara Kines testified on March 27, 1909, in a private room at the Union League Club, resisted a line of questioning, and the inquiry was paused on technical grounds with plans to recall him. Manny Abrahams, Browne Democrat leader, said he planned to vote for Lorimer after Browne and others intended the same, denying any payment or vote delay for money.
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Washington
Nawara Kines
Lorimer
Union League Club
Chicago
Hines
Manny” Abrahams
Browne Democrats
Ellinois
Browne
Meningitis Fatal to Naval Cadet at North Chicago
In Chicago on December 15 Carl A. Musser, a cadet at the U S naval training station in North Chicago, died of spinal meningitis. Officials report the death was caused by double pneumonia. Fellow cadet Arthur LeMont Welton, ill for a week, is convalescing. Commandant Fallon says the disease is unlikely to spread among the 400 cadets.
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Chicago
Carl A. Musser
United States Naval Training Station
North Chicago
Arthur LeMont Welton
Fallon
Crazy for Miss Elkins prompts Chicago man’s insanity commitment
Samuel B. McHenry an Inventor residing at 434 Orleans street Chicago was committed to the government hospital for the insane by a District of Columbia supreme court jury. He had been arrested Nov 14 at Mrs Stephen B Elkins home after pursuing Miss Katherine Elkins with letters and an offer of an airship as an engagement gift.
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Washington
Samuel B. McHenry
Orleans Street
Chicago
Government Hospital For the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
McHenry
Stephen B. Elkins
Katherine Elkins
National Museum
Congress Aides Scrutinize Lorimer Inquiry And Trust Issues
In two sessions yesterday the Senate neared the end of Lorimer electorate scrutiny as Louis D. Brandeis urged competitive systems in interstate commerce. Debates covered workers compensation, veterans care, and proposed measures for wireless crew on steamers. Adjournment followed extensive discussion of Russian treaty impacts.
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Senate
Lorimer Electon
Louis D
Boston
Interstate Commerce Committee
Employers' Liability Commission
Railroad
Works
California
Taft
Maine Board
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Lorimer Committee
Maxwell Edmars
C S. Darrow
Mancommission
Culberson
Texas
HOUSE
Southern
Steel
Public Buildings Committee
Getton Speculators
Alabama
Federal Grand Jury Probes Indianapolis Dynamite Conspiracy
The federal grand jury in Indianapolis began the examination of witnesses into an alleged dynamite conspiracy. Officials from the International Association of Bridge and... were cited as part of the inquiry with a $200 fee for blow up work noted in the overheard text.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Federal Grand Jury
International Association of Bridge
Britons Exclude Beef From Army Over U S Prosecutions
The British government bars American meat packers facing U S prosecutions from bidding on meat contracts for the army and navy. The move follows opposition from labor and radical MPs to American trusts. Armour Receives Notice. J Ogden Armour, president of Armour & Co., is under indictment for alleged violation.
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London
United States
Armour
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
Harusama Crew Sings Anthem as Ship Sinks
News from Victoria B C reports the Japanese torpedo boat destroyer Harusama sank after being torpedoed on November 24. Ninety five crew members perished while singing the national anthem and shouting banzais for their emperor during the loss.
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Victoria
B. C
Harusama
Inside examinations signal union clerks linked to inquiry
Structural Iron Workers examined early as officials hint government plans to probe from within. A private detective urged letters from union men across states and asked John J. McNamara about a "job" cost. McNamara reportedly quoted 200 for the fee and 50 expenses.
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John J. McNamara
McNamara
Final Arguments In The Stokes Case
Closing arguments were delivered in the Stokes case with prosecutor Buckner denouncing Stokes as a "rone who had been stung" and describing Miss Conrad as a "kitten and a wild cat" amid claims of no combine tea business after she sought arrest of "Charmer." Sioux City police alerted South Dakota towns to arrest Sarah Spears for obtaining nearly 500 dollars from Bert Smith of the Hawkeye club under false pretenses. Charles Willard and wife were convicted under the Mann white slave act in Chicago for inducing two Wisconsin girls to enter an illegal house with penalties up to 5000 dollars or ten years' imprisonment.
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New York
Stokes
Buckner
Conrad
Sioux City
Iowa
South Dakota
Sarah Spears
Bert Smith
Hawkeye Club
Smith
Chicago
Charles Willard
Wisconsin
U.S. Antitrust Probe Delays British Contract Bids
The company admitted it had been notified that its bids for British army contracts would not be accepted while suits in the United States were settled.
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United States
Woman Admits Aiding In Kirksville Post Office Robbery
Minnie Callahan jailed in Kirksville Mo confesses to government inspectors leading to arrests of Bert Barnhardt Charles Sikes Hollie Sims in the August 23 post office robbery She says she stood guard with a revolver while four pouches were opened and mail sorted at a hotel.
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St. Louis
Minnie Callahan
Kirksville
Bert L. Barnhardt
Charles Sikes
Harland, Mo
Hollie B. Sims
Callahan
Survivors’ Tales From Panama Steamer Disaster
Stories of 15 survivors reported to the admiralty recount a hurricane off Inland Sea. The Harusama aimed for Ma Toya Island but was wrecked on a reef as the crew sang the national anthem and shouted ban zais while the sea swept them away.
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Panama
Admiralty
Isonami
Harusama
Wakanoura
Matoya
Kimmel, Mystery Man, Fatally Hurt in Train Wreck
George A. Kimmel of Niles Michigan once known as the man of mystery in the insurance case was badly injured in a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train wreck near Converse Indiana last night and he will probably die doctors said Kimmel was connected to an insurance probe in Niles.
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Converse, Ind
George A. Kimmel
The
Niles, Mich
Chesapeake & Ohio
Hoskinson Pleads Guilty to Indictment in Police Killing
Muscatine Iowa December 15 Thomas Hoskinson indicted for the murder of police officer Theodore Gerischer pleaded guilty before Judge Horan. Sentencing set for December 26. Octoroon Henry Menefee in Peoria committed suicide, his body found at the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad office. he appeared white.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Thomas Hoskinson
Theodore Gerischer
Horan
Peoria
Henry Menefee
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Menefee
Illini faction threatens Lorimer delegates role
Chicago dispatch reports factional Republicanism in Illinois pressing to alter the usual selection of delegates at large to the national convention. Downstate committeemen oppose Senator Lorimer as a delegate, fearing disruption of the established two per congressman rule amid potential reapportionment and eight at large slots.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Joseph Cannon
State Committee
Lorimer
Deneen
Cullom
Republican Party
Upham
Fred W. Upman
National Campaign Fund
Owens
Frank A. Vogler
Board of Review
Andrew M. Lawrence
Lawrence
Washington
Harrison
Democratic National Committee
George W. Greene
Rhode Island
Willard Saulsbury
Delaware
Roger Sullivan
J. A. Jennings
Florida
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Eugene Reed
New Hampshire
E. L. Jones
Maine
Thomas H. Brown
Vermont
Eight Killed in Mexico Battle Near Mier
Mexico City reports a three hour battle between federals and rebels near Mier on the U S border. Rebels were routed with five dead. Federals counted Major Gill and two privates dead and two captains wounded.
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Mexico City
Mier
United States
Gill
Recall of Chang Pu Missionaries Advised
Extreme anti foreign feeling prevails at Chang Pu where English and Roman Catholic mission buildings were burned in February 1906 by a Boxer mob. Foreign consuls have advised the recall of missionaries.
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Chang PU
Amoy
Chang-Pu
Oil to Start Fire Two Lives Lost
Mrs L C Hemphill and her infant died after a coal oil fire in Reno Kansas. Hemphill lit the fire when her clothes caught, she ran screaming then threw the child over a five foot wall into a water pond and jumped in to extinguish the flames. Both died soon after at a hospital.
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Reno
Kan
L. C. Hemphill
Beiing
Czar Meets as Demands on Passport Cites Negotiations
Washington reports Senate Foreign Relations Committee discusses Jewish passport legislation with possible Russia deal. Knox denies any agreement but says negotiations are in progress amid a sugar price inquiry. Maine show shocks Taft cabinet with a model attack in Havana harbor. House to consider urgent deficiency bill. Harmon declines Jackson banquet invite. Bryan to speak.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Knox
Maine
Taft
Havana
Vreeland
Watt
Maine Investigating Board
House
Mondell
Wyoming
Sugar Trust
Harmon
Ohio
W. J. Bryan
Rail Flagman Dies Saving Three Children
Hammond Ind December 15 Nicholas Foster a railroad crossing tender gave his life saving three children at a grade crossing. He dragged two to safety and pushed the third clear as the train approached uttering it was my duty it was worth it.
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Hammond, Ind
Nicholas Foster
Plot to destroy Fort Riley alleged by unit officers
Junction City Kansas December 15 three commanding officers received threatening letters since March after incendiary fires. Guards fired on night prowlers but no serious injuries. Rumor says nearly all of one battery plotted to destroy Fort Riley.
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Junction City
Kan
Fort Riley
Revival of San Francisco graft trials signals new hearings
San Francisco officials move to set trial dates for ex mayor Eugene E. Schmitz and former political boss Abraham Ruef in bribery indictments linked to the 1906 fire. State and defense prepared for next week’s actual trial date amid recalls and political fallout from the Supreme Court ruling. A second note mentions Chicago’s third Packers venire summoned to report Monday.
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San Francisco
Eugene E. Schmitz
Supreme Court
Schmitz
Abraham Ruef
San Quentin Penitentiary
Jt Ill
California
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