Taft Abrogates Russian Treaty Prompting Senate Action
Washington shows President Taft notifying Russia of the 1822 treaty abrogation and seeking a modern pact. Senate and foreign relations committee discuss form. Lodge proposes changes and Heyburn presses caution. Russia not protesting, White House silent on details.
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Washington
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Russia
Taft
White House
St. Petersburg
Tapt
Lodge
Sulzer
Heyburn
Sesson
Union
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
House
Knox
Cullom
Pwells
United States
Congress
Weather and political brief for Rock Island area
Unsettled weather with tonight snow and cooler temperatures. Low tonight about 30. High yesterday 30, low last night 26. Wind 3 mph. Precipitation .02 inch. Humidity 96 percent. Stage of water 5.6, fall 2 inches in 48 hours. Astronomical events listed. Washington news reports Senate action toward abrogating the 1832 Russian treaty. Cabinet meeting underscores gravity. Sulzer open to modification but not opposition.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Washington
Senate
Russia
Sulzer
Rayner
Maryland
Sulser
Chinese Peace Conference Opens In Shanghai
Shanghai December 18 delegates admitted only to a peace conference with Wu Ting Fang and Tang Shao Yi. British police guard the building and street. publics kept away. Tang says he represents Premier Yuan Shi Ki, not the throne. In San Francisco Sun Yat Sen elected president of the revolutionary republic at Nanking.
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Wu Ting Fang
Tang Shao Yi
Shanghai
Shi KI
Yuan Shi Ki
DR. Sen
San Francisco
Cal
Sun Yat Sen
Chinese Republic
Nanking
Four Armenian Blackmailers Trapped in Mail Fraud Case
Chicago report details the arrest of K T Pushman and three associates accused of a structured blackmail scheme aiming to extort $20,000 from the Pushman Brothers rug firm. Inspectors tracked letters, a marked typewriter key, and designated drop points near a church and local landmarks.
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Chicago
Post Office
Stuart
K. T
C. T. Pushman
Pushman Brothers
Rug Merchants
South Wabash Avenue
Armenia
Turkey
Alfred Gelbert
East Thirty-seventh Street
Full Speed Chemical Company
Temple
River Street
Sarkie H. Deckmeyer
East Forty-third Street
Apkar H. Jafferion
Cottage Grove Avenue
Ara B. Chutjian
Gelbert
France
Clarahan
Germer
K. T. Pushman
Flackstone Hotel
Walgren
Thirty-ninth Street
Thirty-eight
Thirty-eighth Street
Langley Avenue
Pushman
Sandford Gets Ten Years In Atlanta Prison
Portland official report states Rev Frank W Sandford, leader of the Holy Ghost and United States society of Shiloh, is sentenced to ten years in the Atlanta federal prison for causing six deaths aboard the yacht Coronet. Crop estimates reveal 1911 production values for corn wheat oats. Engineer Goulden dies at throttle as Burlington engine runs wild wrecking a passenger train.
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Portland
Atlanta
Frank W. Sandford
Holy Ghost
United States Society of Shiloh
Coronet
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Tracy
Iowa
Goulden
Burlington
Eretion
British Plot Story Claimed As Untrue
Berlin reports officials dismiss a published tale of a British plot to blow up Wilhelmshaven as newspaper nonsense. The Essen newspaper’ s claim is not denied but viewed as a product of wartime espionage mania in Germany and England. Espionage did exist but in less sensational forms than the Gazette alleged.
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Berlin
Payal
Wilhelmshaven
Essen
Germany
England
Gazette
Carpenter Heir to 85 Million Estate Found in Brooklyn Man
Joseph Colla a 42 year old Brooklyn carpenter is named as the heir to an 85 million Newfoundland estate tied to the Marlborough Churchill lineage. Prominent New York lawyers confirm he is the likely beneficiary sought by the British government. The fortune includes waterfront lands fishing rights and rents, with prior years of dispute over distribution.
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Carpenter
New York
King George
Duke of Marlborough
Duke of Devonshire
Joseph Colla
Brooklyn
Foi J
Coila
Newfoundland
England
Elizabeth Churchill
Samuel Churchill
St. Johns
Elizabeth
Clermont
Nicholas
London
Carla
A Churchill
Callas
Marlborough Churchill
Four Unions Urged to Strike Western Railroads Tonight
In St Louis four railroad worker unions plan a meeting to decide on a possible strike staged in sympathy with Illinois Central and Harriman line shopmen. President Kline of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths pushes a walkout citing lending engines and cars to affected lines.
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St. Louis
Western Railroads
Illinois Central and
Harriman Lines
Kline
Gene Managers’ Association of Western and Southern Railroads
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths
MacVeagh Calls for Banking Reform and Aldrich Plan
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh urges immediate reform of banking and currency laws and scientific tariff measures. He presents next year expenditures at 637,920,808 with receipts of 667,000,000 and a projected 18,000,000 deficit after canal costs, while backing Aldrich's monetary plan and nonpartisan action.
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Washington
Customs Service
Treasury
Panama Canal
Postal Service
General Fund
MacVeagh
National Monetary Commission
Aldrich
Taft orders wreck bodies taken home for Arlington burial
President Taft instructs Secretary Meyer to move sailors’ remains from the Havana wreck aboard a large battleship convoyed by another, for dignified burial in Arlington. An undertaker is preparing the bodies found in the sunken Maine.
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Washington
Taft
Maine
Havana Harbor
Arlington
Navy
Meyer
Havana
United States
White House
Secretary of the Navy
William H. Taft
Diamond Dick Dies in Kansas City Train Incident
George B. Mc Clelland known as Diamond Dick died from injuries after being run down by a train at a railroad crossing in Kansas City Kansas. The famed dime novel figure will be brought to Ogdensburg New York where his parents reside. He was a sharpshooter famed for shooting an apple from a man’s head and once joined Buffalo Bill Wild Bill and Texas Jack in show business.
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Diamond Dick
Cody
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Kansas City
Kan
George B. McClelland
McClelland
Buffalo Bill
Wild Bill
Texas Jack
Mob law upheld by Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court of the United States upheld an Illinois statute indemnifying property owners for damages from mobs or riots. Cases under the law were pending in Illinois courts, including claims from the Chicago strike of July 16 1903 where Frank Sturges’ building was damaged. The city had appealed claiming unconstitutionality. The court said the statute upholds the majesty of the law.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the
United States
Illinois
Burglars Fall Asleep Awaiting Clear Coast
Chicago reports two men who forced entry into a northern saloon room fell asleep while waiting for the saloon to close at 1 o clock. They were awakened by police and found with a kit of burglary tools. Also noted are a rejected suitor murder attempt and Black Hills gold production figures.
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Chicago
North Side
Lone American kills 17 bandits at Mexican mine
John J. Wilkerson, American superintendent of the Bullion Golondrina mine, repelled an attack by 28 brigands, killing 17 and forcing the rest to flee to the mountains. In Chicago, the Packers case jury selection proceeds with 10 of 12 jurors tentatively accepted as witnesses for the prosecution begin testimony.
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Monterey
Mexico
John J. Wilkerson
Bullion Golondrina
Packer
Chicago
Packers
Fresh denials in the Lorimer case hearing
The Lorimer hearing continued with testimony aimed at refuting C A White s assertions. John L Flannigen an East St Louis lawyer and Illinois state legislator denied White s claim that Flannigen said it would take a lot of money to pass street railway legislation in Illinois.
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Washington
Lorimer
C. A White
John L. Flannigen
East St. Louis
Illinois
White
Flannigen
Nine Lives Lost in Dark Train Wreck at Odessa
Nine people died and over ten were injured when Milwaukee railroad No. 18 collided with a stopped first section near Odessa Minnesota in darkness. Officials blame failure to set signals and flag the second section. Names given include Mrs R G Myers Newcastle Ind and Mrs C W Barber Ferry Mont with several others identified. six unidentified dead reported. A separate trolley collision near Wolcott Kansas killed three and wounded nine amid fog and orders misunderstanding.
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Odessa
Minn
Milwaukee
Seattle
Ortonville
R. GC. Myers
Newcastle
Ind
C. W
J. J. Richards
Mobridge
8. D
Richards
Milwaukee Road
R. F. Whetstone
Minneapolis
Williams
Lemon
S. D
Wolcott
Kan
Kansas City-Leavenworth
Albebrt Love
Walcott
G. C. Royal
Kansas City
Clyde Taylor
Wedding to follow suicide attempt at La Salle Hotel
Emma Robinson who shot herself after a phone call with Frank Cockrell is expected to marry him after recovering in North Chicago hospital. Doctors say the bullet was removed and recovery is possible within a week or ten days barring complications. Friends from wealthier circles offered aid and the couple spent yesterday in her room. Cockrell remained by her side most of the time amid speculation the quarrel was petty. Eckersall case: an injunction restrains Walter Eckersall from interfering with his wife in a divorce suit filed on grounds of cruelty and non support.
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Chicago
Emma Smith Robinson
Frank B. Cockrell
Emma Robinson
Hotel la Salle
Frank Cockrell
North Chicago
Cock Fell
Eckersall
Walter H. Eckersall
University of Chicago
McDonald
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Glose
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Razor
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Halle
Black Hills
Pierre
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