Wilson Puts His Name To Money Draft
The currency bill moved to the Senate for final action after House approval was secured. Bristow and other Republicans attacked the conference results as under political control, while Owen and Nelson defended the agreed provisions. The bill, expected to be signed by the president tonight, would place the currency system under central authority and trigger a presidential signing ceremony with two gold pens.
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Dee
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House
White House
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Giase
Iich
Bristow
Democra
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Lewis
Bryan
Jones
Norris
Weeks
Island natives slay a botanist on Am-Ceyna Island
Charles Budd Robinson a United States government botanist was killed by natives of Am Ceyna Island Maia Archipelago. He was 46 years old.
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Manila
P. J. Dee
Charles Budd Robinson
United States
Am- Ceyna Island
Maia
Archipelago
Death of Pepper Ends a Romance
Washington reports the death at Clinton Iowa of Congressman II Pepper of Iowa ending a romance with Genevieve Clark daughter of the House speaker. Gossip says they were engaged or understood. Clark praises Pepper as a prime favorite and recalls their friendship dating to the last campaign.
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Clinton
Iowa
II. Pepper
Genevieve Clark
House of Representatives
Miss Clark
Pepper
Clark
Canal Zone
Speaker Clark
Representative Pepper
Michigan Suf Is Freed in London
In London England on December 23 Miss Zele Emerson a Michigan suffragist had charges of assaulting a police officer dismissed. She and her companions left the court with the air of victory. Emerson denied deliberately smashing the officer’s helmet, claiming accidental contact was possible. The magistrate praised suffrage militants for their truthfulness and noted that if she had hit the officer on purpose she would have said so.
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London
Eng
Zele Emerson
Michigan
Miss Emerson
Dynamite Found in Miner's Room Sparks Bond for Concealing Explosives
Calumet Michigan December 38 Mort O Han nan said to be an organizer of the Western Federation of Miners was held in 2900 bond for illegally concealing explosives four sticks of dynamite and fuses were found in his room Union officials say operators ultimatum that no striker will be taken back after January 1 is having no effect Mining circles largely expect increased imports of non union men next month
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Calumet
Mich
Mort O'Hannan
Western Federation of Miners
Roads Law Under Fire As New Measures Targeted
An Illinois resident filed for an injunction to block payments and warrants from the highway commission, challenging the hard roads law as unconstitutional. In China a German led project to build two railroads uses German materials at an estimated cost of 17 to 20 million dollars. Magnolia bank charter approved with 25 thousand dollar capital by auditors Brady and associates.
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Martens
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Springfield
Forty-Eighth General Assembly
Jacob Martens
Anchor
James Brady
William Ryan
General Assembly
Ali
Peking
China
Leeds Citizens Sweep Streets Demonstration Across City
Sixty prominent Leeds residents from professions including doctors lawyers and clergy joined volunteers to sweep streets and empty garbage cans amid a municipal service strike. Volunteers worked six hours under police guard as strikers pelted them with stones and metal while another group tended the gas electric and waterworks.
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Leeds
England
Eggs as Currency Reported in Arkansas Mountains
Fort Smith Ark Dec 23 Eggs are so scarce in Arkansas mountains that eggs are used as money. They are accepted as payment at many stores and traded for entertainment at movie theaters with children taking one egg and adults two.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas
Christmas Panama Canal Trip Denied
News briefs report mixed signals on a proposed Christmas ship passage through the Panama Canal with Panama Canal officials and U S officials giving cautious statements. The item notes no plan to move a ship tomorrow and mentions reactions from Colonel Goethals’ era symbolism.
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New York
Panama
U.S. S
Buffalo
Colonel Goethals
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panaima Canal
Mystery Lover of Couch Free From Jail in Monticello
Adelaide Brance, 40, released from Sullivan county jail after three years in voluntary confinement to be the secret companion of Melvin H. Couch. Couch died of heart disease and his widow forbids Brance from attending the funeral. Brance expressed a wish to vanish from the city.
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Monticello
N. Y
Sullivan County
Adelaide M. Brance
Melvin H. Couch
Couch
Miss Brance
Still in doubt over Lopez fate
Bingham Utah Dec 23 If Ralph Lopez the slayer of six men a Mexican and two deputies in Adit tunnel and a chief of police and two deputy sheriffs is still in the Utah Apex mine where he took refuge Nov 27 he is securely sealed up and will be a prisoner there until after Christmas Not a sound has come from the mine Dec 14 when heavy bulkheads were erected in the tunnel mouths to prevent his escape Many believe he escaped shortly after smudges were lit for the purpose of asphyxiating him It is believed the mystery will not be cleared until the bulkheads are removed and the workings searched.
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Bingham
Utah
Ralph Lopez
Adit
Utah-Apex
Trustees Challenge Board Over George Charges
New York officials urged removal of William R. George from the George Janier Republic at Freeville New York. Trustees cite that he severed ties in 1908 and will not act on that recommendation while planning to respond to the board on the republics future conduct.
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William R. George
George Janier Republic
Freeville
N. Y
Republic
Trustees of
The
State Board of Charities
George
Toledo Mayor Whitlock’s Father Dies in Cleveland
Rev. Lt. Elias J. Whitlock, 76, of Toledo and father of Mayor Brand Whitlock, died in Cleveland after collapsing while Christmas shopping with his son William G. The news of Mayor Whitlock’s appointment as minister to Belgium reached him at his bedside.
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Ohio
Elias J. Whitlock
Toledo
Brand Whitlock
William G
Wibtiock
Belgium
Weather Forecast For Rock Island Area
Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Tonight near freezing. 7 a m temperature 29. Winds variable at 35 mph. Yesterday high 34, low 28. Precipitation inch in 24 hours. Humidity 65 percent at 7 p m and 95 percent at 7 a m. Cetus the Whale rises southward. Evening stars Jupiter Saturn. Morning stars Mars Mercury Venus. Forecaster J M Seeree.
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Davenport
Moline
J. M. Seer
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Missing banker evarts sought after bank receivership
Plainfield Illinois December 23 a warrant for the arrest of bank owner John J Evarts was sworn by Rev Walter Evans a retired minister after Erastus W Willard took charge as receiver at Plainfield State Bank Depositors are named with amounts including Mrs S V Thomas $40 and others from 500 to 3300 while assets reported total liabilities about 91000 and net assets about 45000 as books are tangled and investigations continue
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Erastus W. Willard
Joliet
Plainfield State Bank
Walter Evans
John J. Evarts
Evans
Carpenter
Evarts
Willard
Charles Sonntag
Joliet & Southern Traction Company
Western Gas & Electric Light Company
George Flagg
Theodore Burgstahler
A. C. Steiner
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Iowa
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S. V. Thomas
Bert McCauley
Robert Sharp
Ray Spangler
Fred Selfridge
Joseph Bootz
John Arthur
William de Merritt
Arthur Stopp
A. T. Corbin
Joliet & Southern
Western Galectine
Knights of Pythias
Modern Woodmen
White Association
Charles Sonn
Belle Mottinger
Swarts
Harvard Law School Professor Wyman resigns over railroad ties
Professor Bruce Wyman of Harvard Law School resigns, stating his departure aims to spare the law school embarrassment due to his connection with the New Haven railroad. Harvard University president and fellows accept the resignation.
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Mass
Bruce Wyman
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Wyman
Law School
New Haven
Huerta Birthday Celebrations and Diplomats Attend
Huerta marks his birthday with palace ceremonies in Mexico City as foreign diplomats gather, Spaniard delivers address. amid wider reports, Krause released in Mexico City while skirmish news and international visits surface. U S troops wary of Mercado. Yaqui attacks noted. Chinese weather and Chicago exposure roundups.
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Huerta
Porforio Diaz
O'Shaughnessy
Washington
State Department
Mexico
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
William Krause
Krause
Aldema
Tampico
Wharn Appointed to State Pardons Board
Springfield Alabama December 23 Governor Dunne appointed William Wharn of Salem to the State board of pardons to succeed the late Judge Charles E Jennings of Salem.
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Dunne
William Wharn
Salem
State Board of Pardons
Charles E. Jennings
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