Miners Seek Inquiry Into Hall Horror
Calumet disaster toll reaches 72 with many children among the dead as peacemakers urge end to the copper district strike. Secretaries Wilson and Tumulty seek federal help while local factions pledge aid and bury the dead. Citizens and operators pledge funds and efforts to relieve stricken families amid a tense labor dispute.
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Calumet
Mich
Citizens’ Alliance
Fister
Federation of Miners” Local
Federation
Couple Hit by Two Autos in New York, One Dead
In New York on December 26 Mrs Gertrude Lee daughter of Colonel Philip F Harvey killed while her husband Richard Lee Jr superintendent of transportation for American Sugar Refining company seriously injured. The couple were returning from a Christmas dinner when a limousine struck them in rain and a taxicab ran over them. the limousine driver fled and the taxicab driver was arrested and later released. Colonel Harvey walked ahead and learned of the accident only after reaching home.
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New York
Gertrude Lee
Philip F. Harvey
United States Army
Richard Lee
American Sugar Refining Company
Harvey
Lees
Nation Big Gainer In Trade Balance
The balance of trade in favor of the United States for the past 12 months ending with November was 735 million dollars. Both exports and imports for November were the second largest for that month in the last six years. Miss Julia Kern, daughter of Senator Kern of Indiana, wed Dr. George B. Lawson near Hollins, Roanoke.
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Washington
United States
Roanoke
Julia Kern
Kern
Indiana
George B. Lawson
Hollins
Dollar piece of 1804 date found in New Haven
A United States silver dollar dated 1804, valued at about 3500 for collectors, was found by laborer William Sullivan during excavation in New Haven Connecticut on December 26. The coin is described as being in good condition.
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New Haven
Conn
United States
Wiliam Sullivan
List of deadly fires and disasters from 1881 to 1913
Chronology of fatal incidents worldwide noting venues such as theatres churches factories hotels and public buildings. Entries include dates locations event names and casualty figures spanning the Sun derland Exeter Iroquois theatre General Slocum disaster and Los Angeles Times building among others.
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Church of the Jesuits
Santiago
Chile
Brooklyn Theatre
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ring Theatre
Vienna
Austria
Sunderland
England
Opera Comique
St. John
N. B
Exeter Theatre
Banquet Theatre
Portugal
Lu Chow
China
Shantung Theatre
Pike's Opera
Cincinnati
Charity Bazaar
Paris
Hoboken
Rochester
Orphan Asylum
Shiloh Baptist Church
Birmingham
Ala
Iroquois Theatre
Chicago
General Slocum
R. B. Glover's Shoe Factory
Brockton
Mass
San Francisco
Rhodes Opera House
Bogerstown
School
Collinwood
Ohio
Flores Theatre
Mexico
Dekorite
Hungary
United States
Los Angeles Times
Minnesota
Newark
N. J
Morris A Co
St Petersboro
Russian
New York
British Guiana
Calumet
Mick
Knife to Separate Two Siamese Girls in Paris
Paris dispatch reports a month old pair of Siamese twins joined face to face by a flesh strip over an inch thick have been brought to Paris for separation surgery. A radiograph suggests the twins share pelvic organs.
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Paris
France
Girl Dives In Cold Lake For Masquerade-Free Swim
Chicago Minnesota December 26 16 year old Clara Pause stepped from her room in a swimsuit claiming she was going to the beach despite a chilly lake. Her parents stared as Amelia and friends followed. Clara swam in the icy water then ran home declaring it fun and solitary.
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Chicago
Mns
Paul Pause
Wilson Avenue
Clara
Pause
Miss Pause
Amelia
Paint Suffocates an Insurance Man in Chicago
George W. Riggs a 52 year old insurance agent died in a bath room accident when painting the walls. He fell from a ladder, a can of thick enamel covered his face and suffocated him. He led a parts company for steam locomotives and was a prominent Mason.
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Chicago
George W. Riggs
Riggs
Blizzard Grips Syracuse and Rochester in Winter Storm
A fierce blizzard sweeping central New York disrupts wire service in Syracuse and its outskirts. In Rochester the storm raged through the night, weakening this morning yet leaving streets in paralysis as thousands walk to work.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Rochester
Congress Aids Arsenal Effort to Save Millions in Munitions
Washington December reports show Rep O H air of Illinois pressuring Gen Crozier in a hearing on government manufacture of army ammunition. He questions $2,000,000 in annual potential savings and the need for private firms. Tavenner proposes 1 9 million for Rock Island arsenal plants amid wartime readiness plans. Governor McGovern may deny clemency for John Dietz amid a pardon inquiry. Raids on dry Milton Junction hotels seize liquor on Christmas Eve. St Louis railroad receiver orders restitution against directors.
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Chicago Tribune
Washington, D. C
House Committee On Military Affairs
United States
O'Hair
Illinois
Crozier
Mr. O'Hair
Ordnance Bureau
General Crozier
Tavenner
Ilinois
Rock Island Arsenal
Mississippi River
Daven
Rock Island
Milton Junction
Wis
Whipple
Morgan
St. Paul
Charles Lumm
Weather summary for tonight and Saturday
Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Lows near 20, highs around 38. Light winds, no precipitation. Humidity high in the evening, early morning. Planets Jupiter Saturn Mercury Venus in varying lunar conjunctions tonight and early morning.
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J. M. Sherier
Jupiter
Saturn
Mercury
Venus
Funeral Held For Congressman I S Pepper In Ottumwa Iowa
The funeral of Congressman I S Pepper was held at the First Methodist Episcopal church in Ottumwa Iowa with a 24 member congressional delegation including Representative Clyde H Tavenner of Illinois present. Active pallbearers included J G Van Lent and Dr A A Petersen and Masons A E Othmer and A S Lawrence. Honorary pallbearers representing Iowa’s eleven congressional districts were named by N F Reed with Judge Martin J Wade added in his honor.
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J. G. van Lent
A. A. Petersen
Masons
A. E. Othmer
A. S. Lawrence
Muscatine Bar Association
D. W. Jackson
H. G. Thompson
Elis
R. S. McNutt
J. P. Breen
N. F. Reed
Democratic State Central Committee
Iowa
Martin J. Wade
Iowa City
A. R. Miller
Washington
Fred B. Sharon
Davenport
Louis Murphy
Dubuque
Frank O'Connor
New Hampton
Nick Furlong
Marshalltown
Dan W. Hamilton
Sigourney
Hurley Sheldon
Ames
Claude R. Porter
Centerville
Long Questions By Schmidt Lawyers Read In Court
New York on December 26 Attorneys for Mans Schmidt presented 20 000 word hypothetical questions to alienists hired by the state to prove sanity in his murder of Anna Aumul ler at Janesville Wisconsin. In Belvidere and other Illinois cities F J Harris Jias Doc Hamilton and F C Crumm alias Banks were arrested on charges of obtaining money by false pretenses. Also Memphis Tennessee Mrs Fisher Harwell wife of a businessman killed herself after taking her four children to visit her cousin.
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New York
Mans Schmidt
Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Janesville
Wis
F. J. Harris
Jias
Doc Hamilton
F. C. Crumm
Banks
Belvidere
Illinois
Memphis
Tenn
Fisher Harwell
Train Blown by Rebels in Nationwide Action
Washington dispatch reports a large rebel force on the National railway about 60 miles north of San Luis Potosi destroyed a federal convoy train, killing 24 federals. The Tam pico situation remains unchanged.
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San Luis Potosi
Tampico
Washington
State Department
National Railway
President Wilson plans South trip and trust speech
President Wilson travels from Pass Christian to observe a house fire at Mrs. Neville’s home and directs fire crews. He maps a rest program to regain health and contemplates federal reserve board appointments and an anti trust address likely read to Congress on January 19. He reviews Calumet disaster coverage and notes federal jurisdiction questions. Over 400 national banks have sought Federal Reserve membership, with rapid filings nationwide and rising pace.
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Christian
Miss
Wilson
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
White House
Calumet, Mich
Western Federation of Miners
Seamen's Union Chief Resigns Delegation
London December 26 Andrew Furuseth president of the International Seamen's Union cables President Wilson resigning as a delegate to the international conference on safety at sea He says the sub committee report lowers safety standards and he refused to sign it Furuseth wanted steamers to have crews with three years experience to take charge in accidents Disinclination of other American delegates to back him led to his resignation.
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London
Andrew Furne Reth
International Seamen's Union
Wilson
Furuseth
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