Labor union chiefs found guilty in McNamara plot case
Indianapolis dispatch reports 38 labor union officials convicted of complicity in the McNamara dynamite plots including the Los Angeles Times bombing. Key figures named include Frank M. Ryan, John T. Butler, Herbert Hockin, Olaf Tweitmoe, Eugene Clancy, Phillip A. Cooley, and many others. Jurors found all guilty on all counts with sentencing set for Monday. Wives of defendants wept as verdicts were read.
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Indianapolis
Los Angeles Times
Ryan
International Association of Structural Ironworkers
Daniel Buckley
Davenport
Iowa
Herman J. Seiffert
Milwaukee
Frank M. Ryan
International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
John T. Butler
Bafalo
Herbert 8. Hockin
Detroit
Olaf A. Tweitmoe
San Francisco
Eugene A. Clancy
Phillip A. Cooley
New Or Jenne
Michael J No NG
Boer
Frank J. Higgins J. B. Munsey
Salt Lake City
Henry W. Legleitner
Den
Frank. Webb
New York
Patrick F. Farrell
John H. Barry
St. Louis
Pau J. Morrin
Michael J. Cannan
Philadelphia
James Cooney
Chicago
William Shupe
James E. Ray
Peoria
Wilford Bert Brown
Kangare City
Frank K. Painter
Omaha
George Anderson
Cleveland
Edward E. Phillips
Syracuse
N.Y
Frank J. Murphy
Ernest G. W. Basey
Indianapolia
Hiram R, Kline
Manele
Seiffert
Buckley
Anderson
United States Marshal
Marion County
Olaf Tinetmoe
Eugene Clancy
J. K. Munsey
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
James B. McNamara
McNamaras
McNamara Brothers
California
Ironworkers’ Union
Council
The
American Federation of Labor
Pacific Coast
California Building Trades Council
Hockin
IAGO
Herbert Hockin
McManigal
International Union
Burns
Butler
Ironworkers
McNamara
Marshal Schmidt
Frank J. Higgins
Boston
John
Frank Painter
Omala
New England
Structural Iron and Steel
Leavenworth
Kaw
Union
Home rule favored for state cities on rates and service
Illinois cities with commission form of government back home rule for utilities. The convention votes 18 to 6 to favor city control unless invited by city to intervene. Edward Bemis urges Chicago scale power and city ownership with annual reports. proposes separate commissions for smaller cities. Officers led by May M. Carlson of Moline are reelected.
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Springfield
Public Utilities Commission
Ilinois
Edward W. Bemis
Chicago
May M. R. Carlson
Moline
Balkans Reject Turk Proposals
London delegates met again in a peace envoy session and after an hour and a half adjourned to Monday. The Turkish plenipotentiaries presented counter proposals responding to Balkan offers. The allies found the Turkish terms unacceptable and progress stalled as the Turks said they must confer with Constantinople.
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London
Constantinople
Police Threaten Chicago Strike Over Salary Cuts
Chicago authorities face a potential crackdown as about 1400 police officers and several hundred firefighters threaten resignations within weeks. They protest a 20 percent city employee salary cut for the first half of 1913, prompted by treasury shortfalls.
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Chicago
IC investigating ore transport rates from Minnesota to Duluth
The Interstate Commerce Commission on its own initiative today opened an inquiry into railroad rates, practices, and regulations governing the shipment of iron ore from Minnesota producing fields to Duluth and Superior docks and to numerous central and eastern destinations. Many carriers are involved.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Minnesota
Duluth
Superior
Fingerprint Clue Emerges in Logue Murder Case
Chicago officials report a legible fingerprint found on a handkerchief used as a towel by the suspected murderer on December 26. Experts confirm the print matches a man, providing a tangible lead in the Logue murder investigation.
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Logue
Chicago
J. H. Logue
Madden Election Contest Alleges Corruption in Illinois Race
Washington Dec 28 Charges that Martin B Madden of Chicago obtained reelection to Congress from Illinois First district by expenditures in violation of law are made in a notice of contest filed with the House by Andrew Donovan a Democratic and Progressive candidate in that district.
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Washington
Martin B. Madden
Chicago
Iowa Farmer Is Peaken as Slayer in Villisca Killing
Villisca Iowa Dec 28 Taylor county farmer Grew Van Alstine arrested by City Marshal Horton on a warrant charging murder of the Moore family and two Stillinger girls the night of June 9 1912 He will have a hearing today The Moores and Stillingers were murdered with an ax while asleep bloodhounds followed a trail to the river then lost it and detectives searched the district barely any motive alleged in the case remains clear.
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Villisca
Iowa
Grew van Alstine
Taylor County
Horton
Moore
Stillinger
van Alstine
Joseph B. Moore
Lena
Ida Stillinger
Gacent
Nodaway
Suffragets Due in Goal City As Albany March Nears
Niverville New York December 28 Despite colder temperatures the army suffragets begin the final leg through deep snow heading to Albany on the last day of their march. Mrs Joseph Gavit and Miss Elizabeth Smith lead about 50 supporters with a brass band into Albany.
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Niverville
N. Y
Albany
Joseph Gavit
Elizabeth Smith
Albany Equal Suffrage League
Brokaw and Wife Each Sue for Divorce with Co-Respondents
Mrs. William Gould Brokaw, separated from her husband since February 1910, files divorce in Brooklyn supreme court naming four co respondents. Brokaw answers denying charges and accuses wife of misconduct with three men including a Baron, Maurice Grey, and another unnamed man. Mrs Brokaw identifies Jeanette Clark Estelle Perry Mabel Weeks and Mlle Letty as corespondents.
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Brokaw
New York
William Gould Brokaw
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Husband shoots wife and mother in Lagrange Ind case
Edward Hart shot and killed his separated wife Rena Hart and her mother Mrs. Sarah McBride in Lagrange Indiana. He fled to the countryside then was captured hours later at his brother's home. Mrs. McBride was shot as she slept.
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Lagrange, Ind
Edward Hart
Rena
Sarah McBride
Hart
McBrifie
Spitting on the Bible Leads to Fine in Court
Milwaukee justice details a district court case where 45 year old Martin Premak spat on a Bible, provoking assault and battery charges from Masse Maszicka. Judge N B Neelen fined Premak $25 plus costs, remarking jail time would fit the offense.
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Milwaukee
N. B. Neelen
Martin Premak
Neelen
Premak
Masse
Maszicka
Neelan
Explosion kills men in a shop in Hamlet North Carolina
Seaboard Air Line officials report nine men dead in a boiler explosion at a shop building in Hamlet North Carolina. Foreman Charles Utter and his brother William Utter are named among the victims.
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Columbia
S. C
Seaboard Air Line
Charles Utter
William Utter
Hamlet
N. C
Strikers Clash With Policemen in Little Falls
In Little Falls New York on December 28 hundreds of strikers faced police as the state board of arbitration acted as mediators in the textile workers strike. Witness Annie Malarik testified she earned four dollars weekly and shared an eight room house with her husband and 23 others, sleeping three or four per bed.
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Little Falls
N. Y
State Board of Arbitration
Textie
Annie Malarik
Woman uses husband's necktie as destroyer
Chicago dispatch reports Mrs. Frank Kenny used a Christmas present necktie to strangle herself, dying by her own hand. In Benton Illinois, five year old shooter incident left a two year old dead when Lester Armstrong found a revolver and fired accidentally at Christopher. Arcadia project: Rev Zi W Barry plans to found a western Mississippi Catholic settlement with 20 000 acres, town, church and school. Ottumwa Iowa postoffice at Pulaski dynamited. about 1000 dollars stolen. robbers fled.
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Chicago
Frank Kenny
Benton, Ill
Dillard Deloss Armstrong
Mary Armstrong
Christopher, Ill
Lester
Bloomington
Ill
Zi W. Barry
Philo
Arcadia
Mississippi
Iowa
Ottumwa
Pulaski
Portland Officer Pleads Guilty in Fraud Case
H H Humphrey, an officer of the Columbia River Orchard company, pleaded guilty in federal court to fraud charges. The development follows prior accusations and adds a key turn in the ongoing case.
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Portland, Ore
H. H. Humphrey
Columbia River Orchard Company
Welcome for Wilson in Staunton Virginia
Governor-elect Wilson arrived in Staunton for a birthday visit joined by nearly all residents in a parade and joyous reception. He and Mrs. Wilson were escorted to the home of the late Rev Joseph R. Wilson and briefly rested in the room of his birth after greetings from local officials and crowds.
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Alexandria
Staunton
State Teachers Reorganize At Illinois Convention
Peoria Ill Dec 28 By unanimous vote of the Illinois State Teachers association the annual convention approved reorganizing the body S P Hursh of Macomb was named president for the year New officers included E A Turner Normal Francis G Blair Springfield F G Barton Champaign J A Ford Dekalb Mrs William B Owen Chicago J Y Ensminger Ima R Bouton Vermont L A Mahoney Rochelle and L W Smith Harvey in various section posts The meeting concluded with new selection for county teachers village and high school leaders and other education groups
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Peoria
Ill
Tion
Illinois State Teachers’ Assation
Illinois State Teachers’ Association
P. Hursh
Macomb
E A. Turner
Normal
Francis G. Blair
Springfield
F. G. Barton
Champaig Association of
J. A. Ford
Dekalb
Parent Teachers’ League
Wiliam B. Owen
Chicago
J. Y. Ensminger
Ima
J. R. Bouton
Vermont
L. A. Mahoney
Rochelle
L. W. Smith
Harvey
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Balkans
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Daughtre
K James
Willonaire
Peaken
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Mhe. Letty
Milliionaire
Mabe
Weeks
Carlton
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Conn
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Westbury
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Luzerne
Switzerland
Goal City
Benjamin Rand
Harvard
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
Barre Wool Combing Company, Limited
South Barre
Mass
James H. Oliver
New Hampshire
Santo Domingo
Norfolk Navy Yard
Virginia
Wilson
Parade
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