Bomb conspiracy details emerge in iron workers probe
Indianapolis dispatch outlines indictments based on 40000 letters and telegrams accusing numerous iron workers officials of a six year dynamite plot to ruin open shop contractors. Key figures include Ortle E. McManigal James B McNamara and Herbert Hockin with charges of transporting dynamite and nitroglycerin and aiding others.
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Indianapolis
Ryan
Orclass
Ortle E. McManigal
Herbert
McManigal
MacNamaras
Hockin
Miller
Detroit
Mich
Frank J. Murphy
Denver
Henry W. Legleitner
Bakersville
N. Y
William K. Benson
Federation of Labor
Benson
Davis
Philadelphia
Moulton H. Davis
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Frank M. Ryan
Charles W. Miller
Weather forecast and distant conspiracy notes in crossed paragraphs
Unsettled weather with showers likely tonight and Saturday for Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity. Temperature near freezing tonight with 29 at 7 am yesterday 38 high and 29 low. News items include an indictment listing five leaders linked to a mail conspiracy and explosives, with 40 000 letters cited as evidence dating back to 1908 1909.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
Not My Son: Mrs. Kimmel Case Dramatic Climax
St Louis officials report a dramatic climax in the Kimmel case as Mrs Estelle Kimmel aged 68 confronts a man about 60 presented by an insurer as her son George AL. The scene unfolds in St Louis with investigators pursuing the truth of kinship and the validity of the claim.
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St. Louis
Kimmel
Estelle Kimmel
George AL
Matteawan
N. Y
Rebels Not Yet Quiet in China
A Swatow report says the steamer Kum-Chow under the British flag carried 2,000 revolutionary Chinese soldiers toward the north. Local authorities threatened to fire on them at landfall and the captain was warned by Chinese customs and the British consul not to enter the port. Great excitement persisted as the incident unfolded.
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Hong Kong
Swatow
Kum-Chow
Chinese Customs Commission
Quiz for the Army Likely Congress Takes Hand
Washington February 16 Congress considers stepping in as Friends of a dismissed officer seek access to records on General Wood in Cuba. Major General Ainsworth remains suspended from duty while the Army awaits formal action.
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Wood
Cuba
Washington
Ainsworth
Dolly Cameron and the Hawley Will Missing
New York reports Dolly Cameron tied to Edwin Hawley estate mystery as relatives freeze claims while the missing will kneads control of the Hawley town house Babylon estate and income. Cameron formerly Hawley’s trusted aide may be sole beneficiary. Also reports no coal price rise after 1902 strike, a Topeka murder, and a Pittsburgh spoon in stomach case.
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New York
Dolly” Cameron
Edwin Hawley
Hawley
Miss Cameron
Peterson
Means
Babylon
New York Bank In State Hands
Albany reports the state banking department seizing the Universal Trust Company of New York, with General Daniel Sickles as president. In Washington, Ainsworth faces possible court martial over alleged disrespect to General Wood and Secretary Stimson. Congress weighs an investigation into war department affairs and Cuba. Fields of the Eighteenth Infantry faces arrest after a border incident. The Norwegian cabinet resigned today.
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Albany, N. Y
State Banking Department
Universal Trust Company
New York
Daniel E. Sickles
Washington
War Department
Ainsworth
Leonard Wood
Army
Stimson
Friends
Defense
House Committee
Friends of Ainsworth
House
Cuba
Wood
Fields
Eighteenth Infantry
Juarez
Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Preacher Horton Guilty of Bigamy in Joliet Case
Rev. John Horton found guilty of bigamy after jurors weighed the testimony of Amanda Brinker of Beecher Ill His flight from England to aid a wife and several children preceded his pastorship at Beecher Congregational church He married Amanda in Chicago and admitted guilt in a resignation letter revealing his English family.
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Horton
Joliet
John Horton
Amanda Brinker
Beecher
England
John Hardin
Amanda
Deaths in a Day Trenton Judge Lanning Dies at 63
United States Circuit Court Judge William M. Lanning, 63, died in Trenton. He was to sit with Circuit Court Judges Gray and Buffington in the government suit against a steel firm and its subsidiaries. In San Quentin, convict Edward Delhantie killed fellow prisoner William Kauffman and fatally wounded William Peterson with a sharp file.
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Trenton
N. J
United States Circuit Court
William M. Lanning
Lanning
Circuit Court
Gray and Buffington
The
Steel Corporation
San Quentin
Cal
Edward Delhantie
William Kauffman
William Peterson
Has New Bill to Cure Trust Evil
Washington report on Senator Williams of Mississippi outlining a bill to curb trust evils. He opposes a trade commission warning against political influence, while detailing conditions for interstate commerce. Earlier, steel makers protested the house steel tariff bill before the Senate. Attorney General Wickersham urged grand jury review of public funds transfers by former agriculture drainage bureau officials.
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Washington
Williams
Mississippi
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Trade Commission
William
Senate Finance Committee
Wickersham
Agriculture Drainage Bureau
Discharged mail man sues women for 25000 dollars
Five Evanston women are named as defendants in a $25,000 conspiracy suit against Thomas A. Rose, a former Evanston mail carrier, after complaints led to his dismissal. The defendants include Fannie Hynes, Cornelia Ludlow, Bertha Atwater, Beatrice Morris, and Anna Garnett Clark, with testimonies and officers from Chicago handling the investigation.
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Chicago
Thomas A. Rose
Evanston
Superior Court
Rose
Fannie Hynes
Willam F. Hynes
Grandfield
Washington
Bert D
Wing
Morris
Mr. Ludlow
Roosevelt endorses industrial commission by Taft plan
Colonel Roosevelt lauds Taft’s commission proposal in an Outlook editorial. He urges Congress to create the body to investigate industrial conditions and outlines expected benefits from its establishment.
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Industry Commission
U. K
Roosevelt
New York
Congress
Taft
Man shoots wife in sleep then turns gun on self
Chicago February 16 V Frank Zarczikowska shot and killed his wife as she slept and then attempted suicide. They had quarreled over domestic affairs.
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Topeka
Kan
John J. Rickels
Rickela
Here
Chicago
Frank Zarczikowska
German Aviator Falls Ten Feet in Fatal Injury
Berlin reports German aviator Schmidt died after a 100 foot fall while piloting a biplane yesterday. Elevating rudder failure cited as cause. In Rochester, a school fire drill saved 829 pupils and 20 teachers at Public School No. 3. Damages estimated at 40 000 dollars. Chicago divorce: Elizabeth J Eckersall granted divorce from Walter Eckersall for cruel treatment.
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Berlin
Schmidt
Rochester
N. Y
Eckersall
Chicago
Elizabeth J. Eckersall
Walter Eckersall
University of Chicago
Five Cook county murderers hanged after delay attempts
Chicago February 16 five inmates were executed at Cook County Jail. Frank Shiblawski Ewald Shiblawski Philip Sommerling and Thomas Schultz were hanged after lawyers failed to secure a stay on insanity claims. Thomas Jennings, condemned for the murder of railway official Clarence Hiller, was hanged despite habeas corpus petitions denied by Judge Landis. Bodies given to families after the executions.
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Chicago
Cook County
Frank Shiblawski
Ewald Shiblawski
Phillip Sommerling
Thomas Schultz
Fred W. Guelzow
Thomas Jennings
Clarence Hiller
Jennings
Shiblawski Brothers
McKinley
Superior Court
Davis
Peters
Sommerling
Schultz
State’s Attorney’s Office
Mr. Repinski
Guelzow
Federal District Court
Landis
Findger
Supreme Court
Springfield
Supreme Court Today
Gueziow
Quarrel Over Woman Ends With Two Men Wounded
In Clinton Illinois on February 16 a quarrel over a woman escalated into a shooting. Frank Strohl used a revolver, wounding Joseph Nelson and Jordon Parker. Both men are expected to recover. Police say the dispute centered on the woman involved.
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Clinton, Ill
Frank Strohl
Joseph Nelson
Jordon Parker
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J. M. Sherier
Herbert S. Hockin
Michael J. Young
Boston
John T. Butler
Buffalo
Frank C. Webb
Iron Workers’ International
Webb
San Francisco
J. J. McNamara
Clinton
Iowa
Edward Clark
Cincinnati
McNamara
McNamang
York
Mrs. Kimmel
Insurance Company
China
Esatre Eziéfo
Dolly Cameron
the Hawley
Pittsboreh
University of Pittsburgh
Nanking
Yuan
Peking
George Washington
NEW York Bank
Christiania
Gueston
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