Powers Jury Disagrees Ten To Two For Acquittal
Georgetown Ky Jan 4 The Caleb Powers jury was discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the long legal saga. The panel stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction after more than 18 hours of deliberation across seven weeks of proceedings. Powers, a former secretary of state, has faced multiple trials over the murder of William Goebel with prior convictions and a death sentence in earlier rounds. The case has occupied courts for eight years with extensive detentions and delays.
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Georgetown
Caleb Powers
Powers
William Goebel
Dail
Commt
Frankfort
Secretary of State
Supreme United States Court
Reward Offered for Night Riders in Kentucky Raids
Governor Wilson issued a proclamation in Frankfort offering a $500 reward for conviction of anyone implicated in the night riders raids in the dark tobacco belt. The January 1 statement follows a Russellville raid that burned two warehouses and damaged buildings, injuring four. The action aims to prosecute ringleaders and protect the tobacco industry and officials.
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Frankfort
Wilson
Russellville
Hopkinsville
Kentucky
Kuropatkin and Witte in Word Dues Conflict Deepens
St. Petersburg dispatch notes a dispute between Count Witte and General Kuropatkin over Kuropatkin's testimony in the Stoessel case expanding into a debate on Witte's role as a so called eastern adventurer and the implications for Russian policy.
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Kuropatkin and Witte
St. Petersburg
Count Witte
Kuropatkin
Stoessel
Witte
Harden Appeals Ruling in Moltke Libel Case
Berlin Jan 4 Maximilian Harden was found guilty of libeling Count Kuno Von Moltke and sentenced to four months in prison. He has appealed the verdict to the empire's supreme court.
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Maximilian Harden
Berlin
Kuno von Moltke
Supreme Court of the Empire
Prince Says Code Is Too Good For Boni
Paris reports recount the Thursday Rue Challot meeting between Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helie de Sagan. Boni calls his cousin outside civilized society. the prince says he will not sell a challenge and may sue for criminal assault with 1 franc damages to prove deliberate attack. He denies engagement rumors with Mme Anna Gould and address.
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Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Prince Helle de Sagan
Rue de Challot
Count Boni
Prince Helie de Sagan
Boni
Mme
Anna Gould
Germany
Prince Hesie
Mme, Gould
Man Drowned in West Coast Docks Identified as Woodman Clerk
Long Beach California January 4 The body of a man who fell from the wharf and drowned Monday night has been partially identified as George W Mark former clerk of a Modern Woodmen camp at Decatur Illinois The details indicate a fatal accident near the waterfront with investigators reviewing witness statements and the victim’s past associations.
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George W. Mark
Illinois Town
Long Beach
Cal
George W .Mark
Decatur
Suppy Ship Aarethusa Fire Damages Engine Room
Fire broke out in the engine room of the American supply ship Arethusa in Para harbor during a torpedo flotilla’s voyage to the Pacific. The blaze was checked by torpedo boats with no serious damage. In El Paso ex Governor Horace A Boies of Iowa lies between life and death with pneumonia. An auto wreck in Hastings kills one and injures two.
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Para
Rio de Janiero
Ahethusa
Pacific Ocean
Parnambuco
Boies
el Paso
Tex
Horace A. Boies
Iowa
Providence Hospital
Waterloo
Los Angeles
Hastings
Neb
John Brown
Fisher
Roy Signor
Holstein
The
Eagles
Drive Japs Out Leaders Locked Up in Ogden Riot
In Ogden Utah on January 4 a mob of about 200 whites attacked Japanese quarters over labor disputes at the Hariman ice house. Police and a sheriff's posse dispersed the mob after threats of lynching caused Japs to flee. One Japanese worker who attempted to organize a counter threat was jailed.
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Ogden
Utah
Harriman
Union Depot
Twentyfourth Street
Federal Building
Catholic School Travel Ban For Local Parental Travel
Bishop Canevin in Pittsburgh issues a decree barring parents and guardians from sending children to non Catholic schools within two miles and forbids confessors to absolve those who disobey. The directive targets Catholic education in the diocese and imposes penalties for violation.
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Canevin
Pittsburg
Call Banker’s Son Robber Confession Shocks Springfield
Springfield police declare Flint Montgomery, banker’s son and former Illinois legislator from Clayton, Illinois, under arrest on charges of highway robbery and report he has confessed. He has not visited home in years and receives allowances from his father. In Calcutta, the Bank of Bengal discount rate was raised from 6 to 7 percent.
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Springfield
Flint Montgomery
Ilinois
Clayton
India
Calcutta
Bank of Bengal
Pettibone Cleared in Steunenberg Murder Case
Boise Idaho January 4 after fourteen hours of deliberation jurors found George A Pettibone not guilty of conspiracy in the murder of ex Governor Frank A Steunenberg The verdict ends the case against Pettibone and follows a similar outcome in the Haywood matter Pettibone smiled as he heard the ruling his wife wept and defense lawyers praised the result The Moyer case action was not taken and prosecution of Western Federation of Miners leaders is considered ended
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Boise
Idaho
George A. Pettibone
Frank A. Steunenberg
Pettibone
Haywood
Steunenberg
Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
George Pettibone
James H. Hawley
Senator Borah
Bank Showing Is Better Reserve and Surplus Make Increase
New York January 4 weekly bank statement shows banks hold 11.51 million dollars less than required by the 25 percent reserve rule. Loans fell 14.825 million, deposits declined 3.4595 million. Reserve rose 8.146 million, deficit narrowed 8.661 million, surplus up 8.016 million.
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New York
Martial Law Declared In Muncie As Strike Sparks Unrest
Governor Hauly proclaims martial law in Muncie to place Major General McKee in control as 12 infantry companies and National Guard mobilize. Rioting continues. 2000 marchers occupy uptown, police chief attacked, cars halted but city stats say order possible without further martial action.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hauly
McKee
Muncie
Indiana National Guard
Hanly
Uptown
Dusperse
Mutcie Trades Council
van Benbow
Indiana Union Traction Company
Oren Perry
National Guard
Foraker Rejects Call for Republican State Convention
Cleveland news reports United States Senator J. B. Foraker denounces the call for the Ohio Republican state convention as unlawful and burdensome. He questions a 20 times petition requirement for delegates, cites statutory gaps, and says counties may ignore the central committee order. Separately, a New York couple, Mr and Mrs Howard, disclose a hasty marriage and subsequent separation in Europe amid cruelty accusations.
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Cleveland
Ohio
United States
J. B. Foraker
Taft
Foraker
State Central Committee
Srizes
Cincinnati
New York
Howard
Europe
Bomb blast rocks First National Bank in Kansas City
A bomb exploded in the basement toilet room of the First National Bank at Tenth and Baltimore today. Three people were injured, none seriously, and a panic spread as 2546 customers and staff rushed for exits. The blast damaged walls, bent steel floor supports, wrecked plumbing, and shattered windows, with the building felt across the city. Police have no suspect. initial gas leak theory gave way to bombing. The bank, Kansas City’s largest, occupies the marble three story structure finished last year.
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Kansas City
First National Bank
Tenth
Baltimore Streets
City
Bank
Modify Riding Order For Part Of Army Men
Washington January 4 President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft are reviewing army horsemanship tests and may modify the order to let engineer and staff officers stay on the active list despite riding deficiencies. Each retirement case will be thoroughly reviewed to assess overall suitability. if qualified, an officer may remain active without meeting the 30 mile three day ride requirement. Brigadier General Garlington recommends two weekly practice afternoons for his department.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Taft
Garlington
Army
Author's romance at end divorce suit amid cruelty
Baltimore January 4. The writer George Bronson Howard seeks divorce from Miss Lyriam Skinner of Norfolk after a brief courtship of two days. They were married in Norfolk before parting, a new chapter in the couple’s romance ends with the filing of the suit.
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George Bronson Howard
Baltimore
Lyriam Skinner
Norfolk
Earl of Yarmouth Will Fight Case
London January 4 Solicitors for the Earl of Yarmouth whose wife formerly Alice Thaw has begun suit for nullification of her marriage have given notice they intend to defend the action The case will likely not be heard for several weeks Insanity before marriage nonconsummation of the marriage or an existing marriage are the only grounds for annulment under English law
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London
Earl of Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Dougherty declares he will be cleared in Peoria court
In Peoria Illinois on January 4 former Peoria school superintendent Tewton C Dougherty testified in a $400000 embezzlement suit brought by the school board. He claimed he would return to Peoria and be honored while admitting he pleaded guilty against counsel and friends advice after facing escalating counts and bail.
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Peoria
Ill
Tewton C. Dougherty
Joliet
Coal Theft in Rock Island Yards Fines Imposed
Arthur Burnwood was fined five dollars and costs by Justice G Albert Johnson yesterday for trespass in the upper Rock Island yards. He was seen carrying away a cart load of coal. Thomas Anderson was bound over for peace on a fifty dollar bond for thirty days after a complaint by Mrs. Margaret Smith.
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Arthur Burnwood
G. Albert Johnson
Rock Island
Burnwood
Thomas Anderson
Justice Johnson
Margaret Smith
Murder theory doubted in Rev. Gish death case
Pittsfield Alabama January 4 authorities found no evidence that Rev Gilbert A Gish was murdered December 4 Three possible causes are listed death by self harm accidental poisoning and ill health Gish suffered disability and despondency and reportedly used morphine that contained strychnine He was said to have had convulsions a month before his death
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Gish
Pittsfield
Gilbert A. Gish
Husband Detained in Death of Wife by Dastardly Means
Newark police held Theodore S. Whitmore after a thorough examination into the death of Lena Whitmore. She was beaten insensible, stripped, and drowned in a pond on the Hackensack meadows. The case centers on Whitmore as a suspect. Old newspaper man William L. Dailey, cofounder of the Rocky Mountain News, died after months of illness in Denver.
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Newark
N. J
Theodore S. Whitmore
New Jersey
Lena” Whitmore
Hackensack Meadows
Denver
William L. Dailey
William N. Byers
Rocky Mountain News
Colorado
Dailey
Iowa
Nebraska
Jury verdict in Rock River death leaves mystery unsolved
In Janesville Wisconsin the jury finds Madelyn Odell Clayton died from unknown causes. The report traces two men claiming to be her husband, one a Fond du Lac man named Lanayette who testified he fled and was never married. The case exposes conflicting stories and an inquest that failed to clarify her death.
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Janesville
Wis
Madelyn Odell Clayton
J. Lanayette
Fond du Lac
Maude Odell
St. Joseph
Mich
Chicago
Rock River
Clayton
Frederick J. Lanouette
Lanouette
Rock County
Omaha
St. Joe
Justice of the Peace
Fisher
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