United States Consul Threatened by Zelaya
Washington reports say the U S consul at Managua faced threats from President Zelaya and has permission to use the legation for safety. Rumor suggests Zelaya may flee at night by the Pacific coast while the Nicaraguan legation in Washington denies Zelaya plans to depart or rebels capturing targets. The legation calls revolution reports exaggerated and notes continued daily contact with Managua.
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Washington. Vy
United States
Managua
Zelaya
Legation
State Department
Washington
Chinandega
Elviejo
Nehels
Rodriguez
Ross
Red Cross
Castillo
Cannon
Grace
Weather and river bulletin plus moral instruction note
Partly cloudy with showers tonight or Tuesday and a warming trend. Temperatures range from 36 at 7 a.m. to a high around 45 with 0.12 inch rainfall. Mississippi stages near Dubuque to Muscatine remain nearly stationary. J M Sherier notes. Also John M. Sherier records historical figures and a long sermon urging parental religious instruction and home moral training for children with emphasis on early character foundations.
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River Bulletin
St. Paul
Prairie du Chien
Dubuque
LeClaire
Davenport
Mississippi River
Muscatine
J. M. Sherier
Church Sermon Warns Against Loss of Child Innocence
Pastor Rev. E. T. McFarland urged the congregation on the dangers facing youth in a sermon titled What We Owe to the Young. He cited Matthew 18 14 and warned that early life can fall under sin and depravity without moral and religious training, arguing secular education alone cannot safeguard youth.
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Meinors
Chris
E. T. McFarland
Mr. McFarland
Mine Explosion Near Marion Kills One, 100 Rescued
A gas explosion in a Marion Illinois mine killed miner Frank Morrow and trapped over a hundred workers. Rescue teams reached the shaft, recovering the body as others were brought to the surface after the blast.
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St. Louis
Marion
Associated Press
Frank Morrow
Twenty Japanese killed in a wreck near Vancouver
Vancouver, B C November 29. Twenty Japanese were killed and 15 injured, several fatally, in a work train wreck on the Great Northern railroad between Vancouver and New Westminster yesterday.
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Vancouver
B. C
Great Northern Railroad
New Westminister
Nine Sailors Adrift In South Sea Gig
Washington Nov 29 Nine sailors from the gunboat Marietta at Port Simon Costa Rica are still unaccounted for after being adrift in a gig and whale boat tied to the vessel. They have been missing since Friday night and no new information has reached the Navy Department.
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Washington
Marietta
Port Simon
Costa Rica
Navy Department
Dr Cook Under Cover Fraud Says Wellman
Washington November 29 Walter Wellman long statement analyzes the Cook Peary polar claim narrative praising Peary as precise credible and workmanlike while denouncing Cook as an impostor The piece notes Cook near New York seeking rest health concerns and nervous breakdown fears and that his brother says the condition is not serious but worsened by strain
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Washington
Walter Wellman
North Pole
Frederick A. Cook
Robert E. Peary
Peary
Dr. Cook
New York City
New York
Cook
Europe
William L. Cook
John R. Bradley
Brooklyn
Bronx
Ha Gramatanian
Gambler's dummy poolroom plan aims to fool reformers
Chicago, Nov 29. Mont Tennes reorganizes his Clark Street betting operation to block raids while setting up a dummy poolroom and handbook exchange as a decoy. The setup misleads reformers and police, preserving real bets inside a secret inner exchange, as officers stage his supposed raid for show.
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Chicago
Mont Tennes
Clark Street
Tennes
Mont
Pirates Try to Seize British ShipOff Providence Channel
In Providence channel near the Bahama islands 30 pirates armed with clubs and knives boarded the British steamship Rowan Moore. The crew repelled the attack and threw the pirate chieftain overboard. The Rowan Moore had left Galveston in October, and Indore officers say distress signals misled the ship into a boarding.
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Galveston
Texas
Rowan Moore
Providence Channel
Bahama Islands
Indore
King Edward Not Anxious To Arbitrate Alsop Claim
London on November 29 reports the United States asked King Edward to mediate the Alsop claim in dispute between the United States and Chile. The king had been informally approached before and gave a noncommittal reply at that time.
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Edward
Alsop
London
King Edward
United States
Chile
Foreign Office
Frank White Named Philippine Islands Director of Education
Manila November 29. Frank White appointed director of education for the Philippine islands to succeed Barrows. White, raised in Nebraska and a 1900 University of Chicago graduate, arrived in the Philippines in 1901. Sydney, N S W November 29. Australian defenders of the challenge cup defeat the Americans in straight sets in the doubles of the international tennis tournament.
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Frank White
Barrows
Philippine Islands
Manila
White
Nebraska
University of Chicago
Philippines
Sydney
N.S. W
Supreme Court Upholds Roads Decision
The Supreme Court rules in favor of road authorities in a United States case involving transportation policy and legal standards. The decision affirms the use of certain road-related measures under existing statutes and precedents, reinforcing governmental authority over infrastructure projects.
Labor Leaders Urge Taft to Intervene in Rail Charges
Labor leaders ask President Taft to take up their cause after a Minnesota circuit court decision restrains the ICC from lowering terminal charges on livestock cars from $2 to $1. The court order blocks the proposed reduction and delays the railroad rate change pending further action.
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Taft
Day
United States Circuit Court of
Minnesota
Interstate Commerce Commission
Labor Leaders Urge Taft Aid on Labor Reform
Washington delegates led by Samuel Gompers and Sidney Mitchell asked President Taft to include labor welfare provisions in his annual message. They pressed for limits on federal court injunctions in labor disputes and for Sherman act exemptions. Taft plans few changes citing pending Supreme Court cases. A petition for certiorari in a Bucks Stove contempt case was also filed and under review.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Gompers
Mitchell
Supreme Court
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
Bucks’ Stove and Range Company
Suicide at daughter's home shocks Rock Island family
Mrs. J. C. Gruwell 66, mentally impaired for months, died by taking carbolic acid at her daughter Mrs Chauncey Sears 6341 Evans avenue Chicago after visiting Evansville Wis and Rock Island friends recall her church work and Civil War veteran husband. Survived by three children Fred Gruwell Indianapolis Mrs G W Leyda Evansville Wis and Mrs Chauncey Sears Chicago. Burial in Chippiannock cemetery beside her husband tomorrow.
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J. C. Gruwell
Chauncey Sears
Evans Avenue
Chicago
Chippiannock
R. B. Williams
First Methodist Church
Grand Army
Woman's Relief Corps
Hammer Fall Crushes Fingers at Plow Shop
John Ricketts a Rock Island Plow Company blacksmith was injured Saturday when a trip hammer fell on his right hand crushing the first three fingers and necessitating amputation at the knuckles. He was taken to St. Anthony's hospital.
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John Ricketts
Rock Island Plow Company
St. Anthony's Hospital
Veterans Plan to Buy Cemetery Lot in Chipplannock
Buford post G A R and Siboney Bay camp Spanish War Veterans held a joint session to outline purchasing a cemetery lot at Chipplannock for veterans burial. With few younger members present no decision was made beyond discussing the plan. another meeting will be scheduled soon.
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Buford Post
Siboney Bay
Chipplannock
Sunday School Union to Elect President Next Friday
The City Sunday School union will meet next Friday evening at o'clock at the Y M C A chapel. Important business includes electing a president to succeed Rev W B Crommer, who has resigned, and the committee on chived reports.
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City Sunday School Union
W. B. Crommer
Committee Onchived
Site for New Home Passes to Masons
The Rock Island Masonic fraternity closed the deal with the Robinson estate for the property at Eighteenth street and Fifth avenue formerly occupied by the Rock Island stair works. The amount paid was $5,600. Old buildings will be removed and no handsome building will be erected as a Masonic home as previously described.
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Rock Island Masonic Fraternity
Robinson
Eighteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
Rock Islands Stair Works
Argus
Believed murderer safe after Bork family murders
Frontenac Kansas observes the aftermath of the Bork family killings. Authorities doubt the slayer will be captured and fear an extrajudicial mob reaction ready to lynch the suspected killer if found.
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Bork
Frontenac
Kan
Paris Attacked General Wounded in Hotel Steps
An allegedly insane man wounded General Verand on the Hotel Continental steps as he entered a banquet. He was arrested after mistaking Verand for General Brun minister of war. The incident followed President Fallieres’s departure from the nearby Hotel Bristol after a call on King Manuel of Portugal.
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Paris
War Department
Boyard
General Verand
Hotel Continental
General Brun
Falliores
Bristol
Manuel
Portugal
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Louiss May Alcott
Wendell Phillips
Horace Greeley
The
New York Tribune
Neptune
Antares
Marion, Ill
Gig
South Sea
Joe Cannon
W. Wellman
University of Copenhagen
Washing
the Supremé
Siboney Bay Camp
Sunday School Union
Masons
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