Roosevelt Message Dominates Congress Readings
Washington dispatch notes the president's lengthy message drew close attention as both houses opened. Senate finance discussed currency actions while Brownsville inquiry moves forward with expected majorit y and minority reports. Republicans anticipate Knox to chair rules committee after Spooner’s retirement.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
John Sharp Williams
Cooper
Wisconsin
Senate Committee On Finance
Aldrich
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Brownsville
Foraker
Bulkeley
Scott
Hemenway
Warren
Ledge
Warner
Fulton
Knox
Pennsylvania
Committee On Rules
Spooner
Senate
Missouri arrest of Harvey Hinckley in Bloomington murder case
Poplar Bluff Missouri December 3 Harvey Hinckley alias Richard Stare was arrested here charged with the murder of John N McClintock and serious injury to Elijah Rogers at Bloomington Indiana on the night of August last Indiana authorities expected Hinckley has admitted his identity
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Missouri
Poplar Bluff
Harvey Hinkley
Richard Stare
John N. McClintock
Elijah Rogers
Bloomington
Ind
Hinckley
Indiana
Death sentence commuted for former professor
Karlsruhe reports the death sentence for Karl Hall, once a George Washington University professor in Washington D C, for the November 5 1906 murder of his mother in law Fran Moliter, has been commuted to life imprisonment.
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Karlsruhe
Karl Hall
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
Fran Moliter
Wall Street Revives After Muted Start On Monday
New York December 3 The price movement of stocks showed violent mutations as the market began to awaken with signs of resurgence in speculation and renewed activity across exchanges.
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Wall Street
New York
Mount Temple Runs Aground With 600 Aboard Near La Have
The twin screw steamship Mount Temple carrying about 600 passengers is ashore on Iron Bound ledge off the La Have river and is likely a total loss. Rescue operations by other vessels continue with no reported fatalities. Separately the steamer Restigouche wrecks on Cranberry Head, but the crew are safe.
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Halifax
N. B
Mount Temple
Antwerp
St. John
la Have
Sydney
N.S
Quebec
Cranberry Head
Impostor in Uniform At U S Recruiting Station
Charles Abrams of Boston, claiming to be a freelance journalist, was detained in Columbus Ohio after impersonating an army officer. He wore a natty uniform, claimed cavalry then infantry, and said he sought material for a magazine story.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles Abrams
Boston
Mass
United States
Abrams
Claid
Infantry
Massachusetts National Cadets
Jury's Hands on Bradley Murder Trial
Washington December 3. After a three week trial Mrs Annie M Bradley is accused of killing former Utah Senator Arthur Brown. Judge Stafford spent fifty two minutes instructing the jury before it retires to deliberate.
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Washington
Annie M. Bradley
United States
Arthur Brown
Utah
Stafford
Misunderstanding Orders Cause Train Collision
Conductor Wiley of Detroit was killed at Gould on the Wabash railway after a mis understood order led to a rear end collision with a Wabash train. A brakeman on Wiley s train was seriously injured.
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Peru
Ind
Wiley
Detroit
Gould
Toledo
Ironton
American in Paris Arrested for Systematic Pocket-Picking
An American claiming to be George Bennett of Chicago and two Englishmen were arrested in Paris on the charge of extensive and systematic pocket-picking in banks and department stores.
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Paris
George Bennett
Chicago
International Sanitary Congress Opens in Mexico City
Twelve American nations are represented as the third international sanitary congress meets in Mexico City. In the U S news, four Mississippi river steamboats in winter quarters at Wabasha Minn were destroyed by fire causing 105000 dollars in losses. Additional items report a Portland Maine mayoral race, coinage totals, billiards champion, wage cuts at Bethlehem steel, fare collection losses for Brooklyn Rapid Transit, a Kansas City editor’s death, and fiscal statistics including debt, receipts and expenditures for late 1907.
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Mexico City
Wabasha
Minn
Cruce
Duke of Portland
London
Adam P. Leighton
Portland
Nathan Clifford
United States
Jake Schaffer
George Sutton
Chicago
Charles M
Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Works
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Hiram Jackson Groves
Kansas City Post
R. C. Horne
Isthmian Canal Commission
Giornale Italia
America
Desire Damages Loss by Explosion at Fontanet Powder Mill
Brazil Ind Dec 3 The Dupont Powder company faces lawsuits from Vigo County residents over damages from the Fontanet powder mill blast. County damage is estimated at about 50 000 with Brazil city losses around 20 000 including shattered plate glass and several fires from cracked chimneys.
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Brazil
Ind
Dupont Powder Company
Fontanet
Vigo County
Timber scarcity noted in Purdue forestry report
Fred Miller of Purdue University reported to Will Freeman of the state forestry board that northern Indiana shows efforts to grow timber for fence posts. He warns seed mixing harms results and many trees branch low, reducing value. black walnut near Frankfort reached diameters of two to six inches after fifteen years with rows fourteen feet apart and seedlings six inches to two feet apart.
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Indianapolis
Fred Miller
Purdue University
State Board of Forestry
Will Freeman
Board of Forestry
Frankfort
Farmer Finds Hidden Treasure in Log Split
South Bend Indiana December 3 John Wainwright a farmer near here found 275 dollars hidden in a hollow log while splitting wood for the kitchen stove. The roll of bills tied with a string had edges frayed and stained, indicating it had been there some time.
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South Bend
Ind
John Wainwright
Wainwright
Fire destroys Lorig & Son mill in Laporte
Laporte Indiana December 3 a fire blamed on incendiarism leveled the Lorig Son flouring mill causing about 20000 dollars in damage with 16000 dollars insured Theodore Lorig a city council member fainted at news of the blaze and fell in serious condition Eluded Vigilance of Hospital Guards Porters county death by hanging at Loneycliffe insane hospital in Logansport Indiana Matilda Norling committed suicide by hanging after escaping guards Ormond Browns Himself New Albany Indiana December 3 man facing eviction leapt from a Kentucky Indiana bridge into the Ohio river William J C Ormond fifty years old the last heir to his father killed himself under the weight of loss Young Hunter Arm Blown Off Muncie Indiana December 3 William Buss sixteen of Daleville was hunting when his shotgun discharged while he picked it up from the ground blowing off his right arm between the elbow and wrist
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Laporte
Ind
Lorig & Son
Theodore Lorig
Logansport
Matilda Norling
Porter County
Loneycliffe Insane Hospital
New Albany
William J. C. Ormond
Kentucky and Indiana
Ohio River
Muncie
William Buss
Daleville
Two Drown in White River Near Washington
In Washington Indiana on December 3 three young men John Maher Jacobs Sahm and Patrick Kelly tried to cross White river in a skiff. The boat overturned Maher and Sahm drowned while Kelly clung to the boat and survived.
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White River
Washington
Ind
John Maher
Jacobs Sahm
Patrick Kelly
Maher
Sahm
Kelly
Victim of a Serious Accident in Bedford Home
Miss Katie Johnson aged thirty five was fatally burned when her dress caught fire from a grate in front of the Johnson home. Her injuries were described as terrible as fire engulfed her clothing.
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Bedford
Ind
Katie Johnson
Johnson
Indiana Democrats plan early state convention in 1910
Indianapolis report states the Democratic state committee will reorganize January 8 and may hold an early convention as soon as April. Secretary Joe Betley and Reiley advocate an aggressive start, while Republicans may move dates earlier to respond.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Democratic State Committee
Joe Betley
Indiana
Congress
Reiley
John W. Kern
Goodrich
Washington
Republican National Committee
State Committee
Bloodhounds Called to Cloverdale Grocery Burglary
In Cloverdale Indiana on December 3 police report the fourth burglary at Miss Nellie Moran’s store in a month. Bloodhounds from Indianapolis tracked a trail but investigators say cash lost is unknown as the scene remained sealed to preserve the scent.
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Cloverdale
Ind
Nellie Moran
Indianapolis
Peter Vogel Shoots Wife Then Fatally Self-Inflicts
In New York Peter Vogel shot his wife and then killed himself by a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities reported. The tragedy leaves no survivor in the household and prompts an investigation into motive and sequence of events.
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Peter Vogel
New York
Imprisoned Faculty Leads New Prison Education Effort
A New York Times dispatch notes Philetus M. Helfer’s departure to Auburn New York, ending a chapter in state supported convict education. A nine member faculty, all college graduates, will teach 1200 inmates with strong ties to Cambridge Oxford Columbia Cornell and other schools.
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Auburn
N. Y
Philetus M. Helfer
New York
New York Times
Cambridge
England
Oxford
Columbia
Cornell
New York City
Emory's Russian Victory in a Pacific Duel
Rear Admiral William H. Emory faced a harbor insult aboard an American ship off the China station. Russian officers demanded a duel for a paymaster insult, but Emory arranged a public apology by sending a written challenge that compelled the Russian captain to capitulate and dispatch his subordinate to apologize.
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Evans
William H. Hmory
Pacific
China Station
Emory
Ministers take rear car posts amid rail layoffs
Pittsburg Railways drew 31 applicants from colleges and ministry for conductor work. Graduates found no other jobs, professors without positions, ministers eager for duties and one even supervising a car through a rough district after midnight restoring order amid a late crowd altercation.
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Pittsburg
New York Times
California ice cream plant for ocean liners boosts output
Popular Mechanics notes a California plant serves transpacific ships by freezing ice cream with cold brine around ammonia piping. The method yields a batch every eight minutes, totaling 1,000 gallons per day for long voyages to Hong Kong and back to San Francisco.
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Orient
California
Transpacific
Hongkong
San Francisco
Popular Mechanics
International reply coupon issued for international postage
The postoffice department has released an international reply coupon that can be exchanged at any universal postal union post office for 25 centimes or its equivalent. This allows sending postage for a reply to a foreign correspondent. In most countries the coupon can be exchanged for stamps equal to a five cent US stamp, except in China and Russia.
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Postoffice Department
Universal Postal Union
New York Herald
United States
China
Russia
Attorney Ad Bows to Main Street Practice
Legal notice states an attorney will practice in all courts from an office on Main Street one door west of Occidental Hotel.
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Main Street
Occidental Hotel
Smith and McCullough Smith practice in Rockport
The law firm of M. Smith and W. A. McCullough Smith announces they will practice in all courts from their office on the ground floor south side of Main Street Rockport Indiana.
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Rockport
Indiana
South Side
Main Street
Attorney ad for B F Huffman Rockport Indiana
B F Huffman attorney at law maintains offices in the post office building on Main Street opposite the court house in Rockport Indiana and will practice in all courts.
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W. H. Brown
J Brown Brown
Indiana
Postoffice Building
Main Street
Court House
B. F. Huffman
Rockport
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