Graft Exposer Heney Shot in San Francisco Court Fight
Francis J. Heney, famed anti graft prosecutor, was shot in the Abe Ruef bribery trial in a San Francisco courtroom. The assailant Morey Haas, a rejected juror, killed himself in jail days later. Heney survived with injuries as crowds watched in shock.
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San Francisco
Cal
Francis J. Heney
Municipal
Fit@ay
Lawler
Abe Reuf
Heney
Morey Haas
Haas
al McCabe
James L. Gallagher
Mr. Heney
McCabe
John Foley
Foley
K. J. Wiskethhill
Oregon
California
Eugene Schmitz
Fiddler
Penildentiary
Schmitz
Abe Ruef
Higving
Schmitz Heney
Ruef
Metcalf Retires From Navy Post Over Ill Health
Washington DC Special Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf resigns to take effect December 1 due to ill health. Assistant Secretary Tru an H. Newbury to be named successor after more than a year of serious illness.
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Washington, D. C
Navy
Victor H. Metcalf
Truan H. Newbury
Metcalf
Tragedy on the Colony Ship Ends in Suicide
Boatswain James Layson of the Colony kills his superior with an axe then surrenders to arrest and, with the weapon, leaps into the sea to end his life.
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New York
James Layson
Iiverpool
Bryan and Wife Travel to Mexico for Rest and Speaking
Lincoln Neb special reports Mr and Mrs W J Bryan departed Sunday for a trip to Mexico seeking rest and recreation. Mr Bryan will deliver a commencement address in Philadelphia on December 23.
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Bryan
Mexico
Lincoln, Neb
Rs. W. J. Bryan
Phildelphia
Taft Cabinet Rumor Suggests Fresh Names
Washington dispatch to the Sun cites a well known administration figure predicting a new Taft Cabinet with Cromwell Herrick Corbin Heney Landis Churchill Vorys Pinchot Hammond and Hays Hammond as possible picks. The item notes the claim as a practical joke.
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Washington
New York Sun
Taft
William Nelson Cromwell
New York
Treasury
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
Henry C. Corbin
Francis J. Heney
California
Chas B. Landis
Indiana
Navy
Winston Churchill
Seven Men Die In Okmulgee Shootout After Negro Man Sets Fire
In Okmulgee Oklahoma a deadly confrontation leaves seven others dead after James Deckard a Black man, shot and killed Assistant City Marshal Henry Klaber during an attempt to arrest him. A siege follows with Deckard firing on deputies, and he dies in a house fire he starts as the standoff ends. Sheriff Jedgar Robinson also dies, along with five Black bystanders.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Henry Klaber
James Deckard
Klaber
Deckard
Jim Grayson
Frisco
Grayson
Robinson
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia Dies in Paris at 75
Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of Emperor Nicholas, died in Paris on Saturday from pneumonia. Born in 1850, he had resided in Paris almost continually since retiring after twenty four years as supreme director of naval affairs. He visited the United States in 1872.
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Paris
Grand Duke
Alexis
Russia
Nicholas
Naval Affairs
United States
Post Office Safe Robbery in South Bend
A bold heist at the South Bend Indiana post office saw robbers drill a 14 by 14 inch hole through walls of the building and vault to pry open a safe. They stole stamps totaling 18 thousand six hundred fifty three dollars and 50 cents and fled, with no leads for police, operating within 100 feet of clerks handling mails.
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South Bend
P. O
Ind
Getting After Lamphere
With the Lamphere trial resuming in Laporte Indiana the prosecution begins linking Lamphere to the Gunness house fire last April as evidence aims to explain Mrs Gunness methods in her murders and the deaths of three children.
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Laporte
Ind
Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
Lamphere
Gunness
Roosevelt urges separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico
In a letter to Chief Justice Kent President Roosevelt states he will urge in his Congress message separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico and assist Governor Kibbey in preparing an enabling act.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Kent
Roosevelt
Congress
New Mexico
Kibbey
Curfew Call Signals Chicago Law on Street Hours
Sermons across Chicago urged adoption of a curfew law requiring all children to be off the streets by 9 PM each evening. The drive aims to curb juvenile loafing and improve safety in the city.
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Chicago
Woman Hires Trio to Kill Mother for Life Insurance
Miss May L. Otis, 36, of 640 East Fortysixth Place, was arrested in Chicago on charges tied to a plot to murder her mother, Mrs. Sarah Otis, 57, to obtain a $6,000 life policy. The scheme involved paying $2,500 to three men after tracing the mother’s finances, with detectives posing as accomplices.
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Chicago
May L. Otis
East Forty-sixth Place
Miss Otis
Kleine Optical Company
Sarah Otis
Smith
Walnut Street
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Keystone Detective Agency
Robert C. Stolman
Solman
Stolman
Fall Kills Watterson’s Son In Nineteenth Floor Window
Harvey Watterson, younger son of Col. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal, died after a fall from a side window on the nineteenth floor of the Trust Company of America building. He slipped while closing the window and landed on the roof of the United States Trust Company building nine floors below, breaking nearly every bone in his body in what is ruled an accidental death due to a low window sill.
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New York
Harvey Watterson
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Trust Company of America
United States Trust Company
Watterson
Smugglers Drown at Buffalo Breakwall
A motor boat with ten Chinese and three white men wrecked on the Buffalo break wall near Michigan street. Six Chinese were killed. four survivors were rescued by a police boat crew. The three white men escaped as federal and local officers scour Buffalo for suspected smugglers from Canada.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Michigan Street
Canada
One Advantage Aeronauts Have
Frank Butler, an aeronaut, was last seen soaring through the clouds in a balloon by detectives in Toledo Ohio. He has not been seen since. In court a friend of Butler’s was sentenced as detectives reported arriving in a small Michigan town just as Butler disappeared with the balloon.
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Toledo
Ohio
Frank Butler
Butler
Michigan
Dream of Negro Colony Moves Westward from South
Salem Oregon special reports the Euphemica sodality of Beatitude seeks to transport a large negro colony to eastern Oregon Washington and Idaho. J T Bowman of St Louis writes to the state land board offering grants of arid land to lay out a townsite and build a railroad. Bowman says the colony will manage its own affairs and pay as it goes.
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Washington
Salem
Ore
Oregon
Idaho
Sodality of
Beatitude
J. T. Bowman
St. Louis
Sodality
Bowman
Man with Fifty Living Children Sentenced in Taunton
Clement Cunha, 68, father of fifty living children, received a one year workhouse sentence for non support and neglect of four day old twins. He testified of multiple marriages with several ex wives and many births, including eighteen children from one union. The judge asked how many children he had. Cunha replied fifty living.
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Taunton
Mass
Clement Cunha
New Bedford
Portugal
Queen Liliuokalani to Seek U S Recognition of Hawaiian Lands
Queen Liliuokalani plans to travel to Washington D C to advocate for recognition of her claims to lands in the Hawaiian group that were once held by the crown.
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Honolulu
Cable
Liliuokalani
Washington, D. C
Discovery of Andree mystery linked to Labrador cross
A Danish steamer captain reports finding a cross marked Andree in northern Labrador with a body and box of papers nearby. The 1897 Arctic balloon expedition led by S A Andree vanished. previous reports of a massacre by Eskimos and several searches failed to confirm the fate of Andree and his two companions.
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Copenhagen
S. A. Andree
North Pole
Labrador
Andree
Chalker
Pelops
Conception Bay
Newfoundland
Inga
Cape Mugford
Danes Island
Spitzbergen
Strindberg
Fraenkel
York Factory
British Territory
York
Fort Churchill
Arctic
Breakers Ahead for John D. Washington
Following the Chicago Circuit Court of Appeals decision to deny a rehearing in the Standard Oil case the Department of Justice will take the matter to the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
United States
Standard Oil
Department of Justice
Supreme Court of the United States
Roosevelt to sail March 15 for Naples aboard Koenig Albert
The Times cites an excellent authority that President Roosevelt plans to leave New York on March 15 aboard the North German Lloyd liner Koenig Albert for Naples via Gibraltar, with the ship due there on March 25 after nine days from the inauguration.
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Teddy
New York
the Times
New York Times
Roosevelt
Koenig Albert
Naples
Gibraltar
Five Children Burned to Death in Gas Explosion
In Elkins West Virginia a gas explosion rocked the home of barber E. J. Rice in Beverly area, killing his five children before rescuers could reach them. The residence was completely destroyed.
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Elkins
W. Va
E. J. Rice
Beverly
Here
Seven Die in Wreck Near New Orleans
Seven persons are known to be dead and a score or more injured in a wreck on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad at Little Woods twelve miles from New Orleans.
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New Orleans
New
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