Leather factory fire in Philadelphia claims many lives
Thirteen dead and over fifty injured in a blaze at Daniel Friedlander leather goods factory on North Bodine street. Firemen and policemen were crushed under collapsing walls during rescue efforts amid icy conditions. By morning, eleven to fourteen firemen and up to twenty policemen were reported dead. exact totals were uncertain due to scattered victims and debris. Continued on Page 3.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Daniel Friedlander
D. Friedlander
North Bodine Street
John C. Baxter
John Taylor
Mexican federal commander Navarro pressed by rebels near Pedernales
Reports from Chihuahua say General Navarro and his federal troops are surrounded by insurrectos at Pedernales. Rebels harass the army, cutting off supplies and delaying reinforcements from reaching Navarro for a week due to rail disruptions. The surrounded commander faces near-surrender conditions with troops short of food and rest.
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Associated Press
Chihuahua
el Paso
Tex
Navarro
Pedernales
Mexico City
Attack on San Andres Contla Thwarted by Puebla Forces
A Puebla dispatch reports about 100 armed men seized the Puebla town of San Andres Contla last night but were driven off by state troops within thirty minutes after arriving at six. Fifteen attackers were captured with no details on dead or wounded.
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San Andres Contla
Puebla
Associated Press
Mexico City
Toy
Falling Ruins Crush a Roof
Tons of ice and bricks fell from the Greiss Pfleger building in Cincinnati on Sycamore street crushing the rear walls and roof of an automobile firm. Firemen no one hurt. ruins burn briskly after thirty hours of water. Search for missing fireman Charles Schwengel continuing.
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Cincinnati
Greiss-Pfleger Company
Sycamore Street
Chas. Schwengel
Old Man Dies While Watching Children Play
J Deidrich Dirks aged sixty six died in San Antonio while sitting by a window watching children in the street. His death, attributed to asthmatic complications, occurred after he arose from bed seeking relief. Justice Ben Fisk conducted the coroner's inquest at the scene near North Medina and West Houston.
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J. Deidrich Dirks
John Deidrich Dirks
Dirks
Mr. Deidrich
San Antonio
Talula
Lil
Texas
Ben Fisk
North
Medina
West
Houston
American Fleet to Visit Kiel on January 10
Berlin dispatch reports the American battleship fleet will visit Kiel on January 10 after a stop at Wilhelmshaven, a move that stirred German opinion since ports were not in the original itinerary. The American embassy has no comment on the Kiel dispatch. In New Orleans the steamer Hornet remained anchored two miles below the customs house.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Lokalanzeiger
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
New Orleans
Hornet
Mississippi River
Customs House
Rich Nevada gold strike stirs Reno excitement
A prospector reports a vein near Reno yields gold worth 80 000 per ton, but he cannot relocate the claim after two failed attempts to guide capitalists to the site. The finder, a respected local, refuses to reveal his identity as frantic efforts to rediscover the location surge.
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Reno
Fire kills 29 at Morris & Co packing house in Chicago
A December Chicago disaster at Morris & Co packers killed Fire Marshal James Horan and 28 firefighters when a wooden canopy collapsed during a warehouse blaze. The blaze damaged warehouses and stock valued at 1.25 million dollars and left over fifty injured.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
James*Horan
Morris & Co. Packers
Union
Morris & Co
William Burroughs
Lieutenant Fitzgerald
Marshal Horan
Marshal Seyferlich
Seyferlich
James Horan
William J. Burroughs
Patrick E. Collins
Dennis Doyle
Joseph Muraweski
Charles Moore
Chicago fires claim many lives and stock yard losses
The brief recount notes twenty nine lives lost and property damage of 1 250 000 with the fire chief and 28 firefighters buried under burning bricks. Stock yards threatened with potential multimillion losses and thousands of cattle driven to panic as water scarcity hampered firefighting.
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Stock Yards
International Fair association directors election stalls
The International Fair association election to choose directors ends tonight with no candidate elected. Stockholders with controlling blocks abstained, skeptical of the ability of those set to govern the fair. If no one wins, a mass meeting of all stockholders may be held at the Chamber of Commerce to name directors before year end.
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International Fair Association
Hundred Christmas Pardons Authorized in Texas Prisons
Austin dispatch reports the Texas board of pardons announced that 100 Christmas pardons will be issued to state prisoners. Forty eight pardons have already been granted and the board recommended a further hundred more.
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Austin
Tex
Board of Pardons
British Spies Trench and Brandon Sentenced in Germany
Capt Bernard Trench and Lt Vivian Brandon were found guilty of espionage at Borkem. Each received four years in a fortress prison after arrest at Borkum on August 22 23. They admitted intent to collect information for Britain but German authorities cited mitigating factors.
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Associated Press
Leipzig
Germany
Bernard Frederick Trench
British
Royal Marine Infantry
Vivian H. Brandon
Royal Navy
Borkem
Borkum
Leipise
Brandon
William Bull
M. P
Trench
Lord Astown
Archbishop Trent
Rainfall report details broad storm spread across regions
Major Buell notes half an inch of rain at 1 o clock with more expected tonight and tomorrow. Storm area shifts from the Illo Grande valley to Manitoba, with general rains in East Texas Louisiana Missouri and lighter in Minnesota South Dakota. Colder winds follow, frost reported as far south as Jacksonville and temperatures range from 48 in San Francisco to 12 in Durango Colorado.
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Allen Buell
United State Weather Bureau
Major Buell
Illo Grande Valley
Manitoba
Texas
Louisiana
Missouri
Minnesota
South Dakota
Jacksonville
Rock Mountain
San Francisco
Durango
Colorado
San Antonio
Uvalde
Eagle Lake
Here
Laredo
Taylor
French Flyers Set New Air Records in Cross-Country Runs
Paris reports French aviators shattering records. Lt Camerman set a 147 mile passenger cross-country mark in 4 hours 2 minutes earning the Lazar Weiller prize. Helen Dutrieu raised the women's cross-country record to 167 kilometers. Laurens won the Deperig 2 cup with a 100 kilometer flight in 76 minutes.
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Associated Press
Paris
Camerman
Lazar Weiller
France
Henry Weyman
Weiller
Helen Dutrieu
M. Laurens
San Antonio Weather Outlook to Friday Evening
Unsettled conditions with possible rain tonight and Friday. Colder Friday with a 58 degree low noted in the last 24 hours. Comparative temperatures for this year and last are listed but not specified.
Diamonds hidden under rug in San Antonio burglary case
A prisoner confessed to multiple burglaries in San Antonio and said two diamonds valued at 500 or more were hidden under a rug in a Losoya street room. The stones disappeared after Sheriff Tobin found them and the man now admits he acted alone with five or six charges to follow in justice court.
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Losoya Street
John W. Tobin
Tobin
San Antonio
N. 8
Edmunds
Florida Street
Alamo Plaza
Justice Court
Carper Critically Ill Deputy Marshal W A Carper
Word has reached United States Marshal Eugene Nolte that Deputy Marshal W A Carper of Waco is in critical condition from long standing kidney trouble. After four days in hospital his condition has not improved and he is not expected to survive. He has served for many years and is regarded as an efficient and trustworthy officer, well known in San Antonio and surrounding area.
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United States
Eugene Nolte
W. A. Carper
Waco
Mr. Carper
San Antonio
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Smith
Woodrow Wilson
James Smith Jr
New Jersey
John Kean
Wilson
James F. Martine
Amerigan Fleet
Nelson Morris & Co
Chas. Berkery
Chas. Sweenie
Bulle
Hectors
Buell
San Antonio and Vicinity
At & O'Clock
Nolte
Ilness
Marshall
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