Cincinnati hotel and stores burn as downtown fire roars
Fire destroyed the Gibson hotel Renbig Lovgmann department store and upper Union Trust building in Cincinnati nocturnal blaze. Estimates put losses at 800000 to 1000000 dollars with nine injuries reported and no confirmed deaths. Guests in the Gibson hotel reportedly escaped as volunteers aided hundreds trapped in the Union Trust building during the rapid fire spread. A torch may have started the blaze in the Gibson hotel rear area during reconstruction work.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Cincinnati
Gibson
Renbig-Lovgmann
W. L. Douglas Shoe
Union Trust Building
Scrul
Union Trust
Gibson Hotel
Tariff hearing schedule announced by Ways and Means
Washington announces program of tariff hearings with Schedule B on January for earthenware and glassware Schedule C on metal and metal manufactories and two daily sessions at 10 pm and 2 pm in the House office building. Interested parties must apply to the clerk with permanent and temporary addresses and briefing documents before the assigned date.
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Washington
Thonse Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Woman's Body Exhumed Weighs About Eight Hundred Pounds
Remains of Mrs. Merle Swearingen of Chester West Virginia who died nine years ago were interred in Mill Creek Cemetery Beaver County Pennsylvania. Exhumation last Thursday by her husband revealed petrified remains weighing about 800 pounds with features hair clothing and slippers in perfect preservation.
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Merle Swearringen
Chester
W. Va
Mill Creek
Beaver County
Steubenville Probe Tangles Hogans Office Gain and Gossip
Report from Columbus says Attorney General Hogan reacts to telegrams claiming the people deem him a quitter. Prosecutor Paisley and Dempsey steer witnesses as Hogan considers sweeping legal changes while indictments test community support. Hogan arrives to assess probe with Dempsey and local press present.
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Columbus
Hogan
H. H. McFadden
Flogan
Attorney General's Office
McFadden
Grand Jury
Hoover
Paisley
Wilson
Cox
Ohio
Francis
Timothy Hogan
P. E. Dempsey
Benjamin F. Welty, Esq
Lima
West
Allen County
Strike unsettles English railways as Lord Mayor mediates
London officials seek quick settlement of the Northeastern railroad strike as Lord Mayor of Newcastle intervenes to arrange terms between the company and striking locomotive engineers. The disruption spans a wide area, halting coal supply and forcing factory closures ahead of Christmas. the Amalgamated Society of Railroad Workers counters that the strike is unauthorized and unrecognized by the union.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
London
New Castle
England
Amalgamated Society of Railroad Workers
Taft to Spend Christmas in Key West and Panama
President Taft will depart Washington at midnight December 19 for Key West Florida then sail December 21 on the Arkansas to Panama. Mrs Taft a military aide Secretary Hilles Charles P Taft and others expected to accompany him. Return trip to Washington is planned for December 21.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Washington
Taft
Key West
Florida
Panama
Arkansas
Hilles
Charles P. Taft
Trin
Grace Sues for Divorce After Life Insurance Claim
Eu gene H Grace files suit for divorce from Daisy Opie Grace alleging his wife shot him to obtain life insurance. Trial in June ended with Daisy Grace acquitted and returning to Philadelphia to live.
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iBy Associated Press
Herald-Star
Newman
Georgia
Eugene H. Grace
Daisy Opie Grace
Taft Contemplates Yale Kent Professorship Offer
President Taft has been formally tendered the Kent professorship at Yale Law School, with his friends believing he will accept. He has discussed the position with his cabinet but has not decided, weighing Yale obligations against his Cincinnati law practice. If accepted, his relation to Yale would mirror Cleveland’s Princeton ties, and a decision is not expected before next month. The salary is $5,000 yearly.
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Phelps
Great Britain
Taft
Yale University
Cleveland
Princeton
Paft
Cincinnati
Yale
Kent
Progressives press ahead with publicity push and roosevelt visit
At a Chicago conference progressives discussed creating a publicity bureau and a literary bureau while planning promotion strategies for a future victory. Oscar and Ley, Jabama attacked Alabama GOP, Lorimer two senators cited. Colonel Roosevelt spent the morning in his room and attended a Woman's Progressive luncheon.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Chicago
Iaash
Oscar
Ley
Jabama
Alabama
Republican Party
Cain
Henry Temple
Pennsylvania
National Committee
Roosevelt
Woman's Progressive Party
Former New York Chamberlain Hyde Sentenced for Bribery
Charles H. Hyde, former City Chamberlain, convicted of bribery over city funds, was sentenced by Justice Goff to a term of two to three years and six months. A stay of execution was granted pending appeals and Hyde's bond was set at 25,000.
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New York
Charles H. Hyde
Goff
Thieves Ride Off With Fine Horses Near Frankfort Springs
Thieves raided barns near Frankfort Springs Pennsylvania during Tuesday night stealing a 1200 pound team of two horses from Thomas Henry and a bay horse from A C Coss. A posse formed and searched the area while the bay from Coss was recovered on the road three quarters of a mile away. The Henry team remains missing and authorities in Washington County Pennsylvania and Columbiana County Ohio pursue the fugitives.
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Henry
Washington County
Columbiana County
Three Ships Fourth Rate Naval Power Without Bigger Navy
Washington Indiana United States must have a bigger navy and be ready for war to safeguard national safety Secretary Meyer Navy Department urges three ships this year to keep pace with world powers. He calls for a program of 41 capital ships including battleships and battle cruisers plus destroyers submarines gunboats and auxiliaries to support a robust fleet and aviation spending to match other nations. He warns against relying on treaties and urges Congress to fund four battleships while noting retirements reduce real increases.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Washington
United States
Meyer
Navy Department
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
Navy General Board
To Conform With the Supreme Court's Decision Dissolving the Merger
Washington December 11 Robert Lovett head of the Harriman railroad system and Maxwell Evarts chief counsel conferred with President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham at the White House about the Supreme Court decisions dissolving the Union Pacific merger. The party met after breakfast and preliminary outlines for reorganizing the railroad properties were submitted for approval.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Washington
Robert
Lovett
Harriman
Maxwell Evarts
Taft
Wickersham
White House
Supreme Court
Union Pacific
West Virginia postmasters confirmed by WV senators
President Taft nominated Albert Snedeker and J. W. Edwards for Wellsburg and Welch postmaster positions. A Democratic Republican agreement may block confirmations if a state senator objects. WV Senators Watson and Chilton hold the key to approval or hold up under the deal.
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Taft
Albert Snedeker
J. W. Edwards
Wellsburg
Welch
West Virginia
Senate
Watson and
Chilton
Wheeling Intelligencer
Counterfeit Ring Busted in Braddock Area
Pittsburg December 11 secret service operative William Nye and Braddock police arrested Giacin to De Cario and his wife at their Braddock home with the melting pot at white heat and moulds for counterfeit metal. They confiscated 100 counterfeit half dollars.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Pittsburg
Giacinto de Cario
Braddock
Secret Service
William Nye
Wlice
Deaths at Deaths Corner Chicago Italian Quarter
An unidentified man was shot through the head and killed instantly at Death's Corner in Chicago's northside Italian quarter early today. The locality has earned its name after 12 murders occurred there in the past year.
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Associated Kress
Herald-Star
Chicago
Death’s Corner
Death's Corner
Final Account in Court of This County
Probate Court reports a week of final accounts and administrations. Highlights include the late Justin G. Morris estate final account, notable for his 36 years since probate and ties to the Steubenville and Indiana railroad. Other items list appraisals, guardians, bonds, and estate actions across multiple cases including Eli Babic, Therresa Cautheld, Percil Pennick, Salvadora Intcertobadre, and others, with commissions, orders, and settlements noted.
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Justin G. Morris
Steubenville & Indiana Railroad Company
Samuel Still
Ohio
Anna Miles
Eli Babic
Samuel Davis
Elizabeth J. Corbett
Massillon Hospital
Therresa Cautheld
Next of Kind
Percil Pennick
Lancaster Boys’ Farm
Salvadora
Intcertobadre
Wm. Leeper
Ragland
Rocco Arigenale
John W. Porter
Iistate
Jos. Blahovic
Geo. W. Veney
Charles Bundy
Marion F. Ely
Paul W. Rettig
Glen’s Run Coal Co
Erich Rettig
Art Rettig
Felix Magee
Wm. T. Hogue
John Kearns
Lily Sherrard
M. Tabasso
Guardian Ad Litem
Grim Walls Of Her Temporary Home At Lisbon Prison
Mary Burrows broke down on approaching the Lisbon penitentiary as she prepared to begin a five year sentence for the murder of her husband. Earlier she had remained cheerful during the journey, but at the iron gates her nervous collapse showed the full realization of her crime. She was taken in by the warden and escorted to her cell to begin her sentence.
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Lisbon
Mary Burrows
Breidenstein
First break in six day bicycle race shocks field
New York report notes Jake Magin of California on the New Jersey team suffered a broken collar bone in a sprint this morning. He was taken to a hospital and his partner Percy Lawrence now depends on a team being broken up to stay in the race.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
New York
Jake Magin
California
Jerey
Magin
Percy Lawrence
Oil Workers In Wheeling Tell Of Peonage Abuse
In a late story, more than thirty American laborers claim they were lured from Olean New York by an employment agency to work for Standard Oil in southern West Virginia. They allege poor conditions were used, wages withheld, and enforced labor in a pipe line camp. Some eighty men began the journey. many stayed on the road earning fares home as Salvation Army and fellow railroad workers provided aid. State Labor Commissioner Barton said no peonage charges were reported by arriving workers.
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Olean
N. Y
West Virginia
Standard Oi Company
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Salvation Army
Union
Intelliewcer
Ast
State Abor
T. V. Barton
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