Taken Alive From Mine Near Negaunee
Rescue teams in Negaunee Michigan work through entombed mine rubble after a rock and mud slide buried four miners. Frank Condello was rescued alive after eight days. Peter Mund died. Two others Oscar Wattalls and Victor Makki remain trapped as efforts continue to reach them.
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Negaunee
Mich
Frank Condello
Peter Mund
Condello
Mundh
Oscar Wattalls
Victor Makki
Detroit Bar Association Organizes Legal Aid Bureau
Detroit sought to aid the needy by forming a legal aid bureau under the Detroit Bar Association. The experimental program aims to be self supporting in six months and will investigate clients before aiding them with attorney fees. Burglars ransacked the home of ex Sheriff deputy and wife in Ypsilanti while they were away, damaging rooms but stealing nothing except a revolver and a boy’s bank with $7.
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Detroit Bar Association
Detroit
Mich
Samuel T. Douglas
Detroit Bar Assocation
Ypsilanti
Glen Seymour
Minneapolis
Seymour
Raise the Maine Bill Introduced in Congress
Representative Loud of Michigan introduces in the house a bill authorizing the secretary of the navy to seek bids for raising the wreck of the battleship Maine from Havana harbor and to inter the recovered bodies in a national cemetery. The measure allows a treaty with Cuba for implementation, ratified by the senate.
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Loud
Congress
Washington
Dec
Lous
Mich
House
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Maine
Havana Harbor
National
Republic of Cunha
Senate of
Named Minister to Honduras Named McCreery for diplomatic post to Honduras
Washington December 21 President Taft sent the nomination of Fenton R McCreery of Flint Michigan as United States minister to Honduras to the Senate. McCreery has long served abroad including secretary of legation at Santiago Chile secretary of the legation at Mexico City and minister resident and consul general at Santo Domingo. The Senate confirmed Daniel A Wilson as marshal for China and announced postmaster appointments in Michigan including Charles Farmer Benjamin Gorman William Holland Shelby Pietd and Clarence Bocraft.
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Washington
Fenton R. McCreery
Flint
Mich
United States
Honduras
Senate
Taft
McCreery
Santiago
Chile
Legation
Mexico City
Santo Domingo
W. B. McCreery
Michigan
Daniel A. Wilson
Detroit
United States Court For China
Edward H. Murray
Charles H Castle
Armada
George W. Dafoe
Brown City
Thomas FE. Dawson
Sandusky
Charles Farmer
Benton Harbor
Benjamin B. Gorman
Coldwater
William L. Holland
St. Josep
Shelby C. Pietd
Sparta
Clarence N. Bocraft
Watervilet
Mrs Singer in Reno Seeks Divorce From Sewing Machine Heiress
Mrs Avery A Singer, widow of a Singer family member and Boston club figure, travels to Reno to establish Nevada residency for divorce. Married twelve years with no children, she is Detroit born and independent heiress. Husband reputedly wealthy and may not contest. Property rights already adjusted.
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Detroit
Reno
Nev
Avery A. Singer
Singer
Sewing Machine
Elisan Club
Boston
Nevada
Charlotte Davis
Davis
Parke, Davis Company
Eall
Michigan Briefs on Detroit boiler explosion settlements
Probate court in Detroit sees estates of a dozen victims from the Peaberthy Injector plant boiler disaster file releases. Settlements of $100 each are noted. Dr Noah Aronstam is cited for a paper on Jewish dietary laws at the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition. A Grand Rapids teamster, Tobias Eugene, dies when frightened horses bolt in the business district. Porch climbers continue in Grand Ledge.
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Peaberthy
Detroit
Noah Aronstam
Dresden
Germany
Aronstam
Grand Rapids
Eugene Tobias
Grand Ledge
Old People Attacked In Delaware County Barn Raid
Media Pennsylvania December 21 A brutal crime in Darling ton Delaware county as two assailants tied and beat seventy year old Edward Litzenberg and his wife Annie Litzenberg about sixty. They forced Mrs Litzenberg to reveal the location of $202 in a trunk on the second floor before fleeing. The couple’s neighbors and local watchmen were alerted and pursued possibilities while the woman recovers from shock.
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Media
Darlington
Delaware County
Annie Bitzenberg
Edward Litzenberg
Litzenbergs
Zeely
Litzenberg
Iitgenberg
Wardlaw Sisters Face Extradition Fight in New Jersey
In New York the arraignment of Mrs. Caroline Wardlaw Martin and Mrs. Mary Wardlaw Snead ends with adjournment to Friday. One sister vows to fight extradition from New York while the other waives her rights. The case concerns the death of Ocey Snead in East Orange, with a New Jersey grand jury expected to indict by Friday.
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Orange
N. J
New York
Caroline Wardlaw Martin
Mary Wardlaw Snead
Ocey Snead
East Orange
Deserts Big Family Arrests In Saginaw
George Baker aged forty two was arrested on a desertion charge in Saginaw Michigan after abandoning his wife and eight children the oldest only fifteen. He left by train from Detroit claiming he would never return then changed course at Toledo and returned home.
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Saginaw, Mich
George Baker
Detroit
Toledo
Benton Harbor Man Slashed by Negro Attacker
Fred Marshall of Benton Harbor is near death from knife wounds received at his home. He told officers that a man named John Denny attacked him, accusing him of the assault.
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Bays
Benton Harbor
Midh
Fred Marshall
Marshall
John Denny
Noted Confederate Dead in Wilmington and Local Fire Incident
Major Charles P. Bolles, a Confederate veteran and fortification engineer from Wilmington, died at his home in the seventy sixth year. A separate blaze caused by a collapsing fald injured Mrs. Lydie Wohl and her brother Theodore Wohl, with clothing damage and a $100 fire loss to a nearby establishment.
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Wilmington
Charles P. Bolles
Ann Arbor
Lydie Wohl
Arma
Thiodore Wohl
Baroness Vaughan Leaves Brussels for Pontoise Chateau
Baroness Vaughan wife of King Leopold arrives from Brussels with a single companion. Reporters swarm the northern station as she refuses to answer questions, saying she does not know her plans yet. She departs by taxi to Western station and boards a train to Pontoise to reach her chateau.
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Vaughan
Brussels
Paris
Baroness Vaughan
Leopold
Pontoise
Consuelo Duchess of Manchester Probate Valued at 1 Million
The late Consuelo dowager duchess of Manchester, a friend of King Edward, is valued for probate at 1,024,330 dollars. After provisions for her grandson Viscount Mandeville and other heirs, the residue goes to the Duke of Manchester for his life and then to his issue.
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Manchester
Leavy
London
Consuelo
Duchess of Manchester
Edward
Viscount Mandeville
Duke of Manchester
Duribis
Christmas on the Polly from a sea voyage tale
A 1909 American Press Association poem narrates a captain and his daughter aboard the ship Polly as a Christmas night at sea unfolds. The captain promises Santa will find them, while a crewman and sailors cast kind glances at a lone stocking by the stovepipe as fierce storms rage outside.
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American Press Association
Polly
Santa Claus
Land
Cailor
Christmas at Sea on the Polly and local notices
A nostalgic verse tells of the captain's little daughter aboard the Polly with a treasure filled stocking. The rest of the item lists holiday miscelany: warm shoes at J Le Miller, family visits, Christmas plans, and local notices noting travel, sales, and upcoming events such as the County Farmers Institute in Alma and a royal entertainment at F W Hooper's home.
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Polly
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