Bradstreet and Dan Report On Business
New York reports export figures for the week ending November 25 with wheat and corn totals and year to date comparisons. Bradstreet notes colder weather boosting retail trade while roads hinder country commerce and warns of cross currents in wholesale activity. RG Dun & Co. cites unchanged favorable industrial conditions, strong steel demand, and reluctance to commit to long term orders into 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Canada
Bradstreet
RG. Dun & Co
Trade Today
Third Person Shot in Mountain Feud Near Dayon
In Williamson West Virginia on November 20 a third person was shot during the long running feud between the Christian and Daniels families near Dayon Mingo County A doctor was summoned to treat Jim Daniels at his brother's home The wound may be mortal and deaths could wipe out three Daniels family members The Daniels have ties to Cling relatives and Confederate veteran descendants while the opposing side includes close kin of the Hatfields
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willamson
W Va
Christian
Daniels
Dayon
Mingo County
Jim Daniels
Charles Daniels
Kentucky
Tube in cheek removed by Philadelphia hospital doctor
Albert Scott, traveling from Harrisburg, had a silver tube embedded in his cheek beneath an eye. X rays at St. Joseph's Hospital revealed the object and Dr. Lewis Ziegler operated to extract it. A year earlier a sliver tear duct tube had been fitted but later slipped, causing pain and prompting the discovery. Scott plans to rely more on tears and less on the tube.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Albert Scott
Harrisburg
St. Joseph's Hospital
Scott
Lewis Ziegler
St. Joseph's
Miners Strike Hits Edmonton Coal Mines
About 2700 miners in the Stanley coal mines around Edmonton Alberta went on strike last night over working conditions. A coal famine threatens the area with schools and the power house likely to close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Alberta
Navy
Stan
Ley
Tracked Four Years, Now In Custody In Dubuque
Joseph Gremore, tracked for four years from North McGregor, Iowa, was taken into custody in Memphis by U.S. Marshals for falsifying a pension check of 24 dollars by indorsing his mother Jane Gremore’s name. He faces trial in U.S. court in Dubuque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque, In
Joseph Gremore
North McGregor
Memphis
Tenn
United States
Jane Gremore
Sete Sine
Prairie Whien
Entrapment Plot Aimed at Gould Niece Marjorie
Parla reports Anna Gould now pushes Marjorie Gould toward a marriage with the Duke of Berwick also known as the Duke d Alba and Stuart Fitzjames amid fears of royal social gains and family fortunes. The aunt's past marriages and public criticism color the debate over the match.
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Parla
Goulds
Rincora de Sagan
Anna Gould
Marjorie
Duke of Berwick
England
Duke d'Alba
Stuart Fitzjames
Hugenia
Phnase
Count de Gustellang
Prince de Sagan
de Sagan
Sastellane
Severed Finger Key to London Thief Identified
A severed finger found on a Clerkenwell gate led police to William Mitchell, a noted thief. Fingerprint comparison at Scotland Yard matched his right hand bandage as the culprit, exposing him among South London pickpockets. Mitchell confessed. 12 months hard labor as a suspected person.
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London
Clerkenwell
Scotland Yard
William Mitchell
Harry May
Mitchell
Trainer in Battle With Fierce Baboon
Fred Wilson, a Brazil, Indiana trainer for an animal show, fought a baboon for about thirty minutes in Portland Oregon. The animal attacked his eye and throat, gnawed his legs after Wilson collapsed from blood loss and exhaustion. Workers freed him. Wilson is in serious condition.
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Portland
Ore
Fred Wilson
Brazil
Ind
Wilson
Imagination Almost Chokes Boy to Death
Simon Vetter, age several, nearly choked after food lodged in his throat at home in Verona. He improved only after x rays and surgery at Columbia hospital showed no physical obstruction. Doctors believed his choking was caused by imagined blockage despite initial coughing and distress.
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Fittaverg
Simon Vetter
Verona
Jim
Columbia Hospital
Woman Fires At Prisoner In Oklahoma Jail
Mrs John King wife of a miner was brought to the county jail to identify Will Tones the man accused of assaulting her yesterday She drew a revolver from her dress and fired the shot missed officers disarmed her and took her away A mob tried to lynch Tones the night before but no mob seen today in McAlester Oklahoma
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAlester
Okla
John King
Will Tones
Fishing Boat Missing After Northeast Storm
Atlantic City reports alarm for the crew of the auxiliary power and sailboat Chalfonte of Inlet feet as it fails to return from a cod fishing trip begun before the northeast storm. Missing are Levi Joseph Higbee, Hilgbee, and George Bo.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Chalfonte
Levi
Joseph
HH Higbee
Hilgbee
Boy
George Bo
Departure of Cook Angers Scientists Amid Rumors
New York on November 30 reports conflict over whether Dr. Cook sailed to Europe aboard the Caronia. A lawyer statement confirms his papers are on the way to Denmark and that he seeks safeguards, while Explorers Club members lament delays in Mount McKinley records and a promised committee presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frederick . A. Cool
Europs
Caronia
Denmark
Cook
Explorers’ Club
Mount McKiney
Dr. Cook
Marshall H. Saville
Mount McKinley
Copenhagen University
Triple Tragedy on Lonely Road in Frontenac Kansas
A man woman and their 2 1 2 year old child were found murdered on a road near Frontenac Kansas. The Bork family were killed in a suspected payoff to an assault on Mrs. Bork. Bloodhounds were sent to trace the killer as coroner and county officials held an inquest.
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Trontenac
Kan
Here
Mre. Bork
Frontenac
Bork
Frontemac
Dudley
Merriweather
Wooley
Pittsburg
Navy Officers Witness Prizefight at Norfolk Yard
At the Norfolk navy yard a crowd of about a thousand watched Timmie Glavin the navy middleweight champion defeat Dick Phillips the welterweight champion. The bout ended in the ninth round when Phillips lip tore his glove. Glavin weighed 1t pounds more than Phillips. both were electricians at the yard Wireless Telegraphy station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Norfolk Navy Yard
Jackies
Timmie Glavin
Navy
Dick Phillips
Phillips
Glavin
Virginia
Navy Yard
Cattle Thieves Bold in Northern Mexico Reported
Hi Paso Texas reports cattle raiders are striking northern Chihuahua with 4 to 100 head daily from large ranches. Governor Creel is appealed to for rurales. Rancheros plan to organize and launch a campaign once troops are secured.
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Hi Paso
Tex
Prsoce
Mexico
Creel
Chihuahua
Cattie Ae
Roosevelt Praises Peary Polar Feat In Letter
A Roosevelt notice reports the former president sent a letter to Secretary Bridgeman of the Peary Arctic Club praising Captain Peary's north pole achievement. Roosevelt calls the feat among the great feats of the ages and says Americans are indebted to Peary.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Bridgeman
Peary Arctic Club
Cabie
Peary
North Pole
Mount Kenia
Guuso Nyris
Nee. Peary
Captain Peary
Suffragette Sentenced for Ballot Box Acid Attack in Britain
In Bermondsey a militant suffragist Mrs Allen Chapman was sentenced to seven months in prison for smashing a bottle of acid onto a ballot box. Three months were for interfering with the ballot box and four for assaulting a polling clerk. Alison Neilans received three months for a similar act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Allen Chapman
Grea
Mine Alison Neilans
Sparrow Keeper to His End in French Guillotine
Paris reports Camille Fayre was executed at Saintes in Charente Inferieure for murdering a 6 year old girl. Amid crowd joy he had kept sparrows as pets and asked to have six for his evening meal before he was hanged, then finished the last sparrow next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Camille Fayre
Saintes
Charente-Inferieure
Loeb dismisses ten more weighers at the customs house
New York November 2 Ten more assistant weighers were dropped by Collector Loeb from the customs service as part of a general house cleaning after weighing frauds investigation. He said no charges against those removed today but circumstances warranted ending their service. Including today, three men have been removed since the readjustment began. Dismissed workers were civil service appointees and successors will come from the civil service list of eligibles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Port Loeb
Customs Service
Customs House
Customs
Lee
Civil Service
Senator Clark on copper market and policy stance
New York report quotes former Senator William A. Clark of Montana discussing copper trade. He says European demand matches American supply but overproduction keeps prices low, arguing 15 cents is proper and criticizing corporate capital aggregations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Clark Wild
Tim
Robbers murder officers during escape attempt
In Papetkytt village two robbers confronted Deputy Sheriff Johnson and Sheriff Hagen. Johnson was fatally wounded in the chest as the robbers fled. Benner and Hazen returned fire, striking one robber who collapsed. the other escaped into the darkness, a search is underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papetkytt
Wort Wan
Hern
Boesdar
Hasan
Johnson
Benner Wen
Sheri Johnson
Sherif Hagen
Benner
Hazen
Ielow
Te Fox
Ner
Gompers Attacks Judge in Buck Stove Case
In Washington on November 29, Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor denounced Associate Justice Wright as biased and unfit to wear the judicial robe. He refused to seek presidential clemency and stated he would not pardon even if the U S Supreme Court declined review of the Buck Stove and Range contempt ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrshington
Wright
Muc Gompe
American Federation of Labor
District Supreme Court
Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Federation
Buck Stove & Range
Supreme Court of the United States
Gompera
Mountain feud ends with mother and daughter killed
Near Devon in Mingo county a sheriff posse shot and killed Mrs. Charles Daniels and her 16 year old daughter as they fired from the doorway to aid their escape of the Daniels men. The killings grew from a Kentucky West Virginia family feud between Christians and Daniels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian
Kentucky
Jim Daniels
Daniels
Allien
Charles
Pika County
Daniela
Daniess
Banker Allen Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison
Madison Wis Nov 29 Phil Allén former vice president of the First National Bank at Mineral Point pleaded guilty to four of 26 counts in the Indictment and was sentenced to 10 years in Fort Leavenworth Kansas He was charged with embezzling 168000 from the Mineral Point bank The defendant in tia 3d year has been in jail for weeks after pleading not guilty at La Crosse He could not furnish a 50000 bond and appeared in court unexpectedly with bowed head and a nearly inaudible voice
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Madison
Wis
Phil Allén
First National Bank
Mineral Point
United States District Court
Fort Leavenworth
Kans
Mineral Point Bank
Aven
la Crosse
Scandal in German Meat Supply Bureau
Kiel Germany November 29 officials report financial irregularities in the department supplying meat for the fleet. The discrepancies are most marked in the division servicing torpedo boats, with arrests expected soon. Berlin November 26 officials say they have no knowledge of the Kiel naval meat supply scandal.
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Kiel
Germany
Berlin
Naval Meat Supply Department
Tennessee Man Strikes Fatal Blow in Memphis Street Car Row
In Memphis a Tennessee man named J. H. Lowery drew a revolver during a street car dispute and fatally wounded a Black man while striking another in the crowd. The incident left two Black people harmed as bystanders watched the confrontation unfold aboard the crowded car.
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Memphis
Fern
Trang Ter
J. H. Lowery
Lowery
Boy Killer Wins Point for Life Trial Change of Venue Granted
New Albany Indiana November 29 Thomas J Hoal the youth killer who murdered banker J Hangary Fawcett will be tried for his life in Harrison county circuit court at Cory on February. His request for a change of venue was granted today.
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New Albany
Ind
Thomas J. Hoal
J. Hangary Fawcett
Harrison County
Coryon
German aviators killed in Florida flight tragedy
Berlin reports two Aero Club members Dr Bren Hugo Francke and another pilot died when their balloon Kolmans exploded during ascent near Berlin. Bodies found near a huge tent with an envelope bearing the name of Annir death, at a location 60 miles from Harlin.
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Berlin
Bren
Hugo Francke
Aero Club
Throyet
Kolmans
Oe Au Hun
Annir
Brenckmann
Rendorft
Harlin
American 18 Lands in Ecuador but Defies Officers
An American youth lands at Guayaquil and faces port officials after attempting to enter by yacht. He claims clearance issues, is fined, and later travels by train to Quito. A related dispute with resident Alfars arises from a two year old matter, leading to a reopened case a year afterward.
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Ecuador
Guayaquil
Equador
Archeran
Guayaquila
Chorus Girls Embarrass the Hero of Santiago at Gayety
At Pittsburg Navada the chorus girls at the Gayety theater staged a practical joke on Admiral Schley and Senator Oliver. They rushed from the wings with a loving cup of armor plates and coaxed the men to drink as the audience cheered. The stunt ended with the cup passed around and husbands noting the clothing involved.
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Pittsburg
Nav
Winfeld Beattley
Btatem
George T. Olivar
Mystic Shrine
Benater Oliver
Admiral Schley
Senator Oliver
Shiinara
Artist Christy Dodges Wife Over Custody in Cuba Trip
Cincinnati report describes artist Chandler Christy fleeing toward Cuba with his sister Minx Rose Christy and taking a child from his father in Zanesville to avoid his wife’s habeas corpus pursuit. She obtained a writ in Zanesville to gain possession of the child as the couple has lived apart since spring.
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Cincinnati
America
Chandler Christy
Cuba
Laweyers
New York
Zanesville
Natalia
Minx Rose Christy
New Orleans
Christy
Ohio
Mystery at Tulane as Father's Body Found in Medical School
In New Orleans a son discovers Wille Balastice lies among six students around a body in Tulane University's medical department. The elder Balastice, a Confederate veteran, had been missing from 35 Canstanes St. He was allegedly committed to Charity Hospital by Recorder Fogarty for marriage-related charges and died there after the body was given to the medical college for dissections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Jed Harry Talastiqy
Willejam Augustus Balastice
Holly
Tulane University
Willan Balastier
Canstanes St
Pon Loventiga
Recorder Fogarty
Magury
Aiter
Charity Hospital
Balaster
Medical College
Spanish Troops Surround Mount Beni-Bulfour in Morocco
General Marina leads a sizable Spanish force from Melilla to encircle Mount Beni-Bulfour where tribesmen remain entrenched and looting is reported as operations proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melilla
Morocco
Marina
Mount Beni-Bulfour
Waco High School Quarterback In Critical Condition
Ethelbert Harris, quarterback of the Waco high school team, lies in dangerous condition in Waco Texas after a football game injury. He has been unconscious most of the time since the game and remains seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Tex
Ethelbert Harris
Ingenes
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Loftin E. Johnson
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Cleveland
Tom L. Johnson
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