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The senate adopted resolutions seeking full information on the discharge of colored Twenty-fifth Infantry soldiers. The Littlefield pilotage bill was defeated in the house. Treasury Secretary Shaw urged restricted currency powers. Taft defends war department actions on the Brownsville Twenty-fifth Infantry discharge. Navy seeks three new battleships. Commerce reports record U.S. shipping and rising vessel output. The Cornell Chi Psi chapter house burned. four students and three townsmen died. Federal indictments target rail and coal interests in Utah. Executions and crimes span across Nevada to New Jersey with fires, wrecks, and political intrigues.
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Senate
Penrose
Foraker
Secretary of War
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Littlefield
Congress
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
California
Taft
War Department
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
House
Bonaparte
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Metcalf
United States
Chi Psi Fraternity
Cornell University
Demoralizing gale leaves San Francisco streets in debris
A southeast gale at 48 mph battered San Francisco on December 11 causing one death and multiple injuries. Harbor shipping damaged, walls toppled, trolley service halted, and two schools unroofed. Ships dragged moorings, with notable losses at Mann Trunk Co and others. Overall losses reach about 300,000 dollars across several firms.
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San Francisco
John Rhinehart
Stockton
Broadway
Washington and
Leavenworth
Burnet
Whand Ho
Palgrave
Alcatraz Island
Polk
Van
Mann Trunk Co
Harnemann Phromacy
Meijer Art Co
California Nation and Toy Co
Post Street
Half-Witted Slayer Confesses in Dona Gilman Murder
Dayton detective David Curtis known as Baby Dave is held on murder charges in the Dona Gilman case. He reportedly confessed to Coroner Cord ar Kline detailing the attack and disposal of the body. Authorities say the confession is taken seriously, with no plan to search for another suspect or exhume the body.
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Dayton, O
David Curtis
Bnsade
Veador
Dona Gilman
Curtis
Cord Ar Kline
McBride
Coleman
Pinkeron Agency
Itis
Dave
Hong
Culd
Gilman
Newsies
Kline
Dana Gilman
Rockefeller Will Not Plead In Indictment Challenge
Findlay Ohio Standard Oil lawyers move to quash indictments against John D. Rockefeller and company officers. They contend the single count duplicates multiple offenses and is uncertain and improperly joins separate charges. Rockefeller will plead through his attorney.
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Rockefeller
Detectives Plan Exhumation Over Gilman Murder
Dayton Ohio investigators Woodward and Morris say they have found a suspect in the Dana Gilman case in London Ohio. They request the exhumation of Miss Gilman’s body and a new inquest, with Coroner Kline and Sheriff Wright to be advised. The coroner agreed to proceed under six physicians if the detectives cover expenses.
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Dayton, O
Woodward & Morris
Kline
Wright
Dana Gilman
London
Pinkerton detective shifts tactic in Dana Gilman case
A Pinkerton detective in Dayton Ohio who remains unnamed says he has abandoned a key approach and will pursue new tactics. He believes suspicion no longer points to the initial direction, while police and sheriff crews found nothing decisive. The agent now thinks Dana Gilman’s body lay exposed for two nights and that a brutal assault caused her death.
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Dayton
Pinkerton
Dana Gilman
Dying Girl Urges Return to Tiffin Moments Before Death
In Muncie Indiana a dying girl named Goldie Delaney begged to see her former home and schoolmates in Tiffin. To grant the wish the mother Mrs William Delaney carried the child from the train, but the girl died within hours of arriving home.
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Tiffin
William Delaney
Muncie
Ind
Goldie
Not a Cell Awarded the Father in Ohio Riot Suit
A verdict for the defendant was returned in the case where Mischke sought $5,000 damages for the death of his son Otto, who was killed by strike breakers during labor trouble at a Fremont factory. He based the suit on the Ohio lynch law, arguing mob riot caused the death.
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Santa Fe
de Soto
Kan
Quincy
Houghton
Mich
Georgia Pardon Board
Jesse
Milton Rawlins
Lynn
Mass
Lord Desborough
William Henry Grenfell
Washington
Rocky Mountain
Reading Iron Company
Warsaw
Poland
John Marsden Rhodes
Greenwich Savings Bank
New York City
Consolidated Gas Company of
New York
Astoria
N. J
Jamestown
Drake
Angie Birdsong
Hazelhurst
T. H. Butler
Ambassador Reid
Southampton
United States
Oswego
N. Y
Belleville
Ont
State Hospital For the
Weston
W. Va
John H. Kejampaa
Astabula
Kejampaa
Monon Road
Cincinnati
Chicago
Frankfort Ind
Edward McDonald
Benton
Ill
McDonald
American and British Manufacturing Company
Corliss Steam Engine Company
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R. L
W. Finley
Southern Railway Company
Samuel Spencer
Finlay
Monongahela and Washington
Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston
Stock
Calvin Drake
Pullman
St. Louis
Forest Gay
Fremont
Otto
Mischke
Ohio
Nobel prize seed funds a national industrial peace drive
President Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize worth 40000 dollars from Norway and devote it to an industrial peace fund. An industrial peace committee, named by the president, will guide the effort to unite capital and labor and ease friction. Countess Eugenia Bertinatti of Tennessee, related to Senator Wm. B. Bate, is dead after a career decorated by the sultan of Turkey.
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Washington
Russia
Japan
Roosevelt
United States
Industrial Peace Committee
Bertinatti
Nashville
Tenn
Eugenia Bertinatti
Sumner County
Wm. B. Bate
Tennessee
Turkey
Virden Retires as Epworth Sunday School Head
Marion Ohio veteran J W Virden resigns after 15 years as superintendent of Epworth M E church Sunday school. John H Bain, a Republican, succeeds him after Bain ran for mayor. Virden sparked notice by accusing Ohio W C T U delegates of leaving the church with a scene likened to pigs wallowing under pews and in aisles.
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Marion
Epworth M. E
J. W. Virden
John H. Bain
Virden
Ohio Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Negro mass meeting forms Foraker club in Steubenville
In Steubenville Ohio a mass meeting of Negroes at the courthouse established a Foraker club to back the senior senator from Ohio for the presidency in 1908. An endless letter campaign was launched urging Negro voters nationwide to organize for Foraker.
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Steubenville
Foraker Club
Ohio
United States
Foraker
Heir Seeks To Break Lybrand Will In Delaware Suit
Lucius Lybrand of Terre Haute Ind an heir of Edward G. Lybrand filed suit in Delaware to break the will. The deceased left $25 000 to Ohio Wesleyan University and smaller sums to local charities and churches.
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Delaware
Lucius Lybrand
Terre Haute
Ind
Edward G. Lybrand
Ohio Wesleyan University
Real Estate Broker Fined After Arcanum Dispute
Lima Ohio reports John M. Boose a wealthy real estate broker fined 15 dollars for slapping M. J. Sandford grand regent of the Royal Arcanum of Ohio over a commission dispute. He also paid 5 dollars for Sandford's ruined hat.
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Arcanum
Lima
John M. Boose
M. J. Sandford
Royal Arcanum of
Ohio
Boose
Sandford
Stranger Steals Street Car Drives Four Miles
East Liverpool police seek a stranger who took a street car, ran it four miles, collected fares from all aboard, and vanished. He managed the operation smoothly, leaving passengers unaware of the theft.
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East Liverpool, O
New Bedford Mills Resist 10 Percent Wage Increase
At a conference in New Bedford between the Cotton Manufacturers association committee and the Textile council mill owners refused a 10 percent wage rise. They argued seven and a half percent was all the mills could afford at present.
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New Bedford
Mass
Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Textile Council
Gas exposure at Sandusky home sickens three visitors
Children playing at Claud H. Sickels residence turned on a gas under a water heater. Hours later Mrs. Sickels and two guests, Mrs. John Payne and Mrs. Philip Montgomery, fell critically ill. Mrs. Montgomery remained in hospital as others were treated.
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Sandusky
Claud H. Sickels
Meat Packing Firm Faces Possible Meat Supply Hold Up
The Cincinnati bureau of animal industry found preservatives in the firm’s meat products in quantities enough to condemn. The entire meat supply of the packing house may be held up.
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Cincinnati
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
California Rep Introduces $5 Million Coast Defense Torpedo Boats Bill
In Washington on December 11 Representative Kahn introduced a bill to allocate 5 million dollars for constructing submarine torpedo boats for coast protection, amid echoes of the earlier school controversy.
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Washington
Kahn
California
Ohio Woman Applies Carbolic Acid to Corn
Miss Mae Waiters of Dillon County applied carbolic acid to a corn to ease soreness. Blood poisoning developed and a toe was amputated. Doctors foresee possible amputation of her foot in a few days.
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Zanesville, O
Miss Mae Waiters
Dillon
Ursinus and Heidelberg Theological Seminaries United
A committee of the Ohio Synod and Ursinus Seminary in Philadelphia announced plans to unite the eastern institution with Heidelberg Theological Seminary, to be hosted in Tiffin Ohio. The move aims to consolidate resources and strengthen theological education in the region.
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Tiffin
Ohio Synod
Ursinus Theological Seminary of
Philadelphia
Eastern Institution
Heidelberg Theological Seminary
Secretary Metcalf to withhold report on San Francisco controversy
Secretary Metcalf of the department of commerce and labor will not report to the senate the result of his investigation into the Japanese controversy at San Francisco, despite a resolution by Senator Flint requesting the findings.
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Washington
Metcalf
Department of Commerce and Labor
Senate
San Francisco
Flint
Woman Drowns After Falling into Cistern Near New Albany
Mrs. John Sumpton aged 65 wife of a farmer fell into a cistern while drawing water at her home about a mile and a half southwest of New Albany Ohio and drowned authorities reported.
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Columbus
New Albany
John Sumpton
Settlement of Crist estate ends contest in Ohio
Hamilton Ohio reports the dispute over the $150000 estate of the late Allison Crist was settled by agreement between the two sets of children. Perry N Crist and Frank M Crist named joint administrators under the terms of the compromise.
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Hamilton
Allison Crist
Perry N. Crist
Frank M. Crist
Dahomey King Behanzin Dies in Exile
Former Dahomey monarch Behanzin dies suddenly in Algiers after nephritis treatment. His wife and son were at his bedside during the final hours in exile.
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Algiers
Behanzin
Dahomey
Bullet Passed Through Her Body in Dayton Tragedy
Carrie Brown aged 35 survived a bullet that pierced her body and narrowly missed the heart in Dayton Ohio. Doctors say her death is imminent after years of an incurable nervous disease led her to attempt suicide.
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Dayton
Carrie Brown
Miss Brown
Governor Harris names George Quail to Lima common pleas seat
Columbus Ohio governor Harris fills the unexpired term caused by Judge W H Cunningham’s death appointing George Quail of Lima to the Lima subdivision common pleas judgeship.
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Columbus
W.H. Cunningham
Harris
George Quail
Lima
Common Pleas
Workmen Strike Over Wage Cut at National Tube Mills
One hundred top mill workers in Lorain Ohio walked out after a wage reduction of at least 50 cents per day. Wages ranged from five to six dollars daily. The company will seek to adjust the dispute with the workers.
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Lorain, O
National Tube Co
Trial of packing house conspiracy continued to January 10
In Chicago on December 11 the trial of the packing house corporations indicted for restraint of trade was postponed to January 10 because the attorneys are occupied with other cases in the United States district court.
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Chicago
United States District Court
Would Compel Her to Hunt in Night Woods
In Upper Sandusky Ohio Bessie Rogers petitions for divorce claiming her husband forced her to accompany him on night hunts for raccoons. She states he would compel her despite her illness to go into the woods to help with hunting.
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Upper Sandusky, O
Coon
Bessie Rogers
Buckeye State Ends Quail and Rabbit Hunting Season
Ohio closes quail and rabbit hunting season under state game laws. A farmer or property owner may kill rabbits or birds that have fed on crops, reflecting a crop protection provision in the law.
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Cincinnati
Buckeye
Emperor’s attempted suicide thwarted. rescued in Peking
Dispatches from Peking report the Chinese emperor attempted self harm by leaping into a pond in the city. Court officials intervened and saved him. The incident referenced amid reports of Soviet relations.
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Victoria
B.C
Peking
Fatal 2-Year-Old Burned In Floor Kettle Accident
Dorothy Crumbacher two years old daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Crumbacher of Duncan Falls Zanesville Ohio was fatally burned after falling into a kettle of hot lard her mother had placed on the floor.
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Zanesville
Dorothy Crumbacher
Charles Crumbacher
Duncan Falls
Florist J M Gasser Declared Sane. To Resume Business
Cleveland reports J M Gasser, prominent local florist, declared sane by the circuit court after confinement in a Cincinnati sanitarium. Aged merchant ordered released and to resume control of his business holdings and operations.
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Cleveland
J. M. Gasser
Cincinnati
Accidental Shotgun Incident Leaves Boy Dead
In Lima, four-year-old Robert Grant accidentally discharged a shotgun while alone in the house with the weapon. The tragedy occurred after he was left unsupervised for a short period, resulting in fatal injuries.
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Lima, O
Robert Grant
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