Militant suffragists strike again in Lancashire and Liverpool
Militant suffragists renew arson campaign targeting exhibition halls and grandstands in Liverpool and Manchester while Temi Asquith visits Lancashire. Police disrupt a third planned blaze as crowds flee from a tree race course arson attempt.
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Peeapetes Press
London
Suffra
Mmeline Pankhurst
Lancashire
Temi Asquith
Exhibion
Liverpool
Man
Militant suffragists torch Liverpool exhibition buildings
In Liverpool on December 6 militants attempted to destroy winter closed exhibition buildings. The scenic railway was set ablaze causing major fire exposure while fire crews fought to stop spread. Nearby letters addressed to Premier Asquith and suffragist literature were found in the area.
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Ted Press
Liverpool
Asquith
Suffragette attack razes hall in Rusholme
An exhibition hall in Rusholme, southeast of Manchester, was destroyed by arsonists linked to the suffrage movement. Authorities say more than 60 000 dollars in property was lost and a note to Jennie Asquith stated this acts as part of a scheme against Manchester and Oldham.
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Anchester
Eng
Aburban
Rusholme
Jennier Asquith
Manchester
Oldham
Exeter Jail Sealed As Pankhurst Demonstration Near
Exeter authorities brace for plans around Mrs. Pankhurst as militants gather near the jail to prevent her transfer. Police expect to keep her in custody amid anticipated London demonstration and possible forcible feeding due to heart condition.
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Exeter
Eng
Great Western Rail strike continues over new terms
About 1200 Great Western Railway workers refuse to accept the pact agreed yesterday with union leaders and board representatives. Officials decry the conditions as onerous, barring certain strike leaders and demanding remorse payments while waiving backpay for time on strike. The dispute centers on terms affecting compensation and discipline at Swindon hospital and other measures.
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Associated Press
London
Great Western Railay
Ie Board of Trade
James
Reynolds
Swindon
Prince Charles to Enter German Army as Lieutenant
Prince Charles, Prince of Riverni, aged 20, will join the German army on December 6 as a lieutenant in the First Regiment at Potsdam to pursue military education.
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Prince Charles
Roumania
Prince Charles, Deel Cece Prince of
Riveni
Potsdam
Ex Mayor C W Rich Dies in Hattiesburg Mississippi
Former Hattiesburg mayor Charlies W Rich died Friday at 11 am after a two week illness. Known as Captain Rich he influenced local politics and aided in the Sullivan Kilrain era. He leaves a widow and several siblings. interment is Sunday in the city cemetery.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Charlies W. Rich
Rich
Captain Rich
New Opiean
Mobile
Hot Springs
Sullivan
Jake Kilrain
Richburg
Kilrain
John Sullivan
A. E. Rich
Joseph C. Rich, Exmayer
Curtis E. Rich
New Orleans
Laura Gibbs
Wichita Falls
Texas
T. B. Toomer
City
Morgan's Grave Closely Guarded Near Eight Months
In Hartford Connecticut on December 6 the body of J Pierpont Morgan buried April 14 at Cedar Hill cemetery remains vigilously guarded at night. An armed guard works from sunset to sunrise while daytime watch is not kept. the family funds the security and will continue it as long as they wish.
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Associated Press
Hartford
Morgan
New Orleans Picked for Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention
New Orleans was chosen as the next convention city of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the closing session. Indianapolis was a finalist in the contest. President Menocal of Cuba, a fraternity member, would attend next year if the gathering is held in New Orleans.
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Associated Press
Boston
New Orleans
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Indianapolis
Menocal
Cuba
Senate Leaders Enlist Ten Republicans for Long Currency Sessions
Democratic leaders win help of ten Republicans to push a thirteen hour daily session for the currency bill. Borah Brady Brandegee Cummins Grenna Kenyon La Follette Norris Perkins and Smooth supported the plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Borah
Brady
Brandegee
Cummins
Grenna
Kenyon
la Follette
Norris
Perkins
Smooth
Double Tragedy in Harrisburg Cab Murder Suicide
In Harrisburg a taxi driver Charles Harbold found Anna Hensinger of Lewisburg dead with a gashed throat and a bloody penknife in the cab. The woman's presumed companion M F Roberts of Gettysburg appeared dead by his own throat wounds as the cab halted at her home.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Charles Harbold
Anna Hensinger
Lewisburg
M. F. Roberts
Gettysburg
Interstate Commerce Commission Sets March 1 Deadline
The ICC will notify railroads that requests for time extensions past July 1 1914 to divest water line ownership must reach the commission by March 1 1914. The Panama Canal Act bars railroad ownership in competing water carriers. Facts may allow extensions beyond July 1 to develop the case.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Steamer Russia Not in Danger Says Captain
The steamer Russia from Libau to New York anchored near Lysekel Sweden with deranged machinery. It was signalled today and will dock Tuesday. The captain reported all well, refuting yesterday’s danger report near Lysekel.
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Associated Press
New York
Russia
Libau
Lysekel
Sweden
Feeble Athens Woman Thankful for Paroled Husband Aid
Mrs. Connie O King of Athens thanked Alabama Governor O Neal for a forty day parole granted to her husband a prisoner in Limestone County for forgery. He used funds from a hay press patent to support his family during leave and doctors urged her to move West for health.
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Montgomery
Ala
Connie O. King
Athens
King
Limestone County
English Girl Solved for Backward Tendencies Case
A London puzzling case reports a girl who writes from left to right and does things backward. Birmingham physicians found her heart on the right side and other organs displaced by X ray. The note mentions a link to a later famed curiosity.
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Associated Press
London
Birmingham
Army Corps Withdraws from Alsace Barracks
Germany, Dec. 6. The 99th infantry regiment led by Colonel von Reuter marched from Zabern to new camp quarters in Hagenau and Bitsch. No guard remained at the barracks, a Strassburg detachment taking charge of army property. The viceroy Count Wedel returned from a conference with the emperor amid hopes military influence will cease in civil affairs.
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Associated Press
Zabern
Germany
von Reuter
99Th
Alsace
Hagenau
Strassburg
Bitsch
Vosges Mountains
Alsace-Lorraine
Count Charles von Wedel
Alsace- Lorraine
Grain Dealers of City Organize in Mobile
The Mobile Grain Dealers Association of the Chamber of Commerce was formed on Friday night. Herbert Lyons was elected permanent chairman with Lee Zimmern as vice chairman and H. M. Hopper as treasurer. Don Farnsworth serves as secretary, D. T. Sims and C. P. Dumas join the executive committee, and J. T. Pope was chosen as grain inspector.
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Mobile Grain Dealers’ Association of the
Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Lyons
Lee Zimmern
H. M. Hopper
Don Farnsworth
D. T. Sims
C. P. Dumas
J. T. Pope
Negro burglar Henry Davis escapes from police
Police seek Henry Davis after he was arrested November 25 as a dangerous suspect and later escaped from headquarters on November 28 while en route to Bienville Park. He faced burglary charges and a December 15 continuance. authorities list a prior burglary at a pressing club.
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Henry Davis
Burch and Pearson
Davis
Henry
Bienville Park
William Nugent
St Peters Church Holds Special Station of the Cross Service
Stations of the Cross at St Peters Church will be accepted and blessed at a special Sunday morning service immediately after mass by Fr. Dunne. The stations were donated to the church by John Gimon in memory of his deceased parents.
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St. Peters Church
Fr. Dunne
John Gimon
Chancellor Denies Made Clearence On Zabern Intervention
Berlin December 6 The imperial chancellor Dr Von Bethmann Hollweg returned from Donauschingen and issued a denial of a published statement claiming he was unwell and forgot to mention the emperor's interposition against the Zabern military authorities He said the emperor had ordered officers to stay within the law and sent General Keuhne to Zahern to take charge of the situation.
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Berlin
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Donauschingen
Zabern
Arnold Wahnechaffe
Keuhne
Zahern
Wahnschaffe
Dupuy Declines Task of Forming French Cabinet
Paris December 6 The ministerial crisis following Premier Barthou’s resignation over the financial bill remained unresolved. Jean Dupuy, after consulting allies, informed President Poincare that he must decline the job of forming a cabinet.
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Associated Press
Paris
Barthou
Chamber of Deputies
Jean Dupuy
Poincare
Quail on Toast Case Ends With Fined Manager
Experts testified a quail on toast bought from a Cawthon Hotel waiter was a partridge species locally called quail not a jumbo squab. Judge Henry Chamberlain fined manager C B Hervey ten dollars plus court costs and Hervey appealed to the city court. Attorney J N McAleer for the hotel man argued no sale as claimed and orders to his steward not to do so. State was represented by Claud A Grayson with Assistant State Solicitor Tisdale Touart.
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Inferior Criminal Court
Henry Chamberlain
A. Edwards
Cawthon Hotel
United States
C.B. Hervey
J. N. McAleer
Claud A. Grayson
Tisdale Touart
Pake Given Monday Deadline for Final Report in Banking Case
Judge Safford Berney ordered H. B. Pake former assignee of the defunct Leinkauf Banking Co to file his final administration report by Monday. The bond for Pake’s successor Henry Horst was fixed at 25000 dollars. Possible compensation for Pake and any court allowance will be reviewed next week, with appeal expected to the state supreme court by G L Smith and H T Smith for the creditors.
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Safford Berney
Law and Equity
Equity
H. B. Pake
Leinkauf Banking Company
Pake
Henry Horst
State Supreme Court
G. L. and
H. T. Smith
Denton Arrested for False Pretenses in Mobile Case
Richard A. Denton, alleged filibusterer with Mexico as home, was arrested late Friday by Detective C. K Berge on a warrant charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses. W. L. Pinder of Mobile accuses Denton of taking 136 dollars by claiming interest in a large mill. The case will be called in recorders court at noon.
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Richard A. Denton
Mexico
C. K Berge
W. L. Pinder
Mobile
Denton
Recorders Court
Texas Flood Refugees Face Frost and Death Toll Rise
In Brazos river bottoms near Bryan hundreds of refugees, mostly Black, spent 48 hours in trees as cold weather bites. The death list stood near fifty, while rescue boats from the gulf coast push in the leaky flotilla. The Brazos crest floods towns from Navasota southward, with levees failing near Navasota and large losses of livestock and cotton valued around seventy dollars per bale.
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Kansas
Missouri
Associated Press
Bryan
Tex
Brazos River
Gulf Coast
Navasota
Cardinal Ore glia Dies in Rome at 85
Cardinal Luigi Ore glia dean of the sacred college died in Rome from pneumonia at age 85. He was the sole surviving cardinal created by Pope Pius IX. Born July 9 1828 in Benegagienna he was elevated to cardinal on December 22 1873 and served as bishop of Ostia and Velletri chancellor of the Roman University and prefect of the congregation of ceremonies.
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Associated Press
Rome
Luigi Oreglia
Sacred College
Pius IX
Luigi Oregliani Santo Stefano
Benegagienna
Mondovi
Ostia
Velletti
Roman University
Congregation of Ceremonies
Pope Mourns Death Of Cardinal Oreglia Of Santo Stefano
In Rome on December 6 the Pope learned Cardinal Luigi Oregnani Santo Stefano Aloysiius, dean of the sacred college, died last night. The pontiff, though expecting the aging prelate’s passing, was shocked when Monsignor Bressan conveyed the news. Oreglia had directed Vatican affairs during the interregnum after Pope Leo XII’s death until the current election.
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Associated Press
Rome
Luigi Oregnani Santo Stefano Aloysiius
Sacred College
Giovanni Bressan
Oreglia
Vatican
Leo XII
Tennessee Pension Purge Proposed 579 Rolls Cleared
The Tennessee pension board asked Gen. Fred Ferguson for details on Alabama pension board work in the probe. Ferguson, special master, completed sixteen county efforts. A report to Gov. O'Neal will detail results and the plan to strike 579 pensions. Alabama work continues in remaining counties.
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Montgomery
Ala
Pension Board of Tennessee
Fred
Ferguson
Alabama Pension Board
General Ferguson
O'Neal
Pension Board
Alabama
Kansas Missouri Rivers Swell as Floods Hit Farms
Rain lingers across Kansas and Missouri with weeks of wet weather swelling streams and damaging farm property. Marmaton River rises four feet near Fort Scott after a thirty hour downpour while floods hinder access to markets across central Missouri.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Fort Scott
Kas
Timber Creek
Floral
Eas
Archie Lowery
Miss Clark
Joseph A. Shears
New York City
Burning Girl Burned After Door Blocked
In Tomah Wisconsin on December 6 Clara a schoolgirl rushed to neighbor Mrs William Verick for help after flames engulfed her clothing. The door blocked entry and efforts to smother the fire failed. The young woman suffered fatal burns as physicians pronounced her beyond hope of recovery. Mrs John Price, mother of the girl, was also burned when a paint can exploded on the kitchen stove.
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Associated Press
Tomah
Wis
Clara
William Verick
John Price
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