Emperor Menelik II Reported Dead Officially
Addis Ababa dispatch notes official announcement of Menelik II death. Born 1844 at Ankobar, he led Abyssinia to victory over Italy at Adowa and earned a mixed Christian heathen court. He left a private fortune of 25 million dollars and in line for the throne is Prince Lidji Jeassu, age 18.
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Associated Press
Addis Abeda
Abyssinia
Yerserdey
Menelik
Rihabar
Menelik II
Ankobar
Haeli Melicoth
Shea
Sheba
Solomon
Kassal
Kondor
Italy
Adowa
Lidji Jeassu
Texan is killed over the woman in Los Angeles
Daniel de Villiers of San Antonio Texas was shot and killed in Los Angeles by Roy L Glover a wealthy land agent who arrived with the woman in question the mother of de Villiers two children Glover claims self defense De Villiers reputedly challenged the marriage and the woman identified as Mrs Glover would only give a brief statement. she said she is the daughter of a New York broker and that her maiden name was Campbell she once held the New Jersey women s golf title in 1904 and claimed to have been de Villiers wife prior to marrying Glover in October
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Daniel de _ Villiers
San Antonio
Texas
Roy L. Glover
de Wi
Glover Homer
de Villiers
Glover
New York
Campbell
New Jersey
Villiers Linked to Attempted Assassination in Mexico
Daniel de Villiers, killed in Los Angeles, was arrested in 1911 with Billy Dunn in San Antonio on charges of plotting to kill Francisco Madero. Boer veteran B W Viljoen said Dunn and de Villiers offered Pascual Orozco money to kill Madero after his crackdown on Diaz troops. They were acquitted months later.
O Saughnessy Secures Release of American Krause
Washington dispatch reports at the City of Mexico the State Department ordered the unconditional release of American William Krause on Nelson O'Shaughnessy's request. Krause, involved in revolutionary plotting, is with his family in Mexico City following a minor skirmish near Aldama, about 25 miles north of Tampico.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Mexico
Nelson O’sheuchnessy
William Krause
Krause
Aldema
Tampico
Escapes One Death Only To Meet Another
In Newark New Jersey on December 22 George Taylor 60 year old city salesman narrowly escaped death when struck by a train and hanged suspended from a bridge. He toppled into a creek as trainmen rescued him but he died en route to a hospital due to injuries.
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Associated Press
Tsnton
N. J
Ping
George Taylor
Dr King's New Life Purifier Ad Claims Harsh Health Risks
An advertisement warns of severe health consequences from built up waste in the body and promotes Dr. Kings New Life Purifier as a remedy. The copy stresses dangers of constipation and systemic poisoning and urges readers to try the product.
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Dr. King
Antisaloon memorializes President Wilson to push national prohibition
A five member Anti-Saloon League committee in Columbus sent a memorial to President Wilson urging Congress to submit a constitutional amendment ending liquor traffic nationwide. The document ties prohibition to the Baltimore platform of 1912 and cites the 1912 Democratic pledge on natural resources. Committee members include Wheeler of Ohio and Hender son of Kentucky among others.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Wilson
Congress
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Washington
White House
Baltimore
Liquor Trust
United States
Wayne B. Wheeler
H. T. Laughbaum
Oklahoma
John Henderson
Kentucky
William Cochran
Maryland
William Anderson
James Cannon
Virginia
A. D. Ivie
North Carolina
L. B. Musgrove
Alabama
J. W. Hough
Dr. C. Spencer
Missouri
P. A. Baker
J. K. Taylor
German balloonist sets spherical balloon world distance record
Kevien, a German balloonist, with two passengers, ascended from Bitterfeld and landed at Perm in European Russia, sustaining 87 hours and 1 728.2 miles. He breaks the prior spherical balloon distance record of 1 492 miles set by Jene Rumpelmayer in Europe.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Herr
Kevien
Bitterfield
Prussian Saxony
Duisburg
Perm
European Russia
Siberian
Jene Rumpelmayer
Paris
Kahkov
Explosion on Russian court train injures crew in Rostock
An explosion on the Russian court special train waiting for Dowager Empress Marie in Rostock injured seven crew members. Officials cite a lighting defect as the cause. The dowager continued to St Petersburg. A note mentions New York jewel counts.
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Associated Press
Rostock
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Empress Marie of
Russia
Copenhagen
St. Petersburg
West Virginia Mines Report Slashes Death Toll
In six coal counties during the first eleven months of 1913 one death occurred per 700 000 tons mined, Earl Henry reports. Ten counties had no fatalities. Statewide mine deaths totaled 309, down from 340, while employment rose by about 5 000 miners.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Earl Henry
Bureau of Mines
Lewis Would Pit Phones Against the Telegraph
Washington December 28 Representative Lewis of Maryland urged government ownership of telephone lines with a $900 million cost, arguing financing would mirror the Panama Canal. He proposed the Post Office Department operate the lines and compete with private telegraph firms, without taking over telegraph companies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Panama Canal
Lewis
Maryland
House
Post Office Department
Parcel Post
Man fined for trying to convert son from Santa myth
Gustav Kotch of the Bronx was fined $3 after a neighbor described his attempt to persuade his six year old son that Santa Claus does not exist. The sister in law testified she cried, prompting a police visit and charges of disorderly conduct.
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Associated Press
New York
Santa Claus
Gustav Kotch
Bronx
Road Sued for a Million in Missouri Suit
Attorney General Barker filed suit in Kirksville to recover one million dollars charged by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad during the period when two cent passenger and maximum freight laws were under dispute.
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Associated Press
Kirksville, Mo
Barker
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Whitman probes NYC graft scheme widening state inquiry
District Attorney Whitman says he has found a opening to expand his investigation of alleged graft in the state highway department despite Governor Glynn refusing a special prosecutor. He claims funds from contractor contributions were deposited in New York County crediting the Democratic organization.
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Associated Press
New York
Whitman
State
Glynn
Democratic State Committee
New York City
Fire Kills Twenty in Georgetown Demerara Business Quarter
A major blaze in Georgetown British Guiana yesterday destroyed De merara a large portion of the business quarter. Twenty people were killed and many injured as a sugar export warehouse and other buildings burned leaving scores homeless in the capital city with about 55 000 residents.
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Associated Press
Georgetown
B. G
Demerara
British Guiana
Armour & Co Fined for Possessing Decomposed Chickens
In New York on December 23 Armour & Co was fined 300 dollars for possessing 825 pounds of decayed chickens unfit for consumption. The company pleaded guilty. Hearings on three other sanitary law violations were postponed.
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Associated Press
New York
Armour & Co
New Tariff Saves Welsh Tin Plate Makers
Welsh tin plate makers report orders for 40 000 tons to be delivered to canning and oil concerns through June. They say the United States tariff, revised, salvages the industry and lets them compete with trans Atlantic rivals.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Death of J H Bradford Rockville Chaplain of G A R
J H Bradford former chaplain of the Grand Army of the Republic who served in a Connecticut regiment during the Civil War died in Rockville Maryland yesterday. He was born in Vermont in 1836.
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Associated Press
Rockville
H. Bradford
Grand Army
Repub
Connecticut
Vermont
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