Desperate Fight After Fatal Lake Shore Wreck
Reports from Erie indicate two passenger trains collided on the Lake Shore road near Hastern Pennsylvania. Six bodies recovered. relief train with doctors dispatched. Officials said No. 10 hit by the Twentieth Century Limited. many feared dead as further details awaited.
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Associated Press
Erie
Lake Shore
Road
Hastern
Pennsylvania
Collinwood
Cleveland
Keene
Brin
Belgium King Leopold Near Death Amid Desperate Surgery
A Belgian report says King Leopold is gravely ill as surgeons prepare to operate after rheumatism dropsy and an intestinal obstruction worsen his condition. The king, surrounded by family, heard confession and received communion and extreme unction from a chaplain.
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Associated Press
Brussels
Leopold
Belgium
Princess Clementine
Prince Albert
Barovers Vaughan
Taft and Mrs Taft shop in New York rain
President William Howard Taft and Mrs Taft arrived in New York from Washington and toured Fifth Avenue in a rainstorm. They entered a private room at a shop with heavy security and received many Christmas gifts for the White House. Taft will attend Yale Corporation meetings and a New Haven banquet before returning.
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Associated Prean
New York
Taft
Fifth Avenue
Washington
Twenty-third Street
Secret Service
Thomas
Lin
White ¢ House
Henry
New Haven
Yale Corporation
New 4 Haven
Carnegie Hal
Eighteen Blocks Burned in Santiago Fire
A major blaze in the Valdivia district of Santiago last night destroyed eighteen blocks of homes and shops, leaving thousands homeless. Officials estimate the damage at about 2.5 million dollars.
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Santiago
Associated Press
Chile
Valdivia
Army officer to serve prison term for embezzlement
Capt Thomas Franklin B An, twice praised by Generals Chaffee and Otte for service in China and Manila, pleaded guilty to a lengthy string of embezzlements from the West Point cadets mess fund. Judge Hand sentenced him to two and a half years in Atlanta federal penitentiary. Appeals through writ of error planned.
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Associated: Press
New York
Thomas Franklin
Chaffee
General Otte
China
Manila
West Point
Hand
United States Circuit Court
Federal
Atlanta
Severe battle near Rama reported in Nicaragua
A report from Managua on December 13 says government troops under General Vasquez fought revolutionaries near Rama with heavy casualties. An unconfirmed report claims Rama may have fallen to Zelaya's forces.
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Associated Press
Managua
Rama
Vasquez
Ife
Zelaya
Government outlines corporate tax return requirements
Washington Dec. 1 9 More than 400 000 corporations must file returns under the new tax law Secretary MacVeagh issues a comprehensive statement defining classification and terms such as gross income and net income It notes the tax is on profits not receipts and outlines six corporate classes plus the expectation of honest errors and strict prosecutions for fraud.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
McVeagh
Jury in Sheridan Case Forms 12 on 93 Veniremen
In Goldfield Nevada on December 13 the district court secured a 12 man jury for the murder trial of Jack Sheridan after 93 veniremen were examined and three panels exhausted. Both sides used all peremptory challenges and opening statements are anticipated tomorrow morning with attorneys McUarran Edy and Tilden remaining silent on a possible defense statement. Jurors named include David Jr of Sonoma Flansburg Goldfield Perrault Millers and others from Mina Rawhide Cambridge Hawthorne and Rawhide.
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Homan Goldfield
Jack Sheridan
Tomonaw
Serine
Tilden
P. A. McUarran
T. V. Edy
Sheridan
BE. David, Jr
Sonoma
P. Flansburg
Goldfield
A. Perrault
Millers
E. RR. Richardson
J. Stark
Mina
L. W. Osborne
Cambridge
J. Taylor
Gold Mountain
H. Smith
Sam Bayliss
Rawhide
H. C. Wagner
Milers
P. W. Menton
Hawthorne
F. J. Kavanaugh
Seven Die in Tenement Fire at Third and Sycamore
Seven persons are dead and several injured in a tenement fire at Third and Sycamore streets in Cincinnati. The blaze broke out during the night, with high flames reported and authorities investigating the cause.
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Cincinnati
Third
Sycamory Streets
Civil War veteran General Casement dies at 84
General J S Casement railroad contractor philanthropist and Lake Erie College trustee died today in Painesville Ohio He laid original rails of the Big Four and Lake Shore lines built the Union Pacific to Cheyenne and constructed a Costa Rica railway for the government.
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Associated Press
Painsville
Lake Erie College
General Casement
Lake Shore
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Costa Rica
Favorable showing in Rye Patch mine report
A Rye Patch company letter to its local office in Humboldt County Nevada notes resumed development work on the property. Progress is steady though slow due to hard formation. Superintendent Ray reports small pockets of milling ore in the tunnel and increasing streaks, signaling a larger body of ore may lie ahead.
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Rye Patch Company
Humboldt County
Nevada
Salt Lake Tribune
Ray
Mullin Has Star Record For The Season
George Mullin of the Detroit champions led the American league in pitching last season with 20 won and 4 lost and a 784 ERA percentage. Cleotte of Boston trailed with 16 won and 18 lost for 722. Willett of Detroit ranked third with 22 won and 4 lost for 737. Feraiob and Bender of Philadelphia posted 18 wins each. Chicago led in fielding at .964 while New York had the most errors at .331.
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Chicago
George Mullin
Detroit
Felding
B. B
Willett
Feraiob
Philadelphia
Ted
Bender
New York
Denver Mint to Resume Coining Money Early Next Year
The Denver mint, shut last July due to gold coin surplus, will reopen at start of the year with between eighteen and twenty million dollars in gold bullion on hand and will immediately coin it into smaller denomination money, per Superintendent Frank Downer.
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Denver
Frank Downer
Militia officer Ortis Hamilton found guilty of embezzlement
In Olympia Washington on December 13 former Adjutant General Ortis Hamilton was found guilty of larceny by embezzlement for securing 1800 dollars from the state military fund by forging vouchers. He faces further charges related to allegations of embezzling up to 50000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Olympia
Wash
Ortis Hamilton
Hamilton
Fire destroys solar reports at Mount Wilton observatory
A fire at The Monastery on Mount Wilton, owned by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, burned the observatory to the ground. Estimated loss reaches $10,000 as many valuable records and texts were destroyed. the main building housing documents and funds suffered damage.
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Mount Wilton
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Death Valley murder conviction upheld by supreme court
The supreme court sustained the life sentence imposed on Thomas Argenos, a Greek, for the July 1907 murder of John Pavlovich in Goldfield during a prospecting trip in Death Valley. The Daily Bonanza notes its prominence as a southern Nevada advertising medium.
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Associated Prenn
San Francisco
Thomas Argentos
John Pavlovich
Goldeld
Death Valley
Supreme Court
Nevada
Privations and insults endured by women immigrants
A Senate showing based on Immigration Bureau steerage reports recounts appalling conditions on Atlantic steamers. An American woman agent describes days of vast illness, dirty bunks, and forced mingling of passengers with crew amid persistent abuse and harassment, urging legislative reform.
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Associated Press
Washington
Immigration Bureau
Senate
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