Woman throws infant from moving train window
Oakland police seek a young woman believed in this city after a few days old baby was hurled from a Pullman window on Southern Pacific No 23 as it passed through Auburn en route to San Francisco. The infant died. authorities suspect the mother, Mrs. Welshorn, wife of a Southern Pacific conductor, faces possible murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Walter J. Petersen
Kyle
Jas, Drew
W. Welshorn
Southern Pacific
Imlay
Nev
Jack Rutledge
Tocal
Sparks
McAuley
Auburn
Welshorn
Heaith Omer
J. A. Ascher
Sparke
Southern Pacific Office For
Weekery
C. W. Welshorn
Inlay
Teachers Institute to Meet Here Next Week
Tonopah hosts a three day teachers institute January 4 to 6 1912 with Superintendent B G Bleasdale Thompson Yoder and speaker lineup including Allison Ware Alice Day and John Edwards Bray The program features lectures on patriotism education and rural and industrial schooling with receptions and multiple sessions led by local and visiting educators about 60 teachers expected to attend
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonopah
B. G. Bleasdale
Thompson
Goldfield
A. H. Yoder
Ware
Chico Normal School
Alice Day
College of Education
University of Nevada
John Edwards Bray
Public Instruction
Republic
Allison Ware
Chico Normal
California
Presbyterian Church
Jack Hanna Dies of Plague Pneumonia
Jack Hanna dies from pluro pneumonia at 2:20 PM after several days illness. Born in Pike County Missouri forty one years ago he lived in Tonopah and Alaska. He leaves a wife and daughter who were at his bedside, and the community offers sympathy. Funeral services will be held at the Episcopal church on Saturday afternoon with friends asked to meet at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna
Pike Cownty
Missouri
Alaska
Tye
Episcopal Church
Dock
Sun Yat Sen Named For New Chinese Republic
Shanghai report states delegates from 18 provinces plan to meet in Nanking on December 29 to elect Sun Yat Sen as president of the provisional government. Peking notes the empress dowager has summoned imperial clan leaders to confer with Yuan Shi Kai amid talk he may withdraw from politics. A Goldfield attorney, R. J. Withers, was aboard the wrecked train but reported to his wife that he was uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
China
Nanking
Sun Yat Sen
United Provinces
Peking
Ye Ho Na
Yuan Shi Kal
Yuan Shi Kai
Bloody clash in Mexico leaves many dead and mutilated
In Tenancingo, 13 of 20 rurales and 19 others including two women and a child were killed by Zapatistas near Santa Maria. The rurales were trapped in a ravine after being surrounded in a house. Seven badly injured escaped as wives witnessed the massacre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenancingo
Mexico
Santa Maria
Here
Road Sign Posts Erected Across County
Verert road sign posts have been erected after an extended effort. Fieerge McDevitt secured the contract to place high posts on desert roads throughout the county and reports that nearly all posts are now in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fieerge McDevitt
Creek High Postis
Goldfehl Tribune
Barbardities Still Continue In War Harassed China
Eighty men missionaries, mostly Scandinavian Americans, arrive at Hankow from Laohow and Fanhengue in Hu Peh. villagers form improvised militia led by Rev. Landahl to protect against robbers and kill a captured spy. A peasant raid injures Rev. Donald Smith and his wife, leaving them for dead before recovery in Sian Wu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hankow
Railroad Commission Inquires Into Freight Rates
San Francisco December 28 The state railroad commission launches an own initiative inquiry into freight rates across all classes and specifically on the Southern Pacific from Los Angeles to southern points including Calexico Whitewater Imperial and Calexico. The move follows a shipper petition and seeks explanations the commission finds unsatisfactory. Gibraltar December 28 The former steamer Chios foundered with nearly all hands lost during the recent Bay of Biscay storm. chief officer and a sailor rescued by a nearby vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
State Railroad Commission
Thesuman
Gibraltar
Dee
Chios
Bay of Bischy
Meat trust merger plan exposed in 1902 Chicago trial
Details of a $500 million merger plan by Armour Swift and Morris to dominate the meat industry were revealed in a Chicago federal court trial of ten indicted packers. The scheme called for a giant company with promoters earning stock for goodwill, while premerger agreements limited competition for 16 years after sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Armour, Swift & Morris
Carpenter
Reid
Veeder Jittoriey
Swift
Veeder
Anls
National Packing Company
Armour, Swift and Morris
Borro
Armour, Swift, Mortis
New York
Packers
Bla
Harry Veeder
Eighteen Die From Poison At Berlin Homeless Shelter
Berlin officials report eighteen inmates dead and many more seriously ill at the municipal homeless shelter after a night of poisoning. Four thousand four hundred fourteen destitute men sought refuge there, some with makeshift extra food for Christmas. Spoiled smoked herring and bread soup were served. medics treated convulsions and attempted to save lives, but eighteen died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Frosty Nights Hit Southern California Orange Growers
Cold weather across Southern California damaged fruit in orange districts near Los Angeles and San Bernardino with frost. Some fruit was frost bitten but officials expect an average crop if temperatures moderate. Other regions report deep freezes and snow in Wisconsin Michigan and the lake region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California
San Bernardino
Chicago
Canadian
Wisconsin
Michigan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Auburn Baggageman
Oakland Hospital
Teachers’ Institute
K. of P. Hall
Grace Abbotts Folts
Anna E. Bradley
Fred Bollinger
Pao
Katheine Gehelt
Jonnie A. Curieux
Mattie B. Holt
Lella Purdy
John Edward Bray
Chico State Normal
Grace Allee Day
H. ‘Thompson
Fred Bellinger
J. D
Evangeline Anchatz
Anna
Bradley
Bradley Fhe
Grace Allee
Hy Thompson
John Bawards Bray
Clifford Brissell
H. Thompson
A.H. Yoder
Grace A. Folts
Fender
Josephine McCunney
John Edwards Bray Bolo
Clifford Brisselt
Jack Hanna
Chinese Republic
R. J. Withers
California State Commission
Meat Corporation
Ohio River
Missouri River
Armour
Association of
Combine
Jack Frost
Phoenix
Kansas City
Missouri Valley
Omaha
Des Moines
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!