Washington News of the Day Highlights and Conflicts
Washington reports the removal of Seattle postmaster George M. Stewart for soliciting campaign contributions from employees. Secretary Root delivers a pivotal address at the War College opening. The Supreme Court upholds a Monmouth Trust verdict, while Taft plans a New York visit. various international notes include monarchs, expeditions, and volcanic activity. Crimes, resignations, and political moves fill the foreign and domestic scenes.
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Washington
George M. Stewart
Seattle
Wash
War College
Root
Supreme Court of the United States
New Jersey Court For Appeals
Albert C. ‘Twining
Davis C. Carr
The
Monmouth ‘Trust and Safe Deposit Company
Harlan
Multiple Disasters Leave Dozens Injured Or Dead Across North America
A string of accidents and fires leaves six injured in a Montgomery street blast and stumps blast death of L. H. Aslin of Norway Michigan. Two motormen killed and twenty injured in an interurban collision between Vancouver and Westminster. Mrs August Mueller killed and her husband injured near Falls City Nebraska after a buggy collision. Fishermen drown when rowboat overturns near Liverool, Illinois. Auto crash near Hammond Indiana fatally injures August Kohlhase and injures others. Fire kills Mrs Bogle and two children in Stephensville Texas. A Montreal Harbor explosion damages many buildings and city. Pendleton Indiana gas explosion wrecks ten-room home. Pratt Hester dies. Sask fire destroys new Grand Trunk Pacific point. Local merchants listed as losers. total loss about 75000.
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Montgomery
L. H. Aslin
Norway
Mich
Columbia Hospital
Vancouver
Westminster
August Mueller
Falls City
Neb
William Black
John Pierson
St. David
Til
Illiois River
Liver
Frank Kohlhase
August Kohlhase
Cynthia Kohlhase
Chcago
Hammond
Ind
August Roblhase
Col
T. J. Bose
Stephensville
Tex
Bogle
Babe
Montreal Harbor Commission
City of
Montreal
Okmulgee Massacre After Black-White Clash Ends in Fire
At Okmulgee Oklahoma on November 17 a violent clash left eight people dead and ten wounded after Jim Deckard a Black man killed Sheriff Edgar Robinson and Deputy P Klaber and fled to a nearby house where he barricaded himself. The mob set the house ablaze and Deckard died in the flames. Gov. Haskell deployed militia as tensions eased and crowds dispersed with no further violence expected.
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Oxmulgee
Oklo
Jim Deckard
Negro Esperado
Law Offeers
Edgar Robinson
Okmulgee County
P. Klaber
Okmulgee
Chapman
St. Youle
San Francisco
Deckard
Deckard's House Was Surrounded By ‘ Frenzied ‘Mob of Armed Men. Wolleys
Gov. Haskell
Guthrie
Muskogee
Facea
Ollock
Tariff Revision To Be Taken Up After Inauguration
Washington November 17 The coming Sixty fourth Congress will convene after March 4 to address tariff revision Taft the president elect spent the day at the White House with President Root and planned to call a special session as soon after his inauguration as feasible Taft left for Cincinnati due to family matters while continuing to Hot Springs Virginia with no politics implied Meanwhile a Boston widow believed to be Julia Harmon Stal of Chick Stahl fame was found dead in a South Boston doorway with throat marks but no indication of foul play
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Taft
John Wesley Hill
Metropolitan Temple of
New York
C. M. Heald
Buffalo
Mutual Transit Company
Or- Gored
Great Lakes Engineering ‘Works
Detroit
George S. Lilley
Connecticut
Richard MacLaurin
Columbia ‘University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institute Corporation
MacLaurin
Washington
William H. Taft
White House
Root
Judge Taft
Cincinnati
Ige Taft
Hot Springs
Brooklyn
N. Y
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Jailer Unable to Refuse Shelter for Sick Laborer
In Eau Claire Wisconsin on November 17 Philip Sheridan from New York city, not related to Gen. Sheridan, wandered into the city jail asking for shelter. He is very ill and under treatment at the county jail, blaming hard work for a railroad company at Winter Wisconsin for his condition.
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Rairona
Eau Clare
Wic
Wis
Philip Sheridan
New York City
Phil” Sheridan
Cousty
Sheridan
Winter
Haas kills self in Frisco jail after Heney attempt
Morrie Haas who tried to assassinate Francis J. Heney died by his own hand in the county jail, firing a derringer from his cot while guards watched within three feet. Heney’s condition improved, with a bullet lodged in his left jaw but not extracted yet. Police said no conspiracy was found linking Haas’s act to others.
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Francisco
Morrie Haas
Francis J. Heney
Haas
Judge Lawlor
Hass
Heney
Tie
Thullet
Bigay
Kelley
Burke
Dowager Empress Dead as Emperor Follows in China
The Dowager Empress of the Chios autocrat nation dies after news that Emperor Huang Hi passed away earlier. Officials report the royal deaths leave a young heir and a regent to manage mourning and potential unrest. Gendarmes guard legations as Prince Chun, regent, plans provinces’ safeguards and a three year mourning period. China remains quiet but wary of disturbances as succession moves forward. James River ice in Jamestown measures fourteen inches, with reports of higher quality ice secured.
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Coletat
Peking
Taso Mat Ans
Chios
Huang ‘Hi
Rnoon
Prince Chun
Chen Taeg
Paul Toons
Kunea
China
Jamestown
N. D
James River
Chicago Real Estate Dealer Confesses To Forged Deeds
Peter Van Viissingen a Chicago real estate dealer confessed to obtaining more than $700,000 through forged deeds and notes. He was imprisoned for an indeterminate term from one to fourteen years after a swift arrest, indictment, confession, and sentencing within hours. He described a device to forge signatures by tracing originals onto fraudulent instruments. His wife Jessie Roosevelt Blend was noted as a relative of President Roosevelt. The two men who exposed the scam, T J Lefens and William Seipp, reported suspicions only after buying forged mortgage notes.
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Chicago
Peter van Vilssingen
Torday
Washington Street
van Viissingen
van Vilssingen
Roosevelt
Jessie Roosevelt Blend
Roosvelt
van Vilesingen
T. J. Lefens
Willam C. Selpp
Lefens
Seipp
Barbour
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Francis Lackoner
Ays
Tragic Playground Deaths Reported In Illinois and New Jersey
In Carmi Illinois Elizabeth George six dies after playing with her father’s shotgun. The gun was loaded and fired blowing a hole in her head. In Rosetown New Jersey a fifty year old man’s head is blown off. police suspect murder. South Bend Indiana reports progress in the $18 000 post office robbery with two arrests expected.
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Carmi
Elizabeth George
Cfainsville
N. J
South Bend
Ind
Explosion Injures Two in Frisco Freight Yard
Nov 18 report says two men were killed and two injured when a Frisco freight engine exploded yesterday in the city yard. Sixteen loaded freight cars were demolished by the blast, with debris scattering across nearby tracks and facilities.
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Xplosion Killa
Two Men Electrocuted in Brayton Electric Wire Incident
Two men, William Quan Warren of Fall River and Fred Poss of this town, were electrocuted yesterday at a power station on Brayton street amid high power electric wires. Local authorities investigate the fatal accident and identify the victims.
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Warren
R. 1
Brayton
William Quan
Fall River
Fred Poss
Six Die as Mine Cage Plunges in Ellsworth No 1
Pittsburg reports that six men were killed instantly and three escaped serious harm after a mine cage at Ellsworth Mine No 1 in Washington county collapsed. Engineers J Walsh Eugene Smyth and J B Newcomer, all in their early twenties, plus three unidentified foreigners, had just finished a survey when a heavy timber shifted the cage. The cage dropped 223 feet, the timber end projecting and crushing most aboard.
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Pittsburg
Ellsworth
Washington County
J. Walsh
Eugene G. Smyth
J. B. Newcomer
Cvil
Leipsig Gunman Fires in Court Killing Clerk and Wounding Judge
A defeated litigant in the Leipsig supreme civil tribunal drew a revolver and fired ten shots at Judge Maenner and a court clerk. The clerk died and the judge was dangerously wounded before Grosser was overpowered. The assault followed a ruling against his will dispute.
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Letpsic
Supreme Civil Tribunal of
Macahner
Grosser
Duluth Judge Bags 200-Pound Buck From Train Stop
Duluth on November 18 Judge J B M llecott returned with a 200pound buck after a woods hunt inspired by vain fame. He hailed a passing train on the Alger and Smith road, asked the brakeman to stop, then walked off and hoisted the deer into a tree in ten minutes.
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Duluth
J. B. M.llecott
Alger & Smith Road
Sugar fraud charged against American Sugar Refining
The United States government files six suits against American Sugar Refining to recover 3,624,121 in forfeitures and duties on sugar shipped to Havemeyer and Elder refineries in Brooklyn over six years. Government alleges fraud in weighing shipments.
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American Refining Company
New York
United States
American Sugar Refining Company
Havemeyer and Elder
Brooklyn
Markets Close Mixed Across Grain and Live Stock
St Paul and Duluth report wheat at about 1.07 to 1.08 per bushel with No 1 Northern and higher. Chicago prints ranges for wheat and corn with oats and flax listed. Milwaukee shows northern wheat around 1.07 to 1.12 and barley at 6-7 cents. Cattle, hogs, and sheep prices appear across Chicago Sioux City and St Paul markets with variations in grades and weights.
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St. Paul
Northern
Duluth
Chicago
Milwaukee
Sioux City
Iowa
South St. Paul
Death in a Duel Over a Dime in St Joseph
In St Joseph Missouri on November 18 Matt Payne died and John Harrie died after a street duel over a dime. The two men fought with knives for about a block in a vicious quarrel that began during a craps game.
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St. Joseph
Rafter
Matt Payne
John Harriet
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