Witness Charged With Perjury in Dynamite Case
Fred Zeiss, McManigal ally and Detroit room mate, held on $2000 bond to face grand jury for perjury after impeachment attempt in the dynamite conspiracy trial. Zeiss testified McManigal warned of explosions and invited him to dynamiting work, while Zeiss contradicted McManigal on Detroit events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Ortie McManigal
Frederick W. Zeiss
Union Ironworker
Chicago
Albert Anderson
Zeiss
McManigal
Detroit
Russell Wheel and Foundry Company
Bloomville
Anderson
Miller
Grand Jury
Felder
Charles M. Feider
Barber
Los Angeles
Omaha
Douglas County
McNamara
William Quigley
Quigley
Higgins
Cooney
Thomas Taggart
French Lick Hotel
J. B. McNarama
Kern
Wall Street Commission Pockets Seen at Washington Hearing
Frank K. Sturgis, ex president of the New York Stock Exchange, testifies before the money trust committee about commission take, noting brokers’ earnings on 196 million shares yearly and discussing short selling and exchange duties.
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Frank K. Sturgis
The
New York Stock Exchange
Washington
Wall Street
House
Money Trust
Samuel Untermyer
Sturgis
Tughes Commission
Mr. Untermyer
Untermyer
Mr. Sturgis
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Priest reports 400 marriages from matrimonial bureau
Kansas City Mo December 13 Father W J Dalton of the Church of the Announciation says the church bureau has issued a report noting 1700 letters from around the world and 400 marriages completed within the first year of its activity.
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Kansas City
W. J. Dalton
Church of the
Hunter Shot by Son in Illinois Rabbit Hunt
In Sterling Illinois Frank Rucker a leading farmer was fatally shot by his seventeen year old son during a rabbit hunt. The incident occurred as family members described the event with authorities beginning an investigation.
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Hunter
Sterling
Ill
Frank Rucker
Frank
Woman kills self by jumping from fifteenth floor
Mrs. Clara Schumann, wife of Herman M. Schumann, a cafe owner, leaped from the fifteenth floor of the New National Bank of Commerce building at Broadway and Pine, landing on a skylight in the Burlington railway offices courtway eleven stories below in St. Louis.
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St. Louis
Clara Schumann
Herman M. Schumann
New National Bank of Commerce
Broadway
Pine Streets
Burlington Railway
Courtway
Tenants Union Seeks Clergy Aid to Cut Rent Burden
The Tenants' union of New York urges clergy to press landlords to remit ten percent of rent until living costs drop, aiming to help 800,000 rent paying families in the city. Also note Col Richard C Kerens, US ambassador to Austria-Hungary, staying at the Bristol hotel due to embassy luxuries in Vienna.
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New York Tenants’ Union
New York
Tenants’ Union of
Vienna
Col
Richard C. Kerens
St. Louis
Austria-Hungary
Bristol Hotel
Steamers in Distress Off Tawas City Michigan
Rescue efforts unfold as the steam er Pickands and barges Donaldson and King drift offshore near Tawas City. Life savers launch a lifeboat amid heavy seas to reach the distressed vessels but have not been seen since dark. The Pickands and its tow have been at sea about three weeks.
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Tawas City
Mich
Detroit
Pickands
Donaldson
King
Small
United States Life Saving Station
White Law Reid Ill With Severe Asthma in London
United States ambassador to Great Britain White Law Reid is seriously ill with asthma. Specialists attend him at Dorchester House after a relapse following his speech at the University of Wales opening session in Aberystwyth. Winter weather in England worsens his condition. Indian Head Nickel Due Soon from Treasury Officials. expected in circulation by February 1.
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London
England
Dorchester House
Washington
Treasury Department
Four Men Hanged in Oregon Prison
Four men were hanged in Salem Oregon as Gov Oswald West refused clemency appeals. The quartet—Frank Garrison Noble Faulder H E B Roberts and Mike Morgan—had all been on reprieve awaiting a statewide verdict on capital punishment. The November 5 decision favored execution despite unprecedented efforts to save them.
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Salem
Ore
Oswald West
Frank Garrison
Noble Faulder
H. E B. Roberts
Mike Morgan
Fire destroys ships in Naples port explosion loss 400000
Fire after an explosion of 200 tons of paraffin being landed from the Adriatic continued burning as port and city crews and tugboats towed the last burning craft to sea. Authorities estimate the damage around 400000 pounds.
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Naples
Adriatic
Sia
Edmonton Man Recovered From 3000-Foot Fall Dies
Edmonton Alberta December 13 Charles Wolcott who fell 3000 feet with a bal loon in South America seventeen years ago died after months of illness. He was the only man known to recover from such a fall and endured nine inches of spinal exposure during successive operations.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Charles Wolcott
South America
Wolcott
Costs of Lorimer Senate Investigation Reach 70000
Washington reports the second inquiry into the election of William Lorimer to the U S Senate cost about 70000. Most expenses are itemized in the secretary of the senate's report for the fiscal year ending June 30 1912 released today.
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Washington
William Lorimer
Chicago
United States Senate
Secretary of the Senate
Alleged Wire Tapper Caught in Florida Case
New York December 14 Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty described the arrest of Albert A Carter at St. Augustine Florida in a wire tapping case. He said 8 M Jones a wealthy mining engineer of Pittsburg was fleeced of twenty thousand dollars by the wire tappers.
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New York
Albert A. Carter
St. Augustine
Fla
Dougherty
8. M. Jones
Pittsburg
U S Sues Candy Trust Over Sherman Law Violations
Philadelphia December 14 Attorney General Wickersham files a civil anti trust suit against the Philadelphia Jobbing Confectioners association alleging a cartel to coerce manufacturers from selling directly to retailers consumers or jobbers outside the group The action seeks injunctions and cites firms and individuals in the association handling products from New York New Jersey Maryland Pennsylvania and other states in violation of the Sherman Act.
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Philadelphia
Candy Trust” of
Wickersham
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Mexico Enacts New Rebel Band Terrorizes Rural Areas
Mexico City reports a new bandit rebel group roaming the Morelos Cuernavaca state line. The insurgent band led by EB Pinto de Cuachichinola commits outrages against men women and children as authorities debate a Chinese indemnity demand likely to be noted before Congress adjourns in two days, delaying action until April.
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Mexico City
Morelos Cuerrero State
Lne
EB Pinto de Cuachichinola
Congress
Congress adjourns for Christmas holidays
Washington December 14 the senate adopted a resolution to adjourn for the Christmas holidays from December 19 to January 2 after the house already passed the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Illinois Man Killed In Kansas by Employee Shooting
Dodge City Kansas December 14 A G Kuhlman a thrasherman from Quincy Illinois was shot and killed by Fay A White one of his employees White was arrested and jailed Kuhlmans wife and children are in Quincy
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Illinois
Kansas
Dodge City
Kan
A. G. Kuhlman
Quincy
Til
Fay A. White
White
Kuhlman
Roberts Elected President of United States Express Company
D I Roberts manager of the Canadian Lines of the Delaware and Hudson company has been elected president of the United States Express company. He succeeds the late Senator Thomas C Platt and promises courtesy and efficiency as the company motto under Harriman interests who gained control last February.
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New York
D. I. Roberts
Mnes
Delaware & Hudson Company
United States Express Company
Roberts
Harriman
Thomas C. Platt
Lost fugit ive Castro found near Paris in Compleghe
Ex President Castro formerly of Venezuela was located at a Venezuelan friend's residence in Compleghe near Paris. The report notes he has been known as the lost fugitive. The discovery closes an extended period of disappearance with international attention.
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Castro
Paris
Iprianio Castro
Venezuela
Compleghe
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F. W. Zeiss
M’manigal
Miss May Boland
Miss Boland
Marion Coal Company
Scranton
Archbald
Swayne
Agricultural Department
George Stiles
Iis
Ruth C. Greathouse
Maude L. Mason
Witness Before Money Trust
Eldridge E. Jordan
McCombs
Woodrow Wilson
U. S
Elgin Board
Big
Elgin Butter Board of
United States
Department of Justice
Beef Trust
Whitelaw Reid
Oregon
Lorimer
Costly
U.S
Mexico
Bandit Band
Thomas C. Pratt
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