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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
3
A judge presiding over an Irish language case hears the prisoner speak to an interpreter. The interpreter claims the prisoner said nothing, then reveals the man did utter a line about a woman and a red bed curtain. The judge erupts, and the interpreter jokes the phrase refers to the hangman.
New York December 19 Robert S Lovett says Attorney General Wickersham refused to approve any plan distributing 126 million dollars per value of Southern Pacific stock to Union Pacific Railroad stockholders based on holdings whether by sale dividend or other means. He also said an appeal would follow if the district approved a pro rata distribution.
Fifty years ago on December 23 President Lincoln commended the valor of troops at the Fredericksburg battle. President Jefferson Davis issued a retaliatory prediction threatening execution of General Benjamin F. Butler and officers if captured and hanging of Federal officers with fugitive slaves. He vowed extermination as the war aim.
A Desmond fishing fleet tug with six crew aboard was swept three miles offshore by a blizzard near Dunkirk New York on December 23 and is believed to have foundered with all hands lost.
Frank Woodbury a McHenry County farmer and Hebron Bank director fell into a well and died soon after rescue in Marvard Alabama on December 25.
Mrs Newwed laments lacking an antique touch in the house. Mr Newwed replies craving old fashioned pumpkin piles as a decorative, nostalgic option.
The freighter Florence of the Furness line was driven ashore in fog near Cape Race. Twenty two sailors died. the second mate and four crewmen survived after two days in an open boat. They reached St Johns in a passing steamer and were hospitalised. The Florence, built 1889 in Sunderland, was 295 feet long with triple expansion engines and 2,500 tons burden.
New York reports Charles F. Murphy of Tamman hall refused to join Governor-elect William Sulzer at the Waldorf Astoria dinner. W. J. Bryan did not attend after reports of his health and Hearst canceled due to a broken-down automobile. Chaplain James Ossewaarde of the first United States Infantry protests a war department reprimand over his marriage to an eloping couple.
Harvard students report a $10,000 theft at their rooms in eight houses on December 23. Among the lootings was the room of Robert Taft, son of the university president, as investigators search for an elusive thief nicknamed Raffles.
Ambassador Anderson and his wife arrived in Seoul on December 2 to assume the role as the successor to Charles Page Kryan and begin their duties in the post linking United States diplomacy with Japan.
A blaze at the Carnegie plant of the Carbon Steel company in East Carnegie, Pittsburgh, Pa., wiped out three acres of frame buildings and caused about $75,000 in losses. Residents reported the fire, and investigators began assessing damage.
A dense OCR of a railroad timetable lists numerous train numbers and codes with arrival and departure times. It names Westbound and Eastbound services, local passenger, local freight, and accommodated trains, with lines for stations Broadgate and Chicago Milwaukee divisions.
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