Johnson Wins as Police Interfere in Opening Round Fight
Jack Johnson defeats Tommy Burns at Rushcutters Bay in Australia after police halt the bout in the fourteenth round. Referee McIntosh had warned a points decision if police intervened, and Johnson’s early pressure culminates in Burns being stopped while down.
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Sydney
N. S.W
Jack Johnson
Galveston
Tex
Rushcutters’ Bay
Tommy Burns
James J. Jeffries
Burns
McIntosh
Johnson
Sam Fitzpatrick
Mullins
Anholz
Lang
Bryant
Keating
O'Keefe
O'Donnell
Burke
Russell
MclIntosh
San Francisco Plans Grand Retailer Return Celebration
San Francisco prepares a formal New Year celebration for 1809 as retailers return to burned districts. Downtown merchants fund electric illuminations and bands, Fillmore Street promotes its permanence, Mission district to blaze with red fire and parade music, and Chinatown to dress in best holiday clothes.
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San Francisco
Fillmore Street
Mission District
Chinatown
Woman may recover courtship expenses if engagement fails
In Los Angeles on December 26 an incident in courtship may lead to reimbursement. A girl who pays incidental expenses for a young man seeking her hand and who is later not married may recover the total she spent. Justice Selph ruled in the case.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Justice of the Peace Selph
Mrs Jones Seeks 87 50 From Emil Fernholtz
Mrs Albert A Jones formerly Miss Bessie May sues to recover 87 50 claiming she kept a diary of expenditures and lent 20 to Fernholtz for clothes. The case centers on repayment of the debt.
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Albert A. Jones
Bessie May
Emil Fernholtz
Fernholtz
Governor elect Lilley Defends Connecticut Office Title
Connecticut governor elect George L. Lilley faces corruption charges in a court filing. George L. Fox sues, alleging improper use of funds in the recent election. Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin names a three judge election court as Lilley is represented by Stiles Judson and Lucian F. Burpee. Walter C. Fleming of Dexter Osborne Fleming joins Fox as senior counsel.
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New Haven
Conn
George L. Lilley
Connecticut
George L. Fox
Simeon E. Baldwin
Silas A. Robinson
William L. Bennett
Stiles Judson
Stratford
Lucian F. Burpee
Lilley
Walter C. Fleming
New York
Dexter, Osborne & Fleming
Fox
Fleming
Hughes
Fire in New York apartment house kills one and burns four
A deadly blaze at 122 West 127th Street in New York killed one man and severely burned three men and a woman. The fire endangered many others as residents escaped or were rescued. Authorities investigate the cause and damage.
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New York
Cholera Rises in Saint Petersburg Amid Cold Wave
In St. Petersburg a cold snap coincides with a cholera surge reporting 31 new cases and 13 deaths. At least 225 patients are hospitalized with the disease.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Percy Smallwood Wins Ten Mile Relay in St. Louis Prep
Philadelphia December 26 Percy Smallwood the Welsh runner who is matched to race Dorando in St Louis defeated Robert Hallen and Michael Spring in a ten mile relay. He completed the distance in 54 28.
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Smallwood
Philadelphia
Percy Smallwood
Dorando
St. Louis
Robert Hallen
Michael Spring
Chicago Markets Holiday Receipts and Prices Report
The report shows hog receipts and prices for yesterday and today with batches from light to heavy harvests. Cattle and sheep markets are steady with bulk hog prices around 5 50 to 6 85 and mixed packers 5 35 to 6 00.
President Fallieres Attacked During Christmas Party in Paris
Paris reports detail President Clement Armand Fallieres feuding with a disgruntled politician named Mappis at a Place de Etoile camp. The exchange left both men bruised as gendarmes detained the assailant, amid rumors linking the incident to the president’s family and a sensational death tale surrounding Mme Astresz and Fallieres’s son.
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Paris
Clement Armand Fallieres
Place de Etoile
Mappis
Fallieres
Mme. Astresz
Astresz
Young Fallieres
Taft Celebrates Christmas in Augusta Georgia
President Elect Taft enjoyed the Christmas holiday in Augusta with a golf win over Coun try club president Major J B Cumming. He rode horseback for miles with his family dining at the Langdon Thomas home and praised local cordiality. A planned trolley trip to Aiken South Carolina with the Hammond and Taft families was set for the day.
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Augusta
Taft
Country Club
J. B. Cumming
Langdon Thomas
Aiken, S. C
John Hays Hammond
James A. Jackson
Railroad Management
Robbers Torture Victim in Toledo Safe heist
In Toledo Ohio two masked robbers attacked Nicholas Schabow in his office on Christmas Eve. They bound gagged and gagged him and applied lighted matches to his feet before he opened his safe. Police seek the duo.
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Toledo
Nicholas Schabow
Schadow
Indian to Get 80000 for Cherokee Ancestry in Land Loss
L L Puckett an eighth Cherokee from near Mattoon Illinois will receive about 80000 dollars from the federal government as compensation to descendants driven from their land in Wilson County Tennessee. He also stands to gain 1700 dollars from his father L A Buel’s estate.
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Mattoon
L. L. Puckett
Puckett
Wilson County
Tenn
Sam
L. A. Buel
Okla
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Triggs
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Japan
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Northwestern University Medical School
Yale
Columbia University
Northwestern University
Sicke
H. W. Wiley
Washington
Ira Remsen
Johns Hopkins
R. H. Chittenden
John Harper Long
Northwestern
C. A. Herter
A. E. Taylor
University of California
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Royal Baking Powder
Pretoria
Hamburg
English Channel
John A. Babcock
The
North American Commission Company
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France
Fallleres
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