Scrap Between Boni de Castel lane and Prince Helle de Sagan
Paris reports Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helle de Sagan clashed at St Pierre de Chaillot during a memorial service for Lady Stanley Erington. The fight spilled outside the church with canes and mud, ending when a butcher separated them at the doorway. Police took all three to the station.
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Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
Prince Helle de Sagan
Mme. Gould
St. Pierre de Chaillot
Stanley Er. Tington
England
Count Boni
Count Jean de Castellany
Prince
Jean
No Dull Ending to Rift Between Boni and Prince
Count Boni and Prince Helie clashed over an assault claim with a signed process verbal and release. The public prosecutor will decide steps, while the prince pursues court action and a duel appears unlikely. Boni boasted of silk waistcoats and blamed an old feud with the prince.
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Count Boni
Prince Helie
Prince Helle
Associated Press
Hellad
Mme
Anna
Death by Own Action of Octogenarian in New York
Marquis C. Gas, eighty five, a tea merchant once with the Pro Exchange and active in riding and driving circles, was found dead in his West Fifty third street home with a bullet in the right temple. Two servants and Gasper were in the house. no shot was heard. Despondency over a prolonged illness is believed to be the motive for the self-inflicted death.
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New York
Marquis C. Gas
Merant
Pro- Exchange
West Fifty-third Street
Gasper
Lynching Reported in Brookhaven Mississippi 1908
The first lynching of 1908 occurred in Brookhaven Mississippi. The victim, a black man accused of killing a police officer, was lynched by a mob.
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Brookhaven
Miss
Extra! She Wants a Divorce Countess of Yar Mouth
A historical column notes a divorce request involving the Countess of Yar Mouth, highlighting social intrigue and aristocratic marital tensions of the era.
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Yar
Editor Gets Four Months for Alleged Libel
The Evening Journal reports multiple items. Countess Yarmouth seeks nullification of her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth, sister to Harry Thaw. In Berlin Maximillian Harden of Die Zukunft is jailed four months for libeling Count Kuno von Moltke. In Muncie Indiana rioting over a street railway strike resumes with fifty arrests and rising tensions.
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Maximilian Harden
Berlin
Yarmouth
Earl of
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Maximillian Harden
Die Zukunet
Kuno von Moltke
Muncie
Ind
Evening Journal
Penrose absentmindedness and New York delegation notes
Washington dispatch outlines shifts in Republican power with Senator Penrose’s private room routine and the expected influence of Thomas C. Platt on New York’s 1904 delegation. It also highlights the ascent of William J. Bryan as Florida’s junior senator and recalls Kellogg’s former convention clout.
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Mr. Penrose
Thomas C. Platt
New York
Marshall weighs 350 pounds alters horse ride warning
Army physicians advised that if Marshall mounts a horse it would likely collapse under him and injure the officer.
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Marshall
Peace on That Trolley Line
Peace has been reached between warring factions of the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric railroad. The agreement dissolves the receiver ship ordered by Judge Richard S. Tuthill Tuesday afternoon and stops active litigation.
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Chicago
Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad
Richard 8. Tuthill
Saved a Boy's Life at Train Crossing in Ann Arbor
In Ann Arbor Michigan on January 8 a milk wagon driven by Lee Frazer failed to clear a railroad crossing as a train approached. Frazer pushed his young companion clear but was struck and killed with the boy unharmed. The derailed body lay mangled along the pilot before being found in a ditch after a lengthy search.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Pontiac Street
Toledo and
Lee Frazer
O'Hara
Frazer
Less Precious Stones Bought Decline In 1907 Imports
United States citizens spent eleven million dollars less for precious stones and pearls in 1907 than in 1906. Collector of customs figures show 1906 imports at forty three million five hundred seventy three thousand four hundred eighty eight dollars.
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New York
United States
Robbers Loot McCurtain State Bank Vault
Fort Smith Arkansas January 3 robbers blew open the vault of the McCurtain Oklahoma State bank forty miles away and escaped with three thousand dollars in gold and silver leaving no trace of the loot.
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Fort Smith, Ark
McCurtain
Okla
Pettibone Trial Postponed to Monday Morning
Boise Idaho January 3 Judge Wood was not ready to supply lawyers with copies of his jury instructions in the Pettibone case an adjournment was ordered until Monday morning next.
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Pettibone
Boise, Ida
Wood
Colorado Educator James B Westhay Dead at 45
James B Westhay er A M Ph D professor of physics at the University of Denver and author of a physics textbook died at St Luke s hospital in Denver at age forty five.
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Denver
James B. Westhayer
University of Denver
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cuban customs receipts rise to 1907 total of 20 million
Customs receipts for 1907 reached 20 005 048 dollars up from 18 511 296 dollars in 1906. In New York City's east side over 6 000 families refused to pay more than 80 percent of this month’s rent for their flats.
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East Side
New York City
Woman baths in frigid ocean on wager near Staten Island
Miss Helen Wilcox of Eltingville Staten Island swam in the ocean near her home for five minutes despite water and air below freezing. The bath was taken on a wager.
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New York
Helen Wilcox
Eltingville
Staten Island
Thorgeh
Smelters Not Ordered Closed Says GM Franklin Guterman
Franklin Guterman general manager of American Smelting and Refining Co denied Helena dispatches that Colorado smelters would close or wages be reduced. The statement counters those claims and affirms continued operations.
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Denver
Franklin Guterman
American Smelting and Refining Company
Helena
Mont
Colorado
Markets reflect steady to higher hogs and weak cattle
Chicago markets report hogs steady to higher with light and mixed packers quoted around 4 25 to 4 67, heavy shipping grades 4 20 to 4 65, rough 4 20 to 4 35. Cattle and sheep are weak, with heavy receipts and slow demand, bees 3 60 to 6 20 for beef, and 8 000 sheep listed as weak.
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Texas
Reciprocity with France Dingley act agreement near completion
Washington reports final touches on a draft under section 8 of the Dingley act. M. Jusserand and the French ambassador discussed details at the state department. The pact would reduce U S duties on French champagne by 20 percent while France would cut maximum duties on U S cottonseed oil machinery and other goods.
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Washington
United States
France
M. Jusserand
State Department
Roosevelt and Taft weigh fate of failing officers
Washington the president and secretary Taft will study how to handle army officers who did not pass the recent horseback riding test. The riding board report could force retirement for several engineers, including Colonel Marshall in charge of the Ambrose channel work in New York, who could not ride due to insufficiently large horses.
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Penrose
Pennsylvania
Senate Post Offices Committee
Colonel Andrews
Andrews
Tom Platt
New York
Empire State
Chicago
Mr. Platt
Philadelphia
Theodore Roosevelt
Platt
Roosevelt
Washington
Taft
Army
Marshall
Ambrose Channel
Contact Notes From GHIGALGO Illinois Message
A brief note from John A. Babcock invites calls at any time promising a square deal. It emphasizes straightforward communication and reliability.
Woman in German Case Reveals Murder by Favored Suspect
In East Prussia Captain von Goeben confesses to killing Major von Schoenbeck on Christmas night after a staged exit. He used a mask and a pistol, and fled with a key from Mrs Schoenbeck. Police evidence and letters suggest an affair, prompting a court martial ordered by the War Minister.
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Allenstein
East Prussia
von Goeben
Major von Schoenbeck
Major
Berlin
Ecourt
Women Allowed to Smoke in New York Public Dining Rooms
New York reports a Broadway restaurant allowing women to smoke in public dining rooms on New Year’s Eve with plans for more venues to follow. Big hotels and Fifth Avenue spots likely to resist. Citywide estimates place New Year revelry at 1.75 million dollars, with about 100000 people dining, receipts near 20000 at one spot, and large quantities of champagne and claret consumed.
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New York
Jan
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Treasury debtless cash rises to 884 million in December
Washington dated January 3 reports the monthly public debt statement showing the treasury's debtless cash at year end December 31 1907 totaling 884 080 831 dollars an increase of 9 550 992 dollars for the month.
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Washington
Bank Authorized to Reopen in Mingo Junction
The First National Bank of Mingo Junction Ohio, closed November 9, 1907, has been authorized by the comptroller of the currency to reopen for business on January 3. The bank’s return to operations marks a significant step in local finance.
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Washington
First National Bank
Mingo Junction
Comptroller of the Currency
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