Outlaws Rob a Southern Pacific Train
Two masked bandits halted the Oregon Express between Red Bluff and Redding California and looted all eastern registered mail. They bound gagged three mail clerks and posed as clerks at Cottonwood Anderson and other stops before fleeing as the train arrived in Redding.
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Hedding
Cal
Oregon Express
Southern Pacific
Red Bluff
Redding
San Francisco
Charles J. Ryan
Ryan
Robert B. Warner
Cottonwood
Anderson
George Westlake
Westlake
Moors Repulsed at Sefrou Amid Heavy Casualties
A Fez wireless report says Moroccan tribesmen attacked Sefrou south of Rabat. French garrison defenders repelled eight hours of fighting, leaving fifty tribesmen dead while the garrison suffered five killed and fifteen wounded.
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Tangier
Morocco
Fez
Sefro U
Five Die Expected After Central Bridge Street Car Crash
A defective rate on the Central bridge at Front and Ludlow streets caused a street car wreck in Cincinnati. Five injured men named Harry Weseling Covington Ky Harry Finan Denton Schrell Southgate Ky Samuel Holle Newport Ky Edward J Humpel 2409 Ohio Avenue Cincinnati are expected to die.
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Cincinnati
Central Bridge
Front
Ludlow
Harry Weseling
Covington
Harry Finan
Denton Schrell
Southgate
Samuel Holle
Newport
Edward J. Humpel
Ohio Avenue
Bryan Nominated for Bryan 1912 Presidential Primary Ballot
Lincoln Nebraska January 6 William J Bryan name advanced for Democratic presidential primary by a petition on file with Secretary of State Wait. Petition signed by 26 voters headed by A A Arter of Omaha. Carnegie to testify before steel trust committee January 10.
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Lincoln, Neb
William J. Bryan
A. A. Arter
Omaha
Carnegie
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
House “Steel Trust
Stanley
Fighting Near Lanchow Complicates Russo-Chinese Front
Reports from Peking and Nanking describe severe fighting near Lanchow between Chinese and Manchu forces. Telegraph lines are cut as British and German troops move from Tientsin to Lanchow. Republican forces, reinforced from Canton with thousands of rifles, push toward Pukow while imperial troops under General Chang lag in numbers.
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Peking
Lanchow
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company
Tientsin
Mukden
Nanking
China
Pukow
Canton
Chang
Roosevelt on Courts Warns Against Court Supremacy
Theodore Roosevelt in an Outlook editorial argues that courts should not be final on major decisions affecting large populations. He frames his view as conservatism and says states must affirm or overturn supreme court rulings by popular vote when needed. He cites housing safety factory and railway conditions as areas where government action is essential.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Progress
Supreme Courts
Single Tax in Seattle City Council Endorses Land Tax Plan
Seattle officials back two charter amendments applying single taxation to municipal revenue. One proposal would immediately establish a land tax to fund city services, the other would implement a gradual move to a complete single tax system, to be put to voters at the next general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Jewels to aid missions move to wipe debt in Nashville
Women of the southern Presbyterian church in Nashville send jewels and personal belongings to the foreign mission board to erase a $100,000 debt. The appeal follows a recall crisis that jeopardized foreign missions and prompted loyal women to cover the deficit. A Seville school collapse kills and injures many students and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women of
Nashville
Tenn
Southern Presbyterian Church
Foreign Mission Board
Noted Men Indicted In Mail Fraud Scheme
Noted figures including Julian Hawthorne Josiah Quincy Albert Freeman John McKinnon and Dr William J Horton faced not guilty pleas in U S district court بعد indictments alleging misuse of the mails to defraud investors in mining stocks Percy G Vanderoef also pleaded not guilty to two grand larceny indictments to allow time for restitution In Hammond Indiana engineer Oscar Grant of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern fell unconscious from a paralysis attack but survived with the train halted by his fireman
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New York
United States District Court
Julian Hawthorne
Josiah Quincy
Boston
Transit Commission of
Albert Freeman
John McKinnon
Hawthorne Mining Companies
William J. Horton
Percy G. Vanderoef
van Keuren-Thornton Company
Vanderver
Hammond
Ind
Oscar Grant
Elgin, Joilet & Eastern Road
Dyer
Grant
Cudahy Family Feud Draws in Los Angeles Figures
Tension over control of multi million Cudahy fortune rises as Mrs. Jack Cudahy seeks custody of children from grandmother Mrs. Michael Cudahy in Pasadena. John Cudahy and his son John R. Cudahy back efforts to contest Michael Cudahy will and unwind the five year trust while forming a company to manage funds.
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Michael
Los Angeles
Cal
Cudahy
Jack Cudahy
Michael Cudahy
Pasadena
John Cudahy
John R. Cudahy
Bessie Clifford
Pat Crowe
I. C. Officials Face Trial For Railroad Fraud
Four former Illinois Central officials indicted over a year ago for frauds alleged to have cost the railroad more than 1.5 million will go on trial Monday before Judge George Kersten in Chicago. Defendants listed include Frank H. Harriman general storekeeper Charles J. Ewing general superintendent and Joseph E. Baker car department superintendent.
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Chicago
Ilinois Central Railroad
George Kersten
Frank H. Harriman
Charles J. Ewing
Joseph E. Baker
Rope breaks on scaffold in Kent execution at Windsor
Hickrey Kent was hanged for murder at the state prison in Windsor Vermont for killing Mrs Delia Congdon on July 24 1908. The rope broke on the drop causing him to fall to the floor and remain suspended until 145 pm when he was pronounced dead. A doctor said his neck was broken by the fall.
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Windsor
Hickrey Kent
Delia
Congdon
East Wallingford
Kent
Shipyard Strikes Loom on Clyde and North Coast
Serious labor trouble looms as Boilermakers' officials send circulars over a February 15 deadline set by the Shipbuilding and Engineering Federation. Two thousand Sunderland workers are locked out, with similar action anticipated at Tyne shipyards along England's northeast coast.
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London
Clyde
Boilermakers’ Association
Shipbuilding and Engineering Federation
Sunderland
Tyneside
Meningitis Epidemic Closes Texas Schools and Quarantines
An epidemic of spinal meningitis causes 100 deaths since December 1 and hundreds of cases in Texas. Public schools in Dallas and Waco close and Houston imposes a quarantine on pupils from affected districts. Berlin reports powers seek armistice terms between Italy and Turkey, with indications of progress.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Dallas
Waco
Berlin
Rome
Constantinople
Italy
Turkey
Illinois Hotel Men Meet in Bloomington Convention
Bloomington hosts the annual Illinois Commercial Hotel association gathering with delegates from many cities. The meeting discusses revision of state hotel laws and recommends changes to the legislature.
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Illinois
Bloomington
Illinois Commercial Hotel Association
Foster daughter Helen Kimbrough seen in Decatur
Danville reports that sixteen year old Helen Kimbrough foster daughter of Judge E R B Kimbrough, who vanished Tuesday evening amid elopement rumors, is currently visiting friends in Decatur.
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Danville
Helen Kimbrough
E. R. B. Kimbrough
Decatur
Platinum price climbs to record high in New York
In New York on January 6 platinum rose to 730 dollars per pound the top quotation ever recorded. The metal is in short supply prompting several large users to pursue new discoveries.
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New York
Pew
Taft Names Dr Repert Blue Surgeon General and Postmasters Reform Favored
Washington January 6 President Taft will nominate Dr Repert Blue of South Carolina to be surgeon general of the public health and marine service for a four year term. The appointment comes as postmaster general reform is urged to remove political influence from the postal service. Army engineers report a favorable feasibility study on a continuous inland waterway chain along the Atlantic coast, with a plan to send the report to Congress soon.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
Repert Blue
South Carolina
Public Health and Marine Service
Ter Wyman
Blue
Marine Hospital Service
Yes
San Francisco
Gary MacVeagh
Public Health Service
MacVeagh
J. A. White
New Oriests
Hitchcock
United Army Engineers
Atlantic
Atlantic Deep Atways Association
Congress
Attempt to Save Life Ends in River Tragedy
Paducah Kentucky January 6. In a bid to save James Coleman from suicide at Bayou yesterday a doctor AL Purcer and J H Hodges with a man may have perished in the Ohio River. Coleman bears dangerous wounds. The trio left Smithland in a motor boat at 6 PM and no trace has been seen since.
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Paducah
James Coleman
Bayou
AL Purcer
J. H. Hodges
Ohio River
Coleman
Smithland
Police Build Woman Home On River Flats
A Kansas City woman nicknamed Mother Rags has a new two room shelter, built by police on the site of her old shack on the river flats after years of dwelling in a wind swept dry box and brush hut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Heudeiee
Mrs Day Dies in Canton Supreme Court Justice’s Wife Passes
Mrs Mia Day wife of Justice Day of the supreme court died at the family home in Canton on January 6. The Day family was gathered at her bedside at the time of death.
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Supreme Court
Canton
Mia
Justice Day
Taft Greets Illinoisans On Lovejoy Birthday
President Taft sent a cordial message read in Princeton Illinois during the celebration of the 101st anniversary of abolitionist Owen Lovejoy's birth. He could not attend in person but extended greetings for the event.
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Princeton
Owen Lovejoy
Washington
Taft
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