Chicago Doctor to Face Murder Trial in 1905 Case
Dr. Harry Elgin Webster, jailed in Oregon, is accused of murdering his wife and is suspected in the Aug 22 1905 killing of Mrs. F. B. Mize in Chicago. Trial set for Jan 22. testimony links include Mrs. Lettie Moulton who led Inspector Hunt to connections at Madison Avenue boardinghouse.
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Chicago
Harry
Elgin Webster
Oregon
Bessie Kent
F. B. Mize
del Prado
Washington Avenue
Nicholas Hunt
Dr.Webster
Hunt
Lettie Moulton
East 55Th Street
Madison Avenue
Dr. Webster
Mra. Moulton
Harry Elgin Webster
Ill
F. E. Mize
Rail wreck near Terrebonne kills three in Canada
Two fast Canadian Pacific passenger trains collided head on near Terrebonne thirty miles from here. Both trains were traveling sixty mph in opposite directions. Locomotives and coaches were hurled and exploded into flames with three dead and several injured.
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Quebec
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Terrebonne
Baroness Suit Settled Over $40,000 Stock Promise
In Cincinnati on January 9 the dispute over stock valued at $40,000 said to be a marriage settlement from Percy Proctor to Baroness Von Klifuss ended on the eve of appellate review. Settlement terms were not disclosed. In Ossining New York also on January 9 Philip Mansano a former interpreter in the marriage license bureau was executed for murdering his daughter.
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Cincinnati
von Klifuss
Percy Proctor
Ossining
N. Y
Philip Mansano
New York
Sing Sing
Packers Win Point in Doc Evidence Ruling
Chicago court rules testimony about three documents bearing pencil notations by J. Ogden Armour Arthur Meeker and Thomas J Connors not sufficiently identified by Jerome H Pratt and bars their use as evidence though the papers may be admitted without the notations. Secret meetings at packers homes during National Packing company formation were disclosed as Pratt resumed testimony.
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Chicago
Chicago Packers
Carpenter
J. Ogden Armour
Arthur Meeker
Thomas J. Connors
Jerome H. Pratt
James Sheean
National Packing Company
Pratt
Sipahdar Named Governor General of Azerbaijan
Teheran announces Sipahdar, Nationalist leader, will govern Azerbaijan in hopes of prompting Russia to withdraw troops from Tabriz. The cabinet also postpones electing a new national council fearing a more anti Russian chamber.
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Teheran
Sipahdar
Azerbaijan
Russia
Tabriz
Wool Combers Walk Out In Bradford Strike Wave
Two thousand wool combers in Bradford walk out in solidarity with cotton workers. The wool combers federation warns of a lockout unless nonunionists are hired, affecting about twelve thousand men.
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Bradford
England
Wool Combers’ Federation of Employers
Wedding party killed in Ohio valley truck crash
A large vehicle carrying 42 people, including a wedding party, plunged over a 30 foot embankment near Bellaire Ohio. Two persons died and many were injured though several women and children reportedly escaped serious harm.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Bellaire
McManigal Arrives Under Heavy Guard in Indianapolis
Ortie FE McManigal reached Indianapolis from Los Angeles under tight secrecy and heavy guard to face federal grand jury inquiry into a dynamiting plot. He is to appear before jurors after transfer to the federal building. He met his father at noon in a private cell, as officials weigh timing and proceedings.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ortie FE
McManigal
Federal Grand Jury
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Chicago
Los Angeles County
United States
Federal
John J. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Charlies W. Miller
Detroit
Malcolm McLaren
Aviator Rescued After Hazardous Sea Flight
English aviator F B Fowler was rescued near the Isle of Wight in an exhausted state after his Beaulieu to Eastbourne flight was driven to sea by a gale. His aeroplane plunged into the water before reaching the coast.
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London
Isle of Wight
Beaulieu
Hampshire
Eastbourne
Peasants Attack Troops in Azambuja Uprising
Lisbon January 9. An uprising erupts in Azambuja after a rent payment order. Peasants attack troops and a cavalry skirmish leaves four dead and several wounded. In Santarem a secret republican group strikes a church and arrests twenty three priests on conspiracy charges.
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Lisbon
Azambuja
Santarem
New Coal Rates Held Up by Interstate Commission
Washington January 9 The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended increased freight rates on soft coal planned by western trunk lines for January 18. The rates remain in effect until May 13 and July 33 to permit investigation into the reasonableness of the new charges.
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Washington
Western Trunk Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. T. Crane Dies Suddenly in Chicago
Chicago businessman R. T. Crane Sr. died at his home on 2541 Michigan Avenue. He had long attacked higher education for engineering as impractical and claimed the cost to educate a single successful graduate reaches 800000, urging funds be redirected to practical training.
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Chicago
R. T. Crane
Michigan Avenue
Iust
Civil Engineering
Crane
University of
Hoentschel Collection Sold to J I Morgan Confirmed
Paris report confirms Jaques Seligmann the art dealer has confirmed the sale of the Hoentschel collection to J I Morgan. The deal centers on a major art archival set with significant museum and collector interest. Prices and terms are not disclosed in the report.
Congress Powers Hamstrung by Labor Strike
Washington reports a historic labor action halting congressional work. The house accounts committee cut stenographer pay sparking a walkout, adjournment followed, while Dr. H W Wiley arrived from agriculture with a polariscope to aid the sugar tariff probe amid failing witness calls.
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Washington
House Committee
Accounts Committee
Sugar Trust Investigating
Committee On Accounts
Lloyd
H. W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Michigan
Hardwick
Army to own twenty aeroplanes by year end
General Allen chief signal officer says the army will possess twenty aeroplanes at posts including the Philippines by the end of the current fiscal year. He asks Congress for funds to buy more next year to demonstrate the military value of aeroplanes.
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Washington
Philippines
Allen
Congress
Zeppelin-Krupp Exhibit Planned for 1915 San Francisco Exposition
Berlin reports Count Zeppelin and Krupp will mount extensive displays at the 1915 Pan Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Zeppelin will show two aluminum framed dirigible balloons and perform several flights. Also, Chicago notes that if every motor car in America were lined up ten feet apart they would stretch from New York to Des Moines, a 1,282 mile line, totaling about 677,000 vehicles.
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Berlin
Count Zeppelin
Krupp
San Francisco
Chicago
America
New York City
Des Moines
Iowa
Torpedo Boat Safe After Atlantic Storm Crews Saved
The torpedo boat destroyer Terry, disabled in a storm between New York and Bermuda, is safe and making for the Virginia capes under its own power. The scout cruiser Salem also reached Hampton Roads after rough seas. Two sailors were lost overboard, and the destroyer Paulding ran ashore at St George's but was later refloated and towed to the dockyard. Several other destroyers including Perkins Walke Ammen Sterrett Preston and Trippe arrived.
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Norfolk
United States
Terry
New York
Bermuda
Norfolk Navy Yard
Virginia Capes
Salem
Hampton Roads
Hamilton
Paulding
St. George's
Perkins
Walke
Ammen
Sterrett
Preston
Trippe
Nine Hurt as Tenement Fire In Minneapolis
A blaze in a downtown tenement and business block injures nine people including two children and seven firefighters. Fifteen residents flee rooftops and ladders as the building, worth about 25000 dollars, suffers heavy damage. Myrtle Johnson, 11, is in critical condition from smoke inhalation. The blast in the basement sent flames onto crews. cause is unknown.
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Minneapolis
Jan
Myrtle Johnson
Rebels win in Ecuador skirmish at Hulgra
In Hulgra near Guayaquil the forces backing provisional president General Mauio Alfaro clash with Gen Leonidas Plaza troops from Quito. Plaza forces retreat with heavy losses as the US gunboat Yorktown arrives from Panama.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Hulgra
Mauio Alfaro
Leonidas Plaza
Quito
General Plaza
United States
Yorktown
Panama
Two Die in Home Quarrel in Brownsville
In Brownsville Pennsylvania a miner Lewis Campbell shot and killed his wife Mary during a dispute over getting up first then killed himself with a shot to the head. A four month old child slept in the same room and survived.
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Brownsville
Lewis Campbell
Mary
Bryan Fails To Oust Guffey From Democratic Committe
Washington January 9 Bryan fails to dismiss James M Guffey of Pennsylvania from the Democratic national committee in a 30 to 18 vote after a stormy session in which Bryan calls Guffey a liar. Palmer answers that he spoke the truth and accuses Guffey of disloyalty to the party amid third party speculation. Senator Stone of Missouri supports Guffey with a proxy as the battle over committee leadership prolongs the convention selection.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
James M. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Democratic National Committee
Guffey
Bryan
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer
Penrose
Aoater
Alm
Senator Stone of
Mourl
Stone
Chinese leaders urge peace as foreign troops move to rail line
Dr Sun Yat Sen predicts peace and urges calm while foreign powers including Britain Germany Japan Russia and France deploy troops along the Tientsin to Shanhaikwan railway. Viceroy Tuan Chih Jat warns arms may fail against rebels and Yuan Shih Kai is urged to consider republican turns. Martial law rumors surface in Peking.
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Peking
China
North China
Tientsin
Shanaikwan
Tuan Chih Jat
Hupen Province
Chinese Republic
Hichborn Seeks Divorce in Washington Elopement Case
Philip S. Hichborn son of Admiral Hichborn sues Elenore Hoyt Hichborn for absolute divorce naming Morace Wylie as corespondent. In London Dunfermline council approves statue of Andrew Carnegie to honor his benefactions to his natal city.
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Washington
Philip S. Hiehborn
Admiral Hiehborn
Navy
Elenore Hoyt Hichborn
Morace Wylie
Carnegie
London
Andrew Carnegie
Dunfermline
Tranmaster
Natal
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WM. J. Bryan
Norman Mack
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Atlantic
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Lie
Sun Yat Sen
Hichborn
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Wylie
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