Multiarried swindler James Monroe held for Rochester trial
Chicago November reports James Monroe alias Ames Mitchell Brooks Wright Borson and C B Smith arrested after years of matrimonial swindles. He charmed Mary Jane Colthar in Illinois and fled with $4 1000, later claiming drug business plans. Police linked letters and a ledger to numerous marriages and possible counterfeiting ties. Rochester officer to escort him for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James Monroe
Farnsworth
Bates
Central
Rochester
N. Y
Monroe
Sixty-third Street
Stony Island Avenue
McVeney and Bailey
Coleran
Cleary
Ames
Mitchell
Brooks
Wright
Borson
C. B. Smith
Bunker Hill
Mary Jane Colthar
Indianapolis
New York
Dewey
Ater
St. Louis
Evansville
Ind
Canada
Arnold
Elliott
Barrett
Morrison
Alger
Boroson
H. K. Newett
United States
Philadelphia
Loomis
Caracas
Venezuela
Castro
Dewitt L. Pelton
First Presbyterian Church
Bloomington
Ills
Episcopal Church
Western Foundry Company
Kedzie Avenue
Isaac Cramer
Cramer & Sons
Laporte
Gertie Spriggs
James Johnson
McDonald
Harrison Street
Battle reports from Ladysmith unconfirmed dispatches
Nov 14 London notes limited Africa news with a possible Ladysmith engagement claimed on Nov 9 Estcourt dispatches showing heavy Boer casualties and light British losses if true. Another Estcourt report cites a ceasefire during bombardment and a separate account from Lourenco Marques on Nicholson’s Nek surrender of Scottish and Pusileers forces after a flag of truce incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
South Africa
Estcourt
Batfles
Ladysmith
Lourenzo Marques
Delagoa Bay
Matthews
Pretoria
Nicholson's Nek
Illinois Crop Report Establishes Springfield State HQ
The Illinois climate and crop report service is now headquartered in Springfield under Willis L. Moore of the U S Weather Bureau. Charles K B Linney of Chicago is in charge with Charles F. Tallman as assistant. Moore also created in Chicago a supervisor’s office for a fifteen state northwest group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ills
Climate and Crop Report Service of
Illinois
Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau of
United States
Charles KB. Linney
Chicago
Charles F. Tallman
Moore
The
Weather Bureau
NOT BUYING BY THE BUSHEL IN NORTHERN INDIANA
Grain buyers across northern Indiana oppose the new law setting standard corn weight at seventy pounds per bushel before January and sixty eight afterward. They state dealers contract to take 73 pounds for 25 cents and cannot pay for sap filled ears, while buyers in Toledo and Chicago only accept seventy two pounds. Lawmakers may repeal the measure in the next general assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash
Ind
Indiana
Toledo
Chicago
Street Car Line Tied Up in Springfield Strike
Springfield Illinois sees a street car strike after General Manager Minary refuses to recognize a newly formed street car men's union and reinstate eight discharged workers. The federation of labor had ordered a Saturday boycott, and only a small portion of employees belong to the union, prompting a one day suspension as cars run hack service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ills
Springfield Consolidated
Minary
Federation of Labor
End May Be in Sight as Aguinaldo Surrounded
Washington dispatch reports cables from Manila saying Aguinaldo’s secretary is captured and Aguinaldo may be surrounded. 60,000 troops are en route. insurrection suffers from disease and poor supply while U.S. forces press operations, seize Tarlac and capture insurgent stores and prisoners.
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Washington
Manila
Hayes
Aguinaldo
San Jose
Carranglan
Lawton
Otis
Tarlac
Mayug
Gear Backers Predict Senatorial Re-Election Confidence Rises
Des Moines reports indicate Senator Gear's supporters are more confident of re election with an estimated 76 caucus votes to nominate. Cummins managers withhold numbers but pledge enough support to nominate including spare votes as caucus nears.
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Des Moines
Gear
Cummins
Strike settles as machinists return to work at 26 cents
Boone Iowa November 14 The Northwestern shops machinists strike is settled they return to work at the old rate of 26 cents an hour A committee traveled to Chicago to confer with Master Mechanic Quayle who listened but refused an increase yet made concessions on other points leading to acceptance of the return to work plan
Partridge brothers’ fishing trip ends in tragedy
Peoria men Leonard and Alexander Partridge lost on Waterloo voyage when Leonard’s coat caught in steamboat machinery half a mile above Pekin. His head was severed and the body taken to Peoria. In Racine a bartender Peter George was fatally shot in a saloon quarrel and hospitalized. Davenport convict Charles Stagal’s death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Shaw.
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Pekin
Partridge Brothers
Leonard and
Alexander
Peoria
Waterloo
Spring Lake
Leonard Partridge
Racine
Wis
Peter George
Liberty
Ives
Crta
George
St. Mary’s Hospital
Des Moines
Charles Stagal
Davenport
Anamosa
Chas. Brown
Shaw
Pension reform recommendations from Grand Army committee
A pension committee led by General A. D. Shaw and General Daniel Sickles presented to the president a report from the Philadelphia encampment seeking to group disabilities when setting pension amounts and to stop denying widows pensions for incomes above 60 dollars a year, proposing a 250 dollar annual limit. Evans supported the ideas but favored Congressional action. The same day the industrial commission heard routine testimony on New Jersey and West Virginia corporation laws with no notable revelations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
Philadelphia
White House
A. D. Shaw
J. W. Burst
Sycamore
Hls
Daniel B. Sickles
New York
Evans
Congress
Industrial Commission
New Jersey
West Virginia
Attorney General Questions Authority to Appoint Cuban Civil Governor
The attorney general says a question exists whether the president may appoint a Cuban civil governor without explicit congressional authorization. The president will refer the matter to Congress and in his message argue that the time is ripe for a forward step in the plan to empower the Cuban people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Philippine Commission
Congress
Denby
Worcester
Otis
Washington
Cuba
Mite child in Oshkosh weighs less than birth
A month old Oshkosh girl born weighing 118 pounds remains the same size after a month, measuring a foot long and clothed in doll clothes. Doctors say her health is good and life chances are strong. the family notes the unusual infant as a freak of an insane man who escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oshkosh
Wis
Sibrit Hmnott
Atencup
Fifteenth annual horse show opens in Madison Square Garden
A fragmentary news brief notes the fifteenth annual horse show starting at Madison Square Garden in New York. Various other items include the National Grange session planned for Springfield Ohio and multiple standalone obituaries and incidents across Chicago Vienna Dublin San Francisco and Bloomington Illinois.
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Madison Square Garden
New York
National Grange
Springfield
Ulrike Levitzow
Goethe
Vienna
Louis Walker
Harry Walker
Chicago
San Francisco
Daniel Tallon
Dublin
John B
Election Turmoil as Goebel Fight Deepens in Kentucky
In Frankfort and Louisville the Goebel dispute widens as county boards in Jefferson Christian Knox and others wrestle with contested results. Rumors of martial law flare amid claims of fraudulent Knox and Johnson votes while Goebel backers push for a state board review and possible Kenton county victory. Citizens gather in Barbourville to watch the process.
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Pradley
Konfuse
Goebel
Knox and
Johnson
National Republican Committee
Frankfort
Jefferson
Christian
Knox
Dolmsen
Bradley
Contested Kentucky Election Appeals and Riot Charges
Counsel for Candidate Taylor seeks to compel Knox county officials to certify results to the state board amid claims of irregularities in several counties. Judge Brown grants a temporary injunction. delays persist in Hopkinsville and Christian county counts. A federal grand jury reconvenes to hear election violation charges including intimidation of Black voters, outlining indictable conspiracies and calling for broader action.
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State Board of Election Commissioners
Prankfort
Knox County
Taylor
Barbourville
Hircuit
Brown
Johnson
Lewis
Hopkinsville
Christian County
Louisville
Jefferson County
Toney
Evans
Republican Convention Likely in Chicago Next Year
After talks between Senator Hanns and Charles F. Dick the national committee agreed to meet on December 15 in Washington to set the time and place for the next Republican convention. Possible sites include Chicago St Louis San Francisco Cleveland Minneapolis Denver Kansas City Milwaukee and Buffalo. Wisconsin committeeman Henry Payne urged Chicago as the natural site and said Milwaukee is unlikely to enter the race.
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Cleveland
Hanns
Charles F. Dick
National Republican Committee
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Minneapolis
Denver
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Buffalo
Henry
Payne
National Republican Committeemen
Wisconsin
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Llinde
Prisoner
Sheboygan
Emil Klein
Northwestern Yards
Kaffirgram
Africa
Illinois Crop Report
Man'ia
Porto Rico
Root
Hawaii
Second National Bank of
Rockford
Iris
Adelaide W. Bagley
Worth, Bagley
Spain
Iowa
Grand Army
Grand Haven
Mich
Lessen
Grand Haven Township
United States Semite Committee On Manufactures
Yale
Harvard
Petoria, Ill
Gray
Circuit Court of
Fulton County
Chicago District Drainage Trustees
Copperas Creek
Will
Marion County Grand Jury
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Fremont, O
Gibsonburg
County
Ben Card
Kentucky
New W
Long
Republican Campaign Committee
Democratic
Kenton County
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Keck
Presipent
CHAS
H. Keck
Casnier
Prank Stewart
O. M. Keck
Casey Bros
Feed and Sale Stable
Hotel Allen
EE. M. McConaughy
Ovriew
Klein's Clothing Store
J. R. Burroughs
Ovriem
Southeast Corner Square
Columbia Corner
Waithhanton, TA
P. W. McElwain
Parsons
WashingTon Lowa
Marsh W. Bailey
Opeice
Downstatia
City Hall
Laws
Geneva
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Orrick
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. E. Anderson,m. D
Klein's
Washington, Towa
Ida Bailey
Woat Mate Steel
Dr. McClean
LAW
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
First National Bank
West DeLong's
D. Neiswanger & Son
C. S. Lemmon
L. D. Robinson
East Side
C. Ss. Lemmon
Mr. Lemmon
National Committee
Washington Dee
H. Sanford
T. J. Dempsey
Side Square
National Bank
J. H. Young
W. KR. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
J.T. Anderon
Ags
T Caal
Washington County
Capital
Wings Bank
Jon. Knox
A. Waern
Cashier
H. Kwok
V. P.O
M. Knox
Ass't Cash
Wm Bink
A. H. Wallace
C. H. Keck
Fran Stowart
J V. Henderson
W. H. Butterfield
Cpediente
Urall
Rocky Mountain
Weary & Hahn
Freeport, Ills
Washington, Ia
Howard H. Hahn
T. T. Keeley
W. Washington Street
R. F. Riley
Smouse
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