Fire Kills Seven at Cornell Chi Psi Lodge
At Cornell University early today a fire in the Chi Psi Fraternity Lodge killed seven residents and three volunteer firefighters, with U.S. authorities estimating $260,000 in losses. Among the dead were Cornell students Nichols, Schmuck, Grelle, and McCutcheon, plus alumni and six volunteers who died trying to rescue others as walls collapsed. Firefighters Robinson Rumsey Landon died. De Camp and others were injured. The origin remains under investigation as crews fought the blaze amid a stiff wind.
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Washington Fort
Ithaca
Chi Psi
Cornell University
William Holmes Nichols
Chicago
Carnethan
Charrel
Frederick W. Grelie
Cast Orange
Oliver Leroy Schmuck
Hanover
Cornell
Mehols
Frederick W. Grelle
East Orange
James McCutcheon
Pittsburg
Alfred C Robinson
John Rumsey
Estey J. Landon
Empire State Furnishing Company
Re Department
Woo& de Camp
New York
Venry Mc Curry
R Powers
Atlanta
Goetz
Milwaukee
Wis
G R Sailor
C J Popp
Vast Orange
New York City
Carnell
Schmuck
Nichols
Studeste
Admira
Dee Phi Phi Kappa Pal
Thi Nida Kappa
Morris Halladay
Charles Good Pird
Columbia
Ohio
Howard T. Gibson
Brooklyn
McCutcheon
Clarence G. Bamberger
BH. A. Uhril
R. H. Powers
Ithaca Fire Department
Hook and Ladder Company No. 8
Robinson
Landon
Rumsey
Fraternity House Fire At Ithaca Claims Three Firemen
Early morning blaze at the Chi Psi house near Cornell kills three firemen and injures six others. Rescue crews remove bodies of Mickels and Grelle as investigators estimate property loss over 200000. The mansion, once home to Jennie McGraw Fiske, has a storied Cornell history.
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Cornell Cadet Corns
Mickels
Grelle
W. W. Goetz
Milwaukee
Wie
City
Cornell
Lawrence A. Pops
East Orange
N. J
Chi Psi Fraternity
Connell
Ch Pal
Fiske
Corneil University
Heira
Renounces Citizenship After Eleven Years as Naturalized U.S. Citizen
Ferdinand Y. A. Huppe, after eleven years as a naturalized citizen, asked to surrender his naturalization papers at the New York county courthouse naturalization bureau. He cited inability to earn a living and farm, saying he renounces his U.S. citizenship. Judge O'Gorman ordered the certificate filed with the resignation noted.
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New York
Ferdinand Y. A. Huppe
Naturalization Bureau
United States
Huppe
John Loos
Loos
O'Gorman
State Department
Government resists simplified spelling in official documents
A House Appropriations Committee report objects to the Presidents drive for simplified spelling, warning of higher costs to taxpayers and book publishers. The measure would require the Government Printing Office to follow standard orthography, with the Supreme Court already opposed, and Congress unlikely to approve.
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House of Representatives
Congress
Government Printing Office
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Senate
Supreme Court
White House
Ita
9iiMings
United States
Stillings
Tawney
Isaac E. Funk
Twain's Fancy Suit Sparks Talk on Copyright Law
Mark Twain attracted attention in the Capitol as he argued for extending copyright protection beyond forty two years. He wore a cream summer flannel and joked that his outfit was a uniform of the American Association of Purity and Perfection. He debated with lawmakers, urged longer protection for a few enduring works, and criticized modern dress while recounting fashions and his age.
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Mark Twain
Capitol
Mr. Clemens
William Dean Howells
House Committee On Patents
Clemens
Busby
Joe Cannon
Lacey
Iowa
Washington
Toby
American Association of Purity and Perfecsion
United States
Sandwich Islands
Trial highlights Payn check case against Mutual Reserve leader
In New York a larceny trial in the Supreme Court features a $10,000 Payn indorsed check photo as evidence. George Burnham Jr. testifies about a demanded $100,000 to suppress an unfavorable report while Louis Payn was state superintendent of insurance. The trial continues with Burnham and other company executives under questioning.
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Ats
Payn
New York
Supreme Court
George Burnham, Jr
Mutasi Reserve Life Insurance Company
Mutual Reserve
Louis F. Payn
New York State
George D. Patterson
Firemen’s Benevolent Fund
Patterson
Lou Payn
Exempt Firemen’s Benevolent Fund
Raines
Lemuel BE. Quigg
New York Press
Hbel
Samuel B. Patterson
Frederick A. Burnicent
Mr. Nott
Burnham
Mutual, Preserve
Woman Shoots Self to Avoid Forgery Arrest
Pittsburg Pa Dec 1 Eithel Ferrer twenty five a cashier for a dermatologist shot herself and died at her mother s apartment to escape a detective s coming arrest on a forgery charge. Miss Ferrer had come from Ohio and was famed for her fine apparel. Dr Span, her employer, accused her of forging his name to a 310 000 check. she shot herself after he telephoned for a detective and died as he entered.
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Youngs
Pittsburg
Eithel
Ferrer
Miss Ferrer
Ohio
Dr. Span
Span
Insane Wife Burns Savings then Holds Husband Prisoner
Mrs. Louisa Johnson of 449 Easton Avenue is detained at City Hospital as insane after she threw 1,300 in savings onto a stove and burned it. She kept her husband Gus Johnson prisoner for about 36 hours with threats and a carving knife before officers intervened. He escaped, called for help, and she was moved to the insane asylum for treatment.
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Washington Post
St Louis
Louisa Johnson
Easton Avenue
Gus Johnson
City Hospital
Johnson
Tim
Billick
Cleveland
Wrant
Chicago
Bilack
Rose Vraal
Bill to raise government salaries by ten percent
Representative Southwick of New York introduced a bill to boost pay for nearly all federal workers by 10 percent, excluding the President, members of Congress, and fixed per diem staff. He argues the purpose is to help staff cope with higher living costs and to treat government workers like railroads in wage adjustments.
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Southwick
New York
Uncle Sam
Congress
Washington
Altro AG
Train Robbers Held After Pacific Express Theft
Six men formed the band that robbed the Pacific express car and fatally assaulted Messenger EM Grissett. The crew found the car empty near Redwater after the assault, with the safe ransacked and the messenger’s helper missing. Five suspects were arrested in Camden, Texarkana, and Waco, with $110,000 reportedly taken.
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Palestine
Tex
Pacific Express
EM. Grissett
Eylan Siding
Redwater
Texarkana
Frank Blur
Camden
Grinsett
Company Hospital
Texarkane
Imewahay
Waco
Four Killed In Maine Rail Collision At Annabessacook
Lewiston Maine December 7 Four people died and three were seriously hurt in a head-on crash between a special and a freight train on the Maine Central Railroad near Annabessacook. The wreck happened late last night amid high speeds caused by a misunderstanding of orders. Eight of thirteen cars from the special were wrecked over the engines and destroyed with most contents. The dead include Fireman Hodges and Engineer Forrest Fletcher among others.
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Maine
Lewiston
Maine Centra Railroad
Annabessacook
Hodges
Forrest Fletcher
Emaii
Harriman
Charles F. Freeman
Earthquake Jolts San Luis Obispo Area
A strong quake hit San Luis Obispo at 10:40 PM lasting over thirty seconds with a north to south shock. A second, milder tremor followed half an hour later. The quake was felt in Santa Maria, Guadalupe, Cayucos, and Cambria, causing items to fall from shelves in Cambria but no serious damage reported elsewhere.
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Cal
Santa Maria
Guadalupe
Cayucos
Cambria
Eleven Below Zero In St Paul Weather Record
The mercury fell to 11 degrees below zero in St Paul Minnesota today a drop of 37 degrees in twenty four hours The weather observer predicts the cold spell will ease tomorrow Also notices rail fare 1.25 to Baltimore and return via Pennsylvania Railroad with weekend service and return by Sunday night
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St. Paul
St Paul
Minn
Tuten Sones
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Death plot bared in Vzal infatuation case in Chicago
Police expose a poison murder conspiracy involving Mrs Rose Vizal and Billick. Letters and telegrams found at Billick’s Chicago era home link arson, arsenic, and extortion to a family’s six deaths, with exhumations, a murder warrant, and a Cleveland elopement tied to the suspect.
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Weekington
Chicago
Rose Vrts
Herman Bleck
Billick
Ma‘swell
Hose
Bila
Mary Vreal
Mrs Vrzal
Vrzal
Bullick
Vraai
di Lewke
Vreal
Myhorr
Chiegge'e Driannals
Famine Reported Raging in Central China
A famine across Central China is described as serious in a State Department cablegram from Shanghai received yesterday. Relief committees including consuls general local Chinese officials and business leaders have been appointed to coordinate aid as victims approach starvation.
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China
State Department
Shanghai
Thia
Marconi Stirs Austrians In Venice Speech
Vienna reacts to Willam Marconi's Venice address praising wireless telegraphy as a means to report Italy's victory on the Adriatic. The speech angers newspapers and politicians who warn it could worsen tense Austro Italian relations.
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Vienna
Willam Marconi
Venice
Italy
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