Mystery of the White Death letters linked to Conan Doyle tale
Police tied a blackmail plot to a story by Conan Doyle after William Pollard a four year old driver was arrested for sending threatening letters to prominent Chicago figures. The notes demanded large sums of money or threats of death claiming inspiration from Doyle and his novels. Detectives waited nearly all night for a payoff at a designated cemetery location.
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Rhapston
Calvary Cemetery
Drastic justice for India declares viceroy action
Lord Minto at Calcutta denounces the Someties as assassinationists and backs a summary justice bill to curb sedition. He warns of a conspiracy led by The Volunteers, an anarchist group with up to fifteen thousand members, aiming at systematic government official murder and arson to expel British rulers.
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Calcutta
the Volunteers
Minta
India
Wild town raid by Connecticut maniac ends in capture
A man claiming to be John the Baptist from Connecticut launched a wild town raid on main street Edgewater, firing many shots but injuring none. He seized money from stores, commandeered a horse and wagon, and was eventually wounded by a pursuing posse and captured, to be sent to state asylum for further proceedings. The incident prompted a citizen posse and chaotic scenes across several shops and storefronts.
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John the Baptist
Lumaus
Terrar
Oscar
Pomeroy
Nebraska
Stamford Conn
Morris Plains
Walshs Hotel
Edward Walsh
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Grocers
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Joln McGarty
Posse
Reichstag Speaker Denies Writer Paid by Imperial Funds
The Reichstag speaker states no funds were used to suppress an interview. He says the writer withdrew the Century Magazine piece on his own initiative, convinced publication would be inopportune. The secretary for the Reichstag, Herr von Schoen, confirms no imperial money paid for suppression.
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Beily Dee
Redelay
Herr von Schoen
Forein Furs
Century
Emperor Wilbar
William B Tale
New Diamond Mines Output Valued At 35 500 Daily
Berlin reports from Reichstag indicate government control over Ludritz Bay diamond mines in German South Africa will yield about 35 500 dollars daily. The announcement by Herr Dernburg notes the latest government report confirms high value of the deposit. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertises a one dollar twenty five cent fare to Baltimore and return.
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Bertin
Berlin
Bernhard Dernburg
Cul Ning
Reichstag
Luderitz Bay
South Africa
Herr Dernburg
Pennsylvania Limited
Baltimore
Chicago
Alliance Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Chicas
Hadley at Harvard Awards Highlights Yale President Address
President Hadley of Yale University spoke at Harvard University tonight on academic distinctions. He noted three groups of graduates with F H Burr among the second group and cited Theodore Roosevelt Jr and G B Roosevelt among athletic achievers. He warned that attention leans to athletes over scholars and urged more focus on intellectual prizes.
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Mass
Arthur Twing Hedley
Yeie University
Harvard
F H Burr
Theodore Roosevelt
G. BE. Roosevelt
P D Smith
Hadley
Call for Senate Candidacy Sparks Fla Political Clash
Wickinson Call, former U S Senator from Florida, declares run for the Senate term beginning with the next Florida legislature session. He pledges to oppose the State government, defeat the Standard Diet party’s influence, and defend constitutional government against disfranchisement and change to the primary system.
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Wickinson Call
United States
Florida
Senate
William Ftoward Taft
MT Call Says
Standard di
Virginia
States
Washington
Insurance Man Goes Free in Major Indictment Reversal
Decision upholds dismissal of perjury indictments against George W Perkins and other prominent insurance officials. John R. Hegeman of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company freed as court finds evidence insufficient. Case may advance to the Court of Appeals, with related forgery and fraud charges pending against Newark Life and Mutual Life executives.
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New
Kk Dee
John Ro Hegeman
Metropolitan Life In Sume Company
Onsurance
Ome
Mate Taely
Mk Hegemam O
Metropolitan Safe Insurance Company
New York State
Superintendent of
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He Yatler
Supreme Court
Hogeman
Detrich Attornes Jerome
Court of Appeal
Newark Lift Insurance Company
Severah Iust
Charles Fairchild
Robert A Granniss Forerly
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Cortelyou Weighs New York Trust Presidency Offer
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou reportedly offered a million to become president of the Union Trust Company in New York, vacancy created by Edward King’s death. He has not commit, though consideration is noted, and if he accepts he becomes the fourth former treasury secretary to head a major New York trust.
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New York
Ue Treasury
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New Trust Company
Edward King
Cortetyon
Glen
Man Trust
Central Trust
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Harles
Fairchild
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Lyman J Gage
United States Trust
Leslie M Shaw
Carnegie Trust
Uneon Trust Company
Vast
Telephone systems for railroad dispatching expand
The Great Northern Railroad has installed a telephone dispatch system on the Minot division covering 239 miles and will extend it over the Montana and Butte divisions for a total of 1,866 miles. The Northern Pacific has already used telephone dispatch between St Paul and Fargo and will implement a system at Spokane.
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Here
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Spokane
Dying Burglar Reveals Identity After Threat of Dissection
In Indianapolis City Hospital a dying burglar injured during a failed robbery at Schrader's grocery provides his name Hig identity. He is Dee U-W A Xerng from Scranton Pennsylvania, 127 Beach Street, who was shot by proprietor Kerns after a bold attempt last night. He speaks only as death nears.
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Xerng
Scranton
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Kerns
Beach Street
Plans for evaluation all tq leave by april
War Department reveals first official details on the Cuba withdrawal of the American army of pacification. Movements start January 1 and finish by April 1 with transports sailing from Havana after the presidential inauguration. Units and officers depart Cuba through late February toward Fort Myer Newport News and Washington deployment.
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Newport News
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Minn
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Elventh
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Washington
Megantic Launch Stirs White Star Line Shipping
The Megantic, a 34000 gross ton twin steel screw steamer, was launched yesterday in Belfast by Harlan & Wiley. The vessel, the largest addition to the White Shrine fleet, will serve a new winter route between Montreal and Liverpool, promising top tier passenger accommodations and boosted international commerce.
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Belfast
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Winte &Ar
Montreal
Lverpool
Famous beauty in flames at Livingston stock farm blaze
Mount Holly N J area report says Mrs Livingston, owner of the Rancecas stock farm at Jobstown, was burned when a lamp exploded in her apartment. She was reading by a lamp when the lamp burst, throwing burning oil over her. Servants extinguished the flames but she was badly scorched, head to foot.
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Lil Ian Barnes
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Rancecas
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Beatty
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Notice to Advertisers for Tomorrow's Post Issue
Notice to Advertisers all advertisements for tomorrow's issue must be received at this office. Submit promptly to ensure inclusion in the Post.
Dutch Warships Ready to Enforce Venezuelan Blockade
In Willenstad Curacao December 11 Dutch forces announce a blockade plan off Venezuela. Battleship Jacob Van Heemskern and cruiser Gelderland depart for Venezuelan waters to deter Caracas and seize Venezuelan merchant vessels. President Castro, arriving in Paris, acts as private citizen awaiting medical operation amid French expulsion threats.
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Paris
Calls for congressional probe of Panama Canal deals
The Indianapolis News argues for a congressional investigation into the Panama Canal affair, citing William Nelson Cromwell's statement and noting Cromwell cannot name stockholders. It stresses the president’s denial that Americans profited, and warns of potential implications for public trust.
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Gani Seaida
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Wiliam Nesnn Cromwell
Ts Morning
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de Pape
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Cromwell
Liquor Men Start Church Aims to Drive Drys From Maryland
Rev Al fred P Thurtz pastor of St Luke Church of the New Dispensation organized a congregation of saloonkeepers to oppose prohibition. He vows to extend the effort if Maryland bans local option, claiming support from over 100 saloonkeepers and Lukes Brotherhood. He says he will continue the fight despite earlier clashes with the Anti-saloon League.
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St Tuke
Kurtz
William Anderson
Anderson
Uows
Anti Taloon League
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Husbands Urged to Buy Spring Three-Piece Suit for Wives
Toledo dispatch notes a fashion edict from the Nations Cloak Salt and Skirt Manufacturers Association in session with fifty delegates from Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Cleveland and Toronto. The decree requires husbands to purchase a complete spring outfit for their wives featuring a hipless three piece suit in colors such as ashes of roses green taupe electric blue reseda stone gray catawba or cedar.
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Against Alleged Grafters in Capital Scandal Trials
Pennsylvania Judge Kun kel refused a new trial in the Dauphin county court today in a lengthy decision. He denied requests for a retrial by former state officers and political leaders convicted in the capitol graft case. The defendants James M Shumaker Johnstown former superintendent William Under Spring Civ former auditor and William L Mathues former State treasurer face sentencing Friday and may appeal to the State Supreme Court.
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Flaming car chases train near Raleigh on Southern Railway
A compressed cotton car on a Norfolk bound train caught fire near Raleigh North Carolina on the Southern Railway. Trainhands cut out the burning car but could not stop the blaze as the car derailed two miles down a grade and the line remained blocked for hours. The Southern and Seaboard lines run only feet apart.
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Lured Away Coed Accused of Abduction by Rich Heir
The 27 year old Robert Waleton surrendered to District Attorney Jerome in New York today on charges of abducting Jane Gladys Hobart, a Hewks fer rave Yankers teacher, in Kingston Jamaica. He allegedly lured her with promises of marriage, deserted her in Jamaica, and fled toward South America after a plan to marry failed. Hobart reached New York safely, aided by her parents, while Waleton faced a $200 bail for trial. The affair tied to the St Lolliter family and a Chicago lumber empire, with Jamaica and Kingston named as dramatic settings in the flight.
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Vanderbilt Sells Estate Amid Election Firestorm
Reporter notes Vanderbilt plans to sell the Lake estate near Were i add to his holdings while William Kande reports little progress. Part of the land is leased to Albert Hanlon, a farmer, as negotiations continue. A large lake offer was rejected by township voters during an election.
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Willam Kandebit
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Millonaie
Two Die and Eight Ill From Promaine Poisoning in Pennsylvania
Two members of the family of George Vanhorn of Mendenhall Chester County died and eight people were ill from promaine poisoning linked to a local grocery store. John Vanhorn age eight died yesterday and his sister Mabel age sixteen died last night. The victims suffered severe agony as authorities investigate the incident amid scattered references to routes and times.
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Representative Perkins Resolution Adopted Without Dissent
House votes to appoint a five member committee to examine executive overreach and the secret service probes into Congress. Roosevelt, Cannon and Wilkin figures play into tensions as debates push for a measured response and potential retaliatory steps next week.
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