Receivership Sought for Seaboard Air Line Railway
Richmond and New York bankers press for appointment of receivers for Seaboard Air Line Railway amid claims of insolvency and declining earnings. Agreement reached to pursue receivership via Judge Pritchard, with executives traveling from Richmond to Danville and back to Richmond for formal action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
United States
Wouldill
Pritchard
Lee R. Watt
The
Seaboard
Mtzmeyer
Danville
Judse Fritchard
Hemrand
Owlock
New York
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
Washington
Norfolk
Atlanta
Tama
Masons
North Carolina
Othr
South
Cigeles
Shot at New Year Dinner Kills Michigan Man
James McQuirk aged sixty was shot through the heart and killed today while at his dining table in Niles Michigan. The accidental discharge of a gun in the adjoining half of the double house by 21 year old Fred Schumacher caused the fatal bullet to pass through the wall and strike Breguick in the back. J H Small & Sons Florists Washington and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niles, Mich
James McQuirk
Fred Schumacher
Breguick
Murder Mystery Swamp Case in Harrison NJ Nets $1000 Reward
Police trace missing Camden woman tied to Christmas disappearance after a Jersey City stop. Bloodhounds sought as the Lamp Black swamp search continues with a red skirt found and a possible handbag clue. Identification efforts include body clothing, photographs, and broadcasts across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harrison
N. J
Kearney
Joseph M. Branegan
Camden
Jersey City
Branegan
Lfe
Barney Walsh
Daly
Bingham
Lamp Back Swamp
Walsh
Theodore Bolz
Newark
Broad and
Market Streets
Stont
Bolt
Coogan
Machine Works
Joh Thum
Bolg
Rodgers
Elizabethport
Two Dead and Eighteen Injured in Pittsburg Steel Plant Explosion
An explosion at Edgar Thomson United States Steel converter No 3 in North Braddock killed two men Paul Kurisck and Stephen DoviaH and seriously injured thirteen others. Molten metal burst through the converter bottom sending fifteen tons into the pit where workers were stationed. Flames caused roof and wall damage to nearby buildings and two walls collapsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Edgar Thomson
United States Steel Company
North Braddock
Here
Paul Kurisck
Braddock
Stephen Doviah
Salvation Army crisis bureau aids many in distress
London reports show the Salvation Army anti bureau assisted 1,125 men and 9 percent women to avert self destruction, with many more in other cities. Applicants were mostly middle class. over half blamed financial distress or poverty. General Booth notes women endure better and believes about 75 percent of applicants avoided suicide with help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Salvation Army Antibureau
Booth
Ciiea
Attack on Guatemalan Port and U S Protection Denied
In Guatemala City on January 1 reports state the American charge d affaires William F. Francis returned from Ocos to investigate an alleged attack on the American consul by the Mexican consul. Guatemalan authorities are accused of failing to protect Americans while Mexico warned of retaliation against Mexicans in Geos. The State Department in Washington has no confirmed reports of the attack and notes possible disciplinary action if any filibustering occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Legation
Guatemala
Ocos
Guatemala City
William F. Ancis
Mexico
Senor Gamboa
United States
Geos
Sands
San Marica
Honduras
Washington
Central America
Ooos
Qcos
Pacific Ocean
Naeranja River
Samuel Wolford
Mosquito Indians Rise Against Nicaraguan Government
Dispatches from Bocas del Toro report Mosquito Indians rising against President Zaya s government over the death of their chief. British warship forces landed bluejackets to protect interests as tensions rise in Nicaraguan waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Bocas del Toro
Bluefielda
Nicaragua
z@jaya
Nicaraguan
Tall Men for Fairbanks Club Seeks Tall Members
Special from Chicago dated January 1 reports a new Fairbanks Club incubating in which men must be at least six feet tall to join. The organizers praise Charles Warren Fairbanks at 6 feet 4 1/2 inches and envision a tall leadership, with the Fairbanks tall hat and frock coat as insignia of rank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fairbanks Club
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Uniques Club
Fairbanks
Kaiser calls for army reform to purge scandal
Berlin Jan 1 Kaiser urges generals at New Year reception to exterminate every vestige of army scandal revealed by the Maximilian Harden trial. He implores officials to use all energy to prevent recurrence, signaling strict reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Berlin
Maximilian Harden
Die Zukunf
Cecilia Loftus Under Knife Cleared For Recovery
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports actress Cecilia Loftus underwent an appendicitis operation at Miss Alston's sanitarium on West Sixty-first Street. The procedure went well and she is expected to be discharged in two or three weeks. A note mentions Ferra Cotta Pots advertised by J. H. Corning at Thirteenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Cecelia Loftus
Prisoner Kills Two Police Officers in Knoxville
Ernest Wells, 23, killed Patrolmen Mike Wrenn and O I Jarnagin after resisting arrest on a minor charge at a resort entrance in Knoxville Tennessee. Wells, who said he would rather be hanged than go to the workhouse, surrendered to a citizen. Wrenn died on the scene and Jarnagin died minutes later. Both officers were married with families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
Mike Wrenn
O. I. Jarnagin
Ernest Wells
Tenderloin
Wells
Wrenn
Jarnagin
Wren
Farmills
Will Not Wed Von Moltke. American Millionaire Denies Rumor
American millionaire plow manufacturer I. Allen rejects Berlin rumors that his daughter will wed Count Weberhardt von Moltke. He says the engagement reports are without foundation and a publicity stunt by someone familiar with the count, who joined a Mediterranean cruise party. The daughter met several young men during a recent trip abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rurot
Washington Post
Moline
Allen
Herlin
Gount Wberhardt Vo
Crise
Train Rolls Down a Bank Injuring Passengers in Barrie
A south bound Penetang express of the Grand Trunk left the rails seven miles north of Barrie Ontario. The train plunged down a forty foot embankment after a stove in the second car set it on fire. Fifteen passengers were injured but not seriously and were taken to a local hospital. The locomotive did not leave the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrie
Ont
Penetang
Grand Trunk Railway
Here
Boer War Hero Ends His Life After Break-In Killing Attempt
Coates Phillips, a South African war veteran and divorced officer, killed himself after forcing entry into his ex wife Mrs Coates Phillips home in Jondon. He fired on those present, wounding her mother and a solicitor before taking his own life. The ex wife and mother escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jondon
Coates Phillips
Tie
Five Hurt in Muncie Riot Over Strikebreakers
Five people injured and two streetcars damaged in a riot after Indiana Union Traction attempted to run cars with strikebreakers in Muncie Indiana. Mayor Guthrie urged Gov Hanly to send troops. Col Harry B Smith to assess. Cars were attacked as hundreds of stones shattered windows injuring Jesse Williams a Chicago strike breaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
Indiana Union Traction Company
Guthrie
Hanly
Jesse Williams
Chicago
Clarence Shipp
Bugs in breakfast foods alarm Pennsylvania officials
A report on eighty three breakfast foods sold in Pennsylvania found numerous worms and bugs. The analytical examinations led by Biute Detry and Food Commissioner Faust indicate many manufacturers’ claims are highly colored or false. Professor William Tier of the State College arrived to discuss prosecutions of firms selling misbranded and unfit foods. The note ends with a banking advertisement promoting Union Trust Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Biute Detry
Faust
William Tiear
State College
Foust
Fear for Vincenzo Di Giorgio Family Amid Black Hand Threats
Vincenzo Di Giorgio, 69 M Street NW, says police protect his home after his Baltimore fruit importer brother’s house was blown up by Black Hand members. He believes leaders still at large, has asked for guards, and reports arrests of suspects in Baltimore Buffalo and Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hand Society
Vincenzo di Giorgio
M Street
Baltimore
Vincenzo
Capt. Sullivan
Mr. di Giorgio
Buffalo
Cleveland
Younger veterans in line at White House greet President
Two hundred Spanish war veterans joined the G A R parade at the White House yesterday in a two by two column. Department Commander EB Cogan directed the march with units from Gen A B Burt Camp and Henry W Lawton Camp among others. A large contingent from the Army and Navy Union and Sons of Veterans accompanied the procession, with notable figures such as T L Cole and Thad B Sargeant among the Son of Veterans members. Col M Emmett Urell led a small Medal of Honor Legion delegation including Capt B Diggins and Col Alexander Stott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
EB. L. Cogan
A. 8
Burt
Henry W Lawton
Wesson A. Miles
R. J. Harden
George Dewey Maval
Adjt
John J. Strain
Army and Navy Union
Sons of Veterans
Sons of the American Revolution
T L. Cole
Leslie J. Wead
I. C. Stockton
James Sheldon, Jr
A. D. Spangler
B. H Warner
W. 5
Parks
Lawrence Cage
A. J. Chipman
R. J. Walker
S. M. Ely
Thomas v. Goss
George A. Howe
C. W. Reader
B. Polkimhorn
I McDonald Stewart
Orris Husband
Col Francis Grice
Charles Kens
W. G._ Gallagher
Jerome C. Johnson
Albert H. van Deusen
Maj
EK. M. Gallaudet
Hughes' 25 Boomers Drive Three Republican Factions
New York Jan 1 President Charles H Young of the Republican Club named twenty five appointees to back Hughes for President. The committee will push the Hughes boom ahead of the county meeting on January 16. The club notes three factions emerge Hughes Cannon and anti Taft with the latter two small but influential. The group aims to influence the Chicago convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles H. Young
Republican Club
Guv Hughes
United States
James 8. Tlehmaier
Edward Wetmore
James Talcott
William Eirstein
A. B. Humphrey
A. L Mernam
P. . Costello
Jacob Halstead
Robert N.kenyon
Charles
Hughes
Chicago
Cannon
Wounded clerk dies after accidental self harm at Anacostia
Herman A. Tull, 21, of 11 Seventh street southeast, died at Casualty Hospital after a revolver discharged while he sat on a bed at the freight house cleaning a pistol. The cartridge struck his left breast four inches below the heart. he had been improving until yesterday. The Pennsylvania Railroad clerk's body to be removed to his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman A. Full
Seventh Street
Casualty Hospital
Tull
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Anacostia
Woman drowns herself and infant in Missouri cistern
Bevier Missouri reports a sorrowful tragedy as Bertha Peikert, age 34, drowns herself and her two month old daughter in a cistern. The husband offers no known motive, and the bodies were recovered from the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bevier, Mo
Bertha Peikert
New Year Reception at the White House Aglow
President and Mrs. Roosevelt greet 5,645 guests in the Blue Room during the annual New Year reception. Diplomats, debutantes, and descendants of three presidents attend as 1030 to 1300 hours are filled with formal gowns, Marine Band music, and cordial exchanges of New Year wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Mrs. Longworth
Blue Room
White House
Washington
Tla
A. Grant
Whcitu Root
Beveridge
Starr
Marine
Army
Navy
Diplomatic Corps
William H. Santermann
Col. Bromwell
Cam Sims
Capt McCoy
Chauncey Shackford
Fairbanks
Root
Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou
M. A. Fairbanks
W. C. Fairbanks
John W. Timmons
A. & Grant
Elihu Root, Jr
Miss Hinds
Ada Hinds
Alice Meyer
Ju- Ha. Meyer
Stanley-Brown
Edward Shafer
Leonard Hochstadter
le Francis
Robert Mason
Harlan
Miss Harlan
Ruth Harlan
R D. Harlan
Brewer
White
McKenna
Holmes
Upham
Brown
Frank H. Briggs
William Frye White
Burrows
Clay
Cullom
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U. S
Ryan Blair
Seaboard Company
Beyboird Air Line
John Skelton Williams
Thomas R. Ryan
James A. Blair
T Sefferson Coolidge
S Davies Warfield
Jom B Penns
B. F Yoakum
Chill Eleree
Morton Trust Company
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company i
Whith
Thomas S”. Ryan
Blair & Co
Omnion
John Shelton Wiliams
Williams Imnherit
Staal
Ryan-Bliur
Presi
W. A. Garrett
James A
Virginia Corporation
Portsmouth
Ladegurs, Thaiman & Co
Legboard
Seaboard Air Line
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Seaboard Air Line Railway Equipment
City of
Continental Trust Company
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company
Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railway
Carolina Central Railroad Company
First Consolidated
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad Company
Georgia and Alabama Railway
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Company
First
Florida West Shore Railway Company
Seaboard Air Line Railway Equipment Trust
J. H. Small & Sons, Florists
Camden, N. J
Balz
Albert Thompson
Frederick Kirkman
Thompson
Joy Auckland
New Zealand
Branegannd
Ti Ia
Potters’ Flel
Agnes O'Keefe
Agnes Orn
Brooklyn
Harrison, N. J
Deestiedl
Gen. Booth
Salvation Army Bureau
Bluefields
Kaiser
Cecilia Lofius
J. H. Corning
Thirteenth St
Aato
von Moltke
Boek
Banking Dept. of Union Trust Co
15Th
H Streets
Guard DI Giorgio
Huches
Republican Club of
New_York
Thong
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