Man Linked to Ellis Murder Confesses to Hiring
Paul Carl, 21, in Somerville jail, admits he shot Monrose Ellis, president of the New Jersey State Lumber Association, to gratify a woman who offered 500 to kill him. He says the plan began after a meeting at Gladstone station and culminated with Ellis firing a single shot through a Basking Ridge dining room window while dining with his wife and daughter. Ellis survived, Carl claims, and detectives say the unnamed woman funded the plot and will be arrested after further verification.
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Somerville
N J
Paul Carl
Monrose
F Ellis
New Jerey State Lumber Association
Ellis
Sis
Basking Ridge
Ellia Dowb
Bits
Carl
Eide
Cari
Elis
John A. Roebling
Lamtrose
Aheathy
George D.fotten
Camden
Somerset County
Hast Stroudsburg
Sarah Carl
Frederick
Pope
Varl
Hiia
Beginga
Gladstone
Eidis
Hillis
Bernardsville
Tells
Flight, pursuit, and return of a would-be killer
Carl fired during a confrontation wounding Ellis who collapsed. He fled to the railroad, stowed his gun parts, and rode a freight to Millington then Summit. After staying in Hoboken and returning to East Stroudsburg he became Eilis assistant in Bernartaville before resigning months later due to unbearable daily contact with his would-be victim.
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Carl
Ellis
Millington
Summit
Hoboken
East Stroudsburg
Bernartaville
Eilis
Viscountess Chinda Arrives in Frisco on Way to Washington
Viscountess Chinda wife of the Japanese Ambassador reached San Francisco aboard the Chi Yo Maru with her son. They will rejoin the ambassador after a year spent in Japan before traveling to Washington.
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Frisco
Washington
San Francisco
Viscountes Chinda
Japan
Clew to His Past Roosevelts Name Revealed in Mystery
Speechless paralytic once known by initials J C BR and J R R claims a memory revealing a past tied to President Roosevelt and a mission to Frisco for him. He says Dewey knows him and recalls a Manila battle aboard the flagship. Clinching details remain unverified by naval records.
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Friaca
Aaks
Dewey
Manila
Washington
Chicago
Oak Forest Institution
Rochester
Minn
J. C. BR
Oak Park
Roosevelt
Frisco
J. BR. R
New York
Manilla
J. R
Naval Register
Train Held Up And Robbed In Georgia Duel With Deputy
Atlanta deputy sheriff C Heard exchanged shots with a highwayman aboard Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic No 1 near Vinings Georgia. The robber fled from the moving train at Bolton after wounding Heard slightly. valuables taken from passengers totaled likely small amounts with one man reporting 30 dollars. The highwayman remains at large as authorities pursue him.
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Atlanta
Birmingham
Atlantic
Vinings
Dalton
Bolton
Manecaid
Chattanooga
Itanooga
C. €. Heard
Rome
Amell
Sherman law amendment mirrors administration views in House
Representative Stanley of Kentucky introduces late Sherman act amendment to legalize monopolies in any degree and to grant federal courts broad jurisdiction to restrain violations. The plan adds "in any degree" to enforce restraints and shifts cases from Attorney General control, aligning with President Wilson’s anti trust push. It aims to sharpen enforcement, protect industry rights, and prepare for forthcoming antitrust legislation after the president’s message.
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Stanley
Kentucky
Ison
Supreme Court
United States
Ma Il
Congress
United States Steel Corporation
Hell
Ifr
Stagley
Justis White
Meany
Fort
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Roosevelt
Senator Bacon of Georgia Suffers Broken Rib
Senator Bacon of Georgia woke to find a broken rib from a bathtub fall ten days earlier in Albany. He had hunted quail and walked daily after the incident before seeking medical care and learning his sixth left rib was fractured. He remarked he felt little pain and was bound up like a mummy.
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Senator Bacon
Georgia
Albany
Test for Bryan Sees Recall Rivalry Over Cabinet Feud
A Washington dispatch reports growing tension between Secretary of State William J. Bryan and near enemies in the cabinet over the appointment of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia. The dispute echoes the Blaine-Harrison feud as Bryan’s supporters push for Cotter T. Bride, while Attorney General McRaynolds backs Paul B. Johnson. the post also recalls past Marshals and the social weight of the office.
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Blaine-Harrison
Bryan
Washington Post
Boston
Washington Dispatch
Boston Evening Transcript
William J. Bryan
United States
Mayahal
St Colimania
Neaaptoney
Etary” Bivan
Wilken Diay
Blaine-Harxson
Wilson
Cotter Bride
District of Columbia
Aulick Palmer
McKinley
Cotter T. Bride
Washington
Bride Ahali
McRaynolds
Paul B. Johnson
Johnson
Chester 4
Arthur
Clayton McMichael
Philadelphia
Cleveland
John MM. Wilson
Harrison
Indiana
Daniel M. Ransdell
United States Senate
White House
Roosevelt
Archibald W. Butt
Spencer Cosby
Upside-Down Dinner Honours Loop the Loop Aviators
A reverse order dinner at the Royal Automobile Club honored B C Hucke the first British aviator to loop the loop and Gustav Hamel the first to loop the loop with a passenger. Mirrors and inverted table setup created the effect of being upside down with Grahame White presiding and more than twenty noted aviators in attendance.
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London
Royal Automobile Club
B. C. Hucke
Gustav Hamel
Hucks
Hamel
Grahame-White
Taft protest over auto tax on Yale professor’s car
New Haven Conn January 18 Professor William Howard Taft of Yale protests the city tax on his second hand automobile bought for 2000, rated at 4500 value. He notes the assessors added fines for late filing and miscalculated the 19 mill tax, bringing the bill to 4900. He says no title to real estate last year should affect taxability.
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New Haven
Conn
Waliam Howard Taft
Yale
Taft
King Gustav asks votes for women rights in Sweden
King Gustav of Sweden, opening parliament in Stockholm, announced the government will again ask the legislature to grant women the franchise and the right to vote and hold office on the same land conditions as men.
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Gustave
Sweden
Stockholm
Brewer Dr Carl Jacobsen left vast fortune to art and science
Copenhagen report states Dr Carl Jacobsen, wealthy brewer, died last Sunday leaving about 90 million dollars to art and science institutions with his heirs receiving only modest legacies. Rich Denish Brewas left only small legacies to his heirs. The late filant hanged, with years of charitable giving noted.
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Copenhagen
Carl Jacobser
Hisdren
Jacobse
Minister Found Guilty of Libeling Wife in Harrisburg
The Rev Amos M Piper of this city was convicted by a District Criminal Court jury of criminally libeling his wife Mrs Sadie B Piper a Harrisburg school teacher. Letters to school officials and physicians accusing her of immorality were used as evidence. Physicians testified they knew nothing of Mrs Piper and the charges lacked foundation.
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Harrisburg
Amos M. Piper
District Criminal Court
Clabaugh
Sadie B. B. Piper
Piper
M. B. O’brien
Liner Brings Chinese Eggs to Frisco Duty Free
San Francisco reports 600 cases of Chinese eggs imported from Shanghai aboard the liner Steria arriving from the Orient. The cargo was admitted duty free under the new tariff act. Local merchants expect total imports to reach 800,000 cases in the coming year.
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Frisco
Shanghai
San Francisco
China
Orient
Williams Victor Reed Praises His Work in Treasury Nomination
Williams advances in the Treasury after an executive-session inquiry into his actions as Assistant Secretary. The committee favorably reported John Skelton Williams for comptroller, with Williams to join the Federal Reserve Board organization committee. Williams, praised for a clean bill of health, faced scrutiny of his ties to New York banks and South Industrial ventures.
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Munsey Trust Company
Treasury
John Skelton Wwillame
Senate
Iate
Committee On Banking and Currency
Federal Reserve Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Reed
Owen
Williams
the Treasury
Washington
Frank A. Munsey
United States Trust Company
Willams
Organization
Federal Reserve System
Whatern
New York
Seaboard Air Line
South
Ne York
Mies
Gomé
Taylor
Milton E. Ailes
Riggs National Bank
Capitol
Lettle
National City Bank of New York
Treasury Department
Alles
McAdoo
Munsey
Washington Times
Munsey Trust
Stuart Olivier
Baltimore News
Mungey
Willems
Wil
Society
Says Women Paid Him to Kill Crew to Man of Mysterious Past. Duchess Sorrows Over Slums Writ Frees Baby from Jail. Red Cross Memorial Site. &Famous Men Smuggled Art. Difference in Suffrage Tactics. &-Hditorial Comment. T-Society. &-Sporting Events. 9-Financial. -Gambling Under Ban in China. Oficial Report on Japan's Disaster. l-Sugar Trust, to Fight Proceedings in Congress. "Helio Girls" Warned of Flood. ig-Carl Browne is Dead.
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Stanley
Bryan
Willams
Kodak Trust
White House
Bradley Hills
America
Baby
Red Cross
T—Society
China
Japan
l—Sugar Trust
Congress
Helio
Carl Browne
Kodak Trust May Settle Antitrust Case Out of Court
The Kodak trusts of New Jersey and New York face a Sherman Act antitrust suit with the Justice Department. Negotiations suggest a possible out of court settlement or a consent decree to regulate resale prices for cameras and supplies. The bill seeks division of assets, with the government aiming to break 72 percent of US photographic trade control. General Paper Company accused of selling discounted raw paper only to Eastman interests, complicating resolution.
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The
Kodak Trust
Aued
Department of Justice
Department
Haatman Kodak Company
New Jersey
Eastman Kodak Company of
New York
Buffalo
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hastman
United States
McReynolds
Supreme Court
New Jersey Kodak Company
General Paper Company
Eastman
Unconscious At Throttle On Express Train
President Willard and other officials aboard the New York and St Louis express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad rushed after engine foreman found the engineer J H Moxley of Baltimore unconscious from a fractured skull. The train was stopped at Brunswick station after Moxley failed to blow a crossing signal. He was taken to Frederick hospital in critical condition. A rock or ice fragment from a nearby cliff is suspected.
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Baltimore
India
New York and St Louis Express
Baltimore and Ohio
Willard
J. H. Moxley
Moxley
Brunswick
Frederick
Trapped A-7 Submarine Off Plymouth Believed Lost
Two officers and nine seamen of British submarine A-7 are trapped beneath Whitesand Bay near Plymouth after diving during maneuvers. Rescue boats failed to contact the vessel, search efforts continued through the day, and naval officials fear all aboard may have perished.
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Whitesand Bay
Plymouth
England
Navy
Guymarine
Whitewed Bay
Devonport
Whitesami Bay
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M. F. Ellis
Mana
Chinda
Man of Mystery
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U. S
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Judiciary Committee
Mengagn
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Interstate Commerce Committee
D. C. Marshalship
AT Liberty
Tokyo
Coperor
Yosuhite
RLF
American Telephone and Telegraph
Asheville
Augusta
Aiken
Columbia
Chattenton
Summerville
Savannah
Florida
Southern Hesbris
Southern Halfway
Cawsend Bay
Plymouth Sound
Onyx
Admiralty
Rams Head
Looe Island
Cornwall
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