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Waterbury Evening Democrat

Location

Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1908

Page

6

President Roosevelt Shifts Panama Marines Landing Plans

New York December 12 reports say President Roosevelt delays the planned marines landing in Panama, while Panama objects to U S landing and a large naval visit stirs mixed reactions. officials deny offers of immunity for Patrick J Kieran amid Fidelity Funding probes and court actions unfold in New York.

Panama New York Peter B. Olney Kidelity Funding Company Patrick J. Kieran Wilswing Kieran Panding Come Mutual Life Tsurmice Company George Wo Young Windsor Trust Company Thomas Glraydr Kierait Lorene W. Davis Charles A. Weabudy The Mutual Life Wildelity Company Mr Young Fidelity United States Mutual Tonan George Cumming Hin Pant Mde Lowne Panania Roosevelt Ly Aty

Dutch Fleet Moves to Blockade Venezuela Ports

A dispatch from Willowstad Curacao December 12 warns that unless the United States acts within 48 hours Holland will launch a forceful show of strength against Venezuela while Castro is abroad. Admiral von Heemskerk’s Gelderland sails to La Guaira to seize merchant ships and customs houses and likely bombard ports to force a settlement on Dutch claims. Venezuelan forts and coast guard defenses are on edge as five Dutch vessels are held by owners and Caracas pledges to respond to perceived aggression.

Willowstad Curacao Dee United States Holland Venezuela Hague Castro Europe Netherlands Veneziela Dacob von Heemskerk Gelderland Venezelan la Guayra Helan Caracas Venesuelan Venesuela

Mrs Schultz Acquitted Of Husband's Murder In Detroit

Detroit December verdict returned by jury in about an hour and forty minutes finding Mrs Anna Schultz not guilty of conspiring in the murder of her husband. The slain man was found in bed, his body moved and hidden, amid questions of a confessed accomplice serving life for the crime.

Detroit Mich Anna Schultz Dola Kurkt Schulitz Schultz Snax Lana

Night Riders Indict 33 Prosperous Citizens in Union City

In Tennessee on December 12 a special grand jury returned thirty three indictments linked to Night Rider raids near Teelfoot lake. Twenty one accuse murder and the Rankin lynching, six accuse burning Burdick wharfs, and six accuse felonious assault in disguise, naming prosperous citizens.

Union City Tenn Teelfoot Lake Tweny Quentin Rankin J.C. Burdick

Carmack Statue Refused for Government Grounds

Nashville residents and admirers failed to place a statue of former senator E. W. Carmack on the customs house grounds after the Treasury Department in Washington denied Postmaster A. W. Wills’s request. Donations had raised about $5,500 for the statue.

Treasury Department Nashville Tenn Washington A. W. Wills E. W. Carmack United States Custom House Carmack

Mass Meeting Urges Abrogation of Treaty With Japan

Victoria B C December 12 mass meeting chaired by the mayor urged abrogation of the treaty with Japan and passage of laws excluding Asiatics. Speakers warned of risks to Canada and the United States from growing Asiatic immigration and population pressure in the orient.

Japan Victoria B. C United States Orient

Nellie Bly Widow Traps Burglar At West Thirty seventh

New York December reports Elizabeth Seaman widow of Robert Seaman helped by her servants trapped a Black burglar in the bathroom at 15 West Thirty seventh street. The intruder resisted when a policeman arrived as Seaman and her staff watched.

New York Elizabeth Seaman Nellie Bly Robert Seaman West Thirty-seventh Street Mia Seaman

Mrs Lillian Livingston Burned After Lamp Explosion

In Jobstown New Jersey Mrs Lillian Livingston was severely burned when a lamp exploded and servants saved her by covering flames with rugs. At Mount Holly hospital she remains in danger. Two family members suffer ptomaine poisoning from sausage, with three dead in the Van Horn household of Menden Hall Chester County.

Lillian Livingston Jobstown Dee Lil Lan Barnes Allien Livingston Pierre Lorillard Facous Kancecas Mount Holly Westchester Dee 2 George Vanhorn Menden Hall Chester County John Vanhorn Mabel Eve

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