JURY STAND DELAYS VERDICT IN MC DERMOTT WILL CASE
In St Louis Judge Withrow faces jurors who refuse to return a verdict after sixty eight hours of deliberation in the McDermott will case. Jurors vow to stand on rights as American citizens, wives threaten divorce if fines are imposed, and the judge notes the unusual protest amid instructions to find for the defendant. The petition against Father White, executor of Bridget McDermott, failed to prove coercion or influence.
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St. Louis
Dec
McDermott
Withrow
Hey
Mary Farrington
Father White
Bridget McDermott
Governors given grand auto rides at speedway
Indianapolis December 15 governors and Ohio Governor Harmon arrived by special train to a reception. Auto manufacturers provided the rides and the guests were taken on a two mile and four and a half furlong sightseeing tour around the motor speedway, highlighting the display of bright new ractor cars.
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Indianapolis
Harmon
Ohio
Motor Speedway
Pretty Luncheon for Arista Mona Club Members
Mrs Fr T Murphy and Mrs C W Powell hosted the Arista Mona club at Mrs Murphy’s Walnut street home for a 1 o’clock luncheon yesterday. The event honored member Mrs C Swinger who is moving to Des Moines to make her future home. Pink and white decor and four-course menu set the tone while Mrs E R Merer presented a silver fork to the honoree. The afternoon passed informally.
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Fr. T. Murphy
C. W. Powell
Arista Mona Club
Walnut Street
C. Swinger
Des Molfies
E. R. Marer
Swinger
California Assembly Passes Presidential Preference Primary
Sacramento California December 14 the assembly passed a presidential preference primary bill by 73 to 0. The measure directs statewide vote to elect 26 presidential electors at large and requires candidate names on the ballot in groups with a one percent petition threshold.
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Sacramento
Cal
Assembly
Wedding Plans Halted by 13th Superstition in Baltimore
George Bayard Clifton of the Baltimore and Ohio railway postponed his marriage to Marion Amick after the First Presbyterian church crowded for Dec 18 when the revealer said the bridegroom and the bride's mother were ill. The piece recounts how 13 appeared in their courtship and wedding preparations.
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Baltimore
George Bayard Clifton
Baltimore and Ohio Railway
First Presbyterian Church
Crowdert
Clifton
Marion Amick
Amick
Britain excludes U S meat packers from bids for army supplies
The British government will not accept bids from American meat packers under U S prosecutions for Sherman act violations for contracts to feed the British army and navy. Labour and radical MPs opposed the trusts, delaying acceptance of Armour & Co bids as well. Armour President T Ogden Armour acknowledged notification but refused further discussion on the impact on ongoing trials.
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London
United States
Armour
Chicago
T. Ogden
Armour Company
Fire tragedy in Lawrence county Kansas burns mother and infant
Mrs L C Hemphill wife of a Reno area farmer tried to light a fire with coal oil when flames enveloped her clothing. She screamed and fled with her seven month old baby toward a pond. She threw the child over a wall into the water and climbed after it. The pair were saved by the water but died soon after being admitted to a hospital. The incident occurred near Reno Kansas on December 15.
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Lawrence. Kan
L. C. Hemphill
Reno
Commanders Get Letters of Threat
Three Fort Riley officers Brigadier General W S Schurler Colonel Charles A P Hatfield and Colonel F B Hoyle received threatening letters since last March after the first incendiary fire at the fort. Security around the government reservation was tightened and officers were ordered to shoot any stranger prowling the grounds. A surgeon was shot in the hand by mistake one night and several mysterious persons were fired upon but none fatally.
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Kan
Fort Riley
W. S. Schurler
Charles A. P. Hatfield
FB. D. Hoyle
Police Oust Denver County Assessor in City-County Takeover
In Denver, Dec 15, H J Arnold the county assessor was forcibly ousted from his office by city officials and police backed by a faction led by state senator Hiram Hills. The attackers broke a window as Arnold and deputies were ejected, while Hills assumed the post amid disorder over a proposed 2 mill tax levy.
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Denver
Harry J. Arnold
Hiram Hills
Robert W. Speer
Hills
Board of Super
Arnold
I Mlness
Eminent Missionary Dean Dies in Berkler California
Rev. Gen. B. Smyth writer and teacher, for 17 years president of the Anglo-Chinese Methodist college of Foochow, China, died today in Berkler California after a long career in mission service. He had gone from New Jersey to China in early years. Smoke Martin's Standard cigar.
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Berkler
Cal
B. Smyth
Man of Mystery Likely to Die After Train Wreck
Marion Indiana news item reports Graree A. Kemmell of Niles Michigan, dubbed man of mystery, injured in a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train wreck near Converse Indiana last night. He developed leg paralysis and is not expected to recover. two broken ribs and a spinal injury noted. Charles M. Baney of St. Henry Ohio also severely injured and 29 other passengers hurt. Wreck blamed on a wheel flange failure on the tender.
Brotherhood to Host Complimentary Dinner at Cedar Falls
The Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian Church will host a complimentary dinner at the V M L A. Sunday program includes Cedar Falls choir of 120 members singing in the morning services. Dr. Robert Westenberg exchanges pulpits with Rev D W Ahs of Cedar Falls Church. For gentlemen: San Felice.
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First Presbyterian Church
V. M.la
Presbyterian Church of
Cedar Falls
Robert Westenberg
D W.ahs
Roosevelt editorial condemns McNamara case in Outlook
Theodore Roosevelt argues murder is murder in an Outlook piece criticizing both capitalist and labor-crime excuses. He condemns the McNamara murders as crimes older than law and urges labor leaders to dissociate from criminals and violent tactics to protect honest labor. He condemns Debs and Emma Goldman followers as inciters to murder and recalls past labor conflicts.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
McNamara
San Francisco
Picea
Sinai
McNamaras
Sithough
Moyer and
Haywood
Debs
Emma Goldman
Stokes Contempt Case Looms as Trial Nears End
In New York Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad face charges of shooting W. D. Stokes. Jury to decide between counts of attempted murder and assaults as prosecutors urge self defense consideration. Defense notes bullet holes and questions where other shots went. Stokes portrayed as cool calculating rogue. Graham distraught as trial closes.
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New York
Mec
Lillian Graham
Ethel Conrad
W. &. D. Stokes
Buckner
Marcus
Coun
Jerday
Moore
Stokes
Stant
Arraham
Miss Conrad
Miss Graham
Jeve
Mr Buckner
Rumor of King George assassination circulates in London
A false claim that King George was killed in Delhi circulated in London after a local telegram asked if the report was true. Officials denied the rumor as unfounded and linked it to a small tent fire near the royal camp. Also, the king and queen laid the first stone of Delhi’s new capitol amid a grand gathering.
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London
George
Delhi
India
Taft sees demonstration of how Maine exploded
In Washington on December 15 President Taft and his cabinet were shown a model of the battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor. Rear Admiral Vreeland and Chief Constructor Watt, Maine investigating board members, explained the sequence as the model sank to its resting place on the bottom, simulating the explosion.
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Washington
Taftani
Maine
Havana
Vverland
Watt
Navy
Maine Investigating Board
Tatt
Admiral Vreeland
Wool tariff protest fuels National Wool Growers meeting
F A Ellenwood of Red Bluffs California addressed the National Wool Growers forty-eighth annual convention in Omaha on December 15. He protested what he called unfair treatment of wool growers by manufacturers.
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Omaha
F. A. Ellenwood
Red Bluffs
Cal
National Wool Growers
Ellenwood
Unclear excerpt hints at fraud plot in court record
The fragment describes dialogue where Miss Conrad and a prosecutor discuss alleged schemes to obtain money from Stokes. It mentions cambric tea, a young witness, and Miss Conrad accused of fabricating the scheme to profit from Stokes.
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Miss Conrad
Terms of dynamite jobs expose crime plot details
Indianapolis dated report notes grand jury inquiry into the dynamite plot tied to John J. McNamara. Evidence includes letters about job costs and fees of 200 dollars plus 50 dollars expenses, with witnesses to be examined among clerks and bookkeepers at the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers offices.
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Indianapolis
International Bridge and Structural Tron
McNamara
McManigal
National Erectors’ Association
Charles W. Miller
Federal
International Association
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
John J. McNamara
Pastor Gage Draws Crowd In Urbana Assault Hearing
In Vinton Iowa on December 15 a crowd gathered for the assault and battery case against Rev. Mr. Wood of Urbana. The hearing, moved from Mayor Cain to Justice Barnes, sparked speculation of a possible guilty plea and a possible termination without a public trial as spectators filled the district courtroom.
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Vinton
Wood
Urbana
Cumberland
A. W. Cain
Ending of Alaska coal harbor inquiry sparks GOP critique
Washington December 15 the sudden ending of the inquiry into charges that the government allowed a monopoly of the coal harbor at Controler bay Alaska was sharply criticized in the republican minority report by the house committee on interior department expenditures The Republicans argued that common decency and justice would have required an investigation to expose those responsible for the fabrication of the so called Dick to Dick letter said to have been written by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger to Richard S Ryan who allegedly represented the Guggenheim interests
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Washington
Controller Bay
Alaska
House Committee On Interior Department
Tthose
Ballinger
Richard S. Ryan
Guggenheim
Temperature December 15 Weather Notes Fragment
Fragmentary OCR text shows temperature notation for December 15 with markings from Bachan Optical Co. Syndicate block. Unable to extract coherent facts beyond the date and source markings.
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Bachan Optical Co
Syndicate Block
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