Patrick Hea rs Sentence Beard Shaved No Prison Uniform
Patrick Albert T. Patrick, convicted March 26 of murder, is sentenced to death by electric chair at Sing Sing on May 5. An appeal will stay execution pending the higher court ruling. A large transcript will be condensed for the court of appeals, likely delaying action beyond the summer.
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New York
Albert T. Patrick
Wm. M. Rice
Goff
Sing Sing
Rice
Court of Appeals
Patrick
Houce
House
Addie M. Francis
Sing Bing
Ossining
British Atrocities Report From De la Rey Claims
Amsterdam reports a January dispatch from General De la Rey to Mr. Kruger detailing alleged British atrocities. Affidavits back claims of women used as camp screens and killings of wounded prisoners. De la Rey cites names and dates and notes his 83 year old mother driven from home after cattle theft and house burning.
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Amsterdam
General de la Rey
Kruger
de la Rey
Klerksdorp
Doubt About Prayer’s Efficacy Remains Until Prayer
The remark states that doubt over prayer’s effectiveness cannot be removed by argument but only through prayer. It frames faith as the sole arbiter and emphasizes personal spiritual practice as the path to certainty.
Storm Strikes Texas Towns Unroofing Homes and Wreckage
Reports from Round Rock West La Porte Paris Waelder and New Birmingham on April 8 describe heavy rain wind and hail. Damage included unroofed houses blown awnings wrecked stores and destroyed crops with several brick buildings unroofed and frames blown down.
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Round Rock
Texas
West
la Porte
Paris
Paolo
Delta County
Charley Pratt
New Birmingham
Whitehurst
Attempted Murders in Orage and Orange Texas
The report details two violent assaults: a 14 year old, Charlie Walston, was knocked from a freight car near Orange while boarding a train. he suffered a fractured skull and is critically ill. A man attacked N Eckert’s family, injuring Eckert and attempting to kill the infant before neighbors stopped him and he was jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange
Texas
Charlie Walston
Southern Pacific
Walston
Beaumont
N. Eckert
Eckert
Mrs. Eckert
Prohibition Opposition Tactics Debated by Texas Liquor Dealers
In Galveston on April 8 a Tremont hotel gathering of about twenty five Texas wholesale liquor leaders held an executive session. They discussed forming organized opposition to the prohibition movement as it gains strength in North Texas and spreads southward. No specific plans were released.
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Galveston
Texas
Tremont Hotel
Inventors of New Wrinkles Not Popular With Ladies
In a curious social trend, inventors who create facial wrinkles are finding less favor among women. Analysts note shifting aesthetics and novelty appeal influence dating dynamics and social perception in urban circles.
Ibrox Disaster Casualty List Completes Death Toll
Glasgow April 7 authorities kept the England Scotland match going to avert panic after the Ibrox stand collapse killed 21 and injured about 250. Some 150 remain in infirmaries. many have severe injuries and skull fractures. Relatives pleaded outside hospitals as names were posted.
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Glasgow
Ibrox Park
England
Scotland
Details of Dornbal Farm Fight Amid Boer British Clash
Reports from Dornbal farm in the Transvaal Colony recount a March 31 engagement where British forces suffered 3 officers and 24 men killed and 16 officers and 131 men wounded while Boers incurred 137 killed or wounded. Over 2000 Boers attacked with three guns and a pompom, targeting a Canadian convoy guarding British luggage. The Canadians repelled assaults as the British dug trenches after the retreat.
Lynching of James Carter in Amherst County Virginia
In Amherst Virginia April 7 a mob of about 200 masked men seized James Carter from Amherst jail before midnight. They hanged him near a tree half a mile north of town and fired 35 bullets into his body after he had shot Don Thomas near New Glasgow in Amherst county.
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Lynchburg
James Carter
Don Thomas
New Glasgow
Amherst County
Amherst Court House
Cliffords
Thomas
Amherst
Jones
Carter
Desperate House Fire Ends in Lynch Mob After Sheriff Wounded
In Knardtown near Tuscumbia Alabama on April 17 Sheriff Gassaway tried to arrest Will Reynolds for obtaining goods under false pretenses. Reynolds fired wounding the sheriff and deputy Will Gassaway. Militia and Wheeler Rifles fought the barricaded suspect for hours, killing Reynolds and two others as three houses burned.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Gasseway
Knardtown
Will Reynolds
Winchester
Will Gassaway
Captain Simpson
Wheeler Rifles
Hugh Jones
Jim Finney
Bob Wallace
Jesse Davis
Wallace
Davis
Falkner
Oyster Men Protest Fuel Oil Wastage Threat to Beds
In New Orleans on April 7 oyster men and lower coast residents filed a complaint with United States District Attorney Howe. They allege factories and plants using fuel oil waste drift down the river and ruin oyster beds. Estopinal of St Bernard parish led the charge and Howe instructed a written claim for Lieutenant Colonel Adams of the engineer corps to investigate and act.
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New Orleans
United States
Howe
Estopinal
St. Bernard Parish
Adams
United States Engineer Corps
Incendiaries Strike Two Lumber Yards in Columbus
Early yesterday a fire at Seth H. Sowers lumber yard caused $0,000 in damage. Hours later Comes & Menefee yard suffered $15,000 in losses. Fires were incendiary. While the second blaze burned, E T Bingham of Columbus Rock Plaster Co. confronted two arsonists. one man was struck and the other escaped.
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Columbus
Ohio
Seth H. Sowers
Comes & Menefee
E. T. Bingham
Columbus Rock Plaster Company
Bingham
Ruskin Bank Robbers Chase Across States
Four-robber gang from Ruskin Nebraska stole 15000 dollars yesterday morning. A posse of farmers chased them for thirty miles into Kansas near Belleville, continuing a running fight for miles. Bloodhounds followed the trail but lost it near Scandia.
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Ruskin
St. Joseph
Neb
Kansas
Belleville
Scandia
Hot Water Cures Lice Says Portland Farmer
Corpus Christi Texas April 7 Bob Arnold a prosperous Portland farmer reports two years of lice control on his vegetable field by spraying hot water on infested plants. He claims the method is simple inexpensive effective and does not harm the crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Texas
Bob Arnold
Portland
Howling Blizzard grips Northern Michigan
A howling blizzard sweeps through northern Michigan with heavy snow and strong winds on April 7, stranding travel and prompting emergency warnings across Marquette and nearby communities.
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Marquettee, Mich
Michigan
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J. M. Carnes
Alpine
GLOBE
Pierpont Morgan
Pugilist McCoy
Europe
Fan Dowingo
France
Monaco
Cripple Creek
Colo
India
Transport Sheridan
San Francisco
Manila
Rhode Island
Conneticut
William M. Rice
Fukyul
Japan
Packera
Kansas City
Quincy
Julius Keesler
Chicago
Louieville
White House
Grand Rapids
Saginaw
Mich
University of Iowa
Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw
Robert D. Armstrong
American Beet Sugar Company
Jersey City
N. J
Private Healy
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Sergt. Moreland
Philippines
Northern Poole Company
Manitoba
Manhattan
Kan
Midland College
Atechison
M. Santos-Dumont
Mont Blanc
House Committee
Carriea
Athenia
Cape Pillar
Chile
Punta Arenas
Mra
Savannah
Alamogorda
N. M
Federation Window Glass Company
Pittsburg
Corpa
Sierra Mountain
Mexico
J. Earl Chastain
Iola
Hospital Stewart
Gen. Funston
Twentieth
Rachel B. Traffors
Boston
Recorder Goff
Waelder
Orage
Prohibition Movement
Game
Dornbal Farm
Prout
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