Intelligent Horse as Witness in Raleigh Murder Trial
A Raleigh area murder case featured a horse as a key witness. The animal’s behavior at the scene and near the tree where the crime occurred helped establish venue and guilt, with the court deeming the horse’s testimony decisive in securing the killer’s conviction. The horse, loyal to its master, was described as an emblem of retributive justice in this notable trial.
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Raleigh
Shelby County
Sas
Mrs Dewey’s Poker Flats and a Wichita Windfall
The Chicago Chronicle recalls Mrs Dewey owning western estate near Wichita Kansas. Gen Hazen once won town lots in a poker game with five players including Capt Crouch and Dave Bancroft. Hazen left the property to his wife, most players are dead, and land values have revived, potentially making Mrs Dewey wealthy if she secures title.
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Dewey
Wichita
Kon
Chicago Chronicle
Gen. Hazen
West
Harry Hill
Dave Payne
Dave Bancroft
Capt
Crouch
American Post in Paris News on First Foreign Mail
The Paria expiation post office issued the first letter to President McKinley, registered and moving under the U S postmaster general. The Paris pavilion hosts a full state post office and American information offices with 18 national commissioners and various rooms. An army anecdote recalls a soldier bitten by ants as Mauser bullets whizzed by while he begged to remain standing.
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United States
Paria
McKinley
Peck
Bureau of Information
American Chamber of Commerce
Paris
Act of Congress
States
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
South Africa
Men Select Presents From Jewelry Store Example
A Philadelphia Record report cites a fashionable jeweler who says many men rely on salesmen to choose gifts. Regular customers give amount, recipient, and card details, then wait for gratitude notes to reveal the actual gift.
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Philadelphia Record
Beginning and Ending of Pomp at Paris Exposition
The article notes the paradox of pomp and ceremony at the Paris exposition with a contract signed for razing the very exhibition buildings on opening day. It also reports on South African dispatches noting Mauser bullets failing to stop cavalry as horses were able to gallop 400 yards before falling.
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Paris
O Cayniry Horaca
Maveers
South Africa
Miscellaneous facts from a historic page
A compilation notes: one person in a thousand reaches 100 years old, Chicago fire department has 08 steam engines, 65 blind births per million, hair turns gray earlier for men, world life insurance in force about 11900,000,000, Farmers International union to sell Syracuse milk at four cents a quart year round, Phoenixville impounds trolley until wheel replaced, New York City Metro has 294 miles track carrying 255,835,000 passengers, Philadelphia law library receives 23 unbound volumes from Lord Salisbury, Glenn ranch of 75,000 acres in Sacramento valley to be subdivided for small farms after bonanza wheat growth era.
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Fire Department of
Chicago
Farmer's International Union
Syracuse
Phoenixville
New York City
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
United States
Philadelphia Law Library
Lord Salisbury
Glenn Ranch
Sacramento Valley
Cal
Dakotas
Thia Glenn
Generous Spaniard Helps Penned Sailors in Manila Relief
Lieut. Gilmore and his men, jailed by Filipinos, were aided by a Spanish general who sent 50 Mexican dollars as a loan to buy clothes and shots. After escape, the general refused repayment. Americans later collected funds to buy a liver centerpiece engraved with the facts and presented it to him at a Manila reception.
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Gilmore
Washington
Chicago Record
Manila
United States
Water in the floor joke and Indian well caste clash
A Chicago Chronicle note recalls a five year old's strange claim about a limbless thing crossing the kitchen floor and a father’s playful guessing. Also discussed are Indian wells where Hindus and Gonds and weavers share water with caste prohibitions requiring separate wells or water delegation.
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Lake’ View
Chicago Chronicle
Kate
Cate
Tommy
India
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Tennessee
Dreamland
Ninth Street
Earth
Washington Post
Foxy Sagem
Jimmy
Puck
American Post
President McKinley
Sole
George C. Ormerod
Asbury Park
Sewall Ave
Ned
Omice
H. B. Johnson
Deslorin
City Prison
Cookman Avenue
Bond Asbury Parks
John Hubbard
Fifth Avenue
N.J
Adon Lippincott
Asbory Parle
A. A. Taylor, Mason and Builder
P.O. Box
Mattison Ave
Dayton
Sterling
Orient
Spalding
Zimmy
Yale
Rochester
Crawford
White
Nyack
L. Ferris
Burtis
Asbury. Park
Buchanon & Smock
N. E. Buchanon
A. Smock
Navn Sts
Asbury Ave
Third
N. J
Albemarle
King’s
Windsor Cement
Monmouth County
M. M. Crosbie
Whittle & Gibson
Sommerfeld Ave
FERD
Brown
Summerfield Avenue
Jacob Doll. JR
Givarme Ae
Steinbach
Mammoth
Eatab
Chas.lewis
Chas. Lewis & CO
South Main Street
Asbury Park, N. J
Adamant
Dunkirk, N.Y
Spring Lake
RE. E. K. Rothfritz
Genong & Co
Main Street
Lupton Roe
New Jersey
Matawan
Keyport
Perth Amboy
South "River
Asbury Park Journal
Deliv
Cartier
Wyncoop & Hulshart
S. Main Street
Wawwen
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