Illinois Farmer’s Revenge Destroys Speeding Auto
A rural Illinois farmer organized a party of hired men to ambush a speeding luxury car eight miles west of Highland Park after a child was struck. The car was dragged from the ditch, occupants dragged from the vehicle, and the car burned. The incident sparked a wave of state news including deaths from scarlet fever and a pension dispute case.
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Illinois
Highland Park
Alphonse
Society
Rmer
Stevenge
Andrew Meleski
Ontario Avenue
Chicago
A. Votan Company
Stave and Hoop
Mt. Carmel
Negro Odd Fellows of
Wisconsin
Woman's Auxiliary
Springfield
Burglar Kills 22YearOld Albert Walsh in Chicago Home
In Chicago on Indiana Avenue a burglar shoots and kills Albert Walsh as he reaches for a light switch. The attacker slips away through an open door. the case follows the earlier Meese murder and involves Albert and Leo Walsh with Miss Anna Walsh in the tense aftermath.
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Albert Walsh
Indiana Avenue
Chicago
Hallyty
Maud Meese
Anna Walsh
Albert
Leo J. Walsh
Jennie McMullen
Peoria Schoolboard Sues Ex-Superintendent for Robbery
The Peoria school board files a $100,000 suit against Newton C. Dougherty, former superintendent now in the penitentiary, alleging complicity in the January school board safe robbery. Eddie Tate Patsy Mlaherty and Ed Donovan are named as participants, with two prominent Peorians John Doe and Richard Roe also mentioned as suspected associates.
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Peoria
School Board of
Newton C. Dougherty
Eddie Tate
Patsy Mlaherty
Ed Donovan
Dougherty
John Doe
Richard Roe
Child Dies After Cow Attack on Farm
A two year old girl, Bessie Dandurand of Mantert, died from blood poisoning after a cow fatally stamped her. The beast, previously gentle, suddenly attacked during barn chores, injuring her arm with a hoof. The cow was killed following the incident.
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Bessie Dandurand
Mantert
Poison in Stomach Triggers Arrest in Lake Bluff Death
Coroner J L Taylor orders arrest of Salvator Muto and Mrs Mary Noss in the death of Mrs Emily Peligno Muto of Lake Bluff after a Chicago chemist reports higher arsenic levels in the stomach than in previous cases. Both suspects deny guilt and claim she had stomach trouble and may have self-administered the poison.
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Mary Ross
Lake Bluf
Emily Peligno Muto
Lake Bluff
J. L. Taylor
Salvator Muto
Mary Noss
Walter Haines
Chicago
Waukegan
Bilii
Hoch
Multiple Fatalities and Damages Across Illinois Storms
The report lists several victims and incidents including Ben Boyd and Joseph Roberts injured in a vehicle crash, Charles Ollenton killed by a crane, Mrs. Bessie Marquerat found dead in Garfield Park, and Ada Smith who drowned after a romantic disappointment. It notes a midlake halt to the City of Benton Harbor steamship due to a hot box and a Chicago refrigerator plant fire causing heavy losses.
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Ben Boyd
Joseph Roberts
Charles W. Ollenton
Fairbury
Bessie Marquerat
Tramilton Avenue
Garfield Park Lagoon
Chicago
Robert Orr
Dwight
Bloomington
Ada Smith
W. F. Smith
Plainfield
City of Benton Harbor
Graham & Morton Line
St. Joseph
Benton Harbor
Midlake
New York
Boston Refrigerator Company
Fifty-first Street
Central Park Avenue
Note in Bottle Points to Death by Own Action
A girl finds a bottle in the Kankakee River near Gougar’s Grove five miles east of Kankakee containing a note stating that Mr and Mrs Frank Yorer died by their own action on the 16th of June 1907 in the Iroquois river at Plato Iroquois county The note asks to notify Mrs C P Enright at Gilman Illinois The finding location lies about twenty miles from Plato
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Kankakee
Mary Chaver
Gougar
C. P. Enright
Gilman
IIL
Plato
French and Spanish Warships Bombard Casablanca
French and Spanish cruisers shelled Casablanca after Moorish tribesmen fired on a landing party guarding the French Consulate. Casualties reported among Moors and five French officers plus six sailors killed or wounded as reinforcements arrived to protect nationals.
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Casablanca
Galilee
Tangier
du Chayla
Don Alvara de Bazan
Freckle-Faced Boy Murders Mother in Nebraska Fields
Calif McCoy, 11, has received a ten year sentence to the State reform school at Lincoln after confessing to shooting his widowed mother amid prior abuse and a hard life on a Sandhills quarter section. He said she was mean and that her whipping prompted the act.
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Vespasian Warner
Vlora Warner McDermott
Robinson
Isabella Warner
de Witt County Society
Warner
State Reform School
Lincoln
Neb
Calif McCoy
Calif
Rock County
Sandhills
McCoy
Tie
Second Coal Famine Threatens Northwest This Winter
Prominent Cleveland fuel shippers warn a severe coal shortage will hit the Northwest as railroads fail to supply boats amid ongoing strike closures. The coming winter is seen as bringing greater hardship and costs than last year’s famine.
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Upper Lakes
Northwest
Cleveland
Upper Lake
Ohio
Head of
Lakes
Press Opinions on Standard Oil Fine
A compilation of newspaper editorials reacting to Judge Landis’s large fine against the Standard Oil Company. Viewpoints range from support of penalties to calls for justice and deterrence, with reflections on public opinion and the law’s supremacy over big business.
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Philadelphia
Standard OW Company
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Landis
Standard Oil Company
Chicago
Chicago Inter Ocean
Detroit Free Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Chicago News
Cleveland Leader
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Moorish City Bombarded as Holy War Fears Rise
The Moorish city Rabat faces bombardment with Casablancan forces joining French actions against a Moorish battery. A Moorish commander sought pardon from the French admiral, who refused, while Morocco warns foreigners to depart Rabat amid fears of a massacre in a proclaimed holy war.
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Casablanca
Thig
Morocco
Rabat
Africa
Allal
Mohammed
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United States Commissioner of Pensions
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