Jones Dies On Train Famous Evangelist Sam Jones
Samuel Porter Jones known as Sam Jones dies on an Oklahoma Choctaw and Gulf train near Little Rock amid his temperance lectures. Born October 6 1847 in Alabama he rose from drinking to preacher and author while serving as a Georgia bar admittee and Meth odist minister before years on the lecture circuit. His home was Cartersville Georgia and he traveled from west of Little Rock toward Memphis when death occurred.
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Samuel Jones
Little Rock
Ark
Mr. Jones
Cartersville
Atlanta
Georgia
Methodist Church, South
Jones
Northern
Ile
America
Postoffice Cuts Deficit Cortelyou Reports Big Drop in 1906
Postmaster General Cortelyou releases figures showing the postal service deficit reduced to 10.5 million for 1906 from 14.6 million in 1905. Receipts reached 167.9 million, up 15.1 million year over year, the largest gain in service history. Expenditures rose to 175.4 million, up 11.1 million from 1905, with growth slowing versus prior years.
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Cortelyou
Postal Service
Umks
Unsigned will leaves Kansas City estate to charity and church
A paper unsigned but said to be the last will of C F Schoelkopf lists major bequests to charity and Grand Avenue Methodist Church in Kansas City. Buildings Arlington and Kemper valued at 500000 and a 40 acre park tract to the city. Burton Must Go to Prison. Supreme Court denies rehearing in Burton case, leading to immediate imprisonment for accepting attorney fees while senator. Missouri Murderer Is Crazy. John Hamilton, confessor in Parsons family murders, is described as a raving maniac and jailed in Carthage after failed suicide attempts.
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Kansas City
Yates Center
Kan
Arlington
Kemper
Grand Avenue
Burton
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Kansas
Missouri
John Hamilton
Parsons
Houston
Carthage
Sheriff Woods
Texas County
Hamilton
Trapped Miners Die in Wingate Explosion Near Durham
An explosion at Wingate colliery near Durham England killed twenty five miners and left about two hundred temporarily entombed. The blast, likely caused by fire damp, occurred when only a portion of the thousand men employed were underground.
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Wingate
Durham
England
Omaha farmer sues burglar over Unique bullet case
John Wipf of Omaha files a suit for damages after pursuing a burglar who fired at him during a night break in. The farmer bound the man, turned him over to authorities, and claims 2900 dollars in damages for injuries he suffered from bullets.
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John Wipf
Omaha
Wipf
Cod Fisheries Long in Dispute in Newfoundland
The modus vivendi on the fisheries signed by the United States and Great Britain highlights Newfoundland's protracted dispute over cod fisheries. Cod fishing is the colony's main wealth, with about sixty thousand residents employed in fishing and related trades, amid ongoing tensions with France and periodic U S involvement over the past three to four decades.
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Newfoundland
United States
Great Britain
Honeymoon Suicide Pact Ends in Missouri Tragedy
A week after marriage in Smithville, Jesse Webb and his wife planned joint death. The bride shot her husband and then killed herself with a brain shot, dying instantly. Webb, 25, survived and said in lucid moments they agreed to "end it all" due to her tuberculosis. The bride formerly lived at Patr Fax, Mo.
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Jesse Webb
Smithville
Patrfax
BANKER'S SON HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER IN FRISCO FIRE
Ernest A Denicke son of a millionaire banker was held for trial for man slaughter after shooting an Italian during the San Francisco fire of April 19. He was earlier freed but re-arrested and examined by Superior Judge Lawler. The article also notes a fatal baseball collision in Rolla Missouri and other distant dispatches about river gates, a stage robbery, a stolen church cornerstone, campus segregation plans at the University of Chicago, and Adelaide Ristori's death in Rome.
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Frisco
Ernest A.denicke
San Francisco
William P. Lawler
Denicke
Shortall
Lawler
Battle with thugs in Toledo ends in patrolman’s death
A clash between three holdup men and East Toledo police left Patrolman Joseph Schlagheck fatally shot. Officers Deaunnee and Schlagbeck pursued the fugitives, wounding Neil Meyers and Christ Peterson, who were captured after a fierce struggle. the third assailant known as Blackie escaped. The holdup targeted F J Carnell, an insurance agent.
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Ohio
Joseph Schlagheck
Christ Peterson
Neil Meyers
Blackie
F. J. Carnell
Schlagceck
Peter Deaunnee
Schlagbeck
Hime
Denunnee
Meyers
Peterson
Deaunnee
Wrecks His Auto to Save on Steep Ramapo Hill
Louis Lieber, driving a runaway auto on Snake road in the Ramapo Mountains New York, crashes his car to avoid a collision with an ascending vehicle carrying Miss Qutting daughter of R Fulton Cutting. He is crushed in the wreckage and rendered unconscious.
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Miss Qutting
R. Fulton Cutting
Snake Road
Ramapo
Lieber
Agi Iig
Colin
Licher
Bowlder
Ed Turtle
Missouri Farmer Confesses to Slaying Family in River Swim
Jodie Hamilton, a Houston Missouri farmer, confessed to killing his own family. He admitted throwing bodies into Big Piney Creek after a quarrel over crops with Parsons, then hauling them in Parsons’ wagon to the creek. The victims included three children aged one year and younger. Citizens mobbed the scene and the prisoner was forced from officers during the public safety incident. The bodies were found the following day.
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Missouri
Jodie Hamilton
Houston
Parsons
Hamilton
Big Piney Creek
No Eligible Men and Maiden Declaration by Organizing Club
Women of Le Sue Ming form a Five Hundred Club after a solemn conclave blaming scarce eligible men for winter celibacy. Sixteen members, nine teachers, plan unfeigned gaiety to prove independence from men. In Findlay Ohio fourteen orphaned children poisoned by milk mostly recover. two remain seriously ill after supper.
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Pendence
le Sue Ming
Orphan’s Home
Findlay
Ohio
White Sox Clinch World Championship in Four-Game Sweep
The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cubs in four straight games to win the world baseball championship. The series receipts totaled 106,550 dollars with the Sox receiving 25,051 dollars and the Cubs 8,350 dollars.
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White Sox
Chicago White Sox
Cubs
Sox
Fire Sweeps Summerside Station Town in Canada
A blaze began at Summerside railway station in Summerside P E I and spread rapidly, drawing help from Charlottetown. The fire destroyed forty two structures including the first office two churches and four hotels.
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Summerside
Charlottetown
Embezzlement cases and a deadly factory furnace blast
James W Felker former Newburyport city treasurer pleaded guilty to embezzling 41 500 and had sentence postponed. Henry Sg Wampole Philadelphia drug maker alleged embezzlement of 500 000 with his body found in the Hast River. Manuel Silveira sought for a 1 000 000 embezzlement from Havana firm. Milwaukee furnace blast injures eleven at William Bailey Sons iron works. Huntsville Alabama Oakwood Manual Training School burns, one student dies.
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Newburyport
Mass
Henry Sg. Wampole
Philadelphia
Hast River
New York
William Bailey & Sons
Milwaukee
Oakwood Manual Training School
Negro Institution
Huntsville
Ala
123 Die in Mexico Floods and Landslides
Recent floods in Jalisco and Colima state Mexico caused massive destruction. Fatalities along the Manzanillo extension of the Mexican Central railway reach 128 with towns Tuxpan Zapotitlan and Santiago river reports of boat capsizes and houses washed away. A 26 ton steam shovel was swept away and rock landslides blocked routes.
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Jalisco
Colima
Mexico
Manzanillo
Mexican Central Railway
Tuxpan
Zapotillic
Santiago
Pupil tragedy at South Euclid school
Harry Smith, 25, shot Miss Mary Shepard, 22, in a school hall witnessed by about sixty children in Cleveland Ohio. He killed himself two hours later as police and farmers surrounded him, motive reported as failed courtship. Smith was Shepard’s fourth cousin and had long pursued her but was rejected.
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Cleveland
Harry Smith
Mary Shepard
South Euclid School
Ohio
Smith
Tu Love
Miss Shepard
Ohio Bridge Combine Yields Charters Across State
Ohio Attorney General Ellis wins a wave of charter surrender as five bridge firms quit the state and eight others retreat, leaving Mount Vernon as the sole remaining challenger. Ellis plans to oust the last company and appoint a receiver, while the combine insists no state law violations occurred and any illegal acts were under federal Sherman law.
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Ohio
Champion Company
Wilmington
King Company
Cleveland
Canton, Bellefontaine and
Massillon
Mount Vernon Company
Combine
Farmer Accused of Murder in Poison Case
Orson Broka a young farmer was arrested in Napoleon Ohio on a murder warrant sworn by John Miller brother in law of Jennie Dicker. Miss Jennie Dicker reportedly took poison bought by Broka and died days later. He was bound over to the grand jury on $2,000 bond furnished by his father after a hearing before a local squire. The families objected to the engagement revealing a motive.
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John
Napoleon
Jennie Dicker
Broka
John Miller
Jennie di
Squire Mulcahey
Miss Dicker
Erroka
Kidnaped Little Girl Reported in Buffalo Search
A year-old girl Susie Becker daughter of Fred Becker saloon keeper of Buffalo New York was abducted while walking with a woman in gray who offered candy. Susie’s brother and parents notified police at supper time. description of the kidnapper is limited to gray attire.
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Susie Becker
Fred Becker
N. Y
Susie
Main Street
White Sox Win World Series In Close Chicago Clash
The White Stockings claimed the world title by defeating the Cubs 8 to 5 in game six, capping a historic season. Mordecai Brown struggled early as Doc White shut down Chicago, while the Sox racked up fourteen hits and fans flooded the stands in celebration.
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Chicago
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West Side
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Doc White
Sox
Chicago Nationals
New York
Pittsburg
Chicago Americans
Sinclair to star in Jungle stage dramatization
Interesting News Itema reports Upton Sinclair will appear as a character in the dramatization of The Jungle. A fire on the transport Thomas at Manila caused threat but was extinguished with no heavy loss. Colonel J Lusk of the US Army engineer corps killed himself at his daughter's Sandy Hook New Jersey home by throat cutting after ill health.
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Upton Sinclair
Thomas
Manila
J. Lusk
Engineer Corps
United States Army
Sandy Hook
N. J
Lusk
RUN DOWN FROM GRIP DR WILLIAMS PINK PILLS CURED DEBILITY
Mrs Morrison of Pittsburgh credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring her health after a grip that left her run down and nervous. The pills are said to improve red blood and calm the nerves, with many cures cited. Sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady, N Y.
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Mrs. Morrison
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Man 70 Quits Coffee After 40 Years For Postum Health Boost
A 70-year-old North Dakota man, after forty years of coffee use, quit abruptly and switched to Postum. He reports improved health, reduced nervousness, and stronger stamina within two months, matching the vigor of a younger man and finishing work more smoothly. He urges others to try Postum long enough to see the visible changes.
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A N. Dak
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