Rebels Threaten British Over Executed Prisoner
British consular agent James Caldwell reported that George St Clair Douglas a Scot already under arrest in Zacatecas faced court martial for aiding federals in the recent fight and the incident complicates Mexican mediation efforts. Washington officials awaited word from General Carranza before any decision on the case.
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el Paso
Texas
Thea
James Caldwell
Zacatecas
George St. Clair Douglas
Vilta
X. C. Miles
Carranza
Villa
Douglas
Theodore Hamm
Durango
Torreon
Huerta
Washington
Constitutionalists
Charles A. Douglas
Cacranga
Bryan
Rafael Zubaran
Luis Cabrera
Lightning Strike Hits Crowded Rally Building
In Sallisaw Oklahoma July 3 a lightning bolt struck a picnic ground building amid a political rally. Two killed and fifteen injured, several seriously, as hundreds gathered to hear speakers United States Senator T P Gore and Judge Robert I Williams Democratic candidate for governor.
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Sallisaw
Olda
United States
T. P. Gore
Robert I. Williams
Man Near Death After Alleged Hate Hatchet Attack
A 27 year old Bland Wallis from 158 Windsor street lies dying at Grady hospital after an attack by an escaped convict named Charlie Smith. The assault occurred near Cooper street and Georgia avenue as Wallis and his brother waited for a street car. Authorities chased the suspect, formed a crowd threatening lynching, and later arrested him at police headquarters after interrogation.
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Charlie Smith
Fulton Street
Bland Wallis
Windsor Street
Grady Hospital
Cooper Street
Georgia Avenue
Wallis
L. PF. Wallis
Ideal
Wera
Terminal Station
Auto Patrol
L. P. Wallis
Bland
Pryor Street
Cooper
Pryor
Smith
Boy Falls Into Boiling Water at Plant in Cordele
Cordele Ga July 3 A 6 year old Negro boy named Ysaar McCloud was scalded to death at the Atlantic Ice and Coal plant. He tripped in the boiler room and fell head first into a vat of boiling water. The water was so hot that flesh peeled from his bones in places. The accident occurred while he played near the plant equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordele
Waters killed by lightning on Ogeechee River trip
Savannah Georgia July 3 Charles B Waters 26 manager of a fertilizer factory was struck and killed by lightning while returning from a fishing trip on the Ogeechee river near Kings Ferry Joe Bravo 15 suffered a severe shock in the same motorboat Waters had moved to Savannah from Florida several years ago
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Savannah
Charles B. Waters
Ogeechee River
Kings Ferry
Joe Bravo
The Constitution Bureau of Boarding and Room Information
The Constitution invites the public to use its free Bureau of Boarding and Room Information to list rooms for rent or find desirable lodging. Readers are urged to submit available rooms by contacting the paper at Main Ave or Atlantic Street.
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Bureau of Information
Bureau of Boarding
Rodming
Main Sve
Atlante Sobx
Train Crash on Tamworth Trestle Hurts Dozens Near Macon
A Fourth of July excursion from Jacksonville to Atlanta collided head on with the Macon and Birmingham train on a 40 foot Tamworth trestle seven miles south of Macon. At least six were seriously hurt and more than twenty injured. one woman with four small children is reported critically injured. A passenger leaped to a farmhouse for aid, trains were slowed, and a beer car was demolished, with conflicting orders blamed for the crash.
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Macon
Jacksonville
Atlanta
Georgia Southern
Florida
Birmingham
Tamworth
Hare
Railroad Officta
M.D. Burnett
Moore
Lucius Dunn
Moran
H. Sims
Charles Russell
Blood trail ties woman to Ballou death in Stamford
In Stamford Connecticut on July 3 Coroner Tom J. Phane held Mrs Helen Angle without bail after expert testimony linked a blood trail from the building to her apartments in the Waldo Ballou death case. Angle, who cried when informed of the arrest, had earlier declined to speak. Police say Ballou was found dying on the sidewalk outside the building after an alleged fall from stairs during a liquor incident.
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Ahl
Helen
Angle
Thay
Tom J. Phan
Waldo KR. Ballou
Honda
Leonard R
Hi Blyndel
Ballou
Angle Hive
Nquor
Angle Wa
Kennan
Angie
Nellie
Bilt
Triple murder and suicide scene near East Point
A husband Bennett killed his young wife and her mother then shot himself in a woodland clearing two miles east of East Point. Notes found by Bennett claim the wife poisoned herself as part of a suicide pact. autopsy showed no signs of violence on the wife. The tragedy, said to stem from marital strife, left three children and unfolded over two days with a disrupted family and the dead woman's mother blamed for disturbing the couple.
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S. F. Bennett
Lfe
Mattie Talbert
Bennett
East Point
Alain
Bennet
Ale
Big Mother-Inlaw
Hart of
Mfé
Woman appeals governor to hang Miles Cribb in clemency plea
A 76 year old Florida woman writes to Governor Slaton urging clemency be denied for Miles Cribb who killed his mother in law near Ashburn Georgia a year ago. She declares Cribb deserves hanging and describes Ms Viola Cribb as suffering and seeking justice.
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Haman
Georgia
Miles Cribb
Ashburn
Gay
Slat
Caroline L. Miller
Palatka
Fla
Sneak Thief Robs JH Crawford Home In Peachtree Circle
Mrs J H Crawford on the front lawn at 16 Peachtree Circle reported a rear door entry by a stranger who stole a leather pocketbook and a $75 diamond ring from her daughter Hallie. Police were alerted and negro servants provided a description. no arrest yet. The suspect is described as a white man about 25, wearing a fur quilt and straw hat.
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J. H. Crawford
Peachtree Circle
Soul
Hallie
Dr Crawford
Drewry Powers
Peachtree Club
Wife of physician grilled on stand in murder mystery
In Freeport New York on July 3 Mrs. Edwin Carman wife of a local physician testified at the coroner inquest into the murder of Louise Bailey. She denied being on the porch or near the victim’s office before the killing and said she listened from her room after hearing breaking glass and a pistol shot. She described spying on her husband through the same window and claimed to have seen him hand a nurse a twenty dollar bill before a warning from her husband.
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Freeport
N. Y
Edwin Carman
Louise Bailey
New York
Carman
Drs. Carman
Smith
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Liberal Party
Mexico
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Eall
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