Lynching of Sleeping Car Porter in La Junta
A mob of about 4000 in La Junta Colorado lynched Washington H Wallace a Denver to La Junta Pullman porter at the courthouse square after he assaulted Mrs Henrietta H Miller a 67 year old traveler from Los Angeles California The mob seized him when sheriffs attempt to move him failed and he died of hanging and gunfire amid broken windows and a broken courthouse door as city officials urged legal process
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la Junta
Colo
W. H. Wal- Seca
Court House Square
Wallace
Sherif Farr
Jim
Henrietta H. Miller
Los Angeles
Cal
Denver
Santa Fe Rar
Chicago
Washington H. Wallace
James Walker
David T. Tayloe
North Corona
Washington
Cuba
United States
Porter Wallace
Colorado
Miller
California
Atlanta
Ridgeley
Wives Galore On His Trail
Christian C Nelson a railroad contractor and horseman is jailed in St Joseph on a bigamy charge after being arrested in San Antonio. He reportedly has thirteen wives with one known marriage to Mrs Mary A Parker in September at Plattsburg. Accusations include ten other alleged wives and arrests in Chicago San Francisco Des Moines Sumter and other cities.
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St. Joseph
Christian C. Nelson
Jai
San Antonio
Tex
Nelson
St Joseph
Mary A Parkes
Plattsburg
Chicago
San Francisco
Des Brolnes
New York
St. Paul
Sumter
D. C
Conway
Ark
Parker
Des Moines
Dorothy Harvey
Lake Park
C. C Nelson
Fort Scott
Kans
A. F Milburn
C. C. Nelson
Missouri
Transfers Cause a Riot in Chicago Street Car Battle
Citizens and street car employees clashed in a pitched battle over universal transfers on West Madison street. Eighteen men led by W E Golden demanded transfers between trolley and cable lines. after refusals, two fights halted both lines. Golden was injured. many suits against the companies loom.
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Chicago
South End
Austin
Union
Consolidated Traction Companies
Judge Ball
W E. Golden
West Madison Street
Golden
CLEVELAND SHUTS CONTRACTS UNDER DISCRIMINATION FEAR
General freight agents of the Central Freight Association have traveled from city to city for five days canceling contracts worth thousands of dollars. A railroad official said that in his experience this is the first time he has seen widespread discrimination in rail service. The scare created by the wholesale prosecutions for discrimination is described as complete and effective.
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Roosevelt
Cleveland
Ohio
Central Freight Association
Ines
Lynch mob lynches a black man at a crowd scene
A mob dragged a black man by rope down a street after a boy raised him to a telegraph pole. The crowd fired pistols, killing him before authorities could intervene. Sheriff Farr said Wallace claimed innocence, but police found hairs and other evidence. Wallace resided with his wife at 1527 Lawrence Street, Denver, and had worked for a railroad company.
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Hves
Rocky Ford
Farr
Wallace
Lawrence Street
Denver
Sedalia
Fireman Is Given $16 000 in Arkansas Fellow-Servants Case
United States court of appeals affirms a lower court ruling awarding fireman Warren G. Furey $16 000 for injuries from a collision caused by an operator's failure to deliver an order. The panel held operator and fireman not fellow servants under Arkansas law, though one judge dissented.
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Law
St. Louis
United States Court of Appeals
Warren G. Furey
Caldwell
Sanborn
Arkansas
American Boy Arrested in Czar Era Crackdown
Boris Gardner, an American student, was imprisoned by czarist authorities during a search of Mrs. Gardner’s St. Petersburg home. His mother hopes for release on condition he studies in England. The crackdown also bans or imprisons hundreds of students, including officials’ children, with Moscow reporting ninety five banished to Siberia and 667 jailed for three to six months.
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Boris Gardner
St Petersburg
Messeheer
Moscow
Siberia
Steinman Confesses Accomplice Role in McKinley Killing
J Steinman a convicted burglar confessed on a train to Sheriff Stackhouse that he helped Leon Czolgosz murder President McKinley. He claimed he bound the handkerchief on Czolgosz and stood nearby when the shot was fired, saying he carried two loaded revolvers ready to act if the deed failed.
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Steinman
Barbaboon
Wis
Stackhouse
J. Steinman
McKinsey
Waupun
Czolgosz
McKinley
Czolgisz
Mrs. Davis Refuses Offer on Beauvoir Home
Jackson Miss March 25 Spectator Mrs Jefferson Davis has refused an offer of 90 000 for the old family home at Beauvoir and will dispose of the property to the United Sons of Confederate Veterans for 10 000 as soon as the fund raising by the organization for this purpose is completed The offer of 90 000 is from a syndicate of capitalists.
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Beauvoir
Jackson
Miss
Spectator
Jefferson Davis
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
Capitallats
Hireproof Warehouses Planned Across Cotton States
New York March stockholders of the Trust Company of the Republic elected D. Leroy Dresser as president and a slate of officers. The Security Warehousing Company plans 160 fireproof warehouses in the cotton belt, financing via guaranteed warehouse certificates, with extended aims to lower insurance and interest rates for producers and to expand to other industries.
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New York
Trust Company of the Republic
D. Leroy Dresser
Alexander Greig
Frederick F. Robertson
James L Livingston
Thomas Co
Clarke
Quara
Pergon
Etuyvesant Fisk
Henry
Cy Fe Uaces Fy
Malas
St Louis Bribery Trial Highlights Suburban Franchise Case
In St Louis on March 5 Emil A Meysenburg, a House of Delegates member, faced bribery charges as testimony linked Stad Suburban Railway Company to push a franchise through the municipal assembly. Witnesses described payments and stock deals to win Meysenburg's favor, with notes and deposits traced through banks and trust companies. The defense challenged the case, but Judge Douglass overruled a demurrer, and the trial continued with further testimony planned.
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St. Louis
Emil A. Meysenburs
House of Delegates
Douglasy Court
Philip Steck
Steck
Charles Kratz
Meysenburg
Kratz
Kin
Stock
Rate
Foulk
F. W. Uchman
Mir. Krate
Fleck
Meysenburge
Phil Stock
Mr. Kratz
Mississippi Valley Trust Company
Phil Stork
Mr. Brinkmeyer
Richard Wospes
German Savings Bank
Meysenberg
Henry Nicholaus
Charles H. Turner
Turner
Philip Stork
Hailiway
Coliany
Philp
Municipal Assembly
Emil Meysenburg
Meysenburg Guld
Charles Wiggins
Wiggins
Douglass
Distillery Proprietor Killed in Keokuk Falls Fire
In Keokuk Falls Pottawattomie county two men shot and killed Martin proprietor of a distillery at his home. They robbed him and poured oil on his body then set it ablaze. The victim reached for his revolver instead of surrendering and was shot as the flames were started. the fire was later extinguished with the body not heavily burned.
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Sherif Farr
Pueblo
Lavanta
Wallace
Sugar City
Missouri Pacific
Throngh
LaiJunta
Patterson Bollow
Rocky Ford
Manzanola
Farr
Lasunia
Rocky Forch
Robert Patterson
Fleming
Harles Dearborne
Court House
Oklahoma City
Okla
Keokuk Falls
Pottawattomie County
Martin
Bonds of the Steel Trust in New York Progress Report
United States Steel Corp executive meeting in New York failed to finalize plans to retire 200 million dollars of preferred stock and issue 250 million dollars of five percent bonds. President Schwab indicated completion would occur soon and George W. Perkins, chairman of the financial committee, promised a full announcement before week’s end.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Schwab
George W. Perkins
Financial Committee
Father Kills His Child in Toxicated Outburst
In Middlesboro Kentucky on March 25 George Waller, intoxicated, shot his 12 year old daughter Nellie Waller at the gate in Virginia. The neighbor found Nellie shot full of buckshot lying on the floor. Nellie was Waller's only child and her mother had died two years ago.
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Nellie Waller
Middlesboro
Lydgate
George Waller
Nellie
Waller
Walter
Sculptor Trentanove Weds Ngadame Castellezi in Florence
Milwaukee March 25 Chevalier Trentanove Italian sculptor and Ngadame Castellezi married in Florence February 19. The wedding, revealed today by friends, ends a past engagement to Mrs Lucille Blackburn Lane daughter of Senator Joe Blackburn. Lane cited the chevalier's jealous temperament as the reason the match failed.
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Dirs
Millwaukee
Wis
Chevalier Trentanove
Ngadame Castellezi
Florence
Italy
Lucille Blackburn Lane
Joe Blackburn
Kentucky
Birs
Cuban postal fraud suspects face ten year Cuba prison terms
Washington reports say Rathbone Neely and Reeves were found guilty of misappropriation of Cuban postal funds. They were fined a total of $127 536 and may appeal to Cuba’s supreme court. Their transfer to Havana custody expects them to remain until bonds arranged.
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Rathbone
Post Office Department
Director General of Posts of
Havana
Neely
Reeves
Supreme Court of Cuba
Rethbone
Cunha
Cheely Gould
Muncie
Ind
Charles F. W. Neely
Ross Cowan
Neely Printing Company
Peoce
United States
Abraham Fischer
Amsterdam
Alice Roosevelt
Berlin
Wyndham
Ireland
House of Commons
Neely and Reeves
Supreme Court
Hanna to work for Pace
Senator Mark Wanna arrived from Washington and announced he will preside at a conciliation committee meeting of the National Civic Federation tomorrow evening to consider the threatened strike of anthracite miners. President John Mitchell and other district leaders also arrived in New York for the talks.
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New York
Mark Wanna
Washington
Ralph M. Easley
National Civic Federation
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
John Faher
Thomas Nichols
Thomas Duffy
Rock Island Plans $2 Million Ten Train Construction
Rock Island railroad plans a roughly $2,000,000 project to build ten full vestibuled trains for Chicago California service via El Paso. The trains will be delivered to Southern Pacific at El Paso for operation by SP engines and crews. Through-running agreement exists, but service is set for next fall.
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Rock Island Road
EL Paso
Southern Pacific
Irig
Santa Fe
Northwestern
Chicas
Pet Dogs Drained Her Wealth, Monomaniac Embezzler Says
Officer Long recounts Mrs. Julia Birdsall’s $815000 theft from Bernstain Kaufman & Co. She funded a luxury dog estate in Melville NY, with dogs dressed in silk and velvet. The accused planned to flee to Philadelphia, signing to accompany the officer. fate of her Maltese remains undecided.
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George Long
Philadelphia
Julia, Birdsall
Atlanta
Officer Long
Birdsall
Bernstain, Kaufman & Co
Long
the Constitution
Melville
N. 1
Duff
Bis
Cub Ges 10 Cue Rio No Qh Tad Al at Turn the Island
Fragmentary OCR reads a sports brief with unclear names and places. The readable fragment suggests a baseball or similar game involving a team and an island location but lacks decisive details for a full headline and summary.
All American Troops Withdraw From Cuba Date Set
Washington reports the date for turning over Cuba to its people as March to May 20, 190, with full approval from President elect Palma and advisers tas mayo and quesada. The plan marks Cuban independence and inauguration on the same day American control ends.
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Palma
Republic of Cuba
Root
Wood
Washington
Cuba
Lencers Tasmayo
Quesada
War Department
St Haveing
Weather, trials, and events from Georgia to Cuba
Forecast covers fair days with fresh winds and temperatures around 60. Reports note Mrs. Julia Birdsall to stand trial for embezzlement after stealing 15000, infant found dead on Peachtree, and 75 Georgia cods heading to Dallas for a reunion. Georgia headlines cite a farm capture, a Postmaster’s death, Rome Baptist Association, and regional tensions including New Orleans strike fears and Cuba’s planned transfer to natives May 2.
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Philadelphia
Julia Birdsall
Peachtree Street
Eleventh
Twelfth
Georgia
Dallas
Tex
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Leonard Wood
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