Mystery Murder of Mrs Pulitzer Cleared by Police
New York September 19 police say Annie Pulitzer was killed in a West Fifty eighth Street flat after a quarrel with a lover. Hooper Young, formerly of Hoboken, identified as the man who hired at a Hoboken livery, is not arrested and may have fled to Chicago. Evidence includes a sink hidden body and a trunk shipped to Chicago.
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New York
Annie Pulitzer
Marris Canal
Jersey City
West Wifty-eighth Street
Captain Titus
Detective Bureau
Hooper Young
Titus
Young
Chicago
Hoboken Crusader
Hoboken Iveryman
Central Park
South
Charles Evans
Hoboken
Pulitzer
Bugsy
Morris Canal
Roosevelt
Cincinnati
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Devery
Quay
Shaw
Stampede Kills 78 at Birmingham Shiloh Church
A deadly stampede at the Shiloh Negro Baptist Church on Avenue 6 and Nineteenth Street in Birmingham after Booker T Washington's address leaves 78 dead and about 80 injured. The crush occurred as people surged toward exits, many trampled amid packed aisles and a stairwell death trap. Emergency services were overwhelmed as bodies were laid out outside and inside while police and fire crews evacuated the scene.
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Birmingham
Ala
Shiloh
Booker Washington
Billou
Baltimore
Shiloh Church
South Highlands
Booker T. Washington
Frank P. O’brien
Jefferson County
T. W Walker
Shilon Church
Washington
Booker T Washington
A. G Mason
Avenue G
Baltou
List of identified victims in Birmingham tragedy
The morning death toll includes Annie Harris of Bessemer K Williams of Pratt City Ada J Adams of Fort Smith and others. Rev William Stone of Gredrtville Wa Rey L A Price and Sarah Peyton of New Orleans. Rev H Johnson of Weir Kans Rev Anderson of Roanoke Mont Rev Allen of Chattanooga area among the injured and dead.
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Birmingham
Ala
Annie Harris
Bessemer
K. Willams
Pratt City
Ada J. Adams
Fort Smith
William Stone
Gredrtville
Principal resigns over forced interracial kissing incident
In Bellaire Ohio on September 19 the board of education demanded and received the resignation of JF Defenbaugh, principal after he compelled several white girls to kiss black girls following a quarrel. Parents of white pupils voiced strong indignation at the action.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Board of Education
JF. Defenbauch
Four Negroes Die in Covington Mine Cave-In
A Covington Virginia mine disaster claims four Black men killed when the Stack mines collapsed. One body recovered, with hope that rescue crews will retrieve the remaining three today as crews work at the mine site west of Covington. Further details are not yet available.
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Covington
Richmond
Mystery of Body Found in New York Trunk Claim
Coroner Scholer theorizes a murder by hydrate of chloral knockout drops in a flat where stains and hastily washed clothes hint at dismemberment. A leather grip held scores of letters from young women. Separately a body of an unidentified woman about 35 was found in the North River and sent to the morgue.
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Scholer
North River
Department of Docks
Murphy Leads Devery Barred at Tammany Hall
Charles F Murphy was elected leader of Tammany Hall by the executive committee with all members present except August Moebus. The committee voted 2 to 1 to dissolve the three man rule, placing leadership on Murphy. William Devery protested credentials but failed to gain satisfaction after the meeting.
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New York
Charles F Murphy
Tammany Hall
August Moebus
Thirty-Fourth
Assembly
Haffen
Committee of Three
Charles Murphy
Frank Goodwin
William 8S Devery
Committee On
Devery
Croker Chosen President at Fire Engineers Meeting
Chief Edward F. Croker of New York City was elected president of the International Society of Fire Engineers at a New York gathering. Atlantic City was chosen as the next convention site. Delegates reelected First Vice President Edward Hughes of Louisville and Second Vice President John Stagg of Paterson. Secretary Henry A Hills of Wyoming was reelected after a contest. Treasurer D. C. Larkin of Dayton also retained his post. A eulogy for State Chief Mathew Sloane of Mobile was read.
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Atlantic City
New York
Edward F. Croker
New York City
Henry A Hills
Wryoming
Ohio
Harris
Tampa
D. C
Found Dead in Petersburg Hotel Gas Flowing
Joseph R Rockwell a Petersburg Virginia business leader was found dead in a local hotel room from gas asphyxiation. Coroners ruled the death accidental. He had traveled from New York on business and planned to visit relatives. Nephew Joseph Luckett recalled a late night visit and said Rockwell appeared in good spirits, joking about living twenty more years, with no hints of self harm. Rockwell, about sixty, was reportedly in sound financial condition and had no apparent worries.
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Washington
Joseph R Rockwell
Petersburg
Rockwell
New York
Joseph Luckett
Thirteenth
Whit Owens Found Guilty Fourth Time in Mississippi Case
In Oxford Mississippi on September 19 the jury declared Whit Owens guilty as charged in the indictment. The court noted a fourth verdict against the accused for aiding and abetting the taking of human life. Grand jurors numbered forty eight indicted Owens, and petit jurors forty eight sustained the indictment. Next convention set for Jerusalem in Philadelphia in April 1908.
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Mississippi
Oxford
Whit Owens
Owens
Jerusalem
Philadelphia
International Sunday School
Drastic dose for coal kings
Philadelphia reports anthracite coal at 14 dollars per ton in the open market. Lawyer Daniel H. McCarthy of Hazleton submits a draft bill to Senator Quay proposing state appointed receivers for coal firms under constitutional grounds. Train crews refuse to haul non union coal at North Mahoney colliery amid striker pressure. Fourteen strikers are jailed in Fayetteville for arson at Victoria Coal Company’s Capstone plant. Bloodhounds pursued suspects after an attack on a bank passer at Turkey Knob. Welch anthracite coal shipment reaches New York.
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Philadelphia
Daniel H. McCarthy
Hazleton
Quay
Republican
McCarthy
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Senator Quay
Senandoah
Philadelphia and Reading Company
North Mahoney
Charleston
W. Va
Fayetteville
Victoria Coal Company
Capston
Turkey Knob
New York
Two Swansea Shipments Bring 8000 Tons Here
A port today received a consignment from the British steamer Devonshire which sailed from Swansea on September 6. A second shipment is expected in a few days aboard the steamer Glencoe, which left Swansea four days after Devonshire. The two consignments total about 8,000 tons.
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Devonshire
Swansea
Wales
Glencoa
Roosevelts Westward Tour and Tariff Denunciations
A United States senator denounces Cummins and Owans over tariff theory at Cincinnati while Roosevelt defies Iowa Republicans. The president travels westward from Oyster Bay sailing to New York and continuing to Sagamore Hill with Mrs Roosevelt and Cortelyou, greeting congressmen and boarding a six‑Pullman special in Jersey City.
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Boston
Mass
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Cummins
Iowa
New York
Sagamore Hil
Alice Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Loeb
Jung
Babcock
Hull
Overstreet
Pennsylvania Ferry
West Twenty-third Street
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Station
Sta
Local and national news wrapup with political and crime items
Cloudy weekend weather with coastal showers and rising temperatures. Local political notes include Captain E. P Howell’s mayoral speech, a carpenters union drive, and a bankruptcy hearing in which a swindle case emerged. University openings at Mercer and Shorter, plus a school expansion plan in Macon Street. National topics cover Roosevelt in Cincinnati, the Annie Pulitzer murder case, Tammany leadership elections, and antitrust concerns. Also reports on a train accident near Black Mountain and tariff issues affecting Congress. Foreign notes mention Queen Marie Henriette’s death and a marine expedition.
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France
Mary Yours
Young, Jr
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Murphy
Croker
J. R. Rockwell
Petersburg, Va
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E. P Howell
Hnson
Harvey Jon
Convention of Carpenters
Carpenters of
Canada
Joseph Shachter
Willams Street
Slaton
Georgia
Mercer University
Macon
Charles A. Herty
State University
Shorter College
North Carolina
Knox County
Tennessee
Longino
Migsiesippi
Black Mountain
N.C
Marie Henriette
Spa
Stanley Spencer
London
United States
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Fram
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