Mae Wood Loses and Is Held for Perjury in Platt Suit
Mae C Wood, Omaha woman suing U S Senator Thomas C Platt for divorce, is dismissed by Justice O Gorman and committed to city prison on a 5000 bail for perjury. Senator Platt's son Frank H Platt testifies no letters alleged as from his father were genuine. Witnesses dispute the marriage certificate blanks and letters, with the stationery firm president noting the form appeared after the marriage.
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New York
Mae C. Wood
Omaha
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Justice O'Gorman
Supreme Court
Miss Wood
Wood-Platt
Platt
Frank H. Platt
Tombs
Soi
Abraham Hummel
Senator Platt
Newspaperman Slain in El Paso Shootout
Monroe M. Harrell, once with Oklahoma City papers and longtime El Paso journalist, was shot dead Wednesday night. J. F. Mitchim, owner of the El Paso Evening News, was arrested after the incident and says Harrell had threatened to kill him.
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Paso
Tex
Monroe M. Harrell
Oklahoma City
Okla
J. F. Mitchim
el Paso Evening News
Mitchim
Harrell
Violent Northwest Storm Tops Circus Tent In Wappeton
A severe electrical wind rain and hail storm swept the northwest on Wednesday afternoon and night with a circus tent collapsing at Wappeton North Dakota as about 2000 spectators were inside causing several injuries and chaos reported from St Paul Minn May 22.
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St. Paul
Minn
Wappeton
N. D
Miners Strike Off in Kentucky Counties
Washington Tenn May 22 The strike of union miners in Hopkins Union Webster and Christian counties in Kentucky called January 1 was declared off on Thursday.
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wWashville
Tenn
Kentucky
Hopkins
Union
Webster
Christian County
Dynamiters wreck bridge on Harlem branch near Baychester
New York May 22 a bridge under construction on the Harlem branch of New York New Traven Hartford railroad at Baychester was wrecked by dynamiters. A 60 pound charge twisted girders and wrecked the span. Two watchmen were knocked down as shots chased the fleeing attackers. Police and railroad experts say at least 50 pounds of dynamite were used. Repairs are expected to take two months.
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New York
Harlem
New York, New Traven & Hartford
Baychester
Hlarlem
Schumacher Company
Philadelphia
Tornado Hits Southern Iowa Town Wrecks Grant School
A tornado swept Albia Iowa on May 22 injuring several and killing J M Taylor who was crushed by a corn crib lifted by the whirlwind. In Salina Kansas Mrs Fred Grothe died from injuries after a tornado struck Lincoln and damaged homes. A third town, Green, reported a tornado across the county killing three and severing telegraph lines.
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Albia
Iowa
Grant
J. M. Taylor
Salina
Kan
Fred Grothe
Lincoln
Grothe
Clay Center
Green
Seek to End Car Strike in Cleveland Settlement Talks
In Cleveland on May 22 the state arbitration board, Municipal Traction Co president Dupont, and other stakeholders held what was hoped to be the final meeting. Employers agreed to remove a major obstacle by letting the arbitrators decide seniority rights, and a partial agreement appears reached with minor details pending.
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Cleveland, O
State Arbitration Board
Dupont
Municipal Traction Company
Old Forest City Company
Police Bout Suffragists Demonstration at Downing Street
A group of militant women suffragists protested outside Prime Minister Asquith’s Downing Street residence. Police reserves were required to clear the thoroughfare after the action on May 22 in London.
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London
Asquith
House of Commons
Downing Street
Six hurt in auto crash near Sumption Prairie road
A 45 horsepower touring car owned by John C. Ellsworth overturned after leaving Sumption Prairie road. The driver and four passengers were thrown from the vehicle, suffering serious injuries. The incident occurred on a steep embankment with the car rolling over multiple times.
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South Bend
Ind
John C. Ellsworth
Sumption Prairie Road
Senate on Hew Tack in Currency Effort
The Senate adopted a joint resolution creating the National Monetary Commission to study banking and currency changes. It will include nine senators and nine representatives and can meet during sessions or recesses. Aldrich explained the measure follows banking bill conferences and signals immediate work. Adjournment hopes push into late May or early June amid unsettled conference items and building legislation.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
National Monetary Commission
House
Congress
United States
Brandegee
Capitol
Cannon
Jealous marshal shoots Mary Ertel then kills himself near Rushville
Rushville Indiana May 22. Jealous former sweetheart Miss Mary Ertel aged 29 was shot three times at her home in Washington township. Marshal Hollowell aged 30, sobbing over the prospect of her marrying another man, fired the remaining bullets into his own head and will die. Miss Ertel may recover.
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Rushville
Ind
Marshal Hollowell
Mary Lirter
Washington Township
Ertel
Bulgarian Pedestrian Tours St Louis Beard Wide and Long
Hr. M. J. Nikoloff a professor from Vidin Bulgaria arrived in St Louis walking on foot since 1903. He wore a thick bushy beard that hid much of his face extended from shoulder to waist as he entered the town on Thursday.
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St. Louis
Hr. M. J. Nikoloff
Vidin
Bulgaria
Mississippi Bank Closes in McGee Mississippi
The Bank of fice closed its doors and its affairs will likely be liquidated. It has capital of 20000 dollars, surplus 10000, and deposits about 70000. Depositors are believed to be paid in full.
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Mississippi Bank
McGee, Miss
Court of Honor Picks Indianapolis for 1910 meeting
Springfield UL May 22 Indianapolis was chosen Wednesday as the site for the next meeting in 1910 of the biennial session of the supreme court of the Court of Honor.
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Court of Honor
Indianapolis
Springfield
Supreme Court of the Court of Flonur
General Assembly of Presbyterian Church in Session in Kansas City
Thousands attend the one hundred twentieth general assembly as Rev. William Henry Roberts retires as moderator and a farewell sermon urges church unity against secular ills. In Baltimore the Methodist Episcopal session elects bishops on multiple ballots including William F. Anderson and John L. Nielsen.
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Kansas City
Church In
America
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church In
United States of America
Convention Hall
William Henry Roberts
Philadelphia
United States
Baltimore
William F. Anderson
New York
John L. Nielsen
Nast Theological Seminary
Berea
Methodist Episcopal Church
Lyric
Daniel Dorchester, Jr
Pittsburg
Frank M. North
Atlantic fleet anchors near Bellingham bay welcome event
Eight ships of Rear Admiral Sperry s Atlantic battle fleet dropped anchor in Bellingham bay on May 22. The Connecticut Rhode Island Louisiana Vermont New Jersey Kansas Nebraska and Virginia led the division with 428 officers and 7000 enlisted men. Remaining ships anchored at Port Angeles and Port Townsend.
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Bellingham
Wash
Sperry
Bellingham Bay
J. P.,de Mattos
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Louisiana
Vermont
New Jersey
Kansas
Nebraska
Virginia
Port Angeles
Port Townsend
Gotham financier arrested in New York civil suit
New York May 22 T A McIntyre senior member of the firm T A McIntyre and Co was arrested by a deputy sheriff in a civil suit by Frederick W Kavanaugh of Waterford N Y to recover 80000 worth of securities alleged to have been deposited with the firm McIntyre who had returned to a sanitarium after a prior arrest was taken from the sanitarium to the sheriff s office and held in 5000 bail
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
T. A. McIntyre
T. A. McIntyre & Co
Frederick W. Kavanaugh
Waterford
N. Y
Kavanaugh
McIntyre
Sheriff's Office
Memphis Fire Destroys Jones & Rodgers Warehouse
A Wednesday night blaze in Memphis wiped out the Jones & Rodgers warehouse and Orgill Brothers & Co warehouse hardwire building. The estimated loss stands at 325,000 dollars.
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Memphis
Memphis, Tenn
Jones & Rodgers
Orgill Brothers & Co
Hardwire
Believe Widow a death by own action
New London Wisconsin May 22 It now appears from circumstances since the finding of the body of Mrs Carrie Shaw in the Hortonville mill pond that the young woman committed suicide.
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New London
Wis
Carrie Shaw
Mill Pond
Hortonville
Police recover almost all stolen mail securities
New York May 22 The French police announce they have recovered practically all the securities stolen by mail thieves who looted the registered mail bags on the ocean liner Savoie in January 1907.
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New York
Ocean
Uner Savoie
Fifty Die in Belgian Train Disaster at Contich
A Belgian express from Antwerp to Brussels crashed into a pilgrim train at Contich on a siding, killing fifty and wounding over a hundred. A mislaid switch is blamed. the station was turned into a morgue and hospital as rescuers rushed aid and doctors, priests, and nurses arrived from Antwerp, Brussels, and Amiens.
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Antwerp
Contieh
Brussels
Contich
Amiens
California
Oakland
Cal
Southern Pacific
Oregon
Pinole
Tax suggestion to curb New York gold outflow to Europe
New York May 22. In response to the assay office running low on gold bars for export to Europe, it was learned that the secretary of the treasury received a suggestion via the New York assay office to impose a tax on gold bars sufficient to check the European outflow.
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New York
New York Assay Office
Europe
Secretary of the Treasury
Fire destroys Camden theater block in Parkersburg blaze
Parkersburg West Virginia May 22 firemen fought through the night to save the Camden theater block valued at over 200000 from a fire that began Thursday in Jones Frey dancing academy and razed the four story brick Hughes Mullen building adjoining the theater.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Camden
Jones & Frey
Dancing Academy
Hughes & Mullen
Minnesota Banker Indicted in Ramsey County
St Paul Minn May 22 The Ramsey county grand jury returned five secret indictments Four were against A Z Drew former owner of the defunct Hamline and Midway savings bank which failed months ago
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
Ramsey County Grand
A. Z. Drew
Hamline and Midway Savings Bank
Desperate Gunfighter Shot Dead in Fort Worth
Walker Stargroves a feared gun fighter in North Texas was shot and killed instantly by Walter James owner of a Main street saloon in Fort Worth on May 22. James acted as the shooter in what authorities call a fatal shooting following a dispute at the saloon.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Walker Stargroves
North Texas
Walter James
Rocky Mountain Goat Born in Captivity Reaches Bronx
The first Rocky mountain goat born in captivity has arrived in the Bronx. Also noted: Brooklyn resident William H. Marsh, facing death from rabies, has died after several days ill. Other brief items include political, military, and transportation notes from across the country.
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Rocky Mountain
Bronx
William H. Marsh
Brooklyn
Robert Todd
Porto Rico
San Juan
New York
San Francisco
Adele Clemente
Miller
Man With
New York School of Design
Merritte W. Ireland
Medical Department
Army
American Medical Association
Chicago
David Sheehan
San Irancisco
Gunness search resumes for more alleged victims
Laporte Indiana May 22 Sheriff Smutzer finished sluicing debris in the Gunness house and will dig for more supposed victims. The first spot searched is under the cement barn floor, a site Mrs. Gunness supervised, with locals expecting remains. A Chicago woman investigating John Larson’s disappearance visited Thursday but did not identify herself.
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Laporte
Ind
Smutzer
Gunness
John Larson
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Larson
Mrs. Gunness
Woman Gets Life Sentence In Kansas Murder Case
Kansas City Missouri May 22 Mrs Sarah Morasch aged 48 years was Thursday found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in Kansas City Kansas which tried her on the charge of poisoning four year old Ruth Miller The woman will be sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Kansas City
Sarah Morasch
Kan
Ruth Miller
Markets Report May 21 Markets steady and varied prices listed
The May 21 Chicago markets show steady Falour wheat with multiple grade prices from 6.00 to 6.10. Wheat and corn futures mixed with July and September quotes. Butter eggs potatoes and live poultry prices given for various formats and grades reflecting typical daily trading.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Wheat and rye prices drift as Argentine ships discussed
In New York on May 21, dull markets for flour and rye amid talk of lighter Argentine shipments. Wheat edged up one cent on firm cables and light northwestern receipts. July at 99 9/16 cents, September at 94 5/8 cents. Rye No 2 western 89 cents, delivered, f.o.b. New York.
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New York
Live Stock Market Prices for Cattle and Hogs
Cattle prices range from prime steers at 6.51 to 7.85 per hundredweight and down through fair, plain, and stockers. Beef cows bring 2.50 to 4.00, while bulls sell 3.50 to 5.50. Hogs show heavy packers at 6.40 to 5.45 and butchers around 5.00 to 5.70, with pigs 4.00 to 5.25.
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Chicago
Cattle and hog market report from Omaha Nebraska midweek
Cattle prices show best steadyers with a 10 cent drop. Native steers 4.75, cows and heifers 3.25 to 6.00, west and Texas steers 2.75 to 6.00, stockers 3.00 to 5.25, calves 3.20 to 6.25, bulls and stags 3.00 to 5.25. Hogs steady to mixed with heavy 5.50 to 5.14, mixed 5.85 to 5.87, light 5.25, pigs 4.25 to 5.10, bulk around 5.00. Sweep market slow with wethers 4.50 to 4.75, lambs 5.76 to 6.60, and lumibs 5.50 to 6.00.
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Omaha
Neb
West
Texas
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Thirty-eighth Company of Coast Artillery
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Leo Tolstoy
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