Shepard Case Details and Milwaukee Fire Rewards
A historical report outlines Elliot F. Shepard’s death during an ether anesthesia attempt with notes from McLane McBurney and McLane on the cause as sudden lung edema. Separate Milwaukee notices offer $2,500 for incitement convictions and from tire-impacted firms $1,000, plus a Thompson court pistol incident involving ex-Congressman Watson in Augusta.
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Milwau
Kue
Somers
Milwaukee
Watson
Augusta
Thompson
Palmer
Noted Desperado Captured
Charley Small, a notorious Texas frontier figure, was captured after a five year Chihuahua prison sentence for robbing a train on the Mexican Central railway. He had recently completed his term in Mexico when news arrived in San Antonio.
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Desperado
San Antonio
Tex
Charley Small
Texas Frontier
Small
Chihuahua
Mex
Eastern telegraphers refuse affidavit demand in Coanunitiat
General Superintendent Corbett of the Western Union Telegraph company quietly arrived in the city on Saturday. He summoned all commercial telegraphers for questioning, pressing an affidavit denying secret telegraphers associations. None signed, fearing company retaliation and parallels to the Ann Arbor cases. The visit was said to be related to unrest among railway telegraphers, with no such employees approached.
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Olopeaphem
Topepo
Corbett
Western Union Telegraph Company
Ann Arbor
Lake Shore
Press Club fair to feature unprecedented musical events
Notable American musicians from leading orchestras and military bands attend a luncheon in New York as the press club plans six Sunday concerts from April 20 to the last Sunday in June. The musical program aims to make the fair a landmark in American music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
America
Grand Central Place
Press Club 1
J. Travia Quigg
Alexander Bremer
The
Musical Protective Union
J. J. Lyons
Metropolitan Awotuer Orchestra
D. D. Blakely
Souzas
D. W. Reeves
Patrick Gilmore
Twenty-second Regiment
Daring train robbery plot foiled by 70 patrolmen
Police thwarted a major train robbing conspiracy involving J F Grosney Louis Lutz Minnie Myers and others captured in Dublin city cells. The gang planned to loot the Missouri Pacific train carrying about 70000 dollars weekly. Masks dynamite and fuses found in Minnie Meyerss rooms.
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Lotis
Lowe
Huntington
Roland H. Genner
Louis Lutz
Clark
Goodwin
Charley
John Reed
Minnie Myers
Robert Weatherford
Leach
Dezmond
Missouri Pacific
Minnie Meyers
Gosney
Lutz
Burglar on the Run After Two Years Mystery
A New Rochelle artist Edward W Kemble's house was robbed on July 2 1897. The burglar threatened the couple and stole valuables and silver. Two suspects were arrested in New York with matching descriptions and items from the Kemble home.
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New York
Edward W. Kemble
New Rochelle
Kemble
Wisconsin and national news roundup including murders and strikes
A mishmash of short items reports a Wisconsin mystery note, a freight derailment near Deeath, and a Shelley murder case postponed to June. Other items include a large pulley project in Menasha, a Davidson county shooting death, temperance meetings in Fort Dodge, a missing Elwood woman, a drowning recovery in La Porte, and a jail death in Hast Ta.
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George Suboville
Wyius
New Neenah
Wis
Bada
Wisconsin Morestry Ag
Lendude Siatison
Marehal Itinelatntint
Mia
Loin
Dawid Wright
Kuo
Deeath
Golvonda
Fils
Soso Lown
Mead
Wriupiea
District Court
Davidson County
Lenu
Thomas Jones
Alexander Cooper
Fort Dodge
Mr. Mackay
Plano
Ill
Andrew Ellerston
Albert Durham
Anderson Barclay
Woodville
Tex
Durham
Barclay
William Rhine
Leechburg
Kittanning
Massachusetts State Prison
M. Baihaut
M. Blondin
Charles de Lesseps
Panama Canal
Henry W. Dixon
Polmona
Cal
Four Die In Prospect Street Fire In Morgan Building
A large brick apartment house on Prospect Street known as the Morgan burned shortly after 12:30 thursday. Firemen arrived late as the flames spread quickly. Five people are confirmed dead including Mrs Mary Abbey and Mrs P G Somers. a baby died after rescue. Several injured were treated, and the cause remains unknown though the blaze began in the basement near a furnace. The building, owned by W J Morgan, suffered $18 000 in losses with $12 000 insured.
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CleveLand
Prospect Street
Furly
Neighbring
P. 8
Spiers
F. R. Hunt
Emma Sommers
Percy Hunt
Hunt
Brooklyn Village
Don Wos Kiern
J. H. Miner
M. Gifford
Sanplines
Isaiah K. Bolton
M. M. Hanna
Fire at Southern Indiana Prison Causes Big Loss
Fire at the Cloggett saddlery shop inside the Southern Indiana Penitentiary in Jeffersonville started at 10:80 am from a defective flue and spread to the dining hall, tailor shop, and hospital. Prisoners were evacuated. Louisville and Ohio Falls car works fire crews fought the blaze. losses are estimated at 50,000 dollars with 20,000 dollars insured for Cloggett. None of the inmates attempted escape.
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Southern Indiana Penitentiary
Jeffersonville
Ind
Southern Indiana
Fire Department of
Louisville
Ohio Falla
Cloggett
Saidlery Slop
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Shepard
Cowie
Bis Byatem
Chamber M. Depew
Wiliot F. Shepard
McBurney and McLane
Elliot F. Shepard
Janus W. McLane
M. D. Cuaries McBurney
M. D
A Farrarr
Bastnur
Tom Cole
Assassis
Sayers’ Station
Cole
D. Heaver
Kes
Mre
Perseverance Presbyterian Church
Brown Street
McAnisres
Alderson
Herman Rhody
England
Brookfield Stud
Chicago
Highgate
London
Cleveland Bay
Yorkshire
Burdett
Sane
Miss Turney
Lacretelle
Carter
Adrian Jones
Truefit
Brookfield
Jackson Park
Keroxvuk
Theodore Michael
Mount Pleasant
United States
Federal Grand Jury
Annie Delamere
Cook County Hospital
Jefferson Avenue
Snedhour & Walhawa
Bite
Washinetox
Chincoleagus
Alfred Lewis
Price
Liverpool
Pollman
Cnicida
John F. Corbet
Ed Claton
Wheeling
III
Tron
Vail
Cincinnati
Bacon & Ghieseldiine
Bacon, Floto & Co
Main Street
Criminal News
Rome
Ats Plouder
Memrnis
Shelby County
Harrold
Charles Moore
Butch Bardhey
Euvauua
Stirhaim
James Ansel
Stirharm
Ansel
James Henderson
Here
Lima
Thomas Smith
Martin
Susy Rosewater
Laxcouy
Neb
State Journal
Rosewater
Ongha Bee
Nebraska
Sr. Pavut
Br. Sikorski
Minnesota
Wines, Man
Standard Theater
J.B. Douglass
Lonpox
Rivatt Company
Brockbors
Brotherhood
Sesbian
Indianapolis
Hotel English
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Desver
C.F. Taylor
Mining Exchange
Bachelor
Mosine
Ala
Bigbee River
Mount Sterling
Hubert
John Dix
Choctaw County
Edward Westcott
Mount Bret
Prants
Peoria
Decatur
Evansville
Ohio River
Prorta
George W. Selby
Macon County
Oscar
Peoria Lake
Lake Orry
Ulay
Jack McCarthy
Peter Sauce
New OnLyans
Carrollton
Mackay
San Francisco
Mary Abbey
Judge Abbey
P. G. Somers
Emma Somers
Wats
Arpuquirque
N. M
Exeter
Ashfork
Atlantic and Pacific
Robert Young
Brotherhood of Railway
Young
Federal
Wilson Horn
Moulton
Mansfield
Ministerial Institute of the Military Tract
Camp Point
Dennis Hickman
Houston
Thomas Elliott
Sealy Williams
Lincoln National Bank
Pittsburg
Edward Mane Nering
Roxbury
Conn
Martin Mohler
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
George William Francis Sackville Rosazell
Duke of Bedford
John Give
Curtisville, Ltd
Fred Peters
Hobart
Tnd
William Tell
Cai
Reis ‘Fairbank8 CO
Chicag
Wey
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