Evidence All In Trial Nears End in Loving Case
In Halifax county the trial of former Judge William G. Leving for the Nelson county murder of Theodore Estes nears its close as evidence is completed. Judge Barksdale’s ruling on admissibility narrows the prosecution’s strategy, with defense objections upheld and rebuttal testimony on Loving’s sanity underway.
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Houston
Way
William G. Leving
Circuit Court
Halifax County
Theodore Estes
Nelson County
Barksdale
Daniel Harmon
Elizabeth Loving
Estes
Loving
New York
Barkstale
Poisoning Suspect Hancock Under Surveillance in London
Walter Swinburn Hancock, once a Chicago Episcopalian clergyman, is under police surveillance in London amid coroner's inquest allegations he poisoned his deceased wife, widow of Paul Townsend Jones of New York. The wife, who died March 28 from appendicitis, had drawn a will favoring her son, who suspects foul play. the inquest resumes July 11 for stomach content analysis.
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London
Walter Swinburn Hancock
Chicago
Paul Townsend Jones
New York
Kensington
Hancock
Triple Execution At Jefferson City Prison
Jefferson City Mo June 28 Harry Vaughan and Edward Raymond convicts from St Louis and George Ryan convict from Kansas City were hanged in the county jail for killing prison guard John Clay during an escape attempt. The three were hanged simultaneously as Sheriff Scott sprung the trap and later pronounced dead. No statement was made from the scaffold.
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Jefferson City
Harry Vaughan
Edward Raymond
St. Louis
George Ryan
Kansas City
John Clay
Scott
Embezzlement Charge Stuns Title Insurance Trust Leader
James V ines former president of the defunct Title Insurance Trust company was arrested on a bench warrant for embezzlement. He posted bail after a brief detention as the indictment was issued. His son asked to be jailed in his stead amid a reported $150,000 shortage. In England, weather across Lancashire worsens crops and farm prospects.
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Minneapolis
James Vines
Title Insurance Trust Company
Clemenceau Faces Parisians Crisis Amid Repression Allegations
Paris June 28 The premier Eugene Clemenceau confronts a mounting challenge as leftist factions denounce his use of force and demand inquiry into troops in the South and policy. Interpellations surge in the chamber while Blanc urges impeachment debates. allies expect him to weather the storm.
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Paris
Eugene Clemenceau
Chamber of Deputies
M. Blanc
M. Clemenceau
Triuaph
Explosion at Chinese theater kills hundreds in Hongkong blaze
A theater fire in Hongkong caused a horrific disaster as 500 Chinese audience members and actors perished after the building collapsed. The blaze, sparked by explosives hidden under the floor, spread rapidly and blocked exits, creating a deadly holocaust.
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Victoria
B. C
Hongkong
Thompson shot by Sandstone marshal in quarrel
In St Paul on June 28 C C Thompson was shot and likely fatally wounded by Sandstone marshal after Thompson reportedly attacked the officer with an axe. The injured man was brought to the city hospital and it was thought he would die. Also noted is Samuel Ogden as the first English owner of the land where Ogdensburg, New York, now stands.
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St. Paul
C. C. Thompson
Sandstone
Thompson
Samuel Ogden
Ogdensburg, N. Y
Baseball Scores From National and American Leagues
National League games in Brooklyn Boston 4 to 1 Chicago 0 to 3 Cincinnati 2 to 1 St Louis 1 to 2 Philadelphia 0 to 2 New York Detroit 5 to 4 Cleveland 5 to 4 St Louis 7 to 4 Boston 1 to 0 Philadelphia 0 to 1 New York 15 to 7 Washington American Association games Toledo 4 to 9 St Paul 1 to 10 Indianapolis 2 to 6 Minneapolis 3 to 2 Kansas City
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Boston
Chicago
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Philadelphia
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Washington
American Association
Toledo
Louieville
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Columbus
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Market Quotations From Minneapolis to Chicago June 27
Wheat prices across Minneapolis Duluth and Chicago show July and Sept futures at around 1.02 to 1.05 per bushel with No. 1 hard and Northern grades. Cattle hogs and sheep quotes vary by market with steers and cows priced between 4.00 and 8.75 per hundredweight, pork around 16.00, and lambs near 6.25 to 7.00.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Duluth
St. Paul
Chicago
Cloudburst in Montana causes deaths and heavy damage
A violent cloudburst near Lavina in Musselshell country, Montana, destroyed thousands of dollars of property and flooded nearly every house. Three people are reported dead as the Musselshell river rose to record levels, threatening crops and additional losses in the area.
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Livingston
Mont
Lavina
Munselshell
Musselshell
Pointed Paragraphs From an Atchison Globe
A collection of wry observations on bragging, authority, heritage, manners, and social behavior. The piece notes how praise often comes from others and how power can harm those under it. It contrasts polite patience with public grandstanding and ends with a quip about a hen and a rooster.
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Atchison Globe
Pocahontas and John Smith in Early English Accounts
The London Times notes that Smith’s later narratives elevate Pocahontas from a child briefly mentioned to a heroic rescuer. By the England visit, she is portrayed as Mistress Rebecca Rolfe, wife of a Virginia settler, with a formal portrait tied to her legend.
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Pocahontas
John Smith
Smith
Powhatan
England
Rebecca Rolfe
Virginia
London Times
Old Colonial Bed Becomes Wife’s Grinable Joke
A humorous Indianapolis News item notes a couple buying an old fashioned bed with a long sideboard. The young wife discovers a risqué feature she finds amusing, claiming the bed’s height would prevent a man from crawling underneath.
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Indianapolis News
The Tap Lore and Printing Ruins Across Ages
A Strand Magazine tale recalls a superstition about three taps signaling a death, misread as a neighbor’s morning painting, while a Pittsburgh Post note suggests Romans failed at printing not from lack of ink but lack of paper, using stamps for marking wares instead.
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Pittsburg Post
Striped beasts and beasts of burden in a circus view
A Boston Globe essayist offers a whimsical animal parade moral, linking striped creatures to character and caution. He praises elephants and camels for calm temperaments while warning that zebras, hyenas, lions, bears, and tapirs can reveal danger or mood through appearance and behavior.
Time to go out and get It cut barber quip
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip has a barber lamenting he cannot get his own hair cut at work. He explains barbers rush to finish at quitting time and customers fear delays when two barbers work concurrently, preferring to wait elsewhere. He jokes about trusting colleagues to cut his hair.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Not Company Yet A Crowd Knows Not Solitude
A compact quotation from Bacon’s Essay on Friendship contrasts crowd with true solitude. It notes that crowds are not companionship and faces resemble a gallery of pictures, with talk resembling a tinkling cymbal in absence of love.
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Bacon
Not to Be Fooled by Horsecar Cruelty in Youth’s Companion
A New England resident famed for kindness to animals rejects streetcars after electric trams replace horses. He argues the horses are still overworked, just less visible, and refuses to ride, despite his son noting convenience. The tale, from Youth's Companion, contrasts old beliefs with new tech.
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New England
Boston
James
Cleveland Auto Dealer Quips On Easy Springs
A sales interaction features a prospective buyer praising the car while joking about collisions. The salesman responds that the springs are so gentle the impact would barely jar him, reflecting light dialogue from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Cleveland Plaio Dealer
Playing Railroad Irate Parent Here What is at this racket
A parent voices frustration in a child’s play scene, insisting on control as a child pretends to ride a train. The child “Bobby Viease” is labeled as the locomotive while the parent contemplates switching actions, conveying tense domestic play dynamics.
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Bobby Viease
Papa
Ely
Traveling Sand Hills On Pomeranian Coast
Vast sand hills along the Pomeranian coast rise hundreds of yards wide and up to 120 feet high. Propelled by wind, they march eastward at 39 to 56 feet per year. Vine woods in their path are destroyed as branches rot and trees die.
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Lydia BE
Pinkham
Lynn
Masa
Mass
BE. Fink
Carnegie, Pa
Lydia FE
Pomerania
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