Somnambulistic Tennessee Chief Justice Authored Sound Death Sentence Opinion
Chattanooga reports a Tennessee Supreme Court opinion written in a somnambulistic trance affirming the 1870 death sentence of Andrew Smith. Chief Justice authored by Justice Nicholson, witnessed by Peter Turney, who later became governor. Nicholson recalled nothing next day. Governor Turney's letters corroborate the tale.
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Supreme Court of Tennessee
Andrew Smith
Supreme Court
Peter Turney
Tennessee
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Turney
Police stationed in Chicago churches after threats to priests
Police in plain clothes were posted at several Roman Catholic churches in Chicago after letters warning of harm to priests. Guards stood near altars as Mass began, with special precautions in Italian and Bohemian parishes amid anti clerical tensions. No disturbances occurred.
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Chicago
Denver
Taft Addresses YMCA Audience in Court Square Theater
Secretary of War William H. Taft spoke to over 2,000 listeners in Springfield Massachusetts March 2 at Court Square theater under YMCA auspices on the work of the YMCA.
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Springfield
Mass
William H. Taft
Court Square
Accouchement Expected for Queen Victoria of Spain
Telegraphic brief announces the expected accouchement of Queen Victoria of Spain around late July. The Duchess of Marlborough traveled on the steamer ILaiania from Liverpool to New York. Sir Dominic Ellis Colnagh, former British consul general at Boston, died in London, born 1834 and knighted in 1888. Professor Heinrich Maschke of the University of Chicago died in Chicago after tumor removal surgery.
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Spain
Duchess of Marlborough
Ilaiania
New York
Liverpool
Dominic Ellis Colnagh
Boston
London
Heinrich Maschke
Department of
University of Chicago
Chicago
Market Quotations Wheat Prices in Minneapolis
Minneapolis wheat quotations list futures for February 29 with May at 1.08 and July at 1.075. Grade details show on track No. 1 hard at 1.13%, No. 1 Northern at 1.10%, No. 2 Northern at 1.08%, No. 3 Northern at 1.04% to 1.074.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Market Report for St Paul Livestock Prices
St Paul market figures list cattle from good to choice steers at 4.75 to 6.50, fair to good at 4.00 to 4.75, cows and heifers 3.25 to 4.25, veals 3.75 to 5.28. Hogs range 4.25 to 4.40, sheep wethers 4.75 to 5.15, lambs 6.25 to 6.60.
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St. Paul
Wheat and flax prices on track with futures quotes
In Duluth on February 29 prices show wheat to arrive and on track with No. 1 hard at 1.1954, No. 1 Northern 1.085, No. 2 Northern 1.06, May 1.07 and July 1.07. Flax to arrive and on track at 1.15, May 1.16, July 1.175.
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Duluth
Northern
Chicago Market Report Prices for Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Chicago report lists cattle prices for cows and heifers Texans calves Western cattle stockers and feeders at various ranges. hog categories including light mixed heavy rough and pigs. and sheep with yearlings and lambs priced from February 29.
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Chicago
Massive Tampa Fire Destroys City Block Long Fire Rages
In Tampa Florida a major blaze wiped out the northern city area across fifty five acres and eighteen blocks. The flames destroyed 308 buildings including four cigar factories and many hotels saloons and boarding houses. Losses exceed two million dollars with one death reported from excitement and firms like Standelberg Perez Gonzales Fisher Esberg Fernandez among those burned.
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Tampa
Fla
M. Standelberg & Co
M. Perez & Co
Gonzales, Fisher & Co
Esberg, Gunst & Co
Standelberg
Fernandez & Bro
Perez and Castro
Maximo Caras
Two Harlem Fires Destroy NYC Railway Car Barns and Grote Paint Factory
Two blazes in Harlem raged from midnight until dawn destroying the New York City Railway car barns on Second Avenue and the George W. Grote & Co paint factory nearby. The railway loss is estimated at 2.59 million dollars with 740 surface cars burned and the Grote factory loss at 125 thousand dollars.
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New York
New York City Railway Company
Second Avenue
Harlem
George W. Grote & Co
Surprise for Evans as Navy Eyes Vice Admiral Rank
Washington reports naval officers plan a surprise for Rear Admiral Evans when the Pacific fleet sails into San Francisco. The government may commission him as vice admiral to honor his leadership, awaiting Congress approval before his retirement. Critics compare Evans fleet to Britain’s 26 battleships under one commander.
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Evans
Golden Gate
Congress
Admiral Evans
San Francisco
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Warning to tobacco growers from Burley association leader
Lexington March 2 W B Hawkins inventor of the tobacco growers movement and first president of the Burley Tobacco association will publish a warning to growers about the equity society ultimatum on the 1908 crop. He predicts torment sleep loss and fear if they plant tobacco, urging retreat from the coming wrath.
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Lexington
W. B. Hawkins
Tobacco Growers
Burley Tobacco Association
Equity Society
Chicago and Great Western Rail Schedule Fragment
North bound trains to St Paul Minneapolis Dubuque Chicago Des Moines arrive 3 35 PM 11 40 PM. South bound toward Council Bluffs Omaha leave 3 35 PM 11 40 PM. Arrivals from Fort Dodge Mason City and Omaha listed with 3 35 PM 3 40 AM times.
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Minneapolis
Dubuque
Des Moines
Area
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Omaha
Lyle Man'v
Mason City
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Ly Council
Body Lies In State Priests Lament Murdered Father
Ten thousand mourners viewed the face of Rev. Father Leo Heinrichs O. F. M. at St Bonaventura Monastery Paterson New Jersey as his body lay in state for nine hours. The priest who served there for years was murdered and buried later in the Franciscan plot at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery on the city fringe.
Italians dispersed by police in Rochester gathering
About fifty Italians assembling to commemorate Giordano Bruno were dispersed by Rochester police amid suspicions of archistic tendencies and potential disorder. Matteo Teresi, the New York lawyer invited to speak, protested the action, but the meeting ended peacefully. Police say the group is not tied to the same organization blamed for Denver priest Leo Heinrichs’ murder.
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Rochester
N. Y
Giordano Bruno
Rome
New York
Matteo Teresi
Leo Heinrichs
Denver
Market quotes for grains dairy eggs and poultry
Chicago prices for Wheat May 99 4c July 94 4c Sept 91 c Corn May 61 c July 69 146c Sept 59c Oats May 68 53c July 44 45c Sept 37c Pork May 11 75 July 12 15 Butter 21 32c Milk products 20 28c Eggs 19 19c Poultry Turkeys 12 c chickens 114c springs 12c
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Chicago
Free 50000 Acre Homestead Opportunity in Eastern Valley County
Real estate listing advertises 50000 acres for homestead in Eastern Valley County Montana with bargains on city property and Mower County arms. Promises installment plans on Lane houses and loans, urging buyers to call for terms. Also touts a 1423 acre improved farm with buildings at a special bargain located 24 miles away.
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Valley County
Montana
Mower County
Lane
Irgains
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