Chicago Bandits Battle Endures Across Indiana Hills
The Chicago car barn murder trio Harvey Van Dine Peter Niedermeier and Emil Roeski fought ten hours in dugouts sand pits and fields across Lake County Indiana before capture After wounding two detectives and a railroad brakeman they were cornered near Wilson and Actna Ind with Niedermeier and Van Dine surrendering and Roeski escaping wounded upon a train pursuit by farmers railroad workers and detectives.
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Indiana
Harvey van Dine
Peter Niedermeier
Emil Roeski
Chicago
Wilson
Ind
Miller's Station
Joseph Driscoll
Matthew Zimmer
Lunes
Lake County
East Tolleston
John ®Ovin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Niedermeier
van Dine
Roeski
Actna
John F. Driscoll
The Discovery of Bandits Identified by Indiana Teacher
Henry F. Riechers a Pine Indiana school teacher told Chicago police how he recognized three men who fit a wanted photograph. He observed them after leaving a grocery store and reported to the police, guiding them to the Baltimore and Ohio tracks where the suspects fled toward a cave.
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Chicago
Marx
Calumet
Pine
Ind
Driscoll
Zimmer
Henry F. Riechers
Lake County
van Dine
Baltimore and Ohio
The Capture of Van Dine Niedemeyer and Roeski
A seven man posse led by Charles Hamilton, a Tolleston blacksmith, cornered Van Dine and Niedemeyer in a corn field northwest of Liverpool. Hamilton forced Van Dine to surrender his three automatic Colts, while Niedemeyer surfaced from a corn shock with hands up. Roeski fled but was captured after a longer chase, later found at the Wabash Railroad way station in Aetna awaiting a Chicago-bound train. Hamilton’s group, joined by city detectives, secured all three without further resistance.
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Charles Hamilton
Tolleston
van Dine
Niedemeyer
Liverpool
Hamilton
Roeski
Liberty
Wabash
Aetna
Chicago
Niedermeier
Ind
East Tolleston
Desperadoes Captured After Looming Train Heist
A trio of armed bandits hijacked a locomotive near Liverpool after shooting Brakeman Soven. A farmer posse of rabbit hunters led by Charles Hamilton cornered and captured Niedermeier, Van Dine, and Roeski, ending the dramatic chase in an Indiana cornfield.
Desperate Chicago killers strike in a short spree
A quartet including Van Dine Niedermeier Roeski and Marx executed a five month crime wave that killed seven men, wounded others, and robbed saloons offices and barns. They staged a July 3 Northwestern Railway station robbery and the August 3 car barn robbery that left two men dead and one cashier fatally shot.
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Chicago
van Dine
Niedermeier
Roeski
Marx
Sixty-first
State Street
Clybourn Junction
Northwestern Railway
T. W. Lathrop
Martin Daugherty
Otto Bauder
Peter Gorki
Milwaukee Avenue
Gorki
Benjamin C. la Gross
Adolph Jensen
West North Avenue
Jensen
la Gross
Francis W. Stewart
Armour Institute
William B. Edmond
James B. Johnson
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Secretary Wilson Reports on Agriculture Department Work
Secretary Wilson submits the seventh annual report to the President, stressing the need for more graduates from agricultural colleges, detailing seed distribution, seed quality, and grain grading efforts. He notes record sugar beet output, extensive soil surveys across 34 states, and strong demand for trained manpower in the department and related fields.
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Agricultural Department
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
Chicago's Big Stock Show Opens Fourth International Exposition
Chicago opens its fourth annual International Live Stock Exposition with record first-day attendance and 12500 top stock specimens ready for judging. Prizes total 75000. exhibitors include many from Canada France Belgium England and Wales. A new coliseum costing 115000 will seat 15000 and adjoin Dexter Park pavilion. Award judging features Agriculturals from multiple state colleges and notable cattle such as Harvey IV the 2865 pound Hereford and Florias Victor a 2600 pound shorthorn.
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Chicago
International Live
Canada
France
Belgium
England
Wales
Dexter Park
Agricultural-College
As Agriculturales
M. Dor BR. C. Gardner
R. Wilson
C. G. Elling
N. Smith
Iowa Agricuiera College
N. B. Ellenberger
W. A. Tener
C. E. Howard
Owaneco
Ill
F. M. Johnson
Flushing
Ohio
R. V
Oakland
Jas. Gillis
Rio
James H
McKaig
Troy
John Miller
Harvey IV
Peter Moun
Orange City
Iowa
Florias Victor
Janus Stock Farm
Charleston
Ind
Dowie’s Zion City Placed Under Receivership by Court
United States District Court in Chicago appointed receivers for Zion City and all its assets after Dowie faced bankruptcy proceedings. Receivers taken in, Dowie denied wrongdoing but said Zion is solvent, while creditors totaling 1169 sue for relief. Dowie plans to contest and depart abroad, as lawsuits mount and assets face court custody.
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John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Dowie
C. C. Kohlsaar
United States District Court
Chicago
Shiloh Cottage
Frederick M. Blount
Chicago National Bank
Albert Dean Currier
Boutell, Currier & Freeman
United States
H. B. Smith Machine Company
Smithville
N. J
Elizabeth McCrimmon
Batavia, NL
Meyer
Zion
Waterloo
Jane Dowie
Jacob Newman
New York
Moscow
Napoleon
Rising suicide rates across cities and nations in 19th century data
Health department statistics show New York City suicide rate rising from 14 per 100 000 in 1802 to 22 in 1902. The increase mirrors a broader European trend, with Dresden at 51, Paris 42, Berlin 36, Vienna 28, Stockholm 27, London 23 per 100 000. England and Scotland small gains, Russia no change. Rates reflect whole populations, not just cities.
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Health Department
New York
Dresden
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Stockholm
London
Lisbon
Madrid
Furance
Germany
Belgium
Austria
Hungary
England
Scotland
Russia
Towne rises as potential presidential or vp pick at convention
The piece notes Hon. Charles Towne a prominent Democrat from New York, a Tammany member with a history in Congress and on Wall Street, may figure as a presidential or vice presidential candidate. It also mentions debt figures, salaries for Congress, irrigation law debates, police reports on cocaine use, and statehood moves for several western territories.
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New York City
Charles Towne
Minnesota
New York
McClellan
Towne
United States
House of Representatives
Ite
United States Senate
Wall Street
Texas
Glass Makers Dissolve Association and Return Stock
The Independent Window Glass Company, a top member of three leading glass manufacturers associations, has dissolved. Stock on hand is being returned to former owners as many members prepare to form a new combination or partnership.
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Independent
Window Glass Company
Ireland population change in 1902 births and emigration
The excess of births over deaths in Ireland for 1902 was 24,187 and emigration losses were 40,190. This indicates a net decrease of 16,006 in population, excluding unrecorded immigration.
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Ireland
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