Michigan girl Helen Brown killed in Detroit attack
The 13 year old Helen Brown was found dead in Whitman's truck stable yard at 10 Jones Street with head and face injuries and signs of a struggle. Police hold a young neighbor on suspicion with an alibi, while authorities say he faced a prior arrest for an assault on another girl, though no charge followed then.
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Helen Brown
Etroit
Third Avenue
Detroit
Whitman
Jones Street
Fatal hunting accident kills grandmother and grandson
Mrs. James Davis aged 73 collapsed and died after her grandson Leon Eldridge 19 was shot in the right side during a rabbit hunt near the Davis farm. Eldridge and Forest Davis were in Carson City when Davis’ shotgun discharged as he climbed through brush, hospital aid brought him to the Davis home.
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Yéman Drepe
James Davis
Leon Eldridge
Eldridge
Carson City
Forest Davis
Davis Farm
Davis
Young Eldridge
Battle Creek Man Convicted of First Degree Murder
William Crandall of Battle Creek was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of his wife at a boarding house last August. The jury deliberated about an hour and a half before delivering the verdict as Crandall testified in his own defense claiming his wife attempted to kill him and then took her own life. Crandall is paralyzed in both legs following the incident.
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Battle Creek
William Crandall
Crandall
Insane From Hunger Drives Man To Grand Rapids City Hall
John Spiker, driven nearly insane by starvation, pleaded for aid at Grand Rapids city hall. Superintendent De Pagter arranged food and city shelter after learning Spiker had been ousted from a rear grocery-store lodging and wandered for over a day without meals. Once wealthy in Buffalo, New York, Spiker seeks relief.
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Grand Rapids
John Spiker
de- Pagter
DePagter
Spiker
Buffalo, N. Y
Hello girl savant Nina Harrigan praised for hotel blaze heroism
The Kala mazoo Burdick Hotel fire scene features Nina Harrigan who remained at her tele phone desk to ensure all guests escaped amid dense smoke. Her actions have led to offers from hotels nationwide and a push to secure a Carnegie medal for her bravery.
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Nina Harrigan
Burdick Hotel
Kalamazoo
San Francisco
New York City
Heir Sought for Freeland Man DeWilliams Cook
Ports County clerk reports DeWilliams Cook of Freeland died years ago leaving a widow and several children. An attorney in Washington, D C sought his heirs to claim a fortune and Clerk Humphrey notified the deceased’s brother James H. Cook of Freeland to locate the family for inheritance.
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Freeland
Ports County
Humphrey
DeWilliams Cook
Washington, D. C
Cook
James H. Cook
Celery Beds Robbed in Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo police investigate nightly celery thefts from marsh beds. Officials say this year’s losses will total hundreds of dollars, marking the first time large-scale thefts have occurred in the local celery industry.
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Kalamazoo
Militia Gains Little Under New Armory Rental Law
The winter passed armory rental law raises company pay from 400 to 500 dollars per year with possible board approved 600. The old 100 for light and heat is not included in the new act, so agencies will remain at 500 until finances permit a higher allowance. Military board members say details were only recently clarified.
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Military Board
Lamphere Acquitted After Six Hour Jury Deliberation
After six hours of deliberation the Hastings jury acquitted Fred Lamphere of Grand Rapids formerly of Port Huron of false pretenses. Lamphere was arrested three years ago and jailed six weeks ago on a bench warrant after being located in Grand Rapids by officers.
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Lamphere
Hastings
Fred Lamphere
Grand Rapids
Port Huron
Woman Fires Rifle, Kills Wildcat Near Standish
Mrs. Arthur Arnold of Standish, alone at home, spotted a wildcat emerging from the woods. She first fired and missed, then loaded again and shot the intruder between the eyes, killing the animal. She is noted as an expert rifle shot.
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Arthur Arnold
Standish
G R I Aims to Control White Line Railroad Branch
In railroad circles it is said the G R I seeks control of the white line the Boyne City Gaylord Alpena route. Owning this branch would let the G R I compete with the Michigan Central in shipping large lumber and timber northward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Line
Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena
Michigan Central
Blocks of Five Hero Dead General Dudley Dies in Washington
General W. W. Dudley of Indiana former Commissioner of Pensions dies in Washington after weeks of illness Bright's disease cited. Dudley once treasurer of the Republican national committee and linked to the controversial blocks of five tale. A Civil War veteran, he helped expand pension services and served as U.S. marshal in Indiana. Survived by widow and four children.
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W. W. Dudley
Indiana
Washington
Bright
Dudley
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Republican National Committee
New England
Phillips Academies
Gettysburg
Congress
Multiple Michigan News Briefs Span Health Crimes and Elections
A run down of varied local stories includes Mrs. Erwin Stevens dies from injuries after a runaway in Charlotte, a Port Huron steamer collision near Russell Island in fog, Grand Rapids officials closing Sigsbee school sending 600 pupils home, Detroit street railway cost investigations, William Robinson’s attack on his wife with a razor and hatchet, suspected leprosy case reported by Dr. Warthin in Michigan, Mrs. Thompson Johnson’s mysterious disappearance and later sighting, Arthur Hill’s death in Saginaw and political implications, and a Lansing asphalt incident where workers saved wandering chickens from boiling asphalt on a college road.
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Erwin Stevens
Charlotte
Frank Hecker
Port Huron
Russell Island
Jacob White
Grand Rapids Health Board
Sigs‘bee School
Detroit
Citizens’ Committee of Fifty
William Robinston
Kalamazoo
William Greesman
Robinson
Shumway
State Board of Health
A. S. Warthin
University of Michigan
Warthin
Stanislaus Squpa
Calumet
Alaska
Thompson Johnson
Buchanan
Johnson
Michigan City
Kalama
Arthur Hill
Michigan
Saginaw
Hill
Russell A. Alger
Fred M
Railway Wreck in Iowa Delays Overland Limited
Train No 7 west bound on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway derailed two miles east of Bayard Iowa injuring thirteen passengers. Investigators suspect a broken wheel as the tender left the track first. The Sioux City and Des Moines local carried passengers to Sioux City and Des Moines after the delay.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Bayard
Iowa
Sioux City
Des Moines
Chicago
Great Lakes Death Toll Reaches 121 for 1909
The toll from wind and waves on the Great Lakes nears completion with 121 fatalities in 1909, nearly four times the 1908 total. After nav close, 63 had died. 58 more deaths on Lakes Erie and Superior push the season toward the highest casualty figure yet.
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Clarion
Marquette
Bessemer No. 2
Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Lake Superior
Iif
Fourteen Massachusetts Cities Vote on Licenses Hurley Loses Salem
Salem elected Arthur Howard mayor defeating John F Hurley after a heated campaign. Worcester shifted to wet by 3720 votes while the dry lead shrank to 2197 across fifteen cities. Howard, a local newspaper owner, campaigned from jail during a libel fight.
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Massachusetts
Worcester
Salem
John IF. Hurley
Arthur Howard
Howard
Murderer Gets Life Sentence in School Inmate Slap Case
In Mount Vernon Missouri a jury found Charles Heath guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to life in the penitentiary for killing Clarence Mosler a school teacher at Saratoga Missouri on February 3 1907. Heath killed Mosler after Mosler punished Heaths young daughter by a slap.
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Mount Vernon
Charles Heath
Clarence Mosler
Saratoga, Mo
Mosier
Heath
Brutal Savannah triple murder sparks citywide dragnet
Savannah police and angry citizens hunted a black suspect after a house in central Savannah yielded three dead women Eliza Gribble Carrie Ohlander and Maggie Hunter with an ax attack described as brutal A fourth woman a missing black resident is thought to have fled to an outhouse while a large drumbeat sweep targeted hundreds of local negroes in Yamacrow district as the manhunt widens.
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Savannah
Megan
Eliza Gribble
Carrie Ohlander
Maggie Hunter
Ohlander
Gribble
Tenement Fire Kills Seven in Cincinnati Building
A four story tenement at 327 and 329 Hast Third Street Cincinnati burned when a kerosene lamp toppled. Fifty occupants faced escape by stairs or windows as flames raced through hallways injuring many. seven dead confirmed and many more injured. Firemen rescued several, with bodies so severely burned they could not be identified.
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Third Street
Cincinnati
Loss of the Clarion After Lake Erie Ship Fire
Two men died and several others believed near death after the steamer Clarion burned near Point Peelee in Lake Erie. The captain and twelve crew members drifted in a steel lifeboat after the fire with one victim frozen and another drowned. Six men were rescued by the steamer L. C. Hanna en route to Buffalo.
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Clarion
Point Peelee
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Bomb Attacks Hit St. Louis Newsmen Targets
Dynamite bombs struck the home of Harry B. Wandell city editor of the St. Louis Star, blowing out doors and windows. a man was seen running away but no injuries. Another blast damaged George C. Dyer publisher of the Censor destroying his office desk. Wandell avoided comment on motives.
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St. Louis
Harry B. Wandell
The
St. Louis Star
Wandell
Star
George C. Dyer
Censor
Five Drown Sledding Family in Kent Ohio River
A family of seven—father Frank Cormanie and four children Florence Helen Mabel and Russell—drowned after breaking through a hole in the ice on the Cuyahoga River in Kent Ohio. The mother and baby survived. A neighbor found the sled and waterlogged scene amid the tragedy.
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Cuyahoga River
Kent
Frank Cormanie
Florence
Helen
Mabel
Russell
Cormaiie
Postal savings banks grow worldwide in a decade
The Comptroller of the Currency report shows 34 countries with postal savings banks and a near doubling of depositors from 20,182,837 to 40,320,303 and deposits from 1.138 billion to 1.989 billion. The United Kingdom leads totals, Japan and Italy follow, Canada posts the highest average account at 289.88 while British India and others show large totals.
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Lawrence O. Murray
United States
Postal Savings Banks
United Kingdom
Japan
Italy
France
Belgium
Austria
Russia
Netherlands
British India
Pais
Evidence Ties Brownsville Shooting to Twenty-fifth Colored Infantry
Military court of inquiry holds conclusive evidence that Brownsville shooting involved the Twenty-fifth Infantry colored troops stationed at the fort. Investigators found bullet holes in nearby houses and bullets matching regulation Army design, suggesting shooters were stationed in the barracks.
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Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Military Court of Inquiry
Congress
Roosevelt
Yawl Tragedy Tells Of Nine Frozen Deaths At Sea
The state fisheries vessel Commodore Perry found nine bodies aboard a yawl marked Bessemer and Marquette No 4 after the ferry No 2 left Conneaut Ohio with thirty-two men. The vessel likely foundered in Lake Erie and was sighted by the Perry in Erie Pennsylvania.
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State Fisheries
Perry
Gerry Driscoll
Erie
Bessemer and Marquette
Conneaut
Ohio
Lake Erie
Mine Tragedy at Shoemaker Mine Causes Three Fatalities
A fire at Shoemaker Mining Company mine near Johnstown Pennsylvania caused smoke to be blown into the shaft by ventilation fans. Three workers suffocated while twenty one others were overcome and rescued. flames spread from the Yanhouse at shaft mouth.
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Shoemaker Mining Company
Johnstown
Four Burned in Tar Lake Fire at Pittsburg Roofing Plant
Four workers at the Mc Clintock and Irvine Company roofing plant in Pittsburg faced a tar lake engulfing the area. Three perished from burns while a fourth escaped, managing to free himself as flames closed in.
Warns of preventable infant child deaths in US
Census chief Dr C L Wilbur reports 160000 to 200000 children under age three die annually from preventable causes. He calls for prompt birth registration and precise cause-of-death reporting, noting high infant mortality drags national death rates and urging aggressive sanitation and health measures.
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United States
Cresay L. Wilbur
Census Bureau
Wilbur
Dr. Wilbur
Irving Fisher
Margin, earnings, and racing notes across North America
WOS ends margin as $5,000 Phoenix trot adds to season earnings over $25,000. Stallings of the New York Americans plans spring training in Athens, Georgia. Alf Shrubb defeats Tom Longboat in Winnipeg sixteen mile race in 1 hour 33 minutes 50 seconds. Louis W. Winans horses Allen Winter and Sikko to race in America next season. Twin Cities form six club basketball league named Twin City Basket Ball League. University of California and Stanford drop rowing. Carlisle Indians and Holy Cross drop basketball for next season. Directum 2 052 dies at Savage Minnesota. world champion trotter and sire with four-five records. Lady Jeanette trained by Frank Daily wins $1,245 near home meets. Fire at Upland farm claims Maj. Higginson 2,1944 and seven horses. Ed Spencer expected with New York Giants after release from Indianapolis club.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Stallings
Athens
Winnipeg
Man
Alf Shrubb
Tom Longboat
Louis W. Winans
Brighton
England
Allen Winter
Sikko
America
University of California
Stanford University
Carlisle Indians
Holy Cross
Directum
Savage
Minn
L. B
Julian B. Huff
Ed Spencer
Scranton
Boston Americans
New York Giants
McGraw
Indianapolis
American Association
Spencer
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Shock
Grandmother
Militia
Jeker Feand
New Armory
W. Dudley
Bewe
College Road
Lansing
Jess Hess
St. Paul
Mass
Jalil
Editors
Data ON Postal Banks
Gulfs
C. L. Wilbur
Vital Statistice Department
Twin Cities
Cone
Minneapolis
Twin City
Basket Ball League
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