Three criminals escape city jail in Jackson
Three inmates R G Adams a murder suspect, Her man Wilson charged with horse stealing and Paul Gilmore a burglar broke from a Jackson city jail cage a few nights ago. They pried bars punched out a fireplace back and climbed over walls into the yard before fleeing. Gilmore was later caught in Vicksburg.
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Jackson
R. G. Adams
Sullivan
Gulf & Ship Island
Herman Wilson
Simpson County
Paul Gilmore
Gilmore
Vicksburg
Five men attempt streetcar robbery on Eighth Avenue
Five men tried to hold up a dawn streetcar at Fifteenth Street. Three ordered the motorman to stop, he drove on stabbing the hand, until police captured the trio after a chase. One assailant knocked from the car. others escaped. In Arkansas, Sheriff Gould and Deputy Philpot arrested N J Clark for refusing $100 county license fees for a shell game. The showman plans to abandon the act due to likely fines.
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New York
Eighth Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Pine Bluff
Ark
James Gould
Mason Philpot
Alzheimer
N. J. Clark
Clark
Little Lumber Company files $60,900 suit in federal court
The Little Lumber Company of Missouri, through attorney Henry Craft of Memphis, sues W. K. Candady of Phoenix Yazoo county for 60900 on non performance of a lumber contract. The suit is among the year's largest.
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Little Lumber Company of
Missouri
Henry Craft
Memphis
W. K. Canady
Phoenix
Yazoo County
Little Lumber Company
Head End Collision at Beowave Station in Nev
A disastrous head end collision on the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific at Beowave station involved train No. 6 the Atlantic express from San Francisco and a freight train. One passenger was killed and twenty injured. The dead man was Allen Harper 34 of Pocatello Idaho. He was seated in the smoker rear and crushed in the wreckage. The three engines were piled into scrap iron.
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Beowave
Nev
Salt Lake
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Allen Harper
Pocatello
Idaho
Strikes Obviated In New York Building Trades
Steam fitters and helpers about 1600 on strike signed arbitration with the Building Trades Employers Association. One hundred eighty nine men displaced by the strike joined the union and will earn five dollars a day. The dispute between old and new stone cutters unions to be referred to the Masons and Builders Union for settlement.
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New York
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Masons and Builders’ Union
Dentists Wife Held in Heavy Bond for Embezzlement
Miss Marie Layton Johnson, wife of a Fifth Avenue dentist, is held in a $10,000 bail for examination on charges including the larceny of $2000 from the United States Playing Card Company. Prosecutors say embezzlements total $33,000. In Minneapolis, Isaac Michaels resigns as Northwestern division superintendent of Western Union after 47 years to head the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company of Canada in Toronto, with James Swan succeeding him.
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New York
Marie Layton Johnson
Fifth Avenue
Johnson
United States Playing Card Company
Cincinnati
Minneapolis, Minn
Isaac Michaels
Northwestern
Western Union Telegraph Company
Great Northwestern Telegraph Company of Canadaan
Toronto
James Swan
Helens
Mont
Royal marriage rumor dismissed by Madrid government
Madrid reports the government calls a U S news agency story about Queen Mother and Emperor Francis Joseph arranging King Alfonso's marriage to Archduchess Elanor a fantasy without foundation. No wedding plans confirmed by authorities.
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Madrid
United States
Francis Joseph of
Austria
Alfonso
Elanor
Charles Stephen of
Global News Snapshots From Early 1900s Teasley Briefs
British report on West Africa prospects. Hague tribunal adopts bilingual approach amid protests. Sheffield conservatism adjourns over tariff splits. Amauls convent arrests reported. Franco-Belgian reconciliation. Negro rights group forms in New York. Banking extensions sought. Brooklyn Handicap valued at 20,000 dollars. Mrs. Marie L. Johnson charged with larceny. Crosby arrested in Denver for alleged mail pouch theft. Richmond confectioner J. A. Scott assassinated. Southern pig iron output cut 25 percent. New York bettors back McClellan for mayor. Bryan supports limited negro suffrage. Bates nominated by Massachusetts Republicans. Massacre of Jews reported in Mohileff. Russia seen as facing further Jewish violence. France pushes toward Morocco. Bank of England rate not rising soon. steel trust consolidation feared. Austria and Russia extend Balkan plans. missionaries in Macedonia appeal for aid. Hungarian town council members commit suicide amid corruption charges. Berlin blacks complain of mistreatment. Chicago sends 800k in currency nationwide. Steel trust backers paid up. Carnegie wages readjustment may stall. Mint director Roberts expected to retire. West Point maneuvers. Louisiana swamp land victory. jockey Shea dies. Mississippi pensions up 25 percent. Italian cruiser Liguoria to visit New Orleans. King Alfonso to wed Archduchess Eleanor. Sheffield conference reveals tariff rifts. Czar guarded as Austrian precautions tighten.
Late News Mississippi Whites Target Negro Farms Report
Two miles west of Johnson Station in Lincoln and Pike counties, a white mob damaged black farmer Robinson’s Lincoln County property by tearing fences, beating out cotton, scattering hundreds of pounds, and destroying corn. Nearby Jim Williams in Pike County suffered similar attacks. Independents bolting in Lincoln County drive a bid for treasurer, with a Democratic Executive Committee meeting likely to press for resignation of a bolter committee member.
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Johnson Station
Lincoln
Pike County
Robinson
Jim Williams
Acros
Lincoln County
Bolters
Democratic Executive Committee
Democratic Committee
Another Sullivan Dead in Covington County
Tack Sullivan, a member of the notorious Sullivan Hollow clan, was found dead in the road near Mt. Olive with a gunshot wound to the chest. The cause of death remains uncertain whether self-inflicted or he was slain, leaving a long-eluded family murder unresolved for months.
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Sullivan Hollow
Tack Sullivan
Mt. Olive
Covington County
Bankhead and Craighill to voyage Tombigbee by rowboat
Congressman Bankhead of Alabama and Captain Craighill, engineer in charge of Federal improvements at Mobile, plan a slow downstream trip from Columbus to Demopolis. They will take a rowboat to allow notes for a report on the Tombigbee's value as a commerce highway.
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Congressman Bankhead
Alabama
Capt
Craighill
Mobile
Columbus
Demopolis
Bankhead
Advance Lumber Plans 35000 Planing Mill in Laurel
The Advance Lumber Company of Cleveland Ohio will install an up to date planing mill at Laurel this fall. W 5 Stewart representative of the Company is making the necessary arrangements. The plant will be a 35000 investment and will improve Laurel's set of manufactories.
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Advance Lumber Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Laurel
W. 5. Stewart
Progress on Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Pushes Ahead
Merrill reports ongoing construction on the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad with grading finished at Laurel and Bay Springs and steel laid to Richmond. Completion to Bay Springs slated around November 1. McComb City hosts a successful Special Sales Day organized by the local Board of Trade on October 1, drawing about 2,500 visitors and promoting over $1000 in farm product prizes across Pike and adjacent counties.
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Special
Merrill
Mobile, Jackson
Kansas City Railroad
Rayden
Laurel
Bay Springs
Richmond
Board of Trade
McComb City
Pike
Government Awards Contract For Vicksburg Revetment
A U S government contract was awarded by the Engineer's office at Vicksburg for a revetment from West Pasa to Kingspoint eight miles above Vicksburg. George W. King of Vicksburg submitted the lowest bid at 333 canta per foot for 89 600 lineal feet and was declared the lowest and best bidder.
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United States
Vicksburg
West Pasa
Kingspoint
George W. King
Will Build New Freight Depot at Gulfport
The Louisville and Nashville Railway will start work on a freight depot in Gulfport within days. The brick foundation will support a 40 by 165 foot corrugated iron structure with a spacious office in one end. Completion is expected in December.
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Louisville and Nashvile Railway
Gulfport
Pension rises for Mississippi pensioners and city notes
The Jackson Reflect reports a 25 percent rise in Mississippi pension rolls due to liberal new boards, with about 3,000 to 3,600 claimants this year. It covers tax battles on Jackson Street Railway, a $250,000 valuation, and rail and lighting firm earnings. It also notes superintendent resignations, prison population drop to 1,102, and $19,000 draft deposits.
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Jackson Street Railway
B. H. Wells
Inside Science and Industry Highlights and Krupp Merger
The roundup covers H Glen on eye light from radium bromide, a 1945 British Association paper on iron furnace gases, hydrophidae venom potency, a Cairo Fayum giant tortoise find, Krupp’s 160 million mark incorporation and its vast holdings, 46,290 workers, and a twelve-member administration including a former state minister, admiral, and Prussian general.
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H. Glen
Nature
Krupp
Essen
Miss Krupp
Herr Krupp
Germany
German Bank
Gruson
Madgeburg
Annem Steel Works
Germania Shipbuilding Works
Kiel
Rheinhausen Steel Works
Rotterdam
Houseboats on the Mississippi Exposition Era View
The Minneapolis Journal reports on life aboard Mississippi houseboats from La Crosse to St. Louis. Boats landable nearly anywhere, enabling easy theatre outings and visits to towns. High water floods river islands, trees seem to rise from water, and many houseboats are under construction to visit the St. Louis exposition next year.
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Mississippi
St. Paul
St. Louis
la Crosse
Minneapolis Journal
Death Plant of Java Perfume Kills Insects
The death plant of Java emits a powerful scent that overwhelms and can kill an adult if inhaled for long. Its perfume is lethal to all insect life exposed to it. The proverb hails fortune to those who push ahead with effort.
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Java
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