Bridgeport Inn Murder by Indian Assailant
A Penobscot Indian killed Innkeeper J Knight at a Bridgeport inn after Knight ordered two noisy Indians to leave. Knight, a young and respectable husband, died from a stab wound after a scuffle outside the door. The two Indians are in custody. The Indiana constitutional convention at Corydon elected Jonathan Gemining president and agreed to statehood as an independent state by a 30 to 8 vote, proceeding to form a constitution with solemn decorum.
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J. Knight
Penobscot
Jknight
Knight
Mr. Knight
Indiana
Corydon
Jonathan Gemining
Upo
Fifty Years Ago in Concordia Society and Local Events
A scan of a Saturday Unity page highlights a Grand Foresters session in New Britain with officers named. Other items note a Seaside Park debate, a horse railroad work restart on State street, a Lime Rock engine sale, a village wedding, a public baseball game, and a court case against Bridgeport Traction for a boy injured on a car.
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Grand Court of Foresters
New Britain
Frank P. Lynch
Hartford
John E. Lyddy
Bridgeport
D. Dickinson
Meriden
W. C Kleinecke
Waterbury
Mrp. Fitzgerald
New London
P.J. Silk
W. G. Bygam
Beadle
W. Birney
M. J. Colletty
Daniel Smith
D. W. Lynch
Grand Court
Young women contest for Barnum prizes and local nuisance complaint
Misses O Rourke Donoven Barnes Turner Weeks and Wooster, senior class members, are slated to compete for Barnum prizes next month with a first prize of 230 dollars and four second prizes of 20 dollars funded by a late FP sum. Edward McCarthy complains of a gang at Wheeler Grand Hubbell properties disrupting the neighborhood. A Plush shop employee, Iveginsid Saunders, suffers a severe hand injury while watching a metal roil at work.
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Yenter
O'Rourke
Donoven Barnes
Mesars Turner
Weeks and Wooster
Louis Christie
W. Thompson
Charles W. Mcj P. Carrol
FP. T
Edward McCarthy
Jones
Grand Street
Hubbell
Iveginsid Saunders
Wreck near border claims 24 lives with bandit theft
Eagle Pass Texas reports twenty four dead in a derailment of a Mexico City to Laredo through train near Piedras Negras opposite Eagle Pass. Laredo counts eight dead. Bandits looted valuables and clothing as survivors walked barefoot nine miles to Emphale Gonzales for relief, first southbound train arriving at Piedras Negras today.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Piedras Negras
Mexico City
Laredo
Queriario
Emphalme Gonzales
Orpet Trial Begun In Wisconsin Murder Case
Chicago reports the Orpet murder trial opened at Waukegan with veniremen examined. Three men were tentatively accepted as jurors on the first trial day. The case concerns W H Orpet, a Wisconsin University student, accused of killing Marian Lambert, a Lake Forest High School girl, last February. Secretary Lansing denied claims of Latin American republics approving US intervention in Mexico.
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Chicago
Veniremen
W. H. Orpet
Wisconsin University
Marian Lambert
Lake Forest
Waukegan
Lansing
Mexico
Swedish noble confesses to Stockholm bank murders
Leonard Rudolph Alexander Gyllenpalm, a member of a storied Swedish noble family, confessed to the double murder at a Stockholm branch bank. A young woman’s recognition and subsequent arrest led to the confession after bloodstain evidence was found on his clothing. He planned the crime weeks earlier, killed the manager and clerk, fled, then returned to city life amid newspaper reports. He sought funds from his father in Russia and faced potential execution by sword. The report also notes Hansa Steamship Co. profits for 1914 and 1915.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Leonard Rudolph Alexander Gyllenpalm
Riddarhus
Gylien- Palm
Gyllenpalm
Someon
Gyldenpalm
Yllenpalam
Russia
May Pole display of gems and gifts for sale
A May Pole window display features a range of gems valued from 650.00 down to 0.25. The feature evokes Shakespearean festival style with a focus on affordable selections and decorative May gifts.
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May Pole Forest
City Hall hires new examiner of liens at 2200 salary
The common council approved creating a new examiner of liens position at a 2200 salary and placing duties of the clerk of the board of appraisal of benefits and damages under that official. Abe S. Geduldig is current clerk. his term ends June 1. The appointee must be full time and cannot work elsewhere. The position will report semi monthly to the city attorney on liens. Several candidates remain. Mayor Wilson pushes a public markets plan, this time at Wall and Water streets. Contracts for East Washington avenue Grand street bridge are read. cost cuts remove comfort stations to save 12377 and 20597 respectively. A public hearing is set for June 5 on Broad street extension from Elm to Washington avenues. Hicks street closure from Pequonnock river to Knowlton street also considered.
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Common Council
Secere
Abe S. Geduldig
Wilson
Wall and
Water Streets
MacFayden
East Washington Avenue
Grand Street
Edward Devoe Tompkins, Inc
Grand Street Bridge
Broad Street
Elm Street
Washington Avenue
A. W. Burritt Co
Hicks Street
Pequonnock River
Knowlton Street
War is Certain declares Root at Red Cross meeting
Elihu Root warned of “the war that is certain to come” addressing about 300 women at New York County Red Cross. He urged duty to the Red Cross as vital to national effort, calling for changed attitudes toward government and liberty. Dr. George T. Stewart noted Bellevue Hospital Red Cross unit leadership.
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Elihu Root
New York County
American Red Cross
Lee Whitelaw Reid
Reda Cross
Mr. Root
Red Cross
United States
George T. Stewart
Bellevue Hospital
Red Cross campaign aims to bolster Army Medical Corps
The Red Cross seeks to make the Army Medical Corps more efficient in emergencies, proposing a ratio of ten officers per thousand men. Seward Prosser of the New York County chapter unveils a drive to enroll 100,000 members, while Robert W. de Forest reports over $2,000,000 raised since the war began, including $711,000 handled by the county treasurer. A women’s committee for the membership drive lists prominent names such as Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Miss Anne Morgan, and Miss Ruth Draper.
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Red Cross
Army Medical Corps
Seward Prosser
Citizens’ Committee
New York County
Robert W. de Forest
New York County Committee
Richard Aldrich
Belmont Tiffany
Leonard Wood
Anne Morgan
Ruth Morgan
Katherine Burnett
Luisita A. Leland
Belle Gurnee
Marion Pauling Murdock
Ruth Draper
Paul Dana
Shortage of machine guns shocks War Department
Washington May 16. The War Department admits a severe shortage of machine guns for militia training as all available arms have been sent to the border. No funds were included in the latest extraordinary budget for the first Mexican expedition, and the Vickers guns preferred by the ordinance bureau remain unavailable. Only 125 of 1,072 total Army guns will be ready by year’s end, leaving regiments short of standard equipment and prompting appeals from National Guard units for practice guns.
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Washington, D.C
War Department
Congress
Ordinance Bureau
National Guard
Division of Militia Affairs
Regular Army
Panama
United States
San Antonio
Glenn Springs
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Ordinance Department
France
Flanders
Colt Arms Company
Ordinance Division
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Ereckson
Partridge
Main
Bank Streets
Wheeler & Wilson
G. B. Hubbell
Quak Club
State Street
Seaside
Long Island Sound
Seaside Park
Concordia Society
Excelsior
John G. Green
Lime Rock
Conn
Excelsiors
Jase
John Partridge
Smith
New York
Pequonnock Street
William Chew
Emma Chew
R. F Campbell
Sadie Cordon
William Delmar
Hanover Street
First Methodist Church
John Pullman
E. S. Smith
Emma G. Olmstead
C. B. Adams
Sarah E. Dillon
Charles W. Dean
R. M. Lathrop
Judge Carroll
William Hebble
Hamilton and
Hallett Streets
Mary Muldoon
Crescent Avenue
Hallett Street
Michael Sheehan
Water Street
Joseph Saar
Gold Street
Will
Fairfield
Augusta M. Engelhard
Ada C. Sterling
Episcopal Church
Engelhard
Sterling
Annie McNevin
Fairfield Avenue
Burr Road
Hugh Lavery
East Main Street
Katie Knoedler
George Luippold
Main Street
John Hounschiek
Willard Street
John Barry
Park Avenue
James J. Linnehan
Myrtle Avenue
Stephen Cary
Church Street
M. J. Maloney
Cannon St
James Cullen
Norwalk
Tommy
Bridgeport Traction Company
James Connery
Stratford Avenue
Avon Park
James Sexton & Son
Clarence Street
James Sexton, Sr
Hansa Steamship Co
Germany
M. J. Buechler
the Reliable Jeweler
Middle Street
Elihu
James Whitelaw
Dunfermline
John Beck & Son
Hayes Fish CO
Meat Department
Connecticut River
Public Market& Branch
State & Bank Sts
Cartwright’s
Sor Anany
WE “Shoe
Cakies
THE
House OF Better Shoes
Lyon & Grumman CO
T. Hawley & CO
Hubbell & Wade Coo
Harry Rider
Clark’s
George B. Clark & Co
Broad ST
Highland Spring
Highland Spring Water Co
Warren Street
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