Attack on Violet Spencer Near Alton Shocks Town
A sixteen year old girl, Violet Spencer, daughter of Thomas F. Spencer, was slashed across the abdomen with a razor by a negro Thursday night on a street in Alton Illinois. A pursuing posse formed as she was taken home and the doctor said she would recover but remain in bed several days. The assailant fled the scene. Separate dispatch from Norfolk Virginia reports the opening of the Jamestown tercentennial exposition with President Roosevelt reviewing ships and addressing crowds as events marked by ceremonial gun salutes and the gold button ceremony signaling the opening.
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Alton
Ill
Violet Spencer
Thomas F. Spencer
Norfolk
United States
Roosevelt
Hampton Roads
Discovery Landing
America
Harry St George Tucker
Tucker
P. F. Harrington
Fred D. Grant
Water Front
Jamestown- Dixie
Alfred Magill Randolph
Virginia
Wilberforce G. Owst
Fort Monroe
Congress
Wes
Shot Through the Heart in Birmingham Yard Tragedy
In Birmingham on April 26 E K Bodey a railroad switchman fired his pistol after a brickbat flew near him. A well dressed white youth found dead across the cars shot through the heart is identified as W A Kennedy a molder at Birmingham Pipe and Casting Co. Bodey is jailed awaiting further action amid recent yard killings and robberies.
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Birmingham
E. K. Bodey
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Bodéy
Noth
Bodey
W. A. Kennedy
Birmingham Pipe and Casting Company
Bold Diamond Robbery At Oakland Jewelry Store
Three thieves stole a tray worth six thousand dollars of diamonds from Paul C. Pulze’s jewelry shop at Thirteenth and Washington in Oakland California. Two men distracted three women clerks while a third opened a window and grabbed the tray before the group fled along the street and boarded a streetcar.
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Oakland
Cal
Paul C. Pulze
Thirteenth
Washington Streets
Prominent lawyer shoots, kills billiard hall owner in Mississippi
Gerald Fitzgerald of Friars Point confronts W. F. Opp in Hobbs store after days of words. Both draw revolvers. Fitzgerald shoots himself in the leg but not fatally, then kills Opp. A bullet hits his brother in law Ben Booth in the left hand.
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Friars Point
Miss
Gerald Fitzgerald
W. F. Opp
W. L. Hobbs
Fitzgerald
Opp
Ben Booth
Depot Destroyed In Major Wisconsin Central Fire
Fire in Minneapolis totally destroyed the Wisconsin Central freight depot causing an estimated loss of 400000 dollars. The blaze started from an unknown source and spread rapidly with explosions of oil on tracks and in storage. About eighteen boxcars containing freight valued at 100000 dollars were sidetracked under the shed and fed the flames.
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Minneapolis
Wisconsin Central
Jury deadlocks in Breathitt county feud case
After twenty hours the jury in the Bill Britton case charged with assassinating Town Marshal James A Cockrill at Jackson Breathitt county reported hopeless disagreement and was discharged. The case links Senator Hagis brother Judge Hargis and others to the feud.
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Lexington
Bill Britton
James A. Cockrill
Jackson
Breathitt County
Hagis
Hargis
President's Georgia day visit planned for June
The text notes a large number of aides from Union and Confederate groups and historical societies accompanying a review. Afterward naval detachments returned to their ships while army detachments moved to Camp Captain John Smith, named in General Grant's order for the exposition post. The president did not plan to visit exhibition buildings that day, intending to visit during Georgia day in June.
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John Smith
Grant
Exposition Grounds
Georgia
Roosevelt and New discuss politics at White House
President Roosevelt met Acting Chairman Harry S. New to discuss national politics and Republican committee affairs. Four candidates are reported in the field for the next party convention with invitations sent from Chicago St Louis Kansas City and Seattle. The selection will occur at the national committee meeting in December. New did not expect to return to the city before then.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Republican National Committee
Harry S. New
New
Republican Party
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Seattle
National Committee
City
New Orleans Flood Dams City Streets After Heavy Rain
A torrential April 26 rain flooded large areas of New Orleans with water over a foot in Canal Street and along St. Charles Avenue. Shoppers and merchants were marooned on sidewalks while newsboys built costly plank bridges to reach streetcars. Bridges were removed to halt passage as water rose. Napoleon Avenue saw vessels submerged and gutters overflowed. Estimates put the rainfall at over three inches.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
News
St. Charles Avenue
Jail Fire Claims Prisoner In Chipley
In Chipley Florida on April 26 a jail fire destroyed the building and killed prisoner Henry Berry a white man as inmates, believed to have tried to burn their way out, were confined inside the jail was full of prisoners.
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Chipley
Fla
Henry Berry
White
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Bryan
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Dallas
Geo. A. Adams
Pauper
Bryan, Texas
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Haswell’s Book Store
Harry
W. C. Fountain
Burt Norwood
S. Johnson
Singer Sewing Machines
A&w
Dr. J. F. Eaves
Smith Building
R. H. Harrison
Emmet & Maloney’s Drug Store
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Armstrong Packing House
W. A. Watk
Carso
PHO
S. Bryan, Texas Wall & Company
ANCE
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James & Nunn
J.W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
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FOLEY
Foley & Company
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