Jenkins Voices Urgent Call to Enforce Law in Rail Rate Case
Chippewa Falls Wis Aug 1 Congressman Jenkins chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says the North Carolina railroad rate dispute tests the nation and warns civil war could loom if the law is not upheld He urges calm dignity and to rely on the judiciary as final arbiter. In San Francisco Jimmy Britt defeats Battling Nelson in twenty rounds to win a boxing decision as a packed Auditorium crowd overwhelms admission.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Jenkins
House Judiciary Committee
North Carolina
Supreme Court of the
United States
Union
United States Supreme Court
San Francisco
Jimmy Britt
Nelson
Hegeswisch
Britt
Welsh
News From Across Oceans and Cities Aug 1
The Manka arrived with reports of fighting in New Hebrides where a punitive expedition from the British cruiser Cambrain avenged a trader’s murder, killing one bluejacket and wounding another. Other dispatches note the wreck of the Charles and Ella, Korean casualties, Lodz strikes, and notable deaths and awards.
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Victoria
B. C
Australia
New Hebride
New Hebrides
Cambrain
Charles
Ella
Warmer
Butte Man Confesses in Northern Pacific Holdup Case
George Tow er, arrested in Butte Montana for complicity in the North Coast Limited holdup on the Northern Pacific May 7 and the murder of Engineer Crow, confesses and points to a Columbia River suspect. Walter Fields at Lake Charles Louisiana found guilty of murder of Arthur Minnix over a card game and sentenced to life imprisonment. Minnix was from West Virginia.
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Butte
Mont
George Tower
North Coast Limited
Northern Pacific
Engineer Crow
Columbia River
Ore
Lake Charles
Walter Fields
Arthur Minnix
Fields
Minnix
West Virginia
Littleton Retained for Thaw Trial
Harry K. Thaw has engaged Martin W. Littleton, former Brooklyn borough president, to conduct his next trial. Littleton, who spoke for Alton B. Parker at the last Democratic convention, previously lived in Weatherford and Dallas, Texas. The fee is reported at 25000 dollars.
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Texan
New York
Martin W. Littleton
Brooklyn
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Mr. Littleton
Littleton
St. Louis
Alton B. Parker
Weatherford
Dallas
Tex
Child Murdered In East Side Tenement
New York city news reports the discovery of an eight year old girl's body in a cellar of an East Side tenement. The child was assaulted and murdered with marks on the throat suggesting strangulation. The sensational crimes against women and children have heightened the public alarm.
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New York
East Side
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Friend-In-Need Society
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