Paul Woodward Hanged for Camden Child Murders
Camden New Jersey January 7 Paul Woodward was hanged today for the November murder of eleven year old John Coffin and fourteen year old Price Jennings. The boys disappeared October 1 and were found in a wood near Hadden Heights October 4. An arsenic poisoning killed them and Woodward had bought arsenic days earlier. The case included a failed insanity appeal and claims of robbery motive.
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Camden
N. J
Paul Woodward
John Coffin
Price Jennings
Hadden Heights
Woodward
Young Coffin
Garrison
Pardon Board
Gale in Nebraska Damages Over Fifty Omaha Homes
A Nebraska gale battered Omaha tearing down telegraph and telephone lines and leaving the city in darkness. Wires lay prostrated across directions as the wind from the northwest raged Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. About fifty houses and other structures suffered damage with no rain or snow and near freezing temperatures.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Iowa
Still Asleep Miss Dora Meeks Enters Day Hundred
Miss Dora Meeks has slept continuously for one hundred days since Sept. 28 in Centralia Washington. She remains unaroused though nourished and in fair health. Medical efforts and hypnotism have failed to wake her as reports from Chicago and dispatches detail her condition.
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Dora Meeks
Chicago
Dora Meek
Record- Herald
Centralia
Durbar Display in Delhi Features Brimming Pageantry
A grand durbar in Delhi showcased elephant led processions, the sacred Sikh book atop a devoted howdah, and Lady Curzon with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught as Viceroy Curzon greets ruling chiefs. Nabha’s regal escort, horses hawks and horse guards highlighted a spectacular array of color and spectators.
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Delhi
India
Lord Curzon
Kedlestone
Curzon
Duchess of
Congo policy: King Leopold pledges Congo property rights
King Leopold of Belgium asserts property rights in the Congo will be inviolable and protected from raiders. He said concessions holders may enjoy profits and warned against insinuations of cruelty by agents, expressing confidence in history's judgment of central Africa's evolution.
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Constantinople
Great Britain
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Germany
France
Leopold
Belgium
New York
Congo
Brussels
Central
Africa
Crown Prince of Saxony to Seek Papal Annulment
Rome reports the Crown Prince of Saxony will ask the Pope for an annulment after a civil court verdict. The nuncio in Munich will handle negotiations as no Papal representative exists in Saxony.
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Saxony
Rome
Munich
Bavaria
Vatican
Louise Prince of
Adoption annulled over inheritance swap for cash
In Oakland on January 7 Miss Florence I Bruton of Alameda aged eighteen traded her inheritance rights for 8000 in American gold. In Judge Ogden’s court she renounced her adoption by Countess Rusholi wife of Henry to become an heiress of an Italian nobleman.
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Florence I. Burton
Oakland
Cal
Florence I. Bruton
Alameda
Ogden
Bruton
Rusholi
Henry
Double Golden Wedding Celebrated in Rye New York
A double wedding was held at the home of Postmaster Alexander Harriott in Rye New York on January 7. The event joined Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harland Harriott and Mr. and Mrs. William A Burger, with extensive family attendance including twelve children and twenty three grandchildren who brought gold gifts.
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New York
Rye
N. Y
Alexander Harriott
Harriott
Thomas Harland Harriott
William A. Burger
Geologist Bruce Accused of Having Twelve Wives
New York January 7. Thomas Bruce noted geologist and mining engineer is alleged to be a professional bridegroom with reports claiming he has a dozen wives.
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New York
The
Herald
Cuelbra Island
Admiral Dewey
Thomas Bruce
Bay City Man Assaulted in Daylight Robbery
In Houston on January 7 J D Barnett of Bay City was assaulted and robbed in daylight by two men. A man was bound over.
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Houston
J. D. Barnett
Bay City
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