Insurance Frauds Exposed in City of Mexico Arrests
Jose Machedo, named as principal in an Equitable Life fraud, was arrested in the Mexican interior. A death certificate and dummy burial were used, with a full confession alleged to implicate four others. About fifteen gang members remain in custody, and three alleged doctors face charges of complicity.
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Arests
City of Mexico
Jose Machedo
Equitable Assurance Society of New York
Machedo
For Sale Local real estate package includes multiple lots
For sale entries describe half block near Allen Academy with price 550, one quarter acre near southeast town with small new cottage, six room houses with ground lots at various blocks, brick cisterns, and east front quarter blocks near Allen Academy priced at 250.00. Terms easy. Additional properties include a six room house, two lots, and a two story residence on Otto Boehme’s property with 75 feet on Railroad Street. Also references to Fd Pochila place and other city property.
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Main Street
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Pochila Place
Price Aleo
Sculptor Elie A. E. Found Dead Near Atco New Jersey
New York July 1 reports L. T. Menningyy a once prominent sculptor was found dead with a bullet wound in his brain in a small shanty four miles from Atco New Jersey. Investigation indicates he set the building on fire then shot himself. the shack was soaked with oil and his sole companion was a dog and several chickens.
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Elie Ae
New York
L. T. Menningyy
Atco
N. J
Inventor Injured in Houston Explosion
Michall J. Morrissey, a Houston inventor, sustained critical injuries when a small gasoline retort exploded while he stirred gas that was being generated. The blast tore his arm and damaged his abdomen as the furnace, about 18 inches high, burst and threw him several feet. Doctors fear the injuries may be fatal.
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Micheal Morrissey
Houston
Tex
Michall J. Morrissey
Mr. Morrissey
Heavy rains flood Ouachita bottoms in Arkansas
Hot Springs Arkansas July 1 One of the heaviest rainstorms in this section has prevailed during the past 48 hours. Ouachita river bottom farms in this and adjoining counties have been inundated and ruined. Upland farms injured slightly. Garland and Saline county farmers, once hopeful two weeks ago, are dejected. Ouachita river higher than in years and mountain streams swollen beyond their banks.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Ouachita River
Garland
Saline County
Ouachita
Double Tragedy in Houston Rooming House
In a 60812 Main street rooming house on Sunday night Miss Antonio Louise Petri was found dead after a gunshot. J Welsh King lay fatally wounded with multiple gunshot wounds to the head, a pistol in hand. They had been at the theater together. Miss Petri kept boarders upstairs. Mrs Augusta Althoff, Petri’s aunt, called it a love affair. Petri’s mother, residing near Rutledge, left town after visiting.
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Houston
Main Street
Antonio Louise Petri
J. Welsh King
Augusta Althoff
Miss Petri
Rutledge
Woman Fatally Burned in Sherman Oil Can Blast
Mrs Huffman, wife of William Huffman a roadmaster at Wrnsco’s north end, was fatally burned when a coal oil can exploded while she lit the kitchen fire. She ran into the yard ablaze. assistance arrived but physicians say recovery is impossible.
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Sherman, Tex
Mra Hnuffman
Wm. Huffman
Wrnsco
North End
English the secretary to Hawaiian queen dies in wreck
Francis M. English of Colorado Springs was private secretary to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and author of her late proclamation. He graduated from Oxford and practiced law in England and Colorado, killed in the Colorado Midland wreck at Cascade Sunday.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Francis M. English
Colorado Midland
Cascade Sunday
Liuloukalani
Hawaii
Mr. English
Oxford
England
Colorado
Camden Interstate Railway Sells Lines for 2 Million
Huntington July 1 The Camden Interstate Railway company of this city has sold all their electric lines in Huntington Central City Cerdo Kenova Cattletteburg Ashland and Ironton Ohio plus electric light plants in Ironton Ashland and Huntington to a Pennsylvania syndicate for about 2,000,000. It is rumored a line will be run from Pittsburg to Cincinnati.
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Huntington
W. Va
Camden Interstate Railway Company
Pennsylvania
Central City
Cerdo
Kenova
Cattlettsburg
Ashland
Ironton
Ohio
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Farmer Tom Bell Dies After Horse Kick Near Maxey
Paris Texas July 1 Tom Bell a tenant farmer five miles north of Maxey was fatally kicked in the stomach while hitching a trace in a field. He lay in the rain all afternoon and died at 5 oclock Saturday evening after being found in the evening and giving a brief account of the accident.
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Paris
Tex
Tom Bell
Maxey
New Jersey Treasury Shows Large Balance Rise
New Jersey's state treasury reports a balance of 2,698,202 for the past fiscal year, about 500,000 higher than last year. Large receipts from taxes and chartered trusts, plus substantial corporate taxes, drive the increase, highlighting heavy annual tax contributions from major corporations. Dallas suit seeks 50,000 damages after a live wire incident injures Joseph Connor on a telephone post.
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New York
New Jersey
Dallas
Joseph Connor
Granville P. Meade
Standard Electric Company
E. M. Reardon
Dallas Electric Company
Connor
Midland May Extend From Paris To Connect With Gulf Line
Paris July 1 President J H R Green of the Texas Midland passed through in his private car en route from Terrell to St Louis. Reported to confer with Kansas City authorities about extending the road north from Paris to connect with the Pittsburg and Gulf. Green declined to confirm or deny the extension.
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Midland
Paris
Tex
J. H. R. Green
The
Texas Midland
Terrell
St. Louis
Kansas City
Pittsburg
Gulf
Malcolm Langtry Wedding in Westminster Brightens London
Ian Z. Malcolm M P and former private secretary to Lord Salisbury wed Miss Jennie Langtry at St Margaret's church Westminster on Monday afternoon. King Edward sent the bride a present with a note in his handwriting and the Prince of Wales sent a gilt item.
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Malcolm-Langtry
London
Ian Z. Malcolm
M. P
Formrely
Lord Salisbury
Jennie Langtry
Langtry
St. Margaret's Church
Westminster
Edward
Prince of Wales
Ennis Bohemian stabbed. man critically hurt
Rudolph Potak lies seriously wounded three miles north of Ennis after a stabbing. A single back stab pierced the lung and another wound in the stomach opened the hollow. Joe Ozima has been arrested in connection with the incident.
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Ennis
Tex
Rudolph Potak
Joe Ozima
Fissures in the Streets at City of Mexico
July 1 reports from City of Mexico of fissures appearing in streets, linked to seismic activity. Government observatory offers no explanation as earthquakes are not accounted for. Port Townsend notes steamship Entennial arrives from Cape Nome with safety of Jeanni and Portland, and that Thetis loss story is false.
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City of
Mexico
Port Townsend
Wash
Entennial
Cape Nome
Jeanni
Portland
United States Revenue
Thetis
Steamer Oregon Ashore In Dut Harbor
The steam er Oregon is ashore at Dut Harbor with eight feet of water in her hold. She was on her way home to Seattle with some pay aboard, but the exact crew or cargo count is not clear. It is believed the vessel can be salvaged.
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Seattle
Wash
Oregon
Dut Harbor
Various regional notes mix tragedy and enterprise
Mrs Edwards of Burlington Kansas indicted for kicking adopted daughter to death. Nationwide plate glass plants closed, 10 000 out of work. Carrie Nation to join Donelles in Chicago. Eleven Fort Wayne girls poisoned by chicken salad, none die. U S treasury holds 558 634 596 in gold. World Sunday school convention planned for Jerusalem 1904. Jesse James body reburied in Kearney Kansas. Two Kentucky editors in fist fight. Alabama coal miners threaten strike, 8000 affected. Brooklyn sails to England with Lord Pauncefote remails. Rain over 18 inches in 24 hours at Nacogdoches Texas. Southern Pacific train at Rosenberg hit by cyclone, five injured. Houston pesthouse with smallpox patients blown away. Tom Dial of Sherman bailed in murder case. Manley Stevens grows 40 bushels per acre from five acres Oklahoma wheat. Ore vein found at Parral Mexico valued 500 per ton. Kerrville Texans push to host Southwestern Baptist College. Mrs S B Allen of Bonham plans 20000 hospital in memory of husband. Sam Bradshaw of Waxahachie convicted highway robbery, five years. Henry of Bra t
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United States Treasury
Jerusalem
Jesse James
Missouri
Kearney
Kas
Kentucky
Brooklyn
Lord Pauncefote
England
Nacogdoches
Tex
Southern Pacific
Rosenberg
Houston
Tom Dial
Sherman
S. B. Allen
Bonham
Sam Bradshaw
Waxahachie
Henry
Brat
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Peabody Summer School
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Texas Brigade
Bryan
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International Sunday School Association
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Palestine
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Tenn
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Nd Preto
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Brazos County
Price
J. Allen Myers
G. Grape
College Station
W. S. Howell
Neff & Worthing
J. A. Baker College
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Cook County
Chicago
Board of Assessors
Pharmac
Arkansas
Mrs Petri
Queen Lily
Mm. H. James
R. T. Boyle
Bryan, Texas
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Eupion
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Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
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