Not Guilty in Virginia Cave Murder Case
In Culpeper Virginia a jury acquitted James and Philip Strother in the murder of William F Bywaters, their brother in law. Bywaters had forced marriage with a sister in ill health and was shot while attempting to escape from the Strothers at his sick wife’s bedside. The case drew crowded courtrooms amid sensational testimony.
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Gulpeper
James
Philip Strother
William F. Bywaters
Bywaters
Tasok
Deal of Considerable Importance Has Just Been Consummated
Boston March 7 The New York New Haven and Hartford railroad has acquired control of the Merchants and Miners Transportation company which operates steamship lines along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Savannah Ga The information came from Boston Mayor Fitzgerald at a conference with Chauncey Mellen president of the New Haven and with Charles W Morse of New York over pending transactions for purchases of lines controlled by the railroad
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Boston
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Savannah
Fitzgerald
Chates
Mellen
New Haven
Charles W. Morse
New York
Dowager Empress of Russia Arrives in London
The dowager empress of Russia arrived in London on Thursday morning and was greeted at the railroad station by her sister Queen Alexandra the Prince and Princess of Wales and staff. Police guarded every avenue for protection and officials at Scotland Yard reported added precautions against anarchist threats. From the railroad station the empress and queen drove to Buckingham Palace.
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Empress of
Russia
London
Alexandra
Prince
Princess of Wales
Scotland Yard
England
Buckingham Palace
Nuns Fined for Refusing to Leave Convent in Nantes
In Nantes France March 7 authorities fined the Ursuline nuns two hundred and one dollars for persistently refusing to leave their convent. The defense argued obedience to church law while warning further refusals would lead to ejection. A demonstrative crowd cheered as the nuns were escorted back to the convent.
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Nantes
France
Defenda
Murder near Ashburn shocks county
G W May prominent citizen of Ashburn Georgia was murdered near his home. A Black man he had employed the day before is jailed by sheriff and posse amid a probe. May was found beside the road with an ax blow and his pockets rifled after drawing 150 dollars from the bank.
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Ashburn
G. W. May
Ruling Upholds Service Order in Standard Oil Case
The United States circuit court sustained the service order against Standard Oil and 50+ non-resident defendants with Waters-Pierce Oil in a government suit urged by President Roosevelt. Arguments on jurisdiction to compel non-residents to testify were heard before Judges Sanborn Hook Adams and Vandeventer with Judge Sanborn delivering the opinion.
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Standard Oil
Louis
United States Circuit Court
United States Circuit
Standard Oil Company
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Sanborn
Hook
Adams
Vandeventer
Death of Miss Cornelia Fitzgerald Reported Abroad
Cablegram from St. Louis on March 7 says Miss Cornelia Fitzgerald died suddenly in Panang Malaysia. She was the elder daughter of Bishop J N Fitzgerald who, with his wife and two other children, had been traveling the world since last December. The body is expected to be returned to St Louis for burial.
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Dothan
Ala
Frank Fowler
Here
Adkins
Pada Tetgies Eeer
Hétheniaeh
Bishop Fitzgerald
St. Louis
Cornelia Fitzgerald
Panang
Malaysia
J. N. Fitzgerald
Change of Venue for Martinsburg Murder Trial
Judge Carnes and accompanying officials departed Jackson for Lexington as John Abner and the Hargises seek a venue to Martinsburg Elliott County for the May term. Each defendant posted an $1100 bond for appearance to answer murder charges in Wascum.
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John Abner
Hargises
Martinsburg
Lexington
Carnes
Jackson
Hargis
Elbert Hars
Eliott County
Smith
Edliott County
Thomas Has Advantage in Six Round Bout
Joe Thomas of California edged William Mellody of Charleston in a six round National Athletic Club bout. Mellody was knocked down early but recovered as the fight featured continuous clinching and cautious exchanges. Also reported, a wreck on the Western New York and Pennsylvania line injured nine as Train No. 3 plunged off an embankment between Irvinton and the destination.
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Thomas
Philadellhia
Joe Thomas
California
William Mellody
Charleston
Mass
National Athletic Club
Mellody
Warrén
New York
Pennsylvania
Irvinton
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