Shooting at Jackson Targets Hargis Property in Feud City
In Jackson Kentucky on March 11 shots shattered the home of Judge James Hargis tied to an assassination case and struck the Hargis Bros store where June Jett slept unharmed. Deputy Town Marshal Smith’s home was also hit as gunfire persisted forty minutes. Curtis Smith was arrested on charges of involvement.
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Wudge Hargis
Brothers
Jackson
James Hargis
James B. Marcum
Hargis
Smith
Curtis Smith
Four Burn To Death In Brooklyn Fire Tragedy
Four people died in a Brooklyn blaze described as a tenement fire on Bushwick Avenue. A mother with her two children and a man perished after attempting to escape, while Mrs. Bangalli and Banaratto were among the injured. Firefighters rescued others from windows as flames raced through the building.
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New York
Brooklyn
Bushwick Avenue
Funeral in Zion City for Dowie Leader John Dowie
Chicago reports state the funeral will be held Thursday at Zion Tabernacle with a white robed choir and Judge V V Barnes leading the service. The body lies in state Tuesday and Wednesday at Shiloh house before burial at Lake Mound cemetery beside Dowie’s daughter. Dowie family members Dowle and Gladstone arrived in Zion City.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Veliva
Zion City
Zion Tabernacle
V. V. Barnes
Dowie
Shiloh House
Lake Mound
Dowle
Gladstone
Sir Daniel Dixon Dead in Belfast MP Passes at Fifty Three
London broadcast reports the death of Right Hon. Sir Daniel Dixon, MP for North Belfast, at age fifty three. The prominent politician's passing was announced from London on March 11.
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Daniel Dixon
London
Richt
Belfast
Texas Legislators Now Earn Two Dollars A Day
A compact news digest notes various events and facts including Texas lawmakers receiving two dollars per day, a $10,000 school project in Blum Texas, a $25 million Tehran bank plan, a $100,000 waterfront fire in Charleston South Carolina, a Wells Fargo safe robbery at Alderson Indiana, inheritances from Ellen West, a mass shooting in Beaver Dam Wisconsin, and multiple global and local incidents ranging from immigration to legal penalties.
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Texas
Paris
France
Blum
Tex
Teheran
Persia
Charleston
S. C
Wells-Fargo Express
Alderson
I. T
Chilicothe
Ellen West
M. I. West
Guthrie Falls
Beaver Dam
Wis
Roscoe E. Miller
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Capital
England
Ark
Oliver Leath
John Bevels
Brunswick’s Big Blaze Destroys Ties and Vessels
Fire at Brunswick Georgia on March 11 burned 35 000 to 45 000 crosstie wharves of F D Aiken and eight Atlantic Coast Line boxcars, damaged two four masted schooners the Hagle Wing and the Alma Holmes, with total loss estimated between 60 000 and 80 000 dollars. In Hammond Indiana a separate blaze wiped out East Chicago’s business block including Morrell Wholesale Fruit First National Bank telephone exchange and a saloon with a 200 000 dollar loss and several people narrowly escaping death.
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Brunswick
F. D. Aiken
Hagle Wing
Hammond, Ind
East Chicago
Ind
Morrell Wholesale Fruit Company
First National Bank
Telephone Exchange
Nelson Gin Company Forms in Gainesville and Plans Two New Gins
A Gainesville company named the Nelson Ginning Company is formed with 30000 capital. It has bought the town's only gin and begun erecting two new gins with large capacities.
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Gainesville
Tex
Nelson Ginning Company
Toasage Myth Debunked Toad Beliefs Persist
A historical note discusses lingering toad superstitions among educated Americans about toads surviving long imprisonments. It recounts Dr Buckland 1825 experiments where toads bred in glass covered sandstone cells died, while those deprived of air or food perished in time, concluding toad nonsense is deeply ingrained and unlikely to be dissi pated.
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Buckland
Pellissons Little Adventure
Pellisson the French historian is lured by a beautiful woman who leads him to a house. A painter explains he will paint a picture of the Temptation in the Wilderness using Pellisson as the model after sharing the idea and the woman leaves.
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Pellisson
Revue Anecdotique
The Judge Sinned Too and Rhinoceros Horn Amputation
A court case recalls a witty dispute over calling someone a fool in a card game and a judge’s amused dismissal. Separately a London Zoo rhinoceros is amputated of a horn after patient restraint by a keeper who gradually sawed off the offending horn with a series of sedate steps.
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Wirt Gerrare
Russia
London Zoo
Pride of Kentucky Horse Breeder Praises Notable Stallion
Pride of Kentucky described as one of the best horses in the United States. He is a versatile combination horse with all gaits and speed and ample size. His twenty-one colts have sold for over $1000, forty-eight over $500, with yearling foals commonly selling from $100 to $250. Breeders encouraged to breed to him if paired with a good mare.
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United States
Captain Hiram Gardner Morse 25 Years in Service Dead
Alameda California March 11 After a service of twenty five years of which fifteen years were spent as a commander Captain Hiram Gardner Morse is dead He served twelve years on the Oceanic liner Alameda running to Honolulu and Australia He came to California in 1869
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Alameda
Cal
Hiram Gardner Morse
Honolulu
Australia
California
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Shreveport
Statesboro
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James. Pugh
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Pride OF Kentucky
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Red Cloud Jr
Red Cloud, Jr
Membrino Chi
C. E. DuBose
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American Saddle Horse Breeders Ass’n
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Brazos Valley Horse and Mule Co
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