Harmon Nominated for Governor by Ohio Democratic Convention
In Columbus on May 6 the Ohio Democratic state convention met at Goodale street auditorium to nominate a full state ticket. Harmon won the governor’s nomination on the second ballot amid sharp speeches by Jenks and Harmon supporters, with Bryan strongly endorsed in resolutions and a plan for direct senatorial votes on Oregon terms.
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Bryan
Columbus
Ohio
Johnson
Friends of Harmon
W. A. Taylor
Heidensfeld
Cincinnati
W. J. Bryan
Mystery surrounds Mrs. Guiness after fatal fire
Reports from Laporte Indiana state investigators question whether Mrs Bella Guiness died in the April 28 house fire or remains alive in hiding possibly in Chicago A missing head from the body found at the ruins and a buried skeleton in a pine box fuel theories of substitution and murder evaluation.
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Laporte
Ind
Bella Guiness
Chicago
Guiness
Portland Man Charged With Murder in Pawnbroker Case
Edward Hugh Martin son of a former NYPD official and West Point graduate, formerly a regular army lieutenant and armor expert at Sandy Hook, was arrested in Portland on the charge of murdering Nathan Wolf a local pawnbroker. Martin denies the crime, while circumstantial evidence mounts.
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Portland
Ore
Edward Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin
New York City
West Point
Sandy Hook
Nathan Wolf
Martin
Immense Egg Receipts Prompt Market Note
New York on May 6 reports egg receipts totaling 38 163 cases.
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New York
Supreme court upholds anti-pass law contract ruling
The Texas and New Orleans railroad wins on appeal as the supreme court affirms lower court findings. It holds that the anti-pass law cannot disrupt contracts for free transportation executed before its passage but does not authorize new future contracts.
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Austin
Supreme Court
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
Wells Fargo Express Company
Kittrell
Houston
Galveston Court of Appeals
Supreme Court decision in Penn Mutual v. Manor life policy
The court held Penn Mutual must pay 12 percent damages and reasonable attorney fees on F B Manor policy. It also disposed of five injunctions by railroads against the attorney general challenging the old gross receipts tax law, upholding it in one case and dismissing the others.
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Austin
Supreme Court
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Lee Manor
Dallas County
Appellee
F. B. Manor
Attorney General
United States Supreme Court
Decree Affirms Train Service Order in Victoria Division
The Third Court of Civil Appeals affirmed a Travis county district court decree in the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio railway case. The railroad must operate double daily passenger service over the Victoria division. an injunction had been issued and made perpetual at final hearing. The court notes public service may justify more trains but finds no common law authority for such orders, though a recent statute may grant authority.
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Austin
Third Court of Civil Appeals
District Court of
Travis County
Railroad Commission
Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio
Victoria
Barbarous Boy Attacks Brooklyn Barbershop Group
A sixteen year old, Carmellofi, employed in a Brooklyn barbershop, killed employer Antonio Peraso and wife and three barbers in their sleep at 107 Fulton street. Peraso and his wife are believed mortally wounded. the barbers are serious but not fatal. The youth escaped. police suspect Black Hand involvement.
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New York
Carmellofi
Brooklyn
Antonio Peraso
Costly Fire At Shaw Building In Houston
Fire swept the Shaw building at the corner of San Jacinto and Congress streets in Houston damaging the Mendelvitz department store and Ed. Smith's furniture store. Losses totaled about 50000 dollars. One guest, J Otis Williams, leaped to an awning and broke a foot. He was treated at the Baptist sanitarium. Other injuries reported. The fire was under control by 9 a.m.
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Houston
Shaw
San Jacinto
Congress Streets
J. Otis Williams
Baptist Sanitarium
Mendelvitz Department Store
Ed. Smith
Department
Ed. C. Smith
Shaw Building
Houston Hotel
Man Bitten by Rattlesnake in Baird Texas
Charles Poell was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake in Baird Texas on July 6. Medical officials fear possible loss of the affected finger.
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Baird
Tex
Charles Poell
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S.h.dunlapz Co
E. J. Jenkins
Will S. Higgs
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
M. H. James
Harmon
Judson Harmon
Mrs. Guiness
Texas
Surance
Barbarous Boy
Ly Nationa Bank
The
City National Bank
G. S. Parker
E. H. Astin
Albert W. Wilkerson
Bk. W. Crenshaw
J. N. Cole
J. K. Parker
J. W. English
VINOL
Martin & Locke Proprietors
Birmingham
Ala
United Confederate Veteran Reunion
VIA
New Orleans
C.K Dunlap
T.J. Anderson
Gen. Pass
Agent Houston
A. B. Carson
T.R. Batre
W. C. Fountain
Smith Drug Co
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