Strangle Extortionist Hanged After Kidnapping Threats
Tom Witherspoon, an ex-convict, abducted Fred Hess and his wife and child near Belmont Missouri forcefully extracting 600 dollars on threat of killing. Hess retrieved the money and Witherspoon was captured near Belmont then lynched by a mob in the public square.
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Cairo
Til
Tom Wither
Poon
Belmont
Witherspoon
Missouri Penitentiary
Fred Hess
Hess
Missouri
Child
First Lake
Chicago Strike Shaken by Governing Board Decision
In Chicago on May 13 the teamsters strike faced a blow as the governing board planned a meeting to decide on calling off the strike after a two hour talk with the Team Owners' Association. The owners urged ending the strike at once, while ads for drivers appeared in papers and stores promised permanent positions. A mob wounded Charles Johnson of Standard Oil on Wentworth and 34th, and police responded to a riot call as the crowd dispersed.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Team Owners’ Association
Employers’ Association
Kinsley
Charles Johnson
Standard Oil Company
Wentworth Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Johnson
Patterson family drama unfolds after Nan Patterson release
Washington reports the first sign of Mrs. Patterson learning of Nan Patterson’s release. The reunion with sister Mrs. J Morgan Smith and brother in law J Morgan Smith followed their discharge by Justice Cowing on conspiracy charges in the Patterson case. Smith also faced contempt fines later paid by Nan Patterson.
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Washington
J. Morgan Smith
Justice Cowing
Court of General Sessions
Patterson
Smith
Nan Patterson
Over for Present Relation with France Neutrality Question
In St Petersburg on May 13 officials stated that the danger of serious complications over France's neutrality is viewed as over for the present. Japan's irritation over safeguarding interests amid looming naval conflict raised alarms about a British-backed attitude toward France. The British government meanwhile urged pacific moves by influencing Tokyo.
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St. Petersburg
Japan
France
Tokio
Pacific
Officer Slain in Nizhni on Return from Theater
The body of Lieutenant Colonel Greschner was buried with state pomp in Nizhni Novgorod after being shot entering his residence at midnight May 11. A wreath on the coffin bore the inscription The Emperor and noted he was foully murdered for service, with civil and military authorities attending.
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Nizhni, Novogorod
Greschner
Murder of Vice Admiral Naziff by an orderly
In St. Petersburg on Saturday Vice Admiral Naziff was shot and killed in his room by an orderly. The orderly fired three shots from a revolver, the motive given as anger over dismissal from duties and orders to proceed to the front.
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St. Petersburg
Naziff
Warships sighted near Three Kings Rocks and Kamranh Bay
Seventeen war ships were seen on May 10 with twelve off Three Kings Rocks near Yan Fung bay. Transports were observed at Kuabepan near Hon Hai Kohe bay, about seventy five miles north of Kamranh Bay.
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Hongkong
Three Kings Rocks
Yan Fong Bay
Kuabepan
Hon Hai-Kohe Bay
Kamranh Bay
Arkansas farm meeting with Secretary Wilson promotes diversification
Farmers from towns within 200 miles of Little Rock packed the House of Representatives as Secretary Wilson and Agriculture Department officials spoke. They urged more experimental stations and soil study, highlighted forestry in Arkansas, and stressed diversified farming with grains and forage research.
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Little Rock
House of Representatives
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Arkansas
Maine
Spillman
Agricultural Department
Carleton
Whitecap cases heard in Federal court in Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi on May 13 the Franklin county whitecap trials opened in federal court with 400 Franklin county residents present. The first indictments target A M Newman assessor J N Halford treasurer James Whitehead and six others amid demurrers alleging no specific offenses. United States Senator McLaurin is among defense lawyers. About 300 Franklin county citizens face indictment for allegedly intimidating a government homesteader.
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Jackson
Miss
Franklin County
A. M. Newman
J. N. Halford
James Whitehead
Niles
United States
McLaurin
Multiple Tex scene shocks and incidents across towns
News in brief reports several disasters and crimes. In Cooper and Naples Texas houses were blown from foundations, Duncan and Lone Oak struck by lightning left potential casualties, a Kennedy woman fatally shot herself, five murder suspects jailed in Muskogee, and a Montana mine blast killed five with two wounded. A general conference of Adventists met in Washington.
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Cooper
Tex
Duncan
EL. T
George Bumpas
Brantley
Montana
Waxahachie
Naples
Camp County
Texas
T. D. Puckett
Kennedy
Muskogee
Lone Oak
Bowen Pope
Paraffine Oil Company
Dayton
Humble
Paint Rock
Concho County
Butte
Mont
Will Young
Shreveport
General Conference of Advantists
Washington
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Ashland
Howell Bros
Sellers
M. H. James
Catarra
Gryr
City Drug Store
Franklin
Stevenson Machine
Bryan
Oliver
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Letter
Nazitoff
Arkansas House of Representaives
Mississippi
Hill’s Cascaret
DR. N. M. McDougald
Emmel & Maloney
E. J. Jenkins
John Wittman
Buchanan
Ss. W. Buchanan
Bryan Sham Laundry
Poss Morley Dal
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