Student Slays Student in Edwardsville Shooting
In Edwardsville a college student James Vaughan shot and killed Jackson Barker and wounded Elbert Jones and Bart McCormick during a fight tied to election day. Barker died from heart wounds after Vaughan, a special deputy, was placed on a train to Anniston for safekeeping amid potential lynching fears.
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Anniston
Ala
Edwardsville
James Vaughan
Jackson Barker
Elbert Jones
Bart McCormick
Jones
McCormick
Barker
Vaughan
Heflin
Rubick Confesses Murder Involving Wife Plot
Albert Rubick testified he killed Emil Kneasnicka in North Judson to marry the jeweler's wife. He said the wife knew and helped plan the crime as he pursued the woman's hand. The confession follows months of silence after Rubick was detained in the case. In a separate dispatch, Paris reports the death of Victorien Sardou, France’s famed dramatist, at age and notes his key work Diplomacy and his rise to prominence.
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Knox
Ind
Albert Rubick
Emil Kneasnicka
Chicago
Kneasnicka
North Judson
Rubick
Paris
Victorien Sardou
Maurice Barrymore
America
France
Accidental Shooting Slays Clerk in Pueblo
Bowen Smith twenty seven was shot through the heart and killed by his roommate Albert Kennard in Pueblo Colorado. Kennard claims the pistol mis fired while he was trying to awaken Smith with the muzzle in his side. He is under arrest awaiting further action.
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Pueblo
Colo
Bowen Smith
Albert Kennard
Kennard
Smith
Safe cracked and robbed in Abilene area post office
The post office at Tokeen in Runnels County was robbed when the safe was cracked with nitro glycerin, and about $600 was taken. The incident occurred on November 9 in Abilene, Texas.
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Abilene
Tex
Tokeen
Runnels County
Pierce Surrenders in Oyster Suit Case at Austin
Oil magnate H. Clay Pierce arrived in Austin for perjury proceedings in the Waters-Pierce oil case. He faced a $20,000 bond set by Judge Calhoun and was escorted by aides to the Driskill Hotel before heading to the courthouse. Sureties total about 5 million in value. case continued to the January term. Assignment announced: Boston stock exchange firm Burnham Bennett & Co. assigns.
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Austin
H. Clay Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Katy
H. S. Priest
Colonel Fordyce
E. B. Perkins
Sam Canty
George Clark
Pierce
Priest
Fordyce
Driskill Hotel
Matthews
Ben Thompson
Clark
J. H. Robertson
Calhoun
Hamilton
Campbell
St. Louis
George W. Littlefield
Joseph Nalle
Walter Tips
W. R Hamby
H. A. Wroe
Chester Thrasher
Theo Low
George L. Hume
P. J Lawless
A. J. Eilers
Texas
Schooner Aloas Grounds Near South Jetty
The Gulf Fisheries company schooner Aloas grounded near the south jetty while inbound from the Mexican coast after veering off course during a swell. Tugs were sent to pull the vessel free.
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Galveston
Gulf Fisheries Company
Aloas
Fire destroys Hobbs cotton gin and thirty bales in Weatherford
Hobbs cotton gin and thirty bales of cotton burned in Weatherford Texas. Loss estimated at 20000 dollars with eight thousand dollars insured. Night riders blamed for the blaze. In San Antonio Otto Bloss killed by shotgun accident with facial injury.
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Weatherford
Tex
Hobbs
San Antonio
Otto Bloss
Lord Mayor Show Promises A Grand Pageant
London on November 9 staged a dignified lord mayor show celebrating Sir George Truscott succeeding Sir John Charles Bell. The highlight was a historical pageant organized by Louis N. Parker the American dramatist.
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London
George Truscott
John Charles Bell
Louis N. Parker
Four Fatalities From Raid on Negro Quarters
Birmingham reports detail a police raid on a blind pig in the negro quarters. Officers Little and Warnock were wounded, while Will Harris the proprietor and his infant child were mortally wounded and died en route to a hospital.
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Birmingham
de Little
Robert Warnock Weed
Will Harris
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Newton
Duluth
Minn
Wisconsin Central Yards
New York
Tobaccco Company
United States Circuit Court
Bond
Case
Boston
Burnham, Bennett & Co
Boston Stock Exchange
G. S. Parker
A. W. Wilkerson
J. W. English
E. H. Astin
J. K. Parker
J. N. Cole
Roduce
Drew Selby
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