El Paso Insurance Murder Plot Ends in Execution
In Chihuahua Judge Rice sentenced C. T. Richardson C. T. Harle and William Mason to be shot for murdering two men Devers and Mitchell to obtain life insurance. Richardson Mason and Harle hailed from Rochester and El Paso, with aliases used amid a three year Mexican court case described as a major life insurance swindle. In New York, election frauds tied to a dance hall murder at Little Naples on Great Jones Street sparked a gun battle leaving Harrington dead and injuries to Zuckerman.
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Chihuahua
Rice
C. T. Richardson
C. T. Harle
William Mason
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Harle
Devers
Pl Paso
Mitchell
Rochester
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FE Paso
William Mitchell
Leslie FE. Hulburt
Miss Mitchell
Mexico
New York
W. F. Harrington
Naples
Abraham Zuckerman
Great Jones Street
Paul Kelly
East Side
Harrington
Bernard Esotte
The
Liberty Association
Kelly
Esotte
New Fast Train De Luxe Planned Between St Louis and Mexico
A group of prominent railroad men in Laredo announced the creation of an international De Luxe train service linking St. Louis and the City of Mexico. The schedule fixes January 16 from St. Louis and January 20 from City of Mexico with a six car consist and full luxury amenities. The southbound trip departs St. Louis at 9 am, reaches Laredo next day at 6 pm, then City of Mexico by 7:15 am, returning to Laredo at 10 am and St. Louis by 5 pm the following night.
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H. C. Townsend
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St. Louis
Laredo
City of Mexico
Hearst Replies to Beeville Editor on New York Race
William R. Hearst writes Beeville Bee editor McCurdy thanking him for support and pledging to contest alleged fraud in New York aftermath. He states motive is good government, not seeking the mayor’s office, and denounces political bosses.
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William R. Hearst
New York
McCurdy
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Beeville Bee
Hearst
W. R. Hearst
Debris and Blood After Vladivostok Riots Reported
Eye witnesses reaching Moji and Nagasaki from Vladivostok describe streets littered with debris and blood with many corpses still exposed as of Nov 20. Food supply was scant due to destruction of storehouses, barely enough for twenty days.
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Tokio
Moji
Nagasaki
Frightful Deed Negro Murders Wife and Her Parents
Meridian Mississippi report says John Brown, a Birmingham born negro, shot and killed his wife and her father and mother at their home Wednesday night and then fled. A battalion of regular infantry at Fort Sam Houston will attend the Austin encampment.
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Meridian
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Birmingham
Fort Sam Houston
Austin
Criticism of Bryan over war stool purchase in Japan
News from Victoria and Newnan reports that Japanese papers criticized W. J. Bryan during his Japan visit for attempting to buy the war stool used by Admiral Togo at Ueno Park in Tokyo. The Ogasawara family refused sale, Bryan returned the stool after learning its sacred value, and salvage work on Mikasa continued aboard the Shawmut. A second item notes a drive in Newnan to establish a female educational institution akin to Van derbilt university within the Southern Methodist church, to be endorsed by the North Georgia Methodist conference.
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W. J. Bryan
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Japanes
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Yokohama
Jiji Shimpo
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North Georgia Methodist Conference
Southern Methodist Church
Vanderbuilt University
Methodist School For Boys
Nashville
General Conference
Birmingham
Ala
Cresceus Trotting Stallion Sells for 21000 at Auction
Cresceus world champion trotting stallion record 2.02% sold for 21000 at the Old Glory horse sale in New York to W. M. Savage of Minneapolis. Only other bid was 20000 from P. H. Mc Guire of New York. Former owner was George H. Ketcham of Toledo Ohio.
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Stevenson Machine
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Montreal
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Natuce
Bryan Steam Laundry
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