Convict Robert Jenkins Climbs Penitentiary Wall
Nashville dispatch reports Robert Jenkins a former convict climbed the state penitentiary wall to reach breakfast with the inmates he then went to the foundry for work after his identity was confirmed He had been imprisoned for grand larceny and was released Aug 10 He explained the act was to get better food comparing meals to his previous boarding and butter placement.
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Nashville
Robert Jenkins
State Penitentiary
Jenkins
Bob
Man travels to Italy to join suicide pact with lover
Luigi Contanziri, 34, left New York aboard the steamer La Provence to return to Locco Lombardi Italy and die on his sweetheart Josephine Ballantini's grave after she killed herself. His brother Antonio pleaded on the New York French line pier but could not stop him.
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New York
Havre
Luigi Contanziri
Locco
Lombardi
Italy
Antonio Contanziri
Luigi
Josephine Ballantini
Beaver
Okla
Josephine
Antonio
Paterson
N. J
Overdrawn Methods Expose Real Estate Trust Debacle
In Philadelphia on Sept. 7 the preliminary hearing for Adolph Segal, William F. North, and Marshall Collingwood revealed that overdrafts were kept as cash and approved by Hipple. The directorate allegedly certified false reports to the state banking department, risking liability for directors if falsity is proved. Depositors withdrew funds after insolvency was known.
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Philadelphia
Adolph Segal
William F. North
Marshall
Collingwood
Real Estate Trust Company
Berkey
State Banking Department
Bell
Segal
North
Hipple
Hiple
Western Sugar refinery pays large duty on Philippine sugar
West ern Sugar refinery in San Francisco has paid 97 876 dollars in duties at the customs on raw sugar from the Philippines loaded on the British steamer Seminole. The total duty was 103 276 dollars with 5 400 dollars previously paid at Manila. The San Francisco payment is 25 percent less than duties on sugar from a foreign country that goes to the Philippine fund rather than the U S treasury.
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San Francisco
Custom House
Philippines
Manila
United States Treasury
Philippine Fund
WEDDED ON GULF IN SEA WEDDING SHOCKS WILL
Miss Florence Elston married Eugene Durable on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico within the three mile limit. The ceremony occurred during a blow that sprayed the deck as it sailed past Louisiana orange groves her grandmother had forbidden through a will provision.
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New Orleans
Florence Elston
Eugene Durable
Gulf of Mexico
United States
Derabb
Elston
Louisiana
Crabb
Gompers Declares Naturalization and Citizenship
Lewiston Missouri September 7 President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor told a city hall audience that he was naturalized in New York in 1872 and has since been a citizen and legal voter.
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Lewiston
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
City Hall
Cannon
Gompers
New York
Gallant Confederate Captain Dies in Liverpool
Captain John Low, who served under Admiral Semmes on the Confederate cruiser Alabama during the Civil War, died in Liverpool on Thursday September 7.
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Liverpool
John Low
Admiral Semmes
Alabama
Republicans to name full state ticket in Birmingham
The Republican state executive committee will cancel the late September primaries and nominate a full state ticket. Charles Scott of Montgomery is expected to be nominated for governor and A Wimbs, a Black candidate, will withdraw as lieutenant governor hopeful.
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Birmingham
Republican State Executive Committee
Charles Scott
Montgomery
A. Wimbs
Stensland Turned Over to U S Officials in Tangier
Chicago report states Paul Stensland has been turned over to Assistant States Attorneys Olsen and Barbour in Tangier. Olsen and James Keeley of the Chicago Tribune are expected to begin the voyage home with Stensland immediately.
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Chicago
Barbour
Olsen
James Keeley
The
Chicago Tribune
Tangier
Paul Stensland
Stansland
Keeley
Stensland
Stensland Surrender Warrant Sent From Washington
A Washington telegram to Assistant State's Attorney Barbour reports President Roosevelt cabled the American minister at Tangier to surrender Stensland. Also notes Bryan's post New York visit and planned tour through southern states. Wichita reports grain congestion delaying Santa Fe wheat shipments. John E. King dies by morphine and carbolic acid in Shreveport after illness.
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Chicago
Washington
Barbour
Roosevelt
Tangier
Stensland
Wichita
Kan
Galveston
Santa Fe
Gulf Port
Shreveport
John E. King
Austin
Tex
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Silas B. Johnson
Parker
RYE
Montreal Rye
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Prop
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