Murdered wife found with husband wounded in Illinois home
In Evanston Illinois Mrs Fred Fish a wealthy retired broker's wife was found dead in her residence. Her husband lay unconscious in the same room with his throat cut. Police believe he killed her then attempted suicide. He was rushed to a hospital. A quarrel preceded the tragedy. The woman was shot in the head and hacked with a butcher knife. The husband suffered long illness and depression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
Ill
Fred Fish
Fish
Infant Much Alive In Racine After Apparent Death
In Racine Wisconsin Sept 7 a coroner and undertaker prepared for an inquest into a seven month old girl's death. The infant opened her eyes and screamed after being pronounced dead, then revived with cries and tears amid a grieving mother in the adjoining room. The episode occurred at the home of Michael Poplowski and halted formal proceedings briefly as the child showed signs of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Wis
Micheal Poplowski
CityHospital to be burned to quell plague outbreak
The board of health urged the board of supervisors to burn the city and county hospital which has sheltered several plague cases. The supervisors scheduled a meeting to decide on the action to be taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Board of Health
Board of Supervisors
Firemen Parade Honors National Delegates in Oklahoma City
A street parade in Oklahoma City celebrated delegates to the National Fireman's association. The event recognized visiting officials and participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
National Fireman's Association
Receiver Appointed for Belding Hall Manufacturing Co
Chicago on September 7 reports a receiver has been appointed for Belding Hall Manufacturing Company makers of refrigerators. Assets are listed at 400 00 and liabilities at 500 000, signaling financial distress and court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Belding Hall Manufacturing Company
Subtreasurer Atkins Bitten by Dog in St. Louis
In St. Louis on September 7 United States Subtreasurer Atkins suffered a bad bite from a dog and received medical attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
United States
Atkins
Four Men Arrested Over Dining Car Robberies in Chicago
Four men believed tied to a string of dining car robberies in Chicago were arrested in a Twenty third Street apartment raid. Police recovered hundreds of dollars in loot and expensive dresses said to be worn on the thefts. Ring leader I J St Cloud, once a cook on the Diamond Special of Illinois Central, and partners August Klingern Edward Mortimer Louis Thomas St Cloud shared a flat. Detectives say they may link the group to other similar robberies by women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Twenty-third
Wabash Avenue
Ilinois Central Railroad
I. J. St. Cloud
Ilinois Central
August Klingern
Edward Mortimer
Louis Thomas St. Cloud
Broad Texas News Snapshots Across Counties
A sprawling roundup notes varied Texas happenings from Dallas parks ownership and acres to a gas strike near Sulphur Springs. It records August births in Wise County, a Dallas boy injured by a falling ice cake, a boiler explosion in Holland and a disastrous pond drowning near Chattanooga. A Terrell crossing fine, Timpson murder conviction, San Angelo bank plans, Amarillo investments, and Montgomery copper plant fire are listed, with assorted local incidents, arrests, and legal outcomes across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wise County
Texas
Willie Eigen
Dallas
Holland
Tex
Jeff McMahon
James Brewster
Chattanooga
Terrell
Timpson
Will Howard
Jim Cramy
San Angelo
Banking and Trust Company
Capital Stock
G. L. Oliver
Amarillo
Denton County
Alabama Copper Company
Montgomery
Constitution
Boston
Annapolis
Iger
Enid
Okla
Carneter
Fear Farm
Tyler
Horace Austity
Lamar County
Sear Blossom
Ed Johnson
W.D Williams
Itizen
Michael Sill
Davidson
Petesnteen
German farmer acquitted in Sunday work case near Denison
Carl Dignowitty, a German farmer east of Denison, was acquitted in Sherman County Court after admitting he plowed corn on a Sunday to save his crop of Mexican June corn amid urgent weather conditions. The trial drew significant local attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman, Tex
Carl Dignowitty
Denison
Dignowitty
Prisoner Sir Harry MacLean Suffering From Chills
Letters from Tangier reveal Raisuli abuses of captive Sir Harry MacLean captured in July. He sleeps on a bare floor with a carpet for cover and a missing roof section above. He says four guards keep watch while Raisuli sends milk but provides no mattress or proper shelter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caid
Harry MacLean
Raisuli
Sir Harry
Harry
Roosevelt Visits Riding Academy Review
President and Mrs. Roosevelt observed the riding class at Oyster Bay riding academy. Athis and Quentin Roosevelt participated as the president watched the girls ride astride and expressed support for that riding method for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Riding Academy
Here
Athis
Quentin Roosevelt
Son Slays Sire in Alabama Village Tragedy
Frank Lee, described as demented but harmless, attacked his sister in MarLing and killed his aged father with a club. Five men restrained the assailant after he turned violent in the family home near Gadsden Alabama on September 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadsden
Ala
Frank Lee
Marling
First football accident reported at Chicopee practice
Chicopee Mass Sept 7 eighteen year old Broderick Crages of Chicopee High School broke his collarbone within a minute of practice starting in a mass play marking the season's first football accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicopee
Mass
Broderick Crages
Street duel ends with wounded Fort Worth man and dead bystander
In Bowie Texas on September 7 Walker Hargrove of Fort Worth was seriously wounded after a street duel with Porter Brodie of Bowie. A stray bullet killed bystander W A Stoner. Hargrove and Brodie were arrested after the melee and bond was posted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
Tex
Walker Hargrove
Fort Worth
W. A. Stoner
Porter Brodie
Hargrove
Brodie
Twelve Die as Rock Island Passenger Jumps Track
Twelve people were killed and twelve injured when a northbound Rock Island express derailed near Norris Iowa and plowed into a standing freight. Among the dead are B B Oliver and W H Goodman of Waterloo and L Landphere of Shell Rock with three unidentified victims and several injured. The wreck occurred as the express, ten minutes late, struck the freight engine at Norris siding three miles north of Cedar Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Rock Island Railroad
Norris
B. B. Oliver
W. H. Goodman
Dike
B. R. Christy
Minneapolis. Y
Toja
Hammond
Ind
W. H. Myers
Burlington
Norris Siding
Cedar Falls
Murder over marriage plans shocks Nacogdoches
In Nacogdoches County Texas O G Owens a well known young farmer en route to marry Miss Maggie Wilkerson was murdered fifteen miles from town His body lay in the woods with a crushed skull and the marriage license soaked with blood found in his pocket Police suspect robbery as motive Miss Wilkerson is prostrated with grief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nacogdoches
Tex
O. G. Owens
Maggie Wilkerson
Owens
Miss Wilkerson
Postal Telegraph Company Sues Union Over Unpaid Telegrams
The Postal Telegraph company filed suit against the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America for refusing to pay for telegrams. The union would not pay unless messages were certified as delivered by sending chasers. The case is scheduled for Sept 11. Warrants for Samuel J. Ulrich and R. N. Nichols, striking union members, accuse them of intimidation. George S. Davis is the complainant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Postal Telegraph Company
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Telegraph Company
R. N. Nichols
Commercial Telegraphers' Union
George S. Davis
Poste! Company
Roosevelt to Join Wild Boar Hunt With Javelins
Reports from San Antonio say a wild boar hunt using javelins rather than rifles is planned for President Roosevelt. An experimental hunt south of San Antonio is to be tried soon, with several of the president’s acquaintances reportedly taking part and promising he may join during his southern and western tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
San Antonio
Roosevelt
Ewing Expires oldtime newspaper writer dies
Elkton Md Sept 7 word reached of the death of William Pinkney Ewing an oldtime newspaper writer at Harpersville New York aged seventy nine In the fifties he was with the Cincinnati Daily Atlas until its merger with the Gazette and later with the Southern Ladies Book New Orleans Trinidad Colo Sept 7 Dr Mcbae Beshear founder of the Pueblo fountain and Trinidad Advertiser is aged seventy four a surgeon in the Confederate army
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkton
William Pinkney Ewing
Harpersville
N. Y
Ewing
Cincinnati Daily Atlas
The
Gazette
Southern Ladies’ Book
New Orleans
Trinidad, Colo
Mcbae Beshear
Pueblo Fitain
Trinidad Advertiser
Dean
Fugitives Sought By Father After Son’s Kidnapping
Peter Lamana arrived in New Orleans after travels to St. Louis and Chicago in search of suspects in his son’s kidnaping and murder. He said fugitives were recognized there but no trace could be found. The Black Hand scare in St James parish prompts authorities to round up suspicious Italians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Peter Lamana
Illinois Central
Chicago
Lamana
St. Louis
St. James Parish
Baltimore Journal Founder August Gisin Dies at 54
August Gisin, founder of the Baltimore Journal, a German journalist, died in Baltimore on September 7. He was fifty four years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
August Gisin
The
Baltimore Journal
Court Building Burns In Eufaula Oklahoma Territory
A fire in Eufaula on September 7 destroyed the United States court officials building along with the Territorial Mercantile Trust company furniture and the Republican newspaper plant and Mills furniture store. Deeds and records of Deputy United States clerks were saved. Loss estimated at 30000 dollars with 10000 dollars insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eufaula
I. T
United States Court Oficials
United States
Marshall
Territorial Mercantile Trust Company
Republican
Robbers Strike Train Car in Murdock Nebraska
Three masked men boarded the Omaha and Texas express near Murdock Nebraska and robbed every passenger in a chair car. They held trainmen at gunpoint and escaped on foot after taking pocketbooks and valuables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murdock, Neb
Rock Island
National Firemen elect officers at Oklahoma City meeting
Oklahoma City on September 7 reports the National Firemen's association elected new officers. C. C. Chain of Bushnell Illinois was named president. S. Johnson M. Sherwood of Neosho Missouri became vice president. Peter B. McCarty of St. Louis will serve as secretary. Guy Northrup of Detroit is treasurer and Robert Grace of Oklahoma City named organizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
National Firemen’s Association
C. C. Chain
Bushnell
Sr. Johnson M. Sherwood
Neosho
Peter B. McCarty
St. Louis
Guy Northrup
Detroit
Robert Grace
Roosevelt to focus on annual message and western trip speeches
President Roosevelt will finish his annual message to congress and complete the planned speeches for his west and south tour. Secretary Loeb stated Sagamore Hill visitors will be markedly scarce for the remainder of the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Congress
Loeb
Sagamore Hill
Romine Shot Dead Near Montague in Unknown-Attacker Case
In Montague Texas on September 7 J T Romine was shot and killed by an unknown assailant while walking with his son Will Romine two miles from town. The two were returning to their home when the fatal volley occurred, authorities said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montague
Tex
J. T. Romine
Romine
Will Romine
Lightning kills two children near Elba
A special to the Advertiser from Elba Alabama reports that two seven-year-old children were struck by lightning at the home of Lewis Taylor eight miles west of Elba. They were playing on the front veranda when the bolt struck, killing them instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Advertiser
Elba
Ala
Lewis Taylor
Train wreck near Richburg claims life and injures several
A log train wreck on the Henderson Boyd Lumber railroad near Richburg Alabama killed Fireman Joe Bryson and badly burned the engineer who was dining while the fireman ate. Several others were seriously hurt in the incident reported from Elba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Advertiser
Elba
Ala
Henderson-Boyd Lumber Company
Richburg
Joe Bryson
Five Seriously Injured In Seaboard Train Derailment
Five prisoners were seriously injured and many others slightly cut or bruised when an eastbound Seaboard Air Line passenger train derailed at Wilcox Creek one mile from Helena Georgia on September 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Seaboard Air Line
Wilcox Creek
Also Mentioned on This Page
Undertaker
Coroner
Grand Street Parade
S. T
Hary McLean
Tangier
Sister
Rock Island Road
Tion
ROYDE
JF Mitchell
Higgs & Haygood
John Wittman
S.H. Franklin
Stevenson Machine and Repair Works
Bryan
E. J. Jenkins
CRAIN
Willis House
W. C. Fountain
Mes
W. F. Miller
Best Dollar
Ceu P Sisis Vu
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!