Murderer Jones Burns Family in Garper Town Blaze
Raleigh dispatch reports Tom Jones known as Preacher Jones killed Ella Jones and daughter Ida, then set fire to their home in Garper, destroying the house and killing five children aged from one month to five years. Laura and Sid Jones escaped. Neighbors apprehended him amid bloodstained clothes and hands.
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Raleigh
D. C
Tom Jones
Preacher Jones
Ella Jones
Ida
Garper's
Here
Ida Jones
Josie Jones
Nancy Jones
Eva Jones
Laura Jones
Sid Jones
Jones
Settling with Germany and bold wartime plans
The Kreuz Zeitung discusses the South African war showing English unity and imperial cohesion while criticizing Lord Roberts and Rudyard Kipling. It notes Germany’s pending damages talks with Britain over ship seizures, Hans Wagner’s 150,000 mark award, and reports by German doctors on British camps. Germany plans more warships abroad, including in South Africa, and HeRBINE marketed by A. L. Tucker's.
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Berlin
Kreuz Zeitung
Lord Roberts
Rudyard Kipling
Cecil Rhodes
London
South African
England
Grermany
Hans Warner
Keremameher
Schmidt
South Africa
Damdurn
Reed Cross Society
German War Office
Germany
China
Platform Adopted by Democrats of Nebraska
The Nebraska Democratic convention platform, drafted with Bryan influence, endorses income tax, direct senatorial elections, initiative and referendum, pensions for veterans, and the Nicaraguan Canal. It attacks trusts, calls for anti trust enforcement, favors greenbacks, opposes the Dingley tariff, warns against Republican imperialism, and supports nonviolent trade expansion and pacific foreign policy. It opposes militarism and endorses Jeffersonian peace with all nations while aiding Cuban and Dutch struggles in Africa.
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Nebraska
William Jennings Bryan
Chicago
Republican Party
Congress
Puerto Rico
Central
South America
Republic
Jefferson
England
South Africa
Metcalf Faces Operation For Foot Wound
Wilder S. Metcalf, late colonel of the twentieth Kansas regiment, will undergo an operation due to a foot wound from the Philippines. He was shot at Guiguinto, left the field, and recovered enough to resume command, but the injury has troubled him since returning to America. He was in Topeka on legal business and can barely walk. Fulton plans a street fair next autumn following last year’s success.
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Topeka
Kans
Wilder S. Metcalf
Twentieth Kansas Regiment
Wille
Philippines
Guiguinto
America
Metcalf
Yaqui War Force Reinforcements Head for Front
Monterey dispatch reports the 6th Infantry will move to Yaqui country with about 4000 reinforcements from Monterey Guadalajara Chihuahua and Guanajuato. President Diaz seeks U S transit through Eagle Pass to Nogales for the force deployment in the coming four weeks. An aggressive summer campaign is expected to follow with confidence of success.
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Austin
Texas
Monterey
Mexico
Louis Torres
United States
Diaz
Eagle Pass
Tex
Nogales
Arizas
Bernardo Reyes
Guadalajara
Chihuahua
Guanajuato
Mrs Gould Sued Over Misfitting Waist in New York
In New York on March 20 Mrs. Howard Gould was served with a notice to appear in the Eight District Court over a suit by Mile Mirabella dressmaker seeking $85 for a blue panne and Russian lace waist. The plaintiff argues the waist fits. Mrs Gould contends it does not and may try it on in court.
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New York
Hower
Gould
S24
Fifth Avenue
Mile
Mirabella
Ball withdraws from governor race in Missouri
Ex senator D A Ball issues a card from St Louis withdrawing from the Democratic nomination race for governor citing Missouri politics as the reason. He reaffirms faith in the 1896 platform and criticizes state papers while thanking supporters for their past backing and offering future services. In Des Moines Iowa a house resolution opposes the Porto Rico tariff bill and is adopted unanimously.
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St. Louis
D. A. Ball
Missouri
Senator Ball
State Central Committee
Ball
Des Moines. In
Kendell
Iowa
Con
Catarrh Cure Claim Promises One Hundred Dollar Reward
A 19th century advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure fully cures catarrh, a constitutional disease, by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a One Hundred Dollar reward for any case it fails to cure and urges readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cuuxey & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
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Hail
Hall
F. J. Cuexey & Co
Tuiedo
O. Sem
Druegis
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North Carolina
Laura
Bears
Sistour
Arun
Morrow
John Morrow & Co. Chemists
Springfield
Ohio
North Fourth
Ike
Pero
Portugal
Rio Porto
Jakevine
Valle DE Menetiz
Alfred Speer
New Jersey
Passaic Valley
N. J
Air County
de l'Menetiz
Speer
Passaic
Hans Wagner
A. L. Tucker's
Democrats
Lew Wallace
Porto Rico
McKinley
Mark Hanna
Wallace
Kansas City Times
Fulton
Mrs. Howard Gould Sue
Pike County
Jalko
Geo. W. Ellis
J. F. Ludwick
East Side Square
Butler, MO
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