Thaw Case Moves Forward as Alienists Testify
District Attorney Jerome completes cross examination of Dr Britton D Evans in the Harry K Thaw trial and eyes potential rebuttal. Dr Charles G Wagney testifies next with Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw expected to follow as defense case nears completion.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Jerome
Britton D. Evans
Evans
Charles G. Wagney
Binghamtos
N. Y
Thaw
William Thaw
Justice Fitzgerald
Allan McLane Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton
Howard Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Evelyn Nesbt
Twenty-fourth Street
Madison Square Roof Garden
Trainmen badly scalded in engine boiler blast near Connellsville
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on March 5 two trainmen on Baltimore and Ohio freight No. 2248 were severely scalded when a turbine sheet burst. James J. Kennedy 22 Hyndman Pa will die while M T Bishe 25 Ocean Md remains in serious condition. Both were taken to Connellsville Hospital.
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Connellsville
Baltimore & Ohio
James J. Kennedy
Hyndman
M. T. Bishe
Ocean
Stewarton
Here
Connellsville Hospital
Kennedy
Bishe
Judge Hargis on Trial Amid Tense Jackson Court
In Lexington Kentucky on March 5 Judge Carnes will preside at a special Jackson term to try Judge James Hargis for the assassination of Dr B D Cox. Accompanied by the state guard from Lexington and part of the Frankfort battery, a potential courtroom clash looms with Hargis his attorney W A Young and Prosecuting Attorney A Floyd Byrd facing risks of deadly violence. Byrd warned he would be killed if the fight occurs as Jackson is described as filled with excited mountaineers.
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Stanford White
Evans
Wagner
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit
Paris
Usin
Jerome
Dr. Wagner
Lexington
State Guard
Frankfort
Carnes
Jackson
James Hargis
B. D Cox
Hargis
W. A. Young
A. Floyd Byrd
Byrd
Cambridge surveyors reach city for Zanesville-Wheeling electric road
Surveyors for the Zanesville-Wheeling Enter-Urban Electric Road have moved from New Concord toward Cambridge. They are running a line through the Bair Ground addition and past the pumping station toward the Marietta division, aiming to enter Cambridge from the southeast. The project, paired with the Union depot and other improvements, could connect Cambridge with Tri-State Electric lines, offering Guernsey county residents easier access to nearby cities.
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Zanesville-Wheeling
Cambridge
Leatherwood Creek
Marietta Division
Preached Against Secret Societies Draws Ashland Stir
Ashland March 5 Rev Harvey E Simon of Trinity English Lutheran Church resigned after a sermon attacking secret societies. He refused to officiate at a Masonic and an I O O F funeral, provoking a sharp public rebuke from fraternity members.
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Ashland
Harvey E. Simon
Trinity English Lutheran Church
Probate court names heirs and executor cases
Elizabeth C. Gray appointed guardian of John George and Francis Jay Bliss Lake administrator of Maude Lake. Court lists jury panel for April 8 with Hayes Kimball Washington, Charles Morris Richland, Stobo Connor Spencer.
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Rudolph Wilhelm
Cambriidge
Anna Meigheh
Harmoy
Elizabeth C. Gray
Gaaroo
John, George
Francis Jay
Bliss Lake
Admr
Maude
Lake
Howard Lake
Hayes Kimball
Washington
Charles Morris
Richland
Stobo Connor
Spencer
Lingafeler Must Serve Sentence After Supreme Court Ruling
Columbus reports the State Supreme Court overruled a motion to file a petition in error in J. F. Lingafelter's case. Lingafelter, sentenced to four years for wrecking a Newark bank, must serve the term. Additional items: a Chicago to New York fast train wreck near Trivoli injures six, including M W Collins of Akron and J H Berkley of Clyde. Richards Colliery at Mt Carmel explosion injures thirty. Dr Wagner cross examination resumes in Thaw case. Colonel J C Thomas, governor of the National Soldiers Home, dies.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
J. F. Lingafelter
Newark
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Chicago
New York
New York Central
Trivoli
M.W. Collins
Akron
J. H. Berkley
Clyde
O. Pittsville
Penn
Richards
Mt. Carmel
Wagner
Dayton
J. C. Thomas
National Soldier’s Home
Mrs Naomi Spellman Dies After Stroke At Columbus Home
Mrs Naomi Spellman mother of Mrs C B Wilson of this city died at her daughter Mrs Susan Sedgwick's home 1240 East Long Street Columbus Ohio following paralysis and a final stroke. She was about seventy years old. Services were held at the residence Tuesday and the body sent to Alexandria Licking County her old home for burial.
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Naomi Spellman
C. B. Wilson
Susan Sedgwick
East Longstreet
Columbus
Sonvaean
Alexandria
Licking County
Deserting father tied to child's thefts in Ohio
In Bellefontaine on March 5 Louis Moore was arrested in Piqua and brought back on desertion charges involving his three minor children. Homer Moore, 12, testified that since age five his father sent him to steal, directing where to go and what to take. Recent thefts included a city hall stepladder and a leather belt from a sawmill valued at 145 dollars. Separately in Bellaire two workers fell 90 feet from an elevator at the blast furnace, the clutch failing, killing John Shimik and Joe Sobesky instantly.
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Bellefontaine
Louis Moore
Piqua
Homer Moore
Lancaster Reform School
Bellaire, O
John Shimik
Joe Sobesky
Bellaire
Fail in Effort to Settle Strike in Portsmouth
In Portsmouth on March 5 a conference of street car company officials strikers and the board of trade failed to settle the strike. The strikers demanded a time-bound guarantee for shorter hours before returning to work, which officials refused. The company will rely on local authorities for protection as cars resume service with strikebreakers. A force of deputies and 30 special policemen are to be added and night police ordered. Three strikebreakers were beaten by strike sympathizers last night.
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Portsmouth
Street Car Company
Board of Trade Directors
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Gillen
Congress Ends With Record Appropriations and Gift to Grosvenor
The Fifty-ninth Congress closes after a record $919 million in appropriations for 1908 plus $198 million more over the prior session. President Roosevelt signs 40 bills as he meets departing members. A silver service is presented to General Grosvenor, while Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon are praised for fair leadership.
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Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Senate
Capitol
House
Spooner
Grosvenor
Fairbanks
Cannon
Allison
Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Livingston
House Committee
Steve Adams Defense Portrays Miner Case as Pawn in Clash
In Wallace Idaho on March 5 attorneys for Steve W. Adams of the Western Federation of Miners argued the Idaho murder case is a broader fight between mine owners and the union. They claimed Adams is scapegoated to implicate leaders like Moyer Haywood and Pettibone in a larger conspiracy, and questioned the state's handling of Adams confession and detective influence.
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Wallace
Idaho
Steve Adams
Adams
T. F. Richard
Steve W. Adams
Western Federation of Miners
Fred Tyler
Western Federation
Mine Owners’ Association
Richardson
Clarence Darrow
Capitol
West
Darrow
Moyer
Haywood
Pettibone
Steunenberg
Tyler
Boyle
Detective McPartland
Governor Gooding
Sheriff Thiel
Boise
McPartland
Thiel
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Judge Carnes
Zanesville—Wheel
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New Concord
Columbus, O
Cleveland, Southwestern & Columbus Railway Co
Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Co
Cleveland, Ashland & Mansfield Traction Co
Ohio Central Traction Co
Pomeroy-Mandelbaum
Wooster
Mansfield
Bucyrus
Columbus, Delaware & Marion
Erie
Fisher
Washington, Pa
Sherman Grim
Waynesburg
Greensburg
Speckler & Marks
New Florence
Harrisburg
Thomas McCamant
Pennsylvania
Kittanning
Philadelphia
The
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Tidewater
Uniontown
Jacob Bowman
Wymps Gap
Methodist Episcopal Ministers of
Altoona
James White
Court House News
Lingafelter
Ohio
Gongress
Bolid
Beth
Fifty-ninth Congress
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Miners’ Union
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