Strange Journey of C. H. Schlegel Inheritance Claim
Mrs. Schlegel tells of her husband C. H. Schlegel a Buffalo area homesteader heading toward New York by train sped by a vision claiming an inheritance unjustly withheld by his mother and sisters. The tale centers on a German aunt who left wealth to a stepson then to Schlegel's family. the will's terms sparked dispute and travel.
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C. H. Schlegel
Cheyenne
New York
Seymore Street
Schlegel
Germany
Lfe
Buffalo
Lammie County
Women Hear Filthy Testimony In Court
Cambridge Dec 9 Nearly a dozen witnesses in the Leblanc murder trial describe Glover as persistent with women while Hattie LeBlanc is charged. Testimony includes indecent epithets and threats of death with notes of a desire to rid herself of her husband.
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Cambridge, Mays
Leblanc
Glover
Waltham
Hattie LeBlanc
Hattie le Blanc
Irene le Blanc Langley
Charlton Loses Long Fight Over Extradition
Secretary Knox granted Italy’s request to surrender Porter Charlton for the murder of his wife at Lake Como. The decision upholds the extradition treaty obligating the U S to surrender fugitives despite Italy’s stance on its own citizens. The question of Charlton’s sanity remains for the courts.
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Washington
Knox
Italy
Porter Charlton
Lake Como
United States
Charlton
Santiago de Cuba Jolted by Strong Earthquake Shock
Santiago de Cuba, capital of the province, was shaken at nine o'clock to night by a heavy earthquake. The city is in great alarm but so far no damage has been reported.
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Santiago DE Cuba
Havana
AEROPLANE IN MILITARY USE INDORSED BY WAR SECRETARY
Secretary Dickinson endorses aeroplanes for military use and urges Congress to fund the signal corps for instructional and field work. He notes the United States first flew at Fort Myer in 1908 but current aeronautical equipment remains scarce and unfortified coastal defenses need guns at Cape Charles Henry and western Long Island Sound.
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Washington
France
Dickinson
Congress
Signal Corps
United Btatoo
Fort Myer
Sasso
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic Sea
Cape Charies
Cape Henry
Sounti
Home Porte
Colorado women plan boycott over Ladies' Home Journal attack
Denver reports a organized boycott movement by Colorado women across several groups after Richard Barry attacked suffrage in the Ladies' Home Journal. The Colorado Equal Suffrage Aid Association considers legal action and calls for mass subscription revocation to pressure the publication. Miss Jesse Walker urged loyal Colorado women to cancel their subscriptions.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Richard Barry
Ladies’ Home Journal
Edward Bok
Barry
Commonwealth of Colorado
National Equal Suffrage Association
Barton O. Aylesworth
State Agricultural College
Barry E
Sarah Platt Decker
Omar F. Garwood
Colorado Equal Suffrage Aid Association
Garwood
Wmqual Suffrage Aid Association
Flur
Clio Club
Jesse Walker
Panama Canal Bonds May Relieve Treasury
Washington plans machinery to issue Panama Canal bonds to stop the drain on the treasury working balance. Secretary MacVeigh held a long conference with Senator Aldrich, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, on the proposal.
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Washington
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeigh
Aldrich
Senate Committee On Finance
Steamer Grounds in Storm Off Oowoge Island
Twenty people are rescued from a storm incident on Lake Ontario after a steamer runs aground. Half the party remained on a stranded vessel while the others reached shore in life boats as waves flood the boiler room and fires are tilted out. A second steamer later aids the survivors.
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Oowoge, N
Lake Ontario
al Dende
St Louis Colonel Tops World Beer Drinking Challenge
Col Abe Bhupsky of St. Louis won the world beer gulping feat by finishing twenty bottles a day for thirty days and drinking six hundred bottles in all He won a cash prize of 260 and tailored clothes He boasted of challenging any man to beat his record and claimed water had not touched his lips for over a month perfecting his own beer temperature method while celebrating with local dignitaries.
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St. Louis
Dec
Abe Bhupsky
Colonel Shupsky
Nix
Albany and Laramie counties probe wholesale horse thefts
Authorities in Albany and Laramie counties chase a major horse theft ring. Seven horses recovered near Horse Creek and two suspects, Frank Murray and James Fitzgerald, surrender as investigators link operations to horse movement from Korsa Creek to Greeley and Denver. Carter and Frazee are also tied to the case.
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Albany
Laramie
Laramie County
Horse Creek
Albany County
Frank Murray
Kowers
Cheyenne
Greeley
James Fitzgerald
Frank Carter
William Frazee
Hughes
Murray
Fitzgerald
Korsa Creek
Wyo
Colo
Denver
Carter
Frazee
Mob Attacks I W W Headquarters in Freano Calif
A mob attacks the Industrial Workers of the World in Freano, burning their headquarters and beating members on the street. They surround the county jail where prisoners are held and demand transfer of jailed workers, but no entry is made. The mob action marks a culmination of a campaign against the I W W and its free speech activities.
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MOM
Powers
Population growth and reapportionment in state history
The article notes faster population growth from 1900 to 1910 than 1800 to 1900, cites 1900 and 1905 census figures, and explains reapportionment duties for the eleventh legislature once 1910 census data are available. It mentions the 1910 census forthcoming and past reapportionments after the state census.
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Wyoming
Major General Wallace Randolph Dies by Own Hand
Washington reports Major General Wallace F. Randolph retired U S Army a veteran of the Civil War and Spanish War committed suicide in his home. His widow survives. Mrs Ralph discovered the body after a second shot as weather forecasters note a light south portion of wind and rain.
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Wallace F. Randolph
Howe
Raphulph
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Buygutt OF
Buk
Prutes
Panama Canal
Col. Shufsky
Guzzler
Coralling Gang
WYONG
Census Bureau
Ft. Russell
Fort Russell
WH. Dana Durand
Washington, D. C
Homer Merrill
Rawlins
Brooks
J. M. Wilson
Douglas
Groesbeck
Wyoming Supreme Court
de. G. P. Johnston
É. L. Murray
J. C. Thompson, Sr
M. J. Meyer
Sheridan
Wallace
Llueva
Weather Deport
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