Thaw Goes On Trial For White Death In New York
Principal witnesses for the State held a final secret conference with the attorney team as Harry K Thaw prepares to stand trial for the murder of Stanford White. The case is billed as the most sensational homicide of a generation with debate over sanity and unwritten law as key defenses.
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Harry Thaw
White
Commercial Tribune
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
New York State Supreme Court
The
Herald
Madison Square Garden
Sing Sing
Daniel Voorhees
Double Murder Suspected In Lehrmann Case Kaukauna Wis
In Kaukauna Wisconsin authorities suspect a double murder after the bodies of Mr and Mrs John Lehrmann are found at their home. Mrs Lehrmann lies under a bed covered by mattresses and quilts while her husband sits upright on the bed. The couple were wealthy and childless with an adopted son reported as surviving. Hidden in Lehrmann pockets are securities and about 3300 dollars undisturbed.
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Commercial Tribune
Kaukauna
Wis
John Lehrmann
Explosion Destroys Elmwood Place Home in Flinwood Plage
An explosion at the two story brick home of Jacob Mauthe on Highland and Locust in Elmwood Place damaged the adjoining residence of Councilman William Rotert. Fire officials contained the blaze after two hours while investigators probe gas accumulation as the likely cause.
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Highland and
Locust ‘Avenues
Jacob Mauthe
Elmwood Place
William Rotert
Mauthe
Elsie. Mauthe
Elsie
Hilda
Henry Clausing
Carthage Pike
Locust Street
Dr. Rees
John Ambrose
Cincinnati
Ohio River Falls Slow as Relief Work Expands
The Ohio River continues to fall with no new rain or snow in the forecast. The river stood at 64 feet at 6 p.m., expected to drop to 63 by morning, with a storm from Lake Superior bringing a temperature plunge to near zero. Relief workers brace for a prolonged effort as demand doubles.
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Ohio Valley
Bassler
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Lake Superior
C. M. Hubbard
Associated Charities
Gilman murder case halted again as grand juror excused
Dayton Ohio January 22 another grand juror in the Gilman murder case was released due to illness of his wife. Andrew C Nixon was chosen and sworn in to replace him. Prosecutor Nevin must restart the case for the third time as sick juror David Kinsey is in critical condition. W B Anderson was sworn in to fill his place.
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Commercial
Tribune
Dayton
Gilman
William. A. Watkins
Andrew C. Nixon
Nevin
David Kinsey
W. B. Anderson
Fire Rages in Richmond Williams Building Area
Fire Department rushed to a blaze at the Williams Building at Ninth and Cary streets in Richmond early January. The flames spread toward adjacent property threatening the Chamber of Commerce Building and nearby tobacco factories amid alarms from the Southern Express Company and Blues Armory.
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Chamber of Commerce
Armory
Steamship agents to face Brooklyn court on immigration indictments
Several officers and agents of Fabre Line and others will be arraigned in U S Court Brooklyn to plead to indictments for unlawful landing of alien immigrants in New York. Indicted include Jecoy Terkuile Victor Boulene Beri Labetut Giuseppi Perisch and Captain Frank Allen. Washington has urged vigorous prosecutions of immigration law violations at Atlantic ports.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
United States Court
Brooklyn
Jecoy Terkuile
Fabre Line
Victor Boulene
Beri
Labetut
Gallia
Giuseppi’Perisch
Austro-American Line
St. Petersburg
Frank Allen
Glen Finlas
Atlantic
Seaboard
Washington
Seven Crushed to Death in Mohawk Division Wreck
Albany NY Jan 22 seven men were killed and at least fifteen injured when a light engine hit a caboose carrying laborers near Albany on the New York Central Mohawk Division. The workers, about forty from Rensselaer, were returning to the city. the caboose was pushed by an engine and the westbound locomotive crashed into it.
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Commercial Tribune
Albany
WN. Y
New York Central Mohawk Division
Rensselaer
Ware Iletioen Naictineia
Mississippi Levee Breaches Hit Five Places
Special Dispatch reports from New Orleans that seventy five miles below the city five Mississippi levee crevasses opened today. breaks range from twenty to one hundred feet wide, threatening a region settled by fishermen and oystermen used to frequent overflows.
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Commercial Tribune
New Orleans
Mississippi
Foraker Resolution Clears Senate Probe Move
The Senate approved the Foraker resolution authorizing the Military Affairs Committee to investigate the Brownsville affray of August 13–14, 1906, without ruling on presidential power. Substitutes were rejected, and the measure was adopted without a recorded roll call.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Senate
Foraker
Committee On
Brownsville
Congress
Mallory
Culberson
Teller
Bacon
Georgia
Mr. Foraker
Messrs. McCumber
Warner
la Follette
Messrs
Tillman
McCumber
Senator Culberson
Kean
Americans Condemn British Official In Kingston Relief
American refugees from Kingston aboard the Prinz Eitel Friedrich denounce British authorities for three days of perceived inactivity and mismanagement after the earthquake. Resolutions on board condemn Captain Parsons of the Port Kingston and demand better food, shelter, and care for wounded and needy refugees.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Kingston
Jamaica
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Prinz Bitel
Port Kingston
Sir Alfred K. Jones
England
Swettenham
Davis
Prinzaiel Friederich
Prinz Eitel Friederich
Parsons
Arbor
Sir Alfred Jones
Richard Vahsel
Hamburg-American Line
Vahsel
Spanishtown
Father O’donovan
Boston
Gavin
Indianapolis
H. F. Auld
Hatboro
Hamburg-American
Prinz Eitel
Union Men Fight Leaves Two Dead in New York Town
At a Plasterers and Masons Union meeting in Sloatsburg New York Vincenzo Scala Sr. was killed instantly Tomaso Cheche died of wounds and Vincenzo Scala Jr. was hospitalized and not expected to survive A dispute over blacklisting an applicant sparked the violence and gunfire.
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Commercial Tribune
Sloatspurg
N. Y
Vincenzo Scala, Sr
Tomaso Cheche
Vincenzo Scala
Z Jr
Plasterers and Masons’ Union
Japanese Refused Entry for 200 Laborers Arriving on Alameda
The steamship Alameda landed in San Francisco from Honolulu with about 200 Japanese laborers who were denied entry by Acting Immigration Commissioner North following Washington directives. The refusal occurred January 22 as the vessel arrived.
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Commercial Tribune
San Francisco
Honolulu
North
Washington
Woman Ends Life With Carbolic Acid In Dayton
Maud Dietrick aged 28 wife of Charles Dietrick of 155 McDonough street Dayton took carbolic acid and died tonight in Dayton Ohio according to a special dispatch.
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Dayton
Commercial Tribune
Maud Dietrick
Charles, Dietrick
McDonough Street
Swettenham's Jocila rift sparks recall push in Jamaica
The Daily Telegraph prints Governor Swettenham's letter to Rear Admiral Davis provoking Jamaican resentment. He defends not inviting landings and calls a reference to a New York millionaire's house as a joke, while residents push recall and demand accountability.
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Swettenham
Kingston
Jamaica
Daily Telegraph
Davis
New York
Spk
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Flood Relief Committee
Pfaff
Co. M. Hubbard
Royal Melendy
University Settlement
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Major Escott
River Stages
Ft In
Richmond, VA
Williams Building
Ninth and Cary Streets
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