Thaw Wife Denies Premarital Marriage Claim
Mrs. Harry K Thaw declares she was married to Thaw abroad before the Pittsburgh ceremony and says she will prove it at the murder trial. She says statements contradicting the marriage are untrue and she will be of service to her husband in the forthcoming proceedings.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Stanford White
Bedford
William Bedford
Miss Nesbit
Europe
Pittsburg
White
Judge Olcott
Keck
Runaway mine car kills eleven in Altoona incident
A mine car left unsecured on Martin's Branch track near Puritan killed eleven men and injured several more as it rolled four miles to Portage. Most victims were foreigners. officials suspect strike involvement. In a separate clash, William Holmes died after a street assault blamed on Alice Seither and her husband. Seither was arrested as the investigation continued.
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Commercial Tribune
Altoona
Puritan
Portage
Martin
Alice Seither
West Fifth Street
August Seither
Holmes
William Holmes
Holmes Neck Breaks in Melee After Trial in Justice Smedes Court
Prosecution in Justice Smedes' court ends in a melee that leads to Holmes' neck breaking. The incident occurs after the courtroom confrontation and authorities report the fatal outcome.
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Holmes
Justice
Smedes
Chinese Regulars Take 3 000 Rebels Near Hangchow
Shanghai report says imperial troops captured 5 000 rebels at Hsicheng near Hangchow. Big Knife Secret Society killed a magistrate and destroyed Protestant and Catholic churches there.
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London
the Tribune
Shanghai
Hsicheng
Hangchow
Big Knife Secret Society
Mizner Rages Over Wife in Critical Condition
Chicago July 4. Mrs Charles Mizner is reported in critical condition after appendicitis operation. Her husband Wilson Mizner hurries to her side aboard a Trans-Continental train from San Francisco.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Charles Mizner
Wilson Mizner
San Francisco
Man Found Badly Hurt After Fall at Freeman and Armory
Patrolman Schwable found Arthur Ray in the gutter near Freeman and Armory avenues. He was taken to City Hospital badly bruised with a fractured rib and could not account for his injuries. Authorities think the damage resulted from a fall.
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Schwable
Fifth District
Arthur Ray
Ta ‘Carpenter
Oakley
Freeman
Armory Avenues
Patrol 5
Ray
Woman Falls From Car In City Crash
Nanetta Harvey of 4019 Hamilton Avenue fell from a Sixth Street car at Spring Grove and Girard avenues last night. She was taken to her home in Patrol 10 with a serious skull fracture condition.
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Nanetta Harvey
Hamilton Avenue
Spring Grove
Girard Avenues
Fire Devastates St Michael's Church in Hamburg
Hamburg July 3 Fire at St Michael's Church totally destroyed the building after the steeple fell. The blaze spread to adjacent properties gutting a department store and destroying a Baptist church. Twelve houses burned. twenty people reported missing. the watchman and three clock workers died. thirty firefighters wounded. by nightfall walls remained standing and state functions moved elsewhere.
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Hamburg
St. Michael’s Church
Brinkmann
The
Museum of Art and Industry
Englische Planke
Rooehmken
Venusberg
Muehlen
Schaar Markt
St. Michael’s
Bryan Declines Early Candidacy Amid Openiste View
William J. Bryan declares the party should keep the presidential nomination open and his candidacy unannounced two years before the convention. He notes the party should select its most available man, with the Open One approach and no binding endorsements from state conventions. In North Carolina, Bryan is endorsed for President at the Democratic State Convention where Aycock is named for Vice President.
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Commercial Travelers’ League
Hoge
League
Hearst
Battey
Folk
North Carolina
Indorses Bryan
Commercial Tribund
Greensboro
N. C
Corporation Commission
Franklin McNeill
William J. Bryan
Charles B. Aycock
Asbury Spicer Confesses His Part in Hargis Plots
Beattieville Kentucky July 3 Judge Dorsey refused the Commonwealths continuance for the Hargis murder trial and adjourned court to Friday appointing elisors to fetch witnesses. Asbury Spicer for the first time confessed his links to the Marcum Cockrill killing stating he was sent to fetch White and Jett and heard shots in the Hargis storeroom. He said he was offered $500 to kill Marcum but refused. The case inflames tensions with several scuffles and fines reported among Hargis supporters and Cockrill men.
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Holmes
Salvatore Varnisi
West Fifth Street
Squire Smedes Court
Varnisi
Mr. Leither
Messenger
Jett
White
Marcum
Commercial Tribune
Beattyville
Dorsey
Commonwealth
James Hargis
James B. Marcum
Elisor
Elbert Hargis
George Spencer
Arch Crawford
Elisors
Cox and Cockrill
Asbury
Spicer
Jackson
Tom White
Ed Callahan
Curt Jett
Hargis
Beck Combs
Derelict in Path May Endanger America Steamer
Reports from New York on July 3 describe anxiety over the Fabre Line steamer America missing after sailing from Marseilles June 2 with 110 passengers and 40 crew. A derelict, the dismasted Lizzie Chadwick, drifted 1,500 miles east in the Gulf Stream, on a collision course with Mediterranean-bound ships, raising danger to navigation.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Fabre Line
America
Marseilles
Azores
Mediterranean
Germania
Hydrographic Bureau
Lizzie Chadwick
United States
Jacksonville
The
Maritime Register
Chadwick
Corn Nominee Declared for Common Pleas Judge
The District Elections Board voted six to four to nominate E. E. Corn as Republican Common Pleas Judge in the Portsmouth area and place his name on the ballot. The board rejected Judge John C. Milner and criticized Judge E. Z. Blair, with party divisions and threats of belting amid a bitter intra party fight.
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Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
District Elections Board
E. E. Corn
Common Pleas
Blair
John C. Milner
E. Z. Blair
Adams County
Milner
Republicans On Elections Board
Sloane
Jackson
Hayes
Lawrence
Zimmerman
Adams
McCall
Scioto
Tolle
Mixed Cabinet struggles amid mutiny and police killings
From St Petersburg to Warsaw reports describe a turbulent period with Premier Goremykin's cabinet meeting late at night after returning from Peterhof. Hints point to a mixed cabinet under M. Yermaloff with calls for reform and possible imperial invitation. In Askabad mutiny rises among Tiralleurs, while violence erupts in Tulsa and Tsarskoe-Selo over censorship. Police killings in Warsaw escalate the security crisis.
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ST. Petersburg
Goremykin
Nicholas
Peterhof
M. Yermaloff
Tiralleurs
Askabad
Tulsa
Tsarskoe-Selo
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Clarence Brown
THOMAS H. _TRACY
Lucas County
Masthaw
Slayer
Eign Country
Denies Bedford
Olcott
Garvan
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Charage
Bss
Ninth Street
Seither
Bel Peted
Holmes Seither
Plum Street
Ralph Crawford
Calnan
Keating
Seithers
Patrol No. 2
City Hospital
Osmond
Water Works Department
Electric Light Company
Big Knife Society
Judge
Mizner
Carpenter
ST. Michael's
Alster Basin
Elbe
Mrs. Bryan
Norway
Mr. Bryan
Cecil
John Burns
William T. Stead
Mrs
Stead
Bryan, Burns
American Mail
American Society
Ambassador
Mrs. Reid
Wrest Park
Italy
Bryan
Scotland
France
Spain
Asbury Spicer
Floyd Byrd
Congress
Makes
Constitutional Democrats
Yermaloff
Warsaw
Russian
Poland
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