Noted Actress and Actor to Be Married in the Fall
Boston reports Bijou Fernandez a famed actress will wed William A. Abingdon, popular actor. Fernandez returned from England with her mother where the engagement was announced after Abingdon’s visit. She rose from Joseph Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle Company to leading roles in Quo Vadis and The Two Orphans.
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Bijou Fernandez
Joseph Jefferson
Charles Fronman
William A. Abingdon
Miss Fernandez
Boston
England
Rip van Winkle Company
Little Meenie
Holzman bankruptcy assets exceed debts by reported margin
Federal court schedules show Holzman & Co assets listed at 985 586 10 against debts, a figure many call absurd while creditors eye missing ledger leaves for further investigations. Analysts dispute optimistic asset value and question the firm’s ability to pay even fifty cents on the dollar.
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Holzman
Holzman & Co
Alfred Holaman
Earthquake Shakes Maine Towns Across the State
A major earthquake struck Maine at 5 10 a m awakening residents from Bangor to Kittery and along the coast. The tremor lasted seven to ten seconds with a rumble heard in Portland and a stronger second shock felt in Brunswick and Thomaston.
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Commercial Tribune
Portland
Maine
Bangor
Kittery
Farmington
Rockland
Augusta
Waterville
Brunswick
Thomaston
Gilbert M. Dinsmore
Leslie A. Lee
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
Newport Mayor Helmbold Held to U S Jury in Powers Affair
Newport Mayor August Helmbold and Policemen James Ratican and Paul Flynn were ordered to stand for a Federal Grand Jury on charges of conspiring to obstruct a U S officer and to oppress Caleb Powers. The trial, held before United States Commissioner George Leonard, lasted from 9 a.m. to near 1 p.m. Officials argued over venue and jail placement as spectators packed the courtroom.
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August Helmbold
Newport
James Ratican
Paul Flynn
United States
George Leonard
United States Circuit Court
Caleb Powers
Sisterhood of
Kentucky
Carothers
Helmbold
Aubrey Barbour
Ratican
Flynn
Campbell County
Bernard Ploeger
Harry Deputy
Mattore
Robbers Fail to Cremate Victim in Fifth Avenue Burglary
Two burglars used chloroform to subdue Mrs. Bertha Cohn in her Fifth Avenue home. They bound her hands and feet and stole $1,000 worth of diamonds including two diamond rings. A wardrobe fire was started to cover the crime. firemen put it out and the Fire Marshal ruled the blaze deliberate.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Bertha Cohn
Fifth Avenue
Poison in Well and Orange Poisoning Case in Minnesota
Wilda Johnson of Owatonna Minnesota is charged with poisoning a farm well and sending a poisoned orange containing strychnine to Mrs Lundstrom a county school teacher. Preliminary hearing set for August 11. Prosecution says jealousy over a neighbor man drove the plan. The orange was not eaten and the well water was not consumed before discovery.
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Commercial Tribune
Owatonna
Minn
Wilda Johnson
John L. Johnson
Lundstrom
Jackson
Johnson
Senator Clark Under Knife For Brain Abscess
In New York Senator William A. Clark of Montana underwent brain abscess surgery at his residence. His family and aides report a gradual improvement and cautious optimism as doctors trephined the skull to remove diseased bone and pus.
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Senator Clark
W. A. Clark
James F. McKernon
Senator.Clark
Clark
New York
Insinuations by Madden Husband Trigger Family Clash
Mrs. John E Madden, Lexington turf man’s wife, denounces her husband’s charges as monstrous. She says he seeks reconciliation, has dragged in their children, and publicized photographs, while she holds letters praising her family’s conduct and rejects the insinuations as childish and unfounded.
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John E.madden
Lexington
The
Commercial Tribune
Madden
Hamburg Place
Divorce Trial Ends In Split And Tragedy In Jersey City
Louis Apgar 65 a Jersey City resident and grandfather shot himself after a sensational divorce suit whose verdict found Mrs Clara E Meyers guilty of infidelity in a case that featured Hotel Albert heist rumors and blotter evidence used to trap the defendant. The court advised an absolute decree of divorce against Mrs Meyers.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Louis Apgar
Jersey City
George M. Meyers
Clara E. Meyers
Apgar
Garrison
Chambers Street
Manhattan
Louis J. Apgar
Father and two sons killed in Kentucky feud
Lee City Kentucky July 15 Three men died on Holly Creek in a feud believed to span more than six years. Victims Frank Smith 60 and his sons William 20 and Mantfred 21 were shot. Scott McQuinn reportedly admitted the killings. McQuinn claimed self defense. The Smith family has suffered prior killings including a brother and two other relatives. No arrests by midnight.
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Commercial Tribune
Lee City
Holly Creek
Frank Smith
William
Mantfred
Scott’ McQuinn
McQuinn
Smith
Scott McQuinn
William Smith
Wayne Taulbée
State Penitentiary
Smith Brothers
Wilhurst
M. Tyra
Manfred Smith
Jeff Smith
Lexington
Elkanon Smith
Bud Bohanon
George Smith
Day
Frozen Creek
Charles T. Byrd
Byrd
West
Peary Steamship Roosevelt Hit by $1613 Lien
The James Reilly Repair and Supply Co of New York filed a lien for 1613 against the steamship Roosevelt owned by the Peary Arctic Club for repairs and supplies since July 1. The steamer, slated to sail, was postponed to tomorrow.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
James Reilly Repair and Supply Company
Roosevelt
Peary Arctic Club
No New Trial For Mitchell
Judge DeHaven overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of United States Senator John H. Mitchell. The court stood ready to sentence when defense attorney Thurston requested time to file a bill of exceptions and writ of error, which was granted.
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Commercial Tribune
Portland
Ore
United States
John H. Mitchell
DeHaven
United States Court
Bite of Spider Kills Minister
The Rev. David Marion Weisman, 62, a well known Ohio Indiana Lutheran minister, died at his Oxford home from araemic poison after a spider bite. His illness began six weeks after an injury in Gas City Indiana. Born in Reading Ohio he graduated Capital University and served as Superintendent of Public Schools in Anderson Indiana. He served at Somerset Thorntown and Reading and was twice married to Malinda Saunders and Melissa Davis. He spent his later years in Anderson and Oxford.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
David Marion Weisman
Ohio
Indiana
Oxford
Gas City
Ind
Reading
Columbus
Anderson
Somerset
Thorntown
Weisman
Malinda Saunders
Ovid
Melissa Davis
Mother Mistakes Son for Burglar in Littleton Tragedy
In Littleton West Virginia Til den Bass, twelve, wandered out and back in. his mother Franz Bass fired through a window striking him dead. The coroner's jury ruled accidental death as Mrs Bass, prostrated, mistook her sleeping son for an intruder in a somnambulistic episode.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Littleton
Tilden
Franz Bass
Dow
Mra. Bass
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Pine Tree State
California
Special Dispatch
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Riverside
U.S
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Minnesota
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Grover Cleveland
Morgan J. O'Brien
George Westinghouse, JR
New York City
Wm. A. Clark
Montana
Butte
Mont
Paris
Morrus
Lewis R. Morris
McKernon
Early
John E. Madden
Charles Herr
First Presbyterian Church of
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Mr. Herr
Mrs. Meyers
Mr. Apgar
Lee
Elder Smith
Ily
PEARY
New York Company
Mitchell
Son
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