Man Kills Wife and Suicide After Night Jealousy
Boonville Indiana June 24 19— W N Harding a Civil War veteran aged about 60 shot his wife at about 10 pm and later killed himself at 6 am after barricading doors. His 13 year old son alerted neighbors. Harding had a history of jealous threats and two marriages with two sons. The bodies will be buried together in Tennyson Cemetery.
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Boonville
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W. N. Harding
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Amity man kills woman then ends own life in blaze
Special Dispatch reports Free man Longcore tried to take Rose Colly away. She refused and he threatened her then set fire to her house. While she tried to salvage belongings, Longcore killed her, fled, and wounded himself before dying.
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Amity
N. J
Freefman Longcore
Rose Ccolly
Longcore
Wisconsin farmer shot wife then killed himself
FOX LAKE Wisconsin June 24 Rudolph Kollitz a farmer murdered his wife by shooting her in the temple with a shotgun and then killed himself with the same weapon in a murder suicide case authorities reported today
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Fox Lake
Wis
Rudolph Kollitz
Parish House Rededication Adds Gym and Billiard Room
In Marion Ohio the new parish house of St Pauls Episcopal Church was rededicated by Archdeacon A A Abbott. It features a gymnasium for basketball and other sports in cool weather and a billiards room planned for use in coming months. Rev Edmund G Mapes led the project after Kenyon College and Cleveland wife connection. St Pauls, one of Marion's oldest churches, counts many wealthy parishioners among its members.
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Marion
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
A. A. Abbott
Cleveland
Edmund G. Mapes
Kenyon College
Deluge of Frogs Hits Alton Streets After Storm
A heavy rain storm and gale in Alton Newfoundland on June 24 drives a flood of tiny green frogs into city streets. Thousands hop about as pedestrians and vehicles crush them. frogs likely swept from marshy lowlands by strong winds.
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Alton
Commercial Tribune
American Tobacco Company Buys Lexington Land
The American Tobacco Company of New York has acquired six acres in Lexington Kentucky and will build a large warehouse to handle Central and Eastern Kentucky tobacco. A branch railway will access the site and Lexington will become the company's Kentucky headquarters.
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Kentucky
Commercial Tribune
Lexington
American Tobacco Company
New York
Special Attorneys Named to Prosecute Standard Oil
The government will proceed against Standard Oil with special attorneys Charles B. Morrison and Frank B. Kellogg. Morrison will leave his post as U S district attorney for Northern Illinois to take the new appointment after prosecuting the Packers case. Kellogg, 50, has won recent government wins including the Paper Trust case and has a long Minnesota legal background.
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Garfield
Moody
Charles B. Morrison
Chicago
Dixon Il
Frank B. Kellogg
St. .Paul, Minn
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United States District Attorney
Northern Illinois
Princess Cancels Visit Amid U S Celebrations
A Londworth princess cancels her trip to entertain American guests as hotels overflow with Americans. The Windsor event features a hotel decorated in stars and stripes with colored lights, and Wilhelm appears very lively and complimentary.
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Chorus Demands Cabinet Resignation in Imperial Russia
The Conservative Centrist party joins calls for the Goremykin Ministry to resign amid a tense political climate. M Yermoloff argues parliament should be reconciled with the government while pursuing land reform and equal rights for Jews with restrictions.
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Band of terrorists kills policemen in Wola suburb
In Wola a band of terrorists shot and killed two policemen and wounded another officer and a gendarme as they drank in a restaurant. An hour later the same group killed a police Sergeant. In Odessa a mutiny aboard the cruiser Nizhni Novgorod sent the ship back to port while en route to Sebastopol.
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Moscow Report Describes Gunfire Near Khodinka Plain
The Standard's Moscow correspondent says intermittent field gun and rifle fire was heard for about an hour last night outside the town toward Khodinka Plain.
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Moscow
the Standard
Khodinka Plain
Sudanese Casualties From El Obeid Expedition
Cairo dispatch reports 350 Sudanese killed and 100 captured by the punitive expedition from El Obeid sent to relieve Talodi after a June assault by tribesmen on the garrison. Forty Egyptians were killed in the attack. no expedition losses. The tribesmen reportedly resented the new government post in their area.
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Cairo
Powder Explodes at Harris Lime Quarry Narrowly Misses Men
In Helena Montana on June 24 a powder house at Harris lime quarry exploded as six to ten men slept in a brick house nearby. Logs from the blast and a sack of thirty five sticks of dynamite with a fuse attached lay against the brick house door, yet the men escaped unharmed in a miraculous near disaster.
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Helena
Mont
Harris Lime Quarry
Ghursh Dispute Taken to Court in Corsicana
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church split over affiliation with Northern Presbyterians leads to a court fight. Union and nonunion members consented to joint church use by different pastors, but yesterday unionists filed for an injunction in District Judge Cobb to halt the opposing faction from using the church until the property ownership is decided.
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Commercial Tribune
Corsicana
Tex
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Cobb
Harris Ill in Bed in Eaton Speaker May Miss Columbus Trip
Illness grips Governor A L Harris at Eaton after a grueling week. He may not travel to Columbus, as an acute stomach complaint plus exhaustion keep him from leaving home. Mrs Harris manages visitors while the patient declines a doctor, hoping rest will suffice.
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Panama Canal
Santo Domingo
Philippines
Islands
Forty Canary Birds Bring Song To Lincoln Park Church
Forty canary birds, in little cages, were carried to Lincoln Park Institutional Baptist Church to brighten services. Morning and evening rites included 125 Sunday school graduates. The Rev G R Robbins discussed Chicago slaughterhouses, noting cleanup and improved conduct among 6000 workers, citing Roosevelt's influence. The pastor welcomed seven Romanians and baptized three members.
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Chicago
United States
Roosevelt
Louisville Closes Drug and Grocery Stores Under Sunday Law
Louisville, June 24. Magistrate Hoffmann’s strict Sunday closing policy prompted shutdowns of cigar stands, soda fountains, fruit stands and even butcher shops and grocers. Drug stores largely closed. some establishments remained open as test cases. No arrests were made. constables gathered evidence.
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Hoffmann
Runaway Nitro Load Wagon Terrorizes Indiana Countryside
Charles Bess of Knightstown drives a wagon loaded with twenty arts of nitro glycerin as two fighting dogs spook his team. The horses run seven miles through a populated area before overturning. farmers flee to woods. Apple stops the team and Bess resumes driving.
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Ind
Charles Bess
Save Himself
Bess
Wallace Apple
Congress Enacts Wide Range of Federal Controls
Washington June 24 important measures extend federal regulation and control were enacted at the Fifty-ninth Congress first session. Tariff adjustments taxation reforms and new statehood moves accompany stricter appropriation oversight and a record CongressionAL Record.
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Washington
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