Poison Whisky Case Sparks Arrest in Memphis Affair
Memphis May 16 A negress Ida Cobb washing for the Pell family identified Mrs Lizzie McCormick as asking about the express open at night and spoke of a rival. Ed Pell sent whisky to Mrs Nobbe, but police doubt he did the poisoning. Investigators expect enough evidence to convict Mrs McCormick within days.
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Commercial Tribune
Memphis
Tenn
Ida Cobb
Pei
Sweeney
Cincinnati
Ed Pell
Mrs. Nobbe
Pell
Lizzie McCormick
al Sweeney
Weatherby
Arrest Expected in Poison Case Ties to Nobbe
Chief of Police Millikin says detectives and Adams Express agents in Memphis anticipate arresting another person tied to the slow poison case involving Mrs. Kate Nobbe. The suspect is in Memphis and not Pell the saloon keeper. Nobbe identifies bottle remnants from Pell as identical to two she received via her sister. They suspect a Memphis link as letters of threat were sent from the Memphis woman to Nobbe’s circle.
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Millikin
Bweeney
Adams Express
Memphis
Kate Nobbe
Harriet Street
Pell
Elizabeth McCormick
McCormick
Pell Thay
Aggie Peterson
East Fifth Street
Nobbe
Nash
Coit
Texas
McGonagle & Fitch
Muncie
Mystery Woman Sought in Yeager Murder Case
Special Despatch from Kokomo Indiana reports a banner murder case. Louis Yeager was killed after meeting a mysterious woman seen with him shortly after church and a buggy ride. A $1000 reward was urged by Coroner Harrison as Oakford residents fund detectives to capture the unknown woman and resolve the double wedding plot.
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Kokomo
Ind
Louis Yeager
Yeager
Myr Finley
Logan Ingles
Hads
Poter
Coo
Sharpsville
Harrison
Puesday
Indiana
Helmlock
Oak Ord
Heylock
Finley
Walnut Grove
Hemlock
Oakford
Sutton
Jesse Yeager
Ambassador McCormick to attend son's wedding in June
Ambassador McCormick takes a month leave of absence from St Petersburg to travel to the United States with M McCormick for the wedding of Joseph Medill McCormick to Ruth Hanna daughter of Senator Hanna. The leave was granted before the Jewish trouble in Russia and not for any mission related to that issue.
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Washington
McCormick
M McCormick
St.’ Petersburg
United States
Joseph Medill
Ruth Hanna
Hanna
Russia
General C. O. Howard Tours Eastern Kentucky
General C. O. Howard famed philanthropist and Lincoln Memorial School founder rides through the mountains of Eastern Kentucky to inspect conditions and seek a solution to hunger. He plans to visit Letcher and Harlan counties on a tour ending at Grant Lee Hall in Cumberland Gap.
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Middlesboro
C. O. Howard
Lincoln Memorial School
Cumberland Gap
Kentucky
Howard
Thirt
Letcher
Harlan
Grant-Lee Hall
Father Patrelli Named Secretary of Apostolic Delegation
In Rome on May 16 Father Patrelli a leading Capranica College scholar is named Secretary of the Apostolic Delegation in Washington succeeding Mgr Rooker who becomes Bishop of Jaro in the Philippine Islands.
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Rome
Patrelli
Capranica College
The
Apostoliction of
Washington
Mgr. Rooker
Jareo
Philippine Islands
Two Men Shot Out Car Windows and Chandeliers on Train
Spatial Despatch Lexington May 16 reports W H Wright and a Jackson citizen drank in Lexington and, after passing Winchester on the Louisville and Nashville line due at 2 15, fired at car windows and chandeliers. Marshal Thompson and deputies boarded the train at Stanton to arrest them. Wright was subdued, Frank Thompson threatened with a knife before the train continued.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
W. H
Wright
Jackson
Winchester
Louisville & Nashville
Shelby
Gray City
Marshall Thompson
Marshal Thompson
W. H. Wright
Frank Thompson
Wat ‘Stanton
Man Crushes Man's Skull in Dayton Field
Special Despatch reports that at night in a field near Dayton Ohio Chilly Childs found his wife with Russell McGregor and crushed McGregor's skull with a rock. McGregor was taken to a hospital and is expected to die. Police seek Childs. both men are well known.
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Commercial Tribune
Dayton
Childs
Russell McGregor
McGregor
Laundry strike stands break as girls return to work
In Chicago on May 16 a break in the laundry strike occurred when 54 girls who had quit returned to Quick Service Laundry and tore up their strike cards amid a threat of $25 fines by a business agent. The resumed work follows sixteen days of strike activity.
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Chicago
Proposed Constitution for the Negro Republic Haithis
An outline of a proposed constitution for a Negro Republic in Haithis. It details a society named Sons of Freedom with membership for Afro American men women youths 15 and older. Provisions cover officers, taxation, military service, courts, jails, due process, economic policies, education, religion, press rights, and trade.
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Haithis
Pew
Iat
National Board
Im- Pena
Congress
Griffiths to write Harrison life at age seventy
In Indianapolis on May 16, private papers of ex President Harrison have been turned over to John L. Griffiths, a political ally who nominated Harrison for the Senate. Griffiths, aged seventy, is to write his life with an expected two year publish window.
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Commercial Tribune
Madisonville
United States
Haiti
Caribbean
N. L. Musgrove
Sturgis
Junta
Union County
Hart
Port-au-Prince
Booker Kington
Ean Pickens
N. L. Eee
Oth Ients
Mir
Indianapolis
Harrison
John L. Griffiths
Griffiths
United States Senate
Moebus Shot In Store As Son Claims Self Defence
John Moebus a coal dealer was shot through the right lung by his son Edward in the latter’s store. He remained alive at Mercy Hospital with Dr. Hermann noting some rallying but the outcome remains uncertain. State's Attorney Gard waited for potential ante mortem statements as investigators probed the motive and whether a knife was drawn.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
John Moebus
Edward C. Moebus
Mercy Hospital
Hermann
Gard
John Keller
Serer Rashid
Postoffice
Mike
Moebus
Stradivarius Recovered After Berlin Police Action
In Berlin, police with help from U S Treasury agent Dwight Partello recovered the Czar of Russia s Stradivarius violin seized from a Polish seller for 3750 dollars. Partello had tracked the instrument since December and paid 2500 dollars to secure its return to St Petersburg where it was identified.
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Berlin
Russia
Dwight J. Partello
United States Treasury
Ybn Windtheim
Partello
Europe
France
Parthen
Edinburgh
St. Petersburg
Resting Place Tablet for McKinley in Canton Corridor
A bronze tablet will be placed in the Courthouse corridor Canton memorializing the day the late President McKinley lay in state. It bears the inscription Here lay a state the body of McKinley President of the United States September 18, 1901.
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Canton
McKinley
Red States
Marry and murder charges loom over Mrs Estella Coit case
Muncie Indiana May 16 Charged with bigamy and murder Mrs Estella Coit defends herself against sensational accusations from twenty five contesting heirs in New York Texas and Indiana. The story ties her to multiple marriages and a disputed will while detailing her life from beauty in youth to spiritualist mother and a Texas landowner stake.
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Commercial Tribune
Muncie
Ind
Estella Coit
Thomas Powell
Northview
Coit
William M. Patterson
Texas
Marshall
Tex
Suffolk
Queens Counties
New York
Luther
Estella Colby
William Ivey
Munceie
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America
Sons OF Freedom
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