Citizens Republican Committee Formed in Cincinnati
A group of prominent Cincinnati business leaders and citizens organized the Citizens Republican Committee led by J G Schmidhapp to select and promote candidates for Hamilton County offices. The committee pledges to recommend fit, honest men and urges Republicans to vote at primaries and county conventions.
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Republican County Convention
Hamilton County
United States
McKinley
Congress
J. G. Schmidlapp
James J. Hooker
Leopold Kleybolte
Charles Fleischmann
James B. Swing
Henry S. Fechheimer
Felix G. Cross
John Ledyard Lincoln
Thomas W. Graydon
Joseph T
Five Die Underground In Rendham Mine Disaster
Five men perished in the Jermyn No 1 mine near Rendham due to black damp after a fire began last Tuesday. Fire boss Isaac Watkins 55 remains missing. four company men aged 22 to 42 with wives and children were found, all heads toward the shaft, indicating they crawled for air as suffocation claimed them.
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Jermyn No. 1
Rend
Yellow fever grips New Orleans as death toll rises
Daily 18 to 20 cases and two deaths persist in New Orleans with 21 deaths and 177 cases to date. Railroads push for quarantine changes while hospitals and hotels cut staff amid economic strain. Dr Oliphant to press for relaxations with Southern Pacific. city fears prolonged trade stagnation.
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Oliphant
Southern Pacific Company
New Orleans
Galveston
Texas
Crescent City
Lone Star
Louis Quisnell
Dante Street
Emma Fleetwood
Lowerline
B. Gricke
Cambronne
Jessie R. Wilkinson
Jackson Avenue
Sarah Lea
Dublin Avenue
J. W. Brunswick
Miro
Fannie Hewitt
Jackson
Dante
J. M. Fleetwood
Marcella
St. Vincent Infant Asylum
Race and Magazine
A. T. Wimberley
Prytania
Reisser
North Galvez
Eli McConnell
Eleanor Reams
Phillip
Chippewa
St. Thomas
Lee
Baronne Street
P. Fruffin
Constance
Spain May Soon Speak Queen Regent Arrived in Madrid
Spain may act soon as Queen Regent arrives in Madrid. The Spanish minister Dupuy de Lome reached Washington from Lenox and visited the State Department, taking temporary quarters in an uptown apartment. Observers link the visit to Madrid developments following Woodford’s meeting with the Spanish foreign minister.
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Lenox
Washington
State Department
Legation
Sherman
Madrid
Woodford
Duke of Tetuan
Dupuy de Lome
Spain
Danced in Airy Costumes Amuses Mt Vernon Students
Mt Vernon College students in Alliance Nebraska paraded in their night clothes on the public square then serenaded fraternity houses. A stampede near the S L C house caused several young men to tangle in a barbed wire fence and miss classes today.
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Commercial Tribune
Alliance, CO
Mt. Vernon College
Ladies’ Fraternity
International conference eyed for silver question in Brussels
James Roche, MP for East Kerry, says an international conference will be called in Brussels in May. He cites assurances from Chamberlain and Balfour and predicts the India mints may reopen as a result. He credits the Bank of England's recent action for sparking discussion and progress.
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Vancouver
B. C
James Roche
East Kerry
Slocan
Kootenali
Roche
England
Chamberlain
Balfour
Brussels
India
Bank of England
Macbeth lamp chimney plant resumes with 7 workers in Elwood
Elwood Indiana reports the Macbeth lamp chimney factory resumes full operation with seven workers. The nearby McCloy chimney plant is set to begin Sunday night with six hundred employees joining the local industry revival.
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Commercial Tribune
Elwood
Ind
Macbeth
McCloy
Heatwave Strikes Mobile With New Cases and One Death
Mobile health officials report ten new cases from the latest 24 hours linked to sep 23 to 26 heat. The tally brings total 64 cases, nine deaths, thirty recovered, and twenty five under care. Funeral of Alma Kersha noted. district disinfecting continues and travel out of Mobile declines.
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Mobile
Ala
Board of Health
J. B. Eastburn
Savannah Street
Willie White
New Jersey
Marine
Frank Paer
Savannah
Daniel Petty
Monroe
Eslava
George Stoutsee
Warren
Charleston
Chas
Albert A
Carrie Healy
Augusta
Charles
Lizzie Teet
Thomas Wainwright
Franklin
Canal
Alma Kersha
Symphorian
Lafayette Street
Mobile & Ohio
Louisville & Nashville
Governor directs funds to battle yellow fever in Kentucky
Governor Bradley, acting on a request from State Board of Health President Mathews, ordered Auditor Stone to pay warrants totaling 2000 dollars for efforts to keep yellow fever out of the state.
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Commercial Tribune
Frankfort
Bradley
Mathews
State Board of Health
Stone
Yellow fever toll rises in Edwards with death and new cases
Dr. Dunn of the State Board of Health reports one death from yellow fever in Edwards, Miss. today, identified as W. T. Howie. Twenty one new cases were reported today.
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Edwards
Miss
Dunn
State Board of Health
Associated Press
W. T. Howie
Furnace Disaster Claims Two at Hannah Plant
Mathew Reardon fell seventy five feet while closing an explosion gate at Hannah Furnace and died instantly. Fireman Richard Flannery was fatally scalded when a boiler exploded the same afternoon, causing heavy damage to the furnace and sending the victim to Leetonia.
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Youngstown
Mathew Reardon
Hannah Furnace
Leetonia
Richard Flannery
Refugees From Liberia Arrive in Liverpool in Hard Times
A party of 31 emigrants who left Law for Liberia in March 1894 aboard the Labrador arrived in Liverpool destitute. Waite family and five children with G W and wife report most pitiable conditions among survivors. They claim promised land in Liberia proved of no value and many from the Labrador party are dead. They accuse Liberian agents and government of inaction and cite Liberia’s unhealthy climate.
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Liverpool
O. L. Waite
G. W
Law
Liberia
Labr
Waites
United States
Waites and Famers
Republic of Liberia
Diphtheria Cases Hold Steady in Lima
Special dispatch from Lima Ohio reports no new diphtheria cases today and no deaths for nearly a week as health board measures curb the illness.
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Commercial Tribune
Lima
Board of Health
War of experts boils two bodies in vat
New witnesses who recognized Mrs Luetgert appear. Prosecution claims differ from results. Luetgert anxious to testify as authorities seek to establish the truth in the ongoing case amid fresh identifications.
Big land swindle nets fake deeds in McDowell County
A surge of fraudulent land deeds records in McDowell County over sixty days covers thousands of acres and large sums, claiming clear titles though real property does not exist outside the records. Swindlers use fictitious notaries and forged transfers from distant states to dupe buyers. No state law covers these frauds.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
McDowell County
New York City
Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Nevada
Ballots Pressed to 3302 in Gallia District Nomination Fight
In Gallipolis the Eighth District Republican Senatorial convention fails to nominate after hundreds of ballots. Candidates Hollis C. Johnston J L Carpenter and Ed S Wilson split county support as voting continues toward the 6000 majority goal at Pomeroy and Gallia. In Chicago Luetgert trial defense opens with Dr Riese testifying on caustic disintegration of bodies.
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Commercial Tribune
Gallipolis
Eighth District
Pomeroy
Hollis C. Johnston
Gallia
J. L. Carpenter
Meigs
S. Wilson
Lawrence
Vinton County
O. E. Volenweider
Bernhard L. Riese
Riese
Luetgert
Cian
Wainscott Bound Over for Railway Car Robbery in Osgood
Milton Wainscott was brought from Rushville to Osgood and jailed on a robbery charge after a preliminary hearing before Squire Evans. Brakeman Shutts identified him as the thief who robbed a train. Wainscott was bound over in $500 and sent to Versailles Jail. Judge New adjourned the Ripley Circuit Court term.
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Commercial Tribune
Osgood
Ind
Milton Wainscott
Rushville
Squire Evans
Shutts
Wainscott
Versailles
New
Ripley
Cannibalism Proof Reported From Greely Camp Discovery
Boston reports Assistant Engineer Knight of Captain Peary's Hope states cannibalism evidence was found at Lieutenant Greely's Cape Sabine camp. The frozen right thigh was discovered outside the burial ground, showing flesh removed from hip to knee with knife work.
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Boston
Knight
Peary
Hope
Greely
Cape Sabine
Nebraska Attorney Claims Seeing Mrs Luetgert
H Wade Gillis of Tekemah Nebraska reports seeing a woman resembling Mrs Luetgert wife of A L Luetgert on trial in Chicago for murder. She entered his office in May seeking a divorce and claimed to live in Chicago, having come from a northern point.
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Igan
Wisconsin
Chicago
Tekemah
Neb
H. Wade Gillis
A. L. Luetgert
Nebraska
Poisoned in Barn Death Shrouded in Mystery
Edward H. Jones eight year old farmer died after a heavy dose of strychnine. A man named John Breese bought five grains of strychnine here July 24 though no such resident exists. Prosecuting Attorney Trippy leads the case as investigators seek the poisoner behind the death of Jones whose stomach had been promised for exam.
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Commercial Tribune
van Wert
Edward H. Jones
Union Township
Jones
John Breese
Trippy
Blackmail Charged Against Former Manager in New York Case
Samuel Keller, former manager of the E. A. Dean Company discretionary pool operators, testified he faced blackmail by lawyers Colonel Robert A. Ammon Wm. A. Swetzer and Wm. Woods after a failed business venture in August 1896. Ammon allegedly demanded $2,000 to drop prosecution. Woods and Ammon brought out-of-town complainants to press charges. Keller paid $250 as a retainer and avoided arrest at first. Accused freed on $1,000 bail.
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New York
Robert A. Ammon
Wm. A. Swetzer
Wm. Woods
Samuel Keller
E. 8
Dean Company
Keller
Ammon, Pine and Williams
Eakins
Ammon
Woods
Lana
Hiemaaokien
Ludlow Street
Tolerton Mystery Deepens Over Swiss Call for Ransom
In Toledo Ohio a father reports his son Harry Tolerton in Lucerne amid extortion cables. A cousin May Hester in Leipsic Germany and ex Toledo resident Howard Copeland in Berlin are urged to assist. Cipher messages and a $1,000 demand plus $200 by mail drive the effort as Judge Day oversees.
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Commercial Tribune
Toledo, CO
Switzerland
Harry Tolerton
E. W. Tolerton
Harry
Lucerne
Mr. Tolerton
Miss May Hester
Leipsic
Germany
Young Tolerton
Young Holmes
Miss He
McLean's Columbus Visit Tests Ohio Democratic Split
John R. McLean and Allen O. Myers spent September 28 in Columbus holding talks with Ohio Democratic leaders. The visit aimed to settle leadership disputes between McConville and Myers as Chapman threatens to resign, signaling McLean's influence and possible Senate candidacy.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
John R. McLean
Allen O. Myers
Midland
Great Southern
Cincinnati
Ohio
McLean
Democratic Party
Chapman
McConville
Myers
Democratic State Committee
Democratic
United States Senate
Tolerton Mother Seeks Sherman Aid In Tolerton Case
Mrs Tolerton visited Secretary Sherman in Washington and learned that Tolerton and a companion left Lucerne on September 16. A cablegram confirmed the visit and said the matter was resolved, with Mrs Tolerton returning home the same night.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Tolerton
Sherman
Lucerne
Switzerland
Highwaymen Rob Booneville Stage. Passenger Shot Dead
In Ukiah California on September 23 two masked highwaymen stopped the Booneville stage seven miles from town. Passenger J R Barnett moved to draw a purse and was shot dead by the bandits who escaped with three express boxes as authorities track them with bloodhounds.
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Ukiah
Cal
Booneville
J. R. Barnett
Barnett
Riffiis
Vitriol Thrower Indicted in Oil Operator Murder
Parkersburg West Virginia September 28 1930 The first indictment by the Criminal Grand Jury charges Mrs Edna Hitchens with the murder of oil operator William Beatty by throwing vitriol on him. She has not been arrested.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
Edna Hitchens
William Beatty
Vitrol
Grant's Surgeon General Dead in Mississippi
Vicksburg Mississippi reports the death of Dr. A J Phelps a wealthy planter and former President of the Mississippi Levee Board He served as Grants Surgeon General during the sie Wickabusgoe in the area around Nittayama Mississippi died tonight after long service in public health and the Civil War era leadership.
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Grant
Vicksburg
Miss
A. J. Phelps
Mississippi Levee Board
Nittayama
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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Reed
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Rendham
Scranton
Ham
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Joseph Smith
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William Franklin
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Minister de Lome
Mt. Union
Kentucky
Dr. Reise
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B. L. Reise
Emma Schimpke
Mary Siemmering
Inspector Schaak
McEwen
Frank Odorofsky
Frank Bialk
Vincent
Ida Larson
Ripley County
Mrs. Luetgert
E. A. Dean Company
Toledo
M’conville
Dacy
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Hough
George J. Karb
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Democratic Committee
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Ross
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MceLan
Mr. McLean
Mr. Chapman
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