Murderess Now Believed Dead At La Porte Murders
In La Porte Indiana May 10 investigators press to pin down the Guinness murder case. Believed dead is Mrs Belle Guinness whose body was found in the burning house. Lamphere’s lawyers seek a confederate who helped start the fire while witnesses place Lamphere fleeing the scene. Blood and smoke damage confirm the victims suffocated. The town swells as 25 000 visitors join the 12 000 residents for Sunday excursions by train and Interurban lines.
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LA Porte
Ind
Guinness
Belle Guinness
Thos
Arch
Lamphere
Gulnesk
Wheatbrook
Parmner Tyan Maover
Guinness House
Mrs. Guinness
Porte
Chicago
Elkharth
Indiana
Great advance in coal lands in the South
Bristol Tenn May 7 An illustration of the rise in coal land values shows J W Stelunmian of Lancaster Mich suing to quiet title to 4000 acres bought in 1876 at 74 cents per acre now worth over 100000. Much land once selling 5 to 10 cents now 50 to 100 per acre. Over 400000 acres, once isolated, have doubled in value due to new railroad lines Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio and the Cinehield Coal Company.
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Bristol
Tenn
J. W. Stelunmian
Lancaster
United States
Carolina, Clinchfield & Olio
Cinehield Coal Corporation
Must Fares Be In Cash Only
The government sues the Morun route in Chicago arguing Hepburn law requires railroads to collect passenger fares in money and publish schedules in money. The Morun route contends it can accept non monetary payments at its chosen valuation. Judge Kobisaat will hear the case tomorrow before the United States Circuit Court.
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Kobisaat
United States Circuit Court
Taylor-Trotwood Magazine May issue features The Gift of the Grass
The May Taylor-Trotwood Magazine offers the second installment of Mr. Moore's serial The Gift of the Grass. Readers are invited to subscribe and receive the April issue free to start the opening chapter, with about one hundred pages of Southern writing for $1.25 per year including Columbia Herald.
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Mr. Moore
Taylor-Trotwood
Columbia Herald
Bank in Rutherford Closes After Embezzlement Confession
J W Sharp, bank bookkeeper for the Citizen's Bank board, confessed to a substantial shortage and was arrested on embezzlement charges. The bank had about 40,000 in deposits and Cashter Wright McDaniel assures full repayment to depositors. A rumor links Sharp to a 10,000 cotton dealings loss, thought to cover the shortage. Errors in ledgers prompted the probe.
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Sharp
Feist Bail in Doubt as Bond Effort Continues
Dr J Herman Feist remains jailed after a judge ordered bail of 25000 dollars on Saturday. An effort to secure bondsmen is underway with Feist as principal only. Public attention remains high and opinions vary on his ability to meet the bond, though many think he could post 25000 if a 10000 bond were feasible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
J. Herman Feist
Har
Feist
Dr. Fetat
Quiet Prevails in Philippines Amid Moros Operations
Manila May 10 The disarming of the Hasilan Moros proceeds with no serious trouble. Lanao districts are quiet and the reported opposition was neither general nor severe. Maj Gen Weston says conditions are quieter than usual and calls recent actions nonmilitary in nature. Government urged to establish irrigation and the islands must purchase ten million pesos of foreign rice this year, totaling one hundred million pesos in ten years.
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Manila
Lanao
Weston
Sual
French Broad River power dam contract announced
Knoxville reports that W A Boyce of Asheville says the French Broad River power dam contract has been signed in Boston at a cost of 4 million dollars. The project will take under two years to complete, with work starting within fifty days after Congress acts. All land for the dam and its backwater area is secured and the facility will deliver about 40 000 horsepower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
W. A. Boyce
Asheville
N. Y
Boston
Stone crashes through car near Fairmont injury report
A large hillside stone rolled onto a moving Baltimore and Ohio express seven miles east of Fairmont West Virginia injuring three passengers. B Powell of Fairmont had a head cut and abrasions, B F Gilmore of Goshen Indiana suffered a head injury, and Griffith Jones a Fairmont resident was slightly hurt. The train traveled at forty miles per hour and doctors at Fairmont hospital treated the wounded.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Chicago and
New York Express
Baltimore and Ohio
Hammond
B. Powell
Fairmont Hospital
B. F. Gilmore
Goshen
Ind
Griffith Jones
Palrmont
Marble Head of Abraham Lincoln Accepted for Congress
The joint committee of Congress on the Library adopted a resolution to accept a marble head of Abraham Lincoln by Gutzon Borglum, presented by Eugene Meyer Jr of New York. The sculpture will be placed in the Capitol with a tablet naming the donor, and Robert Lincoln praised its likeness. Roosevelt supported purchase, prompting Meyer to donate.
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Washington
Joint
Committee of Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Gutzon Borglum
Eugene Meyer, Jr
New York
Capitol
Congress
Euygene Meyer, Jr
New York City
Borglum
Robert Lincoln
Lincoln
White House
Roosevelt
Ike ‘Ness
Meyer
Cleveland In Frail Health In Private May 10
Grover Cleveland’s physicians report the ex-president growing weaker with acute stomach trouble. He rests comfortably but remains extremely feeble, aided by a restrictive diet of half an egg and milk at meals. Dr. Bryant stays at his bedside in Lakewood New Jersey.
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Lakewood
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Bryant
New York
Propeller Blade Break Delays Cunard Mauretania at Sea
A broken propeller blade, likely struck by a floating spar, delayed the Cunard Mauretania by a day, preventing a trans Atlantic record run. Captain Pritchard said the ship would have hit 27 knots by daylight, but still averaged 22.89 knots after the mishap.
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New York
Mauretania
Pritchard
Explosion Kills One, Injures Five at Roby Plant
In Roby Indiana a blast in the dry starch room of the American Maize Product Company killed laborer Andrew Swanson and seriously injured five other workers. Superintendent G C Welch leaped from a second story window and was hurt. Property damage is estimated at 35000 dollars.
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Chicago
American Maize Product Company
Roby
Ind
Andrew Swanson
G. C. Welch
Plague Strikes La Guaira Stalling Trade and Aid
May 10. Thomas P. Moffatt American consul at La Guaira is incommunicado as plague spreads. U S may send a gunboat to transfer the consul, while President Castro orders a quarantine kept for another week or until cases fall. Distress grows among unemployed as merchants falter. relief trains with provisions reach the isolated city.
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Willemstadt
Thomas P. Moffatt
la Guaira
United States
Castro
la Guarra
Chamber of Commerce
Caracas
Indictment Talk Circles Around Governor Willson in Kentucky
In Scott county a grand jury probes the authority behind troop deployments and whether soldiers aimed to intimidate citizens. Judge Stout says governors cannot send troops without local officials backing, hinting at possible indictments of Gov Willson and Adjt. Gen. Johnson for conspiracy to intimidate as regional backlash grows.
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Frankfort
Scott County
Grand Jury
Robert Stout
Sherif
Gov Willson
Adit
Gen. Johnson
Troops Move Into Trigg County Area Amid Night Riders Probe
May 8. Troops enter Trigg County as arrests loom for night riding. About twenty men of the Middlesboro company under Major G W Albrecht and Captain Givens to establish a permanent camp at Golden Pond between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers. Another detachment under Major B Bassett and Lieutenant Wilborn camps at Rockcastle. Bowling Green troops under Captain Denhardt at Holdyville where court is in session. Owenboro company under Lieutenant Gans at Murray. Thirty five men from Caldwell and Lyon counties arrested and taken to Marion on raid charges. Thirteen rearrested at Eddyville facing further complicity charges. Bond posted for several arrestees. More warrants expected at Eddyville.
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Hopkinsville
Trigg County
Middlesboro Company
G. W. Albrecht
Givens
Golden Pond
Cumberland
Tennessee
B. Bassett
Wilborn
Rockcastle
Bowling Green
Henry Denhardt
Holdyville
Owenshoro Company
Gans
Murray
Caldwell
Lyon
Marion
Crittenden County
Eddyville
Fires for two blast furnaces in Birmingham district
May 10 report notes two blast furnaces at their fires in the Birmingham district last week. They belong to the Sloas-SheMeld firm and the new 250 ton stack of the Birmingham Coal & Iron Co. These two producers will likely operate continuously from now on.
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Birmingham
Alu
Sloas-SheMeld Stool & Iron Co
Birmingham Coal & Iron Co
Immense Loss in Atlanta Fire at Terminal Hotel
A major blaze in Atlanta began at 3 am in the Schlessinger Meyer Bakery building and spread to the Terminal Hotel and surrounding structures. The fire destroyed two blocks of Forsyth Nelson Maison Hunter, with estimated losses around 750000 dollars. insurance men place the heaviest loss on S M Inman. Firefighters fought the flames as rail and post office operations scrambled to save mail and equipment. no injuries reported.
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Atlanta
May
Forsyth, Nelson, Maison
Hunter Streets
Schlessinger Meyer Company
Terminal Hotel
S M Inman
Or ‘Tice
Forsyth, Mitchell and
Nelson Streets
Monson
Schlessinger-Meyer Company
Liquid Carbonic Company
Central Trust and Banking Company
Schlessinger
No Canteens in Soldiers' Home Vote in House
Washington May 7 In a heated House showdown over prohibition the dry faction won decisively delaying any use of federal funds for canteens in soldiers’ homes. The vote backed an amendment to abolish canteens in federal soldiers’ homes and defeated Parsons plan for local option without sanction.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Massachusetts
Herbert Parsons
New York
Parsons
Tirrell
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