Notorious train robbers Sontag Evans captured after ten months
After a ten month chase and encounters with legal passes, train robbers John Sontag and Chris Evans were found Sunday night by four U S marshals near Visalia. Evans was wounded and captured. Sontag was wounded and taken to hospital. Six officers were involved, with gunfire at the hillside camp miles northeast of town. Evans and Sontag faces included prior crimes and a Wyoming ranch sale noted in the closing lines.
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Toms
Visalta
Rov Gers
John Sontag
Chris Evans
United States
Lawced Sontag
Cuastghy
Wa May
Joan
Edward Rapelje
Syesno
Fred Jackeoho
Nevada
Phot Turn
Badeer
Tui
Evans
Imote
Ctrl
Coneral
Beltin
Carey
Vine
Rupeije
Jeg
Gard
Burns
Soine
Sonic
Chere Isa
Tyans Towne
Borden Juror Faints As Graphic Testimony Unfolds
In New Beproenn Massachusetts June 14 a court session on the Borden case reveals Dr Dolan testifying about the injuries and blood spatter while Miss Borden swoons and a juror collapses from the gruesome details. The doctor cites left to right blows and suggests Mrs Borden died about an hour and a half before Mr Borden.
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Mass
Miss Borden
Adams
Dolan
Mrs. Borden
Indiana Fee Law Declared Unconstitutional by Judge
In Indiana Circuit Court Judge Brown ruled the 7891 fee and salary law unconstitutional. The ruling targets counties and state officers except coroners and prosecuting attorneys as the plan to set county by county fee aggregates fails due to defective gradation. Italian Bank Wreckers Convicted in Rome. Cuciniello and cashier Alesandro found guilty. sentences of ten years and six years eight months respectively. German Pythias Revolt in Indiana: German lodges threaten secession over English only ritual printing unless grand lodge repeals rule within ninety days.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Brown
Indiana
Rome
Cuciniello
Bank of Naples
Alesandro
Inpranaponts
Pythias
First Columbian souvenir coin struck at Philadelphia mint
The June 14 ceremony in Philadelphia marked the coin age of Columbian souvenir quarter dollars with Coiner Steel and officials witnessing. Early press reports praised the first coin as an excellent specimen with sharply defined lines in portraits and figures. A separate note reports the arrest of Wilson Shannon Tauggart, a forger who vanished ten months ago and is to be brought to Oceana, Virginia for prosecution. his 85 year old father has been left penniless.
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Ais
Aisa Crist
Handy
Clivis
CIA
Toberis
Paul
Aadtierward
Lewis
Evans
Anid
Anjeter C. Wilson
Duetrs
J. Khodker
California
Sontag Brothers
Cowing
Pal
Philadelphia
United States
Coiner Steel
M. E. Cobb
Pardons Granted for Interstate Commerce Violations
The president pardons George W. Howell and Edward Tibbets of Missouri for interstate commerce act violations. Each was sentenced to prison for eighteen months and fined $2,000. In a separate note, Governor Sprinckeep commutes Samuel S. Ford of Champaign from ten years to five years, indicating Ford was sentenced in 1680 and appears partially of unsound mind.
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Cleveland
Hixevox
George W. Howell
Edward Tibbets
Missouri
Sprinckeep
Samuel S. Ford
Champaign
Ford
Receiver Gains Control Of Rival Firms In Cuneace
In Cuneace on June 4 the Trarvey World’s Fair hotel company and the Trarvey flame Improvement company are placed under a receiver Mendes. Liabilities cited include about 400000 and 160000 respectively. Also notes changes in breadstuff values and a report on warship movements and a distillery closure in Terre Haute. Royal Arcanum reelected in Minneapolis.
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Ina
Cuneace
Trarvey World's Fair Hotel Company
Trarvey Flame Improvement Company
Mendes
Fire Traps Doomed Six-Story Sweatshop Building
A blaze at 10 and 12 Montgomery Street in New York on June 14 trapped workers in five floors of a six story brick building. Five people died, many were injured, and several others jumped from windows or stairways as the fire spread. Police and firefighters aided survivors and a stable on the ground floor burned with three horses perishing.
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Vtatian
Comoe
Rowe
Dune
New York
Hamiberto
Montgomery Street
James Cronin
Hook and Ladder Truck No. 6
Gussie Augusevisky
Suffolk Street
Samuel Groqua
Cincinnati thief throws vitriol at Elliott in Ohio prison
At 9 a.m. in Columbus Ohio W W Varney a Cincinnati thief hurled vitriol at newspaper man William J Elliott injuring him likely blinding one eye Elliott had aided a jail escape plot in February 1891 and Varney once worked as a cutter in the state tailor shop
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CoLumBus
W. W. Varney
Cincinnati
William J. Elliott
Varney
Eliott
Elliott
Child shoots infant sister in Charles Mix county tragedy
In June 14 report from Chamberlain South Dakota a 12 year old boy in Charles Mix county fatally shot his 2 year old half sister with a shotgun after the baby became fretful. The act described as one of the most devilish and unnatural deeds in the state.
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Chamberlain
Charles Mix County
Former New York labor commissioner Peck flees to Europe
Albany June 14 Charles I Peck former labor commissioner of New York State fled to Europe last Saturday. His counsel was told to bring him to this term of court. if not produced bonds will be forfeited and a bench warrant issued.
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Albany
N. Y
Charles I. Peck
Court of Sessions
Europe
Peck
Secretary Carlisle seeks cabinet estimates by September 15
In Washington on June 14 Secretary Carlisle, citing the upcoming extra session of Congress, issued a circular to all cabinet members urging submission of their budget estimates as early as possible and no later than September 15. A Wicked Girl's Revenge reports a separate sensational tragedy in Monica with Minnie Marschall, 16, killing her mother, sister, and an aged uncle before stabbing herself.
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Washineton
Carlisle
Congress
Monica
Minnie Marschall
Megelhoff
Detroit Savings Banks Face Run Over Ninety Day Notice
A Detroit morning rush to People's Savings Bank signals rising depositor fear. Officials announce a ninety days notice to manage demands, backed by fourteen city savings banks. People's has $5.28 million in savings deposits, $609k commercial deposits, $500k capital, $125.6k surplus, and $78.26k undivided profits.
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Detroit
Mich
People’s Savings Bank
Griswold Street
People's
Illinois Senate Agrees to Resolution on Constitutional Convention
The Illinois Senate adopts a joint resolution to submit to voters at the next general election the question of calling a constitutional convention. A separate Solomon resolution creates a commission to study methods for depositing $24 million of insurance company funds from New York banks into Illinois banks. Other actions include arbitration for labor disputes and various state notes from Des Moines and Omaha bureaus.
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Springfield
Jil
Senate
Solomon
General Assembly
New York
Illinois
Joliet
House
Crystal Falls Bank Suspends Payment in Michigan
Advices from Bank Commissioner Sherwood at Crystal Falls report the state bank of Crystal Falls suspends payment. The bank, organized about a year ago with $25,000 capital, held $60,000 in deposits. The failure stems from the suspension of the Plankinton bank of Milwaukee.
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Lawnstna
Mich
Sherwood
Crystal Falls
Upper Michigan
State Bank of
Plankinton Bank of
Milwaukee
Spanish Building Dedicated at World Fair Opening
At noon the Spanish building dedication occurred with Princess Thulalia and a large international crowd. The Spanish exhibit in the Manufactures building also opened to visitors.
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Thulalia
Manufactures
Wise Men to Meet Over Monetary Affairs and Railways
A world congress auxiliary will gather June 19 to study banking finance and related topics. Delegates from 40 states discuss currency, coinage, and international banking, with speakers like Sherman White Foxwell and Eckels, plus a railway commerce congress with plans and notable participants. Commander Dickens ends Duke Veragua's U S travel as he becomes a private citizen.
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Cxatcnco
Congress
Department of Commerce and Finance
Banking and Finance
Congress of Bankers and Financiers
Lyman J. Gage
George Schneider
John J. P. Odell
Orson Smith
KE. G. Keith
Clinton B. Evans
United States
Canada
James H. Eckels
American Bankers’ Association
International Association of Bankers
John Sherman
Ohio
Horace White
New York
Prof. Foxwell
England
W. J. Stone
Missouri
Charles Parsons
St. Louis
Railway Commerce Congress
George R. Blanchard
Central Traffic Association
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Morrison, Wisey and Knapp
J. W. Cary
Adlace ¥. Walker
J. Sterling Morton
George
Drifted Snow, a Proposal, and a Hidden Note
In a January tale set near a logging camp, Mamie Goss and Esther Somers entertain two suitors, Fred Cadwell and Lewis Salton. A snowbank accident uncovers a concealed note revealing Fred’s love for Mamie, leading to a climactic confession and a second wedding the following summer.
Confidence and caution clash on a foggy sea tale
A passenger recalls a French steamer near the coast where youthful overconfidence nearly endangered the fleet. Captain and young officer argue over orders until a fog clears and rocks are spotted two hundred yards away, proving the elder's caution saved the ship.
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M. de Paiguille
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