Chicago police seek Michael Cooney alias the Fox
Chicago June 21 police search for Michael Cooney alias the Fox suspected as the smaller of the two Williams brothers linked to the Cronin murder case. Cooney, a five six bricklayer with sandy mustache, last seen after the Winnipeg-Carlson cottage plot surfaced and may have funded or fled following Cronin's burial. The case ties him to Martin Burke and potential British subject issues and extradition questions remain unsettled.
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Cooney
Chcago
Michael Cooney
the Fox
Martin Burke
Winnipeg
Cronin
Chicago
Winxrees
Jane
Oficer Collins
Crouin Muxider
Calder
Liverpool
Burke
Chief Rae
Colins
Hubbard
Dr. Croni
James Knight
Patrick Brennan
James Minnehan
Robert Bornton
Whalen
O'Sullivan
Springfield
Washington
D. C
Ottawa
United States
Great Britain
Cook County Grand Jury
Wabouchere
Sullivan
Lowney
Labouchere
Reed Wins Checker Championship of America at Chicago
Reed defeats Walker of Boston to win the national checker title in a two week championship at Chicago. Reed led Barker 9 to 7 in a drawn 4 while each player won one game on Wednesday. A banquet at the Leland Hotel will honor the champion.
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Walker
Boston
Curiaco
Reed
Barker
J.P. Reed
Chicago Chess and Checker Club
Leland Hotel
Dead Heroes Honored by Decoration Day in Yokohama
In Yokohama Japan on May 15 officers and crews from the U S Navy ships Omaha Monocacy decorated graves of American soldiers and sailors at the general cemetery. The ceremony included an oration by Comrade J G Tilden of the Omaha and was attended by Consul General Greathouse and staff.
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Yokohama
Japan
San Francisco
Oceanic
Occidental & Oriental Company
Hong Kong
United States
General
Omaha
Monocacy
Verdict Finds Railway Liable in Louisville Fatality
Coroner Shaeffer filed his verdict in the inquest into the killing of Lawrence and Peter Streb and two orphan boys by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago limited express at Louisville. The railroad is held wholly to blame. Suits totaling 30,000 have been entered against the company for the two Strebs and the guardian of one of the orphans.
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Cantoux
Shaeffer
Lawrence
Peter Streb
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Limited Express
Louisville
Strebs
Fire destroys Delaware River Chemical Works shed in Morris street
Fire razed the storage shed of Delaware River Chemical Works at Morris street wharf destroying about 3000 tons of bone meal fertilizer. The Baugh & Sons Company own the works and estimate the loss near 60000 with insurance nearly covering. Floods in Kansas and St Louis report Neosho river at flood height washing out banks. Thousands of acres of wheat and grain submerged. Neosho County crop damage exceeds 500000.
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Philadelphia
Pavia DeSphin
Delaware River Chemical Works
Morris Street
Baugh & Sons Company
Louis
Kansas
Neosho River
Neosho County
Destitution Strikes Braidwood Miners Families in Strike
Joliet relief committee reports severe hunger among Braidwood miners families as 4 000 people lack livelihood. A benefit concert tops aid efforts. mining population includes 100 negroes 60 Italians 150 Bohemians 450 English and Americans. Indiana also faces methan shortages amid clay county strike relief appeal.
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Jarret
Braidwood
Joliet
James Lewis
Central Presbyterian Church
J. J. Walter
Young Men's Christan Association
Rey
Lewis
Walter
Opera House
Indiana
Ind
Hovey
Clay County
Butt
Sophio Thoruty
Clay
Michigan Senate delays liquor tax and excise proposal
In Lansing Michigan on June 21 the Senate indefinitely postponed a bill to create by appointment an excise commission with township officers to license saloons and enforce liquor laws. The House supported a voter option for the tax while the Senate rejected the conference committee’s report. The day also included Election bill progress and a resolution about railroad and canal grant conveyance. In Brookville a wedding at George A. Jenks home joined Emma Jenks and Congressman PB Shively with Rev. J S Glass officiating.
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Lansrxc
Mich
Senate
Conference
House
Sani
Conference Committee
Upper Peninsula
Lower Peninsula
Shively
Brookville
George A. Jenks
United States
Emma Jenks
PB. F. Shively
South Bend
Ind
J. 5. Glass
The
Presbyterian Church
Rain Ruining the Crops in Morris Illinois and Saengerfest Opens
Rain has fallen every four to five hours for five days in Morris causing very wet ground and poor corn conditions. If rains continue, crop damage will worsen. Northwestern Saengerfest opens in Minneapolis with 26 visiting societies and about 1,000 singers, including Gilmore's band.
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Morris
Minneapolis
Minn
Chicago
Freeport
Milwaukee
Madison
Gilmore
Tragedy in Milwaukee as Train Strikes Man and Woman
Robert Bevering of Milwaukee and a young woman were fatally struck by a Northwestern train at Silver Springs on Wednesday evening. Bevering died instantly. the woman died later at the Emergency Hospital.
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Roun
Minwaukee
Robert Bevering
Northwestern
Silver Springs
Bevering
Young Nettie Colburn Ends Life With Morphine Act
Nettie Colburn a 13 year old daughter of Elijah Colburn of Evruant Ind died Tuesday night after threatening for some time to commit death by own action. The act was caused by a very fleshy condition and distress over it.
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Evruant
Ind
Nettie
Elijah Colburn
Salisbury Defends Libel Claim as Good Faith Comment
Salisbury in his own defense denies libel charges brought by Mr. O'Brien. He says the contested speech was made in good faith and was a fair comment on Mr. O'Brien's conduct.
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Salisbury
Lospown
Lord Salisbury
Mr. O’brien
Mr. O'Brien
Johnstown Fund Plans Split Relief Honor for Flood Victims
Governor Beaver's relief commission met in Johnstown to allocate a one million dollar loan. Johnstown to receive about 75 to 30 percent, with 500 ready made houses planned and work efforts urged to aid stricken residents. Miss Clara Barton rewarded for Red Cross aid as labor unrest grows among workers and Italian laborers arriving from the East are persuaded to stay.
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Keaver
Johnstown
Leaver
Pittsburgh
Susquehanna
Juniata Valley
Beaver
Chicago
K. 8
Stevens
Philadelphia
General Hastings
Conemaugh Valley
Clara Barton
Red Cross Society
Miss Parton
McKnight
Woman Confesses to Killing Husband After Dispute
In Indiana a widow Charlotte Allen confessed to two servants that she killed her husband Richard G. Allen by poisoning tea, slashing his throat, and hanging the body from a tree following a farm ownership dispute. Several people were injured in a Philadelphia street crush during a crowd event. Meredit h appointment as Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was expected to be finalized. A large group of Mormon converts were among 714 steerage passengers disembarking at Castle Garden for Utah travel.
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Inpiansports
Ind
Richard G. Allen
Washington
Charlotte Allen
Allen
Kiulf
Washincros
Meredith
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Windom
New York
Castle Garden
Ellis
Anderson
Old Dominion Line
Utah
Norfolk
Death of an Aged Priest in Mercy Hospital
Rev. John Carroll longtime Catholic priest and oldest in the United States died at Mercy Hospital Chicago aged 93. Born 1796 in Queen's County Ireland he was ordained 69 years ago and served until his death in 1900 era city.
Invasion Fear Rises as Servia Manifesto Circulates
A Servian revolutionary manifesto circulating in Bosnia and Herzegovina claims Austria plans to annex the region. The populace is described as greatly excited amid reports of potential upheaval.
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London
Servia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria
Bloody chapter of boy killers and grim murders across states
A string of violent incidents reported from Indiana Illinois Arkansas Alabama Ontario and West Virginia details multiple murders by juveniles or distraught individuals. Incidents include four Vermillion County boys murdering a 15 year old Snyder and dumping him in a creek. Other cases involve shooting a constable, a lawyer killing his son in law, a couple charged with murdering their daughters, a man murdering a 11 year old girl, a teen shooting his rival, and three murders in Putnam County within a three mile radius.
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Teare
Havre
Ind
Jones
Douglass
Pearman
Snyder
Vermillion County
Heelena
Ark
James Crosby
Hickory Rudge
James Gregory
Gregory
Crosby
Clarendon
Clanton
W. A. Colfer
Phil Givhan
Givhan
Culler
Linconsy
Net
John. Leavity
Gresine
Weward
Leavitt
Greshaur
Duns
Alvin Parke
Noaak
Maria Louise
Darke
Goat Point
Hemself
Littlefield
Temote
Davis
Chatham
Frank Bear
Augustus Park
Park
Dear
Mun
Bear
Wreetina
W. Va
Putnam County
James D. Paull
John Moore
Henry Bradley
Doc Lawrence
Tom Stevens
New
Palmyra magnate dies in Aurora drug store
Prof. Alien Griffith president of Palmyra Manufacturing Company Chicago collapsed and died in a Aurora drug store Wednesday evening. He had recently purchased an agricultural implement factory in Polo NL Pe Laid. Also at Madison University James Colgate laid the corner stone of the Colgate library building donor of the gift. trustees renamed the university Colgate University in honor of James and Samuel Colgate.
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Aurora
Alien Griffith
Palmyra Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Arres
Madison University
James Colgate
Colgate Library
James
Samuel Colgate
Colgate University
Consolidated carheating firms form new company
Demnorr Michigan June 21 consolidated the McElroy Car-Heating Company of Detroit and the Dewald Car-Heating Company of Portland Maine. The union controls 100 patents with 100 more applications. New capital totals 2 500 000. Robert C. Pryor of Albany New York is president with 5 Hatch of New York as vice president.
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Consolidated
Demnorr
Mich
McElroy Car-Heating Company
Detroit
Dewald Car-Heating Company
Portland
Robert C. Pryor
Albany
5. Hatch
New York
Miami University trustees award LL.D. to notable alumni
The Miami University trustees at Oxford conferred the degree of LL.D. on President Harrison, Secretary of the Interior J. W. Noble, and John W. Herron, all alumni of the college. Separate report notes Andrew Grimes, a colored man, was hanged at May's Landing, New Jersey, for the murder of John Martin aboard the sunid Card.
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Cincinnati
Miami University
Oxford
Harrison
Interior
J. W. Noble
John W. Herron
Newark
N. J
Andrew Grimes
May's Landing
N.J
John Martin
World Leaders Plan Kiel Meeting This August
Emperor William and the Czar of Russia will meet at Kiel in August. The First National Park of Lakota Dakota Territory has been organized with Ashley Mears as president and capital stated. The belt of the cruiser Charleston contains silver coins contributed by the hundreds of workers in its construction.
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William
Russia
Kiel
Phoebe Vernum
Morrison
Daniel Bartels
Hamburg
Lakota
D. T
Ashley Mears
Charleston
Jode Maddox
Michigan City
Hartford City
Ind
Montpelier
Amalgamated Association
Standish Hoop
Lima
William McClelland
Baron Gynito
Grata
Nuhrsort
Khing
Vie Nuhr
Fred Douglass
Frank Thornton
State Bank
Minneapolis
Bish
Stillwater
The
Pioneers
Cass County
Miel
Cassopolis
G. L. Yaple
C. EF. Simith
Association
Pest of the Wheat Fields In Illinois and Tadiana
Farmers report widespread wheat damage from a tiny grain louse called sipsonera avenuw in Wines or Indiana region, with swarms on each head. The pest, new to the area, sucks juice from kernels, threatening oats rye and delayed wheat as wet conditions persist. Ladybugs are observed pursuing the pests in some fields.
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Wines
Indiana
Kentucky
Burglar Steals Bonds Diamonds in Nebraska Home
Stolen over 10 000 dollars in bonds stocks and jewels. Entry blown at M D Welch secretary treasurer of Western Manufacturing Company residence in Lixcouyx Neb. Several suspects arrested as police investigate the burglary. Also notes legal and sensational items from across the country.
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Cass
Lixcouyx
Neb
M. D. Welch
Western Manufacturing Cowhyaiuy
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Exander Sullivan
Times
Patrick Egan
England
Parmnell
Father Dorney
Sulivan
American League
Roosevelt
Discase
Civil Service
Theodore Roosevelt
Tsuy
Davit
Davitt
Brazil
Michigan
Legislature
Excise Commission
Saengerfest
Johnstown Fund
Pwmiladelphia
Wroth
Chambly Basis
Que
Chambly Canal
Alex Rivers
Louis Sawer
Litre Rock
Nashville
Williamsport
Nebraska
Greenville, Mies
H. Whiteworth
Ivers
Just Juey
Whiteworth
Curcago
Alice Dickey
Luther 8
Dickey
Warren Avenue
Ll.d
Ispranapolis
Supreme Court
Warber Knott
Buffalo
Beurnar
N. Y
Martin Laus
Hera
John L. Sullivan
Muldoon
Laux
Hetfour
Gladstone
Loxvow
Mgr. Balfour
Constitutional Union
Iowa College
Des Moines
Cailanan College
Ricowoxp
Lawrence Lottler
Concorp
N. H
W FE. Chandler
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