PAST AND PRESENT Telegraphic Information on Boyle Escape Plot
Mercer county authorities fear a planned jailbreak from Whitla kidnaper James H. Boyle. A ladder was found at his cell window and an outside rescue attempt was thwarted by Boyle’s sudden illness. Also noted Indiana statesman David Turpie dies at his Indianapolis home after a long illness. Turpie, born 1829 in Hankinton county Ohio, served as senator after defeating Benjamin Harrison in 1887.
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Mercer County
James H. Boyle
Whitla
Boyle
Indiana
David Turple
Indianapolis
Ind
Turple
Ella Turple
Benjamin Harrison
Turpie
Albert J. Beveridge
Train wreck near Grand Rapids kills three
A washout caused by a heavy rainstorm sent a Grand Trunk freight train from Grand Haven east to derail one mile west of Grand Rapids Michigan. Three men were killed and another fatally injured. Bridges washed away and roads flooded with water up to Pere Marquette tracks. High water threatens Zeeland Hudsonville areas and rivers Kalamazoo and Black.
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Grand Trunk
Grand Haven
Grand Rapids
Mich
Kalamazoo
Black
Zeeland
Hudsonville
Accident on Lookout Mountain Involving Car Crash
A five passenger auto went off an embankment on Lookout Mountain near Mountain House on a sharp curve while descending at speed. The chauffeur suffered a broken arm and other bruises, was taken to a Chattanooga hospital, and the machine overturned. A frightened horse also leaped from a train nearby, was found unharmed with minor head cuts.
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Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tragedy at Albany Avenue Home In Chicago
A nickelplater named Harry L. Summers shot and killed his wife Henrietta, severely wounded his ten year old daughter Gladys, and mortally wounded his mother-in-law Mrs Anna McKenzie before killing himself at 622 Albany Avenue Chicago Illinois police report a domestic tragedy.
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Chicago
Harry L. Summers
Henrietta
Gladys
Anna McKenzie
Fairbanks Arrives in Honolulu on Japanese liner
Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks lands in Honolulu after travel from San Francisco aboard the Japanese liner Chiyo Maru. He is met with a warm welcome from local officials and residents as he begins a visit in the islands.
Sunday Obituaries and World News Snapshots
Sunday items report Amzi Lorenzo Barber dies head of a large asphalt firm while a beatification ceremony for Joan of Arc draws thousands. Harvard's William Henry Vickring says with 10 million dollars he could talk to Mars. Chicago records 735 deaths in a week as pneumonia rises. Rumors swirl in Constantinople of abdication and sultan's flight. Taft attends a ball game as Washington loses to Boston 8 to 4. Four rich men freed from jail amid mob violence in Oklahoma. Adana riots kill thousands. Turkey teeters toward civil conflict.
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Amzi Lorenzo Barber
Great Asphalt Company
Joan of Arc
William Henry Vickrring
Harvard University
Mars
Chicago
Trinity Chute
New York
Tehatalje
Constantinople
Taft
Washington
Boston
Aldrich
Tari
Sultan Abdul Hamid
Virginia Harned Sothern
Four Cattlemen Lynched by Mob in Ada Oklahoma
In Ada, Oklahoma, a mob of about 100 seized four prisoners from the jail and hanged them in a barn. Victims were J. B. Miller of Fort Worth Texas, Burrell of Duncan Oklahoma, Jesse West of Canadian Texas, and Joe Allen of Canadian Texas, accused in the murder of U.S. Marshal A I Bobbitt near Ada last February. Miller’s death ends a career marked by six prior killings. The mob and trials drew intense local anger, with authorities unable to stop the lynching. West and Allen allegedly plotted to murder Bobbitt, with Burrell later testifying against Miller.
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Clih'y Rooma
Ada
Olda
Commercial Club
Haim
J. B. Miller
Fort Worth
Texans
Burrell
Duncan
Okla
Jesse West
Texas
Joe Allen
Canadian
West
Allen
A. I Bobbitt
United States
Tobbitt
Miller
Pat Garrett
Wan Hunter
Garrett
Las Cruces
N. M
Brown
Bobbitt
Decrease in Rail Casualties Shown in ICC Figures
The Interstate Commerce Commission released official statistics showing a decline in railroad casualties. For October to December 1908, total casualties were 17,644, down 2,814 from the same period in 1907. Killed numbered 134 with 2,924 injured in train accidents, while other causes raised totals to 798 killed and 16,849 injured.
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Interstate Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Two boys injured by bomb found near Rome outskirts
A bomb found by two youths near Rome exploded injuring them. Authorities searched for more hidden devices. Police suspect anarchists planned an outrage. No further injuries reported as investigations proceed.
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Rome
London
Paris
Servia
Austria
French
United States
France
London Times
Earl of Granard
Order of St. Patrick
Beatrice Mills
New York
Supreme Military Court
Irkutsk
Tabriz
Persia
Bushire
Bender Abbas
Shirag
Denounces Wheat Deal and Predicts Market Smash
Secretary Wilson counters James Patten by defending the 148,000,000 bushel wheat reserve report and accusing Patten of a consumer robbery scheme. He says farmers provide reliable data after twelve years of system work, and warns that cornering the market requires relentless buying until a smash follows.
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Taft
Congress
W. O. Clark
Clark Street
Chicago
New York
James A. Patten
Wilson
Patten
James Wilson
Agriculture
Gaid
Department 9 Agriculture
Sec. Wilson
Mr. Patten
Secretary of Agriculture
Sothern Divorce Was Denied by Nevada Court
Nevada District Court Chief Judge W I A Pike issued a landmark ruling denying Virginia Sothern a divorce from E J Sothern when neither party resided in Nevada and service occurred to a non resident. The decision bars non resident complaints without bona fide state residence and intent to remain, affecting at least twenty five pending cases and possibly ending the practice of filing from afar.
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Nevada
State of
Second Judicial District Court
Reno
W. I. A. Pike
Virginia
Sothern
E. J. Sothern
Pike
Six Die As Fire Ravages San Francisco Hotel
Early morning blaze at the St George Hotel and eight nearby structures left six dead and eight to ten others buried in ruins. Six injured with one fatally, and $125000 in property loss. Bodies were so charred morgue identification was impossible. About 200 occupants fled while some jumped to adjoining church roof and others to safety nets.
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San Francisco
St. George Hotel
Ice floe sinks lake steamer Isber Ward
Five men drown when the grain ship Isber Ward from Milwaukee to Port Huron sinks in Lake Michigan after striking a heavy ice floe six miles west of Mackinaw City Michigan. Nine crew members were saved. The Ward, owned by D M Ferry & Co of Detroit, had left Milwaukee on its first trip of the season. The accident occurred as the steamer drifted into ice near the Straits of Mackinac.
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Straits
Maclnac
Isber Ward
Milwaukee
Port Huron
Lake Michigan
Mackinaw City
Mich
Ward
D. M. Ferry & Co
Detroit
ATS
Rumors of Turkish Crisis Amidst Revolt and Abdication
A London dispatch from Athens reports 10 000 killed in anti Christian rioting in Adana and Tarsus with thousands fleeing as villages are razed. A Constantinople dispatch confirms a government union and progress concession with Abdul Hamid to remain sultan but cabinet to resign. Religious mobs spread panic as Christian Armenians face mass violence across Macedonia andิค the empire.
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London
Athens
Mersina
Adana
Tarsus
Constantinople
Committee of Union and Progress
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Mussulman
Sultan Abdul -Tamid
Macedonia
Ice Jam Threatens Lewiston Bridge And Hotels
Huge ice mass eighty feet above normal level at Lewiston blocks the Niagara River mouth near the suspension bridge. Niagara Falls piles feed the ice, raising the mound and threatening river embankments and riverside hotels. Officials seek help from the War Department and Gov Hughes, but Col James B Price warns relief is impossible with dynamite or currents.
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Lewiston
Niagara River
Niagara
Ontario
War Department
Youngstown
Lies in Wait Kills Father in Revenge for Brother
Agnes Wallace, 35, claims the killing of her father John W. Wallace on Van Buren Street in Brooklyn was to avenge her brother's death. She waited for over an hour and fired two shots, one to the head and one to the temple, as he walked to his home. The incident occurred on Stuyvesant Avenue as he was approaching a hot deliberation.
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Brooklyn
Brother
Agnes Wallace
John W. Wallace
Van Buren _ street
Stuyvesant Avenue
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