Lynchings in Carrollton and Top News From July 1901
A mob of about five hundred white citizens hanged Betsy McCrea and her two children after seizing them from Carroll County jail, following the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro. Also reported: July 1901 U S government receipts and expenditures show a slim surplus. Hammond Indiana fire destroys three plants with 60 workers affected. Crescens wins trotting record at Columbus with 2:02.44 mile aided by a strong head wind.
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Carrollton
Columbus
Ohio
Crescens
Cleveland
Island Disappears In Lake Superior Near Apostle Islands
Steamboat Island, part of the Apostle group off Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, vanished before the latest storm. It was a sand and rock islet with trees, now replaced by a rocky reef under water, posing a navigation hazard and potentially needing a lighthouse if in a ship’s path.
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Chequamegon Bay
Lake Superior
Tragic Tampico Wharf Collapse Kills Seventeen Men and Five Women
At Tampico Mexico the collapse of the Monterey and Mexico Gulf Railroad terminal wharf crushed seventeen men and five women. Eight men and four women have been recovered, bodies mangled beneath thousands of tons of coal and coke. Other items include a Vienna interview warning of cheaper American shoe shop imports in Austria, a Holton Georgia boiler explosion injuring two, McKinley accepting attendance at a G A R encampment in Cleveland, a New Baltimore Pa family poisoned by toadstools, and a Grand Trunk elevator fire in Chicago causing heavy damage.
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Monterey & Mexico Gulf Railroad
Tampico
Mexico
Change in Strike Conditions Notably Unchanged
R G Dun & Co reports a fortnight of steel strike pausing without major impact on contestants or the industry. Unaffected mills show unusual activity while demand for rails, structural material, pig iron and tin plates remains firm or high. Failures in the US rise to 198 from 281 last year. 28 in Canada.
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London
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
United States
Canada
Omaha Butcher Attempts Suicide Over Mother-in-Law Conflict
Enos Rush a Omaha butcher slashed his throat with a cleaver in a bid for respite from his mother-in-law. He claims the act was to escape her dictating in the shop while customers were present, after she attacked him with a cleaver. He has been married two years and cites the quarrel as motive.
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Omaha
Enos Rush
Rush
Skush
Rus
Lynching Threats and Murder Case Stir Lincoln Mob
In Lincoln Nebraska Frank Marshall faces murder charges after shooting his sister Eliza and killing their niece. Threats of lynching followed her death, jail precautions were stepped up, and Marshall remains jailed after his preliminary trial. Other reports note international concerns over Radcliffe's Delta County case and a wave of pestilent winged ants in Hamilton Ohio.
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Frank Marshall
Lincoln
Neb
Eliza Marshall
Marshall
Tiza Marshall
Porter
Plan to reforest state with pine forests in Sand Hills
Gifford Pinchot and Hall advocate converting Nebraska sand hills into pine woods similar to northern Michigan. Pines from Holt County planted a decade ago now reach eighteen feet, thriving in shallow moisture. Hall predicts the entire sand hill country could become a great pine forest, with potential forest reserves and immense value for the Northwest.
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Nebraska
Gifford Pinchot
Bureau of Broatey
Agricultural Department
An Hall
Dsac Plantan Division
Michigan
Holt County
Sand Hills
Hall
Dow
Sand Hill
Mr. Hall
SLAIN BY ALASKA INDIANS THREE PROSPECTORS KILLED
D. Jackson of Idaho recounts to Seattle the shooting of P. J. Rooney of Seattle O B Sullivan and I Sullivan of Butte Mont and others on Unimak Island Alaska. They landed May 12 to prospect and Indians seized their guns then killed three on June 7 as they returned to camp. Jackson escaped and reached a rescue at a pass.
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Unimak Island
Alaska
Seattle
D. Jackson
Idaho
P. J. Rooney
Sullivan
I. Sullivan
Butte
Mont
Gape Lipin
Jackson
Alae Pass
Sues for a Big Fortune in Stewart Estate Case
John Stewart, claiming relation to the late A. T. Stewart, sues in New York Supreme Court to share the estate, alleging the will admitted to probate is invalid and that Stewart died intestate. The report lists multiple other crime and accident items from the era.
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John Stewart
A. T. Stewart
Supreme Court of New York
Millionaitre
Alexander T. Stewart
Obabe
Courtroom Shootout In Clarksville Involves Four Attorneys
In Clarksville Tennessee chancery court three shot affair left four lawyers, including William Daniel Jr and F G Gilbert, wounded but not fatally. Fifteen shots rang out as opposing counsel clashed over a jawault in the courthouse. The wounded were W M Daniel Sr, W M Daniel Jr, and F G Gilbert.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Chancery Court Room
Clarksville, Tenn. Court House
William Daniel, Jr
F. G. Gilbert
George Gilbert
William M. Daniel
William Daniel
W. M. Daniel
W. M. Daniel, Jr
Heiress Widow Survives Suicide Bid in Rich Douglas County Estate
Hazel Silvis Wood, a young Omaha widow who attempted suicide over a small debt, is found to be the principal legatee in a Douglas County will dating from 1878. The will leaves the remainder of a $7,500 estate to her and then to any children she may have after the widow’s death. The will predated Hazel’s birth and was made before her father’s death last November in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Hazel Silvis Wood
Omaha
Douglas County
Tallahassee
Hazel
Multiple Early 1900s Crime Briefs From Across the U S
A string of short news items recount robberies and violence across several states. An Ohio farmer named Peter Drum is tortured by twelve masked men seeking a hidden stash. $50 is taken and the family screams drive away the assailants. A Minnesota freight-age crime ends with a headless body found near Belle Plaine after a train robbery. A cyclone near Lamblin Kansas blows away freight cars but leaves others intact. Ruth Hanna christens a new Cleveland cruiser with water, not wine. John O Day, formerly head of a railroad, dies in Baltimore after Brights disease. Youthful counterfeiters in Minneapolis are busted for spurious pennies used in slots. A jury deadlock halts Ellis Glenn case after a masquerade. An unknown man attempts to murder Queen Dowager Maria Pia of Portugal at Aix les Bains.
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Ohio
Peter Drum
Bucyrus
Drum
Markets Report From Major U S Cities
Commodity quotes cover cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes. Includes shipping and grade ranges for cattle and livestock and grain prices by No 2 and No 2 white mixed varieties.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Bold Train Robbery Foiled Near Chicago
Four masked men halted the New York and Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio near Calumet Heights 30 miles from Chicago. They blew a baggage car door with dynamite, fired at crew and passengers, and fled after failing to find a treasure box. No cash was taken. a $500 reward is offered for information.
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Baltimore and Ohio Road
Badgemore
Ind
Chicago
New York
J. W. Collins
F. 8
Deveny
Col Leroy Black Dies at 70 in Monroe City Missouri
Col Leroy Black aged 70 dies at his home in Monroe City Missouri. He was a prominent local figure. An elevator fire in Salina Kansas destroyed 14 000 bushels of wheat with a loss of 10 500 dollars and insured for 9 000 pounds.
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Leroy Black
Monroe City
Salina
Kan
Chicago Board of Trade
Phillips
Marion Lehr
CG. F. Lehr
Missouri
St. Joseph
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Simplex Railway
Kensington
South Chicago
Vienna Fremdenblatt
Mierr Bitza
Shoemakers’ Guild
Austria
Herr Bitza
Western
Atlantic
Holton
J. L. Renchbacher
Atlanta
N. W. Bell
McKinley
Joseph Martin
New Baltimore
Grand Trunk Railway
Central Avenue
Slayer
King
William Radcliffe
Grand Mesa Lakes
Delta County
Colorado
Washington
State Department
Radcliffe
Hamilton
Col
Abel Murillo
Cartagena
Colombia
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Northern Pacific
King’s Mines
Cambridge
Avbaleback
Sagamore
Northern Line
Northern Queen
Point Iroquois
J. N. Hurley
Indiana State Board of Health
San Francisco
Middle West
Dayton
Troy
Pine
John Brown
Aling “Topeka Joe
Thomas Keegan
James Stewart
West Toledo
David Morgan
Manila
Mariveles
Bataan
James McCoy
William
Hdnn
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mary McCoy
Maryland
Percy Proctor, Jr
Oakland
Cornell University
Cayuga Lake
Percy Proctor
Engaage
Eacapes Bf
Denvis
Bowers
Memphis, Tenn
Albert Bowers
Themen
Tacoma
Har] Jenkins
Florence Nevins
Miss“Anelia Cole
Puyallup
Spanaway “Lake
Teacoma, Wash
Nels Peterson
Benjamin Anderson
Belle Plaine
Minn
Peterson
Anderson
Harvest Field
Ruth Hanna
Bath Iron Works
Millionaire O’day
John O'Day
St. Louis and
Baltimore
Bright
Minneapolis
Ellis Glenn
Maria Pia
Portugal
Aix-les-Bains
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