Pickpocket and Policeman Slain in Circus Hold Up
Two holdup men attacked the Hagen Beck Wallace circus in Logansport Indiana. A patrolman Joseph Kroger fired twice before dying after being shot. One footpad died at St Joseph’s hospital. the other fled. The dead man’s identity remained unknown as doctors, sisters and priests sought his name.
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Hagenbeck & Wallace
Joseph Kroger
Logansport
Ind
Kroeger
St. Joseph's Hospital
Prison Wall Blown Down by Cyclone in Michigan City
A cyclone struck northern Indiana blowing down six hundred feet of the west prison wall at Michigan City. Warden Reid deployed armed patrols to prevent an outbreak as Company F of the Indiana National Guard was placed on standby by Governor Marshall. Meanwhile, a severe electrical storm with strong winds hit Chicago, causing five deaths and cutting direct outside communication for hours. Also reported are a cottage collapse at Sev enth street and Ell is avenue and condolences about Schuyler Knotts and his wife from tuberculosis.
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Michigan City
Indiana
Reid
Indiana National Guard
South Bend
Marshall
Chicago
Ill
Seventy Ninth Street
Ellis Avenue
Schuyler Knotts
Evansville
Ind
Knotts
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cincinnati
Lamilton
Dayton
Cineman
Cincinnat
Adana Vilayet
Abdel Hamid
Constantinople
Ten Injured As Trolley Crashes On Steep Pittsburgh Hill
Ten persons were injured when a Homestead Braddock and East Pittsburgh trolley car ran out of control on a steep grade near Beeler Pennsylvania. Five were seriously hurt as the car dashed down the hill jumped the track and struck a steel trolley pole. The cause of the accident was not known.
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Homestead
Braddock
East Pittsburg
Best Street
Beeler
Sugar Trust Pays Big Fines
The American Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey and the New York firm with the same name paid about $900,000 to the U S treasury, completing roughly $2,000,000 in settlements of fraud charges raised by the government.
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Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
New Jersey
New York Corporation
United States Treasury
Explosion Kills Four at Reynolds Pa Packing House
Four men died in a glycerine packing house explosion at Potts Powers company in Reynolds Pennsylvania. Four workers were injured and the cause remained unknown.
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Potts Powers Company
Reynolds
Massacres and political upheaval ripple through Turkey and world
Reports chronicle Armenian massacres in Asia Minor with thousands dying in Adana and towns burned. Sultan Abdul Hamid deposed with Mehmed V installed. constitutionalists hold Constantinople as parties negotiate fortune and power. Berlin and New York scenes reflect broader crisis.
Mass Casualty Toll in Asiatic Turkey Soars
Mass killings and widespread atrocities devastate the vilayet of Adana and surrounding districts. Estimates reach about 25 000 dead or wounded with Christians’ property destroyed and thousands displaced. Warships patrol coast as American and Armenian missions face danger. refugees surge in Adana, Tarsus, and Mersina.
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Turkey
Vilayet
Adan
Alexandretta
Suediah
Djehel Bereket
Adnnea
Adana
Tarsus
Mersina
Miss Lambert
Constantinople
Kessab
Tiadjin
Women Cutthroats Arrested Near St. Petersburg Taverns
A mother and two daughters running a tavern in Kurchino, thirty miles from St. Petersburg, led a band of female killers who murdered travelers found at the inn. They disfigured corpses and cast them into a fast flowing stream, with several bodies recovered.
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Kurchino
St. Petersburg
Ex Senator Stewart Dead Pioneer Nevada Miner and Lawyer
William M. Stewart of Nevada former U S Senator died at Georgetown Hospital Washington D C after an operation. He was born August 2 1827 in Lyons New York and moved to California during the gold rush then practiced law and assisted in California and Nevada politics before serving in the U S Senate from 1868 to 1875.
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Nevada
Congress
William M. Stewart
United States
Georgetown Hospital
Washington, D CO
Lyons
N. Yy
Yale College
California
San Francisco
Virginia City
Neb
Usgo
Tle
Cary elected Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction
In Wisconsin Charles J Cary was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction as a non partisan, while other political moves include towns approving liquor licensing and Minnesota cutting the governor's salary to 5000. The Texas Legislature faced antitrust penalty increases and Bryan criticized the session. Governor Campbell denounced a powerful lobby.
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Charles J’. Cary
Wisconsin
Minnesota Senate
Ormsby Mecharg
North Dakota
Texas
Austin
William J. Bryan
Republican Organization of
Pennsylvania
Campbell
Powers Eyes Watch Turkey Across Eastern Question
The piece surveys how Turkey's fate has long symbolized the eastern question. It notes Britain and Russia facing off over influence in the region, with Austria France and the United States also stakeholding in shifts that could reshape Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
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Turkey
Europe
Russia
Constantipole
England
United States
Austria
Balkan States
France
Far East
Africa
Orient
Kansan City man convicted for forging wife name in love letters
Chester M. Yamsher pleaded guilty in federal court to signing his wife's name on letters to Neil Johnson of Atchison Kansas and sought $10 by mail with promises of kisses. He was sentenced to one year in jail as authorities noted mercenary motives and evidence the six month scheme defrauded Johnson of about $500.
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Kansans
Kinxnes
Chester M. Yamsher
Kansas City
Neil Johnson
Atchison
Ian
Postoffice Department
Hamsher
Johnson
Mamsher
Explosion damages historic St Louis Cathedral in New Orleans
A bomb hurled into the gallery near the organ at the St Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square damaged the facade and stained glass but injured none. Christening party arrivals were disrupted. Ferdinand Alma and Angelo Cabuto were arrested as suspects after being seen near the church.
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St. Louis Cathedral
New Orleans
Jackson Square
Ferdinand Alma
Angelo Cabuto
Blellians
Thera
Palma
Pardon Ends Kentucky Goebel Case as Youtsey Remains
Former Governor Taylor and Secretary Finley freed while others tied to the Goebel assassination face no charges if they aided state evidence. Governor Wilson grants pardons to those not turning state’s evidence, leaving Henry Youtsey serving life as the sole punished participant. The case closes with disputed conspiracy claims and several fugitives still unpardoned or at large.
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P. ¥. Collier
New York
Capriano Castro
Varia
United States
Turkey
Persia
Washington
Matthew T. Scott
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Wilson
Kentucky
Taylor
Lnicy
A. E. Wilson
William Goebel
Henry E. Youtsey
State Penitentiary
Goebel
Youtsey
William 8
State House
Caleb Powers
Powers
Louisville
Frankfort
Henry Youtsey
Tirylar
Grand Jury
William S. Taylor
John Dowers
Charles Finley
William Cuilen
James B. Howard
Finley
Indiana
John Powers
Honduras
Molland Whittaker
Butler County
John Davis
Zach Steele
Bell County
Wharton Goklen
Knox County
Colorado
Frank Cecil
St. Louis
Wiliam H. Coulton
Owsley County
Building Scandal at Albany Hollow Foundations Reported
The New York board of trustees of public buildings plans a special meeting to discuss alleged hollow concrete foundations on the state's new 4,000,000 education building. Builders are the R. T. Ford Company of Rochester and Palmer Hornbester of New York. C. V. Merrick spoke to Lt. Gov. White and Speaker Wadsworth, noting some foundations were not solid as specified.
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Hughes
White
Wadsworth
New York Board of Trustees of Public Buildings
R.T. Ford Company
Rochester
Palmer & Hornbester
New York
C. V. Merrick
Speaker Wadsworth
Crete
Foundaticia
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Ernest H. Martin
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Martin
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New York Central
J. H. Harriman
Yildiz
Niaci Bey
Sultan Abdul Uamid
General Electric Company
Heinrich Conreid
Austrian Tyrol
Asia Minor
Wurkman
Witt
Chicago Library Board
Civil Service Board
Carl A. Baden
Browning, King & Co
State Street
Clothiers
J. Ogden Armour
United States Steel Corporation
Mehemmed Reselad Tsifendi
Mehmed V
Ross
Ohio
America
Nebraska
Simmons
North Carolina
Abdulamid
Saloniki
Roosevelt
Mombasa
Armenia
Dalliver
Aldrich
Joker
James A. Patten
New Mexico
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Topeka
Kan
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