Catch option bill advances in senate with cracked majority
Des Moines Ja March 9 The Catch option bill passed the senate with 27 votes including Gatch and Brower joining 25 Democrats. Twenty two Republicans opposed it and Engle was absent. This marks the first passage of a modification measure by either house since enactment. House later approves joint resolution for resubmission of the prohibitory law with 52 for 46 against, Democrats voting no.
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Drs Moss
House
Police Judge Borgelet Shot In Lincoln Court
Acting Police Judge Borgelet was shot during a Lincoln police court session by Charles Warner, a 65 year old man. The first bullet struck near the heart but was deflected, the second hit just above the left eye and fragments pierced the skull. Warner was seized after a struggle. Borgelet was taken home and remains unconscious in critical condition. Warner had been fined for stealing pants and had made threats against the judge.
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Lincoln
Borgelet
Charles Warner
Warner
Double Tragedy at Athuetic Tay
A murder suicide occurred at 10 30 am Sunday in ATLANTIC S Miveh d4. Lindsey A Bennett shot his wife three times then killed himself with two head shots. He died hours later after a long unconscious period. Jealousy is named as motive. The Bennetts leave seven children.
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Tay Atlantic
Miveh
Lindsey A. Bennett
Bennett
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Sullivan and the Blafvers in Summer Championship Plan
John L Sullivan via manager Duncan Harrison bids for a Corbett fight, proposing a late August or early September date, under Marquis of Queensberry rules, with a $10,000 outside bet and a winner take all purse, covering bluffers' money for similar matches in the period.
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Blafvers
New York
John L. Sullivan
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Harrison
Charley Johnson
Brooklyn
Corbett
Queensberry
Lynching of 11 Year-Old Girl Shocks Louisiana Parish
In Ravible Richland Parish a mob hanged an 11 year-old colored girl found dead on a roadside tree. The child, a house servant at the Greenwell place and briefly a waitress, was poisoned in coffee by assailants. authorities report those poisoned will recover.
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Richland Parish
Greenwell Place
W. R. Helmer
Prairie Fire Ravages Payne County Farms In Oklahoma
A prairie fire raged for days in eastern Payne County Oklahoma causing extensive damage to farms. Several residents including Joan Shotwell William Querry and John Querry suffered losses with John Querry fatally burned while trying to save his home.
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GutTunig
Okla
Payne County
Joan Shotwell
William Querry
John Querry
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Shattsbury
Nitro-Glycerine Magazine Explosion Shocks Northwest Ohio
The High Explosive company's nitro glycerine magazine two miles west of Findlay exploded causing a shock like an earthquake across northwestern Ohio. Several farmhouses were damaged and thousands of window panes broken in Findlay, but no lives were lost. A fire followed the blast.
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High Explosive Company
Ohio
Sentence for Hurley Bank Robber Is Five Years Hard Labor
Ashland Wisconsin March 12 E H Baker convicted the second time of robbing the Iron Exchange bank at Hurley was sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard labor.
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Ashland
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Iron Exchange Bank
Village of Edgar Wiped Out by Fire
Special report states the entire village of Edgar in Marathon County Wisconsin has been destroyed by a blaze. Fire consumed all structures leaving none standing and authorities assess total loss. Local residents evacuated as flames swept through the community.
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Edgar
Marathon County
Wasconsin
Cholera Report In Herat Spreads Toward Persia
News notes cholera has appeared in Herat and is said to be advancing along the road toward Persia, signaling a regional health concern and potential movement of cases.
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Maren
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Persia
Brooklyn priest claims cure for gasping hotel keeper
Michael McCarthy, a West Street hotel keeper in Brooklyn, had suffered chronic rapid breathing and fainting since a fall years ago. After visiting Father Adams at his home altar, he prayed with the priest and received a dramatic improvement in breathing, with no further distress since the afternoon treatment. Father Adams receives many visitors and does not charge a fee.
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Thomas Adams
South Pourth Street
Michael McCarthy
West Street
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McCarthy
Father Astana
Bne
Father Adams
Brutal murder by Irish immigrant husband in Chicago
Patrick Turst a 65 year old laborer from Townsend street Chicago killed his wife after a three month deliberation then surrendered at the nearest police station. He declares he is not insane and admits to repeating the act thirty eight times with a six inch Bowie knife. He blames years of domestic unhappiness and says he would kill again.
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Ireland
Fie
Chicago
Datasetter
Leeland
Faut
Marchs Place in the Year and Ancient Beliefs
The article debates whether March or January marks the year's start, noting March’s ancient precedence and the 1752 calendar shift. It details old Anglo Saxon names, proverbs, and weather lore for March, and touches on Cardinal Manning and literary references.
Silk Tights Spark Divorce Battle in New York Tale
West Seventeenth Street salesman Paul Flint returns from a western trip to find his wife, an amateur actress, with silk tights from his trunks. A quarrel follows after she questions the gift claim. Flint denies improper intent and says the tights were to be his wife’s Christmas present.
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West Seventeenth Street
New York City
Flint
Cranks in Louisiana Lottery Scheme Stagger Local Authorities
Peter Leonard believes Inspector Byrnes holds part of a lottery prize and lingers near the chief detective's home awaiting arrest. A second crank, once a Magist Belmont pensions recipient, is accused of drunken disturbances at the banker’s house. Police guard Belmont’s residence fearing Nixon may act violently.
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Inspector Byrnes
New York
King John Barleycorn
Magist Belmont
Belmont
Nixon
Family reunion in Missouri notes two children ages five and two and a half
At a family reunion in Missouri two children appeared weighing 107 pounds and as yet unknown for the younger. The elder was five years old while the younger had just over two years in life. Both are noted to have potential to grow into men of weight.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Hand shapes and fingers hint at energy and lymphatic traits
The passage notes soft, flabby hands and fingers with base roundness and tapering tips indicating a character lacking energy. It attributes these signs to a lymphatic organization, describing the fingers as of the same nature and pointing to a cresting, diminishing apex.
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