Murder at Murderers' Field In Brooklyn A Black Hand Killing
Pietro Barilla a Woodhaven hotelkeeper was lured to Lincoln road Flatbush by a blood written note and killed in a field. The crime scene yielded four chest and back wounds and two bullets while a roll of bills and a gold watch remained untouched. Antonio del Narto, Barilla’s cousin, is held for questioning as investigators link the murder to a feared black hand gang already accused of a prior brutal dismemberment nearby.
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Lincoln Road
Flatbush
Brooklyn
Pietro Barilla
Woodhaven
Barilla
Baila
Antonio del Narto
Aowait- Beg
Burilla
Coal Line to Northwest Runs By Water Routes
Plans emerge to form a company moving Northwestern coal via barges on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Twin Cities. The scheme would bypass rail haul, using water transit to Manitowoc Ashland Milwaukee Superior Duluth and other Lake Michigan and Superior ports. Interested figures include former Minnesota Governor Vin Sant W H Gilbert of Chicago and lawmakers Lorimer McCramey and Holmes.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Northwestern
Twin Cities
Northwestern States
Manitowoc
Ashland
Milwaukee
Superior
Duluth
Dakes Michigan
Vin Sant
Minnesota
W. H. Gilbert
Chicago
West Virginia
Lorimer
Fire and wrecks hit towns across the Midwest and Midwest rail line
A burning Grant Stevens barn near Elizabethtown west of Cincinnati raises night rider speculation though owner doubts it. A passenger train 80 on the Pennsylvania line from Ashtabula to Newcastle derailed at Niles, Ohio. three crew hurt but survivors. A Chicago garage fire destroys Covey & Co shops and 53 cars after a gasoline switch explosion. German mine disaster kills 13 and injures 8 near Saarbruecken. Barry Thaw declared bankrupt in Pittsburgh amid sanity questions. Kentucky governor backs night riders crackdown while pardoning a conviction. A. R. Spofford, former Librarian of Congress, dies. Two painters killed in Elmira scaffold collapse. another injured. Robbers leave John Colalek for dead in Little Falls after failed demand for a certificate.
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Grant Stevens
Elizabethtown
Cincinonti
Night Riders
Stevens
Pennsylvania
Ashtabula
Newcastle
Niles
Ohio
Marooned 600 Feet Up Life on Catalina Island
Living Spalding, 16 year old son of A M Spalding of Springfield Illinois, spent a perilous day on a 600 foot cliff ledge at Santa Catalina Island. He could not descend and a rescue by a party led by his father followed two hours of effort as a rope lowered from above. The boy was pulled to safety and is reported all right despite severe fright.
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Springfield
Tll
California
Los Angeles
Iiving Spalding
A. If. Spalding
Ill
Santa Catalina Island
Eloas
Spalding
Aged Beneficiary Dead From German Girls Compact
Mrs. Margaret Castens, once a pupil in a Stuttgart convent, died in St. Louis. Four years earlier she received 16,000 dollars from a 65 girl pact that funded a Berlin bank with annual marks for the last surviving member. Three years ago she learned she was the sole survivor and received more than 15,000 dollars.
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Margaret Castenla
St. Louis
Castens
Stuttgart
Germany
Berlin
SAYS HE KILLED FATHER IN SHOOTING AFFRAY
Robert Kenney 19 confesses to killing his father Cole man B. Kenney near Lupus Missouri on July 20 after a quarrel over a mare and colt. He says he retrieved his rifle from the room and shot his father who did not speak again.
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Missouri Bay
Robert Kenney
Coleman B. Kenney
Lupus
Jealousy Drives Fatal Shootings Near Coffeyville
David Alexander, 30, was shot and killed near Coffeyville Kansas by William Hill, 28, after Hill chased a buggy carrying his divorced wife and Alexander. The wife was wounded by stray shot. Details describe a jealous motive and a deadly confrontation.
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David Alexander
Coffeyville
Kaw
William Hill
Bill
Alexander
Hal
Hand to Bare Boy Hero farmer of Black Horse Pa
Charles Luckenbill, a farmer at Black Horse Pennsylvania, saved a 6 year old barefoot boy from a falling pitchfork during oat harvest. The lad escaped serious harm but Luckenbill suffered a hand injury requiring amputation after pushing the boy away.
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Charles Luckenbill
Black Horse
Luckenbill
Woman Falls 900 Feet After Parachute Rope Breaks
A balloonist Mrs. va Jones of Abbotaford Wisconsin fell 100 feet before a tree halted her descent. She landed in branches with serious injuries but is expected to recover. In Passaic New Jersey a woman dropping a hot iron caused eight year old Joseph Rendzio to suffer a fatal skull fracture. A factory in Baegedin Hungary collapsed during a hurricane leaving many buried. four dead and fourteen hurt recovered, with seventy still missing. The steamboat Cincinnati sank after a collision on Chautauqua Lake New York. two hundred passengers were rescued. Wilbur Wright extended his air record by staying aloft almost three and a half minutes at thirty six miles per hour.
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Va Jones
Abbotaford
Wis
Passaic
N. Z
Joseph Rendzio
Baegedin
Hungary
Waltur Wright
Missouri Beauty Kills Self Over Forbidden Love
Missouris beauty queen May Williams a 17 year old heiress known as the Missouri beauty died by suicide in Kansas City after her parents refused consent to marry her chosen lover and threatened sending her to school. She drank carbolic acid and died shortly after.
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May Willams
Missouri
Kansas City
Miss Williams
Butte
Ghd
Girls’ Industrial School
Chillicothe
Mutiny on Bowhead at Nome Quelled by Captain Alden
The Bowhead owned by Liebes & Co. of San Francisco mutinied at Fort Clarence near Nome Alaska. Captain James Alden and officers battled twenty two mutinous crew members for an hour. The captain prevailed and the crew were placed in irons after a fire had been set the previous night.
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Nome
Liebes & Co
San Francisco
Fort Clarence
Alaska
James Alden
Tilden
Oldest Chicago attorney found guilty of plot to kill
Moses D. Brown 83, along with Ruth Be Laughlin and Austin J. Kelly, convicted by Judge Windes of conspiring to take Mrs Annie B Nolain’s life to obtain her property. Brown fined $1000. two co defendants sentenced to 1 to 5 years. Case to be appealed. Storm damage hits Mandon North Dakota with a tornado and hotel destruction.
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Moses D. Brown
Chicago
Ruth BE. Laughlin
Austin J. Kelly
Windes
Annie B. Nolain
Brown
Turkish Minister Recalled as Sailors Die in Shipwreck
Mehmed Ali Bey the Turkish minister to the United States confirms recall from Washington as Mundji Bey at New York serves as charge d affaires until a new minister arrives. Nine lost when Gloucester schooner Maggie and May was run down by German ship Fryea sixty miles off Nova Scotia. Auto explosion near Painesville injures several. two killed. Contractors Cox and Robinson of Atlantic Works East Boston arrested for conspiracy to defraud Boston through bid collusion.
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Mehmed Ali Bey
United States
Washington
Mundji Bey
Turkey
New York
Gloucester
Maggie
May
G. Dennis
Fryea
Erick McCatheran
Nova Scotia
Alfred E. Cox
Atlantic Works
East
Boston
Mass
Edward P. Robinson
Young East Macungie suspects jailed for water pranks
Five youths about 18 years old were arrested in East Macungie Pennsylvania on charges they soaked a sleeping girl with water in her home. The case centers on alleged jilting by the girl. Bryan accepts Democratic nomination for president, claiming the main issue is shall the people rule. The Russian czar dismissed Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaiviteh from council leadership after Duma criticism.
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Bryan
William J. Bryan
Czar
Ousta
Duma
Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholaiviteh
Council For National Defense
Trolley crash kills five and injures many near Sidney and Tiqua
Five people are dead and twenty-two injured when two Western Ohio Traction Co trolley cars collide head on between Sidney and Tiqua amid heavy rainfall in Chicago. The downpour, the heaviest in 24 hours at 4.34 inches, aided corn crops and caused widespread disruption.
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Sidney
Tiqua
Western Ohio Traction Company
Chicago
West
Chicago Directory Sets Population At 9 425 000
The 1908 Chicago Directory Co issue lists 9 425 000 people in Chicago, up 20 700 names since last year, with 2 420 000 as the population estimate. The Johnson family leads names at 7 024, followed by 515 more Johns and 6 116 Smiths. many names and odd spellings draw attention.
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Chicago
Chicago Directory Co
Johnson
Johnstons
Smiths
Schmidt
Szszkowics
Cayziwerki
Edward Bat
Thomas Tenn
Irank Broke
Samuel Rich
Php Guille
John Ontong
Edward Gentle
Charles Rough
Frederick Camp
Mortis Dry
Mother Stewart Dies Eleven Decades of Temperance Service
Elizabeth M. Stewart known as Mother Stewart died at her Hicksville Ohio home at 92. A famed temperance advocate she organized the first W C U in Osborn Ohio in 1878 and helped establish the movement in England in 1870. She lectured in the South after the Civil War and later aligned with Alexander Dowie at Zion City.
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Ohio
Elizabeth M. Stewart
Stewart
Hicksville
Oho
Osborn
England
Hail Storm Destroys South Dakota Crops Across Nine Counties
A severe hail storm swept nine South Dakota counties including Walworth McPherson Edusunds Brown Faulk Spink and Clark. Crop losses range from 25 percent to total with some areas hardest from Ashton to Clark County while Mound City reports twenty five farms swept clean. In Ohio a hotel bus driver was shot at Upper Sandusky precipitating a lynch mob and depot panic as locals quarrel over business rivalries.
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Walworth
McPherson
Edusunds
Brown
Faulk
Spink
Clark
Ashton
Clark County
Mound City
Campbell County
Billa
Frank McCormack
James Goodlove
Pennsylvania
Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Goodlove
Two Officers Found Dead in Methuen Meadow
Officers Chatia Zmerton and Frank McDermott were discovered beaten to death in a meadow on the town outskirts. They had been sent out the previous night to watch for chicken and vegetable thieves. Bruises and injuries indicate foul play.
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Coveren
Chatia Zmerton
Frank McDermott
Methuen, Moss
Noted Architect Cliff Fall Eilla Dies in California Accident
Georges Cooke, landscape architect linked to Samuel B. Parsons of New York, died at the Wile lows resort in the Alpine mountains after a wagon accident. He was pitched from a wagon, fell fifty feet, breaking five ribs and dislocating a shoulder.
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Eilla
Georges Cooke
Samuel B. Parsons
New York
Wilelows
Run
Alpine
Cal
Strike Train Shambles Near Blocton Kills Officials
A Birmingham Mineral Railroad strike train near Blocton was fired on. Conductor Collins, one deputy sheriff, and a strike breaker were killed, with eight others injured. The train carried the First Regiment, many strike breakers, and about twenty special deputies, as boiler in York Pa mill exploded causing major damage and injuries. Baloon Foe Arrested. C W Trickett, Wyandotte county assistant attorney general, was arrested on malfeasance charges for accepting fees and settling a case before arraignment.
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Birmingham Mineral Railroad
Blocton
Collins
York
Baloon Foe
C. W. Trickett
Wyandotte County
Kansas
Kansas City
Trickett
Cneek
Prominent Figures Hit By Disturbances and Bankruptcy
Commissioner P Sargent suffers a nervous shock after a fall at Shepherdstown W Va while summering in the area. A Black youth named Charlie Lokie is lynched in Tifton Ga for insulting white women. Harry K Thaw files for bankruptcy in Pittsburg amid costly trials. Wallsbury Washburn Mills Co placed in receivers hands in Minneapolis to pursue reorganization without halting operations. Louise Chandler Moulton, famed New England novelist and poet, dies at 79 in Boston.
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Frank P. Sargent
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Washington
Shepferdstown
W. Va
Roy
Chariie Lokie
Tifton
Wallsbury-Washburn Four Mills Company L
Federal
Minneapolis
Bryan Notified of Nomination by Republican Leader
Lincoln Nebras ka press describes Bryan being told of his nomination in a seven minute ceremony. The notification event drew many visitors to the state capital grounds with trolley cars and automobiles in motion. Representative Clayton of Alabama presided after a prayer by Father Nugent of Des Moines Iowa.
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Neb
Tiincoln
Bryant
Fairview
Maaek
National Conmittes
PD. Clayton
Alabama
Not Neatton Coumittes
John F. Nugent
Des Moines
Iowa
Clayton
Bryan
Letter of notification handed to Democratic nominee in rally
The report notes a formal letter of notification signed by all committee members was handed to the Democratic nominee. A reply from Mr. Bryan followed, then John Wy. Kern closed with a short speech. The Republican rebuttals accused Taft of ongoing abuses and questioned party leadership and campaign finance practices.
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Mr. Bryan
John Wy. Kern
Hapa
Broan
Mr. Taft
House
Republican Party
Homemnade Ice Machine From France Promises Home Ice
A French invented hand powered Ice machine described by The Technical World Magazine. It seals chemicals in a cylinder and uses water circulation to form ice quickly and cheaply at home. The device also cools air, uses a double wall tin vessel holding five gallons, and relies on automatic carbonic acid admission to chill.
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Technical World Magazine
France
Simple Parisian method for early tuberculosis diagnosis
Dr Bourrille of Paris proposed an easy technique to detect tuberculosis early by measuring chest expansion at full and extreme expiration. A gap exceeding 11.5 inches indicated disease. The method was tested on thousands seeking employment.
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Bourrille
Paris
Woman Credits Lydia Pinkham's Compound With Recovery
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia writes that months of feminine illness left her weak. After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as prescribed, she regained strength and feels like a new woman.
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Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg, Vary
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E. Pinkham Ad
Fifty year old remedy claim for women’s illnesses endorsed by Lydia E. Pinkham. The advertisement promotes Vegetable Compound made from roots and herbs as the standard treatment for displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities period pains backache and nervous prostration and invites sick women to write for advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia H. Pinkham
Postmaster General Sees Shift With New Two Cent Letter Rate
It Menus Hush reports Meyer predicting a huge rise in postal business once the two cent rate to Great Britain begins. He notes mall bags will fill quickly and jokes about a former Nola Chucky postmaster who hoarded letters until bags were full, sparking inspector scrutiny. The tale contrasts modern policy with a humorous old-time anecdote.
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Meyer
Great Britain
Mr. Meyer
Iie
Nola Chucky
How to Read a Newanapes and Enjoy News
A brief tip guides readers to read a newspaper comfortably by using a tilted shelf and separating pages with a knife or scissors. The advice promises fresher, clearer news without disturbing the rest.
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New York
Summer resort dining quirks amuse boarders
A Chicago Tribune excerpt notes that a regular guest complains about the resort hotel serving lemonade with just a stalk or two of macaroni instead of a straw. A new boarder questions why baked macaroni tastes strongly of lemon juice, prompting amusement.
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Chicago Tribune
Coffee is Harmful Say Postum Users
A reader letter extols Postum as a healthier coffee substitute after a boy suffered headaches from coffee. The writer claims transitioning to Postum relieved headaches and improved overall health, urging others to consider the product and noting an accompanying magazine feature.
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