PAYS DEATH PENALTY MURDERER FERRELL ELECTROCUTED AT COLUMBUS
Rosslyn Ferrell, condemned for the premeditated murder of Express Messenger Charles Lane last August, was executed in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary. He faced the death chamber calmly after sacraments and a brief farewell, refusing to speak further as the current killed him at 12 09.
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CoLumnes
Ohio
Express
Charles Lane
Rosslyn Ferrell
Ohio Penitentiary
Ferrell
O'Reilly
Kelly
Collision in Pennsylvania at Coal Valley kills and injures
Two dead and three badly burned plus a passenger train destroyed after a head on collision between train No. 16, the Uniontown express, and a local freight on the Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston line at Coal Valley five miles from McKeesport. The freight engine crew escaped as the express derailed and caught fire.
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Coal Valley Hille
Pirranure
Rtrain No. 16
Pittsburg
Virginia
Charleston
Coal Valley
McKeesport
Uniontown
Country store owner flooded with marriage offers
Samuel S. W. Hammers, a country store owner four miles from Gootryeburg, Pennsylvania, has received more than 2,650 proposals from women nationwide after a joke ad he ran promising a wife. He says one of the 2,650 might suit him, but he cannot choose among them.
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Hensylvanian
Gootryeburg
Squires
Samuel S. W. Hammers
United States
Hammers
Hanter
Discovery of 250000 Acre Boundary Strip Between Wisconsin and Michigan
A hidden strip of 250000 acres along the Wisconsin Michigan border includes Ironwood Michigan and the Brule and Paint Rivers. Discovered by E D Peake, the land was not in the original survey when Wisconsin was formed. Questions arise over the validity of acts like marriages and land transfers there, likely to be presented to Wisconsin's legislature. Madrid's International Case reports Senorita Ubao's reunion with her mother and brother after being returned from a Jesuit convent. Four children aged 4 to 13 died in a fire at Jacob Balt's residence in Litchfield, Pennsylvania. a hired man rescued Balt and Mrs Alonzo Scott. The president named William A Rublee as consul general at Hong Kong following Wildman’s death. The Brac-Mar residence of ex-minister Selah was sold to Col Frack G. Hearne, VP of the Allons Tabs Company, who perished in a fire. Arrest in Petersburg: Karpovich, who shot Minister Bogollopov, has been captured.
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Manison
Wis
Ironwood
Mish
Brule
Paint
E. D. Peake
Wisconsin State Senate
Madrid
Mapuio
Senorita Ubao
Russia
Wavenny
Jacob Balt
Litchfield
Balt
Bait
Alonzs Scott
Washington
Senate
Philippines
United States
Cuba
Spain
Perijch
Georgia
Ion Io
Bacon
Briely
Crete
Madaies
Anmillisas
United Sites
Irvington mob fears lynching as Reed identified in assault
Dorothy Carter of Proventa Lynching case identifies Moe Reed from New Castle as her assailant after an assault in Irvington. Police guard the jail as thousands gather, with the governor and sheriff preparing for possible mob action. Reed, terrified, pleads for safety while the new stone jail cost $70,000.
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Dorothy Carter
Sopranaport
Ind
Orothy
Carter
Moe” Reed
New Castle
Irvington
Quigtoy
Reed
National Guard
Central Police Station
Cudahy Kidnappers Propose Return of Part of Ransom
Edward A. Cudahy received a letter from the men who abducted his son offering to return $20,000 of the ransom if detectives are withdrawn and no prosecution follows if identities are revealed. He said he would not agree and that the kidnappers would be vigorously prosecuted by all lawful means.
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Chicago
Omaha
Cudahy
Tntir
New Consumption Cure Promises Electric Sanitariums
A Cleveland firm plans a $1,000,000 company formed by local and eastern capitalists to build sanitariums in major cities for curing tuberculosis by electricity. Col William Rogers of Brush Electric says a positive cure has been found and medicine plays no part. A site is chosen and the first sanitarium will be built in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Col
Rogers
Brush Electric Company
Reiger sentence affirmed in Kansas City bank case
United States court of appeals in St Louis affirms the six year sentence of David V. Reiger former president of the Missouri National Bank of Kansas City for willful misapplication of funds. The majority held no material error in trial. dissenting judge argued the plaintiff was not charged with the offense. Arrests and various updates follow from Kansas to New York and Georgia reports.
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Kansas City
St. Louis
United States
Cvourt of Appeals
David V. Reiger
Missouri National Bank of
Reiger
Missouri
Thayer
Sanborn
Diamondville Disaster Claims Twenty Six Miners
A Wyoming mining tragedy at Diamondville Coal and Coke No 1 mine killed twenty six miners with charred bodies left inside. Fire started after night shift began and only one worker escaped through the flames. A boy, James Hetzen, alerted many workers while Richard Forn, age 15, helped spread warnings. Four of seven rescuers were overcome by firedamp as they tried to reach trapped men.
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Diamondville
Wyo
Chayenre
Wyoming
Diamondville Coal and Coke Company
John Anderson
James Hetzen
Richard Forn
Mino Foreman Griffin
Carrie Nation Leads Saloon Smashers Journal Entry
Carrie Nation edits the Yearth Journal with a February 26 charge and February 28 issue. She declares she has never harmed saloonkeepers and vows to smash what murders men. The editor recounts directing a controversial anti saloon campaign with editorials, supporting cartoons, and whisky ads highlighting reform.
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Peanta
Carrie Notion
Public Executions in Pekin Attract Allied Guards
Two Chinese men Chih Siu a former grand secretary and Hau Cheng Yo son of the notorious Hsu Tung were publicly executed in Pekin with French German and American troops guarding the street. They were taken to the ground in carts escorted by infantry as crowds watched.
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Chih Siu
Hau Cheng Yo
Pekin
Vekrs
Hsu Tung
Chih Sia
Hsa Cheng Yo
Two Die in Fire at Waukegan Cel luloid Plant
Roy Sampson a workman at the R Alden factory in Waukegan threw a lighted match into a barrel of cel luloid scraps causing a blaze that burned two young women to death and injured three others. The Chicago Fire Department reported $50,000 in damages at the Randol ph Street book bindery of FL Ringer & Co.
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Chicago
Roy Sampson
Waukegan
R. Alden
Ringer & Co
Randolph Street
Market Quotations Across U S Cities
Market estimates for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Cleveland and New York show varied prices for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes with ranges in cents and dollars. Major hubs report shipping grades and No 2 grades across grains and livestock, highlighting price dispersion and regional demand.
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Chicago
Imobel
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ste
Ste. Cincinnati
Dervnit
Toledo
New York
Haunted Hawkeye Prisoner Ends in Suicide After Guilty Verdict
George Anderson, awaiting verdict in Burlington jail for the Thanksgiving night murder of H. W. Linter and wounding Mrs. Linter, killed himself by slitting his throat in his cell minutes before jurors returned a guilty finding. Police had captured him after the first shot near the station.
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George Anderson
Barrington
Burlington
H. W. Linter
Cedar Rapids
Linter
Anderson
Way of the Transgressor Chet Rowe Works on Mexican Railway
A letter from Chet Rowe the former Poweshiek County treasurer reports he is in Mexico as a conductor on the Mexico Cuernavaca and Pacific Railway earning 100 dollars a month. He explains extradition debates and notes his Belem prison release after stealing funds from Poweshiek County. He describes rough mountain work at high altitude as the hardest job he has known.
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Chet Rowe
Mexico
Poweshiek County
Mexico, Cuernavaca and Pacific Railway
Rowe
United States
Belem
Woodmen Must Pay $1 000 in Initiation Case at Clinton
A Clinton jury awarded Joseph Burke $1000 against the Modern Woodman of America for injuries from an initiation rite. Burke says he was dragged across the lodge floor with a rope tied to his feet and subjected to harsh treatment, causing knee injury and six months of idleness. The court ruled the order liable as principal for initiators' acts, while co-defendants Reeby Dolan and Hines escaped liability.
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Clinton
Woodman of
Charles Reeby
Martin Dolan
Michael Hines
Order
Burke
Cedar Rapids Clergymen bar divorced persons from weddings
The Cedar Rapids Ministerial Union adopted a resolution to refrain from officiating at marriages of divorced individuals except when the couple is deemed innocent of a scriptural dissolution or when former spouses seek to reunite. The pledge also commits members to diligently verify facts before ceremonies.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Wife Deserted by Poweshiek County Farmer
Poweshiek County farmer W. B. Miller is accused of deserting his new wife after a few months of marriage and taking their 6 year old son. He reportedly sold property, planned to move to Colfax, drew six to seven thousand dollars from a bank, and left the country with no word to his wife. Local reports describe him as a previously respectable, industrious man with a failed business bargain.
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Poweshiek
W. B. Miller
Miller
Colfax
Robbery and frostbite plague Olowa district headlines
In Chicago a Franklin County farmer, Joan Hitchback, was found unconscious and frostbitten after a purported robbery. He claimed to have earned about 400 in stock money, but no cash was found. A series of local incidents follow, including trouble for Charles Stevenson in Council Bluffs and Indictments against Clarence Robison and Lucy Foster in Algona. A mix of jail fires, missing mail pouches, factory moves, and local legal notices fill the page alongside plans for hospital grounds landscaping and public notices.
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Iowa
Joan Hitchback
Franklin County
Chicago
Hitchback
Chisago
Heidelmeier
Stevenson
Charles Stevenson
Northwestern
Onawa
Council’ Bluffs
Joe Moore
Conncil Bluffs
Moore
Aylesworth
Kansas City Flyer
Sioan
Kansas City
Siono
Admiral Sampson Opposes Naval Warrant Officer Promotions
A Washington report says Admiral Sampson opposes promoting six warrant officers to ensign yearly, arguing lack of formal naval training makes them unfit. Capt Sigsbee endorses, Secretary of the Navy and the President disagree, highlighting tensions over officer class and merit.
Punish Wife Deserters with Hard Labor Rules
Chicago charity report urges Illinois law change to compel deserting husbands to support families via prison labor. Discusses whipping post in Delaware and Marépean hard labor as humane options, noting 605 destitute families last year and relief aid figures. Telegraphic items include rice output in Eastern Texas and lordship titles.
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Chicago Bureau of Charities
Illinois
Delaware
Bureau of Charities
Cook County
Chicago Relief and Aid Society
Iwreau
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