Valets and Fortunes Struggle in Paris and New York
A Paris inquiry reveals a complex web surrounding William Blew's death and a secretive confession by James Jones at the Tombs, with links to Patrick and Rice, forged checks, and a voluminous statement to authorities. Separately, Countess Castelane's trustee case shows Boni’s indebtedness near 23.5 million francs, including real estate, mortgages, and art dealings.
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New York
Charles I. Jones
William March Blew
Ist Just
Osborne S Ays
Jones
Capt
Metlusky
James Byrne
Miller
Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter
Weathersbee
Ele
Rieu
Patrick
Rice
Varrick
James
Oshorne
Boni
Hoone
Paris
George J. Gould
Castelane
Conn Boni
Avenue Malalatt
M. Wertheimer
Legislators Fight on Train Sparks Georgia Scuffle
A Georgia state train stop riot story reports Senator Hardway stabbed legislator Hardin of Wilkes during a scuffle aboard the special train to the state fair. Hardin was carried off for medical care in Forsyth, with Cann of Chatham among others injured while separating the combatants. Whisky is blamed by some for the trouble, and all involved deny discussing the incident.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Valdosta
Hardin
Wilkes
Senator Hardway
Forsythe
Cann
Chatham
Death of Maj John Davis US Volunteers in Manila
Maj John Davis a prominent medical officer in the US volunteers died in Manila from chronic Brights disease. A native of Illinois and Civil War veteran, he served as major and surgeon in the Seventh US Volunteer Infantry and later as chief sanitary officer at Havana and chief surgeon of the Third district of southern Luzon.
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Wasurixeron
MacArthur
Manila
War Department
John Davis
United States Volunteers
Bright
Maj
Davis
Ilinois
Seventh
United States Volunteer Infantry
Davia
Havana
Luzon
Northern Pacific wreck due to open switch kills brakeman
A Northern Pacific passenger train crashed into a rear freight near Minnesota after an open switch. Brakeman Wim Rap was killed and the caboose burned. Passengers escaped serious injury. Other items note Screen Door Trust quits in Detroit and a record cotton shipment from New Orleans with 76,767 square bales. Mrs. Emine Van Liew indicted for murder after vitriol attack. Dr Michael Kelliter commits suicide amid financial scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific
Brakewan
Fir Nextey
Minn
Wim
Rap
Caboose
van Liew
van Warr
Emine van Liew
Alice Hammell
Charged with blackmail in Wall Street paper case
In New York, Leonard Watson and John Evans of the Wall Street Press and Ferdinand Gardiner, an employee, faced police court on November 1 for blackmail. W. Morgan, a banker and broker, alleged Gardiner offered to publish a libelous article unless paid 600 dollars. Morgan claimed Watson and Evans joined the demand, and a marked 500 dollar bill was handed over. Bail was set at 3,000 dollars for each defendant for examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Frial
New York
Leonard Watson
Wall Street Press
John Evans
Ferdinand G. Gardiner
W. Morgan
Morgan
Gardiner
Morgans
Watson
Evans
Earthquake Shakes Jacksonville Florida in 8 Disturbances
Jacksonville reports eight distinct shocks felt in the morning led by an 11:15 a.m. tremor. A second 11:25 a.m. shock followed by 15 minute intervals until 12:30 p.m. The day included a strong 4:04 p.m. quake and a final rattling, with no damage observed. Weather Director Mitchell notes vibrations moved south to north. No water disturbance recorded.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Mitchell
Weather Bureau
Sixty Years Later Lovers Wed In Old Age at Naples
Rocreston New York reports Fisher W. Griswold once 95 and Matilda Brown then 23 were betrothed sixty years ago in Naples. After a separation Griswold became wealthy and returned to marry Matilda who had married John Whitman. Griswold and Whitman widowhoods ended when Griswold brought 88 year old Mrs Whitman to Naples and married her last Saturday at F. A. Monahan’s home.
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Rocreston
N. Y
Fisher W.griswold
Matilda Brown
Naples
Griswold
Matilda
John Whitman
Whitman
America
F. A. Monahan
May Be Death Bed Marriage at Fort Wayne Hospital
In St Josephs hospital Harry Young and Edith Sheulty, childhood affiances, wed under dire conditions after Young lost both legs in a Wabash train accident. The bride remained steadfast, vowing to marry if he lived. He survived initial amputation and whispered his responses as the couple faced possible death.
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Lees
Fort Wayne
Ind
Harry Young
Edith Sheulty
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Mr. Young
Jim
Ife
Tle
Sir Thomas Lipton’s Octo ber pork corner ends at $20
In a brief market note Sir Thomas Lipton’s Oct ber pork corner closed at 20 after rising from 17 on fewer than a dozen trades. He reportedly could have moved higher but declined to squeeze buyers.
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Leta
Cmbaco
Thomas Lipton
Priorta
Thomas
Murder in First Degree Verdict in Ohio Case
The jury found Rosalyn WW. Petrell guilty of murder in the first degree with no recommendation. The crime on Aug 10 near Charles Lane involved robbing the way safe of the Pandaillo eastbound express. The verdict carries the death penalty. the defense argued mental irresponsibility and hereditary insanity in the Ferrell family. Jury deliberated six and a half hours. Ferrell showed surprise when the verdict was read.
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Rosalyn WW
Petrell
MaAnyavin
E. Oblo
Rosslyn
Ferrali
Dhe
Ohio
Lerrell
Ferrell
Harria
New York
Arthur Harris
Robert J. Whorpe
Harris
West Side
Three Miners Killed In Kingston Coal Explosion
A gas explosion in No slope of No 1 shaft at Kingston Coal Company Kinardaville, Wilkes barre, Pa, killed three miners and badly burned six others. Five of the injured are in a precarious condition. An employee diverted the air, allowing gas to accumulate where workers remained despite warnings. The blast followed soon after. The town, recently celebrating the end of a long strike, remains subdued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston Coal Company
Wilakesharre
Kinardaville
Witness admits perjury in Powers murder case
The Evening Post reports witness Anderson admits his Georgetown courtroom testimony against Caleb Powers was false perjury. He claims attorney Campbell and Goebel paid him $390 and says the falsity aided Powers' conviction, speaking out to end his silence.
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Caleb Powers
The
Evening Post
Wthuavit
Market Quotations from Multiple Cities
A compilation of livestock and grain price ranges from Sioux City, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and New York. Cattle and hog prices vary by market and grade, with sheep, wheat, corn, oats, rye, butter, eggs, and creamery products listed under multiple regional quotes.
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Sioux City
Chicago
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Ste. Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Des Moines Typographical Union Walks Out Over Colored Printer
Four white union printers quit the Des Moines Milor printing office after Theodore Ruff, a skilled colored printer, was hired in the same room. Ruff had long worked as a respected union printer in Des Moines. The Cy typography Union president denounced the incident as unjust and unexpected in that city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Milor
Des Moines
Theodore Ruff
Ruff
Brown
Cypographical Union
Romantic Marriage Framed by Bedside Wedding
Miss Catherine Emerson of Cedar Rapids and Joseph Vanderbilt East of Poughkeepsie were wed at Cedar Rapids in the Savery House after a railway delay. East, a Woolson Spire salesman, lay ill with peritonitis but recovery is expected. the ceremony occurred at the groom’s bedside near 1 a.m. with a deputy county clerk issuing the license.
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Catherine Emerson
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Vanderbilt East
Poughkeepsie
East
Woolson Spire Company
Toledo
Ohio
Des Moines
Savery
Mr. East
C. P. Emergon
Thongs Green
May Gordon Case Uses Old Missouri Slave Law
In Des Moines a county insanity hearing for May Gordon invokes a Missouri slave law. The white girl who wed a colored man after fleeing Missouri faces a claim of inherited property being at stake. If found insane, she may lose her inheritance. her father charges insanity while the case probes bloodlines and legitimacy of inheritance under old law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
May Gordon
County Commissioners of Insanity
Missouri
Negro Rapist in Iowa Ed Booker Narrowly Escapes Lynching
A report details Ed Booker, described as a Negro, being arrested in Albia Monroe County on rape charges against Mrs. Sarah Iovel. He was taken before a grand jury but removed from town by Sheriff John Conor to avert a lynching, with other accounts noting alleged assaults at a union depot and the Hovel home as well as a tense defense by Mrs. Hovel and her 1-year-old daughter. The sheriff planned to move from Ottumwa to Fort Madison to avoid mob danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Booker
Albina
Albia
Monroe County
Sarah Iovel
John Conor
Booker
Union Depot
Epworth League Convention Adopts Annual Meetings
Des Moines hosted the Epworth League business session deciding annual state conventions replacing the biennial plan. Reports show large memberships across conferences with senior and junior chapters in Northwest Upper Town and Des Moines areas. The treasurer noted 895.75 in, 185.28 out, leaving 200.42. Officers elected include President Pred L. Montgomery and C. B. Roberts as secretary.
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Des Moines
Epworth League
Northwest
Upper Town
Iowa
Pred L. Montgomery
Fayette
Charteaui
Shelton
Indianola
H.W. Troy
New Hampton
Louis Hinsey
Ottumwa
Gee
Whitfield
Hurt
C. B. Roberts
Adety
Geo. L. Naffman
Susie A. Mills
Marshalltown
Elopes With A Negro Abduction Case In Des Moines
William Gordon of Missouri hunted Des Moines for his daughter claiming she was abducted by John Scott Wilkinson, a Black man. Gordon tried to shoot Wilkinson, was persuaded to surrender, and Wilkinson was arrested for abduction with Gordon jailed nearby.
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Cansex
William Gordon
Missouri
Des Moines
John Scott Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Ottumwa
Walter Davis
Grand Avenue
Gordon
Desperate Four Escape From Cedar Rapids Sheriff's Pursuit
Four men known for robbing box cars along the Northwestern line in Iowa and recently linked to a Milwaukee merchandise car theft escaped Cedar Rapids after overpowering Sheriff Evans. They fled through the residence area despite the sheriff being knocked down. Detectives link them to summer-long depredations, noting they had shot when resisted and carried off heavy sums from harvest travelers.
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Cedar Rapids
Northwestern Railway
Iowa
Milwaukee
Eacassal
Conlar Rapids
Evans
Northwestern
Gift for Fort Dodge Hospital Donation Proposal
The Waverly Philanthropist offers fifty thousand dollars for a city hospital in Fort Dodge. The gift requires the city to raise fifty thousand dollars for a permanent hospital fund and assures service free to people of all colors and creeds. A Slammer, aged philanthropist, previously funded Dubuque’s Finley Hospital in 1896, leading to a new building.
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Waverly
A. Slammer
Fort Dodge
Slimmer
Finley Hospital
Dubuque
Dead body found near Mineola with scattered clues
Hunters on Carl Buck’s farm near Mineola discovered a gray bearded man’s body in a ten day-old state of decay. A memo bearing the name Omaha, a small pen knife, and a cat tattoo on the left wrist were found. Police note no clear identification. Nearby reports include a skeleton found on Eighth Street in Fort Dodge and notes on county courthouse site purchase and financing. Also, October strawberries near Sloan described as a bountiful late harvest with great fruit.
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Mineola
Carl Buck
Welch
Fort Dodge
Furce
Eighth Street
P. H. Peterson
Sloan
Peterson
New York Disaster Hits Tarrant Drug House
A massive explosion at the Tarrant & Co. wholesale drug house at Warren and Greenwich streets in Manhattan on a Monday afternoon wrecked the four story building and sparked a fire that spread across several blocks. Over 200 people were inside. more than 125 were women. Firefighters battled the blaze as bricks, glass and debris rained onto streets including Wall Street. Witnesses described a column of smoke and flames soaring hundreds of feet and many fatalities and injuries likely.
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Tarrant & Co
Warren
Greenwich Streets
New York
Sixth Avenue Elevated
Wall Street
Irving National Air
Tarrant
N Orwass
Irving Bank
Chambers
Washington
Greenwich
Mixed church notes and appointments from 1900 era
A dense summary of religious news: gifts to the Church Missionary Society exceed 2, Prince Max of Saxony named professor of canon law in Freiburg, Bishop Sherretti of Havana to visit with students for Catholic University in Washington, President Tucker touts pulpit power with proper knowledge, Warsaw grants permission for a third Jewish creche with 2000 rubles public subscription, Rev De. F. EB Clark narrowly avoided mobbing in Spain, Rev William Kirk Guthrie joins First Presbyterian San Francisco, Mgr James McMahon contributions to Catholic University, pilot in Spain foresees 1900 a glorious epoch for Catholic Church, John Hopkins long-time organist dies aged ~80, Bishop Leighton Coleman to tour Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia on foot, anecdotes for sermons.
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Prince Max
Saxony
Dominican School
Freiburg
Switzerland
Sherretti
Havana
Catholic University
Washington
Tucker
Warsaw
de. F. EB. Clark
Spain
Christian Endeavor
William Kirk Guthrie
Thomas Guthrie
McKenzie
First Presbyterian Church of
San Francisco
Mgr
James McMahon
Catholic University of America
Pilot
John Hopkins
Hocheater
England
Duke of Baxe
Thanksgiving Proclamation by President McKinley
The 1898 proclamation designates November 20 as a day of thanksgiving and praise. It calls Americans to worship, give thanks for prosperity, harvest, and military valor, and to seek divine favor, peace, and friendship with other nations. Signed by William McKinley and Secretary John Hay.
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United States of America
China
Galveston
William McKinley
United States
Washington
William M'Rkinley
John Hay
Miners Resume Work After Wage Battle
Nearly 150,000 coal miners in the Fla eleton district return to work as demands are conceded by most operators. A few small mines still hold out, but overall the anthracite region resumes production with minimal violence or destitution, despite substantial wage losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flaeleton
China inched toward peace talks amid looming conflict
The week’s foreign page details show China pressed to accept peace terms while preparing for possible war. German and British allies push for seven top Chinese leaders’ heads and indemnity while Li-Sing-Chang and Prince Ching face stiff demands. A Britain Germany treaty seeks open ports, non-advantage, and mutual protection. many powers ready to sign. Also noted: Russian seizures of Chinese arms, a motor accident injuring Princess Pless, and a drought threatening Assam tea and crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Pulin
Earl Li-Siung-Chang
Prince Ching
Barl
Germany
France
Prince Tuan
Warl Li
Prince Qhing
Europe
Far East
Great Britain
Chiron
Far Siast
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Estherville, Inwaa
Jenkins & Nichols, Prmursiers EL
Valet
New York Police
Mad. Davis
Screen Door Trust
Detroit
Continental Company, Limited
Screen Door and
Window Screen Trust
Ogreans
Liverpool
Barcelona
Genoa
Yamburg
Pawrucker
Michael W. Kelliter
Kelliher
Florida
Fullwans
Pullmany
Guatuve Pullman
George
Sanger Pullman
Pullman
Bellevue Hospital
Gage
Wiilkessbakhe
Hudson
Delaware and Hudson Company
Biruck
Kentucky
Fuan Kvong
Court of Appeals
Alton
St. Lois
Queman
Chicago and Alton
Botha
Cape Colony
Pneronia
Lng
Capa Colony
Eenhardt
el. Bishot
Grover Vogelsand
Blue
Shanghal
Daily News
Nankin
Loxvoy
Rome
Vives
Wnien
Liston
Vatican
Cardinal Vives
St. Peter
Seattle
Wash
Robert Dollar
Iron
Nome
Wall
Bankero Craixy
Round Head
Here
Mei. & Maize
Stogll
Kausaa
Wacarra
Kan
John S. Moore
May Gordon Case
Samuel Greer
Mundain
Modale
Carrison County
John Chrisman
State Historical Society
Lowa City
Cherokee
Cherokee County
Higbee
Thomas Bain
Bain
Fort Dodge Coal Company
Pabuque
Keane Ban
St. Joseph's College, Dubuque
Supreme Court
Pui County Court House
Church Missionary Society of England
Princess of
Pless
Cornwallis West
Breslau
Moscow
Assam
Jadis
Ithe Tea
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