Supreme Court Declares Scott Exclusion Law Valid
Washington May 14. The United States Supreme Court announced opinions on several causes celebres. The Gaines vs New Orleans case capped decades of litigation over property valued about 2 000 900 with disputed interest and revenues. The court held the city liable only for rents actually collected and rejected claims for unrealized revenue of unimproved land. The Scott exclusion law was upheld as a political matter, not judicial. Other rulings involved Hans Neilson on habeas corpus and Abzum Saum contempt of court. Speculation in cotton led to a reversal in Embrey vs Jemison.
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Washington City
United States Supreme Court
Myra Clark Gaines
New Orleans
Gaines
Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court of California
Char Chase Ping
United States
San Francisco
China
Congress
Hans Neilson
Utah
Neilson
Anna Lavina Neilson
Caroline Neilson
Abzum Saum
Colorado
United States District Court
Saum
W. W. Embrey
Jemison
Embrey
New York
Abercarn
Cornwall
England
Bates
Middlebury
Clay County
Lnd
Chicago
Pittsburg
V. C. Racho
Plainfield, Ill
Athens
Illinois
South Australia
Lydia Briles
Leavenworth
Ind
Barney Swartz
United Brethren Church
Weaver
Dayton
Ohio
Fort Sully
C. T
Columbus Barracks
Paymaster Road
Tacoma
W. T
Irish National League
Boston
Danville
Loomis kills wife then himself in Wisconsin farm tragedy
Fono Pu Lac Wis May 14 George Loomis a farmer cut his wife’s throat yesterday morning and then his own with a pocket knife. Both died instantly. Loomis had been insane for some time but only showed symptoms recently. A 16-year-old daughter fled to a neighbor and found both parents dead.
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Fono Pu Lac
Wis
George Loomis
Osceola
Loomis
Tragic double tragedy hits Memphis gas works
Memphis night engineer George Ward shot and killed his wife and then killed himself after their separation. Ward fired two ineffectual shots before a final bullet to his temple, ending the couple's troubled marriage that began last January.
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Memphis
Tenn
George Ward
Memphis Gas Works
Miscreant Kills Wife Over Beer Money in Pueblo
Fred Medley, owner of the Pueblo house, shot and killed his wife after she refused to give money for beer. He was drunk during the incident and was arrested after an attempted escape.
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Denver
Coal
Fred Medley
Pueblo House
Death of mind reader Wirving Bishop during club exhibit
New York May 14. Mind reader Wirving Bishop collapsed during a Lambs club dinner performance. After an initial attack at 4 a.m. he recovered briefly but sank and died about noon. Doctors and attendants stayed with him through the night and electricity failed to save him. His wife and mother were notified and he was taken to an undertaker in Sixth Avenue.
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New York
Gambol
Lambs” Club
Clay M. Grem
Washington Irving Bishop
W. Irving Bishop
Philadelphia
Louis Aldrich
Bishop
Green
Irvin
Mr. Bishop
Dre Lees
Irwin
Germany
J. Otto Urban
Henry Mathews
Milwaukee
Wis
William Puntrock
Havoc in Pennsylvania at Barnum's circus
Williamsport crowd panicked as a May storm toppled tents injuring several performers including Ibato Miss Mollie Thompson and Miss Nellie Flynn. Rib, nose and scalp injuries reported with a total loss around 10000 dollars and damage to multiple city buildings.
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Williamsport
Barnum’s Circus
Ibato
Mollie Thompson
Nellie Flynn
E. French
Lillie Deacon
George Marks
Two Killed by Lightning in Pa Storms
In Pottsville Mahoney City during yesterday’s storm a Polish miner named Betz was killed by lightning and two others were struck but not fatally injured. In Susquehanna a severe storm yesterday afternoon killed William Clapper of Gulf Summit New York.
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Potisville
Mahoney City
Betz
Susquehanna
William Clapper
Gulf Summit
N. Y
Cyclone damages Easton area injures residents
A cyclone yesterday in Easton Pennsylvania uprooted trees and unroofed buildings. Mrs. David E. Warding and her son were badly injured when a billboard blew down on them.
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Easton
David E. Warding
Illinois gets first comptroller in presidential orchard episode
Washington May 10 Illinois strayed into the presidential orchard and a plum fell into her lap, the first comptroller of the treasury was presented to Asa Matthews, speaker of the Illinois house. On May 11 the president appointed a batch of United States attorneys and other officials including Levi S. Wilcox as collector in Illinois and Lars K. Aaker as receiver at Crookston Minnesota.
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Washington Ciity
Illinois
Eighth
James M. Townsend
Richmond
Ind
General Land Office
Lars K. Aaker
Minnesota
Crookston
Minn
Robert 8. Robertson
Indiana
Board of Registration and Election
Territory
Utah
Governor signs anti option bill into law in Missouri
In Jefferson City Missouri Governor Francis signed the recent anti option bill prohibiting buying or selling for future delivery of grain stocks bonds and other commodities. Offenders face fines from 500 to 5000 dollars. The Electric Sugar Refining Company of New York had its court dissolution approved with R Burnham Moffat named receiver and a 100000 dollar bond required.
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Francis
St. Louis
Merchants’ Exchange
East St. Louis
The
Electric Sugar Refining Company
New York
Justice Barrett
Supreme Court
Alexander Cameron
R. Burnham Moffat
Secretary Proctor Visits Chicago After Western Tour
Secretary of War Proctor with Gen. Schofield and army officers returned to Chicago from a tour of western military posts. They will stay a day or two to recuperate from the fatigue of near constant travel during the past week.
Aeronaut Professor St Clair Falls 300 Feet in Parachute Debacle
Houston on May 13 reports aeronaut Professor St Clair attempting a jump from the clouds at the fair grounds park last Sunday evening. He lost his grip on the parachute and plunged about 300 feet to the earth, sustaining severe, near total bone fractures.
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Houston
Tex
Professor St. Clair
Fair Grounds Park
Samoan Conference to Appoint Yearly Foreign Advisers
Vienna dispatch reports the Berlin Samoa conference will decide that foreign advisers to the king of Samoa are appointed annually in rotation among participating countries. The outcome sets a rotating advisory role for external powers.
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Vienna
Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung
Berlin
Samoa
Indictment of Bald Knobbers Ends in Hangings
In Missouri at Ozark and Christian County the Bald Knobbers led by Dave Walker and John Matthews faced execution after the Green Eden murders. Matthews died after a broken rope caused a slow fall, Walker died after multiple adjustments, while public outrage and historic vigilante action marked the case. The piece also touches on the Cronin case developments in Chicago and Cronin’s reported sightings in Toronto.
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Christian County
Dave Walker
Bich
Frank and
Jubal Taylor
Dickenson
Forsythe
Taney County
Law and Order League
Nat Kinney
Ozark
Green
Eden
Green-Eden
Edens
William Eden
Charles Green
Springfield
John
Wiley Matthews
John Matthews
Wiley
David Walker
Bill
Bill Walker
Czar to Crown Poland King Amid Global News Roundup
Reports state the czar will soon be crowned king of Poland while a flood of short news items pass through. Count Tolstoi dies. Jose Riva Galbau reaches 118 in Bordeaux. San Francisco boy killed near Palace Hotel. fierce dynamite blast injures seven near Ashland Pennsylvania.
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Count Tolstoi
Interior
Pittsburg
Mllinois
Thomas Ridgeway
Shawneetown
R. W. Townshend
San Francisco
Palace Hotel
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Bordeaux
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Schofield
Brooklyn
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North Side,” Fairfield, Iowa
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North Star Reefrighrator
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Attorney AT Law
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Iowa
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North Side Park
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Lowa
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Northwest Corner Square
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