Durrant alibi under fire as lecture claim falters
In San Francisco on September 27, witnesses challenged the defense claim that Durrant attended a Cooper Medical College lecture during Blanche Lamont’s murder. Dr Cheney and Dr Gray disputed the roll call evidence, while crowding and security disruptions marked court proceedings and exhibits including a belfry door chisel and a bloodstained shoe.
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Medical College
San Francisco
Durrant
Cooper Medical College
Blanche Lamont
Duprey
Cheney
John George Gibson
Reynolds
Burke
W. Cheney
F. P. Gray
Dr. Gray
Six Men Die in Belgian Mine Explosion at Leadville
An explosion at the Belgian mine near Leadville Colorado traps fifteen men underground. Six miners die, four injured, as powder in the slope ignites after warming with lighted snuff. Names of the deceased include Gray Hamill McGinniss Beggs Phillips Kuhn. injured include Reynolds Baxter Parker Waters. Recovery expected for the wounded.
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Lyadville
Colo
Leadville
Adelaide Park
H. Gray
John Hamill
Clark McGinniss
John Beggs
Chris Phillips
Hal Kuhn
J. H. Reynolds
James Baxter
Alex Parker
John Waters
Doddridge
Wild Western New Woman Holds Off Officers With Revolver
In Perry Oklahoma on September 27 16 year old Clara Jacobs daughter of John Jacobs who leased a Kickapoo allotment defended the land at Sweeney's bridge against Indian Policemen Pete Washington and Little Ax declaring she would shoot any trespasser. Officers sought to dispossess but reinforcements were called as she remained in control of the site.
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Perry
O. T
Sweeney's Bridge
John Jacobs
Thomas
Jacobs
Pete Washington
Little Ax
Clara Jacobs
Will Fight the Mattoon Suit in Illinois Quo Warranto
Springfield Sept. 27 trustees of the eastern Illinois Normal school meet and decide to hire Henry Neal of Charleston and Congressman James A Connolly of Springfield to act as counsel in quo warranto proceedings challenging the legality of their offices in Charleston marked proceedings.
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Springfield
Eastern Illinois Normal School
Charleston
Henry Neal
James A. Connolly
Swamp fires rage near Green Bay amid strong southwest wind
Fire crews battle flames spreading through timber and marshes southwest of Green Bay as a fierce southwest wind drives the blaze. Door County fires rekindle after Sunday rain. dense smoke hangs over city and bay.
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Green Bay
Door County
Oyster Bay
Brand
Minima Yacht Club
England
Challenger
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club
Ethelwynn
C. J. Field
Indian Harbor Yacht Club
Valkyrie III to Race in America Next Winter
Lord Dunraven aims to have the Valkyrie III spend winter on this side of the Atlantic to enable another race. Spokesman H Maitland Kersey says if opportunity arises the Valkyrie will race here next year, and if the Defender goes to the Mediterranean the Valkyrie will go there as well. Desperadoes Surrounded on a Hill
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New Yoree
Lord Dunraven
Atlantic
H. Maitland Kersey
Mediterranean
Woman Found Dead Near Deer Isle After Elopement
Violet Haskell of Deer Isle was found dead in the woods near the town after eloping in June with J. H. Brister, leader of a Cincinnati band. She left her ill husband Everett J. Haskell. a pistol lay near the scene and a bullet hole was in her head, indicating suicide.
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Deer Isle
Violet Haskell
J. H. Brister
Cincinnati
Everett J. Haskell
Governor calls special session to outlaw prize fighting
The Texas governor orders a special legislature session beginning October 1 to pass an anti prize fight law aimed at stopping the Corbett Fitzsimmons bout. In Illinois, Litchfield hosts Populists nominating G S Gulp from Shelby for congress to fill Remann’s vacancy after a district gathering with full county representation.
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Austr. Tex
Illinois
Litchfield
Fred C. Remann
Bond
Fayette
Moultrie
Montgomery
Shelby
G. S. Gulp
Shelby County
Card game dispute ends in murder and mob execution
In Kernville Phillip Seibert was shot by Willie Archer during a card game quarrel. An inquest returned a verdict of willful murder. A mob of citizens then removed Archer from custody and killed him.
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Bakersfield
Kernville
Phillip Seibert
Willie Archer
Archer
Cincinnati man hanged after strychnine beer murder
O. Compts Sept 25. Martin Adams of Cincinnati was hanged in the penitentiary annex at 1070 this morning. The neck was not broken and he died of strangulation in eleven and a half minutes after the noose was sprung for the killing of John Ohmer by lacing beer with poison.
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Co Umpts
Martin Adams
Cincinnati
John Ohmer
Governor Morrill Illness Ties to Topeka Return
Sept 27 report notes Governor Morrill fell ill during the Chickamauga celebration and has grown weaker since returning to Topeka. He has left for his residence in Pest under unclear circumstances.
Counterfeit Plot Dusted From Patton Hollow Foundry
Jeffersonville dispatch reports United States Detective Louis Summers trapped Henry Patton, foreman at Patton Hollow Ware, and William Alsop, a foundry employee, in a counterfeiting scheme. They admitted handling 40 counterfeits and 19 nickels with a plan to continue. Dies and tooling were seized from the foundry. Patton confessed after arrest and denial.
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Jeffersonville
Prison South
United States
Louis Summers
Louisville
State Prison
Grand Army
Summers
Arthur Mayer
Bart Jenkins
Patton Hollow Ware Company
William Alsop
Henry Patton
Alsop
Patton
New Albany
Detective Summers
Conviot Alsop
Hinshaw Case Ends Defense Case in Hinshaw Trial
The Hinshaw murder trial defense wraps its evidence as the prosecution presents a few rebuttal witnesses. Judge and jurors hear testimony from Mrs. Tincher and Mrs. Milligan about sounds near the parsonage. The state’s rebuttal runs brief. further closings expected Monday.
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Danville
Hinshaw
Gull
Duncan
Spaan
Tincher
Samson Tincher
Milligan
Ida Baker
Needle in Child's Shoulder Troubled by Remarkable Removal
In Brazil a year and a half old child of Henry Nussgell living west of the city had a one and a half inch corroded needle protruding from its shoulder. A physician used great force to extract it, the child feeling no pain during removal. It is believed the needle was swallowed earlier and has since passed through the body.
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Brazil
Henry Nussgell
Body found in White River shocks Richmond readers
The body of Charles Shute, 40, missing since Saturday, was found in White River. Wounds on the head raise suspicions of foul play, though the cause of death remains undetermined. Shute was employed by Adams Express and well regarded in the community.
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Richmonn
Chas, Shute
White River
The
Adanis 'Express
The Kidnapping Case and Local News Notes
A batch of brief items reports on a kidnapping attempt near Elwood with three local suspects, a Bolton boy placement in an orphan home, and a swift verdict for a forger in Dela ware County. Additional notes cover Labor disputes in Anderson, a bicycle meet with top prize of 600 dollars, a Rushville waterworks and lighting project, Harvard's new term, and Northwest Fire Underwriters’ new officers.
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Ewoop
Matt Moore
Elwood
Bolton
Excess Receipts Surpass Expenditures in Government Ledger
Washington reports a second monthly surplus in the September statement, showing receipts about 26,250,000 and disbursements 24,260,000. The year’s overall deficit nears 93,905,310, with October expected to yield a deficit near 5,000,000 as pension and interest payments rise. Weather outlook follows with cooler, fair conditions across Indiana Ohio and Lower Michigan, and similar patterns in Upper Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Washington
Markets in New York and Chicago close notes on currencies and futures
The New York financials show money on call at 1 2 percent, sterling weak, U S government bonds firm, and various coupon rates. Board of Trade quotes cover wheat corn date oats lard and produce prices. Chicago live stock notes indicate hogs, cattle, and sheep trading ranges at the Union Stock Yards with daily receipts and price bands.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Steepney
ROTH
United States
Ocxicano
Board of Trade
Chicago
Union
Texas
H.tuos
Ward Rlnosl
Notable Briefs and Biographies From An Old Gazette
A scattered collection of biographical notes highlights varied figures: Parri owning 100 canaries, Italy’s Queen Marcanrrra with a coral necklace she wears constantly, and Dr. Garutne’s invention of a toy gatling gun driven by a dynamo firing 2000 shots per minute. Also mentioned are arts, religion, and political figures with short anecdotes.
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Parri
Marcanrrra
Italy
Dr. Garutne
Rupyaro Kreurine
Lacy- Evans
London
Oaks
Seven Oaks
England
Lamar
Bry. J. Travers Lewis
Ontario
Church of England
Canada
County Cork
Ireland
Franze M. McGowan
Qgalifornia
March of Pestilence Cholera Fever Across Eras
Digest lists historic cholera and yellow fever outbreaks across the world and in the United States. It notes Memphis yellow fever deaths in 1879, vast 100,000 cholera deaths in Italy, Rome and Naples outbreaks, New Orleans fatalities from Havana sources, and recurring patterns tying epidemics to water supply contamination. It cites Buenos Aires deaths in 1871, Vienna cholera in 1873, New York arrivals in 1892, and a sequence of Indian cholera years.
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Pacific Ocean
Memphis
Italy
Rome
Naples
Sicily
Spain
New Orleans
Havana
Danube
Persia
Arabia
Bombay
Savannah
Vienna
Nero
Buenos
South
United States
New York
Moravia
India
Corn's Financial School and Continued Adverts
An 1880s advertisement for W. H. Harvey works listing Corn's Financial School and its continuation. It describes pages, illustrations, editions, and prices from 25 cents to $1.00, noting a joint cloth edition for $1.00 and sending terms via Times-Post, Fort Wayne.
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Corn’s Financial ScHool
W. H. Harvey
Corn’s Financial ScHoo
Coin
Chicago
United States
Corn
Harvey-Laughlin
Tfimes-Post
Fort Wayne
Quotations and travel ad from Lake Maxinkuckee rail rate notice
A page item presents a collage of quotes by Collier Bacon Marcus Antoninus Cervantes and others, followed by a short rail fare notice from the Nickel Plate road offering low rates to Lake Maxinkuckee via Hibbard Indiana with travel dates and a brief advertising note about a printing office and races program on page four.
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Lake Maxinkuckee
Nickel Plate Road
Hibbard
Ind
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Indianapolis
James E. Wilson
John Herton
Indianapolis Art Association
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Lewis Baker
Delaware County National Bank
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Knights of Labor
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Howe Pump and Engine Company
Harvard
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Oh Epheer Ft Lafayette Accom'n
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Pyrite
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Lafayette
St. Louis Limited
Ndianapolis
New York Palace
New York Vestibule Limited
Pacific Limited Express
Cannon Ball
Kansas City
R. G. Thompson
Stand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
North
Fore
Richmond
Tom Grand Rapids
Peters
Fort Wayne, Inv
Times-Post
East Berry Street
Taes- Post
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