Duel to Death in Chadwick Missouri Ends in Tragedy
In Chadwick Charles Freeman a merchant and Robert Keene 18 fought a pistol duel after Freeman sued Keene for assault on his daughter 15. Both died on the street from gunshot wounds as spectators looked on. A mob in Salisbury North Carolina stormed the jail, lynching three men Neace Gillespie and Dillingham for the Lyerly murder. Two other Black men were spared with 3,000 mob members involved.
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Chadwick
Charles Freeman
Robert Keene
Freeman
Keene
Amo
Salisbury
N. C
Lyerly
Neace
John Gillespie
Jack Dillingham
Barber Junction
Fire and wreck reports from early 1900s collide in brief notices
A colliery fire near Pottsville destroys boilers and stalls with an estimated loss of 100000 dollars. A Boston Subway crash on the Ross ton line injures no one, wrecks two DL trains and halts service. A fatal pedestrian collision in Michigan leaves Mrs Weliniek dead and Hiram Helmick dying.
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Boston
Ross Ton
Market Square
Hiram J. Helmick
Benton Harter
St. Joseph
Mich
Philadelphia Fee Exchange Members Indicted
A grand jury returned true bills against fourteen Philadelphia fee exchange members on conspiracy to raise fees. District Attorney Bell sought a single general indictment to allow joint trial of the defendants.
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Philadelphia Ice
Grand
Philadelphia Fee Exchange
Bell
Grand Jury
Loaded Car Overturns Along Danville Urbana Line
A heavily loaded car on the Danville Urbana line overturned while rounding a curve at Danville. Constable HL Kelly Stott was killed and twenty passengers seriously injured. Fire accident caused by a drawbar pulling from the front tracks. The car railed down a ten foot embankment.
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Danville
Urbana
Kelly Stott
Flood Strikes South Texas. Dozens Drowned and Homes Lost
Fort Worth special reports that a Colorado River flood in south Texas caused 25 known drownings. Hundreds left homeless and about 5000 dollars of property destroyed due to heavy rains bursting river banks.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Colorado
California Woman Sentenced to Hang for Murder
Mrs Enum Ledous was sentenced to be hanged in Stockton California next October after her conviction for murdering Albert H McVocar a miner with whom she lived as man and wife. The case will be appealed. Logansport Man Fatally Shot by a youth of 19 in Logansport Indiana. Frank Millstead about 50 was shot probably fatally by Frank Rance his wife’s cousin who faced the charge of undue familiarity.
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California
Fang
Enum Ledous
Stockton
Cal
Albert H. McVocar
Logansport
Frank Millstead
Ind
Frank Rance
Millstead
Genoa
Barcelona
Twenty Injured In Frisco Train Collision At St Genevieve
Twenty people were injured in a head on collision between a passenger train and a freight train on Frisco road at St Genevieve Missouri. Engines were demolished and tracks torn up for a considerable distance. The injured were moved to St Louis on a special train.
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St. Genevieve
St. Louis
Mine Strike Shocks Laurion in Greece
Athens dispatch reports 8000 Laurion mine workers walked off the job forcing halted operations. Troops have been reinforced as fears of trouble grow and authorities brace for possible clashes.
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Greece
Athens
Laurion
End of Russ Strike Seen With Limited Protests
The Russian workers council halted the strike in St. Petersburg but left provinces unaffected, though others are likely to follow. Over half the city’s factories have resumed, while Moscow workers remain out. unions largely refused to join, and repressions weakened revolutionary groups that inspired the action.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Theroud En
Pn Stike
Proletiicat
Bank Closes In Chicago Amid Banker's Flight
The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank in Chicago closed Monday morning with cashier Henry W. Ter ing a fugitive and president Paul O. Stennshind missing. Twenty two thousand depositors, many from poor northwest Chicago districts, fear losses. Two deaths followed the closure as a grocer and a man in a drug store were slain amid the alarm. Bankers say the failure will not injure city finance since the bank cleared through another institution rather than the Clearing House.
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Milwaukee Avenue State Institution
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Chicago
Henry W. Tering
Paul O. Stennshind
Denk
Trenry Soepke
Kedzie Avenue
Milwaukee Avenue
Rogistol
John BE
Wisner
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Avenue Bank
Clearing House Association
American Soost and Savings Bank
Eer
Turbulent Uprising Sparks Calls for Constituent Assembly
Fragmented reports describe a rising insurgency and protests across cities as regimes crumble. Leaders urge rebellion while revolts, police crackdowns, and bank collapses unfold amid cries for universal suffrage and a new constitutional body elected by the people.
All Around the Globe. Mixed 1919 era items report losses and travel
Fire in the East BaYalo horse market caused a loss not to exceed 25000 dollars. Thomas E. Luton a New York lawyer injured in an automobile accident in France will recover. Fire destroyed Crystal Ridge breaker of A Tardee at Coot Chirleron Ca with loss about 60000. The steamer Ventura left Melbourne for San Francisco with 500000 dollars in gold aboard. German authorities released An gust Rosenberg of Seattle held as anarchist suspect. Charles G Liddell Philadelphia manufacturer and Nellie B Lambert of Philadelphia married recently at St Joseph Michigan.
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Globe
Thomas E. Luton
New York
France
Crystal Ridge
A. Tardee
Coot Chirleron
Ventura
Melbourne
Australia
San Francisco
Auithermtes
Angust Rosenberg
Seattle
Wash
Charles G. Liddell
Philadelphia
Nellie B. Lambert
St. Joseph
Mich
Siro sinks off Cape Palos with 300 perished
A massive maritime disaster off Cape Palos Spain sees the Italian steamship Sirio struck by a reef and sink within moments. About 500 passengers are rescued. 300 steerage passengers perish including many Italians and Spaniards bound for South America. The captain dies by his own hand.
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SIRIO
Cape Palos
Spain
South America
Sao Pedro
Brazil
Genoa
Barcelona
Cadiz
Montevideo
Buenos Ayres
Hormigas Island
Bajos Hormigas
Navigazione Italiana of
Glasgow
End of Fake Jewelry Law Aims to Stop Marked Gold Frauds
The piece reports on a new congressional law to curb fraudulent jewelry practices. It notes brass pieces misrepresented as solid gold, the public harmed by deceptive marks, and jewelers pushing for reform to protect honest manufacturers, dealers, and consumers.
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Congress
City and regional grain and livestock price roundup
The report lists mixed commodity quotes across major markets. Cattle hogs and sheep vary by region with prices ranging from four dollars to several dollars per unit, while grains like wheat corn oats rye show No 2 or mixed grade pricing across cities including Chicago Indianapolis Cincinnati St Louis Detroit Milwaukee and Toledo.
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Ste
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
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