Grim Fifth Avenue Tragedy Ends in Double Death
In New York on August 1 a well dressed man shot a young woman on Fifth Avenue then killed himself. Police link the dead man to Abraham Fink of Buffalo. the woman, Rebecca Silverman, 21, says she lives with her brother in the city. Fink carried nearly $3,000 in U.S. currency and Canadian money. Witnesses say the woman read letters aloud, aggravating him before the shooting.
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Associated Press
New York
Fifth Avenue
Abraham Fink
North Division Street
Buffalo
Violet Rogers
129Th Street
Rebecca Silverman
Fink
United States
Hill Verdict May Be Monday Outlook From Webster Springs
Webster Springs August 2 The only important witness left in the bribery trial of Delegate David Hill is Grant P Hall of Charleston. Prosecutor Townsend had Hall help detect bribes in the U S Senatorial campaign. Defense undecided on Hill taking the stand or calling witnesses. If no further testimony, verdict could come Monday. George Vanmeter and Rev T J Smith face misdemeanor charges and will not be tried until September. Frostburg police took Gus Bolinner back to answer a robbery charge.
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Preas
Webster ‘Springs
David Hill
Grant P. Hall
Charleston
Townsend
United States
Hill
George F. Vanemeter
Rev
T. J. Smith
Hen-e-ta Succulenta Promise Improves Poultry Stamina
Report from Prof Horace Atwood Morgantown West Virginia discusses Hen-e-ta Succulenta tablets as a feed supplement. The promotion claims More Phosphorus Less Protein and better vitality for poultry, urging dealers to supply or mail for the product from Pugh Beavers Grafton West Virginia.
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Horace Atwood
Morgantown
Virginia
Star
Stolen $85 Allegedly From Armless Frostburg Man
Bolmér denies the charge and offers a plausible account of how the $85 found on his person was obtained. The trial is set to be held soon.
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Ing
Frosturg
Bolmér
Ciary
Dock Workers Strike May Tie Up Mines
Enraged by Thursday evening accident that killed two and injured several, Allouez ore dock workers at West Superior refuse to resume work until conditions blamed for the disaster are changed. Eleven ore trains arrived yesterday and more will come. mines may shut down for lack of cars.
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Associated Prews Dispatch
Superior
Wis
Allouez
West Superior
Nicaragua Protectorate Treaty Pushed Back in Senate Action
The proposed Nicaragua protectorate treaty under Secretary Bryan faces abandonment due to Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposition. Senator Bacon authorized Secretary Bryan to submit a new treaty including a 3 million dollar payment for canal rights. Meanwhile in New York, Moris Sukori denies divorce rumors between Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Leslie Scheyenyt, stating the ante-nuptial agreement and lack of truth in claims of large losses.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Washington
Nicaragua
Bryan
Senate Foreign Revations Committee
Bacon
New York
Paris
Gladys Vanderbilt
Leslie Szeehenyt
Moris Sukori
Cukori
Cardui touted as cure for womanly weakness in Pleasant Hill
Mrs Walter Vincent of Pleasant Hill narrates severe health decline from summers of nervous headaches and prostration. After three bottles of Cardui the tonic claims to restore strength, appetite, and rosy cheeks, with over a million women aided in 50 years. Cardui is marketed as a purely vegetable, gentle remedy for women.
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Pleasant Hill
N. C
Walter Vincent
Wealthy Count Faces Losses From His Own Fortune
The passage asserts the count held a large fortune and that any losses he suffered were drawn from his own wealth, implying no external creditors or public funds were involved. It frames the financial setback as self-inflicted through personal assets.
Passengers in Pennsylvania Express Narrowly Escape Injury
Passengers aboard the Capital Express sleeping cars on the Pennsylvania railroad faced a near miss near Altoona as a locomotive side-wiped the train. Cars were scraped and some damaged, but no injuries. The train returned to Stoona for delays of 90 minutes before passengers were moved to another train at Habisburg jail and sent to Washington.
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Altoona
Capital Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Stoona
Habisburg
Glass Factory Nears Start With New Lease
East End Window Glass plant owners plan to lease the facility to experienced glass workers rather than run it themselves. Ten applicants have sought the rights to rent the factory, but the owners are carefully screening to ensure the right party closes the deal and begins work soon.
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East End
Former Mexican Governor Arrested in U.S. Murder Case
Emmanuel Castillo Brito, former governor of the Mexican state of Gasapeche, was arrested in New Orleans today by federal authorities and held without bail on charges of murder and robbery filed by Mexican authorities.
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New Orleans
Emmanuel Castillo Brito
Gasapeche
Motor Deaths Nine To Date
Cincinnati August reports list nine fatalities from last Wednesday's motorcycle accident at Ludlow Kentucky with Michael Carney of Lima Ohio dying from burns. Two others, a woman and a boy, remain in precarious condition and are not expected to recover.
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Cincinnati
Ludlow
Michael Carney
Lima
Troops Ready in Venezuela to Crush the Castro Revolt
Caracas August 2 authorities completed mobilization of government troops in the capital and an expedition is to depart immediately to confront revolutionary invaders. The first target is Falcon state with Coro reported as fallen to Castro forces. Government forces are well organized and equipped for service.
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Associated Press
Caracas
Venezuela
Falcon
Coro
Castro
Doans Kidney Pills Promoted By Kinney Of Grafton
A Grafton railroad engineer M Kinney testifies to relief from back pain and kidney trouble after using Doans Kidney Pills. He reports morning stiffness and sore loins, with irregular kidney secretions, and credits the pills with regulated kidney action. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents.
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Grafton
M. Kinney
East Main Street
W. Va
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Bryan Often Lecture Tour In Uncertain Itinerary
Washington August 2 The secretary Bryan may leave tonight to resume his lecture engagements but uncertainty of his movements led him to decline public his itinerary.
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Washington
Bryan
Walsh Enters Tariff Debate Endorses Wool Measure
Senator Walsh of Montana endorsed the tariff measure arguing wool sugar flax and other state interests would not be ruined as Republicans warned. The speech aims to reassure his state’s economic stakes amid tariff discussions. In other items the text mentions Cleveland girls pledges and a monument raised to a figure named Adam with a note on modesty and propriety.
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Washington
Walsh
Montana
Cleveland
Turkey
Adam
London press comment on our Panama Pacific stance
An AP dispatch from London reports Westminster Gazette asserting Britain’s non participation in the Panama Pacific Exposition stems from purely commercial reasons with no diplomatic significance. Pall Mall Gazette criticizes American temper while noting traders’ reluctance and regrets Britain’s perceived lack of imagination and enterprise.
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Associated Press Dispatch
London
San Francisco
Westminister Gazette
America
Great Britain
Pall Mall Gazettte
British Board of Trade
Neely enters the race for seat of Avis in First district
Neely M M of Fairmont announces candidacy for congressman in the First district to succeed John W. Davis. A prominent Marion county lawyer and former mayor, he seeks strong local support as an able future representative.
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Fairmont
M. M. Neely
John W. Davis
Neely
Marion County Bar Association
House of Delegates
Marion County
Congress
West Virginia Rural Carriers Elect Officers in Morgantown
Morgantown August 2 The West Virginia Rural Mail Carriers Association met in convention naming R F Bowers Cameron as president P L of Folsom as vice president J L Thorn Mannington as secretary treasurer The next convention will be held in Parkersburg Action to promote the good roads cause was approved The suffragettes plan a honk honk protest in Washington instead of biking it, seen as equally effective.
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Morgantown
West
Virginia
Rural Mail Carriers Association
R. F. Bowers
Cameron
P.L. of
Folsom
J. L. Thorn Mannington
Sciretary
Parkersburg
Washington
Motor Cyclist Beats Bandits on Bedford Road
Samuel Howell, pay master for a New York firm, rode a motor cycle on the Bedford village road when four armed bandits burst from bushes and ordered him to halt. Howell accelerated and all four fired, a bullet hitting his elite as he sped past. He rode to Mt Kisko, collapsed, and was rushed to Flower Hospital in New York for treatment.
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Associated Press Dispatch
White Plains
N. Y
Samuel Howell
New York
Bedford Village
Howell
Mt. Kisko
Flower Hospital
Surviving Captor of John Brown Dies at 82
Clarksburg Aug 2 Jacob Oliver Tutwiller long believed to be the remaining captor of John Brown at Harper's Ferry died Friday at his son Charles’s home in North View while visiting He was 82. He guarded Brown 146 nights in the old jail at Charles Town W Va His body will be taken to Charles Town for funeral and burial.
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Clarksburg
Jacob Oliver Tutwiller
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Charles
Northview
Charles Town
W. Va
Woman and daughter die in Camden auto train wreck
At Buena thirty five miles south of Camden New Jersey a car carrying Mrs Ross T Schlabach wife of Lieut F P Schlabach an assistant naval instructor and their five year old daughter Elizabeth was struck by an electric train on the West Jersey and Seashore line The mother and child were killed Lieut Schlabach and Vera Hobert a Madina resident and cousin to Mrs Schlabach were injured and taken to Atlantic City Hospital with the latter possibly fatally hurt
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Associated Press Dispatch
Camden
N. J
Ross T. Schaach
F. P. Schlabach
United States Navy
Elizabeth
Buena
Here
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
Lieut. Schlabach
Vera Hobert
Madina
West Virginia YMCA officials head to Washington
Secretary J. Howard Oatey of the YMCA and WV committee members G. W. Atkinson and W. B. Baird travel from Parkersburg to Washington for a state committee meeting. The gathering will decide on a proposal to consolidate the West Virginia YMCA with neighboring regions.
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Parkersburg
J. Howard Oatey
Y.M. C.A
Washington
West, Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
District of Columbia
West Virginia
G. W. Atkinson
W. B. Baird
Clarksburg
M.C.A
State committee backs tri state plan abolishing secretary role
Mr Oatey says the fermre tri state plan is likely to be adopted, with the state secretary and staff abolished. The committee members were appointed recently to attend the conference and Ostey notes the plan has been authored and is very likely to be adopted.
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Oatey
Ostey
Amalgamated union to send organizers to Weirton plant
In Wheeling West Virginia inspectors report fifty organizers and workers to be dispatched to Weirton to urge Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate workers to strike in sympathy with Clarksburg and Steubenville dissidents. Fifty or more held back from leaving as guards tighten, with deputies added. scouts blocked entry while unions plan to reach the factory before night.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Wheeling
W. Va
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Weirton
Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Clarksburg
Steubenville C
Auto Crash Kills Clothing Merchant in Newcomerstown
Newcomerstown Ohio Aug 2 Zach Thalheimer 40 leading clothing merchant was killed and four others injured when the automobile they rode in went over a 12 foot embankment. Injured were three male clerks from Thalheimer’s store and a young woman friend. They were returning from Uhrichsville.
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Wcomerstown
Ohio
Associated Press Dispatch
Newcomerstown
Zach Thalheimer
Thalheimer
Uhrichsville
Bankers Advise Voice Sought on Federal Reserve Board
Washington August 1 An advisory voice for bankers on the federal reserve board was proposed by Chairman Glass of the banking and currency commission as part of the currency bill. The move reflected administration efforts to reassure bankers amid debate over reserve board control and potential bank domination.
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Washington
Glass
Banking and Currency Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Board of Bankers
Thereserve Board
Coal Probe Asked by Representative Murray
Washington Aug 2 Representative Murray of Massachusetts proposed a hard coal trust probe demanding information from the Commerce Department the Labor Department and the Interstate Commerce Commission about ownership of anthracite fields prices and production costs. England signals it will not exhibit at the Panama Pacific Exposition and will stay away from the fair in old Brittania’s shadowed world.
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Washington
Murray
Massachusetts
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission
England
Golden Gate
Brittania
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