Scattered News From The Star Avertive Tales And Tragic Endings
A Detroit boy injured a railroad signal torpedo by hammering it, blowing off his leg. A Scott Iowa mob coerced a girl to shoot a tramp. she refrained. Pittsburgh arrests include a drunk man who hanged himself to avoid exposure. Two robbers burned a girl by lamp accident. possible murder charge under state law. A Niagara backman swindled two men, lawyers pursued and won $100. American oysters expand to Europe. new Schleswig company boosts exports. Dr Wilkinson defends Baptist close communion. A Hartford man shows off three roses colored by ink. Theophilus Jones, once prosperous, became an outcast and ends his life after a divorce and dire poverty. He writes to his wife and shoots himself, leaving instructions for his children.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Niagara
Europe
Schleswig
America
Wilkinson
Rochester Theological Seminary
Hartford
Theophilus Jones
Clifton
Ohio
Tio
Jones
Murder Spree At Jersey City Home Ends in Slaughter
John O'Connor and his wife Mary lived with five children at 42 Water avenue Jersey City Heights. Mary confessed to slaying three young children with a razor while her husband slept. She stated she killed to send them to heaven and was arraigned, later jailed, as doctors weighed possible insanity.
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John O'Connor
Water Avenue
Jersey City Heights
Mr. O'Connor
John
Patrick
O'Connor
Frank
David
Harmes
Fourth Precinct
Fifth District Police Court
Peloubet
Ryan
Mary O’connor
Francis
Mrs. O'Connor
McVaig
Missing child on Fort Scott trainends up foundon construction train
An immigrant mother Mrs. Somornberg fell asleep with a two year old on the Fort Scott train. The child vanished and was later found about twenty miles away crying for help on a construction train. It likely crawled from her arms and fell from the window as the train traveled at speed.
Swarm of Bees Delays Train and Captures Officers
A bee swarm atop a car near Beverly Missouri delayed the Chi Rock Island and Pacific train as officers attempted a capture. Police coaxed the swarm into an empty keg, arresting a group of prisoners in the incident. Also noted are tales of Texas Jack, a war-beef figure, and a church meeting failed romance plan.
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Chi Rock Island
Pacific
Beverly
Missouri
Kansas
McCart
Texas Jack
John Omohundro
Tennessee
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Conrad Cook
Sid le Public Square
Lueteke & Haspel
Vican
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Mechanics’ Block
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Mich
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Greencastle Foundry
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Ind
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James Gillespy
New York
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Taylor
West Side Square
St. Louis
Renick, Curtis & Co
Greencastle, Ind
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TIE Star
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Wysong’s
Northwest Corner Public Square
Castle Mills
Gage
Scott
Iowa
John Evans
New York Sun
Justice Peloubet
Kansas City Times
Leavenworth
Miss Browning
Denton
Texas
Allemies
Pineville
Indian Territory
Spraxaronis
Louris Rama
N.Y
John W. Earp
Sr. Louis Vaypania
Terne Havre
Dianapolis
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Louisville, New
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