Thaw Denies Rumors as Wife Visits Tombs and Jerome Prepares Statement
New York dispatch reports Harry K. Thaw publicizing a new statement denying rumors of counsels' dissension and detailing affidavits filed against a lunacy commission. His wife visited him at the Tombs, asking for help, while Jerome and aides drafted a lengthy reply to be submitted to Justice Fitzgerald. A separate update notes Thomas Hueston retaining the world pool title after defeating Jerome Keogh. In Astrakhan, a prison warden and a police captain were fatally shot amid ongoing murder inquiries.
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New, York
Harry K.thaw
Fite “Perald
A. Russell Peabody
Haw
It Ag
Thaw
Delmas
Messrs. Hartridge & Peabody
Deimas
Pean Hartridge and Peabody and Pone
Tombs
Hartridge
Justice Fitzgerald Monilay
Jerome
Hristice Fitzgerald
Jrome
Fitzgerald New
Hugeston
New York
Thomas Hueston
St. Louisa
Jerome Keogh
Buffalo
Huest
Keogh
Astrakhan
Russia
Praybylovsky
Honduras Beaten Bonilla in Flight War Ends Imminent
Nicaraguan reports say Chaluteca fell to combined Salvadorean Honduran forces and President Bonilla fled by boat. Steamers to pursue, Tegucigalpa expected to fall, war largely over though Bonilla may seek to regroup in El Salvador or Guatemala. International envoys urged neutrality.
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Tegucigalpa
Managua
Nicaragua
Bantos Ramirez
Chaluteca
Honduras
Bonilla
Choluteca
Choluteca River
Gulf of Fonseca
Vasquez
Washington
Bouilla
Corea
Salvador
Guatemala
Reot
Creel
Portland to Have Probe in Municipal Graft
The Oregonian reports a $40,000 investigation fund to bring Francis Heney and Special Agent Burns to Portland. They will examine municipal transactions from past years to present. The exact nature of the actions sought to be illuminated is not specified. In a separate note, four miners died and four were rescued after an avalanche at Britannia mine near Howe Sound, north of Vancouver.
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Portland
Ore
The
Oregonian
Francis 3. Heney
Burns
Minera
Bellingham
Wash
Britannia
Howe Sound
Vancouver
STUDENTS DIE IN WRECK AT CLA REMONT
A collision between a packed intercollegiate field meet train and an outbound limited near Claremont Los Angeles injures and kills several students. The known dead include G. Frank Hinl A H Edwards Mah C Gall and Fred Hodgson of the University of Southern California and Occidental College. Investigators fear additional fatalities under wreckage.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Claremont
Cary
Overland Limited
Black Hand Murder in Ohio on Bellefontaine Street
Wealthy Italian Joseph Demar was killed in a Sunday street confrontation in Bellefontaine Ohio. Nine bullets pierced his body as three wealthy Italians fought three Black Hand assailants. Investigators note blood trails and speculate the motive tied to extortion rather than robbery. Salvador Cira, a commission merchant present, survived uninjured, and police pursue the theory that Demar’s wealth spurred the attack.
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Bellefontaine
Black Hand
Joseph Demar
Salvador Cira
Denny
Cira
Demar
Tainted hash kills veteran at National Soldiers' Home
From Leavenworth Kansas, March 23, a tainted hash poisoned about 900 elderly soldiers at the National Soldiers' Home. William J. Cook, 64, of the Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry, died. Seventy five veterans remain seriously ill though most others have recovered. A government physician said only those already weakened were seriously affected.
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Leavenworth
Kan
National Soldiers
William J. Cook
Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry
Mexico
Hone
Shootings Followed Gambling House Raid in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Texas March 23 after a raid on an alleged gambling house County Attorney Jeff D McLean was shot and killed Hamil P Scott a raiding party member was fatally wounded by William Thompson proprietor of the resort Thompson was captured after a desperate fight and wounded Thompson shot McLean in the neck and then killed Scott before being wounded by officers in a lumber yard crowd watched as police subdued Thompson and he was taken to the station and hospital
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Fort Worth
Tex
Jef D. McLean
Hamil P. Scott
William Thompson
Thompson
Scott
Main Street
Sixth
McLean
Five O'Clock
Sixth Street
Seventh
Rockmorton
Sanderson Freed in Carthage Murder Case
Arthur Sanderson is acquitted of killing Dr. Solomon D. Meredith in Carthage on January 2 after a 25 hour jury deliberation. Defense cited unwritten law amid claims of improper conduct between Meredith and Mrs. Sanderson. Meredith denied these accusations in a dying statement. Separate items note Roumanian cabinet resignation and two highway commissioners pleading guilty to bridge contract corruption in Freeport.
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Carthage
Arthur Sanderson
Solomon D. Meredith
Meredith
Birs. Sanderson
Ritchie
Freeport
James Shippee
William Cole
News in Brief From Around the World and Nation
A digest of events: France gains provinces via a Siam treaty. a concrete dam near Decorah Iowa sinks. Taft tours Charleston en route to the Isthmus of Panama. Lynching in Alabama. fires in Pa and Minn. train wrecks in Detroit and Pa. Roosevelt’s son joins Harvard crew management. cardinals named in April consistory. Multiple murders, suicides, and legal actions reported.
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France
Siam
Decorah
Taft
Charleston
S. C
Panama
Cleveland Harding
Wea
Florence
Ala
Blmersville
Union Brewing Company
Michigan Central
Detroit
Roosevelt
Theodore
Harvard
Chicago Limited
Pennsylvania Railway
Stewart
William Henderson
Oregon City
Ore
Grand Forks
Minn
Mary Peters
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Arthur Bean
North Baltimore
M. Pobledonostself
The
Holy Synod
St. Petersburg
Lombar
Mont
Arthur G. Biles
Robert Biles
Kansas City
Randolph
Mass
Warren House
H. Clay Ewing
Missouri
Jefferson City
Nome
Alaska
Goldfield
Nev
Jack Hines
Count Podhorski
Warsaw
Russia
Rolling Fork
Miss
Booth
Maichamp
Morocco
Col. Goethals
Mr. Stevens
Isthmian Canal Commission
Joseph R. Burton
Kansas
Abilene
Sugar Trust
Maj
C. W. Penrose
Twenty- Aith Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Twenty-fifth Infantry
New Back-Closing Waist Trick Gains Quick Fame
New York women report a clever method to fasten waists from the back without help. By putting the blouse on backward with sleeves hanging, hooks near the neck remain, then turning it and slipping the arms into the sleeves. The simple move saves calls to chambermaids and guards pockets from outstretched hands.
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New York
Gotham
Fifteen Years of Eczema and Home Remedies Noted
A patient recalls fifteen years of severe eczema mainly on hands arms and legs with persistent itching preventing sleep. After six days of Cuticura soap ointment and Resolvent the itching ceased and sores disappeared. Other ad snippets tout Garfield Tea and Lewis' cigars. Remainder contains miscellaneous promotional lines and stray phrases.
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Edward Wovell
U. S. Infantry
Fort Crook
Nebraska
Two Years In Bed Cured Rheumatism By Pink Pills
A Detroit machinist named Robert Oobert details two years of severe rheumatism visitations, bed confinement, swollen legs, heart pains, and eventual recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He praises the remedy and recommends it to others. Sold by druggists or by mail from the Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N Y.
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Williams
Robert Oobert
Cameron Street
Detroit
Mich
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schonectady
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Harry Thaw
Enses
Mrs. Thaw
Cholutega
Santa Fe
Ohio
Madrid
Alfonso
Victoria
Pope Pius
Edward
William
T. J. Wint
Philadelphia
Theodore J. Wint
Department of Missouri
Omaha
J. D. Milean
Fort Worth, Tex
Arthur “Sanderson
Dr. Meredith
Roumanian
Bucharest
M. Sturdza
Whiteley
London
Horace George Rayner
William Whiteley
York
Eleavy
ST. Louis
Texas
St. Michael's Church
Bath
England
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Winslow
Genser
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