Woman slashes throat on Ohio railroad train
A woman bound for the West Virginian Insane Asylum aboard the Baltimore and Ohio Oni Malley express from McDowell county suddenly cut her throat with a large pocket knife after the train left Point Pleasant. Passengers panicked as the train halted and she died about thirty minutes after reaching the station. the body was sent to McDowell county for burial. The woman was Mrs Morgwist, wife of a coal miner, and the knife was taken from a nearby passenger bedridden in ad dolnine.
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Baltimore and Ohio
McDowell County
Mra
Morgiwist
Bandits Seek Reward After $16,000 Mail Robbery Near Hillyard
A $6,000 reward is offered with equal share by Great Northern and the U S government for the arrest and conviction of three bandits who robbed registered mail sacks from Seattle near Hillyard Washington. It is said $16,000 was taken. Four countrymen rode a train at 30 miles an hour near Baton Rouge and jumped when the porter spoke of Baton Rouge. An engineer died on the Snowshoe branch of the Pennsylvania railroad near Altoona after a freight train of thirteen cars crashed. A T Baughman, 28, was crushed.
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Great Northern Company
United States
Ip Great Northern
Hillyard
Washington
Seattle
Baton Rouge
Baton’ Rouge
Snowshoes
Snowshoe
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
A. T. Baughman
Bellefonte
New Trial Refused for Four Capitol Conspiracy Defendants
Four defendants in the Pennsylvania capitol conspiracy case were denied new trials by Judge Kunkle in Dauphin County. John H. Sanderson James M. Shafer Will iam P. Snyder and William Mathias face sentencing next Friday after appeals, with Huston receiving a severance and awaiting trial. Other co defendants total fourteen remain for later hearings as one died and another was committed to a sanatorium. The appeals to the state supreme court will be considered after sentencing.
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Capitol
Pennsylvania Capitol
Kunekie
Dauphin County
John H. Sanderson
Philadelphia
James M. Shamaker
Johnstown
Williiam P. Snyder
Spring City
Wiliam
Mathuas
Joseph M. Huston
Huston
Aecend
Etate Supreme Court
Pat Crowe Debuts as Evangelist in Evans ton
Pat Crowe, known for the Eddie Cudahy kidnapping, appears as an evangelist in Evans ton Ill under the WCGTI Prison Reform league. He urges citizens to back prison reform and curb criminal manufacture in reform schools and prisons. A baby’s interruptions prompt Crowe to joke about giving it a good education.
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Eddie Cudahy
Pat Crowe
Evanston
Ill
Crowe
Poison in Communion Cup Threatens Youngstown Priest
A Youngstown priest, Rev. Louis Lops of St. Rocchus's Catholic church, narrowly survived after an alleged poisoning attempt. Strychnine was reportedly placed in his communion cup, with officials delaying news of the attack while he hovered between life and death.
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Youngstown
Louis Lops
St. Rocchus's Catholic
Federal Council Considers Labor Planks For Churches
A Philadelphia meeting of the Federal Council of Churches adopted resolutions urging active work for labor interests and fair church distribution. Rev. Charles Steizle warned against Socialism and stressed keeping workers in the church, while Rev. A J McKelway condemned child labor as a national shame and called for church action on this vested issue.
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New Federal Council
Churches of Christ In America
Philadelphia
Charles Steizle
New York
Department of Church and Labor
Presbyterian Church
A. J. McKelway
New Orleans
National Child Labor Commission
Mining Congress Seeks Ways to Prevent Accidents
At a Pittsburgh mining congress the focus is safeguarding miners’ lives amid alarm that experts have made little progress in preventing accidents. Owner of Monongah mines recalls 361 lives lost last year and notes the recent disaster at the Pittsburg Buffalo company’s model works at Maranna, highlighting ongoing safety challenges.
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Mining Congress
Pittsburgh
Lves
Fairmont
W. Va
Fairmont Coal Company
Pittsburg-Buffalo Company
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