Angry Woman Slugs Car Conductor On Streetcar
A married woman, Isabella Friesen, assaults conductor James Morris aboard an Irving Park streetcar after a dispute over a transferred fare. A Chicago policeman on the front platform intervenes, arresting Friesen as Morris suffers facial injuries and a swollen eye.
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Chicago
Isabella Friesen
Max Friesen
North
Leavitt Street
James L. Morris
Claremont Avenue
Friesen
Irving Boulevard
Ashland Avenue
Ragtime dispute ends in verdict after jury music clash
Jurors in Lakewood New Jersey concluded a dispute over Ragtime music caused tension in the jury room. After several selections were played, jurors returned a verdict sanctioning the matter.
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Lakewood
N. J
Instrumenta
Duel on Ohio road ends in double fatal shooting
In Ohio near Coleraine Marl Shaffer ambushed a rig carrying his wife, her stepson, and two others. He fired on Philip Smith who returned fire with a six shooter. both men died on the way to hospital. Police had anticipated a confrontation as Shaffer had threatened Smith.
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May
Morris
Griebenof
Bylesea
Wriesen
Wheeling
W. Vas
Coleraine
Ohio
Marl Shaffer
Stepsen
Philip Smith
Lucy Viol
Shaffer
Smith
Marin’s Ferry
Seventy-Two-Year-Old Turnkey Subdues Drunken Prisoner
Peter Jones a 72 year old turnkey at Milev enth district police station, despite a broken wrist, overpowered a younger drunken prisoner Lawrence Nash 60 after Nash attacked him in a cell. Jones secured the prisoner, locked the door and saved the tin cup during the struggle.
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Philadelphia
Peter Jones
Mileventh
Lawrence Nash
Willard Street
Richmond Street
Eleventh District
McCaffrey
Nash
Jones
Giant rat battles family in East New York home
Ten pound rat fought five family members, killing the creature with a shovel after a chaotic attack. Mrs McKenna was bitten and is ill from the incident, Mae McKenna injured, while other residents escaped. Pantry theft and nightly noises preceded the confrontation. A physician treated the injured, and neighbors aided in the struggle.
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New York
Terence McKenna
Montauk Avenue
McKenna
Joseph
Willian
Mae
J. P. Morgans Grandson Fined in Police Stop
Cambridge reports Maio-Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., grandson of J Pierpont Morgan, defied law by not stopping for a policeman. He was fined 25 dollars and appealed the judgment.
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J. P
Cambridge
Maio
Junius Spencer Morgan, I Jr
J. Pierpont Morgan
Talked in Hig Sleep Detroit Hints at Greensboro Wife Murder
Greene McAdoo confessed in his sleep to associates at a Detroit royal boarding house that he wanted in Greensboro North Carolina for wife murder. He was arrested.
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Detroit
Greene McAdoo
Greensboro
Sailor Seeks Permit After Claimed Threats From Chinese God
Alfred K. Scanze, a mechanical engineer, sought and received a permit to carry a revolver in New York after presenting letters from a Chinese secret society he says tailed him from Che Foo harbor to the city. He claims the river god demanded punishment for rescuing a girl he believed was offered as sacrifice.
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New York
Che-Foo
China
Alfred K. Scanze
Dillon
Scanze
Mindora
Yangtse
Mindoro
Broadway
Thirtyfourth Street
Seanze
Beasts Invade Villages Near Rozaly Mountains
Vienna reports wolves roam villages near the Rozaly mountains in Hungary. They trap residents indoors as an intense cold drives packs from high forests. Cattle and other livestock fall prey as a bear repels wolves in a village garden and a farmer kills a wolf trying to enter a house.
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Vienna
Rozaly Mountains
Hungary
Gross Banya
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