Kidnapping Case Ends With Safe Return of Willie Whitla
Cleveland dispatch reports Willie Whitla, kidnapped from school, was recovered after a staged exchange at the Hollenden hotel. Father Whitla, acting through an escort and a go between, paid a $10,000 ransom before the boy was identified on a streetcar by two youths. Detectives, the candy-store intermediary, and a go-betweens’ network are noted as key elements. authorities plan further actions against the abductors. The incident prompted a state senate resolution offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the kidnappers’ capture.
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Oveland
G. W. “Ramsey
Mahoney
Jobby
Beirboya
Itter
East’ End
Whitla
Hollenden
Whitla Sr
Wille Whitha
Ferror
Mercer County
Henaton
County of
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House
Billy
Martin
Penn
Brown
Conemaugh
Winegar
Tadiane
Stephens
Beney
Senator Proposes Death Penalty for Kidnapping
Harrisburg Pa March 22 Senator Howard F James of Luzerne tonight introduced a bill to make kidnapping a capital offense. The proposal calls for hanging as the penalty for taking carrying away decoying or secretly confining a person with intent to extort money or value. Accomplices would face life imprisonment or a term of years at the court’s discretion.
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Harrisburg
Howard
F. James
Luzerne
Public Sales Offer Auctions in Indiana County Listings
A scanned notices page lists multiple public sale events across Indiana and neighboring towns. Items include livestock, farm implements, household goods, and vehicles with auctioneers named, dates set for March and April sales, and a plan for noonday lunches. The text mixes auction notices with promotional material for the Penn Run Summer Normal program, urging enrollment and outlining benefits and contacts.
Mani with terrible temper ends in double murder
Amos Watton a Forest County woodchopper 50 is accused of assaulting son of Briggs family and is found dead after violent events at the Briggs home ten miles east of Moriesta. Bodies of Mr and Mrs Briggs show Winchester bullet wounds. Walton believed to have killed them then died by own hand. Walton faced assault charges recently and had sought to bring witnesses. he retrieved a 48 caliber Winchester then went to the Briggs residence where he was found dead in a chair.
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Amos Watton
Forest Courtry
Apa Woodchopper
Murdelia
Mtranid
Mea
Warren
Briggs
Son of the Briggses
Mani
Warrsti
Winchester
Moriesta
Forest County
Amos Walton
Walton
Marionville
Toolt
Mra
William Connell Dies Aged Millionaire Coal Operator
William Connell a Scranton born coal operator and former congressman died of a stroke in Scranton. Born September 10 1827 at Cape Breton Nova Scotia his family moved to Hazleton Luzerne County where he began work in the mines. He rose to a mult million capital list and served as Republican delegate to national conventions in 1896 and 1908 and was elected to the Fifty fifth Fifty seventh and Fifty eighth congresses serving four terms.
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Scranton
William Connell
Cape Breton
N. S
Hazleton
Luzerne County
Connell
Pennsylvania Republican Committee
Mob lynches suspect after failed murder attempt in Whitmer West Virginia
Police Chief White, in Whitmer, West Virginia, survives an attempted murder as a mob enthralls a suspect named Brown. He is stripped to a pole near a saloon, his arm shattered by bullets, while guards falter at the jail. The town reels as a hanging is carried out in daylight without residents waking.
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White
Whitmer
W. Va
Scott ‘White
W.va
Brown
Railroad Avenue
Second Victim Dead in Altoona Murder Case
Joseph Harris of Huntingdon died in Altoona hospital from wounds suffered while trying to protect Mrs Annie Briney during Albert Deatta’s murder trial. Deatta was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twelve years. Harris had testified earlier. Also noted: former Cambria detective Berkehile convicted on multiple counts, and Judge Dallas’s resignation. Odd Fellows Temple in Philadelphia sold at public auction for 825900 to bondholders.
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Tary
Harrias
James ‘ Berkehile
Cambria County
Waa
Hhensburg
Odd Fellows' Temple
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Philadelphia
Committees of
Teab The Proposed Tariff Raises Tea Prices for Consumers
Teas would become more expensive under the proposed tariff though current stock on hand remains unchanged. The notice lists prices for California dried peaches Big Yellow Peaches and other dried fruits and staples including apricots, raisins, evaporated apples, navy beans Lima beans red kidney beans corn hominy pearl tapioca and Lenox soap.
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Navy
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