Chester Jordan Vaudeville Actor Faces Murder Charge
Chester Jordan a Somerville vaudeville actor is jailed for the murder of his wife Honorah Jordan. He allegedly killed her in their home during a jealous quarrel then dismembered the body and hid the parts in a trunk at 7 Hancock Street Beacon Hill. He confessed after police and a hackman uncovered the trunk and trove. The case includes details of the trunk discovery the steamer Harvard plan and the suspect’s later account of the crime. Also noted is the death of North Dakota wheat farmer Silver Dalrymple at Casselton.
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Honorah Jordan
Somerville
Hancock Street
Beacon Hil
Jordan J
Chester Jordan
Jordan
Harvard
New ‘York
Hackman
Boston
James
Collins
North Station
Crowley
Honorah Holdy
O'Reilly
Butte
Mont
Chicago
Sommerville
Medford Street
Tragic Sloop Wreck Claims Passengers in Mount Holyoke Tale
An April voyage near the Penobscot coast ends when a sloop capsizes in heavy seas. Captain Haskell directs survivors to the tender while Professor Crawley and passengers cling to the wreckage. Separately, a Philadelphia detective testifies at a trolley strike hearing about a conspiracy to dynamite street railways, naming union leaders and 13 strikers held on $2,000 bail.
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Badal
Malia
Penobscot
Washington
Balceilong
Crawley
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Gil -Evdhs
Mount “Holyoké
Mass
Jadon C. Hitchins
Bangor
Haskell
Deer Tate
Hdwin
Univanalty
Pennsylvania
Henry
Hyaia
Mount Holyoke
Dutzdbeth Evans
Professor Crawley
Henry Yang
Add
Sloop
Hte
Evans
Spiea
Chester
P. J. Shea
Amalgamated Association
William V. Lockhart
Cheaters
Justice of the Peace
Williamon
Media
Fred Wachter
Shea
Aeronaut plunges 600 feet to death at Maine fair
A crowd of 25 000 watched Charles Oliver Jones of Hammondsport N Y crash from over 500 feet during a Boomerang ascent at Waterville Maine. Flames appeared under the gas bag, the machine separated, and Jones died an hour and a half later from internal injuries and a broken spine.
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Waterville
Maine
Charles Oliver’ Jones
Hammondsport
N. Y
Mia
Jones
Tia
FineSPAYE NEWS iN BRIEF from Baltatontaina and Ohio events
News in brief recounts a mix of incidents across Ohio and nearby states. A child dies from burns after a newspaper fire, a plant is reopening with 600 workers, and a woman is killed by a horse wagon. Other items include divorce suit, tax/loan shifts, river navigation closures, mine accidents, and a fatal prank at a steelworks. Governor Hughes refuses a requisition in a Windber case. Additional reports cover shootings, suicides, and police captures, with various local officials and businesses noted.
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Philadelphia
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Gallipolis
Cincinnnati
Wheldon
John Tucker
Geo
Pandora
Susan McManany
Loyalhanna
Daniel Cox
Royalton
Steelton
Cox
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Pats
Yehu
Arsytik Pune
Dupeed
Hlickiman
Aavéals
Silver Dalrymple
North Dakota
Ple
Casselton
N. D
Daniel Harper
Tima
Utica
Hage Kijah Monk
Herkimer County
Baltatontaina
Ttartts
Ohta Witl
Ohio
Reunion
New Lexington
William Patterson
Belle Center
Holidaysburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Isabella Myers
Sait
Nelson Myers
Marion, O
Alfred Jones
Lehigh and Wilkesharre Coal Company
Sugar Notch
Green Camp
Levi Davis
Loraln
Henry Hohenboken
Lewistown
James 8. Stackpole
Stackpole Bros
Mifflinton
Riqua
John Green
Elizabeth Green
Green
Rosaville
Heith Gerton
Niles, O
Mahoning River
Detectiva Reed
Oliver Miler
Dayton
Misa Dora
Ormingston
Gn Automobile
Miller
Sheatz
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Young
American Bridge Company
Ambridge
Blois Bauguet
Loughby’s
Opi Men’s Book of Fashions
Indiana County
John Kelly
America
Kidin
R. Loughry
Thompson
THE
Pioneer Agency
Indiana, Pa
Appleby & Peterson
Thos. Wood
City
Ira A. Myers
Oliver
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Frantz Brothers
Rossmoyne
Penna
J. C Forsythe
Philadelphia Street
Indiana
Chas
Plantiny
McCrady Bros. Co
Cement Carbin
Speen
K 'Villela
Fran
Eleventh
Sta
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