Tragedy of Hate Ends in Murder at Mountain City
A divorced woman and her former husband are killed in a Mountai n City house as a man named Lock shoots them and attempts arson. Deputies form a posse, find Lock dead after writing his mother of his intent. The case links to a prior divorce and family tensions. Police report a grim double murder with a suspected motive of jealousy and revenge.
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Dlisi
Dlocn
Jonn Collins
Dui
Tie
Lie
VW. Bb
Uhal
Ile Hau
Louis Wite
Colima
Nin Fie Iman Lock
Firsband
Iney
Lock
Mrs. Collins
Collings
Cole
Mark
Ais
Collins
Bessie Collins
Foumain City
Dus
Labor notes from Everett and beyond in a bustling union era
A survey of union activity across cities notes Everett plan for a grocery co op and Santa Cruz musicians joining organized labor. Seattle and Scranton unions push coal mining and temple construction while Typographical Union fashes air born printers. Purdue hosts baking training under Lakers association. Canada moves pension legislation to aid thrift. Winnipeg carpenters boast long tenure as Amalgamated Window Glass Workers seek a 19 percent wage rise. Virginia labor probes violations and Chicago women traders seek affordable medical care through the Women’s Trade Union League.
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Everett
Wash
Union of the Musicians
Santa Cruz
Organized Labor
Seattle
Central Labor Union
Scranton
International Typographical Unie
America
Purdue University
National Association of Lakers
He Carpenters’ Union
Winnipex Manitoba
Amalgamated
Window Glase Workers of America
Cleveland
Wolerly
Virginia
Woman's Trade Union League
Chicago
Kemetts
Pli
Page Talks Peace Moves Between Roosevelt and Hughes
Senator Alfred K. Page whom New York electors favor for governor met President Roosevelt for thirty minutes in Washington. He said the talk focused on mending ties between the White House and Albany and noted Hughes supporters push his nomination while the President backs Taft if he cannot be renominated.
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Tate Senator Page
New York
Albany
Whit House
Lingne
Washington
Hughes
Ces
Hlughes
Taft
Vali
West
Senator Page
Intercollegiate Basketball Season Opens With Columbia Princeton Game
The Intercollegiate Basketball Association opens tonight with Columbia facing Princeton. The five teams this season are Columbia Princeton Cornell Penn Daly and the University of Pennsylvania. The season runs through February.
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New York
Ntercollegiate Basketball Association
Columbia
Princeton
Harvard
Rapid City To Host Democratic State Convention In July
South Dakota Democratic Committee met at Rapid Falls to plan folding the state convention for a state platform and candidate nominations on the second Tuesday of July. The same gathering set Mitchell as the site for the Democratic national convention delegate election on the second Tuesday in April.
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South Dakota
Thoreday
Organization Forms Lawrence County Humane Society
A meeting at the circuit court room organized the Lawrence County Humane Society with officers elected: President H. B. Schlichting, Secretary-Treasurer John S. Burns, and vice presidents from Deadwood Lead Spearfish Whitewood Terraville Terry. The draft constitution was approved. The society promotes preventing cruelty to all living creatures and outlines membership dues, officer duties, board terms, and annual meetings.
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Circuit Court Room
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
H. B. Schlichting
John S. Burns
EF. Franklin
Deadwood
Ernest May
Lead
John Wolzmuth
Spearfish
H. T. Cooper
Whitewood
John Gray
Terraville
Board of Directors
Terrible Mine Blast Traps 100 Miners in Coal Darr Mine
A massive explosion at the Darr coal mines near Connellsville Pennsylvania traps about 100 miners underground. About 100 workers are Americans among the group, with the rest mainly Hungarians, as smoke and debris fill the shaft. Rescue efforts commence with urgency as the structure quakes from the blast.
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Cal
Connellsville
Darr
Poison oatmeal linked to Mrs. Kemmet death in Iowa region
Coroner's jury probes poison in oatmeal as cause of Mrs. Kemmet's death near Miller. a second woman exposed to poison will recover, suggesting foul play and possible arrests. Husband had filed for divorce amid family troubles as investigation continues. Goldfield unrest prompts officials to weigh martial law and troop presence, with local women fearing for safety and seeking protection from labor conflicts.
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Vwileler
Four New Cardinals Created by Pope at Rome Consistory
Pope Pius X announced four new cardinals and elevated bishops at a Vatican consistory. New cardinals include Pietro Wasnari, De Lai, Ludwig Henry Laon, and Paul Pierre Andrien. He also named Kennedy and O Connell as titular bishops and spoke against modernist trends and attacks on the church.
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Rome
Pius KX
Vatican
Mgr
Pietro Wasnarri
Monsignor de Lai
Congregation Councils
Ludwie Henry Laon
Rheims
Mar
Paul Pierre Andrien
Marseilles
Kennedy
American College
Adrianapolis
Dennis O'Connel
Catholic University At
Washington
Sebaste
the Redeemer
Italy
Mine Disaster At Lom Mine Entombs Many Workers
A blast at Lom mine in Lomland Lom, Tuscaloosa County leaves roughly seventy five workers trapped underground. Eight men reached the surface while rescue teams rush to the scene. Officials fear heavy loss of life as operations begin.
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Birmingham
Ala
Lolanda
Tuscaloosa
Lom
Contests Settled Over Mineral Claim Near Elk Creek
The Hipld City land office affirmed by the General Land Office in Washington the decision in John Rowan versus J Gillan et al. The case involved mineral claims Acmuih Bell and Armagh Hell No near Elk Creek below Reuthix adjoining the Sam mine. The ruling held the claim had no mineral value but supported a valid agricultural claim and Rowan’s homestead rights.
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Hipld City Land Office
John Rowan
He General Land Office
Darrow Quizzing Orchard in Pettibone Case Fronts Monster Portrayal
Clarence Darrow pressed Harry Orchard for two and a half hours in Boise as he seeks to undermine Orchard in the Pettibone murder case. The cross examination painted Orchard as an inhuman monster and perjurer while defending George A. Pettibone. The witness’s statements from prior trials were scrutinized to show consistency or change under questioning.
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Boise
Idaho
Clarence Darrow
George A. Pettibone
Harry Orchard
Richardson
Orchard
Darrow
Haywood
Moyer
Maywood
Pettibone
Denver
Haywoor
Orchard Testimony in Zettibone Trial Ends
Harry Orchard wrapped up direct testimony in Boise as he described arrest and imprisonment after Stuenenberg murder. He recounted destroying letters, receiving a Pettibone unsigned note, and a later payment from the federation totaling about 3 500 to 4 000 dollars. He faced questions about enmity toward victims and details of prior investigations.
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Pettibone
Darrow
Hawley
Orchard
Hercules
Couer d'Alenes
Bunker Hill
Sullivan Mill
Canada
Neville
D. C. Scott
Colorado
Independence
Gregory
Bradley
Boise
Bec
Harry Orchard
Zettibone
Stuenenberg
Nichols
Jack Simpkins
Hen
District Court
Fred Miller
Miller
Federation
Tmes
Vicims
Adense
Canton Meeting Calls Boycott After British West River Patrol
A mass meeting in Canton denounces British warships on the West river for “high-handed overhauling” of suspected launches and junks. It vows a boycott of British manufacturers and Chinese employed by English men if the flotilla remains, seeking withdrawal from the river.
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Canton
China
A Party Graf ter and the Socialists Misled by Flattery
A drifting individual returned to town promising socialist ideals and earned favor from local restaurants and houses. He cashed time in advance and vanished as payday neared, leaving creditors and supporters wary of his smooth talk and scheming methods.
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Ivow Mee
Ana al Inbeli
Laue
Krom Ol Orauo
Georgia Federation of Labor
Boston
Mexico
American Federation of Labor
United States
Republic
Labor World
Eddy and
Taft Canot
B. S. Bunch
Hulett, Wyo
Kemmel
Funsion
Goldfield
Women’s Club
Punston
Associated Press
Funston
Gov. Sparks
Labor Commission
Women's Club of
Citizens’ Committee
California
Triston
Rapid City
Stan
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