Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Case Draws Mixed Bets in Chicago
In Chicago bettors favor Thaw, with 50 to 1 and 75 to 1 odds Thaw escapes the death penalty. Insanity bets drop to even money on word he may be sent to an asylum as juror Bolton’s wife dies, while mistrial and acquittal wagers shift with case developments. Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw testimony looms as prosecutor plans a gentler approach, probing past to challenge her account.
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Chicago
Jerome
Bolton
Spiritualist predicts trials and murder in Wisconsin case
Professor Arthur Roberts of the Spiritualists of Wisconsin, speaking after a trance, forecast multiple mistrials in a case and said a female principal will be murdered within a year by a male suspect involved in the case. He also warned White narrowly escaped murder at age 20 by a man named William R and referenced a late 1880s scandal involving a young girl in San Francisco or Los Angeles.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Arthur Roberts
The
Spiritualists of
Wisconsin
White
William
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and husband face new charges
New and astounding charges against Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and her prisoner husband were laid before District Attorney Jerome today. If presented to the jury, they may convict Thaw. detectives say they found escapades in Nesbit's past that could surpass anything she has told about herself, discovered by friends of Stanford White.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit-Shaw
Thaw
Providence
Stanford White
Jerome
Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw
Lederer
Evelyn
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit
Actress Discusses Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White
Detroit reports February 10 with actress Frankie Bailey describing the famed case. She recalls Stanford White as not more evil than others and labels Harry Thaw as weak but not insane. Bailey defends Nesbit Thaw's marriage while noting Nesbit Thaw enjoys the spotlight.
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Velyn
Detroit
Mich
Frankie, Bailey
Stanford White
Harry Thaw
Harry
Evelyn Nesbit
Fragmentary remark on Thaw and White referenced in print
A damaged passage describes a spoiled child seeking notoriety who desires action from Thaw regarding White, implying expectations of consequences beyond what was anticipated.
No Rest for Thaw Trial to Resume Monday
New York February 16 Despite interruption fears the trial of Harry K Thaw will resume Monday Juror Joseph Boulton who lost his wife during the recess expects to rejoin the jury Judge Fitzgerald awaits his return Thaw says he is in good health after his wife visited him at the Tombs
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Joseph B. Boulton
Fitzgerald
Thaw
Gregory County Pilot Urges Rem Tightening and Tenderloin Isolation
The Gregory County Pilot calls for policy change, advocating a tighter rem and isolated tenderloin. It notes bone steel becoming metropolitan and expresses a desire for governance reform.
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Gregory County Pilot
Bonesteel
Father Kills Wife and Threatens Children Then Commits Suicide
In South Bend Indiana on February 19 W J Bush fatally injured his wife by beating her with a revolver and setting fire to the mattress. after threatening to kill his eight children he ended his own life as neighbors arrived following the screams of the children.
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South Bend
Ind
W J Bush
Mayor Schmitz Declines Comment on Japanese Question
Washington Feb 19 Mayor Schmitz refused to state any position on the Japanese question until the House votes on the exclusion amendment to the immigration bill. He said the issue had been amicably settled and noted California delegates endorsed the San Francisco committee’s stance after talks with President and Secretary Root.
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Washington, D.C
Schmitz
House
Schmit
San Francisco
Senate
Queston
Calfornia
Congress
McLachlan
Root
Is Party
Pot of gold found in old buried cave near Nebraska City
John Olsen a long time Burlington foreman and his wife saved money by exchanging for gold coin and burying it in a cave behind the house. After his death, his son found a pot of gold during digging nine feet deep and took the train north to join his sister. Observers say several thousand dollars may be inside.
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Nebraska City
Neb
John Olsen
Burlington Railway
Minersville
Minnesota
North
Sinn Fein movement calls for Irish independence boycott
Bulmer Hobson outlines a Sinn Fein program in New York to end Irish ties to England. The plan includes boycotts on English goods and protecting Irish products, improving schools, anti enlistment messaging, and a temperance push to cut English liquor taxes in Ireland.
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New York
Grand Central Palace
Sinn Fein
Bulmer Hobson
Republi
Belfast
Mobson
Ireland
Hobson
England
Tokyo's Attitude on San Francisco School Question
The Tokyo report states no official action has been taken on solving the San Francisco school dispute via restricted Japanese laborer admissions. Officials fear government attacks if such a basis is adopted and plan a calm, resolute response amid a tense situation.
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San Francisco
Frisco Japanese Cabinet Cable Misstates Immigration Issue
A San Francisco office mistakenly cabled Tokio asking the government to back their cause. The note argues that restricting Japanese immigration would lead to the extinction of Japanese residents in San Francisco.
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Frisco
Tokio
San Francisco
Miners Discharged in Warren District Arizona
About 1100 miners have been discharged since last Tuesday as organizers from the Western Federation of Miners arrive to unionize the camp. Officials have not announced a cause but expect mine closures to follow this week, despite Warren remaining an open camp for both union and non union workers.
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Brisbeef
Ariz
Warren
Western Federation of Miners
Western Federation
Anti pass constitution vote in Guthrie convention
The institutional convention passed the railroad report section making it a crime to accept passes or telegraph franks. It created a directly elected railroad commission and banned consolidation and railroad ownership of mines or production agencies. Advocates seek reconsideration of a separate prohibition submission tomorrow.
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Guthrie
Okla
Spiritualists raid ends with bail for 24 in Wittsburg
In Wittsburg on February 19 police raided a spiritualist meeting. twenty four people including the medium were jailed for violating a city ordinance but released on bail. The medium described as six feet tall and 180 pounds battled as detectives turned on the lights and exposed the hoax. The son of a deceased wealthy man cried with joy before realizing the deception and attempted to strike the medium with a chair leg.
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Wittsburg
Airland
Medaa
Polce
Turndon
Bonesteel to Start Reform Effort in Wide-Open Town
Bonesteel plans to curb worldly improprieties as part of a reform drive in the newly settled Cregary county town. The movement aims to introduce real reforms in this once notorious locale.
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Cregary Counery
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee Now 17 in Beatrice
Beatrice Nebraska February 20 Lost Bird a 17 year old TuDian woman visited her foster father General L W Colby who found her on the Wounded Knee battlefield in 1891 after the Sioux clash with U S cavalry. Spotted Bear and Chief Little Cloud are tied to the infant’s origin while Colby raised her with his wife No 1 in Portland.
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Beatrice
Neb
Bird
L. W. Colby
Colby
Wounded Knee
United States Cavalry
Little Cloud
General Colby
Chief Little Cloud
Lost Bird
Spotted Bear
No. 1
Woman's Tribune
Portland
Ore
Insurance losses in San Francisco fire earthquake
New York reports a five member committee of forty five insurance firms released figures on San Francisco losses. Estimated insured property value destroyed or damaged totals 215 million dollars across 233 companies with 180 million net coverage in 102000 policies. Gross losses from the disaster reach about 1 billion dollars.
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Frisco
New York
San Francisco
Wisconsin Railways Ordered New Passenger Fare Rates
The Wisconsin state railway commission on February 21 ordered railways to set passenger fares at two and a half coats for a base fare and recommended issuing 400 mile family mileage passes for 10. The decision follows an extended hearing with representatives from various railways and reflects new powers granted to the commission by the last legislature to fix rates and regulate service.
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Madison
State Railway Commission
Yarions
Wisconsin
Tripp County Reservation Opening Likely Delayed
Washington Feb 25 The Gamble Burke bill to open Tripp County South Dakota to settlement has passed both houses but opening before 1908 seems unlikely. Senator Gamble sought immediate action in the Senate, Senator Aldrich objected and sent the bill to the Indian committee delaying passage.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Gamble-Burke Hills
Tripp County
South Dakota
Gamble
Rosebud
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Indian Committee
Belle Fourche Items Mark Busy Western Town
Belle Fourche records show Capt C V Gardner traveling from Piedmont to attend his brother Rev J Mardner’s 50th wedding anniversary. Laramie Bill Fried sells cattle and horses and plans to move to California. Local and regional banking moves, sheep winter losses, river ice break up, and a destructive fire at Roy White’s Crow Creek ranch are reported along with related repairs and arrivals.
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C. V. Gardner
Piedmont
Harding
Rev. J. Mardner
Gardner
IF. E. Fried
Camp Crook
Laramie Bill
Greene
Moseley
California
Mr. Fried
J. C. White
Casper
Wyo
White
J. H. Pearson
L. F. Harrimain
Haley, N. D
Peterson
Grand River State Bank of
Haley
Butte County
Haley Bank
E. Sweet
Vermillion
S. D
Belle Fourche
Mr. Sweet
Kodoka
Black Hills
M. J. Smiley
Smiley
Belleview
Redwater
Roy White
Crow Creek
Booths Fish Egg Case Adopted for Transport
D C Booth of the Spearfish fish hatching station devised a case for transporting fish eggs long distances. After testing to various parts of the United States it proved its utility beyond question. Latest government bulletins report the case adopted for transport.
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D. C. Booth
Spearfish Fish Hatching
United States
Eggs shipped abroad show less loss with Hoath device
Government reports indicate egg shipments to South America and other foreign markets retained setter condition longer than with prior apparatus. In Spearfish, hotel guests faced alarm from settling walls and cracking floors as excavation continued. A new well at the electric plant yields 35 gallons per minute, drilling 323 feet with plans to reach 423 feet.
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Mr. Hoath
South America
Spearfish Hotel
Conners
Electric Light Plant
J. W. Harriman
River Breaks Dike Floods Fremont Again
Platte River broke through the dike in Fremont Nebraska flooding South Fremont with three to five feet of water. Homes were emptied as families fled. Burlington track overflowed and the road out of service. Union Pacific tracks reached by water. dynamite work to break the gauge underway. A city relief fund was started.
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Fremont
Neb
Platte
Burlington
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Dynamite Gang
No Laughing Affair Delays Kansas Marriage Ceremony
Judge McCabe halted a marriage in Topeka after a bride named Mina Brown giggled during the rite. He declared marriage is not a laughing matter and refused to continue the ceremony with Walter Jones as the groom to be.
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Kansas
Topeka
Measure to muzzle press in Washington aims broad censorship
A Spokane senator proposes sweeping limits on Washington newspapers. The bill bars reporting on executions crimes police trials cures and certain medical ads with penalties from 50 to 250 dollars and up to two months in jail, plus 100 to 1,000 dollars or six months for violations. prosecutions by county prosecutors.
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Spokane
Wash
Graves
Corps of Censors
Washington
Bishop Williams Blames Society Women for Employee Demise
In Detroit on a noon Lenten service, Bishop Williams denounces society women as responsible for the downfall of girls in large department stores. He cites city poverty and department store wages around 44 dollars weekly, saying the so called Christian employer and others push immoral acts, and the fault lies with the sisterhood.
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Bishop Williams
Detroit
Mich
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