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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
7
The article questions whether Florence Maybrick was guilty of murder in the Maybrick case, presenting arguments, testimonies, and counterpoints regarding her role and the verdict. It examines legal proceedings, public opinion, and potential biases affecting the judgment.
In a Liverpool courtroom tale spanning eight years of marriage, Florence Maybrick is accused of poisoning her husband James Maybrick with arsenic. The lengthy trial outlines motive, evidence of arsenic purchases, and confessions via letters, with medical experts debating whether she intended murder or was driven by other causes.
The article reports on conflicting expert opinions in the Maybrick case over arsenic poisoning symptoms, noting Dr Hum phreys and others supported poison findings while Prof Tidy and Prof McNamara argued key traits were absent. It highlights the trial’s contentious evidence, the jury verdict, and critiques of governmental defense framing.
The article details pulque making in Mexico, describing aguamiel extraction, fermentation, the role of rennet, and measures to prevent spoilage. It notes the Apam plateau’s large haciendas in Hidalgo and Veracruz, the process from sap to milky drink, and the plant’s long maturity with yearly yields.
Dr. William Oxley Thamgsam, president of Mism University, has been invited to assume the presidency of Ohio State University to succeed Dr. Canfield, who is to be Columbian’s Mora Flan.
A Derby to Bridgeport line trolley derailed on a high bridge near Peck's stream, sending car and passengers plunging fifty feet. Forty five aboard, forty dead with others dying, as rescuers freed victims from crushed seats and heavy motors. Conductor Johnny Carroll killed, scene at Shelton Street bridge, Bridgeport area, Aug. date.
Hard work by rescuers as men rushed in to aid victims. Bloodied by wreckage, the injured were moved to ambulances and taken to hospitals. Dozens of bodies lay on the embankment and at the Peck Homestead yard while physician teams arrived from Stratford. By dusk, about two thousand spectators lined the bridge as Medical Examiner Cornwell oversaw the grim scene. Frances E Peck is the sole legal witness to the accident.
The Mississippi River shifts its course across Centennial Chute and through a neck of land, cutting through a peninsula and placing farm land and a Tennessee Arkansas border in new positions. A lawsuit seeks to resolve which state holds the land, as the river now divides Arkansas and Tennessee differently than before.
In Appelachicola Florida Aug The bodies of a man and a woman believed to be Mr and Mrs Maddox of Tampa and Captain Pitts of St Andrews were buried. Carrabelle suffered a conservative loss estimated at 200000 dollars in Tuesday s hurricane.
The status of the Inspector General's office was announced at the War Department. The change places the inspector general's department under the Bureau of the War Department, effective yesterday in Washington.
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