Raid in Franklin and Patrick counties destroys moonshine operation
Revenue Agent R. B. Sams and deputies raided stills near Endicott in Franklin and Patrick counties. They destroyed thirteen plants, captured a moonshiner named Claude Nowlin, and seized 160 gallons of whiskey, 150 bushels of meal and malt, with thousands of gallons of beer destroyed. Indictments expected when Federal court convenes next week.
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Roanoke
Franklin
Patrick Counties
R. B. Sams
Asheville
N. C
Endicott
Claude Nowlin
Federal
Stout Priest Captures Robbers At St Monica’s Church
Father William Jordan of St Monica’s Church in New York corners three men suspected of looting poor boxes. After a tense pursuit through aisles and pews, he and sexton Hugh Connolly subdue two suspects and deliver them to East Eighty-Eighth Street Police Station. Suspects Raffaelo Fantano and Giulio Cheli held for theft, with skeleton keys and whale bone found on Fantano along with coins.
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New York
William Jordan
St. Monica's Church
East Seventy-ninth Street
East Eighty-eighth Street
Sexton
Hugh P. Connolly
First Avenue
Connolly
Father Jordan
Father Jorden
Raffaelo Fantano
McDougall Street
Giulio Cheli
Fantano
Giulio
Monaghan Torpedo Boat Launch at Newport News
The United States torpedo boat destroyer Monaghan was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding. Eleanor Monaghan, sister of Ensign John Robert Monaghan, christened the ship with a bottle break. The vessel mirrors the Roe and Terry class, 295 feet long, 261⁄2 feet wide, with a contract speed of 29 1⁄2 knots.
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Newport News
Monaghan
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Eleanor R. Monaghan
John Robert Monaghan
Spokane
Wash
the James
Warwick
Shipbuilding Company
Monaehan
Apia
Apri
Hila
Philip V. Lansdale
United States Navy
White
Navy
George von L. Meyers
Roe
Terry
Jump on pussy springs bounces Roy to death
Five year old Sadgle Solomon and her brother Morris, both described as adept at bouncing, caused a fatal accident by a jump on a toy or surface in the room of their fourth floor home at 1295 Parkgyky. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon and prompted a caution from Sadgle to Morrie about the window.
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Morrie
Sadgle Solomon
Morris
Stort Room
Boy Flies Through Window by Bed Springs
A lad leaped for a ball struck toward a window near a bed. Morris cried out, seized the ball, but sprang from the bed and was hurled head first through the window by the bed springs.
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Morris
plague devastates Harbin as 200000 feared dead
Special report from Harbin Manchuria after Russian commissioners return from northern Manchuria detailing plague destruction. They warn of an imminent depopulation unless vast measures are taken. Streets are filled with mortuary wagons soldiers and dead bodies as authorities struggle to contain spread.
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Harbin
Manchuria
St. Petersburg
Europe
Refused To Look In Woman's Hose New York Night Court
Emma Sheppard of 4 West One Hundred Fourth Street and Morris Ambinder of 208 Ditman Avenue Bronx faced a Thirteen Street Night Court charge for fighting over a found dollar bill. Ambinder claimed a ten dollar bill fell from the note. Sheppard showed two one-dollar bills and a powder puff and denied possession of a ten. Magistrate Appleton discharged them with a caution to avoid such clashes.
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New York
Emma Sheppard
One Hundred and Fourth Street
Morris Ambinder
Ditman Avenue
Bronx
Thirteenth Street
Ambinder
Appleton
Ainbinder
Caruso Stricken by Broadway Dust Heirloom Losses $10,000
The famed tenor Enrico Caruso missed four Broadway performances after a tiny dust particle damaged his throat. He stood to lose $10,000 in earnings, with the illness forcing him to withdraw from performances and endure severe discomfort while doctors treat his hoarseness.
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New York
Broadway
Enrico Caruso
Knickerbocker
Forty-second
Caruso
Kant Teestas
Heliodorus Controversy Divides Tsaritsyn Parish
Holy Synod orders Priest Heliodorus transferred from Tsaritsyn to Tula despite parishioners refusal. They fasted and slept in church for six days to protest, while Bishop Parthenius travels to enforce the ruling. Heliodorus, a noted anti Semite linked to Black Hundreds, draws czarist favor yet provokes fierce devotion.
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Holy Synod
Tsaritsyn
Tula
Heliodorus
Voronezh
Crosby and son found hiding in hollow tree in New York
Erastus Crosby and his ten year old son refused to leave a Cochecton farm after sale. They barricaded the house and threatened officers, later captured and found in a hollow tree. They face charges of attempting to kill the officers and will be examined for sanity before trial.
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Monticella
N. Y
Erastus Crosby
Crosby
Cochecton
Undersherif Newman
Denry William Engleman
Rosby
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