Junken Goes to Trial for Clara Rosen Murder
Centerville Iowa May 27 under armed guard John Junken the accused killer of Clara Rosen was arraigned in Ottumwa registered court as crowds fear mob violence. Prosecution seeks death penalty while defense aims to avoid it with Judge Roberts and county attorneys guiding the case.
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Centerville
John Junken
Clara Rosen
Ottumwa
Seneca Cornell
J. C. Mitchell
Junken
William Bray
Court House
Appanoose County Court House
John Juken
Iowa Claims Land Within Omaha Limits
Des Moines Attorney General W H Byers argued before the U S circuit court of appeals in St Paul a case in which Iowa asserts ownership of a strip of land inside Omaha's city limits. The land allegedly belonged to Iowa until the Missouri River altered course in 1878 and shifted the boundary.
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Des Moines
W. H. Byers
United States Circuit Court of Appeal
St. Paul
Iowa
Omaha
Arrest in Pittsburg graft scandal prompts further expected arrests
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania one arrest was made today in the municipal graft scandal with officials indicating more arrests would follow during the day.
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Pittsburg
Overturned Lamp Quenches Three Lives in Eldon Fire
In Eldon, 12 miles east of Ottumwa, a fire destroyed the Shaw home killing 75 year old John Carter and the three Shaw grandchildren. The blaze started when a lamp overturned during a storm while Mrs Shaw, working the night shift, left the children with their grandfather.
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Ottumwa
John Carter
Lela Shaw
Shaw
Eldon
Here
Bold Highwaymen Hold Up and Rob Union Pacific Mail
Omaha Neb May 26 In spite of vigorous search for four masked men who held up and robbed the Union Pacific train No 2 Saturday night seven sacks of mail were taken officers have no tangible clue John P Maurer a New York passenger hid in weeds and witnessed the mail car robbery Faville a stove factory worker from Ralston was passed by four men in an express wagon believed to be the bandits No descriptions of the men are available
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
John P. Maurer
New York City
Maurer
Ralston
South Omaha
Waville
Train Robbery Near Omaha Ends Quietly After Run
A four-man gang robbed a mail train near the Lane cut off and Seymour, forcing the engineer and fireman to drive to a waiting car. They emptied seven sacks of registered mail, fired at the brakeman, then fled toward the north. The crew and passengers were not seriously harmed.
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Omaha
Neb
Seymour
Wick R. Michelsohn
Ferman
M. G. Wallace
Pap” Wallace
W. T. Canada
Paxton Hotel
Criss
Postal Department Intensifies Hunt After Omaha Train Holdup
Washington reports a major post office effort to capture robbers who held up the Union Pacific Overland Limited near Omaha last Saturday night. Chief Inspector McMillan leads postal inspectors and cooperates with Union Pacific and local authorities, with more agents en route.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Union Pacific Overland Limited
Omaha
McMillan
Union Pacific
Mrs. Longstreet in duel with burglar at home
In Gainesville Georgia on May 26 Mrs. Helen Longstreet widow of a Confederate general and postmistress fought a nighttime duel with an intruder. She fired as the man tried to open a silver closet and he returned fire before fleeing. The woman fired until her pistol was empty and believes she hit him as he staggered.
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Gainesville
Helen Longstreet
Boquet for the Ladies Declares American Women Unmatched
Alfred East, president of the Royal Society of British Artists, says in New York that American women are the most "chummable" in the world. He praises their peculiar faculties that make them charming and companionable for men.
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New York
Alfred East
Royal Society of British Artists
United States
Huntsville man commits suicide before murder trial
In Huntsville Missouri Irving Carter aged 23 killed himself at his home on the eve of his murder trial. A year earlier he shot and killed Thomas R Bagby alleging Bagby had wronged his sister.
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Huntsville
Irving Carter
Thomas R. Bagby
Bagby
Oat Race Set Between Wyoming and Canada
Colonel H. J. Sell of Laramie wagers ten thousand dollars that his oats per acre will exceed any other farm. A syndicate led by Professor W. J. Pairchild of Lethbridge Alberta accepts. The international contest pits Canadian and American farming methods with harvest in September and the award to be given by the National Corn Association after threshing.
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Laramie
Wyo
Laramie Plains
Bh. J. Sell
W. J. Pairchild
Lethenbridge
Alberta
Canada
United States
Natit Corn Association
Roosevelt hunting second hand lions
Boston reports two European animal dealers Catissauri of Naples and Hagenbeek of a European city shipping aged beasts from zoos to British Africa via Malta. Trainer Locatelli says at least 100 lions and hippos have been sent toward the Alame basa region in exchange for better specimens.
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Boston
I Lnreest
Europe
Catissauri
Naples
Hagenbeek
Erin
British Africa
Giovanni Locatelli
Canada
Malta
Locatelli
Alame Basa
Mrs C D Gibsons Hat Ablaze At Lawn Fete
Mrs Charles Dana Gibson escaped serious harm when a cigar lighter ignited her ostrich plume hat at a Lenox Library field lawn fete fundraiser. Mrs Joseph Stevens quickly beat out the flames, preventing further injury.
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New York
Charles Dana Gibson
Lenox Library Field
Fifth Avenue
Seventy-first Street
Hope Farm
Gibson
Richard Stevens
Joseph Harriman
Joseph S. Stevens
Joseph Stevens
President Taft's wife to withdraw from Washington society
Washington May 26 Mrs Taft wife of the president will not participate further in social events this season. Her sister Mrs Lewis More of Cincinnati will stay in Washington until May 30 to act as hostess at the garden party next Friday afternoon. Mrs More, formerly Eleanor Herron, is married to a Cincinnati educator and has charmed society with her grace as White House hostess.
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Washington
Taft
Lewis More
Cincinnati
More
Eleanor Herron
University of Cincinnati
White House
Morse Mansion to Go Under Hammer
The Charles W. Morse mansion at 728 Fifth Avenue New York faces sale by auction June 10 after creditors claim more than 400000 in debts. Mrs. Morse, widow of the imprisoned ice king, may lose the home unless substantial funds are raised to save the estate, a last remnant of Morse’s former fortune once estimated at 40000000. The five story West Side residence sits on Millionaire’s Row beside Harry Payne Whitney’s home.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Fifth Ave
Morse
America
Harry Payne Whitney
Belling operation claims life near North Manchester
Shelby Partridge aged 18 died from a gunshot wound suffered during a local charivari known as a bel ling in the countryside near North Manchester Indiana. A shotgun fired by accident tore off a leg and he died a few hours later.
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North
Manchester
Ind
Shelby Partridge
Here
Partridge
Honore Sued for $50,000 Damages in Suit
Adrian C. Honore brother of Mrs Potter Palmer and notable society figure is named a defendant in a $50,000 damages suit filed in Chicago by James H La Pearl alleging alienation of his wife's affections.
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Chicago
Adrian C. Honore
Potter Palmer
James H. la Pearl
Berlin Prima Donna Marcella Semb Cancels Engagements
Madame Marcella Semb the rich prima donna is unable to perform due to ill health and has canceled all her engagements in Berlin.
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Berlin
Marcella Sembrich
Aguinaldo Seeks Rest in Baguio With Forbes
Emilio Aguinaldo, commander of native forces in the rebellion era, departed for Baguio to stay a week at Vice Governor George W. Forbes’s country place. It is Aguinaldo’s first northern retreat since his prior retreat pursued by American troops.
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Manila
Emilio Aguinaldo
Baguio
George W. Cameron Forbes
Aguinaldo
World gold production hits record high last year
The report shows global gold output reached a historic peak with $409 million produced, compared with $400 million in 1907 and $390 million in 1906, underscoring a rising trend in precious metal mining.
Hunt Convict in Ohio Penitentiary
The search for Harvey Jonson, a desperate black burglar who escaped from the guard Wednesday night, continues in the Ohio penitentiary. Guards are armed with rifles and Warden Jones plans to buy bloodhounds for emergencies, with searches reaching even the top of a 160 foot high stand.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harvey Jonson
Ohio Penitentiary
Jones
Openings Announced for 440000 Acres in Flathead and Adjacent Lands
President Daft issued a proclamation opening about 440000 acres in the Flathead reservation Montana 200000 in the Coeur d Alene reservation Idaho and 50000 to 100000 in the Spokane reservation Washington for settlement. Registration runs July 11 to August 5 with drawing August 4 at Coeur d Alene. Entries must be mailed to the Coeur d Alene superintendent by April 10 1910. Regulations due in June.
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Washington
Daft
Flathead Reservation
Montana
Coeurry Alene Reservation
Idaho
Spokane, Wash
Kalispell
Missoula
Mont
Flathead
Spokane
Missouri Insurance Salary Law Upheld
Missouri Supreme Court sitting en banc sustained a state law denying licenses to insurers paying any officer more than 50000. The decision denied the writ of mandamus to Equitable Life, Prudential, and Metropolitan Life and urged repeal as unwise legislation.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
State Insurance Department
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Prudential Insurance Company
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Judge in graft case implicates bootleggers in Oklahoma
Virgil Biggers testifies in a bribery case alleging district judge William Maben, county official Robert Hagar, and bootleggers conspired for protection money. Biggers says cash arrived in envelopes. Cat Johnson and L B Howell corroborate. Prosecutor claims protection payments totaled $125000 in the last year.
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Shawnee, Okla
Virgil Biggers
William Maben
Biggers
Maben
Robert Hagarisgers
Hagar
Cat Johnson
L. B. Howell
Johnson
Mr. Bulgin
Fire Burns 50 Years Warns of Spreading Blaze
Tamaqua Pa May 25 Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to extinguish a fire burning for fifty years in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company mine at Summit Hill. The blaze now spreads toward the Spring Tunnel, 30 Reading Company carpenters and masons sent from Ashland to build a concrete wall to stop the flames. Vast sulphur deposits in the shafts make the work dangerous and may force filling shifts with water to continue the fight.
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Tamaqua
Lehigh Coal & Navigation
Witter
Man Drinks Paris Green, Dies After 99 Years
Dearborn Michigan May 6 a man 99 drinks Paris green rather than live with illness. He mixed the poison in a tin dipper at his well and died late last night. His wife a widow 50 years old with no living relatives fears her future though she is left financially secure.
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Dearbon
Michi
Paris Green
Ihiyste
Althoush
Artist to Prison Shown Guilty of Larceny in Cincinnati
Henry Weidenbach, known as a prepaver of old paintings, pleaded guilty to larceny for burglaries at several homes where he worked in Cincinnati. He was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary after arrest in St. Louis.
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Cincinnati
Oaio
Henry Weidenbach
Weidenbach
St. Louis
Coney Island Showmen Protest to the Mayor
In New York on May 25 600 showmen met in a Coney Island pavilion to urge Mayor McClellan to suspend enforcement of Sunday blue laws until a court test case can be pursued. A 25 member delegation will report to the mayor.
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New York
Coney Island
McClellan
Cartoonist to Join Roosevelt in Africa
The piece notes Mrs. Carl E. Akeley and her husband join artist John T. Metuteheon to accompany Roosevelt in Africa. Arrangements are complete and the party is likely to depart Chicago in July or early August.
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Nerman
Carl E. Akeley
John T. Metuteheon
Roosevelt
Chicago
Three Birthdays in a Single Year
New York May 84 Bennia Axelrod a famed Atlantic traveler has been denied entry repeatedly by immigration authorities after crossing the ocean 35 times. Born in Odessa the youth has misrepresented his age causing a strange sequence of birthdays while repeatedly trying to reach the United States.
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New York
Bennia Axelrod
Uncle Sats
Bennie
Lince
Odessa
Ellis Island
Isis Island
Woman Kills Her Three Children Then Herself
East Hampton Connecticut May 24. Mrs Louis Carsten killed her three children and then herself at the Carsten farm two miles from the village center. No motive is known for the tragedy.
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East Hampton
Conn
Louis Carsten
Carsten
Thig Village
Traveling to Russia with His Back Broken
Alexis Laudent, who began in Birmingham, Alabama, two weeks ago seeks his parents in Moscow. He is hospitalized in Jersey City after a mine disaster in Alabama left him with a broken back and a grim prognosis. His doctors doubt recovery, but he hopes to see his father and mother before he dies.
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New York
Alexis Laudent
Birmingham
Ala
Moscow
Russia
Jersey City
Alabama
E. F. Shaw Begins Action for Divorce
Boston reports Senator James F. Shaw of Manchester filed a libel for divorce from Nettie H. Shaw and for custody of Eldredge F. Shaw at Salem. The suit alleges offenses involving H. Keno Marble, the Shaw chauffeur, said to have accompanied Mrs. Shaw on a California elopement. An earlier attempt to gain custody was made while the party was in California. Mrs. Shaw is now in Chatham, Mass., with her son and her father Hu Fisher Hldredge.
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Boston
Nettie H. Shaw
Eldredge F. Shaw
Salem
James F. Shaw
Manchester
H. Keno
Shaw
Tragic murder of 9 year old Annie Potters near Griffin Park
In Los Angeles on May 24 the mutilated body of Annie Potters, nine, daughter of a ranchman, was found off a road near Griffin park. Throat cut, clothing torn, and outraged. She had been missing since Monday. Also in St Louis four railroads pleaded guilty and were fined 9700 for failing to remove cattle from cars within 28 hours as required by federal law.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Annie Potters
Griffin Park
ST. Louis
Dyer
United States District Court
Capture of Negro Assault Suspect Near Sharp Oklahoma
The negro who attacked Mrs. Cole a 17 year old bride at her home near Sharp Oklahoma Wednesday was captured at Weleetka Oklahoma today and jailed. Excitement runs high and there are fears of lynching.
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Muskogee
Okla
Taft’s Daughter to Unveil Gettysburg Monument
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, will unveil the Gettysburg monument honoring regular Union Army soldiers of the Gettysburg campaign. The ceremony is scheduled for May 31 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Washington, D. C
Helen Taft
Gettysburg
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Charles Peterson
Dare
Gara
K. Redman
Pinkerton
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J. O. Smith
Albia
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Sigourney
Fort Madison
Union Pacific Mail
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Boquet
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Cutcheon
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