Fatal Shootout at City Furnishings Store Stuns Washington Street
A desperate gun battle at W L Resener’s loose furnishings store on Washington Street ends with William Tolliver shot and killed by officers. Police recapture a knife-wielding assailant after a stairway pursuit from the third floor to the basement, with one officer receiving minor injuries and the suspect killed during the exchange of fire.
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Indianapolis
W. L. Resener
Washington Street
William Tolliver
Pegro Hind
George W. Reseier
Soares
Dr. Jeffries
Neta
Crane to Succeed Hanna in Campaign of Tar Thursday Night
Fragmented OCR text outlines a political campaign fragment with names Hanna and Crane, referencing a campaign event and weather-like notes about frost. The readable elements show an election context and a Thursday night gathering, but many words are garbled.
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Crank Kon Henna
Bible Society marks centenary with global observance
The British and Foreign Bible Society and the American Bible Society approved a worldwide observance on March 7 to honor the centenary of the American Bible Society. Over the century the society has distributed about ten million volumes in roughly 170 languages at a cost surpassing seven million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News York
Bforeim Bible Society
American Bible Society
Tuo
Sloan Case Appealed Over Damages From Jockey Club
Paris stewards of the French Jocies Club appeal in the case of Ted Sloan the American jockey who won a verdict for 19900 dollars in damages after being barred from turf activities following Rose de Mairs victory in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly in May last.
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Paris
Jocies Club
Ted” Sloan
Reocher
Jockey Club
Warne
Rose de Mai
Chantilly
Wrestler with Hold Up Men Ends in Tragic Fall
Cleveland report: James Rawson a Ladoga Indiana poultry dealer battled hold up men on a fast freight through the city. He was tossed from the caboose over a trestle and found thirty feet below the track with fatal internal injuries.
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Cleveland
James Rawson
Ladoga
Ind
Rawson
Settlement of Friar Lands in Manila Approved by Pope
An agreement between Governor Taft and the friars settles the land question in the Philippines. It covers 403000 acres of agricultural lands with 12000 acres excluded for a Manila farm sold to a railway company and one sugar plantation. The price is 7250000 dollars, with the Pope approving terms and War Department still to act. The friars had asked 15000000 dollars, Taft offered 6000000.
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Manila
Taft
War Department
Honest Reforms Sought for U S Postal Service
Washington reports say Postmaster General Payne will publish an annual plan with recommendations to improve the postal system and move it toward a modern business basis. A House committee on post offices is organized and ready to act in January, with the Bristow report guiding postal appropriation and reforms.
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Washington
Payne
House Committee On Post Offices
Congress
Bristow
Machen
House
Omaha special indicts Nebraskans in federal probe
Seven prominent Nebraska citizens were indicted by a federal grand jury in Omaha on charges including illegal leasing of government property embezzlement and perjury. The cases extend to Senator Dietrich and his political associates with several high profile ranchers named.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
United States
Dietrich
Porte to Apologize for Am Met Incident in Alexandretta
Constantinople cabbie reports the Porte agreed to the demands of the United States government and ordered the governor of Alexandretta to publicly apologize to Consul Davis for an assault during the escort of a departing steamer. The incident involved an alleged American suspect who escaped from prison with Davis’s intervention.
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Constantinople
Porte
United States
Alexandretta
Davis
Adesandretta
Natir
Amer Peitiven
Attarin
Monte Carlo Profits Forecast Soars This Season
Despite sensational play, Monte Carlo expects record profits this year driven by Osten Spa clientele and a wet summer. Last year profits were 5000, with forecasts near 7000000 for the current season.
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Monte Carlo
Osten Spa
SA. Bho
Attempt on Nordau at Zionist ball in Paris
A poorly dressed man fired two shots at Max Nordau the Zionist leader during a Zionists ball at Salle Charas in Paris. One bullet grazed Nordau and the other wounded guest Asso wedski.
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Paris
Max Nordau
Novel Airship for St Louis Exposition
Carl Nyberg of Sundbyberg has completed a new flying machine for the St Louis exposition. The craft features a four wing aeroplane and a condenser powering two four bladed propellers with eight horsepower, using gasoline to operate the condenser.
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Stockholm
Carl Nyberg
Sundbyberg
No Wonder He's Mad: Press Lawsuits Hit Three Papers
A Northampton county banker files the first statewide suits under a year old press law, targeting three Allentown newspapers for reporting that he dyed his whiskers. The action marks an early test of new state statutes governing the press.
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Allentown
Northampton County
Strikes Strain Chicago Burials as Livery Drivers Walk
Chicago faces funerals amid a widespread strike by livery and hearse drivers. Pickets block processions, police limit vehicle seating, and families endure rain and ice as sixty to seventy five burials proceed with limited carriage support.
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Chicago
Jonas Hutchinson
Superior Court
Judge Hutchinson
Oakwood
Anna Vieck
St. Procopius
Anton Linhart
O'Neil
Joint Livery Association
Railway Casualties Rise In 1903 ICC Report
Washington special notes the seventeenth annual Interstate Commerce Commission report, highlighting railway accidents. For the year ended June 30, 1903, 164 passengers and 585 employees were killed, with 4,424 passengers and 6,440 employees injured, plus additional casualties from other causes.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Heip
Wrights Demonstrate Jiving Machine Flight Near Kitty Hawk
A machine built by Wilbur or Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, reportedly flew three miles near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, despite a 21 mile per hour wind. The craft, which had no balloon, is powered by propellers driven by a small engine and landed at a preselected spot.
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Norfolk
Kitty Hawk
N.C
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Dayton
Automobile Snow Plows Tested in Kenosha
A local Wisconsin company trials a snow plow attached to its speeders. The device clears snow from an exercise track and is praised for its performance. Company plans to equip winter wear models with the plows.
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Kenosha
Wis
Spectal
German NCO Franzki 85th Infantry Jailed for Soldier Abuse
Franzki, a non-commissioned officer of the Eighty-fifth Infantry, was convicted by a court martial at Rendsburg on 1520 counts of mistreatment of soldiers and 100 counts of abuse of authority. He received five years' imprisonment and dishonorable discharge.
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Berlin
Franzki
Eighty-fifth Infantry
Rendsburg
Chicago Double Tragedy Claims Wife and Self
In Chicago, a machinist named Fred Pflugradt shot and killed his wife during a liquor fueled Sunday incident and then died by his own hand.
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Chicago
Fred Pflugradt
Congress Adjourns for Holiday Recess in Washington
Washington special reports Congress adjourned Saturday for the holiday recess until January 4 the first Monday in the new year.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt Will Not Act On Postal Scandals Report
Washington special reports President Roosevelt will take no action against Treasury Controller Tracewell Postmaster Merritt or other officials over the postal scandals. The president and postmaster general deem the investigators Bonaparte and Conrad too harsh, finding the findings excessive.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Tracewell
Merritt
Messrs. C. J. Bonaparte
Holmes Conrad
Walden University Fire Kills Four. Dozens Injured in Nashville
A Friday night blaze at Central Tennessee College for Young Negro Women known as Walden University killed four people and injured about thirty, nineteen fatally. Rescue workers fear more victims may be found among the ruins. property losses are estimated at 25000 dollars.
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Nashville
Central Tennessee College For Young Negro Women
Walden University
Terrell Pound Is Bluffton Man Guilty Of First Degree Murder
John W. Terrell was found guilty of first degree murder in Bluffton Indiana for the July shooting of his son in law Melvin Wolfe. The jury deferred sentence and a motion for a new trial was filed, with appeals expected if denied. Wolfe had married Terrell’s daughter Lacey in two years earlier to settle a paternity suit.
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Terrell
Jacob
Johnson
Freeman Carlisle
Lucy
Smith
Melvin Wolfe
Wolfe
Lacey
Dr. Saunders
Typhoid Death Toll Rises in Butler To Sixty Nine
Butler Pennsylvania special report shows three additional typhoid deaths Sunday bringing total to sixty nine. Three new cases were reported Sunday evening. City physicians note steady improvement overall as the epidemic subsides but relapses and recurrences cause deaths to rise among earlier cases.
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Butler
Fire in Portland Chinese district kills three residents
In a Portland Oregon special report a blaze in the Chinese district caused seventy thousand dollars in damage. Three Chinese residents were killed while several opium smokers fought with firemen who labored to rescue them. Firemen carried fifty inmates from the burning building.
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Portland
Ore
Special
Lipton Ready to Challenge for America's Cup Again
Sir Thomas Lipton said he would defend the America's Cup after the silver service donated by the people of the United States was presented at a dinner at the Hyde Park Hotel in London.
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London
Thomas Lipton
United States
Hyde Park Hotel
Six People Die of Gas Poisoning in San Francisco
Six persons were asphyxiated by illuminating gas Saturday night in San Francisco and the coroner ruled the deaths accidental.
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San Francisco
Tragic double tragedy ends in family massacre and suicide
Roscoe W. Derby, a Cleveland machinist, killed his wife Della and three children Harold eight Alice seven Thomas five early Sunday then shot himself. Police say poverty and Christmas precarity sparked the murders. Poolroom race checks found in the home link betting losses to the crime.
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Cleveland, O
Roscoe W. Derby
Della Derby
Harold Derby
Alice Derby
Thomas Derby
Dreath
Mrs. Derby
Harold
Alice
Thomas
Derby
Americans Order to Leave Darien District Reported
A Sunday night dispatch from the Gulf of Darien coast states Colombians ordered Americans in the district to depart within twenty four hours. The report is unclear on the penalties for noncompliance.
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Panama
Gulf of Darien
Whitechapel Horrors Recall Sparked by New York Discovery
The Whitechapel atrocities of Jack the Ripper and the murder of Old Shakespeare by Ben Ali are recalled after Sunday’s discovery of a fearfully mutilated woman’s beds in a low sailor’s resort at James Slip near the East River. The victim is identified as Sarah Martin, a notorious figure from the Cherry Hill section.
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New York
Whitechapel
Jack the Ripper
Ben Ali
James Slip
East River
Saah Martin
Quick divorce and remarriage in Henry county
In Newcastle Indiana a record rapid divorce and remarriage occurred on Saturday in the circuit court. Amanda Fegley was granted a divorce and within fifteen minutes she wed W M Flynn in Squire Koons office across the street. Only nineteen minutes separated divorce and new marriage.
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Newcastle
Ind
Henry County
Amanda Fegley
Squire Koons
W. M. Flynn
Chicago May Lose Convention
Washington report says the Republican National Committee may move the convention from Chicago due to hotel rate spikes during convention week with one hotel quadrupling its charges. The proposal follows complaints over extortionate city hotel pricing.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Pension appropriation bill passes House for 138 million
The House approved the pension appropriation bill without division carrying 138 150 100. During debate there was discussion on Panama rural free delivery tariff and pensions with speeches by Scott Miers Sims and Burgess.
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Washington
House
Panama
Messrs. Scott
Miers
Sims
Burgess
Opening of Social Season at White House
The dinner in honor of the cabinet marked the opening of the social season at the White House. President and Mrs. Roosevelt hosted the event on Thursday.
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Washington
Cabinet
White House
Roosevelt
Frederic Coudert Dies in Washington DC
Frederic R. Coudert, the renowned New York lawyer, died in Washington on Sunday after a long battle with heart trouble. The veteran figure in legal circles had suffered for years from cardiac disease.
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Washington, D. C
Frederic R. Coudert
New York
Wood Case Postponed by Senate Committee
The Senate committee on military affairs met Thursday and decided to postpone action on General Leonard Wood until January 4. The panel will review all testimony from the investigation and allow time for preparation of the majority and minority reports. The majority report is expected to endorse Wood's military and civil record in Cuba.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Leonard Wood
Davis Returns on Battleship Demands Turkish Apology
Washington D C special United States Consul Davis arrives in Alexandretta Asiatic Turkey aboard a battleship and will demand an unconditional apology for an assault by five Turkish policemen.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Davis
Alexandretta
Asiatic
Turkey
Hearings Accuse Heath and Smith in Post Office Scandal
Washington special reports a damning United States Attorneys review naming Perry S Heath and Charles Emory Smith as central figures in Washington post office abuses in 1898 to 1900. The document cites willful disregard of regulations and suggests a prima facie case of misconduct and integrity questions.
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Washington
Charles Emory Smith
Perry S. Heath
United States
Conrad
Bonaparte
S. W. Tulloch
Washington Post Office
Mr. Smith
Mr. Heath
Heath
Payne
Tulloch
Inspector Crowell
George W. Beavers
New York Post Office
Oil Market Prices Reported Across Towns
The Oil Market lists prices for multiple towns with Tiona at 2.05 and Petrolea at 2.37, alongside values for Newcastle 1.77 Corning 1.70 Whitehouse 1.35 and others. Several smaller towns show prices around 1.3 to 1.4, with Ragland at 0.66.
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Tiona
Pennsylvania
Newcastle
Corning
Whitehouse
Petrolea
North Lima
South Lima
Indiana
Somerset
Neodosha
N. Neodosha
Corsicana
Ragland
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Ted Sloan
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Himself
Darien Coast
Frederic Coudert
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