Death of Wy. J. Sewell and Cropsey cases across states
Treasury Secretary Gage warns of unprecedented treasury strain with a year end excess of expenditures around 150.9 million dollars and gold reserves, while E S Sewell dies in New Jersey and Nell Cropsey is found dead in North Carolina. Public services honor Sewell with military tribute in Camden as Wilcox faces questioning over Cropsey death.
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Gage
Treasury
New Jersey
Elizabeth City
N. C
Washington
Jen
Congress
Camden
United States
William J. Sewell
John Scarborough
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
R. A. Rodrick
St. Paul’s P. =. Church
Sewell
Vesieyman
Cooper
New Jersey National Guard
UO. S. A
Telegraph and Signal Corps
Governor Voorhees
Murzky
Root
H. C. Corbin
Griggs
A. J Cassatt
Pennsylvenia Railroad Company
Nellie Cropsey
Pasgatotank River
Andrew G. Crepser
Brooklyn
Wilscor
R. W. Turner
Citizens’ Committee
Wilcox
Iiss Cropsey
New York Theatre Fire Destroys Miners Eighth Avenue Show
A early morning blaze at the Miners Eighth Avenue Theatre destroyed the building after a Merry Maidens burlesque performance. The audience exited safely, but flames spread to two nearby twenties-sixth street dwellings. Loss estimated at 200000 dollars. Other items note a New Year gift to Paterson nursery, Mc Govern Sullivan bidding in San Francisco, and a German baron becoming a priest in Lacrosse.
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Eighth Avenue
New York
Eighth Avenue Theatre
Twenty-sixth Street
Paterson
Jennie T. Hobart
Hobart
Liberal Gifts to Employes at Crane Company
The Crane company distributed 125000 among its 3 500 employees as a New Year gift in Chicago. Every worker from office staff to treasurer received a 5 percent bonus of their earnings.
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Chicago
Jan
Mass shooter Kills Two as Five Are Wounded in Massachusetts
Jeweler Louis Farter, known as Ritter Bitzer, shot five people at his store injuring his wife and three children. two victims died Miss Ida Columbe and Bitzer’s father? No, Bitzer’s wife and two daughters. The suspect was arrested before he could kill himself. The note left at the scene hinted at a planned family massacre and expressed a religious belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JL Sewell
Sewell
William Joyce
Robert
Sara
Bernard Courlaender, Jr
Baltimore
Charles L. Borie
Philadelphia
Taylor
Iimess
Elizabeth City
N. C
Nellie Cropsey
J. D. Stillman
Nell
Nell Cropsey
Young Wilcox
Miss Cropsey
Ella M. Cropsey
Pasquotank
James Wilcox
Wilcox
Massachusetts
Jenzier
Turner
Mess
San
Louis Farter
Ray
Ida Columbe
Biters Rolison
Christina
Annie
Carrie
Ritter
Bitzer
Miss Columbe
Fire from lime contact in Richmond plant amid flood
High water in Richmond from the James River freshet inundated Main Street and Fulton Street. A blaze broke at Warner Moore & Co millers and feed supply plant when flooded lime touched water, firefighters battled flames wading in waist-deep water. Many homes evacuated, gas works submerged, trains and bridges disrupted.
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Richmond
James River
Main Street
Fulton
Warner, Moore & Co
Manchester
Southern
Central Markets and Live Stock Prices Data
Philadelphia market data shows winter superfine flour prices at 3.90 per barrel and various grain rates including red wheat at 3.2 and yellow No 2 at 3.16. Egg and butter values steady, live poultry and hog prices higher in East Lasherty and East Buffalo markets with calves and lambs noted in ranges.
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Philadelphia
Dee Firm
Winter Superfine
Pennsylvania Roller
Clea City Mills
Pennsylvania
New York
East Lasherty
Véeaisg
Candio Friz
Lambs
Weekly News Condensed Of December 27 31
A rounded summary notes stock companies in New York, royal audiences with King Edward, Italy Russia commerce treaty, Lippert Art Co in Ohio, a fatal shooting at Dwight Virginia, a jewelry shop safe burglary in Illinois, and various December 28 31 events including domestic killings, weather damage, fires, boxing debates, streetcar collision, and political appointments with Roosevelt figures.
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New York
Edward
Italy
Russia
St. Petersburg
Lippert Art Company
New Jersey
Ohio
Dwight
Tom Parlin
T. L. Wilson
H. A. Franze & Son
New Douglass
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WY. J. Sewell
Secretary of the Treasury
Gase
Roosevelt
Camern
N. J
Unei
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Wilkesbarre
Michael Joyce
Pittston
Mary Cadden
Parrett
Joyce
Barrett
San Francisco
McGovern-Sullivan
Yosemite Athletic Club
Lacrosse
Wis
Constantine Maria von Droste-Huelshof
Baron von Droste-Huelshoff
West Baden
Germany
St. Francis Hospital
America
Gentral Markets
West Reaca
Eloctor
Ala
King Edward
England
Marquis Ito
Marlborough House
Miles
California
John W. Mangan
John Delan
AFL Mueller
Cleveland
Birmingham
GE. W. Jones
Andrew Carnegie
Port Borsai
Pittsburg
Bridgeport
J. L. M. Curry
Madrid
Alfonso XII
American Society of Naturalists
van Sant
Minnesota
Northwest
Jules Cambon
Champore
Havre
George Asia Busuaga
Santiago de Chile
Presiden Roosevelt
White House
Ittabena
Miss
Philadelphia Republican City Committee
J. H. Tooker
Waweagenda
Middletown
N. Y
Aimon Streeter
Rennsselaer Falls
N_ Y
Tesa
Joseph Patterson
Ora Pa
Maumee Bay
Toteda
el Pass
Texas
Admiral Ecney
Camberians
Pilon
Roo
Swapaphe
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