Morphine Findings Deepen Mystery at Eastman Shack
In Michaels Maryland the search of Eastman’s nearly unfinished bungalow uncovered a small bottle and empty phial with morphine traces amid ongoing theories that May Woodhill was drugged and detained there. Authorities, noting Eastman’s possible morphine use and a strange funeral, continue a rigid inquest to establish if Eastman acted alone or if others aided in the murder and concealment.
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Worth May Woodhill
Eastman
New York
Eastman Farm
St. Michaels
Cortéee
Fastman
Sutton
Cas
Betes
W Wood
Roberts
Disinterment Sought in Eastman Bail Case
Jusius C. Rosenthal acting for Mrs. Ida S. Epstein says a telegram reports amicable arrangements with St Michaels authorities to disinter Robert Eastman. The plan is to bring his body to the city this week to pursue a $1.50 reward from New York officials. Epstein would accompany the body and take charge after reward matters are settled.
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A. S. Rosenthal
New York
Eastman
Jusius C. Rosenthal
Rosenthal
Tweed’s Refuge at St Michaels Maryland Recalled
In the Eastman-Woodill tragedy context it is noted that Boss Tweed sought law shelter in St Michaels on Maryland’s Eastern Shore during his NY flight. The piece describes the remote waterways and limited transport then, with connections only to Claiborne and Wilmington, and no local railroads.
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St. Michaels
Eastman-Woodill
Tweed
New York
Maryland
Baltimore
Eastman
Hampton Roads
Cuba
Spain
St Michaels
Chesapeake
Claiborne
Maryland Peninsula
Wilmington
Tragic Fire Alarm Fatal to 3 Year Old Girl
Oswego New York June 27 a three year old girl Gertrude Mack daughter of Edward Mack suffocated in her grandmother's bed while attempting to raise the alarm for a kitchen fire started by her six year old brother who was playing with matches. The child hid under the bed clothes as the flames spread and was not found in time.
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Oswego
N. Y
Gertrude
Edward Mack
Leon
Newark
Lai Sing
Quan Yick Nam
Nam
New York
Lar Sing
James Halstead
Tribune
Eighth Avenue
Sun Leung
Chinatown
Harlem
Trunk in Harlem Linked to Elsie Sigel Case
Central Office detectives pursued Leon and a Harlem hack driver in a sprawling inquiry into Elsie Sigel’s murder. Details show Leon used three suitcases and a trunk to move the body from Harlem to Newark, with confederates from the Gee Gong Tong aiding. Police expect multiple arrests as they trace the trunk’s movements and the dispatch sent to the Sigels.
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Central Office
Harlem
Elsie Sigel
Leon
Newark
Chung Sin
Gee Gong Tong
Sigel
Washington
Chang
Elsie
Sun Leung
Leung
Elsie Sige
Saitcases
Sigels
Este
Lai Sing
Nam
Sam Yu
Chinatown
Su Yup
Elsie Sisel
California
Sing P. Lee
West 145Th Street
Wing
Lee
Tong
Sun Wai
China
Canton
Seon
Chinamen Irving
Mission Chi nese Sunday School Dismissed After inspectors visit
Neighbors opposing Dr. Minerva Kline’s Chinese mission Sunday school led to the dismissal of a class of twenty Chinese taught by six young women at 6446 Drexel avenue. Building inspectors found doors to the basement classroom opened inward, violating city code, and the police ordered the class disbanded.
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Tribune
Chicago
Minerva Kline
Chinese Mission
Drexel Avenue
Kline
Timothy Barrett
Dr. Kline
John Kane
Woodlawn Station
Champlain Tercentenary Festivities Planned on Lake Champlain
Albany and Plattsburgh will mark the 300th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s 1699 lake discovery with July 4 to 9 events. New York Vermont and federal Canadian officials includingTaft, Hughes and Jusserand will attend. An artificial island with wigwams and bands will host daily Indian pageants and a dramatized Hiawatha.
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Albany
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
New York
Vermont
Canada
Taft
Sherman
Cannoh
Jusserand
France
Bryce
Great Britain
United States
Root
Depew
Hughes
Prouty
Leminx
Cardinal Gibbons
Plattsboro
Champlain Valley
Champlain
Longfellow
Few College Women Marry
Boston dispatch reports Smith and Radcliffe colleges show few women marry. Of 3 08 Smith graduates and 5 Radcliffe graduates, less than 16 percent pursue business. Eight hundred Smith graduates are teachers, or 2 percent, and 1 are married, while 5 have no occupation. Radcliffe: 300 graduates or 4 percent are teachers, 18 are married, and 1 has no occupation. Overall marriage rate under 7 percent through 1919, with a decline recently.
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the Tribune
Boston
Smith and Radcliffe
Smith
S Radcliffe
Radcliffe
Crowds Fill Coney Island Beach As Heat Wave Breaks
A heat wave drives about 250000 people to Coney Island for sleep on the beach and cool nights. Lifeguards monitor the crowds while Captain Palmer and fifty plainclothes men guard the shores. A drowning, fatal for David Matter, marks the night as rescues and relief follow the heat relief. Hotels and amusements fill as the island revives in calmer weather.
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Coney Island
New York City
Island
Palmer
David Matter
No. & State Street
Brooklyn
Matter
Tom” Riley
Life Guards
Riley
Manhattan Beach
Bath Beach
TRUST IN GAYNOR TO SETTLE FAR ROCKAWAY AMUSEMENTS
Justice Gaynor of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn is expected to issue a decision today on injunctions asked by attorney David Robsam for Far Rockaway amusement proprietors. The move aims to restrain police interference with business as twelve outlets faced summons and a rumor of a city order to close spread after Monday actions.
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Supreme Court
Brooklyn
David Robsam
Far Rockaway
Far Rockaway Court
Bingham
T David Robsam
Robsam
Justice Gay
Petrified Body Found in Georgia Cave
Cordele Georgia explorers report a perfectly preserved petrified human form believed to be an Indian body and numerous skeletons in Rockhouse cave eight miles southeast. A party ventured into passageways and saw protruding skeletons along limestone walls. the petrified mass weighed several hundred pounds and could not be moved.
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Cordele
Rockhouse
Arrests in New Rochelle Theatre Raid Under Blue Laws
New Rochelle police raided Loews Theatre on Main Street and arrested six people including manager Bert Wilson treasurer William Evers a moving picture operator and three performers for alleged Sunday law violations. About a hundred attendees watched as detectives arrested officials during film showings. They were arraigned before Judge Power and released on $1 bail pending trial set for June 3. The Rye Reach area tightened its lid.
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New Rochelle
Loew's Theatre
Main Street
Bert” Wilson
William Evers
Cody
Fannelli
Judge Power
Divine Healer Schlatter Held for Fraud in Des Moines
In Des Moines Iowa on June 27 Charles McLean alias Divine Healer Schlatter was jailed on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. J Anderson of Clinton Iowa filed the information alleging an advance for a cure that never occurred. police found $755 and three diamonds in Schlatter’s ragged clothing.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Schlatter
Charles McLean
J. Anderson
Clinton
Desmond Shot in Fight Over $150 Debt
Indianapolis June 27 James Desmond a blacksmith was shot and killed last night by Joseph Brownfield a former lodger at the Desmond home. The men quarrelled over 150 which Brownfield asserts Desmond had borrowed. Brownfield says he acted in self defence.
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Indianapolis
James Desmond
Joseph Brownfield
Desmond
Brownfield
Arrest for Public Beer Drinking Ends With Release
James Dietler, living at 354 East Tith street, was arrested on a sidewalk in front of his home Saturday night for drinking beer from a can in public and held as a disorderly person. Magistrate Finn questioned the legality of the arrest, noting Dietler had five men with him drinking from the can, but ruled that no disturbance occurred and released him.
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James Dietler
East Tith Street
Finn
Kilroy
East 76Th Street
Train Drops Eighty Feet Four Die Eureka Cal
A logging train of the Metropolitan Lumber Company ran away on a steep grade and dropped eighty feet from a bridge. The four man crew on board were instantly killed.
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Eureka
Cal
Metropolitan Lumber Company
Lured Wife to Death in Ohio Hotel Murder Suicide
In Chicago Junction Ohio on June 27 Olney Clark lured his wife to their Shedley Hotel room under pretense of signing papers to transfer joint property. He stabbed her with a penknife and then cut his own throat. He is dead and Mrs. Clark is seriously wounded. They had been living apart.
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Chicago Junction
Ohio
Shedley Hotel
Olney Clark
Brewer Helped Local Option Prompts Receiver Prayer
Secretary and treasurer C Rudolph Brand asks for a receiver for Huebner Toledo Breweries Company, formed in March 195 from consolidation of Huebner Finlay and Grasser Brand brewers with 300 000 capitalization. He accuses James E Pilliod president of mismanagement inflating asset values and hiding true condition during his California absence, noting Pilliod's ties to the local option movement and a state dealers group.
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Toledo
C. Rudolph Brand
Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company
Huebner, Finlay and
Grasser & Brand Brewing Companies
Brand
James E. Pilliod
Pilliod
Equor Dealers
California
Viaduct Dynamited in Labor War
One concrete pier of a South Main street viaduct under construction was partly wrecked by a dynamite explosion late last night. The contract firm uses non union workers amid the labor dispute in Kansas City Missouri.
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Kansas City
South Main Street
Wealthy man attempts suicide in Chicago River plunge
Edward G. Albert of Fayersville New York a member of a wealthy family tried to end his life by jumping from Randolph Street into the Chicago River last night. He was rescued and gave no reason for the act stating only that he was bound for San Francisco.
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Chicago
Edward G. Albert
Fayersville
N. Y
Randolp
San Francisco
Miner Murdered for His Pay in Mahanoy City
Patrick Grant a miner was murdered on the outskirts of Mahanoy City while returning home with his pay. His skull was fractured and he bore half a dozen stab wounds in his back. Several arrests have been made.
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Mahanoy City
Penn
Patrick Grant
California woman dies after Charleroi station crash
In a farewell kiss moment at Charleroi station Mrs. Marie Antonio of California thrust her head through a car window. She sustained injuries deemed unsurvivable and is not expected to live.
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Charleroi Station
Marie Antonio
California
Baseball Game Crosses State Line Between Connecticut and New York
A game between Edmund Converse estate employees at Stanwich and Long Ridge NA paused by Sheriff Ritch after townspeople complained of yells. The teams then moved into New York to resume play across the border.
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the Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Edmund
Converse
New York
Stanwich
Long Ridge
Sheriff Ritch
Connectticut
New York State
Man Confesses to Train Engineer Slaying
Durham on June 27 report that Solomon Shepard, a negro, confessed to shooting and killing the engineer last December after being put off a Seaboard Air Line train he was stealing. He was arrested in Columbus Ohio.
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Durham
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Solomon Shepard
Columbus
Ohio
Texas Negro Officials Dismissed as Republicans Dominate
The Galveston telegraph item reports that white Republicans in Texas maintain control as over a hundred negro deputy marshals internal revenue collectors and customs inspectors have been dismissed or not reappointed as their terms expired. The notice indicates all others will not be reappointed.
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Tribune
Galveston
Texas
Internal Revenue
Convict Turns Artist Plans Prison Ornamentation
Leonard Imboden, inmate due for release in 1911, will oversee prison grounds beautification. Commissioners approve his plan to tear up flagstones, lay concrete walls, plant grass, flowers, and trees, with a floral carpet border and English ivy to evoke an old English castle surrounding the warden’s home.
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Tribune
Denver
Leonard Imboden
Georgia Arbitration Board Split on Rail Wage Equity
Atlanta June 27 The Georgia Railroad Strike Arbitration Board ruled last night against seniority for white firemen over black workers and ordered equal wages for black firemen hostlers or their helpers in similar positions. Arbitrator Hardwick dissented citing public safety risk. Promotions to engineer require three years' experience and seniority order. failures trigger reassignment or bottom of extra list. current incapacitated firemen exempt.
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Atlanta
Georgia Railroad Strike Arbitration Board
Georgia Railroad
Hardwick
Georgia House opens with drunk driving ban and landowner consent bill
Atlanta June 27. The Georgia House of Representatives begins with several bills. A measure would bar intoxicated persons from operating automobiles. Other proposals require mosquito bars for hotel beds from May 1 to November 1 and license requirements for pistol carriers. A hunter friendly bill would legalize hunting and fishing on lands only with landowner consent.
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Atlanta
Georgia House of Representatives
Georgia
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