Robbery charge at Metropolitan Hospital draws bail
James Turner an orderly at Metropolitan Hospital on Bleckwell's Island was held in $1000 bail for trial in Yorkville police court charged with stealing 30 cents from patient Ralph Lehman as Lehman lay near death. A separate note from Pittsburg reports Paul Carr fined $10 and costs for kissing his sweetheart on a street, with Magistrate Walker warning of jail if repeated.
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Bying M
New Yor
Ku James Turner
Metropolitan Hospital
Blechwell’s Island
Yorkville
Ralph Lehman
Lehman
Pittsburg
Paul Carr
Walker
Virginia Gaist Dead in Damville tobaccoist life
Virginia Gaist died in Damville August 28 at age 61 after a long illness. He founded Pemberton & Penn tobacco charters with J. H. Pemberton. Also Richmond reports Governor Swarm commuting by life imprisonment the death sentence of Joseph Thomas alias John Wright for a white girl assault in Alexandria.
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Virginia
Damville
Aus
James F Peon
J. H. Pemberton
Pemberton & Penn Tobacco Charters
Speres Neagro
Richmond
Swarm
Joseph Thomas
John Wright
Alexandria
Woman Torn by Lion at Park Hurts Hucke in Pittsburg
Mrs. Anna Hucke, 55, was attacked by a lion at Lama Park in Pittsburg as crowds scattered in panic. Police and volunteers fired hundreds of small caliber bullets, eventually killing the animal after it mauled the woman. Hucke was rushed to an emergency hospital and later returned home with injuries likely to heal unless infection develops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Anna
Hucke
Lama Park
Hon
The
Park Emergency
Rockefeller Seeks Witness Fees From Government
John D Rockefeller alleged he traveled 1149 miles to attend a federal court session before Judge Tandis and seeks 7395 from the United States for traveling expenses and witness fees. The government withholds payment pending official information on his starting point, whether Pittsfield Moss or Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D
Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
United States
Iis
Tandis
Rockefeller
Pittsfield
Moss
Cleveland
Rope Breaks In Indiana County Hanging
Carmine Renzo aged 45 weighing 175 pounds faced a botched first hanging in Indiana County as rope snapped after five foot drop. Attendants reset with a second rope. execution then proceeded successfully for the murder of his sweetheart Marion Bearne 15, who died in Ernest two years prior after she refused to marry him and he paid passage for them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Carmine Fienzo
Kenzo
Renzo
Marion Bearne
Ernest
DROWNED HIS CHILD Insane man sacrifices child on Belle Isle bridge
Detroit on August 28 Albert Stemmelen a bookkeeper in a deranged religious frenzy threw his two year old daughter Helen into the Detroit river from the Belle Isle bridge and watched her drown He surrendered to police afterward claiming the act as a divine sacrifice One surviving child remains in the family Policemen received notice the girl was missing as Stemmelen showed signs of illness for a month prior to the tragedy
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Detroit
Mich
Albert Stemmelen
Helen
Belle Isle
Detroit River
Stemmelen
The
Hinds
Police
Near Mutiny on United States Cruiser Ral eigh
The crew of the United States cruiser Raleigh complains of no shore leave for two months prompting near mutiny aboard the coaling cruiser as schedules are strained by delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tlenomia
Raleigh
Cruser
Flood Devastation Drowns Hundreds in Gamma Prefecture
Tokyo reports torrential floods in central provinces cause massive damage. In Gamma prefecture alone more than 18,000 houses submerged, 9 lives confirmed lost, and 250 people reported missing amid the disaster.
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Tokio
Gamma
Brooklyn Teacher Missing Girl Found Dead in Lake Hopatcong
Miss Agnes Maguire, a Brooklyn schoolteacher who vanished after a drive with her cousin at Nolan's Point, Lake Hopatcong, was found drowned. Coroner ruled no violence. death attributed to self-inflicted action while visiting Dover, New Jersey.
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Brooklyn
Paterson
N. J
Agnes Magura
Nolan’s Point
Lake Hopatcong
Miss Maguire
Girl's Body Found in Canal in Alsutown
In Alsutown Pa on August 28 a boatman found Juha Asherter's body in the Lenght canal after she had vanished Saturday following the discovery of an infant’s strangled body in her room. A coroner's jury deemed the infant’s death and the girl’s actions connected, with the body later indicating self-inflicted death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorsner
Alfsutown Pa
Lenght Canal
Juha Asherter
Copley
Siegthie
Alent S
Bucketing Water Attacks Patient at Insane Shelter
A nurse at a Burlington county hospital reports a patient at Bathuyten asylum throwing a bucket of scalding water on Mrs Burit, severely injuring her as staff struggled to restrain the assailant. The incident occurs amid ongoing care and attempts to stabilize her condition.
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Burit
Burlington County Hosmith
Watre Turaie
Bathuyten Counts
Bunt Weo
Bomb in the Mail to Cortelyou in Philadelphia
A package addressed to Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou exploded in a Philadelphia post office substation. The four by two by three quarters inch parcel contained a percussion cap but insufficient explosive to cause harm. The package bore Cortelyou’s Washington address pasted from a newspaper. Authorities suspect a prank and continue investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Robrts
Cortelrom
Washington, D. C
James B. Comtelyou
Unwritten Law Debate At American Bar Association
A Boston lawyer proposed that the unwritten law is the word of God and the real foundation of all good law and the English common law. The resolution was indefinitely postponed at the Portland meeting. Murder suspect Walter Scott held in Baltimore on larceny charge connected to a Camden homicide case. Chicago mail robbery case narrows to $250, with three ciphers vanished and thieves at large.
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Aurora
John D
Portland
American Bar Association
Henry S Dewey
Boston
England
Baltimore
Walter Scott
Camden
Francis Horner
Vistoria Natale
Uns City
Scott
Harford County
John S. South
Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Kimball
Denver
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Carroll Street
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Pittsburg Summer Resort
Lion
Washington
Constitution
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Massachusetts
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