Swope Poisoned and Sues Over Slander in Kansas City
In Kansas City Missouri on February 1 two sensational suits emerged over the Swope poisoning case. Ex executor John G Paxton sues the Pulitzer Publishing Company and others for 600000 while Dr B Clarke Hyde sues for 100000 alleging slander. Hyde also faces a 600000 suit alongside Paxton and others over alleged defamatory statements connected to the deaths by polsom. The Post Dispatch story of June 14 describes police claims of a plan to murder involving typhoid germs and stomach examinations.
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Kansan City
John G. Paxton
Chicago
jthy
Kansas City
B. Clarke Hyde
Thomas H Swope
Pulitzer
commany pride fishers
Paston
Paxton
Hyde
polsoulme
Swopar
Tivde
Payven
ar co
Post
Wholesale murder plot fears typhoid poison plot in court
The petition details altered statements alleging Colonel Thomas Swope and Clifsman Swope were poisoned not by natural causes and Dr Hyde implicated in aiding their deaths. It claims typhoid fever spread through the Swope family, including Margaret and Lucy Swope, with possible poison attempts on Margaret and Lucy. The language asserts murder and assault charges, seeking capital punishment and imprisonment.
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Pantoy
Phoman Swope
Clifsman Swope
natal
Dr Hyde
Swope
Margaret Swope
Lucy Swope
Luey tet
Thomas fi Swope
Chrisman Swope
Lucy Lee
arsautt
More Pay for Reading Men Expected Increase Soon
Philadelphia February 1 an important announcement indicates wage increases for Reading railway workers. Officers are adjusting a new wage scale after President Baer ordered a material rise for office staff. Trainsmen, including locomotive engineers on fast express trains, are expected to receive increments of 20 to 40 percent, similar to Leigh Valley adjustments.
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Philadelphia
Reading railway
Baer
Leigh Valley
feat
Damages Awarded in Sea Board Accident Suit
Norfolk, February 1 Ernest N Duval a baggage master from Norfolk Va received $50900 in a lawsuit filed in Carthage NC against the Sea Board Air Line railway for injuries in a collision near Southern Pines NC on March 13 1908. The ruling covers personal injuries and total paralysis from the hips down and the case was appealed to the supreme court of North Carolina.
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Sea Board Air Line
Norfolk
Ernest N. Duval
Vortamouth
Carthage NC
Sea Board Air Line railway
Duval
Seaboard
Southern Pines
N.C
supreme court of North Carolinas
Delaware Lackawanna & Western Ends Ten Year Passenger Kill Record
Wilkes Barre February 1 The Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad’s ten year streak without a passenger death ended when Edward Hill of Gibson Pa was killed at New Milford as he alighted from a passenger train He failed to notice an approaching coal train on the opposite track and stepped in front of it. The incident highlights how advertising connects to business activity.
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Wilkes-Barre
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad
Edward Hill
Gibson
New Milford
Hill
Surgeon Injures Patient Over Flag Severed During Operation
Croonville NCL Feb 1 A patriotically tattooed American flag was cut by a surgeon during an operation prompting the patient Tom Poole to leap from the table and strike the doctor. Poole, wounded in the breast by a stray bullet, refused anesthesia and pledged court damages while hospital attendants restrained him.
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Croonville
NCL
Tom Poole
beer
Poole
Husband shoots wife after she testifies against him
Salakum, of Plymouth, shot his wife after she testified against him for threats that led to his conviction. He loaded a revolver in her presence and shot her, wounding her fatally according to officials. He was jailed and facing charges after a jealous dispute with a boarder over leaving the house.
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Willes Harre
Anary becaue
Lewit Balakum
Plymouth
isstelane
Salakum
Petre Vanosey
Van
Aldrich's Son Weds Again Amid Divorce History
Edward Burkess Aldrich eldest son of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich quietly married Miss Lora Wish Lawson at Troy New York. A prior marriage ended in divorce for non support. Also reported are a man found dead in a snowdrift in Hampshire and Walter Wellman planning a balloon Atlantic crossing with new propulsion, plus a shooting accident in Estherwood Louisiana involving a grandson.
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New Hampshire
Providance ROL
Fes
Edward Burkess Aldrich
Nelson W. Aldrich
United States
Lora Wish Lawson
Troy
N Y
Aldrich
Surprise for Beef Trust in Grand Jury Probe
Federal grand jury continues the inspection of the National Packing company records as officials from Armour Morris and Co and Swift will be questioned. District Attorney Sims and James B Wilkerson plan to present documentary evidence and testimony, aiming for indictments while Chicago Packingtown and national outlets feel the effects. A Illinois food board report cites wholesale horse slaughter in Chicago for home consumption, and Alderman Dennis J Ban seeks an ordinance limiting cold storage supplies to curb price rises.
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Chicago
bavke anf
National Packing company
federal grand jury
Armour’ & Co
Morris & Co
Swift
Rene
Landia
obarket
ihvestion
United States District
Eirwin W. Sims
Asdisten Tiatrict
James B. Wilkerpoe
Thin iu
federal building
Sima
Witkeraon
grand jury
Lande
Washington
district attorney's office
Chioggo
New York
Ilinole atate food commission
Hoey
Copenhagen
Denmark
Dennis J. Baan
Faan
Postal Banks Aid to Thrift Senator Carter Speaks For Measure
Washington February 1 United States senator Carter of Montana argues in the senate for a postal savings bank bill. He says the United States, as a first class power, should not deny people postal savings and asserts banks cannot serve rural districts as post offices would. He says postal banks would encourage thrift and move money from bondage to circulation, addressing objections about risks and rural access.
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Carter
Washington
United States
Carter of
Montane
senate
committee
Gengtor Carter
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