Eminent Chicago Lawyers and Their Courtroom Feats
A historical sketch compares Montagu Williams and Abe Hommel with other famed trial lawyers. It recalls Williams’s rise from humble beginnings, his Queen's Counsel status, notable cases including Theresa Sturlata, and Julius Grinnell’s career shift after Haymarket. It profiles St. Paul figure Bill Erwin and detective John O’Connor, highlighting courtroom tactics and moral stance in landmark trials.
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Buker
Chicago
Julius
Grinnell
Great Corporation
Exposition City
Haymarket
Gary
Haymarket Square
W.W. Exwin
Bill
St. Paul
John O’connor
Bill Erwin
Envin
Phen
Erwin
Adventure in Africa and Perilous Cape Buffalo Tale
An American sailor, Humphrey A Banks, recounts a near fatal encounter with a cape buffalo while hunting in Africa. After the animal gored and charged him, Banks escaped by grabbing a horn and drove a sheath knife into the beast's eye before fainting. Bestwicke arrived in time to kill the buffalo, saving Banks. Additional items include a Detroit laborer recovering missing money from a dog and a Cincinnati fire blamed on rodents in an attic chimney.
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Cape
Bis
Warner
Bosh Rack
Batt
Best- Wick
Cape Buffalo
Detroit
Treasury
Joseph Horn
Cincinnati
Rata Cnd
It Was the Rat The Animated Skull Tale
A eerie tale describes a skull that appears to move and disturb a man at his desk, becoming a focal point for fear after a rat enters the skull. The incident ends with the rat escaping and the narrator doubting ghosts. A Paris murder case follows with Pierre Gressier, 20, executed for killing his grandfather. A Tacoma report notes a daring bank robbery using masked gunmen to steal about 1,700 dollars.
Indian Joe the San Francisco pioneer turns street sight into character
A native son known as Indian Joe sits on Valencia street as a colorful San Francisco figure. He wears a camp hat with feathers and a red ribbon bearing badges. His gilded bear badge marks him as a pioneer though his name isn’t on the Pioneer Society roll.
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An Injian
San Francisco
Joe
California
Mark Twain
Actire Hills
Valencia Street
Bis
Society of California Pioneers
Pioneer
Ghostly Murder Specter Haunts Bicycle Riders Tale
Two Montrose men while cycling toward Bryn Mawr report seeing a spectral Conestoga wagon with a white horse team and a three spectral figures a driver a bride and a clergyman. The apparition featured a knife murder and vanishes as bystanders doubt the tale.
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Tre
John Thomas
Alexander Warren
Montrose
Susquehanna County
Philadelphia
Bridgeport
Bryn J Mawr
Crty
Fou
Astrologist predicts Lizzie Borden’s violent fate in horoscope
A New York World report describes a female seer who, after learning Lizzie Borden’s birth details but not her name, warned of a doomed life. She foretold a sudden, steel death by self-harm, years of suffering, and said the subject would die before her next birthday, prompting the witness to keep the reading secret. The piece ends noting a second item about the Panama Canal fraud defendants in Paris.
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Abe
New Th City
Abe Hommel
Montaeu Illiams
London
Iliams
Queen’s Counsel
Eton
Bar Sothern
Dickens
Mr. Jammel
Henry Irving
King Gentleman
Edin
Louise Keeler
Hares
Brother Williams
Peapce
Sody
Clerkenwell
John Warne
Alfred
Trade of Chicago
Alexander Allivan
Near Cronin
Josie Borden
New York
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie
Tse
Seeresa
Neurasthenia and Civilization Cause Nervous Decline
An ethnologist argues disease rates rise with civilization. Dr. A. D. Rockwell counters that neurasthenia is more common among the well to do and professionals due to overwork and stress. He cites railways telegraph phones and the press as cerebral stimulants and notes many misattribute nervous exhaustion to overindulgence.
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A. D. Rockwell
New York
Neurasthenia
Rockwell
Civilization Steel
TAME BUT DANGEROUS THE STORY OF A MONUOTAIN LION TREATED
A fragmentary report describes a tame mountain lion kept as a novelty in Colorado. The animal is chained and exhibits threats while obeying its master. The piece also mentions the artist Rubens as a child and notes eight hand colored missals signed at a Japanese gallery in New Bound street.
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Colorado
Miss Pussy
Rubens
Jesuits’ College
New Bound Street
Ossie
Egypt
Martha
Mary
The Hot Bath And The Cold Bath Dispute
The piece contrasts cold bath folly with hot bath practicality. It notes the Japanese shun cold water as neither refreshing nor cleansing and mentions a poor inhabitant using charcoal fire under a tub, with summer cooling favored over cold drink.
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Montagu Williams
Tross
Jeago
Wright
American Press Association
Cicero
Brneys
Sicero
Resta
Theresa Sturlata
Charles Stiles
Sturlata
Fmde
Sulics
John
Bors
O. B
C. Dartox
Leon Bancroft
Java
Napoleon
First Republic
First Empire
St. Helena
St. Bermard
Moscow
Russia
Waterloo
Imperial Guard
Virginia
Ills
Washington
Lincoln County
Wor
Africa
Humphrey A Banks
Adria
Lick
Rowith
Banks
Be Pasion
Phildelphia
Bind
Aureus
Oeeres
W. T. Delaplaine
At the News
Frederick, Md
Sileaman
Nity
Assize Court
Pes de Calais
Paris
Pierre Gressier
Gressier
Olivier Gressier
Pierre Gree Sier
Fiennes
Roscopi
Panama
Panama Canal
Mazas
Jules Verne
MM. Cottu
St. Charles de Lesseps
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