Desperado Escapes Knox County Jail In Tennessee
Harvey Lexan the alleged Montana train robber escaped Knox County jail after a guard’s back was turned. He lassoed the guard and forced the jailer to unlock the door and saddle the sheriff’s horse, then rode toward the mountains as a posse formed within an hour. In Kentucky, a Jackson feud shooting left Hiram Barnett dead and two Hecker men wounded at a Daisy Bell gathering. no arrests yet.
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Roocville
Tenn
Harvey Lexan
Montana
Knox county
Logan
Logan neat
sai
Bell
sherif
desperado
Jackson
Jackson Ky
feurt
Daisy Bell
Breathitt county
Hiram Barnett
John Henry Hecker
Joseph Hecker
nen
Samuel
Silas Barnett
Lelia Burns
Buns Fitzpatrick
Ciniis Jett
Fitzpatrick
Miss Burns
Kidney-Wort Tablets Proposed as Alcohol Free Cure
Sufferers of kidney disease are urged to avoid liquid remedies laced with alcohol. Physicians warn such tonics offer only temporary relief followed by a relapse. Kidney-Wort Tablets are advertised as alcohol free and promptly curative, with a home test for kidney disorder via morning urine clarity and sediment.
Penns Stock Is Up as $75 Million Issue Closes
Philadelphia June 29 stockholders for Pennsylvania Railroad rushed to subscribe to the new 75 million issue. Most paid in full, netting the company about 87.75 million and leaving little for the underwriting syndicate. $40 million temporary loan to be paid July 25, with over 50 million new money for improvements. Rockefeller subscribed 10 million but takes a modest 125 thousand profit. RIVAL RECEPTION COMMITTEES Roosevelt homecoming marked by intense local enthusiasm amid factional rivalries. Oyster Bay June 29 the president will host callers, with offices moved to the Moore block and telephonic links to Sagamore Hill.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Speyer & Co
John D. Rockefeller
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
L. 1
Sagamore Hill
Loeb
Loeb and Barnes
Moore block
Oyster Bay board of trade
J. Morgan Griffin
Maurice Townsend
navy department
Will Not Anger Russia If Czar Declines Petition
Washington reports officials see no US Russia diplomatic rupture if the Jewish petition is presented to the Russian government. Precedents show rejection would not justify offense if declined as interference with Russia’s internal affairs. Decorum would be observed and cordial relations would remain.
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Czar
Washington
United States
Russia
Medical ad touts Green's August Flower and health claims
An ad features Dr Boteler praising a medical science text and endorsing Green's August Flower as a stomach and liver remedy. It urges readers to try the product for indigestion constipation and related ailments, listing prices 250 and 5c and directed from Clinton E Main.
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CLINTON E. MAIN
Edmond Rostand Named French Immortal at Thirty Five
Edmond Rostand, recently elected to the academy and now one of the famous forty Immortals, is regarded as the greatest living playwright. His celebrated works include Cyrano de Bergerac and Li Algion, and his rise to world fame as a French immortal came early in life.
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Edmond Rostand
academy
Surcose
Rostand
Train wreck in Spain leaves many dead and injured
Ninety bodies and 204 injured were recovered after a Bilbao bound train derailed on a bridge over the Nejer Ola river near Bilbao. Only six of about 400 passengers escaped unhurt as the two engines and 16 coaches plunged 50 feet into the river bed. Rescue trains brought nurses, doctors, and soldiers to aid survivors.
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Spain
Madrid
Bilbao
Nejer- Ola
Killed by Daughter's Suitor in Woodbury
A discharged Philippine soldier, John Payne, shot and killed William Minks at Minks home on Oak Street in Woodbury New Jersey. Payne, a suitor to Minks daughter Lizzie, fired three bullets, killing the 60 year old man. Payne was arrested soon after, seemingly unfazed by his fate.
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Woodbury
N. J
John Payne
Philippines
Stanly
William Minks
Oak street
Payne
Lizzie
Minks
Newark
N. 3
Herman Lieb
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Sieb
William Haeberry
View on Lynching by Chicago Clergyman
Rev Dr W A Bartlett at First Congregational Church opposes mob law yet urges action against crimes he says scar women and families. He argues lynching harms the innocent and warns against selective outrage, noting both races can be offenders and stressing communal responsibility.
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Chicago
W. A. Bartlett
First Congregational Church
Bartlett
Hite
Twenty Four Miners Killed In Mexican Mine Explosion
Barratoeban Coahuila June 29 Twenty four miners were killed and about fifty injured in a gas explosion at Las Esperanza coal mines owned by the Mexican Coal and Coke Co The blast was caused by a lamp flame ignition as the men were about to quit work Nearly one hundred men were in the mine with many trapped by earth and debris after the shock Rescue teams recovered twenty four bodies though more may perish from injuries.
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Barratoeban
Coahuila
Brexico
Las Esperanza
Mexican Coal and Coke Company
quituns
Reading Railroad Tests Automatic Stop Device
Reading Pa June 23 A new safety device on the Reading Railway automatically stops trains when danger signals appear. Trains running at 59 miles an hour were halted within 140 yards. Engineer Charles Miller of the private car The Black Diamond supervised tests. Machinery worth will be in a few days.
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Reading
PoPustilic
Charles Miller
Luther
Black Diamond
Lynch Scene Crowded Wilmington Remains Quiet
Thousands visited the scene of the White lynching in Willington Delaware as mobs burned a man for a murder. Three cobble stones remain with an inscription “Here is all that remains of White.” Police keep vigilance and remain ready for any outbreak, though white and black tensions ease.
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Del
Jung
avorge
nora
Helen Histop
Chester
Philadelphia
sone
Robert A. Elwood
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Wilmington
Delaware
Montrose
Thornton
A. M. ES
unsa
nesta
Tracy
Booker FT. Washington
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