Four Fire Victims From Lamp Blast Claim Two Children
A lamp explosion in an upstairs room at Aaron Anderson’s Coleman Hollow home Potter County Pa. killed two young children and left the father and grandfather with severe burns. Mrs Anderson and the 10-year-old son attempted rescue but were unable to save the men who likely will die. Mrs Anderson cared for a two-week-old infant as well. Nearby neighbors were distant, amplifying the tragedy. In Muscatine a separate body pair was found clasped together in the river with identity unknown, police unsure if a drowning accident or self-inflicted death pact.
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May Drs
Williamsport
Aaron Anderson
Coleman Hollow
Potter County
Anderson
Muscatine
Mississippi
Wants a Shake-Up Attorney General Seeks Top Lawyers
Washington September 7 Attorney General Bonaparte plans a department overhaul to attract high quality talent for anti trust prosecutions against firms like Standard Oil and American Tobacco. He cites low salaries and old bureau methods. He urges direct control by the attorney general over prosecutions and a shift from roving “special attorneys” to a modern, accountable, disciplined staff. Cabinet rumors and Roosevelts's changes loom as possible outcomes.
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Bonaparte
Department of Justice
Standard Oil Company
American Tobacco Company
Purdy
United States
Nisi Prius
Indiana
Frank B. Kellogg
White House
Law Department
Bonaparts
Roosevelt
Root
Metcalf
Agriculture Wilson
Can Read Sealed Letters Not Possible in Court
New York Sept. 7. Miss May 5 Pepper Vanderbilt a Spiritualist leader testified again in limacy proceedings against her husband Edward W Vanderbilt by his daughter Miner va Vanderbilt. She had previously claimed under spirit guidance she could read unopened letters. She was asked to read a sealed letter. counsel and Commissioner Kitcham debated the relevance. Vanderbilt said I cannot read it I am not under Bright Eyes.
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New York
Pepper-Vanderbilt
Edward W. Vanderbilt
Minerva Vanderbilt
Damages Awarded After In Law Arm Injury
William Wirsing was awarded 45000 damages for injuries from a gunshot by his father in law James R. Smith a coal operator. Smith is in prison serving a five year term for felonious shooting with intent to murder. The incident followed Wirsing eloping with Smiths daughter and occurred in Uniontown Pennsylvania on Sept 7.
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Uniontown
Wiliam Wirsing
James R. Smith
Wirsing
Smith
Warsing
Assaulted and Robbed Baier Found Bound on Street
John Baier, a well known resident of Easton, was waylaid on a dark street, struck from behind, bound and gagged, and robbed of about $20. He regained consciousness after a prolonged struggle, crawled to seek help, and was found by a nearby house’s occupants. He cannot identify the assailants.
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John. Baier
Easton
Pai
John Baier
Baier
Wreckers Derail Trolley Injuring Two in Beverly
A Camden and Trenton trolley car was derailed by a stone placed on the track outside Beverly New Jersey. Motorman Shelley and foreman Frank Jones were flung 25 feet, hurt but not seriously. Passengers suffered bruises as the car overturned obstacles and trees. Police suspect deliberate placement of the obstruction.
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Traske
Beverly
N. J
Camden
Twelve Die as Express and Freight Crash in Iowa
In Waterloo and Norris Iowa on September 71, a northbound Chicago Rock Island Pacific express train jumped the track at a siding, colliding with a standing freight. Twelve passengers were killed and about a dozen injured as both locomotives and cars were wrecked and a smoking car demolished. Fireman George Chambers was among those killed. other injuries followed as rescuers worked at the scene.
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Waterloo
Chicago
Rock Island
É&* Pacific Railroad
Norris
Hair removal mishap and other Sept stories
Multiple brief items dated Sept 7 cover a barber removing three wild hairs from Professor Harry Faber’s neck with dirty tweezers causing blood poisoning, a mutilated body found in Jamestown La linked to the kidnapped Lamana case, F.E. Larkin walking 1500 miles from Kansas to Philadelphia for his sight, a bank robbery at James River Bank Frankfort S D with dynamite and a guard shot, and Wilhelmina Bache released after 16 years in Wisconsin for a murder case.
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Harry ‘Faber
Nantucket Beach
Boston
Faber
New York
New Orleans
Trudeau
Jamestown
Peter Lamana
Lamana
Mississippi
Philadelphia
F. E. Larkin
City
Kan
Europe
Frankfort
S. D
James River
Roarher
Frank Fitzpatrick
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