Family of beg arship taken into custody in Chicago
Superintendent Minnick of the bureau of charities seized three children of Mrs. Missouri Boehm after years of searching. Two hours later five more children were arrested and the juvenile court placed them in the care of officers or institutions. A probate officer found a piano, pianola, costly rugs, draperies, and fine furniture in the family home. Basements displayed bales of clothing, suggesting sales.
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Chicago
Minnick
Bureau of Charities
Missouri Boehm
Brown
Ohio Well Produces Record 2000 Barrels Daily
A volatile gusher in Ohio flowed for hours before being brought under control. Officials estimate the well could yield 2,000 barrels in twenty four hours, likely the state's greatest producer. State news notes a mental breakdown in Oil City, Pennsylvania where Mrs. Gough, 27, from the Holy Rollers sect, harmed her infant daughter in a religious frenzy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecrateu
Ohio
Gough
Oil City
Harriet
Bandits Steal in Night Watch Office in Bridgeport
Three masked men bound and gagged Night Watch employee at Stone Oil Company office door in Bridgeport then dynamited the safe with nitroglycerin and escaped with its contents, believed to be a large sum. details of the sum are unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyatts
Stone Oil Company
Bridgeport
Governor Vardaman Saves Negro From Lynching
The Mississippi governor vows a fair trial for Baldwin, the Black man accused in the killing of Engineer Fogarty. Baldwin was escorted to Sumner under guard to avert mob violence after reports of a lynch attempt arose on a train to Tiechula. The governor ordered militia protection and transport to Greenwood and Sumner to ensure due process.
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Gov.Vardaman
Mississippi
Baldwin
Sumner
Tallahatchie County
Engineer Fogarty
Tiechula
Gov, Vardaman
Firemen Halt Stubborn Blaze At West Broadway Building
Explosions hindered efforts as New York firemen fought a six story iron structure on West Broadway and Franklin street. James Barron & Co. wholesale dealers in inflammable paints suffered major damage estimated at 80 000 to 100 000 dollars. West Broadway waters reached two feet and nearby basements flooded. In separate tragedy two boys drowned in the Toledo sink while duck hunting. Carl Hobart 18 and William Gerkie perished as their skiff broke up in the whirlpool.
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New York
West Broadway
Franklin Street
James Barron & Co
Carl D. Hobart
West Toledo
Wiliam Gerkie
Whiteford Center
Toledo
Ohio
Hobart
Gerkie
Life Term for Mrs Botkin Convicted of Poison Murder
The jury in San Francisco finds Mrs. Cordelia Botkin guilty of first degree murder for poisoning two women with candy. The verdict carries a life sentence. The case centers on the deaths of Mrs. John Pier and Mrs. Drosnth Sat.
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Cordelia Botkin
Sancisco
Botkin
John Pier
Dros Nth
Multiple Disastrous Events and Crimes Reported
Duckhunters die in Michigan and a boy killed in Mount Pleasant as hunting season opens. Two bandits steal $1500 from a Fork, Idaho store after tying up clerks. Alaska gold finds spark optimism for a 1 million dollar winter clean-up. Earthquake kills 25 and devastates Kosovo to Salonika. Texas tornado deaths and crop damage follow. Burton Mittoon pleads guilty. Hold up man commits suicide in Council Bluffs. Chicago shoe workers strike. trade nudges up. Senator Burton jailed.
Four Lads Charged With Daring Robbery Plot
Crown Point Indiana report says Ray Knight James Linton and two Remington youths aged 16 and 17 were arrested in a toll hut after confessing to a spree of robberies. They allegedly planned to blow open the Lake County Treasurer vault during tax time to steal up to $100000 and had keys and other arrangements.
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Crown Point
Ind
Ray Knight
James Linton
James Scone
Albert Hahn
Remington
Chicago
Lake County
Court House
Kansas Supreme Court Rules Bible May Be Read In Schools
The Kansas Supreme Court upholds a ruling allowing Bible reading in public Kansas schools. The decision stems from J B Billard of Topeka seeking his son Philip’s readmission after a suspension, with the district and Board of Education maintaining the pupil’s exclusion.
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Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas
J. B. Billard
Topeka
City Board of Education
Philip
Board of Education
Stars Convict for Betrayal in BeCant Escape
In Columbus Ohio, prisoner George Duncan savagely stabbed fellow inmate Jim Anderson after an alleged betrayal. Anderson and Duncan had escaped the penitentiary before being recaptured following a violent confrontation at Chillicothe.
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Ohio
Columbus
George Duncan
Jim” Anderson
Ohio Penitentiary
Anderson
Duncan
Chillicothe
Mail Pouch Robber Bell Arrested in Tacoma
Albert H B Bell known as the mail pouch thief was captured in Tacoma Washington after escaping federal marshals near Philadelphia last October He leaped from a moving train and later fell from a 60 foot embankment but was recaptured A search found letters to Portland merchants carrying checks and money orders and Bell admitted stealing a mail pouch with a companion securing 1700 in checks and money orders of which 700 was turned into cash
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A. E. Bell
Albert HB. Bell
United States
Philadelphia
Tacoma
Wash
Portland
Ore
Seattle and International
Washington
British Columbia
Bell
Seattle
Bound to Die Poor Aged Miser at New Bedford
Clark Ridley of New Bedford Massachusetts an 85 year old self described miser has announced he will give away all his property before death He compares himself to Andrew Carnegie saying it is a disgrace to die rich Ridley owns six or seven houses is reputed to be worth fifteen thousand dollars He has worked hard all his life and until this winter lived in a cabin partly underground and hoarded money Thus far Ridley has given away three houses and lots.
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New Bedford
Mass
Clark Ridley
Andrew Carnegie
Ridley
Skeleton of Giant Unearthed on Woolverton Farm
An eight foot skeleton of a man was found at Woolverton farm near Tippecanoe City Ohio. The skull is helmet sized and the remains were one of seven buried in a circle with feet toward the center. Rude implements lay nearby. scholars attribute them to mound builders.
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Ohio
Woolverton Farm
Tippecanoe City
MURDER STORY AND OTHER ITEMS FROM TEKOA AND BEYOND
An Pangram of mixed local and international items reports Buckskin Jim, an elder on the Coeur d Alene Reservation near Tekoa Washington, allegedly murdered by his squaw who decapitated and burned the body before discovery by other Indians. Other notes cover church reform on plural marriages, Prof Bowne’s acquittal, a Chicago L train wreck, a York Pa fire, and talks of mediation between Germany and Russia.
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Siain
Tekoa
Wash
Buckskin Jim
Coeur d'Alene
Congress Speaks On Panama Canal and Post Office Bills
The Senate discussed concessions to the original Panama Canal Company and a resolution for information from the Attorney General. The House passed post office and district of Columbia measures, while debates touched on tariffs, Pure Food, and military academy bills.
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Benate
Morgan
Panama Canal Company
Committee On Interoceanic Canals
House
DeArmond
Grosvenor
Post Office
Republican Party
Roosevelt
Panama
Senate
Heyburn
Department of Agriculture
Quarles
Messrs. Money
Nelson
Latimer
District of Columbia
Carnegie Institute
Bowman Omnibus
Alaska
Cushman
Washington
Spooner
Portland
Cochran
Judiciary Committee
Committee On Rules
Messrs
Dalzell
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Orland
Orland, Indiana
Vernice N
Briner
N. M. F. Quirk Bix
Waller County
Huston
Texas
Hempstead
Tucker Pinckney
John M. Pinckney
Houston
Pinckney
Pickney
Myron J. Vindecar
Detroit
Metamora
Mich
Vandecar
Sioux City
McLean
Neb
Great Northern
McNeill
O. S. Kelly
Arcade Hotel
Springfield
Kell
Clarke County
Edison Company
Cary
Santa Barbara
Cal
Daniel Reiger
Appomatox
New Orleans
Soned
Alged
Mr. Dunning
Michigan
Elliott
John Gerky
Temperance
Stephen Brooks
Mount Pleasant
Tr Fork
Idaho
Pyke
Tanana
Vienna Neue Freie Press
Kossovo
Salonika
Macedonia
Mexico
Burton H. Mittoon
Watertown, Conn
Martin Lowing
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Selz Shoe Company
Board of Arbitration
Vampers
Dun and Bradstreet
Burton
St. Louis
Iron Mountain County
UNION
Indiana
Aiklin
Wagner & Hand
Clinton Street
Blishment
Yie Bolland
Travis
Bolland
Aloe
Battle Creek
BF Union
Chi
Company
Equime
Michael Pickets
Betryal
Manchuria
Ping- Yang
Port Arthur
Yakaroff
Juneau
James Coggins
Joseph Andries
Apties
New York City
Pintsch Gas’ Compressing Company
Washington, D.c
Constantinople
Ar Divices
1Rion
Bowne
New York East
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bowen LP
Howne
Boston University
Logan Square
Metropolitan Elevated Road
York Carriage Company
York
Berlin
Brussels
Soir
John McFarland
Pics
Gr. &. Billard
North Poy We. Va
Tvo
Goother
Columbia Hall
Wilson Place
Mount’ Vernon
N. Y
William
Sully
D. J. Sully A
Tai New York
Auburn
Frank Molt
Willian Gyigart
Bolt
Spain
Isabella
Alfonso
Paris
Isidus
Hanna
Sharpeyr
Scotty
Philippines
Postetiee
Qutberson
Patterson
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