Acquittal in Rocky Mountain Mining Town Murder
In Komo a shooting case ends with Jim Burley found not guilty after a rock thrown during a confrontation with Bill Jackson leads to Jackson's death. The judge and sheriff resume their billiards game as Burley serves as referee, while locals debate fate and justice in this frontier tale.
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Court of Justice
Rocky Mountains
Weather Bureau
Kokomo
Jim
Sample's
Bill
Bill Jackson
Allus
Galler
Lallus
Hill
Sherif
Res
Coodam
James Burley
William Jackson
Joe Bowers
Arizona
Jim Burley
Chicago Record- Herald
God and the Children in Chicago Record Herald verse
A poem by E Kiser from the Chicago Record Herald describes a child who runs away in anger and returns in tears to be loved again. It contrasts punishment and forgiveness and praises God for keeping children in care with tears drying and smiles returning. A separate note mentions a Dublin effort to revive the old Irish harp with strong support.
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E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Erin
Dublin
Pigeon Post Aboard Ships Proves Reliable
The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique tests wireless telegraph and a pigeon post on the Savoie. Of 25 trials at 150 to 230 miles from land, 18 succeed. News can reach port 24 hours after departure and 24 hours before arrival. Birds grow hardier with practice, homing instinct sharper, and losses drop.
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Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Savoie
Burlington plans first watermelon railroad in Missouri
The Burlington prepares a 50 mile branch in southern Missouri mainly to haul watermelons. The district is described as a watermelon production heartland with enough melons to keep the line busy during the season.
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United States
Burlington
Missouri
Fire destroys East Mississippi Female College in Meridian
Fire at 3 30 a m wiped out the East Mississippi Female College, a longstanding Methodist institution in Meridian. Four hundred students and staff evacuated safely, aided by police who kept order and prevented panic. The loss is estimated at 25 000, with 9 750 covered by policies. the Ormond residence nearby also burned. Trustees plan a modern replacement ready by next term.
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East Mississippi
Meridian
F. J. Ormond
Ormond
J. W. Beeson
Mississippi
Methodist Church
Ed Harrison Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Court
In the circuit court last week Ed Harrison pleaded guilty to manslaughter after being charged with murder and received a five year penitentiary sentence. Bishop Galloway and Judge A K Whitfield will deliver addresses on June 3 for the cornerstone laying of the new capitol.
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Ed. Harrison
Bishop Galloway
A. K. Whitfield
Capitel Commission
Daughter of Gov Lon Ginga Improves After Fall
The governor's young daughter, seriously injured in a fall last week, shows marked improvement and progresses favorably according to reports.
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Longina
Bankruptcy Petition Filed in Federal Court at Jackson
A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the Federal Court at Jackson last week by J. Purvis a merchant doing business at Craig. The assets are stated at $400 the value of a stock of goods. The liabilities amount to $1,655.
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Jackson
J. ©. Purvis
Craig
Campbell reprieved on confession and related Mississippi notes
Joe Campbell, the condemned man at Yazoo City, was reprieved after a citizens committee pushed for his testimony against an accomplice. He admits taking part in the killing of Bunk Collins but says another man fired the fatal shot. Other items report foreign loan tax suits to be argued in the Mississippi Supreme Court, a rural delivery route to Port Gibson, Col. R. J. Harding’s recovery, a fatal quarrel near Crystal Springs, and Associate Justice Terral’s improving health.
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Monroe McClurg
Mississippi
United States Supreme Court
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Mississippi Sound
Gen. McClurg
McClurg
Joe Campbell
Yazoo City
Yazoo
Campbell
Bunk Collins
Collins
Ile
State Revenue
Wirt Adams
Coahoma
Copiah County
President Roosevelt Defends His South Policy
A published letter from President Roosevelt replies to Macon writer Harry Stilwell Edwards and defends the administration’s stance on federal appointments in the South. Roosevelt says he is surprised by southern outcry driven by New York, but remains unmoved from his established course.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
The
Constitution
Harry Stilwell Edwards
Macon
Edwards
New York
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Likely Funded
New York reports a movement to build a monument for the prison ship martyrs of the Revolution. With a goal of 200 900 dollars, all but 11 000 is subscribed. Congress New York State and New York City commit 175 000 dollars. The hulks in East River housed thousands of prisoners from Washington’s era, many dying aboard the floating prisons.
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New York
Congress
State of
City of
East River
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Washington
Long Island
Southern train wreck near Lenoir City claims lives
A Cincinnati Southern passenger train bound Chattanooga to Cincinnati wrecked three and a half miles west of Lenoir City Tennessee after rails spread on a steep embankment. Three killed and 24 injured as rear sleepers were saved by a following train.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Cincinnati Southern
Chattanooga
Salisbury
Southern Railway
Lenoir City
J. L. Falcett
K. F. Vanison
Rogersville
P. N. Guice
Fletcher
N. C
P. TH. Cuice
W. B. Holt
Leonidas
N. C. Toms
H. C.toms
M. Lee
Lee
Sarah Emerson
L. A. Hughes
Lone Mountain
J. B
Areaundir
F. L. Fisher
William Whitehead
Maryville
Denn
J. W. Toohey
Greenville
J. P. Harsh
Muskogee
H. B. Sargent
New Orleans
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Inoxville
Harriman
Loudon
Salvation Army Leader Proposes International University
Gen William Booth announced plans at a farewell meeting in New York for an international university to train rescuers of humanity. He described a school of the science of humanity to reclaim depraved women criminals and drunkards and to train thousands of Salvation Army workers for the submerged masses.
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New York
Wm. Booth
Salvation Army
University of the Science of Humanity
Ladrone Leader Captured Near Manila
Manila Feb. 24 Gov. Dancel of Rizal province captured Col Santos a ladrone leader at San Jose De Navotos five miles north of Manila He surrounded the house with police and constabulary and entered to take Santos as a prisoner Bringing him to Manila Santos led ladrones in Rizal and was a comrade of Gen San Miguel A reward of 200000 pesos had been offered for his capture.
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Manila
Gov
Dancel
Rizal
Col. Santos
San Jose de Navotos
Santos
San Miguel
Holstein Cow Sadie Vale Concordia Breaks Butter Record
Utica March 1 Sadie Vale Concordia Holstein Friesian No 32259 of the H F H B A P O 1124 completed a 50 day test producing 2 754 6 pounds of milk and 123 8 14 pounds of butter setting a new world record surpassing the former 112 pounds.
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Sadie Vale Concordia
Utica
Sadie Vale
A Capitol of Pure Gold Miniature for World Fair
Van E. Rouse, treasurer for Colorado at the St. Louis exposition, says Colorado will secure most of the 10 million dollars in gold bullion needed to reproduce the state capitol in miniature for the World Fair in St Louis.
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Colorado
Colorado Springs
Col
van E. Rouse
Board of Colorado Commissioners
Savannah horse dealer found asphyxiated in Philadelphia hotel
Philadelphia report states D. E. Yates, 42, of Savannah, Georgia, was asphyxiated in a hotel room on Friday night. The coroner will decide if the death is accidental or self-inflicted. Yates was a traveling horse dealer.
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Philadelphia
D. E. Yates
Savannah
Yates
Indefinite postponement ends Brittain baseball bill fight
Jefferson City Missouri March 1 the house rejected to prohibit Sunday baseball while banning football by 40 to 36. Brittain moved to postpone the bill indefinitely and the measure appears settled. Chattanooga Tennessee March 1 heavy rain caused floods with washed-out tracks and rising Tennessee River levels.
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Jefferson City
Brittain
Huck
Heirs of Indian Land Claim Win Verdict in Missouri
A jury in Kansas City, Missouri, awarded the heirs of Silas Armstrong and Annie B. Wood, valued at one million dollars, a verdict against Packers Armour and Fowler over Missouri river bottom land occupied in Kansas City. The legal contest concerned ownership of the land.
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Packers
Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo
Annie B. Wood
Silas Armstrong
Kas
Armour and Fowler
Doings in Congress and Senate Proceedings Summary
The report covers activities in Congress with readings of Washingtons farewell address, debates on the omnibus public building bill, post office and agricultural appropriation bills, and various amendments. It notes filibusters over Wagoner v Butler, conference actions on the Indian and other bills, executive sessions on Panama canal and immigration, and dramatic House turmoil surrounding Butler and Wagoner seating. Gen J B Serdon ill on a train in Jackson Miss.
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Washington
Senate
Dubois
Ida
Thiman
D. C
Spooner
Wis
Indianola Post Office
Booker Washington
Fairbanks
McCumber
N. DB
Senate Committee On Agriculture
House
Indianola
Miss
Tillman
Wagoner
Butler
Greene
Mass
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Agricultural and Post Office
Clayton
Ala
Messrs. Pugsley
N. Y
Shallenberger
Neb
Thompson
DeArmond
Great Britain
United States
Dominion of Canada
Hoar
Hall of Representatives
James J. Butler
George
R. Wagoner
Dalzell
Pap
Richardson
Tenn
Blackburn
New England
Democrats
Civil Military Academy
Post Office
London Population and Wealth Facts from Historic Ledger
London shows 21 369 lunatics up 50 percent since 1591 while Ireland holds 211 000 widows and 8 000 widow ers. Lincolnshire island reclaimed 680 000 acres. Oxford mint produced Charles I pounds. Britain counts 11 121 mines and quarries yielding 275,000,000 tons last year. Bank of England began 1695 at Grocers hall, faced stoppage in 1696 and 1745 claims payments to stay afloat.
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London
Ireland
Lincolnshire
Oxford
Great Britain
England
Bank of England
Poultry
Francis Goes 10 Berlin The President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co
President Francis of the St. Louis exposition travels via Paris and Berlin to meet officials including President Loubet and Kaiser Wilhelm. He aims to secure royal support and an audience with the German emperor, while British interest in the fair grows. The royal commission is near full appointment with Prince of Wales as honorary president and Lord Peel coordinating.
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London
Francis
Paris
M. le Grave
Presdent Loubet
The
Elysee
Loubet
Franz
Maidul
Berlin
Mareh
Bremen
New York
Prince Henry
Prussia
America
St. Louis
Germany
Lord Peel
Col. Watson
Lord Inverclyde
C. Lawrence
London and Northwestern Railway
Col. H. Jekyll
Board of Trade
Edward Poynter
Educational Department
Education
France
Choate
Gilbert Parker
Great Tritain
Daily Mail
Audience Arrangements Planned With German Emperor
President Francis of the St. Louis exposition sought an audience with Emperor William for next week via telegraph from London as he leaves Berlin on Monday for Wilhelmshaven and Heligoland and returns Saturday. The embassy will arrange an audience for some day in the following week. Public health ordinance targets spitting in public spaces with police enforcing it.
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Berlin
Francis
St. Louis Exposition
London
William
Wilhelmshaven
Heligoland
United States
St. Louis
Ccay
Kiely
Santa Fe wage dispute settled after conference
In Topeka on March 2 the Santa Fe officials and a conductors and trainmen committee reached a formal settlement of the wage controversy. Freight workers gain 15 percent and passenger crews 12 percent, effective March 1, 1903. A compromise on double headers keeps them in some regions and ends them in others.
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Topeka
Kas
Santa Fe Railway System
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R. A. Tompkins
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W. T. Klutz
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Thomas Mills
NEW University
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Ladrone
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Jackson Miss
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Madrid
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