Emma Ledoux to be hanged for murder in San Quentin
Stockton California August 7 Mrs Emma Ledoux formerly Emma Cole of this county was found guilty of murdering her ex husband A N McVickar by poison and by dismembering the body and shipping the trunk to Jackson California She was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin October 1 Judge Nutter denied a new trial and Ledoux showed no emotion throughout the proceedings The case has attracted wide attention due to the gruesome method of murder and the defendant's shifting identity with relatives still in eastern Oregon
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Bor
North Gold Springs
Ace
California
Porente
Bip
Amy
San Quentin
Stockton
Cal
Emma Ledoux
A. N. McVickar
Jackson
Jirshind
Huang
Fan Quentin
Nutter
Tedoux
Ledoux
Mary
Farrell
Witiesens
Ritter
Natier
Aftlantae
Murphy
Smith
San Quentin Prison
Antineh
Hae Ben
McVicar
Utale
Eugene Lardoux
Meantiine
McVicir
Ilvad
Rime Col
Timitilla
Cold Springs
Poronia
Oregon
Emmi Cole
Bank failure sparks receiver at Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Charred details report John C Fetner named receiver with bond of £1,000,000 for Milwaukee Avenue State Bank on Aug 7. Two women depositors claim withdrawals under $300. Warrants charge President Paul Stensland with accepting deposits after insolvency. Stensland and Cashier Herring missing. police suspect Canada. Bank examiner Jones cannot yet confirm shortage amount.
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Chicago
John C. Fetner
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Paul Stensland
Doporiia
Stensland
Herring
Canada
Jones
Teamsters Convention Resumes Amid Seating Protests
A resumed teamsters convention faced repeated seating protests as delegates from San Francisco challenged credentials. Police in plainclothes and a guard present to maintain order while dispute over seating and credentials continued through the session.
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UEP Bpe Bee
Chicago
T—Vader & Heavy
Teamsters
Wuow
Relief 18 Expected After Heat Wave in New York City
New York August 7 relief is expected as humidity drops and heat deaths slow. Five deaths reported, total heat fatalities rise to 21 with ongoing weather dangers in the city.
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New York City
New York
Murder confession from Stockton man recalls nothing
Committed murder at a Stockton house of ill repute after entering yesterday forenoon. Witness says Wilson, accused of killing Lou Hin, claims memory loss from the time of entry. Officers pursue leads and await further statements as the investigation continues.
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Stockton, Ave
Fiward Wilson
Lou Hin
Fire destroys threshers on Peter Tachell place near Wild Horse
A pair of wheat separators ignited by an explosion burned on the Peter Tachell place at Wild Horse. One new separator costing 81400 was insured for 100, both machines damaged. Budd Nelson’s separator burned to the ground while initial loss details name Booker s Livermore as insurer.
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Peter Tachell
Wild Horse
Budd Nelson
Bookers & Livermore
Nine Miners Killed in Belgian Coal Mine Disaster
A Belgian coal mine disaster near Pell 2700 Peet in Charoral Belem claimed nine miners. The incident occurred at a depth of 2700 feet, with authorities reporting fatalities and ongoing inquiries into the cause.
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Charoral
Belem
Large inland city land areas shown by census
Chicago witnesses and federal grand jury work amid an Aug 7 report. The census lists New York City as the largest inland area at 209,218 acres, with New Orleans second, Chicago third, Philadelphia fourth and Baltimore fifth.
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Washington
New York City
New Orleans
Chicago
Philadelphia
Dolath
Peace of the World urged general arbitration at The Hague
The Pan American conference arbitration committees urge all nations to pursue a general arbitration convention. The report was adopted by acclamation, noting the congress is not the proper forum for this world wide matter. The resolution will be transmitted to The Hague via the arbitration committee. Court martial ordered in Washington for Lieutenant Edward Dinan on a charge of searle house candjaet.
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America
Cee
Honoarte
Laval
Rio de Janeiro
Hague
Arbhitration Committee
Eight Hour Law Does Not Cover Worship or Warship Contracts
The text notes that the eight hour law does not apply to worship related matters or certain warship contracts. It cites a Supreme Court view that a ship under government contract fully meets contract conditions, and references an option where the eight hour law does not apply to contractors supplying supplies for the quartermaster's department.
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Washington
Cleneral Moody
Supreme Vwourt
Att
Bnt
Quartermaster's Department
Sheriff seeks state troops to quell illicit traffic near Fort Benjamin Harrison
In Indianapolis an I fear the sheriff cannot curb the illegal linuer traffic near Fort Benjamin Harrison where troops from the northern division are encamped. He intends to ask the governor to deploy state forces to assist in suppression.
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Indianapolis
Inn
Aug
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Hrroy
Hanged for Asst Mount Vernon Incident
Aug 7 Mount Vernon Missouri: Edward Hateman, a Black man, was hanged today for the swift attack on Myrtle Digby, a hotel employee, in February 19065.
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Mount Vernon
Edward Hateman
Swift
Myrtle Digby
Death Follows Scratch During Berry Picking on Thompson Ranch
Mrs Harriet Jennings of Missouri dies from blood poisoning after a small skin abrasion on the William Thompson ranch near Baker City. She traveled with friends to visit cousin Mrs Harriett Tennings, in Sheridan county Mo, and suffered severe pain before passing Saturday at 7 pm.
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Wiliam Thompson
Tia
Republican Primary Returns Favor Cullom for Governor
Partial returns from the TMinole primary show Senator Shelby M. Cullom leading Richard Yates by about 36,000 votes in the race for governor, with early figures indicating Cullom ahead in key counties and districts.
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Shelby M. Cullom
Senate
Richard Yates
Denver Frauds Probe Blocked by Judge Malone
Aug 7 in Denver district court Judge Booth M Malone refused a writ of prohibition stopping Denver county court from probing alleged fraud linked to May election actions. The Municipal Ownership and Honest Elections group, and the Denver Oliv Tram way and Dover Gas Electric companies franchises are cited as granted by city authorities. The county court investigation set to begin tomorrow unless the supreme court intervenes.
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Denver
Booth M. Malone
Jude Bon B. Lindsey
Denver Oliv Tramway
Dover Gas & Electric Company
Supreme Court
End of Revolutions Reported Amid Turmoil in Europe
Reports from Helsingfors St Petersburg and Harbin describe captured revolutionaries being handed to Finnish authorities for trial while mutiny punishments continue at Sveaborg. Strikes ease in St Petersburg as government changes loom and cabinet reshuffles are anticipated. Bands flee villages and a Russian gunboat shells bandits in Harbin. New York notices expose a gossipable domestic suit involving Gilbert TT and Rafferty in a Pittsburgh lineage.
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Helsingfors
Sveaborg
Three thund rel workers strike for higher wages
Sacramento reports three workers from the South erm Eneifie shop refusing the 20 cents for nine hours and demanding 22½ cents. All were discharged and replaced. Typhoid fever, traced to celery, forced four Holm residents to hospital and caused one death. Mrs Davis and Hazel Davis admitted to St Luke's. Mrs Brown died at St Alphonsus. Continuous fever affects all four.
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Sacramento
Aue
Thundrel
Southerm Eneifie
Holm
Sage
Bolse Statesman
Duel in Paris ends with no injuries as generals duel
Paris August 7 General Andre and Denegeriere engaged in a pistol duel today firing two shots both unhurt. Copenhagen August 7 The International League of Women Suffragists began sessions here today. The upper Willamette is very low causing slow and uncertain log drives.
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Paris
Andre and
Denegeriere
Copenhagen
Internaonal League of Women
Willamette
Eastern Oregon Medical Meeting Set During Pendleton Fair
Dr C J Smith president and Dr N N Ringo secretary of the Eastern Oregon Medical association will fix the next meeting date in Pendleton during the coming agricultural fair week in September. The convention feature aims to connect the fair with county resources and give eastern Oregon physicians a chance to view Pendleton exhibits. The association includes nearly all doctors east of the Cascades and attendance is expected to be strong. The Laundrymen’s Association hoped to meet during the fair, but the Denver national meeting on September 27-28 requires scheduling adjustments for the northwest district.
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C.J. Smith
Nn. J. Ringo
Eastern Oregon Medical Association
Smith
Onder
Eastern Oregon
Vic Pendleton
Eastern Oregon Association
Cascade Mountains
Laundryman's Association
Denver
Joint Wheat Rates Ordered by State Railway Commission
Walla Walla Aug 7 The state railway commission yesterday ruled on the Northern Pacific Great Northern ER and NS and Washington and Columbia River Railway joint wheat rate plan The order becomes effective in 20 days and requires the four railways to interchange wheat traffic between eastern Washington and Puget Sound on shipper request It finds wheat is worth 4 to 4% cents more at Seattle and Tacoma than Portland and that farmers near the O F N and N lines are harmed by service limits to Portland only and unable to reach Puget Sound markets The commission notes joint rates exist between Northern Pacific and Washington Columbia River Railway but the other three lines refuse joint rates with the rest
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Walla Walla
State Railway
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Washington & Columbia River Railway
Washington
Puget Sound
Pind Pires
Tn Ite
Seattle
Thoma
Portland
Portand
Fortland
Puget
Lumber Prices Advance to Record High in Los Angeles
Lumber prices climbed to a record high in Los Angeles as a local advance was announced ahead of Saturday’s shipment base price of 26 dollars per thousand, driven by rising coastal trust prices. The increase creates the highest figure ever reached for lumber locally.
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Los Angeles
lLocal Lumber Deer
Civilian Ordered from Fort Walla Walla for Refusing Service
Miss Eva Beller of Freewater was ordered by Captain Howard of the Fourteenth Cavalry to leave the Walla Walla post and forbidden to return after she refused to work as a servant in his home. The action, described as unprecedented, prompts calls for a War Department inquiry amid concerns over military officers overreaching authority and setting a dangerous precedent.
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Pva Beller
Preewater
Taawe Port Walle Walla
Hownard
BH. P. Howard
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort Walla Walla
Mix Eva Beller
Freewater
Howard
Walla Walla
Mise Beller
Wealthy contractor charged with wife murder in Chicago
Knute Knudean, wealthy contractor, was held by a coroner's jury on a March death charge. He is accused of poisoning his wife Johanna Augusta whose body was exhumed after relatives prompted tests. A deathbed statement from Johanna is among the evidence.
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Chicago
Knute Knudean
Posmoning
Johanna Augusta
Polaon
Chicago Wheat Market Report and Tragic Boat Accident
The report notes Chicago Wheat Market opening 72 percent and closing T1-8, corn opening 4 percent and closing 1918, and a separate tragedy at Branch Creek New York where William and Abraham Jacobs drowned after a skiff incident as bystanders attempted rescue.
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Chicago
Cute
Branch Creek
N.Y
William
Abraham Jacobs
Wheat Sale Day Set Amid Low Prices In Despain Building
Farmers anticipate the first wheat sales day with Preston-Par ton mill of Athena buying 200 000 stooks at 6 cents for club and red chaff. Sale will occur tomorrow in the Despain Building with sealed sample submissions and variety quality details required. Most growers along the W C R and O R Ny report little activity due to low prices and incomplete harvests.
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Preston-Parton Company
Despain
Athena Mille
Bury
Preston-Parton
Athena
Governor orders arrest of lynchers in Salisbury case
Governor Glenn wired the Salisbury sheriff to arrest at all hazards the lynchers of three Negroes. He may travel to Salisbury tonight and ordered the Charlotte military company to guard the jail to prevent the liberation of the teachers arrested. Danger looms as the three Negroes jailed for Foreman Beacham’s murder near Greensboro await outcome.
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Raleigh
N.C
Glenn
Salisbury
Charlotte Military Company
Greenhoro
Foreman Beacham
Southern Railway
Robbery Report From Chicago Bank Vault
Mary Grabolaki accused of taking 386 dollars from a Milwaukee Avenue bank safety vault on August 7 and then being robbed by pocket pickers. No further details provided about parties or outcome.
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Mickpockers
Chicago
Mary Grabolaki
Vlaged
Milwaukee Avenue Bank
Want $5 a Day Labor Scarcity in Sherman County
The Grass Valley Journal notes a farm labor shortage in Sherman County with wages around 2.50 per day and protest from workers who push for higher pay and would accept only a dollar if the farmer could manage it. Miles Milogenvich, Austrian, committed suicide at Mica Bay near Coeur d Alene Juke using a 38 calibre pistol. shot traveled through the Adam's apple and exited the head.
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Sherman County
Grass Valley Journal
Miles Milogenvich
Mica Bay
Coeur Walene Juke
Southern Extension Railway Company Incorporation Filed
J C Donnelly and Arvid Redetrom filed articles of incorporation for the Southern Extension Railway Company to build a railroad from a point on the left bank of the Deschutes river near its mouth, through the Deschutes valley to Alladras, then Bend Oregon, with a branch to Prineville. The capital is listed as 80000 dollars. Redstrom is a prominent hotel proprietor in Tacoma.
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Tacoma
Wash
J. C. Donnelly
Arvid Redetrom
Southern Extension Railway Company
Columbine Rver
Deschutes River
Alladras
Bend
Prineville
Ore
Portneter
Redstrom
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Pormerly
Emma Cole
Waitlant Éour Por Steusland
San Wran
Vaale
Omatty Wheat
Rudd Nelson
AL Gan
Pourteen Witnesses
Phiadelphia Aue
Federal Grand Jury
Focal Ine Trust
Ane
Hontparte Hag
Mane
Eiward Dinan
Weney
Searle Houe
Missouri
Builoor County
Sveaborg Fortress
Mussin Cathal
St. Petersburg
St. Petertuwre
Prince Lott
Heinlen
Alo
Exar Har
Harbin
Pytagorsk
Coke King
Davghter-in-Law
Thiiages
Gilbert
Ferry
Coke Eine
Pittsbore
New Wallorf-Astoria
White
Geo
Medical Society Meets
Pendleton
Captain Howard
North Carolinas
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