Lovers woo death but man lives
Reading dispatch reports Miss Mary Irwin of Malvern died from an overdose of laudanum after an apparent joint suicide attempt with Knater Amole of Coatesville. Amole shot himself. he is in serious condition. Investigators question whether Amole gave the drug as the district attorney probes the case.
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Philadelphia Times
Reading
Mary Irwin
Malvern
Philadelphia
Armole
I. B. Hacker
Miss Irwin
Amole
First Colored Bank in Philadelphia Closed After Four Months
The First Colored Bank North at 1024 South Twentieth street was shut by the State Banking Commissioner for failing to file a certificate of good standing. President John Clinton Jr. and James W. Caldwell faced charges and bail was set. The bank, incorporated in July with 50 000 capital, reported 4000 in business and about 1100 owed depositors, covered by funds in the Southwestern National Bank.
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First Colored Bank
North
South Twentieth Street
Philadelphia
James W. Caldwell
John Clinton, Jr
Clinton
O'Brien
J. D. Brooks
Frank Robinson
R. P. Jones
E. J. Mayo
Caldwell
Southwestern National Bank
Trains Crash Kill Four In Separate West Virginia Fatalities
A Baltimore and Ohio freight collision at Moundsville kills Conductor I C Kelley of Marietta and two other trainmen as debris catches fire. An adjacent wreck on the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad near Wagoner, S T, also claims two lives when the switch engine derails and overturns after running backward at high speed.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
I. C. Kelley
Marietta
J. L. Hutchinson
William Johnson
St. Louis
City Building Accepted At South Carolina Exposition
The Philadelphia Building erected on the grounds of the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition in Charleston by this city at a cost of $20,410 was formally accepted from the builder by the special committee of Councils on the Exposition yesterday. Superintendent of Public Schools Brooks announced the school children exhibit, to be placed in the Philadelphia Building, was prepared and ready to ship to Charleston.
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Philadelphia
Charleston
Brooks
Chhildren
Death Verdict in Nickel Case Attributed to Self Harm
Coroner Dugan presided over the inquest into Charles H. Nickel a 52 year old found dead in his Bingham House room last Sunday His wife Mrs Bessie Nickel testified he had been ill for two years and had previously threatened suicide The jury returned a verdict of death by own action due to inhaling chloroform while temporarily unsafe from sickness
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Charles H. Nickel
Bingham House
Dugan
Bessie Nickel
Multiple Urban Fires Reported Across Cities
Fire records describe losses in Spruce street second story room, Central Baptist Church in Trenton, and a Des Moines plant blaze. Also noted are cotton warehouse fires in Shreveport and Bayou des Allemandes deaths, Liverpol Exchange damage, and a Langfeld Brothers dry goods store fire in Wilkes Barre with losses reaching $185,000.
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Spruce Street
Te Central Baptist Church
Trenton
N. J
Rks Plant
Des Moines
Langfeld Brothers
Wilkesbarre
Simon Long & Sons
Weitzenkorn
Brothers
Father Delivers Children From Fire in Carnegie Tragedy
In Carnegie Pennsylvania a fatal house fire killed 43 year old Mrs Sarah Klee and 9 year old Mary Klee. Seven other Klee family members, including father Samuel and several children, were injured as the mother perished while saving Mary and the father carried others to safety viewed by rescuers.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie
Sarah Klee
Mary Klee
Samuel Klee
Ida Klee
Anna Klee
Rachel Klee
Eva Klee
Jenny Klee
Harry Klee
Klee
Morris Fizis
Mary
Harry
Fire at Girard Apt House Sparks Panic and Rescues
A fire at 1426 Arch Street yesterday caused panic among boarders as flames from a gas stove ignited the dress of Clara Berry, a servant, and spread to carpet and lace curtains. Fireman James Barry led alarms. Frank Gallagher helped rescue Mrs. Thompson and Berry. Several residents escaped via ledges and ladders. total loss about $1,000.
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Girard
Arch Street
Clara Berry
A. E. Thompson
James Barry
Frank Gallagher
Two 16 Year Olds Confess to Cleveland Murder
In Cleveland two 16 year olds Griffin Mayo and Frank Strong confessed to killing Emil Goodman a tailor during a robbery attempt at his shop. Mayo described disguising, drawing a revolver and firing after Goodman rose from his bench. Strong returned to the scene and spoke to police.
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Philadelphia Times
Cleveland
Emil Goodman
Griffin Mayo
Frank Strong
Goodman
Mayo
Goodman Siill
Strong
New Star Perseus Nebula Photographed at Lick Observatory
Professor Perine used the Crossley reflector at Lick Observatory to photograph the nebula around the new star Perseus. An exposure of five hours was allowed. the nebula near the star shows no change in position or appearance.
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Lick Obervatory
Cal
Perine
Perseus
Boys Admit Involvement in Store Murder
In Cleveland Ohio Griffin Mayo and Frank Strong both 16 confess involvement in the murder of Emil Goodman during a Monday night store robbery. Mayo states a third unidentified boy killed Goodman and police hunt for him.
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Cleveland
Griffin Mayo
Frank Strong
Emil Goodman
Mayo
Goodman
Form World’s Fair Guard by St Louis Officers Report
At a World’s Fair meeting in St Louis on December 6 the executive committee accepted a police committee report recommending the War Department detail regular army officers to organize a Jefferson Guard for the exposition.
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Louis
Committee On Police
Jefferson Guard
War Department
Only Union Men for Office in Ansonia
Ansonia, Conn December 6 Mayor Charters has stirred New England municipalities by naming to office those allied with him as trades union men. The few exceptions are backers of unions in their battles with employers.
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Philadelphia Times
Ansonia
Conn
Charters
New England
Colton Man Reports Patent Remedy Claims
W W Williamson of Colton Texas states over four years he has used various ports and Jayne s Strength Giver Vena wake to achieve improvement in health claiming benefit and urging others to try the product as presented in a 1901 notice.
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W. W. Williamson
Colton
Texas
Jayne
Social and political stir as 1900s New York spans Church, law, and graft
Reports from New York detail Bishop Potter's Advent sermon at St Pauls Chapel urging conscience reform, court rulings on Roland Molineux murder indictment, asphalt trust battles with Cantor and Keating, Tammany influence at the Democratic Club, possible Devery return as police chief, and new power plants ready on the Second Avenue Line with early electric trains.
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Philadelphia
Nat Cork
Henry St. Paul's Chapel
St. Paul's Chapel
Potter
Old Church
St. Paul
Rome
New York
London
Paris
Manhattan Elevated Railway
Seventy-fourth Street
East River
Second Avenue Line
Sunday Philadelphia Times advertisement page fragment
Fragmentary OCR shows an advertisement page with illegible lines and scattered phrases. It mentions the Sunday Philadelphia Times and sections like Illustrated Magazine and various features, but most details are unreadable.
Yale Defeats Princeton in Debating Fifteenth Amendment
Yale won the ninth annual Yale Princeton debate held in Princeton on December 6. The Yale team Josiah Sibley Robert H Ewell and C D Lockwood argued that the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments sufficed and opposed the fifteenth amendment while Princeton contended it aided the Negro by preventing discrimination. Judges included W H Baldwin Charlies S Fairchild and J B Clark.
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Philadelphia TimEs
Princeton
Yale
United States
Robert W. Anthony
Watertown
N. Y
John HB. ‘Steen
Philadelphia
James J. Forstail
Chicago
Josiah Sibley
Los Angeles
Cal
Robert H. Ewell
Washington
C. D. Lockwood
Stamford
Columbia
Bayard Henry
Patton
Yale Alumni Elect Officers in Philadelphia Meeting
The Yale Alumni Association of Philadelphia elected officers for the term. Thomas DeWitt Cuyler became president with Samuel C. Perkins Robert Willson and William Ingham named fellows. G Hudson Makuen and Edward L. Duer named vice presidents, William White Jr secretary treasurer, Howard Ingham on the executive committee. A dinner to the officers followed, with plans for the Bellevue banquet and a January concert by the Yale Green Sante thes at Witherspoon Hall.
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Yale Alumni Association of Philadelphia
University Club
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
Samuel C. Perkins
Robert Willson
William Ingham
G. Hudson Makuen
Edward L. Duer
William White, Jr
Struck by Two Trains and Lives Special to The Philadelphia Timers
Patrick J. Nolan of 37 Hudson Street escaped with minor cuts after being hurled twenty feet at the Ashburton avenue crossing. His wagon was destroyed and his horse killed when the frightened animal crashed through gates and was hit by the Empire State Express and a southbound freight. Nolan, a grocery driver, landed on his hands.
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Yonkers
Patrick J. Nolan
Hudson Street
Ashburton Avenue
New York Central Railroad
Nolan
Empire State Express
Jury Chided For Acquittal In Jewelry Robbery Trial
Cleveland dispatch reports Judge Phil eeene eel criticized a jury that found George Willard not guilty in a Brothers' jewelry store theft involving about $20,000 in diamonds. Willard was remanded to Hamilton, Ohio for further proceedings.
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Cleveland
George Willard
Phileeene Eel
Willard
Hamilton
Ohio
Matinee Today The Most In Years Se Tried Upon Another Diamond Stealing Charge
A matinee report indicates a renewed diamond theft charge against a suspect. Police filed new charges as prosecutors pursue the case with court action expected.
Virginia Constitutional Convention Debates Judiciary Report
The Virginia Constitutional Convention in Richmond discussed the judiciary report with Pollard’s amendment for Governor appointment of Supreme Court justices set for further argument. Sections 6 7 8 were disposed of, and Dunaway’s amendment to expand to thirty circuits sparked a lengthy debate.
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Richmond
Pollard
Supreme Court
Dunaway
Chicago Crowd Cheered McKinley Assassin Czolgosz
In Chicago on December 6, 1901, supporters cheered the assassin Leon Czolgosz amid crowd unrest. Abraham Isaak, head of the Free Society, claimed personal merit mattered less than the assassin, prompting a disruptive scene.
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Czolgosz
Chicago “Reds
Chicago
McKinley
Abraham Isaak
Reds
Free Society
Beckilions Ve Auereay
Zeta Yacht Reaches Zanesville After Canal Stranding
The yacht Zeta under Captain Deming of New Orleans arrived in Zanesville Ohio after weeks stranded at the mouth of the Ohio canal. Deming his wife and two daughters sailed from New Orleans around the Atlantic coast through the Erie canal to the lakes.
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Gulf
Lakes
Zanesville
Ohio
Zeta
Captain Deming
New Orleans
Ohio Canal
Atlantic
Erie Canal
Marconi Arrives in St John’s for Balloon Probe
William Marconi arrives at St John’s Newfoundland with two portable balloons to suspend wires for wireless experiments. He expects to transmit messages about four hundred miles to ships at sea and will stay three to four weeks with full colonial government support.
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ST. John's
N. F
William Marconi
Captain Missing Amid Foul Play Rumors In Jacksonville
Captain A. P. Thompson of Machias Maine is missing in Jacksonville Florida where the master of the bark Harry Merryday from New York disappeared just as the vessel was about to sail. Friends fear foul play and await news on his fate and the ship’s plans.
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Philadelphia Times
Jacksonville
Fla
A. P. Thompson
Machias
Harry Merryday
New York
Injunction Hearing Postponed in Mine Workers Case
In Louisville on December 6 the hearing to make permanent the injunction against J. D. Woode and others of the United Mine Workers of Hopkins County was postponed until next Thursday. The injunction followed Kentucky mining troubles.
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Supreme Court
Axel M. Hallenberg
William C. Greene
Greene Consolidated Copper Company
Cobre Grande Copper Company
Cananea Copper Company
Phoenix National Bank
Phoenix
Ariz
Greene
Defeadant Greene
George Mitchell
Phoenix Bank
Cabre Grande Company
Hugh J. Grant
Louisville
J. D. Woode
Hopkins County
Kentucky
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First Negro Bank
HEPPE
Edison Phonographs
Edison Laboratory
Exeth
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Ictor
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Heppe & & Son We
Ghai
Foster & Glassell
Shreveport
Bayou Des Allemandes
May Ernest
Flossie Delabretonne
Liverpol Exchange
Chamber of Commerce
Exchange News
Hackney
Halifax
World's Fair Guard
City News
Newburger
Court of General Sessions
Roland B. Molineux
Grand Jury
Molineux
Court of Appeals
Blanchard
Tammany
Commissioner of Highways
Keating
Asphalt Trust
Trust
Tammanyites
Cantor
Nercoration
Justice Lawrence
Lawrence
T. W. Powderly
Senate
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Transatlantic
Baker
Atlantic Transport Line
Griscom
American and
Red Star Lines
Emil Boas
Hamburg-American Line
Democratic Club
Richard Croker
Croker
Abraham L. Elkus
Devery
Elkus
Uniformed Force
Etkus
Heaven
Columbus and
Amsterdam Avenues
Second
Croton
Meade
John Herlihy
Diamond
Goff
Herlihy
Johann Beck
Ocean
John C. Clark
Mr. Clark
Columbia University
Machs Hochsum
East Side
the Sunday Philadelphia Times
Feeet
Suomtammpes Marzed
Ie Tae
Agutestates
State
South Sts
Royal Marine Band OF
Italy
South Street
Garrick
Lilli Lehmann
Otis Skinner
Francesca DA
Keystone
Bair Tandard
SRIUM
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Rang Trust
Chestnut Street Opera House
New York Theatre
Marie Dressler
Dan M. Avoy
Mabelle Gilman
Louis Harrison
Laur Burt
Amelia Somerville
Junie McCree
Frank Doane
Marion Winchester
Chestnut
ST. Opera House
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OeLacy
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Opera Broad Street
James K. Hackett
RE EB. Rose
Don Caesar
Nixon
ST. Zimmerman’s
Mata
Nixon & Zimmerman
Francis Wilson “'“Company
Duke
Carlos
Emat i European “Museum
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Idumont
Mats
Wed. & Sa
Enery Hirving
RRE
Ad Schley Court
Inqdir Girard
Thatre
Tennessee
Lyceum
Bryant
Trocadero StaSion
Asher's
Walnut
Marconi
Reie
le Dealer
Dome Ed Wdmate
B. J. Cummings
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