Bloodthirsty Ward Murder Case Shocks South Dakota
A former Sioux Falls inmate Ward, once condemned for the murder of Lee Shepherd and possibly his brother Harley, is said to have driven the Shepherd boys from home and vanished as investigators probed the double killing. Ward’s trial revealed a volatile feud and rumored forgery amid a notorious early 1900s crime spree in the Black Hills region.
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Thle
Lawrence County
Lee M.hepherd
Kirkwood
Ward
Black Hills
Shepherd
Jim
Lee Shepherd
Ratarelly
Ward Ward
Lee
Harley
Ware
Hot Springs
Stray Topics From Little Old New York
Stray topics from New York’s elite scene include a Plaza hotel clash over an elevator reserved for Princess Lwof Parin ghy and her dog, a Brooklyn lieutenant locking up his own son for disorderly conduct, and a midget performer versus a six foot manager in a municipal court. A New Jersey veteran decorates his own grave, a Christchurch church fundraiser clears a mortgage, and parcels flood a church in a Saturday-like scene.
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Gotham
Lwof Paringhy
Plaza
Duchess of Manchester
Sone
Edmund Blaney
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Young Blaney
Young Baney
Lieut
Blaney
Bia
Thertly
Milltown
New Jersey
Christchurch
Williamsburg
Roosevelt Makes Two Calls on Royalty in London Visit
Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt visited Marlborough House to see King George the second time in three days. He also met King Frederick of Denmark at Buckingham Palace. Seth Bullock of Deadwood called at the embassy with Secretary Phillips and took linen. Ed ward's body drawn at dawn, sleepers camped in streets.
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London
Eng
Roosevelt
King George
Marlborough House
Mra
King Frederick
Denmark
Buckingham Palace
Seth Bullock
Deadwood
South Dakota
Phillips
Edward
Baseball Notes From Early Season Headlines
Savannah South Atlantic league team struggles with 4 wins in 24 games while St Louis Cardinals pitchers falter aside from Vic Willis. Cubs catcher Tom Needham leads the lineup at .300 as Giants face a threat from Mathewson. Honus Wagner hits around .240 as Waddell heals from a pitching injury. Cincinnati Reds play solid ball aiming for first division before eastern trip.
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Savannah
Vic Willis
Cardinal
Boston Americans
Clyde Engle
New York Nighlanders
Cleveland
Nicholls
Annas City
Tom Needham
Cubs
Giants
Mathewson
Honus Wagner
Rube” Waddell
Boston
Cincinnati Reds
Hetch Hetchy hearing and arbitration meet at Lake Mohonk
Secretary Ballinger hears San Francisco and Bay Area delegates over revoking the Hetch Hetchy water grant for Yosemite. San Francisco argues the project is vital for future water supply. At Lake Mohonk, May 18, the sixteenth Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration convenes with delegates from about fifty business and civic groups to discuss an international court and related peace efforts.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger
San Francisco
Interior Department
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Yostemite National Park
Oakland
Berkley
San Francisco Bay
Ita
Sierra Undertaking
Lake Mohonk
Lake Mohank
National Board of Trade
National Association of Manufacturers
Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade
United States
Canada
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbus University
Thh
International Court of Arbitral Justice
Koz
q@agrebes
Pan‘aca
Internapeace
Sherman speaks in Wolverine State at Kalamazoo
In Kalamazoo Michigan on May 18 Vice-President Sherman opened the congressional campaign defending President Taft and the Payne Aldrich tariff. He challenged tariff critics as spreading false statements and urged protection, arguing a Democratic House would renounce protection, while praising Taft as straightforward and truthful.
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Sherman
Wolverine
Michigan
Kalamazoo
Mich
Taft
Payne- Aldrich
Art
Roosevelt
Madriz Steamer Venus Blockades Nicaraguan Port
May 18 in Binefields Nicaranga reports say Estrada and Mad riz factions fought near Rana. Madriz forces expected to attack soon as the steamer Venus blocks the harbor and has fired on the custom house, with fears the city may be sacked.
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Madriz
VENUS
Binefields
Nicaranga
Estrada
Rana
Seventy-One Guests Missing After Adams Hotel Fire
Seventy-one of the more than one hundred guests believed in the Adams Hotel when it burned in Phoenix. The hotel register was lost, damages estimated at 275 dollars, and search parties work through ruins for bodies.
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Phoenx, Ariz
Adams
Scandal in the Navy Leads to Court Martial Arrest
Lieutenant Ames of the A S A is under arrest in Manila and to be tried by court martial over the death of Lieutenant Clarence M. Janney, a case highlighting friction between Colonel Robert E. Ames and his wife’s former lover. The report also notes czar Nicholas II’s 42nd birthday observed in St. Petersburg with ceremonies and widespread public displays. The item ends with garbled banking and regional references.
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NAVY
Ames
Manila
Cuba
Robert E. Ames
Clarence M. Janney
Czar
St. Petersburg
Russia
Nicholas
Peterbot Palace
Michalge II
Roman of
Holtein
Alexander III
Meteorite Nearly Hits Shawnee Official in Fire Insurance Office
A red hot meteorite fell through the Shawnee building roof in Topeka Kansas and narrowly missed Shawnee Fire Insurance manager J W Going. The event caused fifty clerks to panic as the rock is believed to come from the comet’s tail.
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Topeka
Kan
Shawnee
J.W. Going
Shawnee Fire Insurance Company
Gubernatorial race and state prohibition on agenda at Columbia convention
Columbia delegates assemble for the Democratic state convention promising a strong field for governor with candidates Featherstone, Blease, and Richards. A motion seeks to put statewide prohibition to a August primary vote as part of convention business. In Boston a Faro gang case unfolds with William Kelcher and George Coleman facing trial. Coleman alleged to have stolen nearly 200000 from National City Bank of Cambridge through fake Faro schemes.
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Columbia
S&s C
Ansel
C. (. Featherstone
Laurens
Col
E.L. Blease
Newberry
J. C. Richards, Jr
Kershaw
Hhe
Roston
Mass
William J. Kelcher
George W. Coleman
National City Bank of
Cambridge
United States
Coleman
Kelther
Boston
New York
Big Bil
Gan
Comet parties trend in Sioux Falls society
Sioux Falls hosts fashionable comet parties as social life diversifies. Obscure notes mention Mrs Johanna O Conner of Elk Point dying at 1, dates and a Milbank News report on city improvements, plus investments and legal actions across the region.
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Aberdeen News
Sioux Falls
Johanna O'Conner
Elk Pont
Milbank News
Northwestern
Iroquois
Hot Springs
W. T
D. I. DeLine
Gettysburg News
J. B. Townsley
Larchwood
Iowa
W. T. del Line
Gettysburg
C. H. Smith
Dell Rapids
Sully County
Minnehaha
Coleman Bank Defaulter Gets Fifteen Years
Boston May 18 George W Coleman clerk of Nations City bank pleaded guilty to looting 106090 dollars to fund his wedding motive. He faced fifteen years in prison.
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Coleman Bank
Boston
Mass
George ‘W. Coleman
Nations City Bank
Fundate
New Method to Secure Panama Exposition Majority
Washington May 18 A new method for winning a majority of Congress to back the 1915 Panama canal exposition was introduced amid debate on completion of the canal project. Claremont S D May 17 Rev H L Hastings pastor of the First M E Church was acquitted of criminal conduct toward a St Louis boy after a street car encounter on April 5 with no supporting evidence.
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Congres
Washington, D. C
Congress
Claremont
H. L. Hastings
M. EB
St. Louis
Hastings
Chicago
Man and woman die in Wyoming Sulphur mine pit
Cheyenne May 18 Eva Wheeler a schoolteacher and H B a rancher of Owl Creek were overcome by gas in the Wyoming Sulphur Company mine near Owl Creek while exploring. Mrs Martin saw the tragedy from an eighty foot ladder and helped but the bodies were not recovered for hours. The pair entered together with Miss Wheeler first descending the ladder before succumbing.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Eva
Wheeler
H. B
Owl Creek
Wyoming Sulphur Company
Martin
Martins
Pioneer Kasson and Diplomat John A Kasson Remembered
Washington May 18 Jane A Kasson former Iowa congressman and tariff expert who helped negotiate reciprocity treaties for McKinley is described as a born diplomat and long respected statesman. He served in the Iowa legislature in pioneer days and was praised for headway with Bismarck and for lifting tariffs on American pork.
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Washington, D. C
Jane. A. Kassan
Iowa
McKinley
Senate
John A. Kasson
United States Senate
William F. Wilson
America
Prince Bismark
Emirates
Iowa Legisaries
Comet Prompts Mother to Send Daughter Home
A Danish woman at Whitewood, part of a Danish settlement, believed the comet’s tail would strike the earth today. She sent for her daughter studying in Michigan to return home. The predicted end of the world has not occurred as of this writing.
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Chicago
Milk Trust
Baer
The
Coal Trust
Rockefeller Io
Whitewood
Michigan
Cattle and Sheep Men Armed at Montrose Conflict
May 18 reports from Montrose Colorado indicate a critical clash over range rights between cattlemen and sheep men. Sheep owners are said to be well armed with unlimited ammunition and refusing to move land as tensions rise in Cimarron area.
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Montrose
Colo
Little Cimmaron
Shippers Gather to Fight Freight Rate Hike
Four hundred Individual shippers from 180 associations and about a hundred rate payers convene in Chicago on May 17 to protest freight rate increases. W. H. Burn opens the meeting while Pierre Free Press notes the cold early hour as participants seek action against the proposed rise.
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Chicago
W. H. Burn
Pierre Free Press
Barry
Ballinger Perkins Letters Tie Alaska Mine Plans to Thompson
In the Ballinger-Pinchot hearing, confidential letters between Ballinger, Perkins of J Pierpont Morgan, and Seattle City Engineer Thompson were read. They show Perkins planning an Alaska visit to explore railroads and mines and Ballinger recommending Thompson as the expert, with intimate ties and personal marks on the correspondence revealed by Kerby's testimony.
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Washington, D. C
Ballinger-Pinchot
Ballinger
George W. Perkins
J. Pierpont Morgan and Company
Thompson
Seattle
Perkins
Yonkers
Alaska
Billinger
Kerby
World's Sunday School Convention Opens in Washington
In Washington on May 18 arrangements for the sixth world's Sunday school convention are nearly complete. Over a thousand delegates are in the city with more arriving as sessions begin tomorrow. Delegates from America, western Europe, Turkey, Syria, China, Japan, Korea, India, Africa, and Australia are expected. Prominent speakers include President Tatars Meyer, Gibson, Bonner, Netsay of England, John Wanamaker, Robert E. Spear, Dra Cadman of Brooklyn, Tompkins of Philadelphia, Drs Johnson of India, Jones of Korea, McNair of Japan, Aweiner of Arabia, Butler of Mexico, McNaughton, Marek of Itohemia, and native missionaries and officers of the International Sunday School Association.
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Washington, D. C
America
Western
Europe
Turkey
Syria
China
Japan
Korea
India
Africa
Australia
Tatars. Meyer, Gibson
Bonner
Netsey
England
Kerry Canned From Interior Department in Washington
Washington May 16. F M Kerby a secretary in the interior department who leaked the Lawler draft sensation Saturday was dismissed by Secretary Ballinger this morning in a letter declaring he was unworthy to remain.
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Washington, D. C
F. M. Kerby
Interor Department
Lawler
Ballinger
Ohio conducts first state wide primary vote today
Columbus May 17. The Bronson primary law is tested as Ohio holds a state wide primary by both parties for Congress county offices legislature and state convention delegates. Interest centers on congressional nominations with contest in nearly every district.
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Columbus
Bronson
Ohio
Cities contest for world exposition merits for Congressmen
San Diego New Orleans and Washington vie for the next world fair with street cars billboards and newspapers promoting each city’s exposition merits for congressional support.
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San Francisco
Cal
San Diego
New Orleans
Washington
Georgia Elks Convene In Macon In Gala Attire
Sun Ga May 18 Macon hosts the annual Georgia Elks convention with delegates from Atlanta Augusta Savannah Thomasville Gainesville Rome Waycross Brunswick Athens Valdosta Columbus and other cities. Mayor John T Moore delivers welcome as Bruce Jones presides. Afternoon adjournment allows an automobile parade and planned festivities before final business tomorrow.
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Sun
Maconie
Georgia Elka
Atlanta
Augusta
Savannah
Thomasville
Gainesville
Rome
Wayerasa
Brunswick
Athens
Valdosta
Columbus
Grand Cpers House
Noom
Bruce ©. Jones
Thin City
John T. Moore
Jon B. Pottle
Milledgeville
Barty
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Phoenix
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Somahgulh
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Shawnee Insurance Co
South Carolina
South Dakota News
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Joan A. Kasson
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Geo. W. Perkins
World's Sunday School Convention
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