Watts Hanged After Prolonged Legal Battle in Alabama
In Centerville Alabama on April 25, Bob Watts, a young white man, was hanged in the jail yard for the murder of Perd Winkles, a Confederate veteran who was killed in fall 1904 after drawing $30 pension. Watts, deemed insane at times and moved between prisons, was finally executed after Governor Comer denied a final reprieve. He maintained innocence as ammonia was used to subdue him and he was dragged to the scaffold.
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Watts
Ammonia
Centerville
Ala
Bob Watts
Perd Winkles
Winkles
Winklies
Supreme Court
Birmingham
Comer
Snow Follows Light Snowfalls In Colorado Springs Area
Weather records show continued wintry conditions with light snow and freezing temperatures in Colorado Springs and nearby areas. A circular from the Delta County Fruit Growers Association warns that all fruit crops in that region have been killed. In Missouri, St Joseph reports several hours of snow on Thursday morning, one of the latest events in years.
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St. Joseph
Colorado Springs
Colo
Delta County Fruit Growers' Association
Expert at Jail Breaking Captured in Tennessee Penitentiary
Dothan Alabama April 25 Jim Casey alias Leeman Jones the convict who struck a coast line watchman and later broke into M D Horns home last summer and was sentenced to 20 years for each offense has been recaptured after escaping last November and is now at Brushy Mountain Tennessee penitentiary.
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Dothan
Ala
Jim Casey
Leeman Jones
Hegro
Coast Line
M. D. Hornsby
Flat Top
Brushy Mountain Tenn
Arrest Expected in TCA Raid Case
New York April 25 Herald says the man who planned the raid on the securities of the Trust Company of America is identified. Two men, W. O. Douglas and Oliver M. Dennett, are under arrest. When the mastermind is caught, a remarkable story the financial district has heard in years will be revealed.
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New York
the Herald
The
Trust Company of America
W. O. Douglas
Oliver M. Dennett
Day's Work Record Breaker
Washington April 25 All previous records for a day's work returning letters from the division of dead letters were eclipsed last Monday with 20 268 letters returned. The prior single day record was 14 480 on March 20. The number of letters awaiting return has been reduced to 63 900.
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Washington
Flag Presentation Honors Bartholdt For Peace Efforts
In New York on April 25 an American and a German flag edged with White were presented to Congressman Richard Bartholdt head of the American group of the interparliamentary union. The gift was made by Mrs. Augusta EB Stereos of the city in recognition of his peace drive.
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New York
Richard Bartholdt
Interparliamentary Union
Augusta EB
Stereos
Peary’s Coming Dash Hopes for Pole Triumph
New York April 25 Robert E. Peary presses plans to return to the Roosevelt north again aiming to depart by late June or early July after wintering on Graniland’s north coast. He vows to pursue the pole despite limited funds and warns that the expedition cannot start until $100,000 is secured, with $40,000 his current limit.
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New York
Robert EB. Peary
Pole
Roosevelt
Graniland
New
Vek
Peary
Peavy
Police Guard Tillman At Pittsburgh Speech
Twenty two detectives and a squad of officers guarded Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh during Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina addressing Park Avenue Athletic Club on race issues. The hall was crowded with about ten African American attendees. the audience largely voted against equality, amid interruptions from one man who cited European origins and criticized outsiders.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Music Hall
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
Park Avenue
Allegheny) Athletic Club
Music Hall
South
Tillman
Europe
True to His Post Despite Wife’s Death
Cincinnati dispatch reports Joseph A. Morris, an old soldier and watchman at the U S sub treasury, heard his wife was dying and begged him to come. He refused to leave his post, honoring his oath, and after finishing his watch learned his wife had died.
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Morris
Chicago
The
Tribune
Cincinnati
Joseph. A. Morris
United States Sub-Treasury
Muly
Treasury
Iie
Was Nipped in the Bud
Tokio authorities thwart a planned Korea rising by swift action. Police arrested ringleaders and deterred followers, averting large scale danger and ensuring calm.
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Tokio
Korea
Fire destroys Summer Resort cottages at Lake Pleasant
A major fire Thursday razed about one hundred summer cottages and a summer hotel at Lake Pleasant near Millers Falls Massachusetts. The total loss is placed at 115000 dollars. Cause is undetermined. The settlement is run by the spiritualist camp meeting association.
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Millers Falls
Mass
Lake Pleasant
Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association
Robbers Fire Bridge During Train Robbery Attempt
In English Indiana near Louisville Kentucky on Wednesday night robbers attempted to rob a Southern Railway passenger train. They fired a bridge as town marshal Ww. E. Cummins of English was dangerously wounded attempting to arrest the robbers.
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Louisville
Southern Railway
English
Ind
Ww. E. Cummins
Record Breaking Rice Shipment Reaches New Orleans
Record shipment of 1,200,000 pounds of rice arrived in New Orleans from eastern Texas, filling 23 freight cars. Merchants regard it as the largest single shipment of rice on record, arriving Wednesday night.
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New Orleans
Texas
Spectacular Fink Fire Hits Pittsburg Packing Plant
A massive blaze at the William Zoeller Packing plant in Allegheny City caused 500000 pounds of lard to ignite and explode from a large warehouse. Ammonia tanks ruptured, spraying hot grease into streets and windows as fire crews battled the furnace like interior. Estimated losses around $3000. No injuries reported among spectators.
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Pittsburg
William Zoeller Packing Company
Allegheny City
Eovery
Mum
Aljoiaing
New Railroad Crusade to Begin in Speech
A Washington dispatch says President Roosevelt will launch a railroad reform crusade in Indianapolis on April 25. The plan centers on over capitalization and federal supervision of corporations engaged in state business, with railroads already regulated by the government to ensure accurate cash value and reduce watered stock. The aim is to reveal the true cost and hold officials responsible, though critics fear the inquiry more than the law.
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Indianapolis
Chicegs
Washington,d. C
Mentoris
le Ct
United States
Shonts to endow Drake University with scholarships
Theodore P. Shonts plans to give Drake University fifty service scholarships starting in 1907. He will provide $5,000 annually, equal to the income from a $75,000 endowment, funded from his wealth and benefiting the institution founded by Governor Drake.
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Drake University
Chicago
the Tribune
Des Moines
Iowa
Theodore P. Shonts
Drake
Shonts
Freezing Weather Spreads From Nebraska to Texas Panhandle
Snow fell in northwestern Kansas and northern Missouri as freezing temperatures extended from the Nebraska Iowa border south into the Texas panhandle. The weather bureau reported the condition Thursday morning and forecast colder weather Thursday night.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska-Iowa
Panhandle
Texas
Weather Bureau
Dennis Kearney Dies Leader of Land Lot Agitation
San Francisco reports Dennis Kearney died Wednesday night at his Alameda home. In the late 1870s he led the land lot agitation against the Chinese in California and once dominated San Francisco politics with a large following.
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San Francisco
Dennis Kearney
Alameda
Kearney
Woman Jilted Ends Life After Fatal Shooting in Oil City
In Oil City Pennsylvania on April 25 Thaddeus Ross an 85 year old post office clerk was shot dead by his former sweetheart Isabelle Stroup 28 who then killed herself. Both were prominent local families. Stroup, employed in Bradford hospital, was jealous as Ross planned to marry Drusilla Sampsell of Oil City.
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Oil City
Die
Magee
Miss Sampsell
FATAL DRINKING FROLIC IN Danville STIRS COMMUNITY
In Danville Virginia on April 25, the bodies of John Dandridge Adena Mesre and William Sprageins were found in Rev W T Atwell's servant's room after a party of drinking. Lillie McCain lay unconscious, hospitalised, as investigators probe a suspected poisoning death and seek the husband of a separated woman. An autopsy is planned and mystery surrounds the case.
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Danville
John Dandridge
Adena Mesre
Wiliam Sprageins
Lillie McCain
W. TI. Atwell
The
Methodist Church
Lillie McClain
Peace treaty details between Nicaragua and Salvador
Details of the peace and amity treaty signed at Amapala last Tuesday reached Washington on Thursday via cable from Philip Brown, American legation chief at Guatemala. The Marblehead pact repeats and adds a Central American peace congress in Nicaragua and a special commercial treaty between Nicaragua and Salvador.
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Nicaragua
Salvador
Washington
Amapala
State Department
Philip Brown
Guatemala
Nicaraagua
Tragedy in Birmingham Mills Yard Firearm Fatality
A Birmingham switchman, BE Bodey, dodged a brick hurled between freight cars and fired toward the source. Later a well dressed white youth under twenty was found dead on the opposite side of the cars, shot through the heart. Police investigate the daylight incident near Thirty Second street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
BE. K. Bodey
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Thirty Second Street
Bodey
Labor Leaders Propose May Day Parade in New York
Labor leaders discuss a plan to hold a parade in New York on May 4 as protest against President Roosevelt reiterating that Meyer and Haywood, miners awaiting trial in Idaho on a murder charge, are "undesirable citizens."
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New York
Roosevelt
Meyer and
Haywood
Idaho
Volcano Eruption Triggers Panic in Chile District
The Villarica volcano erupts sending fear through the Valdi via district of Chile where residents already trembled from Puyehu's previous eruption. Authorities warn of possible ash and lava flows as evacuees seek safety.
Woman Falls Through Skylight on Broadway in Nashville
Mrs Bettie Cohen aged 42 was hanging clothes on the rear roof of a Broadway store Wednesday afternoon when she fell through a skylight and sustained injuries. The incident occurred in Nashville Tennessee on April 26. She received medical attention for the injuries.
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Nashville
Tenn
Broadway
Bettie Cohen
Spain and England sign far reaching European treaty
Madrid reports a Cartagena meeting between King Alfonso and King Edward resulting in a broad understanding on Europe and Morocco. The accord, deemed nearing war or peace, outlines Spain allowing British naval use of ports in exchange for debt relief and coast security guarantees. Spain to fortify ports and arsenals while Britain may aid in debt conversion and provide forces if needed.
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Madrid
Alfonso
W Edward
Cartagena
de la Espana
Morocco
Correspondencia
Germany
Great Britain
Spain
Archbishop Blenk Invested With Pallium In New Orleans
In a ceremony attended by Cardinal Gibbons two archbishops and sixteen bishops Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans was invested with the pallium. The insignia officializes his authority to succeed the late Archbishop Chappelle whose jurisdiction spanned Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma and who died of yellow fever two years ago.
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New Orleans
Cardinal Gibbons
Blenk
Church
Chappelle
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Ara’sa
Texas
Oklahoma
Organize Trustee Board Formed for Anna Jeanes Fund
Booker T. Washington and Hollis Burke Frizzell attend the organization meeting in New York to form a trustees board to manage the 1 million endowment for aiding elementary schools for southern Black children. Washington says the board will be largely southern men, both white and colored.
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New York
Booker .T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Alabama
Hollis Burke Frizzell
Hampton Institute
Virginia
Anna Jeanes
Germantown
Stolen wedding clothes delay Georgia ceremony
In Columbus on April 26 a wedding in the colored security was delayed an hour after the groom's clothing was stolen from his home by a jealous woman. City detectives recovered the attire and the nervous groom dressed hastily as the wedding bells rang tardily but merrily.
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Columbus
Lost Fortune, Tried to Loot Bank
A Polander named Galusianski, recently ruined at Monte Carlo, attempted to rob a Genoa bank after arranging to change 800 marks for Italian currency. He shot at a clerk when the money was delivered but was captured before escaping with the funds.
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Genoa
Galusianski
Monte Carlo
Regina
Ferrar
Galasianski
Tobacco Planters Meet in Hopkinsville Session
The executive committee of the dark tobacco planters association of Kentucky and Tennessee meets in Hopkinsville Ky with twenty five counties represented. An executive session will be held behind closed doors. The group plans to thoroughly discuss the recent outrages alleged to have been committed by night riders.
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Nashville, Tenn
Dark Tobacco Planters’ Association of
Kentucky
Tennessee
Hopkinsville
Dark Tobacco
Central Is Double Tracking on Macon Griffin Line
The thal railway is engaged in laying 30 miles of track between Macon and Griffin as part of a plan to introduce double tracking. Officials of the Macon division oversee the construction.
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Thal Railway
Macon
Griffin
Macon di
Estes statement challenges assault claims in Loving case
Danville Virginia April 25 6 a statement signed by J H Shipman Livingston on behalf of Theodore Estes killed Monday afternoon by Judge Loving protests against earlier accounts of the tragedy The message says Miss Loving did not accuse Estes of assault and asserts the death stemmed from a drink Estes allegedly gave her during a Sunday drive The note argues there was no grounds for Loving to suspect harm to his daughter and suggests Estes did not assault her
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Young Estes
Miss Loving
Danville
J. H. Shipman
Livingston
Theodore Estes
Judge Loving
Shipman
Estes
Judge Loving Hiad
Fates
Noleen
Baetes
Georgia Town Fire Destroys Smith Manufacturing Plants
Helena April 25 The large variety works planing mill and dry kiln of the Smith Manufacturing company were totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday with a loss of at least 29000. The blaze started in the planing room and spread rapidly across buildings. Within ten minutes from the first alarm the grounds were a sea of flames. Firemen saved most of the town including the Sceaboard Air Line freight depot. insurance coverage was practically nonexistent.
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Georgia
Helena
Smith Manufacturing Company
Snail
Sceaboard Air Line
Farmers in Florida clash over university charter amendment
Tellahagoos April 24. Farmers Jennings of Florida and President Lincsla Hurley of fielron university at DeLand fought in a hotel lobby over a reg jurisdiction reform to stop trustees from perpetuating control. The brawl ended with no serious injuries after the men were separated.
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Tellahagoos
Fla
Jennings
Florida
Lincsla Hurley
Fielron University
DeLand
Lieve
Board of Trustees
Died Sitting In Chair on Perch in Savannah
Savannah Ga April 25 Robt City in colored society delayed gate ceremony Wednesday morning. He called at the home of W P Leon to drive to Meldrim to view timber lands. As Mr Lee came to the door Thompson complained of chest pain, rose to a chair and died. The widow waited on the porch for an hour until the coroner arrived.
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Savannah
Gt.c.ce
W. P. Leon
Meldrim
Mr. Lee
Thompson
Jeo
King and Queen Visit Palermo on Royal Tour
King Edward and Queen Alexandra arrived in Palermo aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert on Wednesday. The royal couple toured the cathedral Church of St Johns and the Orleans chapel during their visit in Perormo.
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Palermo
Perormo
Edward
Alexandra
Victria and
Albert
Church of St. Johns
Orleans Chapel
X-Ray Expert Wolfram Fuchs Dies of Cancer in Chicago
Wolfram Fuchs, a renowned expert in X-ray use, died in Chicago from cancer contracted three years earlier after exposure to X-ray apparatus.
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Chicago
Wolfram
Fuchs
New Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Instituted in Rome
Rome reports the Vatican has established a new chivalric order named Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. The April 25 announcement details its creation and purpose within church heraldry and tradition.
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Rome
Vatican
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