Young lawyer shot near Ava. notable Greene County family linked
Ava Missouri March 12 Henry B Julian late editor and prominent young attorney of Ava was shot and killed two miles north of town. The alleged shooter William Andrews neighbor and former husband of Julian’s sister in law is missing with the gun. The incident follows a fence dispute and property damage over a partition.
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Lian
Douglas County Democrat
William Andrews
Julian
Andrews
Springfield
Greene County
Largest hotel in the world built of steel and half a million cost
Investigation notes a Tipton shortage of 2639 dollars with the arrest at the request of Tipton’s bondsmen. Tipton, once connected with Kansas City railroads, lost an arm as a switchman and later rose to secretary treasurer. the structure stands 185 feet high and 2640 feet long.
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Tipon
Hawley
Tipton
Kansas City
Railroads and Pan-American Hotel News From Kansas City
Reports detail Missouri Pacific planning a new freight depot and warehouse at Grand Avenue with track reconfigurations to improve freight handling. Chicago hotel executive L. E. Bailey to manage the massive Pan-American exposition hotel in Buffalo, opening May 1 with 2100 rooms and 1400 dining seats, costing nearly 500000. A Des Moines River bridge project near Ames, Iowa, by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, progresses to an estimated 600000 total cost with 450000 in steel and 150000 in substructure.
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Chicago
L. E. Bailey
Palmer House
Big House
Great Northern
Wellington
Leland
E. M. Statler
Buffalo
Boone-Ogden cut-off bridge project and local rail notes
The article details the iron skeleton bridge over the river on the Boone-Ogden cut-off with 185 foot high spans and a 300 foot river crossing, replacing an existing structure to ease grades. It lists personnel, railroad staff changes, and related theater and prohibition notices including Bard's Blue Ribbon Tooth Brush and Ten Nights in a Bar Room at Wood's Opera House.
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Boone-Ogden
Carter
Northwestern Road
Carrie Nation
United States
Opera House
Palmer
Switchmen Official Tipton Arrested for Petit Larceny
J L Tipton Buffalo March 12 secretary treasurer of the Switchmen International union was arrested on a petit larceny charge after alleging a $1875 safe robbery in his office Grand Master Hawley and directors Cassady and Welch accompanying the case reference in Omaha and Kansas City circles
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Buffalo
N. Y
J. L. Tipton
Switchmen’s International Union
Tipton
Hawley
Order
Messrs
Cassady
Kansas City
Welch
Omaha
Explosion Kills Eight at Sanitary Laundry Site Chicago
An explosion in a boiler basement at the Sanitary Laundry building 455 West Madison Street Chicago on March 12 kills eight people. Six are women and two men. some bodies are severely mangled and recovered from the wreckage. The blast devastates the site and leaves grisly scenes. In Sedalia a Social Democrats meeting approved board reports and plans for Rev. Charles H. Vail to visit in April or May. The group schedules another gathering next Monday night.
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Chicago
Sanitary Laundry Company
West Madison Street
Social Democrats
East Sedalia
Charles H. Vail
New Jer
Sey
Sedalia
Letts Buys Lix Stock in Sedalia Grocery Deal
Harry Sinnett as trustee of the Six Brothers' grocery stock sold it to W. J. Letts, an East Sedalia grocer, for 230 dollars. Fred Callies purchased the horses and wagon involved in the transaction.
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Harry Sinnett
Six Brothers
W. J. Letts
Sedalia
Fred Callies
Williams Narrowly Escapes Mob in Brunswick Missouri
Horace Williams, accused of his wife’s murder near Forest Green, escapes a mob at the Wabash depot with Deputy Shawnessy’s warning. Bloodhounds are sought as the chase continues toward Kansas City. The wife’s death, deemed a homicide, followed a visit to her physician.
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Brunswick
Horace Williams
Keytesville
Steve Shawnessy
Wabash Depot
Kansas City
Williams
James W. Davis
Carrollton
Forest Green
Glasgow
Salisbury
Local No 90 Clerks Corrects Clothing Ad
Officers of Local No 90 Retail Clerks' International Protective Association say they sent no delegation to any firm to handle union made goods and seek merchant cooperation. Signed by F. M. Blaise and J. B. Kraus.
Guardians Hump S Posture: Wheeler Sisters Remanded
Emma and Olive Wheeler appeared before Probate Judge Parsons on a writ of habeas corpus to justify keeping their two younger sisters at home. The judge ordered a guard at the Wheeler residence after finding the children ill with mumps and scheduled relocation once safe homes are available. Andrew Gresham was assigned to the duty.
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Emma
Olive Wheeler
Parsons
Frank Hughes
Father to Defend Son in First Degree Murder Trial
The trial of Fred Rechow for murder in the first degree began in Kansas City's criminal court. Rechow, visiting from Bolivar during Carnival week 1899, killed a black boot-black during Carnival sights. His father, a leading Polk County lawyer, defends him.
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Fred Rechow
Kansas City
Rechow
Missouri
Polk County
Court of Appeals
Sedalia
Young Rechow
Bolivar
Railroad Extensions Approach Shorter Vital Link Between Cities
The Columbia Herald reports talk of extending the Chicago and Alton from Glasgow to Franklin Junction and the Missouri Kansas & Texas via the Missouri Midland to Centralia or Mexico. Both trunk lines would share ownership soon and require under fifty miles of track, yielding a shorter, easier route from St. Louis to Kansas City and Chicago to the southwest. The plan would cut the St. Louis to Chicago distance by about a hundred miles within the state.
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Chicago & Alton Railroad
Glasgow
Franklin Junction
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Missouri Midland
Centralia
Mexico
St. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
Columbia
Missouri budget moves on canal case and fair funding
Jefferson City reports the senate appropriations committee meeting to review the general appropriation bill. Senator Drabelle secured a $15,000 allocation to cover the state share of canal case prosecutions. Sedalia citizens urged higher funding for the State fair. Emmett Newton seeks more militia money.
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Jefferson City
Senate Committee On Appropriations
House
Drabelle
Sedalia
Emmett Newton
Robbery Report Involving Alice Perry At Local Store
Peter Arben complained last night that a colored woman named Alice Perry robbed him of seven to ten dollars. About 10 p m she entered his store and bought five cents worth of goods, exposing his purse full of silver coin. She allegedly reached into his pocket and fled. Police Judge Truxel ordered Perry jailed for five days.
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Peter Arben
Alice Perry
Arben
Truxel
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Turner
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Chica- 70
Northwestern
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Missouri Pacific
Grand Avenue
Des Moines River
Ames, Iowa
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M. J. McNulty
Denison
Ike Harwell
I. A. Favor
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A. C. Myers
Katy
G. W. Bradfield
Harris
Oscar Kaiser
L. B. Ewing
Wood
J. H. Lake
West End
W. L. Cromlish
Pittsburg & Western
R. S. Yost
F. H. Gray
J. H. Luke
Homer
General Assembly of the
United Presbyterian Churches
Lit
Tle Rock
Ark
William H. Mack
Lodge
Switchmen’s Union
Brunswick, MO
Bard
J. B. Kraus
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Chicago & Alton
Herald
Senate Committee
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