Starbuck murder case deepens with arrest and coroner’s doubt
William Lockridge is jailed on circumstantial evidence linked to Haley Gipe in the murder of Mrs. William Starbuck and her infant near Greensboro Indiana. The coroner questions foul play and Dr. B Smith attributes the death to acute pneumonia with induced mania, noting the victim was a mother of a 16 week old baby and suffered a sudden delirium during the incident.
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William Lockridge
William Starbuck
Greensboro
Ind
Lockridge
Haley Gipe
Kaiser to reward heroism for General Slocum rescuers
The German emperor plans decorations for women who showed bravery during the General Slocum disaster in New York. Consul General Buenez is to compile a list of those whose rescues were distinguished by heroism and also identify the bravest three women nurses. Health Commissioner Darlington assists in selecting the nurses from many who served nobly.
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General Slocum
New York
Buenez
Lst
Darlington
The Original Cleveland Man
A Iowa doctor Henry B. Lesher of Salina Jefferson county claims to have started Grover Cleveland on his political path. While in Buffalo for a sheriff nomination, Lesher yelled Cleveland and sparked the nomination. Cleveland won by a large majority and rose to the presidency.
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Iowan
White House
Henry B. Lesher
Salina
Jefferson County
Iowa
Grover Cleveland
Buffalo
Cleveland
Lesher
Big Men of Indian Territory at Democratic Convention
C A Skeen, a 6 ft 3 in delegate from Indian Territory to the Democratic National Convention, remarks that many territory leaders were unable to attend due to their size and the seats or hotel beds being too small for them. He notes some men stay home because of practicality, a point reported by the Chicago Chronicle.
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Indian Territory
C. A. Skeen
Chicago Chronicle
Ideal study for author Irving Bacheller in Sound Beach
The novelist Irving Bacheller built a unique sea side study at Sound Beach Connecticut. A separate square boat house named Wisden sits on the water’s edge with waves sometimes passing under it. He writes late into the night with the water lapping around his workspace and enjoys fishing as his favorite pastime.
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Irving Bacheller
Bacheller
Sound Beach
Conn
Wisden
Howells Receives Doctor of Laws From Western Reserve
William Dean Howells, son of Ohio and editor with long experience, earns a doctor of laws degree from Western Reserve University and Adelbert College. President Thwing praises his realism, social philosophy, culture, and gentleness as defining his literary idealism.
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Oxford
Howells
Western Reserve University
Adelbert College of
Cleveland
Thwing
William Dean Howells
Ohio
the Western Reserve
Grant Clark Describes Southern Statesman as Imposing Chairman
Grant, a tall Missouri Democrat and permanent chairman candidate, presents himself with a striking presence. He speaks in a southern planter persona, wearing an oversized Prince Albert coat and slouch hat, and relies on a vast reading habit and sharp memory to recount what he has read.
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Grant
Champ Clark
Prince Albert
Senator Clark wed Miss La Chappelle in 1901 shock friends
Society and finance circles were astonished to learn that Miss Anna E. La Chappelle has been the wife of Senator Willam A. Clark of Montana for over three years. The marriage occurred May 25 1901 in Marseilles France. The couple have a two year old child and Mrs Clark plans to sail to America soon.
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Society
World of Finance
Anna E. la Chappelle
Willam A. Clark
Montana
New York
Clark
Fossip
Marseilles
France
Mrs. Clark
Rich men swear off taxes in New York
New York millionaires largely avoided tax reductions through swearing off. Only five top assessors over 1 million dollars remained unchanged: Carnegie five million, Sage two million, Frederick and Alice Vanderbilt two and one million, and W K Vanderbilt one million. Largest cut came for John Jacob Astor, from two million to five hundred thousand. Alfred G Vanderbilt dropped from one and a half million to two hundred fifty thousand. J P Morgan fell from six hundred thousand to four hundred thousand. Original total personal assessments reached four billion five hundred eighty nine million nine hundred sixty six thousand three hundred eighty four dollars. Most residents who faced rectification visited the tax office. after the process, twenty five percent of personal liability remained.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
Russell Sage
Frederick Vanderbilt
Alice Vanderbilt
W. K
Ist
Tax Department
Big Fees of Lawyers and Panama Deal Fees
James J. Hill accuses Philander C. Knox of cleaning up $600000 during United States Steel Corporation formation. William Nelson Cromwell earns the largest legal fees in history, including $2000000 for adjusting the Panama canal deal. Cromwell rose from a modest New York attorney to a $5,000,000 magnate with residences in Manhattan and Sea Bright.
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James J. Hill
Philander C. Knox
United States Steel Corporation
William Nelson Cromwell
Algernon S. Sullivan
Columbia Heights
New York
Forty-ninth Street
Seabright
Cromwell
Estate of Stuart Robson Left to Widow and Daughter
The actor Stuart Robson real name Henry W. Stuart died April 29 1908 leaving no will. His estate valued at 28423 in personal property and 34411 in cash with 5988 for debts and admin expenses. Widow Mary Dougherty Stuart and one daughter inherit. Administered by the widow.
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Stuart Robson
Henry W. Stuart
New York
Mary Dougherty Stuart
Stuart
New American Beauty Draws London Attention
Mrs Charles Carroll of Carrollton, wife of the great-grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, attracts London crowds as a famed southern beauty. Despite wealth and pride, her husband’s family cannot match extravagant American social climbers in Mayfair. The Maryland pelle sponsor is Mrs John W Mac.
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London
Author Fond of Solitude. Ik Marvel Rejects Real Estate Bid
Donald Mitchell known as Ik Marvel rejects a hillside sale near Yale University and Long Island Sound preferring solitude. He describes watching nearby homes rise and fears civilization would encroach, saying he might abandon his old home to wait for the end.
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Donald Mitchell
Donald K. Mitchell
Yale University
Long Island Sound
Ik Marvel
Twins 87-Year-Old Benham Brothers Celebrate Birth Anniversary
Julius H and Junius N Benham, likely the oldest twins in the United States, marked their eighty seventh birth anniversary at a summer resort near Bridgeport Connecticut. Native to Middlebury Vermont area they own substantial property nearby. Both tall and hale with white hair, their lineage shows several long-lived relatives.
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Julius H
Junius N. Benham
United States
Bridgeport
Conn
Middlebury
Benhams
Trueman Benham
Business Men Favored Over Lawyers in Government
A Chicago citizen who often does business with the navy department in Washington praises Mr. Morton for giving direct clear answers. He argues for more non lawyers in the cabinet and in official positions, saying decisive men are needed in public offices.
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Chicago
Navy Department
Washington
Morton
Cardinal Manning Took Hint On Total Abstinence
Westminster Archbishop relates how Cardinal Manning first avoided total abstinence until a doctor advised against it and a spectator urged him to change doctors. He followed the hint and became a total abstainer thereafter.
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Cardinal Manning
Westminster
Port Arthur Report Says Japanese Hold Territory
Telegrams from Port Arthur claim no change in position with fresh provisions arriving daily and constant skirmishes where the enemy suffers the most losses. Reports note orders to shoot Russians rather than take prisoners and Chinese hill observers heliographing.
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Tce Kino
Port Arthur
Joy in St. Petersburg over Port Arthur reports
Citizens in St. Petersburg greet the news of Japanese setbacks with relief as dispatches from the Far East corroborate losses of 2800 Japanese and 1800 Russian. Rumors on siege guns and Vladivostok naval activity heighten jubilation while Kuropatkin’s tactics draw mixed scrutiny from military experts.
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St. Petersburg
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Far East
Mukden
Che Foo
Vladivostolk
Yin Kow
Ta Thho Kiao
Kuropatkin
Kiao Chou
Paul Kruger Dies in Clarens at 80
Clarens Switzerland July 15 Paul Kruger former president of the Transvaal republic died here at 8 o clock yesterday morning from pneumonia and heart weakness. His daughter and son in law were with him at death. His body was embalmed and placed in a vault pending funeral plans. Application will be made to transport the remains to the Transvaal.
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Transvaal Republic
Clarens
Switzerland
Paul Kruger
Kruger
Mwe
Transvaal
Seventeen Die In New Jersey Rail Collision
Seventeen killed and about fifty injured in a New Jersey rail crash when an Erie Railroad passenger train collided with an excursion train at Midvale. The wreck, blamed on a tower signal lowered too soon, involved a special from Hoboken carrying eight hundred Plattdeutscher Association members on their annual outing.
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New Jersey
New York
Midvale
N. J
Greenwood Lake
Erie Railroad
Hoboken
Jersey City
D. W. Cooke
Dlerail Road
Plattdeutcher Association of
Armies Face Each Other at Liank River Heights
Armies grimly face each other on the Liank river heights as they prepare for battle. General Count Keller's headquarters are reported eleven miles west of Inandiansian on July 13. In Port Arthur reports, Chinese say Japanese forces surround the land side, occupy commanding hills including Wall Mountain within seven miles of the fortifications.
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Count Keller
Mutkiay
Inandiansian
Liank River
Port Arthur
Che Foo
Wall Mountain
Accuse One Another in Murder of Junk Man
In Brooklyn two suspects Charles V. Johnson and Oscar Dalgren, tied to the Abbott scene, traded denials and accusations after the double murder of George Abbott and Frederick Van Buskirk. Johnson claimed Dalgren flashed a pistol and planned harm, while Dalgren alleged Johnson boasted of brick-attack and theft. Both were arraigned and sent for further hearing.
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Brooklyn
N.Y
Fence
Jnck
George
Anchott
Frederick van Buskirk
Abbott
Daleren
Funke
van Buskirk
Johnson
Dalgren
Bothmen
Union contracts voided over nonunion hires in Wisconsin
Milwaukee judge rules labor union contracts with manufacturers prohibiting nonunion workers void. First Wisconsin ruling on the issue, potentially sweeping if upheld by the state supreme court. Suit filed by Milwaukee Custom Sailors' union against a local firm over nonunion employment.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Ludwig
Circuit Court
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Milwaukee Custom Sailors’ Union
Convict Labor Case In Illinois Seeks Injunction
The Menard Manufacturing company has procured injunction papers against the Randolph county circuit court officials and the warden of the southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester. The suit, filed before Judge Burroughs, seeks to restrain removal of convicts used on hollow ware work inside the prison by Menard Manufacturing.
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Springheld
Chester
Burroughs
Randolph County
Menard Manufacturing Company
Many Millions Earn Wages
A census bureau report shows in 1900 the number of people in painful occupations across the continental United States reached 29,073,233, about half the population aged ten and over and nearly two-fifths of all residents. It breaks down to 22,489,425 men, 4,833,630 women, and 1,750,178 children including 1,264,411 boys and 485,767 girls.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Continental
United States
Milwaukee Population Grows With Directory Figures
Milwaukee Wisconsin reports a city population of 385,500 for the year, published by the Milwaukee city directory. The edition lists 133,436 names a rise of 6,000 from last year, with the prior population estimated at 323,000.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Settle Plumbers Strike Ends Bitter, Long Conflict
Cincinnati July 14 The longest and most bitterly contested struggle between employers and men in the history of trades unions has ended. The Journeymen Plumbers union has accepted the propositions made by the Contracting Plumbers association.
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Cincinnati
Journeymen Plumbers’ Union
Contracting Plumbers’ Association
Aleck Merrick Dies After Graves Disease Stricken
Bayonne New Jersey July 14 Death relieves the suffering of Aleck Merrick a victim of Graves disease noted as one of the rare cases his skin had turned almost black before death authorities reported the rare ailment and the passing of the longtime resident
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Bayonne
N. J
Aleck Merrick
Farm Hand Fatally Shoots Self After Wounding Employer's Daughter
In Alma Massachusetts on July 14 John Rogen berger, a farm hand, shot himself after wounding Mrs Elsie Martin, the daughter of his employer, in what appears to be a fatal sequence. Authorities reported the incident as a farm labor dispute ending in tragedy.
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Alma
Mass
John Rogenberger
Elsie Martin
Ems
Ployer
Standard Oil Cuts Prices in Pennsylvania
Pittsburg July 14 The Standard Oil Company announces a further cut in prices of crude petroleum. The move tightens competition and aims to boost sales as flood of crude moves in regional markets.
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Standard Ol
Pittsburg
Standard. Oil. Company
Petroleum
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