Witness Marion Burdick at Burdick murder inquest
In Buffalo on March 17 Marion Burdick the 16 year old daughter of the late Edwin L Burdick testified as a key witness at the coroner s inquest into his murder. She described learning of her father s death from her grandmother Mrs Hull and answered a harsh cross examination by District Attorney Coatsworth. Dr William H Marcy the family physician also testified detailing his arrival and findings at the Burdick home and other witnesses including a domestic Katie Koenig spoke of events the evening before the murder and a man at the furnace later. A known couple Mr Peacock and a woman were seen with Burdick and Marion two weeks prior.
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Buffalo
Marion Burdick
Edwin L. Burdick
Coatsworth
William H. Marcy
Burdick House
Mrs. Hull
Grandmother Hull
Dr. Marcy
Marion
Burdick
Burdicka
Mr. Hull
Mr. Burdick
Katie Koenig
Bar- Ack
Mr. Peacock
Marlon
Prince Nesda Money and Royal Finances in Parliament Talk
London report says the Prince of Wales, receiving 100000 dollars annually plus 30000 from the Duchy of Cornwall, cannot live on that sum and that the King will ask Parliament for an additional 100000 dollars yearly.
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Prince Nesda
London
Prince of Wales
Duchy of Cornwall
Explosions Hit Cardiff Mines Amid Ongoing Disaster
Pontiac March 17. Three more explosions strike the Cardiff mines after last Thursday blast. Six miners search wreckage. William Humphrey is alive but severely injured. Bodies of two Bohemians recovered. Alderson Hutchinson and Wilson still buried. Monday’s blast tears shaft top. Chief Mechanic Michaels dies later. Flooding the mine now planned.
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Pontiac
Cardiff
William
Humphrey
Ulysses Alderson
Hutchinson
Wilson
Michaels
Birth of a child with no cranium reported in Richmond
Dr W G Huffman reports a Lipscomb family newborn with head lacking brain tissue, face formed but nose flat and eyes protruding, ears large and forward. Child died at birth yet survived to prenatal maturity. Local physicians deem it unprecedented in medical records. Fifteenth birth for Mr and Mrs Lipscomb, others normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
W. G. Huffman
John Lipscomb
Mrs. Lipscomb
Boiler Explosion Destroys East Toledo Mills
A boiler explosion at the East Toledo Mills of Republic Iron and Steel Company killed one worker, severely burned two others, and caused about $40,000 in damage. John Thompson of Findlay, a water tender, died in the incident. The cause remains unknown as Thompson was the only worker near the boiler. A ton weight was blown a half mile, and iron flues were driven into the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Republic Iron and Steel Company
John Thompson
Findlay
Thompson
Dynamite explosion at Port Edwards mill kills and injures
Grand Rapids Mich March 17 Thomas Young Nes near death Archie St Louis in critical condition after ten pounds of dynamite exploded at the Port Edwards paper mill three miles south of the city. Workers thawing powder triggered the blast as a huge ice floe was being blown up at the dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids
Mich
Thomas Young Nes
Archie St. Louis
Port Edwards
Tower Vies With Monarchs Over Berlin Estate Purchase
Charlemagne Tower US ambassador to Germany is negotiating to buy one of Berlin’s top houses to outshine the entertainments he hosted in Russia. He had eyed the Bleichroeder palace earlier, but that property is no longer available.
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Berlin
Charlemagne Tower
United States
Germany
Water pours through levees as breakwaters fail
Memphis dispatch reports the first Mississippi levee breach above Hollybush along the Arkansas bank flooding the St Francis valley. Rescue packets work refugees while refineries and rail lines face inundation. Engineers abandon repairs as a new channel forms, promising major damage across Crittenden County Arkansas and surrounding areas.
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Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
Mississippi
Hollybush
St. Francis
Pecan Point
Fogleman
St. Thomas
Illinois Central
Wolf River
Trice’s
Crittenden County
Ark
Machine cures hip disease in first U S operation
In New York on March 17 a Lorenz machine was used in hip disease surgery for the first time in the country. Dr. Frederick Mueller, Lorenz’s pupil, operated on a 12-year-old girl. the procedure was lengthy and painful for onlookers, but the patient is expected to walk after recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorenz
New York
Frederick Mueller
Doctor Shoots Fellow Physician in Tarboro Dispute
Raleigh March 17. Dr Julian Baker of Tarboro NC shot and perhaps fatally wounded Dr H T Bass of Tarboro following Bass's criticism of how a sanitarium under Bakers management was run. The motive was professional dispute.
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Raleigh
N. C
Julian Baker
Tarboro
H. T. Bass
Bass
Baker
Riots in Madrid and Coimbra Leave Several Dead
Rioters clash with police in Madrid and Coimbra over tax payments. Three people killed as authorities restore order amid anti tax unrest and mob activity.
Must Face Trial for Murder in Aurora Case
Antonio Romano, arrested in Chicago on a murder charge, was bound over to the May term of the grand jury in Aurora without bail for the killing of Nick Tomaso in a bank car in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ill
Antonio Romano
Chicago
Nick Tomaso
Headache Powder Fatality in Milwaukee Woman
Milwaukee on March 17 reports Ace tanilid poisoning from a double dosage of headache powder as the cause of death for Mrs. John Ziegelbauer of 615 Twenty fourth and a half Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
John Ziegelbauer
Twenty-fourth
Curate Sentenced Fifteen Years for Poisoning Mass Wine
Vienna reports curate Thomas Maschete of Klagenfurth Carinthia was sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude for attempting to murder his vicar by poisoning the mass wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Thomas Maschete
Klagenfurth
Carinthia
Strike Closes Cotton Mills in Calais milltown
The St. Croix cotton mills at Milltown have been closed and more than 1,000 workers are idle due to a strike by 300 weavers demanding a 1/2 percent wage increase.
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Calais
St. Croix
Milltown
Battle With Mad Mullah in Somali Land
Dispatches from Bohode report a sharp clash between British forces and Somalis of the Mad Mullah. Somali casualties include fifteen killed and many wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mad Mullah
London
Bohode
Somaliland
Golf Champion Dies in New Orleans Accident
David Zell, famed golf champion, died following a fall. Parents notified in Scotland. body held pending instructions. In a separate report, Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany canceled Nile journey due to illness and remains at Uxor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
I.a
David Zell
Scotland
Ili
Calro
Frederick William
Germany
Nile
Uxor
Gen Tyner Says He Will Not Resign Amid Turfinvestigation
Washington March 17 No action will be taken by the post office department about complaints against the office of the assistant attorney general for the postoffice department regarding turf investment companies until Postmaster General Payne returns from the West Indies Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow will continue the inquiry Tyner declares he will not resign though complaints exist about his subordinates and an intimation had been made that resignation would be accepted
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Washington
Post Office Department
Oace
Postoffice Department
Payne
West Indies
Bristow
James N. Tyner
Department
Tyner
One Man Conducts The Senate In Springfield
Springfield March 17 Senator Rees was the only member present when the senate was called to order last evening He moved to approve the Journal of Friday and adjourned the senate until 10 o clock Tuesday morning At 6 o clock the house had less than a quorum but with unanimous consent the regular order of business was taken up Senator Humphreys bill to appropriate funds for a Frances Willard statue for Statuary Hall in Washington was read a first time and referred to a committee.
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Springfield
Rees
Senate
At & O'Eloctk
House
Humphrey
Frances Willard
Statuary Hall
Washington
Answer to Sister's Prayers in LaPorte
In LaPorte Indiana on March 17 a man arrived at Mrs Henry Crowells home seeking board. She instantly recognized him as Edwin C Hall of Chicago her believed dead for eighteen years. The reunion follows her prayers and Hall now holds considerable wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
Henry Crow
Plan to divide Episcopal Diocese of New York
Announcement from New York on March 17 outlines a proposal to create a new jurisdiction with the Bronx serving as its see city and including Westchester Putnam and Dutchess counties, while Manhattan would remain the see for the remaining jurisdiction.
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New York
Episcopal Diocese of
Bronx
Westchester
Putnam
Dutchess
Jiris Welton
Manhattan
Royal Funeral Honors for Last Kamehameha Prince
Funeral in Honolulu honors Prince Albert Kanulakeao with royal pomp as hearse drawn by over ten men. The last Kamehameha dynasty representative is deeply lamented by native population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Prince Albert Kanulakeao
Kamehameha Dynasty
Jealousy Causes Murder in Columbus
Jealousy led Henry Mason to be waylaid and shot in Columbus on March 17. The assailant, wounded by Policeman J A Moore, was captured after the murder attempt. Both men had previously paid suit to the same woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Henry Mason
Henry Standard
J. A. Moore
British steamer Alunda arrives after nine day gale
The Brit sh steamer Alunda arrived from Liverpool at Fairfax Nova Scotia after a nineteen day cyclone voyage. She endured nine days of heavy seas covering only 300 miles and was driven back sixty three miles on one day during the storm.
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Fairfax
N. S
Alunda
Liverpool
Bacteria Light Lamp Proposed by Prague Scientist
Vienna reports Prof. Vans Mor sch of Prague claims a mining lamp powered by bacteria. He presented to the Vienna Academy of Science the lamp specifications where bacteria supply the light.
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Vienna
Vans Morsch
Prague
Vienna Academy of Science
Father’s Club Is Started in Verona New Jersey
New York March 17 A Father s Mub is the newest organization in Verona New Jersey The club was started for the purpose of advancing the interests of its children This is the first club of the kind in New Jersey
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Father's Club
New York
Father's Mub
Verona
N. J
New Jersey
Dangers of Unwashed Fruit From Street Vendors
The New York Press warns that unwashed fruit from street corners carries millions of disease germs. Bacteria on cherries currants and grapes are abundant, with air above the city swarming with microbes. Consumers neglect washing fruit, risking poisonous infection from micrococci bacilli and spirilla.
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Itatian
New York
New York Press
Hats as a Habit in Cold Weather
A narrator recalls a friend who began wearing a hat regularly to ward off cold and wonders if early adoption can last a lifetime. Observes a small bluecoat boy strolling without a hat on a frigid day, rosy and cheerful, noting yellow stockings as a possible cold remedy and joking about yellow stockings curing catarrh.
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All Mall
Ant
Lancet
London
Duties Of Japanese Women And Household Skills
A historical note describes Japanese women learning to sew cook and manage details at home. In elite circles markets come to them with shopkeepers delivering to doors. women often sew their own clothes and meals are served at a set evening hour with lacquer trays and defined dishes. In a separate tale Deacon Jones enjoys rising esteem from Gooseville Cove neighbors and Parson Abbeck comments on local regard while the Deacon credits his closeness to God.
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Hettle
Deacon Jones
Gooseville Cove
Cove
Parson
Abbeck
Deacon
Relief funds and library plans touch state wide
A Des Moines report shows the Scandinavian relief committee has recruited across Iowa and collected over $2,000. The gate library association will exhibit Iowa libraries at the St Louis exposition with models and statistics. Wireless demonstrations and lectures by Dr James E Woodland are set for Chautauqua. The council seeks county real estate transfer data for 1902 and equalized valuations to improve assessments. Mt Ayr Electric Railway plans surveyed routes to Omaha with local tax support.
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Des Moines
C. J.rickson
Scandinavian Relief Committee
The
Gate Library Association
Iotva
Chautarqua
James E. Woodlan
Woodland
Marconi
Chautauqua
America
England
Executive Council
Boards of Review
Council
Mt. Ayr
Tingley
Iite
Creston
Omaha
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Dead Man
Father
Fen
Arthur R. Pennell
Pennell
Dleaster
Madrid
Coimbra
Portugal
Episcopal
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Jose
Uly
Odd Fellows of
Fort Des Moines Lodge
Locust Street
Sixth Avenue
Seventh Street
D. S. Chamberlain
W. L. Brown
Seventh and Locust
Aberdeen
Brown
State Insurance Company
Fourth Street
Caracas
Treasury
Herr von Belldramm
San Francisco
California
Paris
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