Washington News of the Week Highlights
The Senate ratifies the Canadian boundary treaty and confirms William B Wheeler as assistant secretary of commerce and labor. A U S Japan arbitration pact is signed. A cotton tax refund bill seeks 68 million dollars. Roosevelt plans a Mass barbecue. Needham joins the Panama Labor Commission. others declined. Several notable deaths and appointments are noted, including Garribaldi veteran Turr, and Bishop Brent’s election in Washington.
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Washington
Senate
William B. Wheeler
California
Commerce and Labor
United States
Japan
Root
Takahira
House
Roosevelt
Point of Pines
Mass
Wasex
Middlesex
Norfolk
Plymuth
Henry Beech Needham
Panams Labor Commission
Needham
Comerecipe Wits
Lewis N. Hailimertin
Wilkesharre
National Press “Ab
Accidental Happenings and Tragedies Reported
Fragmented OCR item recounts multiple disasters including a fatal blaze in Mentone San Francisco deaths from a bush fire and a drowning in a slough near the Quivre river. Also notes a man killed by a fall from a horse near Glendive with hospital death, plus political candidate mention and unclear local events.
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Archie Macdonald
Marquette
Mich
San Francisco
Nine More On List Of Arch Criminals In Guinness Case
A Laporte Indiana case uncovers at least nine more victims in the Guinness farm murders. Excavations reveal five bones identified as Andrew Hoelgelein and four more remains, suggesting bodies shipped from Chicago. Lamphere is jailed on murder charges with motive tied to blackmail and a burned farmhouse.
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Holmes
Chicago
Bender
Kansas
Laporte
Ind
A. KR. Holgelein
Aberdeen
Andrew Hoelgelein
Belle Guinness
Andrew
A. G Helgerein
Guinness
T Hat
Andrew Hevelein
Axwingt Lamphere
Yesterde
Grewsome
Ray Lamphere
Lamsterday
H. F. Worden
John Wheatbrook
Lamphere
Peter Colson
R. N. Smith
Ice Grening
Emil
Nortorious
Jennie Olsen
Emil Grening
Oklahoma City
Sheriff's Office
Missin Mey
Ind Anid
Wamda
Foot is Severed at Wisconsin Sawmill
Chippewa Falls May 12 Fred Draper age 24 lost his foot at a Springbrook sawmill when a rotten log section clung to the blade. He tried to kick free the snag, the blade seized his shoe and cut off the foot above the ankle.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Fred Draper
Springbrook
Roma
Draper
Mystery at Gilnness Farm Draws Sightseers
Laporte witnesses flock to the Gilnness farm seeking details on missing relatives and the ongoing coroner’s probe of two possible deaths. Reports describe eerie finds, guarded by officials, as investigators weigh fettered clues and pending grand jury action.
Guine ss Syndicate case stirs memory at old farm site
May 12 13 reports show investigators probing the Guinness farm in Austin as coroner autopsies loom. Sheriff Smutzer leads ongoing inquiries while residents recall the tragic deaths linked to the estate. A conference plans yard and cellar digging to locate potential victims.
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Smutzer
Guinness
Chicago
Schnettler
Holtman
Austin
Repudiates Confession in Burlington Train Explosion
Lewis Ferris, a 19 year old Italian youth, tells his mother he did not dynamite the Burlington express and that his earlier admission was coerced by doctors and hospital witnesses. He insists the confession is false from start to finish and says many people pressured him into answering yes.
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Lewis Ferris
Bytle
Mont
Burlington Express
Burlington
Perris
Ferris
Grass Fire Ends in Childs Death at Courtland
In New Ulm Minnesota on May 13 Emily Able three years old daughter of John Able was fatally burned when a neighbor started a grass fire near Courtland in Nicollet county The flames spread to a play area where the child and other youngsters were gathered catching her dress and causing fatal burns The tragedy follows a neighbor setting the blaze as a sign of trouble with nearby waste grass management
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Daniel R. Hanna
Cleveland
Springfield
Patrick Joyce
Waterloo
Iowa
Miles City
Albert Whinery
Marshalltown
Whinery
District Court
Des Moines
Hugh Brennan
Equity
Amos T. Baker
Mattewan State Hospital
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Baker
Matteawan
New Ulm
Minn
Emily Able
John Able
Courtland
Nicollet County
Clean-Up Day Boosts Crookston Community Effort
In Crookston on May 13 McIntosh east of here celebrated a large clean-up day. Businesses and schools closed while residents and pupils helped raise a garden and improve public highways and private properties.
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Crookston
McIntosh
Here
Mock Hold-up Fatal in Chicago Bakery Incident
Henry Frawley, eighteen, a teamster, died instantly when a revolver discharged accidentally during a mock hold up at a Chicago bakery. The gun belonged to John Hefell, who along with Steve Korsore, conducted the staged robbery when the weapon fired.
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Chicago
Ill
Henry Frawley
John Hefell
Steve Korsore
Nurse Marries Patient At Ishpeming Marriage
Leonard Johnson head chemist for Marquette range mines of United States Steel marries Mrs. Mattie Crozier a trained nurse at Ishpeming Hospital. The couple met during Johnsons hospital stay for appendicitis and surgery, the romance culminating in a May 13 ceremony.
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Milu
Iny
Mien
Leonard Johnson
Mattie Crozier
Ishpeming
Marquete Range Mines
United States Steel Corporation
Bride
Ishpeming Hospital
Johnson
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Quivre River
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Sonth Dakota
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