Broad World Notes Stir Thaw Trial Inquiry
In New York district attorney probes whether a juror in the Thaw trial was approached by a policeman. Benedict Gimbel attempts self harm after arrest on charges of improper influence over a 16 year old and bribery of detectives. Also reported: 101 year old Tennessee man to marry 100 year old Rose McGuire of England. numerous international and domestic events include crimes, fires, political shifts, and natural disasters.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Benedict Gimbel
Philadelphia
Ivor Clark
Hoboken
John B. Bundren
Tennessee
Miss Rose McGuire
England
Miss McGuire
Kennard
Russia
Abner Smith
Chicago
Bank of America
G. F. Sorrow
J. W. Pierce
Root
America
Japan
San Francisco
Mary E. Tomlinson
Concord
N. H
Parker House
Boston
Sarah Ropes
Salem
Mass
Ohio
Jasper Mason
Cummins
Iowa
Thomas Longboat
Toronto
Canada
Boston Athletic Association
Ashland
British Columbia
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Oklahoma
L. F. Ford
Pennsylvania Railroad
Clyde Line
Jacksonville
Fla
Aggie Myers
Jefferson City
John V. L. Findlay
Baltimore
Caroline Islands
Thomas M. Huntington
Ami B. Todd
Fred Hoyt
United States Court
Omaha
Jom P. Dunning
Kroeger Bros
Milwaukee
Wis
Raleigh
N. C
L. Scruggs
Jack Williama
Dodd Wilson
B. Rohrbaugh
Ottawa
Kan
Excelsior Springs
Bingham
Gov. Hughes
Millionaire president leads chase to nab rail bond thief
Oakleigh Thorne head of the Trust Company of America led a 12 hour pursuit with 28 employees to arrest William C. Douglass assistant loan clerk who confessed stealing 250000 dollars in Chicago Rock Island and Pacific bonds. Douglass and his wife used aliases at the Hotel Portland before the capture. Douglass admitted embezzlement and named a leading financial figure as the bond recipient. He lives at 180 Elton street Brooklyn with his wife, a merchant’s daughter, and they have no children.
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Iloilo
Panay
Philippines
Puyehue
Valdivia
Chili
Luzon
Charleston
S. C
Algeria
Atlantic
A. M. Forbes Cartage Company
Chicago
Campbell
Athens
St. Louis
Bixby
I. T
Weston
Ill
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Pacific
University of Wisconsin
van Hise
Supreme Court of Illinois
David McLean
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
John Malang
Joplin
Thomas Connor
Oliver Crook Haugh
Dayton
Ohio Penitentiary
Columbus
Montreal
Stewart C. Gay
Mabel Pendleton
Jackson River
Cliffort Forge
John Gunderson
Northern Express Company
Union Station
St. Paul
Minn
John Alling
Chicago Stock Exchange
Chicago Athletic Club
William M. Chase
Old Society of American Artists
Stanford White
Matthew Yankola
Hazleton
Fostoria
Ice Trust
Regis H. Post
Porto Rico
Beckman Winthrop
Treasury
Washington
Leah C. Gilman
Collins
Bessie
Fayne
Roosevelt
Central America
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Hagerman
New Mexico
George Curry
Samar Province
Philippine Islands
Order of
United Workmen
Ohio
Ellis
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Gaeta
Italy
Tennis S. Hamlin
Church of the Covenant
New York
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois Supreme Court
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Next Friends
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Concord
N. H
National Arbitration and Peace Congress
Andrew Carnegie
Legion of Honor
Julius Kahn
Cash Buyers’ Union
First National Cooperative Society
Anderson
Spain
Turkey
Senate
Ontario
Latchford
Taft
Cannon
Aked
Rockefeller
England
Illinois Central
Sangamon County
Wisconsin
United States
John C. Spooner
Madison
E. H. Harriman
Fred Zimmerman
George J. Schlenck
Belvidere
Salvation Army
Schlenck
Hunter
Rough Rider Association
Rough Rider
Arizona
Alexander Troup
Democratic National Committee
National Publicity Law Association
West Point
Democrats of
Brooklyn
Thomas Jefferson
W. J. Bryan
Illinois
O'Connor
Peoria
Harriman
Wilson
Perry L. Hedrick
Chicago Health Department
W. A Bana
Oakleigh Thorne
Trust Company of America
William C. Douglass
Douglass
W. R. Gray
Boston
Mass
Portland
West Forty-sventh Street
Trust Company
West Forty-seventh Street
Financial District
Elton Street
Struck the Dead Train in Alabama Wreck
A double wreck near Woodlawn east of Birmingham on the Southern Railway left two men dead and several injured. A freight train with a dead engine collided with fast passenger No. 8, then wreckers and burning cars piled into the ditch as three freight cars blocked the east-bound track.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southern Railway
Woodlawn
Heflin
Tragic Mob Killing in Danville Public Road
In Danville Virginia on April 22 Ellen Elliott a young Black woman in male disguise was killed by a white mob on a public road in a Black settlement. After an exchange with Black men a stone assault began and Elliott allegedly fired a pistol before a boy knocked her down with a beer bottle and the crowd finished her with stones and kicks.
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Danville
Ellen Elliott
Tragic Baseball Death Of Orris McWilliams
Des Moines report says 15 year old Orris McWilliams of Deep River choked while sucking a piece of candy during a baseball game. He swallowed as a swift ball came to him, could not eject the candy, and died after collapsing on his way to a doctor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Orris McWilliams
Deep River
Hebrew Orphan Asylum President Dies During Meeting
Baltimore April 22. During the annual board meeting of the Hebrew orphan asylum president Moses J. Oppenheimer began his annual report and collapsed dead from heart disease after finishing the first page of his address.
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Baltimore
The
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Moses J. Oppenheimer
Prince Ibrahim Pasha Crashes Car in Naples
Prince Ibrahim Pasha, uncle of the khedive of Egypt, drove a motor car in Naples and fatally wounded a woman and a child in the accident.
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Naples
Ibrahim Pasha
Egypt
Fruit Crops Damaged by Cold Snap in Colorado
A sharp temperature drop after a snow storm damaged fruit crops across eastern Colorado. The April 22 report notes widespread nipping of fruits, with losses affecting multiple varieties.
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Colorado
Denver
Tragedy in Brief: Suitor Shoots Self After Rejection
In Knoxville on April 22 Albert Hubble 21 asked his sweetheart to marry him. She refused. He shot himself dead in the moments after the rejection.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Albert Hubble
Fatal saloon brawl in Ardmore leaves two dead
In Ardmore Missouri on April 22 blacksmith W T Yeaky of Caseyville shot and killed Finnis Peterson after Peterson fired first wounding Yeaky in the hand. A man named Noble was fatally wounded in the same incident.
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Macon
Ardmore
Yeaky
Caseyville
Finnis Peterson
Peterson
Noble
Nevada fighter bids 40000 for Gans Nelson rematch
Tex Rickard of Ely Nevada has offered 40000 for a rematch between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson to be held either in July or on Labor Day September 3 in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Tex Rickard
Ely
Nev
Joe Gans
Battling Nelson
Imaginary mongoose tale in New Hampshire railroad car
Ernest Baynes leads the American Bison Society to save prairie herds. In a Newport drug store he warns of vanishing bisons. In a Pullman, an Oriental raconteur explains he carries an imaginary mongoose to fight imagined snakes in Los Angeles.
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Ernest Harold Baynes
American Bison Society
Prairies
French Law School in Cairo Expands Amid Space Crunch
Egypt’s legal scene leans on foreign influence as the French law school in Cairo, with 224 students, seeks more space. The French Archaeological Institute site will be sold for cheaper land to build a larger law school, funded by the move.
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Egypt
Africa
Cairo
Partridge Dashes Into Car on Duluth Train
A partridge flying at speed through a Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic train window near Sanborn shattered double glass. The bird died on the floor. A nearby passenger was showered with glass but uninjured. another passenger was cut by glass and suffered a neck artery cut, per Ashland correspondent.
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Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
Sanborn
Ashland
St. Paul Dispatch
Surgeons Called to Account
In a Philadelphia hospital a man died after a light ray treatment on the operating table. The piece questions whether the doctors knew the risks and if the experiment resembled scientific therapy or reckless empiricism, prompting a critical view of the procedure.
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Philadelphia
Lutheran Church Calls for 1000 Ministers
The Lutheran church has recently issued a call for 1,000 new ministers to fill vacancies in that denomination. A garbled ad mentions Garfield Tea claiming health benefits and a natural laxative to purify blood and cleanse the system.
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The
Lutheran Church
Wrought by Time and Prized Music at Zulu Chief’s
Dinizulu the Zulu chief, once famed for war, entertains with a graphophone and an English built organ.
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Dinizulu
England
Dr Williams Pink Pills touted as blood builder cure
An advertisement describes general health decline in men and women with consumption and germ diseases as threats. It features Mrs. William Manley of Utica New York detailing six months of illness after childbirth and how Williams Pink Pills restored her weight and strength, claiming the pills make new blood and boost organs. It invites readers to contact the Dr Williams Medicine Co. for more information or purchase.
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William Manley
Court Street
Utica
N. Y
Williams
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
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A. G. Hunt
Elizabeth, N. J
Hall Signal Company
Chicago & Northwestern
Marshalltown
Seattle Labor Council
Moyer
Haywood
Rock Island
Los Angeles
Putnam
Weight and
Market Reports
Cincinnati
Louisville
Tae Casey
Raite Senco Ie
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