Deep laid plot alleged in widow murder case
New York reports reveal Mrs Ottillie Eberhard a Viennese widow found dead on Hackensack railroad tracks. Police say her nephew August Eberhard schemed for months to steal her $2600 fortune and marry her 20 year old daughter, prompting searches across New York and Dutchess County.
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New York
Ottillie Eberhard
Hackensack
N. J
August Eberhard
Eberhard
August
Dutchess Junction
Dutchess County
N. Y
Austria
Vilas in Critical Condition After Brain Hemorrhage
Madison Wisconsin July 21 Former U S senator and Cleveland cabinet member William F Vilas suffered a brain hemorrhage and his condition is described as serious Relatives in Milwaukee were asked to come at once and physicians summoned immediately as Vilas near seventy years old has led a retired life in recent years.
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Madison
Wis
William F. Vilas
United States
Cleveland
Vilas
Milwaukee
Mr. Vilas
Democrats cash in on penny slot politics in Chicago
In Chicago July 21 reporters describe how Democratic managers use penny slot phonographs to push campaign talking points. Voters hear Bryan quotes and tariff notes while other parties are excluded by the national committee. The public encounters political music and tariff inquiries as small investors, couples, and children listen and react.
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Chicago
Bryan
National Committee
Genevieve
Masic
White House
Rumor Links Loudenslager to Gop Committee Chair
Washington gossip says Representative Henry C. Loudenslager of New Jersey will be the next chairman of the national Republican congressional committee. Henry Casson of Wisconsin, current sergeant at arms, is expected to be named secretary, replacing Loudenslager.
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Washington
Tawney
Minnesota
Sherman
National Republican Congressional Committee
Henry C. Loudenslager
New Jersey
Henry Casson
Wisconsin
House
Loudenslager
Chicago Labor Reports Warn of Park Ups and Downs
Reports from committees of the Chicago Federation of Labor show amusement parks and excursion steamers present a mixed scene for union minded visitors. Some parks with union waiters serve nonunion bread while others with clean bread serve beer deemed improper, highlighting tensions in leisure venues.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
British Tug of War Protest Over Spike Shoes Advances
London July 18. America protests as the United Kingdom team including Liverpool police wear oversized boots with steel heels and spikes. The American team forfeits after protest. the ruling prohibits prepared footwear and ground holes, but the protest is disallowed.
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London
America
Greece
Germany
United Kingdom
Liverpool
Rose
Suge Matthew Ppin
James E. Sullivan
United States
Market Quotations Wheat Prices in Minneapolis
Market brief from Minneapolis dated July 18 shows wheat quotes for July at 1.18 and September at 0.97. On track prices include No 1 hard at 1.21 No 1 Northern at 1.19 No 2 Northern at 1.17 and No 3 Northern at 1.12 per bushel.
Live Stock Prices From St Paul Market Report
St Paul market notes list cattle from good to choice steers at 6.00 to 6.75, cows and heifers 4.00 to 5.00, veals 3.75 to 5.00. Hogs range 6.40 to 6.65. Sheep yearlings 4.00 to 4.75, lambs 4.50 to 5.15, springs 6.00 to 6.35.
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St. Paul
Wheat and Flax Prices Reported in Duluth市场
Wheat prices show on track with No 1 hard at 1.18, No 1 Northern 1.16 1.17, No 2 Northern 1.12 1.13, July 1.16 and Sept 97. Flax prices on track with July 1.21, Sept 1.20 to Oct 1.19, Nov 1.19 and Dec 1.17.
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Duluth
Northern
Chicago Grain and Provisions Prices July 18
Wheat July 90 3 4c Sept 90 91c Dec 92 98c. Corn July 76c Sept 75 6 1 2c Dec 61 4 61c May 60 60c. Oats July old 51c July 51c Sept 48c Dec 43c May 4c. Pork July 15.70 Sept 15.80 16.82% Oct 15.87. Butter Creameries 18 21c dairies 17 20c. Eggs 17c Poultry Turkeys 14c chickens 11c springs 17 20c.
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Chicago
Cattle and Sheep Prices in Chicago Market Report
Chicago market update lists cattle categories with bid ranges for July 18. Reeves Texans Western cattle stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves logs and pig prices shown alongside sheep and lambs with varying per hundredweight figures.
Five Burned In Molten Metal Spill At Wisconsin Steel Mills
An overflow of molten metal from a fur nace at the Wisconsin steel mills in South Chicago hurt five workers, two possibly fatally. The injured were employed at the plant.
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Chicago
Wisconsin Steel Mills
Labor Wins First Round in Denver Case Against AFL Leaders
District Judge Allen rules Thompson Marble Co seeks damages and jail terms but labor leaders Gompers Mitchell Lemmon Duncan not required to testify in civil case. Marble firm also fails to force contempt for AFL refusal to appear before notary. Summons served as AFL leaders attended Democratic national convention matters.
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Denver
Allen
Thompson Marble Company
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Denver Building Trades Council
Trades Unionists
George C. Manley
Marble Company
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
John B. Lemmon
James Duncan
Executive Council
Manley
Weak pier supports force Philadelphia city hall evacuation
Workmen in Philadelphia discover a weakened pier on the east wall of city hall. The third floor treasurer's office is evacuated as engineers plan weeks of delicate shoring and strengthening to prevent a collapse. Officials say early detection reduces serious risk while overhauling all piers and columns in the $30,000,000 building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelpie
Great City Hall
State Department
Powell
Otriet
Eight Hurt in South Side Elevated Crash at Jackson Park
Eight persons were severely injured and several more sustained minor injuries when a three car train on the Jackson park branch of the South Side elevated railroad crashed at the terminus at Jackson Park avenue and Sixty third street. The front of the motor car broke loose from the bumper and slid about ten feet beyond the end.
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Chicago
Jackson Park
South Side
Jackson Park Avenue
Sixty-third Street
Three Elevators Destroyed in Cooperstown Fire
Three elevators Monarch Cargill and Hammer Halverson Beier were destroyed by fire in Cooperstown North Carolina on July 20. A firebug is suspected as the loss exceeds 50 000 dollars. One blaze started at each end of the yard 700 feet apart while the Great Western elevator caught fire but was doused.
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Cooperstown
N. C
Monarch
Cargill
Hammer-Halverson-Beier
Great Western
Death of 15-year-old telegraph messenger in Chicago bank building
Abraham Salro vitch, a fifteen year old telegraph messenger, was crushed to death by a passenger elevator in the First National bank building in Chicago. The accident was witnessed by a dozen or more people in the car and near the shaft entrance. Several fainted.
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Chicago
Abraham Salrovitch
First National Bank
Retains Title of World Champion Disus Thrower
London July 17 The American athletes dominated the discus throwing competition freestyle at the Stadium. Martin J Sheridan of the Irish American Athletic Club retained the championship with a final throw of 134 feet 2 inches, over two feet behind his own record. M H Giffin of the Chicago Athletic Association took second with 133 feet 6 3/4 inches and M F Harr of the Irish American Athletic Association finished third with 129 feet 5 inches.
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London
America
Martin J. Sheridan
Giuseppe Alia Executed At Canyon City Penitentiary
Giuseppe Alia, killer of Father Leo Heinrichs of Denver, was executed at the state penitentiary. He divided supper among his family before death, proclaimed his innocence, and did not accept sorrow. The rope slipped, causing strangulation after nineteen minutes. he was buried in the prison cemetery near Royal Gorge.
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Canyon City
Lolo
Italy
Guiseppe Alia
Leo Heinrichs
Denver
State Penitentiary
Alia
Father Leo
Blake
Royal Gorge
Two Killed in Yard Collision at Pierre
In a yard wreck in Pierre South Dakota an engine backing to the roundhouse struck a doubleheader freight from the East. Fireman Clyde Barrett was killed instantly while Engineer E L Weaver, injured and taken to hospital, died there. Both men lived in Huron.
Wreck of White Mountain Express Attacks Greenwich Bridge
The White Mountain express on the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad wrecked on Greenwich avenue bridge in Greenwich Conn. Miss Marguerite Armstrong of Wayne Pennsylvania died and ten people were injured. Five parlor cars were derailed and overturned with the fatal car turned completely over.
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Greenwich
Conn
White Mountain Express
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Marguerite Armstrong
Wayne, Pa
Greenwich Avenue
Noted Frenchman Badly Hurt in Car Crash
Eugene Etienne former French minister of war and minister of the interior sustained serious injuries in an automobile accident near Alencon France. His chauffeur and Madame Etienne were also badly hurt when their car ran into a ditch at high speed.
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Alencon
France
Eugene Etienne
Interior
Here
Madame Etienne
Widow Edith Teagle Dies From Self Embrace Shot
Mrs Edith M Teagle wife of Walter C Teagle an official of Standard Oil is reported dying in a Pasadena hospital from a bullet wound attributed to a self inflicted act in Pasadena California on July 17.
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Pasadena
Cal
Edith M. Teagle
Walter C. Teagle
Cleveland, O
Standard Oil Company
Pasadena Hospital
Central America Talks At Sagamore Hill Involving Roosevelt
A conference at Sagamore Hill, involving President Roosevelt, Mexican ambassador to the U S, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon, and W J Buchanan, is expected to last several days and address Central American tensions. Creel and Buchanan denied any link to a proposed protectorate scenario in Guatemala, backing a peacekeeping approach under U S Mexico treaty obligations.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Bacon
W. J. Buchanan
Oyster Bay
L. L
Central America
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
United States
W. L Buchanan
Robert Bacon
Mexico City
Cabrera
Guatemala
Mexico
Senor Creel
Buchanan
Creel
Eight Hours Ahead of Time Relay by Y M C A Boys
The silver tubed message from Mayor McClellan of New York to Mayor Busse of Chicago traveled via Y M C A boys eight hours ahead of schedule. More than six hundred boys relayed the message from New York to Ohio and across Pennsylvania into Cleveland, with 175 more to continue through Ohio. The Erie and Ash tabula units delivered to Painesville and finally to Central Cleveland Y M C A where S P Fenn received it.
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Cleveland
McClellan
New York
Busse
Chicago
Ohio
New York City
Ohio State Line
Conneaut
Fredonia
N. Y
Linneborn
Dunkirk
Pennsylvania
Erie Y. M. C. A
Ashtabula
Painesville
Central Y. M. C. A
S. P. Fenn
Central
M. D. Cracken
West Side
Assassination Shocks Monastir Amid Turmoil in Macedonia
General Osman Pasha, commander at Monastir, was killed in the barracks by an officer linked to the Young Turkey movement. The murder follows General Shemsi Pasha’s similar death in the same city and comes after amnesty announcements for compromised Turkish officers amid Macedonia’s unrest.
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Salonika
European
Turkey
Osman Pasha
Monastir
Macedonia
Shemsi Pasha
Prince Philip zu Eulenburg Severely Sick After Trial Suspension
Berlin July 20 Prince Philip zu Eulenburg was insensible or in a semi conscious state for hours after the suspension of his perjury trial linked to last year’s court scandals. Doctors say his condition is critical but not immediately life threatening.
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Berlin
Prince Philip Zu Eulenburg
Honduras government quells rebellion in ten days
New York July 20 The Associated Press reports from General Davila president of Honduras that the government ended the revolutionary movement in ten days. The decisive battle occurred near Nacaome with the enemy defended.
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New York
Associated Press
Davila
Honduras
Summer Vacation Tours to Colorado and Nearby Resorts
Summer Vacation tours advertise low round trip rates through September 30 to Colorado. Also offered are low tourist rates to Black Hills Wyoming Utah resorts and Yellowstone Park. Plan now for a park through trip or side trips on a coast tour with routes via the park or via Salt and scenic Colorado.
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Colorado
Black Hills
Wyoming
Utah
California
Puget Sound
Pacific Coast
Omaha
Shasta
Yellowstone Park
Wonderland
the Park
Salt and Scenic
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Minneapolis
Chicago Grain and Provisions
Chicago Union Stock Yards
Reeves
LABOR
Denver Concern
Michigan
Armour Avenue
Eloise
Mich
Roe
Loraine Wright
Charles Wright
Levee
Frank Lewis
Martin Sheridan
President
Zu Eulenburg
Big Horn
Clem Deaver
Durlingtom Landseekers
W. E. Jones
Sioux City
Groveland Park
St. Catherine’s
W. F. R. Whortom
Office World Building
Ros
H. C, Durkee M. B
D.co. Koch
August Tams
Huron, South Dakota
Mouser
Huron
South
Dakell
Fronta
Svice
Burnham
Treva
J. H. Mahaffy
Ae Aethel Profession
DR. Chambers
World Building
Entist
C. S. Jones
Te No
Jertae Valley Bank
Poli
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