Thaw Fate Put Before Lunacy Commission Panel
Judge Fitzgerald names a three member lunacy commission to assess the mental state of Harry K. Thaw in the murder case of Stanford White. The panel includes Morgan J. O'Brien Peter B Olney and Dr Leopold Putzell. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw informs her husband as Thaw meets the hospital ward. The jury is excused indefinitely and Thaw’s lawyers express satisfaction with the panel.
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Harry K. Thaw
Justice Fitzgerald
Stanford White
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Criminal Courts
Morgan J. O’brien
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Peter B Olney
New York
Leopold Putzell
O’brien
Grover Cleveland
Hyde
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Thos. F. Ryan
Justice O’brien
New York County
Olney
William C. Whitney
Harvard
Puzzle
Bellevue Hospital Medical School
State Medical Board
Morton Salt Block in Hutchinson Destroyed by Fire
The Morton salt block in Hutchinson Kansas owned by Joy Morton and Paul Morton former secretary of the navy burned tonight. The loss includes a new 260990 addition and much refined salt and may reach 1 million. Fire started from a coal oil lamp explosion and spread quickly aided by a southwest wind. The new addition was to begin vacuum process manufacture soon. Insurance covered the rest of the plant.
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Paul Morton
Hutchinson
Kas
Dispatch
Morton
Joy Morton
May election planned as condition for Philippines peace
The Philippine commission is instructed to tell President Roosevelt if peace conditions are met in the archipelago. If affirmative, a general election would be called on July 1 to elect delegates to a two house popular assembly. The assembly would assume legislative power from the Philippine commission with non Christian tribe members barred by law.
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Philippines
Philippine Commission
Roosevelt
Popular Assembly of the People of the
Philippine Islands
iPhilippine Commission
Congress
Battle over ejectment leads to shootings in Muskogee
Federal authorities and members of the United Socialists Club clash as a writ of ejectment is served on a Negro faction in Muskogee Indian Territory. Deputy Marshal John Cofield is seriously shot. Guy Fischer is wounded. three Negroes are killed and two more shot during the siege of a barricaded house. The city and marshal's forces respond. officials report no race riot. The remaining Negroes support the officers' action.
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United Socialists’ Club
Cincinnati Detective” Association
Muskogee
I. T
John Cofield
Guy Fischer
United States
Frank A. Harrison Named Deputy Clerk for Lincoln Division
Frank A. Harrison has been selected as deputy clerk of the circuit and district courts for the new Lincoln division. The appointment, agreed by clerks Thummel and Hoyt and approved by the judges, places him in charge of records for both courts at the federal building. He will be sworn in and begin service immediately, with enhanced compensation expected as business grows. Harrison, a longtime newspaper man, has six years of independent political activity in favor of a square deal.
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Lincoln
Neb
Frank A. Harrison
Thummel and Hoyt
Harrison
Federal Building
Thomas Munger
Department of Justice
Nebraska
Liability Act Upheld By Federal Judge
United States District Judge Emory Speer in Macon Georgia sustains the Employers' Liability Act as constitutional in the Lucy Snead administratrix v Central of Georgia Railway Co case. He says Congress may regulate interstate and foreign commerce and applies to railroads on land, with references to the Interstate Commerce Commission and anti trust and rebate statutes.
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United States
Emory Speer
Macon
Lucy Snead
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Speer
Congress
High Seas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Whalen Dam Contract Awarded for North Platte Project
The Interior Department awarded Robinson & Son Contracting of St. Louis a 217,850 dollar contract to build the Whalen dam and headworks for the North Platte irrigating project in Nebraska and Wyoming. The dam will divert water into the interstate canal about 150 miles below the Pathfinder dam, entailing about 90,000 cubic yards of earth and rock excavation, 10,000 feet of lumber, and around 8,000 cubic yards of concrete masonry.
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Interior Department
Robinson & Son Contracting Company
St. Louis
North Platte
Nebraska
Wyoming
Pathfinder
Heaviest Man in the United States Dies at Seventeen
Elmer Sheppard known as Big Eno dies in Appleton Wisconsin at seventeen from fatty heart degeneration. He weighed 640 pounds and was gaining about one pound weekly.
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Elmer Sheppard
Big Eno
United States
Appleton, Wis
Mail Order Buggy Troubling Village Commerce
A writer attacks mail order houses as a threat to small towns economy and catalogs deceptive practices. He cites large sales by Chicago firms, warns of misbranding, and recalls buyers harmed by inferior goods bought from distant dealers.
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Chicago
Didn't Suit Him Revolt on Election Car Ride
A Boston Herald writer notes conductor Crowley with six stripes on his sleeve, as a passenger in a Forest Hills car intoxicated man shouted John B Moran moments before Dudley Street.
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Forest Hills
Crowley
Boston Herald
Dudley Street
Cirrcuit and Guild
Oxen Race Training Trials in France
In France, efforts to train oxen for saddle riding include several races to test their capacity. Oxen are tried as flat racers and also as jumpers, with bridles and saddles similar to those used for hunters.
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France
Huntera
Chess vs Whist as Tests of Mind and Skill
The piece argues chess reveals intellect within strict rules and steady practice, while whist requires improvisation and quick thinking beyond formal study. It claims chess tasks the mind mechanically, whereas whist demands adaptive, creative plays, with mastery not guaranteed by rules alone.
Promotion of Friendship in a Turkish Bath Era
A bachelor girl notes social changes in New York saying it is no longer needed to attend society events to meet people. She observes many women have become friendly with others recently and receives the common explanation that they met “in the Turkish bath.”
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New York
The Case Against Mail Order Buying
In a critique by F B Miller the author argues that buying from mail order houses harms small towns. He warns of bankruptcies, falling property values, and weaker local institutions as trade shifts online and catalogues expand.
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F. B. Miller
Richest Woman in Britain Miss Emily Talbot
The wealthiest British woman today is Welsh single woman Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot. She is the elder Miss Talbot and executor owner of the Talbot estate at Margam Abbey Glamorganshire valued around a million and a half pounds with a reversionary interest in a large consol trust.
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Emily Charlotte Talbot
Christopher Talbot
Miss Talbot
Fletcher
Saltoun
Margam Abbey
Glamorganshire
Talbot
Stolen Spanish Armor Pieces Reappear in Auction
A collection of arms and armor received from Spain and offered at auction in 1839 has been identified as containing many pieces from the royal Spanish armory. The theft was carried out by an unscrupulous official and concealed by an accidental fire.
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Spain
Royal Spanish Armory
Art Journal
Changeable Electric Signs With Colored Caps
Brilliant effects for electric signs are now available at low cost through small colored transparent caps that fit over the rounded ends of incandescent bulbs. This lets owners alter legends at will and use colors without stocking a large supply of expensive colored lamps, says Scientific American.
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Scientific American
New Metric Chart Offered Free to Schools
A new metric chart showing geographic measures of the international system has been prepared by the Bureau of Standards in the Department of Commerce and Labor and will be supplied free to any school teaching the system.
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Bureau of Standards
Department of Commerce and Labor
Sincerity defined as truth in word and deed
A quotation attributed to Tillotson defines sincerity as speaking as we think and doing as we promise, striving to be what we seem to be and to perform what we profess. It emphasizes aligning appearance with practice and truthfulness of character.
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Tillotson
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Hr. K. Thaw
Denfese
Counsel Express
Tion
Indian Territory
Alfred C. Clark
East End
London
Jefferson
Capt. Cuttle
James Payn
Britain
Wales
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