Bones Found Near Holmes House in Evanston
A grave near the former H H Holmes house in Evanston yields bones. Mrs Andrea Parker and her husband, spurred by a dream, excavated 160 yards from the house and found a skull, ribs, and bones of a woman. Police seek ties to Holmes victims the Williams sisters.
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Chicago
H. H. Holmes
Evanston
Andrew Parker
Evanston Avenue
A. H. Parker
HH. H. Holmes
Willamette
Texas Battleship Runs Aground At Newport Harbor
The battleship Texas struck a rock while entering Newport Harbor at 5 50 pm and is stuck fast amidships the tug Aquidneck cannot move it with more tugs and the Right Arm to help rescue as high water later today approaches the ship faces a dangerous position near the torpedo station official reports say Captain Glass forbids visitors and Washington has been notified the ship is a 6315 ton two turret battleship built 1889 90 costing 2 5 million and capable of 17 knots
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Texas
Newport
R. 1
Hall of the Texas
Washington
Glass
Navy Department
Goat Island
Newport Harbor
R. I
North Atlantic
Aquidneck
Department At
Lynching At Watonga Echoes International Tension
News from Watonga reports a lynching after the murder near Fay Blaine County. Mexicano Bapispe Necorari was captured by Anti-Horse Thief members and hanged in public on a street edge after a jail assault. Mexican officials demand investigation and reparation.
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Guthrie
Watonga
S. C. Buckman
Fay
Blaine County
Homestead
Ruckman
Medicine Lodge
Kan
Samuel Vickers
Sam Moore
Anti-Horse Thief Association
Bapispe Necarori
Cheyenne
Arapa
Armenian Atrocities Stir Indignation Across Nations
London reports Lord Hugh Cecil urges not to rely on England alone to save Armenians as indignation grows over Armenian atrocities under the sultan. Constantinople dispatch notes young Turk placards inciting dethronement. Armenians are deported to the Black Sea amid fear of drowning. Foreign embassies authorize police to arrest Armenians throwing bombs or shooting from houses.
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London
St. James
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Abdul Hamid
Europe
Dardanelles
Bosphorus
Dreibund
Hugh Cecil
Marquis of Salisbury
Walmer
England
New York
Constantinople
Young Turk
Black Sea
Lord Salisbury
Yuad Pasha
American Edward Bell in Balmoral dynamite plot case
Glasgow reports Edward Bell, an American arrested for involvement with Tynan, Kearny, and Haines in a dynamite conspiracy to blow up Queen Victoria’s Balmoral residence during the czar’s visit. He was handed to Scotland Yard detectives and transported to London.
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Glasgow
Edward Bell
Tynan, Kearny and Haines
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Scotland Yard
London
No. 1 Phoenix park figure appeals for protection
Washington reports Tynan, alleged to be No 1 of the Phoenix park tragedy, now jailed at Boulogne, has appealed to Ambassador Eustis claiming exemption from surrender to British authorities based on American citizenship. Chicago notes Galveston route opens west-bound traffic at much lower rates than direct New York routes via Chicago, alarming western emigrant clearing house leaders. Chairman Caldwell fears rail lines may be forced to match Galveston rates without action to protect Atlantic gateways.
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State Department
Tynan
Phoenix Park
Boulogne
Eustic
Chicago
Ill
Galveston
New York
Western Emigrant Clearing House
Caldwell
Stepl
Atlantic
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Sagua la Grand
Valparaiso
Chile
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Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
Greer, Mills & Co
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Phillips
Marshall Shelby
Ardmore
I. T
Dallas County
Booker
Charley Dennis
Dennis
Desperado Purty
Rock Island
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Antietam
Philadelphia
Thomas J. Stewart
John E. Reilly
W. W. Kerr
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Maryland
Hastings
Pennsylvania
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Harley
A. W. Pettit
Charley Waters
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D. C
State Board of Control
France
Brest
Hilary A. Herbert
United States Navy
Admiral Barres
Faubourg Scutari
San Francisco
Cal
Oliver Winthrop
Diaz
City of
Mexico
International Water Boundary Commission
Bravo
Grande
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Rio Grande
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Nogales Custom House
Department of State
Sonora
Mexico City
Ecuador
Grand Pacific
LaSalle
Jackson Streets
John Monon
Patrick Rush
Edwin Baldwin
Robert H. McCracken
James Pendleton Cruger
Wall Street
Cruz
D. Sullivan & Co., Bankers
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Tex
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Sultan
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Shreveport Transfer Co
St. Col. Louisiana
Shreveport
Eon M. Carter
Gardbeen
Texas and
Spring Streets
Hunter Mbrose
Commission
Levee Street
G. Dreyfus & CO
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Crockett Streets
Herman Loeb
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Cor. Katt ST
Vicksburg
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Ileans
Houston
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Texas Street
L. M. Carter
Savings Department
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