Turpentine drops flood of headlines from the East
A chaotic mix of notes reports and rumors from various towns recounts local crimes strikes and accidents. Mentions include a man in Hickory assigned to a job a Cobb finding a diamond in f yger county and a Geo shot in the leg. Also notes about tobacco and cotton seeds from the South and broader rail and railway talk, plus town incidents in Winston Salem Durham and Greensbo ro.
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Ie State Press
Abernathy
Cobb
Yger
Putz
Hickory
Acci Geo
den Pay
Oxford
Beneteminent
Durham
J.B. Booth
C. Partridge
Northy
Anville
Charles Stevens
Ob Jones
Winston Salem
Ar Battalion
Hornet's Nest Riflemen
Geo. Wylde
Greensboro
Ance Gee
Aid
eCray
Gentreville
Norfolk and Western Company
Roanoke and Southern Railroad
J. W. Lee
Greenbar
Methodist
Kernersville
Laurinburg
Rockingham Hocket
Salem
Baltimore Trust. and Guarantee Company
Wilson Advance
Tillman McGowan
Galisboro Argus
Georgia Glan
New Berne
Salisbury
Dunn’s Mountain
Charlotte
Divorce Granted in Deapwood Case for Mrs Blaine Jr
Judge Thomas grants a divorce to Mrs Jas G Blaine Jr with custody of the child and $1000 for suit expense plus $100 monthly permanent alimony. Mrs Blaine will leave for Sioux Falls tomorrow.
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Deapwood
S. D
Thomas
Jas. G. Blaine, Jr
Blaine
Wood
Sioux Falls
Fire at Marshfield factory claims fifteen lives
A London factory fire at Marshfield left the building in ruins. Firefighters confined the blaze to the plant though exact employee numbers remain unknown. By noon fifteen bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, with several workers unaccounted for.
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Marshfield Factory
London
Marshfield
Magdeburg Murder Ring Aimed at Servant Girls
Police in Magdeburg, 76 miles from Bern, probe a series of servant girl murders. Fritz Erbe and fiancee Dorothy Buntrock are suspects in Emma Kasen’s death, alleged to lure victims with false job offers. A clothing item from the victims is in their possession. Dorothy has broken down as investigations continue.
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Fritz
Bern
Magdeburg
Fritz Erbe
Dorothy Buntrock
Emma Kasen
Erbe
Dora Klasses
Stormy England Disrupts British Telegraph Lines
A London dispatch reports severe storms have almost completely prostrated land telegraph lines in Great Britain. Communication between London and Liverpool and coastal cable stations is fitful, hindering telegraphic business, while cable routes to Germany the Far East and South America via Europe remain functional.
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New York
London
Great Britain
Liverpool
Germany
Far East
South America
Europe
Railway Wreck Near Petersburg Kills Robber and Wounds Four
Ricamont Virginia February 20 A through train collided head on with a local freight three and a half miles west of Petersburg on the Nor folk and Western Railroad The crash was terrible A man who was stealing a ride was killed another is missing Four persons including the engineer and fireman of the through freight were badly injured The engineer and fireman of the local freight saved themselves by jumping The engines and many gondolas and freight cars are a complete wreck.
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Ricamont
Petersburg
Norfolk and Western
Fatal Affray at Fountain Inn Raises Family Feud
A Greenville dispatch reports a fatal stabbing in Fountain Inn sixteen miles below Columbia. Will Fowler Ed Martin and J H Poole quarrelled with Poole being cut to pieces. Sheriff Gilreath dispatched to the scene as Fowler says he will resist arrest. The feud is described as a family matter with potential for further trouble.
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Columbia
8. C
Register
Greenville
Gilreath
Was It Arsenic in the Soda Bread Case
In Bancor Maine on February 22 a report details that Jarrett died last summer and his family moved to Mount Chase. A tin box of cooking soda, found untouched for years, caused bread shared by twenty eight neighbors to ill. An old man Rider died, others fell near death, raising suspicion that arsenic from Jarrett used in curing skins may have poisoned the soda.
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M. McNair
Maxton
Asheville
Jeter Pritchard
W. W. Roigns
Caldwell
Port
Granville County
Oklahoma
United States
Raleigh
Navy
Nery
Gov. It
Weensboro
Mangumker
Expo Company
County Corners
Brackett
John Pollard
Winston Sentinel
Thighpoors
Hinshaw and Adaris
Fourth Street
Sudderth Mill
Atawba
Lenoir
Bagley Brothers
Bagley
N. C
Smithfield Herald
Oxford
Richard W. Harris
Henderson
Charleston
S. C
Ocala
Fla
Fred Foard
Bandy’s
Cobb
Hickory Press
Carolinian
Davie County
Adam Huffman
Giles Cagle
F. A. Archibald
Concord Times
Carthage Blade
Graham Tyson
John Calhammer
Ben. Tyson
Raleigh Chronicle
Kinston
James P. Bryan
J. P. Barrette
Norfolk
Union Christian College
Indiana
Red Springs
Chapel Hill
Robeson County
Robeson
Edgecombe
J. H. Stanley
Ingram’s
Sherman
Hendersonville
North Main Street
B. B. Jackson
Johnston
Pitt
Mecklenburg
I. B. Williamson
Charlotte Chronicle
J. Lowe
Prince
Mt’n Island
Eunice McDowell
Steel Creek
Fort Mills
8.C
Gastonia
Astonia Gazette
Newton Enterprise
Sheriff's Ford
W. Sherill
Sherrill’s Ford
Wilkesboro
King’s Mountain News
Maj. Jones
Blacksburg
Tara McKensie
Artesian
Charlotte News
Chas. McLean
Wm. McLean
Gaston
York Counties
Southern Pines
Morganton Herald
C. A. McGimpsey
Upper Creek Township
John Robinson
Clinton
B. L. Peterson
Harrell’s
G. W. DeVane
Dunn
R. M. Burke
Chatham County
Cox’s
Ashboro
Rockingham
Moore County
Judge Boyin
Grand Jury
Judge Boy
Braxton Craven
Durham
R. H. Barbee
Rider
Jarrett
Grand Lake
Fatal Express Crash Kills Three Near Hawkins Station
At Hawkins station near Pitrspura the west bound St. Louis express struck a walking party returning from Braddock. One person was killed instantly and two others fatally injured. Victims were Alice Ill twenty from Swissvale. William DeWar twenty two from Wilkinsburg who died at a hospital. Milton Zeigler twenty two from Wilkinsburg who survived briefly. The group had missed the last train and were on the track when the engine appeared around a curve.
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Pitrspura
St. Louis Express
Pennsylvania
Hawkins Station
Here
Alice Ill
Swissvale
Wm. DeWar
Wilkinsburg
Hosital
Milton Zeigler
Braddock
Prospector Discovers Silver Cavern Worth a Million in Colorado
Creede miner Brandt finds a cavern at Batchelder mountain containing pure silver ore estimated at ten thousand to the ton. The chamber measures about fifty by two hundred feet and may make Brandt a millionaire, with cliff-dweller remains and utensils. a capitalist syndicate offered $100,000 cash, but he refused. The crowd rushed to the Cliff Dweller claim as news spread.
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Chicago
Ill
Creede
Colorado
Ial
Brandt
Batchelder Mountain
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Union County
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Salisbury Watchman
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Louisburg
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T. J Coffey
Boone
South Carolina
Peter Eastey
Winston
Opera House
Sam Harris
Snelby Review
Gaston County
Cameron Highsmith
Richmond County
Douglas
Tarboro
Greenville Reflector
State Board of Education
Tyrell County
C. R. Johnson
Cornland
Charles M. Stedman
Z. B. Arledge
Cathey and Spears
Spears
Hendersonville Times
Vernon Few
C. Few
Vernon
Sherrod Bros
Hamilton
Tarboro Advocate
Bob Russell
Mary Watkins
Pickens
Mary
Davidson Dispatch
Yadkin
New London
Albemarle
Albright
Concord Standard
Myers
Washington
Tarboro Southerner
J. H. Johnson
Paul Jones
Johnson
A. N. Lewis
Daisy Davidson
Concord
Con Cord Times
Shelby Aurora
J. B. Wilkison
Clever Springs
J. W. Champion
Fisher
Edward M. Field
Ely Bros
San Francisco
Cal
Curtis
Belfast
Ireland
Montague
Rochester
N. Y
American Express Company
Buffalo
San Antonio
Texas
Houston
Saledad
Vienna
the Times
Austria
Texarkana
Ark
Coy
Jewell
Bentrast
Annie Margaret Montague
Vicksburg & Meridian Road
Ramsey
Rogers
Boyd
United States of Brazil
Advance
Santos
Rio Janeiro
Wash MeTon
Little Kinnakeet
North Carolina
Pirtssura
McKeesport
England
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