St Louis Stabber Confesses After Arrest
John Lawrence Brady known as Jack the Stabber confesses to stabbing 14 women on downtown St. Louis streets January 22 and a prior attack near Ninth and Washington. His mother cites prenatal influence. Brady, 22, an unemployed restaurant worker, says he acted on impulse. three millinery workers and several victims identified him, but the confession followed private questioning by Chief Desmond. A $100 reward had been offered.
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St. Louis
Jack
John Lawrence Brady
Ace'e Faherty
Ninth
Washington Avenue
Brady
Desmond
Richard Hanlon Millinery Co
Lesia Gray
Miss Helen Keller Ill After Strain of Studies
Boston February 10 Miss Helen Keller deaf dumb and blind girl whose career has been followed worldwide has broken down under the strain of her studies and her work for the deaf and blind. She is seriously ill at the home of John A Macy Wentham Massachusetts and confined to bed in near collapse. Doctors say months before she can resume her planned public efforts.
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Boston
Helen Keller
John A. Macy
Wentham
Mass
Royal Italian gift to Miss Roosevelt on marriage
Washington reports the king of Italy sent a rare mosaic table depicting Italian city scenes as a personal wedding gift to Miss Roosevelt. The table was crafted in Florence and selected by the king. In Ridgeway Colorado a Rio Grande Southern roundhouse and two engines were burned along with other property, causing about 100,600 dollars in losses.
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Miss Roosevelt
Italy
Washington
Roosevelt
Florence
Ridgeway, Col
Rio ‘Grande
Woman Hangs Self With Fishline in San Angelo
San Angelo Texas February 11 Mrs J H Verfeuth committed suicide by hanging herself with a fishline. The shocking tragedy occurred in her home shocking the local community and prompting an investigation by authorities.
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Fishline
San Angelo
Tex
Lynching of Bunkie Richardson in Gadsden Alabama
In Gadsden four men were charged with Mrs Sarah Smiths assault and murder. A mob of 24 masked men overpowered the sheriff and jailer and hanged Bunkie Richardson from a Louisville and Nashville bridge over the Coosa river. Richardson had not been indicted and awaited grand jury action.
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Gadsden
Ala
Bunkie Richardson
Sarah Smith
Louisvile & Nashville Railroad
Coosa River
White House wedding limits guests for Miss Roosevelt
President Roosevelt released a statement from the White House explaining that invitations to Miss Roosevelt's wedding will be limited to close relatives, personal friends of Miss Roosevelt and Mr. Longworth, and certain Washington officials. No friends of the president or Mrs. Roosevelt are invited unless they fit these classes, and guest numbers may exceed the White House capacity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Miss Roosevelt
Longworth
Explosion injures expressman in hospital in San Francisco
San Francisco February fourteenth reports H Laughran an expressman injured after an explosion aboard the transport Meade. Allegations say the box for Company B of the Second United States Infantry was dropped, causing the blast. Major Deval heads a commission to investigate the incident and origin of the prior fatal fire remains a mystery.
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San Francisco
H. Laughran
Loughran
Second United States Infantry
Meade
Maj. Deval
Transport Service
Dissipated Her Fortune in Dr George H Simmons Case
In Peoria on February 14, the widow of Dr George H Simmons asked for an administrator of his estate after he killed himself. She claimed he dissipated $9000 she held at marriage with forged notes and destroyed his private papers before death. A sheriff investigation found the notes forged. A Friday depositor meeting will hear Receiver Wilton present his report.
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Peoria
George H. Simmons
Famine Crisis in Northern Japan Draws U S Aid Appeal
President Roosevelt issues an appeal recognizing a famine in northern Japan that has grown more serious than initially believed. Thousands face starvation as he calls on the American people to share their abundance with Japan, a great and friendly nation in distress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Japan
Four Die In Portland Fire Sweep Sections Of Water Street
A blaze in Portland on Monday morning consumed frame buildings between Morrison and Ader, East Water street and the river. Four people died and 12 were injured as flames trapped lodgers in night attire. Daly, about 50, died after saying his wife and two children also perished. Damaged structures include Davis’ wood yard and a large hole opened in the Morrison street bridge.
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Ore
Morrison and
Ader
East Water Street
L. Daly
Daly
Davis’ Wood Yard
Morrison Street
Water Street
Twe
Mexican Consul Blames Chicago For Daughter’s Death
Felipe Berriozabal, Mexican consul in Chicago, laments his 15 year old daughter Mercedes died after an operation, calling Chicago a savage town where no one is safe. He plans to move his family back to Mexico, criticizing American education as dangerous to life and honor.
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Chicago
Felipe Berriozabal
Mercedes
Mexico
Imperial order to execute Changhpu mob leader
Pekin reports the imperial government ordered the viceroy of Foo Chow to execute the Changhou mob leader and severely punish others. The violence began after a Chinaman was detained by the Catholic mission, with mobs destroying the mission and the English mission, and troops firing on the crowd killing 12 sisters.
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Foo Chow
China
Changhpu
Pekin
Imperial
Changhou
Congressman's stance on whipping post sparks uproar in Kentucky
Louisville reports that Congressman Augustus Owsley Stanley of Kentucky’s Second District drew protests by saying he would not let southern chivalry interfere if he saw a husband beating his red headed wife. Women in his district warn they will work to defeat him as the issue stirs a political hornet's nest.
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Louisville
Augustus Owsley Stanley
Kentucky
Stanley
Four Trainmen Killed in Southern Yard Crash
Greensboro North Carolina February 12 four men died when south bound train No 34 struck an open switch in the Pomona yard and rammed a switch engine. All passengers survived though several were badly shaken and J B Wilkie of Columbia South Carolina suffered a cut lip from flying glass.
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Greensboro
N. C
Southern Railway
Pomona
J. B. Wilkie
Columbia
S. C
NOT DEAD, ONLY FAINTED
Chicago reports Thomas Nolan believed he had killed Mrs. Jane McCarthy then shot himself. He burst into her house on Thirty-fifth Street and Auburn Avenue with a revolver, the woman fled and fainted, and Nolan killed himself after assuming she was dead. The woman escaped unharmed.
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Chicago
Thomas Nolan
Jane McCarthy
Nolan
Thirty-fifth Street
Auburn Avenue
Derailed Illinois Central train near Chapmansboro injures passengers
North bound passenger train No. 26 known as the Chicago and Nashville limited of the Illinois Central railway derailed 34 miles north of Nashville near Chapmansboro on Sunday night. Two passengers suffered serious injuries while six others received minor injuries. Conductors A. Cherry and Engineer McGee, both from Nashville, were among those hurt.
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Nashville, Tenn
Chicago & Nashville Limited
Illinois Central Railroad
Chapmansboro
A. Cherry
McGee
Nashville
Beavers Pleaded Guilty In Postal Bribery Case
Washington February 14 In the criminal court George W Beavers pleaded guilty to indictments charging him with conspiring to defraud the government in furnishing postal supplies and with bribery He was sentenced to two years in the Moundsville West Virginia penitentiary.
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Washington
George W. Beavers
Moundsville
W. Va
Iron Mountain Train Sets 1000 Mile Record Austin Run
An Iron Mountain train running over the International and Great Northern line completed the St. Louis to Austin route in 21 hours and 15 minutes, a new record for a 1000 mile continuous run in Texas, illustrating speed to beat rivals and deliver mail.
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St. Louis
Austin
Tex
Texas
Iron Mountain System
International & Great Northern
Government exam signals potential China contingency
San Francisco on February 10 reports an unusual order for a physical examination of the quartermaster department employer. The move is seen by the men as indicating government preparations for sending quartermaster personnel to China, occurring outside routine procedures and catching the crew by surprise.
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San Franciseco
Quartermaster’s Department
China
Mary E Holmes Dies. Educator and Scientist Leader
Mary E Holmes founder of the Mary Is Holmes seminary at West Point Mississippi and promoter of an industrial school for colored girls died at her home in Rockford Illinois on February 14. She was a fellow of the Geological Society of America and had served ten years as Freedmen's secretary for the northwest.
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Rockford,Il
Mary E. Holmes
Mary Is. Holmes
West Point
Miss
Tucrore
Geological Society of America
Northwest
Granite Manufacturers Vote to Suspend Work in Quincy Shops
Quincy mass February 12. The Granite Manufacturers association vote to suspend work across 120 shops. The lockout affects about 1500 granite cutters directly across the shops represented.
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Quincy
Mass
Granite Manufacturers
Bryan resigns trusteeship over Carnegie fund stance
William J. Bryan, writing from Hong Kong, resigns as trustee of an Illinois college. He states he will not serve where the board favors accepting funds from Carnegie or other magnates seeking to subsidize American colleges to block the teaching of economic truth.
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Jacksonville
William J. Bryan
Hong Kong
Illinois College
Carnegie
America
Illinois Happenings Bryan Resigns From College Board
Bryan resigns as president of the Illinois college board from Hong Kong China. board accepts resignation and cites intent to accept Carnegie offer to extend aid. Bryan had joined the board about a year ago and gave 5000 dollars to the school. Other items note Standard Oil transfers in Alton and the death of Mrs. James Allen in Carlyle after a minor wound led to blood poisoning.
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Jacksonville
William. J. Bryan
Board of
Illinois College
Hong Kong
China
Bryan
Andrew Carnegie
Allegheny Mountains
Carlyle
James Allen
Allen
Clinton County
St. Louis
Frances Shimer Academy Burns in Mount Carroll Fire
Frances Shimer Academy at Mount Carroll affiliated with the University of Chicago burned destroying central hall and wings. Loss estimated at 50000 with half covered by insurance. Trustees decide to rebuild immediately.
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Dixon
Frances Shimer
Mount Carroll
University of Chicago
Laborer Dies After Fall From Bed in Boarding House
Jacob-Louis Hilcher, 81, a laborer, was found dead after falling from a bed in a boarding house. Fellow boarders discovered him and sought help, but he had already died.
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Jacob—Louis Hilcher
Death by Own Action: Samuel Barton 80
Samuel Barton of Keyesport committed death by own action at age eighty by shooting himself through the heart with a shotgun, allegedly pulling the trigger with his toe.
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Keyesport
Samuel Barton
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