Mountain Feuds in Eastern Kentucky Turn Bloody in Clay County
In Clay County Kentucky the Baker Howard feud erupts into a declared war with killings and ambushes over a $40 spring wagon. Sheriff White and state militia patrol Manchester as the feud turns deadly with multiple executions, arrests, and volatile confrontations surrounding the Baker family and their enemies.
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Maxcararen
Clay County
Howard
Bradley
Kentucky
Baker-Howard
Tom"' Baker
Tarael
Carter Howard
Reese Murray
Janos B
Bal” Howard
Murray
Baker
Howards
Barney Israel Howard
Tom" Baker
Israel
Paris healer Dr Edwards faces prosecution amid claims of miracles
A Paris based healer Dr Edwards, alleged to be a representative of St Paul, faces prosecution as devotees crowd his grand French apartment seeking cures real or imagined. Visitors report a front room basket overflowing with gold coins demanded before treatment. Attendees include followers of Gleo de Merode, Emma Calve and Loie Fuller, who reportedly praised him while some call him savior if he remains.
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Paris Menter
New York Herald
Paris
Dr. Edwards
St. Paul
Gleo de Merode
Emma Calve
Loie Fuller
Hardest Kind of Animal Teamlog
A collection of curiosities and historical notes on training wild beasts. It recalls a failed lion and lamb act in a circus, mentions fastest mile times, the Rosetta Stone’s discovery and role, a Chicago anti cruelty badge, and Britain’s vast African territory with population figures.
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Ptolemy V
Egypt
Egyp
Roosevelt Visits McKinley in Washington New York Governor Roosevelt Meets President
New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was invited to the White House for a Saturday night consultation with President McKinley. The meeting included Secretary Hay and Attorney General Griggs. Roosevelt dispensed an AP interview asserting merit bases for promotions and backing the administration's Philippine policy while criticizing opponents of the treaty and troop request.
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Theodore Roosevelt
New York
White House
Oyster Bay
McKinley
Washington
Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Hay
Long
Griggs
Corbin
Philippines
Empire State
War Department
Associated Press
New York Volunter
Otis
Phillippines
Aguinaldo
Senate
Not a Gift to Bryan Lincoln Dispatch Saga
W. J. Bryan denied that a car load of melons sent by J. D. Mec- Eachern & Co. of Morven Georgia was a gift. He said he was asked to place them on the Lincoln market and he turned the car over to a merchant who sold the fruit and paid the freight.
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Lincoln, Neb
W. J. Bryan
J. D. Mec- Eachern & Co
Morven
Lincoln
Train Mangles Seven At Columbus Crossing
Seven members of William Reinhard’s family, five children ages nine to fourteen, were struck and killed or gravely injured when a westbound passenger train hit their survey wagon near a fair grounds crossing in Columbus Ohio. Mrs Reinhard and two sons died at once. two others died at hospital. one son survived with injuries. The crossing had long been considered dangerous due to obscured view by a tall fence.
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Burch
Sid Baker
Wooton
William L. White
Lam” Baker
Wilson Howard
Bure Store
Lom" Baker
Trigla
Knox
Barbouraville
Manchester
Lexington
Baker
Court House
Baker House
William Reinhard
Columbus
Edward
William
Clarence
CIGARMAKERS LOCKED OUT IN TAMPA STRIKE
Tampa cigar makers strike escalates as twenty factories close. Four thousand workers, mainly Cuban, Spanish, and Italian, are out of work while incendiary rumors circulate. A prior Ybor factory stoppage led to a manufacturers association to lock out, cutting over $80,000 weekly payroll.
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Tampa
Fla
Ybor Manrara
Many Subjects of Charity Amid Texas Flood Losses
Governor Sayers told an Associated Press correspondent that up to 45,000 people, mostly Negro refugees, depend on public charity after a disastrous Texas flood. He said property losses are heavy, life loss perhaps under fifty, with big plantation owners hit hardest and charity unequally distributed. Advices from Pretoria report prosecutors in the Transvaal to pursue high treason charges over the Johannesburg uprising. The North Atlantic Squadron arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and will proceed to Portland next Thursday.
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Texan
Sayers
Texas
Associated Press
Pretoria
Transvaal
Johannesburg
Portsmouth
N. H
Portland
War Material For Transvaal Dispatch From Rome
A Rome dispatch reports the German steamer Reichstag sailed from Naples carrying 15 000 rifles 500 tons of war material and 500 mules for the Transvaal.
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Transvaal
London
Rome
Reichstag
Naples
Carriage Struck by Train in Buffalo Ends Two Lives
A carriage carrying William M. Diem and Miss Lizzie Frequezel was hit by a Wabash train in Buffalo New York Sunday night. Both occupants were instantly killed.
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William M. Diem
Lizzie Frequezel
Buffalo
N. Y
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Sam" Baker
Charles Wooton
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A. L. Howard
Jamen
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Mra
Bakers
Sherif White
Tom Baker
Colonel Williams
James
George W. Baker
Young
White
Tom” Baker
Barbourville
Jim
Sheriff White
Howard-White
Coonel Williams
Brough
Barboursville
Wiley
al, Dee
Jim Baker
H. &. Redmond
Colorado Volunteer Infantry
Redmond
Mariquina
Mns
Tom Narior
Kentucky Mountains
A. B. Howard
Shertff
Gan" P. Whith
Howard-White Forces
Br. Edwards
Fanteat Times
Fort St. Julien
Boussard
British Museum
Chicago
Great Britain
Africa
Etta
M'Kinley
Teddy
America
Bryan
Nebraskan
Ilan
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