Prosecution Plea in Thaw Case Praises Justice
Jerome, the prosecutor, delivers a masterly closing plea in the Harry K Thaw case. He concedes Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’s story as true apart from the drag imagery and denounces Stanford White and Whiten as degenerates in a jealous, tragic murder sequence. He asserts fairness and mercy while acknowledging the grave wrong done to Mrs Thaw.
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William Travers Jerome
Shenae
Harry Kendall Thaw
Mr. Jerome
Stanford White
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
Erome
Jerome
Thaw
Whiten
Marty Thaw
Battle flag at auction Chesapeake relics fetch high sum
An ancient American naval pennant from the Chesapeake and the Balaklava bugle, part of T C Middlebrook’s London collection, sold at auction for 4250 dollars and 1600 dollars respectively to a London art dealer. The buyer claimed the items would go to American parties. rumors tied to Cornelius Vanderbilt were denied.
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London
Chesapeake
T. ¢. Middlebrook
Tigursday
Shannon
Grundy
Royal Navy
Bowling Congress Opens in Cincinnati With Record Purses
The International Tournament of the American Bowling Congress in Cincinnati has drawn 346 five man teams 74 two man teams and 1440 individuals. About 23500 dollars will be distributed among bowlers plus extra prize money by the Cincinnati Bowling Association. The tournament opens on February 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincionati
American Bowling Congress
Cincinnati
Chicinnath Bowling Association
Krapp Official Arrested Over Military Secrets
An official of the Krapp gun works was arrested on Thursday for betraying military secrets. It is alleged he sold the plans of certain guns Krapps are building for Italy.
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Krapp
Krapp Gun Works
Reise
Krapps
Fur Traly
Montreal Fire Destroys Paint Warehouse and Hardware Store
A large blaze in Montreal damaged PY Dodds paint and varnish warehouse and FE Walters hardware building on Thursday. Estimated loss reached 125000 dollars. Many firefighters suffered frostbite to winds, noses, and cheeks amid the cold blaze.
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Montreal
PY Dodd
Fe, F. Walters Hardware
Sioux City Live Stock Market Report and Arrest News
Thursday quotations show Reeves at 4.759 and 6.25, Top hugs at 4.20. Baylog coal theft alleged by LG Anderson, Aberdeen alderman, arrested in Minneapolis by St Paul railroad officials for buying coal stranded by road workers. Marshall Halstead, former U S consul at Birmingham Bay, died Wednesday after an appendectomy operation at a German hospital.
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Sioux City
LG. Anderson
Aberdeen
Minneaypolis
Ming
St. Paul
Marshall Halstead
United States
Birrmingham
Bay
Dewvonesa Auspipal
Liberal London program signals cautious reforms in new session
British parliament opens as Liberal leaders push a radical reform agenda with Irish policy education and old age pensions under scrutiny. Cabinet hopes to satisfy factions within the majority while avoiding overstepping constitutional bounds. Rumors of Irish council measures shift toward landlords grazing land concerns. The king quietly influences proposals without overstepping.
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Ty Moultiert
Rig Os
House of Commons
Dublin
Irish Council
Theia
Aptinity Prank on Geor ge Ade at Indiana Society Dinner
A dramatic hoax disrupted Indiana Society of Chicago's third anniversary when a man portraying a French affinity to dramatist George Ade made a scene at the annex dinner. Ade, guest of honor, appeared puzzled, then amused as the faux femme fatale revealed a male disguise with false hair. The reception at the Press Club opened the celebration and included a toast by President Richard Henry Little, ending with verses about Indiana.
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Hovoslérs
George Ade
Iwce
Indiana Society of Chicago
Ade
France
Indiana Society
Press Club
Richard
Henry Little
Indiana
Robbers Seize Cash At Mansfield Express Office
Shortly after midnight two masked men entered the Adams Express office at Mansfield station, knocked agent William Depew unconscious, and escaped with $3,000. A $40,000 gold bag escaped notice. Suspects John McCue and Joseph Stevens were captured in New London, believed linked to the Mansfield robbery.
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Adams Express Company
Union
Mansfield
William Depew
John McCue
Joseph Stevens
New London
Traffic officials set coal shipment rates through next year
At the annual session of traffic officials from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia coal railroads serving the Pittsburgh district and lake ports, held in Pittsburg on Wednesday, it was decided that current rates will continue for the ensuing year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Pitsburg
Fatal Fight Left Kansas City Floor Walker Dead
J H McDonald a floor walker at a Kansas City department store died Wednesday from injuries after a fist fight with Edward Ralls a local butcher. The incident occurred amid a reported dispute. Falls is described as in a precarious condition.
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J. H. McDonald
Kansas City, Mo
Edward Ralls
Falls
Interurban wreck injures fifteen near Salem Ohio
An interurban car on the Youngstown and Ohio Electric Railway jumped the track three miles east of Salem Monday afternoon and plunged down an 80 foot embankment. Fifteen passengers were injured, none fatally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown and Ohio Electric Railway
Salem
Mob Lynches Two Accused of Murder Near Commercy Miss
Two Black men were captured by a mob and lynched near Commercy Mississippi after being accused of killing their father to steal valuables. The violence followed the alleged crime on Monday, with authorities reporting the mob action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercy
Miss
Mackarland Beats Loughrey in Philadelphia Bout
Packy Macfarland of Chicago defeats Young Loughrey of Philadelphia over six rounds at the National Athletic Club in Philadelphia Tuesday. Macfarland held the advantage throughout as disorderly scenes spill from ongoing political unrest in Persia with casualties reported in Valera and Yezd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackarland
Loughrey
Macfarland
Chicago
Young Loughrey
Philadelphia
National Athletic Club
Tuesday Pilot
Fire damages several Chicago district firms in third blaze
A Tuesday night fire in Chicago's near northwest riverfront district caused about 1 000 000 in losses across Alfred Peats & Co. Colby & Sons Edson Keith & Co. and neighboring firms. The blaze started in Peats engine room and burned three hours, halting downtown transit and drawing 15 000 onlookers despite the cold. Losses ranged from 5 0 0 to 600 0 00 across tenants and several smaller firms were damaged by water and smoke.
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Chicago Bualesa
Biuateness
Chicago
Wabash Avenue
Alfred Peats & Co
John A. Colby & Sons
Michigan Avenue
Folson South
Keith
Gage Bros. & Co
Theodore Aacher & Co
Edson Keith & Co
Pests
Gage Bros
Theodore Ascher Company
Carl Netchert
Remington Typewriter Company
John A. Bryant Company
Planos
Brutality Allegations at Illinois Reformatory Board Meeting
Ulinois reformatory board at Pontiac heard officers recount brutal discipline of inmate William Hamlin of Quincy. Death linked to punishment, ante mortem statement to mother remains sole corroboration. officials admit punishments administered, deny beating, noting they used discipline beyond mere fists.
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Ulinois Reformatory
Pontiac
Wiliam Hamlin
Quincy
Hamlin
Artists’ divorce and marriage plans in Paris
New York reports say John Kuttner and Ferdinand Pinney Earle, original affinities, will soon be marched to Paris to complete an ungoe compact. Their plan follows a sensational divorce in which the artist sent his wife and baby to France to obtain freedom. With C F Fischbacher pushing the move, relatives expect a divorce decree from the Preveh court within weeks, paving the way for a wedding once the obstacle is removed.
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New York
John Kuttner
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Paris
Buby
France
C.F. Fischbacher
Misa Kuttner
Fire in Chicago Machinery District
A Sunday night blaze in Chicago’s wholesale machinery district caused about $75,000 in damages. It confined to a twenty-two thirty Canal Street building housing several firms. Horse teams from engine company No 2 and truck No 9 collided en route, drivers uninjured, apparatus damaged and returned to quarters.
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Chicago
Canal Street
Binte
Washington Streets
Idle Men Seek Work at Detroit City Hall
About 2000 unemployed workmen marched to Detroit City Hall at noon Monday after two meetings adopted resolutions urging May or Thompson to aid them in finding work. The leader presented the resolutions to the mayor with no disorder observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Wack
Detroit
Minister Sersby in Bolivia Stricken by Stroke Paralysis
The American minister to Bolivia, William Sersby, has suffered an apoplectic stroke and is now paralyzed. Physicians remain at his bedside as his condition is described as dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sersby
Bolivia
William
Prank O Neil Dies in St Louis Pneumonia Case
O Neil of St Louis Missouri vice president of the Pulitzer Dishing company and assistant saliagey of One Post Dispatch died Sunday of pneumonitis. Reitman acquitted of disorderly conduct charge after police alleged misconduct last Thursday. verdict delivered Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prank O'Neil
Frank Rh
O'Neil
St. Louis
Pulitzer Dishing Company
Saiiugey
Post-Dispatch
Reitman
Benjamin Reitman
Chigauu
Cardinal Richard Dead in Paris Archdiocese Loss
Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, died Monday from lung congestion. Born in Nantes on March 1, 1829, he became a cardinal in 1880.
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Richard
Marie Benjamin Juchard
Arding
Paris
St. Nantes
Madge Reed Grants New Trial In Damage Suit
Judge Reed of Cedar Rapids Federal Court grants a new trial in Matthew Callahan versus the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Callahan seeks 10000 for personal injury after an April verdict. evidence shows claim agent Earhart and local officials entertained jurors, tainting the verdict and prompting the new trial order.
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Madge Reed
Reed
Cedar Rapids
Matthew Callahan
St. Paul
Fudge Reed
Earhart
Milwaukee
J. W. Pepperman
Grundy County
Chas. E. Shaw
Falls
Shaw
Marvel in Photography Becomes Color Reproduction Breakthrough
Spencer photographer Frank W. Medlar, president of the National Photographers' Association, reports success using a Lumiere method plate to reproduce exact colors and tints. He exposed two photographs with sixty color shade background draperies, marking a flat colored exposure west of Chicago amid growing public interest in colored photography.
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Spencer
Auguste
Louis Lumiere
France
Frank W. Medlar
National Photographers’ Association
Mr. Medlar
Chicago
Prohibitionists Meet in Des Moines Decide Delegates
A small gathering of temperance supporters met in Des Moines on Tuesday to set the approach for the mass convention. A proposal to have the prohibition party represented by three delegates failed, with the majority preferring delegates attend as individual temperance workers rather than as political partisans. A parade may be staged if weather permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Prohibition Party
Des Moines Wedding Called Off Over License
Mrs. Charles Glasscock of 936 Twentieth street Des Moines refused to marry her husband after he secured a marriage license on Friday. She had divorced him sixteen months prior and objects to the license, declaring the day an omen of evil. The couple has given up hope of a renewed marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charles Glasscock
Twentieth Street
New Des Moines Photo Rule for Iowa Doctors
The state Board of Medical Examiners requires doctors to file a photograph with the Board of Health. New physicians must view a portrait in Des Moines before practicing in the state. The rule aims to identify physicians and will be promulgated once the secretary prints the booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
State Board of Medical Examiners
Des Moines
Secret wedding follows divorce filing in rail promoter case
In Des Moines Mrs. Alice M. Butler, famed as the only woman railway promoter in America, wed 8. F. Moore of Coshocton Ohio, the chief civil engineer on her projects and her biggest creditor, less than a day after a divorce grant. She owed Moore 37000.
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Alice M. Butler
Des Moines
America
Bt. Louis
F. Moore
Coshocton
Moore
Thieves Take Jewelry From Des Moines Home
Thieves entered the residence of A. W. Wali and his wife in Des Moines Tuesday evening and fled with $1,000 worth of diamonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Wali
Des Moines
Lacey J Peyton Dies at 92 at Son’s Home in Little Sioux
Lacey J Peyton aged 92 died at 8 pm Monday at his son O L Peyton’s home in Little Sioux He was one of the area’s earliest settlers. Also reported Safe Crackers Fail in Raid at Mason City Decker Sons packing plant early Monday morning no loot secured as thieves fled in fright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacey J. Peyton
O. L. Peyton
Little Sioux
Mr. Peyton
Mason City
Decker & Sons
Run Down at Crossing Kills Man in Town and Illinois Interurban
A northbound Town and Illinois interurban struck a buggy with three men at Princeton Tuesday night, killing George Barlow, 32, and fatally injuring the other two. The incident occurred near the Short Course School site as it opened at Spencer. The Northern Yowe short course school began with 225 members in the dorm and stock judging classes and no students in domestic science.
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Ilinois
Princeton
George Barlow
Spencer
Corn Husking Machine by H B Purdy Near Rockwell City
Rockwell City inventor H B Purdy is completing a corn husking and picking machine at a Fort Dodge foundry. It features a 12 foot inclined elevator with rollers and hooks to remove husks without shelling kernels. Field tests will occur in Rockwell City, with local bankers backing production there.
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H. B. Purdy
Rockwell City
Fort Dodge
Purov
Des Moines Fire Sparks Panic at Grand Opera House
In Des Moines a fire at Evans cafe across the alley sent smoke into the Grand Opera House during a performance of The Two Orphans. A shout of Fire caused crowding in the gallery but calm heads prevented tragedy. Fire put out in about thirty minutes and show resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Grand Opera House
Evans Cafe
Playhouse
Elopement Seeker Auresia Man Traces Daring Pair
Rich Aurelia man seeks his daughter and her lover Livya Wilson a noted barber and Gertrude Waddell daughter of O D Waddell wealthy landowner. They reportedly fled in trella by team toward Storm Lake last seen there. Waddell issues warrants, sheriff Laurey holds pair, $300 reward offered. Wilson left wife and son. barber business run in Aurelia nine years.
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Aurelia
Livya Wilson
Gertrude Waddell
Trella
Storm Lake
Wilson
Ten Years For Theft Of Chickens In Clinton
Dennis Maloney of Clinton received ten years in the state penitentiary for stealing two chickens. He was found guilty on larceny after a prior arrest for breaking into a saloon led to enforcing an earlier suspended sentence. Judge Barker imposed an indeterminate term not to exceed ten years.
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State Penitentiary
Dennis Maloney
Clinton
Maloney
Barker
Iowa
Ottumwa Mob Defeated At Jail Yard Riot Stop
Sheriff Jackson protected Roy Edwards a Black man under arrest for assaulting Mrs. Clara Erwin after a mob of about 100 gathered at the Ottumwa county jail. The crowd demanded Edwards but the sheriff said he had been moved out of town. The mob left after a four man committee found Edwards absent from the jail.
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Ottumwa
Roy Edwards
Clara Erwin
Jackson
Edwards
Explosion Destroys $60,000 Property At Hocking
A 5000 pound dynamite blast in a freight car during a business fire at Hocking Saturday at 2 am injured several people and wrecked box cars. Windows shattered in Albia two miles away as property valued at sixty thousand dollars was destroyed.
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Hocking
Albia
Conductor Wagner to Retire from Chicago and Northwestern
Conductor John Wagner, a famed railroad man based in Boone, will leave the Chicago and Northwestern to manage a large Oklahoma ranch. He has served twenty seven years on the Iowa division, running between Boone and Clinton on passenger trains.
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Wagner
John Wagner
Chicago and Northwestern
Oklahoma
Boone
That City
Clinton
Towa
Yowa Girl Accused of Theft Faces Arrest in D C
Alma Tieden, a young woman from a wealthy Elkader area farming family, is under arrest in Washington D C charged with stealing from a jewelry store. She left Elkader a year ago to study painting.
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Yowa
Alma Tieden
Washington, D. C
Elkader
Boy Dies of Mojuries Harry Ellison Died at Albia
A nine year old boy named Harry Ellison died in Albia on Saturday from a blood clot on the brain caused by a sled accident that sent him into a ditch while coasting. The tragedy highlights dangers of sledding and wet conditions.
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Boy
Harry
Ellison
Albia
Explosion Injury Ties Steffens and Spencer to Bomb Making
Fred Steffens and Floyd Spencer were injured in an explosion while allegedly making a bomb at Hull Saturday. A faulty charge burned Steffens and Spencer, who suffered facial and eye injuries. Also reported, Mrs Margaret Rawlings of Smithland died suddenly, possibly from heart failure.
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Fred Steffens
Floyd Spencer
Hull
Steffens
Mr. Spencer
Southland
Margaret Rawings
John Rawlings
Smithland
Timeline style chronicle of events from 1546 to 1905
A compact, date driven sequence lists pivotal historical events and figures. It includes Luther's farewell sermon not in Wittenberg, early American governance milestones, wars, treaties, explorations, and disasters spanning Europe, North America, and Asia, with numerous named leaders and locations.
Prussian Suffrage Uprising in Berlin Demonstrations
A massive Sunday protest in Berlin saw over 70,000 Socialists and supporters marching and rallying after the Landtag rejected the manhood suffrage bill. Police dispersed earlier Parliament-area protests with violence as clashes with clubs and swords injured many. Women joined the demonstrations as calls for suffrage and the secret ballot spread across Meusela and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussia
von Buelow
Berlin
Landtag
Meusela
Indictments Placed Against Theatrical Workers In Kansas City
The grand jury in Kansas City Missouri has returned 109 indictments against persons engaged in theatrical work for violating Sunday closing laws. Many indicted are nonresident actors who must return for trial or forfeit bonds. A manager was indicted as many times as he had actors and employees working at his theater the preceding Sunday, based on the theory that the employer violates the law as much by compelling employees to work.
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Naumergué Pheater
Grand
Kansas City
Perwong
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