Missing Rochester Mother Suspected Jail Tale Unfolds
In Rochester New York Mrs. Andrew Kern vanished after visiting Charlotte with her seven year old son Johnny. The boy insists she was jailed by a man in Charlotte. Detectives traced a clue to a round house near the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg line where a woman was said to be kept for days. Authorities pursue this lead amid reports of a man and a possible recovery path.
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Andrew Kern
Charlotte
Johnny
Johnny I Ward City
White City
Kern
Rochester
Johnny Kern
Summerville
Round House
Rome
Watertown and
Ogdensburg
Belcher
McDonald
Had a Poor Way of Showing It
Emanuel Ridenour of Ruffsdale shot his wife three times after a quarrel in Pittsburg on August 28. Dying within twenty minutes, she was shot when she returned home while he was intoxicated from Greensburg court. He claims the shooting was accidental and that he loved her.
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Pittsburg
Emanuel Ridenour
Ruffsdale
Ridenour
Greensburg
All Were Drowned In St Clair River Row Boat Accident
A squall on the St Clair river at Maryville last evening capsized a row boat carrying four people returning from a picnic at Stag Island. The drowned are Frank Dernfy, Mrs. Michael Dernfy, Mrs. Edith Collier, and Miss Celia Croniski. The young women were about 20 years old. Mrs. Derny leaves a husband and two children.
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Port Huron
Mich
St. Clair
Maryville
Frank Dernfy
Michael Dernfy
Edith Collier
Celia Croniski
Stag Island
Derny
China Grants a Point Attack at Ku Cheng
Shanghai dispatch says viceroy has executed four leaders of the Ku Cheng attack on Christians. In Britain, Mr Curzon said no confirmation that troops escorting the British consul plundered missions. Government protests to Pekin prompted orders to aid the consul in examinations.
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Lonponn
Pall Mall Gazette
Shanghai
Cheng Tu
Ku Cheng
House of Commons
George N. Curzon
Foreign Office
Pekin
Utah to gain star on flag this August end
Secretary Lamont announced adding a forty-fifth star for Utah to the national flag. The order changes flag size to five feet six inches by four feet four inches and applies to infantry artillery engineers and engineers battalions as well as new cavalry standards.
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Washington
Utah
Lamont
Union of States
Mysterious self destruction at hotel and nearby notices
A Washington D. C. man identified as W. W. Kettle shot himself at the Hotel Wilie in Prirrs Berre. A note said no body would be claimed. A second note bore O. A. Wylie’s signature. Elsewhere, settlers on government reserves near Port Townsend face expulsion by Sept. 15 as troops may remove them. In Oswego, Mrs Hattie Keller repelled an attacker Kemptham and killed him. she is under coroner investigation.
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Prirrs Berre
W.W. Kettle
Washington, D. C
Wilie
Kettle
G. W. Kettle
Barlow
Pia
Ir. Kettle
War Department
Washington
O. A. Wylie
A. mi
Kemptham
Hattie Keller
Scriba
Diphtheria Epidemic Hits Mishawaka Village
SouTH BEND Ind Aug 28 For several years Mishawaka a small village three miles east of South Bend has faced contagious diseases. An epidemic of diphtheria began three months ago spreading through the village causing deaths. Workmen at an electric plant drained the reservoir supplying Mishawaka water and found a pit bed littered with dead animals. The water used in the town flowed through this decay mass. Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is advertised as a rejuvenator and purifier amid the text, with Pellets claimed to cure constipation indigestion and headaches.
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South Bend
Ind
Miskawaka
Mishawaka
New Railroad for Warren
BUCEFALO August 28 There was chartered yesterday in Pennsylvania the Reynoldsville Warren and Buffalo railroad It is to be 80 miles long and run through Jefferson Clearfield Elk Forest and Warren counties It will connect central McCalmont township Jefferson county with the Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh near Warren Several of the incorporators are Buffalo men The capital stock is 1200000 S B Filiot of Reynoldsville Pa is press That there is some truth in the above is proved by the fact that work is being pushed rapidly on the extension of the Warren and Farnsworth road from Clarendon to Glade Run One hundred men are now at work and the grading will be finished this fall
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Bucefalo
Pennsylvania
Warren
Farnsworth Road
Clarendon
Glade Run
Ardent Coward Perishes In Greenpoint Fire Tragedy
August 21 report from Brooklyn describes a second floor blaze at 54 Clay Street Greenpoint that suffocated Mary Lautner and her daughter Bertha as escape via stairs failed. John Lautner escaped after aiding them to a street. Frau Lautner and Bertha died before a doctor arrived. house destroyed. Lautner vanished amid the chaos.
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Brooklyn
Clay Street
Greenpoint
Mary Lautner
John Lautner
Bertha
Lawner
Lautner
Domestic Troubles Result in Death of Mrs Mary Seichrist
Mrs Mary Seichrist died Wednesday morning in a domestic disturbance incident. Police and medical responders arrived at her home where she was found with fatal injuries. The investigation continues as authorities contact relatives and review evidence.
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Mary Seichrist
Woman Dies After Poison Crisis in West Ind
Mary Seichrist aged thirty one wife of Albert Seichrist a driller died at 10 50 after a cobalt poison act in a domestic crisis She left six children ages 4 to 13 The coroner ruled it a suicide amid a broken home and moral tragedy in Warren.
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West Ind
Mary Seichrist
Albert Seichrist
Warren
Angel
Black Mark
Remedy for Gravel Cures Rochester Man After Two Bottles
John Davis of Rochester fell ill with severe cold and back and kidney pain. His physician diagnosed gravel and offered no relief. After using Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy twice, Davis recovered. The remedy is claimed to have never failed in gravel or urinary troubles.
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Rochester
John Davis
Elis
David Kennedy
Twenty-five Dying Daily in Havana War Hospitals
Havana dispatch reports Santiago receiving ill and wounded Spanish soldiers from St Louis Songo and Cristo. Military and civil hospitals record about twenty five deaths daily, most from yellow fever, as officers and troops die at a steady rate.
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Havana
Santiago
St. Louis
Songo Or Cristo
Holmes Prisoner Reveals Dark History of the Castle
Herald report from Little Rock cites J C Allen alias Caldwell detailing H H Holmes operations. Allen describes Minnie Williams, Quinlan, and murders at the Castle during the World's Fair era, noting gas suffocation of a young man and planned killings, with Holmes planning and Quinlan executing.
Cuban filibuster expedition sails from New York
The Herald reports a Cuban filibustering expedition sailed two weeks ago from New York under Col. Francisco Sanchez. Rumors place the landing in Cuba with a Brooklyn launch carrying recruits for Maceo, 200 rifles, 70,000 cartridges, dynamite, uniforms and hospital stores funded by sympathizers in Mexico. Sanchez acted independently of the Cuban Junta.
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New York
the Herald
Francisco Sanchez
Col. Sanchez
Brooklyn
Maceo
Mexico
Col. Sanches
Abductors Under Arrest In Fitzgerald Case
Six men linked to the Fitzgerald kidnapping were arrested in Buffalo. Names include George Swartzenberg, ex-saloon keeper. Wm Moody. William Kirby once a crook. Joseph Butler. William Pembroke. Albert Petty. Fitzgerald remains jailed, recovering from a debauch.
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Buffalo
United States
Com. Fitzgerald
George Swartzenberg
Wm. Moody
William Kirby
Joseph Butler
William Pembroke
Albert Petty
Pitegerald
Bears fed on human flesh scandal shocks Hungary
Two dozen trainers and exhibitors of performing bears in Debreezin Heidych district Hungary have been arrested on charges of feeding their bears human flesh. They confessed to killing four boys and cutting their bodies into pieces for the animals. Public outrage follows the confession.
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Bupa Pesth
Debreezin
Heidych
Hungary
German Torpedo Boat Sinks in North Sea
Berlin reports the torpedo boat S417 capsized and sank in the North Sea yesterday with thirteen crew members drowned. The loss adds to wartime naval dangers faced by German forces in the region.
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Berlin
North Sea
Labor Day Date Confirmed in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Labor Day date is set for Saturday September 7 this year. Banks must close and papers mature, creating work for financial institutions regardless of celebration. The disagreement over a uniform national date causes banking inconvenience across states prompting calls for agreement.
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Pennsylvania
People’s National Bank
Pittsburg
Attorney General's Department
Harrisburg
Mnew Castle Guardian
World grain crop estimates drive seed fair in Vienna
The international seed fair opened in Vienna with imperial presence as estimates show American wheat at 390 million bushels and maize about one billion more than 1894. Canada and India wheat outputs are given, while Britain France and Bavaria show broad declines in wheat barley and oats compared with prior years.
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Vienna
India
America
Great Britain
France
Bavaria
Town Fire Wrecks Zwaluwe Homes Near Breda
A blaze in Zwaluwe near Breda began last evening and still burns. Forty three houses were destroyed and residents seek refuge in railway sheds and open fields in the town of about four thousand inhabitants.
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Borrerpam
Zwaluwe
Pittsburg Chosen For Next Knights Templar Conclave
Boston hosts the twenty sixth triennial conclave where Pittsburg, Pennsylvania is selected to hold the next gathering. Deputy Grand Master Warren LaRue Thomas of Maysville Kentucky is elected to succeed Grand Master Hugh McCurdy.
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Pittsburg
Boston
Knights Templar
Warren LaRue Thomas
Maysville
Kentucky
Hugh McCurdy
Belmont-Morgan Syndicate Deposits Gold in New York
The Belmont-Morgan syndicate deposited 1.8 million dollars in gold in New York today in exchange for greenbacks. The move raises the treasury gold reserve to 104.7 million dollars.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Belmont-Morgan Syndicate
New York
Treasury
Prison escape at Geneva two captured twelve missing
Twelve prisoners broke jail in Geneva last night. Two were captured, but the others remain at large. Also offered for sale a house on Market Street in Warren Borough, Pa., the late Wm. Messner's home. A. Herzel, administrator, handles inquiries.
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Geneva
K. Aug
Market Street
Warren Borough
Penn’a
Wm. Messner
A. Hertzel
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Ark
Herald
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H. H. Holmes
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Minnie Williams
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Eeme
Castle
Annis Williams
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Annie
Pitezel
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