Murderer dies after electric chair at Auburn prison
Frank White a 25 year old African American, was executed in the electric chair for the murder of George Clare a Scriba farmer in Oswego county. Six shocks were given with a gurgling sound reportedly from the throat and a spectator fainted during the procedure. Witnesses described the death as grisly and confusing with debates over a sponge and a lingering heartbeat until the end.
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George White
Auburn Prison
Auburn
N. Y
Dee
Frank White
George Clare
Scriba
Oswego County
White
Death of noted grave robber Frank Mc Namee in Philadelphia
Frank Mc Namee, once jailed for stealing sixty graves at Lebanon cemetery, was found dead with his head crushed at Fifth and Walnut streets. Police investigate possible involvement by local black cemetery lot holders, suspecting a racially motivated killing after years of shadowing.
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Philadelphia
Frank McNamee
Lebanon
Fifth
Walnut Streets
Denver
Seymour T. Jarecki
Police Captain Cleared in Roosevelt Funeral Neglect Charge
New York police Captain Cottrell is exonerated on neglect of duty charges after A B Denning reached President Roosevelt at the funeral of James K Gracie. Three detective sergeants and two patrolmen are also cleared in connection with the incident.
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New York
Cottrell
A. B. Denning
Roosevelt
James K. Gracie
Fearful confrontation at Minnesota Governor’s office
Custodian of the Minnesota State House, Colonel C. T. Trowbridge, ejects a raving woman from the governor’s office in St. Paul amid fears of harm to Governor Van Sant. Police called as crowd reacts to incident on December 30.
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Katheryna Mueller
Governor’s
Mueller
Supreme Court
Duluth
Trowbridge
Minnesota State House
St. Paul, Minn
Van
C. T. Trowbridge
State Capitol
Philadelphia suburb guardians patrol in armored watches
Philadelphia suburbs fear rising crime as wealthy residents band together to patrol streets with self organized alerts. A telephone alarm network will link towns, signal bells sound, and armed volunteers patrol roads by night using private cars.
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Philadelphia
Women Husk Corn for Church Fund Drive
A group of Congregational church women at Thiboldt Sioux City undertake a fund raising plan for a new church structure. They husked forty bushels of corn at 30 cents a bushel and later harvested beets, sold popcorn at events, and briefly hired out as janitors to raise the $15,000 needed for carpeting and completion.
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Sioux City
Thiboldt
Congregational Church
Will Strong
Corry
Ferryby
Mabel Fuller
Minnie Nichols
Countess Hurt In Runaway on Pennsylvania Avenue
The Countess Casini, adopted daughter of the Russian ambassador, was injured when her two wheeled cart and a spirited horse bolted on Pennsylvania Avenue in the late afternoon. She was driving toward the capitol.
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Washington Dee
Cassini
Russia
Pennsylvania Avenue
Cap
Limed Wreck Kills One on Limited Train Collision
One man was killed, two seriously injured, and several others hurt in a head on collision between Pennsylvania Limited No. 5 west bound and an east bound freight near Larwill, thirty miles west of Fort Wayne Indiana. James Ratfanyder of Crestline Ohio, baggage man, died. Injured include Oliver Hebert engineer and Elmer Stafford fireman of the Limited. The freight engineer Crowell misread orders delaying the meeting point. The wreck halted traffic. a relief train and surgeons were dispatched.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Pennsylvania Lmited
Lar
Will
Here
James Ratfanyder
Crestline
Oliver Hebert
Limited
Elmer Stafford
Sattler
Norfolk
Neh
James Robison
G. Ketts
Chicago
William Hamilton
C. J. Mieldstock
Jersey City
John Hebert
Hebert
Larwill
Crowell
Reading
Long romance ends with murder in Harrisburg tale
The inquiry into the Choister killings reveals a long engagement between Joseph Choister and Mrs. Rh Weideman of Los Angeles, planned wedding on the day of the shooting. Mayor Snyder orders a thorough probe as witnesses report intimidation.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Joseph
Luke Choisser
Harrisburg
Choisser
Rh. L. Weideman
Snyder
Missing vessel omaha search spurs warship patrols
Warships patrol the seas nineteen days after a missing collier believed to be Omaha. Wreckage washed ashore on Spain’s coast fuels fears for the vessel’s fate as reported from Dec 80. In schools marriages thin ranks forcing dismissal and class combining per Superintendent Pearse who laments teachers as an epidemic after Christmas vacation.
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Spain
Omaha
Board of Education
Pearse
Indiana to End Stripes at State Prison
Warden James D. Reid announced in Mishawaka that stripes for convicts will be discarded at the Indiana state prison next week. Prisoners will wear cadet gray uniforms with brass buttons and annual gold and black stripes as badges of merit for good behavior.
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Indiana
Mishawaka
Ind
James D. Reid
Indiana State Prison
Four Filipinos convicted in 1902 Marines killings
Manila December 30 The supreme court confirms death sentences for four natives who murdered three U S Marines in September 1902. Major Noble with government experience in the Philippines will stay on as aide to Acting Governor Wright.
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Manila
Supreme Court
Major Noble
Government of the
Philippines
Wright
Fire Devastates Large Part of Wheaton Ill
A major blaze in Wheaton Illinois caused over 100000 dollars in damage and burned through the night. Firefighters struggled to control the flames but expected eventual containment as dawn approached.
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Wheaton, Ill
Will leaves 30000 for changes in education
The will of Francis B. Peckham a leading local lawyer provides thirty thousand dollars for the education of Edward J. Cocoran a boy who had done odd jobs in Peckham's household.
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Newport
R. L
Francis B. Peckham
Edward J. Cocoran
Countess Cassini Thrown From Cart In Runaway Incident
While the animal bolted Countess Cassini lost control of the cart and was thrown to the street. She regained consciousness and was carried into a store before a carriage took her to the legation. The cart wrecked the horse suffered a broken leg and was shot.
Ice blocks threaten Cincinnati harbor damage
Alarm grows as ice jams on the Ohio river from Cincinnati to Rising Sun Indiana and Coney Island threaten more than a million dollars in losses. Two steamers and many barges were sunk last Sunday, with hundreds of men vigilantly protecting packets towboats and over 100 loaded barges in the Cincinnati harbor.
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Cincinnati
Dee
Ohio River
Cinceinnati
Ind
Coney Island
Roosevelt probes Kishineff massacres reports
The state department, acting at President Roosevelt’s behest, queries diplomats to verify the situation affecting Jews in Kishineff. Odessa consular dispatches report no fresh outbreak, as of the latest telegraph to Washington. A separate court proceeding in Aurora orders Burlington to build a creek bridge.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Kishineff
State Department
United States
Odessa
Aurora
Drainage Commissioners
Kendall County
Burlington Railroad
American arrested in Vienna for forged letter of credit
Berlin reports Mark Palzer, an American, arrested in Vienna on a charge of forging a $10,000 letter of credit drawn on the Darmstadt Bank of Commerce and Industry and cashed in Paris. The item ends with a Voltaire quote about labor driving out vices and poverty.
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Berlin
Mark Palzer
Vienna
Darmstadt Bank of Commerce and Industry
Paris
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East Paris
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J.T. Anderson
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Josef Kansgage
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