Howie's Troubles in Court
In Chicago on March 20 Mrs. Elizabeth McCrimmon former Zion City resident sought to have a $500 claim against John Alexander Dowie referred to a bankruptcy referee. Judge Kohlsaar noted a pending bankruptcy petition against Dowie and blocked trial on the contested claim, warning that if not settled soon McCrimmon could sue.
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Chicago
Elizabeth McCrimmon
Zion City
Kobleuat
United States District Court
John Alexander Dowie
Wnohisaat
Dowie
Zion
Dowle
Kohlsaar
Insane Asylum Row Turns Fatal at Lyonville
In Knoxville Tennessee March 20 at the state asylum for the insane in Lyonville the dining room incident between Supervisor Wilter Harden and attendant James Johnson escalated from a quarrel to gunfire Harden wounded Johnson in the hand then fatally shot Albert Weatheron as Weatheron advanced with a chair Harden fired twice killing Weatheron the chaos occurred in the negro department dining room.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Negro Department of the State Asylum For the Insane
Lyonville
Wilter Harden
James Johnson
Harden
Johtnson
Albert Weatheron
Weatheron
Will Pay All His Debts and Rooney Beats Parr
Daniel J. Sully, tied to the cotton bull movement collapse, says through his lawyers he intends to pay every creditor in full, despite a bankruptcy discharge. In Chicago, John Rooney defeats English champion Jim Parr in a wrestling match at the Chicago Athletic Association, taking the third fall in Greco Roman style.
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New York
Daniel J. Sully
Sully
Rooney
Parr
Chicago
John Rooney
Jim Parr
Chicago Athletic Association
Perr
Labor organizer Arthur Ireland Convicted in Kansas Assault Case
Winfield KansasMarch 20 Arthur FE Ireland national organizer of the Federation of Labor has been convicted here of assaulting J D Harrity a non union Santa Fe machinist from Arkansas City. The attack occurred in July last year when Ireland struck Harrity with a Billy injuring him seriously.
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Winfield, Kan
Arthur FE. Ireland
Federation of Labor
J.D. Harrity
Arkansas City
Santa Fe
Ireland
Harrity
Billy
New East Omaha Bridge Opens Across Missouri River
The Illinois Central railroad opened the East Omaha bridge linking Omaha and Council Bluffs over the Missouri River in a formal ceremony attended by railroad officials led by President Fish. In New York, a raid on gambling houses under the Dowling law yielded over 30000 dollars of paraphernalia from the criminal court building, later burned. In Wilmington, Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Cochran was found guilty of stock dealing and suspended for one year by the Methodist Episcopal conference committee.
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Omaha
Neb
East Omaha
Ulinois Central Railroad
Council Bluffe
Missouri River
Illinois Central
Fish
New York
Jerome
Criminal Court
Wilmington
Del
Wilbur F. Cochran
Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Conference
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Nurse
A Newark nurse Mrs Martha Pohlman testifies to the safety and efficacy of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. She cites her own recovery from severe symptoms and recommends the remedy to others, noting Mrs Pinkham offers free confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Martha Pohlman
Chester Avenue
Newark
N. J
Blockley Training School
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Hospital
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Local Residents Make Short Morning Trips and Visits
Personal notes show R. M. Wilson left for Muscatine and Eugene Rust proceeded to Brighton on business. Miss Victoria Deeds arrived from Chicago, Rev. Stryker returned from Ottumwa, Nellie Bartholomew visited, Mrs. Brecht departed for Watkins, W. A. Rowe to Erie for a few days, Myrtie Coop headed home to Perlee, and Yocum began work as a new trimmer at Tondre & Benz millinery on Saturday.
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Eugene Rust
Brighton
Victoria Deeds
Chicago
Rev. Stryker
Ottumwa
Nellie Bartholomew
Wellman
Brecht
Reiner
Watkins
W. A. Rowe
Erie
Ill
L. E. Rowe
Myrtie Coop
Perlee
John Bellville
Yocum
Tondre & Benz
Local People in Transit and Family News
Local residents travel and visit in the morning hours including Nate Babcock in West Chester and Kathryn Kennelly from Davenport. Multiple passengers are noted on trains Q Geo Ross Branch and Rock Island. Mrs Masson learns of her mother Mrs Scofield’s death in Otterbein Indiana at eighty one.
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Geo. Ross
L. O. Brindley
W. M. Laventure
T.P. A
Rock Island
Kathryn Kennelly
Davenport
Rev. Masson
W. M. Scofield
Otterbein
Indiana
Cornell Rhodes scholars review yields no New York pass
Ithaca N Y March 20 President Schurman of Cornell is notified that none of the New York state candidates for the Rhodes scholarship met the qualifying examination standards.
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Ithaca, N. Y
Schurman
Cornell
New York State
Cleveland quietly marks 68th birthday at Westland
Ex President Cleveland celebrated his 68th birthday quietly at his Princeton home Westland on Saturday among informal calls from university faculty friends.
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Princeton
N. J
Cleveland
Westland
Illinois Central official Kniskern dies at 50
Chicago March 20 C A Kniskern assistant general passenger agent of the Illinois Central railroad died at the Kenosha sanatorium from a stroke of apoplexy He was fifty years old.
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Chicago
C. A. Kniskerna
Illinois Cental Railroad
Kenosha Sanatorium
Kniskern
Michigan Indoor track team defeats Chicago regiment
The University of Michigan twelve man indoor track team beat the First Regiment of Chicago by 53 to 11 points at Ann Arbor on March 20.
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Ann Arbour
Mich
University of Michigan
Chicago
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