Militia Pursues Crazy Snake After Creek Battle
Oklahoma City March 30. A detachment of Crazy Snake's band near the Creek chief's home fought deputy sheriffs in a running clash that fired over 200 shots. One Indian was killed eight captured and Crazy Snake and his followers scattered into small groups as militiamen pressed the hunt. A large crowd attended the funeral of deputy Herman Odom killed in the Checotah clash.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Crazy Snake
Little Tiger
Esley Larney
Jimmie Roe
W. EK. Taylor
Tom, Jeffries
John Lewis
Abe Purgess
Simla Harjo
Chitio Harjo
Hickory Ground
Koffman
Sandy Jabler
Odom
Checotah
Herman Odom
Edward Baum
Fort Smith
Pierce
Whitlas Seek Rest After Abduction Charge Hearing
In Sharon Pa James H Boyle faced a preliminary hearing on abduction of Willie Whitla Bail set at 25000 He was returned to Mercer jail Mrs Boyle will not be brought here for hearing The Whitla family left town seeking quiet after the ordeal
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Sharon
James H. Boyle
Willie Whitla
Mercer
White Plague Attacks Gans
Denver reports former world lightweight champion Joe Gans has developed tuberculosis. The March 30 dispatch notes Gans, a noted pugilist, is afflicted by the illness.
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Gans
Denver
Colo
Joe Gans
Illegal marriages at Bradwell church shock Buckingham
London report says St James Bradwell parish church conducted thousands of weddings over fifty years without a proper license. Buckingham officials will act to legalize the ceremonies and address the breach.
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London
Buckingham
St. James, Bradwell
Seizure Of Dresses Worth 20000 In New York
Customs officials seized two trunks in New York containing about 150 princess gowns 30 lace waists a dozen silk embroidered gowns and dress making material worth an estimated 20000. The examination found no crew to ownership of the property.
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New York
Beveridge Leaves Hospital After Operation
Senator A. J. Beveridge of Indiana has left Johns Hopkins hospital after several weeks as a patient. He underwent a surgical operation and is reported in excellent health again.
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Baltimore
A. J. Beveridge
Indiana
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Senator Beveridge
Days Win Hard Battle In Ohio
In Springfield and Clark county Ohio the dry side won by a county wide majority of eleven in the local option vote. Total county turnout was 17 851 with ninety seven saloons and three breweries affected. The city voted wet by 1 845 but the county result swung dry by 118 in the final precinct amid active women voters banners and schoolchildren urging dry ballots.
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Springfield
Clark County
Louisville seeks third Rose Dickie debate in city
Milwaukee March 30 bids for the final of three prohibition debates between Mayor David S Rose and Dr. Samuel Dickie of Albion Michigan are still arriving, showing continued interest in the series.
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Milwaukee
David S&s. Rose
Samuel Dickie
Albion, Mich
Louisville bids to host contest influenced by national interest
The report notes nationwide interest in last week's contest and highlights Louisville as a leading bidder. It mentions the city famed for distilleries and cites a motto about unity, while referencing a colonel and his mint julep in connection with the bid.
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Louisville
Bill Affects Fraud Orders Judicial Review
Representative Crumpacker of Indiana introduces a bill to allow a judicial review of cases in the post office department involving fraud orders. Subjects of such orders may sue postmasters in the United States circuit court, whose decision is final.
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Washington
Crumpacker
Indiana
Post Office Department
United States Circuit Court
Circuit Court
Drexel funds church and school for Cincinnati Negro Catholics
Mrs. Franklin Drexel of Philadelphia has agreed to provide a combined Catholic church and parochial school for Negro Catholics in Cincinnati. She has bought the site and will erect the building at an estimated cost of about $25,000.
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Franklin Drexel
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Family series of violent deaths ends with duck hunting fatality
Waterloo Iowa March 30 Roy Farnum was killed while duck hunting. The tragedy closes a ten year span in which his family suffered multiple deaths including his father by a fall his mother by gunfire his brother by drowning and his sister by a horse kicking all within ten years.
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Waterloo
Roy Farnum
Farnum
Double Crime in Denver: Father-in-Law Fatally Shoots Woman
John Collins father of Mrs. Jesse McDonald shot and fatally wounded Miss Sarah Nichols at the McDonald home on Logan Avenue before killing himself. The motive remains unknown. Collins had recently arrived in Denver from the east.
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McDonald
Denver
John Collins
Jesse McDonald
Sarah Nichols
Logan Avenue
Collins
Cancer claims Thomas Fitzgerald in Baltimore death
Thomas Fitzgerald, former general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and later chief executive of the Norfolk and Southern, died in Baltimore from stomach cancer.
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Thomas Fitzgerald
Baltimore
Norfolk and Southern
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Former East St. Louis broker held in forgery case
Advices from Kansas City report the arrest of Roy Horton in Kansas City and a chase lasting seven years. Horton, a former broker at the East St. Louis stockyards, is wanted on forgery charges involving 190000 dollars. He used the alias Ryan and has been at the stockyards there for about a year.
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East St. Louis
Kansas City
Roy Horton
Horton
John L. Horton
Roy Sdorton
Ryan
Inventor of traction engine killed by train in Ada
Noble M. Davidson, inventor of the traction engine in 1877, was struck and killed by a Pennsylvania passenger train in Ada Ohio. He had recently recovered his original engine, purchased it, and had it shipped back to his home after a diligent search.
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Ada
Noble M. Davidson
Pennsylvania
Davidson
Captain Maass Acquitted In Freya Navigation Trial
Kiel March 30 A naval court martial acquitted Captain Maass commander of the German cruiser Freya on the charge of unskillful navigation. The Freya in August last rammed and sank the American fishing schooner Maggie and May about sixty miles off Halifax harbor. Nine men perished including Captain McLatheran.
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Kiel
Germany
Maass
Freya
Maggie
May
Halifax Harbor
McLatheran
Three Crushed Under Wall in Los Angeles Demolition
Three men were killed instantly and others injured when a brick wall of an old jar building collapsed during razing in Los Angeles on March 30.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Opening Market Hogs and Cattle Prices Report March 30 1909
Chicago cattle and hog prices show steady to strong trends with mixed packers and heavy shipping grades quoted. Receipts estimated at 17 009 hogs and 14 000 cattle. sheep and lambs strong with Western offerings, while total market activity remains steady to good.
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Texas
House of Commons Votes Confidence in Naval Policy
In London March 30 the House of Commons, by 553 to 135, rejected a move to censure Britain's naval policy. The debate, led by A. Hamilton Lee and supported by A. J. Balfour, urged eight new Dreadnoughts. Grey and Asquith defended the navy as a safeguard against Germany amid talks with Reichstag Socialists on arms reduction.
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London
House of Commons
Arthur Hamilton Lee
Hants
A. J. Balfour
Lee
Asquith
Edward Grey
Grey
Cam Dor
Reichstag
Germany
Want Agreement Signed by Anthracite Operators
Shamokin Pennsylvania March 30. Operators close to President Baer of the Reading railway and Morris Williams of the Pennsylvania Coal company warn that unless United Mine Workers officials across three anthracite districts sign a new three year agreement, the companies will demand a return to 1900 conditions. This would end the sliding scale and reduce wages by twenty pegs.
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Shamokin
President Baer
Reading Railway
Morris Williams
Pennsylvania Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Puddler Strike Continues at Reading Iron Company
At a meeting in Reading Pennsylvania puddlers and helpers voted to keep the strike going. They claim they hold the leverage to force mill closures if the stoppage persists.
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Reading Iron Company
Reading
Dog Fells From Brooklyn Bridge Jumps to Death
A St Bernard leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into the East River area narrowly missing two girls. The dog struck the sidewalk dead, shocking witnesses as a large crowd gathered. No human harm reported.
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Brooklyn
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
East River
Woman burned to death in Pittsburg fire
Mrs Marian Person of Sharpsburg died in a house fire that also left her daughter Mrs Lena Young and son in law Frederick Hemke seriously burned while trying to rescue her. The blaze began in Mrs Bergen's room where she slept and the victims could not locate her before darkness engulfed the hallway.
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Pittsburg
Marian Person
Sharpsburg
Lena Young
Frederick Hemke
Mrs. Bergen
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