Schrank pleads guilty in Roosevelt assassination attempt
Milwaukee on November 13 John Schrank pleaded guilty to attempting to murder Theodore Roosevelt and asked the judge to distinguish the attack on the former president as a menace from an attack on a private citizen. The court named a sanity commission and appointed Milwaukee lawyer Joseph Flanders to represent him.
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Milwaukee
John Schrank
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
A. C. Backus
Winifred. Zabel
Schrank
Joseph Flanders
Schwab
City Hall
Backus
Wisconsin
Zabel
Progressive Party
Clymer Named Manager of Buffalo IL Team
Wilkesbarre November 15 William J. Clymer president of the Wilkes barre team in the New York State league signed to manage Buffalo in the International league next year.
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Clymer
Buffalo
Wilkesbarre
William J. Clymer
Armour Packing Company Indicted Over Egg Shipment
The Armour Packing company was indicted by the federal grand jury in Kansas City on charges of violating national pure food laws. The case centers on a shipment of eggs from Kansas City to New York and a bacteriologist's test.
Lorimer to undergo appendicitis operation in Chicago
William Lorimer former United States senator is to have an appendicitis operation at Presbyterian hospital Chicago unless a physician consultation changes plans. Surgeons fear possible appendicitis and prepared to move him to the West Side hospital with Dr Bevan expected to perform the procedure.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Chicago
William Lorimer
United States
Lorimer
West Side Hospital
Shapiro Names Rosenthal Murder Suspects in Car Chase
William Shapiro, chauffeur of the murder car, identified "Lefty Louie" "Gyp the Blood" "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" as Herman Rosenthal's killers. He said he drove the getaway, heard shots, saw gunmen in the car, and heard the accused say no witness and Vecker fixed it all.
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New York
William Shapiro
Lefty Louie
Gyp
Whitey” Lewis
Dago Frank
Herman Rosenthal
Whitey
Frank
Lefty
Metropole
Beret
Vecker
Plunges to his death from hotel airshaft blaze
Harry Leonard an apprentice coppersmith died after clothing caught fire from a small charcoal furnace he carried and he fell sixteen stories through an airshaft at the Belvue Stratford hotel in Philadelphia on November 13. He struck a ninth floor window then landed on a skylight in the stenographer's room where several girls were at work causing a panic.
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Philadelphia
Harry Leonard
Belvue-Stratford
Leonardo
Progressives to Meet for Future Plans Conference
National committee of the Progressive Republicans to hold a Chicago meeting December 11 12 to map out legislative and organizational plans. Senator Dixon says the anti Republican effort will continue to influence politics and aim for House control and the White House in four years.
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Dixon
Chicago
Washington
Joseph M. Dixon
Progressive Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Republican National Committee
Sneed Trial In Progress Amid Jury Selection Fort Worth
In Fort Worth Texas on November 18 jurors were still being selected for the trial of John Sneed charged with the murder of Boyce. The selection process has narrowed to the best veniremen though many remain to be screened.
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Sneed
Fort Worth
Tex
John Sneed
Boyce
Boy Killed in Wisconsin Woods by Hunter Mistake
Eagle River reports a seventeen year old, August berg, killed while seated in woods near It is believed the boy was mistaken for a deer by another hunter. Police investigating the accidental shooting.
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Wisconsin Woods
Eagle River
Berg
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