Crimes of the Black Hand in Chicago and a Pittsburgh dynamite explosion
A Chicago summary reports eighteen murders and over a hundred bomb blasts by Black Hand members in 1911 with $60,000 blackmail. most culprits unconvicted. It notes White Hand formed by law abiding Italians to aid police, but with little effect. In Pittsburgh a three story building housing John Sparana’s store was blown up for refusal to pay $1,000, causing $20,000 damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little
Italy
Chicago
Sicily
John Along
Kenesaw M. Landis
Federal Court
John Alongl
Judge Lands’ Chambers
White Hand
Pittsburg
John Sparana
Allquippa Fa
Speaker Champ Clark Hosts Luncheon for Ways and Means Panel
Speaker Champ Clark presided at a luncheon in his private dining room for members of the Hoare committee on ways and means. The event recalled the government purchases of china, silver, and linen for the speakers’ use dating back to the Henderson era in Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
Champ Clark
Hoare Committee On Ways and
Jin
Invernment
David B. Henderson
Town
Married in Washington Delaware March 9 1916
Clarence W. E. and Clara E. Manderfield tied the knot at the Cathedral in Washington Del on Tuesday March 9 1916 with Rev. F. Dougherty performing the ceremony No cards.
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Sohe— Manderfield
Withington
Del
Fed
Sof. Dougherty
Clarence W. E
Big City
Clara EB Manderfield
Philadelphia
Death notices and memorials from Washington August 1911
The notice column records deaths and memorials including Amalie Dae in Germany, John Dugan, William Fletcher, Erhard Fritz, James Monroe Kepy Jr, John Mangold, Mary E Chase Walker, James M Watson, William Yampen, and William Yampen. It lists funeral details, burial locations, addresses, relatives invited, and Department of State information notices for next of kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of State
Washington
Samuel H Shank
Mannheim
Germany
Weinheim
Baden
Amalie Dae
Dugan
Jonn Fpf Dugan
Jonn Fpf Dugan, Who Died On Friday, July 20. VW
Mount Olivet
Fletcher
Ba Pom
William Fletcher
Temple Bantist
Hurch
Tenth
N Streets
Glenwood
Fritz
Washingto D
Frank S Hannah
Kehl
Baden Baden
Erhard Fritz
Krabiter
Twelfth
John Mangold
Bridgeport
Mary E. Chase Walker
Epiphany Episcopal Church
This City
Watson
James M
Minnie Watson
Benning Road
Glenwood Cemetery
Yampen
Washington, DC
George A Bucklin, Jr
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Finca
William Yampen
Boy shoots playmate on Virginia shore near Potomac
Thirteen year old Frank Mareer shot Kirk Kibler in the thigh with a loaded rifle while swimming on the Virginia side of the Potomac opposite Fourteenth Street. Kibler was treated at Emergency Hospital and released. Mareer confessed the accidental discharge and faces no prosecution unless Kibler lodges a warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Mareer
Kirk Mkibler
G Street
Kibler
Mareer
Virginia
Potomac River
Fourteenth Street
Kirk
Victory and Veto Bill Debate in Commons
In London Aug 7 the commons rejected a censure motion over King George granting peers to pass the veto bill. Balfour’s attack failed, as Asquith defended constitutional action and unity shifted toward the government amid clashes with rival leaders and reflections on Irish Home Rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balfour
London
House of Commons
Arthur J. Balfour
Asquith
John Redmond
Walter Hume Long
Ireland
Mr. Asquith
King George
Winston Spencer Churchill
Home Secretary
Mr. Balfour
Lord Lansdowne
Smith
Terrified by poison plot shocks Fulton area
Special to The Washington Post from Fulton Missouri Aug 7 reports a reign of terror near Concord fourteen miles north as three suspects Jefferson Woods Joe A Boyd and Mrs Anna Boyd face murder charges over an alleged plot to poison the McPheeters children Reid McPheeters 13 Homer McPheeters 11 and John Alexander McPheeters 4 gums laced with strychnine found at several locations indicate a plan to harm the families witnesses note the gum was placed at the gate by Jefferson Woods and a chemist in Mexico MO confirmed the poison threat investigators released all three suspects on bonds of 2000 for the men and 1000 for the woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Fulton
Concord
Here
Edward McPheeters
Homer Hite
Jefferson Woods
Joe A. Boyd
Anna Boyd
Reid McPheeters
Homer McPheeters
John Alexander McPheeters
Hite
Edward MacPheeters
Wiliam F. Forman
Police uncover rebel plot in Juarez
Police in Juarez, Mexico, say they have unearthed a liberal conspiracy to promote a new armed movement in northern Chihuahua. Ynocenzo Usgulano was arrested, carrying papers that may lead to more arrests among conspirators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juarez
Mexico
Chihuahua
Ynocenzo Usgulano
Woman Mayor Says Politics Not for Women in Hunnewell
Elia Wilson, mayor of Hunnewell Kansas, declares politics is not a woman’s game while fighting the male city council over appointments and ordinances. She warns she may resign only if forced, and asks Gov Stubbs to initiate ouster proceedings against the council as clashes persist and the town’s affairs stall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunnewell
Kans
Elia Wison
Wilson
W'son
Wisconsin and Delaware politics cross paths in Washington
Wisconsin Republican hopes La Follette leads the delegation while pro reciprocity sentiment persists in the state. Delaware Senator Richardson touts GOP unity and three Taft electoral votes. Taylor named Philippine agriculture director. Gilbert negotiates ties with Indiana Republicans. Cox emerges as a potential Ohio governor candidate amid Democratic maneuvering in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Alden Richardson
Delaware
Senate
Richardson
Taft
Ene
Frederic W. Taylor
Denver
Gilbert
Philippines
Taylor
Philippine
United States
Director Taylor
Nebraska
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Peaks
Hitchcock
Washington
Gov
Richmond
Indiana
Hoosier
Hemenway
Joe Kealing
Willard
Kealing
Prelate denounces Astor Force marriage in church sermon
Philadelphia August 7 The Rev Dr George Chalmers Richmond denounces the Astor Force wedding and vows to denounce the projected marriage again. He says the Episcopal Church should not be the domain of the rich and will oppose any church wedding for Astor. He claims Morgan influence and warns clergymen against selling religious sanction for divorces and remarriages.
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Washington Post
Philadephia
George Chalmers Richmond
Mackay- Smith
Richmond
Church of All
J. Pierpont Morgan
Doane
Albany
Astor
Morgan
Lenox Hotel Guests See Mrs Winterfeldt Anklet Display
Mrs Hans Winterfeldt of 52 Fifth Avenue New York visits Lenox Massachusetts at the Hotel Aspinwall. Guests flock to glimpse her famous ten dollar anklet a diamond and ruby ankle bracelet that has drawn talk across continents as fashion lingers among Lenox society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Hans Winterfeldt
Washington Post
Mass
Fifth Avenue
New York
Metropolis
Aspinwall
Mrs Tobey Dies at 100 on Webster Speech Day
Wareham Mass August 7 Mrs Susanna K Tobey aged 100 died after months of illness. She lived in Wareham 74 years after moving from Middleboro where born to Isaac and Naomi Pratt. Sister of Enoch Pratt of Baltimore. Her early life was in North Middleboro and in 1837 she married Mr Tobey on the day of Daniel Webster's Bunker Hill Memorial address.
Flays Mr Townsend at seal hearing over forged evidence
A heated Senate House committee session in Chicago centers on the seal herd massacre near Pribiof Islands. Fish Commissioner Bowers accuses Townsend of presenting forged, fictitious, and libelous material to conceal facts as Nagel warns he may testify in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisheries Bureau
Nagel
House
Department of Commerce and Labor
Townsend
New Jersey
United States
Bowers
Pribjiof Islands
Elliott
Mr. Bowersetter
Rothermel
Chicago
Commerce and Labor
Houghton
Mich
Eliott
Commission of Fisheries
Mr. Nagel
Police Fight Three Hundred in Harlem Riot
Newak August 7 police clash with about 300 rioting African Americans in Harlem. Detectives from headquarters and reserves from three precincts routed the crowd, arresting 35 ringleaders after bricks stones and beer bottles rained down. The riot began during an attempted arrest of a group troubling women on the streets. The fight was hand to hand with police outnumbered five to one but the officers prevailed using night sticks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newak
Harlem
Escape From District Jail Ends in Manhunt
Prisoner William F. Collins, a black man, escaped from the District jail yesterday with several guards within 60 feet of him. He had been working in the yard for days. Boxes piled by the wall were found after his escape. A guard detachment searched the area, but Collins fled toward Franklin Street. Police in Baltimore, Alexandria, and Richmond were alerted.
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Cox
Gov Harmon
Charleroi
Mich
Dayton
Ohio Democrats
Washington
Ohio
Congress
Paul Sorg
Séry
Sorg
Matt Denver
Wilmington
William Graven Sharp
Elyria
Sharp
Denver
Harmon
Miami Valley
Dayton Statesman
Charles Henry Grosvenor
House
Valley of the Hocking
William F. Collins
Collins
Franklin Street
Baltimore
Alexandria
Richmond
Des Moines Strikers Leader Renews Gompers Slavery View
Des Moines August 7. The first day under the court injunction restored normal traffic after the strike by nearly 500 union workers. A W Harris of Chicago arrived as the company plans to move to dissolve the injunction. Union president J M Leonard defended the arbitration requirement and challenged Gompers on the injunctions impact. Samuel Gompers condemned the order as a step toward forced labor under judicial edict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
A. W. Harris
Chicago
Des Moines City Railway
Lawrence DeGraff
District Court
J. M. Leonard
Catmen's Union
Gompers
Leonard
B. J. Hiatt
Hiatt
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Health Office Births and Deaths Record Listing
Birth notices for Unger and Dollie Murnan and many others report a long list of newborns by married couples including Gormley, Portman, Harper, Curtin, Splawn, McCoy, Sinclair, Raymond, Hartung, Marks, Koight, Souder, Holmes, Avery, Metwetler, Farhood, Keene, Perry, Baker, Laughtin, Stanton, Russell, Robertson, Poors, Alderson, McCarthy, Davis, Swift, Richter, Enggerson, Everett, Willis, Bland, Staten, Dozier, Jenkins Ayers, and more. Death notices include Bartholomae, Bailey, McGrath, Bradies, Kreiter, Spellfsy, Mangold, Green, Wells, Nelson, Dunlan, Harbaugh, Hill, Washington, Brooks, Davis, Forrest, Young, Foster, Lomas, and Sydnor with ages ranging from a few months to 82 years. Document lists numerous addresses and institutions.
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Unger C
Dollie A. Murnan
Charles E
Nellie C. Gormley
Herman
Leeh Portman
James A
Margaret D. Harper
William J
Alice E. Curtin
Thomas
Nora Splawn
Harry C
Grace McCoy
William F
Rae ¥ Sinclair
Alrose M
Rose C Raymond
John
Elizabeth Hartung
Henry N
Emma G. Marks
Rowlett
Tona
Koight
Lester T
May K. Souder
Emma A Holmes
Leonard
Frances J. Avery
Benjamin BR
Marion W. Metwetler
William and
Alice Farhood
William H
Ciinetint Keene
Charles B
Catherine Perry
Robert M
Helen Baker
Edgar R
Margaret Laughtin
Guy
Georgia Stanton
Mary C Russell
William V
Josephine Robertson
Mamie Poors
Cecil H
Lilie B. Alderson
Dennis
Rittle A. McCarthy
Carrol J
Evelyn Davis
Alexander L
Edna M. Swift
Henry C
Josip M. Richter
Hmma C. Barthalomae
Sth
St. Nw
Jessie Bailey
University Place
Timothy E. McGrath
11Th St. Ne
John J. Bradies
14Th St. Nw
Jamce Monroe Krelter
Wth St Ne
Nellie Spellfsy
10Th St. Nw
John Mangold
Cora Green
Edmen's Hospital
Robert Wells
Home For
James Nelson
Freedmen's Hospital
Tara Dunlan
Garfield Hospital
George H. Harbaugh
Thomas Hill
Government Hospital For the Insane
Addie Washington
Crandall Row
Mamie Brooks
Cleo Davis
Freedmen’s
Licensed to Marry in 1920s Virginia Scraps
Ad Watt Dampier aged 24 and Euntee Wie free 18 wed by Rev W P Johnston. Jewish N Tress 21 and Mary B Kraft 19 wed by Rev William McKenney. Robert J Baylor 32? of Middlebrook Virginia and Mae B Arehart 18 of Staunton Virginia wed by Rev H Schroeder. William N May 28 and Jeanette Da Witt wed by Rev G J Hunnicutt.
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Adelbert A. Dampier
Euntee
Wiefree
W. P Johnston
Jewis N Tress
Mary B Kraft
William McKenney
Robert J. Baylor
Middlebrook
Mae B. Arehart
Staunton
H. Schroeder
William N. May
Jeanette
da Witt
Lear
G. J8
Hunnicutt
Hotel guest listings across major cities
A lengthy roster lists guests staying at hotels in Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburg Connecticut Georgia Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts New York Jersey Ohio Missouri Pennsylvania Texas Virginia West Virginia and more. Names include Waldron Fitzgerald Cahill Barden Jacques Wainwright Moseher Rowls Kinnear Meade Pepper Hull Hoff Wainwright Meade Rowls etc. The document catalogs frequent travelers and their associated hotels such as Willard Ebbitt Shoreham St James Raleigh Arlington and others.
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Boston
E P Waldron
W. H. J. Fitzgerald
R N, Leonard
Willard
Chicago
H. RE. Applegate
W. W Jacques
RM Wainwright
Mrs Wisinan
Willad
E. T Cahill
Ebbitt
T. W. Barden and Son
Arlington
W. Fitzgerald
J. B Alford
Raleigh
New York City
J. J. Prince
Newcomb
Misa
V. F. Page
G. D
Schaffer
R. M. Sellers
Shoreham
G. L. Meade
Connecticut
J. T King
Georgia
A. Z. Hull
Willard G. W. Pepper
Kentucky
F. M. Fisher
W. P. Long
J. A. Waithaus
J. B. Garten
Maryland
H. M. Payne
Blackton
T. H. Setson
Perkins
G L. Close
Wilard
W. H Maxwell L M Samuels
E. E Mortero
Ebbitt H
Gottfried
A. M. Mowry
Jersey
H J. Marple
ORIO
Whitacre
F P Pratt
St. James
Virginia
P. H. Haskell
G. L. Hart
H. T. Miller
J. James
Miss Hagler
West Virginia
D. C. Reay
J. W. Ringress
A. Hughes
Ebbite
S. M. Smith
Releigh
Stimson Visits Havana for Courtesy Call on Gomez
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and his party called on President Gomez in Havana. They then toured points of interest and attended a banquet hosted by Secretary of State Sangully and Secretary of the Interior Machado in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stimson
Gomez
Havana
Henry L. Stimson
Machado
Thief plotted death cover up and theft of books
A man recounts a staged crime to cover months of theft by burning check books and a case book at an office. He named Patrick Timmins and an accomplice Walsh as participants. Timmins, a 30 year old with a wife and six children, was arrested quietly and offered no comment.
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Brown
Patrick J. Timmins
Timmins
Cavanaugh
Newark
Fred Roaches
Roedhouse
Frelinghuysen Avenue
Timmins and
Walsh
Loomis Testimony Casts Light on Secret State Fund
Francis B. Loomis former Assistant Secretary of State testified before the House committee on State Department expenditures. He said the secret emergency fund averaged about $10,000 a month for years. Loomis noted he only received money from the fund for a San Domingo mission, properly paid, and denied using it for exposition commissions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis B. Loomis
House Committee On
State Department
Wuttle
Department
Treasury Department
Loomis
San Domingo
Loomis Waa
Turin
Toyko
Suffolk Boy Aged 13 Confesses to Fire at Richardson Building
Willie Smith a colored boy aged 13 in Suffolk Virginia confessed to firing a building owned by J W Richardson. He claimed no knowledge of recent factory fires and was sent to the reformatory for an indefinite period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Washington Post
Willie Smith
J W. Richardson
Reformatory
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M. J. Falvey
Eleventh Streets
C. Def. Chandler
Army Aviation School
Henry H. Arnold
Paul W. Beck
Boy
Kirk Kibler
W. R. Speare
N. W. King
Frank A. Speare
Geo. P. Zurhorst
East Capital St
J. William Lee
Pennsylvanis Avé
John R. Wright Co
R. F. Harvey’s Sons
Omnodious Chapel
North
Satis Clements
Theon
Clements
Jas H Clemente
James T. Clements
Phone West
Visconsin Ave
H. Sardo
N.E
Wit Feventh
M. Hindle
W. R. Pumphrey & Son
Mirytar
A. Costello
Funerat
Northfast
Frank Geisa's Sons
Seventh ST NW
Council
James H. Davidson
Oshkosh
Wisconsin
Senator la Follette
la Follette
Robly Evans
Asiatic
James M. Cox
Risen
Kalon Wine CO
Broto
St. H. Oes
Bishop Mackay-Smith
Mr. Richmond
Road TO Fight
Stone & Fairfax, Inc
New York Avenue
POPLE
Health Office Record
R. Harris & CO
the Jewelers
Seventh and
D Streets
Newspareend
Bern
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