McNamara Trial Witnesses and Jury Ruling Heighten Case
Los Angeles dispatch reports legal moves accelerate the McNamara murder trial. Judges uphold McKee’s impartiality despite pro defense bias claims as talesmen are excused or seated drawing the jury closer to a verdict. McManigal confesses to reporters and hints at family plans amid ongoing testimony.
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Los Angeles
Cal
McKee
James B. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Bordwell
Darrow predicts long broil as McManigal testimony used
The State remains confident it can win without McManigal while Darrow plans a fierce defense. He says he will contest every State proffered point and doubts McManigal’s testimony will stand. He predicts a lengthy case stretching to higher courts including the Supreme Court.
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Sation
McManigal
Darrow
Mr. Darrow
United States Supreme Court
Mare Island Wireless Contacts Washington and Key West
Mare Island officials report a potential contact with Washington, D. C., after exchanging weather reports with Key West and noting a call from Key West to Cape Cod. The coast wireless station previously set a daylight record by talking with Unalaska, and last year with Key West at 2,700 miles. No conversation occurred with the Washington navy yard yesterday.
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Mare Island
Washington
Vallejo
Cal
Ithis
Unalaska
Washington, D. C
Key West
Fla
Cape Cod
Intérferente
Washington Navy Yard
Colon
Panama
Navy
Guard Town In Race War in Coweta Oklahoma
Quiet after yesterday's race riot left two dead and four wounded. Reports claim armed negroes gathered at Red Bird six miles away with threats to march on Coweta. Militia and armed citizens patrolled the streets. a military cordon surrounds the town. Weapons found in negro homes and haymows. Twenty-five negroes arrested and jailed in Wagoner county prison.
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Coweta
Okla
Red Bird
Wagoner
North Capitol Eckington Citi zens elect officers for year
The North Capitol Eckington Citizens Association met at St. Martins Hall and reelected President Dr. Edgar Thompson Vice President William H Hughes and Secretary Treasurer A O G Tingler. They urged traction officials to improve car ventilation and District Commissioners to buy a site for a large playground.
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North Capitol
Eckington
Hotels listed by city show many notable guests
The record lists visitors staying at major hotels in Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh California Connecticut Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts New York State New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia. Names include J N Pardee St James C L Gage Edward Lyon Ed ward Sargent Florence Fisher Mra J W Sargent Arthur Hampton Howard B Lewis J N Jerome and more. The mixed roster spans Arlington Shoreham Ebbitt Willard and St James hotels with entries for multiple individuals and couples across cities.
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Boston
J. N. Pardee
St. James
Charles Hewball
C. W. Johansson
M. W. Johnson
Elmer
Forbes
T. W. Winkley
E. E. Marcan
Arlington
Olcott
Partridge
R. B. Williams
Robert P. Hains
Shoreham
E. & Huse
Ebbitt
Chicago
C. L. Gage
Morrison
Witter
California
George Cowles
Sacramento
J.n.meyer
San Jose
Connecticut
C. C.gibson
Weed
G. Walbaum
Noroton
L. J. Burnham
Hartford
M. Willey
Willard. Kentuckt
Massachusetts
L. H. Elliott
Wie
Lowe
A. Burtgo
Winchester
E. Marquardt
B. W. Drown
Concord
M. C. Brown
Littleton
John A. Dellows
Brookline
Minx E. Black
Worcester
Harry Lutz
Newton
Edith Spencer
Dorchester
Artington
C.K. Graham
Hampton
H. Redditt
Front Royal
Mra
W. A. Rinehart
Covington
Mise M. Bowen
Betryvile
Failar
Millwood
J. F. Walker
F. W. Maddox
Marshall
Epvitt
WANE
Gokion
Torents Canada Si Jams
Plead for Votes in Gold Rally at Del Ray
Alexandria county residents gathered at Del Ray for a political rally to hear county and state candidates. Allan Plume presided as R. C. L. Moncure and James E. B. Clements spoke for Commonwealth's attorney candidates against Crandal Mackey. EB. E. Wilson sought clerk of courts. George H. Rucker remained incumbent. Alexander J. Wedderburn opposed R. Ewell Thornton for the State Senate. The meeting followed Wedderburn's Alexandria Trades Council address.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Alexandria County
del Ray
County
State of Aces
Allan Plume
R. C. L. Moncure
James EB. Clements
Commonwealth
Crandal Mackey
EB. E. Wilson
George H. Rucker
Alexander J. Wedderburn
R. Ewell Thornton
State Senate
Mystery in Hotel Shooting Raises New Theories
In Youngstown Ohio authorities probe the midnight hotel shooting of 19 year old Robert Roy McReady from Beaver Falls Pennsylvania and Lydia Grummell of Stn fron Pennsylvania. McReady insists neither he nor Miss Grummell fired the revolver. Grummell is expected to recover. A third person is under watch as investigators discard a second-girl theory.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Robert Roy
McReady
Beaver
Falls
Lydia Grummelt
Stnfron
Miss Grummell
Sailor witness recalls Sandford yacht death ship prayers
Portland Me October 2 Sailor Harry Whittom aboard the Coronet of the Holy Ghost and Us Society described to a quarantine official how Reverend Frank W Sandford knelt in the main cabin and prayed the vessel become a slaughter house and that the traitors on deck be killed during a voyage in which seven died of scurvy Whittom said such prayers followed a protest over conditions and a request for provisions Sandford allegedly had strong influence over the crew preventing them from demanding land for food.
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Sandford
Portland
Harry Whittom
Coronet
of the Holy Ghost
Us Society
Frank W. Sandford
Whittorm
Whittom
Fear Manchu Plot Expands As Rebels Gain Ground
Two Chinese cruisers sailed from Shanghai toward the north amid warnings of a looming consolidation of rebel control. Hankow burned Saturday leaving acres of warehouses and homes destroyed. Refugees flood in, looting punished, foreign interests protected. Rebel funds pour in from central provinces as officials fear foreign powers may aid Manchus or delegate to Japan. American gunboat protection sought while Albany arrives and New Orleans stations at Nanking. Changsha and Nanchang fall to revolutionaries, expanding their reach to four provinces Szechuen Hupeh Hunan Kiangsi.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Singepa
Foreig
Japan
Amos P. Wilder
Eoward
Baker
Ichang
Wilder
Albany
New Orleans
Nanking
Changsha
Nanchang
Hunan
Kiangsi
China
Szechuen
Hupeh
Wuchang
Cotton Broker C P Heath Seeks Bankruptcy
P Heath of Charlotte filed a bankruptcy petition in the Salisbury Federal Court late today. Judge Boyd adjudged him a bankrupt and referred the matter to W B Robinson as referee. Claimed liabilities exceed one million dollars with assets under a quarter million. Most creditors are North Carolina banks. Heath is reported ill at home.
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C. P. Heath
Charlotte
N.C
P. Heath
Salisbury
Boyd
C. B. Robinson
North Carolina
Heath
Earl of Onslow Dead in London at 73
William Hillier Onslow former chair man of committees and deputy speaker in the House of Lords died today in London. Born 1853 he was a conservative who served in high legislative posts since 19.
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Earl of Onslow
London
Wiliam Hillier Onslow
House of Lords
Peace Message From Unitarian Conference Opening Sermon
The Rev. James De Normandie of Boston told an audience of over a thousand at All Souls Church in Washington that world turmoil signals a coming universal peace. He praised socialists as aligned with church ideals of brotherly love and equality, and urged churches to lead in spreading religion and peace amid Spain Portugal Italy Turkey and Persia China tensions.
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James de Normandie
Boston
Mnass
All Souls' Church
Fourteenth
L Streets
Europe
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Turkey
Persia
China
Explosion at mine kills eight workers in historic church context
Policy debate and church conference fallout are described as a backdrop to a deadly mine explosion that killed eight. The piece notes ironies about wealth, reform, and labor in discussions at Washington rapid-fire sessions led by Horace Davis, with Taft praised for peace efforts amid speechified criticisms.
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Taft
Arlington Hotel
Reed
Washington
Arington
Mary
Aeaing
Thany
Horace Davis
Explosion at O Gara mine No 9 Kills Eight Rescuers Overcome
In Harrisburg MI on Oct 23 an explosion at O Gara mine No 9 killed eight people and left several others unconscious. Sixteen workers were in the north entry when the blast occurred as shifts changed. Rescue teams saved many despite some rescuers being overcome by gas. Dr. C W Turner, a rescuer, was initially in serious condition. The cause was not firmly established, with a possible loose insulation on an electric cable allowing exposed wire to ignite spilled powder. The injured were transported to a hospital for treatment.
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O'Gara
Harrisburg
Ora
Reacuers
C. W. Turner
Mourners Outsmart Officer In Walsh Death Case
New York October 2 Special to The Washington Post Justice Department sleuths question whether a corpse from Forty Fifth Street and Broadway is Martin J Walsh. The body, said to be Walsh, died of acute indigestion after illness at a dinner. Coroner notes a dilated heart. A plot to swap identities prompted investigation and dispatch to Peabody Massachusetts.
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Washington Post
New York
Department of Justice
Martin ‘J. Wdlsth
Jack
George W. Coleman
National Cy. Bank of Cambridge
Muse
Sonoma
Fitty-fifth Street
Broadway
Jentzer
Warigh
Cambridge
Louis H. Snell
Walsh
Snell
Grand Central Station
Peabody
Mass
Snell -Ana‘a
Womed
Shell
Snel
Bridge Collapse Kills Two in Philadelphia Area
Two workmen died and six were injured when a bridge over Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Sixty-fifth Street and Woodland Avenue collapsed in Philadelphia. George Brown and William Peacock of Wilmington Delaware were among the workers repairing the structure. None of the injured are expected to die.
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Philadelphia
George Brown
William Peacock
Wilmington
Del
Sixty-fifth Street
Woodland Avenue
Kimmel to go on stand in fraud policy case
Niles Michigan October 3. An insurance company seeks 5000 from a policy on George A Kimmel of Washington DC and will call him to testify in St Louis trial set for December 1. The case questions whether the man claiming to be Kimmel is an impostor or the real man who disappeared fourteen years ago and was believed dead.
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Niles
Mich
Frnsurance Company
George Ranken
Washington, D. C
First National Bank
George A. Kimmel
St. Louis
Howard O'Brien
Edna Bonslett
Kimmel
Fafford
Auburn
A- Kimmel
Carnegie witness testimony in Carnegie Trust case
The Washington Post reports a grand jury witness recounting an alleged scheme to move 2180 000 to William J. Cummins and associates to boost up the Carnegie Trust Company. Cummins faces trial for larceny of 140 000 deposited with the Carnegie Trust. Carnegie may testify later this week about dealings with Cummins and whether he promised aid against his wishes.
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Washington, Post
William
J. Cummins
Carnégie
Cuming
Carnegie | Itrust Company
Carnegie
St Louis Citizens Oppose Terminal Railroad Despotism
The United States Supreme Court heard a brief by John C. Higdon of St. Louis challenging the Terminal Railroad Association. Former Gov. David R. Francis and others are named as agents alleged to plot to defraud locals of rights to the Merchants’ Bridge over the Mississippi River. The brief accuses officials of usurping public prerogatives and taxing without representation, comparing their actions to colonial tyranny and claiming the Merchants’ Bridge was forfeited to the U S government for charter violations.
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St. Louis
Terminal Railwi Association
Ty & Yutrloite
State Supreme Court
John C. Higdon
Higi
Terminal Association
David R. Francis
Merchants
Mississippi River
Terminal ‘Association
Higsen
Higa
Merchants’ . Bridge
United States
Terminal Railroad Association
Allen Asks New Venire In Suit Over Property Transfer
Nathan Allen, Heather manufacturer, sued for 210 000 by Mrs Helenette Jankins claiming he converted her safe deposit box property. He petitioned supreme court seeking removal to federal court arguing nonresidence in New York. He recently lived in Kenosha Wisconsin and states he is now a Montana citizen with affidavit made in Canada.
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New York
Nathan, Allen
Helenette Jankins
Supreme Court
Federal Court
Kenosha
Wis
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