No Decision in Case of Cooper
Nashville March 19 Judge Hart sent the sheriff to ask the Cooper Sharp jury if it wished to report. The foreman said they were hopelessly tied on Cooper but found John Sharp not guilty. Sharp was discharged and his wife cried with joy. The long Carmack Cooper history followed, detailing the political feud and threats surrounding the killing.
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Nashville
Hart
Cooper-Sharp
Cooper
Foreman Burke
John Sharp
Sharp
Tenn
Gooper-Sharn
South
Duncan B. Cooper
Forrest
Columbia, Tenn
Wyward Ward Carmack
Taylor
Robin
Malcolm R. Patterson
Carmack
Patterson
Nashville Tennessean
Tennessean
Cox
Bryan
Muday Chasm
Patterson-Cox Coalition
Colonel Cooper
Senator Carmack
Craig
The
Sweibund
Duncan Brown Cooper
Great Coalition
Eastman
Coopers
Editor Killed In Self Defense Firefight
In a confrontation described as self defense, Mack opened fire and wounded Rollo. Rollo then returned fire, wounding Mack, and the editor was killed during the exchange. Authorities are investigating the shooting as a fatal incident arising from the deadly encounter.
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Mack
Rollo
Thrice Hanged to Tree During War Tale Told
Chicago reports recount the Civil War era abuse of Neil Caulfield a Chicago man who was thrice hanged by Union soldiers over alleged rebel ties. His wife whose stroke preceded her death also perished soon after from grief and illness, leaving a sobering account of fear and mistaken loyalty in Shoals Indiana.
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Chicago
Neil Caulfield
Ar. Caulfield
Ireland
America
Oldtown
Shoals
Dus
Knights of the Golden Circle
South
Cenfeld
Caulfield
Crowd Lynches Assassin of Police Chief at Whitney
An ex convict named Joseph Brown, accused of shooting Chief of Police White at Whitney, was seized from jail by a mob at 1:30 am and lynched. Brown was hanged from a telegraph pole after the attempted assassination. White was wounded but expected to recover.
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Elkins
WL .A
Joseph
Brown
White
Whitney
Woman Gets Balm For Broken Promise
Storm Lake report states Miss Emily Hampton sued George Slade for 7500 dollars after he did not marry her on Thanksgiving. Trial spanned two days with many witnesses. jury deliberated twelve hours and awarded 2850 dollars. Hampton, 21, vs Slade, 33, a wealthy bachelor. Also Martha Cameron, daughter of Senator Cameron, wed Roland Lindsay of the British Foreign Office in London in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storm Lake
George Slade
Emily Hampton
Miss Hampton
Slade
Cameron
Washington, D. C
Martha Cameron
Pennsylvania
Roland Lindsay
British Foreign Office
London
Mayor Busse Era Romance Sparks Courtship Elopement
In Chicago a romance tied to Mayor Busse unfolds as Miss Emily Lee, 17, sister of Mrs. Busse, and George Miller, 21, elope after stern parental opposition. They escape a convent wall at Rock Island, marry in Gary, Indiana, and settle in an easy apartment, with renewed public attention on the mayor’s family. Cuban Vice President Zayas visits Washington to enroll his son in school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Busse
Emily Lee
George Miller
George
Miss Lee
Rock Island
Miller
Gary
Ind
Tere
Washington, D.C
Alfredo Zayas
Cuba
Washington
Removal Bill Passes House in Iowa Legislature
The Iowa House approved a Senate bill giving the governor power to remove county or city officials on a 10 electors or 5 electors' complaint and to order trial in another county. The bill returns to the Senate for concurrence after amendments. The session also saw the Moon bill on campaign expense filing defeated, and the Senate passed bills on switch engines and court reporters pay. A controversy surrounds the state pharmacy commission after resignations were requested in a reform push led by Governor Carroll, with a possible impersonation incident reported. Senatorial chatter on appointing James Wils00 as state house custodian was noted, and the Thirty third General Assembly adjournment proposal was advanced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nes Moines
House of Representatives
Cosson Senate
House
Senate
Pharmacy Commission
Carroll
Department of Pharmacy
Joseph S. Goss
DB. F. Keitz
Webster City
Keltz
Goss
Des Moines
Board of Pharmacy Commissioners
James Wil
State House
Wilson
State Senate
Gillilland
General Assembly
War postponed for circus in Acajutla harbor
The Acapulco steamship notes a one day pause in the Salvadoran Nicaragua conflict to permit a circus in Acajutla. Martial law was lifted for the show, with passengers reporting no major fighting and doubts of serious trouble in Central America. The scene reflects cautious optimism as ships remain at harbor and rumors of John Moigsant’s relevance fade.
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San Francisco
Acapulco
Salvador
Nicaragua
Acajutla
Narrow Escape as Seven Story Twin Burns in NYC
More than a dozen injured and a man fatally after a seven story twin apartment building at 44 Central Park South catches fire early today. The blaze, perilously close to the Hotel Plaza, sends residents to ledges and windows while firefighters rescue survivors and treat the injured at hospitals. Damages are estimated at a quarter of a million.
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New York
N. Y
Hone
Central Park South
Hotel Plaza
Paris Strike Grows Amid Telegraphers Walkout
Paris reports no material change in the telegraphers strike as the number of strikers increases overnight. Washington notes six Iowa members who opposed the recent rules fight plan to seek a 15 member committee to revise the rules, with Representative Kendall to introduce the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Washington, D
Idwa
House
Kendall
Bold kidnappers demand 10000 for Whitla boy return
Sharon, March 19 The 8 year old son of Attorney James P Whitla was kidnapped yesterday. The abductors demand 10000 and threaten death if not paid at once. Whitla and his brother in law Frank H Buhl offer all they have to recover the boy. A note to the mother listed newspapers to publish the ransom ad. Police pursue leads from Warren Ohio where the kidnapper’s rig was found.
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Sharon
James P. Whitla
William
Crain
Warren
East Ward
Young Whitla
Wesley Sloss
Sloss
Anna Lewis
Willie
Anapolis
Cleveland Press
Pittsburg
Youngstown
A. K
Whitla
Buhl
Frank H. Bul
William Whitla
Water tanks burst flooding Parkersburg in daylight
A dawn disaster in Parkersburg West Virginia left two dead and many injured when two water tanks supplying the city failed at 3 30 am. The flood swept Prospect hill destroying ten houses and damaging forty more. City officials planned to pump water directly into mains to avert a famine and assessed the damage at two hundred thousand to two hundred fifty six thousand dollars.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
John Maloney
Kates Karnes
Clara Jones
Prospect Hill
Esteep
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Cuban Rebels Surrender After Santa Clara Uprising Fails
Havana reports say seven rural guard members fled to the woods with arms and horses but surrendered to authorities after midnight. President Gomez praised the calm, saying mutineers will be tried and punished. Also, John W. Simpson, former Marietta College president, is missing, feared dead in a fire.
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Havana
Santa Clara
Monteagudo
Gomez
John W. Simpson
Marietta College
Ohio
Wolf Attacks 5 Year Old Child Near Shenandoah
On March 19 in Shenandoah Iowa a wolf owned by Emil Strom broke its chain and attacked the 5 year old son of C A Carlson as he walked home from school. Nearby women fought the animal off and saved the boy from serious harm. The incident underscores dangers of escaped captive wolves and rural animal control.
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Shenandoah
Iowa Evening Press
C. A. Carlson
Emil Strom
Mary McCann Receives Silver Medal for Heroic Fire Rescue
In Washington DC on March 13 Speaker Cannon presented Miss Mary McCann with a silver life saving medal for heroic acts saving children during the General Slocum fire near New York. At 141 years old she endured ceremonies before the iron duke kissed her in the Speaker's room at the Capitol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Hughes bill introduced in Albany legislature
Albany March 19. The direct dominations bill, endorsed by Governor Hughes, was introduced in the legislature today. Sponsors say the plan is not surrender, compromise, nor a place of radicalism.
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Albany
Hughes
Wells College Heads Home After Tonsillitis Epidemic
Ithaca March 19. At Wells College the kissing habit of students is noted but the illness spreading from nearby Aurora to Wells has caused more than a dozen cases of tonsillitis. The college closed for spring vacation a week early as more girls fall ill and classrooms empty.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Wells College
Fair College
Wells
Aurora
Cayuga Lake
Dr Hall Links Parents to Inebriety Causes
Washington March 19 Alcohol is a race death by own action, Dr W S Hall of Chicago told the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics. He cited lab findings and argued alcohol cannot be a food, while other speakers discussed psychological and physiological aspects of inebriety and its impact on health and tuberculosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
W. 8S. Hall
Chicago
American Society For the Study
T. A. Williams
Dr. W. & Hall
H. J. Berkeley
Baltimore
H. W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
A. MacDonald
H. J. Achard
Asheville
N. c
Train Bandits Arrested Near Fort Collins
Tohn Potts living in a remote cabin twenty five miles from Fort Collins and E. J. St. Clair, a cowboy on Mrs Moon's ranch near Fort Willins, were arrested Wednesday night for holding up a Denver and Rio Grande Western east bend train at Military Junction just outside Denver on February 27.
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Fort Collings
Col
Tohn Potts
Fort Collins
BE. J. St. Clair
Moon
Fort Willins
Military Junction
Denver
Winnipeg to Host World’s Expo in 1912
Winnipeg announces plans to stage a world’s exposition in 1912. A citizen committee reported positively after visiting St Louis Chicago Seattle and Portland, and a fund of 2,000,000 dollars will be raised to support the project.
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Winnipeg
Man
St Louis
Chicago
Seattle
Portland
Senators Eye Tariff Bill Debates In Senate
Washington report notes strong regional rifts over lumber reductions and proposed inheritance tax with efforts for an income tax. Senator Cumming pushes for deeper cuts. George T. Oliver is sworn in as Pennsylvania senator as the Senate adjourns after eight minutes.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakotas
Republih
Can
Cumming
Oliver
George T. Oliver
Offici
Pennsylvania
House
Committee
President Orders War on Standard Oil Trust
Washington reports Taft plans a sweeping antitrust decree against Standard Oil. Attorney General Wickersham and Frank H. Kellogg lead the push, citing evidence from Chicago, Cleveland and New York. The decree seeks dissolution, removal of control, and prohibition of dividend payments and contracts violating the Sherman act.
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Washington, D. C
Standard Oil Company
Chicago
Taft
Washington
Wickersham
Frank H. Kellogg
United States
Cleveland
New York
Kellogg
Standard Oil
Inherits Pact of Vast Fortune in German Heir Case
Mrs Lena Dickelman of Milwaukee mother of Frank Dickelman of Manchester receives German court notice confirming she is an heir to a vast estate of an unnamed uncle. The estate valued around 7 million dollars in litigation, with a partial 7000 dollar payment as the first share of an estimated 190000.
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Manchester
Lena Dickelman
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Frank Dickelman
Leipsic
Germany
Herr Shubert
Nicaragua Fault Cited as Cause of Central American Turmoil
Washington reports Nicaragua is the sole cause of unsettled conditions in Central America. State department dispatches indicate ongoing military activity in Nicaragua and await Nicaragua's reply to Secretary Knox's note on settling the Emery claim through arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Nicaragua
Central America
State Department
Department
Mexico
Knox
Senor Espinosa
Emery
United States
On Trail of Rebels in Cuba March Dispatches Report Progress
Havana dispatches say rural guard units are chasing a rebel band led by Sergeant Cortes. General Monteagudo reports hot pursuit all day but loss at night. Earlier he telegraphed the trail was recovered and closing in. Capture is expected momentarily.
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Havana
Cuba
Cortes
Monteagudo
Rural Guard
Fire Destroys Laundry at Western Penitentiary
A blaze swept the laundry house at Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary in Pittsburg on March 19, destroying the building and its contents. About 650 prisoners, half the inmates, were marshaled in the dining hall then returned to their cells. Guards erected alarms and prevented escapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Paix
Western Pennsylvania
Walla
French Runner Arrives for American Marathon Debut
Henry St. Ives, French long distance runner, arrived in New York aboard the Toutétife. He will race in the $19,004 Marathon at the Poll grounds, scheduled for April 3, marking his first appearance in the United States.
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New York
Henry St. Ives
Poll Grounds
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