Becker Convicted of Rosenthal Murder in Brief Deliberation
New York May 23 Charles Becker was found guilty of murder in the Rosenthal case after a swift forty minute deliberation. The jurors, in absolute agreement on a single ballot, rejected mercy and chose guilt in the face of three possible degrees of murder. Becker showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read. Sentence set for May 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Court of Appeals
Penny
Blagden
Justice Seabury
Explosions Injure Twenty Firemen In Chicago Fire
A four story burning building at 1542 West Madison Street was rocked by two mysterious blasts. Twenty firemen were blown from the structure and many spectators were hurt as windows shattered and nearby buildings rattled. Among the injured, Paul J. Sheeda and Louis Bouchard are feared fatally harmed.
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Chicago
West
Madison Street
Paul J. Sheeda
Louis Bouchard
Tragic Break Sends Fifty Overboard in Hudson River
Fifty people mostly women and children fell into the Hudson River when a crowded gang plank broke as the steamship Frederick Eighth of the Scandinavian American line prepared to sail for Copenhagen. Panic spread on the pier and aboard the vessel but all were rescued except one woman and two children.
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Hoboken
N. J
Hudson River
Frederick Eighth
Copenhagen
Woman Confesses to Destruction of Animals in Farm Burn
On the witness stand amid tears, a woman admitted destroying the farm animals and implicated a veterinary surgeon in the blaze. She named Mrs Perry Drake of Sullivan County and several others as involved parties.
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Perry. Drake
Sullivan County
New Spine Surgery Claim At Illinois Medical Meeting
Dr Charles M Jacobs of Chicago announced new bone transplantation methods to treat Potts disease at the Illinois State Medical Society session in Decatur on May 22. The meeting featured alumni banquets by Rush Northwestern and Michigan associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Illinois State Medical Society
Charles M. Jacobs
Chicago
Potts
Rush
Northwestern
Michigan
Culver Gate Dedicated by Logansport Citizens
Four thousand Logansport citizens gather at Culver Military Academy to dedicate a memorial gateway honoring Culver cadets for rescue work during the March 1918 floods. Cadets later reenact the boat rescue at Lake Maxinkuckee.
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Culver
Ind
Logansport
Culver Military Academy
Maxinkuckee
Chicago Woman Shot While Traveling in Italy
Chicago charity worker Mary B. Flavelle, 68, was reported wounded in the head on a train near Arezzo after a voyage from Florence. The purse carried by Mrs Flavelle contained a 1300 dollar check. She left Chicago last October to circumnavigate the world on a planned two year trip.
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London
Rome
M. R. Flavelle
Arezzo
Florence
Chicago
Taylor cousins face separate trials in Wesley Taylor murder
In Petersburg Indiana on May 22 the murder trial of James and Ross Taylor begins for the killing of Wesley Taylor. James seeks a separate trial with John Phil Taylor aiding the defense while his wife supports the state. The defendants show worry and restlessness as the death penalty question is posed to jurors.
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Petersburg
Ind
James
Ross Taylor
Wesley Taylor
James Taylor
John Phil Taylor
Crawford Case Delayed in Illinois Bank Suit
The La Salle State Bank of Chicago sued former Representative James Wee Crawford and others for $2000 on a note to Lorimer Bank. Illness of a defendant prompted a continuance, moving the case to the September term with no trial set for Benton next week.
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Marion
Benton
la Salle State Bank of Chicago
James
Wee _ Crawford
Crawford
Lorimer
Vantil
Minos Graduate Weds Champaign Ill May 22
Miss Cath is listed in a brief social notice from Minos graduates posting wedding details in Champaign Illinois dated May 22 with reference to a local society event.
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Champaign. Il
Fall of Huerta Plot Aims at Cafe Assassin Target
May 25 reports from Vera Cruz and Torréon describe a secret service discovery of a plan to kill General Victoriano Huerta in a Paseo de la Reforma cafe. Huerta dismissed police inspector general General Guasque as a result, with several plotters sought for court martial. Villa moves on Zacatecas as 1,500 rebel cavalry and trains depart, while Quiroz becomes police head to monitor plotters. Mexican federals fire on an aeroplane near Vergara, not hitting the aircraft, as U. S. forces observe from nearby posts.
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Mexico ‘City
Victoriano Huerta
Colon
Paseo de la ‘Reforma
Secret Service
Huerta
Manuel Guasque
Guasque
Villa
Zacatecas
Torréon
Quiroz
General Guasque
San Luis Potosi
Maas
Demoure
Saltillo
Paredo
Paredon
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Vergara
Captain Hill
Marine Corps
Garrett Taken to Peoria on Forgery Charge
John H Garrett, described as a colossal promoter and circus man, was brought to Peoria by a detective to await trial on forging mortgages and disposing of them to the State Trust and Savings Bank. He was arrested a week earlier in Pineville Kentucky while fleeing Pinkerton operatives. Officials say he obtained 18200 from the Peoria bank and about 200000 from Chicago bankers and brokers.
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Peoria, Ill
John H. Garrett
Peoria
State Trust and Savings Bank of
Garrett
Pineville
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Chicago
Missing preacher found in barn near Columbia
The Rev Louis A Patmont a prohibition advocate reported missing after a March 31 dry meeting was located in a barn at an abandoned farmhouse near Columbia Tl He claims he was kidnapped and held under drug influence by two men while en route to a local option address He is in a terrible state of exhaustion.
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St. Louis
Louis A. Patmont
Westville
Tih
Columbia
Senator Bradley Dies in Washington After Fall and Illness
Senator William C. Bradley of Kentucky died in Washington at 9 45 p m after a lingering illness aggravated by a fall. The longtime United States senator passed away following months of health decline.
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Senator Bradley
Washington
William C. Bradley
United
States
Kentucky
Wedding Rings as Relics of Barbarism in Feminist Thought
Washington May 25 a National Association survey quotes leading feminists and suffragists on the meaning of the term feminist and on marriage. Edna A Kent condemns the Christian ideal. Inez Milholland Boissevain calls wedding rings relics of barbarism. other advocates urge freedom to love, voluntary motherhood, and dismantling gender fences.
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Washington
National Association
Fias
Edna A.kent
St. Patrick
Jane Olcott
Jane “Olcott
New York
Suffrage
Marie Jenney Howe
Florence Wise
Women’s Trade Union League
Inez Milholland Boissevain
Anna Yates
Cincinnati
Philippine policy and Amalgamation talk in Congress
The piece discusses Philippine independence efforts, Governor Harrison's policy of Philippine staff appointments, and the debate among Democrats, Republicans and Progressives. It notes Knowland's and Sloan's exchange, Ollie James' continued House presence, and Alabama delegation changes after the war.
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Henry
Texas
Murdock
Kansas
Rules Committee
Alabama
Chance Kick Saves Life
In Noblesville Indiana May 25 a ten year old girl Mabel daughter of Theodore Scott a wealthy farmer near the city owed her life to kicking off the spark plug on a gasoline engine just after it started to pump water for livestock Her dress was caught in the flywheel and as she was whirled around her shoe knocked off the spark plug tearing away her entire scalp
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Noblesville
Ind
Mabel
Theodore Scott
Death by chloroform follows farm accident in Illinois
Hammond Indiana reports Jasper Zacan of Jasper county Illinois swallowed chloroform after learning his brother Frank Zachan was killed by a runaway team plowing a corn planter. The horses were driven by Frank Zachan’s daughter who escaped by jumping from the planter.
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Hammond, Ind
Jasper Zacan
Jasper County
Ill
Frank
Frank Zachan
Motorcyclist Injured in Collision with Farm Wagon
Shelbyville Indiana May 25 A motorcycle rider Harry Bennett sustained four fractures to the left leg below the knee and severe cuts and bruises after colliding with a farm wagon while riding.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Harry Bennett
One of Double Quartette Dies in Rochelle
Harvey Countryman, aged eighty two, member of the famous Countryman double quartette three brothers, dies in Rochelle TiL May 25. He married four sisters.
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Rochelle
Harvey Countryman
Countryman
Verbal Vagaries and Shifting Language Explain Courtship
A Boston transcript notes how language shifts with context. It contrasts phrases about hiring and firing a ship captain and a cook, illustrating ambiguity and reformulation in speech.
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Bat Swhen Tha
Boston
Transcript
Hart resigns as Muncie policewoman amid liquor speech row
Mrs Thomas F Hart of Muncie is reported to have resigned as city policewoman after tensions with ministers over a speech on liquor during the option campaign. Mayor Bunch denies a resignation on file, but sources indicate she quit. Hart backed licensed saloons against local option.
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Muncie
Ind
Bunch
Thomas. F. Hart
Hart
Lowden Offers to Improve Road at Own Expense
Colonel Frank Lowden proposes to improve a country road near Lowden Iowa by spending 6000 dollars if the township authorities continue the effort and maintain the same distance. The offer will be accepted.
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Orgeon
Frank Lowden
Sinisississippi Farm
Lowden
Balloon daredevil drowns as signal revolver fails
Alton Illinois May 25 eighteen year old aeronaut Robert Cowan dies when his balloon plunges into the Mississippi after a failed signal revolver misfires. a crowd on the bluffs cannot rescue him as the craft sinks.
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Alton, Ill
Robert Cowan
Mississippi
Bluffs
Cowan
ELOPERS LOSE SIX DAY RACE IN CHICAGO AREA
Joliet police arrest Peter Montgomery Dale twenty one and Pauline Catanzaro eighteen after a six day endurance elopement chase from Marshall Missouri through LaSalle Mendota to Chicago. Dale faces a Mann white slave act charge while the couple surrender in Bloomington Illinois.
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Joliet
Marshall
Pauline Catanzaro
Emanuel Catanzaro
Bloomington
Catanzaro
Savanna NY May Report An Incomplete OCR Item
Fragmentary OCR text from Savanna New York dated May 25 mentions Berg er and gar age related garbled phrases. Lacking clear names events or outcomes.
Armed Guards to Vera Cruz Escort Silliman to United States
Vice Consul John R. Silliman has reached Mexico and is en route to the United States under armed guard from the legation, with a Brazilian flag, after reports of his incarceration in Saltillo. The State Department was notified by Senor Cardoza in Mexico City. Huerta’s crisis deepens as unrest mounts in the capital and possible American intervention looms.
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Washington
John R. Silliman
Mexico
Guy
United States
Silliman
Department
Saltillo
State’ Department
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Huerta
Auerbano Blanquet
Blanquet
Maximillian
Blenquet
Tespect
Wood
Funston
Villa
Zapata
North
Pena
Vera, Cruz
Militant Suffragette Storms Royalty Event in London
May 23 London King George and Queen Mary faced a suffragette interruption at a Royal event. A woman chained to her seat unfurled a protest while others shouted and a stage escape followed. Police endured rough treatment from the crowd as several disruptors were removed. Mary Spencer, linked to a prior Royal Academy incident, faced trial at sessions after a sharp magistrate confrontation.
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London
George
Queen Mary
His ‘Majesty's
Royal Academy
Mary Spencer
Pontius
Pilate
White Alabama Senator Takes Senate Oath
Birmingham Alabama resident Frank S. White was sworn in as U S senator to succeed the late Joseph F E Johnston after a popular election, following a governor appointing Frank G Glass.
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F.S
Alabama
Washington
Frank _ Ss. White
Birmingham
Ala
Joseph
FE. _Johnston
White
Senate
Frank
Glass
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