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...Died. Elwood Haynes, 67, automobile pioneer; in Kokomo, Ind., of influenza. On July 4, 1894, he drove his first "horseless buggy" into Kokomo at the rate of eight miles an hour. When he took it to Chicago, he was ordered to "get that contraption off the streets." His original invention is now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
...accused of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the letting of contracts for hospitals. Last week the case was given into the hands of the jury. The jurymen were immured for almost five hours. During that time, the defendants sat smiling and chatting with friends and their attorneys ? Elwood Godman for Mr. Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis for Mr. Thompson. Senator "J. Ham," as he used to be known when he was "the best dressed man in the Senate," smiled through his fuzzy yellow-brown whiskers. At length the jury came in with its verdict...
Five years and $1,000,000 more or less brought at least a temporary termination of a notorious divorce suit. In one hour and five minutes a jury disposed of several thousand dollars' worth of argument and many hours of legal talent. One Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was acquitted of 16 charges lodged by one W. E. D. Stokes, her husband...
...jury) and the decision was against the husband. But before the decision could be signed, the judge was elevated to a higher bench, and the case had to be retried. It is now on trial before a jury. The man was William Earl Dodge Stokes; and his wife, Helen Elwood Stokes. It is estimated that they have spent over $1,000,000 on the case. They cover each other with mud. The public applauds...
...delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes, William Earl Dodge Stokes at the vortex of a veritable whirlpool of crimes, of allegations of brazen corruption and almost unbelievable perjury, all directed at Helen Elwood Stokes, his present wife...