Thursday 28 July 2016

Society Saturday: THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Chateaugay Record And Franklin County Democrat
Friday, December 1, 1905
Page Six

THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. 
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   The gallows has been erected in Rutland, Vt., for Mrs. Mary Rogers, in whose behalf a motion is pending in the United States Supreme Court which may be decided to day.
   The contest over the will of the late Alphens D. Dubois, in New York, was settled, the daughter receiving a larger share than was provided for her in the will.
   Mrs. James F. Birdsong, wife of a dentist in Monticello, Miss., shot and killed Dr. Thomas Butler, a prominent physician, and then surrendered herself.
   Miss Ada Rystrom, a Swedish woman, evidently of good family, who became a house servant in Philadelphia, committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium.  
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Copyright © 2016, David J. McRae

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