Storiku tal-Isport tal-Ġlieda u Artist Marzjali
Nhar is-Sibt, Marzu 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran u d-ditektifs
H. H. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Madankollu, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt għażel lis-Segretarju tal-Gwerra tiegħu u eks Gvernatur tal-Filippini
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Il-Mixja biex Live Saħħa u Qawwa (link affiljat) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 years until losing his
Sunday morning, Awissu 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, ex ditektif New York City, rebaħ il-Kampjonat World Wrestling Greco-Roman mill jisfratta Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon kienet issaltan għal għaxar snin qabel ma rtira bħala ċampjin. Wara li rtira, huwa beda biex jaqilgħu l-għajxien bħala trainer personali. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Lulju 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. Tiegħu “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, li
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Grandpa
Tom Hyer rebaħ il-American Bare knuckle Prizefighting Kampjonat fl 1841. Bħal ċampjins prizefighting aktar tas-Seklu Dsatax, huwa ma ġlieda ħafna drabi. Hyer normalment imħallsa kontijiet tiegħu bħala jinfurza għall-partiti politiċi fi New York. Oriġinarjament, Hyer impjega t-talenti tiegħu għall-Whigs iżda kien se jaqleb lealtà għall- “Know Xejn Parti” mal-ħabib tiegħu William