Other Things in 1897

[jd]

wasn't that ghost-testimoney mentioned in A Frolic of His Own?  Or
something similar...

Interesting tidbits.

On 7/14/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> January 23 - Elva Zona Heaster found dead in Greenbrier County, West
> Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband was perhaps the only
> case in United States history where the testimony of a ghost helped secure a
> conviction.
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> July 11 - S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 begins. The
> ill-fated expedition to fly over the arctic results in the death of the
> entire team within months
>
> September 10 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than
> nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
>
> France allows women to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
> First use of the word computer meaning an electronic calculation device.
> J. J. Thomson discovers the electron as a subatomic particle
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> J. J. Thomson discovers the electron as a subatomic particle
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