Nueces Floods Reach Ranches and Bridges in Texas
A cloudburst on the Nueces River caused 25 to 26 foot rises damaging ranches near Brackettville and severing telegraph lines. Reported deaths include English sheepman Ethebert MacDonald and several Italian migrants. Fort Worth and Waco storms bring crop losses, flooded rivers, and railroad damage along the Trinity and Brazos. In Philadelphia, coal miners’ strike nears escalation with guard protection planned for Schuylkill county collieries as troops may be deployed to ensure work.
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Nueces
Sycamore
Ethebert MacDonald
Brackettville
Fort Worth
Denver Road
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West Fork
Trinity Bottoms
Averflow
Dalles
Brazos
Waco
Osco
Texas Central
Deep Creek
Claco
Stamford
Philadelphia
Schuylkill County
State National Guard
Shenandoah
Gobin
Mills Resume After Amalgamated Agreement in Cincinnati
In Birmingham the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers announced a settlement with iron and steel operators in Cincinnati. The agreement affects 1800 to 2000 workers in the area around the Republic Iron and Steel mills.
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Birmingham
Ala
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Cincinnati
Amalgamated Association
Age-Herald
Focal Mills
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Foreign Officials Protest in Shanghai Appointments
Shanghai on September 24 reports officials believe Prince Tuan will join the grand council and a Shanghai provincial judge post created with the Boxer King Yi as deputy. Foreign powers are understood to be protesting to the Yangtze viceroys against these appointments.
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Shanghai
Prince Tuan
Grand Council
Boxer
King Yi
Thse
Suicide epidemic and city deaths across New York stories
New York reports an epidemic of self harm with multiple deaths including Magnus Swenzin in the North River, George Burch in Tompkins Square Park, Jno Meyer on Third Avenue, James Campbell in Central Park, Edward Schwarzwald in Central Park, Mary Crane, and Elmer Bates linked with various circumstances. Galveston and Dallas items note post disaster quiet and a murder robbery case respectively.
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New York
Magnus Swenzin
North River
George Burch
Tompkins Square Park
Jno.Meyer
Third Avenue
James Campbells
Central Park
Edward Schwarzwald
Detroit
Chicago
Porto Rico
Moerdn
Mary Crane
Elmer Bates
Jersey City
Miners riot ends in killings as sheriff posse fires
Shenandoah Pa September 22 a sheriff posse confronted riotous miners near Indian Ridge colliery and fired on the crowd killing two and wounding seven others. Sheriff Toole and deputies faced a mob of Poles Slavs and Huns prompting troops to be called as Fourth and Twelfth regiments were deployed.
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Shenandoah
Toole
O'Donnell
Brennemen
Indian Ridge
Reading Company
East Center Street
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Ferguson House
Sheriff Togle
Harrisburg
Mike Yuckavage
Edward Coyle
Michael Scanlan
Anthony Skarnitske
John Wusdickey
Peter Stalmacovich
Mike Sazitska
Anthony Axalugee
Geo. Redding
Rington
Robert Edwards
Charles Rowland
Four Negroes Lynched in Ponchatoula Louisiana
Four men were hanged by a local vigilante group in Ponchatoula Tangipahoe parish for burglary tied to Henry Hatfelder home near the Illinois Central depot. Victims named Isah Rollins Charlie Laid George Bickham Nathaniel Bowman aged 15 to 47. City reports an epidemic of burglaries in the area and a vigilant committee long formed for summary action. Hatfelder reported his house broken into and $250 cash stolen.
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Ponchatoula
Henry Hatfelder
Illinois Central Depot
Tangipaho Parish
Isah Rollins
Charlie Laid
George Bickham
Nathaniel Bowman
Hatfelder
Disorder at Sun Tai Near Canton Sparks Military Send
French consul reports September 20 disturbances at Sun Tai near Canton. Several villages destroyed and others besieged. Missionaries escaped. Initial viceroy troops failed to quell unrest. Foreign consuls demand larger force. Chancellery and gunboat Avalanche to accompany relief.
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Paris
Canton
Sun Tai
Quotable Fragments on Life and Character
A collection of pointed aphorisms and one liners on happiness money pride work and manners. Wry observations touch on jealousy ambition generosity and civil behavior with a Chicago News attribution.
Dr. BE Benjamin Andrews Installed as Nebraska Chancellor
Personal items note Dr BE Benjamin Andrews was installed as chancellor of the University of Nebraska on Sept 22. The widow of Archibald Forbes, aided by a literary friend, plans to write her husband’s biography. Simon Newcomb receives an honorary degree from a leading Austrian university. Only Ludlow and J M Wilson among current US Army generals are West Point graduates.
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BE. Benjamin Andrews
University of Nebraska
Archibald Forbes
Simon Newcomb
United States Army
Ludlow
J. M. Wilson
West Point
Fatal kerosene blast kills Indian girl at Burns home
Ardmore I T September 22 A fatal kerosene explosion occurred at Mc Millan fifteen miles east of here last night. Indian girl Miss Pickens was kindling a fire with kerosene when the can exploded burning her to death and destroying the house and contents.
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Ardmore
I. T
McMillan
Here
Charles Burns
Miss Pickens
Royal notes and scholarly moves spanning Europe and Hawaii
Count Waldersee receives a 2000 mark monthly salary in China with an additional 10000 marks for expenses. Queen Victoria plans an October visit to the Empress Frederick of Germany and may tour Coburg. F A Hosmer, longtime president of Oahu College, Honolulu, returns to the U S to head Europe brief. A Lincoln Hyde urges a unified weights and measures system for English speakers based on the inch as a base unit. Europeans of Sienkiewicz fund a homestead gift for his jubilee next November.
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A. Lincoln Hyde
Sienkiewicz
Stage and theater changes in New York and London
Daniel Frohman hires Cissy Loftus for Daly's. Kyrle Bellew to have a theater built by London admirers. Seymour Hicks adapts Mistress Penwick. Julia Arthur will not act next season. Hamilton Reville leaves Olga Nethersole's company. William H. Crane to present David Harum at Garrick. Max Beerbohm favors 7 p m first nights. Edmund Collier to play Jagoun in The Strangler's Daughter. Effie Ellsler to play Barbara Frietchie. Maude Adams shines as Dot Bradbury in A Midnight Bell. Robert Taber to impersonate Cassius in Julius Caesar.
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Daniel Frohman
Cissy Loftus
Daly
Kyrle Bellew
London
Seymour Hicks
Dutton Payne
Penwick
Julia Arthur
Hamilton Reville
Olga Nethersole
William H. Crane
David Harum
Garrick Theater
New York
Max Beerbohm
Robert Taber
America
Cassius
Tree
Julius Caesar
Afterthoughts on Greatness and Necessity
The excerpt argues greatness depends on perspective not force. honest work may harm employment, necessity spawns invention, and excess leads to impracticality. it contrasts practical life with intellectual achievement and the limits of abundance.
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