Flames and floods sweep vast region causing multiple deaths
Reports from the forest fire district describe extensive property loss yet higher fatalities with fifteen miles from Memphis noting three fire deaths in two days and five more feared in Arkansas. Bodies found near St Francis and two young victims, a one year old and a named elderly woman, highlight the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menruis
Forest Fire District
Memphis
Arkansas
St. Francis Bottom
Texas
Fanny Woods
Pitt Roy
THREE MEN DROWNED IN GRAND HAVEN HARBOR
In a storm off Grand Haven harbor the Chicago schooner Antelope capsized drowning its three crew members. The schooner Alert, which tried to reach the harbor, landed on the beach safely but at risk of loss if wind shifts. The second tale notes Syracuse physician Gibbons asking Governor Flower to permit electricity-based execution experiments on murderer Wilson at Auburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sossex
Culmer
Read
Hamburg
Uct
Iquiqui
Spurn Head
Yorkshires
Worthing
Zarthe
Saflia
Cyprus
Limasol
Eton
Windsor
Bath
Grand Haven Harbor
Washington
Grand Haves
Chicago
Alert
New York
P. J. Gibbons
Syracuse
Governor Flower
Wilson
Auburn
Tickets to Baptist Bazaar Free With $1 Purchase
Allen Clegg & Co offers a free season ticket to every customer who spends $1 or more on Monday. Bargains include ladies handkerchiefs 5 to 35 cents, gents handkerchiefs 10 cents, hose 10 cents, half hose 15 cents, plus 45 inch wool serge 47 cents, plus covert cloths and flannels. Come early to avoid the crowd.
Hart's Damages in National Divorce Suit Case
Mrs Myrtilla Hart, once of Charleston, sues Tiffany and Co. for 2500 over a trunk stored with the jewellers. Contents include silverware, lace, two Jackson relic spoons, and letters for an absolute divorce. Hart claimed delivery to him in 1892. witnesses described the trunk's contents and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Year
Myrtilla F. Hart
Charleston 5. C
Besore Justice Barrett
Supreme Court
Tiffany & Co
Union Square Jewellers
Joshua L. Hart
Hart & Co
Charleston
New York
Hart
Tiffany's
Harts
East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Thawyer
Barrett
Teu Eyck
Tiffany
California Syrup of Figs Advertised Remedy
An advertisement extols a fig syrup remedy as pleasant for the taste and effective for cleansing the system. It claims quick relief from stomach complaints, headaches, colds, and habitual issues, asserting its exclusive market standing and medicinal benefits.
Unclear Claims In Hart Case Refer To 1492 Kidnapping Tale
Fragmentary report notes a reference to an April 1492 action involving a woman and a man who claims a trunk linked to a child abduction plot aimed at New York. Jury verdict awards Mrs Hart with interest and extra allowance totaling 2504 shillings. Letters were not shown to the jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hart
Secretary Hoke Smith Replies On Colored Emigration
In a correspondence from Arkansas and North Carolina, Rev D J Small asks how a poor colored man can reach Africa. Secretary Smith replies there is no law providing transport to Africa and that alleging Congress funds such travel is false. He notes big costs and states the government has no involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing Wasainatos
Hoke Smith
Arkansas
North Carolina
N. C
Sin
Africa
Wort
D. J. Small
James Walker
Smith
Congress
New York
Liberia
Mystery of Miss Cooney Missing Near Syracuse
Miss Ella Cooney of Cato Cayuga county vanished three weeks ago. Letters from her claimed abduction by 12 negroes and captivity in a cave, with a hair package sent to her parents. Marshal Bennett found her at the House of the Wood Shepard in Syracuse. she is emaciated and mentally wrecked, unable to explain. Authorities continue to investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Ella Cooney
Cato
Cayuga County
Father Donahue
Weedaport
Woodland Reservoir
Marshal Bennett
Weelsport
Miss Cooney
Tood Shepard
Ofti
Sensational killing rocks Davidson county courthouse case
Nashville reports a shocking political tragedy as clerk George K Whitworth killed Chancellor Andrew Allison and then wounded himself twice. The motive remains unclear while business affairs linked to the office are suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Davidson County
Givorge K. Whitworth
Chancery Court
Andrew Allison
The Negroes Return Home From Navassa Phosphate Mines
About 60 men sickened at Navassa were paid their wages aboard the Robert 8. Patterson in Perth Amboy. After treatment by health officer Ramsey and nurses, they recovered and boarded trains to Baltimore. The Perth Amboy board urged government inquiry into repatriation methods. The phosphate company agreed to cover remaining medical costs.
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Phosphate Company
Happy
New
Navassa
Robert
Patterson
Perth Amboy
American Phosphate Company
Ramsey
Jersey Central
Baltimore
Marsh Hollow
Perth Amboy Board of Health
The Labor Convention Sees Opposition Union Split
From Pirrswure on November 15 the Chronicle Telegraph reports the Knights of Labor convention in New Orleans aimed to seize control by aligning Powderly delegates with James Campbell for general master workman and Robert Walchern for national secretary treasurer. Secretary Hayes halted the move after reviewing books showing local assemblies owing dues for two years, and he unseated the miners' delegates, fracturing the opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pirrswure
Knights of Convention
New Orleans
Chronicle Telegraph
James Campbell
Window Alaxi Workers’ Association
Robert Walchern
Pennsylvania
Hayes
National Trades Assembly
Patel
Americans to Blame in Bluefields Dispute
Reports from Bluefields Nicaragua claim a local American clique colored dispatches and slandered the flag. C E Rogers, superintendent of Pearl Cays Canning Co., says Americans there sided with Jamaica blacks against the government. He accuses Crawford, an embezzler, of leading the faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minsearotis
C. E. Rogers
Pearl Cays Canning Company
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Binefields
Express Company
Embezgler
Crawford
Mr. Rogers
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Te Bus
Kingham
A. Harris
C. A. Coleman
Maple Grove Ceeap
Cotton Avenue
Loving & Hightower
Georgia
Knox Hats
Tion
Bailey
Baker County
Merrel Callaway
Real Estate and Fire Jinsurance
Tennessee
Allen Clegg & Co
Titany & Co
Syaurfng
California
U.S. Gov't Report
Hoke
Mia Cooney
Syracuar, New Yorks
Wasnixatos
Treasury
United States Notes
Boston
Pawrtrexer
R. L
Lorraine Mills
A F. Bayard
Rhysrd
Bremen
Jackson
Miss
W. H. Gills
Ander Harrison
Mississippi
Miles
Brooklyn
N. Y
Gibbs
Sricity
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