Rain Relieves Drought as Missouri and Kansas See Widespread Showers
Drought relief arrives in the southwest with rain across central and western Missouri and western Kansas. Substantial showers lift pastures and crops, though large areas remain dry. In Kansas City heat reaches 101 while casualties from heat prostration occur and local figures report deaths of prominent residents Oliver S Hitt and Martha C Mullett.
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Kansas City
Southwest
Missouri
Kansas
Territories
Hutchinson
Kas
Sunflower
Riley
Dickinson
Oklahoma Line
Barton
Green
Oklahoma
Cowley
Chautauqua
Union Pacific
Joplin
Montgomery
Butler
Sedgwick
Cherokee
Kan- Bay
Cowette
Eldorado
Wichita
Coffeyuila
Jefferson County
Martha C Mullett
Edward B Shillito
Traders’ Dispatch
Leavenworth
Oliver S Hitt
Popular Atlanta Men Offered Free Buffalo Trip Contest
The Atlanta Constitution launches a Labor Day voting contest open to police and fire department members and union labor. Five prizes include a week in Buffalo for top vote getters with all expenses paid, plus accompanying guests or friends as eligible. Voting runs to August 1 with results on Labor Day.
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Fire
Atlanta
Constitution
Fire Department
Buffalo
Chicago
Heat Intense in Kentucky as Deaths Reported
Louisville July 15 reports record heat across Kentucky with humidity and sunstroke. Ed Tuley ex-assistant postmaster dies from the heat at 2 pm. Ed Keily, a saloon porter, killed by sunstroke. Stuart Leathers, son of a banker and ex Confederate, fatally injured after a fall while seeking relief. W O Dooley, a farmer, prostrated and died in Ohio county corn field.
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Louisville
Ed Tuley
Ed Keily
Stuart Leathers
Ohio County
W O Dooley
Record Heat Sweeps Across Midwest and Great Lakes
July heat seared Lincoln Nebraska at 104 degrees with light morning showers. Northwestern Nebraska and eastern Wyoming saw heavy rain. Wisconsin hit 106 in some towns with prostrations and cattle sales tied to drought. Michigan recorded 110 in Calumet with five prostrations and one death. Minnesota data cited high humidity, multiple prostrations, and two deaths amid widespread heat.
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Lincoln
Near
Nebraska
Wyoming
la Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Barbaroa
Calumet
Mich
St. Paul, Minn
Northwest
Promise of rain across corn belt counties
Weather bureau predicts relief for stricken corn belt districts with possible thunderstorms and lower temperatures. Nebraska Kansas Texas Missouri Iowa Illinois Arkansas Indiana may see rain, while other areas stay dry. Hot spell eases in Montgomery as heat subsides then clouds gather with no rain yet.
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Washington
Great” Corn Belt
Weather Bureau
Nebraska
Kansas
Texas
Missouri
Iowa
Ilinois
Arkansas
Indiana
Lord Roberts tribute to Gen Lee in letter from Mary Custis Lee
Richmond July 15 Miss Mary Custis Lee releases a letter from Lord Roberts commander in chief of the British army praising Lee as one of the greatest soldiers and expressing a wish to visit Lexington Virginia to see the monument in the college chapel The letter along with regards from Lady Roberts is dated ERED ROBERTS Judge Fuller of the US land claims court travels to Asheville for the summer break in Raleigh North Carolina July 15 specials
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Richmond
Mary Custis Lee
Lord Roberts
Lexington
Lee
Lea
College Chapel
Virginia
Lady Roberts
Miss Lee
Raleigh
Thomas C. Fuller
United States Court of Land Claims
Asheville
Charged by the soldiers tempIves parade in Lembrug violence
London dispatch reports more than 100 wounded as troops and police clash with a mob resisting a street demonstration for the unemployed in Lembrug. Barricades rose, bayonets were used, and the crowd was dispersed despite strong troop guard and a threat of further clashes overnight.
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London
Lemburg
Vienna
Daily Express
Terrible Java Volcano Outburst Destroys Coffee Estates
Oriental dispatches report a volcano eruption in northern Java that buried hundreds under lava ash and mud. Dozens of natives and Europeans perished including a superintendent and twenty five coolies at a galga sian. Many estates were wiped out and the countryside strewn with corpses.
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Java
Tacoma
Wash
Klee
Galgsian
Singapore
Hong Kong
McKinley To Greet Epworth League at San Francisco Convention
President McKinley will send a greeting to Epworth League delegates opening their national convention in San Francisco on July 15. He may press a button to sound 'America' as a 1,500 voice chorus performs, then the president's message will be read. The agenda spans three days focused on Christian work and mission emphasis led by Charles Vernon Vickery. Nearly 10,000 have arrived, with over 20,000 more expected by Thursday.
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McKinley
San Francisco
Cortelyou
Epworth League
Charles Vernon Vickery
Chicago
American Lieutenants Die in the Philippines
Manila reports the deaths of Lieutenant Charles A. Ramsay of the Twenty-first Infantry who was wounded near Lipa Batangas province last month, and Salon A. Massey formerly lieutenant of artillery and lately purchasing agent for the insular government, as General Chaffee toured northern rail points.
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Charles Ramsay
Salon Massey
Philippines
Manila
Charles A. Ramsay
Twenty-first Infantry
Lipa
Batangas
Salon A. Massey
General Chaffee
Machinists Return to Work Amid Newark Strike End
Two thousand machinists who had been on strike since May 20th returned to work in Cincinnati. The Harlan and Hollingsworth group in Wilmington saw 110 workers resume duties under a wage increase of 1 dollar weekly for high earners and 50 cents for those under 13 dollars, with a fifty six hour week in peak season and sixty hours otherwise. In Newark New Jersey the prolonged strike also ended with all workers resuming work on the bosses’ terms.
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Cincinnati
SES Udeki
Wilmington
Det
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
New York
Newark
N. J
British Colonel Scobell Seizes Scheeper Laager and 31 Boers
Graaf Reinet July 15 Colonel Scobell's column surprised and captured Scheeper's laager at Cambedoo July 15 taking thirty one prisoners and seizing ammunition and stores Scheeper and most of his commando escaped There were no British casualties Most prisoners were rebels Lord Kitchener confirms the capture of the acting President Schaikburger's wife and says the prisoner is brought into Pretoria London July 18
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Scobell
Graaf Reinet
Cape Colony
Scheeper
Cambdeboo
Kitchener
London
Lord Kitchener
War Office
Schaikburger
Pretoria
Ambassador White To Return Home in September Visit
Berlin July 15 The Eilefne Journal prints a letter from United States Ambassador White to the editor stating he will go to the United States in September to visit his family. He adds that his future plans depend on several issues between Germany and the United States likely to be raised in the Reichstag at its opening.
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Ambassador White
Berlin
Eilefne Journal
United States
White
Germany
Reichstag
Prince Chun on way to Germany to apologize
Prince Chun, leaving Pekin July 12, heads for Berlin to apologize to Emperor William for the murder of Baron von Ketteler. He arrived at Woo Bung near Shanghai amid public opposition to his reception. Floods on the Yangtze near Hankow have caused hundreds of deaths.
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Germany
Shanghai
Prince Chun
Pekin
Berlin
Emperor Wiliam
Baron von Ketteler
China
Woo Bung
Here
Yang Tse
Hankow
Collision in West Virginia Leaves Two Dead
A deadly head on crash on the Ohio River railroad at Padens Valley near Parkersburg claims two lives and injures several others. The Ohio Valley Express from Cincinnati to Pittsburg collided with a loose southbound engine at 6 30 pm. Engineer Al Courtright and fireman William Boothby die, William Day is fatally injured, Fireman Carter among the injured. The baggage master suffered severe head injuries.
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Parkersburg
Ohio River
Padens Valley
Ohio Valley Express
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
al Courtright
Ohio, Valley Express
Wheeling
William Boothby
Wiliam Day
Carter
Bagpage
Bryan Critiques Ohio Democrats Platform Endorsing Kansas City
W J Bryan criticizes the Ohio Democratic convention for not reaffirming the Kansas City platform and for making him an issue. He argues the vote should have endorsed last year’s platform, not attacked his standing. He endorses the convention nominees and urges voters to back them while stressing primaries should shape the state platform.
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Kansas City
Lincoln
Ned
Ohio
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Congress
Bryant
John B. McLean
McLean
Five Die in Missouri Kansas Texas Freight Collision
An engineer two brakemen and two tramps died in a collision of Missouri Kansas Texas freight trains three miles north of Muscogee Oklahoma on July 15. The wreck injured no others and halted rail traffic as investigators began work at the scene.
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Muscogee
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Soft coal combine forming in East Kentucky Tennessee
Final steps are under way to consolidate the soft coal field mines of east Kentucky and east Tennessee with possible inclusion of west Kentucky. The J Pierpont Morgan syndicate and local promoters are engineering the plan to acquire eight or ten working mines valued at several millions.
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Pierpont Morgan Syndicate
Kentucky
Tennessee
Louisville
East Kentucky
East Tennessee
West Kentucky
J. Pierpont Morgan Syndicate
Combine
Ex Senator Pugh of Alabama Very Ill
Ex Senator Pugh of Alabama is seriously ill at his Washington home with an overcast condition. He was in critical condition Saturday night but today shows slight improvement. His advanced age, over eighty, works against him.
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Washington
Pugh
Alabama
74 000 Men Idle as Pittsburg Strike Expands Across Steel Plants
Pittsburg reports on July 15 indicate the Amalgamated Association’s strike order is widely followed with 74 000 workers idle in mills. About 2 500 are in Pittsburg and 1 500 in McKeesport while Monessen’s new tin plate mill remains in operation.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association
American Tin Plate Company
American Steel Hoop
American Sheet Steel Company
Sheet Steel
Steel Hoop
Monessen
Pittspore
Allegheny
McKeesport
Shaffer
Pittsburg Villa
Ion
American Steel Hoop Company
West Carson Street
Lindsay and McCutcheon
American Hoop Steel Company
Mil
Steel Corporation
Federal Steel Company
National Steel Company
National Tube Company
Amalgamated
New York
Warner Arms
Strike Action Threatens United States Steel Plants
The article reports a large steel strike affecting 200000 workers across firms including American Tin Plate, American Steel and Wire, American Sheet Steel, and others. Amalgamated Association leader President Shaffer pledges to broaden the action to press for recognition, amid reports from New Philadelphia, Carnegie, Johnstown, and McKeesport on plant idle times and employee status. The piece compares the dispute to the 1882 Homestead strike and notes promises of a general walkout if demands are not met.
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American Tin Plate Company
American Steel and Wire Company
American Sheet Steel Company
American Steel Hoop Company
American Bridge Company
National Steel Company
Federal Steel Company
National Tube Company
Carnegie Company
McKeesport
Steel Corporation
Amalgamated Association
United States Steel Corporation
New Philadelphia
Scottdale
Old Meadow
Johnstown
Cambria Steel Company
W. Dewees Wood
United States Tin Plate
Shaffer
Amalgamated
Lindsay & McCutcheon
Nated States Steel Corporation
Heap
Shatter
Fittsburg
Painter
Lindsay & McCutcheon Works
Steel Hoop Company
Combine
Association
What Caused The Strike Questions Carnegie Plan
The Leader reports a discussion on the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strike. It states management sought a plant that was half union and half non union for the coming year, then to operate all mills non union, including recently absorbed ones. It notes Carnegie aimed to absorb National Steel and American Steel Hoop. Continued on Fifth Page.
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Carnegie Company
Cleveland
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Streel Workers
Carnegie Steel Company
Jwy Ist
National Steel Company
American Steel Hoop Com
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