Pauncefote Talks Aim at Nicaragua Canal Accord
Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador, says negotiations with the Marquis of Lansdowne cover Nicaragua and several US Britain treaties. He hopes a canal accord can be reached before Congress reconvenes and trusts Senate approval will follow a fair settlement. He praises Americans as genial and notes a joint commission may reconvene after his return. He also cites Canada reciprocity as a hopeful goal in widening US Britain trade ties.
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Tendon
Lord Pauncefote
United States
Associated Press
Marquis of Lansdowne
Nicaagua
Great Britain
Nicaragua
McKinley
Senate
Secretary of State
Hay
United
Dominion
Canada
Newfoundland
Bom
Trigg Says Dime Novels Superior to Sunday School Books
Professor Oscar L. Trigg of Chicago University denounces Protestant hymnody as doggerel and claims dime novels are literature by comparison to Sunday school stories. He argues modern civilization blends Christianity and paganism and asserts orthodoxy excludes poetry and literature from education.
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Chicago
Oscar L. Trigg
Chicago University
John D. Rockefeller
William Shakespeare
Trigg
Walt Whitman
Watts
China
Count Tolstoi Ill in Saint Petersburg
July 17 dispatches from Saint Petersburg report Count Tolstoi seriously ill with gastric trouble. Friends and relatives have been summoned to his bedside. Also July 17 London reports the Eastern Telegraph Company, with post office authorities, planning a code to allow penny-a-word cable tolls to the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Tolstoi
London
Hastern Telegraph Company
John Barry
Post Office
Col Sawyer Nearing Death After Prolonged Illness
Colonel B F Sawyer, a renowned veteran journalist, remains critically ill and is expected to die at any moment. He is a Georgia figure known across the state, with a long career and wide acquaintance in many towns.
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B F. Sawyer
Georgia
Colonel Sawyer
Lipscomb Case Moves to Federal Court in Insurance Suit
Manhattan Insurance case shifts from state to federal court after Judge Newman grants permission to add Otto Kelsey as a party. receivership and possible consolidation loom as bonds in state treasury are implicated. Attorneys Felder Rountree for Kelsey, King Spalding Ellis for plaintiffs, Mitchells and Hooper Alexander for creditors.
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Manhattan Insurance
Manhattan Insurance Company
Circuit Court of the United States
Newman
Kelsey
Golden Rule Jones Fined For Contempt In Police Court
Mayor Samuel M. Jones known as the Golden Rule was fined five dollars and costs for contempt of court in Toledo Ohio police court. He promptly paid the fine after the judge objected to his conduct while a prisoner was being tried. He had asked questions about the prisoner's finances and hands, prompting the judge to order his removal from the room.
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Toledo
Samuel M. Jones
Wachenheimer
Union Labor Faces Trusts Over Tinplate Strike
Union pressure stands to push 400 tinplate workers toward a likely strike. Notices posted in the tin mill promise a 10 percent raise for heaters and catchers and a 5 percent raise for rollers. Percy E. Donner, the tin mill superintendent, notes only four or five workers may quit and predicts a strike lasting at least two months. The Monessen tin mill leads the combine in output.
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Tinplate
Percy E. Donner
Monessen
Combine
Finish fightin Frisco aims to spread strike
San Francisco plans a finish fight for machinists with a $100000 weekly strike fund. International leaders expect funds from the eastern lodge to back efforts, aiming to mobilize sidelined workers and coordinate with AFL IAM and local groups. In Milwaukee, 50 machinists returned to Allis Chalmers, signaling a near end to that city’s strike as funds ran short.
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San Francisco
Thomas L Wilson
The
International Machinists
International Lodge
American Federation of Labor
International Association of Machinists
Milwaukee
Wis
Allis-Chalmers Company
All Coat Mines Tied Up as Strike Steals Coal
Sixty five thousand men idle in the anthracite region with 23,000 miners idle in the Wyoming district from Duryea to Nanticoke as railroad crews suspend coal branches. No mining or hauling occurs and the total idle across the region reaches about 63,000 with 40,090 workers in Lackawanna yet partly active. If the strike spreads to Hazelton Schuylkill and Shamokin regions as many as 130,000 may be idle.
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Wilkesbarre Pa
Wyoming
Duryea
Nanticoke
Lackawanna
Hazelton
Schuylkill
Shamokin
Tin Plate Workers Stand By Strikers With Union Refusal
Tin Plate Workers' Protective Association will back Amalgamated Association and refuse to work plates in non union mills. President George Powell cites a binding agreement with American Tin Plate Company running to 1902 and upholds union principles.
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Elwood
Ind
Tin Plate Workers’ Protective Association
Amalgamated Association
George Powell
American Tin Plate Company
Amalgamated
Rainfall Boosts Corn and Pastures Across Southwest
Generous rains swept the corn belt, starting in western Kansas and reaching Missouri by evening. Forecasters say the showers will insure at least a half crop of corn and improve pastures, with temperatures dropping sharply after the rainfall.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Massouri Line
Comty
Weather Bureau
Rainfall report outlines drought region in the Midwest and South
Chief Willis Moore releases a rainfall statement covering the past forty eight hours across the drought stricken region. Local showers have been scattered and light, with notable totals in Beeville Brenham Beaumont Russellville Texarkana Ann Arbor Flint Peoria Rantoul Streator Cambridge City Farmland Jefferson City Hillsboro Mount Vernon Toronto Owensboro Grand Meadow New Ulm Mitchell Storm Lake Stillwater Muskogee and more. Temperatures remain high in lower Missouri Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys while rainfall widens in Arkansas and nearby states.
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Washington
Willis Moore
Weather Bureau
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Beeville
Tex
Brenham
Beaumont
Russellville
Ark
Texarkana
Ayr
Ann Arbor
Mich
Flint
Peoria
Rantoul
Streator
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Russellsville
Malvern
Pine Bluff
Detective Barrett Resigns Chief Denies Board Link
Detective Thomas A. Barrett quit the city detective force with immediate effect saying his resignation had no tie to the police board action. The chief reports Barrett owed $1250 on a note, to be paid from pay, and Barrett vows to settle it later. Barrett criticizes media framing, notes plans to reveal reasons later. Patrolman Fogg will cover duties until a replacement is appointed.
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Thomas A. Barrett
Police Board
Barrett
John Harris
City
The
Constitution
Detective Force
Bali
Fogg
Sub Committee Appointed to Choose Labor Day Site
A location committee has not yet decided on a site for Labor Day exercises. It will consider several suggestions and a sub committee will confer with street railroad authorities to gauge available facilities. The panel includes Jerome Jones as chairman, with William Delay Charles Hirsch and Harry N Schlesinger.
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Jerome Jones
William Delay
Charles Hirsch
Harry N. Schlesinger
Death of B M Goldsmith Father Dr W T Goldsmith
Advices from Chattanooga report the death of B M Goldsmith of Atlanta in a Rossville Ga sanitarium from brain congestion. He was traveling for the Interstate Press and was stricken only three days ago. He was well known in Atlanta and was a son of Dr W T Goldsmith of 25 West Peachtree Street.
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W. T. Goldsmith
Interstate Press
Chattanooga
B. M Goldsmith
Atlanta
Rossvlie
Goldsmith
Inter-State
Peachtree Street
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Works Wonders for Sores and Corns
Hillsborough Tl correspondent H. Robinson writes of severe corn pains that made walking nearly impossible. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured them completely and acts like magic on sprains bruises cuts burns and other skin troubles. Cure guaranteed by all druggists. 2c
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H. Robinson
Hillsborough
Bucklen
Plans for Grant Building Three Stores At Whitehall Corner
The William D Grant building will rise on the old Centennial block corner of Whitehall and Well streets as a three story structure split into Elseman and Weil George Muse Clothing Co and H Cress Co as occupants Fronting the viaduct with one story below street work to begin in two to three weeks with completion around January 1 The old James bank block is being demolished to make way for the Century building The Title and Trust Co rear section on Alabama Street will wait until its new Empire building offices on Marietta Street are ready by August 11 or 15
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William D. Grant
Whitehall and
Well Streets
Elseman & Weil
George Muse Clothing Company
8. H. Cress & Co
James Bank
Century
Alabama Street
Title and Trust Company
Empire Building
Marietta
Empire
Dixon Relieved by Court of State Obligation
Merritt W. Dixon of Savannah, a convict lessee under the state, was relieved yesterday by the prison commission of all obligation to the state after being charged with defaulting on his payment for the quarter ending March 31, 1901, freeing him from further liability.
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Savannah
Merritt W. Dixon
Drought Breaks Across States With Mixed Crop Prospects
Vicksburg Mississippi reports a good shower ending drought but not enough to ease farmers. Yazoo-Tallahatchie delta corn appears a total loss with no rain since May 30, while cotton shows deterioration. Kansas outlook promises at least 50 million bushels of corn with more rain forecast. Tennessee notes widespread relief from drought though more rain needed in many areas, and tobacco prospects improve west of Dover.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Yazoo-Tallahatchie Delta
Topeka
Kans
Kansas
Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
Middle Tennessee
Dover
New Dog Law Read To Police Warns Vicious Owners
Chief of Police presented a March passed ordinance prohibiting vicious dogs from running at large. Under the old law owners needed no notice before fines, but the new rule imposes arrest and heavy fines without prior notification to owners of vicious dogs.
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Ball
Masons Annuity Officers Elected for Two Years
An election of officers for the Masons Annuity of Atlanta was held at Temple Court. James L. Mason was named president, John R. Dickey first vice president, Charles M. Wiley second vice president, with a slate including George E. Argard secretary A B P Wood treasurer Dr L P Stephens medical director E F Hoyt organizer W B Stubbs counselor John D Wing auditor J Stovall Smith chaplain Alexander Reese inspector Max Meyerhardt W P Webster and H Clay Armstrong supreme representatives. The organization, formed three years ago, reported success and many prominent Mason members in the south. In a separate incident, window washer John Settles fell from a Prudential Building third floor window onto a skylight injuring the skylight and a cigar shop fan below.
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Masons
Atlanta
Temple Court
James L. Mason
John R. Dickey
Charles M. Wiley
Macon
George E. Argard
A. B P. Wood
L. P. Stephens
E. F. Hoyt
W. B. Stubbs
Savannah
John D. Wing
J. Stovall Smith
Brunswick
Alexander Reese
Cuthbert
Max Meyerhardt
Rome
W. P. Webster
Jacksonville
Fla
H. Clay Armstrong
Montgomery
Ala
South
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Rockefeller
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Draggista —PriceWsser
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Golden Rule Jones
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Reform
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Youngstown
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Shaffer
Rochester
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Whather
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DeWitt &Co
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Sotels
Hotel Brunswick
89Th St
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Highlands
Central Park
Chase Howland
Elrium
Exposition
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Lancaster
Elmwood
Cumberland
Cumberland Island
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SBAG
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Thomas Tom.linson
Tate
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Linville, N.C
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Larga
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City T.& P A
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John Settles
Prudential Building
Settles
Goodrum
Someani
Pirescg
Battery Park Hotel
Asheville, N. C
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God Orchestra Sprelai Rata
Sottages
H. B Moore
Business Center
Houston Street
Hotel Gerard
44Th Street
Brew York
A. P. Hamblin’s Sons
Avon Inn
Avon-by-the-Sea
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Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
West Virginia
iHustrated Pookie
Harrington Mills
Imiproel
Denver
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Burlington
Scenic
Colorado
Burlington Auta
North Pryor Street
L. W. Wakeley
J. N. Merrill
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Perrin
Worcestershire Glee
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Konrad
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N. F
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