Candler Speaks Out on Race and Suffrage
Atlanta July 29 Governor Allan D Candler outlines his view on the souths race question blaming carpetbaggers and intermeddling outsiders while advocating restricted suffrage favoring the intelligent negro. He links illiteracy to crime and urges moral education within families churches and schools. An Indiana Afro American league memorial condemns lynching without trial and supports death penalty for rape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athania
Allan D. Candler
Bainbridge
Candler
South
Egypt
Georgia
Ixpianapolis
Indiana
British Gunboat Goldfinch Narrowly Escapes Wreck
Telegraphic items report a storm off Australia endangering vessels. The British gunboat Goldfinch nearly wrecked in a gale, while the steamer Moana carried news from Melbourne about June storms. Other notes include a revoked medical certificate in Kansas City for J C McLaughlin and a natural gas discovery near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, with plans to pipe the well. The Republican state convention will hear N S Ketchum of Marshalltown as a candidate for railroad commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldfinch
San Francisco
Moana
Hurvaiian Isle
Melbourne
Puget Sound
Auckland
Manenaiitown
Marshalltown
Ketchum
Ten Thousand Brickmakers Strike Halts Chicago Work
Ten thousand men were thrown out of work as union brickmakers strike in Cook County. Construction on 200 buildings stops as brick layers hodcarriers and carpenters quit for lack of material. A meeting is set to seek a settlement with north side manufacturers, with both sides firm on their positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birtko
Chicago Brickmakers
Ontcaco
Chicago
Cook County
North Side
Quiet Cleveland Streets Grow Calm Amid Turmoil
Crowded street cars resume full service in Cleveland as mayor and Adjutant General clash over police duties. A dynamite blast shattered a returning car near Euclid Beach, but no passengers were harmed. Across towns, messenger boy strikes end with reinstatement delays, Filipino expositions face transfers, Bartley judgment collection moves, and Des Moines hosts a secretive meeting of five insurance agents amid Blanchard law fears.
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Cleveland
Euclid Beach Park
Des Moies
Henry French
Sioux City
Joel Tuttle
Des Moines
Telegraphic Briefs Highlight Global, National Movements
Guzman Blanco ex president of Vene muela dies Friday. Henry Mack of Simon Mack & Co. is bankrupt. Chickamauga Park quartermaster ships 482 horses and mules to the Philippines. Turkish minister Al Ferough Bey departs Washington for Europe. The pope renounces arbitration on Hayti San Domingo frontier dispute. Sir Julian Pauncefote hosts farewell banquet for peace delegates in The Hague. Ex congressman W F Piper gravely ill at Palace Hotel San Francisco. Marcus Daly ill but improves. Cuban census to be run by U S experienced staff. Hawaiian sugar planters deny slave labor allegations. Chicago Mayor Harrison and New York Mayor Van Week invited to Aug 19 Democratic picnic on Sugar Island. Mimic Burroughs freed from asylum after suit against Toledo and Fremont for 1 million. Northern Pacific president says Union Pacific offered half interest in Portland to Tacoma line. Ohio centennial presidency taken by S C Schenck. C M Spitzer resigns. First day races on Charles River see four cared race won by Pennsylvania. Portia inquiry at Halifax reprimands officers for not alerting captain to ship speed. London Daily Mail cites Russian passport controls for Ta Ling Wan and Port Arthur restricting travel.
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Guzman Blanco
Venemuela
Henry
Mack
Simon Mack & Co
New York
Chickamauga Park
Philippines
al Ferough Bey
Washington
Hayti-San Domingo
Julian Pauncefote
the Hague
Sugar Island
Mich
Mimic. Burroughs
Toledo
Fremont
Northern Pacific Railway
Union Pacific Railway
Portland
Tacoma
8. C. Schenck
First National Bank of
Taledon
C. M. Spitzer
National Association of Amateur Darsmen
Charles River
Pennsylvania
Portia
Halifax
Graham
Payrault
Farrell
London Daily Mail
Tor Ta-Lien-Wan
Port Arthur
Luetgert Death Reveals Confession Case From Chicago
Adolph Luetgert, the Chicago sausage maker serving life for his wife’s murder, was found dead in his prison cell of fatty heart degeneration. Frank Fay Pratt claims Luetgert confessed in 1898, saying he killed his wife in love with another woman and was possessed by the devil. The era’s sensational trial and its grisly body-cooking tale are revisited as new claims surface.
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Ludgert
Chicago
Luetgert
Frank Fay Pratt
Adolph Luetgert
Mr. Pratt
Ans
American wins Wingfield silver sculls at Thames regatta
London July 28 B H Howell the American oarsman won the Wingfield silver sculls at the Thames regatta finishing four lengths ahead of Blackstaffe who placed second Fox took third. Howell had previously won the diamond sculls at Henley regatta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Howell
Pittsburgh Collapse Kills One Injures Several
Westinghouse Electric pattern works in East Pittsburg collapsed burying ten workers. One man, Joseph Pfister of Kingsville Massachusetts, died. Injured: James Hilterman, J W Thompson, Archibald Sweet, Frank Brown, John Sullivan. Four escaped unhurt. Pfister crushed atop the structure. Injured taken to West Penn Hospital. all expected to recover.
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Pittsburg
New Pattern Works
Westinghouse Electrica Company
East Pittsburg
Joseph Pyister
Kingsville
James Hilterman
J W. Thompson
Archibald Sweet
Frank Brown
John Sullivan
Shiffler Bridge Company
Pfister
West Penn Hospital
Mob Carves Out Elders From Jasper County Mission
A mob of 50 masked horsemen seized three Mormon elders proselyting in Covington Georgia Jasper County near Newton factory. They were asked to accompany the mob. when they refused shots were fired and Mrs Cannard was wounded. The elders were taken away and have not been seen since. The elders had been driven out of two Jasper county towns earlier in the week.
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Covincox
Jasper County
William Cunnard
Newton Factory
Mayor Farley Life Threats Rise in Cleveland
Mayor Farley tightens security after threats amid city council clash over investigation into Big Consolidated street railway strike. Guards at Euclid Avenue residence and nightly detective surveillance instituted as tensions with strike sympathizers escalate.
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Cleveland
Farley
Consolidated Street Railway
Euclid Avenue
Baseball scores from national and western leagues
Chicago beat Philadelphia 9 to 1 and Louisville topped Boston 6 to 5. Cleveland swept Baltimore 9 to 4 in the NL while St Louis and Brooklyn posted 8 and 12 run wins respectively. Cincinnati defeated New York 9 to 0. In the Western League Buffalo 9 beat Kansas City 5 and Detroit edged Minneapolis 7 to 6.
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Phureduy
Chicago
Philadelphia
Louisville
Boston
Cleveland
Baltimore
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
New York
Buffalo
Kansas City
Detroit
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
St. Paul
Grand Rapids
Milwaukee
Telegraphic News Terse and Oddities From 1900s
A rapid mix of items notes Olympia expected in New York by Sept 80 and an $8 76 to 4 per ton puddling rate cut at Pottstown. Dublin forms a fund for a Charles Stewart Parnell statue while McCormick Harvesting builds a large twine mill. Cevic ships 25 tons of copper coins from India for refining. Cunard and White Star retain US mails contracts. Central Federated Union calls for a new labor party meeting. Maid of Orleans arrives San Francisco with 8 000 cases of salmon. Kinsha Maron brings Dr Eastlake to Japan to promote trolley systems. Navy Yard fire loss revised to 215 000 down 100 000. Southern Pacific stock up to 200 000 000 capital. Great Northern ends 2 000 Japanese workers amid white labor pressure. Baltimore and Ohio tunnel collapse blocks line near Columbus. two weeks to clear.
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Olympia
New York
Pottstown
Dublin
Charles Stewart Parnell
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
Cevic
India
Cunard and
White Star Steamship Company
Central Federated Union
Maid of Orleans
San Francisco
Nyak Bay
Alaska
Kinsha Maron
Vancouver
Eastlake
Baltimore and Ohio
Columbus
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Missouri State Board of Health
J. C. McLaughlin
Moun? Pleasans
Here
Messenger Boys
Crxorsyatt
Western Union
Posal
Omaha
Oncana
Treasury Department
Bond
Smyth
District Court
Supreme Court
Ner
Frank Pratt
Iowa
Remley
Judge Gamble
Knoxville
Corcoran
Warwace
Idaho
Paul Corcoran
Wardner
Northern Pacific
Banker Hill and Sullivan
Drs Morris
Benjamin R. Sheldon
Rockford, ML
Federal Supreme Court
Beatrice
Linco
Neb
R. W. Grant
Lincoln
Beatrice Home
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
Texas
John Arthur
Healer Kharas
Nebraska City
Professor Kharas
Paul Jessen
Ezra Johnson
Nebraska
Ontana
General Railway
Union Pacific
Burlington
Rock Island
Goodland
Colo
Kid McCoy
Davenport
Davenrork
Jack O’brien
Tom McCune
Outtumwa
Ottumwa
Major Taylor
Nat Butler
Fred Hoopes
Towa
Sarah Pike
Broadway
J. W. Loving
Colquitt
Swift Specifie Co
Atlanta
Foley
Vic Emmert & Co. and
F. Parson & Co
G&g
Eltheer
Ie Brun
H. G. Weber
Ag T
Attantle, Ja
E. C. DeWitt & Co
Ben U. Woon
Fifth Street
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