Bold Anarchist Tunneling Plot Shocks Pittsburg
A Chicago anarchist network plotted to tunnel into the Allegheny Penitentiary to free Jenny Bergman serving 22 years for shooting I C Frick during the Homestead strike. A tunnel over 200 feet long existed beneath the prison though the escapees vanished after a cave-in. Electric fans and piano playing were used to mask the digging.
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Pittsburg
Chicago
Allegheny
Jienny
Bergman
I. C. Frick
Homestead
King Humbert Assassinated at Monza Ceremony
King Humbert was shot three times at Monza Italy during a prize distribution for a gymnastic contest. He died within minutes after entering his carriage. The assassin Angelo Bressi de Prato was arrested and protected from the crowd.
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Humbert
Numbert
Monza
Italy
Angelo Bressi de Prato
Sold His Life Dearly in New Orleans Riot
Desperate hours end with Robert Charles wounded and several officers dead or wounded as he is forced from hiding and shot. Concurrent reports note a 450 foot Mississippi raft carrying 9,000,000 feet of lumber from Stillwater to St Louis. In Michigan peach yellows threaten Benton Harbor Fair Plain orchards amid disease spread and extensive tree losses.
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New Orleans
Gabriel Porteus
Andy van Kurem
Alfred J. B. Bloomfield
John P. Lally
John Banville
Frank H. Evans
A. S. Leclerc
Robert Charles
Captain Day
Lamb
Officer Mora
Clinton
Iowa
John H. Douglass
Mississippi
Stillwater
Minn
St. Louis
Benton Harbor
Fair Plain
Michigan
Vaughn
Benton Territory
Farmers urged to join Mississippi Valley trust plan
Farmers in Minnesota and the Dakotas are asked to aid in forming a market controlling trust for Mississippi Valley farm products. Delegates including farmers and editors would be paid expenses in Farmers' Federation scrip, usable as commissions at future company commission houses.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Mississippi Valley
Farmers’ Federation
Trains Collide in Camargo Ind Fatal Fireman Scalding
Two passenger trains on the Indianapolis Decatur and Western Railroad collided at Camargo Indiana. Fireman Artie D Gigas was pinned between boiler and engine and scalded to death. Engineer Shandhoff of the same train was badly injured and may die. One engine and a mail car were demolished. The wreck was caused by an oven switch. Hydrophobia Victims Adam Buchert died at his Pike County Ohio home after four weeks of suffering. Another bitten man has gone insane from fear.
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Indianapolis, Decatur & Western Railroad
Camargo
Ind
Artie D. Gigas
Shandhoff
Adam Buchert
Pike County
Ohio
Fire Wipes Out a Town at Buckley Washington
Fire at Buckley Washington wipes out twenty seven buildings and nearly annihilates the town. The Buckley telephone station reports extensive destruction with most structures consumed by flames and the community left stunned.
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Buckley
Wash
Ten hurt in Toledo street car crash with one death
An explosion followed an electricity overload injuring ten people in Toledo Ohio with one fatality and two others in very serious condition. Police and fire units responded to the scene and investigators consider the overload a likely cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
Indiana Plants Move to Pittsburg District
National Glass Company will relocate five Indiana plants from Summitville Greentown Sunkirk Marion and Albany to the Pittsburg Ohio Valley area pending site acquisitions. The move will employ over 3000 workers with gas supply concerns in Indiana and better Pittsburg gas and Ohio River access guiding the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Glass Company
Pittsburg
Henry C. Fry
Chautauqua
Indiana
Ohio Valley
Summitville
Greentown
Sunkirk
Marion
Albany
Ind
Fry
Ohio River
Three Deaths Charge to Fire at Dearborn Street Building
Fire at the Windsor shirt factory on Dearborn Street Chicago caused a fatal blaze after an explosion on the fourth floor. A group of women leaped from windows and clung to ledges as flames consumed inflammable materials, with Ellen McLaughlin among those who died. Rescue efforts were difficult.
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Chicago
Henning & Speed
Dearborn Street
Windsor Shirt
Ellen McLaughlin
Six Men Wounded in La Salle Labor Clash
In La Salle Illinois a fight between union and non union laborers at the German American cement works left six men badly wounded. About two hundred strikers marched to the plant and attacked forty departing workers as roughly one hundred shots were fired. Clubs stones and other missiles flew. many spectators were hit before deputy police restored order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Salle
LaSalle
Cement
Oil Field Discovery Sparks Land Rush Near Yuma Cal
News from eastern San Diego County and Yuma reports a suspected oil bed in the Colorado river basin about fifteen miles north of Yuma. Locators resisted rivals with rifles as they rushed to stake land within the belt amid excitement over the find.
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Yuma
Cal
San Diego County
Colorado River
Revolution Lost as Government Reclaims Bucaramanga
The Colombian revolution is deemed lost after defeats and a bloody battle. Government forces occupy Bucaramanga and Cucuta with many rebels taken prisoner.
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Colombia
Bucaramanga
Cucuta
Arizona orange crop reports three fourths crop due to drought
Investigation into the drought damage finds the Arizona orange crop less harmed than first feared, estimating a three fourths crop. Weather officials and agricultural agents note the revised outlook changes for growers and markets.
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Arizona
Geronimo Goes Mad in Fort Sill Imprisonment
Reports describe Geronimo as utterly enraged after prolonged confinement at Fort Sill in Oklahoma Territory. Meanwhile President McKinley pledges to mediate with Emperor Kuang Hsu to save the Chinese Empire if all foreigners in Pekin are first rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Kuang Hsu
Pekin
Book men in trust and new publishers association formed
Charles Scribner of New York elected president of the American Publishers' Association formed in New York. The group includes Gen. A. C. McClurg and George Mifflin as vice presidents with Charles Scribner's Sons and others represented by major houses seeking to curb book selling decadence and promote publisher seller cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Scribner
New York
Superior
Wis
American Publishers' Association
Gen. A. C. McClurg
George Mifflin
George P. Brett
MacMillan Company
G. B. M. Harvey
Harper & Bros
D. Appleton & Co
Bowen-Merrill Company
Century Company
Henry Coates & Co
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Dodd, Mead & Co
Doubleday, Page & Co
Funk & Wagnall
Harper Bros
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
John Lanc
Ee & Shepard
J. B. Lippincott Company
Little, Brown & Co
Longmans, Green & Co
McClure, Phillips Company
the MacMillan Company
Thomas Nelson & Sons
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
James Pott & Co
Fleming H. Revell Company
R. H. Russell
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Silver, Burdett & Co
Small, Maynard & Co
Frederick A. Stokes & Co
Saloonkeeper fatally shot and robbed in West Superior
At about 11 pm a masked man burst into George Larson's West Superior Wisconsin saloon. He fired twice wounding Larson in the head and thigh, then seized cash and fled. Larson died from his injuries.
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West Superior
George Larson
Wis
Larson
Fatal attack spurs reprisal in Mindanao town
In northern Mindanao at Oroquiceta two soldiers tried to buy food. one was fatally wounded and beheaded. A relief company from Cagayan then attacked Ogquiets, killing eighty nine natives, thirty in one house. Gunboat Callao shelled Oronnieta, burning warehouses. one crew member was killed.
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Oroquiceta
Mindanao
P. T
Bortieth Infantry
Cagayan
Ogquiets
Callao
George B. Bradshaw
Oronnieta
Express Train Wreck Near Benton Kills One Injures Fourteen
A vestibule train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad overturned two miles north of Benton. The engine remained upright while the rest of the cars rolled over. Otto Meinal of Chicago died when his head was pinned beneath acar. Fourteen others were injured as rails spread causing the wreck.
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Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Benton, Ll
Otto Meinal
Chicago
Ilis
Tragic Barn Fire Claims Three in Barnesville
A Williams Smith farm family perished in a barn fire at Barnesville Ohio after a boy set hayloft matches alight. Mrs Smith and a 5 year old son died while trying to rescue them from the flames. In a separate report a cloudburst in Solomon City Kansas flooded residences and businesses with up to eight feet of water, destroying thousands in goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Smith
Solomon City
Kan
Woman Fatally Beaten in Chicago Home Break-In
Unknown assailants entered the Chicago flat of Lewis Hablakko and killed his wife Mrs. Nablakko who was alone there. The home was ransacked and valuables including silverware worth several hundred dollars were stolen.
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Lewis Hablakko
Chicago
Zinc Vein Found Under Doniphan City by Miner Col James Edwards
Col James Edwards a veteran Western mining expert reports discovery of a vast lead and zinc ore deposit beneath Doniphan in Ripley County Missouri. The find could impact local industry and growth prospects amid a thriving city.
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Col
James Edwards
Ripley County
Doniphan
Boy Swallows a Whistle At McKeesport Pa
Six year old Jacob Bestwick swallowed a round tin whistle the size of a silver half dollar in McKeesport Pennsylvania. The boy’s coughs produce the whistle sound.
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Jacob Bestwick
McKeesport
Ex-Labor Leader Buried in St. Louis in Potter's Field
Mortimer D. Shaw once led the telegraphers strike of 1883 and was a major American labor figure. He was buried in St. Louis in potter's field under the name Martin Shaw a few days ago.
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Mortimer D. Shaw
America
St. Louis
Potter's Field
Martin Shaw
Deutschland Beats Ocean Record on Maiden Eastward Run
The new steamer Deutschland from New York reached Plymouth on her maiden eastward trip in a record 5 days 14 hours and 6 minutes despite two days of fog delaying other vessels.
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New York
Plymouth
England
Zeublin Dies in Plunge From Train Near Bucyrus Ohio
John E B Zeublin longtime Chicago Telephone Company superintendent died after falling from a westbound Pennsylvania Limited train near Bucyrus Ohio. The accident ends his ten year tenure with the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Zeublin
John EB. Zeublin
Chicago Telephone Company
Bucyrus
Ohio
Jerry Simpson Mobbed by 200 at Fort Scott race track
Ex congressman Jerry Simpson was assaulted by about 200 men while addressing a crowd at a Fort Scott Kansas race track. The incident disrupted the speech and left Simpson briefly overwhelmed before security intervened. No further details on injuries or charges were provided.
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Jerry Simpson
Fort Scott
Kan
Force Writer Is Insane
Playwright Charles H. Hoyt is said to be mentally broken down and an application is filed to commit him permanently to an asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Hoyt
Son Insane Mother an Heiress in Ohio Tale
A. E. B. Lawrence, longtime cashier of the Northern National Bank in Toledo, has been committed to the state insane asylum after a year of illness and decline. His family, including a widowed mother in poverty, relies on support as his condition worsens. A recent English letter claimed his mother, Mrs Mary Richards, is an heir to about 100000 dollars, suggesting urgent access to a distant estate.
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Ohio
A. EB. Lawrence
Northern National Bank
Toledo
England
Mary Richards
Dread of strangulation causes death of Pennsylvania woman
Mrs. Anna M. Jones of Marcus Hook Pa swallowed a lizard while drinking water. The reptile often entered her throat but she feared choking, and finally died after a choking sensation. Doctors found no evidence of strangulation and blamed fear for heart failure.
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Pennsylvania
Anna M. Jones
Marcus Hook
Sees Her Affianced Crown in Tragedy at Cottage Grove
A Cleveland girl witnessed the drowning of her fiancé William Diesterhoff as he swam off Cottage Grove lake with his bride-to-be Miss Bertha Uulir. He ventured far from shore, raised his hands, and sank before a rescuing boat could reach him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
William Diesterhoff
Bertha Uulir
Cottage Grove
South Chicago boy 14 attempts death in police station cell
Michael Levanduski, 14, of South Chicago, beat his head against a cell wall in a police station, overcome with remorse after arrest. His heavy hair saved his life. A separate note from Sergeant Ed Jackson in the Philippines reports Aguinaldo believed dead and a body found matching the insurgent leader.
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Michael Levanduski
Chicago
South Chicago
Aguinaldo
Ed Jackson
Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry
Wichita
Wan
Philippines
Little Warship is Launched from Trigg yards
The torpedo boat destroyer Dale was launched at Trigg shipbuilding yards in Richmond Virginia with Miss Mary Hasell Wilson as sponsor. She is a descendant of Commodore Robert Dale.
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Dale
Trigg Shipbuilding Yards
Richmond
Mary Hasell Wilson
Commodore Robert Dale
Peace Proclaimed in Venezuela by President Castro
The republic of Venezuela declares peace under President Castro. Orders grant liberty to all political prisoners and end hostilities across the nation.
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Venezuela
Republic of Venezuela
Castro
Breidenthal for Governor leads fusion in Kansas
Kansas Democrats Populists and Silver Republicans fuse on a complete State ticket headed by John W. Breidenthal Populist for Governor. The report also notes a death sentence for a Black man after a near-lynching incident in Chillicothe Ohio and multiple drownings in California Alabama states with political updates from Michigan and Gold Democrats dropping a third ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breidenthal
Kansas
John W. Breidenthal
Market Prices Across U S Cities for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Markets report wide ranges for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and more. Grain prices cover wheat corn oats rye by grade with No 2 and regional variants. Butter eggs and potatoes listed among per unit prices.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
General Massacre Threat Report From Pekin
A July 4 Conger note from Pekin warns of imminent generalized massacre of foreigners as Chinese forces shell the British legation and besiege the city. Captain Charles Thomas relayed the message to Washington, underscoring grave danger and the government’s perceived paralysis amid foreign uncertainty.
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Pekin
Legation
Conger
Tien-Tsin
Navy Department
Washington
Charles Thomas
Brooklyn
State Department
Powers Case in Georgetown Court Sees Verbal Clash
The Powers trial at Georgetown Kentucky features a courtroom clash as ex Gov John Young Brown senior counsel for Powers and Judge Cantrill exchange heated remarks. Testimony includes K E Combs on Caleb Powers and alleged threats by Democrats. Adjutant General Murray presents letters from Powers. Witnesses recount Goebel assassination talk and Finley warning of trouble at Frankfort.
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Gov. Brown
Powers
Georgetown
John Young Brown
Cantrill
K. E. Combs
Glasgow
Caleb Powers
Goebel
Kentucky
John Rickets
Knox County
Frankfort
Henry Youtsey
Youtsey
Adjt
Murray
W. P. Reeder
Charles Finley
Chinese Officials and Foreigner Safety Amid Pekin Tensions
The letter from Mr. Conger casts doubt on Chinese assurances as Liu Hungchanges prediction of foreign massacres is seen as likely. There is concern the Chinese government lost control of troops and may not protect foreigners. No replies have reached President MacWhinley or Conger to date.
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MacWhinley
Conger
Tien Tsun in Horrible State After Siege
Shanghai reports Tien-Tsin in ruins with only about a dozen houses intact on the city side toward the settlements. Widespread destruction inside the walls includes blown buildings and charred corpses. Allied forces work to remove the dead as thousands remain buried. Chinese losses cited near 11,000, many killed by Boxers and soldiers.
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Tien-Tsin
Shanghai
Big Rise in Patent Grants and Applications
The report by Commissioner of Patents Duels covers the fiscal year ended June 30, noting 26 540 patents granted including reissues and designs and 5 000 more applications than the previous year. Receipts totaled 1 358 228 dollars with expenditures 1 247 828 dollars and a 110 401 dollar surplus.
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Commissioner of Patents
Patent Office
Aeronaut Emil Markenburg Dies After 500 Feet Fall
Emil Markenburg an aeronaut plunged from 500 feet during an aerial display in Santa Ana California and was killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Markenburg
Santa Ana Cal
Boers Strike Back as Dewet Captures Highlanders
Gen. Dewet cut Lord Roberts’s rail and telegraph links and seized 100 Highlanders in a bold raid. Reports from Gen. Forestier-Walker and Gen. Knox detail fighting near Palmietfontein on July 19, casualties and missed pursues, and indicate a 2,000-strong commando with four guns moving north.
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Dewet
Roberts
Lord Roberts
London
Forestier-Walker
Cape Town
Knox
Palmierfontein
Laager
Paardekral
Steyn
Dewets
Honingspruit
Pretoria
Pochefstrom
Forestier Walker
Hunter
Bruce Hamilton
Spitzray
Cameron Highlanders
Camerons
Seymour Report Nixes Wounded Kill Claim
A San Francisco briefing on Admiral Seymour’s Pekin relief mission finds no evidence he killed wounded. The report highlights bravery in safeguarding the wounded and towing flatboats, with troops and marines aiding the effort as Chinese forces were repelled. A Shanghai dispatch notes foreign ministers will travel under escort from Pekin to Tien-Tsin with imperial protection and supplies.
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Seymour
Admiral Seymour
San Francisco
Pekin
W. Very
Orient
Hong Kong
Tien- Tsin
Washington
Sheng
Shanghai
Tien-T'sin
Yellow fever hits Cuban camp. nine deaths this month
Nine deaths and eleven active cases reported at the Pinar del Rio camp affecting the Seventh Cavalry and First Infantry in Cuba. General Lee orders relocation three miles from the city and strict quarantine with thorough disinfection planned before embarkation.
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Pinar del Rio
Seventh Cavalry
Cuba
Lee
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