Jasper Texas Town Wiped Out By Fire After Robbery
A fire in Jasper Texas destroyed sevente en houses and every business in the town after 3 am. Burglars had blown open the post office and county treasurer safes and fled. No lives reported. London dispatch notes heavy British losses near Johannesburg in a Windfontein engagement as Delarey resists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Jasper
Jasper County
London
Lord Roberts
Johannesburg
Gold Reef
Windfontein
Durban-Johannesburg
Lord Kitchener
Clements
Magaliesburg
Delarey
Babington
Tragedy at Covington Home Ends in Double Suicide
At Ottie Hester’s Covington residence on Western avenue and Third street an 82 year old Mrs. Nate Hester killed her husband Ottie aged 42 and their three year old daughter after a quarrel at the supper table She then fatally shot herself. The motive remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottie Hester
Western Avenue
Third Street
Covington
Nate Hester
Ottie
Elkhart Woman Fatally Burned In Turpentine Accident
Mrs. Benjamin Becker died after turpentine spilled on a kitchen stove igniting her clothing in Elkhart Indiana. Neighbors arrived too late to save her and her six children witnessed the tragedy. The eldest son, 14, also sustained serious burns while trying to fight the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Becker
Elkhart
Ind
Havana Nationalists win mayor and council seats in civic vote
The Havana municipal election results confirm nationalist predictions. Senor Miguel Gener was elected mayor with 11 115 votes, over Senor Mora 7 533 and Senor Carlos Garcia 3 211. Nationalists won eighteen municipal council seats, Republicans four, and Democrats two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Senor
Miguel Gener
Can Lidate
Senor Mora
Senor Carlos Garcia
Democratic Party
Woolen goods labeling push from National Live Stock assn
Denver dispatch reports President John W. Springer appointing a special committee to urge Congress to pass a law for woolen wood inspections and product labeling specifying all wool part cotton or part shoddy as applicable, following resolutions from the Salt Lake City convention.
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Denver
National Live Stock Association
Salt Lake City
John W. Springer
French explorers attacked in Convencion valley
A Cuzho telegram to Lima reports that French explorers M. M. Reveaux and LeMonier were assassinated by Italian Gianone in Convencion valley. Gianone was later killed by savage Indians. No further details have been received.
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Cuzho
Lima
Peru
M. M. Reveaux
LeMonier
Gianone
Convencion
Collision Injures Nine at McKeesport Junction
A collision between a United Traction Company car and a McKeesport and Belle Vernon branch train in McKeesport Pennsylvania left nine people seriously hurt and one possibly fatally injured.
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United Traction Company
McKeesport
Belle Vernon
Pittsburg and Lake Erie
South Carolina Governor Rejects Resignations of Tillman and McLaurin
Governor McSweeney declined to accept the resignations of U S Senators Tillman and McLaurin, saying he will allow more time for them to consider their action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McSweeney
South Carolina
Tillman and
McLaurin
General Thomas Wilson Dies in New York at 70
Brigadier General Thomas Wilson U S A retired died at his residence in New York City at age 70. He was promoted to brigadier general for faithful and meritorious Civil War service.
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Thomas Wilson
U.S. A
New York City
Wilson
Towson hangs Wiley Kirk for assault on lighthouse keeper’s wife
Wiley Kirk, a Black man, was executed by hanging in Towson Maryland for felonious assault on Mrs Barbara Green wife of the Welshman's Creek light keeper. Green was dragged to the woods and assaulted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiley Kirk
Towson
Barbara Green
Collision at sea and civic plans headline mixed yearend items
Reported maritime collision off Sandy Hook sees the tramp steamer Gadsby and schooner Frank Palmer putting into New York while Mrs. Russell Sage pledges to fund a Syracuse aged men refuge. Other items include a fatal boat accident near Philadelphia, a Chicago bank fraud arrest, and a planned Arrow Pennsylvania town purchase with mills and lumber assets.
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Gadsby
Frank Palmer
Sandy Hook
New York
Russell Sage
McGuire
Syracuse
Josephine Verrey
Ward Nelson Copp
Vineland
N. J
Wide Range of 1910s Incidents Reported Across Cities
Senator W A Clark faces a 240000 tax for United Verde mining property. Engineer P Z McGuire dies at Highland station Minnesota after striking a stand pipe. A Great Northern freight train and dynamite car collide in Tacoma destroying engines and cars. Gothenburg bank closes with HE Emmett named receiver. An unknown man’s body found in a Court ney sand pit pursued by marshal and constable. An oil well on Middle Bass Island Lake Erie yields 100 feet high six inch stream. Ohio Gov Nash illness grants reprieve for Edward Etnthven until June 28. Kindred North Dakota fire wipes out 22 buildings for 100640 loss. Portsmouth cyclist Noah Johnson injures EB L Barrows. Johnson arrested. Wyoming and Nebraska congressmen discuss convict labor for canals and reservoirs. Agnes Long of Sycamore Indiana shoots self in church pulpit. body found four hours later. 225 carloads broomcorn burned with warehouse in Chicago at 220000. A wild moose at Black Duck Lake Minnesota entangles in boat rope. child unhurt. J H Stokes alias W J Davis H V.
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Lat Rock
Schuylkill River
John Swartz
Batavia, N. Y
Naugertuck
Conn
Caro Rung
Edison Storage Battery Company
Trenton
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Herman E
Otto Adams
Oak Harbor
Ohio
Johnson's Island
Sandusky
M. I. Alen
Farmers’ National Bank
St .Vergennes
J. W. Ketcham
United States
Sr. Q. Lewis
George J. Herren
Garrig Rand
Charles Brodie Patterson
New York
Wiliam T. Brown
Plymouth Church
Rochester
N. Y
Arrow
Supreme Council
Order of X
Indianapolis
Nash
Denver
Duluth
Wing County
Wash
Columbus
Emerson McMillen
Christian Stahl
Navarre
Stahl
Chicago
J. Powers
Ted Lorberg
Eads
St. Louis
Bradner
Mechanics’ Bank
Fostoria
J. H. Denny
Hocking Valley
Mary Shaw
George S. Shaw
Cloquet
Wis
BE. A. Shaw
Davenport
Atlantic
Iowa
G. W. Mullins
Great Northern
Tacoma
Nebraska State Banking Board
People's State Bank
Gothenburg
HE. BE. Emmett
Courtney
N. C
Middle Bass Island
Lake Erie
Gov. Nash
Edward Etnthven
Cleveland
Kindred
N. D
Noah Johnson
Portsmouth
EB. L. Barrows
Sciotoville
Johnson
Nebraska
Dietrich
Agnes Long
Sycamore
Ind
Methodist
Eighty-first
Wallace Streets
Black Duck Lake
Mino
J. H. Stokes
W. J. Davis
H. V
Notable killings and disasters reported in scattered regional incidents
A collection of violent and tragic events: Rev J B McEwen shot and killed in Avon dale Alabama. Edward Beaucleigh kills Inez Leonard then himself in Florida. towboat Acorn wrecks coal fleet at Nenava West Virginia. twenty one miners killed in Dayton Coal mine Tennessee. Fred Rochelle burned at stake for murder in Bartow Florida. Alexander Peden dies in Memphis police cell. N A Gillis jailed in Cumby Texas for drunkenness tied crime. Mitchell Widd shot by John Rawlins near Charleston West Virginia.
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Varmony Street Baptist
Avondale
Ala
J. B. McEwen
Edward Beaucleigh
Inez Leonard
Ker West
Fla
Acorn
Col
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Norfolk and Western
Nenava
W. Va
Richland
Dayton Coal and Iron Company
Dayton
Tenn
Fred Rochelle
Rena Taggart
Bartow
Alexander Peden
Pulaski
Memphis
N. A. Gillis
Cumby
Texas
Mitchell Widd
Davis Creek
Charleston
John Rawlins
Rawlins
Nidd
Fayette County
Rowlins
Tragic train incident near Belle Alliance sugar plantation
A woman, Mrs Leontine Martinez, leapt from a moving train on the Bayou Lafourche line to throw her two young daughters to safety at the Kidds house before attempting to jump herself. The babies survived uninjured but her left foot was crushed, requiring amputation.
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Kidd
Leontine Martinez
Belle Alliance
Bayou Lafourche
Texas and Pacific
Foreign and domestic turmoil fill global headlines
Reported Boer captures near Marnisburg overwhelm British posts. A British convoy attack kills four and wounds thirty. Morocco’s sultan yields to French demands averting wider conflict. Paris Commune anniversary sparks riot at Pere la Chaise. Pekin guards wound two Germans after firing on a trespasser. Somaliland mullah amasses 80 000 troops to oppose Britain.
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Marnisburg
Sultan of Morocco
Paris
Pere la Chaise
Pekin
London
Somaliland
Thomson-Houston Electric Tramway Company
Australasia
Henry Wilson
Bilibid
Manila
William Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
R. D. Rice
Kobe
Philadelphia
Dumfrieshire
Secret service chief named for Philippines duties
Lieut Sweet named to head the secret service in the Philippines. Other items note dangerous derelicts reported by steamers L Aquiline and Mesaba, Admiral Sampson delaying retirement, and various political and church actions. A schooner brings fur seals from Cape Gora voyage. Supreme Court rules Porto Rico duties follow flag. territory status affirmed.
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Lieut. Sweet
Secret Service
Philippines
L’aquillaine
Mesaba
Sampson
Nelo Iant Sartoris
Ther
Vivian Sartoris
Archibald Balfour
London
Ms. Gordon
Mr. Sartoris
New York Central
Samuel R. Callaway
American Locomotive Company
W. H. Newman
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Edwin Roy
Halifax
N. S
Cape Gora
South Seas
United States Supreme Court
Porto Rico
United States
Market Reports From Various U S Cities
Regional market notes list cattle hogs sheep and grain prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with bids for cattle hogs and sheep and prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed across markets. No single outcome reported.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ste. Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Chicago's Big Case as Conspirators Face Trial in Murder
In Judge Uley's Chicago courtroom Dr August Unger Wayland Grown and Frank H Smiley face charges for a fraud plot to defraud insurers tied to the death of Marie Defenbach last August The prosecution alleges Unger sought to insure his sweetheart and substitute a body for a mock death to split polices and a will The scheme allegedly drew in Brown and Emiley as key participants with a mysterious package and a hurried funeral after Defenbach's death The defendants are linked to LaPorte Indiana and Clevelandur Brown is the son in law of a late Cleveland millionaire Washington Lucas
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Wayland
August M. Unger
Frank H. Smiley
Unger
Miss Defenbach
Brown
Emiley
Presbyterians Ban Masons and Odd Fellows From Church
The United Presbyterian Church assembly in Des Moines votes 90 to 63 to interpret Article Fifteen, barring Masons and Odd Fellows from church membership. Grand Army of the Republic members and labor unionists are not affected. The Philadelphia assembly adjourns and names a committee to revise the creed under Moderator Minton.
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United Presbyterians
Odd Fellows
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church
Des Moines
Judiciary Committee
Masons
Grand Army of the Republic
Presbyterian General Assembly
Philadelphia
Minton
Diverse 19th Century News and Legal Notes From The Era
INAS Crow Odell signed an anti scalping bill. Callaway to head locomotive trust at sixty thousand yearly. Riley Lowe sentenced to death for poisoning stepson in Livingston Tennessee. Chicago burglar proclaims religious experience during service. Mrs Nation pleads insanity in Kansas temperance crusade. Garfield son admitted to Supreme Court practice. Rev WJ Connor dies in New London aged 191, oldest negro preacher. Secretary Root reorganizes to 77000 regular army. World demographics show Germany ahead of France Austria Hungary and Italy in population. Global commerce relies on forty five thousand vessels carrying forty eight million tons.
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Kansas
United States
James R. Garfield
United States Supreme Court
W.J A. Connor
New London
Conn
Root
Cuba Accepts Platt Amendment in Constitution Battle
The Cuban constitutional convention approved the committee’s majority report to adopt the Platt amendment by a narrow margin. Delegates clashed between radicals and conservatives as Gomez and Tamayo attacked supporters, while several conservatives urged retracting. A pledge for a reciprocity treaty was noted with commercial interest satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elavana
Committee On Relations
United States
Cuba
Switzerland
Congress
Paris
Root
Gov. Wood
Secretary of War
Republic of Cuba
Portuondo Gomez
Tamayo
Gomez
Gener
Portuondo
Lacret
Manduley
Cisneros
Fercor
Fortin
Robau
E. Tamayo
Silva
Castro
Zayas
Aleman
Thvea
Bravo
River boat Laurine blown up by gas line explosion
The 14 ton steamer Laurine, operating between Booneville Missouri and Rocheport on the Missouri River, was destroyed by explosions from gasoline and on board dynamite. Two laborers believed killed and extensive property damage reported as flames spread from the gasoline fire.
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Laurine
Booneville
Rocheport
Missouri River
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Wribune
Batesville, Ind
D. McCallum
General Wilson
David J. Brewer
Supreme Court of the United States
Emma Mott
Burlington, WI
Almeda Gordonier
Western
W. A. Clark
United Verde
P. Z.mcguire
Duluth and Iron Range
Highland Station
Minn
Southern
William P. Waren
United States Secret Service
Sultan of
Market Reports
Defenbach
BAR Secret Order
INAS
Germany
France
Austria-Hungary
Italy
T. Estrada Palma
Crban Republic
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