Fragmented current events mix political notes and curiosities
The piece surveys varied topics from tax notions, a giant goat ranch owned by Charles Onder donk in Lumy New Mexico with 20 000 goats over 28 000 acres, to opinions on food value and oysters. It notes a Russian tax on public entertainment, Julia Ward Howe hoping to vote at 105, Neeley’s Cuban citizenship pledge, and Oregon’s constitutional amendment on initiative and referendum. The Monroe Doctrine is discussed in Cuba Mexico relations context.
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Charles §. Onderdonk
Lumy, N. M
Shotgun Attacks Highlight Mormon Hostility in Kentucky
An editorial note describes anti Mormon hostility in parts of the South culminating in a Marshall county Kentucky shooting. The piece argues religion cannot be uprooted by violence and notes ongoing conversions as a source of tension. A Russian eye specialist counters with a study praising electric light as easier on vision, comparing eyelid closure rates under candle, gas, sun, and electric light.
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South
Marshall County
Chicago teachers win tax final judgment on street firms
Two Chicago women teachers filed a suit to uncover the city revenue shortage causing salary cuts. Courts award 507000 in taxes from street corporations. the city board of education receives over half. Separately in India, venomous snakes kill about 20000 annually with cobra noted as the scourge despite government rewards for destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
City Board of Education
India
Catastrophes Mentioned in Fragmented 19th Century Chronicle
A fragmentary historical note recounts Caracas being destroyed in 1512 after an event on March 12, a 1586 Callao destruction with a towering sea wave, a Chilean quake in 1629 that shifted vast land between the Andes and a canal, and a reference to February 20, 1835, with other scattered details. The text preserves named places and dates but is incomplete and imply a sequence of natural disasters across the Americas.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Callao
Peru
Chile
Coronation Delayed As King Edward Undergoes Surgery
London reports King Edward's perityphlitis required a surgical operation at 2 PM after a prior optimistic bulletin. Officials warn the throne may face a weeks long pause with no coronation date set while the king recovers. Public alarm flares as Buckingham Palace confirms the procedure and awaits further progress.
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London
Edward
Francis Knollys
House of Commons
A. J. Balfour
Balfour
Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
Associated Press
Buckingham Palace
Jane Toppan Confesses to Murder of 31 People
The Barnstable Mass report says Jane Toppan, confined in Taunton asylum after a murder trial, confessed to her senior counsel Judge Fred M. Bixby that she killed 31 persons she had nursed while patients in the institutions.
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Barnstable
Mass
Jane Toppan
Taunton Insane Asylum
Mary D. Gibba
Fred M. Bixby
The Homered Packing House Combine
Boston June 25 Great progress is reported in consolidating packing house interests nationwide Prominent financial interests will underwrite 300000000 in securities to cover the consolidation The plan reportedly includes the Chicago and Kansas City stockyards as well as packing house interests
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Boston
Packing House
Chicago
Missouri Republicans Convene in Jefferson City Convention
Missouri Republicans gathered in Jefferson City on June 25 with Congressmen Bartholdt Joy and others present. Chairman Akins praised ex President McKinley and President Roosevelt terming him our courageous young president, urging a second Roosevelt administration amid cheers.
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Jefferson City
Barthodt
Joy
Akins
McKinley
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Fire in East Dallas Leaves 23 Homes Destroyed
A large blaze in East Dallas yesterday destroyed 23 residences and left over 100 people homeless within two hours. Fireman John Clark died from heat exhaustion, with eight other men and one woman overcome or injured. Losses may reach 70000 dollars, with light insurance in most cases. The fire started in a home at Haskell and Simpson avenues.
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Dallas
Tex
John Clark
Haskell and
Simpson Avenues
Perjury Charge Filed Against Traveling Doctor in Morrison Case
Eldorado June 25 Dr Brownfield a traveling physician was arrested on perjury charges after testifying for the defense in Jess Morrison murder trial. He claimed he heard Mrs Castle call Morrison into her home on the morning of the fatal fight during a pass by the Castle residence.
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Eldorado
Dune
Brownfield
Jessie Morrison
Olin Castle
Castle
Railroads to pay one sixth of Kansas taxes this year
Topeka June 25 One sixth of the Kansas taxes this year will be paid by railroad telegraph and telephone companies and the Pullman company. Total property valuation 344 060 240. Corporate property 59 503 967. Total taxes 13 996 303.86. These carriers will pay 2 205 592.72.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Railroad
Pullman, Telegraph and Telephone Companies
Railroads, Telegraph and Telephone Companies
Pullman Company
Kansas Delegation Invites President at White House
Washington June 25 Kansas delegation in Congress led by Senator Burton escorted a Kansas committee to the White House and invited the President to attend on May 30 1904 the anniversary of the Kansas Nebraska bill admitting Kansas as a free state. The President said he could not commit but would likely accept.
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Kansas
Washington
Congress
Burton
White House
Senate creates Southern Appalachian forest reserve
The Senate approved bills to establish a national forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian mountains and to ratify a U S treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. The purchase plan targets 4,000,000 acres in the Southern Appalachian system with a cap of 10,000,000 dollars.
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Southem Forest Reserve
Washington
Senate
Appalachian Mountains
United States
Indian Territory
Appalachian
Cherokee enrollment near complete as Dawes rolls tallied
In the Cherokee Nation at Vinita Oklahoma June 25 three of four enrolling groups left the nation with Dawes rolls showing about 38 000 Cherokees. Full bloods are nearly all enrolled enabling allotments and annuities. Ardmore Indian Territory reports hot winds damaging corn crops and reducing yields by about half. Cotton conditions remain excellent.
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Beraneren
Gare
Ardmore
I. T
Infina
Bryan's Statement on Democracy and Plutocracy
In Lincoln Nebraska on June 24 Bryan declares the fight is on between democracy and Clevelandism which he equates with plutocracy. He criticizes Grover Cleveland’s alleged secret bargains with financiers and campaign financing while urging reform and party unity under clear democratic principles.
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Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
New York
Bryan
Tilden Club
New York City
Grover Cleveland
Mr. Bryan
Cleveland
United States
Treasury
Wall Street
Finencial
Washington
Treasury Department
Knox
Mr. Cleveland
McKinley
Hopkins
Illinois
Hill
Frightful railroad accident claims Henry Firdam life
North Platte Neb June 24 Henry Firdam aged 22 employed on the union Pacific railroad met a frightful death while icing a fruit train. His coat was caught by elevator machinery whirled about by the shaft repeatedly. Both feet torn off arms pulled from their sockets and half his flesh torn away.
Fire at St Luke’s sanitarium blamed on leaders
Coroner's jury held O E Miller president and Henry Clark Davis general manager of the St Luke society responsible for the fire that killed 11 at St Luke's sanitarium in Chicago. Miller and Davis were arrested moments after the verdict was read.
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Chicago
O. E. Miller
Henry Clark Davis
St. Luke Society
St. Luke's Sanitarium
Miller
Davis
Peruna Touted by Congressman Fitzpatrick in 1900s Letter
Congressman Fitzpatrick of Kentucky endorses Peruna as a splendid catarrhal tonic and nerve strengthener. He cites personal use at the Willard and urges readers to try the remedy, noting its claimed ability to restore nerve activity, regulate blood flow, and cure all phases of catarrh. He directs readers to Dr. Hartman for free advice if results are unsatisfactory.
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T. Y. Fitzpatrick
Kentuck
Washington, D. C
Yale
T. ¥. Fitzpatrick
Peruna
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
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Julia Ward Howe
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Massachusetts
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Jeferson City
Quly
Dallas, Tex
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Macdie
Congressman
Y. Pitepatria
Alabastine School
Alabastine Company
Grand Rapids, Mich
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Ca Acura
Narlea
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