Tornado Toll and Rail Crash Dominate Briefs
Tornadoes across Illinois killed ten people with Peoria and Bloomington suburbs hit hardest and property losses forecast over 1 million dollars. Minnesota deaths total five. A rail collision near Chattanooga left four dead and fifteen injured. Other items note a tax law ruling in Cleveland, a ship placed in receivership, Cuban amnesty release, a Grand Rapids bribery verdict, a rafter wreck near Dubuque, a Columbus pawnshop case, an Arab caravan massacre, and National League standings.
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Illinois
Peoria
Bloomington
Danvers
Inl
Minnesota
Nashville
Jasper
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Hooker
Summit
Chattanooga
Tenn
Babcock
Common Pleas Court
Cleveland
Board of Tax Review
Johnson
Chesapeake
C. F. Neely
Cuba
Thomas A. McGarry
Grand Rapids
Allegan County
Michigan
Lant K. Salsbury
Lake Michigan
Ravenna
Stillwater
Gypsy
Turtle
Maquoketa Slough
Dubuque
Iowa
Hoy
United States
Columbus
Ohio
Julius Bernstein
Jim” Anderson
Everett Robey
Constantinople
National Baseball League
Pittsburg
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Boston
Louis
Great tensions and deaths stir nations and cities
A flood of brief items recount a Springfield death of Commodore Clarey. Princeton presidency changes to Woodrow Wilson. Panama hat poisonings in Baltimore. a Baltimore hatmaker’s death misadventure. a fatal baseball dispute in Bunker Hill. vast land purchases for a new agriculture school near Poughkeepsie. multiple fires injuring towns and farms. ship and rail accidents. legal and court notes. and major oil finds at Red Fork Oklahoma Territory.
Monsoon Bounty Seen For Indian Crops As Storms Roil World
The monsoon burst promising good crops in India this season. In Marquette the Michigan Maccabees plan to expand into other states. Arkansas nominates C. C. Reid for Congress in the new fifth district. A tornado at Sigourney Iowa toppled the Harris Nickel Plate main tent injuring 25 and killing two. Nonunion mines in Kansas face a stoppage despite efforts to resume. A telegraph lineman, John P. Fink, died from electrocution on the Dravesburg bridge at age 30. Colonel William Christy reports Yaqui Indian massacre details from Sonora. In Tiffin a grand jury indicted Col Brewer for murder in the second degree. Sidi Ali Bey of Tunis dies. his son Mohamed, born 1855, succeeds the throne. The Chespeake practice ship grounds near Point Lookout. tug Standish frees her. St Louis expo directors authorize a Sunday ban on opening. German cruisers Gazele and Falke dispatched to La Guayra amid unrest. Allis-Chalmers and workers end a year-long strike with an amicable settlement.
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India
Michigan Maccabees
Marquette
Fifth District
Arkansas
C. C. Reid
Morriston
Harris Nickel Plate
Sigourney
Iowa
Great Western Coal Company
Kailer
Kan
John P. Fink
Dravesburg
Sle
Pittsburg
William Christy
Valley Bank
Phoenix
Ariz
Prietas
Sonora
Torres
Tiffin
Ohio
Col
Brewer
Luther Hershey
Sidi Ali
Tunis
Bey
Mohamed
Western rail line planned from Coos Bay to Roseburg Ore
A railroad between Coos Bay and Roseburg Ore will begin construction by Sept 1. Reports list multiple violent incidents across states including a cyclone in Loldrege Neb and a fatal shooting in Slarve Gibbons case at Callicothe Mo. Notable mentions include Mark Twain unveiling a birth tablet in St Louis, Swarthmore College securing funds to hire Prof Joseph Swain, and the law cases from Eldorado Kan and Whatcom Wash with veredicts and bribes.
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Coos Bay
Roseburg
Ore
Loldrege
Neb
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
St. Louis
Eugene Kield
Caillicothe
Slarve Gibbons
Julin Galveip
William ‘Ik. Moore
Lowry City
Thomas J. Prosies
Joseph Calvin
David City
Swarthmore College
Pennsylvania
Joseph Swain
University of Indiana
Jessie Morrison
Olin Castle
Eldorado
Kan
Lawrence
Kanu
Mary Coop
Charles Anderson
Dug” Ryan
Jai
Leadville
Colo
Cripple Creek
Irwin A. Gardner
Ames
Minneapolis
Whatcom
Wash
John Dix
James P. Clark Litto
National and regional incidents reported in a compact summary
A precine party returning to Nashville was struck by a trolley car injuring fifteen. a unknown negro found lynched near New port News. Pearl Slemmons filed secret divorce against Hugh Slemmons in Knoxville. William B Crear nominated as assistant surgeon of volunteers with captain rank. a Georgia mill complex destroyed with lumber loss and $150000 damage. Southern Railway passenger train collision near Juliette killed engineer and fireman, nineteen injured. John Laffoon killed his wife with an ax in Waller View, fled. Capt. C W King, ex Fort Morgan quartermaster, arraigned on bribery charges, pled guilty to count one, thirteen months and fine.
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James K. Jones
Jefferson Davis
Lake Park
Minn
Missouri Pacific
Brentwood
St. Louis
St. Paul
Minnesota Supreme Court
St. Luke Society
Wabash Avenue
Twenty-First Street
Chicago
W. E. Kent
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
Edward Boyce
Charles Moyer
Lead
Margaret Taylor
Cincinnati
Ohio
Edward
Denver, Colo
J. E. Bishop
St. Luke’s Sanitarium
Josephine Bishop
Wall Street
William L. Stow
Des Moines and Fort Dodge
Rock Island Road
Second Presbyterian Church
Lincoln
Neb
Harry Churchill
Olga Pries
Omaha
Kansas City
John C. David
Lincoln, Neb., Paint and Color Company
Supreme Court of Minnesota
William Strother
A. Deane Cooper
Missouri State Penitentiary
T. H. Storey
Duluth
San Francisco
California
J. L. Cannon
C. N. Brooks
Vernon
Texas
Wildman
Lillian J. Adams
Illian
Craddock
John A. Adams
Michael Sienk
Oliver Olsen
Jahnke
Detroit and Mackinaw
Black River
Mich
Detroit River
Frank E. Kirby
Egan
Kirby
George G. Hadley
Thomas Wilson
Hadley
S Kansas Supreme Court
HK. J. Smiley
Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association
Smiley
Joseph Reich
Fisherville
Rejch
Chicago Great Western
Concord
Nashville
Tenn
Newport News
Knoxville
Pearl Slemmons
Pearl Tompson
Hugh Slemmons
John Laffoon
Waller View
Laffoon
C. W. King
Fort Morgan
United States
Mobile
Notorious brigand Mussolino jailed for life in Italy
A report notes Mussolino, a feared brigand, received a life imprisonment sentence at Lucera, Italy. The item also previews emigration from Copenhagen to the United States, driven by stricter military service rules and a rising proportion of young Swedish emigrants. Notable events include a deadly landslide in Russia and a first ascent of La Sonfriere in St. Vincent by Hovey and Curtis.
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Mussolino
Lucera
Italy
Copenhagen
United States
America
Cambelata
Aruch Range
Russia
la Sonfriere
St. Vincent
Edmund O. Hovey
American Museum of Natural History
George C. Curtis
Harvard University
Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
Yaqui Trouble Quelled Travel Seen Safe in Sonora
Star reports Hermosillo dispatches saying Yaqui trouble is practically settled and travel across Sonora is safe. Steamship lines merge extend rate agreement set to last beyond June. War Dept sells Grant and Sedgwick steamers at public auction. Grant at San Francisco Sedgwick at New York.
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Star
Hermosillo
Mexico
Sonora
Great Combine
Secretary of War
Grant
Sedgwick
San Francisco
New York
Ethel Sigsbee
Dachter
Sigsbee
Maine
Havana Harbor
Washington
Robert T. Small
Sam Small
North
J. B. Brookside
Solomon Hill
Monte Cristo Gulch
Klondike
Horticultural Gardens
Toronto
United States
Roberts
St. Pausay
Michel
B. C
Crow’s Pass
Senate Debates Canal Bill and Pension Patches
The Senate weighed the canal bill and approved pensions for claimants. A flagging of the President bodyguard was dropped from the bill as a safeguard. House action included antianarchy passage and shifting forest reserves to the Agriculture Department. Dialogues on the Nicaraguan route and isthmian canal continued amid votes on naval and public building appropriations.
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Senate
Depew
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
House
Cannon
Committee On Appropriations
Simmons
Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Interior Department
Agricultural Department
Turner
Second United States Artillery
Chicago
Judiciary Committee
Corliss Pacific
Dalzell
Peace in South Africa Boosts Global Markets Outlook
R G Dun & Co Weekly Review of Trade notes improved outlook from South Africa as gold mining restarts aid monetary circles while domestic conditions face labor disputes limiting earning power. May railway earnings rise 6.8 percent from last year, with steel rails prices unchanged for 1903 despite pig iron gains.
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South Africa
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Cornellsville
Bradstreet’s
Washington Notes on Concerts and Legislation
Mag time barred from Marine Band concerts in Washington. Senator Harris calls the Panama route engineering problems insurmountable. Amnesty bill signed by President Palma frees Estes G Rathbone and C F Neely and others convicted in Cuban postal frauds. President Roosevelt opens national convention of American military surgeons. Quinine pills and Gist aid packets from the Spanish war noted. Public building bill to distribute twenty million dollars to architects and builders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Band
Washington
Harris
Vpanana
Estes G. Rathbone
C. F. Neely
Palma
Roosevelt
Market price quotes for cattle hogs and grains across cities
Prices listed for cattle hogs and sheep by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee New York Buffalo with bids for wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and hay. Ranges show regional variations and quality grades across multiple markets.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ste
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
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New Castle
Commodore Albert G. Clarey
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Mass
Patton
Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
Panama
George C. Davis
Bunker Hill
Pasquale Mohn
Antonio Parunni
Parunni
Mohn
Poughkeepsie
Lizzie Case
Ossining
N. Y
Leonard Case
Gustavus Dirks
Dirks
Charles H. Beecher
Carrie Dearborn Beecher
Saratoga
Erie
Greenwood Lake
John Warnock
Warnock
Winthrop
J. Feeley
Hoboken
N. J
Vallety
Bernard Brady Lan
Derby
Conun
New Haven
Reginald CO. Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Benjamin Weaver
Sandy Point
Portsmouth
Newport
R. I
Mr. Vanderbilt
Chicago Board of Trade
Kansas City Board
Christie
McPherson
Red Fork
I. T
Indian Territory
Beaumont
Frank C. Darling
Sions
Littlefield
Gen. Wood
Foraker
Porto Rico
Philippines
Lawton
Okla
Anadarko
Hobart
Messrs
Mondell
Tongue
Tirrell
Shallenberger
Ray
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