Remains of Twelve Dead After Chicago Fire Disaster
Materials detail 12 bodies recovered from Chicago fire debris and two more victims in hospital. Relief fund subscriptions surge as officials, including Higinbotham, organize public aid. Rescue crews labor at the ruin site, lifting pipes and machinery to reach further remains.
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Relief Fund
Sxty-Fourth Street
Marshal King
0 Laborera
Sofelock
Lewin Geddes
John Campbell
Higinbotham
Charleo T. Yerkes
Hreet Railway
Prines
Controversy Over Prize Fights Reaches Governor
Governor Matthews regrets Sheritt Fredericks failure to halt a Roby Monday prize fight and plans to pursue suppression by other means. A militia detachment may be sent to 4S and Sorcitly to stop all fights, while Yerkes proposes allowing ticket buyers to bid beyond 60 cents and pledges 2500 for his ticket.
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Bales Val Ce
Controulee
Getow — Hef Fund
Yerkes
Andianapolis
Matthews
Sheritt Fredericks
Roby
Behring Sea Arbitration Advances with Hope of Quick Decision
The Behring Sea arbitration progress includes Major E. W. Halford and Stanley Brown arriving to report and surrender expenses. Halford expects a faster conclusion than the treaty's three months, while Paris observers anticipate a decision recognizing U.S. property rights in seals and a possible international agreement for seal protection. Additional notes cover a Purcell fire, Indian payments disputes, pension suspensions, Judge Blatchford's funeral, a New York injury case, a Minnesota train incident, and a drowning in Wisconsin.
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Beller
United States
Wasuixeron
Behring Sea Commission
E. W. Halford
Stanley Brown
Major Halford
Department of State
Foster
Senator Morgan
Congress
Paris
Judge Blatchford
Newport
R. L
Samuel Blatchford
United States Supreme Court
All Saints’ Chapel
New York
Tariff Demand Pushes Wheat Rates To Minneapolis
Inter state commerce commission directs U S District Attorney Eugene Hay to urge the decision in the Minneapolis chamber of commerce wheat rate case. Railroads Great Northern Northern Pacific Milwaukee and Omaha have not reduced rates to Minneapolis to match Duluth. Soo line complied. others may be cited to show cause for noncompliance.
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Washinotox
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Eugene Hay
St. Paul
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
Minneapolis
Duluth
Minnesota
Dakotas
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee
Omaha
Soo
United States Circuit Court
Hay
Jenkins Rules Wanamaker Suit Over Sunday Exposition Gates
Judge Jenkins in the United States circuit court dismissed the Wanamaker & Brown suit seeking to block the World’s Columbian Exposition directors from opening the fair on Sundays. The court held the complainants lack standing in equity, sustaining the demurrer and effectively throwing the case out.
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Tudge Jenkins
Wanamaker C
Chicago
Dudge Jenkins
United States
Wanamaker & Brown
Wanamaker and Brown
Extra Sessions and Tariff Action By Congress
Congressman J L Wilson of West Virginia says the extra session will be continuous with tariff questions first on the agenda as soon as Ways and Means announces the committee. Milwaukee grand jury indicts Lappen Day and Plankinton in bank failures. Mrs Avarnadale and Mary Hogelfeldt die in Beatrice fire from an exploding boiler. Arthur Carefer commits suicide at Merchants hotel in St Paul.
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Wilken
J. L. Wilson
West Virginia
Chicago
Wilson
House
Milwaukee
Curiaco
Herald
Grand
Lappen
Plankinton
Frank A. Lappen
F. Day
William Plankinton
West Superior
West Strenton
Wis
Lake Front
Lake Superior Mineral Paint Company
Waite Speech Sparks Bloodthirsty Colorado Convention
At the Denver Colorado air national convention held in the Coliseum before about 20 000 people President Merrick called the order and the resolutions committee adjourned pending morning work. The day featured a sensational speech by Populist governor Waite asserting blood may flow to defend national liberties if the money power uses force.
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Colorado
Denver
Poison Cheese Poisoning Sweeps Mansfield Area
The Mansfield area case of cheese poisoning worsens with nearly all of 20 families affected after eating a locally produced cheese. One hundred ten people sampled the cheese, and nine doctors plus the coroner oversee the cases with no deaths yet reported though several may die hourly. Health Officer Read sent two pounds of the cheese to Columbus for analysis.
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Mansfield
Maxshorp
Read
Health Department
Columbus
Terre Haute Car Works in Financial Trouble
The Terre Haute Car Works, a large plant, filed for voluntary assignment with liabilities around 117000 pounds and 84000 dollars contingent liabilities. Assets total about 600000 dollars. The failure, blamed on tight money markets, left over 800 workers unemployed. The company has no bank indebtedness.
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Terre Haute
Ted
Crowd at Grand Forks jail faced possible Cando lynching
At Grand Forks North Dakota rumors surged of a lynch mob aiming to free Albert Bomberger, the Kreider family killer jailed there. A crowd of up to 1,500 gathered. Sheriff Fadden warned against violence and the mob dispersed with no leader.
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Bomberger
Grand Forks
Fadden
Tragic incidents and travel notes from Chautauqua week
Scattered reports from Chautauqua include Larson a 20 year old camper drowned at Lake Madison after disappearing during boating adrift. Secretary Hoke Smith visits Chautauqua assembly before heading to Fort Totten to inspect the Indian school and agency. A farmer Sanford Edmunds dies in Iowa en route from the world fair. Robert Davis killed by falling rock at Lead while drilling. Professor L S Reque consul to Rotterdam departs with family, greeted by band and locals.
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Mapisos
Larson
Howard
S. D
Lake Madison
Hoke
Wevila Lake
Devils Lane
N. C
Hoke Smith
Tamiy
Chavtauqua Assembly
Fort Totten
Mircuecn
Sanford Edmunds
Iowa
Minnesota Drought Harms Wheat And Potatoes In Parts Of State
Weekly crop report notes winter wheat belt harvesting favorable elsewhere. Rye and hay harvests progress in several states. Illinois reports wheat harvest complete in the south and good corn, Minnesota shows drought injuries to crops, some rust and thin wheat but filling. Wisconsin reports excellent corn and good potatoes, Iowa haying and wheat harvest in progress, North Dakota wheat headed with fine corn and potatoes, South Dakota corn in remarkably fine condition despite drought.
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Minnesota
Washinotoy
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
North Dakota
South Dakota
Saengerfest Opens in Cleveland With Debut of Madame Blandi
Opening day of the saengerfest in Cleveland drew about 8000 attendees to the new hall. Governor Meley and other dignitaries spoke while the young Cleveland prima donna Madame Blandi made her American debut. A large contingent of German singers arrived, crowding the venue for the evening’s spectacle.
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Cleveland
Thowsands
Meley
Madame Blandi
McKinley
FIGHT NEXT Wilnes J Corbett and Peter Jackson to Meet
Corbett and Jackson arrange a showdown for the world title with a purse of 710,000 and a June 30 date in a club north of Mason Dixon line. A dispute over scheduling with Parson Di ACI was settled in Press club rooms.
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Wilnes J. Corbett
Peter Jackson
Corbett
Parson di Aci
Davies
Jackson
Mitchell
Jones
Mason and Dixon's
Fallen tree kills man and injures four in Hedrick
July 12 reporting from Them Orreawa la states Stratford Edmunds died when a dead tree toppled at Hedrick. John Lewis Schuyler Sheets William Bentlow and SA Stroud suffered serious injuries in the incident.
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Felton Them
Orreawa
Statford Edmunds
John Lewis
Schuyler Sheets
William Bentlow
SA. Stroud
Hedrick
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