West End Tragedy In Death By Own Action
Hattie Simmons a 17 year old domestic for Wolf Levy at 34 Wall Street died in her bed last night. A hose was in her mouth connected to a gas jet turned on. Dr Parker tried to help but failed. Medical Examiner Stedman sent the body to North Grove Street Morgue. No clear motive or facts were learned. Her well to do brother in the city will arrange burial.
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West End
Hattie Simmons
Wolf Levy
Wall Street
Parker
Stedman
North Grove Street
Apsley Retires From Massachusetts House Seat
Representative I. D. Apsley of Massachusetts fourth district announces he will not seek renomination after the current term. He served as vice chairman of the Republican congressional committee, will stay on with Chairman Babcock in Washington, and cites business interests as the reason for withdrawing from active politics. He had won his seat by a large majority and increased his vote share over 3892.
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Washington
L. D. Apsley
Massachusetts
Apsley
Republican Congressional Committee
Babcock
Congressional Committee
Congress
Lodgers Fight Landlord at Fountain Place Lodge
Christophero keeper of an Italian lodging house at 4 Fountain Place North End. Lodgers John Tulio and Antonio Bruno allegedly attacked him after trying to leave without paying. Bruno fired a revolver, Tulio struck with a bottle, fracturing the keeper's skull and causing a severe scalp wound. Both lodgers were jailed in the Tombs. Christophero hospitalized with injuries not life threatening.
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Christophero
Fountain Place
North End
John Tulio
Antonio Bruno
Tulio
Bruno
Tullo
Missions Camp Meeting Raises $101000 For Foreign Works
In two sessions at Old Orchard Maine the Christian Alliance camp meeting raised 101000 for foreign missions and drew about 100 volunteers as prospective missionaries. Attendance reached about 10000 today with gifts from 60 cents to 1000 dollars. Donors gave gold watches rings a piano and a bicycle. A telegraphed pledge of stock worth 25000 was also noted along with several church and alliance pledges from Worcester Lowell Boston Cambridge Malden Brockton and other groups.
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Old Orchard
Christian Alliance
Worcester Alliance
Arkansas Race War Breaks Out in Polk County
In Polk county Arkansas white and black laborers clash over railroad grading work near Horatio. Three negroes die eight wounded and many flee as whites backed by locals raid camps and arrest several participants amid rising tensions. The conflict follows a labor dispute with African American workers barred from the Kansas City Pittsburg Gulf Railway project.
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Texarkana
Ark
Polk County
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway
Horatio
a =p
Yacht Falcon Burned at Meredith Neck Boat House
Fire destroyed steam yacht Falcon owned by Boston parties and the Little Tiger owned by B F Brown of Lakeport in a Meredith Neck boat house. Loss estimated at 2000. At Centre Harbor a summer house belonging to George W Armstrong of Boston was entered Friday night with silverware and 175 dollars in cash stolen. A bag with silver spoons was recovered from the lake.
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N. H
Boston Paries
B. F. Brown
Lakeport
Meredith Neck
George W. Armstrong
Boston
Centre Harbor
Fiery Furnace Continued At Crescent Beach Yacht News
Crowds gathered as heat stifled Crescent Beach and Winthrop. distant thunder alarmed bicyclists who hurried home only to find a false storm. The Eclipse stayed near, while most boats sailed to sea for pleasure. The New Winthrop and Nevada boats met in a close ballgame, Nevada winning 14 to 13 with John D. Ross and John Ross leading their teams.
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Winthrop
Crescent Beach
Winthrop Yacht Club
Nevada
John D. Ross
John Ross
Nevadas
Harbor Excursion Boom Fills Steamer Lines at Nantasket
Yesterday's windy harbor day drew huge crowds and high revenue as Rowe's wharf sold tickets at pace and steamboats ran every forty minutes. Up to 100000 excursionists swarmed Nantasket beach while hotels filled, bathing became the cool escape, and the Myles Standish Band played at Hotel Nantasket under conductor C H Tompson.
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Post
Richard
Pemberton
Nantasket
Myles Standish
Hotel Nantasket
Will B. Bates
Addie Norwood
C. H. Tompson
Nanitasket
Boston
Fare-taker on Tremont Street Speaks Like Railway Conductor
The passage notes a fare-taker on Tremont Street who resembles a railway conductor in manner and style. He rings the bell as part of collecting fares, suggesting a formalized, orderly approach to street transport at the curb.
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Tremont Street
Polar conductor's streetwise manners vary by street
A Tremont street conductor adapts his tone and posture when on Hanover street, switching from haughty toll collector to brisk, sarcastic reformer. Years of experience shape his cosmopolitan style, as he taxes the moment and adjusts to the expectations of Tremont, North, Richmond and Prince streets.
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Tremont Street
North
Richmond and
Prince Streets
Trolley Rides Offer 5 Cent Recreation For Thousands
The passage notes how ordinary citizens sought cool spots to escape heat and that a five cent trolley ride, though inexpensive, provides daily recreation for thousands. It hints at regular riders who undertake to traverse the length of the trolley line.
Onset Hosts Record Sunday Crowd at Spiritualist Grounds
About 10 000 visitors packed Onset bluff temple and auditorium for a Sunday program. New Bedford Children Progressive Lyceum led a parade from the boat, then sang at the auditorium before lunch. Miss Carrie S. Twing of Westfield spoke on Life and Its Tomorrow, followed by Theodore Price of Philadelphia on The Evolution of Spiritualism from Astronomy and Mrs May S Pepper with a series of tests.
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Bluff
Temple
New Bedford
Charles A. Day
Carrie S. Twing
Westfield
N. Y
Theodore Price
Philadelphia
May S. Pepper
Bathers Robbed at City Point Bath House
The thief at the L street bath house in City Point targetted bathers last evening. P. A. Grady and John King were in bathing when their closet was entered, with Grady losing an open faced silver watch and $8.59, and King losing a hunting case silver watch and $280.
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L Street
City Point
P. A. Grady
Myrtle Street
John King
Beacon Street
Grady
King
City Baths Crowded by Long Lines for Cool Water
The L street bath house in South Boston drew large crowds yesterday as many sought relief from the heat. Patrons queued for up to forty five minutes to access facilities, underscoring the bathhouse as a consistently busy public amenity with frequent calls for expansion.
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L Street
Boston
Deaths In Washington From Heat Wave
The city records an extreme heat period with the official thermometer at 97.4 degrees at 3 PM and street temperatures higher. Several people collapsed and two deaths are reported amid the sizzling weather.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Sanford's Ginger: a safe remedy amid unhealthy travel
Fvery grip and a host of seasonally linked ailments are claimed to be soothed by Sanford's Ginger. The advertisement touts its pure medicinal French brand and imported ginger, contrasting it with dangerous substitutes. Sold everywhere by Porter Drug and Chem. Corp., Boston, sole proprietors.
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Sanford
Heat Toll From Extreme Weather Sweeps Multiple States
At several locations temperatures surged past 100 degrees leading to numerous prostrations including twelve among Ohio National Guard members at their encampment. A laborer died from heat effects amid the heat wave.
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Ture
Ohio National Guard
Heat wave claim twenty five deaths in New York
Today capped the climax of the heat wave with two or three reports of men women and children collapsing from roofs or fire escapes as they sought relief from the stifling air in their rooms. The total deaths were twenty five and the total prostrations fifty.
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New York
Extreme Heat Sweeps Haverhill With Record Readings
Haverhill reports scorching temperatures as noon sun clocks 108 degrees and 98 in shade at the police station. A Merrimac street reading shows 89 in the shade by late afternoon while church attendance declines due to the heat.
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Haverhill
Merrimac Street
Heat Deaths Rise as City Sees Record Heat
Philadelphia reports twenty two deaths today as heat continues. The temperature hit 96.2 degrees, the highest this summer, and about fifty heat cases were admitted to hospitals.
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Philadelphia
Prairie fires heat Comanche country amid 108 degree heat
Prairie fires sweep thousands of acres of grain in Comanche Indian country southwest of Parry Oklahoma. The heat registered 108 degrees as fires rage across the region.
Prostrations in Boston Prompt Hospital Transport
James Rogers of 613 Eighth Street collapsed from heat yesterday and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital by patrol wagon for treatment.
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James Rogers
Eighth Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Heat in Other Places Reported Across Midwestern Cities
Chicago records 96 degrees as heat wave spreads with multiple deaths and prostrations across Illinois Indiana Iowa Missouri and Michigan. Descriptions include Elgin Alton and Des Moines facing record heat and livestock losses while workers halt outdoor labor and rail shops close.
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Chicago
Elgin
Evansville
Ind
Kansas City
Anderson
Alton
Hillsboro
Springfield
Belvidere
Ill
Wabash
Milan
Jefferson
Iowa
Tiffin
Henry Downey
Norwalk
Peroria
Valpariso
Des Moines
Milwaukee
Rudolph Salmon
Ernst Salmon Commission Company
Grand Rapids
Mich
Albany
Last Narragansett Indian, Stephen Gardner, Dies at 6
Stephen Gardner, believed last surviving full blood Narragansett, died in Narragansett Territory aged 6 yesterday in Narragansett Port. He had worked as a butler for five years for a West Twenty-Eighth Street woman who knew him for over forty years and traced his education and pride in tribal traditions. He left no immediate family, only a half breed aunt in Stonington Connecticut.
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New York
Stephen Gardner
West Twenty-Eighth Street
Gardner
Providence
R. I
Stonington, Conn
Bryan in New York apeak at overflow crowd
In New York on August 9 the Democratic national committee expects more than 100000 ticket requests for seat to hear William Jennings Bryan. Most tickets are gone and few applications will be granted. Bryan will address a vast overflow crowd from a balcony above the main entrance, likely larger than the inner meeting.
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New York
St. John
Democratic National Committee
Bryan
Lawrence Man Drowns in Manchester
Lawrence Aug 9 James Curnf of this city drowned at Manchester New Hampshire while bathing with companions. He wandered beyond his depth and drowned before help could reach him. Curnf left home about two weeks ago seeking employment in Manchester. He was years old.
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Lowell
Hale’s Brook
Campbell
Employment Bureau
Washington Street
Boston
Edward Mullarkey
Merrimac
Aikens Street Bridge
Waterbury
Conn
Timothy Quinn
Naugatuck
William Freeman
Quinn
Lawrence
James Curnf
Manchester
N. H
Curnf
Four Drown In Lake Off Benton Harbor
Benton Harbor Mich August 9 Frank Yerrington James Buttrick W M Maneks and Martin Manning drowned today while bathing in the lake.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Frank Yerrington
James Buttrick
W. M. Maneks
Martin Manning
Sam Jones Preaches Farewell Sermon at Asbury Grove
Beverly August 9 The farewell sermon by Rev Sam Jones drew at least 600 attendees at Asbury Grove camp meeting with about 500 cyclists outside the gates He urged faith in God and virtue knowledge temperance patience godliness and charity He contrasted heaven taught letters with worldly learning and called for good associations while prayers rose for his sick daughter and his return next year.
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Beverly
Asbury Grove
Sam Jones
Jones
Harvard
Hell
Mr. Jones
James F. Hovey
Asbury Grove Corporation
Knowles
L. B. Bates
Boston
Poker Raid Intervenes Quiet Game on Shawmut Avenue
Police from Division 5 raided a small poker game at 229 Shawmut Avenue last night seizing two decks and seven cents. Six men were arrested on Sunday gaming charges: John Green James Henderson James C Hatch John Bailey and James Metcalf.
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Division 5
Shawmut Avenue
John Green
William Henderson
James C. Hatch
John Bailey
James Metcalf
E G Anderson Fails in Minute Pace Attempt Near St Louis
E G Anderson tried to ride one mile in one minute paced by a locomotive on Bluff Line track nine miles north of East St Louis. Despite warm ups and a 58 mile speed, he finished three seconds short as the engine crossed the line in one minute. About two thousand spectators watched.
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Witherson
Anderson
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Malden
Ensign Price
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J. K. Lloyd
Presbyterian Hospital
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Rowe’s Wharf
Hanover Street
G.P
Charlestown
Wichita
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Oklahoma
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Cleveland
Aus
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Famous Tribe Dead
Madison Square Garden
River Spree
Berlin
Spree
Brooklyn
Charles Ward
Highland Lake
Goshen
Connecticut
Fall River
John Derbyshire
E. T. Anderson
Suwy
E. G. Anderson
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