Kate Marsden Plans Leper Colony Trek Through Siberia
Berlin dispatch reports Kate Marsden, en route to the United States from St. Petersburg, detailing a six week journey into Siberia to study leprosy. She describes huts half buried in forest depths, victims fed by relatives at a distance, and decades of misery before death by disease or starvation. Marsden mentions a rumored Yakutsk plant claimed to cure leprosy and says she will return to Veluisk to pursue a colony project.
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Berlin
Kate Marsden
Siberia
St. Petersburg
United States
Miss Marsden
Marsden
Yakutsk
Veluisk
Oil Creek Disaster relief progress reports and death toll
The relief committee states food clothing and other supplies are no longer needed as the distribution progresses with order and laborers removing wreckage. Fifty nine bodies have been buried with some still missing. total property losses exceed one million dollars. Money is requested to aid those affected and repair the extensive destruction. The fifty fourth body was found, completing Oil City's dead and accounting for all missing.
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Transvillf
Penn
Ereer Penn
Oil City
Flood Strikes Matanzas Cuba Causes Widespread Loss
The Matanzas flood is subsiding with widespread damage evident. Some 3825 dwellings have furniture carried away or ruined, crops ruined, about 450 cattle drowned, and the market area partially ruined. Over 600000 bags of sugar stored in Bea, Castaner and others’ warehouses have been lost.
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Matanzas
Cuba
Bea
Castaner
New Pacific Mail steamer Peru launched at Union Iron Works
In San Francisco on June 12 the steel steamship Peru was launched from Union Iron Works at midnight. Measuring 350 feet with triple expansion engines of 2800 horsepower, it is expected to reach fifteen knots and enter the China trade.
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San Francisco
Pacific Mail
Peru
Union Iron Works
Paris Protesters Hoot Carnot at Longchamps Departure
As President Carnot left Longchamps a trio of well dressed foreigners hooted him shouting Wooden head. They spoke with a foreign accent. Police moved to act but the crowd nearly lynched them before arrest.
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Paris
Carnot
Longchamps
Boston Man Jumps Overboard Near Halifax Harbor
A Boston passenger named Noble Hill leaped from the steamer Halifax as it neared the harbor. He was rescued after a difficult effort. investigators are unsure if the act was accidental or a suicide attempt.
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Halifax
Boston
Noble Hill
Blaze Devours Rockport Business District
A major fire in Rockport Missouri destroyed the entire business section, starting at noon. Sixteen commercial buildings were consumed, with losses estimated at 75000 dollars.
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Rockport
Rev Storrs Delivers Baccalaureate Sermon at Princeton
At Marquand Chapel Princeton New Jersey the graduating class and students filled the chapel to hear Rev R S Storrs deliver the baccalaureate sermon. His text Hebrews 12 2 speaks of enduring the cross for the joy set before him and being set down at the right hand of God.
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Princeton
N. J
Marquand Chapel
R.S. Storrs
New England Conservatory of Music
Charles R. Hayden
Handel
School of Elocution
College of Oratory
W. E. Griffis
Shawmut Church
Tremont and
Brookline Streets
Tremont Temple
Cattle Trains Crash on M K & T in Indian Territory
Two cattle trains of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad collided at South Canadian I T in a heat meeting. Fireman Elliot was killed and both trains wrecked. A large number of cattle perished in the wreck.
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GutHriz
O. T
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
South Canadian
I.T
Elliot
It Is Almost as Plenty as the Sad Sea
The 2:20 boat carried 1200 persons to Nantasket Beach yesterday afternoon. Boats and trains ran loaded as summer season opened with warm weather. Hotels were busy, smaller hotels fully open, while liquor flowed around the beach with beer served openly at places like the Rochester Beer Agency and other resorts despite license confusion.
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Nantasket Beach
Rochester Beer Agency
Rochester
Ocean View Hotel
Engraving Offer For Post Subscribers
The Post offers an engraving worth several dollars. Present thirty coupons at the Post office or have it mailed for eight cents. Four months of subscription ($1) grants advance engraving and more engravings with required coupons. Begin today.
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the Post
Reid Elated by Nomination and Reciprocity Support
New York June 12. Reid, named as Republican vice presidential candidate, speaks proudly of the convention honor and Harrison ticket. He praises the platform, especially reciprocity, tariff and silver planks, and notes Blaine’s influence and unity in the party for November victory.
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New York
Mr. Reid
Blaine
Harrison
Horace Greeley
the Tribune
Reid
Negro Uprising in GurTurk Oklahoma Territory
Futile violence erupts as two white women are assaulted by black men. A suspect named Holley is moved to Wichita for safety after a jail lynch mob forms. A second attacker is killed by a posse seven miles south of town. Authorities disarm the local black population amid rising street violence.
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O. T
Holley
Charles Moore
Wichita
Kan
James Genken
Genken
George Ganwailer
Forepaugh’s Circus
Mr. Ganwailer
Rce
Electoral College Nominates Saenz Penza Uriburu
Buenos Ayres reports on June 12 that the Electoral College has nominated Senor Saenz Penza for the presidency and Senor Uriburu for the vice-presidency in a key national political move.
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Buenos Ayres
Senor Saenz Penza
Senor Uriburu
Stock Yards Fight Over Resolution Ends Rift
June 12 report says Chicago Junction railways and Union Stock Yards Company along with Armour Swift and Morris reconcile. Armour Swift Morris to receive 3,000,000 in stock. small packers’ objections withdrawn. All packers plants stay at Union Yards with future land use decided jointly by the three parties.
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CuicaGco
Chicago Junction Railways
Union Stock Yards Company
Armour, Swift & Morris
Union Stock Yards
Armour
Swift & Morris
Union Yards
Tolleston
Stickney
Fourth of July program at Roseland Park detailed
In Woopstrock Connecticut on June 12 1900 a Fourth of July celebration at Roseland Park begins at 10 a.m. with an address of welcome by Congressman Charles A Russell. Senator O H Platt presides. Secretary of the Navy B Tracy speaks. An original poem by William C Wilkenson is read. W P Frye Henry Cabot Lodge and others deliver speeches. Louis Kossuth sends a letter. Fireworks finish the day.
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Conn
Roseland Park
Charles A. Russell
Connecticut
O. H. Platt
Chicago University
W. P. Frye
Maine
W. H. H. Miller
Thomas I. Morgan
Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
Elliott F. Shepard
New York
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
West
John V. Farwell
Chicago
Louis Kossuth
Working of Maxims Automatic Gun
A London Times report describes a Maxim gun hidden in a hollow on high ground. The gun fired single shots and rapid bursts at 650 per minute, with bullets neutralizing a hostile position beyond 1200 yards. The shot trajectory, ground cover, and sand clouds revealed fire, while lookouts confirmed impact. The position was chosen spur of the moment, with quick targeting aided by the gun's design.
Exotic Ottoman Exile Seeks Monarchy in New World
A New Orleans real estate agent received a letter from Mus sagha Minassa, an ex-official of the Sultan of Turkey, seeking a country estate near Philadelphia to establish a personal absolute monarchy with eight wives, a menagerie, and his own life and death authority over servants. The agent plans to respond that American climate may not suit his autocratic plans.
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Philadelphia Times
New Orleans
Mussagha Minassa
Turkey
United States
America
Strife Between Tribune and Typographical Union No 6
A correspondent reports limited progress in resolving disputes with Typographical Union No 6. The speaker notes satisfactory replies from the union president during a Paris stay and admits limited ability to participate fully in the campaign due to ongoing personal illness.
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Tribune
Typographical Union No. 6
Union
Paris
Characteristics of New Orleans City and Culture
Correspondent for the New York Observer describes New Orleans as a busy, singular port city on the Mississippi with a crescent riverfront, vast levees, bustling trade, and a diverse population. The article notes the city’s layout, walls from the French era, Rampart street, a river-driven economy, and a courteous, hospitable populace with strong charitable institutions.
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New York Observer
New Orleans
Crescent City
Parish
Mississippi
Lake Pontchartrain
Vart
Opening of the Arena Garden and Summer Opera Revival in Boston
A report on Dixey in Iolanthe at the Globe Theatre with a gala opening, a 60-voice chorus, and key cast including Dixey and Corden. Preceding pieces include The Major's Appointment, plus a review of managements at Arena Garden and the Palace Theatre benefit for the Fresh Air Fund featuring Tennyson and Temple Quartet.
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Boston
Fresh Air Fund
Bijou
Gilbert & Sullivan
Henry E. Dixey
Signor Brocolini
Janet Edmondson
W. H. Fessenden
Clara Poole
Globe Theatre
Washington Street
Mr. Dixey
Juliette Corden
Phyllis
Miss Corden
The
Bostonians
W.H. Fessenden
Jolande Wallace
J.C. Myron
Evelyn Campbell
George C. Howard
Robert Hickman
Frederick Howard
Bostons Theatre
Tennyson
Temple Quartet
Handel & Haydn Society
Advantage of being fat
A New York Times style anecdote on a crowded elevated train at City Hall station shows a fat man and a heavy woman occupying adjacent seats. The man artfully yields a seat to avoid sharing space, while the woman spreads over the seat and remarks there is some advantage in being fat.
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