Moscow May Day Coronation Observances Attract World Delegates
Moscow hosts a procession of visitors from across Asia and Europe for a czar coronation week. Princes, emirs, and chiefs arrive with retinues while hundreds of peasants in village dress travel through the capital. Officials guard bridges and rail lines as the Kremlin lights up for the pageantry.
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Moscow
Bokhara
Henry
Prussia
William
Grand Duke
Hesse
Ferdinand
Roumania
Czar
Nicholas II
Turkestan
Lazes
Central
Caucasus
Fortyine Mitig
Representa
Hisses for Gladstone at Boston Amnesty Meeting
A mass meeting in Music Hall under the Boston Amnesty Association praised Irish prisoners and condemned Gladstone. Speakers included Mayor Quincy Hon. John E Fitzgerald Hon. Edwin G Walker and James F Egan. resolutions urging British amnesty were adopted as funds were raised.
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Gladstone
Music Hall
Rossa
Boston
Mortimer E. Colby
Malden
P. J. Flatley
Quincy
Archbishop Williams
Senator Hoar
Albert A. Perry
Loverville
William E. Russell
FE. A. Horton
D. D
Patrick Donahoe
James F. Egan
Irish Amnesty Association
New York
Wolverhampton
Chatham
Edwin G. Walker
Ireland
Daniel O’connell
O’donovan Rossa
John E Fitzgerald
John E. Pitzgerald
Yorktown
Hisses
Home Secretary
Joseph H. O'Neil
England
Jameson
Austin
John R. Alley
Charles H. Taylor
P. A. McKenna
M. McManus
James J. Roache
P. RB. Murphy
Roger Scannell
Ice Cream Thaw Catalog Ad Promotes Weekly Payments
An old catalog style advertisement offers appliances and furniture with weekly payments. Details show payments from one dollar per week for items including carriages, carpets, crockery, and a range, with deposits of ten dollars and weekly installments rising with item price. The listing references numerous illustrated items and varying deposit and weekly payment plans.
Four Reform Leaders Fined and Banned in Pretoria
Daily Mail correspondent reports that four reform leaders Colonel Francis Rhodes John Hays Hammond Lionel Phillips and George Farrar sentenced to death were commuted and will now face a fine of 25000 pounds each and ten years banishment in Pretoria Transvaal.
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Pretoria
Daily Mail
Johannesburg
Transvaal
Reform Committee
Francis Rhodes
John Hays Hammond
Lionel Phillips
George Farrar
Fires Ravage West Gloucester and Plymouth Woodlands
In West Gloucester a forest fire damaged a large tract of valuable timber including Ravenswood Park. In Plymouth a separate blaze burned forty to fifty acres near Triangle Pond, aided by back firing and a strong wind. the woods, owned by C. G. Davis and others, remain tinder dry and a large crew fights the flames.
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Gloucester
West Gloucester
Samuel HB. Savage
Ravenswood Park
Plymouth
Samoset Street
Triangle Pond
Leach Pond
G. Davis
David Manter
Jealous Lover Kills Sadie Hazard Then Dies By Own Hand
In Brewster Massachusetts on May 17 Fred Alexander shot Sadie Hazard in her kitchen and again in the street after a failed attempt to enter. He then killed himself by a self-inflicted shot to the temple and eye. The couple had a two year acquaintance with threats of marriage, Sadie 22, English descent, well liked by locals. Brewster, Cape Cod, seasons resort town, Foster's pond sweep and local officials reported. The tragedy ends with Alexander's body recovered near shore.
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Barnstable
Sadie Hazard
Fred Alexander
Brewster
Mr. Dawes
Unitarian Church
Dr. Cummings
Miss Hazard
Alexander
West Brewster
Sadie
Cape Cod
Chicago
Selectman
Clark
Foster’s Pond
Whitcomb
Crocker
Cash
Coal barons plan staged price hikes for coal
New York May 17 report that coal barons will raise prices by 25 cents per ton starting June 1 at tidewater to 4 dollars per ton by the carload. Additional increases are planned for July 1 and August 1, aimed at boosting dividends for operators.
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New York
Tidewater
Licely
Death in Clouds in Sabitha Kansas Cyclone Toll
A cyclone hit Sabitha Kan May 17 killing twenty five and destroying twenty residences leaving the town destitute. Reports from Carpenter's Bluff say five dead and eight injured.
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Sabitha
Kan
Carpenter’s Bluff
Seneca and Baileyville hit by deadly cyclone and hail
A cyclone at 6 40 p m devastates Seneca Ken with ten minute destruction. Seventy houses wrecked, opera house and new school demolished, court house ruined. Five killed, many injured. North part stripped of trees, country northeast damaged, Baileyville and Oneida similarly hit with multiple fatalities. Telegraph lines down, full report pending.
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Seneca
Ken
Baileyville
Kan
Oneida
James Shearer
Here
M. R. Connell
Pete Assenmacher
M. B. Voorhees
Destructive cyclone leaves Frankfort homeless
A funnel shaped cyclone struck Frankfort Kansas at five pm causing widespread destruction. About two hundred residents become homeless as fifty homes barns and outbuildings are destroyed. Two people injured several churches wrecked and damage extends toward Bigelow and Vleitz.
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Frankfort
Kan
Henry Kennedy
P. Cudmore
Cyclone toll rises to 105 in Sherman deaths
In Sherman Texas on May 17 six more people died from Friday's cyclone bringing the total death toll to 105. The Dooley family of Gray's Hill, father mother and four children, were blown away and not heard from, believed dead. L. H. Montgomery, whose family perished, is jailed and described as a raving maniac. About 100 people in the city and county are affected.
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Sherman
Tex
Dooley
Gray's Hill
L. H. Montgomery
Missouri Cyclone Destroys Structures and Floods Grain Fields
Special telegrams report Friday night’s cyclone causing widespread damage in southwestern Missouri. The Spring River overflow near Golden City floods thousands of acres of grain. Neosho sees a college un roofed and a Baptist church wrecked. Joplin records fifty thousand dollars in mining flood damage.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Golden City
Spring River
Neosho
Sarrett College
Joplin
Five Die As Cyclone Hits Marshall County Kentucky
A cyclone swept Marshall County at 1 am demolishing one home at Elva and killing five people: John Anderson 80, his wife 55, a 17 year old son and two daughters aged 12 and 10. The storm emerged from Graves county. At Simsonia two stores two churches a schoolhouse and several homes and barns were destroyed with no fatalities.
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Benton
Marshall County
Elva
John Anderson
Graves County
Simsonia
Wind and rain ruin Illinois towns after night storm
Despatches from interior Illinois report heavy wind and rain damage. Peoria saw major construction buildings destroyed, Pekin lightning struck the St. Paul Church and unroofed homes, Tou lon area farm houses were wrecked, Bushnell spoke of Scioto swept away though wires were down and details were scarce.
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Chicago
Illinois
Peoria
Pekin
St. Paul
Toulon
Bushnell
Scioto
Fire at Franklin City destroys rail property and homes
A major blaze in Franklin City Virginia last night wiped out about 100000 dollars in property. The Pennsylvania railroad lost a station seven box cars loaded with oysters and dams and a passenger coach along with twenty dwellings several stores a hotel and other buildings. The fire is believed to be incendiary and insurance coverage is around 15000 dollars.
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Caph Charles
Franklin City
Pennsylvania Railroad
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