Buried Town Burke Idaho Hit by Massive Avalanches
In the Cour d'Alene mining district Burke Idaho near Gem and Wallace, avalanches destroyed half the businesses and killed three men. Five miners buried, two rescued. residents fled to Gem and Wallace. A second avalanche hit a Custer mine boarding house killing six miners. Funeral rites were held for Mrs Tracy and others as the town awaits further news. Secretary Tracy attended ceremonies but did not go to the cemetery.
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Cour d’ Alene
Gem
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Canyon Creek
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Douglas
Jesus
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Christ
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Rock Creek Cemetery
Wise
Jack Wait
Jack Galbraith
Mike Flynn
Tom Mahoney
Cour d'Alene
Hecra
Mont
Lyon City
Lyon Mountain
Unprecedented Willamette Flood Strikes Oregon
Portland reports the Willamette River higher than since 1861 with heavy damage along the waterfront. Bridges washed away and thousands of logs swept away as trains halt and towns brace for further flood impact.
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Porriano, Or
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Oregon
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Front
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Salem
Columbia
California
Here
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Tacoma
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Northern Pacific
Cascade Mountains
Corvallis
Oregonian
Telegram
Morrison Street
Union Pacific Railroad
Associated Press
McMinville
Wheatland
Funeral Services for Mrs Tracy and Daughter at White House
The East Room of the White House hosted a rare funeral for Mrs Tracy and her daughter, wife of the secretary of the navy. Nearly a thousand attendees, chiefly personal and official friends, gathered before 11 o'clock to pay tribute in a scene rarely seen since 1865 Lincoln reposal.
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Miss Tracy
Heckla Fire Insurance Sold to St Paul German Firm
The Heckla Fire Insurance Company of Mapisox Wisconsin is sold to the St Paul German Insurance Company for 318000 on stock totaling 300000. St Paul takes majority control and assumes all assets and liabilities, with plans to reinsure outside Wisconsin and retain Wisconsin risks. The deal ends a factional dispute led by Halle Steensland, replacing leadership with John A. Johnson.
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Heckla Fire Insurance Company
Mapisox
Wis
Heckla
St. Paul German Insurance Company
St. Paul Company
Heckla Company
Hecla
Wisconsin
Albert Scheffer
W. C. Bredengagen
Rockford
Halle Steensland
John A. Johnson
Testimony in Ball-Post Libel Suit in New York
In Be rrano New York special report the Ball-Post libel case returns to the supreme court with Rev Dr Ball on the stand. He describes sources for his claim that Beaver Island club is disreputable and recounts visiting a former janitress to obtain points about Mr Cleveland. He says ministers urged the information and that editor wrote the article from Ball’s supplied facts.
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N. Y
Supreme Court
Ball-Post
Daniels
Ball
Beaver Island Club
Road taxes in cash debated at farmers convention
Wisconsin agriculturists argued over paying road taxes in cash versus labor. Aaron Broughton warned against cashing out bonds, while others favored partial cash systems. Discussions covered draft animals, road upkeep costs, and dairy topics with several speakers including Gen. A. C. Parkinson and Gov. Howard commenting on related agricultural issues.
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Mapisox
Wis
Merrick
Madison
Aaron Broughton
Brodhead
Broughton
F. E. Parson
Lake Mills
A. C. Parkinson
Columbus
John Hicks
Peru
George E. Bryant
Jersey
G. E. Gordon
Koshkonong
Guernsey
Gov. Howard
H. €. Thom
W. A. Henry
Emperor plans labor conference to aid workers
In a rescript Emperor William seeks official replies from France England Belgium and Switzerland on joining a national agreement with Germany to address strikes and labor disputes. If accepted, Bismarck will invite nations to a labor conference presided by the emperor as measures to extend workers insurance and study trade laws proceed.
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William
Prince Bismarck
France
England
Belgium
Switzerland
Germany
Bismarck
Staatsrath
Poking Fun at Battenberg Ads in Morning Papers
The morning newspapers scrutinize personal advertisements offering to return H B to afflicted relatives. Notices signed V. R. appeal for contrition and promise harmony, alluding to Henry of Battenberg and his mother in law. The ads are pulled after causing amusement and attention. Fringe Henry supposedly vows to avoid Balmoral and kilts and to quarrel with his brother Alexander despite royal queens.
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Christendom
Boston woman charged in Massachusetts malpractice case
Chief of police arrested Miss Dr. Ludgate of Boston alias Miss Etta H. Harris of Linden. He confiscated a licensee’s hospital with a warrant for a more serious crime to be sworn. Five young women patients were found recovering from alleged malpractice. one confessed to operations performed by Miss Ludgate at her Boston office.
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Boston
Etta H. Harris
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Theearge
Richards
Griffin
Visi
Ludgate
Jury convicts William Lenz of first degree murder
MANKATO Special Telegram reports the jury found William Lenz guilty of murder in the first degree for the July killing of John Schwartz near Mound. The verdict came after lengthy deliberations following a hung jury.
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Special Telegram
William Lenz
Ong John Schwartz
Mound
Northwest items mix of deaths fires and rail notes
Minnesota brief notes report Wm Rose dying in New Ulm from influenza while awaiting execution. Plans for Luverne opera house and Morrison County court house at Little Falls. Jim Hill offers 50 000 for St Paul library. Red Wing wagon works to restart at least 500 wagons. Edith McNary 14 dies after self inflicted gunshot near Red Wing. Various incidents across the state include murders, accidents, fires, saloons closing, and public notices.
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Red Wing
Shaw-bosh-king
Mille Lacs
William Brooker
Pine City
William Coombs
Stillwater
John Falen
Omaha
Kenyon
North Dakota notes on agriculture politics and law
North Dakota items report Mayville wheat handling, libel suit against the Bismarck Tribune for 15000 dollars, inspector appointments for the census, Grand Forks building cost estimates, Rain-in-the-Face applying for Bismarck police, and crop and stock notes on Christ Holbreck and Mrs. Short. Also a prairie chicken shooting date law, coal transport economics for Fargo, Goodwin on liquor offenses, and a Sheldon postmaster nomination dispute among Pierce and Hansbrough allies.
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Ramsey County
Mrs. Short
Inkster
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Hatton
Traill County
Peter Lomen
Minnesota
Northern Pacific Railroad
Fargo
Mandan
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Post Office Department
Washington
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Kling
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Hansbrough
Spearfish Flour Mill Reopens After Shutdown
The Spearfish flouring mill, idle for a period, has restarted operations signaling renewed local production activity and jobs.
Wisconsin News Briefs From Various Towns
The record reports ice shipments from Madison at 125 carloads daily and a Monroe milk plant output of 4000 pounds per day. Warnings include a fatality at Chippewa City, a grip outbreak at Oconto Falls, and a robbery in Ashland. Other items note deaths, arson, illness, mineral discoveries, and local court actions.
Miscellaneous Iowa News Items From The Era
Various short items: Gay Long of Keokuk described as a happy father with his wife noted as colored. A Primghar boy Harry Nye aged one breaks his arm playing snowball. Oskaloosa contractors bond $3000 to finish street railroad by Aug 1. Lincoln township Mrs. Gus Boog adds three children. In 1890 Iowa issued 25,092 teaching certificates, 19,979 to women, 3,542 rejected. S K Prouty of Pella shipped 1200 carloads of walnut logs to England and Germany. Keokuk government tower plumb proves twenty three feet misaligned by three inches. Davenport girl Emma Myer, 19, dies by morphine overdose in Kansas City after quarrel. Keosauqua woman Miss Billa Walker disappears.
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Harry Nye
Oskaloosa
Gus Boog
Lincoln Township
Pocahontas County
F. Prouty
Pella
England
Germany
Emma Myer
Davenport
Kansas City
Billa Walker
Keosauqua
Putting By the Odd Pennies
A Satsuma jar on a busy woman's desk collects stray coins or “unexpected money.” Not enough for grand gestures, but it can fund a gift, a sick friend’s note, or a birthday souvenir. Once started the box keeps filling, like a widow’s cruse, and pennies form a gregarious community.
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Vallambrosa
Ladies’ Home Journal
Village tact and quick wit at a church marriage
A village bride signs the register with her husband and then, noting he cannot write, promises to teach him. A young scholar recalls that eloquence comes from tact. Miss B. quips she is only a connection of mother by marriage, a sharp jab at a critic.
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Motha
Chamber
Name Beset by Old Matrices and Misnomers Across Foods and Goods
A collection of claims on misnamed items notes many familiar terms wrong or misleading. Examples include Baffin's Bay not a bay, Turkish baths unknown to Turks, Turkey rhubarb tied to Russia, and the word slave linked to nobility. The list questions origins of many familiar names and products.
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Thormes
Ireland
China
Unpleasant Companion A Cobra on a Train
A first class traveler on the Howrah to Assende slow train awoke to find a cobra beneath his hand. The asleep snake did not bite, and the mystery of its entry remains unsolved, with speculation it slipped in while the carriage sat on the siding at Howrah.
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Howrah
Assende
A Spot on Earth Where Decency Shapes a Community
A historical quote by James Russell Lowell envisions a ten mile square world where a “decent man” can rear children with safety and virtue. He imagines a place where manhood is respected, women honored, and life valued, achieved through the gospel’s founding influence before skeptics critique.
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James Ruseel Lowell
Idaho and Arizona Bills Advance as Congress Debates Ship Canal
Senate discusses Stockbridge survey bill for a Lake Superior to Lake Michigan canal with a 50 000 appropriation. House news covers Idaho and Wyoming statehood votes, new rules, Homeric debate, and measures for bridges and surveys. The Idaho admission bill moves toward committee report with a favorable outlook.
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Lake Superior
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Idaho
Wyoming
House
Committee On Rules
McKinley
Senate Committee On Territories
Arizona
Platt
District of Columbia
Wilson
Iowa
Court of Claims
Supreme Court
Muscatine
Senator Allen
Washington
Squire
Lake Washington
Puget Sound Ship Canal
Wickham
Ohio
Railway Postal Clerks and the Demands of Duty
A St Louis Globe Democrat report explains the railway mail department offers a coveted but demanding postal clerk or route agent position. It notes high dropout rates, the need to work long routes, constant study, and readiness for surprise inspections, with resignations requested after repeated failures.
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Railway Mail Department
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Burial customs delay for Chinese family finances
Frank G. Carpenter notes a tutor at the American legation in Peking keeps his father’s coffin at home for two years due to poverty. He plans a fortune teller’s guidance to select a burial site and will burn paper money and clothes and offer food for the spirit in nightly rites.
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Frank G. Carpenter
Peking
Governor pardons innocent man after wrongful robbery conviction
The Rhode Island governor found Charles Paul had been wrongly convicted of a robbery and served two years unjustly. He pardoned Paul and soon learned Paul should have faced three other robbery sentences he actually served. A jury rarely imprisons an innocent man.
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Rhode Island
Charles Paul
Charles
Detroit Free Press
Murder Victim Found Buried Behind Edmond Stable
The decomposed body of Edward Grant is discovered a foot deep in a manure pile behind his stable near Guthrie. Skull fracture indicates blunt force death and a bloodied hatchet is buried with the body. Edward Belden and Charles and Mrs Hawley, who occupied Grant’s cabin after his disappearance three weeks prior, are arrested. Belden claims to have bought the claim for 400 dollars.
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Guthrie
S. T
Edward Grant
Grant
Edward Belden
Charles
Mrs. Hawley
Skeleton in Madrona Tree Mystery From Mendocino Range
Two Colusa county hunters find a skeletal remains of a large man in a madrona tree in the northwestern Mendocino hills. A moldy coat, an old notebook with a chilling last-days diary, and a decayed rifle stock suggest a long abandonment in the woods and a fatal entanglement with bears and hunger. The report notes uncertainty about the death cause and records the discovery by W. S. Mills and Henry Eckhart near a camping area.
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W.S. Mills
Henry Eckhart
Colusa County
Liwiddee
Mills
Noton
Tilly
San Francisco Examiner
Views on American geography from a Scotchman’s perspective
A Scotchman with ties to U S manufacturing critiques old country ignorance about U S distances. He recalls the Charleston earthquake and his wife in Glasgow fearing injury, contrasts rail travel myths in Britain with the vast American expanse, noting how Brits overstate hardships of long trips. He cites Liverpool to London as a social spectacle versus quiet American travel.
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