War on vagrants and prairie colonists in Mississippi news
Mississippi towns move to enforce anti vagrancy laws targeting the negro population as northern farmers plan a 75 000 acre prairie colony in northeastern Mississippi. A statewide Sunday School convention is set for Winona August 26 28.
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Mississippi
Prairie
Mobile and Ohio Road
Negro Taxpayers’ Association of
South Mississippi
Mississippi State Sunday School Association
Winona
Mississippi Sunday School Association
Rosehill
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British premier names Boer war inquiry committee
London announces A J Bal four appoints Earl of Elgin as chairman and Sir Henry Noman Sir John Hopkins Lord Esher and Sir John Edge to a committee of inquiry into Boer war conduct Brussels reports the sudden death of General Lucas Meyer of heart disease after repeated attacks during the South African war
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Earl of Elgin
Henry Noman
John Hopkins
Lord Esher
John Edge
Brussels
Petit Bleu
Lucas Meyer
Meyer
South Africa
Double Tragedy in Montgomery Involves Doctors Grave
In Montgomery Alabama Dr Daniel F Robinson a leading dentist and Henderson Graff a well connected youth confronted each other at a house of ill repute. Robinson was shot and killed by Graff who sustained a serious stomach wound from a pistol shot. A woman is implicated in the sequence of events.
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Montgomery
Ala
Daniel F. Robinson
Henderson Graff
Robinson
Graff
Chicago Murder Mystery Identifies Victim in Seventy Fourth Street Death
Police identify the murdered woman as Miss Mitchell of 604 Forty-fourth street Chicago. They seek William Bartholin a young mechanic who was with her when she disappeared. Investigators suspect Bartholin killed both Miss Mitchell and his mother Anna Bartholin who vanished three weeks earlier.
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Seventy-fourth
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Miss Mitchell
Forty-fourth Street
William Bartholin
Bartholin
Anna Bart
Voluntary wage raise hits Springfield IL Central workers
A new wage scale on the Springfield division of the Illinois Central went into effect Monday, boosting pay for over 900 men. The extra gang's daily rate rose from 1.34 to 1.50 dollars, a raise volunteers did not seek. In Madrid alarm rose during King Alfonso’s journey as a train tunnel incident shattered a saloon door. the king deemed it accidental. In Columbus Mississippi telegrams reported A A Kincannon, president of the Industrial College, injured in a railroad wreck near Philadelphia with few details available.
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Grand Old Commonwealth
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Coronation of Edward VII Crowned in Westminster Abbey
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra were crowned in a grand Westminster Abbey ceremony attended by nearly seven thousand nobles and foreign dignitaries. A dramatic moment saw the aging Archbishop of Canterbury struggle with the crown and nearly collapse, then recover as the king and royal family received homage amid cheers.
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Edward VII
R. I
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Great Britain and Ireland
India
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Alfred Gasslee
Edward Hobart Seymour
Lord Kitchner
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Alexandra
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Westminster
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Durham
Anothe
Morels
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Duchess of Marlborough
Duchess of Portland
Soadok
Srpeatee
Pearce Bodley Suicide Shocks Louisville Real Estate Field
Pearce Bodley a famed Louisville real estate and business figure shoots himself at his mother in law Mary McHenry's home. He leaves a note to sister Rosa Bracket of Washington DC saying he cannot recover from Bright's disease. He was about 68, born in Vicksburg Mississippi. The story ends noting a young boy with a sailing boat imagining future wealth aboard a private yacht.
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Louisville
Pearce Bodley
Mary McHenry
Rosa Bracket
Washington, D. C
Bright
Vicksburg, Miss
Happenings of Interest Across Land and Sea
Chinese merchants buy cotton in New York while a woman’s body is found in Mobile River. Lightning strikes hit two Bay St. Louis buildings. a Birmingham street car conductor kills a passenger who refuses fare. A gas find is drilled near Mobile. Roosevelt appoints youths to West Point. Irish nationalists withdraw from coronation events. Booker T. Washington speaks in Atlanta. West Alexandria residents press for municipal government.
Record of varied 19th century facts and figures
The report lists demographic growth of Mormons in America from 1890 to 1900, notes on American vs French men’s shoes, Virginia’s $1 000 000 Capitol modernization pledge with unchanged design, Capitol build costs since 1785, Asama volcano eruption in 1883 with thousands dead, fast speeds of dolphin and salmon, a note on Spanish mackerel, and Paris anti consumption dispensaries with open air cures and sanitoria for consumptives.
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Paris
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