Klondike Mania and Global Tensions Hit Headlines
The Weekly Banner notes Klondike gold fever in Canada and returning Brittish Columbia prospectors, plus McKinley-Hanna politics and labor tensions. It cites arming miners and calls for arbitration, while reporting Texas oil, tobacco growth, Kansas City church robbery, and a US steamer’s mission to protect American interests in Guatemala amid turmoil.
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Church of the Sacred Heart
Kansas City
John Prenderpast
Trial in District Court Ends in Eight Year Term for Minnie Lochridge
Minnie Lochridge is found guilty of attempting to poison Jack Norman with rat poison on his mustard greens. Accomplice Marinda Swearingen testified to the plan and its execution, leading to an eight year penitentiary sentence.
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Minnie Lochridge
Jack Norman
Marinda Swearingen
Minnie
Lockridge
Mangrum Everett
George Allen
Alice Allen
Mororman Shelton Heir in London Estate Inherited Wealth
Mororman Otis Shelton of St. Louis Union Depot street railway is named heir to a English estate and 540 million in cash. Shelton, a transfer, has little means and fears how he will handle vast wealth if his Waldron estate share arrives.
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Mororman Otis Shelton
Union Depot Street Railway
St. Louis
Shelton
Waldron
Pecan Nut Law Warns Landowners and Gatherers
The Williamson County Sun warns that a strict legislative act prohibits picking pecans on lands not owned or controlled by the gatherer without consent. Violators face a misdemeanor with fines from five to three hundred dollars and up to three months in jail, or both.
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Williamson County Sun
Big Lake fishing party nets buffalo and gasper goo
A Caldwell group of sixty men and boys fished Big Lake near Lyons with a twenty five by twenty foot seine catching about six hundred pounds of buffalo and gasper goo. The large catch missed perch trout and all catfish hid in mud under the net. TRE Louisville Dispatch recalls McKinley tariff era labor conflicts and predicts a Republican defeat at the next election.
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Caldwell
Big Lake
Lyons
TRE
Louisville Dispatch
Homestead
Hazelton
Treasury ruling on marble as mineral ends debate
The Kansas City Star notes Treasury Department decision that marble is a mineral should resolve doubts among readers who previously believed it to be vegetable.
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THE
Kansas City Star
Treasury Department
Insurgents Close In On Havana As Cuba Evacuation Looms
The insurgents are nearing Havana with near total control of the island outside the city, signaling that Weyler may be preparing to evacuate Cuba soon.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Montgomery
Weyler
Cuba
Havana
Appointment to Galveston Medical College Chair
Dr J W McLavesuin of Austin, an old Confederate veteran and experienced practitioner, appointed to fill the Theory and Practice of Medicine chair at the State Medical College Galveston, replacing Dr H A West. Fall session opens October 1.
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J. W. McLavesuin
Austin
State Medical College
Galveston
H. A. West
Denver Doctor Proposes Tick-Tick Cure for Fever
Dr V A NorGaarp of Denver Colorado claims a cure for cattle fever by total ex termination of the tick insect. His method forces cattle to swim through a toxic vat solution that kills ticks but is harmless to cattle, to halt disease transmission.
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V. A. NorGaarp
Denver
Colorado
Damage reports on battleship Indiana denied at Halifax
Reported damage to the battleship Indiana at Halifax Nova Scotia is denied after thorough inspection shows no damage to her bottom.
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Halifax
N.5
Peace Treaty Signed in Montevideo Sparks Wide Enthusiasm
A treaty of peace between the government and insurgents was signed at Montevideo, and public reaction shows strong optimism about the outcome.
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Montevideo
Officials Call Mining Deaths an Injustice by Injunctions
The Greenville Herald cites the miners deaths as the official murder and frames it as a consequence of government by injunctions, arguing state actions caused fatal outcomes for Pennsylvania workers.
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The
Greenville Herald
Pennsylvania
Federal judge halts Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
Federal Judge Foster declares the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange an unlawful combination and enjoins its operations in the city. Alabama and Vicksburg railway report widespread layoffs in Jackson Mississippi with only the agent and telegraph operator remaining.
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Foster
Kansas City
Alabama and Vicksburg Railway
Jackson
Mississippi
Mexico City police claim Arroyo killed in action
It is claimed that Arroyo the would be assassin of President Diaz of Mexico was killed by the Police of the City of Mexico and not by private citizens as previously announced.
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Arroyo
Diaz
Mexico
City
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