Week of Local Turmoil and Train Disaster
A southbound Indy express derailed at the South Marion Ohio switch, with engine and two of three cars overturning but no deaths. Ole McMillan, a night watchman, was shot and killed by J Metzner resisting arrest in Humboldt Iowa. Edward Windsor killed by his father in Delaware after family dispute. Kansas drought to cost farmers over 100000.01 in crop losses. Houston Oil Company chartered in Texas with 80 million capital to challenge Standard Oil. Mrs Philip Armour declines half of Frank Ogden estate. whole estate goes to his wife. Charles Waltz is shot and killed by Edwards the Barberton photographer who mistook him for a burglar. Authorities later found Waltz dead from a heart shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Indianapolis
Marilion
Ohio
Ole McMillan
J. Metzner
Humboldt
Iowa
McMillan
Metzner
Edward Windsor
Windsor Lota
Alford
Del
Thomas B Windsor
Kansas
Austep
Texas
Houston Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Philip Armour
Chicago
Frank Ogden
Ogden
Armous
The
Vale
Charles Waltz
John Wo Edwards
Barberton
Berg
Waltz
Edwards
Schmittanes
Woodew
Pittsburg
Philadelpha
St Louis
Poston
New York
Brookisn
Pullman
Butte
Mon
E. W. McConkey
Missouri
John Bryant
St Joseph
McConkey
Charles H. Williamson
Philadelphia
Briggs House
Thomas Davis
Frankfort
Kaw
Austin and Western Mannafacturing Company
Chieagy
May Harding
William Cosgrove
Clay County
Walter McIntyre
Maine
Fergus Falls
Minn
Robert Wilson
Dallas Center
Josson
McClains
Toussant Millinery Company
Explosion and vanishings in scattered reports in Ohio and beyond
A jumble of incidents lists deaths from nervous collapse after a firecracker blast in Xenia Ohio, a missing 12000 bond envelope in Heawartha Kansas, and a dynamite blast killing Floyd W. Lewis in Binghamton NY. Other items note suicides, marriages, bank openings, thefts, fires, floods, and notable deaths across cities including Syracuse Philadelphia Buffalo Cincinnati Denver Chicago St Louis and beyond, with numerous accidents, political moves, and crimes reported.
Mixed 19th century calamities and calm in the heartland
Reported incidents across the Midwest include a farmer fatally shooting his wife amid jealousy, a bank president's suicide amid heat distress, farmers forced to work night shifts by heat and ripe wheat, drownings near Starbuck Minnesota, prison and civic figures resigning or suffering health events, a trolley collision in Chicago Milwaukee line, a packing company fire death in Oklahoma City, a paralysis attack on Indiana's ex lieutenant governor, and various fires, robberies, and accidents across Missouri Illinois Louisiana and Montana.
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Minneapolis
Rollin Hawking
Newton Falls
Ohio
James Wilson Jrgon
Turst National Bank
Fremont
Kansas
Antone Finstud
Guntder Paulson
Starbuck
Mion
John Pinley
Dawes
Chicago and
Milwaukee
President Hoeffner
Hoeffner Packing Company
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Mortimer Nye
Indiana
la Porte
Union Mills
Donald Nichols
Samuel Taylor
Louisiana
Great Northern
Great Falls
Mont
Polo
Caldwell County
Missouri
Bank of Ale
Thonasa Spaulding
Albert Johnson
Tiited States Barracks
Columbus
Eva Reed
Shaw's Garden
St .Louis
Carrie Marshall
Iowa
Poindexter 8. Henson
First Baptist Church of
Chicago
Edith Boyden
Multiple Homicides and Disasters Hit Regions in South
Reports detail a deadly run on a blind tiger in Coahoma County Mississippi. Fire destroys the log Homestead Hotel in Hot Springs Virginia with $500,000 loss. Ambush kills Richard Horde in Kentucky, companion David Allen dies. Two Ky. residents fatally fall from an electric car near Clyffeside Park. Sewanee professor Rev Greenough White found dead by carbolic acid. J R. Pitkin, ex postmaster of New Orleans, possibly suicide. a half emptied Jandanum bottle found.
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Coahoma County
Massissippi
Hot Springs
Scott's Ridge
Richard Horde
David Allen
Williams Nunn
Nunn
Ceredo
Howard Mead
Catlettsburg
Clyffeside Park
Kentucky
Greenough White
University of the South
Sewanee, Tenn
White
J R. G. Pitkin
New Orleans
Resignation noted at postmastership amid humiliation
The text recalls a resignation from the postmastership in Maine as Me Pitkin felt humiliated. It mentions W. T. Grant at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary receiving the late philanthropist’s estate, with $5,000 annuity to his wife from an estate valued around $200,000.
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Me. Pitkin
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
W. T. Grant
Foreign dignitaries and a Kaiser dinner in London
Ambassador and Mrs White entertained the Kaiser at a diplomatic dinner in London. A Turkish film deal involved cameras worth £3000. A Danish schooner exploded in the Kattegat killing seven. Cassel Grain-drying failed after Leipziger Bank suspension. Korea asked removal of Japanese officials. Belgian chamber riot among Socialists and ministerialists. Chamberlain hints Edward to be renamed emperor. Kitchener reports Boer attack wrecking a train. nineteen fatalities. Kurdish unrest in Mush tied to Armenian deaths and local leadership.
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London
Rd Kitchener
North Nabroomspruit
Krueger
Gena de Wet
Botha
Transvaal
Mush
Kurdistan
Aghan
Honolulu judge declines naturalization of Guam resident
A U.S. judge in Honolulu refused to naturalize a native of Guam amid a stream of global and domestic notes. Reports detail tariff requests for Puerto Rico, anticlerical demonstrations in Mexico City, Goodwin’s London engagement, warship repair funding, and the Navy’s expansive land purchase around the Washington Naval Observatory.
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United States
Honolulu
Guam
Porto Rico
City of Mexico
Nat Goodwin
Comedy Theater
London
Fortune
Boston
Navy Department
South America
Puget Sound
Balena
San Francisco
Pacific Steam Whaling Company
St. Lawrence Island
Bering Sea
P F Cotte
Market price quotations across multiple cities
Chicago to Detroit and other markets list cattle hogs sheep and grain prices. Cattle values range from 2.50 to 6.00 dollars in several cities while hogs, sheep, and grain futures show varied No 2 grades and regional quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Carrie
Ste. Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Insanity Trust Allegations in Indianapolis Case
Attorney General probes a supposed insanity trust in Indianapolis revealing coerced lunacy verdicts, secret proceedings, and notable fees paid to doctors and witnesses. Cases include a domestic worker and John Ross, with evidence of improper inquests and potential perjury charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
John Ross
Ross
Kingan’s Parkhouse
Taft Sworn In As First Civil Governor Of Philippines
Taft inaugurated at Manila on July 4 as first civil governor under U.S. rule. He outlines four executive departments and plans to add three commissioners in September. Manila streets decked with flags and portraits during a largely spontaneous multiethnic demonstration. The Philippine Commission’s final session ends as Taft notes a projected treasury surplus of four million dollars in gold.
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Phillippine Islands
Asth
William H. Taft
Manila
Philippines
United States
Gov. Taft
Interior
Worcester
Commerce and Police
Wright
Justice and Finance
Ide
Public Instruction
Moses
Jose Lugariaga
Bunting
President McKinley
General MacArthur
Taft
Admiral Dewey
General Otis
Philippine Commission
This and That. Items From Various Regions
This brief notes horses bought in New Orleans by the British, caterpillars overrunning Cambridge, mass, and U S agricultural imports totaling 420,139,288 for the year. It mentions Manila courts, English as a language of law, Stephen Bennett’s death after a toast in Caledonia NY, a Gainesville Ga company organizing to develop Chattahoochee power, Pan American stamps demand at six million daily, McKinley disapproving a lona Indian council demand, and Chicago Sacred Heart Church proposing basement bowling alleys to keep youths out of trouble.
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New Orleans
Cambridge
Mass
United States
Manila
Stephen Bennett
Caledonia
N. Y
Gainesville
Chattahoochee River
McKinley
Daves Commission
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Chicago
Enlarged Congress Will Assume Record Size in 1902 Election
The next House will reach 388 members while the Senate and electoral college expand to 476 and 476 votes respectively. Census realignment increases total seats by 29. several states gain through the 1900 reapportionment with Illinois, New York, and Texas each gaining three members, Arkansas and others gaining one or two. Oklahoma statehood potential looms.
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Membeere
Miederal College
House of Representatives
Oklahoma
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
North Dakota
Washington
West Viginia
Wisconsin
Minnesota
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Illinois
New York
Texas
Senator Kyle Dead in Aberdeen South Dakota
United States Senator James Header son Kyle died at his Aberdeen home from heart failure after a two week illness. He was 47 and two years from completing his second term as senator from South Dakota. Born in Ohio he became a pastor and later a state senator before serving in the U.S. Senate as a silver independent, later aligning with Republicans. His term would have expired March 3, 1903.
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Aberdeen
United States
James Header
Kyle
S. D
Cleveland
Statesman
Xerfa
Ohio
University of Ulions
Oberlin
Utah
South Dakota
State Senate
United States Senate
McHinley
Record Hot Spell Breaks All Records
A nationwide heat wave, unmatched since the organization of the U S weather bureau, marked early summer in the first year of the twentieth century. Humidity drove a great death rate in New York and the extensive hot spell stretched across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Bureau
New York
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Addison Pacey
SSSS
SSS Brimfield
Aimticga Teiogae Aie Ag
YO Woosthio
Balto
Joe Chew
Detroit
Bridget Croghan
Xenia
Explos Am
Seteri van Non
Heawartha
Kan
Typeka
Binghamton Noy
Floyd W. Lewis
Philip
Charles McClure
George W Getty
USA
Sions City
Lane
Isa Frederik I White
Andrew D White
Germany
Ianne
Syracuse
First Nations Bank of Hope
N 1
First National Bank of
Thef River Falls
Robert Remmete
Finghiah
Mexico
Gow Nilleda
Deadwood
S. Solomon
Sandysvile
Westfield
Ohko
Canton
Braemer
Lung Keng
China
Taylor
Tepubie Iron and Steel Companys
Youngstown
John B. Sliughter
Fort Worth
Texans
Nave-McCord Cattle Company
Gt. Joseph, Mo
Texas Panhandle
Charles F. Albert
Fred Greimer
Buffalo
Niagara Bank
Sing Sing
Philander C. Knox
St Agnes’ Church
Brooklyn
Baltimore
A. Hoom & Co
New York Central
Jewett Avenue
Keeling
Pittsburg Coal Company
Post Office
Buffalo Exposition
New York and Pennsylvania
Newcastle
Baltimore and Ohio
Connellsville
Mount Pleasant
McPherson
Mantanzas
Cuba
Albert L. Johnson
Fort Hamilton
Tom L. Jobhnson
Metropolitan Coal Company
First Street
William E Douglass
Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company of
Douglass
William M. Lawrence
R. Dawson
Gov. Shaw
Telluride
Colo
E. B. Forbes
Red River
Wilkin County
Kittson County
Torrence Road
G. G. Crosby
Galesburg
North Park
Denver
Ida O. Heim
Michael G. Heim
Kansas City
Teasdale
Ark
Fannie Wilson
State Supreme Court
Pawnee
Western
Southern
Mint
Roberts
Europe
Paris
St. Petersburg
Amsterdam
Naval Observatory
Nermel
Mindin
Enlarged Congress
Senator Kyle
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