Week's News Record from a Fragmented Ledger
A long list of brief items reports drowning at Pablo Beach. a comrade with heart disease saved. arrests for wrecking a Memphis flyer near LaMar Missouri. a Philadelphia counterfeit bust. Dowie Zion Church official tarred by a mob. the Windward steamship damaged at Port au Basques. artesian wells eyed for Dakota cattle country. company plan removals after a conference. various criminal, transport, and crime notes including manslaughter charges and a railroad accident aftermath.
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M. B. Hough
Swift & Cos
Jacksonville
Fla
Pablo Beach
Ben Voltak
Clide Hagan
Frank Levick
Lamar
Levick
Hagan
J. P. Eboffmin
Secret Service
Philadelphia
Cyrus BR. Foekler
Dowie’s Zion
Mansfield
Ohio
Foehler
Wind storm wrecks stores in Randolph Neb and more
The clipped Western column reports Randolph Nebraska fronts blown in by a wind storm, doors smashed at a plant, and multiple incidents across states. It notes leaders and figures like Commander-in-Chief Shaw and Col Adam S. Baker, with varied events including fires, accidents, and legal actions from Chicago to Arizona and California.
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Randolph
Neb
Shiv Vir Company
Commanderan
Shaw
GAAL
Clie Cay
Amerean Steel and Wire Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Alinos National Guard
China
Adam S. Baker
South Bend
Ind
Wagen
Pioneer Citizen
Arizona
Celiano Walkes
Spaulding & Co. Jewelers
St. Jaclnth’s Cathele Church
San Antonio
Texas
Ventura Haynes
Mererr
Selway
Minn
Jelon
St. Louis
Crow Fibel
Transat
St. Louis Street
Rebecca Hatten
Elwood
Northwestern Express
Ree Ieustis
Fighmore
S. D
George Briggs
EL EL Vance
Kiser & Dowies
Chicago
Louis
Arefus
May Street
Carroll Avenue
Wabash Rail
Yerkes Angers Kentucky Nomination. Violent Incidents Mar Primary
John W. Yerkes wins Kentucky Republican gubernatorial nomination by acclamation in Louisville. In a three cornered race at Tawesville Allen Pulliam and Jack Lesson contested. Lesson killed instantly and Pulliam died hours later. Reports include a fatal store explosion at Nayler Gay, a derailment near Hillside Ky injuring train crew, and a train wreck inquiry amid possible robbery. An investigation into Tennessee land laws is underway with large acreage sought and eastern Tennessee favored.
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John W. Yerkes
Kentucky
Louisville
Tawesville
Allen
Frank Pulliam
Jack Lesson
Lesson
Allen Pulliam
Depew
Heaart
Nayler
Gay
Bowerston
Wo Va
Toledo
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Walhart
Hhnois Central
Hillside
Eneie
Tennessee
Representate Boers i T
Chinese empire erupts in fresh outbreaks and moves
Fresh outbreaks spread across parts of the Chinese Empire as Gen. MacArthur sends 1,200 more troops from Manila to reinforce Americans in China. China is rumored to have declared war on Russia amid Manchurian fighting. Lsang Chi Iso warns that a concert of powers or partition would trigger endless bloodshed and strife.
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MacArthur
Manila
China
Russia
Manchuria
Lsang Chi Iso
Jean de Reszke
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
M. de Reszke
Mount Azuma
Bandaisan
Japan
Volcanic disaster and Oriental warfare report
The scene of a volcanic disaster in 1888 breaks anew with two hundred killed or injured. Villages vanish under the lava as attacks on Tien-Tsin by allied forces breach the walls, capture forts, and rout the Chinese. Caroline E Keyes pleads guilty in a London police court to stealing from Norfolk Mansions Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roumania
Caroline E. Keyes
Marylebone Police Court
London
Norfolk Mansions
Miss Keyes
McKinley crowd blocks extra session over China affairs
President McKinley and his cabinet decided not to call Congress into an extra session regarding affairs in China. Secretary Baer reported at the World Christian Endeavor convention that the society is now global in reach. The era of big gold shipments continues with $300,000 in gold dust aboard the steamer Dutch arriving at Vancouver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Congress
China
Christian Endeavor
Baer
Globe
Vancouver
Skaguay
A. E. Stillwell
Kansas City
Yukon River
Sequoia
United States Naval Station
Pago Pago
Samoa
M. H- Hudson
Joseph C. Breckenridge
United States War Department
Burgland
Baltumore
Sherbrook
Que
Market Reports Preview Freezer Trade and Grain Prices
Chicago markets show prices across commodities from wheat No 2 at 7T0c to 80c, corn No 2 mixed 40c to 41c, oats No 2 white 27c to 28c, rye No 2 60c to Gle, with butter creamery 11c to 20c and eggs nest M%e to 17c. Regional figures cover Indianapolis Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee and Buffalo cattle hogs sheep lambs oats eggs butter and clover seed quoted with varied ranges and conditions.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Louis
Bors
Rey
Ste
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Utter
Condition of crops shows mixed progress across states
The Agriculture Department reports generally favorable conditions east of the Rockies with rainfall deficits in the west gulf coast and Missouri valley. Corn thrives in Indiana Illinois Iowa while Kansas Nebraska are less favorable and some Missouri Kentucky and Maryland face rain shortages. Oats and hay progress vary. cotton improves except in Florida and Louisiana.
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Cerm
Middle States
Agricultural Department
West Gulf Coast
Missouri Valley
Atlantic States
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountain
Plateau
Nebraska
Ohio
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Mississippi River
New York
Pacific Coast
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
New England
Michigan
Louisiana
Texas
Floorida
Extra Session Awaited by President Over China Crisis
President and cabinet debate whether to call an extra session as a drastic crisis unfolds in China. Washington sources say no immediate session, but discussions focus on whether a greater American troop presence is required and under what emergency conditions Congress should act.
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Noc
Congress
China
Chis
Jean President
McWhanley
Cinton Speetatts Trac
Torin rysSexsion
Opie Strom
Washington
de Claires
Huthorie
Armenia
German Minister's Wife Slain in Pekin With Husband
The American wife of the murdered German minister, daughter of Henry B. Ledyard of Detroit, president of the Michigan Central railroad, accompanied her husband in Pekin and shared the fate of the other Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hienry Bo Ledyard
Deetroit
Brief News items
Judge Denny aged 62 of Borghi Oregon former consul general at Tien Tain and Shianghai is dead. Sear Admiral Louis Kempff, Annapolis 1861 graduate, helped blockading the South African coast after landing Marines at Pekin.
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Denny
Borghi
Ore
Tien-Tain
Shianghai
Philippine
Sear
Louis Kempff
United States
Pekin
Annapolis
Wabash
Mixed week in business with little stock market gain
New York reports few changes in business sentiment with modest stock market strength but no clear trade movement. Chicago markets gyrated as grain prices fell, while wheat and corn hopes hinge on crop outlook and world production. signs point to potential higher prices but substantial risks remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Board of Trade
Jester Trial Testimony Details Web stern Trip and Trunk Fire
Third week of Abovan-Verter trial in New London featured AM Martin of Eneaona describing meeting Jester on Webster streets and planning to meet at Panalupotis. Martin testified Jester burned a trunk on a Kansas road and traveled with a boy who later left for Missouri. Jane Fhomypaenm of Keletusanel Indiana said Jester slept at his home a week and left with grain sacks bearing A. A. Gates name.
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Abovan- Verter
New London
AM Martin
Eneaona
Jeter
Webster
Gorm
Celbert Ciates
Fort Scott
Canenton
Jester
Kansas
Pau
Joseph FE
Indi
Lohome
Ashe
Missouri
A. A. Gates
Mote incidents and elections feature mixed 20th century notes
A burned cement mill near Cumberland Mal ties to a line of events from missing details. A Norfolk Virginia murder suicide claimed Ella Owens and another. Oregon defeated equal suffrage amendment. Telegrams report warm clothing aiding infantry. Two giant steamers worth a million dollars each to be built in Chicago for Great Lakes Navigation. Anti Imperialist League to convene a national conference in Indianapolis on August 15. Lourenzo Marquez notes Boer resistance may take three to six weeks. French matrimonial agents seek wealthy American brides for titles, at high fees. Canadian tuberculosis crusade expands with Montreal and Toronto organizing prevention efforts. A foreign consignment labeled Dutch cheese damaged contained army boats for Boers, passing customs swiftly as British consul protests Portugal.
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Isane Ho Pollard
Norfolk
Ella Owens
Oregon
GS Dente Ae
Chicago
Great Lakes
Anti- Imperalistic League
Indianapolis
Lourenzo Marquez
London ‘Intes
France
Canada
Montreal
Toronto
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Port Au Basques
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Henry Fry
National Class Company
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Sewure
Soca
Uae
W. L. Wv
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Pius
Sroo Douse
Flint, Eddy & Co
American Trading Company
Havana
Cubs
Susan Allan Miller
Amityville
Charles Wilmot Drummond
N.Y
James S. Gras
Boston
Robert A. Torrey
Molody Bible Institute
Charles Holmes
Idler
KK. C. Hodges
Boston Frm
E. C. Hodges & Co
Mars Meyerbanuck
Hoboken
N. J
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Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad
Walter H. Young
Edward Smith
Buffalo
Avonoint
Pennsylvania Railroad
Johestown
Altoona
J. B. Schoeffel
Singing Beach
Manchester
Mass
Schoeffel
Charles R. Eastman
Agassiz Museum
Vard University
Richard H. Grogan, Jr
Almy
Cambridge District Court
Louis Bianchi
Joseph Passina
Paterson
Nebi
Passine
T the
Lews
Western
Seventy Ninth Street
Clifton
Ariz
Arizona Copper Company
Long Run
Mount Pleasant
Pomeroy
Wash
Court House
Williams, Ariz
J. M. Meneck
Utah
Meneck
Southern
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Smithsonian Institution
Illinois Brick Company
Brickmakers
Aliance
Tellus
San Francisco Bay
John Adams
Warsaw
Poors
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Chandler
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Andka
James Lardy
Elmer Miller
Wise
Mattison
Clardy
Miller
JimNsenneds
Johnsons Saloon
Laon City
Johnson
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Asam
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Raul Eugene Byte
Ecataitte Poosatteede
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Mark Atcbinson
Frank Murpaey
Savannah
Baeh
Joseph Mullen
New York State
Sing Sing
Newark City
Torres
Harvard University
Washington, Ga
Ws Sry
A. A. Stage
Anne de Beaupre
Quebec
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Deln A Kasson
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Hindson Bay
Port George Caime
Phestre
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Bering Sea
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