Multiple crashes and crimes ripple across era headlines
A westbound passenger train collided with a freight at Pleasant Hill Missouri, injuring one. In Idaho, Harry Emmens was killed by partner W H M Lt Cyr after a hotel dispute. The Indianapolis Gas Company cut natural gas to over 5,000 families. A Tyron Nebraska murder trial ended with James Hobinson convicted of life. French artillery punished Zenaga attackers near Morocco. Baseball standings show mixed results. U.S. grand jury indicted John A Cobb et al for mail fraud tied to land deals. broader land swindles across Tennessee Kentucky West Virginia Missouri and Texas alleged.
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Santa Fe
Kansas
Leeds
Missouri Pacific
Pleasant Hill
Weiser
Idaho
Lardo
Harry Emmens
H. M
Cyr
Emmens
St. Cyr
Payette Lakes
Indianapolis Gas Company
Notce
Tyron
Neb
James Hobinson
Elmer Thayers
Joanart
Fiying
Morocco
National League
Wwek
Chicago
Cincinnati
New York
Boston
Pitteburz
Philadelphia
Brakisn
Louis
Detroit
Lems
Cleveland
Washington
United States Grand Jury
Columbus
Ohio
John A. Cobb
Bainbridge
Otie
W. H H. Miller
E. Strubbe
WJ. Woltz
Newark
Tennesse
Kentucky
West Virginia
Muissour
Texas
Monigan
International Conference
The
German Baptist Brethren
Dunkards
Bellefontaine
Gold-Stabeck Bank
Vesta
Minn
Lake
Michigan
Indiana
Indianapolis
Coal Dealers’ Association
Randsburg
Cal
Orpheon Theater
Edward R. Koapman
Agnes Mooney
Gratiot Avenue
Jackson Prison
Tacoma
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Kansas Supreme Court
Jessie Morrison
Clara Wiley Castle
Eldorado
Mira Morrison
Chengwatana
Dam
United States
Thomas C. Power
Montana
Board of Sheep Commissioners
Tat West Sixty-ninth Street
Herbert Wo Fryer
St Paton
Ida Hawles
Adams
Jed
Ace
Wein
Fife
Puebes
Agai
Colorado Fite
Tron Company
Crumer
Princeton
San Franciseo
Orunt
Yokotama
Yorkeowa
Orient
Yokotauma
Honolulu
New Lisbon
Meortang
Joss
Stimson Brothers &Knots
Miumuch
Chermien
Marston
Tomah
Stinson Brothers &On
Moore’s
Curis
Shth
al Fo Ames & Co
Toronto
Rock Island
Phnom
Augustin Meneade
Havana
Alcazarra
Tras
Moody
Roosevelt
James McLaphlin
Utah
Paris
Elhaps
Uy Ball
Congress
Davidson & Thackeray
Mortimer & Co
Queen Street
Dense early 1900s New York and Pittsburgh news roundup
The itemized column reports varied events from Daniel J. Sully’s cotton market closure and $20,000 distribution to associates to society fashions in Newport. It notes Celestine Garling’s suicide pledge, Mary Morse’s marriage beside her father’s coffin, mishaps and fires in Pittburg and Buffalo, a large tax of damages, strikes in the coal industry, and multiple criminal cases and accidents across New York, Pennsylvania, Montana, and beyond.
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Daniel J. Sully
Europe
Newport
BRL
Celestine Garling
New York
Mary Morse
Henry G. Morse
New York Shipbuilding Company
Harry A. Horner
Low
Jerome Park
New York City
W. J. Gilmore & Co
Pitmburg
Thomas B. Reed
National House of Representatives
Ballston
N. Y
H. A. Wright
Post Office Department
Washington
Wilkesbarre
E. M. Hart
Blairsville
Edward Thomas
Jefferson
Jefferson Township
Allegheny County
Thomas
George Gould
Pittsburg
United States
Buffalo Storage and Carting Company
Buffalo
Lake Shore Railroad Company
Kidd Bros. & Burzhers
McKees Rocks
Vastly Fragmented Dispatches on Fires Crimes and Elections
scattered items report midwest fires at Midland Manufacturing Tarkis Mo and in Randsburg Cal state news from Ohio to Minnesota include train wrecks, bank heists, dam breaches and political shifts. notable names appear in mispelled form such as Myron, Harold Baring, Longfellow Jr, Power and Adams.
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Tarkis
Midland Manufacturing Company
Myron
Hernek
Cleveland
New England
Faraness
Stuur
Acmoeb
Tomah
Wisbur
Sparta
Harold H. J. Baring
San Francisco
Ashtabula
Cour’ of Appeals
Cue
Maddietown
Howell
Fragmented 19th Century Crime and Disaster Report
Disjointed OCR notes report various violent acts and disasters. Mentions deaths in Spartanburg South Carolina with property loss of two million dollars, a fatal shooting in Tennessee, a Virginia killing over a girl, and a lynching in an unidentified location. Names include James Warris, Tip Nelson, John Reynolds, and Reynolds' escape.
Mississippi lynching incident shocks Greenville crowd
In Greenville the attempt on white orphan Miss Beulah Bishop sparked a mob and a forty minute postponement of a ball game as players and spectators joined the lynch mob. In Jackson a new capitol building costing one million dollars was dedicated with about 10,000 visitors and a grand parade led by ex Gov Robert Lowrey and Confederate veterans.
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Greenville
Miss
Eagle Lake
Texas
Kinard
William McDow
Pierce Hammond
McDow
Capitol
Jackson
Robert Lowrey
Mississippi
Vast world turmoil and disasters stir uneasy times
Reports describe fat taxation talks in Stockholm and massacres in Smerdash, European Turkey. Russian cavalry saved Jewish quarters in Kisheney while rumors in Belgrade speak of a king's cook’s death. Monastic sales, famine threats in Turkestan, and a major maritime collision near Marseille with over 100 dead are reported.
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Smerdash
Turkey
Kisheney
London Daily Mail
Lord Curzon
India
Duke of
Ar- Gyll
Iona Island
Bebrides
Grande Chartreure
France
Belgrade
Servia
Alexander
Dragan Monte di Pieta
Naples
Italy
Devastating floods wipe out mills in Spartanburg district
A week end cloudburst devastated Spartanburg and Pacolet Clifton South Carolina. The Pacolet Mills and several cotton mills were destroyed along with warehouses hotels churches and a railway station. At least 73 to 100 people were killed and property losses exceed two million dollars. Bridges dams and water power installations were carried away by the flood.
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South Carolina
Spartanburg
Pacolet
Clifton
Victor No Montgomery
New Holland
Gainesville
Wall
Pacol
Oes
Pacer
Rysea
Nat
Paroiet
Presbyterian
Southern Railway
Twitchell
Clifton SC
F Jo Pelser
Glendale
Converse
Weather and trade trends in early 1900s New York report
Weather in New York improves for staples yet farm losses rise East due to drought. Labor disputes worsen distribution and construction material movement. May railway earnings up 12.8 percent from last year and 25.6 percent above 1901. Pig iron transactions complete with pricey tonnage. Steel rails demand rises, tin plate output up but London liquidation drags prices. Leather, hides, and footwear sectors report activity. failures total 200 nationally this week. Exports show mixed strength with wheat and corn figures noted. overall outlook cautious amid price readjustments.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Pittsburg
London
New England
Colorado
United States
Canada
Seaboard
Chih
Belleville mob hangs teacher after jail raid
W. T. Wyatt, an East St. Louis colored school teacher, was dragged from the county jail and hanged from a telephone pole in Belleville's square. The mob said his shooting of County Superintendent Hertel stemmed from a political grudge as Hertel refused to renew his teaching certificate amid prior immorality charges. Hertel was wounded in his office and hospitalized. State's Attorney Farmer planned to press charges against mob leaders.
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Belleville
W. T. Wyatt
East St. Louis
Charles Hertel
Hertel
Fielder
Wyatt
Farmer
University of Michigan
Market Prices by City Briefs and Commodities
Chicago to New York markets present mixed hog, cattle, and grain quotes. Hogs range five to six dollars, cattle 3.50 to 6.40, sheep 2.50 to 7.50, while wheat No 2 reds vary about 33 to 83 cents per bushel with several regional figures for corn oats rye and butter eggs and creamery butter.
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Chicago
Catife
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
Ste
New York
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Florence Relics
National Consumers’ League
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Russia
Sto Tens
Join Fisnn
Fistaeal
Ta Sale
Merar
N. J
Tere Ie
Gaeorze Sa Oth
Sa Lahe
Moburade
Joneph
Ant Wilwin
Farley
St Moneury
Tle
RTM
San Jose
Cale
Edwin Fo Goodmick
Roitas Te Pont & Broek
Vega
Salta
Western
Ene
Chiase
Southern
Permens
Spartanburg S.C
Green
James Warris
Tennoan
Leeent Green
Clinton
Tip Nelson
Lee County
John Reynolds
Reynolds
Nelson
Dyennis
Stockholm
Transcaspian
Turkestan
Marsedlles
TNO
Insulaire
Othe Liban
Framenet Steamship Company
Marseilles
Liban
Manila
Christina
Lieyds
Valparaiso
Chich
Pacific
Navi Kanon Cotperny
Arequipa
Adullain
Philippine Islands
Watte Sipert
Visayas
Paurafel
Iisa
Cary
Diak
Northern Pacific Road
Shafter
United States Army
G &A
California
Nevada
Batangas
Hawaii
William L. Harrison
Burlington
St. Joseph
Daniel G Reil
Richmond
Ind
Nathe City
Reid
United Presbyterian
Salonica
Vorghi
Bradetreet
Belleville, Ill
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