Notable Local Accidents and Sports Scores Highlight Week
Actress Anna Chapman suffered a skull fracture after falling through a trap door at the Cleveland Lyceum Theatre. The Niagara frontier reports a fast battle to test Wisconsin ship speed, reaching 18.6 knots. Bombardments include a Buffalo ferry dock fire destroying elevators and office facilities. National League baseball standings feature Pirates, Giants, and New York with varied records.
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Anna Chapman
Eugenie Blair
Mixed 19th century News Briefs from New York and Pennsylvania
Eastern reports Arthur Pearson arriving in New York and Martin J Tighe killing his wife then attempting suicide. Other items cover marooned Baltimore men reaching New York, a Jersey City wife accusing her husband, a Plymouth plant fire, a transport accident in Erie, a ferry collision near Staten Island, a deadly mine explosion at Port Royal, street rail funding in Philadelphia, West Point cadet exams, a Williary resignation, and various local incidents including a Harvard student hire and a train crash scare in Pennsylvania.
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Arthur Pearson London
New York
Martin J Tighe
Baltimore
Navassa Island
Madison Square
Anna Schultz
Jersey City
Joseph II Corfder
Plymouth
American Magnesia Company
United States
Erie Basin
West Point Military Academy
Northfield
Mauchbank
Staten Island
Pittsburg
Coa and Coke Company
Port Royal
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
France Line
War Department
West Point Williary Academy
Tite Charles TD Andrews
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Clovernor McLean I
Widespread Crime and Disaster Reported Across States
A sprawling summary lists swindles in Nebraska and Kansas, train wrecks in Arizona and Nebraska, murders in Illinois and Ohio, suicides in Kansas, arson and thefts in California and Oklahoma, and weather wrecks in Indiana. It notes a naval kidnapping in San Francisco, a political divorce suit in Ohio, and a large regional banking and public-safety sphere with multiple sensational incidents.
Unclear excerpt from a historic Spanish figure event
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Alfonso of Spain, New York, a border or frontier context, and various names and places but contains numerous garbled terms making a coherent report impossible. no clear date, event, or outcome is identifiable.
Notable Criminals and Conflicts in Early 20th Century News
The report lists legal and violent incidents including a lynching in Brunswick Georgia of Tracey Griffin for murder of conductor R Marion Latimer, a planned deadly duel in Owensboro Kentucky between Simon Williams and George Bell, a child abduction attempt, and a Virginia constitutional convention voting against the oath to support the U S Constitution citing motives to disfranchise Black citizens.
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Louisiana
McMillin
Tennessee
Tracey Griffin
Brunswick
R. Marion Latimer
Southern Railway
Simon Williams
George Bell
Owensboro
Williams
Steid
Richmond
United States
Paris to arrest profane cabmen and unrest abroad
Paris police ordered to arrest profane cabmen as foreign concerns rise. Algeria reports new outbreak, Royalists plot coup in France, and Mareuil killed in South Africa. Meanwhile reforms in China and tariffs tensions ripple across Europe and America.
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Paris
Algeria
Foxhall Keene
Glasgow University
Andrew Carnegie
Suez Canal
Colillebois Mareuil
South Africa
Submarine Fulton Launch Report and Early Naval Notes
Submarine Fulton launched at the Nivon shipyard under Henry McFlagler. In other items, a standard oil magnate sued for divorce from an insane spouse. Secretary Gage formally accepted a government nomination. a Philadelphia woman killed her son then died by suicide. Prince Poniatowski teased Paraguay’s island claim from the Sultan for fifty years. Mexican antiquities gathered by Prof. WocSaville highlighted. McKinley pledged not to seek a third term if offered. Cuban convention accepts the Platt amendment. the battleship Aline set a speed record on test run. trolley cars to run Athens to Piraeus. a dine contract discussed. the Czar schooner wreck off Cabot Island with seven ty people aboard, four drowned, six injured, women and children saved.
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Commodity price table and a challenge offer in Chicago
Regional commodity quotes show cattle hogs and grain prices across Chicago Kansas City Indianapolis and other cities with figures for bids and grades. A Chicago feature highlights Mrs Nancy B Irvine offering $1000 to the first business or professional man who can prove a full month of undivided work without telling a lie with a panel of judges to verify records and honesty.
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Chicago
Nancy B. Irvine
Irving
McKinley Declares He Will Not Seek a Third Term
Washington report states President McKinley wrote and signed a formal statement that he would not be a candidate for a third term, and would not accept nomination if offered. Cabinet members and friends urged public disclosure amid ongoing third term talk as Congress had already opposed a third term.
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Long
Oates
White House
Nobodly
Admiral Cervera predicts Spain will split into small states
The item notes Admiral Cervera’s forecast of Spain breaking into multiple states. Also mentioned is Aguinaldo’s rumored plan to visit the United States next fall, and Dr. Robinson of Chicago, former president of the Santa Fe Railroad, has died. A bankruptcy filing lists a debtor owing $20 for beer and $26 per rent. A Norfolk hotel lists a Black couple as Indian Holmes and wife. he shot the woman dead and escaped.
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Admiral Cervera
Spain
Aguinaldo
United States
Dr. Robinson
Chicago
Santa Fe Railroad
New York
Indiia Holmes
Norfolk
Pension figures show 43399 names added in eleven months
Commissioner Evans reported 43399 new names added to the pension roll in eleven months, with 35308 pensions for Mexican Indian Civil and war of 1812 and 3523 for Spanish war service. 4100 restored names, 30680 certificates issued, total 94079.
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Pension Bureau
Evans
Spain
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