Cyclone relief fraud and assorted 1900s misfortunes ripple citywide
Report from Galveston notes relief misallocations and forged orders totaling about 10 000. Meanwhile diplomats Mosley and Mosely contend with postings and health issues in Singapore and Japan. A romance linked to the Paris exposition emerges with Professor Woodward and Marion Cockrell. Rail workers avert disaster in North Dakota as tamper plans are found, and Union Oregon bank robbers cause a vault breach using nitro glycerin. A Pa couple dies in a park tragedy, and a Lake Erie and Western collision near St Marys leaves wreckage but no injuries. A Weston Ohio sailor seeks navy entry amid domestic disputes and financial strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. S. Mosley
Rome
Singapore
St. A. Mosely
Mosely
Japan
Professor Woodward
United States
Marion Cockrell
Thomas Walsh
Harry Bettis
Daisy Blydenburg
Corry Park
Corry
St. Mary's
Ohio
Lake Erie and
Lashaway
Weston
Allon
Navy
Ishaway
Washaway
Brevities recap of notable deaths and incidents worldwide
British novelist Robert Buchanan paralyzed and likely dying. New Zealand governor annexes Cook Islands per chiefs. Barnum & Bailey gorilla dies in Germany. John Sherman dies in Washington. RF. VO Bartlett paralyzed in Lexington pulpit. Tornado near Dadi Texas kills six. Choctaws and others join Creeks as allotment debate rages. Harvard instructor Tom Norman arrested for murder. Mrs Mary Frummell kills infant in Cleveland. Spanish cabinet resigns over Weyler. Pandrola schooner wreck in Lake Ontario. crew safe. Prank Allgood jailed for horse theft after baptism. Eugenia steamer explosion near Tomsk. Two colored men buy drinks, murder shopkeeper in Mintine. Sheffield steel firm plans U.S. move near Wheeling. Henry Miller dies near Chappaqua inventor of train brake. Henry Bishop Perkins Jr shoots himself. Elkins gallery adds four master paintings valued over 150000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Buchanan
New Zealand
Cook Islands
Sohauna
Texas
Cherie
Tom $Mrman
Harvard College
Richard Ho Grogan, Jr
Mary Frummell
Cleveland
Ino
Weyler
Madrid
Carta
St Petersburg
London Daily Express
Eugenia
Tomsk and
Barna
Mintine
Ed Carroll
Seybold & Dicksted
Sheffield
England
Aearble Steel
Great Britain
United States
Wheeling
Wo Va
Henry Miller
Horace Greeley
Chappaqua
N.Y
Henry Bishop Perkins, Jr
Warren
Ohio
Jong
William L. Elkins
Elkins
Jacob van Ruisdale
Albert Juyp
Agnolo Bronzio
George Mgrland
Mass finds severed trunk in bag near Lynn
A trunk with head and legs severed was found in a bag at Floating Bridge Pond in Lynn Massachusetts. The grim discovery follows a series of crime and disaster reports from across the region including strikes, fires, and a fatal shooting in Washington.
Poised to police billboards and amid a flood of incidents
A roundup of early 20th century U S news items reports Al Whittson appointed billboard inspector in St Paul, a suffocating hotel fire in Blackhawk Colorado, a Fresno winery destroyed by fire, and multiple arrests, deaths, and legal actions across Ohio Indiana Missouri California and Texas with details on individuals, crimes, trials, and disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Whittson
St. Paul
St Paul
Fatha Gilliam
Charles Winold
Cincinnati
J Brett & Co
Sana Francisco
Wooster
Ohio
United States
Townsend
Indian Territory
H. H. Harrison
Akron
Joseph Welch
Gus Stevell
Blackhawk
Colos. E Burke
Cleveland
New Bloomfield
C. M. Wright
Cleveland and Eastern Electric Railway Company
Gites Malls
Mathew Mersch
Mitchell County
Kan
Anna Smith
McKinley
el Paso
Texas
Guadalupe
Mexico
Conda Beck
William Barton
Waymansville
Ind
Barton
Beck
Grace Cohee
Broadway
St. Louis
Wapakoneta
Flora R. Miler
Leroy
Ex-Postmaster General Wilson Dies in Virginia
Southern records report the sudden death of former Postmaster General William L. Wilson in Lexington Virginia. Other items note Gen Nelson A Miles judging cavalry horses in Louisville, and a Florida orange crop estimate of 1 000 001 boxes with larger yields in Manatee and DeSoto counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Wilson
Lexington
Nelson A Miles
Louisville
Global and U S diplomatic notes and public health updates
The dispatch reports Conger forwarding China peace appeals and Kwang Hsu acknowledging peace goals. Navy planners doubt Subig Bay as a major station. Yellow fever surges in Cuba with widespread cases. Alaska mail service limits winter handling. The twelfth census shows 53,000 enumerators and 297 supervisors with costs around 4.2 million. Factory work nears completion and field agents wrap up duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conger
Pekin
China
State Department
Kwang Hsu
Meliiley
Slawery Kingdom
Navy Department
Washington
Subig Bay
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Surgeon General’s Department
Havana
Postoffice Department
Yukon Territory
Canada
Yukon River
Mos
Census work nears completion with eight volume report
Factoring and industrial lines will finish work by November 1 at an estimated cost of 250000 dollars. The census bureau in Washington is tabulating statistics, and the completed report will span eight volumes of 1000 pages each. Director Merriam expects the census to be ready six weeks earlier than in the past despite heavier current workload.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Census Bureau
Washington
Merriam
European and World Briefs From The Era
Sir Henry Acland dies at 85. Galveston benefit in London raises 6500 for the fund. Germany leases Uroan Island from Turkey for a coaling station. Queen Wilhelmina proclaims engagement to Duke Henry. Private James O Hearn burned in the Philippines. Engineers dispute Yerkes London underground plan. Dowager Empress Frederick marriage revived. Sir Alfred Milner to govern former South African republics. Czech High School facade collapse kills seven. Shanghai dispatch says Pao ting fu captured by 7000 allied force. Lord Alverstone named lord chief justice. Sato appointed Japanese minister to Mexico. Marquis of Bute will probate includes £100,000 to Catholic causes. King Oscar ill with pneumonia. crown prince regent named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Henry Acland
Galveston
Drury Lane Theater
London
Germany
Turkey
Uroan
Red Sea
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Duke Henry of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
James O’hearn
Twenty Sixth
Ladrones
Philippines
Yerkes
Frederick
Baron Seckendorff
London Times
Alfred Milner
Brossnitz
Moravia
Shanghai
Pao-ting-fu
Pekin
Lord Alverstone
Richard Webster
England
Lord Russell of
Killowen
Sato
Berlin
Mexico
Washington
Marquis of Bute
Oscar
London Daily Mail
Stockholm
Wrecks and deaths amid Alaskan gales and storms
The Merom of San Francisco wrecked ashore on Kodiak Island with a Dutch Bill sailor perishing aboard. Cuba official Maj Matt St Peterson died in Havana from yellow fever and his widow shot herself shortly after. Advices from Dawson report US telegraph lines to Tanana will be completed by Christmas. Orizaba wrecked on St Michael Island and abandoned during a government cable run. Coral field coal found near Cape Sabine after storm cruise. US potato crop totals about 2.33 billion bushels, down from last year. yield about 83 bushels per acre amid variable weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merom
San Francisco
Alaska Packers’ Association
Kodiak Island
Dutch Bill
Matt St. Peterson
Cuba
Havana
Peterson
Cincinnati
Dawson
United States
Yukon
Nome
Tanana
Eagle
Porter
Nomestenwer Line
Orizaba
Stucky Point Reef
St Michael Island
St. Michael
Nome City
Stormer Corwin
Port Washington
Cape Sabine
Arctic
Alaska
Orange Judd Farmer
Agreement Ends Anthracite Strike With Wage Increase
Conference of coal operators and company representatives in Philadelphia led to an agreement to abolish the sliding scale and grant a 10 percent wage increase starting September wages through April 1, 1901. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company issued a statement confirming suspension of the scale and settlement of grievances. Lehigh Valley and other operators plan similar notices, signaling an immediate end to the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Harris
Reading Railway Company
Mine Workers’ Convention
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Lehigh Valley Company
King Leopold to Abdicate in Favor of Nephew Albert
Reports suggest King Leopold of Belgium will abdicate soon in favor of his nephew Prince Albert of Flanders who has married Marie Gabrielle of Bavaria. Albert is the son of Prince Philippe and has renounced his succession rights due to age and deafness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopold
Prince Albert
Flanders
Marie Gabrielle of
Bavaria
Prince Philippe
Eight Die in Fire at Hester Street Tenement
Eight persons perished in a three story frame double tenement at 40 and 454 Hester Street New York early Wednesday. Charles Fass family of six mostly perished with Fass and his 4 year old Pauline surviving as Policeman Hunt saved her. Mrs Anna Horowitz burned on the fire escape after robe caught fire. Firemen and police fought the blaze as residents watched a landmark East Side building burn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floating Bridge Pond
Lynn
Mass
W. P. Dillingham
United States
Vermont
David Richards
Charles Pfizer
Bernardsville
N. J
Philadelphia
Mine Workers’ Convention
New Haven
Blackburn
Kentucky
Washington
John Clark
New York
Imlay Clark
Australia
Henry
Howard Stewart
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Cleveland
Kearney
John Hughes
Cambra
Hughes
Wachusetts Dam
Clinton
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Newburyport
Deer Island
Herman Walker
Guttenburg
Hamilton V. Meeks
Hudson
Hester Street
Charles Fass
Pauline
Fass
Peter Hunt
Anna Horowitz
Fitzgerald
Americans killed and captured in Philippine skirmishes
A detachment of the Twenty fourth regiment repairing telegraph wires near San Jose Nueva Ecija was attacked by 200 rebels. Seven men reached San Jose while others were captured. Elsewhere near Takloban Leyte Island three Americans were killed and two escaped to raise the alarm as police conspired to ambush U S troops. The dead were mutilated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenty Fourth
Twenty-fourth
San Jose
Nueva Ecija
Tele de Luzon
Forty-third Infantry
Takloban
Leyt Island
Married After Fifty Years In Kansas City Romance Reaches Long-Awaited Marriage
In Kansas City Missouri Sherman L M Foote aged 72 and Lizzie D Baker aged 68 wed at the county recorder drive after a fifty year romance. The couple had separated years ago but reconnected after both lost spouses and finally married following correspondence rekindled from old ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Recorder
Kansas City
Sherman L. M. Foote
Lizzie D. Baker
William L. Wilson Dies in Virginia at 75
Gen William L Wilson ex Postmaster General, famed author of the Wilson tariff bill and long time congressman, died suddenly in Lexington Virginia. A Confederate veteran, educator, and lawyer, he served five terms in Congress and helped frame Tariff legislation. He was born May 3 1843 in Jefferson County Virginia and educated at Columbia College and the University of Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tariff Hill
William L. Wilson
Wilson
Lexington
Congress
Washington
William Lyne Wilson
Jefferson County
Virginia
Columbia College
University of Virginia
Columbian College
Charlestown
W. V
Isso
University of West Virginia
House of Representatives
Wilson S. Bissell
Import and export totals and naval notes from the year
In the first eight months imports of raw materials for manufacturers reached 200 million dollars while exports of manufactured goods rose to 304 million. Navy Dept delays bounty payments until court decisions and appropriations. US opposes France on arms embargo in China and Pekin guards. Gen Davis says Puerto Rico forces can be reduced and native companies formed. Treasury movement funds total 0.88 million so far this year. Torpedo boat extensions due to lack of machinery. Cuba imports seven months total 43.47 million with US supply 22.39 million. exports 19.06 million. Philippine revenues seven months total 4.78 million, up 2.09 million from 1890. Neely embezzlement case motions heard by Supreme Court. Post office expenditure last fiscal year 107.24 million with revenues 102.35 million. Woolen goods imports eight months 12.08 million versus 40.67 million in 1895. State Dept says no new U S developments in Torekey claim.
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Samfield
Illinois
Central Committee
Arizona
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Snake River
Shoshone Falls
Fond du Lac
Wis
Jack
Ida Schwartz
North St. Louis
Father Godfred
Father Phelan
Verona
Squeers
Houghton
McSheebhy
John Bruce
American Cereal Company
Chicago
Edward Kitchen
John W. Fisher
Cheyenne
Wyo
Fisher
Minneapolis
Armor
Arors
Litchfield
Minn
Chicago and Alton
Lawndale
Western
Southern
Florida
Manatee
Sillsboro
DeSoto
Milly Johnson
Will Jordan
Texas and
Paville Road
Baton Rouge
Berkham
Gobel
Fratus Warfield
Elkton
Wuarfield
Market Reports
Indianapolis
Ile
Cattie
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
King Leopold
St. John
Chas. Steinbrink
Wall Street
Cervera
Santiago
Court of Claims
Davis
Department of
Porto Rico
Treasury Department
C. F. W. Neely
United States Supreme Court
Postofice Department
Torekey
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