Galveston findings on relief misuse and assorted events
The Galveston central committee reports relief misallocation and forged orders totaling $10,000 amid cyclone aid. Other items note diplomacy changes with Mosley refusals, a Paris expo romance involving Woodward and Marion Cockrell, railroad sabotage suspicions in North Dakota, a successful bank vault blast in Union Oregon, a double tragedy in Corry PA, a severe collision near St Marys Ohio, and a series of odd domestic incidents and escapes in Weston Ohio and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Committee
Galveston
Texas
A. B. S. Mosley
Rome
Singapore
St. A. Mosely
Mosely
Japan
Professor Woodward
United States
Marion Cockrell
Thomas Walsh
Notable Briefs of World Events and Local Incidents
A rapid survey of diverse notes includes Robert Buchanan’s paralysis and possible illness, the New Zealand governor annexing the Cook Islands, Barnum Bailey’s gorilla Sohauna’s death in Nuremberg, and John Sherman’s passing in Washington. A Lexington pulpit paralytic incident, a Texas tornado near Dadi, and a deadly local fire involving African American residents are reported. Additional items mention Choctaw and other tribes resisting allotment, Harvard College arrest for murder, a Mary Brummell insanity baby murder, Spanish cabinet resignation amid Weyler politics, a Canadian schooner sinking near Ontario, and a cargo ship with coin. A Ballinger? line notes a baptism after horse theft sentence, and a Russian steamer Eugenia explosion near Tomsk. Milne, Wisconsin, saloon killing, Sheffield steel relocation to the United States, Henry Miller’s Chappaqua death, Henry Bishop Perkins Jr’s suicide, and a notable Elkins gallery additions valued over $150,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Buchanan
New Zealand
Cook Islands
Sohauna
Barnum & Bailey
Nuremburg
Germany
John Sherman
Washington
VO Bartlett
Lexington
Dadi
Texas
Cheries Main
Wnod
Harvard College
Richard Ho Grogan, Jr
Mary Brummell
Cleveland
Ano
Weyler
Mivdvid
Teent
Agearraga
Lake Ontario
McPronald’s Cove
Allgood
Carta
Se Petersburg
London Daily Express
Eugenia
Tomsk
Barna
Milne
Wo Wa
Ed Carroll
Seybold & Dicksted
Sheffield
England
Ae Crble Steel
Great Britain
United States
Wheeling
Wo Va
Henry Miller
Horace Greeley
Chappaqua
N.Y
Henry Bishop Perkins, Jr
Warren
Ohio
William N. Elkins
Elkins
Jacob van Ruisdale
Albert Juyp
Agnolo Bronzio
George Mgrland
Vast News Clippings Range From Murders to Labor Strife
Reports detail a severed body found in a Lynn pond, a Vermont Senate election by a three ballot count, jewelry theft in New Jersey, a Philadelphia mine workers agreement ending a major strike, and a New Haven rolling mill wage cut dispute. Also noted are fatal fires, suicides, estate fights, police manhunts, shipyard plans, and multiple railroad accidents across New York New Jersey Indiana and Illinois.
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
Miscellaneous 1900s US news items from scattered reports
Various brief items: Al Whittson named billboard inspector in St Paul. Gilliam servant confesses poisoning in Cincinnati. J Brett & Co insolvency petition filed in San Francisco. Dozens suspended at Wooster University over a night-strait parade. Judge Townsend halts tribal tax closures in Indian Territory. Akron riot police chief resigns. Two men burned to death in Blackhawk hotel fire. CA Burke killed on train near Urichsville. Miss Alice Hammell dies from facial burns after vitriol assault. Kubler & Frobling winery destroyed near Fresno. losses 100000 to 125000. New Bloomfield, Missouri, two stores burned. Dr C M Wright perishes. Cleveland and Eastern Electric fire at Gites Malls. $100000 loss. Mitch ell County Bryanite wedding to Anna Smith after pledge to McKinley. Guadalupe Mexico waterspout wipes village off map. Dr Conda Beck kills William Barton. Beck earlier killed Grace Cohee, acquitted. Broad way streetcar collision in St Louis injures about a dozen. platform and roof damage. Wapakoneta Ohio case Flora Muller charged with killing her stepson Leroy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Whittson
St. Paul
St Paul
Fatha Gilliam
Charles Winold
Cincinnati
J Brett & Co
San 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. Muller
Leroy
Notable Deaths and Legal Actions Across States
Ex postmaster William L. Wilson dies in Lexington Virginia. General Miles judges cavalry horses at Louisville horse show. Florida orange crop estimated at 1 000 001 boxes with extra yields in Manatee, Sillsboro and DeSoto. Milly Johnson lynched near Baton Rouge after wounding a conductor. Governor Berkham approves an election bill tightening safeguards. Fratus Warfield lynched in Elkton after attempted entry at a farm home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Wilson
Lexington
Nelson A Miles
Louisville
Florida
Manatee
Sillsboro
DeSoto
Milly Johnson
Will Jordan
Texas and
Paville Road
Baton Rouge
Berkham
Kentucky
Fratus Warfield
Elkton
Wuarfield
Peace moves and global notes from Washington
Minister Conger forwards a Chinese appeal for peace negotiations and Emperor Kuang Hsu sends personal acknowledgment to President Roosevelt. Navy reports warn Subic Bay lacks depth for major stations. Yellow fever spreads in Cuba with widespread cases. Alaska mail to Yukon will be limited this winter. The twelfth census nears completion with 53 000 enumerators and 297 supervisors and an estimated four million four hundred thousand cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conger
Pekin
China
Kwang Hsu
Meliiley
Slawery Kingdom
Navy Department
Washington
Subig Bay
Philippine Islands
Yukon Territory
Canada
Yukon River
Mos
Census Bureau Seeks $250000 For New Factoring and Lines Work
The census bureau in Washington will complete its work by November 1 with a cost near 250000. The entire force is now tabulating statistics and the census report will span eight volumes of 1000 pages each. Director Merriam expects completion six weeks earlier than in the past despite heavier current enumeration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Census Bureau
Washington
Merriam
London and World News From The Night Dispatch
Sir Henry Acland dies aged 85. London benefit raises 6500 for Drury Lane fund. Germany leases Uroan Island from Turkey for a coaling station. Queen Wilhelmina proclaims betrothal to Duke Henry. James O Hearn of the Twenty sixth Volunteers burned in the Philippines. Two engineers allege origin of Yerkes London underground plan. Dowager Empress Frederick marriage rumors revived. Sir Alfred Milner named governor of former South African republics. Czech High School facade collapse in Moravia kills seven, injures ten. Shanghai reports Pao-ting-fu captured by 7000 allied force. Lord Alverstone named lord chief justice. Sato appointed Japanese minister to Mexico. Marquis of Bute will admitted to probate with £100,000 to Roman Catholic causes. King Oscar ill with pneumonia. crown prince named regent.
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 as Alaska and Cuba news fill report
The Merom wrecks on Kodiak Island with a crew fatality. Major Peterson dies in Havana and his wife commits suicide. Telegrams promise Nome to Tanana telegraph completion by Christmas and Orizaba loss near St Michael Island. Coal field found near Cape Sabine and US potato yield near 83 bushels per acre with 2.33 billion bushels total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merom
San Francisco
Alaska Packers’ Association
Kodiak Island
Dutch Bill
Matt J. Peterson
Cuba
Havana
Peterson
Cincinnati
Dawson
United States
Yukon
Nome
Tanana
Eagle
Porter
Nomestenwer
Orizaba
Market Reports from Multiple U.S. Cities
The report lists livestock and grain prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York. Cattle hogs sheep and various grain bids are shown with price ranges for No 2 red No 2 white No 2 mixed No 2 yellow and other standards along with butter eggs and clover seed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Conference ends anthracite strike with wage increase
A secret Philadelphia meeting of coal operators and company representatives led to an agreement to abolish the sliding scale, grant a 10 percent wage rise starting September, and suspend further changes until April 1901. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company issued the notice, with Lehigh Valley and individual operators to follow. The move meets striker demands and ends the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris
Reading Railway Company
Philadelphia
Mine Workers’ Convention
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Lehigh Valley Company
Leopold to Abdicate in Favor of Prince Albert of Flanders
Rumor says King Leopold of Belgium will abdicate soon to his nephew Prince Albert of Flanders. Albert recently married Marie Gabrielle of Bavaria and is the son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, who renounced his own succession rights due to age and deafness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopold
Prince Albert
Flanders
Marie Gabrielle of
Bavaria
Iing
Prince Philippe
Eight Die in Fire at Hester Street Tenement
A early Wednesday blaze at 40 and 454 Hester Street New York killed eight residents. Charles Fass and his 4-year-old Pauline survived while Mrs Anna Horowitz died after her robe ignited on the fire escape. Police and firemen tried to rescue others as the ramshackle building burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hester Street
New York
Charles Fass
Pauline
Fass
Peter Hunt
Anna Horowitz
Fitzgerald
Americans killed and captured in Filipino ambushes
A detachment of twenty fourth regiment repairing telegraph wires near San Jose Nueva Ecija was attacked by 200 rebels and scattered. Seven Americans reached safety, others captured. Nearby at Takloban Leyte Island a patrol from the Forty third infantry suffered three dead. Two escaped to raise the alarm but pursuers failed. Police in Takloban aided the ambush, and 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
Sherman L. N. Foote aged 72 and Mrs. Lizzie D. Baker aged 68 married in Kansas City after a fifty year courtship. They had grown apart, both lost spouses, and reunited years later after correspondence followed by over half a century apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Recorder
Kansas City
Sherman L. N. Foote
Lizzie D. Baker
William L. Wilson Dead Ex-Postmaster General and Tariff Author
William Lyne Wilson ex Postmaster General and longtime congressman died suddenly in Lexington Virginia. A Confederate veteran lawyer and educator he helped craft the Mills tariff bill and led the Ways and Means Committee. Born May 3 1843 in Jefferson County Virginia he studied at Columbia College and the University of Virginia and served as a Democratic national delegate in 1880.
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
Trade and military notes from the period including imports and exports
The eight months show raw material imports at 200 million, manufactured exports at 304 million, with Cuba trade totaling 43.47 million imports and 19.06 million exports. Treasury movement for crops totals 400 thousand this week and 0.88 million year to date. Other items cover navy bounty delays, China arms policy, Porto Rico forces, torpedo boat extensions, Philippine revenues, and postal funds cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LSIH
Cuba
United States
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Wis
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North St. Louis
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McSheebhy
John Bruce
American Cereal Company
Edward Kitchen
John W. Fisher
Cheyenne
Wyo
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Gettysburg
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Brightwood
Thirteenth Street
Peter Armor
Sandstone
Minn
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Armor
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Chas. Steinbrink
Wall Street
Cervera
Santiago
Court of Claims
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