Various Global Issues Highlight Terse Observations From 1900s News
A collage of notes surveys finance, politics, science, and infrastructure. It cites New Orleans drainage costs, salt trust fines, socialist gains in Germany, a St. Louis birth, Chicago bridge pay, a proposed New York bank, Liberia colonization, Harvard geology views, bearded women studies, U S railway employment figures, and Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The piece mentions the Andes railway tunnel plans and related elevation challenges.
Canada Wheat Crop Largest Ever Harvest Indicated
Ottawa reports and railway data show Western Canada expected to yield a record wheat crop this year with near perfect conditions. Manitoba and surrounding territories see a 20 percent rise in cultivated land, totaling over 9.57 million acres, signaling potential national benefits.
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Fports
Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Manitoba
Northwestern Territories
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Territories
Canadian Pacific Railway
Parker Reticent on 1904 Democratic Nomination
Atlanta July 6 Judge Alton B Parker stated he is in love with his present work and would not say he would give it up for anything when asked about his stance on a possible 1904 Democratic presidential nomination. Parker arrived from Athens after visiting historic sites and will sail to New York from Savannah with Mrs Parker.
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Atlanta
Alton B. Parker
Democratic Party
Judge Parker
M. Edward Lumpkin
Athens
Benjamin H. Hill
Gen
Howell Cobb
Henry W. Grady
Miss Harden
John Howard Payne
Sweet Home
Payne
Judge
Racial unrest in Evansville sparks mob attacks
A July incident in Evansville Indiana details a race driven riot with white mobs looting stores and seizing public safety items while armed Black groups clash. Jailed sites are damaged, a powder magazine is targeted, and casualties are feared as state troops have not yet arrived.
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Evansville
Ind
Baptist Town
Paul Morgan
Press Robb
Third Street
Main Street
Fifth
E. M. Bush & Co
Willerding
Shooting of Patrolman Massey Sparks Evansville Riot
July riot in Evansville Indiana followed the Friday shooting of Patrolman Massey by Lee Brown a black man. Patrolman Massey died, Brown was wounded and jailed amid mob threats of lynching. Police and deputies fought to control crowds and a race war escalated as mobs attacked the jail and surrounding areas.
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Massey
Lea Brown
Evansville
Ind
Lee Brown
Brown
Vincennes
Kratz
Louis 0. Rasch
We Circuit Court
William Gilbert
Logan
Red River 18 High Crowds River Damage in Texas
Red River rises ten feet above previous records near Mulberry Texas twelve miles north of Bonham with a width around five miles cattle and horses seen floating several people are feared lost crops along the river north of Bonham suffer heavy losses while rescue efforts begin Pope Leo Dies in Rome as pontiff near death Cardinal Oreglia discusses conclave plans amid reports a Gotti pension and potential papal succession
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Texas
Bonham
Tex
Red River
Mulberry
Here
Rome
Leo
Cardinal Oregalia
Gotti
Pape
Buried Under the Debris
Paducah Kentucky July 5 Lloyd Scimmill of Gilbertsville died fighting a fire that collapsed a section of the Illinois Central bridge over the Tennessee River. He fell into the water and is believed buried under debris. Trains cannot cross the span for about a week or longer. Passengers mail and express to be carried by steamer in the interim.
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Lexington
Dora Brock
Cassius M. Clay
Riley
Long View
Nicholasville
Richmond
White Hall
Clay
Joseph Perkins
Will Bowlin
Gen. Clay
Bowlin
Perkins
Sage White Hall
Little
Zellner
Paducah
Lloyd Scimmill
Gilberteville
Imnois Central
Tennessee River
Many tragedies and crimes Across the South and West
A roundup of violent deaths and calamities including a fatal boiler blast near Geneva Alabama a shooting at Merrill Mississippi a mill fire near Pas Christian Mississippi and a fatal railroad train suicide near Decatur Alabama. Also reports of lynching peonage sentences executions and a Kentucky feud related killing.
Calamity at Oakwood Park Jeannette Pa Kills Many
A cloudburst at Oakwood Park near Jeannette Pennsylvania caused massive flooding and a high death toll. Reports vary from seventy five to several hundred with eight bodies recovered and many missing.
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Oakwood Park
Pittsburg
Jeannette
A Bloody Fourth Searing Toll From Fireworks Across Nation
Reports from across the United States show Fourth of July fatalities rising with forty eight deaths and 3431 injuries recorded by night. Toy pistols and cannon crackers caused the most harm as hospitals logged numerous injuries from fireworks mishaps. Chicago alone reported multiple deaths and a large number of injuries, with many youths and men left maimed, reflecting the widespread carnage of reckless powder handling.
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Chicago
United States
Blind Tigers Put Under Hire of Detectives in Tennessee
Nashville July 4 The State Anti Saloon League has employed G H Matlock ex deputy sheriff of Davidson county as special agent to enforce the anti liquor law in towns using the Adams law He is also to watch drug stores selling liquor Indictments against Drugglat Ramsey at McKenzie were prepared by Matlock.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Anti-Saloon League
G. H. Matlock
Sherif
Davideon County
Matlock
Theodore Roosevelt Gives Name to Signet's Newborn Son
Pittsburg July 4 Theodore Roosevelt the newborn namesake of ex Chief of Police William H Signet at McKeesport arrives with the 20th child in the Signet family. The father, a Civil War veteran, is 62 years old and the new baby will be Theodore Roosevelt. The Signet family notified the president.
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Pittsburg
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Signet
McKeesport
Mra. Signet
Signet
Striker Shot by Militiaman in Manchester Town
Richmond Va July 4 Luther Taylor of Springfield Vermont was shot and killed by a militiaman on duty as he pushed a corporal from a buggy and drove off. The assailant refused to stop when ordered as the crowd gathered at the Dominion iron works.
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Richmond
Man
Chester Twnight
Luther Taylor
Sphingbil
Vasay
Hoe
Taghir
Dominion Iron Work
Four Deaths In The Storm Over New York City
A severe July storm hit New York causing at least four deaths and many injuries. Winds peaked near 72 mph, lightning struck landmarks, and the Polo Grounds flooded delaying the New York vs St. Louis game. A six year old, a dock worker, a three year old, and a woman from Rockaway Beach died or were badly hurt.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Manhattan
Polo Grounds
Bronx
Hudson River
Long Island Sound
Fannie Kingler
John Dominick
East
Clarence Hadden
Mary Carman
Rockaway Beach
New York Hospital
Church of the Divine Paternity
Central Park
West
Normandie
Lancaster
West End Avenue
Arbuckle
Water Street
Sandy Hook
Sir Thomas Lipton
Erin
Peru Flood Destroys Town as Cloudburst Strikes
A Indiana cloudburst at five am floods North Peru and Elmwood, submerging homes and forcing residents onto rafts. About 250 families affected as water rises to six feet in Elmwood and two feet in some houses. streets become waterways. Nearby San Antonio Texas area also hit with multiple deaths and heavy property losses from a southwest cloudburst.
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Peru
Ind
Elmwood
Texas
Pacific squadron sails toward Alaska via Puget Sound
San Francisco on July 3 reports Rear Admiral Ginas commands the Pacific squadron en route to Alaska. The ships New York Bennington Marblehead and Concord form the force. A Manila dispatch notes the misappropriation case of Negros Island Treasurer Hoss involving $5,000, with a shortage of $1,000 detected.
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San Francisco
Ean Manila
Hoss
Negros Island
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Brookhaven, Mississippi
Ait Passaic
N. J
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Louisiana
Salt Trust
Germany
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Ola Santen
Kirkwood
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Samuel H. Ashbridge
Mort 1
Bank of England
Colored National Immigration Association
Republic of
Liberia
Congress
Nathaniel S. Shaler
Harvard University
Los Angeles
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Griffith Park
Cahuenga Valley
Andes
Chile
Argentine Republic
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Niin Averuyan
Earth
Mathias Luecker
South
Canal Street
Luecker
Fifth Ward
Parker Reticent
Dora
Will
Nancy
France
Balinguet
Baton Rouge
State Penitentiary
Tom Stamey
Caddo Parish
Jarceny
Richard Rawlings
Orleans Parish
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Pera
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Sycamore Streets
Boettrich & Kellogg
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Minalo Pearl
Perry Coomba
Aish Ada Cameron
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Geneva
Ala
Jerome Taylor
John McInnis
Merrill, Miss
Wolf River
Pash Christian
Miss
George Burrell
Henderson County
N.C
Biloxi
St. Stanislaus
College
Moses Cousins
Westpoint
F. J. B. Rohmer
New Orleans Charity Hospital
Mobile
Nen
Sam Johnston
Dick Edmondson
Spain
Quitman
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Edmondson
Edmonson
A. M. Kate
Southern Railway
Decatur
Alo
Kate
Belle Roehl
Knoxville
Kentucky
John Henry Hacker
Hiram Barnett
Lelia Gurns
Hreathitt County
Greenberry Prather
Barnett
Miss Gurns
Burns Pitzpatrick
White
Jett
J. B. Marcum
Breathitt County
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Todd County
Younger Watkins
Trenton
Watkins
Garth
Younger
Henry Watkins
Tennessee
Venable’s Siding
Virginia & Southwestern Railway
L. H. Fain
R. ¢ Clowers
Charles Evans
John L. Phillips
Norway
George D. Cosby
Barancas F. Cosby
Tallapoosa County
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Pickering, Miss
Charles Strickland
Solomon Glasgow
Holly Springs
Love
W. D
Crum
Charleston
D. C
Chica
Kentucky Sons of the Revellion
Frankfort
Garton
George Coates
Brunswick
Oadwood
Gertrude Keefer
Edward O’brien
Latrobe
Brown & Ketcham Company
Jos
Overly
Indianapolis
Brown-Ketcham Company
Lucy Crum
John Light
Greensburg
William Cline, Jr
York
Indiana
San Antonio
Beeville
Normanateh
Pettus
San Antonio & Aransas Pras
Jerseyville
Adam T. Haynes
Jersey County
Hanna
Wyo
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