Mob hanged William Spain after Dorchester County lynching
A mob near St George Dorchester County killed William Spain a North Carolina man after he was spotted attempting to enter a window at Nasteen Connor’s home. Spain was seized by a posse, identified by Connor’s 11 year old daughter, and strung up as shots fired 500 rounds into his body.
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Columbia
8. C
William Spain
North Carolina
St. George
Dorchester County
South Carolina
L. Connor
Dorchester Lumber Company
Badham
Connor
Spain
Sage & Co brokerage offices visited by patrons
New York reports say M. J. Sage & Co suspended operations Wednesday. Thursday many patrons and agents from other cities arrived seeking plans to settle accounts. The firm reportedly has about 25,000 accounts to adjust nationwide, with many along the former New Orleans wire route. Losses are rumored to reach 2 million dollars.
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New York
M. J. Sage & Co
Jjrsey
New Orleans
Palace Hotel loss settled for over one million
Insurance loss on the Palace hotel in San Francisco has been adjusted at 1 302 610 dollars. The building’s total insurance was 1 265 000 dollars. With a total loss, about 1 250 000 dollars will be distributed among ninety eight companies involved in the claim. The adjustment is described as the nation’s largest single risk loss.
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Palace Hotel
San Francisco
Northeast Wind Brings Relief From Heat in Chicago
A northeast wind at 25 mph cooled Chicago on Thursday afternoon ending a heat spell that began last Monday. Temperature fell fourteen degrees and, by noon, heat deaths rose to two with seventeen prostrations reported after a thunder shower earlier.
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Chicago
Must Hustle Refugees Told to Labor After Aug 24
San Francisco reports that after Saturday no more provisions will be supplied to refugees able to work. Those ill or aged may still draw rations, but able men and women with strong limbs must shift for themselves. In Moscow three conspirators against former Governor General Doubassoff begin trial. one defendant is daughter of General Keller.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
White House
Brander Matthews
Columbia University
Loeb
Washington
Iias
San Francisco
Moscow
Doubassoff
Keller
Pino Guerra Advances on Guenes Amid Cuban Movements
Pino Guerra with most of his command left San Juan de Martine Friday to occupy Guenes on the Western railroad extension not yet in service. The Western railroad traffic manager reports trains and telegraph lines operating to San Juan del Martinez with no interruptions. Orestes Ferrara, ex campaign manager for Jose Miguel Gomez, was arrested in Santa Clara on conspiracy charges while Gomez, arrested August 21 near Sancti Spiritus, traveled by special train to Havana and was taken to the city jail.
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Fino Guerra
Havana
Pino Guerra
San Juan de Martine
Guenes
Western Railway
Western Railroad
San Juan del Martinez
Orestes Ferrara
Jose Miguel Gomez
New York
Gomez
Santa Clara
Ferrera
United States
Sancti Spiritus
Province of
Batabano
Trains Clash Near St Thomas Injures Passengers
A Wabash special train carrying two theatrical companies to Chicago and one to Detroit collided with a Canadian Pacific passenger train east of St Thomas Ontario. The CP engineer McKay of Toronto Junction was killed. Fireman Patterson of St Thomas seriously hurt and baggage master Alexander Wiley fatally injured. No passengers were harmed. The CP train traveled about twelve miles per hour and the Wabash about twenty.
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St. Thomas
Ont
Chicago
Detroit
Canadian Pacific
Toronto
Canadian Pacific Railroad
McKay
Toronto Junction
Atterson
Baggagewan Alexander Wiley
Wabash
Government to raise public money deposits to five thousand
Secretary Shaw moves to lift deposits in national banks to five thousand dollars per bank, affecting about 150 banks nationwide. The measure will add roughly three million dollars in new public deposits across the system.
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Washington
Shaw
President Brush Accepts Farrell Offer for Postseason Series
New York date reports President Brush of the New York National Base ball League club has accepted Frank Farrell owner of the local Americans offer to play a post season series for the New York championship.
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New York
Brush
National Baseball League
Frank Farrell
Oil Strike Sparks Excitement in Madill Oklahoma
An oil strike at Madill Oklahoma stirred excitement. In Toulon France three soldiers died in a forest fire. At Coalgate Oklahoma miner Jet Love was injured by a flying rope, both legs broken. Dr A A Walker aged 81 and Nancy J Swift wed at Paris Texas. Guy Slater near Tulsa Oklahoma nearly died after eating canned baked beans. Hon E H R Green Republican governor hopeful visited Vermont.
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Madill
I. T
Toulon
France
Coalgate
Jet Love
A. A. Walker
Nancy J. Swift
Paris
Tex
Guy Slater
Tulsa
E. H. R. Green
Vermont
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Parker Building
Oliver Typewriter
EL. Stam
Rohde’s
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Silas B. Johnson
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Montreal Rye Oriental Rye
E. Rohde
Prop
Nasteen
Northeast Wind
First National Bank
Bryan
J. W. Howell
H. C. Boatwright
Guy M. Bryan, JR
L. L. McInnis
F. M. Law
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VIA
St.louis
O. J. Price, A
P Sta
D. Hunter
A.G.P
Palestine, Texas
E. J. Jenkins
The
Sayan Steam Laundry
Hearne & Dansby
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