River Bulletin Shows Missouri Falls as Mississippi Rises
The Missouri River at Kansas City continues to fall while the Mississippi rises from Dubuque southward. Flooding from Cedar Skunk and Iowa rivers enters the Mississippi above Keokuk with further gradual rise expected for several days. St. Louis stage at 5.5 feet rising toward 36 feet by Sunday. From St. Louis to Cairo stages expected similar.
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Missouri
Mississippi
Washington
Kansas City
Dubuque
Iowa
Cedar
Skunk
Keokuk
St. Louis
Thoreday
Cairo
Jefferson Davis Memorial committee drops arch bid plan
The special committee of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association, meeting with the advisory board in Va June 5, reports it is impracticable to obtain an arch for 50000 dollars, the Gudebrod bid amount, though the design was accepted. Richmond.
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Jefferson Davis Memorial Association
Gudebrod
Richmond
Real Estate Listings in Brazos County Abound
An agent advertises the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles and markets multiple properties. Listings include 105 acres near the courthouse with pasture and cultivation, a southeast town lot with a small cottage, a brick six room house near Main Street, and several other lots and houses with prices and features. rents noted for one property at $9 per month.
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Brazos County
Court House
Main Street
Allen Academy
Marquis of Salisbury Illness Reports Exaggerated
A report claiming the Marquis of Salisbury was seriously ill at Hatfield was later deemed exaggerated after inquiries. His private secretary said a late Thursday child birth caused concern but he is better now. Landen, June.
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Marquis of Salisbury
Hatfield
Herfordshire
Lord Salisbuy
Landen
Foreclosed Gravesend House Linked to McKane Estate Sold
In New York, under foreclosure, the former home of the late John Y. McKane at Sheepshead Bay was sold. A McKane family member bid in the property after litigation arose following the widow's recent death.
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New York
John Y. McKane
Gravesend
Sheepshead Bay
McKane
Corn prices surge amid American scarcity and floods
June reports show a sharp price rise as American corn remains scarce and flood conditions push values. New corn opens at 1d, up 2 3 4d, while old corn stands at 5s 3a or 2d above Thursday's close in Liverpool.
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America
Liverpool
First irrigation system adopted at state insane asylum farm
A new irrigation system, believed to be the first of its kind in the state, has been inaugurated on the farm at the state insane asylum due to the drought. Ringhampton.
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Drouth
Ringhampton
Provinces Of Si Face Severe Starvation And Distress
Governor Wong of Kwantung reports over 1,000,000 natives in a province near Hong Kong face severe distress. He notes certain districts are particularly hard hit and that men and women are being offered for sale amid the famine conditions.
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Oo Hongkong
Wong
Railroad Commission Rules on Houston Galveston Rate Differential
In Austin on June 5 the railroad commission denied abolishing the Houston Galveston differential as urged by the Galveston chamber of commerce. Granting the petition would have triggered a broad reduction of Texas freight rates.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Houston
Havana nobleman sentenced for Havana palace murder
Augustine Menendez, from one of Havana's first families, is sentenced in Havana to twelve years in prison for the murder of Gregorio Altazarra after a quarrel. Altazarra was a leader in Havana and acted as master of ceremonies at the palace during Governor General Wood's administration.
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New York
Augustine Menendez
Havana
Gregorio Altazarra
Altazarra
Wood
Railway Reorganization Adds Texas Route to Texas and Oklahoma
An instrument filed with the state department shows Washita Valley Railroad conveying all its Texas lines to the Texas and Oklahoma Railroad company. The action was recorded in Austin.
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State Department
Washita Valley Railroad Company
Texas and Oklahoma Railroad Company
Texas
Austin
Musquash Village Devastated by Tex Bill Posters Meet in Waco
A fragment notes Musquash New Brunswick suffered widespread damage by five Texas Bill Posters and Distributors association members who gathered in Waco in June. The text is incomplete but implies a destructive event linked to the gathering.
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Musquash
New Brunswick
Texas Bill Posters and Distributors” Association
Waco
Prohibition Clash Hits Brookshire Saloons
Early Thursday morning fifty nine alleged prohibitionists entered two Brookshire Texas saloons and fired shots wrecking furniture and barrels. They obtained an injunction to operate while saloon men vow to defend property and resist prohibitionists amid bitter tensions.
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Brookshire
Tex
Jane Fh
Life Sentences Handed Down In Greenville Burglaries
Tex June 6. Ed Will charged with criminal assault on Mrs Bish near Commerce was tried Thursday. He pleaded guilty to both assault and burglary of a private residence and received a ninety nine year sentence in each case. The trial lasted about twenty minutes.
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Tex
E d
Greenville Jamson
Bish
Commerce
Collision near Marshall injures seven in freight crash
A collision two miles beyond Marshall Texas between two locomotives and an express car badly smashed the trains. Both engineers and firemen escaped by jumping. No fatalities reported though seven were injured.
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Texas
Jefferson
Marshall
Tex
Pacific
Mob Threat Postings Ordered Negroes To Leave Egypt
Notices posted in the Egypt community warn all negroes to depart at once under threat of their lives after a criminal assault on Mrs. Whitworth last week. The warnings are signed Mobbers.
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Terrell
Tex
Egypt
Oiler Killed by Switch Engine in Port Arthur Yard
Port Arthur dispatch reports W. Weidman an oiler aboard the steamer Maverick was run over and instantly killed by a switch engine in the Kansas City Southern yards at Beaumont Texas.
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Beaumont
Tex
Port Arthur
W. Weidman
Maverick
Kansas City
Grand Army Veteran Commits Suicide in San Antonio Home
Michael Racus aged sixty three, a Grand Army veteran, shot himself at his San Antonio residence and died instantly. He had no local acquaintances and his only known relative is his elderly mother believed to be in Iowa.
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San Antonio
Michael Racus
Iowa
Deputy City Marshal Fatally Shot After Disorderly Arrest
In Jake Texas on June 5 city marshal W. R. Kenard confronted disorderly W. L. McDow. A struggle ensued. Kenard was killed and McDow was fatally wounded in the exchange. Both men died. Eagle I
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Jake, Tex
W. R. Kenard
W. L McDow
Kenard
Forest Fires Ravage Adirondacks As Sun Fails
Dense smoke and ash from Adirondack forest fires blanket the region. Fires stretch across fifteen miles by twenty, with crews unable to approach within two miles. Navigation on the lakes is suspended and a steamer crew is listed as missing for three days. William Rockefeller finances calls for reinforcements as fifty fighters are deployed from Malone to aid efforts.
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Adirondack
Catlin Lake
Adirondack Lakes
Long Lake
Cold River
Regis Mountain
St. Paul
Forest Fires Raze Vast Timberland in Coos County
Forest fires have burned for weeks in Coos county along the Manchester area, sweeping away large tracts of timber as flames race through the region.
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Manchester
Coos County
Strange death as man hangs self at neighbor’s door
In New York on June 1 a stranger was found hanging by a rope from a door transom at Mrs Ida Coursen’s North Brighton Staten Island home. The man was revived by a policeman, but died soon after. He gave no identification, and the doorway incident left Mrs Coursen and her four children hysterical. The coroner was summoned.
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New York
Ida Coursen
North Brighton
Staten Island
Hurricane Hits Philippine Shipping Area
A June hurricane swept the Philippine islands causing heavy damage to ships. The U S steamer Padila de Vis cayas was lost off Canote’s island with part of crew saved. The steamer Haueratet and the schooner Mayflower were driven ashore off Orinoco Island of Leyte with all on board saved.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
United States
Canote’s
Haueratet
Mayflower
Orinoco
Leyte
Reunion venue debate for federate veterans group
Mickie of the United Con says New Orleans may host the next reunion but Louisville is also a strong candidate. The executive committee will evaluate all offers and meet in Louisville to fix the place and date and accept the best proposal.
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W. BE. Mickie
United Con
New Orleans
Louisville
Supreme Court orders execution of Thomas P Queenan for wife murder
Guthrie Oklahoma June 3 The United States supreme court has ruled Thomas P Queenan of Oklahoma City must hang for the murder of his wife in January 1900. After three years of court battles his pleas of insanity were rejected. Queenan’s father has died from grief and his mother may not survive the news.
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Guthrie
Okla
United States Supreme Court
Thomas P. Queenan
Oklahoma City
Queenan
Queenen
Supreme Court
Man Dies by Hanging at Alva Farm
Guthrie Oklahoma June 5 John Clevin a seventy six year old man killed himself at Alva by hanging. He climbed to a barn manger tied a rope to a rafter and jumped off. Neck broken death instantaneous a suicide ruled.
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Guthrie
Okla
John Clevineer
Alva
Equitable Life to Halt New Germany Business June 30
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York announced it will stop taking fresh business in Germany on June 30 due to a new imperial insurance law requiring compliance or retirement. Along with other American firms it had been excluded from Prussia since 1895 and operated concessions in several German states, especially the Hanseatic territories in Berlin.
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Equitable Life Assurance Society of
New York
Germany
Equitable
Prussia
Berlin
Famine Threat Linger in Transcaspian Russia Amid Steel Dust Report
A chaotic note cites famine risks in Transcaspian Russia linked to a castle company with 10 million capital. It claims 270000 tons of steel dust blow from global railways annually per a German authority.
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Russia
E Company
Gibson and Cunningham Sue Rail Lines Over Discriminatory Rates
Gibson and Cunningham barrel stave manufacturers of Provo and Little Rock Arkansas filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission against Dequeen and Eastern Kansas and Southern Texas and Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. They allege unjust and discriminating rates on their products.
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Washington
Gibson & Cunningham
Provo
Little Rock
Ark
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dequeen and Eastern
Kansas and Southern
Texas and Pacific
Southern Pacific
Wine of Cardui praised as reliable female remedy
A testimonial extols McElree's Wine of Cardui as superior to other medicines for women and claims rapid relief from pain and disease. The narrator urges suffering women to use Wine of Cardui and seek advice from the Chattanooga Medicine Company Ladies Advisory Department in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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Cardus
Cardui
Sarah Finley
Memphis
Tenn
Palmetto Club
McElree
Wine
Frontier clashes near Salonica escalate amid Bulgarian losses
A fragment reports Turkish troops and Bulgarian forces engaging west of Salonica. Bulgarian soldiers repelled a band crossing Djumabala and countered another party north of Petrich, with three Bulgarians killed and others escaping at dusk.
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Salonica
Newal
Marians
Djumabala
Petrich
Death of Captain Jocoh Carberry Noted Dry Goods Leader
New York report states Captain Jocoh Carberry a prominent figure in wholesale dry goods died of heart disease while in his office. He was once a member of Tar many Hall and known as a leading merchant.
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New York
Jocoh Carberry
Tarmany Hall
Grounded steamer Cred- New Fatt near Atlantic crossing
The steamer Cred- New Fatt grounded on Thursday night with no injuries reported. The vessel is not in danger and will be floated and continue its Atlantic voyage once refloated.
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Hanun
Monks Dispossessed at La Blant Monastery
In Paris a force of gendarmes and detachments of engin dispossessed monks at the La Blant monastery. The event occurred in June as authorities moved to seize property and expel the monks from the site.
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Paris
Junea
Engin
la Blant
Roosevelt Train Headed to Washington From Pittsburg
The train headed to Washington departed Pittsburg on June 5 carrying President Roosevelt aboard the Pennsylvania Railroad party government officials and reporters witnessed the departure from the station in the city.
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Pittsburg
Roosevelt
Washington
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East City National Bank
Simmons &Geue
Ww. C. Fountain
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Darwin & Drummond
Dany
McKane Homestead
Sola
Ed Williams
Saratoga
Rocketelie
Tts Park
Himeself
Philippines
James & Hart
THE
Texas Railroad
Ervice
Mexico
Ant Louis
FT. Worth
Galveston
Navasota
Fort Worth
Marlin
Calvert
Bryan
Mexico. Worth
Grand Union Station
L. Trice
D. J Price
Mgr
Palestine
Texas Central
Anq
Lampasas Mariin
Wootan
Etreet
Wx. Doherty
Act
M. L. Robbins
Houston, Texas
Prin
John Witt
New Yorker
Pennayivania Road
Amour
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