Evangelical Lutheran Augustana synod officers reelected
Denver reports the thirty first annual convention of the Augustana synod elects officers with Rev D O Brandelle as president Rev J A Stamlins vice president Rev G A Duff secretary Francis Johnson treasurer. Also obituary notices note Edward Parmalee Colorado’s oldest Mason dies aged 85.
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Denver
Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod
Kansas
Colorado
Texas
D. O. Brandelle
J. A. Stamlins
New Sweden
Tex
G. A. Duff
Burdick
Kas
Francis Johnson
Lindsburg
Edward O. Parmalee
Ottawa Committee Finds No Bribery In Senate Offer Claim
The committee appointed to probe H. H. Cooke’s bribery allegations reports the charge of bribery has not been sustained and the senator ship offer of 10 000 dollars is not proven.
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Ottawa
H. H. Cooke
President McKinley Arrives in Santa Barbara May Day
President McKinley and his party have arrived in Santa Barbara California on May 10 prompting official welcomes and local sentiment as the visit progresses through the coastal city.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
McKinley
Sugar crop in Jalisco tops five year output
The sugar crop in the state of Jalisco Mexico is reported as the largest in five years. In related news British Consul Chapman at Veracruz has been appointed consul to Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
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Jalisco
Mexico
Chapman At
Ver Cruz
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Clearing the Wreck, Jacksonville May 9
The city moves to clear wreckage and rebuild after the disaster. Militia guard vast supplies while tensions rise with unemployed African Americans over relief provisions. Relief leaders plan tents for women to sew garments for the destitute, paid work.
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Jacksonville
Relief Association
Manuel
Windsor
Fire at Augusta Destroys Cotton Warehouses
A blaze in Augusta started in a storage compartment of Union Compress company at 1 am and spread through Whitney & Co’s warehouse, threatening 1200 bales and 2500 bales of cotton. The flames reached the roof, walls collapsed only in Whitney’s structure, with total loss around 160 000 dollars.
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Augusta
Union Compress Company
Phinizy
Whitney & Co
Whitney
Dangers of gambling spark church plea in Massachusetts
In Boston Bishop Lawrence warns at the diocesan convention that stock market noise reveals a gamble craze endangering youths. He cites gambling as a symptom of broader unrest and urges personal reform to protect the future generation.
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Lawrence
Boston
Massachusetts
Protestant Episcopal Church
Forced Enrollment Drives Creek Rolls Tight in Oklahoma Territory
May 8 report from Okmulgee shows the Dawes commission enforcing enrollment to meet a May 29 deadline. About 1,000 of 4,000 Creeks remain unregistered, with Judge Thomas ordering appearance before May 16 or face contempt warrants. Meanwhile, Gustav Barre, 56, a St. Louis school official and former legislator, was killed by his daughter Ida, 20, who then fatally shot herself. In Kansas, a Lansing-area mushroom picker was attacked. a state pen employee’s daughter was assaulted and left in a well, attacker unnamed.
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Okmulgee, I. T
Dawes Commission
Okmulgee
John R. Thomas
Marshal Bennett
St. Louis
Gustav Barre
Ida
Barre
Ballard death sentence affirmed in Brazos county case
The court of criminal appeals in Austin affirms the death sentence for Thomas Ballard a Black man from Brazos county for the murder of a Bohemian farmer Ballard faces execution by hanging.
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Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
Thomas Ballard
Brazos County
Ballard
Ament Quotes Women Harm Motives in China Speech
In New Haven on May 10 Rev William S Ament of Pekin China told Dwight Place church members that allies are exaggerating Chinese upheavals and that women may kill themselves over trivial quarrels. He spoke on indemnity and Li Hongzhang’s negotiations, noting a one third extra indemnity was added for widows and orphans.
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New Haven
Conn
William S. Ament
Pekin
China
Dwight Place Church
Li Hang Chang
Multiple World News Items From May 10 Across Several Cities
The report covers assorted May 10 items: Comptroller Tracewell rules the Peck cablegram not public business. Nova Scotia Steel holds a four day option on major properties. R N Pollock’s death identified in Seattle with funeral plans. diplomats rebuff Turkish seizure of foreign mails. E W Koch, 25, commits suicide at Texas university. Carrie Nation bond reduced and jail release considered in Wichita. Crested Butte fire causes substantial loss. Colonel Astill surrenders in Infanta province and Peru’s ex-president Prado dies in Paris.
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Paris
Washington
Peck
Brackett
Halifax
Nova Scotia Steel Company
Truro
North Sydney
Whitney
Sydney
Trenton
Ferrana
Sdney Mines
Belle Island
N. F
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the Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
Mason
Staunton
Ill
Freeman Randal
Thun
Babe
Douglas
Burt Norwood
Household Economic Association
New York
National Household Economic Association
Buffalo
Little Rock
Ark
Muncie
Ind
Henry Warenal
Chattanooga
Athens
Tenn
Joe Burns
William F. Piel Jr
National Starch Company
Chicago
Foster
Toledo
Charles Foster
Fostoria
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
E. W. Koch
The
State University
London
Daily Mail
Holland
Germany
Greenville
Artie Francisco
Henderson
W. W. O’neal
Louisville and Nashville Railway
Sion
Leavenworth, Kas
G. W. Bonnie
State Penitentiary
Lansing
Rev. Ament
Mr. Peck
Comptroller of the Treasury
Tracewell
Ferdinand W. Peck
Frederick D. Brackett
American Commission
Seattle
Wash
R. N. Pollock
York
R. A. George
Trinity Congregational Church
Cleveland
Nome
George
Constantinople
Porte
Foreign Post Office
Austin, Tex
Charles Koch
Twin Sisters
Blanco County
Wichita, Kas
J. W. Moore
Kansas City
Carrie Nation
Dale
Crested Butte
Colo
Colorado Supply Company
Manila
Ccolonel Astill
Infanta Province
Mariano Ignacio Prado
Peru
Paria
France
McDougalds Drug Store
Lambs
Springs and
Cameron's Wells, Grimes County
T. J. Pugh & CO
Bryan and Beaumont, Texas
Booogoo
Mboooc
N. Y
Houston & Texas
R. R
Sunset Central
Dension
New Orleans
Galveston
Denison
Elgin
Houston
Fit, Worth
Waco
F. B. Morse
Traf. Mgr
Houston, Texas
M. L. Robbins
Gen. Pass
Tkt. Agt
T. C.R. R A. G. Newsum
T. J. Anderson
Dallas, Texas
Dist
Pass. Agt
L& GN
International and Great Northern Railroad Company
Memphis
Shreveport
Hearne
Dallas, FT. Worth
North Texas
Milano
Santa Fe
C. W. & B. V. Railroad
Bryan
Calvert
Marlin, Calvert, Bryan, Hearne
Mumford
San Antonio
Brazos
D. C. Damaret
Otto Boehme
Standpipe
Bryan, Texas
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