Ingersoll Funeral Cremation in New York and Dobbs Ferry
New York July 22 Robert G. Ingersoll died at his Dobbs Ferry home of apoplexy. July 27 funeral from Walston Dobbs Ferry with no clergy music or pallbearers. Mrs Ingersoll daughters and friends attended as Dr Ridpath and Maj Smyth read his writings. Cremation followed at Fresh Pond with family present. urn inscribed Robert G Ingersoll and This urn holds the dust the memory in French. Logansport July 28 John McGrew 68 prepares for his own tomb on his ground digging grave finishing epitaph and coffin years ago.
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New York
Robert G. Ingersoll
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
Walston
Charles Broadway Rouse
Col. Ingersoll
John Clark Ridpath
Col
Mr. Rouse
Gen
Miles
Fresh Pond
L. L
Mrs Ingersoll
Ingersoll
Logansport
Ind
John McGrew
Fulton County
McGrew
Four Negroes Hanged in Baltimore City Jail Yard
On Friday at 9 48 a m in Baltimore four Black men were hanged on a single scaffold for violent crimes. Cornelius Gardner John Myers and Charles James faced death for assaulting a 15 year old girl Annie Bailey while Joseph Bryan killed Mary Pack with whom he lived. Myers and Bryan died instantly from the fall while Gardner’s neck gear shifted and he appeared conscious briefly before dying.
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Baltimore
Baltimore City
Cornelius Gardner
John Myers
Charles James
Annie Bailey
Jos. Bryan
Mary Pack
James Myers
Bryan
Slayer Makes His Escape in Tragic Wheeling Killing
In Wheeling West Virginia on Friday evening Mike Mordanus killed his brother George Mordanus with a dirk after a dispute over wages. The pair, Austrians connected to the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling railroad gang, fought in the railroad yards. Mike fled but Bridgeport authorities promise to catch him by daylight.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Mike Mordanus
George Mordanus
Mike
George
Bridgeport
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
Incredible Brutality Report From Cau Casus
Lonpox July 29. A Berlin Daily News telegraphed dispatch cites a Tiflis paper detailing torture by the Belgian Iron Co in the Caucasus. Suspected thieves were subjected to eye lid needles, savage beating, tooth extraction, forced stones into mouths, and revolver butt hammering to extract confessions.
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Lonpox
Berlin
Daily News Telegraphs
Tiflis
Caucasus
Innocent Negro Lynched in Rankins County Tale
Report from Jackson Mississippi on July 29 describes a mob killing Sampson Hayes in Rankins County. initial claims of an assault were false, with rumors misdirecting blame toward Hayes who had entered the Gorley home. Hayes was killed amid a community spread of distorted rumors.
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Sampson Hayes
Jackson
Miss
Rankins County
Gorley
Hayes
Sailor Isaac Raskallan Buried With Military Honors
In Trieste on Friday Isaac Raskallan an electrician aboard the United States cruiser Olympia was buried with military honors. The cortege led by the Olympia band included marines and 60 American sailors while Austrian marines attended with a wreath from Adm. Dewey. A military band offered by Austrian authorities was declined. The Olympia sails August 1 for Naples and may stop at Leghorn Gibraltar and Madeira en route to New York.
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Trieste
Isaac Raskallan
United States
Olympia
Adm
Dewey
Naples
New York
Léghorn
Gibraltar
Medeira
Railway Wreck Injures Twenty Near Allegheny City
Twenty people were injured Friday night in a wreck on the West Pennsylvania railroad at Herrs station near Allegheny City. None are likely to die but several are badly hurt.
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Allegheny
West Pennsylvania
Herrs Station
Allegheny City
Walter M. Bailey Dies Former Mayor of Morehead
After a several month illness Walter M. Bailey died Friday evening from locomotor ataxia. He had served as mayor of Morehead the past two years. Remains to be transported to Clifton Forge Virginia for interment.
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Morehead
Walter M. Baily
Clifton Forge
Mystery of Mt. Victory Man Found Seated in Lake Erie
In Bellefontaine Ohio on July 29 a report states the body of James Littles of Mt. Victory was found seated in Lake Erie. A neighbor learned of the affair and informed the authorities.
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Bellefontaine
Cody
James Littles
Mt. Victory
Lake Erie
Parcata
Martial law urged to end trouble in city streets
Gen Axlive says declaring martial law would stop the unrest. He estimates 4000 to 5000 soldiers would patrol every street and confine people indoors after curfew to prevent further disturbances. A solo ice cream wagon incident drew soldiers’ attention as crowds mocked boycotts. Union leader Pratt counters split unions over a strike, urging unity and questioning motives behind a separate Little Consolidated union.
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Axlive
Cleveland
Hig Consolidated
Broadway
Newburg
Adjt
Axline
Pratt
Big Consolidated
Little Consolidated
N Can
Tripartite Commission Report on Samoa Proposed Government Form
The Call publishes the tripartite commission report from San Francisco dated July 31. It outlines four main evils seen in Samoa under a king system and foreign rivalries, notes lack of law outside municipalities, and cites unpunished crimes and disordered customs enforcement enabling arms sales to factions.
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San Francisco
Tripartite Commission
Samoa
Supreme Court
Mulinuu
The Ivory Palaces and the Robes of Christ
Dr. Talmage likens Christ’s garments to a divine fragrance, exploring myrrh aloes and cassia as symbols of Christ’s beauty, suffering, and healing. He contrasts royal pomp with Jesus’ gracious mercy, urging readers to seek salvation through the scented robes of the Savior.
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Pius VII
Napoleon
Napoleon II
Christ
Cassia
Hethan
Vashti
Marie Antoinette
Louis XIV
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Zion
Earth
Heaven
Bethlehem
Jesus
John Howard
Oberlin
Confucius
Caesar
Beethoven
Charlemagne
Cicero
Aged Couple Killed by Lightning Near Cottage Grove
Nashville dispatch reports H. H. McConnell and his elderly wife died when lightning struck their Cottage Grove area home in Henry county. Both suffered severe burns and their clothing was burned away.
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Nashville
Tenn
H. H. McConnell
Cottage Grove
Henry County
Were Buried Together Twin Children Die in Ohios Heat
The twin children of James Grist aged seven months died of summer complaint within hours of each other in Springfield Ohio. They were buried Sunday evening in the same fin.
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Springfield
James Grist
Ivory Palaces and the Choice Between Life and Death
A preacher speaks on personal responsibility for salvation and hell versus grace. He rebukes the idea that God pushes souls into darkness, arguing that those who die by their own choice bear the consequence. He contrasts earthly suffering with Christ’s healing presence and envisions believers entering ivory palaces in heaven. He recalls Christ as healer in life, and comforts mourners with the image of faithful dead entering paradise.
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Jesus
Cassia
Christ
John
Earth
Hell
Caesar
Heaven
India
Son of God
Liam
Jesus Christ
Ahab
Solomon
Tuileries
Windsor Castle
Alhambra
Kremlin
Rhineas
River of God
Crown
Church
Ivory Palaces
Mrs Clergyman’s Wife Sells Button Pictures at Bazaar
A English clergyman’s wife has collected offertory bag buttons from the past two to three years. She arranged them into cardboard pictures of animals birds and flowers. Button pictures will be photographed and sold at the church bazaar fair.
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Robert G Ingersoll
Slayer
Walter Bailey
Dr. Talmage
Louis Klopsch
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