Danube Floods Ravage Central Europe Amid Massive Losses
Reports from Prussia Saxony Silesia and Austria recount 168 dead floods inundating towns and mines with tens of millions in damage. Vienna closes rail links Danube and Donau Canal gates submerge. Trautenau and Eons suffer collapse and drowning. Ischl and Hallstadt flood relief efforts surge as Empress mourns from Ischl.
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Beoum
Germany
Cabio
Prussian
Bilesia
Saxony
Herlin
Bilosia
Pillaus
Prince Hohenlohe
Berlin
Bockau
Silesia
Charlotte
Saxe-Meiningen
Elbe
Oder
Danube
Eons
Enns
Upper Austria
Trautenau
Bohemia
Donau’ Canal
Vienna Austria
Lake Grundises
Ausace
Woing
Hallstadt
Ischl
Morschenburg
Freiheit
Reichenberg
Gmunden
Orient Express
Global Contracts Spark Anger Over London Rail Sale
American firms protest after contracts for the London Central Railway traction project are awarded to Americans. In New Jersey, Henry Aubert aged 58 and his wife Minnie 56, residents of Jersey City Heights, both ended their lives by gas inhalation, fearing poverty in old age. In Concord New Hampshire, extreme heat halts granite quarrying as workers risk unsafe conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Central Railway
Henry Aubert
Mins
Jersey City Heights
N. J
Britons to join US led conference on pelagic sealing
London reports Britain's Foreign Office notified Ambassador Hay that Great Britain accepts the US proposal for an international conference on pelagic sealing in the Bering Sea. The gathering will be held off Washington in the coming autumn with John W. Foster, US Special Commissioner, noting cordial receptions in various capitals and mutual willingness to discuss the issue openly.
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London
England
Foreign Office
Hay
United States
Bering Sea
Washington
John W. Foster
St. Petern
Burg
Berlin
Porth
Train wreck near Thornton shocks Chicago Line
Four killed and several injured when a deliberate wreck on the Chicago Express between Chicago and Cincinnati derailed engine and tender at Thornton Indiana. A coupling pin was forced to keep the car open and push the train off the track. Passengers in coaches and sleeping cars escaped serious harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cleveland
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Thornton
Ind
Wagner
Wholesale Produce and Dairy Prices Listing
Readable botched OCR shows a broad price list for butter creamery milk eggs and fruits with state brands and regional items. It includes dairy tubes creams, full cream, evaporated items, various berries, peaches pears currants raspberries and other produce, plus poultry and hay prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Imitation Creamery
Onrese
Huckleherrica
Fla
Crato
Cholee
Wih
Pacific Coast
Chotce
Brollers
Phila
Powls
State
Pen
Jersey
Abdi
Russia
Lima
Cal
Darley
Pennsylvania approves two Lehigh grants and halts others
Governor Hastings signed the first and second Spruce appropriations totaling 250000 for Lehigh University at South Bethlehem and rejected the third and fourth totaling 50000. The university will receive 180000 over two years to restore income, with August reports of continued operation and growth.
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Hastings
Pennsylvania
Mit
Lehigh University
South Bethlehem
Dance tragedy and harvest notes from Ponca Indiana event
A Ponca Indiana dance near Guthrie Oklahoma ends with the death of White Feather a noted Iowa Indian from Nebraska during a religious rite attended by about 1600 Indians including the Kaws Osages Otoes and Toukas Reports from the wheat growing regions say yields exceed average due to heavy rains aiding crops across districts
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
White Feather
Nebraska
Sooi
Mitty
Indiana
British Indian revolt prompts reserve brigade mobilization
In India the revolt expands with 12000 to 16000 natives armed. Colonel Wodehouse to command reserve brigade. Rawalpindi hosts British regiments, Mardan houses natives, Nowshera hosts staff. General Blood moves to relieve Fort Chakdara. Garrison warned, heavy fighting feared at Amandara. Sixty?teen details: Sikhs die in rain, fourteen British wounded including Captain Baldwin, Lieutenant Keys. Reid and reinforcements reach Camp Malakand. Dargal stocked. Sikh casualties cited. Maulvi Rogoul jailed for insulting Queen Victoria. offer of surety refused.
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Bima
India
Wodehouse
Rawalpindi
Mardan
Nowshera
Fort Chakdara
Amandara
Baldwin
Keys
Crison
Reid
Malakand
Dargal
Maulvi Sidayat Rogoul
Lucknow
Queen Victoria
Victoria
Greece
Maulvi
Fall of Arion Ends Fatal Wire Act at Volksfest
Frank Donahue known as Arion, a 28 year old wire performer from Fort Wayne Ind, fell about 75 feet from a bicycle on a high wire at Weisers Ridgewood Park Queens during the Hesaian Volksfest. Witnesses estimated nearly 2000 spectators saw the accident. He sustained broken ribs and a leg with internal injuries and died a few minutes later. He leaves a widow and a three year old child.
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Professor Axton
Ridgewood
Queens County
New York
Arion
Fort Wayne
Ind
Report of Industries Established in the South in Q2
A Tradesman tabulation lists second quarter industries: agricultural works three, breweries two, brick and tile works nine, canning factories nine, compresses and gins sixty three, cotton and woolen mills twenty four, development companies seven, distilleries one, electric light companies sixty nine, flour and gristmills forty, foundries and machine shops seventeen, gas plants eight, one hundred factories nine, mines and quarries eight, natural gas and oil companies eight, oil mills one, phosphate and fertilizer firms eight, tanneries nine, water works fifty, woodworking plants eighteen. miscellaneous adds rice mills soap factories sugar mills and refineries, etc. totaling one thousand four hundred forty-seven industries. A tornado struck San Jose, killing several including A. O. McDowell, his grandson, Mrs. Samuel Brownles, three Brownlee children, and Jessie Grover. the McDowell house was destroyed. H. B. Owens of The State newspaper suffered severe injuries in an engine-room accident. In Africa, Dervishes defeated Jaaling on the Nile, capturing Motomach. many casualties. Near Juimbutu, Portuguese East Africa troops led by Colonel Albuquerque routed seven thousand robbers. natives suffered heavier losses. In Parliament, Lord George Hamilton said the British government bought rails from America to beat higher British bids by about 49 375.
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Ae Oinds
Abs
Boston
Chicago
Philod’a
Lewis
Backus
Kinga County
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Hobart
McKinley
Lake Champlain
Samual Hoadley
Willard Humphreys
Princeton
W. A. Humphreys
Lake George
Sicard
Newport
R.I
Nelson Dingley
Representative Dingley
Lowlaton
New York, Ontario and Western Railroad
Rockland
Sullivan County
N. Y
Pickett
Grand Army
Philadelphia
Warwick
Miles Lizzie Schumann
Accaucua
N. J
Chicago Gas Company
Springfold
Ill
Connfinles
People's Gasight and Coke Company
Peter Houptmans
Mii
Ionafre
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Hastings
Patrick Dolan
United Mine Workers
Atrtors
Augusta Mohler
New York City
Redwood Falls
Minn
John O'Connell
Mra. O’connell
O'Connell
Phoenix
President McKinley
Army of the Potomac
Troy
Black
Charles Schilling
Baheay
Acarriage Strait
Missouri Pacific
Eldorado
Han
la Champagne
New York
Havre
Cuateims
Mina and Quarr
Notable American Figures and Their Early Paths
A garbled survey of prominent individuals including W. J. Bryan, John Wanamaker, Horace T. L. Chapman, and Governor Black, detailing lectures, degrees, wealth, education, and public service. Mentions Thomas D. Turley, Isham Harris, J. Q. Brady, Russell Sage, and Senator Harridan with scattered biographical notes.
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W. J. Bryan
John Wanamaker
Howard University of Washington
Horace TL. Chapman
Democrady
Ohio
Governor Black
New York
Dartmouth
William Qookson Carpenter
Senator McLnery
Louisiana
Hoe
Annapolis Naval Academy
Lontyiana
Thomas D. Turley
United States
Tennessee
Isham
Harris
Harridana
Cadale
Od Carlisle
Senate
Tso
Loveri
Angie
City Farm Profits Highlighted in Macon Georgia
The Macon Telegraph notes a sixty acre city farm under W Lee Ellis producing a 2500 bushel crop and 8600 bales of hay from two cuttings. Operating cost is minimal beyond labor, with stock fed by city-generated fertilizer and no major commercial inputs. Rent previously was five dollars per acre, now yielding over 60 dollars per acre in annual product.
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Macon
Macon Telegraph
Georgia
W. Lee Ellis
Sauitary
Scientific Curiosities and Oddities of the Era
A collection of notes on experiments and inventions including lead at 800 degrees below zero singing when struck, liquid carbonic acid used as motive power, a new nickel iron alloy with minimal thermal expansion, and submarine photography. Reports cover railway track movement, a cat’s fox capture, corundum versus steel tests, and German ball industry with rising dividends and American machinery.
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Mediterranean
Klondike fortunes and railroad plan loom in Yukon
Governor Hog McKintogh of the Northwest Territory predicts a Klondike fortune of 810,000,000 Wuring E47. He announces that the Cammonllans plan to build a railroad into the Yukon region, signaling major development prospects for the Canadian Yukon.
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Dinah
Hog McKintogh
Northwest Territory
Yukon
Ti Ik
Founder John Lovell Dies at Summer Home in Cottage City
The founder of a renowned arms company, John Prince Lovell, has died at his Cottage City Massachusetts summer home after a paralytic shock. His robust nature failed to withstand advancing years despite hopes of recovery. Lovell, born in East, built a world famous firm long associated with arms manufacture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Lovell
Hearing Bla Nome
Cottage City
Mass
Ohn Prince Lovell
East
Japan Accepts Arbitration Offer Over Hawaii Sake Tax
The Japanese Government accepts arbitration to settle disputes with the United States including funding Japanese immigrants and the sake tax affecting Japanese in Hawaii. The State Department in Washington has been informed as formal acceptance is sent to Hawaii. Future negotiations will be conducted by Minister Buck and Tokyo.
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State Department
Washington
Hawaii
It¢a
Mepen
Buck
Tokia
Klondike Gold Rush Details 1890s Yukon Territory
Facts describe Klondike exploration with gold first found in 1879. Territory population around 40 000, gold production 4 070 000 in 1890, total 830 000 to date. Principal cities Bitka Juneau Wrangel Circle City. climate severe, travel limited to June August. Major rivers Yukon Kuskokwim Colville Copper. Mount Logan St Elias Wrangel. Route distances Chisago to gold fields 6500 miles by Yukon, 4000 via Chilkoot Pass. trip time about 30 days. cost around 300 dollars.
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James D. Brady
Bitka
Juneau
Wrangel
Circle City
Klondike
Deer River
Beene
Yukon
Russia
Wiliam H. Soward
Kuskokwim
Colville
Esquimaux
Mountaina
Mount Logan
Sititude
Mount St. Elias
Mount Wrangel
Kionitke Goldields
United States
Chisago
Kionitke Gold Field
Chilkoot Pass
Domino the Derby Star Dies at Keene Farm near Lexington
Domino the famous race horse died at the James R. Keene farm near Lexington Kentucky from meningitis after six veterinarians failed to save him. Foaled in 1891 he earned about $100,000 in stakes and purses.
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Domino
James TR. Keene
Lexington
Meningula
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