Johnstown Recovery Efforts Expand After Flood
Johnstown Penn residents press to rebuild as relief funds exceed 3 million dollars. Officials report 3000 to 4000 dead, 25 000 to 85 000 population estimates, and a wide restoration drive led by General Hastings. Two hundred merchants pledge long credit to reopen shops while soldiers guard and clear debris and cellars.
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Johnstown
Penn
G Eelock
Cambria Iron and
James McKnight
Pittsburg
General Hastings
Fourteenth Regiment
Johstown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tings
Pennsylvania
Soorg
United States Army
Corps—of_Engineers
Villat's Point
Burbank
West Point Engineering Corps
Caprate
Seers
Hastings
Putas
Rogers
Uy Inhadiants NT
Aod
Toins
Wmvar
Cambria Company
Philadelphia
Bureau of Transportation
Citizens’ Relief Committee
James B. Scott
Baltimore and Ohio
Tittsburg
Baltimore
Otag
Bureau of Information
stone_pridge
Sve
Harrisburg
Vitter
Besver
Pennsylvania State ‘Treasury
William B. Kemble
Jieling
Agreement Signed On Samoan Settlement Between Powers
The commissioners at the Samoan Conference have signed the accord after erca dropped major objections. The draft provides autonomous island administration under joint German American control with Britain as arbitrator. Samoans elect a King and Viceroy, form a Senate of chiefs, and levy duties. Germany receives indemnity, a land court to be set up. US ratification hinged on Senate action next December, leaving Bamoy in status quo until then.
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Samoa
Erca
Germany
America
England
Wolf Pack Believed To Have Killed Two Missouri Boys
Two sons of farmer Edward Bachus from Rosier Missouri aged five and twelve vanished while fishing near their home. Search parties found their bones near Wolf's Dow rocks, a site long patrolled by timber wolves believed to have killed and eaten the children.
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Edward Bachus
Rosier
Kansas City
Kansas Line
Wolf's Dow
National Democratic Committee elects Brice as chair in New York
The National Democratic Committee met in New York and elected Calvin 8 Brice of Ohio as Chair to succeed the late W.4 Barnum. Resolutions honored Barnum and Captain F. W. Dawson, murdered in Charleston. Reports from Johnstown describe military rule and debris clearing after a disaster.
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Eastern
Middle States
National Democratic Committee
New York
Calvin
Brice
Ohio
W.4. Barnum
Barnum
F. W. Dawson
Charleston
8. C
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Orange
Floods Devastate Uniontown and Fort Scott Area
A dam burst at Uniontown Kansas flooded Uniontown and Bell Town, drowning two women and four children. The storm struck Bourbon County with extreme rainfall causing bridge washouts, railroad damage, and massive crop losses across Allen and Bourbon counties. The Walnut and neighboring streams overflowed, forcing residents to flee to higher ground as roads and rails were wrecked.
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Uniontown
Kan
Belltown
Fort Scott
Wichita and Western Railway
Bourbon County
Augusta
Fairlock
Buck Run St
Lamb & Mead
Sixth Street
Buck Run
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakota
Memphis
Walnut
Graham
Highland
Allen County
Neaoby River
St. Louis
Six Men Die in Givens Point Texas Fight
In Givens Point Texas six men were killed after a nighttime attempt to serve a no warrant for horse stealing. A colored constable named Wilson and a posse clashed with suspects, who resisted, leading to a gunfight that left four white men and two colored men dead and about five others seriously wounded.
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Givens Point
Texas
Wilson
Drowning Dossiers Across Rivers Reported in Various Locales
The report cites multiple drowning incidents including Robert Courtney, a 15 year old, and Meyers, 33, in the Vermilion River near Danville Illinois. Arns and an unknown boy drown at St Paul Indiana while swimming. Mrs Cleaves 16 and Erdine Cole drown in Springfield Missouri. Mrs Cleaves leaves four children and a husband.
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Vermilion River
Danville
Robert Courtney
Indeta Meyers
Tto Meyers
Agiventy
Shelton
Conn
Housatonic
Arns
St. Paul, Inn
Charles Cleaves
Erdine Cole
Fomne
Springeld, Mfc
Cleaves
Wreck Near Pratt Mines Kills Two, Injures 109
A Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company train wreck near Pratt mines in Birmingham, Alabama killed two carpenters Henry McCauley and Walter Beasley and injured 109 others. About 200 workers were aboard as the backward-moving train struck two cows on the track, six cars tumbled down an embankment and piled atop each other. Most severe injuries were broken joints and arms, though convicts chained on one car escaped largely unharmed.
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Pratt Mines
Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Henry McCauley
Walter Beasley
Notable 19th Century Figures Stagger Odds and Ends
A fragmented dossier of eminent names and odd facts spans world politics and culture. Tur Czar may skip Berlin while Irish Viceroy Loxp Zethaxn serves a year. Jefrersos Davis reaches eighty-one on June 3, 1899. Buffalo Bill stands as the first American in European estimates. Various magnates, authors, and inventors, from Jousx Davis to Entsox, are noted for wealth, travel, or achievements, with scattered remarks on Romney-era figures and artful hints of a United States visit by President Diaz.
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Chester A. Arthur
General Arthur
E. Koyser
Albany
Tur Czar
Berlin
Aimunat Vonnter
Button Monat Haustean
Germany
Mugs
Cleveland
Hixry Craius
Wallstreet
Jefrersos Davis
Claus W. Frecp
New England
I Breté Starte
London
Lox
Buffalo Bill
Jeate Chase Spungur
Shaft
Emg Lam
Saveut
Josefh Pierram
New York World
Entsox
California
Hus Roway Hienyess Kina Matreton
Samoa
Jousx Davis
Missouri
Hoy
J. Gay
Lousiana
South
Enison
New York
Chicago
HiProtyrz
Notable Deaths and Crimes Span North America and Europe
Reports from Holliston and Norwich note suicides and deaths of local officials. Moroney and McDonald are ordered released in a Chicago murder case. comedian Johnny Grossman dies in Boston at seventy nine. Embezzlement charges against Lawrence official Frank Woolnert surface, alongside tragic child deaths in Seward County Nebraska. Severe storms, fires, and crop damage hit multiple regions, with several officials resigning or being appointed, and international events including a memorial plan in Molorial and Paris cab strike ending.
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John Henry Minter
Holliston
Mass
Micido
Ornsicn Gacer
Norwich
Coxim
Quertee Appnews
Supreme Court
Moroney and McDonald
Eld
New York City
Cronin
Chicago
JonNx Gross Gimnent
Boston
Frank DL. Woolnert
Lawrence
Enon
John Leavitt
Seward County
Neb
Strauss
United States
London
Prince of Wales
Father Damien
Sandwich Islands
Molorial
Paris
Montreal
Canada
Mantin Bone
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Dr. Cronin
Hubbard
Burke
Delaney
William E. Chandler
New Hampshire
London Theatre Scene and Big Opera News From Abroad
The piece notes London housing sixty five theatres while Draeque Iowa builds a 640000 opera house. It cites Lupia Tromyson's manager losing 15000 last season and mentions various artists and engagements in New York Buenos Aires and San Francisco, including Mrs Dantas-Glyns death and Booth and Bancroft's success at the San Francisco Theatre.
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London
Draeque
Iowa
Lupia ‘Tromyson
Contralito Euyaduc
Possant
New York City
Pulanltania
Dantas-Glyns
Hastingan
New York
Conant
Jann A. McCaudt
Germany Almar
Terrmann
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Genuine “Aero
Macon
Bowis Boon
Cireus
Marie van Znods
Ding Leflore
Victoria
Luckingham
Valace
Caris
Filion
Naila
Eitan
Oana
Lenetrysmoker
San Francisco
Cal
Wall
Bir Warbor
Newport
Ireland’s worst rail disaster kills many at Armagh
A catastrophic crash on the Armagh to Warren Point route wipes out about 72 people and injures many more as two excursion trains detach on a steep grade. The runaway cars collide with a following train, trapping and crushing passengers, with rescue workers and soldiers aiding the wounded amidst wreckage.
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Ireland
Armagh
Warren Point
County Down
Newryver
Armagt
Tus
Armaarh
Trish Rusilcars
Hoe
Hughes
Amante
Pitas
Armach
Bicvolaha Ho
Canadian Cruisers Ordered to Seize Violating Vessels
Ottawa dispatch reports the Dominion Government directing its cruiser commanders to seize American ships engaged in fishery law violations. Unlike last season, heightened enforcement this year aims to curb infractions as mackerel blooms attract large American fleets. The only recorded seizure so far was the American schooner Mattie Winship, later released on bonds.
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Ottawa
Mattie Winship
Tragic Baltimore Fire Kills Mrs Tyler and Infant
Elizabeth Tyler aged twenty five and her eight months old son Benjamin Harrison Tyler die after a ProAl oil can exploded while she cooked breakfast at Curtis Bay Maryland. The blaze also destroys Bolton's mill near Rawaygo Mile injuring another man and destroying a board mill. Authorities suspect arson and authorities note English syndicates may control many New York area breweries.
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Elizabeth Tyler
John W. Tyler
Curtis Bay
Alonzo Delacey
Ole McLenny
Markets and prices across New York and cities feature grains and livestock
The page records diverse market figures for New York and other cities including Buffalo Boston and Philadelphia. It lists cattle sheep and hog values, wheat and corn prices, butter and cheese notes, and regional flour and potato rates with multiple grades and weights, reflecting an active trading day. Specific entries mention Calves cows, dressed beef, lambs, and hogs with varied price ranges and quality annotations.
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New York
Beovess Eye
Tigen
City Mill
Western
City Stony
Als
Elgin Creamery
Dart
West
Inn. Creamery
Cheere
Westerns
State
Buffalo
Canada
Boston
Watertown Mass
Canans express a desire for home rule and storms hit Kansas City
A mix of brief notes reports and speculations from the era cover local desires for home rule Fronivas yellow foyer tabs and Kansas City storm damage. Other items note legislative adjournment tax figures drainage needs and international concerns across credit military crops and trade.
Western coal trade dull as labor unrest spreads nationally
The piece surveys widespread labor strife and rising activity across industries from coal and shipbuilding to watchmaking and carpentry. It notes high employment in Western steel and a surge in stone masonry, with unions forming in New York and Pennsylvania, and reports on strikes, wage levels, and innovations like a new pul RM tool for future stonework.
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Bohenix
Bompins
Macareny
Vienna
Oxtanta
Tnrne
United States
New York
Martinique
French West Indies
Connecticut Rover
Maade
Prescott
Lancashire
England
Ipa van Erten
New York City
San Francisco
Barbers
Pennsylvania
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