Vast Anecdotes and Global Curiosities From The Advocate
A compilation of scattered notes from The Advocate includes church investment in Cripple Creek, tea trade shifts from China, a Minneapolis man finding Siberian rubies, talks on Carnegie library funding, Pan-American exposition notes, a reissued Atlantic pigeon post, Massachusetts building height case, Lieut Elmsley's heart wound recovery, Parisian widower starving to death, humorous church relic joke involving Bishop Brooks, Marseilles parricide during a second marriage, Buenos Aires storm reports, and an oak tree linked to Colonel Jackson.
Jacksonville in ruins after great fire disaster
Martial law is declared as a large section of Jacksonville burns. About 148 blocks burned, estimated losses up to 10 million dollars. Ten thousand homeless, many fleeing to St Augustine and nearby towns. Relief stations opened, barracks offered, a tent city forming for temporary shelter. River craft moved people to safer locales as committees seek tents from states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
St. Johns
Root
Port Barrancas
St. Augustine
National Cash Register Factory Faces Indefinite Closure
In Dayton Ohio a notice reads the factory will close until further notice due to moulding difficulties. Two thousand three hundred workers learned the news on bulletin boards as four moulders were discharged for cause. Polishing staff then joined the dispute threatening a strike, and officers warned of closure if the polishers walk out. The polishers framed their stance as a reinstatement demand for the four moulders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Cash Register
Tornado Races With Train Hit Hastings Nebraska
A small tornado stirred Hastings and Juniata areas on Saturday, damaging barns and outhouses as a Burlington train raced the twister, which veered away before reaching the tracks. A man was found dead in a field near Pickrell, Nebraska, believed killed by lightning after his team returned home without him. Authorities say the London population now totals 4,537,084, up from 4,229, and a miner at Lead, South Dakota, fainted and was crushed in the shaft cage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juniata
Hastings
Neb
Burlington
Téroada
Henry Hausjurgin
Pickrell
Delaware
Lead
S. D
Golden Reward Company
Henry Danielson
Roy Judd
Dawson
Kas
Pensions for Employes At Illinois Central Board Establishes Plan
President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinois Central announced a pension plan for about 40 000 employees after a conference with A J Hanrahan. The company starts with a gift of 250 000 and will annually contribute up to 100 000. Pensions are set at 1 percent of the average monthly pay for each year of service over ten years, yielding 40 percent for forty years of service if the last ten years’ average was 50 dollars per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central
A. J. Hanrahan
Fire Sweeps Jacksonville in Deadly Massive blaze
A disastrous Jacksonville fire began Friday afternoon in a small factory from a faulty wire and raged nearly ten hours. Property damage is estimated between 10 and 15 million dollars with 130 blocks burned and about 1,300 houses destroyed. Many major buildings were lost and casualties are uncertain, with as many as 10,000 to 15,000 people homeless. The mayor closed saloons and ordered wreckage cleared as officials assess the toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Touring Texas Plains Southwest and the McKinley Visit
The presidential party travels from New Orleans through Bayou Teche and the cotton belt into Austin. They view longhorn cattle and cowboy country as Governor Sayers follows to Houston then Austin. A reception in Austin precedes an informal dinner at the governor’s mansion with Mrs McKinley and cabinet ladies before departing for San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest
Out of
Dixie
Great Southwest
New Orleans
Bayou Teche
Texas
Austin
Cotton
Brazos River
Black Prairie
Houston
McKinley
San Antonio
United States
Crescent City
Steamship sale in abeyance at Leyland line meeting
Leyland steamship line chairman Ellerman delayed discussion of selling the line to J P Morgan Co until a special meeting. He warned a British subsidy would hinder trade and make British ships harder to compete with American owned steamers. The report also notes a massive rainfall across western mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leyland Steamship Line
London
Eilerman
J. P. Morgan & Co
Ellerman
Rathbun Murder Verdict Sentences Woman to Life
Anna Maria Rathbun found guilty of second degree murder in New Haven Conn for poisoning husband William Rathbun with coffee. She receives life imprisonment. Jehi F Hart, her lover and boarder, jailed two years and six months for adultery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Maria Rathbun
William Rathbun
New Haven
Conn
Rathbun
Jehi F. Hart
Hart
Tragic Farmhouse Fire Claims Four Children
A farm house six miles from Muskegon Michigan burned rapidly as Mrs Wertman briefly left the home. Inside were four children aged three to eight who perished in the flames Thomas Wertman John Wertman Hen n ie Kool Jennie Kool. The mother was unable to enter the house to save them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskegon
Mich
Thomas Wertman
John Wertman
Hennicheg Kool
Jennie Kool
Man Shot by Policeman After Refusal to Submit
An investigation at Schuyler found a policeman shot and killed a man named R W Moss who refused to accompany officers to the station. The deceased was an umbrella tender whose sole ID was a Lincoln post office box rent receipt. The coroner exonerated the officer, described as a Black man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. ‘Moss
Schuyler
Lincoln
R. W. Moss
Megro
Homicide through sneezing shocks scientific claim
A German scientist Dr Hermann Koeniger argues that germs travel far when people speak cough or sneeze in still air. The claim is challenged by M Henri de Barville and reported by the St Louis Star as implying that sneezing could spread disease and even homicide in certain room conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferson
Hermann Koeniger
M. Henri de Barville
St Louis Star
Koeniger
Indefinite closure hits East Helens smelter workers
East Helens Montana smelter shuts down indefinitely affecting 2000 workers directly and indirectly. Northern Pacific coal miners at Red Lodge and Sena tor Clarke at Bridger, with 500 each, also close due to outside strike disruption. Also reports a missing boy found in Kansas, a forgery arrest in Milton North Carolina, and a shooting injury in a Richland South Dakota chautauqua party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helens
Mont
Northern Pacific
Red Lodge
Senator Clarke
Bridger
Battleship Iowa launched. other brief items reach across nations
News in brief reports the battleship Iowa launched in Seattle and a western comet sighting near Santiago. It notes a Louisville building trades strike threat, a $5,000 jury verdict in Quincy over a lineman’s death, Ito cabinet resignation over public works delays, a big fire at Dalian Tex, a fatal train strike near Decatur, Neb, a widow’s death in Saunders county, a Plattsmouth tailor fleeing with goods, a veteran’s father's death in McConnelsville, and a Plattsmouth heir search tied to pensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santiago
Chili
Louisville
Quincy
Ill
Electric Company
John Clark
Jacob Witmer
John Ptak
Plattsmouth
Ptak
John
Phillips
McConnelsville
Washington
Boy Hurt Falling From Disc Harrow In Plattsmouth
Fifteen year old Harry Rice son of Cass county farmer William Rice fell from a disc harrow at work in Hold Hear Plattsmouth Nebraska. He struck sharp blades, suffered severe gashes and lay unconscious about an hour before seeking help. A separate report notes a small boat with two aboard swept over St Marys River falls near Sault Ste Marie Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
William Rice
Cass County
Plattsmouth
Neb
St. Mary's River
Sault Ste Marie, Mich
Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln by Choate
Address by Joseph Choate on Lincoln’s career life and administration details published by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Send six cents postage to F A Miller for copies. also offer for Home and Garden monthly at ten cents postage with sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Choate
Great Britain
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
Chicago
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the Advocate
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Kansas
Frank Qunseuins
Tia
Cripple Creek
Dla
Ceylon
China
Minneapolis
Halifax
Kandag City
St. Louis
Andrew Carnegie
Buffalo
New England
Josephine Wright Chapman
Beeston
Atlantic Pigeon Post
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Elmsley
South Africa
Tecovers
Pretoria
Lucci
Tanner
Faubourg St. Antoine
Paris
Phillips Brooks
Alexander W. G. Allen
Cambridge
Bishop Brooks
Erantea
Brooka
Marseilles
M. Martin Josime
Higon
Aed
M. Josime
Joseph
Jay
M. Posime
Neville Wells
Linconta
Ajo
Buenos Ayres
Athans
W. H. Jackson
In National Cash Register
Dayton, O
Hastige
de Gage
Ath
City of
Eugenia
Lené Napoleon
Municipality of
Eugenie
William Rosenfeld
Mississippi
Marshall'streat Bridge
St. Paul
Minn
Fe. Snelling
Allincig Central
Florida
Texas Plains
Leyland Line
Dias
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Michael Hicks-Beach
Mascagni
America
Daily Express
Vienna
Pietro Mascagni
Bis
Brapger
Homicide
Platte
Kodaks
Lincoln Photo Supply Co
Lixcots Proto Suring Co
Hamlin
N. W. Samuely
Ocean Grove
N.J
Wing Beeman
Mia
Winslow
Helena
Montana
Geo. Nelson
Lake City
Milton
N. C
Pinkerton
Miseaukee County
Nelson
Michigan
Chariwari
A. R. Bartholomew
Richland
S Chariyari
Arthur Shufelt
Wamego
Union Club
Iowa
Seattle
Wash
Marquise Ito
Viscount Watanabe
Southern Rock Island Plow Company
Dalian
Tex
Decatur
Adam Stocker
John Abraham
Saunders County
Valley, Neb
Sciatica
St. Jacobs Oil
Woxinn
Lydia Pinkham
Dene
Pryenau
Richmond
Mapes PotnaEp
4Th &T
Emma Pormera
Dean Mas. Preenam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Euua Kumi
Trautman St
Brooklyn
E. D
N.Y
Lynn
Mass
Ydia E. Pin
Oh Bank of
Northwest
Iéntigne
Home and Garden
Newspaper Row
St. Paul Minn
Cat
G &1
G & 5 Tire Company
Indigoapolis
Fed
St Louis, Mo
Wickles
Frameoilstove
Standard.oil CO
Mindy
N.u.-Lingoln
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