Inundations Ripple Across Europe and US News
Floods flood southern Germany and Austria while sections of Zwickau face rising waters. A Kansas City board denounces Dreyfus-related actions. A Union Pacific crash near Papilion Neb. kills sheepman Ray Embres. Lively reports include a Paris Exposition note, Dreyfus case fallout, and various global incidents.
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Germany
Austria
Zwickau
Kansas City Board of Trade
Dreyfustes
Ray B. Embres
Kemeter
Wyo
Union Pacific Fast Mail
Papilion
Neb
Admiral Deweyty
Henry Tv. Simmons
Bloomingse
Ind
Kalisch
Russian Poland
Nebraska
Elkhorn
Richard Honeck
Herman Handhausen
Walter Koeller
Chicago
Baron Watson
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Paris
Rennes
Hungary
New York City
United States
New York
Illingis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Caliconia
Maryland
Liverpool
Trom
Atlantic
Pacific
United States Commission
Dreyfus
Fiskesvale
Joan King
Peter
Thomas
Leary
Goa
Yosemite
Brutus
Hero
Washington
Vatican
Venezuela
Loomis
Spen
Amalgamated Journeymen House Painters’ Association
Fusiadelphia
Porto Rico
Cuba
Santiago
Senor de Guesada
McKinley
Martin Iulian
Bon Fitzsimmons
Julian
Fitzsimmons
Sharkey
Jeffries
Tom O'Rourke
Jim Jeffries
Enwater
Chicago House “Wrecking Company
Omaha
Exposition
Urdaneta Captured Near Manila Bay in Insurgent Action
Reported capture of the Urdaneta gunboat with crew missing and its vessel burned near Orani on Manila Bay. The Petrel confirmed the beached wreck and seizure of a one-pounder, a Gal t automatic gun, and a Nordenfeldt 25 mm gun. Washington notes crew status uncertain and Navy seeks release of Lt. Gilmore and others. General Otis dispatches indicate Negros and Sula Island statuses and Zamboanga negotiations.
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Manila
Orani River
Manila Bay
United States
Petrel
Orani
Washington, D. C
Bay of Manila
Navy
Navy Department
Oregon
Department
Wilburn GC
Wood
Academy
Gilmore
Yorktown
Philippines
Otis
Jaanila
War Department
Negros
Spatch
Sula Island
Zamboanga
Tobacco Trusts Injurious Says Louisville Founder
E C Evans founder of the Tobacco Workers International union testifies before the Industrial Commission that about 80 percent of U S tobacco is produced by the American and Continental Tobacco Companies. He cites consolidations causing large lay offs and wage cuts and notes women share wages and roles. he warns Southern state organization faces racial and tour irregularities. The commission adjourns until October 5.
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Bulon J
Washington
The
Industrial Commission Today
Tobacco Workers’ International Union
E. C. Evans
Louisville
Order
United States
Amican
Evans
Unio
Colamiasion
Englishman Reported Insurgent Plans Amid Philippine War
Manila dispatch says two English prisoners held since June reached Angeles. They claim the Filipino congress will surrender fourteen American prisoners midweek. they offer no trace of Captain Charles M. Rockefeller of the 19th Infantry. They also state three Americans captured by rebels serve as officers in the insurgent army.
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Manila
Angeles
Charles M. Rockefeller
Nineteenth Infantry
Chicago Invites Deweys for Fall Festival
Chicago invites the Dewey delegation to visit for the fall festival. a vestibule train with ten coaches leaves the city for New York to extend the invitation to Admiral Dewey. Mayor Harrison received a telegram from B R Brainerd outlining plans to present Chicago’s invitation on the Olympia Thursday afternoon if arrival permits.
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Chicago
Deweys
Chicgo
Dewey
New York
Harrison
B. R Brainerd
Brooke Aaksa for Orders
The dispatch from General Brooke notes readiness of several artillery units to return to the United States on transport routes. It questions where four battalions should embark and where twenty one general prisoners will be sent to serve their sentences in the states.
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Brooke Aaksa
Washington
Brooke
Havana
Second ‘Artillery
States
National Irrigation Congress Opens in Missoula Montana
The eighth annual session begins with about 200 delegates from western states and the Mississippi valley. Nevada and Montana officials welcome attendees as organizing work starts and two main goals are outlined: grazing land settlement and fair reclamation of arid lands in the West.
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Missoula
Mont
National Irrigation Congress
Mississippi Valley
Stubbs
Nevada State Agricultural College
Edwin Norris
State Senate of
Montana
Congress
Booth
G. M. Maxwell
California
F. H. Woody
Miss Horlocker In Court As Poison Candy Case Is Continued
Miss Viola Horlocker, a patient at a Jacksonville Illinois sanitarium, appeared in Hastings Nebraska court with sister Miss Zora and George S Hayes. The charge of sending poisoned candy to Mrs. C. F. Morey was continued to the next term. Horlocker sat with her counsel John M. Ragan John C. Stevens and R. A. Batty and wore black veils and dress.
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District Court
Hastings
Neb
Misa Viola Horlocker
Jacksonville
Iil
C. F. Morey
Zora
New York
George 8. Hayes
John M. Ragan
John C. Stevens
R. A. Batty
Horlocker
Guadaloupe Losses After Hurricane Strife
Consul Ayme reports to the state department that Guadaloupe has suffered at least 10000000 in property losses after a tropical hurricane. Forty deaths and over two hundred seriously wounded are noted across the island. The city lies in wreckage with harbor fronts strewn with debris. The fruit crop is ruined and famine threatens the island, already beleaguered by earthquakes fires and a financial crisis.
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Washington, D. C
Ayme
State Department
Guadaloupe
Chinese in Philippines sparks high level conference
Secretary Root received a cable from General Otis on Chinese in the Philippines. He notes a shipload of 700 can be loaded with no major impact on military operations. The dispatch was sent to the state department for a meeting between Secretary Hill and the Chinese minister.
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May
Chinera
Washington, D. C
Root
Otis
Philippines
Philippine Islands
State Department
Hill
Chaplain Life Expelled by Ohio Methodist Conference
Rev John M Life chaplain of the Seventh Ohio volunteers was found guilty of conduct unbecoming a minister for using disrespectful language to Rose Lee Burch daughter of the regiment s lieutenant colonel and was expelled from the ministry an appeal was taken the charges were pressed by the young woman a year ago and caused a great sensation
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Chaptein
Columbus
John M. Life
Ohio Volunteers
Ohio Methodist Conference
Rose Lee Burch
Idaho and North Dakota Volunteers Mustered Out
SAN FRANCISCO September 26 Idaho and North Dakota volunteers were mustered out at the Presidio. The ceremonies were impressive with commanding officers urging the soldiers to honor the memories of the past year and return to civil life to take up domestic duties where the call of country interrupted them.
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San Francisco
Idaho
North Dakota
Presidio
Captain Sigsbee rushes to Delaware after daughter's death
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee left his Texas in New York harbor and rushed to Rehoboth Beach after receiving word that his daughter Ethel died suddenly of heart disease there.
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Kigheo
New York
Charles D. Sigsbee
Texas
Rehoboth Beach
Del
Ethel
Yellow fever cases rise in Key West and bubonic plague in Porto
In Key West on Sept 26, twenty six new yellow fever cases were reported with one death. In Oporto five new bubonic plague cases were confirmed over the last three days, with two deaths recorded.
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Key West
Oporto
Death sentence in Milan assassination plot trial
BELGRADE Sept 26 The court sentenced leaders Knezevic and Paisitneh to death for the attempted assassination of former King Milan of Latvia on July 6. Ten others received long terms, six were acquitted, and the verdicts reflect a major crackdown on the conspiracy.
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Belgrade
Servia
Milan
Latvia
Knezevic
Knezevyic
Paisiteh
War Department cannot secure charter for Agglo-Australia transport
The War Department reports it cannot obtain the charter for the Anglo-Australia transport Agglo-Australia, despite an option secured in San Francisco, because Britain demands her services. The note mentions the British company Major-tong and a British demand affecting the arrangement.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Transport Agglo-Australia
San Francisco
Anglo-Australia Fagwaeg
Major-tong
Divorce Perils of Easy Marriage in America
The sermon warns that easy divorce fuels family breakdown across the nation. It cites free love campaigns polygamy in Utah and rising divorce rates in states like Illinois Massachusetts and San Francisco while urging stricter federal uniform laws to deter marriage dissolution.
Warning Against Reform Marriages And Divorce Laws
The speaker argues that women marry to reform alcohol dependent husbands and warns that strict divorce laws may backfire. He contends poverty drives many such unions, cites widespread legal grounds for divorce, and asserts most reform attempts fail, leaving women trapped in bigamous or unequal bonds.
Man Marries Himself in South Carolina Magistrate Ceremony
John G. Thomason a 72 year old Summerville resident officiated his own marriage to Miss Emily Alice Lamb after finding no officiant. He read the service aloud and announced their new status in front of witnesses on April 28, noting he has long performed marriages for others and is now married for the third time to a 32 year old wife.
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America
Froude
Craigenputtock
Cheyne Row
Academy of Music
Brooklyn
Cooper ‘Institute
New York
Tremont Temple
Boston
Land
Utah
Congress
Libertiniem
James Buchanan
Buchanan
Edmunds
Newa
Avery
Tlingig
Illinois
Massachusetts
Maine
Connecticut
San Francisco
New England
France
England
United States
Western Reserve
Ubi
Rhode Island
Vermont
Rome
Gibbon
Reyna
Paris
Landa
Congress of the
Newport
Chicago
Washington
Sandy Hook
Golden Gate
Union Pacific
Wabash
Delaware
Lackawanna
Caribbean
Grand Central Depot
Albany
Adel
Ata
South Carolina
John G. Thomason
Summerville
D. C
Thomason
Emily Alice Lamb
Miss Lamb
Mrs. Thomason
Unique scheme. Clover man made living by oysters
An anecdote from New Orleans details a clover man who traded pearls found in oysters. He would target oyster bars, remove pearls, claim they were worthless, and offer to sell the gems on the spot. He reportedly gathered about four pearls a week before diversifying to larger ventures.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
New Orleans
New
Humorous Fragments and Advertisements From Brooklyn Life
The page includes quips about William M Elwarts health and a statesman, a Job comforter comment, a clergyman misbelief in the Bible, and a wife’s reply. It notes prize fighting as a lesson on instability versus health with Hostetter s Stomach Bitters praised for fifty years without direct health claims.
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William M. Elwarts
Job
Brooklyn
Hostetter
Troude
The Prudent Man Sets His House in Order
An 19th century health ad extols Hood s Sarsaparilla to purify blood and improve organ function. The piece urges thorough renovation of the body and timely, regular action of every organ.
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Hood
John M Smyth Co Catalog Worthy of Every Family
The John M Smyth Co at 150 to 165 West Madison Street Chicago has served Chicago and suburbs for 35 years providing household goods. Its extensive illustrated catalogue lists every needed article with prices and features a sample line including a lady's ulster. The firm emphasizes long trusted dealings and broad offerings in its catalogue.
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John M. Smyth Co
West
Madison Street
Chicago
Ulster
John M. Smyth Company
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