Wreck and fires mark a day of mishaps across towns
A freight collision near Warsaw New York fatally injured three railroad workers. In New Jersey two children, Edward and Richard Sutton, drowned in Cole's creek after stepping into a water hole. Other notes report a plague rise in Simla, Cuban cabinet tensions, an open air court in Owensboro, a weighty moonshine arrest, a jewelry heist in Brooklyn, labor strikes in Paterson, a new city park turning over to Colorado Springs, and diverse incidents from farming to rail and naval affairs.
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Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Warsaw
N. Y
Edward
Richard Sutton
Cole’s Creek
Merchantville
N. J
Simla
British India
Congress
Palma
Owensboro
United States
Lindsey
Washington
Jane Woolsey
Litchfield
New York City
Aire Chenan
A. A. Webster & Co
Brooklyn
Paterson
Palmer Park
Colorado Springs
William J. Palmer
Austin Bluffs
John W. Black
Danbury
William Hafner
Trempeleau
Wis
Hafner
Noah Blakeman
Gardner
Mass
New Jersey
New York
Parsons College
Fairfield
Chicago
Huron City
Michigan Pineries
Handry
William Malcolm
the Mutual Loan and Building Asociation of
Passaic
Canada
Europe
Malcolm
Roumania
San Francisco
Phidelphia
Cleveland
Yucatan
Fremont
Federal Council of
Switzerland
War Game Ends After Defenders Destroy White Squadron
Rockport Mass August 25 The naval mimic war off New England coast ends at 5 40 Sunday morning with surrender demand from Rear Admiral Higginson’s flagship and acceptance aboard Commander Pillsbury’s Prairie Eight miles south of Thatcher’s Island the blue defending squadron defeats the white attacking squadron led by Pillsbury.
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Rockport
Mass
New England
Higginson
Kearsarge
Alabama
Massachusetts
Scorpion
Prairie
Panther
Supply
Pillsbury
Gloucester Harbor
Thatcher
Washington
Cape Elizabeth
Cape Cod
Brooklyn
Olympia
Cincinnati
Montgomery
Gloucester
Mayflower
Blue Squadron
Bartholin Murder Case Hinges on Basement Witness
Chicago police report strong leads in the Minnie Mitchell case. A nearby resident recalls a young woman near the Bartholin home after 9 pm on the night the couple vanished. He saw a man on the basement stairs and heard a whispered exchange as the woman entered the basement.
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Chicago
Calvary Cemetery
Minnie Mitchell
Bartholin
William Bartholin
Mitchell
Calumet Avenue
Mrs. Bartholin
Edict Demands Punishment for Missionary Killings
In Chen Chou Hu Nan province a mob killed English missionary Lewis and Australian missionary Bruce, blaming them for a cholera outbreak by poisoning water. The edict orders the murderers punished amid a population frenzy that destroyed the mission building.
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Pekin
Lewis
Bruce
Chen Chou
Hu Nan
National fraternal congress opens in Denver today
The spiritual convention of the national fraternal congress meets in Denver with 57 fraternal orders and 300 delegates representing 4,000,000 people. The conference will discuss many important questions for improving the fraternal lodges.
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Denver
Col
National Fraternal Congress
Four Kronberg children suffocated in Portland fire
In Portland Missouri on August 25 a blaze in a two and a half story house killed William Kronberg's four children and his servant girl. Fire officials initiated an investigation into the cause and circumstances of the fatal blaze.
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Portland
William Kronberg
Cholera Toll Reported in Manila Up to Date
Official statistics list 25 664 cases and 18 040 deaths from cholera with real figures believed higher. In Manila only eight new cases were reported last Saturday.
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Manila
Flooding Drives Hundreds From Kansas Farms
Emporia Kansas reporting that hundreds of farmers flee rising waters of the Cottonwood river. Neosho river is out of its banks below its junction with the Cottonwood, inundating farms and homes.
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Emporia
Kan
Inter-state rifle and revolver shoot opens at Sea Girt
Sea Girt New Jersey August 25 preparations complete for the inter state rifle and revolver tournament beginning August 29. 105 targets range 25 to 1000 yards. United States Army three teams and Marine Corps under Maj Lauchheimer headline a strong field with observers from Springfield and Frankford arsenals. Several new matches including Leach cup and inter club.
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N. J
National Guard
United States Army
War Department
Springfield
Frankford Arsenal
United States Marine Corps
Lauchheimer
Hilton
Marine Corps
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Maryland
National Rifle Association
Leach
United States
Labor Day
Maine
California
Sea Girt
MacArthur to Lead New London War Game Fort Preparations
Maj. Gen. MacArthur expected in New London to direct fort preparations at the eastern entrance of Long Island Sound. The great war game starts next Friday at midnight with the army facing the North Atlantic squadron in a simulated clash. over 4,000 troops are currently stationed at the forts in the district.
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New London
Conn
MacArthur
Navy
Long Island Sound
North Atlantic Squadron
New Maine Battleship Maine Proves Speed On Trial Run
The Maine completed a Cape Ann trial course voyage to earn the U S ensign. A four hour run required 18 knots, she hit 18.9 on a six mile leg and averaged 18.3 overall. She is declared the fastest battleship in the American fleet.
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Maine
Boston
Cape Ann
United States
Grand Army of the Republic asks president for reunion access
A Washington communication from the citizens' committee of the G A R asks the president to issue an executive order permitting G A R members employed in federal service nationwide to attend the forthcoming reunion.
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Washington
Citizens’ Committee of the
Citizens’ Executive Committee
Thirty-Sixth
Grand Army of the Republic
United States
Alger signals Seren yet as Senate hopeful for Michigan
Detroit Aug 21 Gen Russel A Alger announced he is a receptive candidate for the U S Senate to succeed the late James McMillan He says he will not seek the seat but will accept if the people of Michigan elect him through the legislature news accounts note his conditional candidacy and public reply to McMillan’s vacancy
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Detroit
Mich
Russell A. Alger
United States Senate
Michigan
James McMillan
McMillan
Capitalists push $25 million trust to unite tool makers
Charles D. Gates, president of Turner Day Woolworth Handle Co., returned from New York where he conferred with financiers promoting a $25,000,000 trust to absorb ax, handle, and grindstone factories across the United States and Canada under a single management.
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Louisville
Charles D. Gates
Turner, Day & Woolworth Handle Co
New York
Canada
Drowning of Chicago Drug Clerk in St Joseph Harbor
Thomas C. Garrett a 27 year old clerk at a Chicago wholesale drug house drowned in St Joseph Michigan on Sunday. While laughing he lost his balance fell from a naphtha launch into the water and did not survive.
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St. Joseph, Mich
Thomas C. Garrett
Chicago
Sunda
Garrett
Probably Averts a Strike in Glass Factories
Pittsburg August 21. After an all day conference between National Glass Co representatives and the American Glass Workers association an agreement was reached likely to prevent a nationwide strike in table glassware factories. Workers sought a 10 percent rise while manufacturers offered a 5 percent increase restoring pre panic of 1893 wages as the compromise.
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Pittsburg
National Glass Co
American Glass Workers’ Association
Woitle
Tragic death of 15 year old Zoda Vick in Russellville
Russellville Ky Aug 21 Zoda Vick 15 daughter of C M Vick prominent county farmer was killed yesterday near her father's home. She went to a spring for water and failed to return a search was started and the body with the head crushed was found in a fence corner partly covered with leaves
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Russellville
Wind storm hits Tola causing heavy damage in Kansas
A severe wind storm swept through Tola Kansas on August 21 causing extensive property damage estimated in the thousands of dollars while no casualties were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tola
Kan
Bids Opened on Patented Mail Exchange Devices
Washington August 21 acting postmaster general opened 24 bids from patentees or assignees for devices to exchange mail with moving trains. The proposals cover 24 different devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Malleable Iron Works Strike Leaves 125 Out
Grand Rapids Michigan 125 molders walked out after the company tried to cut the wage scale prompting a strike yesterday at the Grand Rapids Malleable Iron Works.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Grand Rapids
Miners Clash Sparks Deadly Shot Near Lansford
In Nesquehoning Patrick Sharp a striker was killed by a deputy amid mining unrest. McElmoyle was arrested for murder. Deputies jailed in Duryea case. Mother Jones urged miners wives to march on Washington if the strike endures. Vars in Wilkesbarre news and coal outputs adjusted as mines resume and prices rise to 11 dollars a ton in Omaha.
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New York
Anthracite Coal Roads
Truesdale
The
Lackawanna Railroad Co
Wilkesbarre
John Workink
Pittston Township
Indianapolis
Jones
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Milwaukee
Wilson
Charleston
Kanawha River
West Virginia
Morgan
T. W. Hart
Public Alliance of
Warnke
Duryea
Sage Denounces Trusts Overcoming Steel Power
Russell Sage criticizes Morgan’s alleged remark on a new era of huge trusts. He calls combinations of industries a menace to government and oppressors of the people, predicting revolt and financial ruin for the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Russell Sage
J. Pierpont Morgan
Sage
Morgan
Hanna Abandons Efforts to End Coal Strike in Buffalo
Senator Marcus A. Hanna arrived in Buffalo and announced he has exhausted all efforts to resolve the coal strike. He said there is no chance of arbitration while only miners are willing to arbitrate, and that the miners will not yield while they can fight.
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St. Joseph
Samuel Pryor
Pryor
Chicago
Skagway
Juneau
Viola
N. Y
Uriel Paul
C. D. Gillespie
Hendricks
W. Va
Brooklyn Heights
Gillespie
Jack” Joyner
Saratoga
Sydney Paget
Knight
Buffalo
McKinley
Roach
Union and Consolidated Traction Companies
Union No. 2
White Star Line
Cedric
Harland & Wolff
Belfast
Ireland
Kanawha
New River
West, Virginia
Express Company
New York City
United States
Hitchcock
Erie Railroad
Mississippi Railroad Commission
Southern
Mobile & Ohio
Mississippi
Walsenburg
Col
Huerfano County
Pablo Martinez
Hanna
Marcus A. Hanna
Grand Affair to Host 1904 Olympic Games Participation
Chicago reports that Roosevelt and other federal leaders will back the 1904 Olympic Games with broad U S government cooperation. Governors and national guards indicate foreign participation with France promising cadets and requesting 1908 games, based on letters and cables from Paris and Berlin.
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Chicago
United States
Roosevelt
France
Paris
Berlin
Beef Trust Question Questioned By New York Expert
F B Thurber of New York stirred the trans-Mississippi congress by saying after three months of inquiry he cannot substantiate a beef trust. He attributes higher meat prices to natural causes such as last year's corn crop failure and rising cattle fattening costs, and he insists there is no meat combine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beef Trust
St. Louis
F. B. Thurber
New York
trans-Mississippi Congress
Savage wins first gold medal in Fort Sheridan shoot
At Fort Sheridan the four day army infantry competition ends with Artificer Preston B. Savage of Company B Eighteenth Infantry achieving a record total of 629 points, the best score ever on the range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Army Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Preston B. Savage
Eighteenth Infantry
Savage
Elmira Strike Ends as Workers Call Off Walkout
The 400 employees at Empire Bridge Co. in Elmira N Y ended their strike last night without obtaining concessions from the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmira
N. Y
Empire Bridge Co
Uprisings in China Reported by Mission Board
Reports from West China describe the Boxer movement expanding in power and violence. The Red Lantern society burned a chapel at Tien Ku Chiao and killed a preacher and four others, with officials decapitating six and crucifying one.
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New York
Methodist Mission Board
China
Joseph Beech
Chung King
West China
Edward Manly
Spencer Lewis
Red Lantern Society
Tien Ku Chiao
Beech
West
Wu Kwang Tsang
Chentu
Ex-convict sought for double Wyoming murders. escapes police
Denver reports Thomas O'Brien, an ex convict jailed in Colorado on a safe blowing charge, is sought in Rawlins Wy for the 1888 murders of Morris Waln and C W Strong. Strong's father was a Wall Street operator in 1888. Waln from Philadelphia area.
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Wyoming
Denver
Col
Frank B. Keyes
Fair Play
Thomas O’brien
Rawlins
Wyo
Morris Walnm
C. W. Strong
Strong
Wall Street
Waln
Haverford
Philadelphia
Jacob
O’brien
Canyon City
RACING AT RENDVILLE WINS AND SURPRISES IN GRAND CIRCUIT
Readville races on August 19 to 23 feature favorites beaten and sensational wins. Major Muscovite sold for 5 dollars to 450 dollars before a 2:08 pace victory. Baron De Shay won the 2:13 trot. Wentworth claimed the Blue Hill stakes 5 000 purse. Ed Geers drove The Monk to a 2:05 3/4 record.
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Readville
Mass
Major Muscovite
Baron de Shay
Wentworth
Direct Hal
Norfolk
Massachusetts
Readville Track
Major Delmar
Lord Derby
Ed Geers
Monk
Elsie Carr
Thomas W. Lawson
Mary P. Layburn
Schwab Declares Himself in New York Arrival
Charles M. Schwab arrived in New York and told reporters he does not look sick, intends to rest, and has no plan to resign or retire from the United States Steel Corporation. He also confirmed a trip to Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Europe
Mr. Schwab
Explosion at Illinois sawmill kills three in New Liberty
A boiler explosion at Simpson's sawmill in New Liberty Illinois killed three workers and seriously injured five others. Paducah Ky reports the blast occurred yesterday ten miles from the city.
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Paducah
Simpson
New Liberty
Judge Finds Libel Against Freedom Editor and Proprietor
Manila August 19 Judge Ambler declared Frederick Dorr proprietor and Edward OBrien editor of Freedom guilty of libel against Benito Legarda a Filipino civil commission member The judge ruled the headlines libelous and the article text not privileged as malicious publication Although guilt was found no sentence was imposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Ambler
Frederick Dorr
Edward O’brien
Freedom
Benito Legarda
Civil Commission
Torishima Island Devastated by Volcanic Eruption
A volcanic eruption from August 13 to 15 overwhelmed Torishima, killing all 150 inhabitants. The island is buried in debris and all houses disappeared. Eruptions continue with submarine activity near the island, hindering vessel approaches. Torishima lies between the Bonin Islands and Japan’s main island Hondo.
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Yokohama
Torishima
Bonin Islands
Hondo
Japan
Czar Alarmed by Russian Revolutionary Letter
A Cracow Galicia newspaper reports the Russian czar found a missive from a revolutionary committee on his desk threatening death unless he grants constitutional government. The czar is described as greatly alarmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Cracow
Galicia
Russia
Potter's suicide by morphine shocks Salt Lake attorney
Calvin B. Potter a Salt Lake City attorney and former Michigan political figure committed suicide Monday by taking a lethal dose of morphine. He was once wealthy and prominent in Michigan politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Utah
Calvin B. Potter
Michigan
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Ad Endorsed
A testimonial from a mother praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relieving postnatal weakness. She notes initial dread of childbirth but says the product helped restore strength and health for mothers.
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Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. H. Haskins
Lydia E.pinkeham
Lydia E.pinkham
J. H. Hasers
Indiana Ave
Chicago
Ill
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Chicago, Ill
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Defiance, Ohio
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Tuna & Ci
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Washington, D
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Pepe
W. A. Shepard
Onondaga Whisk Broom Works
Syracuse
Eaton
Jerry Crimmins
Rudolph Fliedner
New Brunswick
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United States Attorney General
Northern Securities Co
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Dan Patch
Star Pointer
George C. Cannon
Harvard University
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