Storm Sweeps Channel Delays Shipping and Wrecks Report
A heavy storm across the Channel delays British and continental steamboats. Several fishing smacks are wrecked or missing, while vessels like the John Cook and Bonita suffer damage and grounding in Irish harbors. Trade shows quieter distributive activity due to a backward spring and weak wheat outlook, with iron ore strikes affecting supply and prices remaining firm on staples.
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London
Great Britain
Continent
John Cook
Magee
Limerick Marsh
Portland
Ore
Jensen
Cardiff
Bahia
Baltimore
Ireland
Ceadstreet
Iron and Steel
Lake Superior
Massachusetts Warship to Visit England in Historic Fleet Move
The Massachusetts will sail from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to join Sampson's squadron at Trinidad. On arrival the squadron will proceed to Southampton in English waters, staying until August first. This marks the first visit of American battleships to England and Britain plans a reception to boost Anglo American friendship.
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New York World
Massachusetts
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Sampson
Trinidad
Southampton
England
United States
New Life Saving Station to Rise on Chicago Lake Front
Chicago plans a large permanent life saving station to replace the current river mouth frame building. Located inside the lake front retaining pier at the park's north end near Randolph street the new structure will cost 6 000 to 75 000 dollars and replace the aging facility.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Randolph Street
Three Powers Agree on Samoa Investigation and Unanimous Rule
The United States Great Britain and Germany reach a pact appointing a high official from each nation to supervise Samoa and require unanimity in all high tribunal decisions. Newspapers will participate in negotiations with assurances of cooperation.
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Berlin
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Samoa
Carlist Revival Reported in Navarre and Aragon Provinces
The Imparcial notes a revival of Carlist activity in Navarre and the Arragon region. The Captain General, overseeing Hienza Saragossa and Taruel, has traveled to Madrid to confer with the Government on the Carlist movement.
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Madrid
Imparcial
Navarre
Arragon
Hienza
Saragossa
Taruel
France
Orer
Helen Gould Gifts To NY Fire Dept And Police Pension
Miss Helen M. Gould sent a check to the New York Fire Department for relief funds and placed it to the fund. She also contributed 1000 dollars to the police to bolster the pension fund.
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Helen Gould
Helen M. Gould
New York Fire Department
Miss Gould
Mad Hour Horse Kills Man at Coloma Auction
A mad horse at a Coloma Michigan auction fatally wounded Prentice McKean and severely injured three others. About a dozen people sustained injuries as the animal was shot to stop it.
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Horae
Coloma
Mich
Prentice McKean
Osage Ranchman Killed in Quarrel at Ponca City
Clyde Mattox killed Lincoln Swinney, an Osage ranchman, at the White House Club saloon in Ponca City in a quarrel where Swinney was the aggressor. Mattox used a knife. the case is noted as one of the Southwest’s most celebrated. Mattox previously killed a man in 1801 Oklahoma City, escaped jail in 1898, and was eventually commuted to life by President Cleveland. A later pardon request to President McKinley followed last year.
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Osage
Clyde Mattox
Lincoln Swinney
Ponca
City
1. T
White House Club
Swinney
Mattos
Mattox
Southwest
Oklahoma City
Federal District Court
Ife
8. W. Hatch
Cleveland
McKinley
Government breaks chain-letter schemes with two opinions
Acting AAG Morrison J Barrett of the Postoffice Department issued two opinions affirming chain-letter plans violate lottery laws dependent on chance. One ruling bars a Paris exposition trip with $200 expenses as a prize, and another blocks an $8 Kodak offer to the initiator of a long chain.
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Morrison J. Barrett
Postoffice Department
Third Tragedy in One Family: Murder in Barnyard
News from Chester County reports Mrs. J. A. Stewart was found murdered in her barnyard after her husband was killed in a field weeks earlier. A son was arrested on suspicion of the father’s murder, and the brother-in-law Dan Poster surfaced in the case. Foster then killed himself, and the son was later released. The sequence ends with a third tragedy within the family.
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Jackson
Tenn
Chester County
J. A. Stewart
Dan Poster
Stewart
Foster
Army May Have Liquor In Canteens Across Posts
The Secretary of War asked the Attorney General whether section 17 of the last Congress act blocks liquor sales to the Government in canteens at forts and posts. The AG ruled the section does not prohibit continued sales, but no officer or enlisted man may be detailed to sell.
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Secretary of War
United States
Ministers Debate Interracial Marriage as Solution
Indianapolis ministers from the Ministers' Interdenominational Association discussed the negro question at a monthly meeting. Rev. Edward Gilliam urged a chance for his race while Rev. James Cumming Smith argued intermarriage would eventually solve the problem, predicting eventual endorsement of white and Negro marriage in the country.
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Indianapolis
Interdenominational Association
Edward Gilliam
James Cumming Smith
Unhernacle Presbyterian Church
Colorado law clash over stolen utilities bill ends in street clash
The Twelfth General Assembly session stretched past midnight as D. H. Dickason, House chief clerk, vanished then reappeared beaten. He was accused of stealing the public utilities bill to block its signing, was dragged to the Senate, and made to surrender the document. Both houses approved an anti trust bill but failed to reconcile a final measure.
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Colorado
General Assembly
D. H. Dickason
House
Dickason
Senate
Declared legally dead wife wins against benefit society
Mary J. Carpenter won a suit against the Supreme Council Legion of Honor for $2,000 on a certificate tied to her missing husband John I. Carpenter of St. Louis who vanished Jan 30 1897. The Court of Appeals upheld a lower division finding that he is legally dead and judgment was awarded.
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Benefit Society
Court of Appeals
Tower
John I. Carpenter
St. Louis
Mary J. Carpenter
Supreme Council, Legion of Honor
TWO DIE AT LOVERS ROCK IN ONTARIO MURDER-SUICIDE
James Lablanche, a young French Canadian, fatally stabbed his Indian sweetheart Olga Possami at Pelee Point Ontario and then fatally stabbed himself. The couple were lovers who had been together last summer but a new suitor from Sandusky, Ohio, had entered Possami’s life. Lablanche lured her on a walk near Lover's Rock and killed her, then threw her body into the lake and stabbed himself. The area is remote during winter.
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James Lablanche
Olga Possami
Pelee Point
Ont
Pelee Island
Lablanche
Sandusky
Tie
Sixteen Kentucky prospectors slain in Alaska
A Juneau dispatch reports sixteen Kentucky prospectors were killed by Indigenous people near the Kuskokwim mouth. No details. the murder is said to have occurred months ago as the gold seekers camped. Names and full statement reportedly on file at the Interior Department in Washington.
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Juneau
Alaska
Kentucky
Kuskokwim River
Interior Department
Washington
Postoffice Plundered and Other News Items
Edwin Munshawer a discharged letter carrier was caught robbing the Norristown postoffice claiming to have robbed it thirteen times in March and six times in February. Annie Blasbek mother poisoned her two children with strychnine and killed herself. Jordan Jones a 50 year old Jefferson Ohio hermit was found dead with rats present. Mrs Ingersoll and John Collins accused kidnapers of Gerald Lapiner transported to Chicago for trial. Copper river miners in Alaska report starving conditions. Carter Harrison reelected mayor of Chicago by about forty thousand votes.
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Postoffice
Edwin Munshawer
Norristown
Rowell
Texas
Annie Blasbek
Jordan Jones
Jefferson, Ohio
Chicago
Ingersoll
John Collins
Little Gerald Lapiner
Market Reports: Midwestern Cattle Hogs and Grains
Regional market data shows cattle in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis and Cincinnati trading from $2.50 to $6.00 with hogs $2.75 to $4.25 and sheep up to $5.25. Wheat No 2 red ranges about 72c to 82c, corn No 2 white around 85c, oats and rye vary by locale with butter at 19c to 22c per pound.
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Chicago
Ile
Indianapolis
Dude
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Indiana incidents and strange prison stunts headline a day
Reports describe Albert Hunter's failed self harm attempts while jailed for larceny and a string of odd events including a vanished husband in Indiana and Dunkards seeking land in Alabama. The piece covers rail line shifts, local crimes, and civic notes across towns like Kokomo, Terre Haute, Goshen, and Marion with multiple named individuals and places.
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Denver, Mnd
Crimea
Politi
John R. Despassos
Pottery Trust
American Potteries Combine
John N. Taylor
Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Company
East Liverpool
Ohio
New Trust
Vinita
I. S
Willian Springer
William Adams
Camden
N. J
Adams
San Francisco Gas and Electric Company
Claus Spreckels
Crockett
San Francisco Company
Holguin
Cufia
Segond Immune Regiment
Vanderbilt
Gm K. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Peiieres
Nashville
Colorado Reservation
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Cuban Military Assembly
State Industrial Home For Girls
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Jureka
Cal
Tavo
Beattie
Kan
Charles Totten
Sheldon
Sehlight
Smith
Kerlin
Watkins
O'Neil
City of Mexico
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Augustus S$. Mourney
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Walter R. Juckson
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Dennis
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Leland
Windsor Hotel
Lle
Isobel
Lover's Rock
California Limited
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Joplin
Neighhbargar
Tennessee
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Arthur Gunningham
Nashvilly
G. D. Atnip
Campbell
Atnip
Meiklejohn
Copper
Harrison
Carter H. Harrison
Indiana
Illinois Central
Albert Hunter
Kokomo
State
Hunter
Howard Rhinehart
Terre Haute
Marshall, Til
Marshall Cemetery
Rhinehart
Dunkards
Alabama
North Dakota
Athens
Ala
Christian Scientista
New Rore
Madison County
Christian Scientists
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Ilinois Southern Railway
Otter Road
Ilinois Central
Indiana Block
Montpelier
New Albany
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Lewis N. Noble
Goshen
Robert Gortner
New Mexico
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Barney & Bowen
Kokomo Council
Walter S. Randall
Shelbyville
Isa
Marion
Lafayette
Rein Chain Company
St. Mary's
Augusta Schmidt
Gay Mount
Ransom Kamp
John Mahan
Sullivan
Mahan
Kamp
Harvey Cook
Company C
150Th Indiana
Salem
Weaver
LaTorre
Blanche Thomas
Zoe Spaulding
Lizzie Bales
J. H. Bissett
Anderson
Battle Creek
Bissett
Willis R. Gosnell
Montgomery County
Gosnelli
Sho
Supreme
Courtlas
Thia
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