Drowning Tragedy in Tennessee and Other Briefs
A telegram reports the Reynolds family of Laporte County drowned in a Tennessee flood while crossing a bridge washed into a torrent. only a daughter survives. In Terreaute Indiana a deranged man, William T. Agar, stabbed his nurse and himself. he later attempted more self harm in jail but survives. The steamer Portland was lost near Nome after leaving Seattle with 110 passengers. the Nome City confirms the vessel swept into the Arctic Ocean and the revenue cutter Thetis seeks it.
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Tennessee
Wanateh
Ind
Nelson N. Reynolds
Laporte County
Reynolds
William T. Agar
Terreaute
Davis
Agar
Dle
Portland
Nome City
Nome
Seattle
Arctic Ocean
Thetis
King Albert of Saxony Dead in Dresden
King Albert of Saxony dies in Dresden after naming his eldest brother Prince George as state representative. With no children, George becomes heir to the Saxon throne and is described as the last of the generals who commanded the German army.
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Albert
Saxony
Dresden
Prince George
Johann Most Sentenced for Incendiary Article
Johann Most, convicted of printing an incendiary article in his New York newspaper, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The case, brought to the court of appeals, upheld the lower court’s judgment.
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Johann Most
New York
McKinley
Court of Appeals
Child Burned to Death in Va Fire Incident
Annie Keno aged 10 died after her clothing caught fire near the rubbish fire behind the Robinson hotel at Braddock Virginia. Four bystanders who rushed to help were seriously burned in the blaze.
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Annie Keno
Braddock
Robinson Hotel
Supreme CourtAffirms Self Defense Burden in Indiana Assault Case
The Supreme Court declares that in Indiana a defendant claiming self defense in an assault case need not prove it, as the state must prove the assault was unprovoked. Also notes a large sale of Scotch shorthorn cattle in Des Moines with prices totaling $76,980 for 99 head and a top bid of $31,700 for Butterfly H.
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Supreme Court
Indiana
F.S. Donahey
Des Moines
Iowa
Butterfly H
Wildwood
B. RK
Steel of
Ireland
Lowa
Filipino bandit leader captured after massacre attempt
Pedro Feleiz, head of the ladrones, who killed and dismembered soldiers of the Fifth Cavalry at Binangonan Rizal May 30, has been captured. He remains wounded from a soldier’s attack and is under guard.
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Pedro Feleiz
Ladrones
Fifth Cavalry
Binangonan
Rizal Province
Callery
Riza Province
Luzon
Widow and Sister-in-law Charged in Gorman Murder
James Gorman and his sister-in-law Mrs Thomas C Gorman were arrested in Hayersville Nebraska on murder charges after the body of Thomas Gorman a wealthy cattle owner was found buried in a garden. The couple had fled with Gorman’s daughter Mia and are jailed at Basin awaiting a hearing. Local authorities suspect the child’s fate lies in the Big Horn River.
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James Gorman
Thomas C. Gorman
Hayersville
Neb
Thomas Gorman
Mia
Gorman
Hale
Cody
Valuable Mines Attached and Bank Seeks Receiver
The Manufacturers' National Bank of Leavenworth sues Blume Riverside Mining for 4104,105 on seven notes and 124 drafts. The mining company's entire property is guarded by deputies, with a receiver likely sought. Three mines closed, hundreds idle after failed reorganization and President McWhibben's resignation refusal.
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Home Riverside Company
National Bank of Leavenworth
Blume Riverside Mining Company
Tis
Oro
McWhibben
Threats of Sultan stir Mindanao quarrel and Toledo tragedy
Reports describe Col. Frank D. Baldwin negotiating with the Sultan of Badod over Mindanao matters while a Toledo murder leaves Miss Rose Wheeler dead and her mother dying after a quarrel with Mrs. Leightner. The day also records violent incidents including a New York generator blast injuring 31, a White House weapon report, and other unrelated events.
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Toledo
Ohio
Rose Wheeler
William Wheeler
George Leightner
Leightner
Miss Wheeler
Rich but dies like a pauper in New York workshop
Camille Lemoine, 57, a French mechanic who built artificial flower dyes, was found dead in his basement workshop at 63 West Houston Street New York. Authorities found $178.75 a gold watch and chain deeds worth about 50 000 in a strong box and a kitten lay beside him. Most property deeds were to Hoboken.
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New York
Houston Street
Camille Lemoine
Lemoline
Hoboken
Train Washout Tragedy Hits Vermont Railroad
A freight train on the Central Vermont Railroad struck a washout near Middlesex Vermont during a cloudburst. Five railroadmen were killed as the locomotive and twelve cars derailed with debris, bridges washed away, a sawmill and house demolished, and logs totaling about one hundred thousand feet carried off.
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Vermont
Central
Boulton
Middlesex
Man Dies After Assault on Kansas City Sidewalk
Bernhard Steinert slater was found dying on the Fourteenth street and Grand avenue corner in Kansas City at midnight with a fractured skull and died soon after at the police station. Witnesses said he accosted a man and woman, who were then attacked by a man with a club, who fled with his companion. Police seek the alleged attacker.
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Kansas City
Bernhard Steinert
Fourteenth Street
Grand Avenue
Steinert
Aurderer
Packers Win in St. Paul and Court Cases Dismissed
The St Paul packing house cases against Cudahy Packing Company Armour Company Swift Co and Schwarzschild Sulzberger were dismissed after a Supreme Court ruling struck out preserved meat prohibitions. Also reports of a Tennessee bank robbery and a fatal shooting at a U S Army post in Ohio are noted among incidents and disasters.
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Supreme Bench
Packing House
Cudahy Packing Company
Armour Company
Swift & Co
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
St. Pan
Supreme Court
Congress Passes District of Columbia and Canal Bill Debates
Senate and House actions include DC appropriation and irrigation bills, pension measures, and memorials. Debates over army reforms and canal legislation continue, with conference talks on the Spooner Panama amendment and a Wind Cave National Park designation advancing in the Senate. In the House, deferral of Kiowa Comanche Apache land openings and Indian affairs bills occur alongside deficit and judiciary amendments.
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District of Columbia
Senate
House
Secretary of War
Spain
Proctor
Vermont
Fredericksburg
Hugh Mercer
Aoldier
TSRW
Rebecca J. Trystor
War Department
United States
General Land Office
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba
Dawes Commission
Kansas
Oklahoma
Carmack
Civil Service Committee
Rebecca J. Taylor
Cannon
South Dakota
Wind Cave
Minnesota
Washington Notes on River and Harbor Bill and Tax Changes
The river and harbor bill is signed by the President. Tax changes include ending the Spanish war revenue tax on July 1 and restoring the beer tax to 1 dollar. The tea tax remains until January 1 and the Frye ship subsidy bill gains enough votes to report out of committee on merchant marine.
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Washington
Friends of Frye
Macine
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King of
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