Jeffries Defeats Corbett In Fastest Heavyweight Bout
In New York at Seaside Sporting Club James J. Jeffries defeated Jim Corbett in twenty two rounds to reaffirm his world title. The finish came by knockout amid crowd astonishment with debate over whether a left or right hand delivered the final blow. Corbett retired a year ago and impressed with renewed speed and defense. Miners Hoist Italian Flag After Two Weeks of Strike The Mineville twenty one iron mine in Essex County New York sees fifty Italian miners erect a barricade around their quarters and hoist the Italian flag refusing to lower it while guarding the camp with armed patrols. The Port Henry Iron Company mine is among the region’s most valuable assets and the strike has drawn international attention.
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Jeffries
New York
James J. Jeffries
Seaside
Jim Corbett
Charley White
Corbett
Albany
XI. Y
Mineville
Essex County
Port Henry Iron Company
Apyay
Remarkable fatality in Harrison Township reported
Chillicothe Ohio special details the death of Serena Sanderson from freezing after going to a spring for a drink. Coroner’s inquiry found no additional evidence. Also notes President’s commutation of Private Frank Miller’s sentence for rape to dishonorable discharge and hard labor. Sheldon’s fund distribution from Topeka Daily Capital allocations listed.
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Chillicothe
Ohio
Harrison Township
Serena Sanderson
Frank Miller
Company 1
Twenty-third Infantry
San Nicholas
Island
Cebu
Secretary of War
Sheldon
Topeka
Kan
Rev. C. M. Sheldon
Topeka Daily Capital
India
City Detention
Christ's Hospital
Washburn College
Kindergarten Association
Ingleside
State Temperance Union
Anti-Cigarette League
Insurgents Suffer Heavy Losses at Ta bako Luzon
Manila dispatch reports an attack near Legaspi Albay where 200 riflemen and 800 bolomen moved on Ta bako. Captain Lester H. Simons and the Forty-seventh Volunteer Regiment engaged, inflicting many casualties. The insurgent leader, a native priest, was wounded and captured after his horse fell. Three Americans wounded.
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Luzon
Manila
Tabako
Legaspi
Boers in Full Retreat Reported by Lord Roberts
The War Office dispatch from Lord Roberts says the Boers are in full retreat after occupying a position twenty miles long. Our losses were not yet known but not expected to be heavy. Cavalry and horse artillery are pursuing the Boers by three routes.
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War Office
Lord Roberts
Prices and Demand Declineed Amid Disturbed Labor Conditions
Bradstreet notes a further dip in demand and prices across multiple lines due to unsettled labor conditions. Overall business remains dull with cautious capital ventures, though outlook on crops exports and consumer purchasing power shows improvement. Wholesale activity slows while weekly grain shipments rise, including 4,537,022 bushels of wheat and 9,411,015 bushels of corn exports.
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Bradstreet’s
Standard Oil Loss in Bayonne Fire Tops $400000
Fire on a Bayonne pier of the National Storage Company, a Standard Oil branch, swept across three docks and shipping, destroying the Adelphia tanker and three oil barges plus two pile drivers and the Josephus. Loss to Standard Oil about $400000. private losses around $100000. Fire boats from New York and Jersey City could not approach due to heat.
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Bayonne
N. d
National Storage Company
Standard Oil Company
N. 1
Adelphia
Josephus
Arthur Sewall
Maine
Theosephus
Chicago
Shipwreck on Diamond Shoal Claims Six Seamen
The British steamer Virginia from Daguiri Cuba to Baltimore struck Diamond shoal Virginia. Six sailors drowned after one lifeboat with fifteen crew escaped while a second boat swamped. The survivors were rescued Friday morning by Creeds Hill and Cape Hatteras life saving crews.
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Virginia
Daguiri
Cuba
Baltimore
Diamond Shoal
Creeds Hill
Cape Hatteras
Jast Aeen
Burt Brings A Suit Against Mesaba Iron Mines
Wellington R. Burt of Saginaw Michigan a millionaire lumberman files suit in Duluth against Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines controlled by Rockefeller alleging a monopoly scheme by withholding ore and fixing high freight rates. He seeks to set aside Rockefeller lease claiming failure to mine ore as required.
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Wellington R. Burt
Saginaw, Mich
Duluth
Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines
Rockefeller Iron Ore Corporation
Rockefeller
Plainufff
Dog Dragged Portion of Woman’s Body Into House
In Bowling Green Ohio a dog owned by J Wadman dragged the upper trunk of a dead woman into a house during dinner. The body part showed burn marks from fire. Neighbors heard murder cries and saw a man and woman, strangers, near the old glass factory at dusk while a search found nothing.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
J. &. Wadman
Avery
Chicago Crooks Linked to Paris Bank Heist
Three Chicago men, Daley, Morrigs, and Mickey Gleason, are suspected in the Bank of France robbery two months earlier that secured 80 000 in Paris. Chicago police hold information but await Paris official request before arrests.
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Bank of France
Chicago
Paris
Daley
Morrigs
Mickey Gleason
Alleged Defaulter Captured After Disappearance
Gebhardt Bongaard the alleged defaulter treasurer of Carver County Minnesota was captured by a Minneapolis detective in Olds Indiana after vanishing February 14 1900 Virginia McKenzie drowned at La Jolla California while attempting to rescue Mrs Peterson who had fallen into the water Reverend George R Berry of Colawood Ohio announced he would leave his flock to search for gold indoors
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Buffalo
Whilliam Hibbard
N. Y
Washington Street
Gebhardt Bongaard
Carver County
Minn
Olds, IN
W. T
Minneapolis
Virginia McKenzie
la Jolla
Cal
Peterson
George R
Oolawood
Ohio
Street Car Blown From Track Injuring Seven
A street car on the St Louis and Suburban railway was blown off the track by a nitroglycerin blast placed on the rails. Seven passengers were slightly injured by flying glass and timbers. The car carried returning Dewey celebration attendees amid rain and lightning, with many women aboard.
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St. Louis and Suburbann
Cuban editor assassinated at theater in Gibara
Don Claridades editor Alberti shot dead by an unidentified assassin at a Gibara theater. He was an active politician whose paper criticized American officials actions including election orders. Alberti had received threatening letters he ridiculed in his publication.
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Senor Alberti
Don Claridades
Gibara
Alberti
Hidalgo
Captain Smith
Robbers blow open Sunbury bank safe. escape empty-handed
Six men blew the Farmers' Bank safe at Sunbury Ohio at 3 am and wrecked the rear wall of the building. They escaped with no plunder, though they stole three horses and buggies to aid the getaway.
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Farmers’ Bank
Sunbury
Columbus
Ohio
Markets Report Across Cities With Mixed Grain and Livestock Prices
Cattle and hog prices vary by city from Chicago to New York with wheat No 2, corn No 2 and oats listed. Prices show shipping grades for hogs and ranges for cattle, sheep, and barley across Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and New York.
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Chicago
Bermuda
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New
York
Senate Debates Naval Bill and Boers Sympathy Plea
The Senate debated the naval appropriation, resisting an amendment to curb the marine corps and awaiting armor provisions. Mr Teller urged sympathy for the Boers as not hostile to Britain, while Mr Sulzer pressed a sympathy resolution. The House passed a pension reform bill and a larger National Guard appropriation. The Pearson v Crawford election case in North Carolina proceeded, with mixed outcomes in the two houses.
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Senate
Teller
Great Britain
Illlnois
House
Pension Office
National Guard
Sulzer
Naval Academy
Committee On
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Monterey
Secretary of the Treasury
Tillman
Money
Chandler
Hale
Pearson
Crawford
North Carolina
Penarson
Clark
Montana
Gallinger
United States
Minnesota
Cass
Mississippi
Baird
Louisiana
Caffery
Berry
Sullivan
McEnery
North’ Carolina
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Charles Lewis
Sherwood
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Homer-Lothman Manufacturing Company
Branch and
Second Streets
Hay Company
Hofner-Lothman Manufacturing Company
Holloway
St. Petersburg
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William Tyron
Elias
Provo City
Utah
Ashton
W. Va
Tyron
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Northern Pacific
North Yakima
Wash
Pantelon Garcia
Aguinaldo
BE. V. Smith
Funston
Jaen
San Isidro
New Betja
Burt
Saginaw Lumberman
THE
Rockefeller Company
Crooke
Geneseo
Lafayette Carney
Sherman Deboray
West Sparta
Flint and Green Glass
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Ware Furniture Company
Louisville
George E. Holman
Leonard Holstein
Holstein
Union Pacific
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Hawlins
Wryo
Forty-fourth Regiment
Barotac
Iloilo Province
Panay
James Nettles
Four Courts
Samuel W. Mann
Earones
Young
Tino
Gen. Young
Glasgow
Raybold
Methodist
Republican
Moulders
Akron
J. F. Valentine
Molders’ International Union of America
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Stebbins Bank
Creston
Reed Fertilizer Company
Eastwood
Yates
Richard Yates
Jacksonville
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Central City
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Odde
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