Record of the Week from Foreign Shores and World News
Gist of dispatches include Panama isthmus traffic free as revolutionary army retreats to Agua Dulce. Governor Salazar claims Colombian forces protect foreigners. U S Marines landing criticized. Also reports Funston condemns anti-canteen law, a Pennsylvania railroad relief suit, editor shot in Winchester, a deadly earthquake in Turkestan, Bulgarian rebels’ clash, new U S ambassador to Berlin, St Louis bail ruling, Gen Chaffee returning from Manila, baptisms after hanging, and a fatal train collision in Pennsylvania.
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Panama
Revolutionary Army
Agua Dulce
Mclean
United States
Cincinnati
Salazar
Funston
Department of Colorado
Congress
Ship Merger Completed and Fleet Reassignment Moves Ahead
The merger talks conclude with signing by all parties. Officials to be appointed and policy set. Red Star lines Kensington and Southwark relocate to Dominion line for future Liverpool to Queenstown and Montreal service. In Texas and Louisiana area production estimates reach about 8.1 million bags.
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Great Steamship Combination
Red Star Line
Kensington
Southwark
New York
Dominion Line
Combine
Liverpool
Queenstown
Montreal
Woman Slashes Her Own Throat During Arrest
A Brooklyn woman, under arrest for stabbing her husband, cut her throat from ear to ear with her husband’s razor after a police order. The couple were taken to a hospital where doctors said neither would recover.
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Maspeth
Brooklyn
Joseph Alstrefski
Alstrefski
German match makers ruined as American factory gain unfolds
American Diamond Match Company plants near Mannheim threaten German firms with eight million plus in capital invested. German producers met in Berlin to discuss limits, but Diamond officials say only market demand could constrain output. Four or five large German manufacturers may seek Diamond partnership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Diamond Match Company
Manheim
Diamond Company
United States
Germany
Berlin
Thiat
Jilted Lover Fires Four Shots in Fairport
In Fairport Missouri Marion Lucas a young farmer shot Maude Chisam 16 after a late drive from 9 until midnight the quarrel stemmed fromunrequited love. Lucas is jailed and claims desperation over the refusal to marry. Chisam was popular in school church and social circles.
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Missouri
Fairport
Maude Chisam
Marion Lucas
Lucas
Miss Chisam
Refusal to Strike Brings $1500 Fine on Union Leader
Former boilermakers union president James McCarrick of Kansas City Kan is fined $1500 for staying at work while union members at Union Pacific shops walked out. He refuses to pay, citing family before any union and hinting at seeking nonunion work if needed. Other notes: Keenesaw Mountain veterans plan a park. Birmingham clothing store fire destroys building with $240000 loss. feud killings in Spokogeua leave four dead. Lebanon PA steel workers end a strike. rice production estimates for 1902.
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Union
James McCarrick
Boilermakers’ Union
Kansas City
Kan
Union Pacific Railroad
McCarrick
Birmingham
Ala
Louis Saks
Tornado Sweeps Grant County Indiana Destruction Report
A tornado ripped across southern Grant County Indiana causing widespread destruction over a two mile wide path. Farm buildings and crops were destroyed injuring multiple people though no fatalities were reported. The homes granaries barns and oil and gas properties owned by several local firms suffered heavy losses. Asbestos plans involve G Frank Allen seeking to acquire major mines to form a national combine with capital rising to 1.5 million dollars.
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Grant County
Indiana
Daniel Haines
Chicago’ Vipe Line Company
Standard Oil Company
Jonesboro Mining Company
Asbestos Trust
Mammoth Canal Plan to Divert Loup River Waters in Nebraska
Nebraska Central Irrigation Company completes plans for a $3,000,000 power and irrigation canal. It will divert the Loup River from near West Point to a reservoir near Columbus, drop water ninety feet to the Platte, generate 20,000 horsepower, and irrigate thousands of acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mammoth
Nebraska
Nebraska Central Irrigation Company
West Point
Columbus
Platte River
British Rule in South Africa Delays in Boer War Compensation
Johannesburg Times correspondent reports widespread dissatisfaction over British led compensation awards for Boer War losses. Of 456000 claims, only about 10000 have been settled amid frequent personnel changes and inconsistent judgments. Civil and military authorities seek abolition of military commissions and transfer of work to civil government, delayed by home government indecision.
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Johannesburg
London Times
Cattle Trust Formed in New York Aims for West Monopol y
Arrangements near completion for a New York cattle trust with capital of 50 million dollars to dominate Western cattle markets. Four to six top Union stock yard commission firms tied to the plan. Cattle growers to receive funds to feed and market herds. Firms named include Strahorn Hutton Evans, McCausland Hoag Turner, Smith Haas Co. Evans Snyder Buel, Drum Floto, Greer Mille Co.
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New York
Cattle Trust
West
Union
Catt. Srowers
Strahorn-Hutton-Evans Commission Company
McCausland, Hoag & Turner, Smith, Haas & Co
Evans- Snyder-Buel Company
Drum-Floto Commission Company
Greer, Mille & Co
Shooting Ends in Killing of 17 Year Old Messenger
In Lebanon Pennsylvania a night of pistol fire near the American Iron and Steel works left 17 year old William Hoff man dead. Hoff man, a messenger at the company, had just attended an entertainment and was struck by a bullet on his way home. The violence unsettled residents and workers, especially the Black community, as shootings continued for hours during a strike.
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Bay
Lebanon
American Iron and Steel Works
William Hoffman
American Iron and Steel Company
Craze by Cigarettes and Fateful Attacks Dominates Philadelphia News
A 13 year old girl Marion Barker was slashed by Barton Browwitski in Philadelphia on her way to school. The mob beat the attacker as he begged for a cigarette. Elsewhere the cruiser Des Moines launched at Quincy and a labor editor John F. O Sullivan was killed in Lynn. A man killed a girl in Conemaugh and a lawyer died in Minneapolis court. France plans sugar tax cuts.
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Philadelphia
Barton Browwitski
Marion Barker
Brokwitski
Des Moines
Quincy
Mass
Elsie Macomber
John F. O'Sullivan
The
Boston Globe
New England
Lynn
Domestic trade and finance show tempered gains across regions
The weekly Dun and Bradstreet review notes active money markets, temporary stringency, and hopeful gold imports. It cites strong grain exports, improved foreign trade, and increased industrial output, with labor disputes minimal except the anthracite strike. Western railroads face congestion despite added rolling stock while Northwest distributions surge and wheat futures firm.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Bradstreet’s
Tahoe
Regional commodity price snapshot across cities in the Midwest
The report lists live cattle hogs and sheep price ranges for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati and Detroit. It also shows grains and products including wheat corn oats rye timothy hay butter eggs potatoes and pork prices with varied No 2 grades and regional quotes.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
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N. M. Tat
Pennsylvania Relief
Bucyrus
Ohio
Pennyslvania Railroad Company
Crawford County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court
Winchester
Tenn
S. EK. Robinson
News-Journal
Banks
Robinson
Eaarthqawake
Tashkent
Russian Turkestan
Kashgar
Turkestan
Astyn
Jangi
Aksuksitche
Constantinople
Salanocia
Roosevelt
Charlemagne Power
Russia
Mr. White
White
State Department
Foreign Office
Chaffee
War Department
Manila
San Francisco
Sumner
Philippines
Davis
Wallace Grant
Essex Powell
Newport
Ark
Lewis Russell
Perry Stout
Stout
Princeton
Ind
Michigan City
Pittsburg
Bessemer
Lake Erie
West Pardoe
Loulatina
Texas
Kenesaw Mountain
Daniel McCook
Atlanta
Dead Angle
Keenesaw Mountain
McCook
Will
Spokogea
J. T
Willis Brooks
Clifford
John Brooks
Brooks
Riddle
Frank Allen
G. Frank Allen
New England Asbestos ‘Milling and Mining Company
Asbestos Infj of
America
Asbesates
Thetford
Johnson
Blacklake
Broughton P. Q
Hia‘ Company
Moses T. Hale
Colorado Springs
Leeds
John Pershing
Ffteenth Infantry
Mindanao
Wm. O. Thompson
York
Thompson
J. W. Powell
Maj
John Wesley Powell
Bureau of American Ethnology
Haven
George H. Duran
Mint
Michigan
South Africa
David M. Goughner
Leorena Winnebrenner
Conemaugh
W. J. Hahn
Minneapolis
Minnesota
State Tax Commission
Northwest
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