Melrose Park Tensions Delayed Arrival of Trains
A Melrose Park committee of citizens met a Chicago bound train carrying colored men 28 miles away and urged them to return home amid reports that 300 armed locals awaited the train to prevent alighting in the village. Trainmen kept the group calm as panic risk rose.
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Great Salt Lake
Salt Lake
Denver
Denver and Rio Grande
Colorado Midland
America
Pullman Palace
Chicago
St. Louis
W. C. McBride
E. Broadway
Butte
Geo. W. Heintz
Balt Lake City
Masmacs
Melrose Park
Alabam
Dewey Heads Board to Probe Schley War Conduct
Washington July 26 The board of inquiry to investigate Admiral Schleys conduct in the Spanish war will be Admiral George Dewey president with Rear Admirals Lewis Kimberly and Andrew Benham. The court meets at the navy department September 12. Proceedings will be open and Schley may have counsel.
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Kimberly and
Benham
Washington
Long
Schley
Elks Postpone National Home Plan for One Year
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in Milwaukee adjourned to meet in Salt Lake City on August 13, 1902. The convention backed a one year postponement of selecting a site for the national Elks home, while allowing discretionary site selection before year end if desired.
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Milwaukee
Erand Lodge
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Salt Lake City
Committee On National Elks Home
Free Homesteads Sought by Fort Randall Settlers
Settlers on the abandoned Fort Randall reservation in South Dakota plan to circulate petitions to Congress for free homesteads at the next winter session. The land opened under a special act carries no free homestead rights and requires per acre payments for land filed upon.
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Fort Randall Reservation
Congress
Sioux Falls
S. C
Fort Randall Military Reservation
Nebraskan
O'Brien to Hang for Yukon Murder
Ottawa reporters relay a cabinet decision approving execution for George O'Brien the Yukon killer who shot three on the trail from Dawson. He is scheduled to die on August 23. Pioneer Press notes consolidation talks among major rail lines. Mining Congress elects Shaffer president Reed vice president Mazon secretary. Butte to host next meeting. Brooklyn Bridge repairs suspend full service after suspension rods observed.
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O'Brien
Ottawa
Mining Congress
Boise
Ida
E L. Shaffer
Ohio
International Mining Congress
Fred R. Reed
Irvin ‘Mazon
Butte
Notice of Application for Summit Lode in Beaverhead County
Frances E Cochranes application seeks 19.89 acres along the Summit Updoor vein in the Storm Cloud lode area Beaverhead county Montana with surface ground 300 feet each side and extending from discovery shaft. The claim lies in the Loat Cloud mining district and is recorded in Beav erhead county records. Adjacent claims include Storm Cloud lode and Montana lode with George D Greene as Register. First publication July 26 1901.
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Land Office
Bob Helena
Montane
of Congress
Frances E. Cochrane
Polaris
Overhead County
Montana
Discovery Shaft
Beaverhead County
Register of the Land Office
Helena
Ontana
Towit
Wm. Galligher
Applicanta
Montazama Lode
Frances E. Cochrance
Grorce D. Greene
Register
Notice of Application for a US Patent Montezuma Loce
Notice from U S Land Office Helena Montana July 22 1901 that Frances H Cochrane Polaris Beaverhead County Montana has applied for 1500 linear feet of the Montezuma claim a gold silver bearing vein with 10.53 acres claimed net 18.82 acres after conflicts in Lost Cloud mining district and adjacent claims Storm Cloud and Polaris lodes with locations and boundary bearings on file. First publication July 26 1901.
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U. S. Land Office
Helena
Montana
Frances H. Cochrane
Polaris
Beaverhead County
Lost Cloud
Averg
the Register of the Lead Office
Leas Aresn
Polaris Lode
Wm. Galligher
Palaris Lode
B. F. White
Summit Lode
Grongs D. Gureny
Register
Nerve Waste praised as practical guide to nerve weakness
A San Francisco physician Dr Sawyer writes Nerve Waste praised for wisdom and sincerity. The Chicago Advance lauds its hopeful, health restoring principles. Priced at 1.00 postpaid by the Pacific Posture Co. in San Francisco with sample chapters available on request.
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Sawyer
San Francisco
Chicago
Taz Pacific Posrrsaine Co
San
Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold
Latative Bromo Quin ine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure no Pay. Price 25 cents.
Amalgamated strike settlement terms announced
Pittsburg July 30 authoritative terms outline settlement of the strike. Amalgamated Association drops full mill scale demand. mills become open and company may hire nonunion workers. Proposed signatories include W DeWees Wood McKeesport Painter Lindsay McCutcheon and Clark Pittsburg mills and Monessen plant of American Steel Hoop.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association
W. DeWees Wood
McKeesport
Painter, Lindsay and McCutcheon and Clark Mills
Monessen
American Steel Hoop Company
Wellsville
New York
Allegheny
Mingo Junction
Riverside
Germany’s New Tariff Law Draws Bitter Berlin Reaction
Berlin July 27 The German tariff measure appeared too late for comment in the evening papers. Berlin commercial circles call the American schedules monstrous and harmful to Germany and United States trade. Americans in Berlin business see sharp agitation bearing fruit in the bill with heavy duty increases on machinery and saws.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Judge Frees Fosburgh as Jury Returns Not Guilty
In Pittsfield Massachusetts on July 27 Judge Stevens instructed the jury to find Robert Fosburgh not guilty in a case alleging the killing of his sister. The jury returned the verdict immediately with approving shouts later suppressed by the court, and Fosburgh was discharged.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Fosburgh
Stevens
Robert Fosburgh
Tornado Strikes North Dakota Wrecks Tappen Buildings
A heavy rain and wind storm swept much of the state with a tornado around Tappen 125 miles west of Fargo. A church store and several dwellings were blown down and the Northern Pacific depot unroofed. Wires were down and crops damaged along a storm path several miles wide. In Red River valley rain fell along the boundary line. Fargo area and parts of Minnesota reported crop damage.
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Tappen
Fargo
N. D
Northern Pacific
Red River Valley
State Line
Minnesota
Columbia Defeats Constitution in Newport Race
In Newport Rhode Island on July 30 Columbia defeated the Constitution boat for boat in a splendid race by two minutes and sixty four seconds to win the $1,000 cup presented by Colonel Jacob Astor. The victory was decisive and convincing while the Constitution’s effort was disappointing overall.
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Columbia
Constitution
Newport
R. I
Astor
Duncan
Sean
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