War gains and armistice talks as turbulence spreads worldwide
Domokos has fallen and Thessaly is in Turkish hands while Greece retreats after fierce fighting. An armistice is to be negotiated as a peace waster and czar brokered ceasefire. Europe endures heavy snow, frosts, and storm damage. Austria and Germany report extensive fruit-tree losses. In the Americas, Yaqui warriors march to Ortiz for peace, and Cuban insurgents claim major success against Spanish forces near Manzanillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Domokos
Turkey
Thessaly
Greece
South Australia
Kingston
Europe
Austria
Germany
Hamburg
Cologne
Nancy
Bordeaux
Angulomene
Burgundy
Prevesa
Gulf of Arta
Mexico
Ortiz
Juan Maldonado
Tetabiales
Pelado
Havana
Calixto Garcia
Rabi
Manzanillo
Bayamo
Lonos
Cabocorus
Lurid Chain of Tragedies and Crimes Reported Across States
A sweeping list of violent incidents and crimes spans Iowa to Nevada. Included are suicides, arsons, murders, prison terms, robberies, and a fatal mine disaster. Notable cases involve Sidney Burges in Centerville, a bridge fire at Hannibal, a child killed by rats near Cedar City, and the Rockford wife murder verdict with a death sentence. Other items cover a fatal shooting near De Soto, a Wells Fargo train robbery in Texas, a 60 foot tipple collapse at Pinckney ore mines killing ten, a Russian military train wreck, a Milwaukee murder, poisonings linked to the Kelly family, hangings in Rosebud, a Lexington courthouse fire destroying the statue Woman Triumphant, and murders in Denver and Deadwood. The mosaic of grim events presents widespread violence and public danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Burges
Centerville
Hannibal and St. Joseph
Hannibal
Cedar City
San Augustino
Tex
James French
Rockford
Sid Dunn
Buffalo
Funderburg
New Carlisle
Ahoyote
Lee Franzen
Ben Jones
Christopher Neilson
Charles Monaghan
Eldorado Canon
Nev Mra
James Reed
Newton Gamble
de Soto
Reed
Southern Pacific
Rockenhof
Eliva
N. B. Clark
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Michigan Bark and Lumber Company
Milwaukee
Ardmore
Simon Weaver
Terre Haute
Ind
Jeff
Ala
Kelly
Jim Nance
Williams
Rosebud
Dave Cotton
Henry Williams
Lade Stewart
Law
William Coates
Lexington
Hart
William H.‘Hamilton
Catherine Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
Elizabeth Hayns Hamilton
Denver
Helena
Mon
Montana
Emma Stone
Keystone
Deadwood
Dutober
Sonia
Multiple State Legislatures Hit By Bills And Votes
Illinois house passes bill to end six day bicycle races and Humphrey railway reforms fail. Texas battles over school textbook uniformity. Michigan raises railroad tax receipts to about double. Stephen R Mallory elected US senator Florida. Illinois judge Scofield withdraws from ninth district race. Cres ton fusion parties apportion county offices. Princeton Illinois has dual mayors and councils. debts tied to courts. Wanamaker criticizes McKinley era politics at Philadelphia banquet and warns of a new party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois House
Texas
Humphrey
Illinois
Boards of Commissioners
Michigan
Pingree
Senate
Stephen R. Mallory
United States
Call
Florida
O. J. Scofield
Ninth Judicial District
Creston
Princeton
Ills
Wanamaker
Business Men’s League of Philadelphia
McKinley
Global business notes and political briefs from 1897
Market chatter spans Joplin to Torreon with plans for five cotton mills and gas pipelines. Alaska gold yields reach ten million. U S tobacco ruling. Brenham and Boyle deals valued at a hundred thousand. Senate actions include Cuba relief and federal appointments. Immigration shows a drop. postal stamp proposal fails amid currency swings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commiercia
Joplin
Torreon
Mexico
Fort Scott
Kan
Jola
Alaska
United States
Strawboard
Hollenden
Cleveland
Judge Gibbons
American Tobacco Company
Illinois
Boyle & Co
Boyle, Miss
Bradstreet
Trade Review
Chicago
Notable Deaths Mark May 14 Across Cities
Ex Senator Richard Coke dies in Waco on May 14. Opera manager Max Moritz passes away at his Staten Island home on May 14 at age 76. Dubuque Ills resident Joseph A Rhomberg dies in his carriage from paralysis. Wisconsin General Chandler P Chapman dies in Milwaukee at 53. Missouri farmer John M Weakly dies suddenly of heart disease in St Louis County. Mrs Julia A McCarver widow of General M McCarver founder of Burlington Sacramento and Tacoma dies in Tacoma on May 14 at old age. She was born November 19 1825 in St Charles County Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Coke
Waco
Max Moritz
Staten Island
Joseph A. Rhomberg
Dubuque
Chandler P. Chapman
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
John M. Weakly
St. Louis County
Missouri
Julia A. McCarver
General M. McCarver
Burlington
Sacramento
Tacoma
St. Charles County
Theosophists at War in San Diego and Other History Notes
A sweeping digest notes diverse events across the nation including theosophists in San Diego at odds, Texas editors touring Missouri, a 105.4 crop average, a Cuban flag uprooted in St Louis, and a new women’s clubs federation in Waco Texas. It records a Wyoming gold find near Saratoga, a Grace Collins prize in Lamonte Missouri, oil land pooling near Anderson Indiana, and Cuban loan denials in New York. It also covers church assembly plans in Indianapolis, freight rate changes by the Joint Traffic Association, a Kansas City dynamite accident, and a Peoria rail telegraphers convention. The piece lists delegates at multiple conventions, a Clemency request for Charles Johnson, Stanford seal fisheries commission, embezzlement case of George Draper, the Nashville Golden Cross conventioneers, Lily Langtry’s divorce, a mass Cuba rally in Washington, and memorial events in Philadelphia with McKinley.
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San Diego
Cal
Missouri
St. Louis
Waco
Tex
Saratoga
Wyo
Grace Collins
Knob Noster
Lamonte
Anderson
Ind
New York City
109Th General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church In
United States
Eagle Lake
Joint Traffic Association
New York
New Orleans
James Hennessy
Patrick Cull
Kansas City
Peoria
Supreme Commandery of the United Order of the Golden Cross
Nashville
Tenn
Charles Johnson
Guthrie
C. T
Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Pribyloff Islands
George A. Draper
Cheyenne
Emilie
Charlotte Langtry
R. W. Crump
Lakeport
Washington
Columbia
Cuba
Senator Allen
National Convention of
Railroad Commissioners
C. L. Davidson
Iowa
H. V. Larne
California
Edward A. Mosely
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia
William Wayne
The
Cincinnati
McKinley
Grain and provision markets show weakness in Chicago trade
Markets were weak with grain leading declines as weak cables and a disappointing world visible supply press prices lower. Wheat fell with July at 75.5 cents and Sept at 66 44 cents. corn and oats slid about four percent. Provisions opened lower and closed little changed with various July and Sept quotes. Cash quotes listing several wheat corn and oats grades appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carcago
Livestock Prices and Receipts From South Omaha and Kansas City
Cattle receipts at South Omaha on May 18 total 8 100 with strong demand. native beef steers fetch 4.00 to 1.90 per hundredweight, western and Texas steers 3.70 to 4.60 and 3.50 to 4.35 respectively. Hogs run 9 700 with prices from 3.47 to 4.3 55 for heavies and mixed grades. lambs and sheep also vary by class. Kansas City reports 16 000 cattle and 19 000 hogs with Texas and native steers priced from 2.70 to 5.00 and hogs from 3.40 to 5.55. Chicago market notes include strong but incomplete hog and cattle data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Omaha
Texas
Kansas City
Mattons
Czar Calls a Halt as Turks to Cease Hostilities
Telegraphed orders directed Edhem Pasha to stop fighting, ending Turkish Greek hostilities in Thessaly and Epirus. Armistice signals and ceasefire reports emerge from Athens and London as Domokos, Arta, and Epirus see allied truces. grim casualty notes accompany relief and negotiated peace expectations.
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Edhem Pasha
Thessaly
Epirus
Constantinople
Russia
Germany
Turkey
France
Austria
Great Britain
Italy
Athens
Sofia
Domokos
Arta
Longpon
The
Daily Telegraph
Dhem Pasha
London
Smolenski
Sourpi
Russian Railway Horror Strikes Kaznoyarisk Unit
A military railway train carrying Krasnojarisk infantry was wrecked between Rockenhof and Kliva on the Valki Jursey line after embankment undermined by floods. Eighty four soldiers were killed, fifteen tracks filled, and two second class carriages shattered. Seventy six bodies remain beneath debris with sixty more recovered and ninety three injured sent to hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Krasnoyarisk
Rockenhof
Kliva
Valki-Jursey
Oklahoma wheat harvest to begin as crop looks large
Reports from Noble, Pawnee and Kay counties indicate a very large wheat acreage with yields from 40 to 60 bushels per acre. The territory may yield 6 to 7 million bushels, aided by recent rains. If prices hold at 80 cents to $1, farmers expect good returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Perry
Noble
Pawnee
Cherokee Strip
Monument to Washington Unveiled in Jubilees Celebration
A monumental bronze memorial to George Washington was unveiled with President McKinley presiding and a 31 gun national salute. The ceremony included a bishop’s prayer, a keynote by Major Wayne, and a wheelmen parade drawing nearly 20 000 participants, with illumination across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ane
George Washington
Republic
Washington
Bishop Whittaker
Major Wayne
President McKinley
Delaware
McKinley
Union League
Holland Destroyer Launched Submarine Torpedo Boat
The Holland submarine torpedo boat was launched at Crescent shipyards Holland designed the vessel and Mrs. Nixon christened it. It measures 50 feet 8 inches, 10 feet 8 inches amidship, can dive and surface quickly, uses gasoline and a dynamo, has three torpedo tubes and a six man crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emiraneta
N. J
Crescent
John P. Holland
Nixon
Lewis Nixon
Holland
Mallory Elected U S senator on 25th ballot
Florida ex congressman Stephen R. Mallory won the United States Senate seat at Tallahassee on the 25th ballot with 53 votes to 44 for Call and 1 for Chipley. Mallory spoke to a large crowd in the House of Representatives saying he endorsed the Chicago platform and urged no financial questions and vocating this stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Call
Tallahasser
Fla
Stephen R
Mallory
United States
Chipley
House of Representatives
Chicago
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Cornell
Naval Cadets
Annapolis
Louisville
Ornazhent
Dr. Catlett
Yale
Harvard
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
National Capital
Internal Revenue
Hough
Ohio
J. W. Forsyth
House
Supreme Council of the American Protective Association
John W. Echols
Atlanta
Omaha
Postal Congress
Immigration Bureau
Congress
Becon Wn
Czar
Manchusten
Eng
Guardian Today
Sherman
Jullian
Julian Pauncefote
United States Senate
Julian
Bliss
Wasnictor
Sarecoxie
Sarcoxie
Sarcoxie Horticultural Association
Spring River
Clark
Los Angeles
Grand Division of the Order of Railway Conductors
E. E. Clark
C. H.wilkins
Martin Clancy
A. B. Garrettson
W. D. Perkins
St. Josepht St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago Great Western Railway
Pildrose J. Bas. Clay
Puseiusrte
C. Brooks
Bt. Paul
Bt Paul
Thos. Shaw
Israrery Pearse MT Geese BR
Sheridan, Mont
Leitervill
Dillon and Virgini
Quire
Ream Tribune Pub. CO
Tribune Pub. CO
Dilon, Mont
Poindexter & OK
Dillon, Beaverhead Co
M. T
Deer Creek Valley
Catarre
Kavreve
Tate Age
L. L. May & Co
St. Paul, Mion
Anc
Dillon Montana
Tarsuna Posrisiixe Co
Dillon
Mitor
Tarnow
Pusiisarre Co, Dillon
Berta
Salt Lake
Tribune
Redacea Teo
Aner
Jane
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