Late discourse frames science, debt, and tears in Cuba notes
The piece surveys a mix of items from a hospitality plate remark and a minister’s quip about debt giving way to a claim that the collection exceeds expectations. It notes Miss Josephine Bowen Holman, Dr John W Hoffman and other scientific figures, contemplates industry and ignorance, and reports on Cuban immigration patterns showing Spaniards dominating arrivals in 1900 with US immigrants near zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Spain
United States
Froude
Electric street railroad shows rapid tech changes over decade
An investigator notes the electric streetcar lines of about ten years ago mostly outdated. Most devices from that era have been scrapped due to rapid improvements. Experience eventually stabilizes machinery, after which further gains slow.
Thief in Madrid uses charged device for thefts
In Madrid a stylish thief employed an electric battery device hidden in his overcoat to shock victims and steal watches and purses, confessing the gadget was made in Chemnitz Saxony. Separately, Mexican officials pledged to arrest anyone linked to a proposed Brizian boxing event as Diaz orders crackdown. Queen Wilhelmina plans a yachting cruise with her husband through Italian waters, then Venice or Port Said, before sailing to the Dutch East Indies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Spain
Chemnitz
Saxony
Cincinnati
Mexico
Diaz
United States
Wilhelmina
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Stcily
Ventes
Prince Consort
Holland
Venice
Port Said
Dutch East Indies
From Washington News Briefs Summary
Two cadets at West Point are dismissed. Manila volunteers sail home. The president defers extra sessions and keeps military rule in the Philippines. Census Director Merriam releases first half of population data. Timber operations on Chippewa reservation may stay halted until Congress acts. Several military officers are reassigned or resigning. Major fire losses reported on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and various U.S. incidents with deaths and damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
West Point
Manila
Philippines
Congress
Merriam
Chippewa
Henry Jackson
Phird Cavalry
Lst
England
Tlinois
Thomas
Phelps
Mareleland
Alert
Perkings
Navy
Youngblood
Alabama
Treasury Department
Lookout lynching suspects and multiple crime reports across regions
A compilation of violent incidents and legal actions includes a California governor’s reward offer over a Lookout lynching case in Modoc county, a Missouri engineer’s family killings followed by suicide, an extradition discharge in Cuba for a U S cavalry sergeant accused of murder, a Racine hotelier’s suicide linked to despondency, a Missouri stockman fatally shot by a father, a Harewood asylum murder in Golden British Columbia, an Alaska double tragedy ending in self harm, and a Broadway shooting indictment of a young man later released on recognizance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Gov
Gage
California
Lookout
Modoc County
James Stacey
Macon
Stacey
Lois Darrell
Seventh
United States Cavalry
Cuba
South Africa
Pingr del Rio
Fred Derricks
Racine
Wis
Wagner House
Owen Logan
Arkee
Jessie Walker
Maryville
Logan
Walker
Golden
B.C
Francis J. Lascelles
Earl
Harewood
Frank Lascelles
Germany
T Lascelles
Francisco Alaska
Mra
Angeling Fala
Elizabeth Street
Alaska
Richard Hayden Moilton
May Buckley
HI. Morris
Mutes Awful Deed Near McClure Station
The report details a brutal assault on Sarah Lieb near the McClure station on the Cape Girardeau branch. Castleman, a deaf mute, was captured at his mother's home after being identified by Lieb and was believed to have planned and carried out the attack, with authorities facing lynching threats and a court transfer en route to Alexander county. The crime marks one of the era's most horrific and widely discussed cases in southern Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Illinois
McClure
Cape Girardiau
Illinois Central
Sarah Lieb
Paxal
Castleman
Wenls
Castleman Veing
Winchester
Jane Harrington
Grush
Waterloo
Recognition of God Again in Masonic Rite Sparks Debate
The article notes shifts in Masonic practice as lodges in the United States and Latin nations drop the phrase To the glory of the great architect of the universe, then reinstate it, signaling renewed recognition of divinity. It discusses implications for Italian lodges and cross-border fraternal ties amid broader cultural debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mazon
Charley
Falls Thoreau Svoulub
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Scandinavia
Notable Obscurities in a Tattered Dispatch
A collage of brief notes reports deaths and weddings. James A. Henne the actor is dead while Henry B. Perrine of Buffalo dies at seventy four. Celia Sibley wed William McCalmont Wilson in Franklin Pa. Representative McCleary to visit Ewrone for study. scatterings mention foreign affairs and minor military updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Henne
McCleary
Ewrone
Celia Sibley
Joseph G. Sibley
William McCalmont Wilson
Washington, D. C
Franklin
D.B. Robinson
Atchison
Opeka & Santu Ft
Diegrat
Howies
Chicago
Henry B. Perrine
Buffalo
N. Y
Folxouw
Grover Cleveland
Perrine
Dick Whittemore
Beru Brummel
St. Louis
Leiving
Dr. Herron
Middlesex
Comunty
N. J
Ceawford
Metuchen
Plainfield
Panoptown
Free Travel Offered for British Union Delegates Visit
London June 12 A L Jones chairman of Elder and Dempster proposes free passage to official British trades union delegates visiting the United States. Purpose to study labor conditions, employment, and the use of labor saving machinery and tools to help Americans maintain high production levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Amere On
London
A. L. Jones
Elder & Dempster Steamship Company
United States
Fire in No. 2 Shaft Buries Dozens at Port Royal Mine
At Port Royal Pennsylvania June 12 a coal and coke mine disaster trapped more than thirty men after an initial explosion. Six were in the near area. two escaped to surface. Rescue teams faced after damp and two follow up blasts as anxious relatives gathered, with many feared dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Royal
Hs Pitteburg Coal and Coke Company
Thie Place
Ta Agalt
William Metune
Wert Newton
Alatrict
Dennis
Mirte
Michael Roy
Buea
Dows
Optioalle
Baltimore & ‘Ohio
Fairty
Insurance Conspiracy Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict
Dr August M Unger and F Wayland Brown found guilty of conspiring to defraud insurers through the death of Marie Defenbach in Chicago. Frank H Smiley pleads to get state’s evidence. may receive a light sentence. Case claimed murder by staged accident with cremation of the body despite inquest declaring natural causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
August M. Unger
F. Wayland Brown
Marie
Defenbach
Frank H. Smiley
Unger
Brown
Caaé
Smiley
Thiomin III
John RB. Weckler
Weckler
Meath
Woman Charged With Murder In Michigan Case
In St Louis Michigan on June 12 Mrs Chas Yates wife of a nearby farmer was placed under arrest by Prosecuting Attorney Kirby on a murder charge. The coroner jury heard her testimony after the body of Jasper Wright was found in the woods near the Yates home. She admitted meeting Wright and witnessing him with illness before his death. The inquest was adjourned to June 13 amid great local excitement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jory Beauita
St. Louis
Mich
Chas, Yates
Linges
Kirby
Jasper Wright
Mur
Yates
Wright
Double Tragedy at Great Northern Hotel in Chicago
The bodies of L Hartman and his wife were found in their bed at the Great Northern hotel. Each had a bullet wound in the temple and a revolver gripped in the husband’s hand, suggesting a joint suicide or a murder suicide tied to a runaway marriage and a harsh father. Rose Violet was once an actress linked to the woman. Wealthy New York connections were mentioned for Hartman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
L. Hartman
Great Northern
New York
Rose Violet
Murphy a Copper the Speedy Weyete Rider
Charles M Murphy of Brooklyn a bicycle rider once nicknamed Aile-a-Minute Murphy has given up racing and will join the New York police force. He has won about $6 000 in prizes and many medals and trophies in his career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nuclna
New York
Fane
Charles M. Murphy
Brooklyn
Murphy
Fatal explosion rocks Vestal and Binghamton area
A dynamite car detonation near Vestal caused two train wrecks and a large blast. Killed were three men, with many houses losing windows as rescuers battled fires. Trains Del Lackawanna and Western were blocked, pieces of the dynamite car scattered up to a half mile away. No injuries reported among local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton
Vestal
Avout
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Tralin
Vostok
Union
Susquehanna
Boers Likely to Surrender Early, Durban Rumor
Reports from Durban say a general Boer surrender may come soon. Bullock's column in eastern Transvaal shows British night attacks capturing Boers and stock while destroying foodstuffs. Gen Blood's eastern Transvaal operations keep Botha's forces confined, with 600 Boers north of the Delagoa Bay railway and supplies stripped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durban
Bullock
Transvaal
Botha
Lom
Blood
Tranavaal
Hotha
Ia Utill
Delagom Bay
Soldier and man die on Santa Fe train in Winslow
In Winslow New Mexico June 11 an American, believed to be Herman B Johnson of St. Louis, cut his throat with a razor in a doorway chair car of a Santa Fe passenger train and died. A returning soldier from the Philippines, driven mad by the scene, leaped from the car door and ran across the hill before being captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Omaha
Arbuckle Bros
Washington
Tenloo
Puget Sound Petroleum Company
Philadelphia Times
Pu Teen G Balington Booth
Volunteers of America
New York
Balyao Tlon
Bli
Sunn
Greely
Stenar
Army
Sun
Manila
Sheridan
San Francisco
Buffalo Exposition
Buffalo
N. Y
Machiniata
New York Central Railroad
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Secretary of State of
Pennsylvania Engineering
Newcastle
American Shirt and Collar Company
Council
The
University of New York
Joseph French Johnson
School of Commerce
Jrinrevahan
Chi Prr & Suarrer
Merce
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Herman
Johnson
St. Louis
Santa Fe
Winslow
Hilla
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May
Edward
Josephine Bowen Holman
Indianapolis
Marcon
John W. Hoffman
Florida State Industrial College
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Royal Agricultural Society of England
Persia
Camattier
Grand Forks
Sire
Omata
Hudson
Tenk Hardware Company
Quinasy
Til
Toss
Tire
Kansas City
Mulding
Western Stores Company
Dry Gooda
Lake Shore Railroad
North Fast
Erie
Hugh Walterg
Michael Findley
Bruce Tinviett
James Walsh
John Mead
Rhoda Frank
Frome
St. Brieua
France
Iceland
George 8.Roas
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Tarentam
Kelly
Ant
Brate
Win Vietim
Bethe
Sem
Avia A
West
Long
Hitchcock
Wilson
Knox
Smith
Root
Hay
John Barrett
Siam
Chambers of Commerce
China
Cunt- Berrewigue
Emilana Feaza
Marraquin of
Colombi
Ecuador
Agnes Hatfeldt
North Center Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Forty-third Avenue
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
Western Labor Union
Chaffee
Ninth Infantry
Paku
MacArthur
Malonang Palace
William
Whelan von Blemarck
Cal. White
Fritzinger
Janestown
Jamestown
Fongkong
Berniuia
Mamilt
Moyut Warwickshire Regiment
Purly
LABOR
Briyfish
Moni
Pekin
Tartar
Barrow
Hung Chang
Russia
Italy
Bhensi
Chili
Honan
Belmian
Legation
Japan
Li-Hung-Ghang
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