Iowa News Items Highlight Parllament Visit and Storm Aftermath
The Dublin Gazette notes Charles Stewart Parnell may visit the United States to raise funds for electioneering. A French medical commission will study Ferran's inoculation theory in Spain. Dubuque arrests a suspect in a $1,000 theft in Missouri. Storms devastate Marcus and Remsen areas, with multiple deaths and property damage including a destroyed railroad depot and churches.
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Charles Stewart Parnell
United States
Spain
Ferran
Dubuque County
Dubujus
George Miller
Cook County
Missouri
Dunmire
Epworth
Miller
David Bonar
Oscola
Clark County
Hubert G. Lawson
State University
Glenwood
Lawson
Eddie Laamr
Stuart
Pinkerton
Tere
Nelson Laami
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Company
Nancy Julius
Albia
Maryland wife beater jailed and lashed in six months
Frank Pyers of Baltimore was convicted of wife beating and sentenced by Judge Fisher to six months in jail and fifteen lashes after a withdrawn motion for a new trial. Locust swarms spread north of Chattanooga covering shrubbery and fields.
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Frank Pyers
Baltimore
Fisher
Chattanooga
Nathis
New York
Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Harrison County
Kentucky
State Board of Health
Frisbie & Lake
Cynthiana
Henry R. Myers
Sophia Myers
Myers
Maryland
Eminent composer Cartes Gounon sued for slander
Mrs Weldon of London has won a judgment of 50000 dollars against the eminent composer Cartes Gounon for slander. Among his celebrated works are the operas Mirelle and Romeo and Juliet.
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Cartes Gounon
New Consuls and Their Origins Across Nations
A Washington dispatch lists newly appointed consuls including Charles A. Daugherty of Pennsylvania appointed secretary of the legation at Rome, and Wm. L. Alden of New York Times fame named consul-general at Rome. Others span Georgia, New Jersey, Erie, Rochester, and more with varied backgrounds from lawyers to clergymen.
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Washington
Charles A. Daugherty
Pennsylvania
Legation
Rome
Philadelphia
Daniel Daugherty
Wm. L. Alden
Wm. Alden
Albany Normal School
New York Times
Italy
Religius
Ecsatisirs
Kingdom
Victor
Emanuel
Vatican
Pierce M. B. Young
Georgia
St. Petersburg
Souta Carolina
George W. Savage
Belfast
Rabway, N. J
Edward Camphausen
Naples
Erie
Branvis Gallery
Kingston
Jamaca
Rochester
Lad
John M. Birch
West Virginia
Nagashi
Wheeling
W. Va
Earnest Meir
Richard H. Stoddard
New York
Athens
Custom House
Theodore W. Downs
Connecticut
Quebeec
Bridgeport
Conn
Democratic State Committee
J. C. Monaghan
Rhode Island
Mannheim
Brown University
Cleveland
Hendricks
Wallace Jones
Florida
Messina
Wm. H. Mofat
New Jersey
Beirut
Gladstone Declines Earldom Amid Cabinet Talks
London dispatches report the queen offering an earldom to Gladstone who declines citing his duty to the liberal cause. Editorials praise his decision as fitting and his leadership remains essential. Churchill conditions Northcote’s leadership and Drummond Wolff is tipped for cabinet. Salisbury prepares to announce a new ministry with Balfour as chief secretary for Ireland.
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Aden
Admiraltty
Renard
Indian Ocean
Gladstone
the Times
Stafford Northcote
Earl Iddlesleigh
Northcote
Treasury
Earl Carnarvon
Arade
Ireland
Arthur
Balfour
Local Government Board
Charles Dilke
Edward Stanhaze
Madrid
Valencia
Senor Romeo Roberto
Interior
Castellon de la Plana
Valenca
Murcia
Aran Uz
Castelan de la Plana
Herat
Churchill
India
Dufferin
London
London “News
Times
Windsor
Balmoral
Marquis of Salisbury
House of Commons
Henry Drummond Weit
Portsmouth
Courerill
Salisbury
Pall Mall Gazette
M. Lessar
Colliery Explosion At Clifton Hall Killing Estimate Rises
A fierce fire damp explosion at Clifton Hall colliery trapped many workers. Three hundred fifty were at work. one hundred twenty rescued, the rest entombed. Rescue efforts stalled for hours as gas hindered progress. Officials fear about one hundred dead. Relatives gather, praying for survivors amid the mounting tragedy.
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Clifton Hall
Larest
Clifton Held
New York Reception for Bartholdi Statue Draws Crowd
A grand reception for Bartholdi’s Liberty statue drew huge crowds in New York on the 19th. Vessels lined the harbor as military salutes rang out. Admiral Lacombe and French officers received a civic welcome, with banquets and concerts following the procession through the city.
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New York
Bartholdi
Battery
Bowling Green
Isere
Bedloe’s Island
United States
Omaha
Alliance
Powhastian
Fort Walsworth
Bedoe’i Island
Hores
New Jersey
Long Iland
Beyless Island
Atlantic
Armerican Committee
Shaller
Sail
Lacombe
Chace
Sanger
Frederick Condent
Isore
la Flore
Star Theater
Admiral Lacombe
Union Pacific judgment set at 1.58 million in 1900 ruling
Washington dispatch reports the Court of Claims entered a government favorable judgment of 1,577,603 dollars after suspending and reviewing the Kans as Pacific subsidy basis. Government and Union Pacific accounts show offsets and further sums owed, with an estimated final balance near 100 thousand dollars after earlier payments. The case began over five years ago.
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Washington Dispatch
Court of Claims
Union Pacific Railroad
Kansas Pacife
Union Pacific
Kansa S Pacific
Kans
Department of Justice
the Interior Deparment
Snce
Thurman
United States Treasury
Treasury
Sunday Schools Convention Gathers Record Crowds at Newton
The State Sunday Schools convention in Newton closes June 15 with a standout turnout. President W F Barclay and officers were elected, delegates numbered 642 with most from outside Jasper county. Renewed calls for science in instruction and mission work marked the gathering.
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Jane
Henry Plant
W. F. Barclay
Clinton
J. Morcan
Askaloosa
W. Coe
Colfax
Beardshear
Toledo
J. H. Funk
Fairned
F. ¥. Miler
Newton
F. B. Stacy
Stacyville
H. M. Morzan
Burlington
C. A. Crawford
Madrid
J. C. W. Coxe
Brooklyn
Stephen Phelps
Cedar Rapids
Hon. Ste. Laub
Denise
Oskaloosa
Congregational Church
Coxe
BuPkharm
Ottumwa
Bates
Dubuque
Daneis
W. Cole
Kurrell
Stacy
Keokuk
A. O. Abbott
Hell
Jasper County
Xeell
Chicago
Quote about corruption and truth in human heart
A reflective line notes that deeper evils come from corruption of the heart rather than from mental intrusion. It contrasts inner moral decay with external analysis, suggesting virtue hinges on character.
Memorial for Maj. Gen Dowett marks Civil War service
Maj. Gen. Inwis Mr Dowett who died May 4 was a prominent Union general. He commanded the First Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign and served with Gen. Pope in 1862. He died on the retired list.
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First Army Corps
Army of the Potomac
Pope
Maxwell the Murderer Arrest on Steamship Wake
Sydney Maxwell alias Daugnier is arrested aboard the City of Sidney at Tiritiri after a U S Consulate led operation for a murder in St Louis on April 5. The case moves through court delays as Star Louis authorities pursue jurisdiction. Officers find incriminating items among Maxwell s possessions linking him to the victim C A P and to San Francisco contacts Robinson and a Dr M D Lennox. The trial remains postponed with repeated eight day remands as authorities converge from St Louis.
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Sidney
Australia
San Francisco
Aukland
New Zealand
Auckland
Walter Lennox Maxwell
Theodore Cecil Daugnier
Charles A. Preller
St. Louis
U. S
Gamble
Tiritiri
Maxwell
Lim
France
Messrs. Nabler and
Burton
bLroughtul
Robinson
Twohry
Dauguier
Smith
Storm Devastates Storvx City and Surrounding Area
A severe midnight wind storm caused extensive damage across Storvx City within a twenty five mile radius. Buildings unroofed including post office and several stores, churches leveled in Le Mars, farms lost barns and crops, with two country fatalities and multiple injuries. In Storvx City many homes, trees, windmills, and glass broken. total losses exceed twenty thousand dollars.
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Ida County
Ida Grove
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Prairie City
T. W. Webb
Humboldt County
Storvx
Livingston & Co
C. E. Shenkberg
McDavis
D. Farr & Co
Standard Oil Company
St. Paul
Omaha
Bennett
Alex Mait
Stout
Methodist and
Baptist Church
J. K. Peck
J. H. Rivers
Rivers
Phil Jennings
Sioux City
B. Hunterford
J. B. Waddington
Peter Garvey
Wm. Brill
Tom C. Leary
James Herst
Wm. Drake
Tom Flaming
Peter Peteron
Jake Schendler
Albert Cordwell
Wis
Nesbitt
William Lord
James Station
Cer
le Mars
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
St. James Catholic
Tragic double shooting suicide in New Orleans
In New Orleans John Charlton shot a young man named McCay after a quarrel and delirium tremens. Charlton then turned the pistol on himself, blowing out his brains and dying instantly. McCay was wounded in the neck but not seriously.
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New Orleans
John Charlton
McCay
McKay
Charlton
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