Switchmen Triumph as Trainmen Expelled by Federation
The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen was expelled from the Supreme Council of the Federation of Railway Employes after a disputed vote. The Switchmen had claimed conspiracy by two grand officers with Chicago and Northwestern to recruit men for their rivals. A committee report urged penalties, with expulsion narrowly approved, and further council actions on other orders and admissions remain pending.
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Havre
Ind
Brotherhood of Trainmen
United States
Supreme Council of the
Federation of Railway Employes
Brotherhood of Firemen
Brotherhood of Conductors
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Chicago
Messrs. Wilkinson and Sheehan
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Supreme Payess
United Order of Railway
Supreme Council
Switchmen’s Mutual Aid Association
Brotherhood of
Grand Pacific Hotel
Brotherhood
Joan J. Hannanan
Danren J. Carr
J. W. Marrn
Sweeney
Himerott
Debs
Hannahan
Sargent
Firemen
Trainmen
Wilkinson
Sheehan
Order of
Brotherhood of Telegraphers
Brtherhood
Railway Federation Council
Federation
Jealous suitor shoots Maria Burker then kills himself
In Lawrence Massachusetts on June 30 Maria Burker eighteen is killed by John Rausch twenty four who had pursued her for months. He then shoots himself and dies. The tragedy happens outside the Everett mill where she worked after an argument at her father's house. Both had respectable standings.
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Lawrence
Mass
Maria Burker
John Rausch
Rausch
Everett Mill
Raunch
Maria
IOWA REPUBLICANS STATE CONVENTION UPDATE
The Iowa Republican State Convention opens in Cedar Rapids with H C Wheeler leading in delegate support and governor nomination by acclamation possibility. A grand monster meeting with Congressman Dolliver anticipated. offices set at Grand. Flour City Life Insurance Co in New York meanwhile faces trouble with three officials indicted including President C F Underhill Secretary Wm P Chase and Adjuster James McCargo.
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Crpan Ramps
Iowa
Roomster
N. Y
Flour City Life Association
Assessment Life Assurance Company
C. F. Underhill
Wm. P. Chase
James McCargo
Oargo Faces Larceny Charge in Flour City Scandal
Oargo is charged with larceny and others with accessories. President Underhill, also vice president of the Life Union association of New York City, a rival to Flour City, is mentioned as part of the investigation. The state superintendent of insurance probes alleged fraudulent methods of the association.
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Oargo
Underhill
Lifa Union Association
New York City
Will Be Acquitted Kuhns Case Hinted by Bloody Pants
In Trzrim Ohio on June 30 a Special report notes the strongest state testimony centers on bloody pants Kuhns placed with Della Bird in Indiana after the Oampeau murder. The defense seeks to explain them away as blood evidence. Witnesses say Kuhns bled a sick horse at Prospect the day before departure, with blood spattering his clothes, and others suggest two men fled the murder scene. The article implies Kuhns may be acquitted.
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Trzrim
Ohio
Kuhns
Della Bird
Indiana
Oampeau
Prospect
Tare Crystal
Minn
Hogan Nelson
Here
Nelson
Annie
Still Rising Missouri River Flood Reaches Harlem Kansas
Missouri River continues to rise past danger line flooding lower bottom lands. Harlem entirely submerged except knoll-built homes while streetcar service to Midway halted. Rail lines near Hannibal and St. Joe bridge show no new damage after a dyke breach relief. River expected to crest and begin falling by afternoon as west Kansas City overflows and families relocate.
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Kansas Orry
Hannibal and St. Joe
Harlem
Knoills
Midway
United States
Manhattan
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Begging for Morphine: Dillinger in Custody at Hyde Park
Oxntenco June 30 Dillinger alias Lewis Bulling the Missouri wife killer is confined at Hyde Park police station awaiting Missouri officers. He is weak from morphine withdrawal and past addiction, having begged for the drug until officers granted a small allowance. Missouri officers are due to arrive tonight.
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Oxntenco
Dillinger
Lewis Bulling
Missouri
Hyde Park
Timid duelists fire shots on Dufferin terrace
Captain Kane, ex British army officer, exchanged pistol fire with O. P. Storey on the Dufferin terrace promenade last evening. Kane attacked with his stick, then fired twice. Storey returned fire and Kane fled. The crowded terrace reported no injuries.
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Kane
Dufferin Terrace
O. P. Storey
Mra. Kane
Storey
The Hangman’s Noose Lurks in Whisky Glass
Crompton alias Bud Barris was hanged by U S authorities in Fort Sura Arkansas. About 200 spectators watched the drop at 10 27 am. He protested innocence and blamed whisky warning others to beware when drinking.
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Fort Sura
Ark
Bondinot Crompton
Bud Barris
United States
Crompton
Libel Suit Filed by New York Life Insurance
The New York Life Insurance Company plans to sue the New York Times for libel over articles questioning the company’s management, seeking about 1,000,000 in damages. Governor Burkeley replies to questions about 1892 political plans, saying he would not run for anything less than the presidency.
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New York
the Tribune
New York Life Insurance Company
the Times
Sun
Hartford
Burkeley
Connecticut
Blaine
Harrison
Brutal white cap whipping in Crawford county
A brutal act in Crawford county near Leavenworth with twenty masked white caps torturing William McGuire and his eighteen year old stepdaughter. They were beaten with about seventy five lashes on bare backs and forearms, threatened with hanging if found in the county in twenty days. The incident follows an adultery charge with no proof.
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New Aprony
Ind
Crawford County
Wm. McGuire
Leavenworth
McGuire
Meo- Guire
Leavensworth
Mysterious flood grows in Colorado desert region
Reports from the Colorado desert indicate water rising two more inches since Sunday to fifteen inches total and spreading widely. Railroad interests fear flood impact as an exploring party sails from Los Angeles. the desert tract lies 100 to 270 feet below sea level, covering about 3,000 square miles and showing evidence of past floods. If submerged again, it would rank among the nation’s strangest physical phenomena.
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San Francisco
Colorado Desert
Los Angeles
Importers React as Tin Plate Tariff Increases
New York reports the McKinley tariff on tin plate from England rising to two and two tenths cents per pound tomorrow causing importers to rush steamers past the customs. St Petersburg notes population 101 million with high illegitimate birth rates in cities. Archbis hop Tache near death in Winnipeg. Times may reshuffle foreign correspondents in London. Mazony reports 52 victims poisoned by ice cream in a local incident.
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New York
England
Custom House
French minister Roustan returns from Chicago fair visit
Washington reports Theodore Roustan, French minister, has returned from a Chicago World’s Fair visit. He notes France will present a complete exhibit and that France will form additional committees beyond the fine arts. France seeks duty free or in bond treatment and hopes for a successful fair led by Chicago’s enterprising public.
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Washington
Theodore Roustan
Chicago
Franoce
France
United States
Roustan
Great Undertaking of Rubber Manufacturer Dies in Brooklyn
Albert B. Coolerige, head of Houghton Coolerige & Co. and president of Para Rubber, died at his Brooklyn residence aged fifty nine. He sought to unite major rubber houses into a global trust to control world markets amid South American market tensions. The strain felled him after three months of illness while serving on commissions for Philadelphia and Paris expositions.
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Boston
Albert B. Coolerige
Houghton, Coolerige & Co
Para Rubber Company
Brooklyn
South America
Philadelphia
The Horrible Method Two Aged Chinese Adopt to Die Together
In Sacramento on June 30 Win Ok and his wife Di Toy cut their tongues and bled after an underground den act in the Chinese quarter. Ok died. Toy likely fatal injuries. The elderly couple, impoverished and sheltering failing sight, chose death over hunger and rejected help from countrymen.
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Sacramento
Cal
Jane
Win Ok
di Toy
Tragic Germantown Negro Fatally Stabbed In House
In Germantown Tennessee a black youth named Hugh Prewitt was found dead with a nearly foot long butcher knife embedded in his chest. Authorities suspect Mose Johnson, with whom Prewitt had a prior altercation earlier in the day. The weapon pierced the breast bone and lodged an inch into the vertebra. The case is under investigation by local authorities.
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Nasuville
Tenn
Germantown
Hugh Prewitt
Prewitt
Mose Johnson
Hugh
Doane's Disappearance Shocks Beprozo Merchants
In Beprozo Massachusetts merchant circles were shocked as clothing dealer J H J Doane vanished leaving an apparent forger of about 12000. Doane, a flashy stock speculator, had amassed wealth from Simeon Doane, a noted whaling merchant, and his wife's property valued around 30000 also vanished.
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New Beprozo
Mass
J. H. J. Doane
Doane
Simeon Doane
Farmers See Record Wheat Harvest In Allen County
A Fort Wayne Sentinel report quotes miller Mr Treaselt and banker Mr McCulloch predicting a record wheat crop in Allen County and surrounding areas. Farmers expect high prices, with estimates around 85 cents to a dollar a bushel, while speculators foresee exports and a global demand spike. Bankers note ample liquidity to move a surge of wheat as transportation improves.
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Treaselt
Sentinex
Allen County
France
S. Bush & Co
Mr. Bush
Fort Wayne
L. J. Bobilya
Wm. Enough
Mr. Knough
Indiana
Bobilya
Oicago Board of Trade
Old Hutch
United States
Kansas
Charles McCulloch
Hamilton National Bank
Seariven
Mr. M.callooch
Severe Storm Hits Kansay Farm Areas
About 2 AM yesterday a heavy storm swept Kansay causing thousands in damage. Hail shattered hundreds of windows, wrecked a school and several other buildings, and leveled thousands of acres of grain in the city and surrounding lands.
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Arnxanass
Great Chicago Exposition progress and plans emerge
The article notes rapid construction at Jackson Park for the Great Chicago Exposition with three months until opening. It highlights a forthcoming bureau of promotion to spread information to invited nations and mentions transport of materials via purpose built roads and growing global interest.
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Jackson Park
Bureau of Promotion and Publicity
Killed by a Cork In Strange Clerical Death in Brooklyn
The Medical Journal reports the peculiar death of Rev. George W. Bothwell of Brooklyn New York who inhaled a cork while attempting to pour medicine. The cork lodged in a bronchial tube near the left lung causing inflammation pus and heart failure after about fifteen days. Surgery might have helped but the cork was firmly embedded. The headline notes the rarity of such accidents and warns against placing objects in the mouth.
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George W. Bothwell
Brookelyn
N. Y
Health Monthly
Sumons
Weight of Ice on Brookline Trees During Ice Storm
A Brookline man reports an experiment from the Boston Transcript Listener measuring ice weight on branches at maximum ice load. He notes a syringa branch with five pounds of ice and a pine needle branch with twelve pounds, calculated by weighing before and after ice melt. He cautions the figures don’t capture total stress on branches or power lines yet explain the danger from ice storms to trees and wires.
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Brookline
Boston Transcript
Bottomless Spring at Saratoga Sounds a Depth
A great seltzer spring at Saratoga New York has been sounded to 8800 feet without bottom or obstacle. The finding reinforces belief that the northern resort rests above a subterranean sea.
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Saratoga
N. Y
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