Christian Endeavor Convention Closes After Three Busy Days
The great Christian Endeavor convention in the city ends after three days with 15 000 delegates from across the United States. Morning services lit city churches, large meetings filled the drill hall and tent, Bishop Fallows of Chicago presided, speakers included Rev Dr Dunning and An Comstock. The era of intemperance gambling and vile literature was denounced as threats to society.
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Monrrrit
Great Christian Endeavor Convention
United
Bishop Fallows
Chicago
Dunning
Boston
An Comstock
New York
Charles’ Perry Mills
Mags
Amal
Samuel Fallows
Cornet
Parks Sisters
Knights of Labor Form New England Alliance
Rhode Island and Connecticut representatives meet to organize the New England Knights of Labor Alliance and pass a resolution thanking Governor Altgeld for pardoning so called anarchists.
Floods Drown Waddell Family in Camp on Cherokee Strip
Describes a sudden flood in Englewood county washing away a dugout where William Waddell his wife and four children were camping near the Cherokee strip opening. One child’s body recovered. others missing. Also notes liquor sale pact in Van Wert and other brief items on cotton crop condition and tobacco seizure.
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Topgxa, Kas
Englewood County
William Waddell
Waddell
Bonded Exhibit Sales at Fair Face Legal Trouble
Secretarial arrival in Chicago sparks scrutiny over bonded goods sold as exhibits at the fair. Inspectors report thousands of dollars of bonded merchandise sold for cash before the close, violating customs rules. Two Russian exhibitors already bound for grand jury action, with more arrests likely. John S. Penman resigns as rector, citing dissent with church doctrine and Briggs opposition.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Chicago
Carlisle
Federal Grand Jury
Uncle Sam
Roasted to Passing: Father Witnesses Burning of Miller in Kentucky
In Baronet Kentucky on July 7 a mob torched Charles Miller, accused of harming two girls named Ray. Miller, described as a known itinerant performer, faced a brutal vigilante execution while the grieving father urged action. The scene involved a large wood pile and public proceedings.
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Baronet
Charles Miller
Ray
Paria
Tex
Miller
Infanta Eula Lia Expresses Warm Thanks to United States
The Infanta Eula Lia, arriving from a U S voyage, welcomed a United Press interview and invited entry to her palace. She praised the American government and people, said she greatly enjoyed her visit, and hoped to recount the trip to friends. Her cordial reception impressed her as a lasting memory.
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Maprin
Infanta Eulalia
Taday
United Press
Infanta
United States
America
Became a Maniac After Rumor of Lynching Husband
The article reports Charles J. Miller, a Black man, hanged yesterday at Bardwell Kentucky, who had traveled from Cairo to seek work. His wife Iris, told of the planned lynching and reacted as a raving maniac, attempting suicide. The piece notes their church involvement and respectability.
International Road Feasibility Survey Reported Practicable
Secret international railway survey ends field work in Washington. Line from Mexico southern border to Bolivar northern border spans 6000 miles linking North and South American rail systems with a feasible route and no grade over four percent. Mining regions along route may explain reticence about progress.
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International Railway Survey
Congress
Washington
Mexico
Bolivar
North America
South America
Columbia
Woman Kills Betrayer Over Faithless Marriage Promise
Nellie Torton a 24 year old telegraph operator shot and killed Charles Hagan a fellow telegraph operator in San Francisco around midnight last night. Hagan had allegedly betrayed her with a broken marriage promise.
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Sax Franersco
Nellie F Torton
Charles Hagan
Calamity at Chicago World Fair Cold Storage Fire Tragedy
Amid a Chicago World Fair blaze at a cold storage building twenty five firemen leaped from a collapsing tower as flames spread aided by ammonia fumes. The disaster left numerous deaths and a grim morgue scene as rescuers and relatives faced unclear identifications and ongoing salvage operations.
Fire Damp Explodes At WV Mine No 1
An explosion of fire damp occurred in Mine No 1 on the West Virginia Central Railroad property. Ninety miners were at work. all escaped except one who remained in an isolated drift and is believed burned to death.
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Cruvexzaxv
West Virginia Central Railroad
Old Allen Leads County Crop Prospects Report
Reports from Allen and other areas indicate strong yields with wheat up to thirty five bushels per acre and corn promising a heavy crop if weather remains favorable. Fruit and other farm produce are more abundant than last year, while telegraphic grain surveys show Ohio with the best prospects among six key winter wheat states.
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Allen County
Toropo
Ohio
C. A. King & Co
Indiana
Michigan
Missouri
Illinois
Kansas
Father seeks two feeble minded sons from Indiana home to farm in Kansas
Aaron Steinbach, a former soldier now in Kansas with a second wife and two new twin boys, travels back toward Indiana in a bid to reclaim his two grown feeble minded sons living at the Richmond home for the feeble minded. He arrives with no proof of kinship, and the Marshall county institution refers him to Knightstown for identification. The boys, now near manhood, are cared for but the institution says custody may be granted if he can prove ability to provide for them and present proper papers. The sons do not recognize him.
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Aaron Stienbach
Eli
Levi
Marshall County
Company K
Thirteenth
Indiana Regiment
California
Kansas
Plymell
Finney County
Knightstown
Richmond
Stienblach
Indiana
Alexander Johnson
Johnson
Narrow escape at street railway sparks several injuries
John Linton, Electric Street Railway employee, was nearly killed when his hands touched a live wire while on top of a streetcar. He suffered a serious brain concussion and burns, and was taken home to recover. Nearby incidents injured Albert Stapleford and his uncle A. C. Baker in a buggy crash caused by an electric car. Another worker, Martin Moss, was cut by falling iron. A muzzle saved a five year old from a large dog bite, and Mrs. Stair burned while lighting a gas stove. Several deaths were listed for the past week and D. A. Cruse began tuckpointing the First M. E. church at Bluffton.
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Worm’s
Sixty-fourth Street
Fce
Chicago
Fitzpatrick
Henry Geduldid
Pellmell
Stoney Island Avenue
John Linton
Electric Street Railway Company
Linton
George C. Siemen
Porter
Montgomery Street
Rastetter
Carl Schilling
Brohman
Baker
Martin Moss
Bass Foundry and Machine Shops
Kessler
Moss
South Smith Street
Will Scerman
No. 12
Dollars Avenue
Geo. C. Stemen
A. E. Stair
Monroe Street
Bridget Beanvan
Usdog
Fisanigas
J. B. Olinger
New Haven Avenue
Bridget Donavan
Patsy V.flannigan
Berlin
Flaherty
William Tiemon
F. Krusee
Wiley
H. W. Kruse
Peter Pasrigay
Anna Tiemon
Henry. Tiemon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mahale
Grimen
Fenat
Pasadena
California
East
Lewis Street
Flannigan
Germany
East Yards
Farmer Pierce Injured in Self-Binding Reaper Accident
A young farmer from nine miles north of town, Pierce, was seriously injured when his team frightened a self-binding reaper and ran. He was thrown onto the blades and cut, with doctors uncertain of his recovery. Other notes mention a railway collision, a dog bite incident, and a wedding in Pasadena.
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Kessler
Pierce
John Linton
A. C. Baker
Lake Side
Bedly
Nickle
J. B. Miller
Chicago
Henry Geeken
Montgomery Street
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