Yaquis Goldfields Draw Two Prospectors From New York
Charles Erickson and Harry Thoroldson returned from Mexico with about 18000 in gold dust after finding a stream in the Sierra Madre area. They fought off Yaqui Indians for days and secured a truce before leaving the region to avoid further danger. They anticipate returning in the fall with a larger, armed expedition as mining and railroad plans shift toward southern Chihuahua and Sonora.
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Central
Mexico
Southwest
Arizona
New Mexico
Sonora
Chihuahua
Charles Erickson
Harry Thoroldson
New York State
Mexican Mountains
Phenix
A. T
San Francisco
Sierra Madre Range
Durango
New York Sun
Erickson
Ericksen
Arizona Line
Thoroldson
Forres
Upper
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Isthmian Canal Exposition movement gains shape
A New Orleans effort to host a Universal Interoceanic Canal exposition formed last week as committees were named and an action plan outlined. The plan calls for annual fundraising until completion of the canal, by which time funds should exist to support a broad exposition.
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New Orleans
New York Times
Riots in New Orleans Prompt 500 Special Police Sworn In
Disorderly scenes followed Wednesday night riots with mayoral order of 500 special police and 1500 state militia to restore order. Negroes chased from streets as white mobs attacked, crippling port trade. One black man beaten to death, six gravely wounded, about twenty injured. Gunshops ordered closed to curb violence amid fallout from police deaths and injuries. Other items cover Jester trial, Skaguay wreck, Cuban political moves, and a Watertown kerosene lamp blaze.
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New Orleans
Poli
Capde Viele
Day
Policman Lamb
Mora
Robert Charles
Roche ordered to the Front in China assignment
Washington dispatches report Colonel Charles I. Roche, former lieutenant colonel of the Seventeenth Infantry, takes command of the Ninth Infantry after Colonel BE. A. Liscum’s death and is ordered to proceed at once to China. Colonel Rabe has served with his regiment in the Philippines and is awaiting transport to Taku in Manila.
Pretoria launches as largest wooden schooner at Davids shipyard
The Pretoria, claimed as the largest wooden boat ever built, was launched yesterday at Davison's shipyard in West Bay City Michigan. It will carry 5,000 gross tons of iron ore or 175,000 bushels of wheat. The vessel measures 350 feet in length, 45?4 feet beam and 27 feet deep.
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West Bay City
Mich
Pretoria
Davidson
Mortimer D Shaw Dead in St Louis Under an Assumed Name
Mortimer D Shaw died in City hospital on July 13 under an assumed name after having conducted the great telegraphers strike in 1883. His identity was discovered yesterday following burial in the potter's field.
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Mortimer D. Shaw
St. Louis
Sloan Wins Two Races at Maisons-Laffitte Meet
Paris July 27 Yesterday at Maisons-Laffitte Cash Sloan won the Prix de la Ferte over 1200 meters riding Ballon for Maurice Cailliult and captured the Prix de Pampes over 2100 meters on Tortos for the Duc de Gramont.
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Cash” Sloan
Paris
Maisons- Laffitte
Maurice Cailliult
Ballon
Duc de Gramont
British Army Captures and Razes Kokofu in Ashanti
Brief notes report that British forces captured and razed the town of Kokofu in Ashanti. Playwright Charles T. Hoyt has been committed to an asylum in Hartford. A plot to assassinate the governor of Santiago in Santo Domingo was uncovered. Max Regis, former mayor of Algiers, was acquitted of insurrection against the French government.
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Kokofu
Ashanti
Charles T. Hoyt
Hartfor
Santiago
Santo Domingo
Max Regis
Algiers
Crowded Par k Tomorrow with Fearnets Friends in Freeland
Brevities note a festive crowd planned for Charle park tomorrow evening with friends of the Fearnets Athletic Association of Dlifton. trolley excursions will run from Freeland McAdoo and Jeanesville. Also reported are real estate valuation adjustments for Foster township totaling 355523 including all real and personal property.
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Charle Park
The
Fearnets Athletic Association
Dlifton
Freeland
McAdoo
Jeanesville
Foster Township
John Proberts
Birkbeck Street
W. E. Martin
South Washington Street
Long Pond
Alfred Bartlo
John Bartlo
Bartle
Hugh Malloy
Honey Hole
Daniel Coxe
James E. Griffith
Personal notices from Wilkesbarre and area visits
Mrs Hugh McMenamin returned from Wilkesbarre where she attended ordination exercises. Several residents including Mrs Robert Rinker of Brooklyn Oscar visiting James Miller, Miss Heaton of Philadelphia guest at Mr and Mrs Daniel GI, and Miss Stella Gould returning from Delano are noted with others visiting relatives in Scranton, Philadelphia, and Boston. Larry Boos has gone to New York for bakery work while Morris Heckler is home on furlough from Cuba. Additional visits include Mrs H Friel and son in Mauch Chunk, and Mrs Robert Mellon visiting her mother Mrs John K Quigley.
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Ladies* Aid Society
St. John’s Reformed Church
William James
Birkbeck Street
John Krouse
Hugh McMenamin
Wilkesbarre
John O'Donnell
Robert Rinker
Brooklyn
N. Y
Oscar
James Miller
Miss Heaton
Philadelphia
Daniel GI
Elmer Conrad
Scranton
John Edinger
Mary McNealis
South Ridge Street
Morris Heckler
North Centre Street
Sam
Cuba
Stella Gould
Delano
Stella
Wanda Rudewick
Boston
Michael Bosak
Olyphant
Andrew Hudok
Centre Street
Alexander Johnson
Nice
Mary Lindsay
Carbondale
F. Marshall
L.refowich, Jr
Larry Boos
New York City
MacDwyer
Peter Timony
H. Friel and Son
Mauch Chunk
Slugh McGeehan
Ridge Street
Robert F. Mellon
Elizabeth, M. J
John K. Quigley
John McMenamin
Thomas Jefferson
Cora McMortrie
Drifton
Ninth reg nar infantry member dies in China battle
Clyde B. Jamison of Sugarloaf township, 26, killed in the recent China conflict among Ninth regiment veterans. His parents live in Berwick. In other items, thefts target churches, arrests in a brass theft case, a Hazleton death, priests ordained in Scranton, and local civic notes including a city council stance on candidate interference and a trolley excursion.
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Ninth Regnar Infantry
China
Clyde B. Jamison
Sugarloaf Township
Berwick
Jamison
Cuba
West Pittston
William Berryman
Lattimer
Hazleton
Eugene A. Burrows
Williamsport
John O'Donnell
Wilkesbarre
Thomas J. O'Malley
Dunmore
St. Peter's Cathedral
Scranton
Bishop Hoban
Irreverent quotes and a London pawn market note
The column blends political satire with a quip about humor from a professor and informant. It references Senator Sorghum and Julius Caesar, then shifts to a London scene where a low priced Iceberg growler term is used and ends with nearly 300,000 pounds worth of items pawned weekly in London markets.
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Scott
Sorghum
Julius Casar
Washington Star
London
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