From Every Corner Hundred Lives Lost in Storm
A Port Royal special reports at least one hundred lives lost to drowning across Beaufort and nearby towns amid a Gulf storm. In Port Royal Paris Island and surrounding areas, most victims were Black, with twenty aboard Paris Island. Wrecked barges, damaged homes, and a $50000 mining loss accompany the catastrophe.
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Port Royal
S. C
Beaufort
Paris Island
St. Helena
Seabrooke
Coosaw Mining Company
Augustic Coast
Richmond
Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis
Elkton
Raleigh
Wilmington
N. C
Western Kansas seed wheat appeal voiced by state board
Secretary Mohler of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture issues an appeal for seed wheat and funds to aid western Kansas farmers. He rebuts the belief that the region cannot grow wheat, stating this opinion is erroneous and urging support.
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Mohler
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Western
Kansas
Outlaw Shot Near Gainesville Georgia
A man believed to be Coley Dodrell, a notorious outlaw, was shot and killed near Gainesville Georgia by a posse after prior killings and an attempted arrest at Gadsden. Light frosts were reported across South Dakota, Northwest Iowa, and Northern Nebraska with no damage to corn.
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Sioux City
South Dakota
Iowa
Nebraska
Coley Dodrell
Gainesville
Gadsden, A
Chicago
NDIAN
To &T
St. Louis
Detroit
St OaTe
Mesa
New York
Robber steals $71K from Peoples Bank in Wauseon Ohio
A robber entered Peoples Bank in Wauseon Ohio during dinner hours and secured 71000 dollars before escaping. Bank officials were at dinner, and no injuries were reported. Local authorities began an investigation into the brazen daytime robbery.
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Peoples’ Bank
Wauseon
Ohio
Kernsville Rocked By Deadly Windstorm Blows Down Homes
A powerful windstorm devastated Kernsville North Carolina causing extensive destruction with about one hundred houses demolished and four residents killed. Emergency crews aided survivors as authorities investigated the storm’s path and impact on the town.
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Kernsville
N. C
Indians Town Ablaze in Edwardsville Fire
Incendiary blaze nearly destroyed Edwardsville in Floyd County Indiana causing about 15000 dollars in damage with insurance listed as unknown. Fire department and local residents contained the flames though significant property losses occurred in the town.
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Edwardsville
Floyd County
Ind
Bank resumes operations after suspension in Texas
The State Normal Bank of Vernon, the First National Bank of San Marcos, and the Port National Bank of Lockhart in Texas were permitted to resume business after temporary suspension.
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Banka
The
State Normal Bank of
Vernon
Texas
First National Bank of
San Maries
Port National Bank of
Turbulent Atlantic cyclone devastates ships and lives
The eastern sea report describes a cyclone at sea damaging several steamships near New York. A mangie explosion in Hell Gate scalds nine. three expected to die. Warnings cover wrecked coastlines from Delaware to Cape Cod, with twenty nine known dead and forty seven missing. A New York schooner Mary F Kelly sinks off Asbury Park with four of eleven drowned. Long Island City reports a Berlin crash costing fifteen lives and injuring forty when Manhattan Beach and Rockaway trains collide near Calvary Cemetery.
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New York
Hell Gate
Wallace & Sons
Ansonia
Capes
Delaware
Cape Cod
Daniel &. Crouse
Syracuse
N. Y
Mary F. Kelly
Asbury Park
N. J
Massachusetts
Long Island City
L. I
Berlin
Calvary Cemetery
Newton
Long Island Railroad
Manhattan Beach
Rockaway Beach
Trusts and feuds collide in estate and labor clashes
West ern financiers accuse James J. Hill and the St Paul Trust Co of delaying settlement to gain executor s fees. Fire Engineers cite Montreal for next meeting in Milwaukee and award a Dublin chief a gold badge. A Detroit sailor O Brien is shot dead during a dockyard melee with Captain Lennon s revolver ending the clash. In Chicago idle workers parade while saloons empty. grape growers plead for bank help to save California crops. A third trial acquits M B Curtis of murder in San Francisco as a gang clash with Chicago police erupts into a street battle.
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Heis
Norman W. kKittson
St. Paul
James J. Hill
St. Paul Trust Company
National Association of Fire Engineers
Milwaukee
Montreal
Purcell
Dublin
Ireland
Taylor
Richmond
Association
O'Brien
Detroit Seamen's Union
Reuben Doud
William Lennon
Lennon
Chicago
California
M. B. Curtis
Grant
San Francisco
Barnes
Curtis
Riot Ends Daily Unemployed Parade at City Hall
City Hall riot marks the climax of a week of unemployment protests. Five officers injured as rioters clash with police. Leaders Victor Horovitz and Josep Wenzel were captured with scalps opened by clubs. Several rioters detained, many refusing to give names. The mob dispersed within ten minutes after the outbreak. The disturbance began when a U S mail wagon crossed the parade line.
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Billie
Victor Horovitz
Josep Wenzel
Olicemen
U. S
Birmingham City Votes to Issue City Currency
A mixed dispatch notes the Birmingham Alabama city council approving issuance of city currency. Other items include SAM YEAGER escaping from Kingwood jail in West Virginia while to be tried for alleged complicity in a Yope robbery, and Arkansas Sheriff A B Blythe facing a $17,000 deficit. Additional reports cover a Pulaski Tennessee robbery attempt after a couple were tortured, clashes between Coahuila residents and Galan troops with heavy losses, and Gov Garza Galan being summoned to Mexico City.
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Birmingham
Ala
Sam Yeager
Copley
Pennsylvania
Kingwood
W. Va
Yope
A. B. Blythe
Miller County
Ark
J. N. Bolles
Pulaski
Tenn
Coahuila
Mexico
Puerto del Carmen
Garza Galan
Mexico City
Senator SQuimE seeks Alaska bill for farm station funds
Washington, Senator SQuimE introduces a bill to extend the agricultural experiment station funding to Alaska. The Treasury began issuing gold payments for checks, citing depleted paper reserves due to high expenditures. It shows a $97,000,000 gold reserve and a net $11,000,000 balance largely in subsidiary coins.
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Squime
Alaska
Treasury Department
Washington
The
Treasury
Treasury Oaks
Prohibition Nominations and Iowa Gubernatorial Rumblings
The Nebraska Prohibition Convention nominated Ada Bittenbender of Lincoln for the Supreme bench and C A Walker A F E Rickey and C J Heald for reEents at the State University. In Iowa Horace Boies was renominated for Governor and Samuel L Bestow for Lieutenant Governor amid a pro currency and state reforms platform. Boies published a letter against renomination but reconsidered when delegates favored him.
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Nebraska
Ada M. Bittenbender
Lincoln
Supreme Bench
C. A. Walker
Boies
Ogkalooxa
S. L. Bostow
Fall of metz strategy shocks Berlin crowds
News of a decision around Metz surprises Berlin as reports detail a battlefield plan. Amid wartime dispatches, Siam pays France 3 million francs and French forces take Chantibun. Cholera rages in Russia with daily new cases and deaths in Podolia Topla Varslav and Moscow. Seaman Nilson dies from cruelty alleged aboard a British ship.
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Metz
Berlin
Herbert Inglis
Cunard
Nene
Sutton Bridge
England
Nils Nilson
Dunsyne
Bangkok
Siam
France
Chantibun
Russia
Government of
Podolia
Topla
Varslav
Moscow
Kertsch
Drowning Tragedy at Sloop Island Claims Two Lives
A distressing drowning near Parry Sound Ontario claimed the lives of Mrs. John B. Miller and her eldest son Clausen. The incident occurred at Sloop Island as their craft overturned in the water. The Miller family is linked to the Parry Sound Lumber company president.
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Sloop Island
Parry Sound
Ont
John B. Miller
Parry Sound Lumber Company
Clausen
Chauncey M. Depew
Depew
National League
W. LT
Pa. W. Il. Po
Ostons
Cva
Cincinnatis
Ttaburgs
Baltimores
Thiladelphia
St. Louis
Clevelands
Chicagos
New Yorkae
Loulavilles
Brooklyna
Washingtons
Dorcas
Etta Stewart
Angus Ferguson
Sydney
N. B
Halifax
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
New York
London
Pacific Coast
Europe
Ezra Meeker
Milwaukee Brewers
Lindsay, Bird & Co
Wilson Bill Repeal Passes After Rowdy House Ballot
Washington correspondence reports a heated House session on the silver coinage issue. Amendments proposing ratios from 16 to 1 to 20 to 1 were voted, with 16 to 1 defeated 225 to 104 and 20 to 1 defeated 223 to 103. The Wilson bill to repeal the Sherman law then passed in regular order after a lengthy day of debate and factional maneuvering among silver and anti silver blocs.
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Washington
House
Ailver
Wilson
Bland-Allison
Wilaon
Seata
Reed
Gen
Tracey
Mr. Liland
Lafe Pence
Jourke Cochran
Messrs. Harter
Raynor
Tom L. Johnson
John M. Wever
New York
Elf
LST
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
United Histes
Yeus
Biland-Allison
Alderson
Black
Brats
Brookshire
Hunn
Conn
III
Donovan
Doolittle
Edmunds
Hare
Holfoan
Thater
Dew
Lawson
Leste
Linton
Marshall
Taylor
Tucker
Turpin
Tyler
Weadock
Whiting
T 1
Early Civil Engineering Milestones Across Britain and World
A compact record notes the first society of civil engineers in London in 1783, Clegg and Samuda patent the pneumatic railway in 1838, London sewers linked to houses by 1847, vast rock boring machines, global copying of American bridge ideas, over seventy miles of Gibraltar tunnels, and the Severn iron bridge completed in 1777.
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Society of Civil Engineers
London
Clegg and
Samuda
China
B.C
Gibraltar
Severn
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Suppe
Adams’ Drug Store
Moberly Excelsior Business College
Knights of Pythias Hall
Merck
Baker, Walden & Co
Hutchinson
City of Mexico
Hacinda
Cotz
Yucatan
Southern
London Pelican
Ubel
Hayti
Liverties
Reeding Gaudy
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