Crops and Weather Reports Across States
A weekly World News summary reviews conditions in Indiana Ohio Michigan and reports drought impacts on crops. It notes hot dry periods, local rains aiding corn oats wheat and hay yields, with varying damage to potatoes tobacco pastures and garden crops and signals rainfall on the 20th reviving vegetation.
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Telegraph
United States Weather Bureau
Chicago
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Chenoa Fire Destroys Town Business District
Chenoa Indiana faced a devastating blaze that leveled the eastern business block and parts of the western side after a severe drought left structures dry as tinder. The fire, starting at Ballinger's livery stable, consumed fifty four buildings with total losses near five hundred thousand dollars and killed J T McKenzie who leaped from a second story and was fatally wounded. The town had no fire protection in place.
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Chenoa
Alton Tracks
Toledo, Peoria and Weatern
Ballinger
J. T. McKenzie
Pullman
John Crossley & Sons
Brussels
England
Horner Broa
Philadelphia
National Tube Works
McKeesport
Charles & Weaver
Chicago
Kittson Estate
St. Paul Globe
Fort Wayne
Stony Island
Grand Rapide
Furmher
Tennessee
Kentucky
Dun
Congres
Chicago Union officers face contempt ruling in court
Dobs and other officers of the American Railway Union suffered a setback in the United States Court on contempt charges. The judge ruled the defendants’ answer insufficient and overruled their motion to be discharged. Judge Woods warned that further injunction violations could lead to a supplemental information and harsher penalties.
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Chicago
Dobs
American Railway Union
United States
Woods
Cistern Collapse Buries Four in Winona Seminary Wall
A wall collapse in a cistern at a Winona Minnesota young ladies Catholic Seminary entombed three bricklayers and a boy aged years under eighteen feet of earth and bricks. Rescue efforts began but all perished before removal. The dead are Joseph Schnieder Albert Stanek Mike Kulasa and Henry Griebach.
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Walla
Young Ladies Catholic
Winona
Minn
Joseph Schnieder
Albert Stanek
Mike Kulasa
Henry Griebach
Frightful Death of Deputy Sheriff at Huntington
Hert Wintrode son of the sheriff was run over by a Wa bash freight at Huntington Indiana and died from injuries soon after. The train moving about twenty miles per hour as he tried to board toward Andrews his right arm was crushed his skull fractured and a leg broken.
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Hert Wintrode
Huntington
Ind
Andrews
No foundation for Gresham apology claim
A published report claiming Secretary Gresham apologized to Japanese Minister M Lateno for telegram utterances is unfounded. The State Department did not admit any such apology through official channels via Minister Dunn at Tokio, and no corroborating evidence supports the claim.
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Gresham
M. Lateno
Dunn
Tokio
Forest fires threaten Duluth area and destroy bridge
Reports from Duluth indicate fires causing extensive damage with outbreaks inside the city. A Northern Pacific bridge at Amnicon, twenty two miles away, was destroyed by fire, the 14 foot low and thirty foot high structure collapsing, delaying traffic for several days.
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Duluth Minn
Duluth
Amnicon
Pacifc
Murder at Terre Haute after dispute ends in shooting
In Terre Haute Indiana Levi Winkle and Charles Williams confronted each other in front of Williams home over alleged inappropriate conduct with Mrs Williams. Winkle denied the accusation and fatally shot Williams. Also noted is a legislative vote approving reinstatement of railway mail clerks dismissed in 1880. Yeas 140, nays 53.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Levi Winkle
Charles Williams
Williams
Winkle
Willams
Yeas
Nage
Shocking crime spree spans towns and tragedies
A wave of violent incidents crosses states from Woodville Texas to Bridgeport Connecticut. Victims include William Griffith seized by armed men and killed, Henry Maiden and Lizzie Bauman injured by projectiles, and a child shot through a fence. Other events report Robbery motives, a double murder near Tiff City, a vigilante execution in Trenton, an escape from Perry jail during a fire, and multiple fatal accidents from powder explosions to train wrecks.
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Woodville
Texas
Wiliam Griffith
Griffith
Bridgeport
Conn
Henry Maiden
Lizzie Bauman
Henry Bartlett
Providence
Maggie Murphy
C. LL Moore
Hirlong
Tiff City
Moore
K M. Phillips
Thomas Mason
Larkinsville
Ala
Mason
Phillips
Garreld Wilkinson
Wichita
Kan
Fort Pulaski
Savannah
William Chinn
Mary Washington
Chlon
William Griffith
Grifith
Joseph Walwits
Trenton
N. J
James B Lippincott
Walwits
Lippincott
Leonard
Perry
Bud Appling
California Cyclone
Clay Davis
New Jersey
Fires devastate multiple towns and warehouses across the Midwest
The record reports extensive blazes in Greenbush Wisconsin and Chicago Illinois destroying icehouses and a Nelson Morris & Co wholesale market on Halsted street. A police pursuit followed six suspects linked to the Pewaukee fire while Somerset Indiana, Minneapolis Minnesota, and Birmingham Alabama also report major fires causing large losses.
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New Jersey
Greenbush
Willian Plank- Inton
Chicago Refrigerator Company
Juneau Ice Company
Pewaukee
Wis
LW. G
Somerset
Ind
Minneapolis
Central Market
Biremingham
Ala
Perry & Mason
Whales Shop
Tower
Caldwell Howl Fire Destroys Notable Newark Building
A major Newark blaze consumed the Caldwell Howl, touted as preproof and the handsomest structure in the city, with building and stock losses totaling about $850,000. Furnishings valued at $550,000 were lost. insurance listed at $275,000. The Caldwell Company owned the property. guests were rescued. Earlier fires in the same district affected J W Johnson of New York, former Central Railroad of Georgia president. Twenty five families rendered homeless in the thickly settled tenement area.
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Caldwell Howl
Caldwell Company
J. W. Johnson
New York
Central Railroad of Georgia
Newark
N. J
Political party tickets announced in two states
The Massachusetts People's party convention in Boston listed a ticket headed by Governor George Howard Cary with W. O Dwinell as lieutenant governor and MW Moran as treasurer. Minnesota prohibitionists nominated HL Hilleboe for governor and G M Way for lieutenant governor, with G O Winger as secretary of state and F L Hanson as treasurer, other posts to be filled later by the state committee.
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Massachusetts People’s Party
Boston
George Howard Cary
Lynn
Dwinell
Danvers
MW. Moran
M W. Landers
Pittsfield
Carlton B. Beals
Brockton
James Sumner Newton
Minnesota
HL & Hilleboe
Wilmar
CG M. Way
Minneapolis
G. O Winger
Grant County
F. L Hanson
Ada
2. & Johson
Windom
J. G. Childs
Waseca
Proclamation of Hawaiian Republic on July Fourth
The Hawaiian republic was proclaimed at Honolulu on July 4 with Banford B Dole as President. Reports describe a devastating hailstorm in the Ilowaja Pokrow area of Russia with crops destroyed, homes struck, eight killed, and many injured. A Berlin paper claims a steamer sunk near Sterlanak drowning 100 pilgrims. China and Japan prepare for war with provinces urged to mobilize 20,000 soldiers each. Over a thousand lives lost in a recent Turkish earthquake.
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Honolulu
Banford B Dole
Ilowaja
Pokrowekaja
Russia
Kurak
Charkoff
Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
Sterlanak
Oofa
Mystery surrounds Mrs Mary E Smith Hayward case
Nebraskas Mary E Smith Hayward a Chadron dry goods head and suffragist faces divorce claims, alleged insanity and a release after sisters contend she is sane, amid a tangle of family and legal actions in Council Bluffs.
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Mary E Smith Hayward
Nebraska
Chadron
Dvorce
Council Bluffs
Yale College
William Walter Phelps
Eaton Strawboard Works
Muncie
Ind
Missiasinewa
Carter
Eaton
Grantville
Lima
New York
John Daggett
San Francisco
Secretary of the Treasury
Carson City
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Daggett
Ana Shager
Duluth
Ego
Amus Carrub Pine
Elephant Lake
Carr
Henry Nelman
Kiebhomwa
Tarsney
Campbell
Colorado Springs
Colu
Ocean Steamship
Cleveland
Wrecks, strikes and disputed fortunes a chaotic day
Immigrants leave for Europe, ships wreck off New Jersey coast with seven missing, a volunteer crew saves sailors, and a British capitalist sues alleged Alaska mine fraudsters. Chicago troop withdrawal remains stalled amid riot fears as Ohio minister attacked. Coal miners return plans and varied industrial notes mark a turbulent period with lawsuits and wage disputes across the United States.
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Europa
Blavs
Golden Rule
West Indies
Boston
Robert H. Mitchell
Sea Bright N
A. G. Rensow
Alaska
Chicago
Fort Sheridan
Portage Center
Ohio
Ravencrof
Coxeyltes
Washington
Mackay
President Cleveland Urges Tariff Reform Conference
President Cleveland writes to Chairman Wilson urging unwavering party loyalty and Democratic principles as Congress prepares to convene. He stresses free raw materials policy, defends sugar taxation stance, and warns against abandoning Democratic pledges while seeking a fair tariff compromise.
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Cleveland
Wison
Wilson
William L. Wilson
Congress
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Ple
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