Century-old Indian harassment spurs fortifications and armament
A historical dispatch notes President John Adams directing War Department to establish block houses along a Tennessee to Mississippi route. It mentions twenty stands of small arms and fifty artillery pieces for New Orleans amid Spanish tensions, plus a British 20 000 appropriation for a Scottish canal and a blockade order from Lord Hawkesbury affecting the Seine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennes
Natches
Miss
John ‘Adama
War Department
Free traders protest duties on wool at Boston and land grant clashes
The report notes American free traders opposing duties on 108 bales of wool valued at 2450 dollars while losses and costs rise. It cites the Landre Quarterly Review estimating the Jewish race at 3.6 million. President Adams faces forest preservation battles as a shipload of live oak timber is seized at St Marks Florida. A buffalo hunt in Arkansas Territory tallies 27 kills from a herd over GOV.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Stoyroo
Landre Quarterly Review
John Quincy Adams
Balzure
St. Marks
Fla
Chilly McIntosh
Arkans Vs
Urrtory
Fifty Years Ago News Briefs
Fifty years ago a rock fell into the Niagara River. Argo Poindexter, the second Governor of Mississippi, died. An Dutch parliament upper house adopted a religious liberty bill as part of its session reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara River
Argo Poindexter
Mississippi
Dutch Parliaament
Local Gma Boys Earn Dime From Ponds and Creeks
Cly Pa reports gma boys earning a dollar to buy BBs after ta rates from ponds and creeks. Charleston harbor sees abandoned rebel works as Union forces approach Fort Sumter. two hundred Union soldiers suffered casualties or captivity in the engagement. Cumberland Gap siege by Burnside forces surrounds Fraser brigade. Charleston and Fort Wagner area exchange indicates shifting control as federals occupy key sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waagner
Charleston Harbor
Aly
aGimore
Fort Sumter
Fraser
Cumberland Gap
Lmnn
Burnside
Shackelford
de Courcey
Chagieston, & C
Fort Wagner
Thirty Years Ago Payment Under Geneva Award Ties US Britain
Twenty five sentences of garbled OCR describe a Geneva award payment of fifteen million dollars by Britain to the United States for damages to American shipping caused by a rebel cruiser. It mentions reactions to the Philadelphia exposition and a political figure Dingley later becoming Maine's governor, plus stock market movements blamed on funds for moving crops and Jay Gould.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gauit
Britain
United States
Agahkama Jin Rbgelow
Pullee
Son Dingley
Congressmr
House
Maine
New York
Funda
Bo Jay Gould
Notable 19th Century Trials and Events Outline
Frank James acquitted in Gallatin Missouri train robbery case. Jas Gould pressured Rufus Hatch to stop litigation by blocking a Louisville and Nashville Railroad line. Lord Chief Justice Coteridge hosted in Boston with notable guests. Northwestern States saw 40 degree weather and widespread corn mortality. Jay Gould testified to a Senate committee on labor and capital, recounting past poverty and prayer. John Astor bequeathed fortune to William Waldorf Astor as U.S. minister at Rome. The last spike on the Northern Pacific Railroad was driven near Helena Montana a year after Jefferson proposed a Northwest highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank James
Gallaxtin
Winston
Jas Gould
Rufus Hatch
Western
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Coteridge
England
Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gov
B Butler
Nathan Appleton
Northwestern
Bloomington
Jay Gould
United States
Senate Committee On “Labor
John Incobd Astor
William Waldorf
Rome
Northern Pacific
Helena
Mont
Thomas Jefferson
Ten Years Ago Rio Fortress Demanded Petxoto’s Resignation
The Brazilian fleet blockaded Rio de Janeiro harbor and pressed President Petxoto to resign. Senator Peffer of Kansas introduced in Washington a bill for 800 008 in aluminum coin to endow a scientific college in the District of Columbia. Horace Boies of Iowa campaigned against discrimination between old and silver money as partisan policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Har Vor
Rio de Janeiro
Petxoto
Peffer
Kansas
Wistington
District of Columbia
Horace Boies
Iowa
Fe “Matic
Oma
Standania
Turkey Eyes War With Bulgaria Threat Grows Before September
The latest Turkish orders signal serious war fears with Bulgaria as reserves are mobilized in Salonica Uskub and Monastir. Frontier watch strict while fears run of massacres against Bulgarians and Christians in Constantinople and surrounding districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulgaria
Mustahfaz
Salonica
Uskub
Monastir
Adrianople
Smsrmna
Third
Turkey
Hls
Tergesen
Asia
Macedonia
Vilayet
Constantinople
Musgulmon
Salyonica
Moenastir
State Department
Leishman
Beirut
Union Host Marches Set Chicago Labor Day Record
Chicago's Labor Day Parade, the largest on record, drew an estimated 200 000 marchers as two long columns moved down Michigan Avenue joining the South Side contingent. Labor leaders credited the display to Chicago's highly organized unions with broad participation and trades represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Organized Labor of
Michigan Avenue
Jackson Boulevard
Herrivon Street
Twenty Second Street
Toilors
Jeaders
Labor Day Committee
Multistate Incidents and Notices Across the Nation
A cobbled recap notes several incidents and events: Glovino Feauvale age 9 of Chicago killed by a wagon near Promontory Utah after a derailed Southern Pacific train. Pannie Orinswitz age 4 of New York fell four stories fracturing skull. Miss Mary Jenkins age 109 of Denver killed from a cliff fall. The Conecuh Lumber plant in Als burned for a loss of 70000 with 50000 insured. Major Charles H. Smith died at Cartersville Georgia after illness. Joe Hotchkiex of Denver died from injuries in an excursion train wreck. The Nelson Morris Packing Company seeks a license to operate in Kansas City Kansas. Mississippi Choctaw Indians move to Indian Territory under a last year’s act. Residents of Sullivan Island seek governor help against mosquitoes. Robert McComish’s Golden City route struck by lightning. he perished after rescuing family. Burlington express washed out near New Castle Wyoming with no fatalities. Northern Pacific Shaiten raised near Glendive Montana, no one hurt. Prominent names appear in scattered notices and warnings across states.
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Glovino Feauvale
Chicago
Southern Pacific
Promontory
Utah
Pannie. Orinswitz
New York
Congreve
Mary Jenkins
Denver
Cob
Burlington Express
New Castle
Wyo
Northern Pacific Shaiten
Glendive
Mont
J. M. Hotchkiex
Cobs
Conecuh Lumber Company
Sullivan Island
South Carolina
Robert McComish
Golden City
Charles H. Smith
bin Arp
Cartersville
Nelson Morris Packing Company
Kansas
Seth Low Renominated for Mayor of Greater New York
Seth Low, renominated for mayor of Greater New York, nears end of first term after resigning Columbia University presidency in 1901 to oppose Tammany. Born in Brooklyn, he started in his father's importing business and served four years as mayor. renowned scholar and educator.
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Seth Low
Greater
New York
Columbia University
Tammany
Metropolia
Mr. Low
Brooklyn
National Farmers Move to Form Large Cooperative
A national farmers cooperative plan was set at a Chicago Grand Pacific Hotel meeting. An advisory board of six will recruit across the country to unite farmers societies while preserving individuality. Fifty associations are expected, with elevators and warehouses to be built and capitalization discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Pacific Hotel
Chicago
Co-Operative Association
Middle West
Autos Cause Deaths at Detroit and Zanesville Races
Two people are killed and several injured in separate auto accidents at racing events. In Detroit at the Grosse Pointe track a tire burst sending Barney Oldfield’s car into a fence, killing Frank Shearer of Barberton Ohio while Oldfield escaped unharmed. At Zanesville county fair Bert Kiser of Dayton lost control and rammed the track fence, killing a spectator and injuring six others as twenty feet of fencing collapsed.
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Number Hart
Detroit
Zanesville
Grosse Pointe
Frank Shearer
Barberton
Ohio
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield
Cunningham
Zancaville
Bert Kiser
Dayton
Large gun well completed at Pleasanton Kansas
A new gun well was completed at Pleasanton, Kansas, as part of ongoing rural infrastructure projects. The report notes regional development and related industrial activity in the area.
Corn and other crops show varied Sept 1 conditions
The September 1 condition of corn stands at 80.1 up from 78.7 last month and 79.3 ten year average. Flax, potatoes, and tobacco also show Sept 1 readings around 80.5, 84.3, and 83.4 respectively with month and year comparisons noted. The report covers twenty principal corn states and notes no weather-forecast adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Ilinois
Nebraska
Missou
Kentucky
Ohio
Alabama
North Carolina
Kansas
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
California
Missouri
Illnois
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Texas
Washington
Tennessee
Iowa
Michigan
United States
Washington as Paris and Berlin of America plan
Congress considers grand schemes to reshape the capital. Union Railway station would cost about 20 million with 41 000 miles of mileage planned. National avenue would host fifty State homes with reading rooms and galleries for 12 500 in a time of vast architecture and public functions.
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Washington
Paris
Berlin
America
Congress
Enarmet
Union Railway
National Avenue
United States
Reed
Natonal Avenue
White House
Potomac
Bank of Arrow Rock Robbed by Four Burglars
Four burglars robbed the Bank of Arrow Rock at Arrow Rock Missouri of a small sum. Will Ramsey a 12 year old boy was fatally injured at Arkansas City Kansas after being kicked by a family horse while passing his stall.
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Arrow Rock
Mfo
Will Ramsey
Arkansas City
Kan
Maybrick Seeks $40,000 from Holbrook Estate
Mrs Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, awaiting release from an English prison next July, and her New York counsel have begun proceedings to recover over 40,000 from executors Hamilton Bradshaw and Witmer of New York. The action targets portions of Darius Holbrook’s vast estate left to his daughter the Baroness Ragusa and her heir Mrs Maybrick with a reversionary interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexal
Tke
Maybrick-Degiins
Florence Elizabeth “Maybrick
New York
Darius Blake Holbrook
Maybrick
Hamilton B. Bradshaw
Witmer
Air
Holbrook
Yon Ragusa
Rouen
France
Fortuna
Darius Wolbrook
Virginia
West Virginia
United States
Mobile
Ala
Cyrus Field
Quairo
Illinoia Central
South
Hold Up on Canal and New Panama Treaty Demands
Bogota Congress discusses a treaty authorizing President Marroquin to negotiate with the United States for a Panama canal concession. key terms include perpetual use with rising premiums, a 20 million dollar price, 10 million canal company payment, mixed tribunals, U.S. control of police and sanitation, and a possible U.S. purchase of a railroad. The Hay-Herran treaty is viewed as dead in Bogotá, with talk of negotiating with Nicaragua instead.
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Bogota
Marroquin
United States
Canal Zone
Colombia
Hay-Herran Canal
Nicaragua
Global 19th Century Gleanings Mixed From Ports to Politics
Items include a Baton nest of white ackbindis, Scandinavians with a vast steel tramp fleet rivaling Britain, a Mohammedan publishing anatomy in Constantinople, Naples adding two new quays for emigrant service, gradual Dutch lottery decline, Britain’s leather trade, a China exam comparing Po Wang and Napoleon, Uganda telegraph poles on fig trees, Polish schoolboys jailed for secret society membership, and Indian industrial progress near Simla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton
Treland
Constantinople
Mohammedan
Naples
Holland
Great Britain
China
Uganda
Industrica
India
Simla
Penny Coinage and Livestock Trade Figures Summarized
The article notes pennies now bronze and minted costs covered by seignorage. It cites 87,376,722 pennies issued last year with New York State receiving 10 million and Illinois 7 million. It also reports cattle receipts across major markets, July totals in 1903, and notes Navy and War Department allegiance rulings, counterfeit notes, and bridge company actions.
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United States
Thosea
New York State
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
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Worcester Shoes
Louis Ogly
Indianapolis
New Orleans
Fall River
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Springfield
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Streator
Des Motors
Evanaville
E. St. Louis
Peorla
Louisville
Philadelphia
Tistenare
Memphis
Lowell
Salt Lake - Milwaukee
Joliet
Cincinnati
Moline Kansas City
Terre Haute
Paul
Lynn
Lincoln
la Crosse
Columbus
Isioux City
Eee
Oshkosh
Pleasanton
Foss
O. T
Philippines
Charles ML Schwab
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
First National Bank
Tiamilton
Harry Hamilton
Guthrie, O. T
MES
Florence Mayerice
CANAL
Dee
Kansas City
Omaha
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Toledo
Darling
Navy Department
Navy Yards
Sach
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Naval Establishment
Civil Naval Establishment
United States Navy
Secret Service
National Bank
Mechanics’ National Bank of New Bedford
Mess
Bruce
Register
Wyman
United Sates
Oliver
St. Louis Merchants’ Bridge Company
Tod
Bridge Company
Andrew Geddes
Court of Claims
OG. W. Fletcher
Iukz
Pratt
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