Weekly News Digest of World Events Condensed
A broad compilation covers wrecks, murders, trials, and political moves. Notable items include the Norwegian bark Ceylon wreck with crew losses, Baron Czanowicz and Count Ostorog shooting amid revenge rumors, Princess Waldemar interned near Vienna, US Supreme Court adjournment in June, Idaho Republicans sending delegates to Cleveland, and a range of legal and financial developments in the US and abroad.
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Ceylon
Oisen
Dover
Eng
Czanowicz
Ostorog
Isak
Russia
Waldemar
Denmark
Marie
Orleans
Vienna
Supreme Court of the United States
Idaho Republican State League
Cleveland
Ellis
Buffalo
Louisville
Bullet
Piedmont Marble Company
South
Atlanta
Tamarack Mining Company
Boston
Tal and
Stanford
San Francisco
Cal Charles Afester
Grants Pass
Ore
Bruggist Wilson
St. Louis Mo
Raleigh
Mecklenburg
Cgram
Stuels Exchange
Kans City
Washington
Justi
Warlin
Brent Jackson
White
Pera
Global turmoil and disasters spark widespread alarms
Reports describe earthquakes in Italy and Greece causing deaths and property loss while Mexican natives attack a surveying party led by an American engineer. British commander Captain Trench dies at sea. a typhoon sinks a Spanish steamer with scarce survivors. London railcar explosion injures an occupant. Bermondsey warehouses burn for an estimated 1 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Japan
China
Waller
Madagascar
Capt Trench
Nicaragua
Congress of Mexico
Zante
Gravina
Antwerp
Lisbon
Capones
Bermondsey
London
London, Chatham and Dover
Unclear OCR summary of labor actions and plant reopenings
The text reports wage increases and plant reopenings across multiple sites. It mentions the Falls River and Machine Company of Cuyahoga rallying workers, a 1 percent wage increase, and layoffs or resumed work at Joliet walling mills, Al Manes Ole, and nearby mines. It notes conventions and strikes among railway telegraphers and miners with projected start dates and ongoing employment changes.
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Falls River
Cuyahoga
Order of
Railway Telegraphers
St Louis
Othe Walling Mills
Joliet
Tas
al Manes Ole
Arate al Pacheenton
Killen
Canfrei
Springfiel
Ceomipany
Palatine
Etoile Csiners
Leomie
Salem
Oho Wire
Multiple Calamities and Crimes Pepper 19th Century News Blasts
Meteors of misfortune sweep towns from Brookyn to Luling. A cyclone near Luling destroys homes and injures a Black bay. a fatal kick at a dance leaves James Fulton dead. a building collapse in Chicago kills one and wounds others. A barkentine sinks near Cape Henry with cargo saved. Fires in St. Albans leave 500 homeless. Lynching reported near Ellaville. Several killings and legal woes unfold across states.
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Brooklyn Inc
Harry Well
Luling Tex
Negro Bay
JI S. Sullivan
Klein
Springfeld
James Fulton
Boyd Lambert
Jo Lambert
Kansas
Paporta
Chicago
Barkentine
Josephine
McLean
Rin
Little Island Shore
Cape Henry
San Juan
Kinga
California
Political debate on free coinage highlighted by Chicago audience
Prof Laughlin of the University of Chicas and Wii Harvey debated free coinage before Chicago business men. The Salt Lake City Silver Convention promoted campaign funding. Senator Hill and Sec Ret Hinrichsen deny related correspondence. Democratic convention backs a Kentucky railroad commissioner race with 190 counties. Franklin County mass convention endorses Nash for governor, McKinley for president, Foraker for senator.
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Laughlin
University of Chicas
Wii Harvey
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Hill
New York
Hinrichsen
Illinois
Kentucky
Franklin County
Ohio
George K Nash
Columbus
McKinley
Foraker
Bell patent declared valid and notable legal and civic items
The Bell telephone patent is upheld. The Evangelical Synod of Southern Illinois meets at Mascoutah and closes its convention. Detroit garden plans succeed in Omaha with 600 plots in cultivation. A Chicago styled Civic Federation forms in Galena Wisconsin.
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Bell
Evangelical Synod of Southern
Lake Michigan
Valparaiso
Chicago Board of Trade
Gail Hamilton
Washington
James G Mhatne
Carlisle
Des Moines
Poseille
St Louis
Phurston Bats
Molson
Cleveland
Ronen
Kansas State
Silver Shall Leach
Marion
Abas
Thas Saraines Vustiers
Gchitage Board of Trade
Brady
Sominana
Berane
Supreme Court
Cirman Methodis
Mitmistera
Mledbageam
Dredbevnen
Obie
Bay Citys
Mich
Delhi
San Franccisco
Tourrant
Edward Lee Greene
University of California
Catholic University
Lynching and brutal assault reported in Suwannee swamp
Three Black men were lynched by white residents after the assault and murder of Mamie Armstrong, a white girl, in a Suwannee river swamp. Witness Sam Echols was pressured to confess and implicated others before the mob tortured and killed the suspects. Local whites vow to exterminate the alleged perpetrators if the outrages continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eaville
Suwanee
Mamie Armstrong
Sam Echols
Sam Crowley
Echols
Silverites adjourn and press for free coinage
A bimetallic convention adjourned in Salt Lake City after issuing an address to the People of America. Delegates from California Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada Oregon Washington Wyoming New Mexico Utah demand free coinage of silver and gold at sixteen to one with equal legal tender status for both metals. The address traces the monetary system to Hamilton and notes the 1873 shift to gold only, pledging to restore bi metal balance.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
California
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
Wyoming
New Mexico
Couuntry
Hamilton
Jefferson
Uprising in Cuba Gains Confidence As Support Grows
A Santiago de Cuba dispatch reports rebels optimistic about success in the Cuban uprising. General Martinez Campos reportedly shifts toward ending the trouble amid growing insurgent momentum and widespread support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Santiago de Cuba
Saya
Martinez Campos
Storm on Lake Michigan Amid War Talk and Cuban Uprising
In three com clicks the chiefs Breath lauded progress on a resolution claiming more has been accomplished this month than in the first year of the last war. They predict the current war will end quickly if other provinces cooperate. The plan to rise across the island failed, now aims to push west, driving Spaniards before them. Gomez and Martin have gone to Puerto Principe, with reports of clashes between government troops and Cuban bands awaiting their arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gomez
Mart Mohnave
Puerto Principe
Richmond man tied to saloon attack in Aspen incident
In Aspen a brawl at a saloon left William Leonard dead and McDonaugh, a Richmond VA man of a prominent family, jailed. Leonard McCautey and two others were seriously wounded after McDonaugh opened fire as four assailants attacked him. Witnesses name Leonard McCautey and two associates.
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Aspen
Finnaugh
William Leonard
Vine Phang
Mc Donanugh
Gay Leonard MccCautey
McDonaugh
Richmond
Train robbery suspects arrested in Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek May 20 Sheriff Crumley Kid Wallace and Sam Wooder were arrested on warrants for participation in the Plarence and Cripple Creek train robbery last March. Detectives report positive evidence of the prisoners guilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripple Creek
Cole
Sherman Crumley
Wallace
Sam Wooder
Roberts Elected President by Western Federation Miners
Denver May 20 The Western Federation of Miners concluded its session with Samuel Roberts of Butte Montana named president. James Leonard Cripple Creek and John Bevin Granite Mountain Montana were elected vice presidents and an executive committee including Thomas Graham Samuel Coulul James Maher Richard Thomuzg and Charles Alexander was formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Western Federation of Miners
Samuel Roberts
Butte
Mont
James Leonard
Cripple Cree
John Bevin
Granite Mountain
Thomas Graham
Samuel Colul
James Maher
Richard Thomuzg
Montana
Charles Alexander
South Dakota
Seven Stores Burn in Jennettsville Fire
Seven stores burned in Jennettsville South Carolina last night causing an estimated loss of seventy five thousand dollars. Fire crews battled the blaze through the night with no immediate reports of injuries.
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Jennettsville
Knights of America session cuts funding and salaries
In Omaha on May 20 the Catholic Knights of America debated scales and salaries. The Cincinnati plan to raise the president’s pay to 3000 was rejected. A key action halted contributions to the sinking fund, now 260000, with no further deposits after July 1896. Permission was granted to form the Daughters of Josephine society as a social complement without real Knights ties.
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Omaha
Nel
Catholic Knights of American
Cincinnati
The
Daughters of Josephine
Knights
Wage gains at Carnegie and Jones & Laughlin lift trade outlook
New York May 20. R G Dun reports wages rose 10 percent at Carnegie works and Jones & Laughlin, signaling broader raises elsewhere. Despite frost damage to fruit, overall crops hold. wool conditions lag, and inland labor demand remains weak as money circulating supports speculation. Wheat and corn futures edge up amid mixed crop prospects, with exports and stocks showing uneven change.
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New York
R. G Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Carnegie Works
Jones Laughlin
Olneyville
Frost Dent
Western
Atlantie
Mulitrves
Canada
Wall Collapse Kills Three in Demolition Crew
Amid a demolition at the Hole Molding site workers toiled as a 40 by 126 foot wall collapsed. Three men were buried under brick while two escaped. Mares Segell, the subcontractor in charge, blamed a sudden gust of wind.
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Coleane
Catal
Hole Molding Company
Bock
Mac
F Geloch
Mares Segell
Brooklyn Gas Trust Consolidates Seven Companies
A Brooklyn gas merger completes the consolidation of seven local plants. The Standard QuI company leaders and others join Camille Weldenfeld and Moore and Schley in forming the new alliance. The combined plant is valued at about $20,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pasa
Brooklyn
VI Fi Wators
Standard Qi Company
Coll P Huntington
James Jourdan
Fulton Municipal Gas Company
Camille Weldenfeld
Citizens Gas- Ieht Company
Moore and Schley
Chicago National Banks Report May 7 Condition
The comptroller of the currency released an abstract of Chicago national banks condition as of May 7 showing total resources of 168 million 219 thousand 71 dollars. Loans and discounts stood at 98 million 851 thousand 418 dollars with deposits of 74 million 106 thousand 214 dollars and average reserve around 26 percent. Deposit and reserve figures include 20 million 631 thousand 943 dollars in gold.
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Chicago
Washington
Ricago
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Colin
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Johnson
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Manitoba
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Southampton
England
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Peretza
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Hall
Lexington, Ky
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Reynoldsville
Salomon Valley
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Ald
Milwaukee
Kansas City
York
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Corp
Florida
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