Hawaiian Islands Terrified by Eruptions and Quakes
A violent eruption at Mauna Loa and Kilauea rocks Hawaii with earthquakes felt as far as Honolulu. Thousands flee inland as lava flows threaten Pana Lulu to Molano Hotel road. Damages projected at about 50000 dollars. steamer news and curious excursionists report the volcanic display.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Rattan
Maunaloa
Hawai
Albert
Honolulu
Java
Kai
Panalulu
Melodious Chestnuts From War Recruiting Station Leaders
Lieut Tarlton promotes Thirtieth regiment inducements for experienced men as recruitment lags. He says squad leaders can be formed from new enlistees and experienced volunteers may gain NCO status. Seven men are ready to enlist. Rowell is in Brazil building a squad. Songs sung by awaiting recruits include Break the News to Mother and Just as the Sun Went Down.
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Tarlton
Rowell
Brazil
Bettie
Man killed by bears near Shoal Bay BC prospecting cabin
Allan Cameron vanished from a small Shoal bay cabin in June. His skeleton was found nearby, stripped of flesh, and authorities believe he fell into a mountain crevice, crawled two miles on his hands and knees, and was then attacked and devoured by bears.
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Allan Cameron
Shoal Bay
Cameron
Kusale Natives Seek U S Annexation
A morning paper reports natives of Kusale island in the Carolinas petitioning to be annexed to the United States. The king and several chiefs reportedly forwarded the request to Washington.
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San Francisco
Kusale
Carolinas
United States
United Statates
Hobsonizer Captured in Tennessee Home Visit
W R Stuart of 1811 Central Avenue reports discovering and identifying a genuine kissing bug on his property on Thursday noon. The insect was busy Hobsonizing the wood-work but, as far as known, did not bite or target anyone.
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Central-ave
Yacht racing and boxing notices from Montreal and New York
The Sewanhaka cup yacht race between the Yan ceboat Constance and the Canadian sboat Glengairn III in Montreal was set to start at 3 p m Thursday. Keimpion Jim Jeffries sails Thursday for England and plans a Sept 15 return. Joe Gans, the Baltimore negro, and George McFadden of New York will clash in New York Friday night. Jerry McGovern and Pedlay Palmer have signed for a fight in New York.
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International Yacht
Constance
Glengairn III
Montreal
Keimpion
Jim ‘Jeffries
England
Joe,Gans
Baltimore
George McFadden
New York
iNew
York
Jerry ‘MiéGovern
Pedlay Palmer
New ‘York
Fragmentary company capital stock notes from OCR
Partial OCR fragment lists various capital stock figures for several entities including a furniture company. It mentions amounts like 10000, 8500, 2500 and references the Feather Tribe of Red Men building association and a Delaware company, with scattered typos and place names.
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Marion ‘Bond
Novelty
Colipainy
Eyle
Ite Feather Tribe of
Red Men’s Building Association
Camminck
Delaware
Comn- Apital
Telephone ‘Company
Logsdon Builds Republican HQ Plan Amid Peace Tone
Chairman Logsdon of the Republican city committee secured an option on the Ola City dispensary building for headquarters and plans an executive committee of seven with members from both factions. He pledges no faction will control and aims to form advisory and ward-based panels to unite the party and preserve harmony.
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Logsdon
Republican City Committee
Ola City Dispensary
el Chiost
Columbia Club
Marion Club
Denison Hotel
the Sun
Ring
Antis
Billy” Schmidt
Itviso
Plea to Governor Over Friedman Parole Sparks Pathetic Scene
In Indianapolis a petition signed by leading Hebrew residents asks Governor Mount to parole Samuel Friedman from Marion county workhouse. A Russian Jewish junk dealer found guilty of receiving stolen property, his family’s plea, aided by Rabbi Messing, moved the private secretary as a dramatic girl kissed his hands and pleaded for her father’s release.
Passengers and Drownings Reported on Arctic and Kowak Voyages
Victoria reports say survivors of the Edmonton trail aboard the Queen with Thomas Hoskins noting scurvy graves and no starvation deaths. He estimates many lives lost across the trail due to drowning wilderness exposure and other hazards. In Seattle A Kyle of 28 Boston party says 25 to 49 prospectors drowned on the Kowak river last season. Beaver reports tied to scurvy and exposure with three discharged soldiers and one miner drowned trying to cross from St Michaels to Cape Nome.
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Victoria
Seattle
Wash
A. Kyle
Arctic City
Elihu Thomson
Kowak
Beaver
St. Michaels
Cape Nome
Minister-Turned-Saloonkeeper Preaches to Hoosiers in Cincinnati
Rev. H Tessmer, pastor of Newtown German Lutheran church in Lawrenceburg Indiana, runs a saloon at Fifth Street and Central Avenue Cincinnati. He wears clerical garb with a white apron while serving drinks to recoup his finances after parishioners lost work and his salary was cut. He says Indiana friends must not know of his business while he leads a temperance league that meets in September.
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Cincinnati
H. Tessmer
Fifth-st
Central Ave
Tessmer
Newtown German Lutheran Church
Lawrenceburg
Ind
German Theological Seminary
Cleveland
Indiana
Laurier Says War Talk Not His Aim In Canada Crisis
Ottawa reports Laurier denies seeking war through the word war in London or Washington. He says arbitration was his intent and only academic use of war. Canada fears being squeezed by Anglo American entente over Lynn canal claim. Seattle reports Senator Perkins of California says Alaska boundary treaty limits leave no arbitration. He supports arbitration in general but finds Alaska case inapplicable.
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Canada
Chicago
Ottawa
Times Herald
Wilfrid Laurier
London
Washington
Great Britain
Lynn Canal
Sam
Perkins
Seattle
Walsh
Ferkins
California
Alaska
Interstate stock yards exchange building planned
Directors meet to locate the exchange building of the new stock yards on Morris street opposite Division street. The stone brick and wood structure will have 19 offices and cost about $20,000. Supi Shaver oversees brick work and overall construction with a target habitable date by October 1 and active business by August 15.
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Interstate Stock Yards Company
Exchange
New Yards
Morris-st
Supi
Shaver
Clegg to Answer in Police Court on Drunkenness Charge
John Clegg will answer in police court to charges of drunkenness and resisting an officer. He has a reputation as a bad man and reportedly threatened to whip the entire police force when Patrolman Irish roused him from a siesta in Military park. Irish invited him to leave the park, and Clegg invited Irish to take him out. A brom stick aided Irish in restraining him. Clegg is said to have caused trouble before and abused his family.
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John Clegg
Military Park
Clegg
Sixty Bullets End Hunt For Suspect In Mississippi
In Greenfield Jackson county Sampson Hayes a colored man attempted to assault Miss Corley daughter of a white farmer. Neighbors hunted him for days and left him in the road riddled with over 60 bullets after capture. Long Journey to Get 400 Miles is Claimed by Peru Planter Vasquez Ponce Traveling With Family From Iquitos to Truxilo Peru Across Dangerous Terrain Then to Colon and Panama.
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Jackson
Miss
Greenfield
Sampson Hayes
New York
Maises Vasquez Ponce
Iquitos
Peru
Maranhanse
Truxilo
Truxillo
Ponce
Colon
Belmont Blackballed by Ex Celisor Lodge I O O F
Newport dispatch reports O H P Belmont was blackballed by Ex Celisor Lodge I O O F. Explanations cite his marriage to Vanderbilt’s ex wife or fear he would leverage the order for political aims.
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New York
Newport
R. I
O. H. P. Belmont
Excelsior Lodge
Belmont
W. K. Vanderbilt
Odd Fellows
Aged clerks scuffle at Barton hotel on Virginia avenue
F A Esteb 61 night clerk at the Barton hotel became intoxicated and attacked the proprietor’s wife and then Mr Barton on the second floor. Barton hurled Esteb down stairs and jumped astride his neck on the first floor. Bicycle patrolmen found them a short time later. Esteb jailed for drunkenness and profanity. Barton jailed for assault and battery.
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F. A. Esteb
Barton Hotel
Virginia Ave
Barton
Streit
Lancaster
Estel
Dunkenness
William H. Barton
Local Man Julian Watts Dies After Workhouse Sentence
Julian Watts a colored man age 22 died at 3 p.m. Thursday while serving a workhouse sentence for petit larceny His term would have ended in October Watts listed his occupation as a preacher and had a relative employed by Eli Lilly & Co.
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Julian Watts
Eli Lilly & Co
Births Deaths and Marriages in Local Notices
Births list several couples with street addresses and newborns including girls and boys. Deaths report multiple individuals with ages and causes such as meningitis debility consumption and apoplexy. Marriages Licenses show Claude Negley to Eila Johnson and others among listed couples.
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Claude Negley
Eila Johnson
Harry. Robinson
Margaret Cox
John Duncan
Leota, Vail
Alexander Farmer
Lillie ‘Bail
Hallie Elliott
Elizabeth “Mather
Frances Robinson
Marietta
Lamb
Vincent.Baker
Una Boswell
Indianapolis to Host Next National Meeting of Building and Loan Associations
Charles A. Bookwalter, president of the State league, announced a telegram from Niagara confirming that next year’s United States league of building and loan associations meeting will be held in Indianapolis. The event draws about 300 delegates with Indiana signatures from the mayor, Board of Trade and Commercial Club, following the convention in Niagara.
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Chas. A. Bookwalter
State League of Building and Loan Associations
Niagara
United States League of Building and Loan Associations
Indianapolis
Indiana
Bookwalter
Board of Trade and Commercial Club
Pilgrims Seek Cures At St Anne Bone Shrine
New York on July 27 reports hundreds of pilgrims traveled to the church of St. Jean Baptiste to worship at the shrine of St. Anne and kiss a bone fragment from her forearm said to perform miraculous cures.
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New York
Church of St. Jean Baptiste
St. Anne
Boone County Log Rolling Draws Crowd in Eligaville
Several hundred attended the Modern Woodmen log rolling event in Eligaville, Boone County. The old officers were re elected and Max was chosen as the meeting place for next year.
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Woodmen’s
Orntown
Ind
Boone County
Eligaville
Max
City Life Board Of Safety To Discuss Market Stands
The Board of Safety meets Friday morning to arrange disposal of stands at the new market space at Alabama and Market streets. Thursday marked the twenty fifth anniversary of Rev Anthony Scheidler’s pastorate at St Marys Catholic Church and a special service will be held Sunday morning at the church.
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Board of Safety
Alabama
Anthony Scheidler
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Body of Col. Ingersoll Cremated at Fresh Pond
The body of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll was taken from the family home in Dobbs Ferry to Fresh Pond I I for cremation Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Ingersoll and daughters were at a hotel during the incineration. Ashes will be returned to Dobbs Ferry in a bronze urn Thursday night.
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New York
Col
Robert G. Ingersoll
Dobbs Ferry
Fresh Pond
I. I
Death so near for John H. B. Nowland in Indianapolis
Attending physician said John H. B. Nowland of 1110 N Dearborn Street would not survive the night after a serious illness. He had been frightened by a dog a month earlier and believed his time had come. Nowland authored a history of Indianapolis in 1876.
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John H. B. Nowland
N. Dearborn St
Indianapolis
Carnegie offers 50000 for San Diego library site
Andrew Carnegie proposes a 50000 donation for a San Diego public library if a suitable site is donated. Other items note Christian Geren's arrest in Marietta for assaulting a 14 year old blind girl Josie Noll. The pope rejects Vatican vineyard product for Paris expo. Cuban crop reports vary with rain issues. The Lakme caught fire in Seattle causing damage. Shoe manufacturers plan a Philadelphia conference Aug 8. Robert Edeson to relocate to Porto Rico for development with American capitalists. McKinley and Mrs McKinley arrive at Plattsburg Hotel Champlain amid travel fatigue.
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Andrew Carnegie
San Diego
Cal
Christian Geren
Marietta
Josie Noll
Vatican
Cuba
Lakme
Alaska Gold
St. Michaels
Seattle
Wash
United States
Philadelphia
Robert Edeson
Porto Rico
Fatal Accidents and Deaths Reported in Various States
Grant Myers of Tunnelton West Virginia was killed by a falling rock. Felix Mink aged 86 of Livingston Kentucky was shot and killed by Reuben Sam aged 18 in a land dispute. Dave Stewart of Clay County Kentucky accidentally killed himself with a gun. John Klingensmith 16 of Youngstown Ohio discharged his gun after leaning on it, killing himself. Col Edmund Pendleton 75 of Lexington Virginia died of paralysis. N Rienbeauch noted Swiss inventor of the Rigi mountain railways is dead.
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Grant Myers
Tunnelton
W. Va
Felix Mink
Livingston
Reuben Sam
Dave Stewart
Clay County
Kentucky
John Klingensmith
Youngstown
Col
Edmund Pendleton
Lexington
N. Rienbeauch
Colored girl accused after assault on two women on Pratt Street
Gertrude Martin a 16 year old colored girl living at 834 Superior Street was walking on West Pratt Street Thursday when at No 13 she allegedly attacked Gertrude Gray and Grace Laughlin for no clear reason. The colored girl says they called her nigger and laughed at her. She was arrested.
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Gertrude Martin
Superior-st
W. Pratt-st
Gertrude Gray
Grace Laughlin
Tinning Dept Workers Win Eight-Hour Shift Plan
Anderson Indiana July 27 employees in the tinning department of the tin-plate works won their strike for shorter hours. District manager Goldsmith of the tin-plate trust met a committee and arranged eight hour shifts to begin August 16. Other workers will seek the same arrangement.
Lewis Rose Falls From Bridge in Zanesville
Lewis Rose fell from a bridge at Zanesville Ohio Wednesday and was fatally injured. Coroner’s jury in Joliet penitentiary found Adolph Luetgert died of heart trouble. Dee Baker must appear in Barbourville Kentucky as bond forfeited. Town crowded with Howards and Whites.
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Lewis Rose
Zanesville
International Mining Congress
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Adolph Luetgert
Joliet
Dee Baker
Barbourville
Furnished rooms and services listed in city notices
Classified ad section shows multiple for rent listings including furnished rooms with light housekeeping at 312 N New Jersey and 330 N East st, various rates, and a few for boarders and a nurse girl. Also includes sale notes, and a Thursday grain market report with wheat corn and oats bids and prices.
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Fietcher-ave
Big Four
New Jersey
E. Washington
East-st
W. Ohro
N. J. West
N. Ilinois
A . Minois
A. Ae
Bath
E. Ohiist
Senate
Silver-ave
Indianapolis
Vermont
N. Ilimotssst
Thunsday
Hay
Timothy
Crimes of Negroes Move, Jails Locked Amid Riots
Sheriff Reeves dodged a Newnan mob to place Albert Wright, an Ogeltree assailant, in Atlanta jail. Henderson Tunstall, killer of Justice Hamilton at Blount Springs, is in Birmingham jail after militia escorted him from Culmann. John Miller, sought by a Bainbridge mob, is chaperoned by militia to Savannah as troops avert a jail blast.
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Reeves
Newnan
Albert Wright
Mrs. Ogeltree
Atlanta
Henderson Tunstall
Justice Hamilton
Blount Springs
Ala
Birmingham
Culmann
John Miller
Anti-trust Livestock Market Report from Indianapolis
R R Shie Co reports in Indianapolis on July 27 light receipts and a strong market for lights. Prices range from 130 to 150 for lights and 44.55 to 4.57 for bacon hogs, with heavies 1.474 to 1.571. Cattle demand noted as ready.
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Indianapolis
Indianapoli
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Highland Ave
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