Explosion at Mt Pelee top destroys St Pierre crater scene
May 12 report explains Mt Pelee eruption sent a lake in the crater boiling to steam, blowing away the mountain’s summit and engulfing St Pierre. A St Vincent schooner reports the blast, sea upheaval, lava torpedoed the Guerin sugar factory, with about 150 dead. Terrible detonations roared for hours.
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St. Pierre
St. Vincent
Dominica
Blanche River
Guerin Sugar Factory
Monster Wink of Earth Quakes Through Chinese Folklore
Orin Walker recalls Chinese beliefs that earthquakes are caused by a great monster in the earth center winking its eye. He notes villagers react with fear, prayers, and frantic acts to appease the creature, including burning boats and frantic rituals along the coast.
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Tain- Tain
Ponr
White Lily Society Said to Threaten Regime
Mr Walker asserts a single secret order of importance called the White Lily society aims to overthrow the present dynasty and terrorizes the regime, with its operations largely confined to California. He notes highbinders are unknown locally and speaks on his fluency in Chinese and English while with Union Surety Company.
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Mr. Walker
White Lily
California
Union Surety Company
THAT PESKY BOTTLE AND DR HANSSMAN'S WONDROUS TRICKS
Dr J M Hanssman in the Fitzgerald building displays a tiny trick bottle from India that lies on its side and seems to resist being laid flat. He challenges a Sun reporter to duplicate the effect, recounts his globe trotting and adventures, including seven duels in a German university era and service as a medical aide in the Transvaal War where he earned a medal for saving an injured officer.
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Fitzgerald Building
India
SUN Man
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Hansimai
South Africa
Germany
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Hansimair
Paul Kruger
Joubert
Transvaal
Bambuspruitt
John McGregor Recalls First Sun Issue Crowd Reaction
John McGregor 12 copies of The Sun daily. He recalls standing at Washington and Pennsylvania streets when the first issue appeared. The crowd snapped up papers, critics doubted the paper’s staying power, yet it grew. He later read both noon and day editions and once helped fund subscriptions by offering bicycles to boys.
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Pennsylvania-sts
John McGregor
Costly after all Newport tax list shocks New York families
A Newport Rhode Island tax list shows well known New York families led by Mrs. Caroline Astor were taxed heavily. The assessment reveals real and personal property increases with Astor's private value cited at 100000, while others like Schermerhorn Huntington Webster Berwind and Chandler face higher totals. The levy reflects new summer estate valuations and transfers of Rhode Island citizenship for several filers.
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Bidney Webster
B. J. Berwind
Rhode Island
Caroline W. Astor
William C. Schermerhorn
HK. Huntington
Gibson Fahnstock
Charles M. Oelrichson
Winthrop Astor Chandler
E. J. Berwind
W. Starr Miller
E. Rollins Morse
W. Storrs Wells
A. H. Olmstead
Anna Fan Nest Gambrill
Francis V. Greene
Berwind
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Mr. Morse
Mr. Wells
Mr. Olmstead
Mrs. Gambrill
Gen
Rosella C. Blanding
Robert N. Carson
Ingersol
Wiliam E. Carter
C. V Fay
Thomas Dolan
Clarence W. Dolan
William B. Dunning
Austin Flint, Jr
Harry O. Havemeyer, Jr
Jones
Charles M. Oelrichs
Howard A. Stevenson
F. Arnold
Duncan H. Elliott
Mock marriages at Purim ball were a practical joke
New York reports that about 200 couples were secretly joined in mock Hebrew weddings at Yonkers Purim ball in February. A prankster sparked a sensational inquiry by asking a New York rabbi if the ceremony would be binding under Hebrew law. The rabbi’s answer was misinterpreted. the marriages were not legal. In New Rochelle Henry C. Keene, the eighteenth Park Avenue railroad collision victim, died from pneumonia after injuries, ending his long illness.
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Yonkers
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Purim
New Rochelle
N. Y
Henry C. Keene
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Keene
Mars Signals From Mars To New York City
Lord Kelvin says Martians see New York lit by Edison’s lamp and are signaling to this city only. He spoke at a Delmonico banquet, noting Mars distinguishes activity in Newark London Paris St Petersburg and other large areas but signals only to New York.
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Lord Kelvin
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Delmonico’s
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London
Paris
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Earth
Addison disease report from Bellevue doctors
New York, May 12. Mrs Catherine Blesisi, an Italian woman, is treated by Bellevue doctors who believe she suffers from Addison's disease. The illness is described as a kidney affection causing gradual skin darkening and is regarded as incurable.
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New York
Catherine Blesisi
Bellevue
Addison
Five prisoners escape from Richland county jail
Mansfield C May 12 five prisoners escaped from Richland county jail Sunday evening with unknown outside assistance.
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Mansfield
Richland County
Jefferson Davis native of Arkansas cited by governor
Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas replies to a writer about his ancestry saying he is a native of the state born in Little River county where ladies wear boots in winter. He claims descent from Jefferson Davis of Beauvoir Mississippi, late president of the Southern Confederacy, “the greatest man the world ever saw.”
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Jefferson Davis
Arkansas
Little River County
Beauvart
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