Global Turmoil and Local Disasters Reported Abroad
Reports from around the world note a Panamanian Canal labor issue urged by Col. Meistand at Governor's Island, eight fires in Bellaire linked to gas pressure, widespread minor earthquake shocks, and the Madrid assassination aftermath. Other items include U.S. famine aid to China, Cleveland street railway talks, a plumbers’ anti trust indictment in Ashtabula, a Lake Erie tidal wave damaging Clifton Boat Club, a Rocky River backwater flood, and a large fraud scheme defrauding Northwest farmers in multiple cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashtabula
Ohio
Master Plumbers’ Association
The
Plumbers’ Trust
Jefferson
BE. Smith
Earl Vi. Yurroughs
George TL. Ford
Tohn Forman
Adelbert J. Mills
Wiliam Orris
George TE. Paine
I. TH. Paine
Trevbert BR. Charke
Burke
Lake Erie
Rocky River
Cleveland
Clifton Boat Club
Explosion at Jones & Laughlin Plant Kills 34
A blast furnace explosion at the Jones & Laughlin plant in Pittsburg is believed to have burned to death thirty four men. The city mourns as investigators assess the disaster and its impact on workers and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones & Laughlin
Pittsburg
New York
Charles Stevenson
Kittanning
J. C. Seufert
Brevities from the era recount fires deaths and crimes
The item notes Mrs. Mary Gillet and Deter lizzo burned in a Dubois boarding house fire. It cites layoffs at Minneapolis flour mills, a Lodz shooting, antiquities protection efforts, a Senate railroad hours limit, and multiple fire and crime incidents across Pennsylvania Philadelphia Scranton Buffalo Teheran Nebr. and Wyoming with several deaths and injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Gillet
Deterlizzo
Dubois
Minneapolis
Col
Patko Andrieff
Lodz
Polnduiowa Street
Russian Poland
War
Interior
Agriculture
Act For the Preservation of
William Alden Smith
Grand Rapids
Lansing
Russell A. Alger
Senate
Global turmoil and disasters sweep world headlines
Fires devastate Bangkok's trading quarter with losses near 3 million dollars. Emperor William announces state control of new mineral deposits. 4 million Chinese destitute per Chinkiang relief, Shah of Persia dies, news kept secret. Greek ship Urania wrecks near Ancona with 13 drowned. A Spanish landowner jailed for theft collusion. St. Petersburg’s Gen Pavloff killed by a terrorist. Two reservists jailed after dancing in Berlin. Tidal waves threaten Sri Lanka coast after a submarine earthquake. La Presse claims St Pierre and Miquelon sold to Japan. Trade reports show U S imports rise to 27 million gold. Sun Yat Sen leads a central China revolution from London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
William
Prussia
T. F. McCrea
Chinkiang
Persia
Ancona
Italy
Jerez
Spain
Vladimir Pavloff
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Ceylon
la Presse
Montreal
St. Pierre and Miquelon
France
Japan
Canada
Buenos Ayres
United States
Germany
China
Sun Yat Sen
London
Cortelyou to quit as Republican chairman
George B. Cortelyou announced retirement as chairman of the Republican national committee. Harry S. New, vice chairman, will become acting chair man. A controversial coal relief order to James J. Hill was issued by interstate commerce commission members in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Cortelyou
Republican National Committee
Harry S. New
James J. Hill
Northwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Honore Vs. Wilson
New York
Potter Palmer
Union Pacific
Harriman-Rockefeller-Rogers
Aaving
Chicago Drainage Canal
Lake Erie
International Waterways Commission
Commission
Niagara River
LYNCHING IN IOWA AS MOB HANGS JAMES CULLEN
A mob of more than 1,000 people including women and four ministers dragged the jailed white man James Cullen from Charles City Iowa to the Cedar River bridge. After a prayer service and assault on the jail, Cullen was hanged from the bridge for the murder of his wife and stepson.
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Frank Mason
Beaver
Cleveland-Pittsburg
Edwin Leitchmere
Kansas City
Washington
United States National Museum
Metropolitan Life Insurance Millions
Madison Square
New York
Dr. Darkhurst
Rancom Witherell
Northampton
Mass
Eugene Anderson
Amityville
New York Avenue
Washington, DC
Fillab
Antonio Abdio
Abdio
Israel D. Goodman
Richard McCann
Troy
Ohio
Sarah Graef
Dayton
Graef
Emil Hadley
Martha Kruker
Herman Kruger
Elizabeth Kelly
Buchanan Street
Jefferson Square
San Francisco
A. M. Sims
University Place Church of Christ
Des Moines
Iowa
L. M. Powers
Los Angeles
Harry White
Allen Miller
William Everhart
Alliance
Edward Brown
Orrville
Wooster
Clarkson Potter
Yale
St. Juke’s Hospital
St. Louis
Oliver Boucher
Madison Township
Columbia River
Butlers, Wash
Butlers
Chicago
John HH. Graham
Graham & Morton Transportation Company
Lake Michigan
St. Joseph
Mich
Graham
Frederick R. Martin
Portland, Ore
Pacific Biscuit Company
Emma Helms
Walter L. Kline
Dana Gilman
Hattie Gilman
Collins Gilman
Chester Senry
Bowling Green
Frank Henry
Mount Victory
Ida Scott
Mary Hartje
Howard Lappe
Pittsburg
Mary Bailey
Joseph Rankin
Bellefontaine
Chester Henry
Rankin
Orr-Kiefer
Columbus
Henkin Mercantile Company
Plainview
Neb
W. Dean Hayes
Meetcotse
Wyo
W. L. Smithson
William Fleetwood
Sycamore
Presbyterian College
Mandeville
Tua
Sleury White
Lebanon
George Barore
Franklin
Alfred E. Davis
Pioneer
California
Alameda
James J. Iair
Charles City
Fort Reno
Okla
KE. A. Macklin
Court House
Minneapolis
North Yakima
Wash
James Cullen
Cedar River
Cullen
Modesty Of Women Hindered By Indelicate Medical Examinations
An advertisement extols Dr. R V Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Dr Pierce’s Medical Adviser as non alcoholic medicines with printed ingredients. It argues women fear examinations yet benefit from treatment, claiming endorsements from medical authorities and offering free pamphlets and mail service from Buffalo New York.
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R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Rise of the Farmers Union from Texas to 700000 Members
A historical overview outlines the Farmers Union growing from ten members in Texas to more than 700,000, expanding across the South and into six Northern states. It claims to have controlled the cotton market and aims to extend influence to other agricultural products, with headquarters moving from Emory to Point to Greenville and finally Dallas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Union
Texas
Mason, and Dixon Line
United States
Emory
Point
Greenville
Dallas
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Oregon
California
Linois
Lords Reverses West Riding Ruling on Religious Instruction
The British House of Lords overturns the appeal court in the West Riding case, holding county councils must fund the full religious instruction curriculum. George F. Pollock, newly named assistant commissioner at the U.S. General Land Office, lacked schooling until past age nineteen and earns $35,000 annually for intellectual work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TW House of Lords
Appeal Court
West Riding
George F. Pollock
General Land Office
Washington
Conductor’s Quip Unites Carload of Passengers
A New York car conductor with a ministry past uses a gentle judgment to identify a late passenger. He asks for the Houston street arrival to rise and the man responds with a bow and thanks as he pays his fare.
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New York
Tie
Houston Street
Tiouston Street
Almiy
Scaly Eruption Cured After Ten Years Use of Cuticura
A man from Vermilion South Dakota born 187? details a decade of relentless itching and widespread sores on his legs and body. After failing with arsenic salves iodine and other remedies he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and within three boxes found complete cure and hair restoration. He offers to correspond with interested readers.
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Hiram Mattingly
Cure a Cold in One Day Bold Advertisement
Envious claim of a giant name in medicine promises a fast cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. EB W Grove's signature appears on each box. 265c.
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W. Grove
One Discordant Note in a Digest of Chicago Speech
A fragmentary dialogue notes Ruffon Wratz complaining of being overworked and unemployed amid a booming country. Tufford WKoutt responds with humor about daily exhaustion and the city’s prosperity. The text ends by remarking that one in four Chicago residents is German.
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Chicago
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Kingman Star
BO. Hudler
Kingman
Stein
Around
A. O. S. Meistand
Pekin
Bellaire
Ghia
Hussia
Norway
Sweden
Hawaiian Islands
Urestes
Madrid
Alonso
Victoria
Charles HL. Krauthen
Subsistence Department
U.S. A
American National Reci Ae Society
United Sites Consut
Shanghai
Cleveland City Coon
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Andrews
T Post Office
Ralph Bird
Milwaukee
St Fat
Thibuque
William Winter
John O'Connor
Delhi
William M. Rhodes
Providence
R. L
George H. Devine
Winooski
Alexander Berkman
Henry C. Frick
Emma Goldman
East Side
Pennsylvania Railroad
Westmoreland County
Greensburg
George O'Hara
Carbon
Anna Mechling
John Lyne
Volland
Kan
Alta Vista
Rock Island
Lynes
Elmer J. Bean
Lilla Mullen Bean
Denver
Colo
J. O. Bean
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
King Powder Company
Philip Edward Johnson
Jefferson Street
Portland
Ore
Johnson
Nortonia
Gov. Headly
Hammond
Ind
Patrick Kaddon
Ed Much
Much
Albert Lindsay
Baldwin
Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Wanauie
United States Senate
John G. Milburn
Delaware Avenue
McKinley
Scranton
Bureau of Health
Borough
Dunmore
Berks
Teheran
Shah
Luistan
Western
Guggenheim
Liedtke
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