Emancipation Day Celebrated with Booker T Washington Address
In Schenectady July 2 the colored citizens mark Emancipation Day with a special program and exercises this afternoon and evening. Booker T Washington of Tuskegee Institute is the guest and will speak on The Outlook for the Colored Race. In St Petersburg on July 20 the government pours troops into the city amid fear of trouble and a near panic.
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Cripps News Association
Schnectady
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Scripps News Association
St. Petersburg
Odor Mystery Baffles Stockton Officials and Flood Zone
Stockton authorities tracing a citywide stench from West winds and flood debris. They chartered a launch to inspect flooded districts and isolate the source amid widespread complaints.
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Scripps News
Stockton
Cal
Post-Mortem Law Feared by Livestock Exchange in Chicago
Chicago July 20 report says the national livestock exchange in session at the yards fears a post mortem inspection law will ruin the business. Members have been appointed to devise protective recommendations.
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Scripps News
Chicago
National Live-Stock Exchange
Lovers hideous revenge shocks Kansas City readers
In Kansas City Missouri on July 20 Bertha Boulin twenty one and Frank Morna nineteen are victims of a rejected suitor's attack. Morna was found unconscious and badly wounded while Boulin was struck with a water pipe, dragged thirty feet and hurled over a bluff to a railroad track below suffering multiple fractures. The assailant remains at large.
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Scripps News Association
Kansas City
Bertha Boulin
Frank Morna
Grain Markets Report From Chicago
Grain markets in Chicago show mixed early activity with corn and oats fluctuating. Prices open higher then close lower as July 12 trading 날 shows modest gains in some grains and declines in others.
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Chicago
Portland Street Car Strike Called Off Today
After a stormy overnight session the Portland street car employees voted not to strike this morning. The union failed to win any concessions from the car companies, and with the meeting ending it was clear an agreement was impossible. Conductors and motormen returned to work, ending the dispute over wages and conditions.
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Portland
Scripps News Association
Portand Ore
Founding a New Sect in Paris by a Dutch Apostle
A tall Dutch-born former consular worker named Salomonson appears on the Boulevards in white monk robes and sandals declaring he is Mava and followers are Meva. He promotes a radical creed learned in Java, eats only raw fruit vegetables and nuts, claims no liquids since September 1901, and rejects salt as evil. He distributes a four language pamphlet outlining his ultrasimple life.
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Ser Pps News Association
Paris
Mava
Salomonson
Java
England Faces Asia Policy Stakes Says Mortey
Indian Secretary Mortey warned the House of Commons that Indians must be excluded from arty politics. He warned a wrong move in Asia now would be more disastrous than in South Africa as Britain’s foreign relations hinge on Japan China and Russia.
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Scripps News Association
London
Mortey Today
House of Commans
Asia
South Africa
Japan
China
New Ritual Adopted at Denver Convention
Denver July 20 the new ritual was adopted by Ellis convention officers were installed at final session Clayton Danks of Cheyenne won the bronco busting contest an official excursion was made to the continental divide
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Denver
Copes
Siojzes
Grand Lodge
Clayton Danks
Cheyene
Supposed Diamond Thieves Arrested in New York
A young woman Miss Misa Elizabeth McBeatty and a man Alfred King were arrested in New York on grand larceny charges over a jewel theft valued at fifty thousand dollars from Mrs Halsey Corwin. They face bail default and confinement in county jail. The woman claims to be a Riversdale California heiress runaway wife.
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New York
Misa Elizabeth McBnatty
Alfred King
Halsey Corwin
Miss McBeatty
Riversdale
California
Behring Question Debate Reported in Ottawa
Rumor from Scripps News Association says a Washington treaty would settle the Behring sea sealing dispute by Canada relinquishing rights in Pelagie waters in exchange for 25 percent of U S retail receipts from the Orhyloif Rook ries. Officials deny the report.
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Scripps News
Ottawa
Roosevelt Congratulates Lafollette Over Amendments
Senator Lafollette replies to Hemenway that he will go to Washington next session to urge every amendment he proposed in the recently closed session. Bob claims the President congratulated him and said his amendments are good. Milwaukee dispatch notes the exchange from July 20.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Senator Lafollette
Hemenway
Wisconsin
Washington
Bob
Suicide on Seattle wharf shocks Whitcomb party
Geo F Simmons of Chicago, leader of the Raymond Whitcomb tourist party, shot himself on the Seattle wharf after the party departed on the City for Seattle. His wife witnessed the tragedy as investigators seek motive.
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Eas Association
Seattle
Geo. F. Simmons
Chicago
Raymond Whitcomb
Conference for Leaders in Young People's Missionary Work Opens
Silver Bay July 20 The secretaries of leading Missionary Boards and prominent clergy gather at the Conference for Leaders in Young People's work under the Young People's Missionary Movement. The aim is to enable secretaries and Sabath School leaders to share experiences and plan missionary outreach for the coming year.
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Scripps News Association
Silver Bay
F. Y
United States
Cands
Young People’s Missionary Movement
Sabath School
Land fraud trial details timber claim conspiracy
In Portland July 60 Kincart admitted joining a conspiracy to defraud timber claim victims. He has turned state's evidence. L Shoultz testified Hoge urged him to take a timber claim by touting the investment’s value and promise of company purchase.
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Scripps News Association
Portland
Kincart
L. Shoultz
Hoge
Judge Rules Moo giy Bell Right of Way Case in Portland
Circuit Judge Frazier settles the Hill and Harriman dispute over the right of way across the Portland and Seattle tracks. AL&N is awarded the right of way and must pay 3500 dollars and lower the grade by three and a half feet. Hill must cover expenses for lowering lines to seven feet depth.
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Scripps News Assoruation
Portland
Frazier
Hill
Harriman
QO. Al&n
Seattle
Ice Trust Not Guilty Plea Entered
Washington reporters note that members of the Ice trust indicted recently pleaded not guilty this morning and were granted until September to file their answer.
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Scripps News Association
Washington
Ice Trust
London Banker in Trouble Weathered the Storm
A prominent London banker with American connections is reported to be in trouble but has weathered the storm. The story notes his high status and the lingering uncertainty of his financial position.
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Scripps News Association
London
Rightful Accident Drunk Man Sets Boise House Ablaze
Sorlona News Association reports Edward Huston of Lynn County Oregon, intoxicated, started a fire that burned both arms and a log, rescue occurred this morning in Boise Idaho. He traveled from Oregon. incident dated July 20. In New York, Evelyne Thaw faced delays at the Tombs as attorney Partridge confined visiting time during her entry.
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Sorlona News Association
Boise Idaho
Edward Huston
Lynn County
Oregon
Son Peewe
Arbor
New York
Thaw
Partridge
Evelyne
Tombs
Pope Prays at Tomb of Leo XIII in St Peter's
Rome July 20. A memorial mass for the anniversary of Pope Leo XIII was held at St. Peter's with the Pope and many cardinals officiating. About five thousand attendees including diplomats, church and state dignitaries, and tourists viewed the ceremony. The Pope blessed the catafalque and offered a brief prayer for Leo XIII.
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Rome
Leo Xil
St. Peter's
Leo XIII
President orders eight hour work rule for government jobs
President of the Miners' Union Gompers says the eight hour law is the federation’s goal and the President is honoring a long‑held promise. Elsewhere in Idaho the Ming mine plans to resume after flooding, and in Wisconsin F R Potts attempts suicide by laudanum and gunshot, surviving.
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Washington
Miners’ Union
Gompers
Gem Idaho
Runsca Ming
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