Disgraceful Riches Prompt Murray to Give to the Poor
The Register notes Chicago merchant Tom Murray vows to donate half his business proceeds to the needy, calling wealth a disgrace. A French scientist reports plants detect toxins like copper and mercury beyond chemical analysis. A frost halo for an Alaska saint is pondered by a mission worker. Krueger v Wisconsin Telephone Co holds poles and wires burden land. compensation required under precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Murray
Chicago
Krueger
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Wis
Portrait of R W Crowninshield Joins Navy Collection
The Navy Department in Washington received a fine oil portrait of R W Crowninshield who served as secretary of the navy from 1814 to 1818. Portraits of American naval secretaries are nearing completion though Secretary Whitney's portrait is not yet obtained. Acting Secretary Hackett urged adding Whitney's portrait to the collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Washington
R. W. Crowninshield
Navy
Whitney
Hackett
Hair of Presidents at Philadelphia Academy Collection
The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science displays a rare set of authenticated presidential hair locks from Washington to McKinley. Each lock is neatly arranged in a case, with some pieces paired with family coats of arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science
United States
Washington
McKinley
Ducks, Chinese Agriculture, Hawaii Coping With Scarce Fish
In Hawaii vast quantities of ducks are raised by the Chinese along the ocean edges. Twice daily within restricted zones they feed on young fish in enclosed coves. Reports say fish are growing scarcer yearly, with some attributing the decline to wholesale destruction of the fry by the Chinese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Elder Erie railroader Hawley still on Lake Shore crew
Gideon Hawley of Erie aged 74 remains active on the Lake Shore railroad. He began railroading in 1846 and joined Lake Shore in 1852. A recent company examination found no color blindness, vision loss, or hearing issues, contrary to retirement expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gideon Hawley
Erie
Lake Shore Railroad
Lake Shore
Hawley
Wireless Telegraphy Off Malta Sends Message 134 Miles
A report by United States Consul Grout notes a Malta coast wireless experiment transmitting 134 miles. An Italian ship at Syracuse reportedly sent an Italian message asking for the vessel’s position, received unexpectedly while at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Grout
Malta
Syracuse
Noiseless Baseball Advocate Promotes Gentle Victory
A graduate college publication urges noiseless play in baseball, arguing it benefits the institution more than a championship. The proposed motto: give opponents every chance to do their best and then beat them. The piece condemns barbaric yells and urges gentlemanly conduct over debasing methods.
Military Uniform Reform Warned Against Glamour
An editorial argues against festive war adornments in German forces noting new gray brown fabrics for coats trousers and caps. It warns that war must shed romance and that duty will drive men to battle only when its deadly purpose is clear in every feature, with graves and debts offsetting any excitement.
Needle woman of the gaol sentenced for drunkenness
Mary Cullimore, forty one, designer of Mrs Grover Cleveland's inaugural gown, was jailed five days in New York for drunkenness on Wednesday. In the past year she has spent 273 days in prison for intoxication, planning party dresses for judges' wives during confinement. She often leaves with $100 or more earned from this activity and her friends consider her hopeless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Cleveland
New York
Mary Culllamore
Ferry Boat Sinks With Over Thousand Passengers
New York June 15 The Northfield, a wooden Staten Island Ferry in service 38 years, was rammed by the Mauch Chunk off Whitehall slip. The collision sank the crowded Northfield within twenty minutes at the East River. the Mauch Chunk landed about two dozen passengers. Police and tug crews rescued many, but fears of loss of life persisted as confusion and high tides complicated relief. Captain Johnson faces possible criminal negligence charges. Captain Griffin left for Jersey City after the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Staten Island Ferry Company
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Staten Island
Whitehall Street
Spanish Line
East River
Mauch Chunk
Northfield
Daniel Gully
Mutual
Gully
Unity and Arrow
Abraham Johnson
Ss. C. Griffin
St. George
Battery
Griffin
Jersey City
Jersey Central Railroad
George H. Kopper
Criminal Court
Rough Weather for June at Various Colorado Points
Pueblo reports two inches of hail in twenty minutes, with drifts eight to ten inches. Hail and rain damage noted east of town, berries and fruit may suffer. Boulder sees large hail, wheat loss, alfalfa damage, hail up to an inch in diameter. Cripple Creek and Granada report rain, snow, and hail with garden and fruit damage. in Granada chickens drowned. Holyoke records prolonged rain with some hail and crop benefits from moisture. Maps note hail belts, rain, and varied impact across Denver News Special.
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Pueblo
Colo
Denver News
Arkansas
Vineland
Artman
Avondale
Boulder
Boulder County
Marshall
Longmont
Gunbarrel
Shanahan Ranch
Thomas Kincale
District No. 6
White Rock
Victor
Cripple Creek
Granada
Holyoke
Quarto-Centennial Jubilee Plan For Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs prepares for a twenty fifth anniversary celebration of statehood on August 3 as the Quarto Centennial Jubilee Association invites cities and counties to contribute features for a historic parade. The program includes pageants on prehistory to modern life, aims to host Vice President Roosevelt for an address, and features the Roosevelt Rough Riders encampment, music, pioneer gatherings, dances, a street fair, professional baseball games, and fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Rough Riders
State association officers rally to Pike's Peak event
The group will celebrate with a grand gathering at the top of Pike's Peak and Cripple Creek. Officers listed include John G. Shields as president and I N Stevens as vice president, with Gilbert McClurg and others on the executive committee. Railroads will offer a specially low fare from all sections of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pike’s Peak
Cripple Creek
Association
John G. Shields
I. N. Stevens
Irving Howl Insurer
Gilbert McClurg
Jesus
D. B. Fairley
Phillip B. Stewart
Don C. Goddard
George Rex Buckman
Transport Ingalls Capsizes at Brooklyn Dry Dock
In New York on June 15 the United States transport Ingalls slipped from blocks and capsized while in Erie basin South Brooklyn. One man was killed and many injured as about 240 workers were on site. Thirty Italian laborers in the hold were shifting ballast and feared drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingalls
New York
United States
Erie Basin
Brooklyn
Heat Claims Three in Chicago Over Recent Days
In Chicago on June 15 Sunstroker reports three heat related deaths over the last three days. The deceased are Frank Blackley John Lang and Carl Riese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank Blackley
John Lang
Carl Riese
Colorado notes on police, fairs, schools and rail yards
The Pueblo police chief appoints a dog catcher and pursues assertively. Obituaries note B F Rawalt’s death in Salida. A Pueblo state fair fund canvass seeks $14,000. Denver will host a summer school at student demand. National Master Blacksmiths meet in Denver August 13 with about 250 expected attendees. Post offices at Florence and Rocky Ford rise to second class. Denver postmaster salary increases to 4000. Governor Orman to attend Victor Fourth of July events. Colorado Springs and Denver Baseball League results shown. New stock yards planned in East Pueblo. Colorado College seeks greater endowment. Grand Valley fruit growers plan Rifle meeting July 6 to organize Garfield county horticultural society. Rocky Mountain News building project in Denver. San Francisco Jewish group forms Pacific coast board for Denver Hospital for Consumption. Trout stocking to Grand and Roaring Fork rivers. A Connecticut reader asks about Indian war whoops. answer notes college yells. Pueblo plans a genuine state fair with county vice presidents. Denver mint projected largest in world but timeline uncertain. Eldora approves street-franchise for electric light. Trinidad businessmen form taxpayers’ league. AAAS annual meeting in Denver Aug 24–30. Cripple Creek hosts Trans-Mississippi Congress July 16–20. Discussions on Cheesman lake power and railways. Sergeant Ivy Baldwin plans long-air balloon tests in Denver and later Atlantic trials. Golden pottery plant to join new trust near Golden. Golden center of Western pottery industry. Life insurance payoffs to Colorado citizens amount to 1.76 million in 1900. notable claims listed from Alpine, Colorado Springs, Denver, Durbin, Hill, Lothrop, Ruth.
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Pueblo
B. F. Rawalt
C. F. Rawalt
Gunnison
Salida
University of Denver
National Association of Master Blacksmiths
Denver
Florence
Rocky Ford
Colorado
Sa Junta
Aspen
Orman
Victor
Colorado Springs
East Pueblo
Colorado College
Grand Valley
Rifle
Garfield County Horticultural Society
Rocky Mountain News Printing Company
Welton Street
Seventeenth Street
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Denver Hospital
W. St. Lee
Glenwood Springs
Grand
Roaring Fork
Connecticut
Roberts
Eldora
Messrs
T. B. Whitted
William B. Ogden
W. H. McLeod
Boulder
Trinidad
Taxpayers’ League
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Cripple Creek
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress
Cheesman Lake
Denver Union Water Company
South Platte Canon
The
Water Company
Denver Thamway Company
Ivy Baldwin
Cuba
Atlantic
Golden
E. Liverpool
Ohio
Insurance Press of
New York
F. T
Thom‘onnelly
H. B. Moore
James M. Burt
Edward A. Durbin
Nathaniel P. Hill
Wilbur C. Lothrop
William Ruth
Great Western Railroad Combination Perfected
Chicago reports that Harriman gains control of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul with a broader plan to unite western lines into a global network. The arrangement pools funding from bankers for Milwaukee and St Paul transfers as key players align: Harriman Kuhn Loeb Rockefellers West lines to Pacific, Hill Morgan northwest, Gould and Rockefellers southwest, with Morgan Har riman guiding policy as the dream of a unified system advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Harriman Combine
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Harriman
East
John M.mitchell
Sinois Trust and Savings Bank
Western
Northern Pacific
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Intel
Moygan
Santa Fe
Southern Pacificnion Pacific
St. Paul
Northwestern
Burlington
Missouri Pacific
Great Northern
Wabash
Cailles to Surrender Army as Aguinaldo Successor Steps Down
Menila June 17 Colonel Infant and Galvara signed the principal name to an agreement for Cailles to surrender his forces. Cailles plans to meet American authorities at Santa Cruz Laguna Province with over 500 men. He led insurgents east of Manila Bay and was known for harsh tactics and influence among Filipinos. He had offered bounties for American heads and led a mobilization system that frustrated U.S. troops. Cailles claimed Aguinaldo’s succession and remained one of Luzon’s last major insurgent leaders alongside Malver.
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Menila
Infant
Galvara
Cailles
Santa Cruz
Laguna
Bay
Edward N. Jones, Jr
Eighth Infantry
Sinsloan
Aguinaldo
General Malver
Luzon
Mrs Kennedy Found Guilty of Murder in Kansas City
A jury in Missouri found Lulu Prince Kennedy guilty of murdering her husband Philip H. Kennedy on January 10 in the Ridge Building. The 20 year old showed no emotion as the verdict was read and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The killing followed an attempted reconciliation with the physician present and a disputed marriage, with family altercations at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Criminal Court
Lulu Prince Kennedy
Philip H. Kennedy
Kennedy
New Ridge
Cross
Thomas Kennedy
W. C. Prince
Will Prince
Death of Father Dyer Pioneer Preacher Dies at 89
Rev John L Dyer known as Father Dyer the snowshoe itinerant died at his daughter Mrs Abbie Streeter s home in University Park Denver at 6 30 pm after weeks of illness Causes listed as shock from paralysis He was just 89 years and 3 months old Surrounded by family and friends including his son in Cripple Creek and his daughter Mrs Streeter He was a pioneer missionary of the Rocky Mountain region spreading his gospel of love and planting seeds for others to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Dyer
Denver
John L. Dyer
West
Dyer
Abbie Streeter
University Park
Mrs. Streeter
Samuel Dyer
Cripple Creek
Zionist Federation Opens Fourth Annual Convention
The Federation of American Zionists held its fourth annual convention in Philadelphia with record attendance. Delegates from across the country discussed Zionism’s goal to establish Palestine as a legal home for persecuted Jews from Russia, Romania, and other European nations. Messages of greeting came from Baron Rothschild and Max Nordau. An amendment to require members to buy a Jewish Colonial Trust share was defeated. A committee sought funds and a plan for a Hebrew newspaper, with Rabbi Solomon Wise of Portland named to the panel.
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Palestine
Philadelphia
Jude
Federation of American Zionists
Russia
Roumania
Baron Rothschild
Max Nordau
Jewish Colonial Trust of London
Tebrew
Rabbi
Wise
Portland
Christian Endeavor Convention Officers Named at Colorado Springs
The Christian Endeavor convention held in Colorado Springs elected officers including President H R Chapman and Vice President James D Husted. Others named were recording secretary W Wright, corresponding secretary Mrs Ella J Queen, treasurer Bert L Kinte, and several department superintendents with diverse placements across Colorado. The next state convention will be held at Leadville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor
Colorado Springs
H. R. Chapman
James Dhusted
Cripple Creek
W. ©. Wright
Ella J. Queen
Denver
Bert L. Kinte
Greeley
Jessie Aiken
Christian Citizens’ Committee
W. F Leslingwell
Nellie M. Jeliams
Cherry
Marion Cordingly
Deav
J. Roy Stockton
Mrs McKinley Improves as Canton Repairs Near Finish
Washington June 17 Mrs McKinleys illness eases Her first request was to resume Marine Band concerts at the White House She hosted friends in the sick chamber and held an old-time Saturday night The President spent much time with his wife and Canton repairs near completion with plans to move her to Ohio by July first if condition allows Hopeing she may travel by July first
National Editorial Association elects Tozier president
The National Editorial Association met in Buffalo on June 15 and adopted a report supporting excluding newspapers that publish premiums from the mails. John A. Sleicher of New York opposed the measure. Albert Tozier of Portland was elected president, and the next convention will be at Hot Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Editorial Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Law Committee
John A. Sleicher
New York
Albert Tozier
Portland Oregon
Hot Springs
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