New York Tens of Thousands of Millionaires Spark Debate
The Register questions wealth and immigration trends as New York hosts nearly twice as many millionaires as London or Paris. It critiques cigarett e profits, discusses desert water beneath Sahara, and muses on naval staffing and Australia’s rise. It ends urging careful naturalization and loyalty to U.S. laws.
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New Yor City
London
Paris
Sahara
Commonwealth of Australia
United States
Alaska
Australia
State News From Colorado era Highlights Rail Drive and Murders
Colorado dispatches report a Union Pacific collision near Eaton killing workers, a Jefferson county murder at Bradford Junction, a jail break at Telluride, fatal mine explosions near Breckenridge, and cattle drives across the Colorado line. Other items note fire damage at Salida, water danger near Boulder Creek, drought and wild weather impacts, and fiscal talk on military poll taxes.
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Silas P. Elliott
Kennedy
Morrison
Boulder Creek
Denver Baguio
Missouri River
Colorado
Hugh Lambert
Montrose
Endsley
Ensley
Lambert
Denver
Ouray
Delta
Mesa
la Plata
Dolores County
Dolores
Tin Cup
Chicago
John Kennedy
George O. Kennedy
Bradford Junction
Jefferson County
Young Kennedy
Ivanhoe Tunnel
Morris Donovan
Adolf Hauffman
Donovan
Hauffman
Telluride
Frank Smith
Harry Blakesley
al McKenzie
Blakesley
Gunnison
Little Corporal
Breckenridge
William Barklie
John Dierks
B. Benson
Dierks
Elmer Miller
Benson
Miller
Eighth General Assembly
Paris Strike Turns Violent as Drivers Push for Eight Twelve Hours
In Paris the strike by stage drivers demands twelve hour days and reinstatement of union members discharged for agitation. Rioting Renewed with stonings and attacks on stages and blackleg crews. Police beat back mobs. 13 strikers arrested. troops expected to prevent disruption of public travel.
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Parisay
Fourmies
Boulevard Bourden
Pardon Petition in Montan a Rape Case Sparks Controversy
In Miles City Montana petitions to Governor Toole seek clemency for John M Waugh convicted of rape and sentenced to two years amid claims of a grand jury and trial jury targeting an immoral mother Mary Estes. The mother and three daughters allegedly led immoral lives. the girl Ests admits past immorality.
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Miles City
Montana
John M. Waugh
Tvo
Waugh
Elvira Estes
Mary Estes
Grand Jury
Toole
Narrow Escape on Ninth Avenue Elevated Curve
An accident on the Ninth Avenue elevated road at One Hundred and Tenth Street caused a motor to break down and several railway ties to fly onto the street, injuring two men, Albert Patterson and Andrew White. The train remained on the track and a catastrophe was narrowly avoided.
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Ninth Avenue
One Hundred and Tenth Street
Albert Patterson
Andrew White
Farmers oust tenant in Jewell County farm dispute
In Washington township Jewell county about forty farmers forced Oscar Killesperger from a farm tied to a foreclosure and restored Joseph Hennett who had been ejected by a sheriff. The lender, represented by a Jewell City law firm, had bought the property on mortgage, prompting a night showdown with threats of violence.
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Jewell City
Kansas
Washington Township
Jewell County
Oscar Killesperger
Joseph Hennett
Bennett
Hillesperger
Sherif
Supreme Court Upholds Original Package Law Nationally
The Supreme Court declares the original package law valid and enforceable in all states with prohibition laws, asserting state power to regulate public health and safety. The decision, unanimous on the outcome with some justices not agreeing with all reasoning, centers on John M. Wilkerson v Rabre and the scope of Congress versus state regulation of interstate liquor commerce.
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United States Supreme Court
Puller
Gray
Harris
Brewer
John M. Wilkerson
Shawnee County
Kansas
Charles A. Rabre
Circuit Court of the United States
District of Kansas
Rabre
Topeka
Maynard, Hopking & Co
Kansas City
Missouri
United States
Congress
Iowa
Restricting the Saloons in Missouri Judge rules injunctive closure
Judge Field of the Kansas City Circuit Court rules permanently to enjoin a saloon under the 1889 dram shop act. Licenses are void for lack of required citizen petition, failure to indemnify against Sunday opening, sale to habitual drunkards, and allowing gambling and music.
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Judge Field
Circuit Court
Kansas City
Capture of the Dalton Robbers After 19 Hour Fight
Oklahoma City dispatch reports the Dalton gang captured in the Sac and Fox reservation after a nineteen hour battle with US deputy marshals and Fifth Cavalry. Bob Dalton killed. James Eaton wounded. the gang surrendered with hands up after a long siege in a cave. Evidence of train robbery recovered along with jewelry and express wraps.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Territory
Dalton Brothers and Gang
Santa Fe
Wharton Station
Sac and Fox Reservation
United States
Fifth Cavalry
Bob Dalton
James Eaton
Marchals
Bob
Ministers Held On Counterfeiting Charges In Iowa
Two Iowa ministers were arrested for counterfeiting as reports from across the nation note legislative moves in Illinois and Pennsylvania, train robbery attempts in Maine, and a court acquittal in Worcester.
Baron Hirsch fund plans 50 cottages for Jewish immigrants near Harrison NJ
The Baron Hirsch fund near Harrison New Jersey plans to buy a large tract to build 50 cottages for newly arrived Jewish immigrants from crowded New York tenements. Each eight room house would have a yard, with options to buy at low price and pay 5 percent interest, starting with fifty houses to be ready in a few months. The project aims to avoid charity labels with diversified architecture and hopes to cut tenement housing in big cities, while excluding Nihilist Socialist or Anarchist groups.
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Baron Hirsch Fund
Tami
Harrison
New Jersey
New York City
Solomon
Lata
Pennsylvania, Delaware & Lackawanas Western
Evie
New York
Edison Electric
Lynch Threat Arises After Assault Near Hilton
Anna Gerber, a Hilton Illinois schoolteacher, was attacked in a woods by George Ditch. She was beaten and left delirious. armed men seek Ditch with threats of lynching. Separate incidents at Longfellow school led to the dismissal of Principal Wardner for thrashing a student and of another principal for beating a student during an interrogation.
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Anna Gerber
Hilton
Illinois
George Ditch
Ditch
A. E. Wardner
Longfellow
Roy Coppingham
James
Henry Coppingham
Wordner
Histy
Mining News Flags Rich Colorado Gold Prospects
A Colorado mining summary reports committees forming to aid a national effort and claims of fraud in stock sales. The Queen mine and Mixsell mill deliver high grade ore with gains from 20 to 159 dollars per ton. Reports from Nolan Creek and Fall River detail rising ore values, new mill activity, and potential breakthroughs at the Alice mine and Sacramentoreis. Prospectors near Steamboat Springs hail a rich galena lead ore with broad pay streaks and year round workability.
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Colorado
A.C. Fisk
A Tudor
E. Taylor
Platt
H. B. Gillespie
Mollie Gibson
Hagerman
Gillespie
Mixsell
Phil Mixsell
Ernest
Idaho
North Creek
Black Hawk
the & Whirty
Nolan Creek
Henry Wood
Deaver
Wolock
Costigan
J. H Waters
China
Tesla Publican
Mento
Sacramentoreis
Alice
Fall River
Denver
Spaines
White
Mises
Steamboat Springs
Conflict on Pungwe River Near Matsikas Between Portuguese and BSAC
A clash on the Pungwe river near Matsikas pits Portuguese forces against the British South Africa Company's troops. The Portuguese, aided by about Europeans and 0 natives with guns, clash with sixty BSAC men and gas. Portuguese casualties include 24 killed and many wounded as they retreat toward Umtases, leaving Matsikas and nearby areas evacuated.
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Lord Randolph Churchill
Cape Town
Pungwe
Matsikas
British South Africa Company
Martsits
Umtases
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