Diverse 1900s Global News Fragments Sparkle in One Item
A jumble of brief items reports Welner smelter completion delays, indictments for smuggling in Tucson, Hamburg labor petitions, shipments to London, Skaguny tragedy victims, hockey-like trade notes, Cuban sugar filings, and various international incidents. It mentions Honolulu memorials for McKinley, a France coal strike precaution, Alaska mail contracts, Hall Caine in Manx Parliament, Swatow executions, Admiral Rogers in Samar, Centennial ship cargo, and other scattered items from politics, crime, science, and culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuban Sugar Refining Company
Jersy City
Benjamin Carey
Antogio
James Torey
Mootans
Skaguny
Daniel Franz
Fairview
Cedarville
Ill
France
Alaska
Juneau
Aleutian Archipelago
Hall Caine
Bemeay
Manx
French Squadron Sails From Toulon to Turkish Port
The entire French Mediterranean squadron departed Toulon destined for a Turkish port. Admiral Caillard leads a division toward the Levant to press French claims. two thousand troops join the force as the island garrisons and insurrection news unfold in Samar and Leyte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cailiard
Torker
Belem
Toulon
Franes
Salina d'Hieres
Caillard
Levant
France
Mitylene
Salooles
Dardanelles
Gulf of Smyrna
Deadly Race Riot Follows Burning of Negro in Louisiana
A violent clash in Washington parish near Balltown left three white men and eleven black individuals dead. The confrontation began when Creer Lott, a black man, attacked white residents after being caught without a license, triggering a volley from whites that killed Lott and others. A black preacher Connely and his daughter were killed, with additional fatalities among blacks as the chaos spread. Authorities say the riot followed a prior burning of a black man in the area and that nightly meetings by black residents have raised fears of further violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Parish
Louisiana
Balltown
Creer Lott
Lott
Joe Seals
Charles Elliot
Connelly
S Gon
Tin
E. Hl. Thompson
Treacherous Filipino Foe Allegations by American Soldier
Awetican Otheer Saye reports from the Philippines that he and Captain O'Connor view Filipino natives as treacherous. He claims natives are craftier than American Indians and better at deception, citing a barber Lorenzo Malano who pretended loyalty while aiding insurgents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Awetican Otheer Saye
O'Connor
Phillippines
Forty Sixth Volunteer Infantry
Saya
16Th Infantry
Indiana
Manila
Lorenzo Malano
Hess
Hard
Coinage of the World Declines in Gold. Silver Rises
A mint table shows world gold coinage last year at 154 million 497 thousand, down from 166 million 110 thousand the year before. Silver coinage rises to 177 million 11 thousand, up 10 million 64 thousand. Figures for principal countries are garbled but indicate shifts in gold and silver production across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gali
C Oy
Oscar poReTe Ec Te d ' Hritarn
Bulgarians Seek American Missionary Stone and Companion
Six young Bulgarians surrender to authorities to aid in locating the American missionary Mrs Stone and her companion Mme Tallis. With government support they departed from Samaoko toward Mehomia to pursue this mission. Reported absence of news renews rumors of Stone's death and brigands dispersing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Stone
Mme. Tallis
Samaoko
Mehomia
Mins Stona
Urwtele
Evolution theory reversal shocks Paris scholars
News and Views reports Professor Ernst Haeckel has reportedly recanted his long standing Darwinist stance and, with Virchow, supports human descent from monkeys. The claim, said to arise from Java field study, stirs debate among scholars including Dr. Edgar Grant Conklin of Penn. The piece recalls Haeckel’s earlier work and his interest in Dubois phph antephanthropus erectus findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heecksl
Ernst Haeckel
Rudolf Virehow
Paris
Java
Haeckel
Virchow
Hueckel
Edgar Grant Conklin
Soclogy
University of Pennsylvania
Braten
New Lord Mayor Dimedale Named for London
Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimedale, newly elected lord mayor of London, is a longtime municipal figure tied to the Dimadale Cave Tugwell banking house in Prescot. Born in 1849 near How Bells, he entered politics as Cornhill alderman in 1891, later sheriff, London council member, and MP last year. The former Lady Mayoress was Beatrice Haldeworth, who married him in 1873 in a socially notable ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonton
Joseph Cockfield Dimedale
London
Dimsdale
Dimadale, Cave, Tugwell & Co
Finanial House
Prescot
Sound of How Bells
Cornhill
London Council
Joseph
Beatrice Haldeworth
Toseph
Municipal Corporation
Pope’s Niven Niece to Marry Colors Set for Dress
A papal relative set color rules for a pope’s niece marriage with gowns limited to white blue or black. The regent cited purity Mary and tradition as reasons for the choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gicla
Hailtess
Spain
Italy
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Coutome
Haley
Tucson
Arizona
Hamburg Metal-Workers
Senate of
Hamburg
Worta
Victoria, H.C
Thin Monson
Bert Mott
Elgin
Pecatonion
Chicago
Honolulu
McKinley
Manchester
United States
San Francisco Bay
Jobn F. Perkina
New Zealand
John Mackay
Pacific
George J. Augur
Board of Health
Inaue
Europe
Gulf
Denmark
Luton
Congregation Association of Christian Chinese
Thiele
Anna &. Taylor
Bay City
Mich
Niagara Walls
Samar
Francisco de Jesus
Lukban
Cebu
Leyte
Biliran
Samer
de Jenus
San Andtonio
Tex
Mexico
Puruandiro
Butveabip
Oregon
Puget Sound Cavy Yard
Abe
Lenton
Ozolgonz
Cro
Bopor
Prion Wardes
Croigees
Leon Croigoss
Provident McKisley
Auburn Prison
New York
Crolgonz
Collins
Crolgone
Buffalo
Anarchiatea
Cleveland
Alf
Wierlin
Mead
Leon
Coinage OF the World
Mint
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