Brazil’s Vice President Dr Silviana Brandao is Dead
A wide spectrum of international items fills the page: Brazil reports the death of vice president Dr Silviana Brandao. Coton sees soaring food prices. Mindanao’s second expedition advances. Mount Etna and Stromboli show activity. insurrection in Macedonia grows. Modica suffers cyclone devastation with fatalities. a trust controls large South mills. Nome endures another storm with two deaths. insurgents threaten Santa Marta’s supplies. trans Pacific cable set to open by July 2, 1003. Korea’s emperor reportedly alive and healthy. London mixed reaction to tobacco amalgamation. Tseng defeats Boxers near Cheng Tu Fu. Geneva tram strike disrupts service. 80 diva messages expected on Pacific cable. Panama leaders reportedly imprisoned for supporting rebels. significant Greek emigration to the U S. troops deployed in Macedonia. Detroit backs Pennsylvania coal resumption. Bolivia open to Acre lease terms. miners killed by gas near Murcia. Bolivian and Peruvian boundary treaty signed. Isthmus Panama transit continues. French miners’ general strike committee opposes strike. Russian harvest projections. new marine propulsion engine promised. Botha appeals for aid to Boers. Kansas murder sentence. dynamite attack in St Joseph. Danish West Indies noted for educated population and potential American growth.
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Nome
Santa Marta
Colombia
United States
Philippines
Korea
Shaus Province
Cheng Tu Fu
Panama
Greece
Tn Salonica
Turkey
Macedonia
Detrott
Mich
Pennsylvania
Ttis
Bolivia
Acre
Madrid
London Morning
Muscarron
Murcia
Northwest notes pulse through a frontier year
News brief roundup from Montana Idaho and Utah reports six thousand visitors to Yellowstone season end. Killed worker Tt. M. Whalen in Butte. 2200 volt contact. Strike by Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone. Livingston plans a large smelter plant and river water appropriation. Accidental self shot fatality at Columbus. Train collision near Tonka Nevada endangered none of the passengers. Oregon Short Line extension eyed to St Anthony branch with surveying underway. Indian agent Br idgeman arrested on 39 counts falsifying accounts. Labor party congress nominating Dale. fusion talks with Heinze for supreme bench. Homestead land entries exceed 200 with $30,000 receipts. Natatorium holdup nets $600. Colorado plan to tour whole Colorado grown line on a railroad car. Monster miners benefit in Butte aims to raise $5,000. Postmaster Morris nearly killed in mining shaft accident. UP to double track Omaha Ogden to begin 1903. Hinsdale killing over a joke. Davis slain. Fernie camps censored by mining bosses per Mayer. Knights of Pythias Wyoming report 19th annual session. next in Rawlins 1903. Butte pawnshop burglary totals 700 worth of jewels.
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Tonka
Carlin
Nevada
Warner
Butte
Oregon Short Line
St. Anthony
National Park
Bridgeman
Port Belknap
Colorado
Salt Lake
Locot Motive
Prominent Banker Nicholas Fish Killed in New York Brawl
Nicholas Fish, a famed New York banker and member of the notable Fish family, died after a drunken confrontation at Earhart’s saloon on West Thirty-fourth Street. Tom Sharkey, a private detective and suspected assailant, struck Fish during a dispute over a woman, causing fatal brain injury. Sharkey remains jailed on homicide charges while the women involved were released on bail as witnesses.
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Nicholas Fish
New York
Marqulltoi Fish
Stuyvesant Fish
New York Society
West Thirty-fourth Street
Roosevelt Hospital
Thomas Shakey
Chinatown
Mr. Fish
Sharkey
Ugley
Earhardts Saloon
Libby Phillipe
Nellie Casey
Fist
Irving Place
St. Mark's Church
Batten
Murphy in Croker's Shoes head Tam many leader
Charles F. Murphy selected by current rulers to succeed Richard Croker as leader of Tammany Hall after the primaries. Murphy, former dock commissioner, faces opposition from Carroll men while William Devery’s primary success is cited by his supporters as making him the logical rival for the post.
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Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
Richard Croker
Ganization
Croker
Wigwam
Murphy
Carroll
William Devery
Varied Types of Women From Eastern Europe
A Parisian writer calls the Russian girl the most interesting and picturesque, willing to die for ideas and fearless of Siberia or imprisonment. Romanian women are exquisite, with attractions untouched by vices. Danubian girls lag behind due to limited education. Bulgarian maids improve with American teachers in Sofia and elsewhere.
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Europe
Nihiliat
Siberia
Rome
Sofia
Principality
Increase of Live Stock in Ireland Report
Tables from the Department of Agriculture show Ireland's population density fell from 315 to 219 per 1000 acres over fifty years, a 3.8 percent drop, while cattle per 1000 acres rose from 143 to 230 and sheep from 102 to 215. The statistics cover changes in farming during the past half century.
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Ireland
Department of Agriculture
Passing of Boss Shepherd in Mexico
Alexander R. Shepherd, once ruler of District of Columbia politics, died in Mexico. As territorial governor he led DC improvements. Though charged with corruption and barred from confirmation, he was later hailed as founder of modern Washington and praised for shaping its architectural beauty, a claim now disputed.
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United States
Alexander R. Shepherd
Mexico
District of Columbia
Alexander R. Shepherd Ments
Senate
Grant
Washington
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Mindanao
Mount Aetna
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Sicily
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John Willit
Botha
Arthur White
Bessie Hickland
Wilson
Kansas
Columbus Walton
South St. Joseph
Saratoga
Northwest Notes
Yellowstone Park
Tt. M. Whalen
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Livingston
Yellowstone River
Oscar Welde
Columbus, Mont
Dan McDonald
American Labor Union
J. M. Morris
Altyne
Mont
Union Pacific
Omaha
Ogden
Cheyenne
John M. Davis
William Norvel
Hinsdale, Mont
Norvel
Davis
Mayer
Western Federation of Miners
Fernie B. C
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Wyoming
Rock Springs
Rawlins
Abraham Colin
Colin
Mrs. Phillips
Stuyvesant Elsl
Shepherd
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