Freedmen’s Aid society holds 35th anniversary meeting
The M E Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Education society marked its thirty fifth anniversary with a second day session at Beechwood, Allegheny. Bishop McCabe praised the work, noting 7,000 colored graduates ready to teach and a $15,000,000 in church schools since the Civil War amid a need for more funds and continued expansion. Resolutions deplored lawless violence and race war, urged industrial training, and approved appeals for extending church education to whites and blacks in the South.
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Pittsburg
Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Educational Society
the Methodist Episcopal Church
Calgary
Beechsneut
Allegheny
C. McCabe
J. N. Fitzgerald
McCabe
Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Education Society
United States
Itl
Louisiana
South
Hte
New York McKinley Memorial Meeting Net $21700 Collected
New York Nov 13 Members of the New York State Executive Committee of the McKinley Memorial association met privately. Cornelius N Bliss chaired with Marcus Hanna attending. $14200 was subscribed toward the Memorial, bringing total to $21700 for the state association. Subcommittees are only beginning and reports are preliminary. Letters solicit cooperation have been sent to newspapers banks and postmasters. Efforts target 40000 small savings banks in New York City.
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New York
Mc Kinley Memorial Association
New York City
Harrison Seeks Vindication on Legal Career Claim
Indiana man Harrison seeks vindication amid a convoluted wartime to postwar legal service dispute. He claims military, civil governance, and education in law qualified him for practice, citing illness in his family and years of study, alongside service as inspector general and army general staff.
Port Royal Mines Open After Fire Losses In Port Royal
A Port Royal Pa surface plant of the Pittsburg Coal company burned causing about 60090 in damage. About twenty miners were killed earlier by an explosion at a nearby mine. A Slavish miner from Seolutale Pa killed himself after shooting his wife thrice. A rabid dog near Muntown W Va bit several people before being killed. The National Salt company absorbed the Continental Salt company of Akron backed by Armour and Swift. Cattle thieves operate in Westmoreland and Tudiana counties. US Steel mills in Youngstown will cooperate with Republic Iron to save on heavy steel handling. A Wooster Ohio farmer’s wife died after an accident. Barberton Ohio library planned by Diamond Match president RaiBer. Kingston township residents seek borough incorporation. Kent Ohio wreck-preventive measures noted. Newark Ohio closes churches schools and theaters due to smallpox. Elijah Gates bound for attacking a track crew. Lawrence County and News Pa police offer reward for City Blevins murder suspects. Carnegie Pa Hose company to hold banquet tonight. Munhall Pa council leader seeks state legislature seat. Port Royal mines now at 200 workers.
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Pittsburg Coal Company
Port Royal
Mike Porowski
Seolutale
Muntown
W. Va
National Salt Company
The
Salt Trust
Continental Wit Company
Akron
Armour and Swift Packing Companies
Chicago
Westmoreland
Tudiana
United States Steel Corporation
Youngsown
Republic Iron and Stew Company
Levi Allman
Wooster
Ohina
Rai Ber
Diamond Match Company
Barberton
Kingston Towns i
Wilkesharre
Halled M-Kinley
Baltimore and Ohio
Kent
Newark
Elijah Gates
Ancre
Tedford
Iewin
AL Sh
Jiarry Eyler
Lawrence Counly
Blevins
Dominick Paris
Roserio Melbaron
Boundary
Pittsburg
Carnegie Volunteer Hose Company
No. 2
Carnegie
Third Avenue
Fourth Street
Ter
John H. Connor
W. W. Meechling
Munhall
Allegheny County
Robert McWhinney
Peegle
George E. Ios
Carnegie Gifts 2 Million For Institutions In Pittsburg
Reports from Pittsburg say Andrew Carnegie announces two 1 million dollar endowments. One to the Carnegie Institute and another to a proposed new technical school. Site chosen on Forbes Street near Oakland Avenue and Schenley Park. Plans call for phased construction and a total of up to 5 million dollars in commitments.
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Pittsburg
Andrew Catenegie Seserday
Carnegie Institute
Soros
Proposad New Technical School
Forbes Street
Oakland Avvolue
Schenley Park
Tew School
Jarnegie
Tie
Fire kills worker in fifth story corset factory blaze
A Cleveland fire at N G Stone Co on Euclid Avenue destroyed a block, injuring several and causing one woman Miss Graham to die later. The Five story building housed a corset factory and other tenants. evacuation rushed workers toward ladders as flames spread. Firemen rescued some, others injured by glass and smoke, with extensive property losses and several firms reporting damage.
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Cleveland, O
N. G. Stone & Co
Euclid Avenue
Arnstein Brothers& Auer
Stone J Block
Cmset
Misg Grabara
Miss Graham
Belo
Jeanette Stratton
Kate Mhilcahy
Dr. Dowd
Chesnutt
Hagipil
Alachinery Ruthert
Reikert
Stavros
Puldheim Bros
Deviers
Goodhall & Co
Kure
West Virginia town engulfed by fire as wind drives destruction
Cumberland Ald, Nov. mining firestorm razed most of the West Wing town of Geisberg and Reynolds hotels, Catholic church, opera house, water station, and eight Davis Coal and Coke houses. Twenty business blocks and seven dwellings destroyed, losses near 200000 dollars. The Davis company and West Virginia Central railroad aided by furnishing boxcars for storage. In Bluefield, Thomas Sykes Sam Davis and William Woodside died when a powder explosion blown apart men opening a border ke? containment. blast felt for miles.
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Cumberland
Ald
West Wing
Bung
Thomas
W. Va
Mia Central
Pites
Geis
Geisberger
Reynolds
Davis Coal and Coke Company
West Virginia Central Railroad
Bluefield
We. v. A
Thomas Sykes
Sam Davi
William Wood
Good Citizens Duty Delivers Address at National Congress
In Kansas City on November 13, Otis Palmer, president of the association, urged good citizens to stand between state institutions and political plunderers. He highlighted America's strides in the past decade and questioned prison management keeping pace with progress.
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Kansas City
Otis Paller
Suds
Michigan
Kubler
America
Shot Fired at Hart in Bogota Dispatch
The Herald correspondent reports a Sentinel at Tequendama Falls fired one shot at United States Minister Burdett Hart on Oct 25 after refusing his passport. The minister escaped injury. The incident prompted punishment of the Sentinel and continued protection for Hart.
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New York
Bogota
Colomia
Herald
Sentinel
Tequendama Falls
United States
Burdett Hart
Hartig
Wheeling
W. Va
Reverend Haddeus Dead Off South Brooklyn
The aged pastor Reverend Haddeus, 70, of Luther Loomis in Ohio, was found floating in the water off South Brooklyn last Saturday and later identified by Adolph Kerler of New York City as his sister’s relative. His death is undetermined, with a nephew calling it possibly accidental after he left Oct 4 to draw money but vanished.
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New York
Christian Haddeus
Luther Luimbus
Brooklyn
Adolph Kerler
New York City
Haddeus
Bulgaria Likely to Agree on Ransom for Captives
Bulgaria may accept the lowest ransom terms as talks by a secret committee proceed. Counsel General Dickens of Constantinople urges Bulgaria to aid the release of Mrs Ellen M Stone and Mme Tsilka, stressing U S responsibility for the captives’ lives and urging protection from brigands. A private agent reports committee members debating concessions and potential capture of bandits, amid mixed sentiment.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Dicken
Ellen M. Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Lus Montise
Dickkinson
Neguriccuns
Dickinson
Jia
United States
Piusuit
Feu
Lackison
Doubrilva
Aus Buch Poss
Adam
Washington News Highlights From November Activities
In Washington on November 13 the Isthmian canal commission discussed route options including Nicara gua and Panama, with a report to the President likely next week. Secretary Taylor ruled deportation for one hundred Chinese transit cases via Mexico, and debates over sword use in the Army continued. Mrs. Catt led an international women’s status conference gathering delegates to study women worldwide, while Major Hugh Belknap died in Luzon. Roosevelt met with chambers of commerce supporting Canada reciprocity.
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Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Admiral Walker
Panama
Nicaragua
San Francisco
aAssistant Stary Taylor
Treasury
Officily
Offeer
Philippines
South Africa
Larrie Chapman Catt
National Woman's Suffrage Rviation
Hugh R. Belknap
War Department
Cahumba
Luzon
Roosevelt
Cfty Chambers of Commerce
Canada
Rathbun Admits Insurance Fraud Plan Involving Death Story
Rathbun Louisville Nov W admitted to police he plotted to defraud an insurer of 1000 by a staged death in Little Rock claiming his own corpse. He identified the man with him at a Jeffersonville Indiana hotel as Charley Goodman from Evansville Indiana who died the following day. Rathbun denied giving Goodman laudanum and said he would have used chloroform but Goodman died of alcoholism.
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Louisville
Ind
Rathbun
Goodman
State board to form tuberculosis prevention society
The Ohio meeting gathers about 150 physicians and sanitary experts to charter a TB prevention society. It plans educational outreach pamphlets on prevention, lectures in shops and schools, and formation of abate and industrial hospitals for consumptives and constructives in larger cities. Cincinnati already operates a hospital.
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Columbus
State Board of Health
Cincinnati
John J. Lents Accused in Embezzlement Scandal
In Columbus Ohio November, ex congressman John J. Lents, former president of the American Disurance Union, faces possible perjury charges as fraud allegations tie him to J. A. Mulford in a forged report examined by the state Insurance Commissioner. Mulford, away with funds and books, may implicate Lents further. both linked to alleged embezzlement and false entries.
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Columbus
Nov
John J. Lents
American Disurance Union
J. AE
Mulford
Drake
Vorys
Lewis
Lents
Lentz
Letter From Miss Stowe From Sofia Bulgaria
From a letter received by Miss Ellen M. Stone the abducted missionary she endures trials with fortitude yet grows anxious for her companion Mmesila She does not complain of mistreatment but confinement irks her and the weather is trying The tone remains hopeful amidst delays and interference in the mission through Macedonia and near border tensions with European powers.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Ellen M. Stone
Mmesila
Belearian
Powers Theater Fire Ravages Grand Rapids Building
Grand Rapids, Mich a fire after midnight destroyed the Powers theater causing about 100000 dollars in damage. Edgar W Warenston an employee in the building was saturated Mrs Washburn and her two children escaped smoke and were taken to hospital to recover.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Powers Theater
Edgar W. Warenston
Washburn
Bank Robbery Strikes Minster As Burglar Shot
Citizens bank in Minster Ohio was robbed last night. The building was wrecked and one burglar was shot in a confrontation with local residents as the gang fled the scene. Further details and suspects are awaited from authorities.
German and Italian iron and coal producers push exports
Berlin reports a Essen letter claiming Rhine and West Italian coal and iron makers urge increased sales to the United States to flood Europe with American coal and iron products. A leading maker says the United States may supply all Mediterranean nations within 10 to 15 years, even if tariffs but will not halt the flood of American goods. Mansfield reports on George F. Carpenter, late Senator Sherman’s neighbor and father of the famed newspaper correspondent.
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Vossiesherchtung
Essen
Rhue
Westhalian
Efle
United States
Mediterranean
Austria
Europe
Mansfield
George F. Carpenter
Senator Sherman
New
Wper
Eran
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