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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1899
Page
2
Airship Venture Forms in Baltimore with $100,000 Capital
A Baltimore firm launches with capital of 100000 dollars to build air ships. The project signals growing interest in wireless telegraphy for sea and air use. Industry watchers expect further developments as the venture progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Russell Sage and Carnegie Sparks over Card Game Clash
Russell Sage, described as a church man, shows no inclination to follow Carnegie’s lead on the matter. The remark suggests Sage would not join Carnegie in pursuing the anticipated future plans related to his rival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Mr. Carnegie
Divorce Granted for Conduct Unbecoming a Brute
A Western woman secured a divorce after proving her husband was guilty of conduct unbecoming a brute. The decree was granted instantly.
Collar Crisis Delays New York to Guam Steamer
A transport steaming to Guam from New York was held up when it ran out of extra collar buttons aboard. The incident sparked a humorous note on naval discipline as the ship waited to remedy the deficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
New York
United States Navy
Call for Universal Arbitration Pact Between U S and Britain
A statement urges the United States and Great Britain to negotiate a treaty binding them to submit disputes to a peaceful tribunal. The piece argues that once English speaking nations see the benefits, other nations will follow and arbitration will become the civilized method for resolving international quarrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Astor Brothers Diverge Over War and Taxes
Recent events highlight a sharp divide between Col John Jacob Astor, a Spanish American War volunteer and staff officer, and William Waldorf Astor, alleged exile who promoted tax avoidance while the war raged, provoking debate over patriotism and policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
John Jacob Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Spain
Pall Mall
Ruin of Prehistoric City Found in Arkansas Sparks Hope
The Arkansas discovery is one of several American sites revealing ancient civilizations. The piece laments archaeologists neglecting domestic relics while studies abroad advance. It urges U S colleges to organize expeditions to uncover Native American, Mesoamerican, and Andean ruins at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Thebes
Mexico
Central America
Peru
United States
Dr. Schlieman
Troy
Abolition of pawnshops debated in public venues
The piece argues against abolishing pawnshops citing the harms of mortgage banks and broker greed. It notes high charges of five to ten percent monthly and sixty to a hundred percent yearly, contrasting with public pawnshops offering about one percent monthly and capped six percent dividends, reinvested to expand services.
Washington Prefers Quiet Role in Pacific Island Cession
Washington shows restraint after Spain refuses cession of Caroline islands to Germany. Paris peace talks saw American commissioners offering to buy a strategic Caroline island for a Pacific cable station, but Spain balked due to resentment and Germany’s colonial aims. With the peace treaty signed, the U.S. accepts limited influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Paris
Caroline Islands
Ladrones
Palaus
Foreign marriages and American social taste in the press
The piece argues the United States should avoid foreign entanglements and notes Germany’s interests in the Pacific. It discusses the appeal of foreign marriages in American newspapers, the public fascination with glamorous weddings, and the competitive social dynamics between plain American marriages and those abroad.
Rise of European militarism ends revolution fears
The piece argues that revolutions in Europe are unlikely due to well drilled national militaries. It cites Milan riots where regular troops crushed insurgents and notes London as the only exception among capitals. It warns militias can suppress uprisings with brutal efficiency, maintaining order at high civilian cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
London
Milan
Paris as Crucible of American Treaties and Diplomacy
The city of Paris shaped U S diplomacy through treaties and conferences from 1775 to the Spanish War end. Key moments include the 1775 French alliance talks, twenty one Paris treaties, Civil War diplomacy, and Wolcott commission meetings, underscoring Paris as central to U S international affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Franklin
John Dickinson
Thomas Johnson
John Day
France
Wolcott Bimetallic Commission
Europe
Fran
Rockefellers Tour California to Summer in Red Wood Regions
John D. Rockefeller and a party travel across the continent in two Pullman cars and plan a summer in California's red wood country. Reports from Portland cite Thomas Burns's sentence of one year in prison for threatening to blow up railroad property. In Angels Camp and Murphy's, Fred Peterson, age over 70, died by self-inflicted explosion with giant powder, leaving a note of long residence in Murphys. San Francisco notes Guatemala revolutionist Jose Leon Castillo arriving, with rumors denied about plotting against Guatemala. A Prescott Arizona hold-up ends with the robber jailed after a gunfight with saloon keeper Tommy Smith. Juneau correspondent reports a Copper placer discovery on White River Alaska by Bratnober party, vast in scope and near-surface ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Redwood
California
Portland
Thomas Burns
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Angels Camp
Fred Peterson
Murphy’s
Murphys
Luark
Post-Intelligencer
Juneau
White River
Alaska
Bratnober Party
Yukon
Drunken Frenzy Endangers Family in San Francisco Home
Cornelius Manning attacked his mother with a lit lamp after a quarrel at Mrs. Manning’s residence on Jones and Greenwich streets. Mrs. Mary Kennedy sustained severe burns while trying to aid the hostess, while Paul Kennedy and five year old Maude Kennedy suffered burns. Manning fled and remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Manning
Jones
Greenwich
Young Manning
Taylor
Manning
Grocer’s Mysterious Death Sparks San Francisco Probe
In San Francisco A C A Boy, an aged grocer, was found dead in a store rear at Sanchez and Twenty-ninth. Coroner Hill cites lung hemorrhage as cause while Captain Gillen detains J B Anderson, former partner, amid mystery with accounts debating suicide and lack of bullet wound evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
A. C. A. Boyson
Sanchez and
Twenty-ninth Streets
Hill
Gillen
Seventeenth Street
J. B. Anderson
Boyson
Interior approves California land indemnity selection
The Secretary of the Interior approved 3477 acres in the Los Angeles land district for the state under school land indemnity. The land accrues to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
California
Los Angeles
Government lands sales and post office consolidations noted
In a government notice the sale of school lands is mentioned along with the consolidation of the College Park and San Jose post offices to take effect August 1. George T. Peabody of California is appointed a clerk and field assistant in the Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry. California post offices Gilla Hodson Monroe Sorrento are advanced to domestic money order class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Park
San Jose
Cal
George T. Peabody
California
Department of Agriculture
Division of Forestry
Gilla
Hodson
Monroe
Sorrento
California Internal Revenue First District receipts rise
San Francisco collector of internal revenue Lynch reports that the First District of California collected 3,724,478.96 dollars for the year ending June 30, with 1,480,989.42 dollars paid in the previous year. War Revenue Law boosted revenue by 151 percent from 1897-98. In the past month receipts reached 294,943.52 dollars, up 54 percent from June 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Internal Revenue Lynch
California
Will of Riverdale Rancher Dewey Filed for Probate
Mrs. M. L. Applegarth of Santa Clara county has filed for probate of John C. Dewey's will. Dewey, a wealthy Riverdale rancher who died last May, left property in Merced Fresno Mariposa Santa Clara and Tulare counties and farm land in Kansas totaling $20 000. Bequests include ten dollars to any woman proving she was his wife at his death and ten dollars to any person proving he or she is his child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
M. L. Applegarth
Santa Clara County
John C. Dewey
Riverdale
Dewey
Merced
Mariposa
Santa Clara
Tulare
Greeley County
Kansas
Venice Case Claims Opens Day and Night for 150 Years
A report from foreign lands notes Venice maintains an open status for 150 years. Signals on price controls show Prussia setting annual medicine price lists. A Berlin Odessa dispatch reports a dynamite blast near an active coal mine killing 46 and wounding 20. The San tiago court acquits Admiral Cervera and others once condemned. Berlin denies William II offered Bis marck as ambassador to the U.S. Santiago de Cuba protests a $100,000 award to William J. Buchanan for arbitration efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussia
Berlin
Odessa
Madrid
Cervera
Santiago
Foreign Office
Associated Press
William
Prince Herbert Bismarck
Washington
Santiago de Cuba
William J. Buchanan
United States
Chile
Guatemalan indemnity demanded over miner Richards case
A Washington dispatch says Minister Hunter in Guatemala is asked to investigate Richards a Louisville miner who lost all his gold and was sent to New Orleans by steamer. The state department will seek explanation and possible indemnity. The auxiliary cruiser Vixen lies at Bluefields and may aid Hunter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Washington
Hunter
Guatemala
Richards
New Orleans
Louisville
State Department
Vixen
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Thousands on mound near Austin face starvation amid reptiles
Governor Sayers received a telephone message from Sealey reporting about a thousand refugees on a mound three miles below Austin dying from hunger. They are surrounded by poisonous reptiles and skunks, with hundreds of livestock nearby. bites have caused several deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Post Dispatch
Austin
Texas
Sayers
Sealey
Stevens Condemned for Yukon Hangings in Bank Robbery Case
Chief of Police Glass of Los Angeles received a letter claiming Jim Stevens a gang leader in the July 1896 First National Bank tunnel robbery in Los Angeles has been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged in Dawson City Yukon Territory. The letter, from S B Steele who commands the Northwest Mounted Police, responds to Glass’s earlier plea to arrest Stevens and J Stewart in the bank raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glass
Los Angeles
Jim Stevens
First National Bank
Dawson City
Yukon Territory
S. B. Steele
Northwest Mounted Police
Stevens
J. Stewart
Ups and Downs in Swell Society Romance
The girl who toyed with Funston’s heart regrets jilting him and shuns swell society as he remains in the social swim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Funston
Russia exports eggs exceed a billion annually
A digest of general items notes Russia ships more than 1.5 billion eggs per year while Spain’s army shrinks from its Cuba strength. Other items include a August end fight term for London-Brady to face Jeffries, Philippine war costs, and various political movements and incidents across towns and capitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Spain
Cuba
London
Brady
Jeffries
Mitchel
Fort Scott
Kan
Washington
Philippines
Aguinaldo
Hays City
Uncle Collis
Young American Woman Dies in Boarding House
Miss Helen Moffet, who said she came from Florence Italy, committed suicide in a New York boarding house after arriving a week earlier. The report notes she died by her own action in the small residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Geneva
Helen Moffet
Florence
Italy
Miss Moffet
Luna's Assassins Freed After Self-Defense Ruling
Manila report says the Cabanato trial over General Luna's slayers concluded with acquittal on self defense grounds. Testimony alleged a Luna led plot against Aguinaldo, while Luna's supporters shift loyalty. Spanish garrison survivors in Manila are feted, with funded relief and banquets. Lieutenant Martin denies killing Captain Morenas, attributing his death to beri beri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Cabanato
Luna
Aguinaldo
Baler
Luzon
Martin
Morenas
Swindler Morse Arrested As Widow Scams Revealed
Kansas City authorities arrested B H Morse who posed as Alaska Klondike Improvement and Mining Co representative. Police seized ledgers showing a nationwide widow swindle targeting widows of prominent men, with unpaid balances of 8 to 12 dollars. Victims include widows of Judge J S Emory Lawrence Kansas L G Hastings Wichita C G Foster Topeka and Fred Schuler St Joseph Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
B. H. Morse
Alaska-Klondike Improvement and Mining Company
Richard P. Bland
Bland
Morse
Hayes
J. S. Emory
Lawrence Kan
L. G. Hastings
Wichita
C. G. Foster
Topeka
Fred Schuler
St. Joe
Global mining boom marks era of intense activity
The New York Financial News notes remarkable progress in gold and other mine development worldwide over the last two years. It claims mining activity is now widespread, with the United States leading in intensity while Australia, Africa, China, Pacific islands, Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico also rush to develop minerals. It calls it an age of mining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Financial News
United States
Australia
Africa
China
Islands
Pacific
Europe
South America
British North America
Mexico
The Stamp Photograph and Gold Mining News
The Seattle paper notes a vivid stamp photograph tormenting Jack with memories and a letter signed by the stamp photo graph. In Oregon Josepthine County the Silver Creek mines yield coarse gold worth hundreds of dollars with pieces valued at 50 to 70 dollars. Alaska United mine near Douglas reports 220 stamps crushed 31,177 tons ore worth 34,480 and 517 tons sulphurets valued at 19,530 with ore averaging 1.87 per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Post-Intelligencer
Silver Creek
Josephine County
Oregon
Alaska United
Douglas
Alaska
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mesa Free Press
A. P. Shewman
Rizona
Ter
Sulu
Philippine Archipelago
Pacific Coast News
Jose Leon Castillo
Barrios
Henry Burkline
Rosenthal
St. Sure
Alameda County
O. K
Tommy Smith
Prescott
Arizona
Smith
Grocer
California Affairs
California Internal Revenue
Venice
Coller
New York City
Farson, Leach & Company
Jefferson City
Stephens
Missouri
Rochester
N. Y
Big Dan Brothers
Brothers
Wappingers Falls
May Wright ‘Sewall
United States Council of the Women’s International Congress
Countess of Aberdeen
Vatican
McKinley
General Wheeler
Mortimer C. Rankin
National Committee
Terra Haute
Ind
Rankin
Brooklyn Eagle
Roosevelt
Tribune
Victor, Colo
Bull Hill
Puebla
Philadelphia
Leoncavallo
Miss Moffett
Jack
Bee Adams
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