Opal of Legends Reveals Sudden Fortune and Doom
A New Orleans opal worth about a dollar at bulk price became a legendary jewel after a Texas cattleman wore it in a scarf pin during a San Antonio gambling night. His luck flipped when the pin moved to the dealer, leading to a cascade of misfortune and a final sale to a cotton man, where the stone was set as a brooch and allegedly broke the spell.
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New Orleans
Zacatecas
Old Mexico
San Antonio
Billy Cooper
Billy
Cooper
Royal Street
History of a Fine Opal Link to Ill Luck Spell
A Texas ranchman owned a fine opal used to break a run of bad luck after a jeweler in Canal Street described opal values as arbitrary. The piece drew attention from the New Orleans Times while detailing its legendary status and local reaction.
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Texas
Canal Street
New Orleans Times
Shoestring Peddler Promises Not to Burglarize for Fortnight
A Washington Post item tells of a shoestring seller who vows to abstain from burglary for fourteen days in exchange for $5 from a motherly woman planning to move to California with her daughter. The peddler jokes about future crime and dependence on luck.
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California
United States
Washington Post
Name Variants for Shakespeare and Signature Disputes
A list shows many spellings of Shakspeare and related forms. The text notes only five signatures are unquestionably genuine, two on Blackfriars documents and three on the will. Scholars differ on readings of the will signatures.
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Shakspeare
Chaksper
Shakspere
Shaxpere
Shakspire
Shaxspere
Shaksper
Shakespere
Shakespeare
Shakespeyr
Shaxespeare
Shagspere
Shaxpur
Shaxspeare
Saxpere
Shakespire
Shakespeire
Shackspeare
Shakaspear
Shaxper
Shakspe
Prince Reveals War Fire Tale in Plain Uniform
An Australian war correspondent recalls a South African moment with a prince of the Teck line. A young officer asked if he had seen fire. the correspondent joked that he had and preferred not to. The prince, in plain dress, appeared as unassuming as any private soldier.
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South Africa
Inniskillings
The
Blood Royal
House of Teck
All Along the Coast Highlights Odd Local Happenings
A Stockton woman at a street fair was driven to madness by fortune telling. Mrs. William Weston of Rialto must pay poll tax though her husband says she is not of age. Alameda church men plan a Belgian hare dinner. Oakland reports one of the smallest newborns, a midget weighing 23 ounces and under six inches, in an incubator. A double headed snake found near Chatham school district measured sixteen inches with two developed heads.
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Stockton
William Weston
Rialto
Santa Clara Avenue Methodist Church
Alameda
Oakland
Chatham
Chinatown shooting sparks possible highbinder feud in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles Chinatown a shooting at Marchessault and Alameda streets left Wong Woon fatally wounded after Ung Toy, a highbinder, allegedly acted on a debt dispute with Charley Fook. Police captured Ung Toy. Wong Woon died at Good Samaritan Hospital after an attempted operation.
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Los Angeles
Chinatown
Marchessault
Alameda
Wong Woon
China Alley
Bing Kong Tong
Ung Toy
Charley Fook
Hop Sing Tong
Hugh Dixon
P. H. Murray
Ferguson Alley
Alameda Street
Dixon
Marchessault Streets
Murray
Good Samaritan Hospital
Presidential election may decide Daughters of the American Revolution leader
Washington dispatch reports that the next president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution may be chosen depending on the presidential result. Leading members favor Mrs. Roosevelt or Mrs. Bryan, both currently unaffiliated but eligible, with papers prepared to admit them. If McKinley Roosevelt win, Roosevelt. if Democrats win, Bryan. If neither, Mrs. Donald McLean of North Dakota is third choice. election set for next February.
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New York
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Herald
Roosevelt
Bryan
McKinley
Donald McLean
North Dakota
Steamers Arrive From Nome Aboard Along Pacific Route
Two steamers the General Segley and South Portland reached Port Townsend Washington from Nome via Yakutat reporting Mount St Elias was heavily shaken by the recent Kodiak earthquake. The South Portland carried 152 passengers and both ships left Nome October 14. Indian trappers and hunters in the area near the moon were noted.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Nome
Avalanche roars down Yakutat mountain destroying ice and snow
Reported return to Yakutat describes the mountain almost broken apart by a violent avalanche. Shocks loosened acres of ice that plunged down the slopes and carried away all in their path. Indians say the avalanche began at the base and swept a half mile wide track where no snow or ice remains, while trappers fear some may have been caught.
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Tain
Yakutat
Sims Reeves Death Shocks London Audiences
London reports the death of famed tenor Sims Reeves at Worthing after bronchitis sparked by a chill. His widow Mrs Reeves, younger by years, sang in London for Balaklava survivors before learning the news backstage as the audience pressed for an encore. The tragedy struck during the Kathleen Mavourneen performance.
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London
Sims Reeves
Worthington
Reeves
Stricken Natives Report Epidemic Suffering at Dawson
The Rev Father John B Rene reports a severe epidemic hitting indigenous communities along the Yukon and coast of the Bering Sea. At Holy Cross mission sixty of 150 Indians died in under two months amid famine threats as supplies of fish and game run short. Thousands have perished or face starvation from the disease or its aftereffects.
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Seattle
Wash
John B. Rene
Th Y Unon
Dawson
Holy Cross Mission
Bering Sea
Mexican murderer marries in jail corridor at Cochise county
Edelberto Garcia, convicted of murdering Edward O Connor of El Paso, wed Felicita Telles in the Cochise county jail corridor with Telles cradling a baby he fathered. Garcia awaits a new trial as Felicita’s mother faced grand jury testimony disputes. Separately, Leon Navarro’s wife was granted a divorce for cruelty and Mrs. Navarro testified via her son from a prior marriage. Also, Mrs. E L Andrews, a prominent merchant’s wife, died suddenly at a party.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Edelberto Garcia
Edward O’ Connor
el Paso
Felicita Telles
Cochise County
Garcia
Cassia
Leon Navarro
Pesqueira
Tof Navarro
E. L. Andrews
Miners Reach Seattle Aboard Lawton After Nome Rescue
The Lawton brought over 500 stranded miners to Seattle from Cape Nome with government support. One man, James O'Brien, died at sea near Dutch Harbor. Camp-warded crew from the wrecked Orizaba included 33 aboard the Lawton. Two others lost their reason and will be sent to a state insane asylum.
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Seattle
United States
Lawton
Cape Nome
James O’brien
Dutch Harbor
J. Carpenter
W. Bauer
Nome
Oregon
Alexander McKelsey
Roanoke
Cleveland
Robert Dollar
Valencia
Craven Case Delayed As Lawyer Seeks New Jury
Mrs Nettie R Craven appeared in San Francisco before Judge Cook on an indictment. Attorney Riordan asked for more time to summon witnesses and the grand jury, claiming the jury was illegally drawn and prejudiced. The judge granted until Monday to proceed.
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San Francisco
Nettie R. Craven
Sather Gift to UC Library Fund Ten Thousand dollars
Mrs Jane K Sather of Oakland gifts 10000 dollars in cash to the University of California library fund at a university meeting presided by President Wheeler The endowment is immediately available and the interest will buy new books This adds to her 100000 dollar gift to endow a classical literature chair and to establish a law library fund.
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University of California
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Jane K. Sather
Oakland
Will of Henry L. Lacey Leaves Fortune to Tucson Girl
The will filed in Tuscan on October 27 details Henry L. Lacey’s 100000 fortune to Olive S. Read a 10 year old daughter of William and Gertrude Read of Tucson. Lacey had lived with the Read family in Tucson for many years after dying in Los Angeles.
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Henry L. Lacey
Los Angeles
United States
Olive S. Read
William and
Gertrude Read
Tucson
Transvaal Proclaimed Part of British Empire
Pretoria reports the Transvaal declared a British empire territory with a 6200-strong parade as Sir Alfred Milner reads the proclamation and celebrants mark the moment. In Basutoland Fourisborg is named as capital of the Orange Free State amid treason charges against Keyter. Boers raid Natal. Kruger affaire stirs European capitals as Leyds denies reception plans.
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Transvaal
Grenadiers
Alfred Millner
Great Britain
Maseru
Basutoland
Steyn
Fourisborg
Bethlehem
Orange Free State
Keyter
Volksraad
Durban
Natal
Washbank
Brussels
Kruger
Paris
Leyds
Marseiles
McKinley
Vanderbilt expands stake in Southern Pacific risk rumor
William K. Vanderbilt has acquired large holdings in Southern Pacific stock. Officers deny a change of control while Wall Street sees the move as signaling Vanderbilt influence, aided by Harriman’s role at Union Pacific. H. E. Huntington is set as new president, with Charles H. Tweed as real executive chairman.
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New York
Wall Street
William K. Vanderbilt
Southern Pacific
Vanderbilt
Harriman
Pacific Mail
Union Pacific
Ocean
H. E. Huntington
Huntington
Charles H. Tweed
Fourteen Erie Moulders Arrive for Bettendorf Shutdown
Fourteen non union moulders from Erie Pennsylvania arrived in Springfield Ohio to fill striking workers’ roles at Bettendorf Metal Wheel Co. Shops. They met 150 local union members at the train and were forced to stay aboard and continue to Dayton. Four men escaped off the train including a self described detective Reed of Cleveland. A small riot ensued with few blows. Reed was arrested for carrying concealed weapons and the others sought police protection.
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Springfield
Erie
Cleveland
Bettendorf Metal Wheel Company
Dayton
Reed
Through Boiling Water On Her Domestic Discord in San Francisco
Mrs. Margaret Lund files for divorce from William Lund alleging cruelty. She recounts a 1896 marriage in New Orleans later moving to 1512 California Street San Francisco, and multiple incidents in 1897 1899 including a muffed trip to Mexico where Lund allegedly struck her and a kettle of boiling water was hurled causing burns.
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San Francisco
William Lund
Margaret Lund
Wealthy husband in hotel confine and assault case
Mrs Lund alleges her husband Lund abducted her at a Del Monte hotel, confined her, and beat her when she attempted escape. She accuses the very wealthy man of seeking a large property settlement to sustain her for life after separation or divorce.
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del Monte
Secretary rules wife of Chinese native-born citizen may enter US
The secretary of the treasury, per the solicitor of the treasury, held that the wife of a Chinese native-born U S citizen is entitled to admission regardless of section 1994 revised statutes. The right to land does not depend on her husband’s merchant status but on the protection against separation from a husband legally entitled to live in the country of his birth.
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Washington
Treasuary
the Treasury
United States
Southern Pacific President Pick Confirmed in Board Vote
New York October 26 The Evening Post reports Charles M. Hays, former Grand Trunk general manager, chosen as president of the Southern Pacific. Directors expect board approval next week with Hays to assume January 1 and operate from San Francisco. Tweed says there is no friction and Vanderbilt has not gained control.
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New York
Evening Post
Charles M. Hays
Grand Trunk Line
Southern Pacific
Southerns Pacific
Hays
San Francisco
Mr. Tweed
Chas. A. Tweed
Southern Pacific Company
Tweed
Vanderbilt
Plucky Vallejo Woman Repels Burglars
Mrs. Charles Bade, left alone with her children, confronted two burglars at her home in Vallejo. After a suspicious knock and a single gunshot from the intruders, she fired three times from a revolver as the men fled over the backyard fence.
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Vallejo
Charles Bade
Exonerated Chinese Man Praised After Tombstone Shootout
Sam Chung, earlier believed mortally wounded after killing Stephen Rupe in Tombstone last week, is fully exonerated for self defense. The Phoenix community praises his actions and a testimonial purse of gratitude has been raised.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Sam Chung
Stephen Rupe
Tombstone
Rupe
Rebel Captain Novicio Sentenced to Death at Baler Trial
Novicio was found guilty by a military commission at Baler Northern Luzon for burying alive a seaman from Lieutenant Gilmore's Yorktown party and for other killings. The sentence awaits General MacArthur's approval and General Wheatn has approved the verdict.
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Manilla
Hongkong
Novicio
Baler
Luzon
McDonald
Gilmore
Yorktown
Novocio
MacArthur
Veuville
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