Finances and Royal Lineage in Late 19th Century Echoes
In July 1897 notes, Bar Gerald Barnato’s estate is valued at about 25 million pounds after shrinkage. Washington plans swift mail transfers to New York port facilities. Queen Victoria has 33 great grandchildren, 19 of them boys, and Empress Frederick’s 17 grandchildren. Nansen reports in St Petersburg forming a 50 million ruble northern enterprise. American insurers withdraw from Austria amid new government restrictions, risking 20 million dollars in business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Empress‘Fréderick
England
Nansen
St. Petersburg
Grasshoppers Payoff in South Dakota Crop Destruction
Grasshoppers are now worth 50 cents a bushel in South Dakota as payment by state authorities for destroying the insects. In some localities they are so numerous they are a more profitable crop than wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Denver Man Dies in England Owes 15 Million
H B Chamberlain once of Denver Colorado died in England after a career that failed 26 business ventures before turning to western real estate. He conducted expansive operations and, at his death, owed fifteen million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Chamberlain
Denver
Col
England
New Mining Claim Found in Arizona Steers
A cattle raiser reports discovering substantial gold in the stomachs of slaughtered steers in Arizona. The find sparks talk of gold deposits but raises questions about its legitimacy and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Lake levels rise slightly after floods and coastal risks
After heavy rains the level of Lake Michigan climbs five to six inches while inland seas seem a drop in a bucket. Wellesley counts 146 new bachelor of arts graduates prompting wordplay on the term. A phrenologist warns picnics on water invite danger, urging caution to prevent disasters during the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Michigan
Jungfrau to Lose Allure as Rail Line Opens
The Jungfrau will cease to be a perilous mountaineering challenge once the new railway to its summit opens. Tourists will switch from alpenstock to rail ticket, and the thrifty Swiss will benefit as ten visitors come with railroad access for every one today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
American Bicycles Exports Rise in April and Year
Official figures show American bicycle shipments abroad in April valued at $117 824 compared with $330 990 the year before. For the ten months ending April exports total $5 283 504, up from $1 001 347 previously, indicating growing foreign demand and American workmanship.
Philadelphia Father Remembers Missing Son Charley Ross
Christian K Ross recalls the 23 year old disappearance of his son Charley Ross who was abducted by three men. The leader who allegedly stole Charley died in Brooklyn years ago without revealing the boy’s whereabouts. If alive he would be about 30, identity likely unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Christian K. Ross
Charley
Brooklyn
Tariff Bill Moves to Conference After Senate Vote
The Senate approved the tariff bill by 38 to 28 on the seventh, appointing a conference committee with the House. The House made no business. The following days saw deferrals for the deficiency bill and tributes to Judge Holman and Senator Harris as funeral services and adjournments occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
House
Congress
Judge Holman
Indiana
Harris
Tennessee
Death of Senator Isham G Harris at 79 in Washington
Obituary notes Isham G Harris United States senator from Tennessee died in Washington at age 79. Harris served as congressman from 1849 to 1855 and governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1863 before being named senator in 1877. Also in brief US business failures fell to 206 in the past week while a pension agency reduction order by Cleveland to nine agencies faces revocation by McKinley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isham G. Harris
United States
Tennessee
Washington
Harris
Cleveland
McKinley
Stamford rider shatters 20 mile record in 41 53
R M Alexander of Hartford wins a 20 mile bicycle road race at Stamford in 41 53 to beat the world record. Exchanges in the week ended the 9th totaled 1 070 967 307, up 0 8 from a year earlier. Mrs Abraham Rosenthal marks her 100th birthday in New York. President plans summer near Lake Champlain. Pittsburgh labor leaders discuss miners wage rise. A couple perishes in Beading Pennsylvania fire. First Methodist church in New Rochelle destroyed by fire over 100 years old. National League batting averages shown for week ending the 11th. William Duffy sets a huge typesetting record in Philadelphia. One hundred Polish Jews arriving in New York from Europe are deported due to destitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamford
Conn
R. M. Alexander
Hartford
United States
New York City
Abraham Rosenthal
Lake Champlain
Plattsburg
N.Y
Pittsburgh
Beadling
Samuel Brown
First Methodist
New Rochelle
N. Y
Boston
Cincinnati
Baltimore
New York
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Louisville
Chicago
Washington
St. Louis
William Duffy
Europe
Heat Waves and Turmoil Sweep Nation in News Roundup
Multiple U S events across states report bank failures, factory collapse, and extreme heat with many deaths. Notable figures include William Slocum Groesbeck former congressman and Liberal Republican presidential candidate. A mob hangs a black man for alleged assault in Missouri.
Fatal shootings at Possum Creek during quarrel
In Possum Creek I. T. Paul Elliott shot and killed Lillian Stewart Will Nave and John Condor during a quarrel. The incident follows a pattern of violent crime reported in regional papers.
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Possum Creek
I. T
Paul Elliott
Lillian Stewart
Will Nave
John Condor
Wiles & Robbins
Chicago
Roswell D. Valentine
Springfield
Jerico
Tenn
Anoka
Minn
Rum River
Foreign Notes Report Turmoil Across Continents
Edward N Baker US consul badly injured in a railway accident died in Buenos Aires. In Paris four impoverished women suffocated themselves with charcoal fumes. Austria warns Turkey that harmony remains fragile. Ambassadors deliver a note demanding stop to peace obstruction. In Germany hailstorm kills 13 and devastates crops. Brasilian rebel Saraiva rejects pacification terms in Uruguay. London advices say no power willing to force Greece Turkey settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward N. Baker
United States
Buenos Aires
Paris
Turkey
Austria
Wurtemberg
Germany
Saraiva
Uruguay
London
Greece
Various World and Domestic News Items Across Nations
In Rome the foreign minister said Turkey blocks peace talks and that great powers remain united to press their aims. E. J. Betts and wife die from lightning near Delhi New York. Christian Endeavor convention ends with solemn meetings in San Francisco. Columbus R. Cummings, Chicago capitalist, dies at 63. Washington reports Hawaii grip kept. Japan threat could trigger Marines and American flag. Gjentofte Denmark railway disaster kills 32, injures 84. Jealousy homicide at Morristown Tennessee ends in double death. George Van Ness Lothrop, ex minister to Russia, dies in Detroit at 80. Corn crop saved by rain in Iowa Nebraska Missouri. Lightning hits Peekskill militia camp. Corp. J J McDonald killed, others hurt. Georgia Coulter 15 and Bertha Yarnell 16 drown at Eagle Lake Indiana. Chauncey Lamb, pioneer lumberman, dies at Clinton Iowa aged 81. Coal famine looming amid miners strike. arbitration sought. English wheat crop expected average 28 bushels per acre. Senate defers deficiency appropriation bill. House bench idle.
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Chamber of Deputies
Rome
E. J. Betts
Delhi
N. Y
Christian Endeavor
San Francisco
Columbus R. Cummings
Chicago
Washington Dispatch
Hawaii
Japan
Gjentofte
Denmark
William Black
Morristown
Tenn
George van Ness Lothrop
Russia
Detroit
Mich
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Peekskill
Corp
J.J. McDonald
Georgia Coulter
Bertha Yarnell
Eagle Lake
Ind
Prof. Coulter
Chicago University
Edward Yarnell
Fort Wayne
Chauncey Lamb
Clinton
United States Senate
Minor News Items Span Arts, Industry and Law
A daughter of evangelist Sam Small plans stage work next season. Arizona gold finds near Phoenix loom large. Nineteen railroads totaling 1314 miles pass into court control in six months. Mrs. Lee C. Harvey of California, delegate at Nashville reunion, is the first woman with such honor. A New Hartford man loses nearly all tobacco to cutworms overnight. Buffalo streetcar lines receive 5000 hp daily from Niagara Falls at 36 dollars per hp yearly. Canada aims to deepen the Quebec Montreal channel to 27 1/4 feet in one season. Grand army groups to receive marble headstones for unmarked war graves. A California natural soap is discovered and deemed superior to manufactured varieties. Three sets of twins born in Smyrna Delaware within one hour set a local record. Nellie Ely of Nashville named sponsor for Governor Taylor staff with colonel rank. Georgia shares the distinction of having a lady on its governor’s staff. Massachusetts bills criminalize selling or wearing birds’ feathers, potential arrest for milliners and many women. Boston police chief says enforcement is duty.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Lee C. Harvey
California
Nashville
New
Hartford
Conn
Buffalo Street Car
Niagara Falls
St. Lawrence River
Quebec
Montreal
Grand Army
Smyrnia
Del
Jefferson Staats
Amos Walker
Martin
Boston Police Board
Miners Strike Pushes Coal Prices Above a Dollar Eighty
Pittsburgh reports coal climbs to 1.80 a ton amid a miners strike. A joint arbitration board visits via informal talks with operators as the industry fears a strike-driven famine within two weeks. Railroads refuse to haul West Virginia coal while river mines sustain limited output. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois labor commissioners mobilize to mediate in upcoming meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Joint Arbitration Board
W. P. Deurmit
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
West Newton
McKay
Miners’ Association
West Virginia
Lake Ports
Monongahela
Chamouni
Apollo
Jack Jones
O’neil
Fayette City
Webster
Washington Coal Company
New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company
State of
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Phus
Kentucky
Tennessee
Cleveland
Murdered in New Orleans and Milwaukee Killings Reported
News briefs from July 13 recount Robert Ainsworth of Chicago found dead in New Orleans near the Illinois Central track with an ax nearby after associates described as two intoxicated Afro-Americans fled on a northbound freight. Also in Milwaukee James Soukop, a commission merchant teamster, shot by an Italian. two children Oscar and Florence Starkey killed by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois train near Alvan, Danville Illinois, while three companions escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Robert Ainsworth
North Francisco Street
Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
Ainsworth
Milwaukee
James Soukop
R. Godfrey
Soukop
Danville
Lil
Chicago & Eastern Iinois
Oscar
Florence Starkey
Alvan
End of Endeavor Convention Draws Big Fr: Sights Across San Francisco Bay
The Christian Endeavor meeting closes in San Francisco with morning and afternoon services at Mechanics Pavilion and Woodward's pavilion. Attendance gaps were filled by overflow crowds. organizers expect visitors to spend at least a million dollars in the city as delegates tour Monterey, Yosemite and other sights. A public reception for Oakland residents is planned for 10,000 delegates crossing the bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endeavor
San Francisco
Mechanics’ Pavilion
Christian Endeavor
Christian Endeavor Missionary Force
Woodward's Pavilion
Woodwards
Oakland
Bay
Monterey
Hamilton
Yosemite
Santa Clara Mountains
Stanford University
Two Girls Drown When Boat Capsizes on Eagle Lake
An evening tragedy on Eagle Lake at 6:30 Monday left Bertha Yarnell 15 of Fort Wayne and Georgia Coulter 15 of Chicago University drowned after a sailboat with five youths capsized in a high wind. Remaining survivors include John Coulter Miss Eunice Munson and Will Grey as divers search for the missing, with Miss Coulter still unrecovered in 90 feet of water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Lake
Ind
Winona
Bertha
Edward F. Yarnell
Fort Wayne
Georgia
John M. Coulter
Chicago University
John C. Coulter
Yarnell
Coulter
Young Coulter
Miss Munson
Lightning Strike Kills Cadet at Peekskill Camp
A deadly thunderbolt at the Peekskill militia camp struck the Y M C A tent, killing Corp. J. J. McDonald of Company A Twenty second regiment New York age 22 who was to marry next Saturday. Several others were knocked unconscious and in serious condition as guards and ambulance corps rushed to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Peekskill
Lightning. Corp
J. J. McDonald
Company A
Twenty-second Regiment
Corp
McDonald
Admin aims to hold Hawaii with or without annexation pact
Washington reports the administration prepared to land marines and raise the American flag in Hawaii if Japan agressively interferes. Rear Admiral Beardslee gains authority plus ships Oregon Philadelphia Marion to act. Senate panel says treaty not endangered by delay but will be reported. no rush to final vote this session.
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Washington
Japan
Hawaii
Iawaii
Beardslee
Oregon
San Francisco
Seattle
Philadelphia
Marion
Honolulu
Naniwa
Hawaiian Islands
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
Hon George Lothrop Dies After Heat Prostration
Detroit July 13 Hon George V N Lothrop ex minister to Russia died at his Fort street home after a week of heat prostration. One of Michigan's most distinguished men he entered the state life young and built a strong legal career in Detroit. He once ran for Congress and led the Michigan delegation at the Charleston convention voting for Douglas. He served as principal American diplomat at St Petersburg during Cleveland's first term and retired from law in 1876.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
George V. N. Lothrop
Russia
Lothrop
Fort Street
West
Michigan
Wolverine State
Kalamazoo County
Congress
Charleston
Douglas
St. Petersburg
Cleveland
Fate of the Youngers
Minnesota Board of Pardons meets in St. Paul to consider clemency requests for Cole and Jim Younger, long imprisoned for their roles in the Northfield bank raid. The case dominates proceedings as advocates push for pardon alongside other applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul, Minn
State Board of Pardons
Cole
Jim Younger
Northfield Bank
Corn crop safe report from Midwest rainfall
Reports to the Chicago Burlington Quincy railroad offices show rainfall since Saturday across Nebraska Iowa and Missouri sufficient to assure corn crop success. No damage from hot winds despite earlier anxiety over high temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago, Burlington
Quincy Railroad
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Railway disaster near Gjentofte kills forty many injured
A mid night express from Belsingeer collided with a passenger train at Gjentofte station, wrecking eight carriages. Forty killed and sixty injured, many workers. bodies and wounded taken to Copenhagen by ambulance trains. Also reports of tar and feathering in Denver and a lightning death in Delhi. Wheat crop in London noted at about 28 bushels per acre, two below normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Gjentofte
Belsingeer
London
Mark Lane Express
Good Samaritan Defends Distracted Woman On Suburban Car
A passenger offers to intervene with a crying boy causing chaos on a suburban streetcar. The mother resists, calling for restraint by his father or any other enforcer, while a polite bystander volunteers to calm the child. The scene ends with the mother removing to another car with the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Nadam
Chicago
anes-Herald
How It Is Done and a Cyclometer Tale
A couple in a Buffalo Express tale recounts a man chasing a cycle record. A cyclist’s cyclometer fix promises 560 miles, but a new device and attic ride end at 287 miles as luck runs out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Express
Widow's Sympathy Saves Family Tale From Tragedy
A Louisville woman ill with a critical condition spurs a neighbor to ample sympathy for the husband and children. The widow's repeated visits provoke a remark that nearly sinks the wife, who then declares she will not die. The widow's pity winds up reversing the outcome and the wife recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Louisville Dispatch
Healthy Wife: Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Publicized
A testimonial endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weak exhausted women. It describes a patient with prolonged uterine bleeding and weakness who improves after treatment and writes that others should not suffer. The letter from Mag. F. S. Bennett of Westphalia Kansas accompanies the claim.
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Barney Barnato
Jerusalem
Prussia
Wellesley
Mass
First National Bank of
Mason, Tex
Akron
Morgan Boiler Company
William Slocum Groesbeck
Horace Greeley
James M. Greenwood
Kansas City
National Educational Association
Wisconsin
Lexington
Priscilla Spooner
Kent
Julia Maffitt
Richmond Cornwall
Herbert
Tom Cooper
Christian Endeavorers
Erastus Brown
Annie Foervinger
Villa Ridge
Union
Anthony Dollar
Tom Stergul
Greenwood
Ark
Sam Small
Evan- 5
Gelist
Quarles
E. R. Carter
National Bank of Commerce
Kings County
McIfinley
Washigton
John Goodnow
Minnesota
Shanghai
The
Star
Fort Scott
Nan
William M. Rice
Monitor
Treasury Department
Vancouver
B.C
Rice
Senator Wolcott
Stevenson
Gen. Paine
United States Bimetallic Commission
Windsor Castle
Sam
Hon. George
Fate OF the
Minnesota Board of Pardons
Julia L. Barton
Adam Winebrenner
Beatrice, Neb
IE. M. Bishop
Winebrenner
Beatrice
John Winebrenner
Harrisburg
Church of God
L. J. Betts
Betts
Hood
St. Louis Avenue
China
Flore’s
Atchison Globe
Washington Democrat
Bennett
Westephalia
Kans
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