Newport school board hires Louise Van Horne as teacher
Newport TR Z elected Louise Van Horne a young colored lady as a public school teacher. She is daughter of Rev Mahlon Van Horne consul at St Thomas and is described as highly accomplished and a successful instructor. The piece notes high inland freight volumes on the Great Lakes likely to break records this year.
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Newport
TR. Z
Louise van Horne
Mahlon van Horne
St. Thomas
Mail Route via Siberia Cuts Across Continents
The Trans Siberian railroad nears completion and Russia gains mail contracts from nations that opposed her three decades ago, signaling a dramatic shift in global communications and alliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Pacific
Siberia
Russia
Prose Reflection on Self Destruction Motives
A reflective passage contrasts ordinary understanding of suicide with the puzzling choice to add horror by swallowing carbolic acid or setting clothing on fire with kerosene. The writer notes the mystery of why individuals pursue such drastic acts and questions the state of mind behind self harm.
U S Gold Reserves Reach 1.2 Billion Total
At June end the government held gold coin bullion and certificates totaling 608 173 442 dollars, with currency in circulation pushing the overall stock to 1.2 billion dollars, a likely record for any nation and possibly since the world began.
Cotton mill capital soars in the South 1880 to 1900
A Census Bureau report shows southern cotton manufacturing capital rising from 20,413,414 in 1880 to 62,623,729 in 1890 and 137,172,561 in 1900. No other U S region matched such rapid growth in a single industry over the period.
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Census Bureau
United States
Former President Cleveland Accumulates Vast Massachusetts Land
Former president Cleveland invested 250 900 to secure land rights along Monument beach and control store rights at Buttermilk bay near Buzzard's bay where Gray Gables sits. He is now among the largest landowners in southeastern Massachusetts.
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Cleveland
Monument Beach
Buttermilk Bay
Buzzard’s Bay
Gray Gables
Massachusetts
Wind and lightning damage hit western insurers harder
Insurance firms in the West suffer more from wind and lightning this year than fires did last year. Tornado insurance losses already run high, while farmers increasingly favor tornado coverage for safety.
Pension Bill Grants Union Ex Confederate Soldiers Pension
A late congress bill grants pensionable status to ex Confederates who enlisted in the Union Army before 1865. It targets North Carolina and Tennessee conscripts who later served in the Union. Pension Bureau estimates about 3 million dollars added to the annual pension list.
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North Carolina
Tennessee
Pension Bureau
Wool shortages prompt wool grower incentive nationwide
The Philadelphia Record notes domestic wool supply is inadequate for clothing. Foreign clothing wool imported in the last ten months of the fiscal year reached about 65 million pounds, plus 7 million pounds of carpet wool. Strong western sheep-raising signals rising demand and should spur sheep raisers nationwide.
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Philadelphia
Post Office Reports First Quarter Surplus Amid Expanding Routes
The post office department announced its first quarter of 1902 ended in March with receipts of 32.4 million dollars and expenditures of 31.5 million, yielding a 900 thousand dollar surplus. Officials say the higher spend covered many new free delivery routes. Washington estimates the full year deficit under five million dollars.
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Post Office Department
Washington
Engineer claims direct atmospheric electricity method
Senor Clemente Figueras, living in Las Almas Canary Islands, asserts a method to use atmospheric electricity directly without chemicals or motive force. He says it could save power and spark an industrial revolution, but the world should await abundant confirmation before major changes.
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Senor
Clemente Figueras
Las Almas
Canary Islands
Week’s News From Across the Nation and Abroad
Receipts of June at 50 large post offices totaled 4,478,565 dollars, up 572,822 or 14 percent from June 1907. The Postmaster General left Washington for Wisconsin, to be away until fall. The Treasury auditor reported 96,483 accounts examined totaling 5,978,110,584 dollars. Counterfeits of the 20 dollar gold certificate and 5 dollar silver certificate were in circulation. Census bulletin notes 48,497 clothing factories with capital totaling 648,969,004 dollars.
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United States
Washington
Wisconsin
Treasury Department
Seven day totals show declines across exchanges and failures
United States clearing houses reported 1.848 billion dollars traded in the seven days to the 4th, down from 2.599 billion the prior week. The week saw 105 business failures, down from 138. Mines disaster toll near Johnstown recorded 139 recovered bodies, Cambria mine tragedy death toll listed at 114.
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United States
Jones’ Inlet
Long Beach
N.Y
Johnstown
Chicago
Boston
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
Cleveland
Detroit
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
New York
Uriah White
Ocean Grove
New Jersey
Trenton
Thomas J. Morgan
Tlome Mission Society of the Baptist Church
Yonkers
Peary
Windward
Floods and political shift amid national upheaval sweep the Midwest
In Woodbury county floods cause 1 million in damage and Des Moines battles rising waters with 7 million in losses. National Education Association elects Charles W Eliot as president in Minneapolis. Davenport related self defense acquittal, John A T Tull renominated for Congress. Chicago reports 2.1 million city population estimate from the new directory. Portland and Evansville flood killings. nationwide strikes and drownings mark the era.
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Woodbury
Minneapolis
National Educational Association
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard College
Dan Ureen
Davenport
Iowa
John A. T. Tull
Congress
Highwater
Des Moines
Department of Education
W. F. Toyt
Kansas Wesleyan Univerversity
Salina
Bear Creek
Wis
Harvey FE
Cubbard
la Crosse
Pierce
Wisconsin
Richard Jones
Belmont
Ark
Oregon
Chicago
J.E. Sparks
Bainbridge
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Evansville
Ind
Jobn Peninger
Ves Moines
Moline Plow founder George W. Stephens dies at 83
George W. Stephens president and founder of the Moline Plow Company died at his home in Moline Illinois aged 83. In Mechanicsburg Ohio a fire burned twelve fine trotters to death.
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George W. Stephens
The
Moline Plow Company
Moline
Ill
Mechanicsburg
Coronation Set For August Ninth With Royal Approval
King Edward's coronation awaits physicians' approval and is scheduled for August 9. Reports note royal plans and imminent transfer to the royal yacht next Thursday.
Mixed global and domestic events touch presidents and disasters
A broad roundup notes a new census commission appointment for Director Merriam under a permanent law. Bermuda prisoners reach New York en route to South Africa. A train robbery near Chester, California, and a retirement at 61 for Maj. Gen. Wheaton. Mine blast at Rolling Mill near Johnstown prompts operations. British chancellor Tricks-Beach resigns. Cleveland police target clairvoyants. Illinois battleship groundings. King Edward’s doctors say progress is satisfactory. Adna R. Chaffee ordered home from the Philippines with George Davis to succeed. Century ice relief Windward sails for Arctic aid. Bequest of 142000 to Mrs. Coax of Mount Vernon. Wi Ting Fang hopes to aid western ideas in China. Roosevelt to accept Vatican assurances on friars. Wholesale grocers form Western allied capitalized group. Outlaw Teney fires on deputies near Palmer. Mrs. Amanda George dies after 62 day fast. Chicago freight-handler talks yield concessions to railroads.
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Merriam
Bermuda
New York
South Africa
Chester
Cal
Liexd Wheaton
Rolling Mill
Johnstown
George Davis
Arctic
Jacob Coax
Mount Vernon
Wi ‘Ting Fang
China
Roosevelt
Vatican
Tlingis
Indiana
Ohio
Michgan
Outlaw Teney
Palmer
Wash
Amanda George
Anderson
Teamsters’ Union
Chicago
Minor News Items Across the Nation and Abroad
Farmers in the northwest object to freight charges on farm machinery. A commission will pick a naval station on the Great Lakes, with Chicago as a possibility. Mackay and Spreckels lead capitalists in an ambitious New Process sugar refinery venture. Havana bankers decline an island bond issue of 4 million due to weak guarantees. Pennsylvania Railroad plans 100 million dollars in core improvements over three to four years. Buffalo Jones is named buffalo warden at Yellowstone. The army uniform possibly olive drab for field usefulness. William C. Whitney donates a house and lot to his attending physician. Turners in Davenport Iowa resist women’s admission and demand church property taxation. St Louis and eastern capitalists plan to build a Mississippi bridge and central depot. Englishman Charles Roberts fined for desecrating the American flag after a Boston beating. U S counts 16 million bison in all varieties per Interior Department. Charles Bright from Sandusky acquitted over 500000 bankruptcy concealment. Catholic church census claim prompts meeting as membership drops 2 674 300 in 12 years.
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Northwest
Great Lakes
Chicago
Mackay
Spreckels
Havana
Pennsylvania Railroad
Charles J. Jones
Buffalo” Jones
Buffalo
Yellowstone Park
William C. Whitney
New York
St. Louis
Charles Roberts
Boston
United States
Interior Department
London
Charles Bright
Sandusky, O
Great Chicago Strike Expands As Gov Yates Confronts Militias
Chicago suffers a sweeping labor shutdown as 9 000 teamsters join 6 000 freight handlers in a citywide strike. Gov. Yates orders state militia prep while railroads and wholesalers halt shipments. Rioting erupts and lake traffic freezes. Southern Illinois growers fear tomato rotting due to Chicago action.
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Chicago
Gov. Yates
Lord Kitchener Returns to London Amid Enormous Welcome
Lord Kitchener arrives in London from the Boer War greeted by the Prince of Wales at Paddington. He proceeds to St James Palace, meets King Edward and Queen Alexandra, receives the Order of Merit, and is acclaimed by tens of thousands. A Pacific Steam Navigation steamer carries him to Southampton with another large welcome and a commerce address.
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London
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Paddington Railroad
Prine of Wales
Kitchener
St. James Palace
Prince of Wales
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Order of Merit
Lord Roberts
Portland Palace
Metropolis
St. James’ Palace
Southampton
Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Orotava
Cape Town
Hartley Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Death of Archbishop Feehan in Chicago at 73
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan of the Chicago diocese died suddenly at 3 p.m. Saturday at the archbishop’s residence from apoplexy. He had led the diocese since its elevation to an archdiocese in September 1880 as its first archbishop.
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Feehan
Chicago
Patrick A. Feehan
Diocese of
North State Street
North Avenue
Holy See
Rail and lake lines wage Detroit Buffalo rate war
Detroit Michigan July 14 The promised rate war between the rail and lake lines operating between Detroit and Buffalo has begun with the Detroit and Buffalo Steamship company cutting its first class fare to one half the second class rate charged by the rail lines.
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Detroit, Mich
Detroit
Buffalo
Detroit and Buffalo Steamship Company
Boer War Adjutant predicts Transvaal peace failure
H C De Rooy a Boer war adjutant under Delarey visits Colorado Springs. He says peace in the Transvaal will not last two years and that the army turned into the British is worthless with good troops buried in secret places.
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Colorado Springs
Col
H. C. de Rooy
Delarey
Transvaal
King Edward to Move to Victoria and Albert at Portsmouth
London July 14 King Edward’s recovery progresses and it is believed he will be transferred to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Portsmouth next Tuesday noon.
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Jing
London
King Edward
Royal Yacht
Victoria and Albert
Portsmouth
Wreck on Toledo Peoria and Warsaw Line Fatal
A heavy construction train and engine drawing a caboose collided four miles from Washington on the Toledo Peoria and Warsaw line. Women were killed instantly and several injured, one fatally, in a high speed crash. New Chinese Minister Sir Lian Chen appointed to the United States.
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Nan Wreesk
Teoria
Toledo, Peoria and
Warsaw
Washington
Peking
Lian Chen
Edward
United States
Salisbury Steps Down as British Premier
The marquis of Salisbury resigns as prime minister and A J Balfour is named his successor. The king accepts Salisbury’s resignation after a private royal visit citing age and health. Officials say the US Britain relationship will remain unchanged with Balfour.
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London
Marquis of Salisbury
Great Britain
A. J. Balfour
Treasury
House of Commons
Salisbury
Balfour
Washington
United States
State Department
Lord Salisbury
Freedman's Aid Society closes one of its greatest years
Cincinnati reports the Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational society finished a landmark year with 105,182 dollars raised in annual conferences since 1894. The debt was reduced by over 25,000 dollars in the past year and more than 50,000 dollars in cash from the annuity plan funded debt in two years. Bishop Potter to Wed in New York. Ocean Grove founder Uriah White dies in Trenton. Frank Addy is acquitted of murder in Minnesota after a 26 hour jury deliberation.
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Cincinnati
Freedman’s Aid and Southern Educational Society
St. Paul
Minn
Frank Addy
Litchfield
Addy
Milton Gorton
Forest City
Johnson in the Field for Democratic Presidential Bid
Mayor Tom L. Johnson says he will tour the western states this fall to promote his Democratic presidential candidacy. He announced the plan in Cleveland.
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Johnson
Cleveland
Tom L. Johnson
West
Mines blast at Cambria Steel claims over one hundred dead
Johnstown reports 114 dead from Thursday’s Rolling Mill mine explosion. Funerals filled Saturday as corteges clogged Conemaugh City streets. 64 widows and 138 children left behind. officials cite gas and afterdamp as factors. Mine officials say Klondike area contained gas but safety rules guarded against accidents. Doctors praised for bravery in rescuing victims.
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Johnstown
Cambria Steel Company
Conemaugh City
Westmont
No. 6
Cambria Hospital
Klondike
George T. Robinson
Tie
Robinson
Floods Recede in Des Moines and Topeka
Water levels fall slowly in Des Moines Iowa with widespread damage yet to subside. Hundreds of flood victims are sheltered in tents and fed publicly as Topeka Kansas reports Kaw river rise and streets flooded, rail disruptions continue.
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Des Moines
Topeka
Kan
North Topeka
Santa Fe
Ottawa
Take View
Lawrence
Rock Island
Eldorado troops guard colored residents amid unrest
Col. Theodore Ewert ordered home after reporting quiet conditions in Eldorado where troops guard Rev. P Green and J. Beam while the mayor cooperates. Troops to remain indefinitely. In New York Gen. Thomas J. Morgan dies after illness. he was former Indian affairs commissioner. Mayflower yacht directed to Oyster Bay but no plans yet. Protestant missions flourish in Porto Rico with evangelists gaining adherents without clashing with Roman Catholics.
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Springfield
Theodore Ewert
Eldorado
Ewert
Smith
Anenard
Rev. P . Green
J. Beam
Gen. Morgan
New York
Thomas J. Morgan
Yonkers
Harrison
Home Mission Society of the Baptist Church
Oyster Bay
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Missing Steamer Safe Reported Recovered in St Michaels
Seattle authorities confirm the steam ship Portland once listed as lost has arrived at St Michaels on July 2, per a special dispatch from Dawson. The vessel’s safe return ends days of uncertainty for passengers and officials tracking the steamer’s fate.
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Seattle
Wash
Portland
St. Michaels
Dawson
Kidney Troubles Dear Mrs Prince Am
Mrs Louise M Gibson of Chicago writes of suffering two years with kidney trouble and other complaints before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports relief after six bottles and pills, noting improved health and renewed vitality.
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Louise M. Gibson
Lydia Eam
Mrs. PrinceAm
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mars
Louise Gipson
Langley Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foreign Interests and Local Statistics Compiled
A digest notes global and domestic figures including Britons daily ad spend around £90,000 England's 7832 chimney sweeps and soot merchants 450 stenographers in random newspapers Mount Ruwenzorie in Africa 20 square miles of glaciers average British coal mine employment 200 Denmark 100000 beehives exports 2 500 000 pounds honey Europe birth rate 32 Austria 42 London voters register half of 1 170 000 men over 21 New York in Scotland Loch Awe near Glasgow quinine sales rural India 20 grains penny Bengal last year 1 440 000 five grain packets.
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England
Mount Ruwenzorie
Equatorial Africa
Denmark
Europe
Austria
London
New York
Scotland
Loch Awe
Glasgow
India
Bengal
Women at Work in Hobart and New Silk Enterprise
Miss Jennie Spray retains the Hobart Indiana postmaster post after local protest over a male candidate. Artist Mrs Sarah Greene Wright earns acclaim crafting life portrait statuettes of children from her New York studio. Miss Henrietta Aiken Kelly of Charleston pursues sericulture in South Carolina and Europe, preparing a silk culture manual for public distribution with the U S Department of Agriculture.
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Hobart
Ind
Jennie Spray
Miss Spray
Sarah Greene Wright
Wright
Luxembourg Gardens
New York City
Henrietta Aiken Kelly
Charleston
South Carolina
Europe
Duc de Litta Visconti- Arese
Milan
Italy
National Department, of Agriculture
Kelly
A FORTUNATE POSTMASTER
Kirk Arkansas 14th Mr William B Drennan postmaster at this office is a Justice of the Peace and respected citizen He suffered with kidney ricketts or rigors and could not sleep After using Dodd s Kidney Pills he was restored to health and expresses gratitude for the remedy which is advertised as a cure for kidney disease and related ailments
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Kirk, Ark
William
Drennan
Christian Church
Dodd
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Perul
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Brotherhood of Railroad
Chicago Board of Arbitration
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Ilinois
London Goes Wild
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Bishop Potter
Henry C. Poster
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Porto Rico
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