Brooklyn Population Figures From New Directory
The Express notes Brooklyn's estimated population at 1 350 000 making it the largest city to lose its identity. Cambridge Massachusetts with 85 000 residents has banned saloons for 11 years. Funds once aimed at Harriet Beecher Stowe statue may support buying the family Hartford home for her daughters. New York City plans ten vacation schools this summer to guide 100 000 children away from streets.
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Brooklyn
Cambridge
Mass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hartford
New York City
Edison Promotes Torpedo Chain Defense for Golden Gate
Thomas A. Edison states he can close the Golden Gate to world navies using torpedoes propelled by an endless chain and declares electricity the key agent in the next great war. He frames his plan as a revolutionary military advance and a proof of electric power's strategic value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Edison
Florida man turns eight ounces of melon into candy ounce
A Florida man has experimented with the sugar in watermelons until he can produce an ounce of fine candy from eight ounces of melon pulp. The idea of Americans spending $100,000,000 a year abroad for sugar is one of our national absurdities.
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Florida
Hebrews Flood Into Jerusalem Amid Rail Link Expansion
In recent years about 150,000 Hebrews have settled in Jerusalem and more arrivals are expected. Railways now connect the coast to Jerusalem and Damascus, expanding travel across the region and elevating Syria’s eastern significance amid large scale migration.
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Jerusalem
Damascus
Syria
Navy recruitment expands to interior states
Facing rising desertions and waning enlistment along the coast the Navy Department opens recruiting stations in Duluth and Chicago to draw manpower from interior states. Pay is higher than the army and duties less demanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Seaboard
Department
Duluth
Chicago
Interior States
Army
Reclamation of Submerged Land Advances in Jamaica Bay
The project in Jamaica Bay Long Island has progressed about four years. It plans to reclaim 22 islands covering roughly four square miles within Greater New York. Some parcels are already ready for occupation as efforts gradually proceed.
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Jamaica Bay
Long Island
Greater
New York
Waterspout Drops Fish and Reptiles on Island
A waterspout off Lake Erie carried water, fish, water snakes, and turtles for miles and deposited them on Middle Sister Island. Captain West and his lighthouse family witnessed the unusual event as Lake Erie reports multiple spouts this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Erie
Middle Sister Island
West
Hottest Places Cited Range From Ganges to Red Sea
A writer notes extreme heat in the lower valley of the Ganges with summer days 105 to 110 degrees, Euphrates region at 115 to 120 during monsoon, Arizona sands 110 to 115, and Massowah and Red Sea areas leading. In sun up to 170 degrees and shade 130 to 145, making outdoor life perilously short.
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Ganges
Euphrates
Arizona
Massowah
Red Sea
Coal fields found on both sides of the Channel
Scientists twenty five years ago predicted coal would be abundant on both sides of the British Channel and the forecast is fulfilled. New French discoveries follow English finds, extending the same belt under the sea from Kent to Calais and Cape Grisnez, a development of major industrial importance for France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Channel
Calais
Cape Grisnez
England
France
Australia Sees Massive Losses From Severe Drought
Australians tally immense losses from a long drought with sheep and cattle dying by the thousands across colonies. Weather has ruined crops and livelihoods for three years, reducing national wealth by hundreds of thousands of pounds and tarnishing colonial reputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Edward Hanlan Ten Eyck Win at Henley Regatta
Edward Hanlan Ten Eyck becomes the first American to win the Diamond Sculls at Henley England a prize for amateurs. He hails from a long line of watermen in Peekskill on the Hudson with a ferry-running grandfather and a father who was a first class oarsman. Christening lore is cited as adding to his rowing inheritance and eventual fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Hanlan Ten Eyck
England
Peekskill-on-the-Hudson
Brazil Reopens Talks With Colombia And Ecuador
After decades of severed ties, Brazil dispatches a special envoy to resume negotiations with Colombia and Ecuador. The move aims to restore formal representation and bring relations back to normal footing despite past regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Congress Ends Tariff Debate With Sunset Adjournment
The Senate concluded readings of the tariff conference report and prepared for a final vote on the 24th. House actions included suspending discriminating duties on foreign vessels and ratifying a compact between South Dakota and Nebraska over a disputed boundary. The Dingsley tariff bill became law as President McKinley sent a currency reform message. The session adjourned sine die after Reed signed the tariff and final adjournment occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
House
Chilton
Jones
Pettigrew
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Senate
Reed
McKinley
Conference to discuss new arbitration treaty in Washington
Advices say an international conference will be held in Washington early in October to consider a new arbitration treaty between the United States and England. In the U S there were 227 business failures in the seven days ended on the 23d, down from 263 the week before and 281 in 1896. A dangerous counterfeit silver 50 cent piece with an S under the eagle was shown to secret service officials.
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Washington
United States
England
Secret Service
Yeas
Aldrich
Allison
Baker
Burrows
Carter
Clark
Davis
Deboe
Elkins
Fairbanks
Foraker
Frye
Gallinger
Gear
Hale
Hansbrough
Hawley
Hoar
Jones
Lodge
McBride
McEnery
McMillan
Mason
Morrill
Nelson
Penrose
Perkins
Platt
N. Y
Pritchard
Quay
Sewell
Shoup
Spooner
Stewart
Thurston
Warren
Wetmore
Bacon
Bate
Berry
Caffery
Chilton
Clay
Cockrell
Daniel
Faulkner
Gorman
Harris
Ark
Lindsay
Mallory
Martin
Mills
Mitchell
Morgan
Murphy
Pasco
Pettus
Roach
Smith
Tillman
Turley
Turner
Turpie
West
Walthall
White
Treasury
Department
Bureau of Statistics
Weekly clearing house totals and regional calamities reported
The East notes weekly clearing house totals of 1 097 646 291 dollars, up from 1 032 497 114. A steamer Nutmeg State explosion in Bridgeport kills four. Central New York crops damaged by heavy rains to 500 000 dollars. Utica couple killed by cars. Two Sullivans die by gas in Westchester hotel over Catholic marriage. Spring House hotel damages reach 100 000. A man known as Dakota Bob begins a New York to San Francisco walk for a return trip by late November.
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United States
Bridgeport
Conn
Boston
Cincinnati
Baltimore
New York
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Chicago
Louisville
Brooklyn
Washington
St. Louis
Utica
N. Y
John Phelps
Patrick Sullivan
Annie Sullivan
Westchester
Spring House
Richfield Springs
Dakota Bob
San Francisco
Rampage Across States and Fatalities Shock 1900s Era
A wide-spread summary reports disasters and crimes across the country. A Paducah theater fire crushes and burns about 100, likely fatally. Mob violence in South Carolina and Wyoming follows alleged abuse. Tornado devastates Upper Hinton West Virginia with fatalities. Bank failures and plant fires mark financial strain. Notable deaths include Dr Donald MacLean in San Francisco and mob hanging of John D Sargent near Jacksons Hole. Wheat crop in Oregon peaks at record 18 million bushels. Two veterans die by suicide in Dayton. Badger Paper plant destroyed in Kaukauna. Several boating deaths near Detroit and a train wreck near Marietta injures many. Burial of ex governor J A Morton noted in Hart Michigan. Horse race results feature Star Pointer beating Joe Patchen at Washington Park Chicago.
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Ramona Park
Paducah
Jim Grey
Goldville
S. C
Upper Hinton
W. Va
St. Louis
Brownell Car Company
Peoria
Ill
Grape Sugar Company
Bank of Mammoth Springs
Ark
San Francisco
Donald MacLean
California Medical College
Patrick Walsh
Oregon
Dayton
M. S. Swain
John A. Lants
John Our
National Military Home
Badger Paper Company
Kaukauna
Wis
Frank E. Russell
William W. Shier
Edward Stubenstay
Detroit
Mich
Marietta
J. A. Morton
North Carolina
Hart
Michigan
Star Pointer
Joe Patchen
Washington Park
Chicago
John D. Sargent
Jackson’s Hole
Wyo
Colored troopers bicycle 2000 miles to St Louis in 40 days
Twenty one United States infantrymen of the twenty fifth division under Lieut Moss traveled 2000 miles from Fort Missoula Montana to St Louis on bicycles in forty days. A mob abducted Jim Sellers a black man accused of murder from Pittsboro Mississippi jail and shot him dead.
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Twenty-Fifth’ United States Infantry
Lieut
Moss
St. Louis
Fort Missoula
Mont
Jim Sellers
County
Pittsboro
Miss
Dispatches from Athens report Thessaly evacuation begun
Dispatches from Athens say the evacuation of Thessaly by the Turks had commenced. Alarm in Havana over Gomez marching on the capital and Weyler's defense preparations heighten panic. John O'Brien, 108, Irish champion angler, dies in Newmarket.
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Athens
Thessaly
Havana
Gomez
Weyler
John O’brien
Fowler
Ireland
Newmarket
Tromsoe Island
Norway
North Pole
Cuba
Dingley tariff takes effect at midnight
Closing LATER NEWS items note the Dingley tariff act became effective at midnight on the 23rd. Other brief items report UK wheat crop below average, editor L H Milack dies in Cincinnati, major Wiarton Ontario fires, Mrs E P W Packard dies at 101, Nebraska wind hail damage, a cyclone near Lebanon Indiana, Ashley Michigan business district fire, Japan protests Hawaii annexation, silver dollar value, Florence Maybrick sentence dispute, Roentgen tea coffee pepper adulteration tests, Alaska army detail, Avery plow factory restart, Jersey City centenarian Scholman, U S consul Otto Munchmeyer death by action, Chicopee runaway death and injury, and Gladstone anniversary celebrations.
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Chicago
Franklin
Kearney
Nebraska
Lebanon
Ind
Ashley
Mich
Japan
United States
Hawaii
New York
Florence Maybrick
Paris
Alaska
Avery Plow
Louisville
Gertie Benak Scholman
Jersey City
N. J
Prussia
Napoleon
Otto Munchmeyer
San Salvador
Parkersburg
W. Va
Chicopee
Mass
Mary B. Knapp
F. E. Tuttle
Gladstone
Hawarden
Seventeen North Carolina Mills Under Construction
A roundup of minor items notes seventeen cotton mills under construction in North Carolina. Sydney Australia unveils its largest town hall and organ. London hosts an umbrella insurance firm insuring canes as well as umbrellas.
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North Carolina
Sydney
Australia
Charleston
N. C
London
Canada
Nebraska
Maine
West Gardiner
Massachusetts
Congress
New Astor Hotel
New York
Charles Stewart
St. Petersburg
Fla
Cyrus W. Field
National Museum
Washington
Miners Strike Sparks Near Mutiny At Hite Mine
Armed deputies guard the Hite mine near Fairmont as drivers join strikers and guns blaze. Debs and other leaders convene meetings as arbitration efforts proceed in Pittsburgh, with miners from Monongah and Belleville rallying for demands on pay, tonnage, and hours.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Hite
Kings
Tygart’s Valley
Crawford Temple
Union
Rolf Hite
Winchester
Pittsburgh
Arbitration Commission
W. P. de Armitt
New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company
Party leaders assign House committees and chairs
Speaker Reed announced the committee assignments at 8 30 on Saturday night listing chairmen and members for Foreign Affairs Appropriations Judiciary Banking and Currency Coinage Weights and Measures Interstate and Foreign Commerce Rivers and Harbors Agriculture Military Affairs Naval Affairs Post Offices and Post Roads Public Lands Indian Affairs Territories Public Buildings and Grounds Pacific Railroads Inward Pensions Immigration and Naturalization Labor Militia and numerous lesser panels including Elections Education Merchant Marine and Fisheries Railways and Canals Manufactures Mines and Mining Patents Pensions Claims War Claims Private Land Claims District of Columbia Revision of the Laws Civil Service Reform Budget and other departments with Republicans dominant across many posts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Reed
House
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Iowa
Wisconsin
Robert E. Hitt
Robert G. Cousins
Wiliam Alden Smith
Charlies J. Hendy
Republicans
Joseph G. Cannon
James A. Hemenway
Samuel 8. Barney
William H. Moody
Massachusetts
Samuel J. Pugh
Kentucky
David B. Henderson
Thomas Updegraff
James A. Connolly
John J. Jenkins
Jesse R. Overstreet
Joseph H. Walker
Henry A. Johnson
George Spalding
Rivers and Harbors
Warren B. Hooker
New York
Henry A. Cooper
Walter Reeves
Roswell P. Bishop
James W. Wadsworth
Vespasian Warner
Edward Sauerhering
Horace G. Snover
Willam Lorimer
John A. Thull
Benjamin F. Marsh
Ilinois
Michael Griffin
Hugh R. Belknap
Thomas M. Jett
Charles A. W Boutelle
Maine
George E. Foss
William S. Mesick
J. Hunter
David H. Mercer
Nebraska
George E. White
H. Henry Powers
Vermont
William P. Hepburn
George W. Faris
George W. Ray
Sam W. Smith
Robert W. Miers
Lorenzo Danford
Ohio
Joseph V. Graff
John V. Gardner
New Jersey
William Lorimer
Ferdinand Brucker
Robert W. Taylor
James A. Walker
Virginia
Mississippi River
Richard Bartholdt
Missouri
Galusha Grow
Pennsylvania
Serena E. Payne
Charles A. Chickering
George W. Farts
Charles H. Grosvenor
Josiah D. Hicks
Henry C. Loudenslager
C. N. Brumm
Thaddeus M. Mahon
George W. Smith
Tinois
District of Columbia
J. W. Babcock
Marriott Brosius
Congress
John B. Corliss
H. C. Brewster
Joel T. Hentwole
Minnesota
William R. Elliss
Oregon
State Department
Lemuel E. Quigg
Treasury Department
War Department
W. W. Grout
Navy Department
J. F. Stewart
Post Office Department
Irving P. Wagner
Interior Department
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Department of Justice
Cyrus A. Sullowey
Department of Agriculture
C. W. Gillet
News York
D. G. Colson
B. B. Odell, Jr
G. D. Perkins
Town
Alfred C. Harmon
Peculiar Fate Kills Chester Ex-Clerk On Pier
Chester Pennsylvania July 26 James P Campbell ex city clerk was killed in a strange accident on the government pier a hawser from a moving steam tug slipped and wrapped around his neck lifting him ten feet then dropping him to the pier breaking his neck and killing him instantly Temperance activity grows in Kansas with renewed law enforcement and warnings of saloon running in small towns Star Pointer wins a $5000 free for all pace at Washington Park defeating Joe Patchen and Frank Agan Jim Sellers a negro murderer is shot by a mob at Pittsboro Calhoun County Mississippi
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Chester
James P. Campbell
Government Pier
Wilmington
Del
Campbell
Topeka
Kan
Guthrie
Star Pointer
Chicago
Washington Park
Joe Patchen
Frank Agan
Agan
Coffeeville
Miss
Jim Sellers
Pittsboro
Calhoun County
Tariff Bill Clears Final Hurdle as McKinley Signs
Washington July 26 The tariff bill passed its final legislative stage at 3 am with a 40 to 30 senate vote to accept the conference report. President McKinley signed the measure at 4 07 and the enactment triggers anticipated revenue boosts and shifts in imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
McKinley
President Urges Currency Commission By McKinley
The president asks Congress to create a non partisan monetary commission to revise currency laws. He cites need for stable value, reduced government expense, and an improved banking system and urges action at the next regular session. The proposal follows a January Indianapolis business convention recommendation and calls for report by November first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Senate
Indianapolis
William M'Kinley
McNally Fails In English Channel Swim Try
Boston swimmer P N McNally gave up three miles from the French coast after 15 hours 10 minutes in Dover to Cape de la Helle. He started at 11 20 Saturday amid a royal send off and London reporters. A strong current and a turning tide pushed him off course. he ended by swimming in circles before his trainer pulled him aboard.
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London
McNally
Boston
English Channel
Capt. Webb
Dover
Cape
Liabilities Reach Million in Schintz Case After Assignment
Chicago July 26 Liabilities of Theodore H Schintz the lawyer and real estate dealer who assigned last week have grown to 1 000 000 while assets fall under 100 000. He is believed to have gained about 125 000 from several local banks on largely worthless collateral.
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Chicago
Theodore H. Schintz
Schintz
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Sheriff’s Deputies
West Virginia
Debs
New England
Willow Tree Schoolhouse
Ratchford and Mahon
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Kewanee
Kewanee Coal Company
Western Tube Company
Arthur
Cleveland, O
P. M. Arthur
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Batchford
Wheeling
Belleville
Southern Illinois
Singapore
Malacia
Civil Service Commission
the Treasury
McCord
Myron H. McCord
Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
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Gov. Franklin
Jean Ingelow
Dena
BY Reed
Iron Mountain
Pearl Morrison
Crystal Falls
Barney Boyle
Representative Chamberlain
Ironwood
Montgomery
Ala
Methodist Church
Albertsville
Gomex
Madrid
Maximo Gomez
Erie
Charles Edwards
Edwards
William Allison
John Kane
Kane
West Shore Railroad
Evans Thomas
Franklin Grove
Muncie
Quincy
Lll
George Terlisner
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