World’s fair disputes end in country competition among nations
A broad list of incidents spans across states and nations from disaffection at the world’s fair to local tragedies. Highlights include commissioners withdrawing, a Peweetee Missouri counterfeit gang discovery, fires in Cherokee county Texas and Michigan flood damage, a consul appointment in Vera Cruz, and a train wreck or attempted wrecks. The roundup notes many accidents, murders, and legal actions with numerous named towns and people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Peweetee Missouri
Michigan
Cherokee County
Tex
J. E. Roberts
Lawrence Devaney
Pittsburgh
Charles Schaeffer
Sedgwick
Kan
Vera Cruz
United States
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Husted
Joan Namrro
Green Bay
Wis
Amos Avery
Lamar
James A. Miles
National Federation of America
Charles Towner
Plymouth
Staffordvile
Union
Conn
American Baptist Publication Society
Denver
Frank Manaiger
St. Clair
Minn
James Brown
Mary Snutz
Bluefield
W. Va
David C. Ropinson
Elmira
N. Y
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
N. A. Neveilson
Scandinavia
Pueblo
Col
Evan Owen
Griff Harris
Steel
Alexander H. Stephens
Crawfordsville
Atlantic Tannery
South Salem
Mass
Poor Bros
D. Buchner & Co
New York
Huey Etrer
DeWitt Sherrell
Chicago
Etter
Effie Poison
Morberly
Farmers’ State Bank of
Brooklyn
Mich
Fred McGistry
Thomas O’brien
Thomas Kilisky
Coleman
Missouri
Ladonia
Moberly
Ladalia
Brookfield
Rocklin
Cal
Tuirty
Pratt
Birmingham
Ala
Richardson & Dennie
Boston
Anna Wagner
Indianapolis
Koesters
Distono
Arcola
David E. Miller
J. A. McAuley
Berdilla
Blanche Culbertson
Chica
Leigh French
Minnesota
Dunrine
Secret Kansas farmers society forms amid politics
A new private political group has emerged among Kansas farmers. Juper R. F. Lyon, a leading Georgia jurist, died in Macon after a long illness at 95. W. E. Quimpy, Detroit editor, named United States minister to the Netherlands. Prof. Moses G. Farner, Boston electricity pioneer, died in Chicago of pneumonia at 73.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Juper R. F. Lyon
Georgia
Macon
W. E. Quimpy
Detroit
Mich
United States
Netherlands
Moses G. Farner
Boston
Chicago
Drought in France Damages Crops Worth 32 Million Franks
A two month drought in France is estimated to have destroyed crops valued at 32,000,000 francs. Other items report Rosand Bunropre and Fritz Erbe beheaded in Magdeburg for murdering two girls, and updates from Europe and the Americas on disasters, politics, and migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Rosand Bunropre
Fritz Erbe
Magdeburg
Germany
President Riewands
Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain
Queen Victoria
London
Masaya
Nicaragua
Siberia
Moscow
St. Inbert
United States
Roumania
Cuoreraa
Cette
Nimes
Mercantile Financial Trustees, & Agency Company
Melbourne
Australia
Louis Russ
Pola
Austria
Irene Klopfer
Garmersheim
Bavaria
Hamburg
India
America
China
Turing John A. MacDonald
Kingston
Ont
Quebec
Pasto
Ecuador
San Salvador
Lateral News Blends Tragedy, Disaster, and Observances
A scattered recap notes Jonny Hoy and family slain in New Haven Pennsylvania with unclear killer. Fires burn near Pittsburgh and in Michigan towns Standish Newton. A cyclone injures Hope Arkansas residents while Desha county floods follow. A sea ship wrecks Germania with seventy four dead. Memorial Day observed nationwide.
Memorial Day Observances Across Cities Honor Veterans
Memorial Day ceremonies marked by parades and tributes in Chicago Milwaukee and many midwest towns. English units from the Queen’s forces joined American troops at the Chicago parade and Grand Army veterans led wreathlaying ceremonies at new public library grounds on Dearborn Park. In New York Princess Eulalie witnessed veterans and several navy ships in the parade and laid wreaths at General Grant’s tomb with large crowds watching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eulalie
Gen. Grant
Miles
Newberry
England
America
Black Watch
Light Horse Guards
Royal Artillery
Hussars
Lancers
Willoughby
Wibart
Dearporn Park
Lake Front
Michigan
Negaunee
Kerridge
Adrian
J. &. Preston
Lyons
Decatur
Wisconsin
Oshiosh
Riverside Cemetery
W. G. Bryant
la Crosse
Racine
Mound Cemetery
Bayfield
Iowa
Gen. Byron
Davenport
Rock Island
Moline
J. S. Lathrop
Dubuque
Carter
Clear Lake
Mason City
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Indiana
John M. Driver
Columbia City
New York
National Guards
Grand Army
Fifty-ninth Street
Fifth Avenue
Grant
Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
National Cemetery
W. E. Simonds
Soldiers’ Home
Fourth Artillery Band
Benjamin Butterworth
Congressional Cemetery
George L. Spinning
Paris
Marquis de Lafayette
James B. Eustis
Francois de Courcelle
Lafayette
Fate of a Family in Connellsville Tragedy
In Connellsville Pennsylvania a family of John Hoy his wife and two children were found murdered in their home with throats cut. Neighbors heard no alarm until Monday afternoon and the inquest suggested the father may have killed the family or an unknown assailant did so. Hoy a B&O conductor once trusted, recently suspended for drunkenness, left in debt and despondent. Mrs Hoy 28, vivacious. Hoy 35, tallied as possible killer amid mystery and missing outcry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hoy
Connellsville
New’ ‘Haven
Youghiogheny
Mary Egan
Mrs. Hoy
Hoy
William Hoy
Portia
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Justice statue unveiled in Montana Mines Building
A 12 foot life sized silver statue of Justice, weighing 1631 pounds, was unveiled at 3 pm in the Montana space at Jackson Park CuicaGco. Ada Rehan posed for the figure. The gold pedestal and silver statue were funded by Montana citizens W A Clark and ex-Gov S I Hauser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Jackson Park
CuicaGco
Justice
Ada Rehan
Mines
Richards
W. A. Clark
Butte
I. Hauser
R. H. Park
Wreck of a Circus Train Near Tyrone Pa
Walter Main's circus wrecked on the Tyrone and Clearfield branch near Vail station five miles north of Tyrone at 5 30 am. The engineer lost control on a mountain descent and the train jumped the track at 40 mph, sending fourteen cars over an 80 foot embankment. Most animals injured and several escaped into the woods. Jacob Fees, a German, drowned after leaping overboard from the Goodrich liner Atlanta near Chicago. Joseph M Beck former Iowa supreme court judge dies of heart failure at 70 in Fort Madison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Walter Main
Tyrone and
Clearfield
Pennsyvania
Vail Station
Tyrone
Lewistown
Houtsdale
Chicago
Jacob Fees
Grand Lodge
Maton County
Mich
Goodrich
Atlanta
Fort Mavison
Joseph M. Beck
Supreme Court of Iowa
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Durine
Fur Brunswick State Bank
Brunswick
Charles Tfosrmerr
the Treasury
Wall Lake
Marshalltown
George Burgess
Bert Corey
R. Corey
Colville
Illinois
Bentchler
Olney
Lawrenceville
Rupert Alexander
Lows
Howard Pugh
Tuskegee
Cox
Tue
Lou Trench
Jackson County
Louisiana
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Isabella Beecher Hooler
Connecticut
Blue Mound
Thomas Higgins
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Louisville
Tennessee
Mississippi
Arkansas
East Carroll
Moorehouse
West Carroll
Madison Parishes
Anc
Cheney
Horticultural Hall
Harr Smita
Cass Lake
William Graham
Central
Milner
Great Britain
Weaver, Getz & Co
Christian Haberkus
Roanoke
Ind
Willie Knapp
St. Paul
PF. H. Mingum
United States Senate
Frasers
T. P
D. F. Runyon
New Brunswick
N.J
Ralph.w. Kirkbam
Oakland
Daniell N. ‘Moxiean
BE. R. Nebeker
Joan Siemrer
Massachusetts
Colombia
W. A. Anderson
Montreal
Daniel Larkins
Bellevue
Jonny Hoy
New Haven
Samuel Skiles
Hope
Piedras Negras
Middle Creek
Reading Company
Tremont
World’s Medical Congress
Art Institute
Rrasons
Austin
Tu Infanta Eulalie
Spain
Riverside Park
Jane Baum Garpiner
West Bridgewater
United Presbyterian Assembly
Big Stone Gap Land Company
M. Sons
Havre
Foster
Cininio Lucero
Las Vegas
N. M
Germania
Bay of Bengal
A. Nation's. Tribute
Gene
Omaha
Neb
Samuel Welsh
Dragoons
Harney
Ireland
Mason
Winona
Phillipo Hubbell
Sarsaparilla
Hood’s
E. M. Burt West Kendall
Hood
E. M. Burr
W. Kendall
W. R. Chilson
G. Stone
Butler
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
van Wert
Calvin Farley
Binghamton, N
Boschee
W. H. Haggerty
Martinsville
N.J. D
EWIS
Penna.salt Wing CO
Gen
Agenta
Phila
Pnametis
Brace
Mion
C. W
Snyder
M. D
Mail Dept
MecVicker's Per
Paul W. Kirkpatrick
Johnson City
Penn
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