Devastating Cyclone Ravaged St Louis and East St Louis
Chicago dated report describes a May cyclone striking the Mississippi river cities causing 114 identified deaths with hundreds missing, extensive property losses estimated up to 10 million dollars. Rail yards, bridges, and factories suffered heavy damage along with churches, schools, and homes. Relief efforts mobilized quickly as authorities and citizens assisted survivors.
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St. Louis
Illinois
Bloody Island
Mobile & Ohio
Big Four
Chicago & Alton
Wabash
Louisville & Nashville
Storms Kill and Wreck Across Illinois and New Minden
Dispatches report multiple storm strikes with deaths and extensive damage. Pinckneyville sees a depot and shops blown down with one dead and one injured. Breckenridge loses a mill and elevator with M Jenkins and NL Barnes killed. New Minden and Irvington suffer major destruction with many lives lost.
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Chicago
Pinckneyville
Til
Illinois Central
Breckenridge
M. Jenkins
NL. Barnes
Destructive Cyclones Hit Illinois and Missouri Areas
Reported tornado and wind damage across Illinois and Missouri. Seven killed and 30 injured in New Madrid area. Bois and Dix villages partly destroyed with additional fatalities in Clinton Washington and Jefferson counties. Rockford and Mexico region suffer multiple deaths, injuries, and destroyed buildings including schools and homes.
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Richview
Ashley
Agutha Linois
New Madrid
Bois and
Dix
Clinton
Washington
Jefferson
Rockford
Ill
Godfrey Wildebrand
Isora Bird
Vandalia
Iil
Washington, D. C
White House
Lutheran Memorial Church
Columbia
Mexico
Beau
Creek
George Lee
Miss Blencoe
Trade slows amid political uncertainty and shifts in markets
Dun's Review reports that political doubt delays business after conventions. Exports of gold rise with borrowing. fears fade for some, while others postpone decisions. Wheat, cotton, indigo, dress goods, and boots show weakness or mixed shifts as manufacturers cut hours and seek higher prices. Iron and steel markets weaken despite higher finished product prices. May railroad earnings rise 2.7 percent. failures in US total 229 for the week, 20 in Canada.
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Dun's Review
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
St. Louis
United States
Canada
Address to the Silver Men Urges Early Mobilization
The National Silver Party issues an appeal from Washington urging silver supporters to organize ahead of the St. Louis convention on June 22 to press monetary reform. It accuses both major parties of gold standard influence and calls for a presidential candidate endorsed by silver backers. Defeat for Woman Suffrage as Senate bill fails in Newport. legislature adjourns to September.
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National Silver Party
Friends of the White Metal
Washington
J. J. Mott
Friends of Silver
St. Louis
People's Party
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Newport, II
Senate
Trampled to Death in Moscow Coronation Stampede
Moscow June 1 A crowd at Khodimskoye plain during coronation festivities turned deadly when gifts were thrown into a dense throng. Police absence blamed for the disaster which killed and wounded hundreds, mostly women and children, as 1 380 fatalities were reported.
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Moscow
Khodimskoye
Royal House
Hoynsky
Death of Kate Field Ends Noted Journalist Life
Honolulu reports the death of Kate Field, famed American writer and journalist, from pneumonia. born St Louis circa 1640, daughter of actor Joseph M. Field, she authored works for major papers and led a New York Ladies’ Cooperative Dressings venture before health issues curtailed her Washington publication. A later health trip took her to the Sandwich Islands.
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Honolulu
Yokohama
Knute Field
Kate Field
Joseph M. Field
Maghbile
Ala
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Europe
New York Tribune
Philadelphia Press
Chicago Tribune
Miss Field
Booth's
New York
Washington
Kate Meld
The
Cripple Creek
Sandwich Islands
President vetoes river and harbor bill over funding concerns
Washington May 30 The president sent a message to the house vetoing the river and harbor appropriation bill arguing it would commit about 80 million in obligations and include over 62 million in contracts with long term payments, urging economy and warning of bond implications.
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Washington
House
United States
Prohibition Convention Splits Over Silver Policy
At Pittsburgh on May 29 the prohibition national convention nominated Levering for president and Johnson for vice president but the broad gangers faction bolted. They formed a new national party and fielded Bentley for president and Douthgate for vice president. The minority program pledges national prohibition and seeks unity of all prohibitionists while leaving other questions to representatives.
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Levering
Pittsburgh
Joshua Levering
Maryland
United States
Hale Johnson
Illinois
Broadgangers
National Party
C. K E. Bentley
Nebraska
J. H. Douthgate
North Carolina
J. K. Funk
New York
Memorial Day Observances Across Cities Highlight Gratitude
Decoration day events unfold in Cincinnati Springfield and Washington with parades graveside services for Lincoln Grant and Harrison. Ex-senator Manderson and ex-president Garfield’s son Harry take part as crowds gather at Garfield park and River side park amid bells and floral tributes.
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Cincinnati
Grand Army
William Henry Harrison
Garfield Park
Harrison
Samel F. Cary
Samel F. Cary, An Intimate Friend and Acquaintanece of Gen
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
National Cemetery
Camp Mutler
James A. Connoly
Courthouse Square
Washington
John A. Logan
Charles. F. Manderson
Nebraska
Philadelphia
Garfield
Fairmount Park
Harry Garfield
Warwick
Edmunds
Supreme court enforces mulet tax for liquor agents in Iowa
Iowa state supreme court rules all beer and liquor agents must comply with the mulet tax to avoid prosecution under the prohibitory law. The ruling states no distinction exists between wholesale and retail establishments and places the burden on defendants to prove mulet tax payment.
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State Supreme Court
Iowa
Fortune for Mrs McNeil in Honey Creek Flood Heir Notice
Mrs Mary A McNeil of Boone widow of John McNeil who perished in the Honey Creek flood is named sole heir along with a cousin to James Hickey of Liverpool England who died intestate on April 22 leaving an estate of 200000 He was her uncle.
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Harry Haworth
Glenwood
Sioux City Glass and Paint Company
Charles Bronson
Wesley
Chicago
la Moille
State Center
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Hopkins
Lake City
Mount Pleasant
Charles Pace
Burlington
Prescott
Ernest Hildebrandt
Beatrice, Neb
Lemars
Dubuque County
Olinger
Bursaw
Chippewa County
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Boone
Grand Lodge of
Erand
Eldora
Mary Jackson
Frederick Hahnaeman
Creston
John M. Wayne
Horace
Greeley
Coralville
Johnson County
John Davis
Woods
Town City
Marshalltown
George Benton
Anamosa
Express
Selection
Monroe County
Sanmuiel A. Smith
Cihak
Carl von Bulow
Des Moines
van Buren County
Benjamin Moyer
Penn Sharp
Augusta
Avan Isentford
Lowell
Ines
McNeil
Mary A. McNeil
John ‘McNeil
Honey Creek
Kate Shelley
James Hickey
Liverpool
England
New Railroad for Angus Aims to Link Minneapolis Line
The Gulf of Manitoba railroad forms a new association to build a trunk line across the country north and south. It plans to connect with the Minneapolis and St. Louis at Angus and extend to Minneapolis. The firm offers shops and division at Angus if a five percent bonus is approved.
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Eads Bridge
Gafety
St. Mary's Hospital
Aince
New Railroad
Angus
Gulf of Manitoba Railroad
Country
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Minneapolis
Council Murder Verdict Sentences Man to 35 Years
After four days of evidence and argument the jury in the Marion murder case found the defendant guilty and fixed his punishment at 35 years in the penitentiary. The killing of Silas Morgan occurred on a public street in Carterville last August apparently without provocation or warning.
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Council
Marion
Silas Morgan
Carterville
Dynamiter Mart Woods Sentenced for Muscatine Outrage
Mart Woods the first suspect tried for the May 11 1393 Muscatine dynamite outrage where three homes were wrecked and families escaped by a miracle was sentenced in district court to ten years in the penitentiary.
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Mart Woods
Muscatine
All Bone in Three Minutes Cloudburst Wipes Weston Area
A cloudburst half a mile wide moved southeast of Weston producing two feet hail and eight feet flood rise. Streams surged, bridges fences and trees were washed away. The storm lasted about three minutes.
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Bone
Weston
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