Return of Maj. Conger to Des Moines Draws Ovation
Special correspondence from Des Moines details the May 6 homecoming of Maj. Edwin H. Conger United States minister to China and his family. A city reception and public banquet in Des Moines honored him with speeches by Gov. Shaw Senator Dolliver and local leaders. The Congers described the welcome as overwhelming and credited missionaries defending China during the siege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
China
Des Moines
Edwin H. Conger
Iowa
Conger
Laura Conger
Mary Conger Pearce
San Francisco
Ogden
Utah
John N. Baldwin
Council Bluffs
Ernest H. Hart
Republican National Committee
Donald McRae
John T. Stewart
Burt
Union Pacific Railway
Baldwin
Grand Hotel
Gov. Shaw
Dolliver
C. G. Saunders
Jennings
C. M. Hart
Maj. Conger
Iowassoil
Peking
Far East
State Line
Avoca
Atlantic
Stuart
Dexter
Maj
Congers
E. R. Hutchins
W. T. Wilkinson
G. A. Ri
John A. McCall
Union Army
Executive Council
Jacksonville Fire Leaves City in Desolation and Martial Law
The great Jacksonville fire leaves ten thousand homeless and 148 blocks destroyed with up to 15 million in losses. A martial law cordon surrounds the burned district as troops, sheriff deputies, and militiamen enforce order. Relief efforts include tents, food, and funds from Florida cities and a plan to bond Duval County for 500000 to rebuild.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Tallahassee
MacWilliams
Gainesville
Orleando
Starke
L’engle, Broward and
Rogers
S. Jennings
Jennings
Col. Lovell
Governor’s Guards
Columbia Rifles
Lake City
Suwanee Rifles
Live Oak
Gem City Guards
Palatka
Florida
Express
Times Union and Citizen
Pan-American Exposition Opens in Buffalo Amid Rain
Opening day crowds gather at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo New York as gates open at 8 30 AM. Visitors view exhibits of American ingenuity science and technology with six months of displays ahead. Ceremonies for opening day postponed to dedication day May 20.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Rainbow City
Western Hemisphere
May Day Strikes Sweep United States and Canada
May Day strikes report in Grand Rapids Buffalo and Scranton as unionized workers demand a nine hour day at current ten hour pay. In Grand Rapids plumbers strike in 21 of 22 shops while Buffalo machinists and Erie county workers press for nine hours without pay cut. Scranton along the DL&W line petitions call for nine hours at existing ten hour wages.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Buffalo
N. Y
Erie County
United States
Canada
Mexico
Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Road
New York
New Jersey
Pensylvania
Dneiper ferry disaster leaves village motherless
Odessa report dated April 26 describes a ferry tragedy on the River Dneiper near Katchkarovka. A sudden storm swamped pontoons and nearly 100 mothers with babies drowned, with only a few survivors reaching shore by boat and three clinging to a swimming horse.
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London
Odessa
Dneiper
Katchkarovka
Fire damages Armour & Co beef house in Chicago stockyards
Fire partly destroys Armour & Co beef house in Chicago stockyards causing about 100000 dollars in losses. The blaze consumes dressed carcasses while 1600 live cattle on the fourth floor are driven to runways and saved amid a stampede injuring some workers and animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Armour & Co
Two youths swept over St Marys rapids in small boat
A small boat with two likely boys or young men was carried over the St Marys River rapids near the bridge. The overturned craft and both passengers vanished after being dragged from the boat as it was overwhelmed by the river current.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
St. Mary’s River
Center of U S population located southeast of Columbus Indiana
The census bureau bulletin places the U S center of population on June 1 just six miles southeast of Columbus in Bartholomew county Indiana. Meanwhile in other news William Rosenfield and his four children were found in the river near where his oldest son was recovered, with search efforts continuing for the remaining three. Mrs Mary Sankey mother of Ira D. Sankey dies at 90 in New Castle Pennsylvania. In Bessarabia starvation and typhus rise as seventy percent of farmers lack horses and seed for spring sowing.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Alaska
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Indiana
Rosenfield
St. Paul
Minn
William Rosenfield
St. Petersburg
Bessarabia
Train Collision Kills Engineer at Fort Jefferson
Engineer Jackson of the work train is dead after Mobile & Ohio passenger No. 1 struck a work train at Fort Jefferson ten miles south of Cairo Illinois. Engineer Tippany of the passenger train is injured. both engines were wrecked. A second item reports a sawmill at Grayling Michigan owned by Sailing and Houston burned Thursday night with losses estimated over $100000.
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Cairo
Mobile & Ohio
Fort Jefferson
Jackson
Tippany
Detroit
Mich
Free Press
Grayling, Mich
Salling & Houston
Reed named defendant in suit over military accounting
George A. Reed, former lieutenant of the Fifty first Town regiment and acting commissary at the Presidio in 1898 99, is defendant in a suit for 22442 alleging he failed to render a satisfactory accounting. Attorney Lewis Miles represents the government based on a war department auditor report. The suit claims supplies valued at 211177 passed through Reed’s hands. Reed, now in Des Moines harness business, says a supplemental accounting will explain the supposed shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Reed
Fifty- First Town ‘Regiment
Presidio
Lewis Miles
Iowa
I. E B. Bittman
War Department
Reed
Des Moines
Supplies on Hand at Iowa State Institutions
The quarterly report by A B Mc Cown shows total supplies on hand April 1 at state institutions totaling 10 882 63 with itemized balances for Clarinda Glenwood Independence Mt Pleasant Fort Madison Anamosa Eldora Mitchellville Vinton Council Bluffs Davenport Marshalltown and other facilities including the hospitals reform schools schools for the blind and deaf and soldiers homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. McCown
Board of Control
Clarinda
Glenwood
Independence
Mt. Pleasant
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Eldora
Mitchellville
Vinton
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Marshalltown
Des Moines Judge Rules In-State Liquor Sale Limits
Judge Holmes of the district court in Des Moines held that a nonresident liquor company cannot collect for goods shipped into Iowa via a local factor and commission agent. About $9,000 worth of liquors shipped into Iowa violated state law. case slated for appeal to the supreme court.
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Holmes
District Court
Des Moines
Mountain Distilling Company of
Ohio
K. F. Parker
Iowa
Supreme Court
State Grocers Elect Waterloo Officers at Convention
At the State Grocers convention in Waterloo officers were elected. President W. H. Ahlbrecht and vice president 8 I Seaman of Clinton. secretary Ira B. Thomas of Des Moines. treasurer John W. Ray of Des Moines. Executive committee includes Eugene Buttles of Burlington, Charles Sxraft of Fort Dodge, S 8S Peckham of Marshalltown, W.A. Scruby of Des Moines, Charles Bruen of Sioux City, C. H. Torrence of Dubuque.
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Waterloo
W. H. Ahlbrecht
Iowa Spring Outlook Increases Farm Work Pace
Washington weather bureau reports a warmer week for Iowa with ideal conditions for farm work and seed germination. Plowing is under way and large acreage ready for corn planting, likely to begin early May if favorable weather continues. pasturage and fruit trees show normal progress with good prospects.
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Washington Weather Bureau
Iowa
Dedication of $25,000 chapel at soldiers orphans home
The dedication in Davenport drew Gov Leslie M Shaw and all state board of control members along with prominent legislators. Fox Gov William Larrabee presented the chapel with a $5,000 organ as part of the gala occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
Davenport
Leslie M. Shaw
State Board of Control
Fox
William Larrabee
Kensett Fire Destroys Village Buildings in Worth County
A devastating blaze wiped out fourteen structures in Kensett Worth county causing an estimated loss of 20000 dollars. Principal losers include Eckert & Williams elevator Farmers' Mutual elevator Kensett News office and Roebuck's store.
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Kensett
Worth County
Eckert & Williams
Farmers’ Mutual
Kensett News Office
Roebuck’s
Various Iowa events and incidents reported in a single column
A jumble of items notes a Twelfth Regiment reunion in Dubuque on June 4, Iowa Democratic state convention in Des Moines August 21, and local celebrations for the eighty second anniversary of the Odd Fellows in Dubuque. It also recalls a family murder, electric railway survey progress from Des Moines to Eldora and Waterloo, a Chicago marriage, clerical moves, a new church dedication at New Hampton, and various crimes and deaths including a smallpox-related removal, a senator’s death, depot fire losses, forgeries, a grieving widow’s charges, a fatal train strike near Afton, a bridge worker’s drowning, a political address in Des Moines, and a millinery stamp fraud case in Reun Ken.
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Iowa Infantry Association
Dubuque
Iowa Democrats
Des Moines
Odd Fellows of
Max Week
McGregor
Elsworth
Eldora
Waterloo
Arthur J. Carpenter
First National Bank of
H. D. Shepard
W. O. Hedrick
Marshalltown
Herron
Grinnell Congregational Association
Barbara Maines
Davis County
Fin Maines
Drakesville
Thomas Brown
Afton
Burlington
Hugh McAlry
Chicago& Northwestern
Boone
Senator Beveridge
Indiana
Grant Club
Bes Moines
Andrew Mehan
Belle Plaine
Mary
Margaret Sullivan
Reunken
Industrial Brevities: Global Industry Snapshots and Feats
A roundup of manufacturing and transportation notes from around the world. England churns out 12 million hats yearly while Birmingham produces 6000 bedsteads weekly. Europe’s cropland potential, US coal mine growth, and rail and bridge innovations highlight industrial reach. A New York dinner table novelty features an electric miniature railroad centerpiece.
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England
Birmingham
Europe
Mexico
United States
Norwich
London
North Pacific Coast
Great Britain
Pennsylvania
Germany
Russia
Charles de Cordova
New York Athletic Club
P. R. Todd
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Famous Foreigners Reveal Quirks and Views
Cecil Rhodes is a lifelong smoker who never leaves indoors without a cigar. Diaz of Mexico keeps a Spartan diet even at official banquets. M de Blowitz of the Times says he writes so long he may die with a pen in his hand. Minister Wu argues an educational test will curb Chinese smuggling by excluding those unable to read or write their language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Rhodes
President Diaz
Mexico
M. de Blowitz
Paris
London Times
United States
Unclear Fragments on Ancient Geography and Language Origins
The text notes California could be split into three states the size of New York and cites a Russian chronologist's date for Creation around 5508 BC. It mentions an aged oak on Chios and lists 13 supposed European languages, with tawdry linked to St Audrey and medieval fairs in France and England trading gaudy jewelry.
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California
New York
Chios
Aegean Sea
St. Audrey
France
England
Distant Places Expose Global Facts And Oddities
The survey notes 2364 banks in Japan with 253 249 936 dollars. only 12 of 100 acres in Japan’s 47000 square miles are cultivated. Sydney lies 10120 miles from London as the crow flies. It also records Australia being 26 times larger than the British Isles with a population smaller than London, the khedive of Egypt as a fireman with drills and false alarms, olive groves being abandoned in Marseilles region with 40000 trees uprooted.
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Japan
Sydney
London
England
Australia
British Isles
Egypt
Spain
Italy
Africa
Marseilles
Doctor Saved From Death Bed By Kidney Pills
Portland May 6 Dr E A Rose a physician formerly of Yates Center Kan was near death from Diabetes with six doctors at his bedside His aunt urged Dodd's Kidney Pills which after the first dose turned the tide and saved his life He is now hale and hearty The piece extols kidney pills as a cure for many ailments including Brights Disease Diabetes and Dropsy and claims physicians benefit from the remedy
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Portland
E. A. Rose
Yates Center
Kan
Dodd
Bright
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Was Gonger
Siegwe
Congress
McKinley
Pacific
W. S. Ament
Chang Yen Mao
Li’ Hung Chang
State Department
Delmonico’s
New York City
American Asiatic Association
East
Auditor of State
State Board of Equalization
State
Attorney General
State Board
State Board of Health
Senator Bolter
Lemuel BR. Bolter
Harrison County
Logan
Senate
F. W. Bickneull
First National Bank
Spencer
Harry Chamberlain
Water and Light
Meanaurea
St. John’s River
Catherine Street
Orange
Davis
Manila
Civil Service Commission
Geneva
The
Daily Mail
Kruger
Canal
London Dispatch
World
London Daily Express
J. Pierpont Morgan
Dend
Stanley Leighton
Oswestry
Shropshire
House of Commons
Ikkilled
Iowa State News
Grocers
Sanmuel
Ivan
Rochalla Seltestrase
Fernots
Ene
St. Jacobs Oil
Sawyer
H. M. Sawyer & Son
Sole Litrs
East Cambridge
Mans
Bears
the Centaur Company
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