World News Digest: Postmaster Report and Cuban Policy Hints
First Assistant Postmaster General Jones releases his annual report while Construction Bureau Chief Hichborn cites desired appropriations. Secretary Carlisle seeks new revenue legislation. US citrus crops forecast lower. fraud order targets lottery operators. Cuban leader Palma heads to Washington to shape policy. A spate of violent crimes and trials across multiple states follows, including hangings, mob clashes, and murder trials.
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Jones
Construction Bureau
Hichborn
Carlisle
Congress
Nobles and Notables Ledger in Brief
Lord Sholto Douglas faces issues with his mother in law Mrs Addis as Milton Rogers of Omaha dies leaving a large fortune. J B McCullagh Globe-Democrat editor named a U S Senate candidate in St Louis. Maj H Grant Weidman dies in Lebanon of paralysis at 56. Prattок Princeton graduate and Democrat. Daniel Frohman and R E Sothern end partnership after nine years as star and manager.
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Milton Rogers
Omaha
Neb
St. Louis
J. B. McCullagh
Globe- Democrat
United States Senate
Maj. H. Grant Weidman
Lebanon
Princeton
Star
Daniel Frohman
RE. H. Sothern
Notable Society And Political Notices From Early Reports
The piece lists deaths in San Francisco and Galena. a Boston mayoral nomination. New York temporary appointees. J Niven Hegeman’s death. W Holmes elected to the National Geographic Society. Ernst Curtius named active privy councillor. Bohemia’s Fréderick Charles welcome. a 5000 pound gift to Dr W G Grace. Delago and the Rosen garten Dolomites ascent. Louvre redistributes antiquities. a Tyrolean peak rises dramatically to 12,500 feet.
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Acre
St. A
Bohemia
Fréderick Charles of
Hohenlohe
Reichskanzler
W. G. Grace
Daily Telegraph
Ernst Curtius
Greece
William
Wirklicher Geheimrath
Sar Peladan
Rose Croix
Colfax Youth Killed by Accidental Gunfire During Hunt
Homer Dukes, a nephew, was killed at Colfax when a gun discharged while he climbed a fence to shoot a chicken hawk. The incident occurred as he hunted, prompting investigations into safety and handling of firearms.
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Homer Dukes
Colfax
Hay Market theater to give way for a large hotel
The Her Majesty's theatre in the Hay market is reported to be demolished to clear space for a major hotel. The brief note also mentions Maier's statue being presented or installed, though details are incomplete.
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Her Majesty’s
Haymarket
Maier
Cates
World of sudden deaths and bold ventures across states
A compilation of fatal accidents and bold business moves across cities and towns. Killed include John Guren in Columbus in a friendly bout, a Lehigh & Hudson engine boiler explosion in Warwick, and a Burlington train collision in Aurora. Investments include a $1,000,000 Lehigh canal plan and a Pensacola port expansion. Local woes feature Polish church tensions in St. Joseph and court actions in Pine City.
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John Guren
F. J. Collette
Columbus
Ohio
The
Illustrated American
New York
George A.lxert
Aurora
Ill
Burlington
Minnesota in Brief: week’s doings rough recap
North Star state items include deaths Peter Noon Mekrese and Mrs G B Freeman Goodhue County. Northfield fire destroys L E B Watson house with $1000 loss insured $800. D W Smiley’s son drowns at Rhce Lake. Fergus Falls runaway injures Mrs John P Hoke. Glencoe district court opens with 21 civil cases. Redwood Falls term starts. grand jury expected to hand many indictments. Marshall district ministerial convention at Redwood Falls with ~50 delegates. Faribault resident S J Kingsley dies aged 78. Scoville Library gift planned to Carleton College. Rochester bids for electric plant expansion from several firms.
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Peter Noon
Mekrese
G. B. Freeman
Goodhue County
Roscoe
Northfield
L. E B. Watson
N. O. Robbins
Los
D. W. Smiley
Brainerd
Rhce Lake
John P. Hoke
Fergus Falls
Glencox
Caldwell
Redwood Falls
Marshall District
J. Kingsley
Utica
West Front Street
Faribault
James W. Scoville
Mer’ Gon
C. B. Scoville
Carleton
Patton & Fisher
Chicago
Comyp Council
Rochester
Centra and
Western Electric Light Company
National
Hayshire
Fort Wayne
Indiana
North Os Western Ideal
St. Paul
Conaiger
Madigan Arrives in Redwood Falls. Scheen Assigns in Princeton
Friday events report M. M. Madigan on parole from Stillwater arriving in Redwood Falls to warm welcomes. In Princeton grocer Thomas F Scheen assigns his estate to J L Brady. liabilities and assets remain undetermined. Royalton wreck injures three hoboes as a westbound freight crashes into a separated eastbound extra. Lanesboro fire destroys the Mitchell block while adjacent properties burn or suffer minor damage. A Duluth Episcopal diocese convention calls for a Dec 4 meeting in Brainerd to organize.
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M. M. Madigan
Stillwater
Redwood Falls
Princeton
Thomas F. Scheen
J. L. Brady
Royalton
Lanesboro
Mitchell
Evenson
Andrew Hiden
Torkelson
Christenson
Lund
Mhabberstad
Episcopal Diocese of
Duluth
Local Notices and Damaged OCR Chronicle Fragment
Fragmentary report covers several local items. Deaths list Anthony McCoy of Gray Cloud aged fifty. Win Capple died of apoplexy. Train wreck near Alton and Rice Station caused property damage. four tramps injured but not fatally. HL Phipps harvests 200 bushels corn, experiments with threshing by common grain machine. Knights of Pythias hall dedication in Ray building Kinato draws delegations from multiple towns. grand lodge officers from St Paul Minneapolis St J. deliver speeches, banquet and ball follow.
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Anthony McCoy
Gray Cloud
Win Capple
Rice Station
HL. Phipps
Paynesville
Pew Knights Epythias Hall
Ray Building
Eeankato
Erge
St. Peter
Wa- Wa
Lake Crystal
Mapleton
Mes Grand Lodge
E. R. Millm
St. Paul
R. Bewer
St. Joud
Fred E. Wheaton
Records and Seals
Minneapolis
Marriage of Miss Mary Hanlon and Hin Sheehy at Le Sueur
Sunday, Nov. 17 reports the marriage of Miss Mary Hanlon of Le Sueur and Hin Sheehy of Montgomery in Le Sueur. Other items note a murder trial outcome, a pig theft case, a fine and jail sentence in Redwood Falls, a shipper accident at Lake Itasca, and the death of a child named Tenius under a wagon on a farm.
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Mary Hanlon
le Sueur
Hin Sheehy
Montgomery
Volk
Pine Aty
Linnehan
Ginafree
Jelias Miller
Grand Bry
Redwood Falls
Failty
Parkapide
Lake Itasca
M Meat
Jess
Fires and accidents strike Minnesota towns in brief notices
A series of short items report damage at J. F. Burkes clothing store in Stillwater after smoke and fire, a toppled engine, and losses. Elsewhere in Itaska Grand Rapids laid the cornerstone for a $60,000 courthouse with lodge support. Wadena sees rapid brewery construction after a recent fire. Unidentified deaths include a man found dead at Davenport House Winona and a drowned laborer near Little Falls. A hunting accident near Fraser kills Charles Pettigrove instantly when a rifle misfired.
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J. F. Burke
Stillwater
Itaska
Grand Rapids
Itaska Lodge
A. F
A. M
Duluth and Cloquet Brethren
Wadena
Henry Ebner
Wadena Brewing Company
Ebner
Davenport House
Winona
Frank Meyer
Mississsippi
Little Falls
Charlies Pettigrove
George
Lester
Fraser
Charles
Fire destroys Chaska K of L hall with full insurance
The K of L hall in Chaska was destroyed by fire on Tuesday November 19. Insurance covers the loss. Mrs. Thomas Brown died at her Lake City home at age 72 from pneumonia. In Faribault district court Geo N Baxter vs Louis Gale a jury returned a verdict in favor of The See Telephone Company has reached Royalton with a crew setting poles and expected progress.
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Birmingham
Ala
Perry Watkins
Edward Porter
Urbana
Champaign
Jena Cross
Saginaw
Mich
John Blondheim
Mount Pleasant
Baltimore
Charles Schlaffer
Brewer
Aurora
Ill
Walter Brown
Horace Storm
Sidney C. Graham
John Jones
Col
A. B. Colt
Washington Courthouse
Ohio
K. of L. Hall
Chaska
Thomas Brown
Lake City
Geo. N. Baxter
Louis Gale
Faribault
The
See
Royalton
Czarina a Mother Princess Alix Delivers a Daughter
News from St Petersburg reports the czarina gave birth to a daughter last evening at 9 o clock. Both mother and child are said to be well. The czarina, Princess Alix Victoria Louise Beatrice of Hesse, later Alexandre Feodorovna, was born in Darmstadt and married to Czar Nicholas II in 1894.
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St. Petersburg
Czarina
Alexandria Feodorovna
Darmstadt
Hesse
Alix Victoria Louise Beatrice of Hesse
Nicholas II
Russia
Nicholas
Alexandre Feodorovna
Alix
Louis IV. of Hesse
Alice
Great Britain and Ireland
Victoria
Grand Duke of Hesse
Irene
Prince Henry
Prussia
Elizabeth
Sergius
Louis of
Battenburg
Grand Duke
Czarevitch
Alexander III
Holy Synod
Czarina Seen as Power Behind Reform Council
Report notes the czarina’s influence over Catherine II era reforms as she aids a ukase creating a central council of administration for workhouses and reformatories. The czarina is said to personally draft the statutes and seek patronage for the poor employment initiative.
Lynching of James Goings Shocks Frederick County
A mob of about 300 men forcibly removed James Goings from the Frederick jail and hanged him on a roadside tree after assault allegations against Miss Lillie Jones. The crowd, armed and masked, used sledges and crowbars to break in. Salvation Army officers prayed with Goings before his execution. The mob sought to deter further violence against Black residents.
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Maryland
Frederick
James Goings
Lillie Jones
Hamilton Gelisbert
Jef- Berua
A. H. Zimmerman
Goings
Salvation Army
Alice
Frederick County
AG Rules On Four Insurance Riders In New Opinion
Attorney General Childs in St Paul on Nov 17 delivered a ruling to Insurance Commissioner Smith. He finds three rider forms illegal while approving one rider that limits liability to actual rent loss from fire destruction up to the insured amount.
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St. Paul
Childs
Smith
Marjorie Bonner Found Dead In New York Boarding House
Catherine I Goodwin known as Marjorie Bonner sister of late actress Myra Goodwin was found dead at a West Thirty seventh Street boarding house. Coroner reports morphine overdose likely amid personal crisis. A note asking for money to pay board was found along with other letters indicating financial distress. Miss Bonner was a second lead to Margaret Mather.
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New York
Catherine I. Goodwin
Marjorie Bonner
Myra Goodwin
West Thirty-seventh Street
L. Hazeltine
L. G. Quinlan
New Street
Miss Bonner
Margaret Mather
Strike Collapse Amid Cab Driver Standoff in New York
The overnight cab driver strike dissolved as most workers ordered out by the Liberty Dawn association returned to work. Seaich's stable employees remain on strike while the company dispatched forty cabs with non union drivers.
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New York
Liberty Dawn Association
Seaich
Goulds Must Pay Taxes On $10 Million Property
New York November 17. The supreme court ruled that the heirs of Jay Gould must pay taxes on 10 million dollars of personal property. the tax assessed by the tax commissioners stands.
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Goulds
New York
Supreme Court
Jay Gould
Senator Sherman Confined by Severe Cold in Washington
Senator Sherman of Washington has been confined to his house with a severe cold. He is somewhat improved and hopes to leave his room tomorrow.
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Senator Sherman
Washington
Cardinal Satolli to Receive Cardinal’s Hat in Rome
Archbishop Francis Satolli, long serving apostolic delegate to the United States since 1893, is to be made a cardinal by the pope. Born in Marsciano in 1837, he has held full papal jurisdiction over U S affairs during his tenure.
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Washington
Francis Satolli
United States
Marsciano
Dioscese
Perugia
Archbishop of Lepanto Heads to America for Catholic University and Exposition
In 1880 he became a professor at the Urban College of Propaganda while in 1885 the pope named him canon of St John Lateran. In June 1888 he was appointed archbishop of Lepanto and in fall 1889 he came to America as papal representative for the inauguration of the Catholic University in Washington and again in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition.
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Urban College of Propaganda
St. John Lateran
Lepanto
America
Catholic University
Washington, D. C
Wisconsin couple claim oldest living in state dies at 101
Amelia Darvin died at her home near Black River Falls Wisconsin at 101. Her husband Louis Darvin, now 107, survives in feeble health. The Canadian French couple had been married nearly forty years and had twelve children, five of whom survive aged 14 to 70. Their family longevity positions them among the state’s oldest families.
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Ee Wits
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Norris
Lucy Wight
Galena
Col
A. G. S. Wight
Illinois
Josiah Quincy
Boston
Conlin
Cartwright and McCullough
New York
J. Niven Hegeman
Chauncey M. Depew
Irvington
N. Y
Wisconsin
Black River Falls
Wis
Amelia Darvin
Louis Darvin
United States
Montreal
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Naples
State Department
Wilson
Thomas Estrada Palma
Cuban Revolutionary Party
John Linberg
St. Ignace
New Foundand
St Helena
Mont
Bill Gay
Macke
Gallagher
Alexander Chapin
Nebraska
Sioux City
Iowa
Ora Minter
Max Noack
Lord Sholto Douglas
Mrs. Addis
Dr. W. Holmes
Field Columbian Museum
National Geographic Society
Theodore+. Hoech
Royal Prussian
Gen. L. P. Graham
United States Army
Louvre
Delago
Rosengarten Dolomites
Tyrol
Lehigh & Hudson
Warwick
Ruby Cooper
Atlanta
Grady Hospital
Lockland
Melvin Hellerbran
Telluride
Rock Island
Herman Stratman
Zanesville
Henry Walker
Dutch Henry
Orleans
Ind
Crawfordsville
Henry McIntosh
Wichita
Kan
Lake Steamship Lines
Anderson
John Bennett
St. Joseph
Burke
C. Anson Potter
Pensacola-Liverpool
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Pensacola
Bill Cody
Holdredge
Big Horn Basin
Billings
Bloomington
John A. Goodrich
Renville
Red Lake Falls
White Earth
White Earth Council
White Cloud
Zehukegisgu
Waingemahdub
John Johnson
Pine City
Crosby
Thomas Volk
Jack Linnehan
Sandstone
Minn
John C. Nethaway
Hon. N. McKusick
W. L. Pierce
Pierce
J. L. Birum
Minnesota
North Star
Jackson
Tenius
Royal House OF
Alex of Hesse
Mgr. Satolli
Red Hat
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