Clerical lynching condemned by Rev Dr Babbitt in Wilmington
The Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Babbitt accuses Wilmington officials of cowardice after investigating the George White lynching. He details mob brutality, police failings, and calls for impeachment, naming Chief Black and others. He condemns a clerical figure for inciting mob violence.
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Dean Richmond Babbitt
McDonough St
Tompkins
Brooklyn
George White
Wilmington
Del
Tribune
Fusion chance bright in Platt remarks at Oriental Hotel
Senator Thomas C. Platt said fusion appears stronger this fall than two years ago with more harmonious allies and better odds. He warned Dock Board investigation could hurt Tammany, and spoke on Republican County Committee prospects, naming Halpin Bruce and Hanna's likely leadership of the National Committee. He endorsed Mayor Low as the strongest fusion candidate.
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Thomas C. Platt
Oriental Hotel
Dock Board
Tammany
Murphy
Tammany Hall
Platt
Republican County Committee
William Halpin
Mr. Halpin
Frederick 8
Hanna
Republican National Committee
Lodge
National Committee
Low
Pratt
Senator Hanna Would Leave Senate to Save Souls at Salvation Army Dedication
At Cleveland June 2 the dedication of a Salvation Army citadel featured Senator Hanna who presided and said he would resign the Senate to serve as a member of the Army if that could save souls. General S B M Young Colonel Myron T Herrick and many wealthy locals attended as Hanna praised the Army methods and recounted respect shown by Washington officials.
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the Tribune
Cleveland
Salvation Army
Hanna
Ets
United States Senate
Army
B. M. Young
Myron T. Herrick
Washington
Tracy
Booker T. Washington
Train wreck at Netevilla River kills ninety in Spain
Ninety people died and about one hundred were seriously injured when a Bilbao to Saragossa train derailed while crossing a bridge over the Netevilla River. Only six of three hundred passengers escaped unharmed as cars tumbled into the river bed and wreckage blocked the site. Rescue workers, nurses, and soldiers arrived from Bilbao. A guard was arrested for stealing from the dead amid chaotic scenes.
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Madrid
Bilbao-Saragossa
Netevilla
Bilbao
Death in Mexican mine leaves 24 dead, dozens hurt
In Barratoeran Coahuila on June 28 an explosion at Las Esperanzas mine, owned by the Mexican Coal and Coke Co, killed 24 workers and injured about fifty as gas ignition and collapsed earth trapped others. About 100 were underground at the time. 24 bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
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Barratoeran
Coahuila
Mexico
Las Esperanzas
Coal Mines, and Coke Company
Hecht
Plan for arbitration ends work stoppage in New York unions
After a week of tension over a building trades lockout, a plan of arbitration was agreed to by the George A. Fuller Company and its employers with twenty thousand workers expected to return to work within one or two days. Representatives from many unions met in Bloomingdale to discuss restoring pre‑lockout conditions, though some delegates indicated employers declined their proposal and a mass meeting may be held to present the unions' side.
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Gamaliel Bailey
Washington
Wilmington
Del
Roested
Marshalltown
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Robert A. Elwood
Wilson
Philadelphia
Brandywine Park
Price's Corner
George A. Fuller Company
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Employers’ Association
Bloomingdale
Salamander Association of Pipe and Boiler Covere’s
Reliance Labor Club of Marble Cutters
Amalgamated Painters’ Society
Metallic Lathers’ Union
The
Compact Labor Club of Marble Cutters
James Nason
Eat
W. H. Farley
James P. Archibald
E. A. Moffett
Civic Federation
Fitzgerald
Reliance Labor Club
Vicar vows anti ritual crusade targets St George’s church
The Rev. R. C. Fillingham, vicar of Hexton, England, praised St George’s Church in New York as free of “nonsense” and vowed to return in February to stage public demonstrations against High Church rituals. He described Coney Island as pandemonium and warned of further actions in major cities against ritualists. St Ignatius and St Mary the Virgin churches offered guarded reactions.
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R. C. Fillingham
Hexton
Hertfordshire
England
St. Mary the Virgin
Potter
St. George’s Church
W. S. Rainsford
Coney Island
Mr. Fillingham
Fifth Avenue
St. George's Church
St. Mary the Virgin’s
St. George’s
J. Pierpont Morgan
Dr. Rainsford
Marcus Rainsford
West End
Fillingham
Bishop Potter
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Fon du Lac
Wolf
St. Ignatius’s
St. Ignatius’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Sexton
Public Land Abuses Revealed In Irrigation and Land Grabbing
Washington dispatch reports The Tribune's editorial criticizing Congress for failing to amend land laws. Interior Department figures show rapid public domain absorption via Timber and Stone and Desert Land acts and homestead commutations, with millions of acres entered by speculators and lumber firms, threatening homeseekers.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Tribune
Vnst
Roosevelt
Congress
Interior Department
Senate
Quarles
Secretary of the Interior
Senate Committee On Public Lands
General Land Office
Oregon
California
Department
French cruiser Tage visits port as Atlantic squadron sails plans
Many visitors flock to the Tage flagship of the French North Atlantic Squadron anchored at West Thirty-fourth Street. Captain Edouard Amelot says the cruiser will likely sail next Tuesday for Halifax or Sidney and then await orders from Paris. The Tage resumes a voyage begun before the Mont Pelée disaster, with a 540 man crew and 28 officers, armament including eight 6 inch guns and two 24 inch torpedoes. Maurice de Magny, newly appointed French Consul General, often visits the Tage.
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Tage
West Thirty-fourth St
Baltimore
Annapolis
Edouard Amelot
Admiral Rivet
Tribune
Halifax
Sidney
New Orleans
United States
Canada
Fort de France
France
Maurice de Magny
Havana
Edmond Bruwaert
Cuba
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Black
Wellington
Delaware
Warden Reserve
Robert A. Ellwood
Fusion Chance Bright
Senator Platt
Spain
Hudson
Mme. de Magny
Aimé Dupont
Fuller Company
Montrose W. Thornton
Leighton Coleman
ST. George's
Vicar of
Heaton
Coney
Lumber and Cattle Companies
Connecticut
Grand Central Station
New York
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