Steamer Manchuria Grounded on Rabbit Island Reef
The Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria struck rocks off Rabbit Island near Oahu during a heavy rain at 4:30 am and is believed possibly salvageable at high tide. No loss of life reported though vessel damage feared. tug Fearless and Inter-Island steamer Cummings aiding. Passengers may be landed at Waimanalo and brought to Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Rabbit Island
Oahu
Fearless
Cummings
Manchuria
Waimanalo
Molokai Island
Valpariso
Achu
Molokai
Makapuu Point
Revenue Cutter
Manning
Drowning Toll Rises as New York Swimmers Die
New York reports twelve drownings in area waters with several heroic rescues. Victims include Morris Grosse Martin Anderson and others near Manhattan and Jamaica Bay while a diver Harold Sellers perished with his father. Automatic details note the mystery eye witness and ongoing investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Manhattan Beach
Coney Islands
Morris Grosse
Martin Anderson
Harold Sellers
Jamaica Bay
William O’keefe
Gravesend Bay
John Fisinksi
Jersey City
Hudson River
William Hill
Long Island City
East River
Albert Haggenborn
Coney Island
Edward Moore
Sven Remsen
Miners Ambushed Near Las Cabezas by Indian Band
Four Mexican miners were attacked in a canyon four miles from Las Cabezas. One miner was killed, another missing and believed dead, while the remaining two escaped. A Mexican force pursued the attackers but faced strong entrenched resistance. Nearby near Montezuma another miner was killed by Yaqui forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonora
Mexico
Las Cabezas
Montezuma
Yaqui
Disagreeable Man Quips About Young Son
A terse exchange traces a disagreeable man who comments on his youngest son's statements while others react. The brief dialogue highlights stubborn posture and wit as a child speaks.
Jewish Terror Flares Across Russian Provinces Alarming Wave
Reports from Siedlece Poland describe a rising wave of revolutionary terror blamed on Jews mirroring Bialystok violence. A police chief was assassinated, his funeral sparked Jewish scorn, and mobs killed Jews and wounded others amid widespread arson and detentions. Authorities urge strict action as peasant unrest spreads and threats target officials and private estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Siedlece
Poland
Bialystok
Goltseff
Goitseff
Hebrew Quarter
Gordon
Baialystok
Stavropol
Caucausus
Piltava
Vladimir
Revolutionary Organization
State of Siege Declared in Valparaiso as Crisis Grows
Valparaiso Governor Fernandez Blanco proclaims the city under state of siege and grants supreme authority to Navy Captain Gomez Carreno. Police to collect and distribute food. Water mains to be repaired after earthquake damage. electric lighting expands. 648 corpses buried so far. Llai Llai shambles. Cabildo rail damage. Quillota building collapse. casualties total rising.
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Valparaiso
Fernandez Blanco
Navy
Gomez Carreno
Baror Hill
Vina del Mar
Kamiditas
Victoria Street
Cerro Street
Baron Station
Becreo
Llai Llai
Cabildo
Quillota
Revolt and Mutiny Tearing Caucasus Garrison
Dispatches describe strict censorship of reports from Trans-Caucasia as Russian troops grow disaffected. Mutinies spread from Armenian-Tartar tensions to Poltava Cossacks at Tiflis, who demand relief from police duty and discharge of long-serving men. The AP notes censorship and suppressed details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Associated Press
Caucasus
Trans-Caucasia
Poltava Cossacks
Tiflis
Cuba asks help wants rapid fire guns and men
Insurgents under Pino Guerra capture San Juan de Martinez seizing the railroad terminus with no bloodshed. Rural guards flee as insurgents occupy the town and station. A mobile force heads from Cienfuegos to battle 300 insurgents under Colonel Guzman near Las Lajas, while reinforcements move from Havana toward Pinar del Rio to aid operations against San Luis and San Juan de Martinez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havanna
Pinar del Rio
San Luis
San Juan de Martinez
Lynching of Wilhan Spain Near St George South Carolina
A 21 year old Black man named Wilhan Spain was lynched by a mob near St George in Dorchester County after a reported window entry attempt. The mob, aided by a deputy and a posse, captured him from jail and shot him about two hundred times at an oak tree following identification by an eleven year old girl.
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Columbus
Wilhan
Spain
St. George
Dorchester County
South Carolina
S. L. Connor
Dorchester, Lumber Company
Badham
Connor
Deciding on Plea for Thaw
In New York Harry K Thaw will plead temporary insanity to the Stanford White murder. Two alienists reported Thaws insanity existed only until after the killing and Mrs Thaw will testify he was insane at the act. The new defense rejects prior counsel admissions and avoids confinement as an asylum patient.
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Thaw
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
White
Clifford W. Hartridge
Insurrection in Havanna Province Crumbles As Leaders Defect
The western Havanna insurrection backbone is broken as Bandera loyalists flee and guards pursue. Pino Guerra rises after San Juan de Martinez and San Luis captures threaten Pinar del Rio. Yet many prominent figures openly back the government while crowds wait to see if a new presidency promises real self government.
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Havanna
Bandera
Pino Guerra
San Juan de Martinez
San Luis
Pinar del Rio
Cuba
Professor Frye Arrested on Bigamy Charge in Chicago
Professor Charles Frye former Chicago Normal School superintendent returned home after 31 years without explanation and was arrested on a bigamy warrant. Mrs Clara Goddard of Hurley South Dakota claims Frye married her as Charles Goddard. Frye posted bonds and was released. preliminary hearing set.
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Chicago
Charles Frye
Chicago Normal School
Frya
Clara Goddard
Hurley
S. D
Charles Goddard
Fryar
Record-Herald
Turner County
H. Goddard
Goddard
Cause of Typhoid Fever in Shree Oaks Mich
The typhoid epidemic in Shree Oaks Michigan traced to the waterworks standpipe where thousands of sparrows died and polluted the water. The city orders the standpipe emptied scrubbed and repainted after nests on the summit ledge allowed birds to fall into the open pipe. Twenty one cases reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mich
Board of Health
Fremont Woman Ends Life With Strychnine Dose
In Fremont, Nebraska, near North Bend, Mrs. Joe Salarie consumed strychnine at home after telling a neighbor she was tired of life. She waited for her husband to leave for work and then returned to kill herself by swallowing the poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont, Neb
North Bend
Joe Salarie
Salarie
Fireman Dies After Absecon Pumping Station Boiler Blast
In Atlantic City, Joseph Medaka died hours after being fatally scalded by boiler tubes at the Absecon pumping station. He rushed to the chief engineer for aid for two comrades, then collapsed. Two others survived with minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Absecon
Joseph Medaka
Ateam
Barons Bogus Arrest Stirs Hamburg News
Berlin dispatch reports Lokal Anzeiger announces the arrest in Hamburg of a man calling himself Baron Santos von Dobrowski Donner smark but identified as a German worker named Konrad. He married an American girl in Manila on May 4 and is charged with deserting his wife in Paris, stealing her jewels valued at 8000 dollars and a sum of money, much of which has already been disposed of.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeciger
Hamburg
Baron Santos von Dobrowski
Japan Probes Island Incident in Pribilofs Killings
Through the Japanese embassy the government conducts a thorough investigation into the killing of several Japanese poachers on St. Paul Island in the Pribilof group and the capture of twelve others who were later taken to Valdez Alaska to face U S court action.
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Japan
Washington
St. Paul Island
Pribilof
Valdez, Aliaska
United States
Record Rain Floods Kansas City Areas
A terrific rainfall struck Kansas City and surrounding regions causing significant damage. Five point nine three inches fell in about three and a half hours setting a local record as basements flooded and residents were rescued in Little Italy the north end and the east and west bottoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Little Italy
Plotted To Oust Castro In Venezuela Conspiracy
Secret service arrested Capt. George Boynton former Orinoco manager and L R Thomson attorney in New York on charges of making dies to counterfeit Venezuelan silver dollars. Bail set at 65000. Keller brothers die makers also arrested. They claim the plan would become legal after a successful revolution by decree and junta act. Captain Boynton allegedly came to finance the revolt and held broad powers.
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Castro
New York
Venezuela
Secret Service
George Boynton
Orinoco Corporation
L. R. Thomson
Joseph Keller
Sidney A. Keller
Keller Brothers
Wilkie
Poynton
America
Boynton
Orinoco
Orinoco Delta
Prussian bakeries and slaughterhouses face sanitary probe
Berlin reports expose widespread unclean conditions in bakeries and slaughterhouses. Inspectors describe dark cellars, lack of employee washing facilities, and odd practices such as dough kneaded with feet and ovens used as goose pens.
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Berlin
America
Prussia
Empress Plans Conference on Chinese Constitution
The dowager empress of China intends to convene a high official conference including viceroys to consider adopting a constitution. Chinese commissioners returning from the United States and Europe urge a gradual shift to constitutional government, aiming to educate the people over ten to fifteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
China
United States
Europe
Five Year Old Girl Fatally Bitten by Rattlesnake Near Belle Fourche
The five year old daughter of J. T White died after a rattlesnake bite in the dooryard near their cattle ranch sixty miles north of the city. A physician was summoned from Camp Creek, but she had died about an hour before help arrived.
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Belle Fourche
J. T White
Mr. White
Camp Creek
Peru suffers partial starvation after Chilean crisis hits local populace
Reports from Valparaiso reveal 38 of 40 telephone company workers killed as a palace collapse during Montt election induces panic. A bandit cut off the wife’s ears and fingers, she died aboard the O Higgins. Federico Varella, noted capitalist and politician, is among the dead. Peru fears food shortages as Chilean supply lines falter, threatening middle and poor classes.
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Lima
Peru
Valparaiso
Montt
O’ Higgins
Federico Varella
Chile
Mob Hangs Man in Polk County Florida
In Mulberry Polk County a mob hanged John Bapes a Black man after he reportedly attempted to kill Captain Hughes a white citizen. Authorities later moved Will Lawrence a Black man to Tampa to avert another lynching.
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Florida
Tampa
Fla
Will Lawrence
Mulberry
Polk County
John Bapes
Bapes
Captain Hughes
Lawrence
Polk Young
Robbed While He Slept in Long Pine Neb
Mr Blakely of Springview Neb visited Long Pine to catch a late eastbound train. He begged on the Rome Mills hotel settee and woke to find a $90 draft payable to him and $50 in cash missing from his pocketbook.
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Long Pine
Mr. Blakely
Springview
Rome Milles
Nebraska Notes Highlights Local Industry and Tragedy Across Towns
Nebraska Notes reports on banking moves at Ellis and an elevator under rapid progress in Rockford. It notes sale of Bancroft Blade to Rev J L Philip, dozens of Omaha mechanics in Beatrice for Beatrice Poultry and Cold Storage, and land price interest by western Nebraska farmers. Items include a farm accident near Pickrell, pediatric appendicitis surgery in Beatrice, cement tile production at Tekamah, and a new engine at Adams elevators. It covers harvests of a large peach crop near Adams, a large B M Milling store room addition at Adams, farm purchases near Adams, a fatal fall in Falls City, a death of Mrs Hudson, a farm fire near Cushing, stolen horse near Tekamah, and other local incidents including a shooting accident near Columbus and a runaway causing injuries near Rule. It ends noting a prospective Missouri River boat line and a 6500 square foot walking path for the railroad at Tekamah.
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Beatrice
Omaha
Beatrice Poultry and Cold Storage Company
Nebraska
A. B. Roberts
Pape
Pickrell
Miriam Fulmer
Schoola Fulmer
Hayes-Eames Elevator Company
Adams
Will Bryson
California
B. & M. Milling Company
Frank Theobald
Fillmore County
G. J. Klein
Mr. Klein
Charles Gagnon
Falls City
Joseph Skala
Frank Skala
Howells
G. A. Crannell
Tekamba
Mopper
Ji. J. Hudson
Platte County
Judge Hudson
Jacob ©. Johnson
Cushing
Fred Tiehman
Fargo
John Mimee
Columbus
Allison
Katie Nitzsche
Mina Gleason
Hulda Koehler
Rule
Miss Gleason
Robert Payne
Owen Payne
Seward
Father Stricker
Elmer Essex
Rockford
Rock Island
Scattered Vocabulary Notes on Language and Daily Life
A fragmented collection of sentences covers slang terms, daily tasks, and social observations. It references languages like Russian and German, everyday items such as potatos and cleaning methods, and briefly discusses gender roles, work, and diet with garbled phrasing and partial quotes.
Grape Nuts Claimed Aids Sleep And Digestion
A reader recounts relief from sleeplessness and stomach issues after using Grape Nuts. She notes calmer nights, fewer stomach disturbances, and attributes the benefit to the cereal helping nerves and rest. The account mentions a mother with diarrhoea and a belief in Grape Nuts improving nighttime comfort.
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Frei
Reek
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Opie
Moscow
Dulged In
Yaroslav
Volhynia
Simbirsk
Kazane
Yekaterinoslav
Stolypin
Novo Tcherkask
Odessa
New York Life Insurance Company
Kaulbars
Russia
Caspian Sea
Dashlargar
Claim Frye
Germany
Ellis
E. G. Burke
The
Bancroft Blade
Rev. J. L. Philip
Minnie Wink
Creston
Omhaa
C. Peery
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis Omaha
Tekamha
Brookings Hotel
Oxford
Wen
Mie
Esas
Dean
Wester-Milburn
Bully
Wey
Mrs. Winslow
Pry
Cs Ward
Sidney
Jameson
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