News of the World and Nation in Brief Highlights
A wide sweep of items: Alice Roosevelt touring St Louis fair. lynching and mob violence cases in Adlington and New York. railroad cost cuts. a Batson jealousy killing. Worcester Spy suspension over finances. Kin Chow and Port Arthur battles. Quay’s death. Japanese Russian war feats. Panama Canal tribute art. Roosevelt at Gettysburg. Tangier kidnap crisis. flood and explosion reports. bank prosecutions. postal reforms. and boll weevil battles along with various political notes.
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United States
Chas, Green
New York City
Green
Continental Congress
Orangeburg
D. C
Methodist General Conference
Los Angeles
Perdicaris
Morocco
Great Britain
Japan
Kin Chow
Nanshan
Talien Wan
Port Arthur
Mathew Stanley Quay
Beaver
Pla
Quay
Senate
Ile
Washington
Far East
Army
Navy
United States Army
Clara Adams
Melissa Brown
Mary Adkins
Whitesboro
Fleware
Lackawana
Jersey City
Wilson
Department
Bexar County
Texas
Denver
Enid
Guthrie
Mississippi's Path to Industrial Growth and Prosperity
Mississippi should unite to attract capital and build industries across hill and delta regions. Magee hosts a thriving trades day with 1500 visitors as farmers showcase produce and competition spurs local progress. Greenville, Eupora, Oxford, and Yazoo City push waterworks, brick and tile plants, and paving, while railroads like Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley support trucking and development efforts.
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Mississippi
Aberdeen
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Yazoo City
Illinois Central Railroad
Tennessee River Mystery Body Found In Pieces
The dismembered body of a woman was recovered from the Tennessee River near Knoxville with parts found in three locations. A fisherman spotted a pine box with a thigh, a forearm and hand were later located, and a head was found downstream, leaving coroner Hackney seeking a connection.
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Tennessee River
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Isaac Johnson
Hackney
Corning Distillery Fire Claims Fourteen Lives
In Peoria Illinois on Saturday a distillery fire and explosion killed fourteen workers. Eight bodies were recovered Sunday, four identified as George Gebhardt Peter Lettemeyer Thomas E Montgomery and Samuel Parsons. The remaining four identified only by clothing and metal fragments. Unidentified dead and missing include Ernest Brown Milton Crowle William Finley Jr John Hobaker Frank Knoll Louis Sax Alec Powell John Assbee and Joseph Zimmerman. Search continues as debris is cleared and fire is out.
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Peoria
Corning
George Gebhardt
Peter Lettemeyer
Thomas E. Montgomery
Samuel Parsons
Ernest Brown
Milton Crowle
William Finley, Jr
John Hobaker
Frank Knoll
Louis Sax
Alec Powell
John Assbee
Joseph Zimmerman
Mormon Women Resign From Federation Over Anti Mormon Resolution
The Authors' club of Salt Lake City resigns from the General Federation of Women's Clubs after a biennial St. Louis session approved a resolution opposing clubs affiliated with sects whose doctrines clash with U S constitutional principles. Proposed by Mrs. Frederick Schoff of Pennsylvania the measure targets Mormon organizations.
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Salt Lake
Utah
General Federation of Women's Clubs
St. Louis
Authors’ Club
Frederick Schoff
Pennsylvania
United States
Escapes From Moving Train In Illinois
Curtis McClin, a cripple wanted for murder in Caruthersville Missouri, was arrested at Grand Tower Illinois. While being taken to Thebes to hand over to Missouri officials he escaped through a car window from a fast moving train. He remains at large with no trace. He is accused of beating his victim and then slitting his throat.
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Carbondale
Ill
Curtis McClin
Carruthersville
Grand Tower
Thebes
Missouri
Marriage of Nellie Grum to Lieut Pope at Rome
Miss Nellie Grum of San Francisco wed Lieut Ralph E. Pope of the U S battleship Wisconsin in Rome. The groom plans to hold a consistory on June 27.
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Rome
Nellie Grum
San Francisco
Ralph E. Pope
United States
Wisconsin
Northwestern students wear flannel and corduroy a week
The piece notes Northwestern University students will wear flannel shirts and corduroy trousers on three days per week as a proof they are not "dudes." It also mentions ex President Cleveland being appointed to Princeton lectureship and a Harvard Princeton debate leading up to Sanders theater clash. Madame Kioshi Sugawa is described as wife of the Japanese exhibit director and a progressive club woman.
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Magee
Simpson County
Mississippi
Crystal Springs
Chicago
Delta
Northwestern University
Cleveland
Princeton University
Henry Stafford Little
Harvard
Princeton
Sanders Theater
Yale
Kioshi Sugawa
St. Louis Exposition
Madame Sugawa
Poeress School
Tokyo
Imperial Woman's Association of Japan
Riot and Arson After Bull Fight Promoter Barricaded
A mob of several thousand attacked the offices of Richard Norris promoter H A Tullidge and burned the amphitheater near the World's Fair grounds in St Louis. Police and deputies dispersed the crowd after gunfire and clubbing. Firefighters saved adjacent stands as the arena burned.
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Richard Norris
St. Louis
St. Louis County
H. A. Tullidge
St Louis
Hencken
Clayton
Neantime
John P. Ossenfort
J. Will Andrae
Henry Hyde
Sheriff's Office
Rozier G. Meigs
the Humane Society
Ossenfort
Tullidge
The
Humane Society
Norris
Tragic double shooting near Bronsburg shocks Lexington
In Bronsburg, 16 miles from Lexington, Edward Mc Cormick shot and killed John Wade and Arthur Blackwell on Saturday night. Authorities say the killings stem from a three year feud and bad feeling between the men.
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Lexington
Edward McCormick
Bronsburg
Here
John Wade
Arthur Blackwell
Flocking to Rosebud Reservation Opens to Settlement
Omaha residents head to Bonesteel at rate of 50 per day as Rosebud reservation prepares to open to settlement by the government.
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Rosebud Reservation
Omaha, Neb
Saloonkeeper Shoots Doctor in Weston Tragedy
Dr J W Simpson was shot and killed at Weston Missouri by Julius Rumpel a saloonkeeper Rumpel surrendered claiming the doctor was too friendly toward Mrs Rumpel The incident occurred in Weston Missouri near St Joseph on June 6 1900s style report
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J. W. Simpson
Weston, Mo
Julius Rumpel
Rumpel
Simpson
Nova Scotia Judge J Norman Ritchie Dies at 70
Halifax report states Hon. J Norman Ritchie, judge of the supreme court of Nova Scotia, died Sunday. He was the third in his family to serve on the Nova Scotia bench and was 70 years old.
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Halifax
J. Norman Ritchie
Supreme Court of
Nova Scotia
Outlook for cotton area and conditions by state
The 1904 U.S. cotton planted area is estimated at 1 730 371 acres, up 9.5 percent from last year. May 26 crop condition averages show mixed healthy levels with Oklahoma 93 and Indian Territory 90. several states report gains in acreage driven by high prices, while overall conditions require no special comment.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
United States
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Manly
Money and Ticket Gone After Illness on Train
Fred La Chance, about 50, of Prairie de Roche NL, is unconscious in St. Louis City Hospital after a suspected stroke as a Frisco train from Eureka Springs Ark reached Union Station. Letters suggest wealth and requests for money, including a $1000 loan, but his pocketbook and ticket are missing. Police investigate circumstances surrounding his illness.
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Fred Una Chance
Prairie de Roche
St. Louis
Fred la Chance
City Hospital
Eureka Springs
Ark
Union Station
la Chance
Maloney
St Louis Excise Commissioner Seibert Indicted
The April grand jury indicted Excise Commissioner James M. Seibert in Judge Jesse McDonald’s court. It also indicted seven steamboat captains and attaches over gambling on excursion steamers, Seibert allegedly conspiring to hinder alcohol law enforcement. Seibert posted a $500 bond with attorney Morton Jourdan.
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St. Louis
Jesse McDonald
James M. Seibert
Seibert
Morton Jourdan
Wants Their Old Commander Powderly for Knights of Labor
Boston June 5 A movement in Knights of Labor circles asks Terrance V Powderly former general master workman to return to lead. Michael J Kennedy says Powderly has been asked to take charge and would accept if unanimously chosen. Preparations for a large Boston mass meeting and a visit by Powderly are under way.
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Boston
Knights of Labor
Terrance V. Powderly
Michael J. Kennedy
Washington Woman Is Nan Patterson Father in Real Estate Circles
Washington on June 6 Mrs Nan Patterson held by New York police in the Caesar Young shooting case is identified as a local girl. Her father John B Patterson is a well known figure in Washington real estate circles.
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Washington, D. C
Nan Patterson
New York City
Bell Pole Worker Falls to Death in Gra vois St. Louis
Walter Pim aged 19 fell 40 feet from a Bell telephone pole at Gra vois and Michigan avenue on Friday afternoon, landing on his head and dying within minutes. In Rome the pope ordered destruction of Vatican vineyards deeming the wine intrinsically worthless and unworthy of papal gardens.
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St. Louis
Gravois
Michigan Avenue
Walter
Pim
Rome
Vatican
Youth Found Dead in Church Bathroom in Louisiana Mo
Gardner Pitzer aged 18 son of Mr and Mrs H W Pitzer was found dead in the bathroom of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in Louisiana Mo Friday night He left home in his usual good health at noon No cause of death given and local authorities investigating the incident.
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Louisiana
Gardner Pitzer
H. W. Pitzer
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Death of William Keyser After Runaway Excitement
Baltimore June 5 William Keyser a leading capitalist and former vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio died from apoplexy Friday caused by excitement after witnessing a runaway.
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Baltimore, Md
William Keyser
Baltimore & Ohio
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Panama
Roosevelt
Robert M. McLane
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McLane
Admiral Chadwick
Tangiers
Stepcon
Kin Cho
St. Petersburg
Fred Wilson
Louisville
Cyrus E. McGrady
Seymour (Ind.) National Bank
Leavenworth
Kan
Alfred C. Parker
First National Bank of
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Ind
John Barrett
Argentina
Republic
Paraguay
Korea
Supreme Court of Missouri
Webb City
Indiana
Hot Springs
Williams
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Congress
New Hampshire
Montana
Chester
Birmingham
Salem
Erie
Ontario
Gec. Ru
Parker
Oyster Bay
Letcher County
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James Day
Wm. Haynes
Williamstown
Kaw
Kansas
Pat Crowe
Crowe
Joseph Lilliger
St. Joseph
Dalny
Fort Dalny
Joplin
Snell
Alaska
Robertson
Tascott
Willie Tascott
Palmer House
Henry Deeter
Marshaltown
W. J. Bryan
Nebraska
Col. Bryan
Kansas City
Leo W. McKay
Schick and Broadwell
Ohio
Illinois
Mexico
Greater
H. E. Blakeslee
Jackson
Indianola
Poplarville
Greenville
Lee J. Langley
Board of Trade
Eupora Progressive League
Oxford
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Illinois Central
Northeastern
Louisville & Nashville
Coast Division
Carruthersville, Mo
Angry Mob
James
M. Seibert
Pope
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