Mississippi Pension Reform Letter Calls Unity for Deserving Veterans
A Mississippi resident urges Governor Lowry and state leaders to back a pension reform plan aiding indigent Confederates like Comrade Thames Hunter. The letter pushes uniform pension rules across Southern states and urges shelter and a home, not export of veterans to other states.
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Gem Eibeard I Lombard
Louisiana Soldiery Home
Thames Hunter
Teeiftt
Aphi
Tesa
Musimippi
Raymerd
Lim
West Seturiay
Lowry
Hooker
Mississppi
Hunter
Mississipppensioa
Louisiana
Alebama
Tennessee
Mississippi
3000 LIVES LOST In Coastal Storm Across Texas Rail Lines
The storm roared along the coast of Texas wiping out towns from Sabine Pass to Port Arthur and damaging lines of the Santa Fe and Missouri Kansas Texas railroads. Reports speak of high tides, wrecks, and many dead with Port Arthur and Galveston heavily affected.
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Santa Fe
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Athenange
Howe
Meonri
Kansas & Texas Railroad
Sabine Pass
Port Arthur
Vesterde
Calteston
Hywar
High Island
Stowell
Wionie
Port Lavaca
Rockport
Aransas Pass
Corpus Christi
Brownerine
Seabrook
Galveston
Heaton
Sucheoleom
James Woolock
le Porte
Morgan's Point
Houston
Fort Arthur
Destructive disaster floods Virginia Point wreckage and bodies
Telegram from Houston reports relief train unable to reach Virginia Point beyond six miles. lumber debris and two hundred corpses seen on the beach. A large steamer stranded two miles offshore. life savers recover twenty five bodies. two survivors state many lives lost. Ben W. Dew of Southern Pacific aboard.
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Darras
Tex
Sept
Houston
Virginia Point
Tralvesiu
Galveston
Ben W. Dew
Southern Pacific
Dew
Dewd Bexties
Powers
United States Seeks Chinese Dialogue Amid Power Strains
In anticipation of possible unilateral action toward China the administration asks Minister Couger for guidance on opening channels with the Chinese government and how the U S should proceed if it acts alone. In New York labor leaders report a Porto Rican prison letter claiming widespread suppression of labor agitators by military authorities in San Juan.
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Wasuixetox
Couger
New York
Central Federated Union
San Juan
Porto Zico
Destructive September Hurricane Strikes Rural Texas Rail Line
Relief crews report catastrophic damage across communities from Angleton to Brewkshire. Homes barns and crops wrecked. nine colored deaths confirmed and several injuries. A separate Santa Fe wreck near Alvin kills one passenger and injures several after a gust lifts the locomotive from the track.
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Hoveros
Tex
Alvin
Civil War guns placed at Lookout Mountain and Battery Douglas
Cumatranucca Tenn September 9 Betts of the Chickamauga Park commission has completed artillery placements in the city. A single cannon sits at Battery Douglas near the Tennessee River and two large field pieces are set on Lookout Mountain in Point Park. The field pieces match patterns used by Confederate infantry around this city during the Civil War.
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Cumatranucca
Tenn
Eomeer Betts
Chickamauga Park
White Civil War Veteran Found Dying in Arkansas Outhouse
In Silver Deke township near Ums, Arkansas, a 70 year old white man named Louis Gerron was found dying in an old outhouse. He said he came from the North looking for one of his three children separated years ago and that he was a Civil War veteran. He could barely speak and was in pitiful condition.
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Pise Beerr
Ark
Goodloe Plantating
Silver Deke
Umas
Louis Gerron
Fraud order issued targets teachers agency and civil service college
A fraud order blocks payments to the American Teachers' Agency and the American Civil Service College, plus related entities, as the Post Office Department alleges they used mail to solicit fees and prepare fraudulent examinations. The action names L D Mines and M B Mines among others, and cites prior orders against similar agencies.
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Washington, Sept
Peat
Peat Offer Department
American Teachers’ Agency
American Civil Service College
LDB
RM. Mines
Aml
L. D
M. B. Mines
Washington
T. C
United States
Death by Electric Shock Claims Two Officers in 1900
Coroner Liowd reports the deaths of John P. Looney and Nicholas F. Beekman from electric shocks on September 1, 1900. Both men were attempting to call up the fourth district police station from Delred Peewew when a rose wire from the Sethoer Contracting Co activated the telegraph system. An accident due to improper wire placement by Seekner Contracting Co is cited.
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Lowin
Corener
Swartey
John P. Looney
Nicholas FF. Beekman
Delred Peewew
Alanns Ened Phcn Wciegraph
Sethoer Contracting Co
Hightamt Carr Streets
Seekner Contracting Co
Vertiet, Aerident
Insane Woman Murders Inmate With Garroted Cord
Lula Tore Denning an insane inmate at Wayne County Psychiatric Hospital strangled fellow prisoner Kebeown Tleroan with a torn cloth cord. The nurse discovered the murderess still tightening the cord as the victim died. The grim act occurred in Detroit during mid September.
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Detroit
Lula Tore Denning
Wayne County
Terrible double tragedy near Centervile ranch disaster
Frank W. Browning, foreman for WOO Cridge, insane, fired on two Japanese laborers on a ranch near Freese Centervile. He shot one victim in the back and blew up Arkige power house. Browning then killed himself. The Japanese also died.
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Fresane
Cal
Freese
Centervile
Frank W. Browning
Woo. Cridge
Bevrame
Mie
Arkige Power House
Browning
China peace talks risk commission to lead negotiations
Washington sources say the government may appoint a commission to handle negotiations with China, not a single negotiator. Possible members include former officials and prominent statesmen, with over five members anticipated and a strong focus on maintaining American interests abroad. No new note information has been released.
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Washington
Ami
Freien
Ex Provident Harrison
Dey
John Pesett Moore
Paris
Violent tropical storm hits Florida and Gulf coasts
A violent tropical storm battered coastal Florida and the Gulf region causing extensive damage. Reports describe wrecked vessels off Casegfeet light and Le Newwegiam areas, destroyed telegraph and telephone lines, and damaged piers and bridges in New Orleans and nearby parishes.
Negotiations Edge Toward Compromise With Russia Over Pekin
Paris reports ongoing talks toward a settlement with Russia over Pekin. A proposed compromise would see all powers withdraw from Pekin, an international guard left to protect legations, and main forces move toward Tianjin to safeguard the Pekin-Tianjin route. Russia may pull troops outside Pekin walls but not far from the city.
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Paris
Russia
Pekin
Farin
Alee
Tien Tein
Tien Tin
Walla
Medicine Man Murdered in Yakima Camp Tent
North Yakima Washington reports the murder of Chief Wowahe an aged medicine man of the Yakima tribe killed by an Imaion named John while attending a sick child in a camp near Ki ona. The crime follows the child s death after the old chief performed rites. John seeks chieftainship and is implicated in the assault.
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Yakima
Wash
Wowahe
Imiion
John
Kiona
Llowaie
Li Hang Chang Seeks American Escort to Pekin
Shanghai dispatch reports Li Hang Chang requests an American escort for his journey to Pekin and that U S Consul Goodnow is considering the request. Berlin announces a new tariff to ease wool shortages for two years. Vienna dissolution of the lower Austrian Reichsrat triggers immediate elections.
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London
Shanghai
Li Hang Chang
Pekin
United States
Goodnow
Berlin
Reichsenzeiger
Ministry of State
Vienna
Reicherath
Big gun explosion kills four in GaliciaBohemia maneuvers
During Russian military maneuvers yesterday on the borders of Galicia and Bohemia a large gun exploded killing four men outright and fatally wounding 18 others.
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Vienna
Galicia
Boehemia
Treasury balances report shows cash and gold reserves
Washington on September 5 reports yesterday's treasury balances in the general fund excluding the $150,000,000 gold reserve. Available cash balance stands at $134,373,208 and gold at $65,504,968.
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Washington
Treasury
General Fund
Nutwood Driving Club Abandons Races and Divests
The Nutwood Driving club meeting in Dubuque Indiana has been abandoned with a decision to discontinue races. The corporation will be divested of its operations and assets.
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Dubuque, In
Nutwood Driving Club
Population Change Report Reveals Varied City Gains
A Washington report tabulates fifty four cities showing an average population decrease of 37 percent per city. It notes 1800 populations totaling 1110.40 with a total gain of 24 million. the rise in 19 is computed on net gain rather than gross increase, and Bureau of Census methods affected apparent gains for several cities.
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Columbus
H. M. Lauier
Alan Seesene
Washington
Conse Borean
Howl
American energy abroad in Cape Town race for 300 large eel traders
Cape Town reports competition in American energy supplies with bids of about 150,000 Rand and rapid delivery promised by American manufacturers. British and Dutch bidders consider delivery terms and risk of foreigners gaining wartime commercial benefits.
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Cape Town
Anarog Eriders
Rand
Dritieh
Ameran
Teandelhows
Warren Arrives Nagasaki Enabling Troop Move to Manila
The war department reports the transport Warren has arrived at Nagasaki with two battalions of the Ninth Cavalry and recruits aboard and will proceed to Manila. The animal transport Aztecs has arrived at Kobe with horses for the Third Cavalry.
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Washington
War Department
Warren
Nagasaki
Ninth Cavalry
Manila
Kobe
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