Colored voters threaten revolt if white Haiti minister named
A movement led by A Johnson and others urges filling the Haiti minister post with a person of color. They warn of a GOP split in Ohio Indiana and Illinois if a white candidate is selected and press for Fortunes appointment to Haiti. Percy H Carson cautions against replacing Douglass with a white appointee.
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Wasnivetos
Harrison
Haiti
Fred Douglass
Ohio
Port Au Prince
Republican Party
Indiana
Illinois
McKinley
Ohie
Woo Lee Must Return to Face Deportation
Acting Secretary of the Treasury orders Cheng alias Woo Lee, convicted in New Orleans of unlawful entry, delivered to the San Francisco Customs Collector for deportation to China. He arrived in New Orleans on the Hutchinson from Havana claiming naturalization, but trial showed misidentification and falsified testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WaAsShineros
Treasury
Samed Cheng
Woo Lee
New Orleans
United States
San Francisco
Chins
New Orheart
Hutchincon
Havana
Hotchinson
Sorrowful census clerks dismissal sparks gossip
Six hundred census clerks were dismissed today in Washington on August 11. The protests recall the previous layoff with reports that favoritism influenced who kept their jobs rather than merit or records. Gossip swirls around the selections and losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antapa
Nat
Possible Misuse of Funds in Population Statistics Scheme
The text reports concerns about diversion of money from a special appropriation to population statistics and home and mortgage data. It notes 300 clerks moved from one task to another, the lack of penalties beyond dismissal, and suggests Porter faces trouble over the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Sonata
Secretary Foster Affirms Gold Basis Will Be Maintained
Secretary Foster announces continued gold standard and Treasury support for extended bonds. He notes about 18.5 million of 4 1/2 percent bonds extended and plans for roughly 230 million more, asserting no hardship to pay non extended amounts and that more money is in private hands as a result. He defends banking actions, cites increased banknote circulation by extensions, and confirms confidence in the Treasury’s gold reserves. Treasury shipments of small notes to the West total 6.25 million, with nearly 4 million sent in the past month. Movement began July 15 and will continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Wasnixetos
Foster
Sherwan
Mansfeld
Mansfield
R. Sherman
Costa Rica Grants 800000 Acres To Contractor Keith
Government of Costa Rica grants Manor C. Keith one sixteenth of the national territory amounting to 800 000 acres for a suspension bridge over the Reventazon river. A Royal Mail Line steamer departed Port Limon with 20000 sacks of coffee, the largest Costa Rican shipment to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of American Republics
Costa Rica
Manor C. Keith
Keith
Reventaton River
Royal Mail
Port Limon
England
Dr Seguin Marries Again In Quiet Brooklyn Wedding
New York August 15. Dr E C Seguin renowned nervous diseases specialist has wed Miss Sadie A Wessels teacher in a Brooklyn public school at her Woodsberg Long Island home. They left for Europe for their honeymoon the day of the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PaTen
New York
E. C. Seguin
Sadie A. Wessels
Brooklyn
Woodsberg
L. I
Valuation Of Farms In Harrisburg Area
The State Board of Agriculture reports values for 4 532 farms across counties, totaling 1 082 025 dollars with taxes of 295 934.74, averaging 4.69 mills. Edge notes county rates imply 100 000 invested across counties yields 1.91 mills, while assessments vary widely within counties and townships.
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Harrisburg
State Board of Agriculture
Edge
Stevedores Strike Looms In Frisco As Union Rallies
In Frisco on August 15 the Steam ship Stevedores Union orders a strike to press wage demands from 30 to 100 cents an hour for regular time and 20 cents more for overtime. About 500 members, vessels tied up, but some ships sail with non union crews as owners resume work. The strike expected to spread Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Frascisco
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Minnesota park chief reports on the source of the Mississippi
State Park Commissioner J. W. Brower presented to Governor Merriam, at the Chief Executive’s request, a special report on the source of the Mississippi River. Brower says a reservoir exists above Lake Itasca, details withheld due to the incomplete memorandum.
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Lake Itasca
St. Paul
J. W. Brower
Merriam
Tasea
New Evidence Reframes Mississippi Source at Lake Itasca
Commissioner Brower and a team of scientists surveyed the Itasca area. Their report places the river’s true source in a large reservoir nine miles inland from Lake Itasca. The watercourse runs through a low surface channel from the Gulf to the reservoir, covering about 2,455 miles.
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Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Blood feud and falsehoods swirl around Catfish robbery case
A. Leo Weil disavows recommending J. W. Miller to anyone as Miller seeks to prove his innocence. Miller claims a dramatic background and identity changes while his attorney asserts he may not be Miller at all and holds key evidence. The saga ties to Col. John B Moseby and a web of Washington connections.
Death in the River Near McKeesport Claims Two
A drowning accident at Frantz's station above McKeesport leaves Harry Coursin aged 22 and his eight year old sister Edna dead. Eyewitness Frank Trich says the pair were towed by a water soaked plank when it sank, forcing a search with grappling hooks. Life extinct confirmed after two hours.
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Harry Coursin
McKeesport
Frantz
Edna
Monongahela River
Coursin
Frank Trich
Trich
S. Harper Smith
Hallwaria
F. H. Coursin
Harry
Harlem manager still jailed as bail unlikely in abduction case
Christian Wilson also known as Sylvester Wilson or W.8. Franklin remains in jail after the Harlem court adjourned. A $1,000 bail bond proposal failed as no one would risk it. He is charged by William Sunderland with abducting his daughter Elizabeth Sunderland who is now 16. Sunderland says Wilson took her last December to join his female baseball team and she now stays with Mr Gerry's society after revealing she was betrayed. Wilson denies the charges and claims he acted with sympathy and that she was happier with him than at home.
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Miller
W. D. Moore
Ey Pet
New York
Moore
Miss Mosby
Harlem
Christian Wilson
Sylvester Wilson
Franklin
Wilson
Jenkins
Gerry
William H. Sunderland
Binghamton
Elizabeth Sunderland
Miss Sunderland
Humboldt
Neb
H Atkinson
Maine Prohibition Faces Bitter Opposition Across State
In Lewiston a ban on alcohol faces growing resistance as politicians seek party support to enforce the law. A New York Times editor needed brandy during illness but local shops were unable to supply it, highlighting enforcement gaps and the Democrats push for a reformulated liquor platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistos
Jones
New York Times
Poland Springs
Lewiston
City Liquor Agency
New York
Three Chinese Forgeries in Opium Label Scam
Revenue officers seized 10 000 forged opium labels in Chinatown San Francisco before the McKinley bill. The forgeries bore a supposed government stamp and led to the arrest of Wong Lee Ong and two others. A raid recovered opium valued at over 150 000 dollars held for label examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Revenue
Chinatown
Thomas
Wong Lee Ong
Custom House
Old Columbus Portrait Tied to World Fair Bid
C F Gunther's ten thousand dollar portrait of Christopher Columbus, painted in 1340 by Sir Antonio Moro, was unveiled in the Libby Prison War Museum in Caiiaco. Baron Yerkes had bid fifteen hundred but was outbid. the painting will be given to the World's Columbian Exposition Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caiiaco
C. F. Gunther
Christopher Columbus
London
Libby Prison War Muuseum
America
Antonio Moro
Margaret
Netherlands
Baron Yerkes
Gunther
Balloon fall kills man in Tacoma potentially intoxicated
An aeronaut reported Johnson plummeted from a balloon at about 2,000 feet this afternoon. He died instantly on impact and it is said he was intoxicated at the time. Local authorities investigate the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wasu
Johnson
Price on his head sparks border guard action and mob
A Texas border editor in Alice stirred a Mexican governor by naming him in a Spanish paper article. Reyes offered £1,000 for the editor’s head prompting 1,400 armed Mexicans to gather at Laredo. Texas authorities and Adjutant General Mobry ensured protection for editor Catrine Garzia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Mobry
Texas
Border
Catrine Garzia
Nueces County
Alice
Rangers
Adjutant General of Texas
Garzia
Car Service War Opens With Demurrage Suits Across Valleys
In Youngstown on August 15, the Car Service Association suit began as the Pittsburg and Western Railroad files against Lloyd-Booth Co for 22 dollars in demurrage. Pittsburg and Lake Erie plan to sue Sumers Brothers Co. for 600 in court at Youngstown. Lake Shore and Philadelphia will pursue action in Cleveland US Court. Iron manufacturers had earlier refused several demurrage payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Pittsburg and Western
Car Service Association
Pittsburg and Western Railroad
Lloyd-Booth Company
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Sumers Brothers Co
Lake Shore and Pelvania Company
United States
Cleveland
Mahoning and
Shenango Valley Iron Manufacturers
Car Service Association Holds Over $100,000 in Standing Accounts
Standing accounts totaling more than $100,000 are now in the hands of the Car Service Association, indicating a substantial pool of unsettled balances and potential actions to collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Car Service Association
Bernhardt Sister in California Letters Revealing Childhood
In Tulare California Aug 15 a Mrs Bell writes of her sister the famed actress Sarah Bernhardt. The letter recounts Sarahs youth in Rochester Cedar County Davenport and Teran and notes her marriage to a New York man before returning to the United States in the spring. The writer recalls family ties and a school recital remark about Sarah as a child comparing her to a lily.
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Sarah
Sisto
Sarah Bernhardt
Linst
Mary Finefield
Rochester
Cedar County
California
Nettie
Mary
Davenport
John Finefield
Teren
New York City
New York
John King
Mary E. Mu
Bernhardt
United States
Uncle Billy
Shipwreck Show Plans Bar Harbor Exhibition
A special telegram from Bancon Maine describes W A Milliken staging a shipwreck spectacle near Otter Creek point after August 16. The schooner S P Adams will be sacrificed as costumed crew from Cranberry Isle attempt rescue with mortar lines breeches buoy and lifeboats. No life-saving provisions at Cranberry Isle during Mt Desert show. spectators warned.
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Bancon
Bar Harbor
W. A. Milliken
P. Adams
Otter Creek Point
Cranberry Isle
S. P. Adams
Cranberry. Isle
Goshorn building collapses in Wheeling during bridge work
At 2:30 this afternoon the three story Goshorn building on Main and Twentieth collapsed into ruins as excavations for a new bridge abutment near Wheeling creek near the block edge. No one was hurt though the town was alarmed and Paige Carey & Co. faces heavy losses from the collapse.
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Distatch
Wheeling
Main and
Twentieth Street
Wheeling Creek
Paige, Carey & Co
Eggleston to Wed Third Cousin Miss Goode of Indiana
New York reports Edward Eggleston the novelist plans marriage to his third cousin Miss Frances E. Goode of Madison Indiana. Age 52, he will leave for the ceremony next Tuesday and will live at Joshua Rock Lake George after the wedding.
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THE
Dispatch
New York
Edward Eggleston
Frances E. Goode
Madison
Ind
Indiana
Goode
Miss Goode
Dr. Leston
Miles Cary Eggleston
Dr. Eggleston
Joshua Rock
Lake George
Green goods sharper caught in New York
Detectives arrested a green goods sharper in New York after he received a money order package of 100 at a United States Express branch. The package was from John Helm of Reitz, Pa, addressed to E. C. Davis at 474 Canal Street. Before Commissioner Shields he gave the name A. Johnson and refused to reveal his address. he was committed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Express Company
John Helm
Reitz, Pa
E .C. Davis
Canal Street
United States
Shields
S&s. A. Johnson
Secretary Mortimer Surrenders in Building and Loan Case
William H. Mortimer secretary and treasurer of the National Capital Building and Loan Association surrendered to detectives in St Paul after saying he felt ill. He claimed the company’s funds are safe and that investigation will prove it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
William H. Mortimer
National Capital Building and Loan Association
St. Paul
Chicago
Government considers higher duties on fruit imports
St PetersaurG on August 15 reports a semi official statement that the government mediates an increase in duties on the importations of fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersaurg
Alliance aims to collapse Senate power by targeting Shermans foes
Colonel Leoni das L. Polk, President of the National Farmers' Alliance, says the group seeks to retire several senators including John Sherman of Ohio and Gideon Moody of South Dakota. They plan district-by-district opposition, rallying farmers and nonmembers, with a field presence in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. The Alliance strengthens through women’s roles, a printing operation on North Capitol Street, and a robust literary bureau.
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Washington
Leonidas L. Polk
National Farmers’ Alliance
Alliance
Polk
United States Senate
Hampton
South Carolina
Kansas
Gideon C. Moody
South Dakota
John Sherman
Ohio
Matt Ranson
North Carolina
John J. Ingalls
Vance
Gordon
Georgia
Alliances
North Capitol Street
Senate
Thomaston Institution Tangles Plans for Gould’s Future
The article notes Gould’s ties to an unnamed institution at Thomaston and mentions his harness maker and carriage trimmer skills. Neal Dow and other friends may fund his start in business, with options to stay in Portland or move elsewhere, possibly to the West to pursue opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomaston
Gould
Neal Dow
Portland
Mount Gretna Farmers Encampment Promises Large Show
The Mt Gretna encampment opens tomorrow expected to draw about 100000 people. Governor Pattison Senator Peffer Simpson General Hastings and Chauncey Black will speak to farmers as exhibitors from many states display agricultural implements and machinery across a 100000 square foot area with 100 cars already unloaded. Initial religious services and a concert mark the opening.
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Peffer
Simpson
Pattison
Hastings
Black
Mt. Gretsa
Kansas
Chauncey F. Black
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Delaware
Virinia
Iows
Michi Ussete
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Jones
Mt. Gretna
Charles F. Deems
Hagerstown, Md
The
Lebanon Church Society
STARS EXODUS TO AMERICA FOR ABBEY OPERA TOUR
Henry E Abbey brings an operatic company to America for a two city tour opening in Chicago November 9 at the Auditorium for five weeks before proceeding to New York. The new Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni will be staged with special involvement by Signor Valero and Regers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowpox
America
Henry E. Abbey
Chicago
New York
Abbey
Cavalleria Rusticana
Mascagni
Signor Valero
Regers
Biguerd Searot
A Great Manitoba Scandal Divorces Noted Statesman Family
A Winnipeg divorce suit involves J A M Aikens suing on grounds of desertion and bigamy. The plaintiff heads a leading Winnipeg firm and is a son of Hon J C Aikens former Dominion Cabinet member and Manitoba lieutenant governor. He wed seven years ago the daughter of Hon A W McLelan, Canadian finance minister and former Nova Scotia lieutenant governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wissipeg
Canadian Senate
J. A. M. Aikens
Q C
Winnipeg
J. C. Aikens
Dominion
Manitoba
A. W. McLelan
Canada
Nova Scotia
Maritime Provinces
Serb King Alexander Arrives in Paris with Milan
King Alexander of Servia and his father ex-King Milan arrived in Paris after visits to Russian and Austrian courts. A crowd of about 3,000 greeted them at the station as an aide-de-camp from President Carnot welcomed the Serb ruler to Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Alexander
Servia
Milan
Carnot
Paria
Humane Society Agent Seizes Horses from Dugan Farm
Agent Berryman of the Humane Society visited the horse market yesterday afternoon and ordered two old worn-out horses removed. The animals were owned by James Dugan and placed under seizure at the Schinderg facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryman
The
Humane Society
James Dugan
Fire Record of Multiple Blazes Across Cities
Fire damage reported at Beaver Falls home of Jacob Goll with $2,000 loss. A G Elliott & Co warehouse in Philadelphia suffered $20,000 stock loss insured. fireman Louis Bergans injured. At Alum Cave Sullivan County a coal mine fire destroyed machinery. $100,000 loss with two thirds insured. months to resume. Norfolk Storage and several neighboring facilities burned during a violent storm. total damages about $175,000 to buildings and $200,000 to peanuts. origin unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
A G. Elliott & Co
Louis Bergans
Alum Cave
Sullivan County
New
Pittsburg
Norfolk
Norfolk Storage Company
American Fertilizer Company
Merchants and Farmers’ Peanut Company
Lyman, Field & Co
Amatron Works
Marshall &Roener
We W. Taylor & Co
Lee, Coal and Woodware
Sargent Norfolk
Josson
People's party names district ticket in Newark convention
A Newark Ohio convention of the People's party nominated a full district ticket. Representative 3. & ii, Commissioner John Hall, Clerk I rRler, Treasurer Charles Steelfire, Infirmary Director W. M. Lacy. Resolutions reaffirm Cincinnati platform and pledge support for the ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
People's Party
John Hall
I rRler
Charles Steelfire
W. M. Lacy
Cincinnati
Bank cashier Gould to leave prison for new life
William E. Gould, former cashier of the First National Bank of Portland, has served five years in Maine State Prison and will be released in a few weeks at age 56. He escaped punishment earlier due to a petition and has aided prison reforms during his sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BanGor
William E. Gould
First National Bank of Portland
Strr
Maine State
Thomaston
Gould
Femerdel
Louisville Baseball Club stock pool may decide future in Lovewille
In Lovewille stockholders formed a pool to keep the Louisville Baseball Club in the city and added stock to control the club. The shares are placed with Attorney Phelps as trustee. Parsons contends the fixed price sale agreement remains valid, giving him a controlling stake. A court battle over the dispute seems likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovwville
Aug. li
Louisville Baseball Club
Phelps
Parsons
Steamer Details From and To Not Assembled
The fragment mentions a steamer with unclear origin and destination lines. Names like New York appear amid garbled text, with no readable dates, routes, or operator details to confirm a voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mneesevness Aievacacees
New York
Bugis
Trichinosis Strikes Boy After Ham Purchase
In New York a 16 year old, Charles Diecke, suffers extreme agony from trichinosis after his family ate ham from J. P. Indorf. Doctors misdiagnosed initially. the illness targets muscles causing intense pain and fever. Health officials may investigate the meat seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Deicke
Dorothea Deicke
Charley
Ann Street
Boots With Stone Soles Offer Slippery-Surface Safety
A German inventor proposes boots with stone soles formed by mixing quartz sand into waterproof glue and applying it to a thin leather foundation. The resulting soles are described as flexible and indestructible, allowing the wearer to walk safely over dangerous, slippery grounds and roads.
Seward Recalled as Student with Cigar in Hand
A fragment recalls Seward as a diligent student who smoked during study periods, noting he often wore a cigar in his mouth and wrote with that habit, describing a time of serious labor and focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seward
Cuticura Resolvent Promises Skin and Blood Purification
An early 20th century advertisement touts Cuticura Resolvent as a universal skin and blood purifier. It claims efficacy for the skin scalp and scalp diseases from infancy to old age, promising complete cure for various conditions.
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A. Johnson
Furgeon
J. E Bruce
A. G. Lisi
Colo
Tepallican
Manrrs
Love
Cape May
Thome T. Fortune
Hasti
Fortune
Grant
Guade Mc Douglass
Douglass
Ohi
Yoter
Trauders
Rrerey Carson
Percy H. Carson
Colonel Perry
Warhimgten
National Republican Committee
Frederick Rongle
DR. Seguin
Hic
DIS
Frisco
Oregon
Mississippi
Minnesota
Mosby
Count Mitkiewiecz
A. Leo Weil
J. W. Miller
Tar Dispatch
John 8. Moseby
Mitkiewiecz
Beverly
Mary Marshall
Marshall
Fauquier County
John Marshall
Department of the Interior
Blair
Ehess
China
Aes
Mitkiewiccz
Disratcn
Monongahela
Maine
Columbus
Libby Prison War Museum
Price
CAE
Eggleston
Express
Mortimer
Bogus Building and Loan Association
Farmers’ Alliance
Senator Sherman
Cameron
Quay
Sherman
Eee Alliance
People’s
Towa
Sevesteine
Pennsylvanine
New York State
Hiscock
Baltimore
Gorman
Maryland
Arthur P. Gorman
Alabama
Morgan
Pugh
Oates
Virginia
Williams’ Grove
Exodus
Henry Abbey
King Alexander
Beaver Falls
Jacob Goll
Licking County
Indorsed
Louisville Trouble
Diecke
Freeman
Charley Diecke
Cyrus Edson
Board of Health
Edson
Dierke
J. P.indorf
Indorf
Cuthurs
Faulkner
Cura
Ceticura
Ross Fav Ulkner
Danville
Cuticura
Porras
Boston
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