Fight or Fizzle: Kilrain Sullivan Train to Richling Ring
Sullivan and Kilrain left New Orleans by special train for a Mississippi Louisiana bound fight set near Richling. Rain and heavy security threaten delays as 3000 spectators scramble for tickets. press seats limited and controversy over newspaper access grows.
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Sullivan
Kilrain
New Orleans
Richling
Miss
Lowry
Bud Renaud
Carondelet Street
United States
Renaud
Mr. O'Neill
Press of the Union
O'Neill
Western Union Telegraph Company
Too Much Money Involved In Sullivan Kilrain Fight
New Orleans reports extreme sums wagered on the Sullivan Kilrain fight with bets around 2 to 1 on Sullivan. Stakes reach 50050 after tickets and ringside entries, while promoters brace for potential ringside trouble and a possible stoppage before a knockout. Sullivan weighs 205 pounds and travels to the battleground with a chosen entourage as Kilrain supporters assemble.
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New Opreans
Time Set for Pugilists Handshake Before Fight
New Orleans July 7 The dispute over start time ends with a 6 o clock handshake before the bare knuckle prize fight. Kilrain weighs 195 pounds Sullivan 200. The site is chosen near the Louisiana Mississippi line or Richburg with a ring close to the railroad track.
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Dispatch
New Orleans
Sullivan
Kilrain
Mississippi
Louisiana
Ringside
New Oreans
Johnson
Stevenson
Muldoon
Cleary
Mike Donovan
Charlie Mitchell
Gr Yay Page
Boston Bantam
Charley Johnson
Johnston
Wakely
Moreau
Canal Street
Mitchell
Donovan
Southern Athletic Club
Richburg
Louisiana province fights plan to ban prize fight
A telegram from New Orleans reports governors Engle of Arkansas and Ross of Texas backing proclamations against a scheduled prize fight. Mississippi mobilizes troops along rail routes, concentrating forces at three entry points as Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi officials resist the event.
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New Orleans
Engle
Arkansas
Ross
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Missieiae
Jeff Davis Rifles
Ilinois
Sensation at Johnstown over missing state tools and contracts
A Pittsburgh relief effort in Johnstown faces a dramatic dispute as $9,000 worth of shovels picks and derricks are largely missing. Officials report a $20,000 discrepancy between contractor and state accounts, with tools moved on rail cars and a round of payoffs and investigations set to unfold.
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Johnstown
JouxsTown
Quartermaster’s Department
Pittsburg
Quartermaster's Department
Hill
Booth & Flinn
Pittscy Committee
McLain & Co
Eall
Tost
Douglass
McKnight
McLain
Lodwick Woman Dies, Grieving Over Lost Family
In Johnstown on July 7 Mrs Lodwick, who held the key to the German Lutherans Church, died after losing four children. The narrative describes a pious woman whose life centered on faith and the church, with distress over the church’s fate and personal bereavement.
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Lodwick
Jomnystown
Ludwick
G A R Committee Distributes Flood Relief Funds
A Grand Army of the Republic committee arrived with about $16,000 to aid Post 30 veterans affected by the flood. They reviewed loss reports from 123 living veterans and 11 drowned members, with Commander Stewart set to begin distributing the funds to the most needy and complete the distribution before leaving.
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G. A. BR
Corres
Jon
Grand Army
Thomas J
Eli G. Selle Sein
N Myers
Case
Alnea Hall
Stewart
Tis Committee
Poor Pay for Good Work by Army Bridge Builders
Lieutenant Patrick and Lieutenant Reese lead a 40 man Army engineering unit erecting three wooden bridges over Stony creek and Conemaugh river near Franklin Street. Privates are paid 40 cents and receive $13 monthly, despite waist-deep water work. General Hastings and local citizens commend their efforts as they near project completion.
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JouNstowsen
Patrick
Reese
Regular Army
Washington
Stony Creek
Conemaugh River
Franklin Street
Hastings
Jowo
Housing the Homeless arrives in cars for Baltimore line
Six carloads of portable houses reach the Baltimore and Ohio station. Each car carries three houses to be unloaded and erected by Contractor Hughes. About 40 units lack sash windows delaying occupancy. Nine carloads of lumber await on adjacent tracks for two story houses.
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JonnstTown
Baltimore and Ohio
Hughes
Ottoghes
Lazy ex Cambria workers face bread and water rule
Captain Kuhn lists 100 former Cambria Iron Company workers as lazily idle. Officers will stop subsistence from commissary depots and local authorities will enforce the tramp law. The men must work or be forced to leave the town.
Philadelphia Firemen Return Home After Volunteer Service
Philadelphia firemen from Station Captain Howard’s unit, who spent three weeks in Jonestown, left for home this morning. They leave four engines and 1,500 feet of hose in Jonestown for local protection until authorities buy new equipment.
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Philadelphia
JonEstown
Howard
Man Abused by Anonymous Threatening Letters
DeDow Daw son’s allyer reports to postoffice authorities a flood of anonymous letters of threatening nature since his acquittal. Most originate from New York. Two letters published describe poison threats and denounce him as a Southern traitor. The wording also attacks his character and suggests social ostracism.
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Postoffice
Distatcil
Charleston
DeDow
Dawson
Alsyer
New York
McDow
MeDow
Quay in Philadelphia Seeks Private Business and Calls on McManes
United States Senator Matthew Stanley Quay arrives at the Continental Hotel after a Beaver County trip and announces plans to call on Mayor Fitler and James McManes while denying local political aims. Senator Rutan also travels to Europe with Magee and others as speculation swirls over Philadelphia’s faction fights and future alignments.
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Philadelphia
Dispatch
United States
Matthew Stanley Quay
Continental Hotel
Beaver County
James Rutan
Allegheny County
Europe
Atlantic City
Fitler
James McManes
Quay
McManes
David Martin
Hamilton Qisston
Frank Gilkeson
Bucks County
Alonzo B. Shotwell
Joseph E. Johnson
H. R. Thorpe
Mercer County
John J. Metzger
Reste de Pennsylvania
H. ©. Parsons
Williamsport
J. R. Harrah
Beaver Out
Pavania
Marsha Miller
Tion
eManes
McMunes
Chicago
William I. Bhaw
Pennsylvania Company
Ivania
Charles J. K. Christopher L. Magee
Margaret Magee
von Bowhurst
Graves
Pittsburg
New York
Paris
M Party
Rutan
Wreck on the Pittsburg and Western Ends in Fatal Collision
A west bound Pittsburg and Western passenger train derailed two miles east of Arnon. Engineer John Rissell was killed. fireman N H Noss and another fireman were injured. Conductor J S Gulick and brakeman John Gallagher escaped unhurt. The wreck left 50 to 60 passengers stranded and required hours to clear.
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Pitsburg and Western
Arnon
Pittsburg and Western Road
Allegheny
John Rissell
Williamsport
N. H. Noss
Siun
Butler
Orrville
Cuahoga Falls
J. 5
Gulick
John Gallagher
Ce Passeu
Enres
Felled With His Fist
A drunken ice peddler Henry Eschen struck and beat Frederick Schopp senior in New York. Schopp’s son Frederick intervened, hitting Eschen under the chin. Eschen collapsed, died later from a fractured skull. autopsy confirmed the fatal injury. No arrests were made.
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New York
Henry Eschen
Frederick Schopp
Frederick
Eschen
Persian Minister Ghooly Khan Praises Pratt Reception
The Persian Minister Hadjie Hussein Ghooly Khan criticizes his own reception versus that given to Mr. Pratt. He recalls prizes and tokens from Teheran including a $4,000 gold diamond snuff-box for Pratt, a $2,000 diamond ring for Miss Pratt, and cashmere shawls and carpets. He notes Shah’s wish he remain in Teheran during Harrison’s term and praises US relations while highlighting Eastern versus Western civility. Ghooly Khan, a Persian army general and nobleman, is wealthy, multilingual, and influential in blocking foreign railroad concessions.
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Hadjie Hussein Ghooly Khan
Hadjie Hasein Ghooly Khan
Pratt
United States
Teheran
Harrison
Hussein Ghooly
Persia
Ghooly Khan
Ohree
Grand Trunk
Persian Empire
Fourfold Threat Looms After Duluth Riot Sparks Reinforcements
Reports say rioters may be reinforced from amen towns to attack police with Winchesters. Nahop’s a well armed special police sworn in today. militia and police deployed. About 25 wounded, several more serious. one confirmed dead Ed Johnson 25. Matt Mack 35 and Tom Fitzsimmons 18 feared dead soon. Police praised. 200 deputies on duty by nightfall.
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Centare Paentes
Poncema
Ed Johnson
Matt Mack
Tom Fitzsimmons
Saniaa
Robbed in broad daylight in Minneapolis on Tuesday
Henry Hage, on his way to marriage, was accosted by a stranger who took him to a house and shaved him. The robber blinded him with vitriol and tied him to a tree. Hage was robbed of about 20000 in two drafts and left unconscious for three days before freeing himself.
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Colonel Hill
Colonel Gray
Alleheny County
South Fork Dam
Franklin Street
Minneapolis
Henry Hage
Hage
Alntance
Jeson
New York
Society Belle Elopes With Widower in Elisabeth Scandal
Miss Lucy Engel youngest daughter of John Engel a prominent Elisabeth merchant elopes with John Friser a Springfield widower with two children. Her parents opposed the match but she fled during confirmation services at St Michael's Church boarding a train to Newark where she stays with a married sister. Friser and Lucy reportedly plan marriage as he converts to Catholicism.
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Elizabeth
Elisabeth
Lucy Engel
John Engel
Miss Engel
John Friser
Springfield
Mass
Friser
Lucy
St. Michael's Church
Newark
Aho
Lover
Ried
Bank cashier thief fled with large defalcation
A bank paying teller and cashier A Sala embezzled from the bank after a runaway accident left him confined. He feigned insanity to hide the safe combination but later revealed it. The shortfall grew to at least 520000 with $10000 stock transferred to a third party. Miller vanished, with Stockholders covering losses, speculating losses may reach 50000.
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W. P. Sprague
Miller
Stanberry
City
Ore
British Columbia
Sandsmen
Sensational Suit Over Youngstown Court House Site
Charles C. Young seeks possession of the Youngstown court house site and a valuable city lot in a U S Circuit Court action filed in Cleveland. The plaintiff, grandson of founder John Young, claims title to land granted with cemetery use conditions and asserts the city has vacated the cemetery status and wrongfully ceded property to the county. He seeks ouster and $100,000 in damages.
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Younsesrows
United States Circuit Court
Cleveland
Charles C. Young
Board of Commissioners
Youngstown
Young
Watertown
John Young
Agaon
Tragic Lake Harriet Boat Accident
A sad drowning occurred near Lake Harriet as Charles Ide of the Minneapolis Gas Light Co and Miss Langdon aboard a boat overturned while passing. Both individuals fell into the water and died. Miss Langdon’s body was recovered at 60 hours, Ide’s remains were not found. The couple, to be married soon, were seen by thousands.
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Lake Harriet
Charles Ide
Minneapolia Gaslight Company
Miss Langdon
Ide
Could Not Pass the Examination
Washington July 7 Harry Dixon the Mississippi youth named to a West Point cadetship by the President failed a cadet physical examination. His grandfather had claimed the boy’s baggage and son were involved in politics and the failure ends the appointment process.
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Washington
Harry Dixon
West Point
Bageg
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