Trial for Merriam in New York Union Conflict
The Central Pedemted Labor Union of New York Saunder urged recall and court martial of Gen. Merriam over his stance on the strike by miners at Coeur d'Alene Idaho. A reply from the War Department, via Frederick C. Squires, instructed Maj. Suit at Wallace to aid troops and keep order, while local authorities handle union rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Saunder
Liston
McKinley
War Department
Merrisi Sanders
Frederick C. Squires
Alver
Merriam
Maj. Suit
Wallace
United States
Timers
Winers’ Union
Aggressive Campaign Against Rebels to Be Kept Up
Washington report says cabinet decisions call for renewed aggressive action against Aguinaldo’s forces in the north. Navy and army to uphold a strict Luzon blockade to stop munitions landing, with Admiral Watson to coordinate with General Otis. Hong Kong merchants aiding the junta face intensified scrutiny and inducements to blockade runners.
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Washington
New York
Holyoke
Philippines
Acuinaldo
Otis
Luzon
McKinley
Admiral Watson
Hong Kong
Hurt in Omaha Fire Injures Eleven Firemen
Early Sunday a fire at Allen Bros wholesale gravity in Omaha destroyed the fourth and fifth floors. Damage to stock estimated at 200000 with 170000 insured. Powder-filled magazine exploded as firemen moved it to safety injuring eleven, two seriously. most not dangerously hurt except Thomas Roane, will be incapacitated for a period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Bros
Omaha
Thomas Roane
Niagara wreck rumor reports 120 lives lost in Volga storm
An unconfirmed dispatch from Saratov, Russia, claims the American steamer Niagara was wrecked in a Volga storm on Friday with 120 lives lost. The report is unverified and doubted by authorities.
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Saratov
Russia
Volga
Train Robbery on Southbound Railroad in Indian Territory
A southbound Neanthe Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf passenger train was held up near a curve about four miles south in Indian Territory. Bandits signaled the engine crew, boarded the cab, and forced the engineer and fireman to stop the express and mail cars. They ransacked cars and secured booty, while authorities report the loot amount remains undisclosed. Conductor Sullivan reported the incident as shots were heard and a robber returned with news of the holdup. The robbers did not search the passenger coaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bansas City
Pittsburg
Gulf
Indian Territory
Kansas City
Pitsburg
Gulf Railroad
Express Company
Sullivan
Freman
Tobbers
Sweep injunctions target Kansas miners in labor clash
Deputy Marshals Mooney and Frigg with aides served sweeping federal injunctions at Yale and Viewing Kan to bar miners from striking. Issued by Federal Court in Leavenworth on Judge Hook’s orders, the order blocks union activity and aims to keep plant operations open, with a hearing set for the 21st.
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Kansas
United States
Mooney
Frigg
Fort. Scott
Yale
Kan
Didgie Hook
Leavenworth
Thee
Barrow Guilty In Marion Clark Kidnapping Case
George Barrow found guilty of kidnapping Marion Clark in New York City and sentenced to fourteen years and ten months in the state prison. Carrie Jones pleaded guilty and received four years. The jury deliberated about twenty five minutes before verdict. Acs Barrow’s trial as accomplice to the husband will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Clark
George Barrow
New York City
Carrie Jones
Acs
Barrow
Miners Perish in Nova Scotia Mine Explosions
Ten men killed in two blasts at Caledonian mine in Glace Bay Nova Scotia with ten bodies recovered. Explosions due to gas in old workings three quarters of a mile depth caused a fire and widespread damage. About sixty workers were underground when it happened. some escaped through another slope. Brutus the lion escapes during an Indianapolis animal show, roams streets, breaks into a grocery store, and feeds at a butcher shop before being recaptured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nova Scotia
Dominion Coal Company
Glace Bay
Thomas Johnson
Xion
Brutus
Indianapolis
Ind
Another Feud Victim In Baker Howard Conflict
News from Manchester reports the Baker-Howard feud claims another victim James Howard shot near the courthouse by a sniper from a window as the killer escapes. Paris rioters receive prison terms and fines for Auteuil disturbance. Lightning kills two men in Colorado and branches of the same accident. France demands satisfaction after Italian General Gilletta arrest. Anti foreign unrest reported in Foo Chow China. Letcher County Kyle shooting ends with a death. Supreme Court keeps Molineux in jail as bond is denied. Iowa stockman Sammet Hicks found dead in Chicago hotel bed likely heart disease.
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Baker- Howard
James Howard
Court House
Tom Baker
Iowa
Dev. Sammet Hicks
Hampton
Chicago
Venezuelan Arbitration Tribunal Opens in Paris
The first formal meeting of the Venezue tribunal of arbitral judges gathers in rooms used for the Spanish American peace conference. Prof. de Martens presides with Chief Justice Puller and Lord Collins among the seats, as Foreign Minister welcomes the French hospitality and plans for the speaking order are outlined by Mr Webster.
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Paris
Bei
Ase
Ssp
Prof. de Martens
Melville W. Puller
Richard Henn Collins
Festive
Ape Peals
Wad Barron Russell
Killowen
Just
England
David J. Brewer
France
Prof. Martens
Faiines
Webster
Cloudburst in Texas Destroys Ranches and Kills Family
A mountain cloudburst north of Spofford Jumellon Texas flooded valleys and rivers washing away homes and killing the Butler family of four at a sheep ranch. Henry Carver drowned on the lower trail. Southern Pacific tracks and two large bridges were swept away with many rumors of further loss along swollen streams.
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Catrlé
Spofford Jumellon
Texas
M. L. Butler
Butler
Henry Carver
Tmcl
Southern Pacific
Heaver
Labor makes four protests over Wardner treaties
A San Francisco mass meeting under the Labor Council and allied unions condemned military rule at Wardner Idaho. Speakers included ex-Congressman Maguire Judge Highton and P G McCardy. Resolutions urged McKinley to halt military usurpation and asked California lawmakers for a congressional investigation. Also notes on Nebraska women officers and severe East Africa famine while Mobile reports a yellow fever case on a steamer arriving from Vera Cruz.
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Fristo
San Francisco
Labor Council
Building Trades Council
Wardner
Idaho
Maguire
Judge Highton
P. G. McCardy
Stetmenberg
Morriso
McKinley
California
Congress
Market Quotations From Cattle to Eggs
Market quotations appear for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and dairy from multiple markets including Indianapolis Milwaukee Detroit Toledo and New York with prices for cattle 3.50 to 6.00 hogs 3.00 to 8.00 sheep 3.00 to 4.75 wheat No 2 red 35 to 75 cents corn No 2 41 to 82 cents oats No 2 white 27 to 28 cents rye 39 to 62 cents butter creamery 15 to 19 cents eggs western 14 cents.
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Lawhear
Ciuginazti
Cartle
Toledo
Milwaukee
Harley
Bubsle Carl
Hholes
York
Sheen
West
Board of Control eyes Cherokee building for epileptics
The Hawkeye State Board of Control may recommend using the New State Building at Cherokee for epileptics and consider shifting the Cherokee Insane Hospital. Judge Kinne tours institutions while the board weighs options including keeping the Cherokee facility for insanity or moving epileptics elsewhere.
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Board of Control
State
Cherokee
Judge Kinne
Cherokee Insane Hospital
Ger. Jackson
Kinne
Young Man Confesses Theft of Express Company Goods
Frank Chapman, formerly a messenger between Marshalltown and Pickering, confessed to robbing the United States Express Company. He secured keys to the express safe, stole $110, was apprehended in Monticello, money recovered, and bound over to the September term with $1000 bail. He implicated Charles Thomas of Marshalltown in related thefts at the Milwaukee transfer last winter.
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Pickering
Frank Chapman
Marshalltown
United States Express Company
Chapman
United States Company
Milwaukee Road
Elis
Monticello
Charles Thomas
Alwaukee
Drowning Incident and Tax Assessment Notes
State Auditor Merz reports abstracts from about twenty counties under the new revenue law. Early returns show errors needing county corrections but indicate tax valuations will not fall as steeply as feared, remaining close to old figures in most counties. A Mondamin boy drowned in the Soldier River while a family fished from a cattle trough. the father tried to save him and collapsed exhausted. The Interstate Sheriff's Association met in Burlington with officers elected and a 1900 Minneapolis meeting planned. The Brady gang, including King Brady Kelley and Wonless, was arrested at Canton by Detective Watson, with Brady under Hancock County indictment and Kelley linked to a Mason City shooting.
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Merz
Soldier Liver
William Teeters
Mondamin
Soldier River
Interstate Sheriff’s Association
Burlington
J.V. McPherson
Marshalltown
Brady
King Brady
James Kelley
Harry Wonless
Mason City
Canton
3. D
Watson
Iowa
Hancock County
Kelley
Failed Indictment and Local Accidents in Iowa
The United States declined to indict Fred Rees in Fort Dodge after evidence in a mail robbery case. Freda Rees, longtime Fort Dodge post office worker, connected to the case. Wilbur Bronskill injured in a department store elevator shaft fall in Hawarden. He was not alert to a missing elevator and fell to the basement. More Iowa postmaster salary readjustments give increases, none decreases. Thirteen Chickasaw County cattle at New Hampton poor farm found tubercular and ordered killed. Eb Stivers of Cedar Rapids, ex Toledo president, arrested for threatening Cedar Rapids liquor dealers to Tama Reservation Indians. Herman Dement, Debuque clothier, killed after bicycle mishap under a streetcar.
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United States
Rani
Fort Dodge
Fred Rees
Rees
Samuel Stees
Omaha
Freda Rees
Ofice
Wilbur Bronskill
Bank of Hawarden
Nesh & Lyn’s
Chickasaw County
New Hampton
Eab. Stivers
Cedar Rapids
Toledo
Towa City
Healy
Tama Reservation
Jay
Tess
G A R Encampment at Waterloo Elects Bailey Department Commander
G A R delegates arrive in Waterloo for the encampment begun June 2. Col M B Davis loses to C P Bailey for department commander 373 to 315, with Bailey hailed by thousands including Col Henderson. Grand parade, campfires, and a large attendance mark the 25th annual encampment ending June 15 at Chautauqua Park.
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Hox
M. B. Davis
Sioux Cine
FL Bailey
Yreton
Davis
Bailey
Gutavard
P. J. Lenon
Guthrie Center
W. Gooding
Farmington
Javior
Dr. McCoy
Council of Administration
Dungan
Chariton
J. W.krapfel
Waterloo
M . Byers
Glenwood
George Metager
Davenport
Herronism Wins as Iowa College Trustees Stand Firm
Trustees at Grimalil clash over socialist teaching led by Geo A Gates and Geo D Herron. Herron supporters gain majority, keeping Herron and Smith in place with plan for resignations before next school year. Elected Wittum and Herriot to strengthen anti Herron faction.
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Iowa College
Grimalil
Geo. A. Gates
Geo. D. Herron
Herron
Prof. Herron
Gates
Smith
Family survives storm as house burns after sheltering in cave
A Hamilton County renter John Martiny and his family found refuge in a ventilated cave during two ferocious storms Monday night. They woke Tuesday to learn lightning had struck and burned their home. Nearby Richard Wagoner’s farm was hit by lightning with the wind damaging the house and tower. two small girls upstairs were rescued by an outside ladder.
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Hamilton County
John Martiny
Richard Wagoner
Iowa Census Supervisors Named Across Iowa Districts
Census supervisors for ten of eleven districts in Iowa were selected by Di Census Merriam. Listed are J. W. Rowley Reosangu GD Eaton Milton Junction Third J. Doxse Monticello xth A. H Yonawe Bloomfield Seventh A. W. Brandt Des Moines Ninth F. F. Everett Council Bhuils Eleventh WE Hamilton Odehelt.
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Iowa
Merriam
J. W. Rowley
Reosangu
GD. Eaton
Milton Junction
J. Doxse
Monticello
A. H Yonawe Bloomfield
A. W. Brandt
Des Moines
F. F. Everett
Council Bhuils
Hamilton
Odehelt
Another Cyclone Victim Dies in Salix Toll
Thomas Malloy, among the Malloy family struck by a Salix tornado, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Sioux City Vanell, becoming the fifth Malloy casualty. He had been seriously injured and the death is blamed on the terrible storm impact rather than interior damage. A Hawarden residence suffered roof damage from a lightning strike during a heavy storm.
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Thomas Malloy
Salix
St. Joseph's Hospital
Sioux City
Vanell
Malloy
Hawarden
Agent Ball
Storm Strikes Fort Dodge Damaging Mills and Rail Line
A heavy rainstorm near Fort Dodge caused a cloud burst that washed away railway tracks to the stucco mill and washed out a trestle bridge near the Duncombe mill. The river rose high, destroying the former pontoon bridge upgraded to a trestle. Estimated damage runs to several thousand dollars.
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Fort Dodge
Stucco Mill
Duncombe Mill
Death claims Bland long serving Missouri congressman
Richard Parks Bland, known as Silver Bland, dies after a lingering illness. Born in Hartford Kentucky, he moved through Missouri California Utah and back to Missouri. A lawyer by training, Bland studied mining and supported bimetallism before settling in Lebanon, Missouri, where he remained until his death.
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Missouri
Richard P. Bland
Lebanon
Utah
Rolla
Phelps County
Bland and His Silver Policy in Civil War Era Politics
The article recalls Senator Bland's push for free silver through the Bland Allison Act, its veto by Hayes, and passage over veto. It notes Bland's 1894 House loss, rebound wins, refusal of railroad passes, and key personal details including his 1865 meeting with Virginie Mitchell in Missouri and his affable, trusted persona among constituents.
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House
Senate
Allison
Bland-Alison
Hayes
Leland
Chicago
Offener
Bland
White Bland
Schostmaster
Young Ladies’ Seminary
Caledowiz
Virginie Mitchell
B. ¥. Mitchell
Kidnapers Arraigned in Marion Clark Case in New York
Suspects George Barrow Addie Bascow and Bella Anderson alias Carrie Jones were arraigned in a criminal branch of the Supreme Court before Justice Pyrs-Feu charged with kidnapping Baby Marion Clark. Bella Anderson withdrew her plea and pleaded guilty to Carrie Jones charge, remanded to the Tombs as the court began selecting jurors for the trial.
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Marion Clark
George Barrow
Addie Bascow
Bella Anderson
Carrie Jones
New York
Pyrs- Feu
Te Supreme Court
Coumsel
Abraham Levy
Worley
Glucose Trust Accused of Raising Prices in Testimony
Prof. Ernest Mas, expert chemist, testifies before the Industrial Commission in Washington that the glucose trust doubled prices at formation. He says he was discharged for refusing to certify that glucose by-products are non injurious, and claims corn flour by products cheapen wheat flour. He notes oil mixtures and indistinguishable linseed and corn oils with a 40 cent per gallon price gap favoring misleading substitutes.
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Prof. Mas
Industrial Commission
Washington
Glucose Trust
Exmest Mas
Mas
War ends far away prediction from Brigadier General Hall
Brig General Hall writes from the Philippines predicting Loos-like conflict with natives as Aguinaldo seeks peace. The May letter to a friend in Washington shows doubt among American officers about sincerity. Gen Otis is said to have been instructed to censor news and the War Department withholds many messages from the Philippines.
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Grencral Hall
Loos
Hall
Philippines
War Department
Alger
SLAIN SY SPANISH GRUELTY AT FERNANDO PO
Report from the steamer Niger arriving in Liverpool details brutal Spanish punishment at Fernando Po for Subar and Filipino political prisoners. Only five of several hundred prisoners are alive after ferocious beatings and disease.
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Fernanda Po
Liverpool
Africa
Jnindred Subar
Fernando Po
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Cal
United States Smokeless Powder Company
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Christopher Strook
Gen. Woodford
Julia Evelyn Capen Woodford
Stewart I. Woodford
Spain
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N.Y
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Woodford
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Compt d’Assy
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Aubrey Pring
John Pring
Colorado Springs
Leonard Lee
Divide
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China
Foo Chow
Kiong King Fa
Ning Wha
Hills
Julia Moore
Chris Gratt
Tuckhouse
Letcher County
William Maggard
Craft
Molineux
Justice Beach
Supreme Court. of
Roland B. Molineux
LABOR
Nebraska
Supreme Lodge of the Ladies Auxiliary of Ancient Order
Indianand
Women’s Auxiliary
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Adalia Harding
Hebron
Neb
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Wildwr
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Mary A. Tinker
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Manchester
N. HS
Louise Bush
Aberdeen
East Africa
Britis Protectorate
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Ala
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Skin Island
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