World and Local News Roundup 1900s
Unconditional acceptance of indemnity terms from China. Texas hail damages crops. Mrs. McKinley recovering and returns to the White House. Efforts continue to rescue 78 miners at Universal colliery. rescue operations persisted. Batavia dispatch reports 3 Europeans and 187 natives died in volcanic eruption offshore. Albany streetcar strike ends peacefully with calm future. Army canteen abolition criticized as breeding drunkenness. Iowa Prohibition convention endorses Carrie Nation and launches full state ticket. Gas explosion in Dayton Tennessee kills 21 and wounds 9. all men white. Nevada Utah Idaho Wyoming storm causes extensive damage. George Cadbury donates 400 acres to Birmingham for workers’ housing. Capt. Cyril W. King on trial for bribe in Mobile Alabama. NYC death by suicide rising, carbolic acid common. Dr. Eric Littman to be ranked as Princeton instructor. Possible anti-Tammany mayor candidate Charles S. Fairchild discussed. Prehistoric jewelry found near Phoenix. Confederate veterans at Memphis reunion with rain affecting events. Franz Schubert manuscript discovered in Vienna. U.S. crop acreage up 8.4 percent for cotton. Thebe vs. McCurtain et al verdict for defendants over attorney fees. Collin county wheat yields expected at 20–25 bushels per acre. Ada Oklahoma masses accept plan to build a $20,000 Cumberland Presbyterian college.
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New York City
Eric Littman
Oldenburg
Germany
Princeton
Charles S. Fairchild
New York
Guv. Tilden
Treasury
Cleveland
Franz Schubert
Vienna
Wyssick
Thebe
Ada
I. T
Boers in Distress and Plague Quarantine Updates
Reports from New York describe Boer women and children in British refugee camps facing severe hunger and disease with unwholesome rations. Rev Dr Von Brockhuizen urges aid while noting Boer forces strengthening in the field. Separately in Texas Governor Sayers lifts the bubonic plague quarantine against San Francisco citing lack of confirmed cases and readiness of federal authorities to control any outbreak.
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New York
von Brockhuizen
Pretoria
South Africa
Volksraad
Kruger
H. J. von Brockhuizen
Orange Free State
Maxwell
Ronald P. McKenzie
Von
Cape Colony
Austin
eTxas
Sayers
San Francisco
Texline
el Paso
Red River
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Joseph D. Sayers
Blunt
United States Marine Hospital
French tragedy shocks Paris with confinement case
Paris reports Mme Monier and her son arrested for locking Mme Blanche Monier in a room for 25 years. The daughter, once a beauty, starved in filth until found naked and emaciated, later improving in hospital. Mme Monier dies in prison of heart disease. the case exposes filial piety versus crime.
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Paris
Mme. Monier
Poitiers
Vinne
Mme
Blanche Monier
Mme. Monied
Fire Destroyed Hamilton Paint Store and Adjacent Building
A blaze at the Hamilton Paint company store on Elm Street in Dallas June 10 destroyed the store and an adjacent eastern building, plus damaged several others. Estimated losses run around 100000 with about 60000 insured. The fire reportedly started from a match dropped in the oil room by an employee.
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Hig
Dallas
Texas
Hamilton Paint Company
Elm Street
Man Reunites With First Fiancée After 26 Years
Cleburne Texas on June 10 A W Holloway secured a marriage license with Miss Rachel E Terry revealing a twenty six year old broken engagement followed by a marriage to another woman who later died. He then sought his first love and won her consent to marry.
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Cleburne
Tex
A. W. Hollowa
Rachel E. Terry
Terry
Jacob
Desecration of Chinese Graves At Congressional Cemetery
Washington Chinese community reports desecration of graves and tombstones in the Congressional Cemetery. Nelson H. Adams asks District Commissioners to investigate after his wife’s visit noted daubing with grease and indecent treatment of the plots. He cites deep veneration and appeals for action.
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New York
Washington
Congressional Cemetery
Nelson H. Adams
Adams
Organizing Street Car Men in New Orleans
An all night mass meeting in Odd Fellows hall ended at 4 am with plans to resume tonight to complete unionization. W B Mahon of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America is guiding the effort, promising strikes only as a last resort. Local wages run 13 14 cents an hour for 12 to 14 hour days. organizers say about 1950 men enrolled in the New Orleans union.
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New Orleans
Odd Fellows Hall
W. B. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America
Detroit
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Galveston
New Orleans Union
Hail Drifts Remain After May Storm in Red River County
In Clarksville Texas farmers recount hail from the May 30 storm still lying in drifts near English in Red River County. A farmer gathered a two gallon bucket of hail eight days after the event while Constable B S Pope reports 200 acres of cotton and corn destroyed and uses hail to freeze ice cream as crews replant.
Supposed Miver Find Near Newton Texas
June 10 Newton County reports excitement over a possible rich silver mine west of town on land owned by G W Powell. The area was known to Indigenous peoples and shows evidence of past mining with iron ore also present in the county.
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Newton
Texas
Newton County
G. W. Powell
Hope for Cuban acceptance of Platt amendment
Washington reports a cabinet session over Cuban and Philippine matters. A communication from Governor General Wood on unconditional Platt amendment acceptance inspires hopeful official sentiment though details remain private. Cuba’s status remains, with civil government plans in the Philippines under Taft commission oversight and war department supervision.
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Washington
General Wood
Wood
Cuba
Philippines
Spooner
Taft Commission
New Mexico
Brady Retires from Pugilistic Management
William A. Brady former boxing manager and defendant in February's Jeffries Ruhlin case informs counsel he has retired from pugilistic management and will not aid in appealing Judge Hollister's injunction. Court announces there will be no appeal.
Demurrers Disallowed in Patrick and Co Defendants Case
Judge Foster in general sessions disallowed seven demurrers filed against seven indictments charging Albert T. Patrick with murder and David L. Short Morris Meyers with forgery and perjury. Defendants to be called Monday with bail arrangements made for Meyers and Short.
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New York
Foster
Albert T. Patrick
David L. Short
Morris Meyers
Patrick
Meyers
Short
Preferred Death to Imprisonment in Ontario Robbery Case
Frank Rutledge chose death over imprisonment for a Aurora bank robbery and leapt from a jail gallery balustrade. He fell about 30 feet, striking his head on the stone floor and fracturing his skull. The incident occurred in Toronto on June 8.
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Toronto
Ont
Aurora
Frank Ruttledge
Tragedy Stuns Kingston Area Man Kills Woman then Ends Life
In Kingston area near Rockford Ill June 8 Nels Nelson a farm hand shot and killed his sweetheart Mrs John Ledig after she refused his marriage proposal He wounded her sister Mrs Peter Wing then wounded by posse pursued Nelson then killed himself ending the deadly chain of events
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Rockford
Ill
Nels Nelson
Kingston
John Ledig
Peter Wing
Orient dispatch warns of looming Japan Russia clash
Washington dispatch reports that Orient observers fear renewed hostilities with Russia. Japanese forces are seen as ready for an early war, with Korea as a likely flashpoint, as Japan vows to intervene when Russian moves threaten its interests.
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New York
the Journal of Commerce
Washington
Orient
China
Japan
Russia
Corea
Tragedy on Lost River Ends in Fatal Rancher Shootout
Wm Williams, a Salt Lake area rancher, chased a thief who stole his horse near Martin post office on Lost River west of here. The confrontation left Williams wounded in the groin and the thief dead. authorities opted to bury the stranger with no further actions.
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Lost River
Salt Lake
Utah
Herald
Blackfoot
Idaho
Here
Wm. Williams
Little Wood River
Williams
Martin Post Office
Train boarding ends with children rescued at Corsicana
In Corsicana Texas yesterday a southbound Central train pulled out leaving a man who had just boarded with two children still on the platform. Colored men aided by pulling one child to the conductor and tossing the other to the nearby coach platform as it slid by. The incident ended with both children safely on the platform.
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Lexington
Oots
St. Joseph’s Hospital
J. A. Dot
D. G. Sallee
Perkin’s
Western Hotel
H. P. Shepherd’s
Stephen Bell’s
B. Oo. Vaughan
Corsicana
Texas
Central
Sunnybrook Kentucky Oil Wells Boost Output
Oil well No 2 at Sunnybrook Kentucky is pumping green oil at 5000 barrels per day. Several new wells have struck producing ten to twenty barrels. Thirty wells are now flowing in Fentress County.
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Kentucky
Jamestown
Tenn
Sunnybrook
Fen
Tress County
Sheriff fires on mob at Carrollton jail raid
Sheriff Merrill today shot two men, one fatally, who were in a mob trying to take a negro rapist from jail and lynch him. The mob fired at the sheriff without effect and then disappeared.
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Carrollton, & C
Merrill
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