Strikes Hit Buffalo Trades as City Faces Turmoil
Reports list 2 000 carpenters and 500 plumbers on strike in Buffalo New York while fires and disasters strike multiple areas. Other items note casualties from a city disaster near Cairo Illinois. a tornado in Oklahoma. and various international incidents involving wars empires and political upheavals.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Bobruisk
Miosk
Russia
Lincoln County
Oklahoma
Pittsburg
Cairo
Margherita
Italy
Cuba
San Domingo
Marinduque
Inspector Brown
Morgan Empire of Money Power Revealed in Morgan Holdings
A historical portrait shows J. Pierpont Morgan wielding vast influence through steamship lines and railroads. It claims Morgan and six U.S. citizens control fourteen steamship lines, forty four railroads, 108 500 land miles, 1 200 000 seaborne tons, three hundred of the world’s largest steamships, and 30 000 passenger and freight trains. The article argues their combined capitalization tops 5.21 billion dollars, exceeding global gold supply and shifting power beyond governments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Spain
Holland
Belgium
J. P. Morgan
Uncle Sam Still Reducing His List
The April 30 1902 debt statement shows total public debt, minus cash, at 993,115,976, down 4,616,366 from April 1. It details interest bearing and non interest bearing portions and notes certificates and treasury notes offset by cash on hand. Four hundred people perish in tornado in Dacea Bengal.
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Sam
Treasury
Dacea
Bengal
Congressman Amos J. Cummings Dies in Baltimore
Congressman Amos J. Cummings of New York died in Baltimore from pneumonia after an operation for kidney trouble aged 61. He arrived April 11 for treatment, had surgery, then developed pleurisy and pneumonia spreading to both lungs, and remained between life and death since.
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Congressman Cummings
Amos J. Cummings
New York
Baltimore
Mr. Cummings
Cummings
Northwest Notes: Western US trains wrecks fires and disasters
A roundup of incidents across the West includes a ballard mill worker killed in machinery, a trainman killed near Eddy Montana, a Denver boy shot during target practice, a tramp faces double amputation after a train crush, and a major strike by Durango coal miners. Also noted are a Denver factory tragedy, drought threats to farmers, Casper wood sales, Natrona wool, a gold rush stampede near Sand Creek, a deadly fever in Montana, and a large Wyoming rainbow trout. Additional items cover a man acquitted for killing over a woman, a rare big rainbow trout in Laramie, and livestock losses from Wyoming storms with 29,000 sheep dead in Natrona. Grasshoppers threaten northern New Mexico orchards and crops near Santa Cruz.
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Rifle
Colo
Denver & Rio Grande
Glenwood Springs
John Plakety
Ballard
Wash
Stimson Mland
Thomas B. Douglass
Columbia Falls
Northern Pacific
Eddy
Missouri
Hilary Hicky
Denver
A. P. Leonard
Joseph Walsh
Rock Springs
Wyo
Medicine Row
Durango
John L. Kingsbury
Colorado
San Luis Valley
Casper
Natrowa
Carbon
Sand Creek
Mont
Montana
William Haywood
Ed Stokes
Great Falls
Haywood
Stokes
Laramie
Wyoming
John Baille
Fillmore Ranch
Albany County
Natrona County
Fierce Fight with Moros Ends in Surrender and Deaths
A cablegram from General Davis reports the Moro campaign near Bayan succeeded with the capture of the principal fort. Eighty four survivors surrendered, many Moros killed, and several officers and enlisted men wounded. Colonel Baldwin praised for hand to hand combat as losses are announced.
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War Department
Chaffee
Sultan Hayas
George W. Davis
Bayan
Sultan Bayan
Reja Muda Bayan
Sultan Pandapatan
Frank D. Baldwin
Uberty
Slaughter at Ching Shang Put Reported by Olympia
Steamship Olympia carries news from the Orient of Kwang Si rebel advances. Fleeing crowds report the fall of Ching Shang Fui with over 1,000 killed and corpses left in the streets. Rebels loot stores and houses as imperial troops desert in large numbers.
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Orient
Kwang Si
Naoaing
West River
Canton
Ching Shang Fui
Fifty Die in Mount Gantt Fire Amid Nile Heat
A catastrophic blaze at Mount Gacti on the Nile’s Damietta branch kills fifty residents and destroys thousands of homes and about 200 stores as extreme heat sweeps the area. Fire forces mass evacuations and widespread property loss in the town.
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Mount Gacti
Damiettta
Nile
Riots in Chi Li Province Prompt Imperial Suppression
The French legation at Pekin views the riots in Chi Li province seriously. A Jesuit priest Lomuller was murdered and another priest Finch is missing. Rioting banners read Abolish the Missionaries. Governor Yuan Shi Kai has deployed troops with strict orders to quell the disturbance.
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Slater Botts
First Cavalry
Lander
Wyo
Fort Washakie
Pekin
Chi Li
Finch
Lomuller
Yuan Shi Kai
Fire Devastates Mil Gamer Town on Nile Bank
A major blaze in Mil Gamer on the Damietta branch of the Nile raged from Thursday afternoon to Saturday night. Many residents perished trapped in flimsy wood and straw homes while attempting to save belongings. Sixty-one bodies have been recovered.
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Mil Gamer
Damietta
Nile
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Osteopaths
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Shoshone, Idaho
B. Githens
Idaho
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D. W. Yaden
Worth Rail Street
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Doc. Smith's
F. M. Crandall
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North Sea
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John D. Rockefeller
Virginia-North Carolina Chemical Company
Count Bobrikoff
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American Chamber of Commerce
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Omer Beck
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Uncle Sam
Tyre
Ida Randolph
Kaw
Topeka
Mary Roberts
Maxey
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Josephine Holman
Indianapolis
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Buda Peath
Hungary
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Ching Shang Put
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