Germans Imply U S Rule After Manila Engagement
A Manila dispatch via Hong Kong reports a Friday night concerted attack by insurgents directing a push toward two magazines near Malate and Santa Mesa while insurgents seize Malabon and Caloocan. German officers aboard the Irene picnic and pledge Americans won’t annex the Philippines while Emperor William remains.
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Manila
Hong Kong
Malate
Santa Mesa
Malabon
Calopecan
Irene
San Juan
Whiich
Philippine Islands
William
Admiral Dewey
Grasshopper Plague Strikes Counties Across North Dakota
Millions of hoppers infest fields in Wells, Eddy, Foster and surrounding counties. Warm days hatched the insects, eating patches of grain from one to forty acres and leaving bare ground. County Commissioners mobilize to exterminate the parasite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fessenden
N.D
Wells
Eddy
Foster
Uprising Quelled in Port au Prince Riot
Revolutionary turmoil in Cape Haytien Port au Prince ends after a night battle. Troops deployed from armories opened fire as rioters fought. two men were shot and many arrests followed the clash.
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Cape Haytien
Port Au Prince
Canadian Seal Claims Fully Settled
The claims of Canadian sealers arising from the U S seizure in the Bering Sea were settled by payment to Sir Julian Pauncefote the Ambassador of about 473000 dollars, the full amount under an agreement between the United States and Great Britain.
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United States
Bering Sea
Julian Pauncefote
Great Britain
Robison Park Fort Wayne Week of June 19 Shows
Robison Park theater in Fort Wayne Indiana presents a week of attractions starting June 19 Easterbrook and Hayes perform musical comedys Raymond and West bring comedy John D Gilbert brings a comedian act DaVern and Shurtz headline acrobatic comes dians with other acts.
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Robison Park
Fort Wayne
Ind
Easterbrook
Hayes
Raymond and
West
John D. Gilbert
DaVern and
Shurtz
Fire destroys Armour & Co packing plant in Chicago
About 200 workers were in the fin shop at Armour & Co at the Union Stock Yards when a fire started in the boiler room adjoining and engulfed the three story brick building. Loss is estimated at 109000 dollars while war supplies were being rushed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour & Co
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
France to Form New Cabinet under Ribot
President Faure invites M. Ribot to form a new French cabinet. It is probable he will accept, a task not expected to prove difficult under current circumstances.
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Faure
M. Ribot
Big Failure in Boston Announcement of Woven Hose Debacle
A Boston firm, Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, is disclosed with liabilities totaling 1 200 009 dollars in connection with a major financial failure.
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Boston
Boston Woven
Hose and Rubber Company
Fever Border Dispatches Report New Developments at Camp Fontainebleau
Official dispatches from the border describe fresh developments in the yellow fever crisis at Camp Fontainebleau. They note new control measures and indicate twenty workers remain at the site, with evacuations ongoing from AlcHenry and related areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiga
Gamp Fontainebleau
Spring business solid with few exceptions, 1898
Reports indicate a seasonable quieting of spring demand and steady prices. Bank clearings and railway earnings are strong, with fewer failures and a robust export trade. Wheat and grain prices softened slightly, suggesting good crop prospects, while iron market saw a collapse of the gentlemen's agreement but a rise in Bessemer pig indicates output control improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stiles Seeimdten Bradstreet’s
Escape from the lynchers at Devil's Lake N D
At Devil's Lake North Dakota an attempted midnight lynching of two State Enforcement League members was stopped by A P Jones and Fred Saunders. Arrests followed for W E McGovern Daniel Max com and Gus Swanson on prohibition law complaints after assailants attacked Landlord Fred Forling and the night clerk and dragged the captives.
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Devil's Lake
N. Dus
Devil’s Lake
N. D
State Enforcement League
A. P. Jones
Great Northern Railroad
Fred Saunders
W.E. McGovern
Daniel Maxcom
Gus Swanson
E. Dy
Montesi Linked to Graft Scheme Amid Cuban Relief Plan
Evidence ties Eduardo G. Montesi of Brooklyn to a plot involving Mexican deputy Senor Sierra Mendez and a submarine rail of ships Villa Verda and Maria Herrera. The scheme sought to load cargoes at Mexican ports to supply Cuba under neutral cover, evading a blockade. The Villa Verda was seized after a filibustering run.
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Montesi
Eduardo G. Montesi
Brooklyn
Prince Line
Siips
Cuba
Senor Sierra Mendez
Chamber of Deputies
Villa-Verda
Maria’ Herrera
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Progresso
New York
Washington
Senate
Villa Verda
Weary Willies Try Cancelled Train Heist Near Newton
Sixty men attempted to seize a Santa Fe freight train east of Newton Kansas aiming to reach harvest fields in Central and Western Kansas. The first group sought work. the later tramps tried to move beyond harvest lands and evade duty. Trainmen yardmen and city officials resisted driving the would be hijackers from the yards. Twenty men who joined the previous day returned to work a railroad contractor while the rest awaited harvest in Kansas locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
Newton
Kan
Kansas
Central
Miss Elizabeth Long Foils Burglars on Murray Hill
In Pittsburg on Murray Hill avenue burglars broke into Mrs. Margaret Long’s grounds near a balcony. Miss Elizabeth Long, awakened by the noise, grabbed a revolver and fired from a window. A man cried out and fell. another man fled with a wounded companion.
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Margaret Long
Murray Hill Avenue
Pittsburg
Elizabeth Long
Explosion Kills Engineer in Iron Railway wreck near Ironton
One man is dead and four injured after the Iron railway engine John Campbell blew up on the incline above Ironton Ohio. Engineer Robert Royer was killed Conductor Charles Myers suffered a severe head wound Fireman Andy Foit was badly scalded and Brakeman Nobble fatally injured.
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John Campbell
Ironton
Ohio
Robert Royer
Charles Myers
Andy Foit
Nobble
Women to run Chilli Cothe street cars
The electric street car line of Chillicothe Ohio adopted a new method by placing women conductors on all its cars. Previously the car was driven by a motorman and fares were collected in boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electric
Chillicothe
Ohio
Five Die in Flooded Mine at Mount Vernon Company
An accident in the Mount Vernon Company mine at Stotts City Missouri killed five men who were on a raft pumping flood water from the shaft when a mass of rock fell on them One man survived the disaster.
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Mount Vernon Company
Stotts City
Pennsylvania Town Destroyed in Unclear Ore Incident
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a Pennsylvania town destroyed and reference ore transport or processing terms, with no clear dates or involved parties. Reading suggests a localized disaster or accident but lacks verifiable details.
Missouri Supreme Court Rules Against General Banking by Trust Firms
The Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City sitting en banc with Judge Burgess presiding granted the attorney general’s ouster petition against St Louis trust companies conducting general banking. The ruling compels them to limit activities to chartered business, prohibits daily-deposited check drawing against deposits, and requires payment of interest on such deposits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Supreme Court
Jefferson City
Burgess
Crow
St. Louis
Grasshoppers Ravage North Dakota Counties
Grasshoppers devastate Swells Eddy and Foster counties in North Dakota with billions of hatchlings. Officials mobilize county commissioners and the Northern Pacific Railway offers free kerosene oil to lure and kill the pests along the Jamestown branch using a long moving pan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Eddy
Foster
Northern Pacific Railway
Jamestown Northern
Posse Captures Train Robbers After Cole man Junction Battle
A Sutton County chase ended when a posse defeated a band of train robbers who held up the Santa Fe express near Coleman Junction. Fireman Lee Johnson was killed in the fight, three bandits and two officers wounded, four robbers captured including the wounded one from Coleman fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton County
Texas
Coleman Junction
Lee Johnson
Coleman
Winnipeg Industrial Exposition Seeks U S Patronage
In a report to the State Department, U S Consul Graham at Winnipeg states the Winnipeg Industrial Exposition Association will hold its eighth annual exposition from July 11 to 18. He urges liberal patronage by American manufacturers and dealers to bring American goods to Dominions people.
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Winnipeg
State Department
Washington
United States
Graham
Winnipeg Industrial Exposition Association
Flurry in Minneapolis Wrecks Wheat Prices
A major panic hit the Minneapolis wheat market as July grain was dumped into a market maelstrom. Prices fell sharply, down about 20 cents from the open to 92 cents as liquidation spread across the pit amid rumors of heavy losses.
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Minneapolis
Miners Fear Pirates Threat on Gold Carriers
Report from Dawson warns of pirates allying to attack a gold-bearing vessel bound for San Francisco. The first Dawson boat is due about July 4 but miners doubt any voyage will trust gold on a vessel unless escorted by a government steamer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson
San Francisco
Mining Claims Sold Near Deadwood for 300000
A Minneapolis syndicate paid 300000 for the Glenwood Sunset mining claims in Ruby basin near Deadwood D. S. The 95 acre group is owned by P. L. Gibbs of Deadwood and Charles Waite of New York. The price is high for undeveloped ground but adjacent to productive mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis, Minn
Glenwood Sunset Group
Ruby Basin
Deadwood
8. D
P. L. Gibbs
Charles Waite
New York
Tea Rush Across Border To Dodge Tax
A Montreal special reports 315000 pounds of tea in fifteen carloads rushed to Malone to evade the new 10 cent war revenue tax. Heavy shipments are also reported from Toronto to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Evening News
Montreal
Malone
Nee
Toronto
United States
Judge Gerald Is Acquitted In Texas Murder Trial
Judge G B Gerald was acquitted by a Waco jury of murder in the November killing of W A and J W Harris publishers of the Waco Times Herald. The case tied to Brann’s clashes with Baylor Baptist University as part of Brann’s fiery feud.
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Gerald
G. B. Gerald
Waco
Texas
W. A
J. W. Harris
Times-Herald
W. C. Brann
Baylor Baptist University
Brann
End of Venezuelan Revolution Reported in Washington
State Department notes that the six month Venezuela uprising ended with Hernandez defeated and captured. Public demonstrations marked the conclusion of the revolution. Ten miners badly burned in a mine gas explosion at the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre shaft in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Washington
Venezuela
Hernandez
South
Wilkesbarre
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Worden Sentence Commuted from Hang to Life
D Worden once convicted for wrecking a train near Sacramento during the 1894 railroad strike faces a sentence commutation to life imprisonment. Salter reports the pending clemency action reducing the capital punishment to life.
Watertown Lead Over Niagara In Barrel Trip
A fragment indicates Robert Lead of Watertown N Y completed a successful trip through their barrel voyage, with the note titled Over Niagara. The readable text hints at a journey and accomplishment but lacks full details or context.
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Niagara
Robert
Watertown
Lynching of Murderer John Becker in Great Bend
A mob of about 500 freed a white man, John Becker, after he killed Myrtle Huftmeister, 16, near Great Bend. Becker was seized from Hutchinson jail, taken to the public square, beaten, and hanged from a tree.
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John
Becker
Kansas
Great Bend
Irian
John Becker
Myrtle Huftmeister
William Huftmeister
Hutchinson
Mine Wires Trigger Fatal Dynamite Blast at St Johns Bluff
An explosion at St Johns Bluff Florida kills John J O Rourke and Edward Houston and severely wounds Lieutenant Hart U S A while they test electrical devices for mining along the river. Wires crossed causing the dynamite to detonate scattering Houston’s remains and mangling O Rourke. Hart is believed critically injured as the building is demolished.
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St. John’s Bluff
Fla
St. John River
John J. O’rourke
Edward Houston
Lieut. Hart
O’rourke
Houston
O'Rourke
Lieut
Hart
Nelson's Victims Dead in Toledo After Interrogation
James Zimmerman, assaulted by Charles Nelson at Bowling Green, dies in Toledo. Sheriff Biggs and Chief Raitz subjected Nelson to an hour and a half of questioning before he confessed to killing Zimmerman. Nelson sought $15 to free a jailed woman and planned to rob Zimmerman but claimed no intent to kill.
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Nelson
James Zimmerman
Charles Nelson
Bowling Green
Toledo
Biggs
Raitz
Zimmerman
Enormous air fall and murder shocks Ohio town
An immense aerolite was seen over Big Lick township Ohio at noon the other day. It glowed red and left a long luminous trail before exploding with a loud report. A separate incident in Cincinnati describes Mrs Mary Heintze fatally burning her husband by dragging him into flames over a leaking gasoline line. Eugene V Debs has left the Social Democracy of America and formed the Social Democratic Party of America with seceding members.
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Big Lick Township
Ohio
Cincinnati
Mary Heintze
Debs
Social Democracy
Eugene VY. Debs
Social Democracy of America
Social Democratic Party of America
Woman Kills Man in Perry Farm Fight
In Perry Q T during a quarrel between William Warnholz and Fred Frank two German farmers the young wife of Warnholz seized a shotgun and killed Frank.
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Perry
Q. T
William Warnholz
Fred Frank
Warnholz
Farmer John Schindler Ends Life Amid Crisis in Ohio
John Schindler, a prominent bachelor farmer living east of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, shot himself amid rising personal crisis reports in Wrandot County. The incident adds to a pattern of similar suicides in the region.
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Wrandot County
Ohio
John Schindler
Upper Sandusky
Tornado Wrecks Ogdensburg Docks and Elevator Roof
A violent tornado caused immense damage along the Ogdensburg docks and railroad yards. The Ogdensburg Transportation Company elevator was unroofed and structures suffered substantial destruction.
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Ogdensburg
Ogdensburg Transportation Company
Bhoota Railroad Superintendent Shot in New Orleans
In New Orleans Superintendent D. D. Curran of the Queen & Crescent road was shot and seriously wounded by his stenographer W. J. Reppert, who is now in custody.
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Bhoota
New Orleans
D. D. Curran
Queen & Crescent Road
W. J. Reppert
Reppert
McKinley Signs War Revenue Bill Into Law
The war revenue bill approved by Congress has been signed by President McKinley and becomes law. It outlines funding measures for wartime efforts and related fiscal provisions.
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Congress
McKinley
Market quotes for cattle hogs and grains across cities
Regional price listings show Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and others quoting cattle hogs and sheep ranges. Grain prices cover wheat corn oats rye and linseed with No 2 and white variants. dairy and butter also noted.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Revenue bill becomes law under McKinley signature
President McKinley signs the broad revenue act extending tax licenses to many trades. The measure sets annual license taxes for bankers brokers manufacturers importers and others with stamp duties on bonds notes sales and various documents. The act imposes penalties for evasion and forgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isuranch
Great Wheat Crop Promises Across Plains States
Preliminary spring wheat acreage totals 16.8 million acres, with winter wheat at 26.2 million, bringing total wheat area to about 43 million, up over 3.5 million from last year. States show gains. winter wheat condition 90.8 vs 78.5 last year. Spring wheat condition near record high at 100.9 with most producing states above normal.
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Dakotas
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Oregon
Washington
Great Increase of Exports Shows Record Year for U S Farmers
US farmers push exports to new high, likely surpassing 1892 record with May reports. Total agricultural exports expected around 835 million dollars, up about 150 million from last year, with breadstuffs and wheat leading increases and provisions nearing 160 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Prize Vessels and Cargoes to Be Sold at Key West Auction
List of prize vessels and their cargoes to be sold at public auction in Key West to the highest bidder for cash. Items include vessels and associated cargoes as announced for sale. Auction action aims to liquidate multiple prizes in the city.
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Key West
Argonauta
Babeeeeeee
Ambrosia Bolivar
Carlos F. Roses
Barkentine Lorenzo
Frisquits
Ooner Nita
Eeeee
Matilde
Sophia
Pinero
Tres Hermanos
Mascote
Pagracia
Sina Dels
Antonio Y Paco
Ordent
Antonio Suarez
Poder de Dios
Pernandito
Espana
Santiago Apostol
Severe
Parquitta
Russia plans vast canal linking Black and Baltic Seas
The naval intelligence bulletin outlines Russia's project to build a 125 mile canal connecting the Black and Baltic seas to allow rapid fleet redeployment. Estimated cost is 97 million dollars and completion would enable concentration of forces at either end within seven days. A Paris Exhibit budget report and a dueling incident in Paris between Count Boniface de Castellane and M Tuot are noted in the same issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black
Baltic Seas
Office of Naval Intelligence
Russia
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California
The
International
Bandwagon
God Save the
Queen
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Times
Paris
Cridler
France
Boniface de Castellane
Anna Gould
M. Henri Turot
Petite Republique Fracaise
Wiswords
M. Turot
Jersey
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