Our South Sea Island Possessions Visit to the Isles
An observer recalls a voyage from Hiiu to Port Apia describing Samoan society and the war torn islands. The article reports a treaty transferring sovereignty to the United States, cultural clashes with natives, and the pastoral potential of the lands while noting European and American influences.
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United States
The
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Aoaire
Perha
Tropics
Port Apia
Eign
Sauli
Upolo
Apia
Maga
Mr. Stewart
Central Polynesia Land and Commercial Company
Maleston
House of the
Accident on the St. Croix A canoe party struck by falling cliff
Yesterday afternoon seven men paddling a canoe on the St. Croix were swept by the current under a overhanging cliff when rock fell on them. One man was killed instantly and five injured. The survivors were taken to St. Paul for aid.
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St. Croix
Buliatsewaece
St. Paul
Irishman leaps from speeding mail train near Rugby
Ferguson, an Irish passenger in first class on the Irish limited mail, woke to find himself near Cathiron Lane, leaped from the moving train at about ten thirty, fell into a water pit and a forty foot embankment. He was badly injured, rescued by a police constable, and treated at Rugby then London hospitals. Doctors attributed possible somnambulic or awakening impulse.
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Ferguson
Dublin
Limited Mail
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Cathiron Lane
Newhold
Eneck
Rugby
Fifty Lashes for Mormon Converter Hansen in Mecklenberg
Christian Hansen a Danish born Mormon missionary was arrested in Rostock and sentenced to fifty lashes and six months in prison for inducing others to emigrate to Utah. He protested to the US ambassador but received no aid and awaits confinement in Buttow.
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Christian Hansen
Denmark
Sweden
Gothenburg
New York
Salt Lake City
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Falston
Baltic
Brigham Young
Ethias
Dressen
Warnemunde
Warnow River
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Bancroft
Mecklenburg
Man Burned to Death at Lower Burden Mill
A young worker named Fréderick Best, about eighteen, died after his clothing caught in a mill roll at the lower Burden mill in the sixth ward. He was pulled into machinery nine inches apart, crushed, and carried between the rolls before being freed. He died at his home near St. Joseph Cemetery, with Dr. Warwick in attendance. A graphic, tragic accident marked by fear and loss.
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Troy Times
Lower Burden
Fréderick Best
Best
St. Joseph Cemetery
Warwick
Arbitral news from Geneva and Europe across June reports
A Geneva board of arbitration adjourned and reconvened amid Britain and United States disagreements. Dispatches from London and Paris note American insistence on no adjournment, while Count von Arnim and German officials discuss France indemnity terms. Other items report the Spanish ship Guadayea disaster near Marseille with forty four dead, and motions in Vienna with General Sherman sighted.
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Geneva
Geneva Board of Arbitration
Charles Francis Adams
Count Scropis
Washington
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Board of Arbitration
Treaty of
Granville
Paris
France
Count von Arnim
Vienna
John
Day
Reichenau
Gen. Sherman
Lieut
Grant
Mapdrid
Senor Gasset
Cuba
Berlin
Mr. Booth
Lyceum Theater
Edwin Booth
Ave de l Imperatrice renamed in Paris after war events
The London Telegraph remarks on French wit and fear of satire. It recalls Parisian street name changes from the Avenue de l Imperatrice to honor General Uhrich and the siege of Strasbourg as public sentiment wavered amid war.
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London Telegraph
Paris
Arc de Triomphe
Bois de Boulogne
Avenue de Imperatrice
Uhrich
France
Strasbourg
Theophile Gautier
Avec de l’Imperatrice
Bus Nm
Paris Streets Instead of Saints and Surnames
The article laments revolutionary street renamings in Paris such as Avenue du Bois de Boulogne and Rue QuatreSeptembre, noting attempts to erase Napoleonic and Imperial marks. It argues for neutral numerals on political streets to avoid party-driven changes.
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Pelagie
Rue Saint-Honore
Rue Honore
Paris
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New York Governor Commutes Murder Sentences Under 1860 Law
The governor grants commutations to Marion Hall Patrick Brady Moses Lowerbere and Doane convicted in 1862 and James Lewhall convicted in 1861 under the 1860 law reducing murder sentences to life. The raft-boat D A McDonald exploded off McGregor Iowa Friday evening, killing and wounding about thirty people as the boiler deck was blown to atoms and the hull sank in sixteen feet of water.
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Marion Hall
Patrick Brady
Moses Lowerbere
Doane
James Lewhall
D. A. McDonald
McGregor
Iowa
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