Varied Global Facts Spur Curiosities and Records
An assortment of notes covers elections costs, life insurance, theater payments, patents, and infrastructure. Highlights include a $12.8 million English election cost, Cyrus Friep insured for $250,000, Niagara Falls tunnel at 3,267 feet, and Prince Bismarck earning an annual competency around $250,000. Also noted are global observations on clergy beards, photography mandates for police, mass watchmaking details, and emerging electrical tech trends in cities like Pittsburgh and Brooklyn.
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Cyrus W. Friep
Tuomas A. Epison
Niagara Falls
Cuiiaco
Spano
Riots at Tashkend End in Mass Riot and Mosque Siege
Reports from Tashkend describe July 6 clashes as cholera fears sparked mob violence. Troops fought Sarts in mosques, yielding sixty dead on the rioter side and a Russian toll of fifteen killed with many wounded. Authorities reinforce patrols amid fears of further outbreaks.
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St. Petersburg
Tashkend
Russia
Syr-Darya
Poutanstsoff
Weather Summary for Virginia Ohio and Nearby States
The Weather report notes fair conditions for West Virginia Ohio and Indiana Illinois with south winds. Showers are expected earlier in West Virginia eastern Ohio and lake stations. Kentucky and Tennessee will be fair after showers in Kentucky and western Tennessee, with warmer temperatures and south winds.
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Washington
West Virginia
Ohio
Lake
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
Ilinois
Sprague Estate Pays Final Dividend to Creditors
Providence R I Aug 2 Trustee Sweetland of the Sprague estate is paying a final dividend of 23 30 percent, totaling 273 20 percent. The trust mortgage deed lists estate value at 20000009 and liabilities of 14000000 to 125 creditors.
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Sprague
Providence
R. I
Sweetland
Supposed Murderer Arrested in River Body Case
Detroit on August 2 Adolph O Blasser believed to have killed Peter Zurbuchen whose body was found in the river last week has been arrested and placed in jail to await his examination.
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Detroit
Mich
Adolph O. Blasser
Peter Zurbuchen
County Official Abducted Over County Bond Tax This Week
In Wientra Kas on August 2 masked men abducted County Commissioner Amon Farmer and tried to seize another member Abe Terrell ahead of a planned board meeting to levy 110000 in long overdue county railroad bonds. The case follows years of legal fights against bond payments and questions whether the absent member was forced to stay away. The board had planned to levy the bonds but adjourned due to Farmer's absence.
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Wientra
Kas
Harter County
Board of County Commissioners
Supreme omFt
Amon Farmer
Abe Terrell
Convicts Doyle and Rowland linked in jail suicide case
In Ottawa county two convicts, including five year prisoner Doyle, are central to a murder linked burglary case. Doyle, once a Mal of Frank Rowland, reportedly confessed and was sent up with Rowland. Rowland killed himself days earlier, and Doyle has since shown hallucinations, visiting Rowland’s cell and fearing implications in further crimes.
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Columbus
Ottawa County
McHenry
Doyle
Frank Rowland
Rowland G
Witching
Rowland
Suspects Arrested in Mexican Town Slaying
A violent ambush in a Mexican town left seven killed. Police say a band led by Francisco fife carried out the murders. Santos Vallejo, a noted ringleader, was captured after authorities located bodies in a disused well covered with stones.
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Ejalisco
Francisco Fife
Santos
Stattler
Mer Vallejo
Parachute Craze Leads Local Boys To Makeshift Jump
In Hartford Indiana on August 2 two or three boys improvised parachutes from a horse blanket tied with their mothers' clothes lines. One boy leapt from Maddox's barn and landed on a manure pile after a sharp drop, escaping serious injury with only a bad shaking.
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Hartford City
Ind
Maddox
Wept at Freda Ward’s Grave in Mitchell Ward Drama
Memorius reports Alice Mitchell was taken to Bolivar asylum Monday evening. Before departure she visited Elmwood grave of Freda Ward at her own request, shed tears and plucked flowers to keep as mementoes. The scene was described as intensely pathos filled.
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Freda
Memorius
Alice Mitchell
Bolivar
Freda Ward
Elmwood
Mitchell-Ward
You Dont Have to Die to Beat This Game Iron Hall Circular
An early eighties Iron Hall circular is recalled for its sensational headline You Don't Have to Die to Beat This Game. The order's literature has long featured lurid quotas to stress its message and influence.
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Indianapolis
The
Iron Hall
Whaley Arrested in Milwaukee for Journal Co Embezzlement
Charles V. Whaley, former business manager of the Chicago Evening Journal, was arrested in Milwaukee on Monday night on a charge of embezzling about 150 dollars from Journal Co. He faces preliminary legal action as the case unfolds.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Charles V. Whaley
Chicago Evening Journal
Journal Co
Death of Gen Speeds Fry at Louisville Soldiers Home
Gen Speeds Fry, who filled Zollicoffer in a hand to hand clash at Millcreek on January 15, 1862, died Monday night at the soldiers home near Louisville Kentucky.
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Fry
Louisville
Speeds Fry
Zollicoffer
Millcreek
Tennessee Line
Somerby Arrives in Indianapolis Then Disappears
Freeman D. Somerby reached Indianapolis from Detroit and dined with his private secretary Rowland Evans. He then vanished, likely to avoid interview requests, leaving authorities puzzled about his whereabouts.
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Somerby
Indianapolis
Freeman D. Somerby
Detroit
Rowland Evans
Eight Hour Law Signed for Public Works Workers
Washington August 2 The president signed the act limiting hours of labor for laborers and mechanics employed on public works. The measure sets standard work hours and aims to regulate federal projects nationwide.
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Washington
Wright Dead At Carson Mint Superintendent Succumbs
Carson Nevada Aug 2 Sam C Wright superintendent of the United States mint at Carson died Monday. Annapolis Md Aug 2 ex U S Senator Anthony Kennedy aged 82 years died Monday morning.
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Wright
Carson
Nev
Sam C. Wright
United States Mint
U. S
Senntor Kennedy
Annapolis
Anthony Kennedy
Harrity Names Democratic Campaign Committees In 1904 Plan
New York July 30. After talks with Calvin S. Brice Wm C Whitney and others Democratic national committee chairman W F Harrity announced the names for the national executive and campaign committees. The list includes Tarpey Thomas French Pasco Howell Richardson Blair Sherley Jeffries Sewall Gorman Campau Doran Howery Prather Suboway Ross Sheehan Ransom Brice Rhoney Cummings Holt Smalley Gordon Harrity and Sherin. The campaign committee also includes Brice Gorman Sheehan Smalley Ransom Cable Wall Quinch and Harrity. Harrity says the party is uniting and prepared for decisive victory in November. A meeting is set for August 4 and headquarters at 139 Fifth Avenue will be ready. Brice is expected to be named chairman.
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M. W. Ransom
North Carolina
Calvins. Brice
Ohio
Samuel Rhoney
Rhode Island
Holmes Cummings
Tennessee
T. Holt
Texas
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Vermont
Basil B. Gordon
Virginia
Wm. F. Harrity
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Maryland
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New York
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Wisconsin
Josiah Quinch
Massachusetts
William F. Harrity
Harrity
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Fifth Avenue Hotel
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Bergman’s Hearing Bounds Would-Be Assassin at 24000
In Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon Bergman, the would-be assassin, appeared for a preliminary hearing in the county jail office and was admitted to bail totaling 24000, which was not posted. Police Judge Grip and Alderman McMasters led proceedings with DA Burleigh present. Bergman admitted intent to kill Frick, and denied wanting to shoot anyone else. Witnesses included elevator man David Fortney and Leishman of the Carnegie Co.
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Judge Grip
Alderman McMasters
O'Mara
David Fortney
Chronicle-Telegraph
Leishman
Carnegie Co
Burleigh
Frick
Mr. Frick
Mr. Burleigh
Talton Hall Sentenced to Death in Wise County
Louisville dispatch reports Kentucky desperado Talton Hall, credited with killing eleven men, was sentenced in Wise C H Virginia to be hanged September 2 for the murder of Officer Hilton at Norton. He will be guarded by ten men until execution day.
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Talton Hall
Louisville
Courier- Journal
Big Stone Gap
Wise C. H
Hall
Hilton
Norton
Gladstonian Majority Fixed At Forty In Commons
London July 30 The Lyell returns from Orkney Shetland and the Greenock recount show Sir Thomas Sutherland dissident liberal elected over John Bruce liberal. The corrected figures fix the Gladstonian majority in the House of Commons at forty.
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London
Lyell
Orkney and Shetland Islands
Greenock
Thomas Sutherland
John Bruce
House of Commons
Murderer Wise Hanged at Lexington for Murder
Julius Wise a Black man was hanged at Lexington D. H. for a murder committed some time earlier. He joined the church an hour before execution and professed belief in his soul salvation as the sentence carried out on Friday.
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Wise
S. C
Julius Wise
Lexington
D. H
Tourists Fall From Roxalpe Precipice in Vienna
Two Vienna tourists climbing the Roxalpe, a popular resort, slipped on a rocky slope and plunged over a precipice. Their bodies were recovered at the bottom, still roped together.
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Vienna
Roxalpe
Alice Mitchell Declared Insane by Jury at Trial
Memphis Tenn August 1 The jury finds Alice Mitchell insane on present insanity plea after five minutes deliberation Judge DuBose warned experts and urged careful verdict Tears from the father and a sob from Jo Ward sister of the murdered girl marked the scene Mitchell to Bolivar asylum next week accomplice Lil lie Johnson may die of consumption before trial
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Memphis
Tenn
Alice Mitchell
DuBose
Alice
Miss Mitchell
Jo Ward
Bolivar
Lillie Johnson
Ancient serpent mound found near Ft Ancient Ohio
On the Stubbs farm in Hamilton township near Ft Ancient Ohio an immense earthwork serpent mound was identified by Dr S B Scoville and confirmed by Prof Putnam of the Peabody museum who calls it a major American antiquity. The site lies seven miles below Ft Ancient in a rich archeological district and measures about nineteen hundred feet long and ten feet through.
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Lebanon, O
Hamilton Township
Stubbs Farm
Scoville
Putnam
Peabody Museum
Metz
Adams County
Ft. Ancient
Balloonist Edward Hope Dies in Parachute Failure at Inver Grove
In Inver Grove Minnesota on August 1 Prof Edward Hope perished when his balloon rose a little over half a mile, the parachute failed to deploy, and he fell twelve feet into mud in a slough. Crowd witnessed the fatal descent as wind pushed the craft toward the Mississippi River. The body was not recovered for an hour.
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Hope
St. Pau
Minn
Inver Grove
Edward Hope
Mississippi River
Canada to abolish rebate system and tolls
Montreal correspondent reports high authority says Canada will respond to U S retaliation by ending rebates and uniform tolls or removing tolls entirely.
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Canada
Toronto
Ont
Montreal
the Mail
United States
Bolts the Head of the Ticket in Colorado News
The Rocky Mountain News bolts the head of the People's Party state ticket. It editorially condemns Davis H. Waite as governor nominee, saying he lacks the qualities to be a safe governor if elected.
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Denver
The
Rocky Mountain News
People’s Party
Davis H. Waite
Local man sentenced to eighteen years in prison
Bristol Tenn August 1 Logan Osborn was sentenced to eighteen years in the penitentiary for involvement in a murder of a man named Blevins two years ago. Osborn's brother and a friend are to be tried as accessories to the same crime.
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Bristol, Tenn
Logan Osborn
Blevins
Osborn
Sousa's Discharge From Marine Band Leader Granted
In Wasuinavon on August 1, Col. Charles Heywood commandant of the United States Marine Corps granted, at the request of John Philip Sousa, the discharge of Sousa from the Marine Band. The notice confirms Sousa will leave his post as conductor and leader.
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Sousa
Wasuinavon
Charles Heywood
United States Marine Corps
John Philip & Sousa
United States Marine Band
Corps
Militia General Snowden Denies Sams Suspension Knowledge
New York August 1 The Herald prints a letter from Gen Snowden stating Private James was suspended by the thumbs without his knowledge or concurrence. He says he had no official role in approving or disapproving the action and notes authority to discharge exists but no disqualification follows. He warns sober-minded people that the punishment spoke against revolution treason and anarchy.
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Sams
New York
the Herald
Snowden
Homeesttead
The
Herald
Jams
Guinn
Iron Hall Funds Under Scrutiny In Indy Scandal
Indianapolis August 1 The Iron Hall membership scandal deepens with supreme justice F D Lomberbey reportedly absent from the city or unavailable. It is alleged he withdrew about 500000 from Iron Hall depositories over recent months and parked the funds in a Philadelphia bank in which he has a stake or interest.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Iron Hall
F. D. Lomberbey
Supreme Justice
Philadelphia
Infant Murder Mystery Near Alabama Street Rail Line
In Indianapolis Indiana on August 11 a three month old infant was found dead beside the Cincinnati Hamilton & Indianapolis railroad track on Alabama street. The baby appeared to have been thrown from a fast outbound train that passed moments earlier. The head was crushed and other injuries noted. The infant was nicely dressed and taken to the morgue awaiting identification while police investigate.
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IndraNapolis
Ind
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis
Alabama Street
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