Indy Elks and Anderson Tie After Crowd Pleasing Parade
Fifteen Indianapolis batters struck out as Morrey led Anderson in a 4 to 4 ten inning tie at Washington Park. A colorful parade entertained fans before the game with cops, disguise acts, and vendor antics. Norton and Newberger starred for Anderson. O'Brien fanned nine for Indy. An overflow crowd saw lively street theater and a late-edition scoreless extra frame.
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Indianapolis
Anderson Elks
Washington Park
Elks
Anderson
Union Station
Indiana
Quigley
Mike Jefferson
Fred Shepard
Shepard
Board of Safety
Jefferson
Nick Carter
Val Farbach
Frank Morrison
Cops
Farbach
Dr. Pritchard
Emil Fertig
Marty Porter
Gus Schmidt
Harry Janowitz
Morrey
Schaub
Norton
Louis Newberger
Ed Hickey
Newberger
Sten
Dickson
Atmos
Worthington
O'Brien
Edwards
Charles
Spurtier
Sourbier
Rauch
Steadman
Italianapolis
Murrey
Wortheee
Iten
A.B. R
Medhia
O’brien
Munter
Hickey
Royal Yacht Ophir Sails From Cape Town With Royal Party
The royal yacht Ophir, carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, departed Cape Town for Ascension. Their Canadian tour wraps up Oct. 21 before returning to England.
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Royal Yacht
Ophir
Cape Town
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
Nile buys American coal in landmark move
Rio de Janeiro dispatch reports the Royal Mail steamer Nile preferring American coal over Cardiff coal from its own agents, marking the first instance of such a choice in the company’s history. Other items note political clashes, weather, and wartime diplomacy with varied regional updates.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Royal Mail Steamship Company
Nile
Cardiff
Crop Improvement Lifts Trade Outlook Amid Steel Strike
Bradstreet's notes trade expanding with stronger crop gains in Central West and Mississippi Valley boosting Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City. Cotton strength aids Southern trade while cereals show irregular pricing. wheat and corn exports rise with cautious optimism despite a steel strike and limited wage talks.
Trade Outlook Brightens Amid Labor Strikes Yet With Caution
Dun and Co reports a well sustained business volume with strong payments through clearing houses and rail networks. Textile markets show buyers advantage, while iron and steel output is curbed by the Amalgamated workers strike, and cotton ties supplies worry three states into the autumn season. Prices rise in London for tin plate, shoe shops stay active, and raw wool gains tone as summer stocks stay light.
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New York
Bradstreet
Central West
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Great Eastern
Mississippi
Fall River
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
R. G. Dun & Co
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Plate
London
Texas
Liverpool
Grain Market Sends Mixed Signals Amid Export Shifts
The report notes modest declines in grain prices as export lines to China rise while shipments to Atlantic markets lag. Corn remains near peak prices since 1992 despite several headwinds, with improved weather brightening late planted crops. Foreign buyers hesitate on high prices, benefiting Russia and Argentina as Atlantic exports fall and interior stocks rise from prior surpluses. Wheat shows slight weakness due to reduced Atlantic shipments, while Pacific movement is hampered by labor troubles. Weekly U.S. failures total 25, Canada 6.
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China
Russia
Argentina
Atlantic
United States
Canada
Robbers Terrorize Ohio Family. $360 Stolen Near Deshler
Five masked men burst into Philip Stiles’ home near Deshler, Findlay, torturing and threatening six family members for four hours Thursday night. They escaped with 360 in cash. Bloodhounds tracked the suspects, and authorities expect arrests by tomorrow morning.
Nordstrom Hanged After Nine Year Legal Battle
Seattle Aug 23 Charles W Nordstrom was hanged for the 1891 murder of William Mason. The condemned man cried and prayed as four men lifted him to the trap. The case, fought through multiple courts, spanned nine years with appeals to state and federal Supreme Courts and the U S Supreme Court, but all petitions were denied.
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Seattle
Wash
Charles W. Nordstrom
William Mason
Salvation Army
Nordstrom
Cudahee
Thomas Mason
Cedar Mountain
Mason
Supreme Court
Col
Hamilton Lewis
Lewis
Supreme Court of the United States
Federal Court
Butler Hanged for Murder of Wife in Baltimore Jail Yard
John H. Butler a prominent Republican politician was hanged in the Baltimore jail yard at 10 am for killing his wife Lavinia last October with a cobblestone. He denied guilt and efforts to commute his sentence on insanity grounds had been made.
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Baltimore
John H. Butler
Butler
Lavinia
Fugate Hanged for Martha Wells Murder in Wise County
In Wise Virginia John Fugate a 21 year old African American man was hanged today for the murder of Martha Wells near Tom's Creek on June 6. The drop occurred at 1 37 p m and he died within nine minutes after confessing on the scaffold.
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Roanoke
John Fugate
Wise
Tom's Creek
Martha Wells
Fugate
Mercer hanged in Tampa for assault on girl Jessie Taylor
J. M. Mercer, convicted last May of assaulting Jessie Taylor, a young girl, was executed today in Tampa at noon. The neck breaking drop caused his death as he maintained innocence. His final words asked that his wife be provided for.
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Tampa
Fla
J. M. Mercer
Jessie Taylor
Death in Bathtub Ties to Gas Tragedy in New York
James W. Lyall, sixty three, wealthy cotton goods manufacturer, found dead in his New York home bathtub with gas on. Family suspects accidental faintness caused fall into gas bracket. no known intent to kill self. Lyall invented the sitive motion loom and other cotton industry improvements. Springfield report notes Samuel J. Willett Sr. near death in Illinois.
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New York
James W. Lyall
Mrs Beckham Gains Strength After Illness
FRANKFORT KY Aug 22 Physicians attending Mrs Beckham wife of Governor Beckham are hopeful for recovery as her temperature drops and she regains strength from fitful naps today.
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Frankfort
Beckham
American Bar Association Adopts Officers Meeting in East
Denver August 23 The American Bar Association elected officers led by President A M Rose of Little Rock Ark and Vice President Samuel O Pickens of Indiana The executive committee includes John Hinkley Francis Rawle and others The convention adjourned after a long dinner with speeches by Judge Townsend who defended the Supreme Court decision on colonial status and constitutional authority
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Denver
American Bar Association
A. M. Rose
Little Rock
Ark
John Hinkley
Baltimore
Francis Rawle
Philadelphia
Samuel 0. Pickens
Indiana
Edmund Wetmore
William A. Ketcham
Indianapolis
Henry St. George Tucker
Lexington
Charles F. Libby
Portland
Rodney A. Mercer
Towanda
James Hagerman
St. Louis
John Marshall
Henry E. Davis
Washington
General Council
Saratoga
Rose
W. A. Hensel
Pennsylvania
Wm. K. Townsend
United States District Court
New Haven
Conn
Supreme Court
Maine
Justice Brown
Congress
Florida
Hawaii
Supreme Court of the United States
Marshall
Deluded Harvesters Seek Work Promises in Winnipeg
Winnipeg reels as several thousand harvesters from eastern Canada and the U.S. complain they were promised high wages and months of work but found neither. Some plan to appeal to the American consul if transport or pay is not provided. The provincial government faces a vexing situation.
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Prengels
Bahal Hlanen
Hetr
London Times
Buenos Ayres
Russia
United States
Marten
Hickel
von Krosigk
Marien
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
Minnesota
Dakota
Prominent Tennessee Woman Fatally Injured in Franklin County Attack
Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a leading Franklin County farmer, was fatally struck today by Henry Noles a Black man who also fired at her son grazing the boy’s head. Sheriff Stewart with a posse and two bloodhounds pursued the assailant as excitement ran high in Chattanooga Tennessee. Mrs. Williams belonged to a long established local family.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles Williams
Franklin County
Tennessee
Henry Noles
Santa Fe Cuts Freight Rate to 7 Cents Per 100 Pounds
The Santa Fe announces a 7 cent per 100 pounds freight rate from Kansas City to Chicago for dispositions ordered before evening. Ten loaded wheat cars were in Santa Fe yards, and the rate may continue while shipments stay heavy, undercutting the previously agreed rate by 3 cents.
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Kansas City
Santa Fe
Chicago
Lisbon mill strike deepens after five weeks
A conference reports ample force at the mill and a restaurant order for forty meals today was not filled. Public sentiment is strong against strikebreakers. The Lisbon mill employs eighty men who have been out five weeks. strikers contend the mill cannot run nonunion.
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Lisbon
Mass Meeting Set by South Chicago Iron Workers in Strike Context
Vice President W C Davis of the Amalgamated Association announces a mass meeting for next Sunday afternoon with Assistant Secretary M F Tighe and Trustee John H Morgan arriving from Pittsburgh to discuss the strike. A secret meeting is planned but Davis doubts any strike action will result.
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Chicago
W. C. Davis
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
M. F. Tighe
John H. Morgan
Pittsburg
Davis
Pipe Prices Boosted by Steel Strike Shortage
Lima O Aug 23 prices for casing tubing line and drive pipes rose 10 percent and smaller pipes 5 percent as material scarcity from the steel strike curbs drilling activity and raises costs for operators officials said today
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Lima, O
Building Trades Council denounces Shaffer strike plan
New York August 23. Building Trades Councils declare any attempt by President Shaffer to call bricklayers or structural iron workers in a sympathetic strike will fail. The councils warn against disruptions and emphasize solidarity in the city’s construction trades.
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New York
Building Trades Councils
Shaffer
Allis-Chalmers secures broad injunction against strikers in Chicago
In Chicago on August 21, Judge Kohlsaar issued an injunction for Allis-Chalmers Company restraining iron molders and machinists from picketing its plants and from intimidating or threatening non union workers taking their places. The order names eight lodges and all officers and extends to forty-five union members, demanding obedience to the injunction.
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Chicago
Allis-Chalmers Company
Kohlsaar
United States
Last Mine Reopens in Thacker Logan Field with Nonunion Labor
In MATEWAN West Virginia today the final mine in the Thacker Logan field resumed operation. All mines in the field are now operating with nonunion labor after a strike two months ago marked by bloodshed. Most strikers are departing the area as operations return to normal.
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Matewan
W. Va
Thacker-Logan
Negro Business League closes session in Chicago
The National Negro Business League held its closing session in Chicago with a telegram from President McKinley read to Booker T. Washington. Speakers included J. C. Napier on real estate, J. H. Smiley on catering, and B. E. W. Trower on building a Negro town. Washington was named president with an expanded executive slate and officers from across the nation.
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Chicago
National Negro Business League
McKinley
Booker T. Washington
J. C. Napier
Nashville
Tenn
J. H. Smiley
BE. W. Trower
Philadelphia
L. Davis
Hobson City
Ala
Tuskegee
Giles B. Jackson
Richmond
M. A. Robinson
St. Louis
Charles Bank
Clarksdale
Miss
E. Cooper
Washington, D. C
Emmet J. Scott
Gilbert «. Harris
Pennsylvania
S. Laing Williams
J. Smith
Boston
I. T. Thomas Fortune
New York
Courtne Boston
T. W. Jones
George E. Jones
Little Rock
N. Brinton
W. L. Taylor
T. A. Brown
San Francisco
Nashville, Tenn
M. M. Lewey
Pensacola, Fla
Strike Shuts Cudahy Armourdale Packing Plant
Two union beef butchers at the Cudahy packing house in Armourdale Kansas were discharged today. In response twelve fellow butchers walked out, causing a shutdown of the plant.
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Kansas City
Cudahy Packing House
Armourdale
Kan
Topping Brothers manager commits suicide in Brooklyn home
John C. Topping, manager of the Topping Brothers hardware firm in New York City, killed himself by jumping from his Brooklyn residence third story today. Insomnia tied to nervous prostration was cited as the cause. he was well known in hardware circles.
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New York
John C. Topping
Topping Brothers
Brooklyn
Local taxation debate opens Jamestown convention
Lawrence Purdy of the New York Tax Reform Association addressed the League of American Municipalities on local option taxation. Major Samuel M. Jones of Toledo spoke on Political Liberty. Elected officers include President Charles Ashley of New Bedford and trustees from Baltimore Winnipeg Hartford and Fargo among others.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Lawrence Purdy
New York Tax Reform Association
League of American Municipalities
Samuel M. Jones
Toledo
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles Ashley
New Bedford
Mass
J. A. Smith
Charleston
D. C
Richard J. Barr
Joliet
James M. Head
Nashville
P. H. Cummings
Fargo
N. D
Tenth annual Hoo-Hoot session set for Norfolk and Buffalo
Nashville report states the tenth annual session of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoot will meet in Norfolk Virginia on the 9th of next month. After adjournment members will travel to Buffalo to take part in the lumbermen’s week exposition festivities.
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Nashville
Tenn
Order of Hoo-Hoot
Norfolk
Buffalo
Desperate prisoner assault at Berkshire County jail
Daniel Leary alias Michael Webb a prisoner from Philadelphia under indictment for killing Warden Fuller with a maul conducted a vicious assault on Officers Carley and Smith with an iron window pole in Pittsfield Massachusetts. He was overpowered and sustained five scalp wounds from clubs. He is to have...
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Pittsfie!d
Mass
Daniel Leary
Michael Webb
Philadelphia
Berkshire County
Uller
House of Correction
Carley and Smith
Leary
Deaf mute robbed near Union Station on Illinois street
A deaf and temporarily blind man, fifty five, was held up and beaten on Illinois Street just south of Union Station while returning from a State Association of Deaf Mutes meeting. He lost a watch and money, had a cut on his forehead, and was taken to City Dispensary for treatment. two men were seen fleeing the area.
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Illnois Street
Union Station
Johnson County
State Association of Deaf Mutes
Jordan
Dess” Shaffer
National Hotel
Tissing
Chinese students from Canton enter University of California
High standing students from Canton selected by the Chinese government to study in the United States have landed in San Francisco. Officials say they will enroll at the University of California to complete their classical and scientific education and to help spread modern American methods back home.
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San Francisco
Cal
Atg
Om Fou College
Canton
China
Chi Bureau
University of California
Fertilizer Trust Purchases Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Plant
A Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company unit has been bought by the Virginia Carolina Seal Company, a fertilizer concern with plants across the South. The Charlotte plant is among the largest, combining a mill, fertilizer factory, cotton batting and wadding facilities, and is slated for continued operation under new ownership.
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Charlotte
N. C
Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company
Virginia-Carolina Seal Company
South
Alene Arrives in Kingston After Collision Sinks Pilot Boat
The German steamer Alene, after colliding with and sinking the New York pilot boat James Gordon Bennett off the lightship on Saturday afternoon Aug 17, arrived in Kingston Jamaica leaking with a large rent in her starboard bow. Temporary repairs will be made here before a South America voyage restart on Monday.
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Kingston
Jamaica
New York
James Gordon Bennett
South America
Farmers Arrested for Murder in Middletown
In Middletown on August 23 Henry and his son Rolla Gephart were arrested for the murder of Wesley Wells, a farmer. The dispute began over a road through Wells’s land. Wells locked the gate, the Gepharts broke the lock and Wells attacked them with an ax, and they surrendered upon arrival.
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Middletown
Henry
Rolla
Wesley Wells
Gepharts
Wells
Aoe Harts
Auditor to collect $500000 from federal Quantrill raid funds
Kansas State Auditor Cole will attempt to reclaim $500,000 paid by the state for Quantrill raid claims from the federal government. The Quantrill guerrillas reunion will be held at Blue Springs, Missouri, on September 24, with eighty six survivors expected, including Frank James.
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Kansas City
Cole
Kansas
Quantrill
Blue Springs
Seathteen
Frank James
Austrian Count Hohenwert-Gerlachstein Arrives in New York
Count Gilbert Hohenwert-Gerlachstein, once hinted by Emperor Francis Joseph as Austrian minister to Mexico, has arrived in New York aboard the Hamburg American liner Fuerst Bismarck. He is noted as the first Austrian minister to Mexico since Emperor Maximilian's execution.
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New York
Gilbert Hohenwert-Gerlachstein
Francis Joseph
Mexico
York
Fuerst Bismarck
Austria
Maximilian
Baltimore Postmaster Price Ends His Life in Suicide
Baltimore August 23 WD Price postmaster and leading local businessman shot himself to death. Post office Inspector visited to examine office accounts but the trip was regarded as coincidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
WD Price
Postoffice
Trio slain as man shoots wife and in laws near Dawkins
Columbia Aug 3 Sam Farrow a negro shot and killed his wife his father in law and mother in law near Dawkins today. A posse pursued him and Farrow fired from ambush but caused no injuries. He was arrested later and jailed.
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Columbia
8. C
Sam_ Farrow
Dawkins
Farrow
Steam threshing engine blast kills housewife in Minnesota
In Canary Minnesota on August 22 a steam threshing engine exploded on the farm of C L Christenson killing Mrs Christenson instantly and seriously injuring her daughter C L Christenson Jr John Amundson and another assistant were nearby at the machine.
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Canary, Minn
Tny
C. L. Christenson
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