Vast Mississippi Flood Devours Plains From Keokuk South
From Keokuk Iowa the floodwaters race southward across seventy miles of river, turning farmland into a vast inland lake. Crops vanish under water while towns on the islands crumble, with losses estimated in the millions and levees stretched to their breaking point as residents flee toward higher ground.
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Keokuk
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Associated Press
Missouri
Hannibal
Des Moines
Alexandria
Gregory
House of God
Gulf of Mexico
St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad
Missouri Shore
Acre
Lagrange
Silver Crescent
Louisiana
Canton
West Quincy
Minols
Warsaw
Quincy
Uiney
Holland Prairies
Illinois Bluffs
Missouri Bluffs
Burlington Route
Lone Tree Prairie
Bluffs
Fablua River
Fox River
Mis
Flood Ravages Missouri River Bottoms and Peoria Danger
The river flood extends along the Missouri and Mississippi, with levees strained from Keokuk to Quincy, causing ruin in crops and property. In Peoria the Illinois River risks severe damage as it nears the 1892 high-water mark, with water rising from 20.5 feet and threatening factories and residences along the low lands.
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Sissippi
Missouri
Lamotte
Laverton
Busch Station
Clemens
Ashburn
Hannibal
Quincy
Keokuk
Mississippi
Misissippi
Peoria
Illinois
Abiel Abbot Low Sighting Reports From Atlantic Voyage
Captain Henry Newman and his sixteen year old son sailed from College Point Long Island on July 9 in the 38 foot launch Abiel Abbot Low bound for Falmouth England. Sightings reported by French bark Tourville and American liner St Louis place the craft around 87 miles out in nine days at a near thirty day expected crossing.
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New York
Abiel Abbot Low
Henry Newman
New England
College Point
L. I
Falmouth
England
Ivon
Tourville
Nantes
St. Louis
Southampton
Gherpourg
Fittie
Newman
Lehigh Valley Train Collision Kills One in Rochester
A head on crash between two Lehigh Valley passenger trains near Hope Hospital in Rochester NY killed one fireman and injured sixteen others. An engine and coach plunged into the Erie canal feeder while the other engine was wrecked yet remained on track. Names and injuries of victims listed. The crew said orders to meet at Mount Hope siding were forgotten.
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Rochester
N. Y
Lehigh Valley
Hope Hospital
Peter W. Putnam
Robert Matthews
Lima
Byron Haire
Fred M'Vittie
Charles Hoffman
L. A. Baule
Washington
Charles R. Barnard
Emma J. Bailey
Gladys Hogue
Minnie , Tyler
Sydney Tyler
J. G. Longfellow
Mount Hope Siding
Unusual Railroad Accident Kills Men in Knoxville Yard
In Knoxville Tennessee today an Atlanta Knoxville and Northern Railroad engine jumped the rails into a group of workers. David Monday was killed instantly and his brother Elisha Monday fatally hurt. James Palmer and other employees were badly shaken.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Atlanta
Knoxville & Northern Railroad
David Monday
Elisha Monday
James Palmer
Groesbeck Defends Waller Case and Balangiga Remarks
Colonel Stephen W Groesbeck, former judge advocate in Manila, arrives in San Francisco en route to Chicago. He says Major Waller was a tactician not a leader and that insufficient provisions caused a disastrous Samar march. He denies a kill and burn order by Gen Smith, cites harsh conditions, and endorses the water cure as humane for obtaining information. He predicts longer U.S. presence in the Philippines to civilize and govern.
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San Francisco
Cal
Stephen W. Groesbeck
Division of the Philippines
Manila
Chicago
Department of the Lakes
Groesbeck
Walter
Jacob H. Smith
Samar
Waller
Secion
Smith
Goesbeck
Balangiga
Ninth Infantry
Groesbeck Belives
Philippines
Philppine
Col. Groesbeck
Vatican rejects Taft plan for indirect concordat in Philippines
The Temps from Paris reports Vatican replies to Taft’s note as a de facto rejection of American offers, killing an indirect concordat that would have allowed a papal delegate in Washington to confer with Roosevelt directly, stifling what the Pope has pursued since his advent.
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Paris
William H. Taft
Philippine Islands
Vatican
Taft
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Ireland
Philippines
Friendly letter to commander of American forces urges peace
The document describes a conciliatory letter to the American commander in chief disavowing any wish to fight and promising future conferral. It notes a favorable Moro situation and outlines Cavite operations against ladrones, with possible leader escape to mountains and police activity northeast of Manila. Cholera trends improve as quarantine relaxations are debated amid native opposition.
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Moro
Manila
Cavite
Bulacan
Rizal
Health Board
Quiet Leavenworth Riot Turmoil In Cavalryquarter
Rioting soldiers from Fort Leavenworth attacked a black household after cavalryman Eli Loucke was stabbed. The Fourth Cavalry rounded up deserters. Loucke has a fair chance of recovery. Community fears ongoing violence and potential vigilante action.
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Loucke
Mitchell to Return and Lead Miner Relief in Wilkesbarre
Wilkesbarre relief work to begin at once as Mr. Mitchell and district presidents arrive Tuesday. Miners to discuss relief fund distribution. Civic Federation expected to appeal to operators to arbitrate. Indiana outlook foresees limited work for 110 miners with coal stocks rising and demand cooling.
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Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Civic Federation
Rome Taft Vatican talks eyed expulsion gains
London newspaper dispatches say American authorities could expel friars from the Philippines without breaching the Paris treaty. Vatican gains unclear but likely a loss of about 1,000,000 pounds. Taft and aides reportedly met the Pope for an audience in Rome on Sunday.
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London
Rome
Morning Post
Taft
Vatican
Philippines
Paris
Reuter
William M. Taft
Philippine Islands
Mindanao Sultan Threatens August Offensive Actions
MANTLA July 1 The Sultan of Baco lod Mindanao who recently sent an insulting communication to the commander of the American expedition to Lake Lano threatening to begin offensive operations in August has been reported in dispatches from the field.
No Renewal of the Strike in Chicago
In Chicago on July 2 the Freight Handlers' Union voted no renewal of the freight handlers strike. A report found four roads discriminated against striking workers but most railroads met terms. Panhandle carriers were unable to place all strikers, yet all old workers were to return to work soon.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Indianapolis
Mitchel
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Illinois
Ohio
Chicago
Curran
Panhandle
John W Mackay Dies in London at 66 After Heat Prostration
John William Mackay of San Francisco died at Carlton House Terrace London at 6 30 pm after a day of partial improvement and a night of decline due to heart failure with pneumonia. The aristocratic widow and relatives witnessed the passing while Princess Colonna Colonna arrived shortly after. Mackay, born in Dublin 1831, rose from poor beginnings to vast wealth through mining and banking, with a life spent between New York London and San Francisco and leadership in Flood and Fair Nevada Bank.
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London
John W. Mackay
San Francisco
Carlton House Terrace
Mackay
John Mackay the Irish Boy Who Won the Gold Rush
The tale follows John Mackay from a poor East River lad with a lunch bucket to a famed Western financier. After years of mining trials and risky ventures with James G. Fair, Flood, and Brien, he struck a silver vein in Nevada, built a fortune, and later dominated telegraph and banking ventures, becoming a world known figure.
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John Mackay
Bowery
California
East River
San Francisco
Cape Horn
Sacramento
Murphy's Camp
Murderers’ Bar
American River
Ione
Sierra Nevadas
James G. Fair
Mackay
Fair
Flood
O’brien
Brien
John W. Mackay
John Russell Young
Virginia City
Nev
West
Europe
Bank
Pacific Coast
United States
New York
Bennett
Atlantic
Jay Gould
Postal Telegraph Company
Western Union
Mackay the shipwright who built a fortune from ruin
A vivid portrait of John W. Mackay, once a shipwright apprentice, transforming misfortune into wealth. The piece recalls his collapse of vast sums in a California era crash, his recovery as president Fair steadied the Nevada Bank, and Mackay’s rise to world fame through relentless work and persistence, contrasting with others who failed to seize opportunities on the Comstock and mines.
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London
California
John
Fair
Mackay
Nevada
John W. Mackay
Pacific Coast
John Mackay
New York
Comstock
Death of John W. Mackay Shocks San Francisco Readers
San Francisco mourns the death of John W. Mackay the last survivor of the four Bonanza kings Flood O'Brien and Fair He had spent years in the East and visited the coast to oversee property in California and Nevada His last trip saw him finalize plans for a landing place for a new Pacific cable He was once wounded in 1892 by W D Rippey and his holdings in real estate and mines in the region run into the millions
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San Francisco
John W. Mackay
London
Mackay
O'Brien
Fair
Nevada
W. D. Rippey
Comstock
Henry L. Moss First U. S. District Attorney for Minnesota Dies
Henry L. Moss aged eighty three died at his home in St Paul. Born in 1819 in Oneida county New York he moved to Minnesota in 1848 settling at Stillwater. Appointed U S district attorney in 1849 by President Taylor and reappointed by President Lincoln in 1883. Also notes James J. Kelly minstrel died in Boston at sixty nine. Kegan Paul publisher dies in London born March 8 1828.
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Paul
Minn
Henry L. Moss
Territory of
Minnesota
Mr. Moss
Oneida County
New York
Stillwater
Taylor
Lincoln
Boston
James J. Kelly
Large Fire in Dallas Destroys Expo Buildings
A major fire at the Dallas exposition grounds in East Dallas destroyed the main exhibition hall the music hall annex poultry building and private booths from J L Case Plow Southern Rock Island Plow and Parlin Orendorff companies. Loss estimated at 190000 with 30000 insured. Firefighting hampered by missing chief and four firemen sent to St Louis Pasteur Institute for hydrophobia treatment after mad horse bite.
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Dallas
Tex
Exposition Grounds
Music Hall
J. L Case Plow Company
Southern Rock Island Plow Company
Parlin-Orendorff Company
Pasteur Institute
St. Louis
Cadiz business block destroyed by fire in Trigg County
A July fire in Cadiz Trigg county wiped out the main business block. Racheys saloon Cadiz Hotel Cumberland Telephone Exchange J J Gartons dry goods H M Gartons hardware Bank of Cadiz F P Cobbs general store Lynch dry goods and Dr A Chappell grocery burned. Loss about 69000 with 35000 insured.
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Hopkinsville
Cadiz
Trigg County
Rachey
Cumberland Telephone Exchange
J. J. Garton
H. M. Garton
Fire destroys eleven Colquit stores including post office
A blaze in Colquit Georgia on July 20 destroyed eleven stores on the public square. The post office and Masonic Temple were among the buildings burned, with several general merchandise shops heavily damaged. Estimated loss exceeds $50,000.
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Macon
Colquit
Murder Then Suicide After Refused Marriage in Marshall
George Wiley shot and killed Miss Davie Flynn at Richard Dearking’s Marshall home after she declined his marriage proposal. Wiley then killed himself, later found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound between the eyes.
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Riley
Dearking
Supreme Court Justice White declines writ in piano murder case
Associate Justice Edward D. White, visiting Nantucket Pier, has refused to grant a writ of error sought by Ashiey ee and Popes Semarsett's attorneys in the Green ond murder of Engineer Res. The decision ends the appeal in a high profile case involving pianos and a fatal incident.
Eleven Die In Baltimore Storm As Boats Overturn
A fifteen minute squall in Baltimore kills eleven. Nine drown in river and harbor, one crushed by a tree, one by live wire. Two drown near Tol Chester Beach. Mech losses at Merch Miners Wharf, church damaged. Tol Chester excursionists James B. Post and Theodore C. Parker, both in twenties, drowned after wind gust overturned their boat. four companions rescued. Floods also hit Central New York with four deaths and crop damage.
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Baltimore
Roy Bateman
Joseph Cain
John Cain
Gomes Carroll
Ae M'Cormick
Mary Schuler
Harry MS. Schuler
Olive Schuler
Charles Schuler
William Cornish
Charles Schafer
Edna V. George
Schuler
Cooper
St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic
Breslau
Wolf Street
Concord Street
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company
Salle
Weather Bureau
Tolchester
James B. Post
Theodore C. Parker
Four Lives Lost in Cloudbursts Near Binghamton
Heavy rains in Broome County culminated in three cloudbursts around Binghamton last night causing extensive damage. The event, reported from Binghamton New York on July 3, disrupted areas as crews battled flooding and wreckage. Continued coverage follows.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Broome
Fage & Col
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JW. MacKay
Princess Colonna
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John William Mackay
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Webb Yards
Comstock Lode
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Nevada Bank
James Gordon Bennett
Commercial Cable Company
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Kegan Paul
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