Two Italian steamers crash off Genoa injuring deep losses
Off Isela del Plata near Genoa the Ortegia and Maria P. collided at 1:30 am. The Maria P sank in three minutes after a six yard bow breach. 173 passengers and 17 crew aboard the Maria P. perished. 28 survivors and 14 crew saved. An inquiry was ordered in Rome as crews searched for more victims.
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Genoa
Ortegis
Maria P. Collider
Isela del Plata
Gulf of Genoa
Meria P
Naples
la Plata
Ortegia
The
Marine
Rome
Revillo
d'Angelo
Maria P
Maria P. Broadida
Ortezia
Revello
Maria
Ferrara
Ortgeia
Marin P
Ortiga
Brazilians Start Westward Colony Caravan
A band of Brazilians claiming to found a California colony moved from their city quarters amid crowds. They crossed the Liberty street ferry to Jersey City and will camp a few days before continuing westward stopping at major towns along the route.
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Rew Yous
California
Liberty Street
Jersey City
A Human Pincushion Nellie Thomas Penance Tale
A well dressed woman, Nellie Thomas, seeks admission to a Cincinnati hospital after presenting a convent letter. Surgeons extract 41 needles from legs and feet, then 10 more amid fears of blood poisoning. She says she punished herself for sins by thrusting needles into her legs at the Good Shepherd convent, an orphan with years of penance.
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Nellie Thomas
Crncinnati
Ohio
Cincinnati Hospital
Convent of the Good Shepherd
Remains of Early Settlers in Fraxgrorr Ohio
W K Moorehead curator of the state university reports discoveries in local mounds. One mound yielded nine skeletons two feet beneath gravel showing robust, short men with thick round skulls and low facial angle. Some skulls show artificial flattening of the base during infancy. Later, in Wichita Kansas a bold highwayman stopped an electric car on South Main Street and robbed passenger Fred Miller of $70 and the conductor’s watch and coins. He escaped through an alley with a crowd watching. no clues identified.
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Fraxgrorr
Ohio
W. K. Moorehead
The
State University
Wichita
Wrontra
Kan
South Main Street
Fred Miller
Kansas City
Higher Wages Demanded by Chapin Miners
In Inox Mounrass Michigan a mass meeting drew about 609 miners. They unanimously voted to demand higher pay on the Pewable scale now used by nearby miners including Miners at 1.70, tram mers at 1.50, and laborers at 1.10. A committee will pressure the superintendent, and a strike may follow if demands are not met.
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Inox Mounrass
Mich
Chapin
Horse Thieves Escape with Iron Attack on Officer
July 22 report details three horse thieves confined for horse stealing escaping after assaulting an officer with a iron face strike. Alarm sounded, hundreds of pursuers chase the fugitives as the raid ends in a chaotic scene.
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Sorta Exta Ok
Strike at Colombia Continues With Rising Demands
The dock laborers strike in Colombia persists into July 22 as strikers push for higher demands while steamships and railroads resist. Panamanian laborers and ship crews are unloading cargo, and order remains in place with freight transit continued by unions.
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Colombia
Panama
Four Die Crossing Fitchburg Rail Track Near Wilnasstows
Four men were killed instantly when a two seated carriage returning to North Adams from Benning was struck by a west bound express on the Fitchburg line two miles from Wilnasstows Massachusetts yesterday afternoon. A six man party rode in the carriage. Professor D H Robinson Dies at Kansas University Home in Typhoid Fever. Campos Said to Be Wounded in Bayamo Battle. reports from Tampa note Campos besieged with officers fallen including possibly his son.
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Wilnasstows
Mass
Fitchburg
North Adams
Benning
Robineen
Lawrence
Kan
D. H. Robinson
Kansas University
Campos
Tampa
Fls
Cuba
General Campos
Bayamo
Santocildes
Drowned Boy in Missouri River Backwater
Drowned While Bathing Roy Draper aged 15 son of Professor E N Draper of the Atchison Business college was drowned while bathing in the Missouri river backwater south of Aromsox Kansas July 23.
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Aromsox
Kan
Roy Draper
E. N. Draper
Atchison Business College
Missouri River
Murderous Italian fires at every one he meets in New Orleans
On a Terre Haute plantation in St. John's parish last Friday night, Joe Noska killed Benedetto Giordano and Charlie Columbano with double barreled shots after attacking Rosario Giordano and his family at supper. Mrs Giordano and four others suffered severe injuries including a infant and a nine year old girl. Noska escaped into the woods as a posse formed led by the sheriff. Wounded were taken to Charity hospital. Noska remains at large.
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New Onneana
Terre Haute
St. John's Parish
Rosario Giordano
Joe Noska
Mary Giordano
Nicolina
Benedetto Giordano
Charlie Columbano
Charity Hospital
Baseball Scores From Western and National Leagues
Western League games include Kansas City 4 Terre Haute, Minneapolis 7 Saint Paul 18, Indianapolis 4, Milwaukee 9 Grand Rapids. National League results show St Louis 16, Chicago 4, Louisville 1, and Cincinnati at Baltimore with Cleveland and other missing details.
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Kansas City
Terre Hautes
Minneapolis
Detroit
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Chicago
Brooklyn
Louisville
Cleveland
Ar Gatciinati
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Ex Chief Piker and Rich Leavenworth Leader Dead
News in brief reports the death of eEx Chief Benjamin Piker of the Choctaw nation and Dr. Jenkin W. Morris of Leavenworth. Other items note a Jackson county marshal appointment, a quarterly dividend, embezzlement arrest, a Chicago oil works fire loss of $400,000, Wichita mass meeting on prohibition, a George Dixon fight, a Fort Scott shooting, and various political, crime, and weather notes.
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Benjamin Piker
Jenkin W. Morris
Leavenworth
Stone
J. B. Keshlear
Jackson County
Pulinan Palace Car Company
Ceshier Cox
Davitt
Secretary of the Interior
Bas
National Linsned Oil Works
Chicago
Wichita
Sound Currency Club
Kansas City
Perth Springs
George Dixon
William
Georgia
Crisp
Frank Ware
M. J. Black
Fort Worth
Texas
Black
M. H. Holmes
Williams
Bland Says Democrats Must Back Silver Or Be Wiped Out
Ex Congressmen Bland warns in St Louis that the Democratic party must declare free coinage of silver to survive the next election. He accuses urban papers of dithering and argues party chaos hinges on stance at the national convention. He denies any serious talk of his own presidential candidacy.
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Democratic Party
St. Louis
Bland
Missouri
Wee
Kentucky
Ninety Days To Settle Otoe and Missouri Lands
Washington reports district land offices have been ordered to collect all balances owed for Otoe and Missouri Indian lands within ninety days or entries will be cancelled. Purchases made at 1893 auctions carried down payments with the remainder due in one to three years at five percent. Despite congressional extensions and a relief bill, Indians have refused acceptance, so the department will enforce the original contract. Principal totals 192,122 with 189,000 interest due.
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Washington
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Congress
Department
Americans Arrested in London Palace Club Raid
Sussex July 22 report that police raided the Palace club in London capturing about a hundred guests in evening dress. Among those detained were a United States senator a congressman a prominent law official of an Eastern state and an American police official all but the proprietor and servants released after questioning.
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United States
London
Sussex
Palace Club
Demi Mantle
Reed
Prejudices Overcome at Pan-American Congress Remarks
In Massey hall Toronto on July 22 a Catholic speaker at the Pan American congress said prayers across denominations showed prejudice and bitterness had vanished in Toronto. Rev Father Ryan, president of St. Pauls cathedral, noted he declined leading prayer yet found all prayers acceptable to Catholics and urged unity among Christian denominations.
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Tonoxto
Massey Hall
Father Ryan
St. Paul's Cathedral
Toronto
George Davison Workman
Defaulting Cashier Arrested in Mexico with Stolen Funds
Chester W. Rowe, a cashier from Poweshiek County Iowa, is under arrest in Mexico City after absconding with about 80 000. Pinkerton operatives have seized a large portion of the money and plan to return it to the county. Richard Rote, brother of the accused, is also under arrest as an accomplice.
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Cutcaco
Chester W. Rowe
Poweshiek County
Iowa
City of
Mexico
Pinkerton
Sit
Richard Rote
Assconder
Tunnel on Fire Near Louisville Destruction Likely
A tunnel on the Louisville and Nashville line between Turner's and English, about forty five miles east of Louisville, caught fire around midnight. Sparks from an engine ignited the timbers, and the 900 foot tunnel remains ablaze with rebuilding probable.
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Louisviitz
Louisville and Nashville
Turner's and
English
Here
Captain Williams Desd New Outeass Glove Contests Leader
Captain Frank Williams, chair of the contest committee, helped arrange famous glove matches for the Sasa and Auditorium clubs, with recent activity noted in the July 22 reports from New Outeass and Loxpon. Unionist gains in elections total sixty-eight, granting the government a 108 seat majority. Colonel D. N. Barrows, former assistant treasurer of the Confederacy, died in Jackson Mississippi.
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Williams
Frank Williams
Sasa Club
Auditorium Club
Loxpon
D. N. Barrows
Jackson
Miss
Lost Letters and Puppies Inspire Surprise Post Tale
An English merchant complains of a missing check and letter. The postmaster discovers the letter hidden in a dog kennel after puppies pulled it from under a house door. A second tale shows a postal clerk nearly revealing the letters workflow before realizing the letter was in a left-hand drawer.
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Thomas
Mr. Baines
Bank of England
Home Training and Etiquette For Men in Society
The piece argues that lacking home training harms a young man starting life and that etiquette must be studied to avoid offense. It contrasts men's need to actively learn manners with women's perhaps less burdensome social observation, noting grace should flow from practiced ease rather than forced display.
Evolution of the term lady and the dignity of woman
The text notes a historic shift in language from contemptuous use of woman to a modern sense of dignity. It reflects on how old English writers treated the word and how social speech changed over a generation, with women gaining respect and the term woman gaining stature alongside the concept of a lady.
Mustangs Likely to Join United States Army
The Mexican mustang pony, small and hardy, is likely to be adopted by the U S Army. War Department tests show the mustang is stronger faster and cheaper than eastern cavalry stock. A test ride from Santa Fe New Mexico to San Antonio Texas averaged forty miles daily and the animal survived forty eight hours without water or food.
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United States Army
War Department
East
Santa Fe N. M
San Antonio
Tex
Mra Langtry S Jewels Worth Over 350000 Dollars
Experts appraise Mrs Langtry s jewels at more than 350000 dollars in value.
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Mra Langtry
Mrs. Langtrs
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Upshaw Furniture Company
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Bulgaria
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Hazen
Topeka Press
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Arch C. Kavanaugh
JL Sheldon
W. Eighth
MR. Bland
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Lake Michigan and
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Maniton
Asceties Parce
Chicago & Alton
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North Broadway
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James Chanston
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