Explosion at Sunshine mine kills twelve near Glenwood
At 6 o clock Friday a coal dust explosion at the Sunshine mine, owned by Colormio Fuel and Iron, twelve miles from Glenwood Colorado, has led to a search of the wreckage as parties rush to recover victims. Twelve bodies have been recovered with a list naming Antoine Martuliono George Cannon Louia Roki Joe Martini and others among the dead.
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Sunshine
Colormio Fuel and Iron Company
Glenwood
Col
Atest
Antoine Martuliono
George Cannon
Louia Roki
Joe Martini
Joe Casa Grandi
John Jennens
Antoino Eppice
Theodore Potosi
John Andriani
Bail Andriani
Francis McCloud
Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Canal proposed in New York filing
Articles of incorporation filed in New York City for the Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Canal Company led by Robert M. Caffal Freeman H. Baldwin H Bolet Peraza consul general Francia P Fleming and others with a $75 million capital The plan a ship canal and railway to connect the Atlantic with the gulf would allow ocean going vessels the harbor at St Augustine as eastern entrance and a 200 foot wide channel deep enough for large ships The project aims to cut transits for Texas and Mexico by about three days and expects freight of 15 million tons yearly. Construction could start after charter issuance and take about five years.
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New York City
New York Dispatch
Purroy
Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Canal Company
Robert M. Caffal
Freeman H. Baldwin
H. Bolet Peraza
Republic of Central America
Thos. FB. Cromwell
Francia P. Fleming
Atlantic
Gulf
Peraza
Tin
Texas
Mexico
Florida
Caffal
Cananl
St. Augustine
Pearls in Arkansas Draw Hunters to St Francis Waters
A Relena special reports pearl hunting spreading across Arkansas, with the St Francis river mouth to Jeffersonville crowded by locals and others prying open mussel shells. Onsmax showed a bottle of pearl material from Phillips bayou. the pearls are darker yet well formed and sizable. All lakes in the St Francis river bottoms are said to be filled with pearl bearing mussels, risking disruption to crop gathering if profitable.
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Relena
St. Francis River
Jeffersonville
Onsmax
Phillips Bayou
St. Francis
Gate City Steamer Struck Off Egg Harbor Light
A New York dispatch reports the Ocean Steamship Company steamer Gate City was rammed at 2 am Friday off Egg Harbor light by a large unknown vessel. The starboard side was holed above the waterline and deckhouse damaged. The Savannah to New York voyage carried 21 passengers. The other vessel fled in the confusion without clear identification.
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Gate City
New York
Ocean Steamship Company
Egg Harbor
Savannah
Tillman speaks in New York at Brook mass meeting
South Carolina Senator Tillman addressed about 8000 Democrats in Brook New York praising Chicago platform and urging remonetization of silver. He attacked aristocrats, warned of monarchy, criticized Whitney Belmont and Flower backed ticket, and urged voters to reject boss rule and ditch dollar wheat rhetoric.
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South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman
United Statos
Brook
Greater
New York
Chicago
Tillman
People's Advocate
Towa
Mark Hanna
William Jennings Bryan
Republican Party
Rome
Athens
Laughtar
Whitney
Belmont
Flower
South
Pennsylvania
New England
United States
McKinley
Europe
India
Russia
Vest Makers Strike For Higher Wages In New York
About 6000 vest makers in New York joined a strike on Friday demanding a 25 percent wage increase. The workers are affiliated with the Hebrew Trades and Socialist Labor Alliance of the city and nearby areas, with about half of the strikers being women.
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New York
Hebrew Trades and Socialistic Labor Alliance
Big firm dissolves after thirty years of success in cotton
After thirty years of steady growth the cotton firm of Inman & Co. dissolves on the 1st. The new firm Sanders, Swann & Co. succeeds. Mr S M Inman leaves Inman & Co. Houston and Inman Sanders & Co Bremen Germany. Samuel M Inman retires to ease a long burden from over a quarter century at the helm.
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M. Inman & Co
Sanders, Swann & Co
8. M. Inman
Inman & Co
Houston
Tex
Inman,Sanders & Co
Bremen
Germany
Samuel M. Inman
Georgia Marble Preferred for Minnesota Capitol Superstructure
A St Paul dispatch reports the Minnesota statehouse commissioners awarded the superstructure contract to Butler-Ryan Co. for 696000 dollars. St Cloud granite will be used for the basement while Georgia marble supplies the rest of the superstructure except the dome.
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Minnesota New Capitol
St. Paul
New Capitol
Minnesota Statehouse
Butler-Ryan Company
St. Cloud
Minnesota
Brooks Seeks New Trial Before Hanging In Georgia
Bud Brooks, condemned to death at Jefferson Georgia for the Belton murder of M. C. Hunt, seeks a last appeal. He is scheduled to hang on the 24th, but his attorney has filed a motion for a new trial to be argued soon before Judge Hutchings.
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Bud Brooks
Jefferson, Ga
M. C. Hunt
Belton
Hutchings
Flanagan
Defansa
Chrandler
Epidemic of Yellow Fever Hits Ocean Springs
Health officers from Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi with doctors Lauder Olli phant Herrison and Wisden declare yellow fever an epidemic in Ocean Springs Mississippi. Over six hundred cases and ten deaths reported since the six week outbreak. Dr. Bemiss of New Orleans among the deceased. A rigid quarantine is ordered after post mortem confirmation. More residents flee to surrounding towns and cities along the coast.
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Alabama Lousiana
Mississippi
W. H. Lauder
Mobile
Olli+phant
New Orleans
H. H. Herrison
Tackoon
Wisden
United States Marine Hospital Service
Ocean Springs
Misa
Gulf
W. H. Bemiss
Bemiss
Bomiss
Raddors
Board of Health of
Ann
Prizes for Georgians win all honors at Sea Girt
Georgia marksmen sweep state and national rifle event at Sea Girt as Private Battey wins champion ship, Lt O Wilson takes Wimbledon cup, Cann and Doyle place high, Governor Atkinson sends praise. in New York a lighter fire destroys 1289 bales of compressed cotton arriving from the South and to be shipped east.
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Sea Girt
New Jersey
National Rifle Association
United States
Tan Ahote
Battey
Georgia
O. Wilson
George Doyle
Seventh Regiment
New York
George T. Cann
Cann
Atkinson
Atlanta
Savanneh
Morgan Line
Fall River
Mystic
Dall River Line
North River
Coweta
James E. Brown
Newnan
New
Milledge
Mr. Brown
Noted criminal recaptured after six years at large
Eugene O Hara alias Joe Bates a 42 year old burglar highwayman and desperado who escaped Jefferson Market prison New York six years ago was recaptured Sunday by detectives He fled with Joe Stran shan to Colon then Europe where they carried out a series of housebreaks and other crimes
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O'Mark
Jalil
Eugene O’hara
Joe Bates
Man Jones Brown
Jefferson Market
New York
O'Hara
Joe Stranshan
Colon
Europe
Sultan and Czar Confer on Mutual Arrangements
Constantinople correspondent reports direct talks between the sultan and the czar have led to mutual understandings. The sultan agrees not to use influence against Russia in Central Asia while the czar pledges to uphold Turkish rights in Europe.
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Constantinople
London Standard
Russia
Central Asia
Europe
Negroes Discuss Lynchings At National Council Meeting
An excited session of the National Race Council convened with W H Counsil of Alabama elected temporary chairman. He urged stamping out violence against women and defending white women, prompting protests and a later resolution requesting clarifications. Counsil was later made permanent chair as delegates then proceeded with business.
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National Rape Council
Nara Ue
W. H. Counsil
Alabama
Hyn
Tom
Janda
Ira
Conneil
Trustees Ask Brown University to Withdraw President Andrews Resignation
The Brown University trustees voted to request President Andrews to withdraw his resignation after a protracted meeting. The resolution cited causes of disputes with the president and noted protests by 25 Brown faculty, plus petitions from college professors and public men supporting Andrews. Signers include Daniel C. Gilman, Charles W. Williston, C. K. Adams, Seth Low, T. J. Coolidge, W. C. Stunner, John Fisher, William Lloyd Garrison, Josiah Quincy, and others.
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Trustees of
Brown
Andrews
Daniel 0. Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Charles Williot
Harvard
C. K. Adams
University of Wisconsin
Seth Low
Columbia
T. J. Coolidie
Franae
W. C
Flanagan Defeated in New Trial Bid in Decatur
Judge Candler denied Howard Flanagan's motion for a new trial on grounds of 45 errors. He upheld the death verdict in the Decatur case involving the murder of Mrs. Allen and Miss Ruth Slack. The ruling surprised the defense, who challenged juror competency.
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Candler
Howard Flanagan
Allen
Ruth Slack
Decatur
Nicaragua Canal Discussion Delays Conference With Sherman
Admiral Walker president of the Nicaragua canal commission conferred with Secretary Sherman about the commission work. A thorough review of papers is under way. Captain Carter, engineer and board member, is due back about the 11th, with a meeting planned in New York soon after.
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Admiral Walker
Sherman
Nicaragua Canal Commission
Carter
New York
Seven Workmen Die As Montreux Wall Collapses
A Montreux dispatch reports an asylum for the insane under construction collapsed burying workers. Seven bodies recovered and seven seriously wounded removed from the wreck.
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Montreux
Switzerland
Gendt
Ladheen
Georgia notes and political snippets in Hawkinsville dispatch
The piece surveys local events from Hawkinsville and Atlanta: cornerstone ceremonies for a new Hawkinsville structure housing a Jefferson Davis photo and Confederate note, the Flanagan case bill of exceptions awaiting filing, rising Atlanta postal activity, a suspect misidentification in Ringgold, North Atlanta post office efforts, and political shifts including Brown’s likely appointment and Atkinson’s allies. It also covers freight discrimination removals, statewide crop prospects, Georgia tax hikes, and governor letters to judges on misdemeanor convict hiring.
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Hawkinsville
Jefferson Davis
Federal Union
Milledgeville
Phil G. Byrd
Atkinson
Elephants Fight and Bees Attract Rochester News Brief
A scrambled, vivid tale describes elephants fighting in the Upper Congo and a hunter named Keoma aiding Robard as they battle a rogue leader. Nearby bees swarm Rochester, with Walter Bargy safely capturing thousands into a beer keg after a soap-box attempt, valued at $16 to $20.
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Congo
Keoma
Robard
Ard
Keonin
Koomo
Patts
Keamay
Anya
Hunga
Tubga
Ruah
Kooma
Skeeb
Rochester
Walter B. Bargy
Vannland
Onnal Foot Bridge
Desire to Flee Hornets Ends in House Tear Down
William Harrold, a cigar dealer residing at Mill Valley, fought months of hornet infestations nesting between his walls. He tried sulfur and chloroform with little effect, finally tearing out the wall to eliminate the nest and its mud cells. The stubborn pests woke repeatedly, forcing drastic measures to end the attack.
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William Harrold
Mill Val
Wan
Harrold
Hoei
Harrald
Hornota
San Francisco
Interesting Work of Mound Builders at Fort Ancient
The Dayton Journal describes Fort Ancient on the Little Miami near Lebanon Ohio as the largest best preserved and most interesting Mound Builder site. It notes European and American archaeologists study it and models are shown in London Paris and Berlin museums. The fort covers about one hundred acres with part purchased in 1800 and rest in 1996 by the state.
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Dayton Journal
Little Miami River
Lebanon
Warren County
Ohio
Europe
America
London
Paris
Berlin
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Inaine
Arkansas
House of Tenrn & Co
Brooks
Hunt
Ocean Springs, Miss
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Czar
Nicaragua Canal
Columbus
Lewis Redigins
Ohio State Penitentiary
Louden
Mied Heathcock
Ringgold
Heathcock
North
Postoffics Department
Peachtree
Exposition Grounds
Dawnon
Har
Awaoy
Albany
Railroad Commission
Weather Bureau
Floyd County
County Board of Commissioners
Echols
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