World News and Crises Across the Globe
A Madrid dispatch reports serious fighting with many killed or wounded as premier contemplates martial law. The United States warns Russia and China over integrity of the empire, endorsing Britain’s Japan pact. Final ratifications exchange for the May Paunceforte canal treaty proceed quietly. Fire devastates Lafayette Indiana causing over 260000 in losses. Germany signals no change on Manchurian rights. Kansas populists split with democrats. Isaac Daily executed in Last Quentin. Seamen drown in Icelandic fishing season. minstrel shows set for Omaha and dairy farm noted. Knox not resigning. Quebec dynamite incident injures none.
Immigrant wave reshapes Sioux river frontier lands
The article describes 1902 immigration pressure shifting toward the Northwest and into the Dakotas, with eastern lands east of the Missouri river opening to settlement at government prices. It notes railroad builders seeking access to the Black Hills and the impact on Sioux reservations and land sales near Battle Creek Institution. It also reports a catastrophic fire at Kellogg Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where 400 patients escaped as the main building burned to ruin.
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Missouri River
Nebreaska
North Dakota
Thia
Wau
Oklahoma
Black Hills
Nobranke
Milroad
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Aloux
Battle Creek
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Nuraea
Consolidation plan for Cleveland savings banks aims to form a large network
Promoters pursue uniting small Cleveland area savings banks into a single institution with current banks as branches to curb customer withdrawals and bolster safety. Also reports a series of court rulings on life insurance policies, a Sultan plot in Constantinople, choir boys strike, a New York murder witness death, Minnesota execution, and other scattered crime and violence items.
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Cleveland
United States Circuit Court of
Rates Rise on Fire Risks Across U S
A New York meeting of insurance firms approved a national rate increase except in New York City area. Rates climb 45 percent on mercantile stocks in most buildings, with exceptions for low occupancy dwellings, upper stories, and certain frame stores. The action targets manufacturers and other special hazards, pending revised schedules.
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Rockiew
New York
United States
Rocky Mountains
New York City
Edison praises Akron man inventor for pain curing device
The article recounts Thomas W. McCue of Akron Ohio presenting an electric dental pain device to Thomas A Edison. Edison tested the unit and praised its potential to end pain in dentistry. McCue claims the device blocks pain by short circuiting it and reduces current to a tiny fraction of a volt.
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Thomas A. Edison
Thomas W. McCue
Akron
Ohio
McCue
Electriciana
Great Rock Wrecks Train near Little Rock
A huge boulder weighing at least sixteen tons rolled onto a Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf line train, burying the caboose and killing seven workers while injuring about twenty. The wreck occurred twenty miles west of Little Rock, Arkansas, with many victims described as Black laborers. a lynching followed in New Madrid, Missouri where a man named Lovig Weight was hanged after a shooting incident during a minstrel show.
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Louis Wright
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Pringles
No Law Against Death by Own Action Judge Rules
Philadelphia judge says attempted suicide with intent to kill oneself is not an offense in the state. Herbert Wright pleaded guilty to attempted suicide and then to a general plea, receiving discharge. Judge Arnold noted no offense exists for death by own action in this jurisdiction, citing historical views on life and divine ownership.
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Arnold
Philadelphia
Wright
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Congress Debates Clerks and Danish West Indies Move
The Senate discussed clerical employment and a probe into extravagance with a committee report on clerks and the creation of a permanent census office. The treaty with Denmark to acquire St Thomas St Croix and St John was debated as the Senate passed bills on national banks and a war tax reduction. In the House Wheeler of Kentucky attacked Prince Henry amid foreign policy clashes while discussions on the Philippine tariff continued with spirited exchanges over navigation and shipping interests.
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Verdict Supports Sampson Over Schley In Battle Credit
The President sustains the court of inquiry verdict on the Battle of Santiago. Sampson is deemed the proper commander and to receive main credit for the blockade and decisive actions, while Schley led the western division but neither commander earns meritorious praise for the battle itself. The decision also addresses Dewey and related command questions, with emphasis on the captains’ roles and the overall outcome.
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Fragmented rural notices mix in and around city names
An OCR fragment references Mill Austin advice Justice Mathew of London and Father Mathew temperance, a 10 cent refund offer for Putnam Faceless Dye failures, Monroe Drag Co in Calh ???, North Carolina post offices, bombastic quotes about post office wages, a plea about a sick child, a Brooklyn response, and a curious misstatement about vast oceanic water volumes.
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Monroe Drag Ca
Calenville, Mo
Testimonial for Lydia E Pinkham remedy from Mrs O Donnell
Mrs J E O Donnell of Chicago writes praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for eight years of womb trouble and general ill health. She credits the product with restoring health and urges women with female complaints to consider the remedy, noting Mrs Pinkham offers free advice.
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