Jerome urges charity and law in time of unrest
William Travers Jerome, district attorney of New York, spoke to 6 000 in Chautauqua on Patriotism of Peace warning that political and social unrest is near a crisis. He criticized Carnegie libraries as wasted funds from workers and Homestead money and urged keeping wealth with earners to improve homes.
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Chautauqua
N. Y
William Travers Jerome
New York
Assembly
Jerome
Carnegie
Homestead
Iron and Atee
Lynching Rumor Follows Morgan County Crime
A Morgon County incident from West Liberty reports Levi Phipps, a respected mountaineer, whose two daughters aged 16 and 12 were abducted by five men and held overnight. The youths were harmed, the girls escaped to alert authorities, and a posse captured the suspects who are jailed amid calls for lynching.
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Mount Sterling
West Liberty
Morgan County
Caney Creek
Levi Phipps
Belcher Sought in Embezzlement Case
Paterson New Jersey August 7 police search for Mayor William H Belcher. Descriptions sent nationwide and abroad under extradition treaties. He is accused of embezzling over 100000 dollars from private individuals with a specific charge of 1400 dollars.
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Paterson
N. J
William H. Belcher
United States
Belcher
Explosion at Keister works injures eight miners in Redstone
Uniontown Aug 7 Eight miners were injured in a blast at the Keister works Redstone township when a powder charge intended to blast coal discharged improperly. Rock and flames struck a group of miners, one severely hurt.
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Uniontown
Keister Works
Redstone Township
Italian Sungrinder Driven Out Of Glassport
In Glassport Pittsburg Aug 7 a mob forced out an Italian sungrinder after his monkey bit children severely in separate incidents. The mob threatened lynching and drove him from the borough.
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Pittsburg
Glassport
Navy to duplicate every gun in United States fleet
A nationwide plan aims to duplicate all naval guns to guard against emergencies. A series of unrelated items follow noting local fires, finance delays, rate increases, heat waves, and visits of officials. The report lists several varied events from across the country and abroad.
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United States Navy
Suit filed over alleged affections and a death
Frank Powell LaCrosse city engineer sues L P Phillippi head of Philippi Directory Publishing for 10000 damages alleging repeated attentions to his wife Mabel Powell and that her infidelity and resulting distress led to her suicide last April. Powell seeks exposure of Phillippi's conduct and claims no money is his goal. Phillippi previously operated in Rockford Illinois and has produced directories for major northwestern cities.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Frank Powell
Mason
L. P. Phillippi
Philippi Directory Publishing Company
Powell
Mabel
Phillippi
Rockford
Tfl
Envoys Arrive for Peace Conference in New Naval Stores
Portsmouth, Aug 7. Preparations reach completion for the peace conference with plenipotentiaries to meet daily on the second floor of a large naval stores building. Thick coast weather delays opening as the peace squadron anchors. Mayflower Dolphin and Galveston at Newport with de Witte and Baron Rosen debarking before traveling on. Japanese envoys remain aboard the Dolphin.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Dolphin
Galveston
Newport
de Witte
Baron Rosen
Melvin Arrested in Keystone for Saloon Dynamiting Charge
C L Melvin wanted in Iola Kansas on dynamiting saloons has been arrested in Keystone Iowa. He worked in a railroad construction gang. Also obituary notices report General Roy Stone of Mendham New Jersey dead at 66 after long service in Civil War and Spanish-American War.
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Louis R. Levings
Armour Institute
Chicago
Estes Park
Colo
John Paul Jones
France
Connors
Bloomington
Ill
Cedar Rapids
Mexico
United States
Geneva
Switzerland
Manila
Taft
Grover Cleveland
New York
Carlisle
C. L. Melvin
Iola
Kan
Keystone
Roy Stone
Mendham
N. J
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Pika
Ethnological Congress
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Oklahoma Buffalo
Congress of All Nations
Columbia
Exhibition Grounds
Winnemucen
Nev
Kansas
Gulf of Mexico
Buffalo
Royal Arcanum
Austro-Hungary
Francis B. Loomis
Europe
William Fife
Lipton
Colorado
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H. W. Russel
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Portland
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John Sebastian
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