Gutenberg celebration opens at Mainz with exhibits and pageantry
The annual birthday fete for John Gutenberg opens in Mainz with typographic and historic exhibitions from Berlin Vienna Paris Lisztos and other cities. A grand procession planned with 3000 participants in fifteenth century costume and 41 floats will conclude with a banquet and concerts.
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Berlin
Associated Press
John Gutenberg
Mayence
Vienna
Paris
Lis
Gutenberg
Madrid
St. Petersburg
Phen
Gutenberg Monument
Togiay
Gutenberg Museum
France
England
Italy
America
Four U S Sailors Killed In Ambuscade Near Tien Tsin
Navy bulletin reports four Americans killed and seven wounded in an ambuscade near Tien Tsin on the 21st. Admiral Kempff dispatches from Chefoo dated June 24. Brooklyn ordered to Taku to carry troops to General MacArthur.
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Washington
Navy Department
Admiral Kempt
Chefoo
Tien Tsin
Waller
Kempir
Secretary of the Navy
Remey
Brooklyn
Taku
MacArthur
Retribution Is Rapid Mob Cuts Missouri Channel
A mob of fifty farmers near Renninger's Neck north of Sioux City cuts a Missouri river channel to divert floodwaters. The quarter mile cut would reclaim twenty seven thousand acres from Nebraska, causing the Missouri to shift across a peninsula and drown land below the cut. Litigation over land transfers between states looms.
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Sioux City
Renniger’s Neck
Nebraska
Missouri
Exposition Now Complete Amid Naval Manoeuvres Planned
Paris reports the exposition finished with exhibits installed and fire and robbery policies exceeding 40 million dollars. Next week naval maneuvers in the Eng Channel will test a large French fleet of 34 ships from Toulon. Senate approves a police court trial measure to curb attacks on the president. Wealthy Americans flock to Paris social events as expo visitors surge. Change to Missouri river course noted at Renniger's Neck.
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Diversified Industries
Rors
Engsh
France
Toulon
North
Senate
Republic
Paris
Pressemacife
M. Hi. de- Young
Landgrave of Hesse
South Dakota
Missouri
Renniger’s
Rival Suitors In Bedford Pistol Fight End Fatality
In Bedford Indiana on June 24 a pistol fight between Albert Robins and Oscar Jeans, both suitors of Miss Jennie Russell, escalated with fatal results for a girl named Jennie Russell. Authorities investigate motives and identify other involved parties.
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Bedford
Ind
Albert Robins
Oscar Jeans
Jennie Russell
Murder and Twain Parallels in Washington Case
Frank W. Funk awaiting execution for the Brooks murder and the assault on Martha Brooks argues his innocence in a story comparing his case to Mark Twain's Puddnhead Wilson. He suggests Brooks' daughter committed the crime and notes a bloody thumbprint on the axe as the signature.
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Washington
Frank W. Funk
William H. Brooks
Mark Twain
Nhead Wilson
Climate shifts linked to canal weather reports
A Washington report cites Professor Moore of the weather bureau explaining Chicago’s climate is governed not by the canal’s cold drainage but by broader high and low pressure systems moving across the United States near the Great Lakes.
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Washington
Chicago
Winage Canal
Moore
Weather Bureau
United States
Great Lakes
Jay Cooke Suffered Attack At Home In Elkins
Jay Cooke the famous financier is at his Elkins home on June 25 recovering from a recent apoplexy attack. He gained worldwide fame for his 1878 failure that contributed to a financial panic and for saving the government’s credit during Civil War crises.
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Elkins
Jay Cooke
Cooke
United States
Conference fails to reach agreement in Pittsburg steel scale talks
In Pittsburg the ware scale conference of steel sheet combine representatives and workers adjourned without settling terms. 196 mills exist in the country. 69 are non union, and the Amalgamated Association refused to sign the scale without non union mills included.
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Pittsburg
Steel Sheet Combine and Workers
Amalgamated Association
Rumored Appointment for Fort Wayne Bishop
Washington reports suggest Very Rev. John Guendling administrator of the Fort Wayne vacant see will be named bishop. Pope's officials in Rome have signaled an imminent appointment, with advices reaching Washington.
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Washington
John Guendling
Fort Wayne
Ind
Rome
Brigham Roberts Sentenced in Utah Court
Brigham TH Roberts was sentenced by Judge Norrell in Salt Lake City to pay a $150 fine or serve 150 days in jail for unlawful cohabitation. He plans to appeal to the state supreme court on a technicality.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Brigham TH. Roberts
Norrell
Supreme Court
Outcome of the second attack on Tien Tsin
The admiral reported a battle beginning yesterday with dimensions and results that could decide the fate of the legations and foreign settlements at Tien Tsin and determine whether war with China will ensue.
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Tien Tsin
China
Forty Men of the Fortieth Lose Nine Dead and Twelve Wounded
A detachment of forty men from the Fortieth regiment under Captain Thomas Millar left Cagayan de Misamis on Mindanao June 12 and engaged an entrenched enemy force June 14. Nine Americans were killed and ten wounded with several officers among the wounded. one missing. MacArthur formally replies to Pinolo insurgents, promising most rights but rejecting friar expulsion.
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Manila
Thomas Millar
Cagayan de Misamis
Island of Mindanao
Cayayan
Robert H. Coles
John H. Haywood
Fred Holloway
John T. Pobham
Frank Salisbury
Jesse G. Moody
Michael Mod
M’quirk
Walter B Hiliott
Thomas Miller
Jett Wilig
James W. Jeffries
Roxie Wheaton
George
MacArthur
Taft
Nat Goodwin Nears Recovery After Morphine Overdose
A Butte, Montana dispatched report states actor Nat Goodwin lay in danger at the Butter Hotel from an overdose. He recovered enough to travel with his company toward Duluth where he hopes to perform Monday. Doctors treated him for over twenty four hours to avert a coma.
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St. Paul
Minn
Butte
Mont
Pioneer Press
Goodwin
Butter Hotel
Duluth
Fire destroys business district in Huntley Minn
A blaze started in A D Meires grocery destroyed Meires grocery post office Hill s general store and Williams implement store in Huntley. Total loss reaches 25000 with no local fire protection and a bucket brigade saved nearby homes. Two robbers wounded Ed ward Nantsill and two nephews in a farmhouse raid near Poplar Bluff. Nantsill dies. others survive.
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Huntley
Minn
A. D
Meires
Hill
Williams
Poplar Bluff
Edward Nantsill
Nantsill
Ashland Merchant Louis Kellman Found Dead in Store
Louis Kellman a prominent Ashland Wis merchant was found dead in his store death attributed to asphyxiation by own action Doctors note the death as suicide Kellman carried substantial life insurance in the event of his death the tragedy shocks the local business community.
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Ashland
Wis
Louis Kellman
Kellman
Death at His Harvest Awful Disaster in the South
A Macon branch train wreck north of McDonough Georgia leaves 35 dead and many injured after washout flood and fire. Pullman passengers escape only by late alarm as flames spread through wreckage with a night storm and rushing flood waters. Among the dead are conductors, engineers, and crew from Atlanta Stockbridge and Macon.
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Atlanta
Macon
Southern Railway
McDonough
Willam A. Barclay
J.B. Wood
J. A
Hunnicut
Athintas
A.p. Sullivan
Ehelneers Wow
Bennett
Athantas
Madox
Athani
Stockbridge
Spark
Treason
Florida
R. Movida
Nashville
W. ©. Bilis
D. Y. Griffith
J. J. Rhodes
John Brantley
White
Wil Green
W .L. Lawrence
Jil Byrd
Colored
Robert Spencer
Train Wreck Near Depert Kills One and Injures Thirty Six
A northbound excursion train collided with a freight near Depert station five miles south of here on the Chicago and Northwestern line. One died en route to hospital and 36 injured, many severely, as the second coach bore the brunt of the impact.
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Green Bay
Wia
Chicago and Northwestern
Depert
Tye Kelled
Hol
Ruskie
Lawrence Plank
Fon du Lac
George
Lloyd
Eden
Charles Miersoa
Burt Ives
Oshkosh
Ashhand
Lawson
Neenah
Red Wagner
William Kanult Main
Charles Lew
Plog
J. J. Sehmitz
Thomas Lamb
Joseph Landerman
Prothag
Mouduo Lae
Waward Rabedewa
Kaukauna
Lee
Tloyd
Herman Ross
Bondiy Lac
Bert Doest
James (Attney
van Dyne
Mrs. Wehe
Miss Heider
John JH. Thompson
Ka. Carr
Jean Carr
Great Western Tine Plate resumes after brief idle period
Joliet Illinois June 25 The Great Western Tine Plate works resumed today after a short idle period caused by trouble with the employees. Matters were adjusted and 22 men have returned to work.
Coroner's inquest finds cause of Mrs Randolph death starvation
Dillsboro Indiana June 25 coroner inquest into the death of Mrs Randolph of Vevay shows she died of starvation after eating no nourishment for more than a week and shared the scant food among her three children.
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Dillsboro
Ind
Randolph
Vevay
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Washington, Iowa
Joseph Khok
Presipent
Chas. H. Keck
Casnrmr
Frank Stewart
M. Keck
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J. H. Stewart
Tondre & Bene
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John Floyd
Noah Lark
Skip Tender
Herman Luma
Otto Parkala
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Terry McGovern
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George Dixon
Terry
Joliet Mill
T. J. Dempsey
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J. F. Poage
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American School of Oateopathy
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Marsh W. Bailey
Qofficr
City
Iowa
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Fricke
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. H. Butterfield
Oratl's
P. J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
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