Fever and Quarantines Drag Gulf States Into Control Crisis
A Washington Post telegraph reports Texas and Mississippi impose strict quarantines amid a yellow fever surge in New Orleans and surrounding areas. Towns ban freight and even mail, while Italians face suspicion and mobs flare in Jefferson Parish. governors clash over accountability as militia enforce restrictions.
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United States Marine Hospital Service
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McComb City
Magnolia
Utica
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Grand Junction
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Lafayette
Tangipahoa
Lumberton
Mias
Forgotten murder sentence marks Maine death penalty history
Orrington, Me July. Howard A. Cleveland died at Thomaston State Prison after years on death row for a murder in 1809. The court debated if the verdict meant first degree, and the governor delayed execution. Maine shifted death penalty status multiple times, with abolition in 1876, briefly revived, then abolished again in 1887.
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Orrington
Howard A. Cleveland
Thomaston
Celveland
Cleveland
Warren George
Supreme Court of Maine
New York Extortion Trial Highlighted By Debated Proof
A New York extortion case centers on Chemp S Andrews who faced a judge after claims no specific crime was proved. Andrews testified he acted to recover $18,000 swindled from Dr. John A Harris, detailing a staged gambling scheme with partners Stroanider and McKee to reclaim the funds.
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Letering
Chemp S Andrews
John 5
Stroenicer
John A. Harrie
Olmstead
Court of General Sessions
George Gordon Battle
Andrews
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Strosnider
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Stroanider
Deaths of Three Women in Newark Personal Crisis
New York July 29 three young Newark women attempted death by their own actions. Mrs Emma Boes and Mrs Jessie Pfeffer both aged twenty four drank carbolic acid. Boes is dead while Pfeffer lingers in agony possibly to recover. Martha Blake aged twenty two, a stenographer at M Harvey Osborne Silver Co Newark, was found dead with a tube from a gel jet in her mouth after being told she had heart disease.
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New York
Newark
Emma Boes
Jessie Pfeffer
Baltimore Brewery Deadlock Sparks Production Talks
Brewers and their employees met to press for better hours and management changes but achieved no agreement. A further conference is planned for Monday to pursue a factory agreement as the Baltimore and Ohio line runs hourly service on weekends and ships crowds to Chesapeake Beach for music and recreation.
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Baltimore
Batimore
Brown Forms Revolt Against Penrose Led Organization
Maj Isaac R Brown secretary of Internal affairs for Pennsylvania announces a break with the current Republican state organization led by United States Senator Penrose. He calls for a new deal and quotes Roosevelt urging a square deal amid alleged mismanagement and extravagance under the present organizers. Brown, elected two years ago, says he will not seek renomination.
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Penrose
Washington Post
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Pennsylvenia
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May Brown
City Council Riot Over City Lighting Contract
A July 29 special Springfield council meeting sparked a riot as revolvers were drawn and an alderman kidnapped during a clash over extending the city lighting contract with Springfield Light Heat and Power Company. Mayor Devereaux adjourned, a rump session passed the extension, and legal action followed.
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Washington Post
Springfield
Springfield Light, Heat and Power Company
Devereaux
Silcox
Hay
Bay
Emil G Schmit
Springfeld Light, Heat and Power Company
Anderson
City
Lanphir
Tomisht
Mouman
Merchants Trust Co Receivers Declare 40 Percent Dividend
Albany July 2 percent 40 per cent payout to all depositors of the bankrupt Merchants Trust Co of New York ordered by Justices Howard in special term. Partial dividend financed by sale of stock and other assets. list of details includes ion odd phrasing. Portland Oregon and Exposition notes appear as stray text.
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Ietheran Wa
Double of Wife Murder Suspect Says He Is His Cousin
Carlton, accused of wife murder and facing multiple charges, claims his woes arise from a double who resembles him. He says a cousin impersonated him to mislead women and steal his identity, and he vows to help police identify the impersonator while denying guilt.
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Munier
Cross
Carlton
United States
Martinez
de Rodrigues
Cartier
Farley
McCandress
Garitone Qyrorpives
Gariton
Sascha Arician Caneasan
Cloudburst Floods Town Warren Pa Severe Damage
Cloudburst floods Warren Pennsylvania with Glades Run rising rapidly, residents evacuated to upper stories, many houses left unstable and damaged. Gas mains broken, city dark, rescues ongoing, no confirmed deaths. Similar storms hit Bridgeport and Titusville causing property and crop losses, power outages, and flooding.
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Glades Run
Ita Banka
Bridgeport
Oia
Stomm
Sixteen Year Old Sutton Davis Mauled by Shark Near Beaufort
Special to The Washington Post Richmond July 2 Sutton Davis aged sixteen was fatally attacked by a shark while wading in water ten miles east of Beaufort on the North Carolina coast. Spectators on shore could not rescue him as the shark dragged him into deep water and disappeared. Eyewitnesses describe the shark as twenty to thirty feet long and incredibly swift. The area has long seen sharks feeding on factory refuse yet rarely attack people.
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Washington
Richmond
Sutton Davis
Davis
North Carolina
Beaufort
Watet
Everal
Explosion kills two men on Kanawha River launch near Charleston
Two prominent Montgomery youths Otto Huddleston and Robert Huddleston were killed when a gasoline tank exploded aboard their newly built pleasure launch on the Kanawha River near Charleston. Homer Smith and John Morrison escaped by swimming to shore as rescuers searched the river. bodies were not recovered as rescuers and locals continued efforts.
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W Va
Otto
Robert Huddleston
Montgomery
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John Morrison
Huddlester
G. M. Huddleston
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Index 10 Today s Issue Part One And Part Two
A busy front page index outlines sections from the editorial to sport and finances. It notes topics such as Yellow Fever pread, legal and political items, overseas events, and a wide range of features including theater, fashion, chemistry, and public affairs across multiple parts and pages.
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Himeself
Divnne
Army and Navy
Canada
Washington
Marie Corelli
Kaiser
Thurlow Weed
Savoyard
Richmond
Genator Beveridge
Wilds
Aguinaldo Testifies in Renacimento Libel Case in Manila
Special Cebla Dispatch reports Emilio Aguinaldo testifying in the Renacimento libel case as editors accused of libeling Capt Baker. He speaks in Tagalog via interpreter after being pressed by Prosecuting Attorney Smith. The court heard graphic accounts of constabulary outrages and brutal acts by Cavite ladrone, drawing a packed courtroom audience.
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Washington Post
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Emilio Aguinaldo
Renacimento
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Aguinaldo
Felizardo
Montolon
Lfe
Caviteladrone
Inaido
Texas lynching near Avery shocks Texas towns
An unknown Black man who attempted to assault two White women near Avery was captured on Sulphur River and hanged by a mob of hundreds. The lynching follows an earlier attack on Mrs Aydelotte and a confrontation with her husband. The incident underscores violent frontier justice during the era.
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Avery
Aydelotte
Alec
Sulphur River
Tans Q
Depew Defends Actions After European Return
Chauncey M Depew arrives from Europe saying he faces a storm center and will issue a full statement on the Equitable matter and related transactions. He notes he is a minor Depew Improvement Company stockholder and discusses his support for Facts and Fancies and his help to “the boys” while denying any coercion or improper conduct.
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New York
Chauncey M. Depew
Europe
Steemer St. Paul
Depew
Senator Pratt
Rt. Paul
Depew Improvement Company
Paul Morton
Equitable
Glat
Col Mann
Cannon Ball Train Wreck Kills Two in Arkansas
A southbound Fast Train No. 5 on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad derailed July 22 near Arkansas by striking a misplaced switch. Two workers died William Houston an engineer from Little Rock and Doolin of Poplar Bluff Missouri. Thirteen injured includes Doolin seriously, McLoughlin and Pains of St Louis, with Mrs Carl Hoepler among less seriously hurt. A relief train took the injured to Little Rock.
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Wfagt
St. Louis
Iron
Carl Hoepler
Germany
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Texas Points
Littles Rock
Wreck injures forty three on Ozark line train crash
Fort Smith Ark July 293 The Little Rock and Kansas City special train on the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway wrecked at Ozark today injuring forty three passengers four may die Most serious injured are A F Gant Memphis Wawerd Griffin Little Rock Misa Ethel Harris Nevada Mo John Wall 6 Louie Five Little Rock base ball players also injured Causes spread rafts coaches left track second coach and first Pullman telescoped.
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Ark
Little Rock
Kansas City
Little Rock and
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Ozark
A. F Gant
Memphis
Wawerd Griffin
Misa Ethel Harris
Mise Agmoe Welah
Zupt Waleh
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Nevada
John Wall
Louie
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