Christ in the Ship and the Storm Sermon
A preacher uses the biblical scene of Jesus calming the storm on Gennesaret to urge readers to keep Christ in life and enterprise. He warns that following Christ brings trials but promises divine help, urging courage amid persecutions and revivals as part of a faithful voyage toward heaven.
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Louis Klopsch
Capernaum
Christ
Robert McCheyne
Gennesaret
Jesus
Geancsaret
Mount Hermon
Thal
God
Jesus Christ
St. James
St. Philip
St. Matthew
St. Mark
St. James the Less
St. Thomas
John Huss
Hugh McKail
Church of God
Church of Jesus Christ
Hon
Hoe
Heaven
Tied Own Nuptial Knot By Pirate Justice of the Peace
Ira Carle of Kingston Pennsylvania a longtime justice of the peace performed a private marriage with a 65 year old widow without witnesses or clergy The bride later seeks a legal separation claiming cruel treatment The court considers the ceremony potentially valid and the case heads to a higher court for ruling
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Ira Carle
Kingston
Keystone
Chicago Chronicle
Model of the Maine Fund to Commission Navy Sailors
Rear-Admiral John W. Philip to lead a Navy fund drive among sailors and marines to forge a silver model of the battleship Maine. The Maine model, costing about $2,000, will be presented to Miss Helen Gould. Some funds have already been raised and the plan asks 10 cents from every sailor and marine, roughly 26,900 enlisted men, to complete the total.
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Maine
John W. Philip
Brooklyn Navy Yard
United States Navy
United States
Helen Gould
British Troops Suffer Major Loss At Roodeval
From Kroonstad region reports say the Fourth Derbyshire Battalion was wiped out with heavy officer casualties and many prisoners after Boers cut Lord Roberts line of communications on June 7. Additional notes mention mass Boer surrenders at Ficksburg and Donkerspoort defeats elsewhere.
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London
Frederick Forestier-Walker
South Africa
Roodeval
Lord Roberts
Werbyshire Regiment
Baird Douglas
Hawley
Wilkinson
Blanchard
Canadian Infantry
Forestier-Walker
Kroonstad
Kelly-Kenny
Reuter
Maseru
Brabant
Ficksburg
Machadodoro
Transvaal
Lourenco Marques
Donkerspoort
Free State
Orange River Colony
Norval’s Pont
Urge Delay of Independence in Cuba Debate
Havana June 13 Gov Gen Wood receives many callers including lawyers bankers merchants and two former cabinet members who oppose rapid independence saying the United States should slow its pace to avoid turning over Cuba to professional politicians who could ruin the island they plan not to join the coming elections.
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Havana
Wood
United States
Cuba
Crop Prospects Dismal Across Midwestern Farms
Northern Pacific crop reports from St. Paul on June 13 warn of bleak prospects. Heavy rains were followed by hot winds reducing rye and grain yields, with Montana and parts of North Dakota showing some relief. State authorities move to curb grasshopper damage in Northwest Minnesota.
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St. Paul
Minn
Montana
North Dakota
Fire threatens Tribune building in Nassau Street
Fire in New York at Nassau Street building of the Tribune was discovered shortly after midnight. Three alarms sent firefighters quickly, but dense smoke and rapid flames forced many staff to flee to the streets. Damage estimated at 5 000 dollars.
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Newspapers
New York
Tribune
Nassau Street
Mutiny at Porto Rico Prison in San Juan
Five hundred inmates mutinied at the Porto Rico penitentiary in San Juan on June 13 refusing meals and work. They said the food was unfit and the leader struck the warden. Porto Rico regiment troops repelled a rush as three volleys fired and the prisoners were slightly injured.
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Porto Rico
San Juan
Official count for union officers announced
The initial official ballot tally for the International union officers is released. President candidates Yor Donnelly of New York received 9,606 votes, James M. Jaynch of Syracuse gathered 14,143 votes in the first-half count conducted in Indianapolis.
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Bynel Mas
Indianapolis
Ind
The
International Union
S. 8B
Donnelly
New York
James M. Jaynch
Syracuse
Four McArthur Family Slaughtered by Hired Man Morrison
Sheriff’s posse reports the massacre at Moosemin Assiniboia where Postmaster Alexander McArthur and four relatives died and two more were wounded. The killer Morrison, a 27 year old Glasgow native, wounded himself and confessed as the only survivor Miss McArthur, age unknown, recounts the ax murders. The motive remains unclear and Morrison is expected to recover.
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Moosemin
Assiniboia
Welwyn
Alexander McArthur
John Morrison
McArthur
Dempsey McArthur
Charles McArthur
Russell McArthur
Mamie McArthur
Henry McArthur
Baby McArthur
Miss McArthur
Morrigan
Morrison
Glasgow
Tragic anniversary of Col Crawford burning observed in Ohio
Upper Sandusky, June 12. Pioneers gathered at Crawford to mark the 118 year old tragedy of Col Crawford burned by Indians. Crawford, ally of Washington, was tortured and killed after an 1782 expedition and Battle Island fight near Wyandot Town. Dr Knight escaped.
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Col. Crawford
Ohio
Upper Sandusky
Crawford
George Washington
Pennsylvania
Wyandot Town
Here
Battle Island
Mr. Knight
John Slover
Dr. Knight
First of Klondike's Yield Arrives in Seattle
About 300000 dollars worth of Klondike gold, the season's first consignment for 1900, arrived aboard the steamer City of Seattle. The ship carried 225 passengers, 165 from the Klondike, marking the first miners to reach Seattle since navigation opened. Col Joseph Green estimated this season's Klondike clean-up at 25000000 dollars, noting water scarcity limited sluicing.
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Seattle
Wash
City of Seattle
Klondike
Joseph Green
Col. Green
Telephone Men Gather for Independent Telephone Convention
Cleveland June 12 delegates from forty states arrive for the fourth annual Independent Telephone Association of the United States meeting. About 1,000 delegates and visitors have reached the city as preliminary sessions and electrical exhibit inspections proceed in the Electric Building on Prospect Street ahead of tomorrow morning's first session.
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Cleveland
Independent Telephone Association of the United States of America
Prospect Street
American ships Albany and Buffalo reach Southampton
The United States cruiser Albany arrived at Southampton today after being placed in commission at Newcastle on Tyne May 30 and heading to the Mediterranean. The training ship Buffalo, sailing from New York April 19 for a Mediterranean cruise, has also arrived at Southampton.
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Albany
Southampton
Newcastle-on- Tyne
Mediterranean
Buffalo
New York
Temperance Congress Opens in London With Russell Presiding
The temperance congress opened in London with President Thomas Wallace Russell M P and delegates from around the world. J L Bailey of Philadelphia was elected a vice president and presented a paper on The United States and South America by Rev J B Dunn.
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London
Thomas Wallace Russell
M. Pp
J. L. Bailey
Philadelphia
United States
South America
J. B. Dunn
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Wagner Streets
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