Mayox Pinerer Nominated for Michigan Governor
The Weekly Call notes Mayox Pinerer of Detroit is nominated for Michigan governor. It jokes that if elected the Wolverine State could become a potato patch. An English correspondent reports the duchess of Marlborough removed her hat to not obstruct the view at a venue. Russia asked France for a $200 million loan and the French subscribed twenty five times over.
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Mayox Pinerer
Detroit
Michigan
Wolverine
England
Duchess of Marlborough
Russia
France
Vanderbilt Jr. Repudiates Father’s Displeasure in Love
The passage contrasts Gibbon’s obedience to his father with Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.’s disregard for parental admonition in a love affair, noting he did not obey like a son. The remark underscores differing responses to parental authority in romantic matters.
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Gibbon
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Compact lunch basket for wheelists delights riders
Wheelists praise a compact lunch basket that fits on a bicycle handle bar. Measuring ten by four inches and nine inches high, it includes a wicker covered flask a drinking cup a sandwich box and an enameled plate with knife and fork.
Hottest Persian Gulf region endures 40 days above 100
The southwestern coast of Persia near the Persian Gulf has recorded 40 consecutive days with temperatures above 100 degrees in the shade day and night and rising to as high as 130 degrees in the afternoon. This harsh heat, though extreme, offers a distant consolation to sweltering humanity in America.
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Persia
Persian Gulf
America
Record Navy transfer time beats prior route by far
The Navy Department sought the fastest cross continental crew transfer. One hundred sailors arrived in Norfolk from San Francisco by a special train in four days and 23 hours, a record. Previously transfers used the Isthmus of Panama route and took 35 days.
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Navy Department
Norfolk
San Francisco
Panama
Coroner's Jury Censures Railroad Over Collision Cause
A coroner's jury probing a Reading railroad fatal crash found the railroad company at fault for failing to grant an employee rest. The conductor testified fatigue led him to sleep as trains collided, prompting the verdict and blame.
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Reading
Laurier Supports Reciprocity Against Colonial Policy
The new Canadian premier Wilfrid Laurier and his party favor a reciprocity pact with the United States. Lord Ripon once stated that Britain could not approve such an agreement. The piece questions whether Canada can govern itself and set its own trade policy under imperial constraints and whether it will remain a colony or seek greater independence.
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Wilfred Laurier
United States
Lord Ripon
Canada
Great Britain
Chicago Doctors Use X Rays On Lungs In Hope Of Cure
A number of well known Chicago physicians treat an almost hopeless case of consumption with direct X ray application through the lungs. While not certain of a cure, some doctors call the results wonderful and marvellous but remain cautious and await further developments.
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Chicago
Life in Holloway Prisons Described As Enchanted Rest
A famous first-class misdemeanant extols Holloway prison in London as an unbroken joy and cherished leisure. He compares it to an enchanted castle with liveried guards, saying he found rare happiness and was kept from strife of tongues during his stay.
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Holloway Prison
London
Switzerland
Holloway
South Africa’s raid linked to Jamieson and Hammon fallout
South Africa, led by Dr. Jamieson, profited from the Matabeleland attack that subdued natives and opened gold fields. An American prospector rose to wealth from that action. The sentence on Jamieson draws criticism as unjust as the lax punishment for his masters and for Soba Hays Hammond.
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South Africa
Jamieson
Matcbeleland
Soba Hays Hammond
Westchester man dies after sudden heart paralysis
News in brief covers a Westchester, Pennsylvania incident where James Smith, a highly regarded Unionville resident, suffered heart paralysis and died within minutes while socializing with friends. Other items include Weyler’s decree extensions, inheritance windfalls, political nominations, and imperial health rumors.
Burglary at Osnaburg Post Office and City Fires
On the night of the 6th the post office at Osnaburg Stark county O was burglarized of 137 dollars worth of stamps. The safe was carried into a church and blown open with gunpowder. Appearances indicate that half a dozen men took part in the robbery. The Barr Lumber Co mill boiler at High Springs Florida exploded on the 6th fatally injuring I. C. sear and Nelson Bell the latter colored. C Esterling and two negroes were also injured but not fatally. On the morning of the 7th the Park theater at Niagara Falls was destroyed by fire causing an insurance covered loss of 50 000. ONE man killed, two perhaps fatally injured and five seriously injured in a fire at Swift s packing house Kansas City Mo soon after midnight on the morning of the 7th. Property loss 100 000.
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Osnaburg
Stark
County
Barr Lumber Co
High Springs
Fla
I. Co
Park Theater
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Swift’s Packing House
Kansas City
Turmoil in Valencia prompts republican fears in Spain
Dispatches note trouble in Valencia over new taxes tied to a republican movement. The era also reports the comptroller of the currency informed of the New Orleans national bank failure, with a $164,000 capital and $250,000 owed depositors.
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Valencia
Spain
American National Bank of
New Orleans
Lick Observatory
California
Caroline W. Bruce
New York
Springfield
St. Louis
Southampton
St. Paul
Brazil
Great Britain
Trinidad
Yue Ingham County Bank
Lansing
Mich
United States
R. G. Dun & Co
Canada
Multiple Disasters and Crimes Reported Across Regions
A freight wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading line near Weldy s siding west of Shamokin PA killed Engineer Michael Smok and Conductor Alex Smith with Fireman Dreish critically burned. A Bryancoach colliery blast in Neath Wales trapped forty miners. In Omaha a Bohemian Catholic church attack killed Mrs Joseph Sepra and injured three others. Lucy Parsons residence in Avondale Chicago burned, loss around 2500. Outlaw Doorn escaped deputies at Wewoka after a fatal clash. A severe Omaha thunderstorm left two dead and several injured.
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Philadelphia & Reading
Weldy’s Siding
Shamokin
Michael Smok
Alex Smith
Dreish
Neath
Glamorganshire
Wales
Omaha
Neb
Joseph Sepra
Lucy Parsons
Avondale
Chicago
Bil Doorn
United States
Guthrie
Okla
Wewoka
Doolin
T. M. Gregor
Horace Reynolds
Frightful trolley crash kills five near Columbia Pa
A crowded Columbia and Donegal electric car derailed after a gear break, plunging 20 feet into a creek one mile outside Columbia Pa. Five passengers died and about forty injured, many seriously, as authorities investigate the wreck and its causes.
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Columbia
Suh
Charles George Gordon
Khartoum
Soudan
Li Hung Chang
Gen. Gordon
St. Paul
Goodall, Perkins & Co
San Francisco
San Pedro
Cal
Lynching of Three Italians in Louisiana Parish
A mob in St Charles parish abducted Jules Gueymaud and two Italians, Decino and Angelo Marcuso, from Hahnville jail after a plotted vigilante act. They were hanged from rafters at a nearby stable and fired upon with Winchester rifles, ending a suspected murder case. The attackers left unrecognized, reportedly from St Gabriel.
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Winchesters
New Orleans
St. Charles Parish
Jules Gueymaud
Lorenzo Saladino
Gueymaud
Saladino
Hahnville
Decino
Angelo Marcuso
St. Gabriel
Texas Tragedy: Young Orator Fatally Shot at Speech
In Memphis a 22 year old attorney W S Hemmingway was shot during a Bryan ratification speech, later unconscious. His relatives, Mrs E G Hemmingway and Miss Hemmingway, board a train to Santa Fe to be by his bedside, while the shooting remains under investigation.
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Memphis
Tenn
E. G. Hemmingway
Hemmingway
Carrollton
Miss
J. Z. George
Santa Fe
N. M
Hemimingway
Bryan
Henmamingway
United States
W. B. Childress
Young Hemmingway
George
Wilson Hemmingway
Little Rock
Mississippi
J. B. H. Hemmingway
A Bad Gang of Swindlers Believed to Be Broken Up
Chicago August 9 one of the worst swindler combinations believed broken up by arrest of James McClure William Thomas and J Tallman on mail fraud charges New York confederates named McClure and Dr John Craig schemes span years and states netting an estimated 750000 from victims Formerly tied to a Kansas City fake lottery and the Louisiana lottery they expanded into bucket shop operations in Chicago and sales of bogus mining stocks All three men were bound over for trial by US Commissioner Humphrey
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Chicago
James McClure
William Thomas
3.J. Tallman
United States
New York
William McClure
John Craig
Kansas City
Patterson & Co
Craig
Thomas, &,Co
Humphrey
Bound
Drowning Tragedy Strikes Four Bathers at Lake
Benton Harbor Mich Aug 10 Four men Frank Yerrington James Butrick W M Maneke and Martin Manning were drowned yesterday afternoon while bathing in the lake. The bodies of Yerrington Butrick and Maneke have been recovered.
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Benton Haruor
Mich
Frank Yerrington
James’ ‘Butrick
W. M. Maneke
Martin Manning
Yerrington
Butrick
Maneke
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Winnebago County
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Cooksville
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Wyanet
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Princeton
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