Mob hanged convicted man in Flemingsburg jail
A mob captured the Flemingsburg jail in Kentucky and lynched William Thacker, a white man on death row for murder of John Gordon two years earlier. After two trials Thacker had appealed to the court of appeals awaiting another trial, but the mob executed him at Mount Carmel near the jail.
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Maysville
Flemingsburg
William Thacker
John Gordon
Thacker
Gordon
Foxport
Court of Appeals
Mount Carmel
Rioting in Chicago disrupts Kellogg Switchboard freight
Desperate clashes between police and Kellogg Switchboard Co workers disrupt shipments to rail depots on July 14 and 16. Police fired after a mob blocked a Burlington depot convoy near Harrison and Peoria Streets while another 3,000 strong crowd pursued a wagon to the Terminal Transfer yard at Ogden and Twelfth, with stones and sticks but no serious injuries reported.
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Chicago
Kellogg Switchboard Co. J
Burlington Depot
Harrison and
Peoria Streets
Kellogg Company
Peoria Street
Agen
Thok Place
Ogden Avenue
Twelfth Ageet
Steamer St Lawrence Breaks Walking Beam in Midchannel
Clayton New York July 16 The steamer St Lawrence of the Thousand Island Steamboat Co broke her walking beam at full speed in midchannel Wednesday afternoon smashing her cylinder and wrecking much machinery. Assistant engineer Michael Dietso leaped amid debris to shut the engines as several women nearly jumped overboard. The vessel was towed to shore and moored. The accident stemmed from a flaw in the walking beam not revealed by inspection.
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Clayton
N. Y
St. Lawrence
Thousand Island Steamboat Co
Michael Dietso
Thousand Islands
Body of missing boy found near Festus
In St Louis a telegram from Festus Mo reports the body found in the river near Festus as that of six year old Gussie Meyer, son of N Meyer of Gasconade Street. Meyer will go to Festus to identify and claim the body.
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St. Louis
Festus
N. Meyer
Gasconade Street
Gussie
Meyer
Gussie Meyer
Highwaymen Stop Oregon City Car Near Madison Street Bridge
Seven highwaymen halted a Portland to Oregon City car just after midnight on July 16 near the Madison Street bridge. They rifled passengers, shot Fred Day of Sellwood after he complied with the demand, and escaped with about $300 in cash and personal jewelry.
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Portland
Ore
Madison Street Bridge
Oregon City
Fred Day
Sellwood
Dentist from Columbus attacks nuns in San Francisco
William H. Selbach a Columbus Ohio dentist assaulted three Dominican nuns on Market Street and narrowly escaped serious injury from an angry mob. He was rescued by police, beaten, and taken to city jail. A draft for a large sum of money found on him is said to come from the sale of his business in the east. He is believed demented.
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San Francisco
William H. Selbach
Columbus
Market Street
Lightning at Oyster Bay Strikes President’s Summer Home
A severe electrical storm at Oyster Bay Long Island struck the Thompson cottage where Assistant Secretary Barnes resided. James Thompson, the owner, was severely shocked and an Italian laborer nearby fell prostrate. Trees in the area were splintered by lightning.
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New York
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Roosevelt
Thompson
Barnes
James Thompson
Punishing the militia leaders prompt Ev ensville meeting
Evansville business men's association met Tuesday night and formed a committee to learn why five members of Co. E Indiana national guard were discharged by employers after they fired on a mob on July 6. Speakers from manufacturers and business leaders endorsed the militia.
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Evansville
Ind
Evansville Business Men’s Association
Co. E
Indiana National Guard
Bedtime Comes and the Night Hunter in the Nursery
A child imagines adventures after playtime as dusk settles behind the sofa and stairwell. He contemplates hunting creatures, prepares to clean his gun, then is called to bedtime by his mother. The scene shifts to a red sky and the sun being tucked into bed, missing fireflies, whippoorwill, rockets, and twinkling stars.
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Mamma
Signal Hill
Mary Marshal Parks
Cat Adopts Wolf Whelp Near Luron
A two weeks old wolf cub found after a local hunt near Luron in Ogle County is adopted by a farm cat owned by J G Blanchard. The cat nurses the cub alongside a black kitten, after nine of ten wolf pups were killed for bounty.
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Luron
Ogle County
Chicago
St. Paul
J. G. Blanchard
Wolf pups and a tame timber wolf story from Chicago
The article describes a black timber wolf pup living with a family, sharing meals with a kitten, and the dynamics of wolves hunted for bounties in Illinois. It notes the pay for wolf scalps, the wolves’ nightly howls, and a man near Chicago who tamed one wolf named Teddy that can perform tricks and even hunt foxes. The owner offered it to the president, who declined.
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Chicago
Teddy
Roosevelt
Chicago Daily News
Faither to Her Old Home
A Syracuse grocer gave a brewer an old cat and four day old kittens. The brewer locked them in his brewery overnight. Morning revealed the cat and four tiny kittens sleeping on the grocer’s doorstep. The brewer’s four mile journey was spanning by the cat carrying each kitten in her mouth.
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Syracuse
Telegraphic Sets Type by Telegraph Invention
M Carsonville of Paris submits an invention to the academy of science for type setting by telegraph. An electric current perforates characters on a moving band linked to a type setting machine. The contrivance, by M Rodmal, would dispense with transcriptions for press purposes.
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M. Carsonville
Paris
Academy of Science
M. Rodmal
Many Would Probably Be Willing to Die Rich Debate
Chicago Chronicle reports that some agree with Mr Carnegie on the disgrace of dying rich while many would risk a brief period of poverty if they could secure years of wealth, reflecting public attitudes toward wealth and fate.
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The
Chicago Chronicle
Carnegie
Peepers and a Delusion in the Swamps
A boy named Dick pursues the elusive swamp peeper or spring peeper. After hearing its distant song he searches the marsh, waits in the mud, and returns with a tiny muddy prize, chasing a legend like the will o the wisp. The tale reflects curious springtime folklore.
Frog Story From a Summer Meadow Chronicle
A narrator recalls catching a small amber frog about an inch long. Dick places it in a bottle for the alchemist to see, then the frog vanishes from the netted enclosure. The tale mentions a vocal sac, toe suckers, and peepers that emerge in warm weather to live in trees.
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Little’ Chronicle
Real heroines at home urged to guard health with remedy
An elderly advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. It quotes testimonials from women claiming relief from weakness, nervousness, back pain and womb troubles after using the product, and invites readers to write for free medical advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Lorre V
Nayzor
N. J. Ave
N.W
Washington, D. C
Dean
Pingnass
Lydia E. Pinkeham
Lydia E
Mans
J. M. Lex
Lyndal St
Newcastle
Mars
R. EF
Caampers
Bennet
Neb
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