World News Roundup Highlights Fatalities and Disasters
The item reports mob violence in Joplin Missouri with the hanging of Tom Gilyard and expulsion of Black residents, a Texas oil field fire causing near one million dollars in losses, a major Atlantic coast gale, multiple drownings, and various court cases, political notes, and industrial updates across the United States and abroad. It lists ship launches, canal openings, mining accidents, and federal and state political matters alongside weather and economic data.
Prominent Leaders and Notables Pass Away in Short Span
Obituaries report the deaths of Lester Legrand Bond Chicago lawyer and politician Moses Waterman Iowa journalist and Times Republican editor Colonel James Powell US Army veteran of Mexican and civil wars Mrs Robert Fitzsimmons wife of the pugilist in Bensonhurst former Congressman A S McClure Jesse G Hawley Reading Eagle founder Rev Edward J Drinkhouse Methodist Protestant editor and 66th birthday of J Pierpont Morgan in New York plus Ohio Democratic state convention dates August 25 26 in Columbus
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Legrand Bond
Chicago
Moses Waterman
Iowa
Times-Republican
Marshalltown
Columbus
James Powell
Peoria
Robert Fitzsimmons
Bensonhurst
N. Y
A. S. McClure
Wooster
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
Jesse G. Hawley
Reading Eagle
Reading
Edward J. Drinkhouse
Methodist Protestant
Baltimore
World Figures Attend Colonial and European Events
President Loubet arrived in Algiers to an elaborate welcome. King Alexander urged readiness in Belgrade as Balkan tensions grow. In Dublin a British Irish land bill gains in principle support at the Irish convention. A fierce Marseilles storm sinks 40 ships. Lipton's Shamrock III dismantled after Weymouth squall with Lipton hurt and one life lost. Paris aeronaut M Emeandri and three passengers fly 450 miles Paris to Arles in 15 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loubet
France
Algiers
Alexander
Servia
Belgrade
Balkan Peninsula
Dublin
Marseilles
Shamrock Sti
Sir Thomas Lipton
Weymouth
England
Sir Thomas
M. Emeandri
Paris
Arles
Global News Briefs From The Era Of 1900s Europe To America
Reported floods near Vincennes Indiana forced further relocations in the lowlands. Multiple international items note deaths in the Philippines Canton China and battles in Santo Domingo. Rail and labor disruptions in the US Midwest and Northeast. a coal field purchase in Illinois. expulsion measures in France. a major railroad wreck in New York. Roosevelt to visit Butte. storm damage in Europe. Boer War debt rise. a Tacoma fire. Patriots' Day observed in Massachusetts. record birthday of Honora McCarthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Ind
Judge Sarlock
Court
Cebs
Philippines
Illinois
Santo Domingo
Quesada, Alvarez
Cordsro
T. Williams
Canton
China
Jonas Livermore
Blackwood
N. J
Chicago
Ilinois
J.J. Hill
Reading, Lehigh and Susquehanna
Eastbornd
Erie‘railroad
Chicago ‘Limited
Red House
N. Y
Germany
Butte
Mont
Roosevelt
Union Labor Union
Europe
Berlin
Pacific Meat Company
Tacoma
Wash
Lexington
Massachusetts
Honora McCarthy
South Shaftsbury
New England
Minor news items reflect varied 1900s topics
Bank deposits rose 85 percent in ten years. Sir Thomas Lipton may seek a peerage and the American cup. Dr L Gideon Archambault left 40 000 to found an aged poor home. Carnegie and others promise endowments for a Pittsburg university. Mayor Tom Johnson rejects Ohio governorship nomination. John K Lincoln, Lincoln relative, dies at 82 in Kansas City. Pope patient comment and Siam king’s empire fears appear. Illinois Steel buys land near Indiana Harbor worth 1 500 000 for cement works. British labor delegates critique U S methods. New York Post Office has 32 stations and 159 substations handling 450 tons daily. Fourteen stamp canceling machines process 28 000 letters hourly. Porto Rico grand jury votes indictments for alleged smuggling. Dowie invaders quartered in a New York boarding house awaiting 4000 missionaries from Chicago. Amelia Higginson condemns Roosevelt on race death by action and urges women handle baby question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Lipton
L. Gideon Archambault
Providence
R. L
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Ohio
John K. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas City
Lapponi
Siam
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Illinois Steel Company
London
United States
New York City
Stirling
Lowndes
Smith
Crabbe
Army
Porto Rico
Dowie
Chicago
Amelia Higginson
New York
Roosevelt
Bandit McKinney shot dead in Bakersfield siege
Outlaw James McKinney was killed by Burt Tibbitts after a hours long pursuit in a Chinese josshouse. Deputy Will Tibbitts died, Constable Packard fatally wounded, and McKinney had terrorized Kern Tulare and surrounding areas before the confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersfield
Cal
James McKinney
Tibbets
Packard
Kelly
Kern
Collins
Tulare
Leavin
Arizona
Will
Burt Tibbitts
Gus Tower
McKinney
Will Tibbitts
Hulse
California
Tulare County
Rand
Hermosillo
Mex
Kingman
Ariz
Charles Blakey
Roy Winchester
Passing of Ontario's Sir Oliver Mowat
Ottawa notes the death of Sir Oliver Mowat lieutenant governor of Ontario at government house on April 20 at age three. He served as premier from 1872 to 1896 the longest continuous term in any Canadian province and later became minister of justice before being named lieutenant governor. He helped shape federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Mowat
Ontario
Ottawa
Berlin
Conger
Peking
Yatien
Philippines
Ont
Government House
Oliver
Confessed His Crime in Wyoming Disappearance Case
In Newcastle Wyoming on April 20, Slim Clifton a ranch hand confessed to murdering J W Church and his wife once of Omaha now ranching near Newcastle. He admitted the killings and showed where he buried the bodies after recent evidence led to his breaking down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Wyo
J. W. Church
Omaha
Here
Slim” Clifton
Clifton
Lew Jenney
Gillette
Church
Unprecedented Yields Reported From Western Canada Settlements
Stirling Alberta letters from M Pickrell, a former Beechwood Kentucky agent, praise mild winters and record crop yields in Western Canada. He cites oats 80 bushels per acre near Edmonton, 110 bushels near St Albert, and strong beet and potato results, plus rising town and homestead opportunities in Lacombe Wetaskiwin and Edmonton districts. He urges settlers to relocate for nearly free homes and shares success stories of former migrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stirling
Alberta
Free Homestead Lands
M. Pickrell
Beechwood
Kentucky
Western
Canada
Terra-Firma
Edmonton
St. Albert
Raymond
Lethbridge
Lacombe
Wetaskiwin
Western Canada
Ponoka
Manitoba
States
Free land list and map for Red River Valley properties
Real estate ad listing cheap homes and large farms in the Red River Valley. Mentions F W Flanders and the Cash 1st National Bank in Warren Minnesota with exchange notes and a Chicago address for Henry GG at 3 State Street. Includes general merchandise and a $16,000 farm price as a selling point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red River Valley
F.W. Flanders
Nat. Bank
Warren, Minn
Henry
State Street
Chicago
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Said To Help Dyspepsia
Mrs. E. B. Bradshaw of Guthrie Oklahoma reports cure from a severe indigestion type illness by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims many women suffer a form of dyspepsia tied to female organs and that only this tonic restores balance. It states thousands of testimonials prove the remedy's efficacy and invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Bradshaw
Guthrie
Okla
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Indiana
Tom Gilyard
Joplin
Texas
Beaumont
Atlantic
William Johnson
Dysart
J. L. Vallata
Andrew J. Bowermaster
Mathew Alexander
Thomas Burke
Terre Haute
Michigan City
Peerless Coal & Coke Company
Vivian
W. Va
Horace Hollingshead
Mississippi
Lansing
Minnesota
New London
Conn
T Wllinois
Erie
Oswego
Champlain
Moses Fowler
Chase
Lafayette
Henry E. Youtsey
Frankfort
Goebels
James Howard
Missouri
St. Louis
Clinton
National Association of Manufacturers
New Orleans
David M. Parry
Indiapaolis
Cincinnati
Wellsburg
Phoebe
Libbie Heeley
Bear Creek
Wis
Mishawaka
Ora Eddington
William Dudley
Harry Kline
May Jackson
Fort Wayne
John Taylor
Ruth Nollard
Elliott Lyons
W. W. Withers
Eugene
Ore
Charles May
Robert Martin
St. Joseph
Alabama
Fannie S. Wilder
St. Paul
Fort Yellowstone
Norris Geysers
John A. Lee
Missour
Washington
Phil Sheridan
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Francis A. Horton
Temple Presbyterian Church
John Victor
Maggie Fuetz
Kalkaska
Mich
Allen State Bank
Allen
Kan
Harry C. Kline
Topeka
West Virginia
Newport News
Catherine White
War Department
Fort Sheridan
Henry Herman
Milwaukee
Gov. Mowat
Wyoming
National Novelty Mfg. CO
Chamber of Commerce
Rochester
Carter
Prwaru
Macbeth
Pittsburgh
Lane
Bos
le Roy
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