Reelection and Growth At United Christian Endeavor
In Detroit on July 6 Rev. Francis E. Clari was reelected president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. John Willis Baer and William Shaw were reelected secretary and treasurer as the annual meeting reported a year’s expenditures of 9,678 with 352 in treasury. The convention opened at Hotel Cadillac with large delegations and a world-wide fellowship update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Francis E. Clari
United Society of Christian Endeavor
John Willis Baer
William Shaw
United Society
Cadillac
United Seiety
Shaw
Treasury
George B. Graff
Boston
Publishing Department
Christian Endeavor World
Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Ontario
Towa
Michigan
Kansas
Massachusetts
California
Missouri
New Jersey
Russia
Christian Endeavor Society
Great Britain
London
Australia
India
China
Africa
Mexico
West Indies
Germany
Madagascar
Japan
Spain
Christian
Ministerial Alliance of
Toledo
Becker Named Guilty in Wife Murder with Death Penalty
Chicago July 7 Becker a stock yards butcher was found guilty of murdering his first wife and faces death. The jury was out briefly and Becker showed calm indifference. Becker’s stepfamily and the second wife were absent at the close. Rollinger faces the same fate for murder in a parallel case and both men seek to marry again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Becker
George Satterlin
Sutterlin
Michael Rollinger
Rollinger
Rink Closes tts Doors St Paul Minn
The Savings Bank of St Paul in Minnesota has closed its doors. The bank, established in 1567 with capital of 100 006 homus A. Prender gast served as president before the shutdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rink
Tts
St. Paul
Minn
Savings ‘Bank of St. Pauly
Capital
Review of trade by R G Dun & Co
R G Dun and Co reports for the first half of 1899 total failures 4835 with liabilities of 49 664 661. Commercial failures 4853 liabilities 22 062 933 manufacturing 16 723 353 trading 23 011 364. Second quarter the smallest on record in 25 years with average failure 7165 and per firm 12.20. Wheat falls three eighths of a cent. corn exports rise to 2 378 708 bushels. week volume up 36 percent from last year. iron prices remain high. 11 US failures and 2 Canada failures for the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Chicago
United States
Canada
Bishop Newman Dead in Saratoga
Bishop John P. Newman of the Methodist Episcopal Church San Francisco died at 2 36 p m after a year of declining health and a rapid sinkage since July 3 Pneumonia and myositis were the immediate causes Born September 1 1826 he served New York Louisiana and Washington D C parishes and was chaplain of the United States Senate 1868 74 He was elected bishop in 1888 and preached at many notable funerals including Gen Grant and John A Logan for a fee of 10 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
N. Y
John P. Newman
Methodist Episcopal Church
San Francisco
Newman
New York
Oneida
New Orleans
Washington, D. C
United States Senate
Rock River
Gen. Grant
John A. Logan
Leland Stanford
End of Their Labor at International Christian Endeavor Meet
Detroit July 11 The eighteenth international Christian Endeavor convention closed with speeches from M E Bishop Vincent and Evangelist Chapman. Delegates from states provinces and foreign lands cheered the peace commission cable from The Hague and sang hymns in two tents. Attendance was 28 000 in Detroit vs 56 400 in Boston, with larger crowds at Detroit meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
International Convention of
Christian Endeavor
M. E
Vincent
Kansas
Evangelist Chapman
New York
McKinley
Queen Victoria
American Peace Commission
Endeavor
Williston
Foster
Daer
Boston
W. H. Strong
Jesus
Great Britain
Messrs. Tressidder and Mursell
London
Pollock
Glasgow
Britain
Christ
God Save the Queen
America
J. Wilbur Chapman
Tent
John H. Vincent
M. E. Church
International Christian Endeavor Convention
Clark
Peace Conference Backs Special Talks on Private Property at Sea
The Hague July 6 American delegates won a unanimous vote at the peace conference to convene a special session to discuss freedom from seizure of private property at sea during war. Washington reports the decision brings satisfaction to the administration after efforts to secure action.
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The
Hague
Washington
Plague Ravages Grand Bassam in French Ivory Coast Colony
Advices to the state department report a bubonic plague like disease raging in Grand Bassam, French Ivory Coast. The outbreak has claimed 209 to 300 lives, including three European physicians, with German steamers quarantined from African passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
United States
Monrovia
Grand Bassam
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Gold Coast
India
Germany
Ex-Governor Richardson Dies in Jerome Hotel Room
Ex Governor John Peter Richardson died suddenly of heart disease at midnight in his Jerome Hotel suite. He was 69, had been frail for years, and leaves a widow. Richardson served two terms as governor before the reform movement and was succeeded by United States Senator Tillman in 1890. His family supplied five South Carolina governors, not counting him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
John Peter Richardson
Hotel Jerome
United States
Tillman
South Carolina
Thurman Denies Candidacy for VP Post
Columbus July 6 Hon Allen W Thurman released an interview the first since the Chicago conference addressing the vice presidency He declares he is not a candidate for the office and has not conferred with Bryan on the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Allen W. Thurman
Chicago
Bryan
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Sets Record Time to Cherbourg
New York reports the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived at Cherbourg at 2 45 PM on Monday in a record time of five days twenty hours fifty five minutes as announced by the North German Lloyd Steamship Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
Cherbourg
Wisconsin Extradition Sought for Michigan Forgery Suspect
Acting Gov Warder honored a requisition on the governor of Michigan for the extradition of Charles A Adams alias George B Berry a known criminal under arrest at Rock Island and wanted at Grand Rapids Mich on forgery charges Adams operations extend through several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Warder
Michigan
Charles A. Adams
George B. Berry
Rock Island
Grand Rapids
Mich
Adams
Aide to Gen Wheeler Assigned to San Francisco
Lieut Frank C Bolles of the Sixth Infantry is named an aide on Gen Wheeler's staff and ordered to report to the general in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Washington
Frank C. Bolles
Sixth Infantry
San Francisco
Fire destroys Oakes Manufacturing works in Steinway Queens
Fire in Steinway Queens destroys the Oakes Manufacturing company main four story building and surrounding structures. The factory produced age stuffs and stored flammable materials. Loss estimated at $100000. Municipal responders fought the blaze through Monday night.
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New York
Oakes Manufacturing Company
Steinway
Queensboro
Brother of Czar Dead in Russia
St. Petersburg July 11 Grand Duke George brother of the czar is dead. George of Russia born April 27 1871 had been in ill health for years suffering from consumption.
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Czar
St. Petersburg
Grand Duke
George
Brothers of the
George of
Russia
Fatal collision injures teachers on Burlingtion special near Newman
A Burling ton special train carrying teachers to the National Education association in Los Angeles collided with a freight train near Newman California. Two women were killed and 13 passengers hurt. Names of the deceased and injured listed, with agents arranging transport to San Francisco and shipment of bodies east.
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Stockton
Cal
Burlington
St. Louis
Los Angeles
National Education Association
Newman
Stanislaus County
Addie Harris
Dillingham Street
Lena Thomas
Seneca Falls
N. Y
Clara Morehouse
Upton Avenue
Battle Creek
Mich
Elizabeth White
Isadore Street
May Oliver
Virginia Avenue
Helena English
Washington Avenue
Sallie R. Smith
West Pine Street
Gertrude Rosenberg
Luella A. Wehmeir
Aofcruxko
Edwin D. Luckey
Union Boulevard
Robert G. Mills
Lake Creston
S. D
G. L. Morse
Philadelphia
Calvin Buttock
S. R. Drury
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Rush House
Southern Pacific Company
San Francisco
Dewey Celebration Plans Set for Two Day Event
New York officials outline a two day Dewey celebration including land and naval parades. Admiral Dewey will pass beneath a costly triumphal arch in City Hall or Madison Square park. J Q A Ward offers free arch designs, accepted by the committee. Two civic floats will symbolize Victory and Peace with German singing societies invited to perform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Committee On
Admiral Dewey
City Hall Park
Madison Square Park
J. Q. A. Ward
Sculpture Society
Arion, Liederkranz
Mannerchor
Turpentine Explosion Fatal for Finkelstein Family
In New York a turpentine can near a gas stove exploded and set Abraham Finkelstein ablaze. He died that morning and his wife and son were also burned to death as smoke and darkness overwhelmed them in the hall and near the stairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Abraham Finkelstein
Finkelstein
Relief sought seed corn for Brazos valley flood floodplain farmers
Houston appeal by local relief committee led by ex United States District Attorney Taliaferro seeks early maturing seed corn for 25 000 farmers whose crops were destroyed. Seed supply is nonexistent as current stock cannot mature in time. The drive asks farmers in the west to donate seed corn for distribution to the stricken farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Ex-Gov Stone denies Jones resigning chairmanship
New York July 11 Ex Gov William J Stone a Missouri Democrat and long time figure in the national committee said there was no truth in reports that Senator James K Jones of Arkansas would resign as committee chair and that Senator Martin of Virginia was likely to succeed him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William J. Stone
Missouri
Democratic National Committee
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Martin
Virginia
Death Caused by Fright in San Francisco
Dr. Mary C. Edmonds, a well known city physician, died at her home in San Francisco after being frightened by an alarm. In a fright she blew a whistle at a window, then tottered and fell dead as help arrived at 913 Bush Street.
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San Francisco
Mary C. Edmonds
Bush Street
Explosion in Ehrenfeld mine injures five with two deaths
Five men were injured and two killed by a gas explosion at the Loughman mines in Ehrenfeld near Altoona Pennsylvania on July 11. The incident is reported with initial details of the blast and casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Loughman
Ehrenfeld
Pardoned Baron Baulay in Paris demonstrations
Paris July 11 Baron Baulay once a promoter of demonstrations against President Loubet at Auteuil has been pardoned. It is understood Loubet wished to pardon Baron Christiani who assaulted him but the cabinet rejected the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Baron Baulay
President Loubet
Auteuil
M. Loubet
Baron Christiani
Unseasonal Storm Floods Roil Silesia Rivers
Reports from Troppau in Austrian Silesia describe severe storms causing rivers in eastern Silesia to overflow. Banks are breached and infrastructure damaged as local authorities assess impact and relief needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troppau
Austrian Silesia
Silesia
American railways reshape world trade after war
In a New York Press association address, George H. Daniels praises U S industrial growth post Spanish American War. He cites Mulhall’s figures praising American labor, notes American locomotives and bridges sold abroad, and describes foreign interest in U S railway tech from Japan Britain Germany and Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press Association
George H. Daniels
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Spain
Mulhall
United States
Great Britain
Lake George
Japan
China
New York Central
England
Germany
Yokohama
Tientsin
Seneca Falls
France
Schenectady
Dunkirk
Pacific
Egypt
Tokio
Russia
West Point
Cold Spring
Hudson River
Prince Michel Hilkoff
Lake Shore Limited
Berlin
Black Sea Wrecks Record Shatters Maritime Safety
The article notes the Black Sea has the world's worst wrecks record with averages over one per day in some years. It cites a high of 425 wrecks in a year and about 50 percent of those ships totaling wrecks with crews lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Sea
Jost .X. Sun
Enlistment Order Issued for Ten Philippine Regiments
Washington July 7 The enlistment order for ten new regiments for service in the Philippines was published with seven colonels and eight majors named. Recruiting will start next week across states and territories. Units will be organized by officers, with state lines erased and earliest enlistments mustered first.
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Washington
Philippines
Otis
United States
Plattsburg Barracks
N. Y
New England
Connecticut
New York
Camp Meade
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
District of Columbia
New Jersey
Delaware
Fort McPherson
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Fort Sheridan
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Fort Thomas
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Tennessee
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Fort Logan
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Arizona
New Mexico
Vancouver Barracks
California
Nevada
Oregon
Idaho
Alaska
Joseph Wheeler
Manila
Philippine Islands
Wheeler
San Francisco
Flood Devastation in Richmond and Brazos Valley
Describes severe flooding in Richmond Texas with submerged plantations and food shortages. Reports 3000 to 5000 people may need feeding, trains halted, relief efforts forming, and widespread devastation along the Brazos valley with rising river levels and a six foot flood wave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Tex
Southern Pacific West
Galveston
Brazos Valley
Sartartia
Fort Bend County
Brookshire
Waller County
Brazos River
Michigan Supreme Court Rules McLeod Law Unconstitutional
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled the McLeod law unconstitutional and held no Detroit street railway commission office exists. Gov. Pingree and other commissioners lose title to the office and ouster judgments must be entered. The Detroit plan for municipal ownership is halted by the ruling and authority is removed from the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Michigan Supreme Court
McLeod
Detroit Street Railway Commission
Detroit
Pingree
Commission
Terre Haute's oldest citizen J O Jones dies at 17
Terre Haute Indiana July 5 J O Jones long time postmaster and government servant under many presidents from Jackson to Cleveland dies aged 17 years He came from Vermont with Terre Haute founders in 1516 and leaves a large family
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Terre Haute
Ind
J. O. Jones
Vermont
Jones
Jackson
van’ Buren
Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Pierce
Lincoln
Johnson
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Governor grants pardon. prisoner dies before transport
Gov. Bushnell pardons Maude Grayson of Springfield Ohio who had been sentenced to a year for burglary. The pardon was delivered to the penitentiary by the prisoner's brother. Grayson, stricken with consumption, died in the prison hospital before she could be moved.
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Columbus
Bushnell
Maude Grayson
Springfield
Pricon ‘Hospital
Peace talks pause Cavite actions amid Luzon insurgent shifts
A Manila dispatch notes insurgent strongholds around San Francisco de Malabon and Sant Fernando as peace negotiations slow military moves. Otis reports veteran United States regiments to be raised, with Lawton and Corbin guiding designations and recruitment aims. Aguinaldo leads northern forces while Spanish war veterans may dominate new units.
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Chicago
Manila
San Francisco de Malabon
Bacoor
Cavite
Fred Grant
Otis
Luzon
Trias
Sant Fernando
Lawton
San Fernando
MacArthur
Aguinaldo
Washington
United States
United States Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Adjt
Corbin
United States Volunteer Infantry
Alger
Dallas Tragedy: Janitor Kills Lipscomb at Christian Church
In Dallas on Monday night John T. Carlisle shot Prof. William Lipscomb, principal of Central High School, during a protracted meeting at First Christian Church. Lipscomb died later. Carlisle, a former janitor, was jailed after the act, linked to his failed reappointment and rivalry with Lipscomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
First Christian Church
John T. Carlisle
William Lipscomb
Central High School
Carlisle
Prof. Lipscomb
Nashville
Tenn
Kentucky
the Treasury
John G. Carlisle
Paper Money Scarcity Hits Omaha and Midwest Banks
In Omaha and Council Bluffs banks report a shortage of paper currency especially small denominations. Eastern correspondents supply only about one tenth of demand, leaving silver and gold ample. If relief is delayed, gold could fall out of favor in the west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Council Bluffs
Desperate Thief Holds Up Averyville Store
Short Meadows a former Chester inmate robbed J A Mettler in Averyville store August 11 securing 1400 from the safe. He fled into Officer Herman Durm who arrested him after a pistol shot wounded the robber and then the officer in the neck. The officer's condition is uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Short Meadows
Chester
J. A. Mettler
Averyville
Herman Durm
Acting Governor Orders Local National Guard Home
Acting Gov Warder issues orders for company F Fourth infantry I N G Mount Vernon led by Capt Pavey on duty at Carterville to return home. Soon company C Carbondale led by Capt Barton to return home, with authority shifted to U S officials and Sheriff Gray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calied
Springfield
Warder
Fourth Infantry
Mount Vernon
Pavey
Carterville
Carbondale
Barton
United States
Gray
Five Artillerymen Fatally Hurt in Sudden Accident
Five artillerymen were fatally hurt by a sudden accident on July 11 near etoria. The incident involved a misfire of a weapon, causing critical injuries to the crew.
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Convention of Christian Endeavorers
Nevt
International Christian Endeavor
Persens
Nehemiah Boynton
D. D
Naer
Baer
John Henry Barrows
Oberlin College
Review. OF Trade
Dun
Bishop Newman
Dewey
New York City
National Progress
Binack Sea
Gov. Pingree
Gen. Trias
Duallaunga
West
Etoria
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