News in Brief from The World and Regions
Charles D. Rogers of Chicago dies from an automobile crash injuries. A jealous Iowa farmer shoots his wife then kills himself. A New York store owner hides poverty driving moonshine production. Rockefellers sell control of Missouri Kansas Texas to bankers. United States penal institutions hold 44 582 in mates. An Atlantic express derails at Stanwood Iowa killing engineer and fireman. Elks leaders elected in Cincinnati as Buffalo selected for next reunion. Pain shop burn in West Detroit and Rhinelander lumber yards losses total 150 000. Multiple deaths include Judge Muir and Henry C Spencer. American steamer Ventura carries 1 000 000 in gold. Truce in stock yards strike after eight days. General strike hits Fall River mills. Canton man shoots wife, held by police. Mrs George dies at 60 in Monticello. A boy dies in Chicago fire. Cadiz infirmary burns home valued at 75 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles D. Rogers
Chicago
Farmington
Conn
Toliff Anderson
Linn Grove
Buena Vista County
Iowa
New York
Wall Street
Rockefellers
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Immigration Bureau
Uni
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Atlantic Express
Chicago & Northwestern
Stanwood
Wells
Carter
Clinton
Lambert Niehaus
Thomas Fluegel
St. Louis
W. J. O’brien, Jr
Baltimore
Hans Fuchs
Upton Muir
Louisville
Cape May
N. J
Henry C. Spencer
Grennell
Clarke H. Spencer
Arbor Lake
Ventura
Sydney
San Francisco
Cincinnati
Elks
Marshall Dunne
Fred C. Robinson
Dubuque
John Holland
Fall River
Frank Pierce
Canton
Pierce
Cadiz. O
Sybel Pass
Kouropatkin
Keller
Liaoyang
Mukden
Yale
Harvard
Oxford-Cambridge
London
Henry G. Davis
White Sulphur Springs
Parker
Rosemount
Red Sea
Russia
Germany
St. Petersburg
Smolensk
Handy Bros. Manufacturing Company
Bay City
Mich
Monsignor
Falconio
United States
Manila
Guidi
John Simon
Royal College of Surgeons
Royal Society
Abé Kruse
Boston
Salvation Army
George Byers
Meat Cutters’ Union
Kansas City
Columbia
Panama
David Wolfe Brown
House of Representatives
Washington
Bright
Phoenix
Southern Railway
East St. Louis
Belleville
Democratic Party
West Virginia
Silas C. Swallow
Harrisburg
George W. Carroll
Texas
Prohibition
Indianapolis
Ind
Edward Butler
Vladivostok
Morgan G. Bulkley
United States Senate
Connecticut
Trade Reviews
Order of Hibernians
Gorman
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Fay Templeton
Robbers blow open vault at East Moline bank
Bank front wrecked by explosion after robbers entered the State Bank of East Moline Illinois. Officers say no money was taken. Also reported is the death of Lucinda Marshall a Salvation Army leader in St Louis after 20 years with the corps and a mob attack on strike breakers leaving Chicago stockyards with stones and missiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bank of
East Moline
Ill
Lucinda Kuoch Marshall
Salvation Army
St. Louis
Marshall
Chicago
Political and personal notices from early Democratic and Roosevelt events
Judge Parker plans notifications in his state and Rosemount. Roosevelt learns of Mrs May brick release from Oyster Bay. Republicans unite in convention. Hepburn’s peace offer helps stand patters. Bryan urges state rail ownership telegraph control and federal judge election. Missouri and Pennsylvania Democrats name candidates. Detroit’s William G. Thompson dies after bicycle accident. James K. Jones calls national committee meeting. Roosevelt finalizes convention speech. Cleveland comments on policy and Parker leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Davis
Rosemount
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Maybrick
Nowa
Congressman Hepburn
Cummins
William J. Bryan
Pennsylvania
Harry E. Davis
Congress
Missouri
Joseph W. Falk
St. Louis
William G. Thompson
Detroit
Mich
Yonkers
N. Y
Thompson
Michigan
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Democratic National Committee
Hoffman House
New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Judge Parker
Global War Developments and Local Incidents Reported
Reports detail Russian Joss at Motion pass at 2000 casualties 300 for Japan and a fatal explosion near Marion Illinois injuring three. A Russian cruiser with canvas covered guns and torpedo tubes passes Odessa bound. Arch ie Legero kills Henry Gileo at Yellow Creek Kentucky. Japanese forces dislodge 5000 Russians near Tatchekino after nine hours while advancing on Liao Yang and Mukden. Britain protests Russian seizure of ships in the Red Sea and seeks Malacca release. Vladivostok squadron sinks a Japanese steamer. Chinese refugees arrive at Chefoo with word of 4000 Japanese deaths near Port Arthur by mine. The czar and Lamsdorff seek swift readjustment amid tensions with Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tatchekino
Russia
Red Sea
London
Cabinet
Admiralty
Liaoyang
St. Petersburg
Great Britain
Malacca
Vladivostok
Mukden
Count Lamsdorff
Far East
Chefoo
Port Arthur
Russian defeats at Sybel pass and Far East notes
Reports detail Russian losses at Sybel pass totaling 229 men and Japanese actions near Keller and Liaoyang. Western dispatches mention Scandia seized, Russian fleet orders, and protests over shipping. Other items cover politics, deaths, strikes, and notices from Washington to Manila.
Maybrick wife Florence Maybrick freed on ticket of leave
Mrs Florence Maybrick the American wife of an Englishman who was convicted of murder and later released on a commuted sentence has been granted freedom on a ticket of leave and has left the convent where she remained since January. Public opinion in England calls for a war to avenge naval affronts by Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Maybrick
England
Russia
Negro strike breaker Abe Kruse fires on pickets at Swift plant
Abe Kruse a strike breaker was shot at by pickets near Swift & Co packing plant in St Joseph Missouri. He fired one magazine shotgun wounding five men including Joe Weigle August Newmeyer and John Jetta. Kruse arrested and jailed as witnesses report he warned the crowd before firing at the receiving station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Abe Kruse
Swift & Co
Joe Weigle
John Jetta
August Newmeyer
Joe Sanger
Steven Finnigan
Kruse
Snes
Packing Trades Council
Parker notification date set for presidential nomini tion
Esopus New York July 25 Judge Parker fixed August 10 to be notified of his Democratic nomination for president. He discussed the date with William F. Sheehan and telegrammed Champ Clark. Clark may convene his committee in New York and visit Rosemount to arrange details. Bedford Springs Pennsylvania July 25 Henry G Davis will be notified at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia in early August. College Point New York July 25 Secretary Shaw argues the money issue at a Republican rally and attacks Democratic finance records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esopus
N. Y
Judge Parker
William F. Sheehan
Champ Clark
Missouri
Representative Clark
New York
Rosemount
College Point
Shaw
Democratic Party
Young Bandits Captured in Chicago Murders and Robberies
Chicago police arrested Peter Dulfer 17 David Kelly 18 William Fimbay 19 and James Fimbay 17 on Sunday. They confessed to one murder and multiple robberies including the July 3 shooting of John Lane 135 North Albany and wounding Gus Regi 150 North Kedzie Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Peter Dulfer
David Kelly
William Fimby
James
Harrison Street
John Lane
Albany Avenue
Gus Regi
Kedzie Avenue
Regi
Mary Nixon 103, Bryn Mawr Resident Dies
Mrs. Mary Nixon of Bryn Mawr near Philadelphia died Sunday at age 103. Born in Philadelphia she was widowed 32 years and one of 21 children, none of whom lived to be older than half her age. She leaves 16 great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Mary Nixon
Bryn Mawr
Rates Raised by Knights of the Maccabees in Detroit
The supreme tent of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World ordered higher insurance rates. New members receive policies at 5 decades per $1000 for age 18 to 2.75 per $1000 for age 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Supreme Tent
Knights of the Maccabees of the World
G A R National Encampment Trip to Boston 1904
Travel deal offered for the G A R National Encampment in Boston from August 15 to 20, 1904 with low Nickel Plate Road rates. Visit Boston's historical sites with elegant dining and sleeping accommodations and on‑board meals. Stopovers include Chautauqua Lake and Niagara Falls on return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. R. National
Boston
Nickel Plate Road
Sara
Chautauqua Lake
Niagara Falls
Low Fares to Boston and encampment train via Nickel Plate
Advertises very low round trip rates to Boston via Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. Tickets on sale August 12 13 14 with return limit up to September 3. Also promotes Chicago connections and a G A R special train August 18 with Niagara Falls and Chautauqua Lake stopovers. Details from L F Vosburgh C F Daly and J Y Calahan Chicago agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Lake Shore
Michigan
Nickel Plate Road
Niagara Falls
Chautauqua Lake
Chicago
Famous quack lines and quotes fill old ads
A collage of vintage advertisements and quotes appears with claims for foot powder Dr. Shoei X, nerve restorers, casket makers, and cure-alls. Alongside, pithy aphorisms from Chicago Tribune and Daily News punctuate the page as marketing slogans and social maxims.
Miss Nellie Holmes Urges Pinkham Vitamin for Women
Miss Nellie Holmes of Buffalo extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for menorrhagia backache and headaches after two doctors and a friend's recommendation. She reports improved health appetite and weight gain and offers $5000 for the original letter proving genuineness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Holmes
Young Woman’s Temperance Association of
Buffalo
N.Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Miss
Positive True Virtue Asked: Refusal to Sing in Public
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune note defines a negative virtue as a man’s refusal to sing in public when asked, framed as the experienced parent’s practical lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Dominion Exhibition Promises Great Winnipeg Event
The Dominion Exhibition will attract hundreds of thousands and be held in Winnipeg Manitoba with government support. It will showcase Canada's agricultural and industrial resources, drawing many visitors from the United States due to low railway rates. Expected opening by Hon Clifford Sefton Minister of the Interior. Ample hotel accommodations available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
United States
Clifford Sefton
Interior
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Westville
Middlesex
Betsey A. Clawson
Dodd
Washington Times
Chicago ‘Tribune
Chicago Daily News
Allen's
Olmsted
le Roy
Chicago Tribune
National Casket Co
N. W. Samiel
Ocean Grove
Castoria
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