• Minnesota state agricultural officials predict a record
grain harvest, exceeding that of Great Britain and Ireland, combined.
(Midwest/US, Europe)
• Theodore Dreiser publishes "Sister Carrie," a realistic novel concerning
a young country girl's use of sexual prowess to pull herself up the social
ladder. The book is taken out of circulation after selling 456 copies.
(Midwest/US)
• In Paris, bombs are thrown into the home of M. Alfred Picard,
Commissioner-General of the Paris Exposition, which is about to begin.
(Europe)
• The Ameer of Afghanistan announces that Afghanistan will not
submit to the will of Russia. He declares that, "The Afghans prefer death to
slavery." (Asia)
• An Elkhart, Indiana minister, Rev. Dr. E.H. Gwynne of the First
Presbyterian Church, preaches to Francis Hoover who was at home ill with
rheumatism.
(Midwest/US)
• The Social Democratic Party holds its national convention in
Indianapolis, Indiana, nominating Eugene V. Debs of Indiana for president
and Job Harrison of California for vice-president. (Midwest,
Southwest/US)
• An Indian medicine man in Alaska is sentenced to 6 months in jail
and fined $200 for his role in trying a 14-year-old boy as a witch. Tiu Cow, a
Kake Indian doctor, declared the boy bewitched and subjected the boy's family
to a witch test involving a three-day stay in the woods and the capture of a
live rat. During the witch test, the accused boy committed suicide.
(Northwest/US)
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