Happenings of the Week Across Nations and Markets
A digest of notable events from oil discoveries near Baker City to labor strikes, bank failures, and political moves. Highlights include the Yokohama Perry monument set for July 14, Shafter's retirement in San Francisco, Philippine trade gains, Morgan's Harvard gift, Wabash train wreck fatalities, Alaska miners forming a union, and fires exposing losses in Portland.
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Baker City
Oregon
City National Bank
Buffalo
N. Y
Perry
Yokohama
South Carolina
General Shafter
San Francisco
Prince Chuan
Germany
United States
India
Philippines
Presidio
Washington
D. C
Ottawa
Ont
Thyra
Portland
Florence Nightingale Celebrates Her Saturn Birthday
The famed nurse Florence Nightingale, longtime invalid in London, recently marked her Saturn birthday. Practical household tips follow, noting salt and water cleaning for willow furniture and mattings, and methods to wash silk handkerchiefs using cold salt water before ironing.
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Florence Nightingale
London
Fired on by Strikers in Mateawan Coal War
Deputies of the United States marshals were shot at by strikers near Mateawan as they attempted to serve the federal injunction. The clash followed a mass march by nearly 1,000 miners into Kentucky, with two dozen rifle reports heard and deputies fleeing for safety.
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Thacker
Hatfield
United States
Kentucky
Train wreck near Cass costs many lives
A West bound Wabash train No 8 struck a washout at Cass fifteen miles west of Peru. The engine and five cars wrecked. Five coaches and two baggage cars derailed. Reports say the engineer and fireman and at least a dozen passengers killed with many injured. Surgeons rushed to the scene as Peru relief parties departed.
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Indianapolis
Peru
Wabash
Cass
Here
Logansport
United States Exploration Party Reaches Dawson Heading North
A U S exploration team arrived in Dawson in June en route to Northern Alaska to map and study geology. They plan to travel down the Yukon to Fort Hamlin then overland via the Dah river trail toward Bergman, reach Bergman, supply caches, ascend tributaries of the Koyukuk, cross the divide to the Kowak, and descend to Kotzebue Sound near Behring Strait, the first government expedition to this remote region.
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Seattle
Dawson
Alaska
Yukon
Fort Hamlin
Dah River
Middle Fork
Koyokuk
Bergman
Alashak
Kowak
Kotzebue Sound
Arctic Ocean
Behring Strait
Messages of Condolence Reach State Department
Telegrams of condolence from around the world arrive at the state department for Secretary Hay. Cards of sympathy are also sent to the Hay home expressing regret on the occasion.
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Washington
State Department
Hay
Protection From Moths in History
White cloves are said to be as effective in banishing moths as camphor cedar or tobacco. This note compares traditional moth deterrents and mentions common household uses without assigning a specific study or date.
The Pope Growing Weaker In Heat At Vatican
Rome reports the pope grows weaker and his physician forbids his pavilion use during hot weather. An audience with Cardinal Gibbons ended with a farewell the pope said he might not survive to see him again.
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Rome
Vatican Garden
Cardinal Gibbons
Washington News Briefs Reflect Growth and Local Happenings
A broad survey notes Henry M. White named city attorney of New Whatcom. Grays Harbor jetty work advances. Spokane Interstate Fair rounds partly fenced for camping. James L. Clark, early Puget Sound pioneer, dies by suicide near Seattle. Fresh trout weighed five pounds 26 inches long from Satsop River. Jefferson County May taxes exceed last year by 50 percent. Everett seeks higher city marshal and police salaries. Whatcom fruit outlook downsized due to a backward season. Legislature’s game law leaves pheasants and quail unprotected and no hunting license penalty. Cutworms resurge in Western Washington. Two more rural mail routes approved from Walla Walla. Tacoma hotel and restaurant workers unionize. Wenatchee schools hire teachers for next year. Tekoa fire damages property worth about 1000 dollars. Whitman County pioneer William Harris dies at 60 near Colfax. Palouse hailstorm destroys about 1000 acres of wheat. Elmo pioneer 81-year-old crossing plains in 1849. Reardan grain warehouse fire destroys 12 000 bushels. Republic branch rail service to begin. trains to run by fall. Tacoma reports 14 bicycles stolen in two weeks. Kettle Valley Railroad HQ at Marcus boosts local business. Agricultural college mining class to Eastern Oregon for three weeks.
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Henry M. White
New Whatcom
Grays Harbor
Spokane
James L. Clark
Puget Sound
Seattle
Jefferson County
Everett
Whatcom Contru
Washington
Walla Walla
Tacoma
Wenatchee
Tekoa
William Harris
Whitman County
Colfax
Palouse
Wiley
Elmo
Plains
Reardan
Lusitania Wrecked Off Cape Ballard With 300 Aboard
The Orient Line steamship Lusitania on a Montreal voyage ran ashore in dense fog near Renews Cape Ballard after misjudging course. Three hundred emigrant passengers panicked as crew and officers fought to launch boats, women and children rescued first. The ship hung on a reef and may become a total wreck with rough seas and rain. Survivors sheltered with fishermen, while salvaging efforts continued.
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St. John’s
N. F
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Lusitania
Liverpool
Montreal
Cape Ballard
Cape Race
Renews
Flag Downed by Oregon Man Under Ottawa Order in Skagway
In Skagway a Canada customs officer raised the British flag by Ottawa order. An Oregon visitor, George Miller of Eugene, cut the halyards, then calmly handed his card to the official before leaving. Miller is Joaquin Miller’s brother, visiting friends in Skagway.
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Oregon
Vancover
Sakgway
Skagway
Busby
Ottawa
George Miller
Eugene
Miller
Joaquin Miller
California
Guam TERRORIZED by Hoodlumism and Terror at Fort
Washington reports the navy department is informed of unsatisfactory conditions in Guam. Commander Seaton Schroeder decries terror at the fort gambling and drunkenness harming U S forces. Restrictions on marines liberty are cited and a potential court of inquiry may follow.
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Washington
Navy Department
Guam
Seaton Schroeder
United States’ Force
Heywood
Marines
Riot at Rochester injures police and rioters
In Rochester on June 28 about 1000 striking laborers clashed with police. Eleven officers and twenty rioters were hurt as guards and workers fought near Mill and Commercial streets and at the Rochester Gas and Electric trench site.
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Rochester
N. Y
Rochester Gas & Electric Company
City Hall Park
Storm in the Northwest Hits Minneapolis and Wisconsin
A severe storm swept through Minneapolis and St Paul with darkness and damaging winds. Several people were killed and many injured as buildings fell and livestock died, with property losses in the thousands. A tornado near New Richmond caused farm damage but no deaths amid nearly four inches of rain.
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Minneapolis
Minn
St. Paul
New Richmond
Wis
Coronation Proclamation Read at St James Palace
The royal proclamation announced King Edward's coronation for June next with date to be determined. The ceremony at St James's Palace Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange featured medieval scenes. Crowds gathered quickly despite the banesos gathering.
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London
Edward
St. James’s Palace
Temple Bar
Royal Excaringe
Second Cloudburst Hits Bluefields Soon After Flood
A second destructive storm struck the flood swept district of Bluefields West Virginia on June 28. No fatalities are reported but property damage is extensive and much of the work from the last storm is undone by the new event.
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Bluefields
W. Va
Fire destroys Rosalia hardware store in July blaze
A morning fire at a Rosalia hardware store destroyed the building. Losses totaled 2000 for the structure and 13000 for stock, with 8500 in insurance. The fire began at 3 o'clock yesterday and its origin remains unknown.
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Rosalia
Wash
Refunding Proprietary Stamps Decision Issued
Washington June 28 The commissioner of internal revenue Yerkes has ruled that the value of proprietary stamps properly affixed and canceled on proprietary articles not removed from the factory for sale or use before July 1 1901 may be refunded on proper application to the collector who sold the stamps.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes
California Hotel Burned in Kern County Fire Disaster
The Central hotel in Kern, near Bakersfield, erupted in flames and a fireman was crushed by debris. One life is known lost and several people are missing. The blaze likely began from an exploding lamp. Loss estimated at 10,000 dollars with 3,000 dollars insured.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Central
Kern
Here
Oregonian Anchors Offshore After Damage Dispatch
A Montevideo Herald dispatch reports the American steamer Oregonian bound for San Francisco with coal for the Pacific squadron arrived off Buceo and anchored offshore. Authorities sent a tug to inquire about the unusual anchorage as the captain said the vessel was damaged and did not want towing into the harbor.
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New York
The
Herald
Montevideo
Oregonian
San Francisco
Pacific Squadron
Buceo
Clash Between Sheepmen and Cattle Raisers Reported
A report from Cheyenne July 1 describes a clash in the Sweet Water country between sheepmen and cattle raisers. Details are uncertain though a deadline previously set by cattlemen and overstocked ranges threaten cattle territory.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Sweet Water Country
Crowded Tien Tsin as foreign officials gather for apologies
Tien Tsin July 2 reports the city overloaded with visitors as Prince Chuan and a 40 member suite prepare to stay three days at the University of Tien Tain before a trip to Germany to apologize for Baron von Ketteler's murder.
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Tien Tsin
University of
United States
Denby
Chartered Bank
Tunnel Cave-In At Baltimore Rail Yard
A tunnel in the Union Railroad, operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, caved in early today in Baltimore. The rear express car was buried by earth and rock, narrowly avoiding serious injury to passengers and crew as the engineer stopped the train and crews recovered the cars at Union station.
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Baltimore
Union Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Station
Transport Kintuck Held After Bubonic Plague Case
The US transport Kintuck with 200 soldiers aboard arrived from Nagasaki and is held in the stream near Port Townsend while Surgeon General Wyman decides on quarantine at Diamond Point. A bubonic plague case died after disembarking in Nagasaki. the ship was fumigated and ten days quarantined there before continuing. The vessel remains anchored with yellow flag as communications with Washington proceed.
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Port Townsend
Wash
United States
Nagasaki
Wyman
Diamond Point
M. H. Foster
Washington
Record Heat Ravages New England With Fatalities
Boston reports continued extreme heat across New England with temperatures 100 to 106 and Nashua reaching 116. Factories suspended work and patrol wagons ferried heat victims as four deaths occur outside Boston and two die in the city.
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Boston
New England
Nashua
N. H
Col David R Paige Dies in New York Apartment
Colonel David R Paige dies in New York from a complication of diseases after months of invalidism. He was a prominent local businessman and a former member of the Forty-eighth Congress from the Twentieth district. In the election for the Forty-ninth Congress Mayor McKinley defeated him.
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New York
David R. Paige
Col. Paige
Marjor McKinley
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