Summary of World News and Domestic Incidents
Condensed weekly fillers note cholera easing in Manila due to rain while rivers swell in Kansas and Iowa causing heavy damage. A Missouri state representative Roches Clay dies in a Mexico duel. Panama rumors claim insurgents capture Bluefields, Nicaragua. Educational groups convene with 8,000 attendees in Minneapolis as Charles W. Elliot is elected president. Several prominent Easterners sail from Seattle to Alaska. Dallas experiences a $250,000 fire loss. Pittsburg endures heat with multiple deaths. A Butte smelter explosion leaves one dead and two injured. A duel near Burns Ore ends with Toney dead. St Louis World’s Fair board adopts Sunday closing policy. Mining progress noted at Dragon Creek near Cariboo. Idaho Governor Hunter appoints 30 delegates to international mining congress in Butte. Judge Herbert J. Davis resigns due to ill health.
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Governor Hunt
Idaho
Butte
Herbert J. Davis
Court of First Instance
Philippines
United States
Public Building Plans Near Seattle Bid Phase
Supervising Architect Taylor of the treasury department replies to Congressman Cushman that bids for the Seattle court house, custom house, and post office building will be advertised roughly eight months from now. Sketch plans and estimates are with the cabinet board for formal approval and once approved working drawings will be prepared and pushed with speed.
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Washington
Taylor
Treasury Department
Cushman
Seattle
Court House
Custom House
Wash
Cabinet Board
Bids Too Low For Grant as War Department Considers Sale
Major Devol, head of the army transport service, opened bids for the Grant ship. All offers below the steamship value, highest bid $51,000, though government paid $660,000 in 1848 and repairs and new boilers have been costly. Officials deem selling cheaper than major repairs.
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San Francisco
Extradition Request in Gaynor and Greene Case Referred to Review
The Department of Justice seeks state department help to extradite Gaynor and Greene. Papers have reached the state department and are referred to a reviewing authority. Secretary Hay will proceed once all essential points are in hand, but a presentation date is not yet certain.
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Washington
Gaynor and Greene
Department of Justice
State Department
Hay
Supreme court to rule on increased Supreme Bench judges
Olympia reports an imminent opinion on the constitutionality of a law raising the supreme bench judges. Judge Reavis is expected to write the decision while Judges White and Hadley are excused due to their prior appointment by Governor Rogers in spring 1901.
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Olympia
Supreme Court
Supreme Bench
Reavis
White
Hadley
Rogers
State News Briefs From Washington State Robe
The state rested its case in the Bruce trial at Whatcom after a second failed bid to admit bank books as evidence. Everett lumber firms receive notice of fir log price increases by July 15. Puget Sound customs district shows fiscal year end weakness with exports and imports down including wheat flour and lumber. The 13th annual State Pharmaceutical Association meeting is set for Seattle. Modern Woodmen of America members travel to Freewater Oregon for a Friday picnic. Fong Chong appeals deportation order to district federal court. Siam smuggling appeal also noted.
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Bruce
Whatcom
Everett
Puget Sound Loggers’ Association
Puget Sound
Fong Chong
United States
Bowman
District Federal Court
Hanford
Siam
Tragedy Strikes Brooke Relation in Sarawak Expedition
Dispatches from Singapore detail cholera outbreaks among a ten thousand strong Sarawak expedition led by Chas Vyner Brooke heir to Rajah Brooke. From June ten to June nineteen the flotilla shrank from 815 to forty boats as desertions and disease rose. Over a thousand deaths occurred before the survivors, including Vyner Brooke, returned to Singapore.
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London
Harry DeWindt
Siberia
Chas. Vyner Broke
Rajah Brooke
Sarawak
DeWindt
Singapore
Straits Settlemente
Batang Lubar
Vyner Brooke
Strikers Vote to Continue Fight Amid Rail Labor Dispute
Chicago July 11. Freight handlers refuse railroad terms and vow to stay on strike. Union president Curran advocated returning to work to strike later, but the motion failed. Teamsters quit in sympathy as Hugh McGee warns of 4000 workers joining the battle and disclaims responsibility for a wider strike.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
Curran
Teamsters
Hugh McGee
Navy plans wireless telegraph station in San Francisco harbor
Wireless Telegraph Station Washington reports the navy department contemplates establishing a wireless telegraph station in San Francisco harbor as part of its communications expansion.
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Wireless Telegraph
Washington
Navy Department
San Francisco Harbor
Trail of Tracy Clue After Clue Run Down But the Desperado In Still at Large
Seattle stories from July chronicle the Harry Tracy manhunt with bloodhounds deputies and volunteers failing to trap the fugitive. Tracy shot at deputies near Covington and later held up the E M Johnson family to obtain a Colt's 45, fleeing into swamp and brush as time and rumors swirl.
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Seattle
Harry Tracy
Tracy
Black Diamond
Covington
Brush
E. M. Johnson
Kent
Johnson
Tacoma
Gerrells
Gerrills
Renton
Educators Pack Minneapolis For National Convention
Minneapolis July 10 The National Educational Association draws an over 20 000 visitor turnout marking a record for the organization. Fifteen department meetings run full and about 10 000 attend the general session in the Exposition building where Archbishop John Ireland delivered the principal address to a warmly received audience.
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Minneapolis
Minn
National Educational Association
General Association
Exposition Building
John Ireland
St. Paul
Morgan ship offer to place British fleet at admiralty
In the House of Commons the parliamentary secretary to the admiralty H C Arnold-Forster confirmed that J P Morgan offered to place all British ships in the new combine at the admiralty disposal for 50 years on defined terms. The offer has not been accepted as it must relate to British shipping and the Atlantic trade position under government review.
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London
House of Commons
Admiralty
H. C. Arnold-Forster
Wm. Redmond
J. P. Morgan
Seattle Market Prices for Livestock and Grains
Market listings show delivery in round lots on Seattle docks with prices for grain oats barley wheat chicken feed bran hay fresh and timothy alfalfa and other feeds. Live stock includes beef cattle cows steers hogs calves spring lamb and hides wool pelts and furs with varying weights and quality adjustments.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Timothy
New
Freeh Ranch
Missing Limbs Increases Demand For Artificial Limbs
Washington reports the Philippines war has raised demand for arms and legs with guaranteed artificial limbs for those deprived in government service. The new sundry civil bill allocates 514000 dollars for this year to cover limbs and transportation costs for maimed veterans, mostly soldiers.
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Washington
Philippines
Uncle Sam
Man Kills Sister and Wounds Mother in Dorchester
A young man named Herbert Hill of Roxbury shot and killed his married sister Mrs. Alice Riley in Dorchester near Franklin Park and then wounded their mother Mrs. Amelia Hill who is believed to die. Hill, 21, is said to be demented and fled through the streets before disappearing among the trees.
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Boston
Dorchester
Franklin Park
Herbert Hill
Roxbury
Alice Riley
Amelia Hill
Hill
Fitchette Guilty in Police Appointment Bribery Case
Minneapolis reports Captain John Fitchette known as Coffee John convicted of accepting 200 from John Long to secure Long’s police appointment. The misdemeanor links municipal corruption ties, with evidence of collusion, as mayor Ames’s administration oversaw the appointment last August.
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Minneapolis
Minn
John Fitchette
John
John Long
Fitchette
Long
Mayor Ames
Ames
David Johnson
Portland Box Manufacturers Form Oregon Washington Combine
Portland July 9 box manufacturers in Oregon and Washington have formed an agreement to cut marketing costs and boost profits. Outsiders call it a trust, insiders insist it is a joint agency for selling members products. The aim is to gain better terms in the California market.
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Portland
Oregon
Washington
California
Judge Dismisses Entire Jury Panel in City Savings Bank Case
Detroit July 9 Judge Alfred J Murphy of the recorder s court dismissed the entire panel of jurors drawn for the July term in the Frank C Andrews City Savings Bank case. He said information affecting members of the jury had been received and ordered the discharge in the interest of justice.
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Detroit
Alfred J. Murphy
Recorder’s Court
Frank C. Andrews
City Savings Bank
Murphy
Vatican replies to Taft on Philippine clergy and friars
A Vatican note delivered to Judge Taft proposes 12 articles for a Holy See Philippines accord. It rejects forced friar recall, urges careful clergy selection, and seeks path to educational questions via Manila discussions with Taft, while avoiding immediate school issues.
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Washington
War Department
Taft
Vatican
United States
Holy See
Paris
Spain
Philippines
Manila
Family Murders Shocks Near Prudence
Near Prudence, thirty miles from Enid, the bodies of a man, woman and two children were found murdered and mutilated in nearly unrecognizable shapes. Authorities believe strangers traveling overland were robbed and slain, with their team and belongings taken.
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Enid
Prudence
Jail Breakers Fail In Buchanan County Jail
James Blades Leck Allen and James Murray dynamited the rear wall of the Buchanan county jail in St Joseph Missouri July 10. The jailbreak attempt was repelled by guards who beat them back with Win chestere.
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St. Joseph
James Blades
Leck Allen
James Murray
Buchanan County
Allen
Blades
Murray
Terrible explosion buries Cambria mine. hundreds feared dead
In a noon blast at the Cambria coal mine in Johnstown eight hundred men were entombed and feared dead. Rescue teams worked through the night as 87 bodies and 14 living men were recovered. workers described the chaotic collapse and widespread devastation with many Hungarians and Slavs among the dead.
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Cambria
Johnstown
Cambria Steel Company
Rolling Mill
Cambra
Klondike
Moore
Robinson
Morrison Case Sentences Woman to 25 Years in Penitentiary
Eldorado Kansas July 9 Jessie Morrison convicted in June of second degree murder for killing Mrs Olin Castle in January 1900 by cutting her throat was sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. The motion for a new trial was overruled and the case will be appealed to the state supreme court. Morrison had undergone three trials and accepted the sentence with little display. At her second trial she received five years.
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Eldorado
Kan
Jessie Morrison
Panama General Salazar Receives Peace Dispatch
A Bogota dispatch reports that Generals Pedrosa Neenito Albo Teopilo Gracia and staff with General Martin have laid down arms amid Bogota guarantees. In Carmen, Gen Delacan defeated Liberal forces under Gen Munoz with over 200 killed or wounded, and also beat Gen Garcia Riviera, claimed to end further bloodshed.
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Panama
Salazar
Bogota
Pedrosa
Neenito
Alboaleal
Teopilo Gracia
Martin
Department
Tolima
Carmen
Delacan
Munoz
Garcia Riviera
Flood conditions worsen in Nebraska reports
Reports from Omaha dated July 10 indicate conditions in flooded districts deteriorated beyond initial estimates. Morning rail service was delayed up to five hours with several trains abandoned. In Superior, 1000 feet of Burlington track washed into the Republican River while the Santa Fe line was flooded over a mile of its roadbed by water.
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Omaha
Neb
Superior
Burlington Road
Republican River
Santa Fe
Evacuation of Tien Tsin Agreed By Major Powers
Secretary Hay acted on the Chinese government appeal through Yuan Sui Kai and Wu to evacuate Tien Tsin. Foreign ministers opposing evacuation will be instructed by their governments. France and Germany joined others in favor of the U S position. Powers will order generals to abandon the 30 kilometer non evacuation buffer, except for 300 police, allowing Chinese authorities to take control.
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Washington
Hay
Yuan Sui Kai
Tien Tsin
Peking
Tokyo
France
Germany
United States
Nervy Navigators Sail for England in 38-Foot Launch
The 38 foot kerosene launch Ariel Abbott Low sails from New York to England with Capt. William Newman and his 16 year old son aboard. They expect a 20 day crossing. Newman is famed for transoceanic voyages in small craft and holds a record for sailing in very small boats.
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New York
Ariel Abbott Low
England
William Newman
Atlantic
Newman
Asphalt Firm Sold to New York Company
The Alcatraz Asphalt Paving Company with plants in Spokane Seattle San Francisco and Salt Lake City has sold to Bar ber Asphalt Company of New York. Northwest headquarters will be Denver with F P Caughlin as district manager. Alcatraz to go out of existence.
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Spokane
Alcatraz Asphalt Paving Company
Seattle
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Barber Asphalt Company
New York
America
Northwest
Denver
F. P. Caughlin
Alcatraz
Washington pushes forward on Colombian canal treaty plan
The state department will convert the Colombia protocol into a full treaty to secure right of way for the isthmian canal. Secretary Hay aims to preempt political changes by making the agreement binding. The plan retains the French materials clause and has French assurances.
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Washington
State Department
Hay
Colombia
United States
Senate
Ames Not Guilty Verdict In Police Bribe Case
Minneapolis jurors acquitted Superintendent of Police Fred A. Ames after 18 hours deliberation. The verdict finds him not guilty on bribery charges stemming from alleged improper conduct while in office.
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Minneapolis
Fred A. Ames
Sympathy for Mrs Lawton Arrives in Louisville
Gen Buen Camino former secretary of state in Aguinaldo's cabinet arrives in Louisville to present sympathy from the Philippine federal party to the widow of Gen Lawton who lives in Pewee Valley.
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Lawton
Louisville
Gen. Buencamino
Aguinaldo
Federal
Philippines
Gen
Pewee Valley
Firemen Killed In City Blaze Destroys Two Firms
Five firemen died in a blaze that began in a building occupied by P. McIntosh & Sons and spread to the Cradsley and McCann wholesale hay and straw warehouse. Both establishments were destroyed.
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Toronto
P. McIntosh & Sons
Cradsley & McCann
Nazina placer reports draw Seattle travelers to Valdes interior
Passengers aboard the Pacific Clipper steamer Santa Ana report the Nazina district near Valdes as highly favorable for placer mining. The accounts are prompting many North Westerners to plan a personal investigation of the camp.
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Seattle
Nazina Placer
Valdes
Pacific Clipper Line
Santa Ana
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Nicaragua
The
National Pure Food Association
Charles W. Elliot
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F. W. Seward
Alaska
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Texas
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Jerry Daley
Robert Toney
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Ore
Toney
Francis
Dragon Creek
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Trail OF
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Morrison Case
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