Notable Happenings Across the Nation This Week
Retired General Alexander McCook suffered a stroke. A Racine Wisconsin factory district fire caused 300000 dollars in damage. The U S Supreme Court adjourned after delivering about forty opinions. President Palma said naval coaling station leases will be negotiated next week. Asiatic Turkey earthquake toll officially 860, earlier reports cited over 2000. The mint director bought 840000 ounces of silver for Philippine coinage at 43.64 cents per ounce. The Baker City Electric Light and Gas Company plant in South Baker Oregon burned Saturday. Congressman Ball of Texas Eighth District announced resignation effective November 4 due to private business.
Textile workers strike sweeps Philadelphia citywide
A major textile labor uprising in Philadelphia involves about 90 000 workers across 39 branches. Forty seven of sixty three carpet mills are operating while sixty three mills idle affect 8 000 weavers and 10 000 others. Berkshire mills concede 55 hour week and raise pay. Capital in mills placed at 100 million. Manufacturers say large firms will keep mills shut if needed.
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Philadelphia
GOC
Berkshire
Santa Maria eruption devastates Quesaltenango area
U.S. consul G A Mor rill reports Santa Maria eruption in Guatemala sank the town into ash. The La Sabina mineral springs and a three story hotel were buried under ashes up to forty feet. The crater split from plain level to summit, with the volcano opening nearly five thousand feet.
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Mexico City
G.A. Morrill
United States
Quesaltenango
Santa Maria
la Sabina
Mount
Martinique
Pelee
Butte Labor Leaders to Visit White House in Washington
Six representative Butte labor union men will travel to Washington to spend a week or ten days at the White House as Roosevelt’s guests. The visit follows an invitation extended after the president’s cordial reception of local labor unions in Butte last week. Malcolm Giles, chair of the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly committee, and Frank E. Doyle, its president, received personal invitations.
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Butte
Mont
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly
Frank EB. Doyle
Bulgarian rebels threaten plague attack on major cities
Sofia correspondent reports Bulgarian revolutionaries have acquired plague bacilli for India and threaten to infect Constantinople Salonica and Berlin if powers do not intervene in their favor. This alarming claim ties to broader revolt fears across Europe.
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London
Sofia
The
Daily News
Bulgaria
India
Constantinople
Salonica
Berlin
Water receding along Kansas river as deaths mount
Topeka reports the Kansas river level fallen fourteen inches by 6 p.m. and dropping half an inch per hour. Manhattan and Wamega indicate slowly falling waters. The tally of known dead stands at 34.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas River
Manhattan
Wamega
Odd Fellows form Rebekah degree in Satsop. anti-saloon league grows
In Washington State news, a Rebekah degree of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is organized at Satsop, while an anti saloon league forms in Waterville drawing many members. Ed Moore a Seattle Electric Company lineman is killed by an electrical shock atop a pole. George Palmer attorney for the Waterville and Orondo railroad begins condemnation for right of way with about 7000 dollars raised at Waterville. Frank Young shingle manufacturer of Grand Marais Michigan dies suddenly in Seattle. Bishop Wells of Spokane guarantees 20000 dollars to sustain St Pauls School at Walla Walla while seeking an eighty thousand dollar endowment. A trustees meeting selects a new staff of teachers. Bob Lankford a Walla Walla bartender is bound over on robbery charges. Hydrophobia appears in Willis residents families with three sons sent to Chicago Pasteur Institute for treatment.
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Bishop Wells
Spokane
St. Paul’s School
Walla Walla
Atholl Ships From San Francisco Slashes Asian Freight Rates
The British ship Atholl, first of the new China Commercial fleet, sailed to Hong Kong via Japan ports with about 1,500 tons freight and 100 steerage Chinese passengers. The company cut Oriental freight rates to match Pacific Mail and charged steerage about $15 per head, roughly one third of usual Asiatic line fares.
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San Francisco
Atholl
New China Commercial Company
Hongkong
Japan
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Asiatic
Convicts Escape From Deer Lodge Prison
Three trusties from the Deer Lodge penitentiary escaped on Saturday after obtaining horses and heading for the hills. The short term prisoners Green Reed Walter Hare and John Oswall were all sent up from Dawson County. Also reported Spokane the State Dental Association elected Dr. A W Phillips of Seattle as president and Dr. Gregor McGregor of Seattle as secretary for the ensuing year with other officers named.
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Butte
Mont
Green Reed
Walter Hare
John Oswall
Dawson
Spokane
State Dental Association
A. W. Phillips
Seattle
Gregor McGregor
R. A. Monroe
B. Scott
Tacoma
Appleby
Everett
Seattle Market Report Prices for Grains Poultry and Livestock
Prices offered by Seattle dealers for delivery in round lots on the dock or car. Grain oats 21 22 per ton barley 22 wheat chicken feed 25 bran 17 shorts 18 hay Puget Sound 12 Eastern Washington 17 eggs strictly fresh ranch 17 18c poultry live hens 14e roosters ducks 138 14c geese 9 10c cattle cows 4tuc steers 5 5%4ec sheep 44 d,e hogs 7% 18c calves 5 7e spring lambs 3.50 per head jobbing butter ranch 15 20c Washing ton creamery 1-lb 2-lb prints 2bc cheese native Washington 13 14c Eastern 14 15c halk skim 9 10c California 13c eggs strictly fresh ranch 18 19c Oregon 18c Eastern 18c honey California comb 15c strained 6 814c poultry live hens 14144 15c ducks 15 16c turkeys 22c geese 11 12c
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Butter—Ranch
Washingington Creamery
California
Oregon
I&c
Timothy
Market Prices and Commodities Listing
Grain and feed prices listed including wheat at 78 cents, oats at 25.50 per 50 pounds, barley at 23.59 to 24.50 per unit, timothy and clover around 16 to 17.50. Livestock quotes show cattle at 4.75 per cwt for steers cows and hogs at 7.50, veals at 15. Butter and honey prices noted from Washington and California creameries.
Topeka Flood Disaster Peril Grows With Rising Death Toll
Severe flooding in Topeka Kansas leaves thousands homeless as more than 150 people are dead or missing. Fires rage through burned buildings while survivors cling to rooftops and are rescued by improvised boats amid drifting wreckage and ongoing water surges. Rescue crews work knee deep in water, reporting hundreds of rescues and mounting property losses.
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Topeka
Kan
North Topeka
Metley
Capitol
Kansas
Ottawa
Emporia
B Street Colored Baptist Church
Sven
Opposition to Exclusive Opium Concession in Manila
On June 2 in Manila opposition grows to a government plan selling an exclusive opium concession. The Evangelical union urges complete exclusion of opium from the islands due to harm to Filipinos. Chinese and other residents also oppose the monopoly as the government considers the issue on June 15.
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Manila
Evangelical Union
Smithsonian plans new 3.5 million structure for national museum
Washington June 1 plans are complete for a new 3.5 million Smithsonian building to house the scientific collections. The regents aim to rearrange the National Museum and Smithsonian buildings with the new site devoted to science topics such as biology anthropology geology zoology botany and American history. The old museum will showcase industrial art and the library and art collections, with the new building modeled after the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Washington
National Museum
the Star
Smithsonian Institution
National Muanem
Smithsonian
Smithsonian and National Museum
British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Great Britain
Educating Firemen by Train Experts Cuts Coal Use
The Northern Pacific Railway started sending expert firemen to each division to train regular firemen in efficient firing. After two months the scheme shows strong results with freight locomotives saving as much as 5 percent coal. The program will continue on an indefinite basis as crews adopt the technique.
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Seattle
Northern Pacific Railway
Exile Reported to Restore Tranquility in Balkans
Dispatches say Constantinople claims exile of Albanian chiefs restores order while a Uskub correspondent warns of more fighting in Albania. Authorities plan to exile 103 leading Bulgarians from Macedonia without trial, mainly respected schoolmasters and merchants. Rebel activity rises as dynamite is reported moving from Bulgaria.
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London
Constantinople
Times
Porte
Uskub
Albania
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Body of Superintendent Egan Found After Deer Hunt
Spokane reports the body of Benjamin F. Egan, superintendent of the Rathspell division for the Great Northern railway, found near Lake Five in Montana. He disappeared after starting a deer hunt in November during a blizzard, with ongoing searches until this spring. No further details are provided.
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Spokane
Benjamin F. Egan
Great Northern Railway
Binger Hermann Wins First District Special Election
In Portland Oregon on June 2 1902 Binger Hermann a Republican won the first district special election to fill the late Thomas H Tongues term defeating Democrat A E Reames by around two thousand votes The turnout was about 35 percent below normal compared with June 1902 figures Tongue had a 7372 plurality previously.
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Portland, Or
Binger Hermann
Thomas H. Tongue
A. E. Reames
Tongue
Alaska Mineral Survey Details Wrangel District Deposits
The geological survey reports on gold copper coal and other minerals in Mount Wrangel Alaska including Ches Tephela Nazina regions. It covers copper belts around Chitna and Nazina prospects, Nabesena Chisana White river basins, Chestochena gold field and Nazina gold field with routes transport and camp photos and maps.
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Washington
Geological Survey
Mount Wrangel
Alaska
Chestephela
Nazina
Copper River Valley
Walter ©. Mendenhall
Frank C. Schrader
Wrangel
Isus
St. Elias
Copper River
Chitna
Ebert Creek
Bonanza
Kennicott Glacier
Nicholai
Robert Blei
Wrangel Mountains
Nabesena
Chisana
White Rivers
Nabesna
Mentasta Mountains
Chestochena
Two Treasury Inspectors Removed From Office
Telegrams from the acting secretary of the treasury dismiss Conway C. Chery and William J. Bryant from their posts as inspectors of steam boilers and hulls in Seattle. Charges from an investigation since March led to unsatisfactory replies, prompting summary removal yesterday.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Conway C. Chery
William J. Bryant
Seattle
Treasury Department
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State of
Resumoe
Alexander McCook
Racine
Wis
United States Supreme Court
Palma
Associated Press
Naval
Turkey
Baker City Electric Light and Gas Company
South Baker, Or
Ball
Texas
Twain
Mexico
Wil
White House
Butte Labor
Washington State News
Rebekah
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Satsop
Waterville
Ed Moore
Seattle Electric Company
George Palmer
Orondo Railroad
Frank Young
Grand Marias
Mich
First Avenue
Madison Street
Bob Lankford
Superior Court
Jack Crawford
Eureka Flat
Horseshoe
J. W. Galbreath
Mr. Willis
Willis Post Office
Ritzville
Victuns
Mr. Galbreath
Willis
Pasteur Intsitute
Chicago
China Commercial Co
Pacific Mail
Montana
Dentists
Seattle Market Report
Kansan
McCabe
N. P
B. Egan
Congress
Wrangel, Chestochena
Bryant
Cherry
D. C. Vammen
G St
Heren
Aberdeen
Fred Hewitt
Heren and
F Ste
Aberdeen, Wash
K. Bowes
Pleasant Club
Heron Street
Fashion Saloon
J. M. Bowes
Prop
Heron ST
H. A. Tereda & CO
Zelask
F Street
Transfer CO
W. T. McBride
Harper
Michael Finn
Wiehkem
Abeordece
F. R. Granger
Billiards
St Paul
Duluth
Minneapolis
A. B.C. Denniston
Fieet Avenue
Beattle
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