Narrow Escape As Roosevelt Car Collision Kills Craig
A landau carrying President Roosevelt Gov Crane and Secretary Cortelyou was struck by an electric car near Pittsfield at 10 AM. Secret Service Officer Craig died instantly while Roosevelt suffered a scalp wound and bruises. Gov Crane was mildly hurt. Driver Pratt was unconscious. Cortelyou uninjured. The president was moved to Stockbridge by train. Craig, a longtime bodyguard and athlete, was killed in the crash.
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Lenox
Mass
Pittsfield
Roosevelt
Crane
Massachusetts
Cortelyou
Secret Service
Craig
Pratt
House of Mercy
Stockbridge
Both to Blame in Washington Carriage Collision
Assistant secretary H F Barnes arrived in Washington after the Pittsfield accident. He places greater fault on the motor man of the crossing, with possible roadway obstruction affecting the president’s driver. Barnes notes the motor man could have seen the white horses yet failed to slow. The president’s driver allegedly took risky crossing, reputedly paid $1000 to keep his post.
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Mr. Barnes
Washington & Oregon Railway becomes Northern Pacific branch
The Washington & Oregon Railway, operating Vancouver to Kalama, is absorbed into Northern Pacific management. Edmund Rice and A C O Neel are replaced by Northern Pacific officials. The line will be treated as a direct NP branch, with bridge work on the Columbia River and Lewis River steel bridge speeding up. Trains will connect Vancouver with Kalama and onward to the sound and the East.
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Vancouver
Wash
Washington & Oregon Railway Company
Kalama
Northern Pacific
Washington & Oregon
Edmund Rice
Olympia
Newman Line
Tacoma
A.C. O’ Neel
W. D. Darling
St. Paul
Columbia River
Lewis River
Sound
Wreck on NP line at Trout Creek kills engineer
An overnight Northern Pacific passenger train from Minneapolis derailed at Trout Creek station on the Idaho Manana line. Engineer Owen died instantly, a fireman and a tramp were badly hurt as rails spread causing the engine and four cars to topple over.
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Missoula
Mont
Overland
Northern Pacific
Minneapolis
Trout Creek Station
Idaho-Manana
Owen
Desperate Negro Captured After Queens Shootout and Fire
Jerry Hunter, a caretaker, shot eleven policemen and several civilians, set fire to his home in Queens, and was captured after a long siege. His wife Mrs Hunter fought police with a cavalry sabre before being hospitalized in serious condition. Patrolman John McKenna was badly wounded with critical head injuries.
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New York
Jerry Hunter
Queen's Borough
Astoria
Hunter
John McKenna
North Branch
L.I
McKenna
Volcanic disaster reports from Martinique cause massive casualties
Reports from Castries and Paris describe a violent eruption on Martinique with about 2000 reported dead and many injured. Detonations, dense smoke, and heat were noted near Guadaloupe as residents fear a possible tidal wave. Authorities confirm 1060 killed and 1500 injured in Mont Pelée eruptions.
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Paris
New York Herald
Point-a-Pierrie
Guadaloupe
French West Indies
Marintique
Point-a- Pierrie
Basse Terre
Martinique
Mont Pelee
WV Coal Strike Near End as Miners Vote to Return
Huntington West Virginia September 4 1919 miners from coal fields along the Norfolk and Western line reach a mass meeting and nearly unanimously approve resuming work if operators rehire all former miners. President Mitchell urged return to avoid winter hardship as New River and Kanawha fields may follow. Pocahontas mine fire remains but operators expect control soon.
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Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
Norfolk & Western
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
New River
Kanawha
Pocahontas
Kearnes Bill Defeated at International Mining Congress
At the international mining congress in Butte on Sept. 5 the Kearnes bill proposing square claims and ending extralateral rights was rejected 96 to 3. California and Missouri voted yes. Washington DC delegates abstained. Montana's Majors moved to urge Congress to oppose the bill, carried unanimously. A resolution backed the Lewis and Clarke exposition in Portland Oregon.
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Butte
Mont
International Mining Congress
California
Missouri
Washington, D. C
Mr. Majors
Montana
Congress
United States Congress
Portland
Ore
Mrs Lamar to Inherit Vast Devonshire Estate in England
Everett reports Mrs. Joseph Lamar wife of a former Metzger & Co. clerk has attorney assurances she will soon gain possession of a Devonshire estate valued around 35 million dollars held by Lord Salisbury former British Prime Minister. She also claims to prove she is Salisbury's stepdaughter.
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Everett
Joseph Lamar
Metzger & Co
Devonshire
England
Lord Salisbury
Great Britain
Glacier Landslide Destroys 20 Villages in Trans-Caucasus
News from Vienna reports a August 17 landslide near Mount Kasbek in the Trans-Caucasus that toppled a glacier down a 12 mile valley, destroying about 20 villages and killing nearly 700 people. A hurricane aided tossing bodies and debris high into the air.
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Vienna
Tiflis
Trans-Caucasus
Russia
Mount Kasbek
Mount Kasbe
Tmenkau
Oil Fuel Report Details Mariposas Sea Trial Findings
Navy observers report Mariposa used half the coal weight for same power, needing 1.5 pounds of oil per horsepower. The ship burned crude oil in 12 of 18 furnaces, saving engine room personnel from 36 to 20, with safe fuel handling and minimal waste. Findings praise oil burners and Pacific merchant enterprise for switching from coal.
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Mariposa
Washington
Ward Winchell
U. S.N
Navy Department
Oceanic Steamship Company
Shipping and
Naval Service
San Francisco
Tahiti
Winchell
Lieut
Ihs Company
Publisher Marriott Shot in San Francisco Home
Fred Marriott publisher of the San Francisco News Letter was shot three times at his home. Accused shooters are Thomas H. Williams Jr. and Truxton Beale, who allegedly forced entry, assaulted Marriott and fired multiple rounds injuring him and threatening Mrs Marriott. Marriott accuses Williams of the shooting.
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San
Truxton Beale
Beale
Williams
Marriott
Standard Oil Expands Seattle Plant With Massive Tanks
The Standard Oil Company has awarded a contract to build the largest warehouses and storage tanks on the coast outside San Francisco in Seattle. The plant will sit on four and a quarter acres near Whatcom Street and Railroad Avenues, spanning two wide streets and four new buildings under one roof. Tank capacity will rise from 300000 to over 1000000 gallons, with officials assuring low fire risk and no danger to nearby industries in case of a fire.
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Seattle
Standard Oil Company
San Francisco
Whatcom !Street
Railroad Avenues
Centennial Mill
Plans for International Bank and Trust Company of America
At a directors meeting in New York on September 5, the Mexican Trust Company and the Corporation Trust Company outlined plans to form an international bank with capital of 10 million dollars. The new entity would operate mainly in Latin American countries and be named the International Bank and Trust Company of America.
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New York
Mexican Trust Company
Corporation Trust Company
International Bank and Trust Company of America
Victory for Hunt at Idaho Democratic state convention
The Idaho Democratic convention nominating Governor Hunt on the first ballot marks a clear victory for him. Joseph H. Hutchinson of Ada County secures the congress nomination on the third ballot as the party endorses the Kansas City platform and mourns President McKinley. In New York, a Huntington estate shooting leaves a maid gravely wounded. gardener's assistant Daniel Hawkins is in custody.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Hunt
Joseph H. Hutchinson
Ada County
Congress
Committee On Resolutions
Kansas City
William McKinley
New York
Huntington
Throggs Neck
Collis P. Huntington
Elizabeth Connell
Daniel Hawkins
Miss Connell
British steamers load 8000 tons coal for New York
London reports the Glencoe and Devonshire are loading 8000 tons of anthracite at Swansea for New York the first such cargoes. The shipments are said to respond to the U S coal miners strike. New York notes Senator Platt declined to expand on his two week strike end forecast while Lord Pauncefote leaves with about 40000.
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London
Glencoe
Devonshire
Swansea
New York
United States
the Evening Post
Platt
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Mount Pelee
Castries
Island of
St. Lucia
Royal Mail
Yaro
Kearnes Bill
Mining Congress
Fuel Oil Report
D. C. Vammen
G St
Heron
Aberdeen
Humbolt
Fred Hewitt
Propr
Northwest Corner
Heron and
F Sts
Aberdeen, Wash
S. K. Bowes, Propr
Pleasant Club
Heron Street
W. W. Wren
Heron ST
Thomas R. Hayes
Bellefonte
Penn
Harry A. Hayes
Hayes & Hayes
Bankers
J. G. Lewis
Aberdeen State Bank
George L. Hilton
Rancis
R. P. Porter
Choice Brands of
Aberdeen Hotel
New Management
P. Whitney
PROP
Geo. A. Woodward, Propr
Wien
F Street
Wishkah Hotel
Charley Matteus
Wishkah Street
Herald Office
Montesano
Estes
W. E. Crist
Palace Restaurant
Bareticil & Fitzgerald
S. Tadejevich
Mitchell & Co
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Wishkah
Coal For America
Lord Pauncefote
J. Pierpont Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Gates
Duluth
Chicago
A. B. C. Denniston, G. W. P. A
First Avenue
Forbes & Lupton
Wishkah St
Fred Redinger
Fish Market
Ux Ax
Michael Finn
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