Tragic Cedar Rapids drowning of seven children in river
In Cedar Rapids Iowa seven young girls aged 7 to 16 drowned after venturing into Cedar River to rescue a baby left ill at home. Six perished while rescuing companions as others slipped from a sand-bar and disappeared beneath eight feet of water. The incident left one survivor.
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Cedar Rapids
Lowa
Ofhem
Cedar River
Lucile Sweeting
Hazel Sweeting
Gladys Sweeting
Josie Sweeting
Ruth Coyle
Cora Coyle
Clara Usher
Ruth Kiersey
Grove
Mrs. Coyle
Lucille
Hizel
Gladys
Josie
Ruth
Cora
Sweeting
Sweeting House
Smith of Moline Chosen Peoria Schools Superintendent
Girard Smith of Moline was chosen by the Peoria school board as superintendent to succeed N. C. Dougherty, who is serving a Joliet penitentiary term for defalcations totaling 750000. The salary is 2000 dollars a year, up from 1500. Smith, 38, has been in Moline three years, and previously served as superintendent in Ludington and Lansing, Michigan.
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Smith
Doctors Named for Asylums in State Appointments
Dr. Eugene Cohn of St Jacob Madison county and Dr. Julius Wen Glensky of Chicago named assistant physicians at the eastern hospital for the insane in Kankakee to succeed Dr. Martin Vektoen. Dr. Francis J. Sullivan of Chicago named assistant physician at the central hospital for the insane in Jacksonville to succeed Dr. I A Potts. Gov Deneen appoints Mrs Clara T Bourland of Peoria to the State Board of Charities to succeed Rev Father Edward Kelley whose term expired.
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Eugene Cohn
St. Jacob
Madison County
Julius Wen Glensky
Chicago
Eastern Hospital For the Insane
Kankakee
Martin Vektoen
Francis J. Sullivan
Central Hospital For the Insane
Jacksonville
I. A. Potts
Deneen
Clara T. Bourland
Peoria
State Board of Charities
Edward Kelley
Ice Dealers in Peoria Ice Combine Faces Prosecution
State's Attorney Robert Scholes plans to indict Peoria ice dealers accused of forming a price-fixing combine. Wholesale ice sells for five dollars a ton while small consumers pay eight to eight and a quarter dollars. prices have more than doubled from last year. Scholes will present sufficient evidence to the September grand jury to charge several local dealers with violations of state law.
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Peoria
Robert Scholes
Scholes
Expert Farm School Held at Champai University
The Expert Farm School and graduate courses in agriculture are hosted by the University of Illinois under the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Enrollment reaches eighty five students from twenty three states, plus three international attendees. Notable faculty include L H Bailey from Cornell, A C True and H W Wiley from the U S Department of Agriculture, and T J Burroughs of Illinois.
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Champai
University of Illinois
Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
Maine
California
Alabama
India
University of Budapest
L. H. Bailey
Carnnell University
A. C. True
H. W.wiley
United States Department, of Agriculture
T. J. Burroughs
The
Wauconda Fire Destroys Mills and Homes Near Bangs Lake
A major fire at the summer resort of Wauconda near Bangs Lake damaged several residences including C. L. Spratt H. C. Graham and J. Cook and destroyed the Wauconda roller mills with over 8000 bushels of wheat reported. The Miller plant and A Fuller's General Store suffered heavy losses totaling about 80000 dollars. The blaze threatened the town for hours before being checked.
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Wauconda
Bangs Lake
C. L. Spratt
H. C. Graham
J. Cook
A. Fuller
Burglar Escapes In Auto After Robbing Zion City Home
A young man and woman in a car helped a thief near Zion City escape after a home on W. A. Cannon was entered. A suit of clothes a gold watch and some money were taken. A neighbor saw a man leave with a bundle and hail a vehicle. The front seats held a man and a woman. accomplice status is unclear but they are believed to be innocent.
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Zion City
W. A. Cannon
Thrashing Engine Blast Fatal to two men near Jacksonville
A farm engine exploded west of Jacksonville at Charles Johnson’s property, killing Roy Caldwell aged 9 and fatally scalding Roy Libbey while three others were slightly scalded. The blast hurled them forty feet as steam and hot water escaped. the likely cause was a boiler rupture pushing water into the firebox.
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Roy
Jacksonville
Charles Johnson
Roy Caldwell
Roy Libbey
Caldwell
Libbey
Baby Falls From Window in Chicago Tragedy
Frances Dinzo, a 14 month old girl, climbed a window ledge and fell twenty five feet to the ground, suffering probably fatal injuries. The child was left alone briefly by her visiting mother. upon return the infant was missing and later found on the sidewalk, unconscious.
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Chicago
Frances Dinzo
State Banks Show Gain as Illinois Deposits Rise
A report on the condition of the Illinois state banks, issued by State Auditor McCullough, covers statements dated June 19. Since the last report in April, thirteen new banks formed, with total loans and discounts up $11,812,043, deposits up $11,740,044, and cash increased $2,574,522, driven mainly by the Chicago area improvements.
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Illinois
McCullough
Chicago
United States
Ae Bank
Revita
Chicago Deaths and Disasters and Local Notices</s>
A review of scattered Chicago and Illinois items reports a man shooting himself with a 22 caliber rifle while at Calvary cemetery in Chicago, a Miss Baer robbed of two diamond rings, a fire at 998 West Harrison caused by oven pies, and a decapitated unknown body found on Illinois Central tracks at Gibson City. Other notes cover Wheaton pastors opposing Sunday baseball, a boy fatally injured by a horse in Chicago, a Knights of Pythias promotion in Springfield, multiple buildings burned in New Haven, a riot at Chicago baseball grounds, Virginia triplets born to John Holliday, an ouster of eight Peoria school board members, a Stillwell man wounded, a theater fire injuring attendees, disbarment testimony in Springfield, forged cashier checks claiming a Cairo bank, and oil lease deals near Mattoon.
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Calvary Cemetery
Chicago
Mary Baer
Chicago Fire Department
West
Harrison Street
Ilinois Central
Gibson City
Wheaton
George Tattenaude
James H. Barkley
Springfield
Illinois Brigade
Uniform Bank
Knights of Pythias
New Haven
National League Baseball Grounds On the West Side
Virginia
John Holliday
Worthington
Peoria
Aaron Westron
Stillwell
St. Mary’s Hospital
Quincy
State Street
Richard Reaugh
Clay County
Maddleston
Lumberman’s Exchange Bank of
Cairo
Lumberman's Exchange Bank
Frank Rust
Mattoon
Bell, Campbell & Mulroy
Bell & Snowden
Long Point Church
Peoria Teacher Dies By Suicide Amid Ill Health
Miss Mary Murphy, a Peoria public school teacher, suffered a sudden mental illness, wandered to railroad yards, and killed herself by stepping under a switch engine. Her head was severed and body mangled. no cause beyond ill health is given. She left Lee school years ago and later taught at Garfield school.
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Tll
Mary Murphy
Peoria
Pekin Union
Frances Shimer Academy Seeks Carnegie Gift Conditions
Trustees of Frances Shimer Academy Mount Carroll vote to raise 35000 by April 1 1907 to qualify for Andrew Carnegie 10000 grant for a new administration building about 26000 already pledged and remaining hoped from pupils and friends nationwide especially locals urged to contribute.
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Frances Shimer
Carnegie
Frances Shimer Academy
Mount Carroll
Andrew Carnegie
Four Brothers Buried in Pit Rescue Fresh from Sand
Four brothers playing in a front-yard excavation at 1551 West Sixty-seventh Street in Chicago were nearly suffocated when the pit side collapsed burying them under sand and dirt. Police and nearby citizens freed the boys after a difficult extraction. The workers had dug the trench and left as soon as the day ended.
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West Sixty-seventh Street
Chicago
Broncho Stampede at Granite City Injures Several
A bucking broncho at a Tri-Cities street fair in Granite City injured about a half dozen people after a section of temporary seating collapsed. The animal went on a frantic dash among the wreckage trampling those beneath the seats as the show continued amid chaos.
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Granite City
Tri-Cities
Negro celebrates 107th birthday recalls Civil War era
Peter White, a Negro of Centralia born in Virginia, born to slavery, marks his 107th birthday. He says he was a bondsman until emancipation and lived through much of the Civil War and the War of 1812 era, recalling presidents Harrison Polk Tyler and other notable figures.
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Peter White
Centralia
Virginia
White
Harrison
Polk
Tyler
Parole system attacked by Lieut Gov Sherman Tesla
Lieut Gov Sherman accused Illinois parole laws at the State Attorneys Association convention in Springfield calling the system a stupendous mistake. He said most paroles led criminals back to crime, criticizing the policy and its outcomes.
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Sherman Tesla
Sherman
Illinois
Veer’s Out, They Were Dead
A fragment notes that they were dead as the vehicle veered out. The line presents a terse accident implication with limited readable details and no clear identities or dates.
Political Upheaval Shifts NY Seaton and State Gubernatorial Hope
Timothy D. Sullivan resigns to seek a New York State Senate seat while Morrisburg sees the Democratic convention nominate Lewis Empery Jr. for governor with Lincoln party support. Bailey defends actions amid Cosmo politan exchange, Kirby payments cited, La Follette questioned. Gov Cobb renominated. Tillman bill limits corporate political spending with penalties.
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Timothy D. Sullivan
Congress
New York City
Morrisburg
Lewis Empery, Jr
Lincoln Party
Guffey
Richard Croker
Tammany
W. J. Bryan
United States
Cosmopolitan
Senate
David Graham Phillips
Bailey
Texas
Ife
Mearst
New York
Phillips
John H. Kirby
la Follette
Wisconsin
William T. Cobb
Portland
Salvadorean victory over Guatemala with 2000 lost
Salvadorean army defeated Guatemalan forces at Platanar on Saturday night and forced heavy casualties including 2000 killed wounded and prisoners. Both nations seek U S mediated peace talks while debates over territory and indemnity loom. Honduras and Honduras relations with Salvador also noted. Roosevelt engages with Cabrera to push arbitration.
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Platanar
Santa Fe
Honduras
Salvador
Guatemala
State Department
Washington
United States
Regalado
Terrtory
Cianera
Roosevelt
Diaz
Mexico
Cabrera
Root's South American tour faces daunting scope and seas
Secretary of State Elihu Root plans a three month South America voyage to visit most republics, travel under 16 000 miles by water and rail, and meet capitals, aboard a navy ship with luxury quarters. The mission aims to improve hemispheric understanding, echoing Blaine's long effort, while other items note express company dividend changes and a study on birds controlling boll weevil populations.
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South America
Eig.c
South
Root
Elilu Root
United States
Rio Tuneiro
Tie
Navy
Uncle Sam
Mr. Root
Hemisphere
James G. Blaine
Periods of Great Immigration and Its Shifting Faces
The piece surveys U S immigration trends, noting that the current period surpasses all prior years. It highlights five-year totals, key national groups such as Germans Irish and British, and the 1905 breakdown by origin including Austria Hungary Italy Russia United Kingdom and Nordic nations. It also contrasts immigrant numbers with population growth from 1850 1880 and 1900.
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British Isles
Italy
Austria
Russia
Know-Nothing Party
Austria- Hungary
United Kingdom
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
German Empire
Frisco Field for Workers in All Trades Rises Fast
San Francisco rebuild continues with rapid progress as artisans and laborers are in demand across many trades. A dispatch notes strong activity and growing interest in the Tabor situation amid ongoing inquiries.
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San Francisco
California PROTOORs penny labor demand study
The report finds that outside building trades demand is fully supplied, with a notable exception for ordinary laborers in railway construction and debris removal. Building trades show a need for mechanics across plumbing electrical work gas fixture hangers brick layers cement workers bridge structural iron workers architectural iron workers plasterers lathers carpenters sheet metal workers and elevator constructors.
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Ind
California
Ors
Bittersweet Notes From a Distant World
A collage of snatches on weather, politics, and social gossip—Alaska snow, canal talks, Dowie bank intrigue, Russia’s woes, and jokes about icemen and jail. A dated, rambling miscellany reflecting a loose press page vibe and vivid but scattered opinions.
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Alaska
Douma
Czar Nicholas
Dowie
Uncle Sem
Russia
Panama Canal
Boston
Washington
Ohio
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