Sirio Disaster Off Cape Palos Drowns Hundreds
The Italian steamship Sirio wrecked off Hormegas Island near Cape Palos killing about 300 passengers. The captain died by his own hand claiming prudence caused the disaster. bishops and many Italians and Spaniards perish while survivors are housed in Cape Palos with relief underway.
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Cartagena
Spain
Cape Palos
Sirio
Genoa
Barcelona
Cadiz
Montevideo
Buenos Ayres
Homegas Island
San Pedro
Brazil
Bajos Hormegas
Hormegas Island
The
Navigazione Italiana of
Geona
Hormegas
Bajos Hormegaz
Capé
Sirip
Genet
Siria
Harmosas Islands
Rio de Janeiro
Halian
London
Cape Patos
City
Foundling Asylum
Passenger train derailed in Joplin Missouri
A St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train No. 203 derailed in Joplin killing fireman Mike A. O'Neal of Monnett Missouri and injuring engineer FE Werren fatally and express messenger George Shelton seriously, with no passengers hurt.
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Joplin
St. Louis
San Francisco
Wichita
Kan
Mike A. O'Neal
Monnett
FE. J. Werren
George Shelton
Transmississippi Commercial Congress Cadence Set for Kansas City
The official call announces the seventeenth annual session in Kansas City November 20 21 22 and 23. The executive committee says the gathering will be the most important since the congress began.
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Kansas City
Transmississippi Commercial Congress
Congress
Lightning strikes Walnut Grove church and factory in Decatur
Lightning struck the Walnut Grove church as Sunday school ended wounding several children and fatally burning Carl Sutton. About six others were shocked. Fire from the strike destroyed the International View company plant in Decatur UL on August 6.
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Decatur
Walnut Grove
Carl Sutton
International View Company
Election tragedy in Cold Springs prompts ranger request
Cold Springs Texas August 6 The sheriff asks rangers be sent to prevent further bloodshed after Saturday's election tragedy that claimed the lives of KE B Adams a tax assessor candidate and his brother Sam Adams and left several others wounded.
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Cold Springs
Tex
KE. B. Adams
Sam Adams
Russia Strikes Falter as Railway Leaders Hold Back
In St Petersburg Aug 6 the general strike risks collapse amid weak union cohesion. Railway leaders hesitate to call a tie up, fearing desertion by followers and penalties under new anti strike laws. Some workers resume, while rain dampens open air rallies and Cronstadt voyage proceeds.
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St. Petersburg
Itas
Russia
Sveaborg
Cronstadt
Reval
Council of Workmen's Deputies
Twiioki
Finland
Moscow
Kieff
Riga
Odessa
Counccil
Minsk
Poland
Novoe Vremya
Japan
United States
Philippines
Hawaii
California
Communication Cut With Sebastopol Sparks Tense Odessa Night
Telegraphic links between Odessa and Sebastopol are down for 48 hours. Governor Kaul bars remains away from Sebastopol as a torpedo boat destroyer heads toward the Crimea after midnight signals. Cossacks guard the governor prefects and commanders while rumors of garrison unrest circulate and the French consul offers refuge if needed.
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Odessa
Here
Sebastopol
Kaulbars
Crimea
Maybrick Arrives in New York Under Alias
Mrs Florence Maybrick arrived in New York aboard the French liner from Le Havre under the assumed name Mme I Cheney. She appeared healthier but declined to discuss future plans after three months abroad.
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New York
Florence Maybrick
Mme. I’. Cheney
Maybrick
Twenty People Injured In Frisco Rail Collision
A head end collision at Bt Genevieve Missouri on the Frisco line injured twenty people when a passenger special from St Louis struck a freight train. Engines demolished and tracks torn up. The Knights of Columbus representatives were aboard the passenger train. crews escaped unharmed. Traffic delayed. cause cited as freight train entering the main track from a switch before the passenger train cleared.
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Geneveve
Frisco Road
St. Louis
Knights of Columbus
American circulates provocative anti American handbills in Mexico City
Imparcial reports an unknown American circulated handbills urging Americans to leave Mexico before Sept 16. The notices were posted at stations and tied to a forged proclamation. The paper accuses Texas and California railways of promoting the fake reports, while the Mexican League of Railway Employes denies involvement.
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Mexico City
Imparcial
Texas
California
Mexican League of Railway
Mrs Lawson of Dreamwold Dies After Illness
Mrs Thomas W Lawson wife of the Boston financier died at Dreamwold in Scituate Mass on Sunday after months of heart disease. She was surrounded by family including her son Arnold and her husband at the bedside. Before marriage she was Miss Goodwiltie of Cambridge.
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Scituate
Mass
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Dreamwold
Expropriation of Land Gains Baltic Support
At a congress in Riga on August 6 Baltic landowners approved a resolution backing sale of crown and church lands and the gradual expropriation of estates above the maximum. No peasant family owning more than fifty acres may obtain land under this system. Baltic nobility has until now opposed land expropriation.
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Riga
Trolley Cars Collide Near Worcester Injuring Seventeen
Two Worcester and Holden trolley cars collided five miles from Worcester. Seventeen people were injured including Miss Campello Presto of Boston with a fractured skull, Miss Florence Johnson of Worcester with a broken kneecap and serious condition, Miss Bertha Royce of Worcester with lacerations, and Roland Johnson of Worcester with abdominal injuries in critical condition.
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Worcester
Mass
Holden
Campello Presto
Boston
Florence Johnson
Bertha Royce
Roland Johnson
Homeless Youth Smothers Shopkeeper Behind West Twenty Third
In New York on August 6, John Carle a starving homeless youth attacked William C. Pearson a traveling salesman on West Twenty third street stabbing him in the back. As Pearson fell Carle tried to rob him but fled when bystanders pursued. A policeman captured him nearby.
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New York
John Carle
William C. Pearson
West Twenty-third Street
Pearson
Carle
Proclamation Claims Responsibility for Aug. 3 Attack on Governor Block
In Samara on August 6 the revolutionary group issued a proclamation taking responsibility for the Aug. 3 attack that seriously injured Governor Block of the city. Authorities report many arrests following the incident and the governor was torn by a hazardous device.
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Samara
Bolgusha villagers clash with patrols at village fair
At Bolgusha on August 6 peasants gathered for a village fair attacked a passing Cossack patrol. The Cossacks answered with two volleys, leaving a number of peasants killed or wounded.
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Voronezh
Bolgusha
Fire hits Chaplitsky estate stables and mill
The estate of Prince Chaplitsky at Poltava suffered a major fire with stables granaries and other buildings burned. A flour mill was destroyed while the incendiaries remain unidentified.
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Poltava
Chaplitsky
Streetcar Conductor Arrested For Reading Mutiny Reports
In Yekaterinoslav on August 6 the street car conductor was arrested for reading aloud to passengers including soldiers reports of the Sveaborg mutiny. The incident highlights wartime censorship measures affecting public transport crews.
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Yekaterinoslav
Sveaborg
Fight resumes between Tartars and Armenians at Shusha
Reports from Yelisavetpol dated August 6 say fighting between Tartars and Armenians near Shusha has restarted with renewed intensity and great fury continuing.
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Yelisavetpol
Tartars
A. Shusha
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