Drowned in Sandy Hook Bay Aboard Small Yacht Midget
New York report details the sailing party of Captain Tiemann Horn of the Ninety-fifth Coast Artillery who, along with his wife and children, Miss Miss Horn and Miss Alice McMahon, perished when the cat-rigged yacht Midget capsized off Old Camp Low dock amid a sudden gust. Doctor Waterhouse and others attempted rescue but were overwhelmed by the ebb tide.
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New York
Tiemann N. Horn
Sea Coast Artillery
Francis
Alice McMahon
Nyack
N. Y
Sandy Hook Bay
Horn
Fort Hancock
Sandy Hook
Capt. Hlorn
Francis Horn
Miss McMahon
Collision on Electric Railway Near Gloversville Kills Fifteen
Near Gloversville New York an electric Mountain Lake line collision of two crowded cars killed fifteen people and injured twenty nine as crowd leaving a picnic ground traveled four miles toward the city. Two trains collided head on about two and a half miles north of Gloversville causing the fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloversville
N. Y
Mountain Lake
Explosion tears through St Louis home killing family
Robert Golz of St Louis tried to locate a gas leak with a lighted match when an explosion wrecked his house. His wife Martha and daughter Martha perished in the ruins. Golz was blown ten feet onto the sidewalk and is hospitalized with severe burns. Tillie Stine, a domestic, fell from the second story and was later removed. she may recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Golz
St. Louis
Martha Golz
Martha
Julz
Sle
Tillie Stine
Explorer Harry De Windt Rescued Near Siberian Coast
Reports from the Arctic via the steamer St Paul state Harry De Windt and his party were picked up mid June by the revenue cutter Thetis commanded by Captain Healey near Indian Point on the Siberian coast. De Windt aims to travel Paris to New York by the eastern route and would likely succeed if he reaches Nome.
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San Francisco
St. Paul
Arctic
Harry de Windt
Siberian
Indian Point
United States Revenue
Thetis
Healey
de Windt
Paris
New York
Nome
Refugees From Haiti Arrive In Kingston Jamaica
The Dutch schooner Rigoletta arrived in Kingston from Curacao with thirty four Haitian refugees forced to flee Haiti a month earlier after President Cannes ended his administration. Among the evacuees is M Jeannis former governor of Jaciel.
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Haysti
Rigoletta
Kingston
Jamaica
Curacoa
Hayti
Sam Cameo
Sam. M. Jeannis
Jaciel
Jis
Tragic Beach Drawings Claim Three Lives at Galveston
Night editor James N. Davis aged 86, Elbridge G. Rust proprietor of Dispatch Printing Houston, and Walter H. Chandler aged 28, were swept beyond life-lines by undertow and drowned off Galveston Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Tex
James N. Davis
Galveston News
Elbridge G. Rust
Dispatch Printing Company
Houson
Walter H. Chandler
Washout Causes Wreck On Michigan Central Freight Train
A double header freight train on the Michigan Central crashed near Thomas Michigan after striking a washout. Two men were killed instantly and three others injured in the wreck.
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Michigan Central
Thomas
Mich
Fire destroys forty Clinton stores and homes in North Carolina
A major blaze in Clinton North Carolina wiped out forty stores and residences causing about 100000 dollars in losses with little insurance coverage. Madrid reports the United States Spain treaty of trade commerce and amity has been signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
N. C
Spain
Madrid
United States
Dynamite attack and Army commission tale from Marmouth Springs
In Marmouth Springs Arkansas a Scimitar special reports at Union Harvey Sexton is accused of hurling dynamite to kill Pink Gibson. The article also notes Carl F Bussche, son of Baron Bussche of Berlin, earns a second lieutenant commission in the American army and becomes entitled to a legacy dating back two centuries.
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Manila
John H. Schelenberger
Tenth Infantry
Lligun
Mindanao
Thomas Ryan
Philippine Scouts
Marmouth Springs
Ark
Union
Harvey Sexton
Pink Gibson
Carl F. Bussche
Baron Bussche
Berlin
Great Treasury Surplus Marks Profitable Year for Nation
Treasury figures show a surplus near 90 million for the just closed fiscal year despite large wartime expenditures. Receipts neared total expenditures, with internal revenue dipping while customs rose. The government averaged about 1.8 million dollars in receipts and 1.5 million in outlays per business day, equating to roughly 300 thousand dollars profit daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Congress
Philippines
Sam
National Memorial University at Mason City Opens Plans
The National Memorial University at Mason City Iowa is nearing opening after $100 000 main building completed on Patriots Hill 160 acre site. Barton Hall funded by the American Red Cross and Daughters of Veterans will accompany the women's college endowment of 1 000 000 dollars. The museum aims to house the largest Civil War relics collection in the United States and will be built by Sons of Veterans and allied groups.
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National Memorial University
Mason City
Iowa
Sons of Veterans of the United States
Patriots Hill
National Civil War Museum
United States
Barton Hall
Clara Barton
American National Red Cross Society
National Alliance of Daughters of Veterans
Women's College
The
Memorial University
Memorial to fallen soldiers and citizens ideals
A wartime remembrance note urges honoring service members and promoting free government and citizenship. It recounts Miss Rose Fox of New York who, at a wedding reception, brushed a lighted cigarette on the floor and was badly burned as flames engulfed her.
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Rose Fox
New York
Gauge of Railway Changed in Iowa in Nine Hours
Burlington track in Iowa spanning 125 miles was converted from narrow to standard gauge in nine hours by 440 workers. Thousands stood in the rain to witness the feat and the swift completion of the project.
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Burlington
Iowa
June rainfall in 1902 shatters old records nationwide
Across the corn states and beyond, June 1902 brought rainfall totals that surpassed prior years like 1901. The Weather Bureau records show Chicago and other cities receiving unprecedented moisture with figures running into inches and marks set for the decade.
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United States
Pune
New York
Nebraska
Missouri
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Breece
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Coal Strike Threatens Navy Equipment
A service report warns the coal strike has put the Navy in a precarious state. Rear Admiral Bradford, head of the Bureau of Equipment, oversees the impact on supply lines and readiness as shortages strain operations.
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Navy
Bradford
Bureau of Equipment
Pur
Bailey Attacks Beveridge in Senate Chamber
Texas Senator Joseph W. Bailey leapt at Indiana Senator Beveridge after adjournment and choked him in the chamber. Attendants pulled Bailey away. Beveridge sustained only a torn necktie and a slight shake. The clash followed Bailey’s rebuke of State Department officials over the release of a Texas prisoner in a Mexican jail. Beveridge defended the department and called Bailey’s statements unwarranted.
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Indiana
Senate
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
Beveridge
Bailey
Senator Beveridge
Texas Statesman
State Department
Aid
Dorkeeper Layton
Spooner
Bacon
Hansbrough
Lodge and Teller
Tillman
McLaurin
Money
Dolliver
Mackez
Patterson
Dietrich
Philippine Investigation Committee
Rawlins
Violence in Senate floor sparks dangerous coal crisis warning
The article notes Principals in Violent Scene on Senate floor warn the navy risks a disastrous state without coal supply, detailing strain on reserve stocks and possible emergency deficiency funding as strikes threaten fuel for ships and naval plants. It lists multiple past senate altercations and odd local anecdotes including a preacher denouncing St Peter and a boy killed by a cat bite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Secretary of the Navy
AMA Concludes 53rd Annual Meeting at Saratoga
The American Medical Association ends its fifty third annual session at Saratoga New York. The next gathering is scheduled for Hot Springs Arkansas in 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Medical Association
Saratoga
N. Y
Hot Springs
Ark
United States
James Stage
New Brunswick
N. J
Fifty Seventh Congress Sets Far Reaching Civil and Canal Laws
The Fifty seventh Congress enacted major laws including the isthmian canal act and Philippine civil government bill while repealing war revenue taxes. It also advanced measures on Chinese exclusion tariffs for the Philippines and national banks and opened irrigation funding for the West.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Philippines
Cuba
Spain
New York Plans World’s Largest Dry Dock
New York aims to build the largest dry dock in the world with a cradle capable of supporting ships up to 1,200 feet long. This exceeds the longest current steamship by 500 feet, and experts predict vessels of 1,000 feet will be common within a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Search Ends as Mother Finds Kidnapped Child in India
Mrs. Marion Thornton Egbert of Chicago traces her kidnapped child after a two year, 30 000 mile journey and locates the youngster in India. The child was taken in Chicago in 1900 by her husband, from whom she is divorcing. In Missouri a separate suicide case notes 22 year old Mary Henderson, wife of Lee Henderson, kills herself at McCurdy Brothers farm near Sedalia by swallowing carbolic acid following jealousy.
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Marion Thornton Egbert
Chicago
India
Mary Henderson
Lee Henderson
McCurdy Bros
Sedalia
Appropriations Near the Billion-Dollar Mark in Congress
The first session of the Fifty-seventh Congress is described as nearly a billion-dollar year with a total of 710,150,857. The $217,683,410 increase includes $175,000,000 for the isthmian canal, funded partly by $130,000,000 in bonds. Major allocations cover the post office, navy, urgent deficiencies, and rivers and harbors new work, with substantial sums for pensions, diplomatic, Indians, and other items.
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Isthmian Canal
District of Columbia
Military Academy
Post Office
Navy
Cumberland Presbyterians plan college at Adgerton
Notes of Current Events report the Cumberland Presbyterians will establish a college at Adgerton forty miles southeast of St Joseph Missouri. Also noted are concerns over spent horses slaughtered for beef in Chicago, a London divorce of Julie Opp from Robert Lorraine, severe cold in Perpignan threatening crops, Portugal’s excitement over a possible British purchase of Lorenzo Marques, and Hungary’s finance minister proposing abolition of sugar bounties.
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Evenus
Cumberland Presbyterians
Adgerton
St. Joseph, Mo
Chicago
Julie Opp
London
Robert Lorraine
Perpignan
France
Great Britain
Lorenzo Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Portugal
de Lukacs
Hungary
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Minneapolis Journal
ATI Navy
New Strane
Toto AG
ST Pensions Ss
Glalis
St. Peter
Charles A. Eaton
Rockefeller’s Baptist Church
Cleveland
Joseph Irons
Baltimore and Ohio Limited
Rockwood
Boston
J. W. Bailey
A. J. Beveridge
Work OF Congress
Philippine Commission
West
Treasury Department
Mcssingley
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
theLouse
Apalachian Forest Reserve
Apalachian Mountain
Marine Hospital Service
National Health Bureau
Hawaii
House of Representatives
Vancement
House
Department of Commerce
Committee On Commerce
Pure Food Congress
House Committee On Commerce
Pacific Islands
Revenue Cutter Service
Porto
Martinique
Alaska
Washington
Marshal de Fechambeau
Philippine Committee of the
Danish West Indian Islands
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