Italian bark Cavour ashore near Astoria causing loss
The Italian bark Cavour lumber laden for East London from Geneva went ashore on Peacock Spit off Astoria Oregon. All hands were rescued by the tug Tatoosh. Other items note Mme. Nordica sues for divorce in New York and a Fresno burglary by two 14 year old girls. Four men drown crossing the Sacramento River near Keswick.
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East London
South Africa
Peacock Spit
Astoria
Geneva
Mme
Nordica
New York
Mme. Melba
Carrie Swafford
Hester Foster
Fresno
Cal
Keswick
Henry Fitzpatrick
Ernest Cashel
Rufus Belt
Calgary
Manitoba
Cashel
Kansas
Texas
J. L. A. Thomas
Indian Territory
Woodland
Del
National Biscuit Company
Dubuque
Iowa
Joseph Hindman
Coraopolis
Hindman
Multiple Fires and Disasters Across Cities in Briefs
Brief notes report fifteen buildings burned at Abbot, Texas, with losses of 75000 dollars. Bona-Allen harness factory destroyed in Buford, Georgia, with 100000 dollars loss and 60000 dollars insurance. University of Michigan coed Emily Stark injures neck in gym football. New York capitalists win concession to build an electric traction company in Mexico City. Electric sleeping car completed in Wilmington, Delaware for shipment to Indianapolis. Earthquakes felt at Emumelaw near Mount Rainier, Washington. Railroad tel graph operator J R Largonet beaten and robbed of 50 dollars in Pittsburg suburb. Fire damages J M Schwabascher store in New Orleans, loss under 30000 dollars, fully insured. Queen Alexandra narrowly escaped death in Sandringham Palace fire. Albany casting house roof collapse in Hubbard, Ohio, kills John Patrick and injures two others. Missouri Supreme Court rules a witness may be compelled to answer. A Hoboken bank robber escapes by jumping into the Hudson and is captured. Egbert Homel, ex-Chicago grocer, dies in Syracuse at 69. British cruiser Hermes catches fire at Keyham, fire crews flood shellroom. Missouri Supreme Court reverses Butler bribery case. Butler discharged from conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott
Texas
Buford
Bona-Allen
Emily Stark
University of Michigan
Del
Indianapolis
Emumelaw
Mount Rainier
Wash
J. R. Largonet
Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Pittsburg
J. & M. Schwabascher
New Orleans
Queen Alexandra
England
Sandringham Palace
Andrews & Hitchcock Furnace
Hubbard
Ohio
John Patrick
Douglass
St. Louis
Hoboken
Hudson River
New York City
Egbert Homel
Chicago
Syracuse
N. Y
O. M. Edwards Company
Philadelphia
Peeling
Carrie Nation
York
N. Z Graves & Co
Broadstreet
Geary Avenue
W. L. Hartley
Ernest O. Johnson
James Edwards
Oscar Willishouse
Pillsburg
George F. Kunz
New York
McGregor and
Upton
Baltimore
William J. Devlin
Jerome
Andrew H. Green
D. P. Cruickshank & Co
Abraham Thaller
Morris Opar
Richard F. Mueller
Bridgeport
Conn
Friendenwalks Printing Company
Frank & Adler
Joseph Hindman
Hindman
William Ziegler
Missouri
Albany
Boston
John A. Dunn
Danville Bessemer Company
Camden
N. J
Shovel Trust
E. J. Bodman
Vogle Street Christian Church
Fall River
Mass
Delaware Thompson
Westchester
Addie Hacker
Lititz
George A. Lewis
Morristown
Frank Boetsa
Minnie Root
Hibernia
Western University of Pennsylvania At
Frank Thistle
Orange
Municipal Hospital
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Rutherford
William B. Crabb
Pottsville
Crabb
Huusbard Shovel Works
Fie
J. W. Hubbard
Brooklyn
American Sugar Refining Company
United States District Court
Coumbus Ellsworth Upton
Thomas W. McGregor
Morris
Philadelphia Suffering Through Worst Smallpox Epidemic
Eastern papers report Philadelphia facing its worst smallpox outbreak in forty years while other U S cities report fires murders and criminal cases. The mix includes a York County theatre arrest a Philadelphia police roundup of eight thieves and nearly ten thousand dollars in stolen goods. The era's news covers a Broad Street fire loss of 100000 fully insured and multiple court and crime cases across Maryland New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Massive fire damage hits Newark Ohio store and others
A sweep of incidents reports fires at the Powers-Miller Company store in Newark causing about 120000 in losses, a Union Block blaze in Newark, a lake steamer fire at Sturgeon Bay, and numerous violent crimes across Minnesota Iowa and Colorado, including drownings, murders, and a dynamite attack on a cemetery known for anti union stance.
Greek steamer collision sinks Pyloros and capsizes hope
News from Ithaca reports the Greek steamer Pyloros collided with Assos, was partially submerged, and about fifty passengers drowned. Other global items include Russia expanding influence in Korea and tensions around corean trade, plus a violent lion-taming accident in Dessau witnessed by children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyloros
Assos
Ithaca
St. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Szechuan
Secretary Shaw says danger of crisis past
The annual report by Secretary Shaw states that all danger of a financial stringency is past. Separate items note Congress urged to investigate the American Red Cross Society, Langley’s airship disaster, and military and industrial concerns present in the nation including production curtailment by cotton mills and Swift & Co stockholders voting on capital expansion.
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Shaw
American Red Cross Society
Congress
Langley
War Root
United States
Philippines
Henry Billings Brown
United States Supreme Court
Corporation of Swift & Co
Congress ends extraordinary session and opens regular session
The Senate closed the extraordinary session at noon and began the regular session. The Cuban reciprocity bill was debated as the Panama Canal treaty arrived. The House read the President's message and took up routine measures. Various bills were introduced including a Treasury bond investment plan, a postal currency, McKinley Day as a national holiday, and carrier pay scales. The day also saw adjournment to honor Henry Burk and continued debates on Post Office frauds and Colombia damages.
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Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
House
Prince
Illinois
Secretary of the Treasury
Dwight
New York
W. A. Smith
Michigan
McKinley
Post Office Department
Gorman
Lodge
Teller
Wood
Clapp
Hoar
Secretary of State
Republic of Colombia
Colon
Frye
United States
Philippine Archipelago
Committee On
Morgan
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Cuba
Republic
Hobson
Merrimac Fame
Gardner
Massachusetts
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Gallinger
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Charles Swayne
United States District Court
Florida
Gillett
Giant Yank ledge of gold quartz found near California Oregon
Reports describe a vast gold quartz vein extending from northern California into Oregon, potentially rivaling South Africa's famed zone. Other items note $6,000 theft, two escorts firing shots but the suspect escaping, a Chicago mother seizing her child, and San Francisco restaurants closing amid open shop disputes.
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California
Oregon
South Africa
Jesse Holdom
Chicago
Franklin Union of Press Feeders
Georgiana Andros
Mather
Goethe School
San Francisco
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
United States District Court
Kohlsaat
Dr. Dowie
St. Louis
Cheyenne
Wyo
Smallpox Epidemic Closes Schools in Goodland Kansas
An outbreak of smallpox in Goodland Kansas forces school closures and bans public gatherings. In St Louis a state court dismisses the doodle charge against Councillor Musenburg after Supreme Court remand, with the statute of limitations barring further indictments. An agent for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition travels to Africa to recruit Sygmies for exhibition.
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Goodland
Kan
Africa
State Court
St. Louis
Musenburg
Supreme Court
Sapolio School Verses Promote Cleanliness
A district school heads a playful year opening project turning eleven classes into verses about Sapolio. It parodies Alphabet to Geometry and offers comic lessons on cleanliness with named humor and schoolyard tone.
McClellan recounts Washington apple encounter with policeman
Congressman George B. McClellan recalls a close call on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington as a policeman concealed an item behind his back. When asked, the officer offered an apple, sparking a humorous exchange about identity and status with the congressman. The anecdote contrasts with hypothetical consequences if it had occurred in New York.
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Washington
George B. McClellan
New York Times
New York
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mr. McClellan
Congressman McClel
One of Many
A dialogue notes a corner paperseller who could sign a $10,000 check any day, but cannot cash it. The exchange contrasts Stringer and Eazyun on why he keeps selling papers despite a large fake claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stringer
Eazyun
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The
Bessemer Herald
Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Bessemer
Hermes
Keyham
Supreme Court of Missouri
Edward Butler
Butler
Municipal Assembly of
Ment
Clarksburg
Clayton Fowler
New Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Eugene Crofat
Huntington
Hurley
Wis
Carnegie Institution
City Hall Park
Old Hall of Records
United States Steel Corporation
Carnegie
Corey
Upwani
Auburn
Powers-Miller Company
Newark
Jacob P. Patzke
Chaska
Minn
Thaddeus A. Neeley
Muncie
Ind
St. Paul
John Spires
Lina Perkins
Winslow
N. M
Victor
Colo
Indiana
Middle West
Godfrey McNeill
Butte, Mont
Antoine Conataiie
New Union Block
Big Lake
J. Emory Owen
Sturgeon Bay
Mctann
Germantown
Miami Military Institute
Frederick Grant Gleason
Chicago Auditorium Conservatory
John Osuchewski
Elston Avenue
Ben W. Meidner
Great Falls
Mont
R. B. Meidner
Citizens’ Association of
John Wagner
Cleveland
John P. Kunze
Cronin
Cooney
Fox
Seattle
Tacoma
Belingham
Menning
E. H. Kestkamp Jewelry Company
London Daily Mail
Tientsin
Mukden
Venezuela
Colombia
Elizabeth Marie
Austria
Otto Windisch- Graetz
Herbert Spencer
Victoria
der Cival Terrace
Brighton
Spencer
Russia
Korea
Yongampho
Seoul
Japan
Alexandretta
Asiatic
Turkey
W. R. Davis
Beirut
Davis
Allen
Corea
Corean
Wiju
Yalu
Frau Fischer
Dessau
Congress Lypaneraen Sevef
CLASS
Vueucu Sapplio
Sapolio
Noth
Supoliow
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