Navy department retains Cowles as chief of equipment
Orders keep Rear Admiral Cowles as chief of the bureau of equipment after retirement until further orders. New London officials pledge no further discrimination against navy enlisted men in city amusements. Britain Germany and Belgium will send experts to assist mine disaster prevention. Col Thomas W Simons retires after 37 years with the army and now works on the New York canal commission. Recruiting officers warned against enlisting National Guard veterans without proof of honorable discharge.
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Navy Department
Cowles
Bureau of
New London
Conn
Navy
United States
Geological Survey
Great Britain
Germany
Belgium
Thomas W. Simons
Corps of Engineers
Army
Simons
New York Canal Commission
Washington
War Department
Regular Army
National Guard
Multiple Disasters Claim Lives and Destroy Property
A Portland fire devastates four blocks of the Oregon Transfer company stables area with losses around 250000. In Michigan, Arthur Trathen drowns at Huron dam. James Hanley is gravely injured after being run over by a coal train. In Ohio Fortoria three Doke children die alone at home. Highway official Sven Svenningsen badly injured by dynamite cap blast. Ishpeming youths Bert Sedgman and Clement Gibbs die in separate accidents. Omaha flyer derails in Chicago. no serious injuries. In Lake City Iowa Mrs Heath and two children drown in North Coon river. Mine accident at Winona shaft in Houghton leaves Hendrickson dead and two workers injured. A runaway ship catastrophe tops off the grim roundup of perilous events.
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Oregon Transfer Company
Portland
Huron Dam
Houghton
Mich
Arthur Trathen
James Hanley
Houghton Yards
Jesse Doke
Fortoria
Ohio
Sven Svenningsen
Mellen Township
Menominee
Bert Sedgman
Escanaba River
Clement Gibbs
Rock Island
Nineteenth Street
Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
Hendrickson
Winona
Notable Deaths and Political Moves Across Europe
The report lists deaths including Kuno von Euchtritz the German sculptor in Berlin born 1856 and Walter Leistikow painter born 1865. It notes assassinations of Sayyid Muhammed near Teheran and Fernando Guadalla Bolivia’s president-elect dying in La Paz. Also mentions alliances and public gifts in Spandau and opera-house plans in Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuno von Euchtritz
Berlin
Tsarite Syu
Astrakhan
Spandau
Brandenburg
Prussia
Count Zeppelin
Walter Leistikow
Violent crime roundup hits several U.S. counties and cities
An insane anarchist hanged himself in a Galesburg county jail. Alonzo Williams was killed by a mob after an assault near Choopee Georgia. A judge in New York faced Mafia threats after sentencing an Italian. Louis Armour killed his wife and harmed his daughter in Toledo after a 16 year absence. A clash near Pratt City Alabama left Lige Nelm dead and E Mills wounded. Elder Hall's son Leonard Hall died by suicide at his home two months after marrying a classmate Rhoda Profit. Elgin Illinois riot left George J Leaman hurt. A man beat his father-in-law Joseph Mathies, leaving him precarious. Wilford Monarch was arrested in Schoolcraft County Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Louis Armour
Pratt City
Ala
Lige Nelm
E. Mills
Leonard Hall
Elder Hall
Hilliard
Rhoda Profit
Elgin & Belvidere Electric Railroad
Central Square
Elgin, Ill
George J. Leamann
Inlaw
Joseph Mathies
Wilford Monarch
Schoolcraft County
Michigan
Prohibitionists Nominate Tetley for New Hampshire Governor
In state convention the Prohibitionists nominated Rev. Edmund B. Tetley of Meredith for governor. Other items note political fund handling, rail and transit concerns, and notable statements from figures in Oklahoma Texas and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
Edmund B. Tetley
Meredith
Charles N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Democratic National Committee
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
Baton Rouge
Farman’s Aeroplane Fares At Brighton Beach Tests
Henri Farman’s heavier-than-air machine rose to express-train speed on a Brighton Beach runway. Photographers toppled as 1,400 rpm propellers created a gale, lifting trees and crowding spectators. The craft then leaped into the air for 350 yards, then 760 yards, before retreating to avoid lumber piles.
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New York
Henri Farman
France
Brighton Beach
Rox Sn
Farman
Aero Club of America
America
Powder Explosion Wrecks Stafford Town
At Stafford in Raleigh county a powder house blast destroyed nearly every building. About 100 kegs of powder exploded causing extensive damage estimated at $200,000 and injuring several residents. cause not yet known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Stafford
Raleigh County
Miners Rescued After Coal Creek Cave-In
In Fernie British Columbia on August 2 a flood of gas hampered rescue work but crews pulled twenty three miners from No 2 mine at Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company. All miners were saved with no fatalities reported.
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Fernie
B. C
Coal Creek
Crow's Nest Pass
Artilleryman Rufus Sparkes Dies After Train Collision
Rufus Sparkes, a Fort Snelling artilleryman, died yesterday afternoon in St. Peter after being struck by an Omaha train near Kacota. The incident brings the tally to one death and ongoing investigations into the accident.
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St. Peter, Minn
Rufus Sparkes
Fort Snelling
Kacota
Cut Out Curb Betting
New York officials announce there will be no curb market election betting in the financial district this year after years of such activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Financial District
Revolution Suppressed in Honduras
Official statement says the Honduran revolution has been suppressed. San Salvador reports subdued unrest and restored order following the attempt on government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Salvador
Republic of Salvador
Honduras
Izate Ferguson dies in Ball Club piledriver accident
Correction Vibe Iowa reports Izate Ferguson aged 38 of this city was killed by a piledriver accident at Ball Club Minnesota.
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CorrectionVibe
Iowa
Izate Ferguson
Ball Club
Minn
Knife to Save Pettibone's Life
George A. Pettibone, jailed in Idaho for the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg, is to undergo an operation in Denver Colorado today to save his life. He has suffered kidney related trouble since the trial.
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Pettibone
Denver
Colo
George A. Pettibone
Idaho
Frank Steunenberg
Hidneys
Packing firm selects Minneapolis as future distribution plant
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger plans a model packing and killing plant in Minneapolis with a 100 acre site. The firm already operates a Minneapolis office and eyes nearby land potentially for Armour & Co. competition. The project joins a nationwide push to place distributing and killing points in large centers led by other firms building similar plants.
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Minneapolis
Schwarzschild & Salzberger
A. Gavin
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
Armour & Co
Denver
Mails Go On Motorcycle In Rural Mail Service
Iowa Falls rural carrier Hadley adds a motorcycle to his route of twenty five miles serving seventy five patrons. He now covers the route and all boxes in two hours, claiming he could cut another half hour. Previously six to eight hours with horse and wagon.
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Iowa
Iowa Falls
Hadley
Postmaster Threatening Note Demands 175 Dollars
Tony Wisconsin August 2 Postmaster Johnson of Glen Flora discovers a note on his front door threatening his life and demanding $175 to be deposited between Glen Flora and Tony. Authorities suspect connection to a prior safe robbery.
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Tony
Wis
Johnson
Glen Flora
Here
Eight-Year-Old Killed by Horse Near Weston Wisconsin
Er nest H Ritzschke of Oshkosh was kicked to death by a horse owned by William Melhak at Weston. The eight year old boy, playing near the animal despite a warning, was struck in the temple, breaking his neck. The body was taken to Oshkosh for interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Ernest H. Ritzschke
Oshkosh
William Melhak
Weston
Body found of local man in St Peter death case
St Peter Minnesota residents on Third street have passed by the body of Christ Jake who hanged himself in a narrow passage between two buildings. His death remained undiscovered until last night when the body was found after five days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hengs
St. Peter, Minn
Third Street
Christ Jake
Woman Burned to Death in Sheffield Night Dress
Mason City Iowa August 2 Miss Meda Scholtian died after a clothing fire in Sheffield while lighting a match. She was thirty four and very popular and sustained burns to the face and body. death followed shortly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Iowa
Meda Scholtian
Sheffield
Whitwell Shot While Resisting Arrest in Missouri
Doniphan Missouri reports W B Whitwell a Ripley County country store operator was shot and killed yesterday while resisting arrest. He was said to be wanted as a deserter from the U S Army with authorities seeking to take him into custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doniphan
W. B. Whitwell
Ripley County
Whitwell
United States Army
Farmer Kicked by Horse Fears Fatal Injury Near Nevada
Oliver Johnson a farmer near Nevada Iowa was kicked in the stomach while harnessing a horse. He was taken to the Cambridge hospital where doctors fear he cannot survive the injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Iowa
Oliver Johnson
Nevada
Cambridge
Burglars Blew Park City Safe Open
Early yesterday burglars entered F. W. Lee & Co. in Park City Montana placed giant powder on the safe and blew it open securing over $100 in cash the report says.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park City
Billings
Mont
F. W. Lee & Co
Kellogg at Work as DOJ Probes Harriman Railroads
Government agents in Chicago seek evidence to support a Sherman act suit against the Harriman railroads. Ralph M. McKenzie gathers testimony from major shippers to show how the Union Pacific Southern Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railroad & Navigation may restrain trade. Frank B. Kellogg’s Washington visits signal a new proceeding following the Interstate Commerce Commission report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Harriman
Ralph M. McKenzie
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northern Securities
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Unon
McKenzie
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
Kellogg
Frank B. Kellogg
St. Paul
Washington
Hungarian colonization mission seeks 200000 farmers
Father Kovacs arrived as envoy of Emperor Francis Joseph and Pope Pius X to investigate Western Canada land conditions. He aims to colonize 200000 Hungarian farmers to shift immigration away from the United States, where many Hungarians face harsh treatment in camps and under padrones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Father V. Kovacs
New York
Francis Joseph
Pope Pius X
Canada
Hungary
Feather Kovacs
United States
Two Lives Lost in Storm Hit Eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina suffered severe damage from the West Indian storm with two children drowned, rail and river traffic disrupted, crops ruined, and large tracts of low land destroyed as the storm raged along the Atlantic coast yesterday.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Atlantic
John Mitchell Joins National Civic Federation Trade Arm
Secretary Ralph W. Easley announced that John Mitchell former UMWA president will devote his entire time to the federation trade agreement department beginning today in New York on August 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mitchell
New York
Ralph W. Easley
National Civic Federation
United Mine Workers of America
Trade Agreement Department
Federation
Convicted for Assault in Virginia First Electrocution
Roanoke August 2 John Finney a Black man was convicted in Rocky Mount Virginia for assaulting eleven year old Mary Jamison in Franklin County. He faces the state's first ever electric chair sentence marking a grim milestone in Virginia criminal justice.
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Roanoke
John Finney
Mary Jamison
Franklin County
Rocky Mount
Finney
Virginia
Racing Club Indicted at Brighton Beach Track
The Brighton Beach Racing association, which closed a racing meet at the Brighton Beach track on Wednesday, was indicted by the Kings county grand jury yesterday on a charge of aiding gamblers to violate the new anti gambling law.
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Racing Club
New York
Brighton Beach Racing Association
Brighton Beach Race Track
Kings County Grand Jury
Mother and Child Drowned at Walloon Lake
Mrs. Ralph Harris of Kansas City and her three year old drowned at Walloon Lake near Petoskey Michigan. It is believed the woman jumped in to save the child who fell from the dock yesterday.
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Petoskey
Mich
Ralph Harris
Kansas City
Walloon Lake
Death Strikes Twice in Family in Iowa City
In Iowa City a tragic double death occurred as Henry Willhauer’s three months old son choked to death yesterday while the boy’s sister lay dead in the adjacent room. No further details were provided.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Henry Willhauer
Ketchell Stops Kelly in Third Round Knockout
In San Francisco on August second Stanley Ketchell knocked out Hugo Kelly of Chicago in the third round after Kelly led early. Ketchell collided with a left to the jaw ending the match as Kelly failed to rise from the count.
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San Francisco
Stanley
Ketchell
Hugo Kelly
Chicago
Kelly
Loeb to vacation in Maine and Minnesota this summer
Secretary Loeb sails from Oyster Bay for a month long break. He travels to Portland and Maine woods as guest of Oscar Straus at his camp, then to Northern Minnesota for two weeks of fishing. Rudolph Forster will cover duties during his absence.
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Loeb
Minnesota
Oyster Bay
Portland
Maine Woods
Oscar Straus
Commerce and Labor
Wyoming
Mr. Loeb
Pere
Rudolph Forster
Forty Vessels Wrecked in Labrador Gale
Reports from Labrador indicate at least forty fishing vessels were wrecked as a northeast gale swept the coast early this week. All but three crewmen reached shore, but about 400 endured seven days without food or shelter, with severe suffering reported.
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Labrador
Great
Darrace
St. John’s
N. F
Retired General Steals Wife with Leprosy to Mexico
Brigadier General David Wardwell, twice a war hero, allegedly abducted his wife from a county hospital upon learning she has leprosy and has taken her to Mexico to live with her. The incident occurred in Los Angeles on August 2.
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Mexico
Los Angeles
Cal
David Ik
Wardwell
Mesica
Guards in Groes War Riot at Rehoboth
Delaware militia in Rehoboth fought a crowd of local black residents last night. A man suffered a fractured skull and may die, with several others injured in the clash near the encampment.
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Groes War
Delaware
Rehoboth
Del
Markets Report From Grain and Live Stock Centers
Wheat and corn prices across St Paul Minneapolis Duluth and Chicago list No 1 hard No 1 Northern and No 2 Northern wheat values with oats and flax figures. Cattle hog and sheep prices shown for Chicago Sioux City South St Paul and market ranges across regions noted for Aug 2.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northern
Duluth
Chicago
Milwaukee
Sioux City
Iowa
South St. Paul
Italian murderer hanged in Kamloops for Niagara hotel blast
Sentenced to death. Francis co Coddio, an Italian murderer, hanged at Kamloops for blowing up the Niagara hotel near Greenwood in January last year.
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Vancouver
B. C
Francisco Coddio
Kamloops
Niagara Hotel
Greenwood
Peace Delegates Banquet At Hotel Cecil
London August 2 The government hosted a banquet for delegates to the Universal Peace congress at the Hotel Cecil Lewis Harcourt first commissioner of works presided over the event.
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London
Cecil
Lewis Harcourt
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H. W. Burkett
E. J. Burkett
Nebraska
Springfield
Franklin T. Howe
Washington Star
England
British Medical Association
Sheffield University
Murphy
Stephen G. Grubb
Gen. Sherman
Atlanta
Tacoma
Wash
Rex Beach
Alaska
Seattle
Copper River
ElHs Heath
Lake City
Helen
Harriet
North Coon River
Lima
Peru
Galesburg
Alonzo Williams
Clare Bowen
Choopee
Rosalsky
Leighton
National Association of Railroad Agents
J. B. Case
Transmississippi Commercial Congress
Taft
Bryan
Garfield
Col. Goodloe
United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Russia
Dorando
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
Pittsburg
Henri
State Free Employment Bureau
J. H. Wilson
Old Capitol
Dakota
East
Harriman Lines
Combine
Maine
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