Week's News Record Highlights Education and Global Events
The week's news covers the first non sectarian educational facility in Manila opening its doors as Judge Taft spoke in Manila. Incendiaries tried to burn Charles I. Heshes home in Fergus Falls. A major merger plan unites 90 percent of crucible tool steel makers into Crucible Steel Company of America with 50 million capitalization. McLain brothers found guilty and expelled from Board of Trade. Baron von Ketteler reportedly killed near Pekin in a Chinese incident. Rat Portage welcomed 100 refugees from Rainy River area amid Indian threats. Minnesotans resist cross river move to Ontario. Hoboken fire at North German Lloyd docks claims lives and huge losses. several liners destroyed or damaged. U S window glass factories shut for summer vacation affecting 30,000 workers. Large Grand Rapids reservoir breach floods three blocks, with 9,000 residents impacted and one rescues Mrs Cooper buried in sand. Estimated damage around 24400000.
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Philippines
College of Primary
Manila
Taft
Civil Commission
Charies I. Heshes
Fergus Falls
Mino
Crucible
Crucible Steel Company of America
Charles EK
Albert O. McLain
Chicago Commission
Frm
McLain Bros. & Co
Board of Trade Directors
Baron von Ketteler
Pekin
Chefoo
Tsung-li-Yamen
Rat Portage
Minn
Koochoching
Fort Francis
Ont
North German Lloyd Company
Hoboken
N. J
Saale
Bremen
Main
Phoenicia
American Window Glass Company
Dartford City
United States
Conspiracy Charges Dismissed by New York Grand Jury
A New York grand jury dismissed charges of conspiracy against American Ice Company officials. The report recalls a city storm with circular winds lightning and a cloudburst causing substantial property damage. Concurrent items note a Grace Church wedding in New York and political nominations in Vermont and Maine.
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American Ice Company
New York
New York City
Chester
Albany
Adam Forepaugh
Walter Nazle
Philadelphia
Grace Church
Vermont
Y.w. Stickney
Ludlow
Maine
John F. Hill
Augusta
Gus Ruhlin
Akron
Tom Sharker
Seaside Athletic Club
Coner Island
Consumers’ Coal and Ice Company
Bayonne
N. J
Solomon Scruggs
Chicago
Philip Ailipot
St. Louis
West Portal
Xn.j
Allan HL
Bremen
Hoboken
Little Rock
Fire Destroys Manifold Business Pages In Oneida
Briefs note fire damage across multiple areas including Oneida Til and Kilmore plant losses in Binghamton New York. Other items report Schooner Picton believed sunk in Lake Ontario and a failed attempt to blow up a Spanish statue at the Pan American exposition. Archduke Franz Ferdinand wed and other notable events, with Detroit Journal office gutted and loss around 1000.
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Oneida
Til
Philippine Commission
Civil Service
Manila
Picton
Lake Ontario
Ganavas del Castillo
Kilmore & Co
Binghamton
N.Y
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria
Chorek
Princess von Hohenberg
Detroit
State Railroad Commission
St. Paul
Northern Pacific
Duluth
Western prisoners break from Fort Snelling amid wide notes
A report lists multiple incidents from the Midwest and beyond including a break for liberty by Western military prisoners at Fort Snelling Minnesota with one escapee not recaptured. Other items cover rail and post office robberies, political candidacies, labor actions, and deaths.
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Fort Snelling
Minn
Western Passenger Association
Chicago
Postmaster Changes and Immigration Bills Stir Cuba China
General Adna Chaffee assigned to command in China while E. G. Rathbone is dismissed as director of posts in Cuba. Canada’s House of Commons backs a Chinese immigration tax increase and curbs Japanese entry. Joseph M. Oats named Honolulu postmaster correcting a prior error in the record. Damages claim by Edward Gottfried against Peru withdrawn and noted to the U.S. minister. A new postal rule imposes a fine or imprisonment for taking mail, urging public caution and responsibility.
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Peru
Edward Gottfried
United States
Trujillo
Irving B. Dudler
Markets Reports Show Varied U.S. Price Ranges Across Commodities
Chicago to Buffalo markets list cattle hogs and sheep with wide shipping grades. Wheat and corn prices sit around No. 2 grades from 40s to 60s cents, oats rye and beans follow regional quotes. Cattle and hogs show several cites from $2.00 to $7.00 per hundredweight, with notable differences by city and grade.
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Chicago
Cho Ce
Bashel
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Schon
Cincinnati
Carttie
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Massive Hoboken Pier Fire Destroys German Lloyd Steamships
A devastating blaze at Hoboken on Saturday wiped out the North German Lloyd piers and three ocean liners the Main Bremen and Saale, with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse saved only by swift towing. About 30 to 1500 lives feared dead as flames spread from cotton bales and whisky on Pier 3, engulfing docks, warehouses, and barges along the Hudson River.
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Lloyd Steamship Company
Hoboken
N. J
Main
Earle
Bremen
Liord Steanshir Company
Campbell
Hremen
Saale
Lloyd Lime
Phoenicia
Tre Tezan
Dreamite
New York
Straighr
Jersey City
Hudson River
Jersey
Boston
Staten Island
Governor's Island
Kaiser Wilhelm der Graase
Ami
Hudson’s Estuary
Clender
Lloyd’ Line
Thingvalla Line
Hamburg-American” Line
Palsner, Campbell
Lloyd Line
North German Lloyd
Saabe
North German Lloyd Company
North German
Thingvalle
Great Pic
Palmer Campbell
Lloyd
Iss
New York City
Glasgow
Flynne
Tordenskjold
Lloys
Oceanic
Atlantic
Southampton
St. Paul
Fire Engulfs Steamers as Inferno Sweeps Port
A rapid blaze raced across dry prairie grass and spread to steamer decks, igniting awnings, rigging, and cargo holds. Within nine minutes every steamer and pier burned. Six hundred longshoremen worked to unload cargo while about 900 sailors, engineers, and stewards were aboard. Dozens died, with many fatalities uncertain.
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Praires
Terrible Scene On the Bremen Fire Disaster at Sea
Dramatic accounts describe men and a child leaping overboard as the Bremen and Saale burned in the harbor fire. A woman dropped her baby into the water while a fireman died amid flames. The event affects multiple ships and warehouses, with substantial property losses and heavy casualties among sailors and foreigners aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saale
Robert Fowler
Bremen
Atta |Ted
No Endeavorers Aboard Ship Disaster Report
The Saale chartered by the Christian Endeavor Society to carry 300 members to London had none aboard as it was not scheduled to sail until July 2. The Main carried thousands of cartridge boxes bound for Gibraltar. Flames sparked a rapid series of explosions and many were believed killed by flying bullets.
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Saale
Christian Endeavor Society
London
Gibraltar
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