Notable Crimes and Disasters Across The Nation
A mosaic of incidents: Alderman W. S. Umbarger dies by suicide in Kansas City. Labor clashes erupt in Steubenville with non unionists and union forces injuring several. A cockroach carrying arsenic is blamed for Mrs. Underwood’s oatmeal poisoning in Kansas City. Clarence Sturgeon alleged to have killed three in Louisville after a visit to a woman. The Pacific Steamship Argus likely exploded and burned off Destruction Island with 750,000 feet of lumber aboard. A Oklahoma man Cole abducts his stepsister May Ward at gunpoint and shoots, dying later. Sheriff Burwell assists, Cole wounded. A tally of four principals’ standings ends the report.
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W. S. Umbarger
Kansas City
Livestock Commission
West
Follansbee
Steubenville
Ohio
8. C. Underwood
Walter M. Cross
Clarence Sturgeon
W. J. Bruner
W. H. MacMichael
Sturgeon
Argus
Destruction Island
George B. Bridgett
Asuncion
Pacific 11 Company
Ner
Seattle
Bridgett
Captain Bridgett
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Cole
Lahomas
Okla
Dun
Fires, ships, and trials headline a busy July report
A mixed stagger of wartime and peacetime notes runs through the item. Captains and sailors bound for Egypt and Florida describe shipboard tests and wreck survivals. In Peru an elderly widow dies after a burglar attack. A Panama Canal sanitary chief notes daily hospital costs, while a guard in the Philippines faces a murder charge. A Minneapolis judge is injured by a locomotive. The battleship Georgian posts a record speed at a formal trial. Coal labor unrest flares near Tarentum as operators refuse to pay a regional scale. About a thousand people are in the area amid mounting tension.
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Batthry
Vine
Boas
Joseph Leroy Weharl Hineh
Lewis Holden
Facom Noy
Ascanon
Narravansett
Phinney
C. M. Pond
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Minneapolis
Judge Pond
Aes
United States
Ie’ Cornell, Creighton
McE
Stridge and
McKean Coal Companies
Tarentum
Pittsburg
Notable 1900s Aboard Headlines Jewish and Steel Era
A long ledger of 1900s incidents is summarized: executions in Charlestown and governors. church dedication in Boston with 35000 Scientists. election defeat for Gus Addicks and Dupont nomination. De Koven recuperating. Jersey Central wreck at Eatontown with casualties. Patrick denied new trial. Roosevelt death at Sayville. Auerbach vanishes with 30000 debt. indictments of Gillette and Granniss. major fires in Pittsburg and New York. airship flight over Washington. several drownings in Brewer High School. northern storms with deaths. a dynamite plant explosion near Peachu Pa. medical marvels with heart surgery. and industrial and labor tensions in Pittsburgh.
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Charles L. Tucker
Charlestown
Mass
Parks Ritchie
University of Minnesota
Boston
Gus” Addicks
Delaware
H. A. Dupont
Reginald de Koven
Jersey Central Railroad
Eatontown
N. J
Albert T. Patrick
Goff
New York
Richard Tilghman
Philadelphia
Robert Collier
Harry Payne Whitney
Collier
Llewellyn Randolph Snowden
Robert B Roosevelt
Sayville
L. T
Roosevelt
Raoul Auerbach
Lanman & Kemp
Europe
Gillette
Granniss
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Armar Sanderson
James Fewd Sanderson
Armagh
Pressed Steel Car Company
Pittsburg
Southern Railway
Schenectady
Pennsylvania
Ivy City
Washington
Baltimore and Ohio
St. Thomas
Ont
Pequa
Susquehanna River
William Wyatt
Pensylvania Hospital
Itichard Hart
Multiple Disasters and Political Moves Across States
A sweeping roundup notes Kansas political shifts with E W Coburn declining a Senate seat and Gov Hoch naming A W Benson. It covers a fatal train collision near Mengo Missouri injuring twenty two, a museum theft in Minneapolis, a deadly medical accident in Newark, trolley plans in Chicago, a large fire at Palace hotel in Waurika Oklahoma, a balloon crash at an old settlers picnic, a fatal baseball injury in Muskogee, a Yukon treasure shipment to Seattle, poison exposure estimates, Jesse James Jr passing a bar exam, insurance tensions after San Francisco fires, a manslaughter sentence in Mount Vernon, and various legal and political developments including governor nominations and railway indictments. The mutterings include deaths and injuries from a tornado in Dewey Indiana, a bridge drowning in Minneapolis, and other era incidents across states.
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F. H. Richards
Iron Mountain
Mengo
Minneapolis
Newark
Ohio
Thomas Wilson
Chicago
Palace
Waurika
Comanche County
Oklahoma
Monroe
Bert Ward
Cloud
Muskogee
Ind. T
Yukon River
Alaskan Steamship Company
Dolphin
Seattle
Harry B. Walmsley
Kansas
Jesse James
Missouri Board of Bar Examiners
Kansas City
San Francisco
Frank W Lildreth
Mount Vernon
Wildreth
James' Shellenbarger
A. L. Cole
Walker
Duluth
Mini
Kaute Nelson
Oleo Department
Armour Packing Plant
South Omaha
Neb
General lockout by master painters hits Pittsburg shops
The Dar Farej dispute ends with a master painters decision to lock out employees, suspending about 735 percent of shops in Pittsburg and Allegheny until settlement. Roughly 1,200 painters are idle as the conflict stalls wages and working conditions.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny
Idiec
Ice and oil crises and crimes ripple across states
From court actions against ice companies and conspiracies to a 17000 barrel oil tank fire, a bicycle accident in Ohio, an attack on a coal office, murders by two sons in Nebraska, manslaughter allegations in Sioux Falls, and four meat packers found guilty of rebates, the era’s legal and industrial tremors unfold with named firms and places across the Midwest.
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Manhattan Ol Company
Tthem
The
Standard
John‘ ‘Miller
R. A. Beard
Compton Lemmon
Hygeia Ice Company
Toledo
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Standard Oil
Neodexica
Kansas City
Whiting
Ind
Charles Trout
Springfield
Ohio
A. A. Hanna Coal Company
Dillonvale
Eberle
Omma Seadar
Clermont County
Seadar
Christian Leib
Jom Hoyer
Jesse
Noah Headley
Craig
Neb
Jacob L. Headley
Misa Agnes Poireis
Moses Kaufmann
Sioux Falls
Kaufmann
Kaufmanns
Mia Kaufmann
United States District Court
Burlington Railway
New York
Cudahy & Co
Germany
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ellen Terry to Tour the United States in January
The actress Ellen Terry will launch a U S tour starting next January. Meanwhile the United States discusses quarantine rules with Ecuador to prevent yellow fever.
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Ellen Terry
United States
Ecuador
Oklahoma and Indian Territory to form a single state
The statehood bill admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state passed both houses and was signed by the President. Arizona and New Mexico may join if the people vote at an election. Capt. Perry Farst is believed guilty of several charges in the Rhode Island grounding court martial. Secretary Bonaparte reviews the verdict.
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Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
United States Senate
Perry Farst
Geome
Rhode Island
Bonaparte
Longworths greet King Edward VII in London reception
Foreign dispatches report Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth meeting King Edward VII at a grand London reception. Hankow floods in Hunan cause massive loss of life. Russian troops resist uprisings amid agrarian tension. International committee led by M. Pallain drafts Moroccan state bank regulations. Nine killed and forty injured on British steamer Haverford in a suspected explosion.
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Nicholas Longworth
Edward VII
London
Hankow
China
Hunan
International Committee
M. Pallain
Bank of France
Senate Adopts Indian Appropriation Conference Report
The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted by 30 to 16 in the Senate despite opposition from La Follette Spooner Tillman Siemons and others. The diplomatic appropriation bill carrying 3154504 was passed. Additional action covered Tillman inquiry and new oath for William Pinkney Whyte as Maryland’s senator.
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Senate
la Follette
Spooner
Tillman
Siemons
Hopkins
Aldrich
Ther
John" R
Minard
Hamilton
House
Geological Survey, Io
Dryden
Morgan
Panama
A. W. Benson
Burton
Kansas
du Pont
Delaware
Smith
Arizona
United States
Messrs
Teller
Beacon
Panama Canal
Great Tunnel Planned for Sierra Nevada by Central Pacific
The Central Pacific Railroad plans what would be the longest tunnel in the United States, a six mile bore through the Sierra Nevada near Truckee California. Chief Engineer William Hood aims to cut altitude gain by about 2000 feet, reduce curves and grades, with an estimated cost of at least 10 million dollars. The project would become one of the world’s longest tunnels, surpassing existing 16,000 foot bores in the Cascade range.
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Central Pacific
Sierra Nevada
United States
Central Pacific Railroad Company
J. Mayne Baltimore
Technical World Magazine
William Hood
California
Truckee
Ariz
Hood
Harriman
Mountain Division
Cascade Range
Washington
Great Northern Railroad
National Capital Notes on Willard Meeting and Senate Bill
The National League of Women’s Organizations at the Willard hotel urged Reed Smoot’s expulsion from the Senate. Conferees on the army appropriations bill reached agreement. Senate amendments provide $1,000,000 for militia participation and related measures. Japanese appropriation details set aside $150,000 for barracks and quarters and $350,000 for transportation.
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National Capital
National League of Women’s Organizations
Willard Hotel
Reed Smoot
Senate
Dfrégdtar Sol
Digestive Tonic Claims Relief From Stomach Trouble
A testimonial from Merrill of Oneals California describes chronic stomach weakness and a lingering illness worsened by a rattlesnake bite. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pain with restoring health after years of failed medicines and a year in bed. Six boxes were mailed postpaid for trial.
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Willama Pie
Carl Schurz in Boston Speech on Butler and Specie Payments
The narrative recalls Carl Schurz, a foreign born writer with praised English, who in 1877 visited Boston to oppose Benjamin F. Butler’s Massachusetts governor bid. He argued resumption of specie payments, likening inflation to a balloon and declaring America had placed its feet on solid ground again.
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Carl Schhurs
Schurz
Carl Schurz
Boston
Benjamin F. Butler
Massachusetts
Bchuie
Physician Swears Off Coffee After Postum Cure
A doctor recounts years of heart palpitations eased after giving up tea and coffee for Postum. He notes initial weak flavor, later rich taste with butter, and advises patients to switch, sharing a life improvement story and referencing a health book.
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Wellville
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