Million Dollar Fire Destroys Savannah Docks and Steamer
A blaze at Savannah docks of Merchants and Miners Transportation wrecked the steamship Essex and six to eight barges loaded with cotton and resin. Loss estimated at at least 1.0 million dollars with danger to nearby lumber yards as flaming barges drifted across the harbor. Firemen fought to prevent spread as flames engulfed the 600 foot dock and surrounding yardage.
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Baltimore
Savannah
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Essex
Homecoming Week Opens in Metropolis Under Rain
In Louisville on June 13 the Home Coming Week began with indoor exercises due to rain. A Y Ford chaired ceremonies as Rev Hawes led an invocation and Mayor Barth plus Governor Beckham spoke. Henry Watterson gave the welcome address to a packed armory as Miss Louise Lee Hardin received a medal for originating the idea.
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Louisville
Walnut Street
Armory
A. Y. Ford
Rev. Hawes
Barth
Ernor Beckam
Kentucky
Beckham
Henry Watterson
Francis
Missouri
Louise Lee Hardin
Denver
Hughes
Hardin
Lincoln
St. Joseph Packery Officials Meet President Over Meat Industry
A delegation from St. Joseph Missouri including Louis T. Golding spokesman called on the president to discuss meat packing conditions. They defended local plants as clean and sanitary and urged public release of unhealthful findings to clear St. Joseph from blame.
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St. Joseph
Washington
Louis T. Golding
News and Press
Golding
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Mob Lynches Negro After Employer Assault in Maryland
Ned Watson a black man was seized by a mob in Pompeo City Maryland and shot dead after severely beating his employer Samuel S Barnes near Kings Bridge Somerset county. Police had earlier hidden him in jail to protect him as the mob gathered and attempted to move him to Princess Anne.
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S. A. Barnes
Pompeo City
Ned Watson
Samuel Ss. Barnes
King’s Bridge
Somerset County
Watson
Mr. Barnes
Realroad
Princess Anne
Torpedo Fleet Ready for Philippine Departure
The navy department reports a torpedo boat fleet assembled at Norfolk is complete from the builders' side. The boats will undergo trials to identify and fix weaknesses, delaying departure until late year. The plan calls for two squadrons at the Asiatic station to match the Atlantic station.
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Philippines
Washington
Navy Department
Norfolk
Navy General Board
Asiatic
Atlantic
No yellow fever in Colon says Panama governor
Washington reports Governor McGoon of Panama states no suspected cases in Colon and no yellow fever. A doubtful May 23 case is deemed not yellow fever with 3000 non immunes in Colon and no case since Wyman's advisory. Five white and forty five colored deaths occurred in May, lowest rate in twelve months.
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Magoon
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
McGoon
Panama
Colon
Cristobal Colon
Wyman
Whitehall
New Orleans
Ship Island
PARDONS ISSUED FOR KAISAS MEN IN 1901 QUARRY KILLING
Governor Frantz granted citizenship pardons to William Smiley and Ed Dixon of the county after about a year of a two year sentence in Kansas penitentiary for manslaughter. They were accused in the 1901 Wichita mountains killing and wounding following a mining claims dispute. The trial was a landmark in the new country.
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Lawton
Frantz
William Smiley
Ed Dixon
Kansas Penitentiary
Ad Finn
Alex Wynn
Wichita Mountains
Kiowa
Comanche
New Country
Forty-Six Graduated at College Station
Forty six graduates completed studies at the agricultural and mechanical college in College Station Texas on June 13 noting the class size and ceremony.
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College Station
Tex
The
Agricultural and Mechanical College
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Pennick & Ford
Royal Blend Tea
Howell Bros
San Francisco
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Oliver Typewriter
M. Fl. Tsamles
Postoffice Drugstore
Pure Drugs
BLAZE
Old Kentucky Home
Blue
Grass State
Metropolis
First Nationa Bank
Bryan, Texas
J. W. Howell
H. C. Boatwright
Guy M. Bryan JR
L. L. McInnis
F. M. Law
Ass’t
E. J. Jenkins
Acetylene
C. M. Camp
Hasweth
Sttorge
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