Tragic Flat Rock dam tragedy claims eight youths
A Philadelphia boat carrying eight youths is swept over Flat Rock dam on the Schuylkill River. Seven drownings occur, five girls and two boys, with John Moore the sole survivor. The incident unfolds as the boat nears the dam and a failed attempt to navigate a closed lock leads to disaster. Nearby, Ohio incidents report three youths drowned in Rocky River and others missing after a capsized sailboat near Johnson's Island.
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Philadelphia
Flat Rock
Schuylkill River
John Moore
Birle
Osmond
Moore
Cleveland, O
Rocky River
Clinton Park Pier
Sandusky
Ohio
Dennis Cummings
Wiliam Griffith
Fayetteville
Otto Adams
Oak Harbor
Johnson's Island
Safle Ket
Hemp Bound for China and Far East Movements
Admiral Kerpfin ships out from Manila aboard the Kentucky bound for China but details of the trip remain unreported. The note clarifies this is part of broader troop movements with three rear admirals on the Asiatic station and no implications tied to China. The New Orleans Monadnock Monterey and Monocacy are now in Chinese waters.
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China
Washington
Kerpif
Manila
Ching
Kentucky
Navy Department
Asilatic
New Orleans
Monadnock
Monterey
Monocacy
Granville boys disrupt Granville girls sports with banners
In Newark Ohio on June 1 Granville college boys, denied admission to Shepardson girls field events, moved to the hills to watch using fieldglasses and entered the field bearing banners reading Pity the blind.
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Newark
Ohio
Granville College
Shepardson College
Granville
Money in a Barrel Found by Iowa Farmer
Eldora Iowa June 1 Marvin Fin ster, a farmer, unearthed a barrel containing several hundred dollars while tearing off the roof of an old farmhouse. The coins bear dates indicating they had been hidden for a long time.
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Eldora
Towa
Marvin Finster
Man killed by boiler blast at Pekin Glucose works
Patrick Hapenny died after a boiler head blew out at Pekin Glucose works. He was struck by boiling water and died at 11 o clock. He left two wives and three children. Also noted is distress signal from the ocean liner Laurentian near New York after passing Sendy Hook.
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Pekin
New York
Glasgow
Sendy Hook
Follows In Her Footsteps Emulus Servant Girl Story
Topeka Kan June 1 There is a circulating tale that a Sheldon household servant quit after being refused to dine at the table with the family Mrs Sheldon would not confirm or deny the report The girl had read Mr Sheldon's Born to Serve and hoped for privileges from the novel The family requires the servant to wait at table and the servant quit after which Mrs Sheldon advertised for another girl
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Topeka
Kan
Charles M. Sheldon
Mr. Sheldon
Must Keep Divorced Wits. Toronto Case on Jurisdiction
Toronto jury rules Michigan divorce law not binding on those governed by Canadian law. John Sheppard left Toronto in 1898 and obtained a Detroit divorce. He later returned as his Canadian wife sued for maintenance and the court ordered support.
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Toronto
John Sheppard
Michigan
Sheppard
Detroit
Texas Has a Short Crop Report
Reports from 164 counties in Texas and portions of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory show a 75 percent drop in oat and wheat yields compared with 1900. Harvesting is under way in northern Texas and beginning in the territories. The crops will not meet home consumption and seed needs.
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Texas
Dallas
Tex
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Powder Boat Explodes on Missouri River Freight Boat Wrecked
Boonville Missouri June 1 The Laurine a fourteen ton freight boat plying between Boonville and Rocheport on the Missouri river for the new railroad was blown to atoms by explosives stored on board. Two laborers Burt Cripe of Osceola Missouri and Steve Wilson of Denison Texas were employed on the boat and have been missing since the blast.
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Boonville
Laurine
Rocheport
Missouri River
Burt Cripe
Osceola
Steve Wilson
Denison
Texas
Real estate dealer Knapp found unconscious with morphine box
A. C. Knapp, Chicago real estate dealer with Knapp & Kelly, was found unconscious in his Roanoke building office on June 1. A box near him, believed to contain morphine, and a note reading to the morgue and potter’s field were found. He died later at the county hospital.
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Chicago
A. C. Knapp
Knapp & Kelly
Roanoke Building
Potters’ Field
Articles filed for United Copper company of Montana
A Pierre dispatch notes Articles of incorporation filed for United Copper company of Montana with a capital of 80 million dollars. Incorporators include Arthur P. Heinze Stanley Gifford Franklin Nien Frederick Hokstein Carl Swenson and Oscar Nelson. A separate item from Quincy Illinois reports a fatal train collision at a grade crossing. An elderly man William Littleton age 80 was killed while his carriage, with his grandson Edward Littleton age 25 and granddaughter Laura Brownlee age 18, were fatally injured as a train struck the vehicle traveling on the tracks.
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St. Paul
Pierre
8. D
United Copper Company of
Montana
Arthur P. Heinze
Stanley Gifford
Franklin Nien
Frederick Hokstein
Carl Swenson
Oscar Nelson
Quincy
Ill
William Littleton
Edward Littleton
Laura Brownlee
Fleet of Marges Wrecked on Kenova Bridge
A towboat Acorn towing a coal fleet from Pittsburg to Cincinnati struck the Norfolk and Western bridge piers at Kenova West Virginia in fog. Eight coal barges sank, the fleet wrecked, the wharf boat and ferry piers swept away, with no casualties reported.
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Marges
Ironton
Acorn
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Norfolk & Western
Kenova
W. Va
General Thomas Very in Critical Condition at Dobbs Ferry
General Samuel Thomas, ill at his Dobbs Ferry home, was reported in a critical condition at midnight. Watchmen were posted at driveways to prevent carriages from entering the grounds surrounding his residence due to his perilous state.
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Thomas Very
New York
Samuel Thomas
Dobbs Perry
Bank Robbery Blows Up Gate At Callison Bank
On June 1 burglars robbed the Callison bank in Danville NL, stealing 1400 dollars and blowing up the gate with nitroglycerin. They used flour sacks around the explosion to muffle sound noted near residents. Also reported: Blakely Hall Sr. dies after a pet dog bite in New Brunswick NJ, and anthrax spreads among cattle in Niagara County following Genesee County cases.
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Ville Hills
New York
Blakely Hall
New Brungwick
N. J
Blakely Hall, Jr
Buffalo
N. Y
Niagara
Genesee County
President's trip ends as McKinleys reach White House
Washington June 1 crowds lined the route as the presidential train arrived on schedule. Mrs McKinley, pale and weakened after a grave illness, was carried to the White House in a chair with Dr Rixey and attendants. Cabinet members assisted. a later bulletin reported her condition serious and telegrams were sent to relatives. Mrs Barber of Canton, Miss McKinley’s sister, was expected Saturday.
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Washington
McKinley
White House
Cortelyou
Rixey
Lutheran Synod at Work es Moines Iowa June 1
The first general Lutheran Synod business session opened with 240 delegates and visiting clergy from Europe Africa and India. Key topics include shifting missionary work from the African coast to interior Liberia for health reasons establishing an official organ for the assembly and propagating its interests and adapting graded Sunday school lessons.
New York Reader to Study American Newspaper Methods
C Arthur Pearson, the London newspaper and magazine magnate with about thirty publications, sails on the Oceanic from Liverpool June 5 to study U S paper methods. He will spend only a week in the United States.
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New York
C. Arthur Pearson
London
United States
Murder verdicts for Rev. Riegel killers in Philly
In Philadelphia on June 1 the convicts in the Rev. Charles Riegel murder case were sentenced. Jacob Wyane and Suitor Bob Bryan received twenty years each, Steve Bryan fifteen years, and Ella Barrett and Amnu Miller two years each.
Sensation in Birmingham as 31 infants found
In Birmingham a cellar under an undertaker’s shop yielded 31 infant bodies in varying stages of decomposition. A widow, today charged with causing the infants’ deaths, faced the court as the case opened amid shock and local outrage. Nearby in Cape Colony Boers massed north of Bailey under Commandant Kritvinger, prompting trench guards and interrupted passenger traffic.
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Rodin
Tondon
Birmingham
Queenstown
Cape Colony
Kritvinger
Bailey
China Eyes Forty-Year Indemnity Payment Term
Chinase Want Time Extender Pekin June 1 another edict regarding indemnitus payment China consents to four percent annually but requests payments run for forty years instead of thirty as previously agreed. Gambling In London London June 1 smart set shows passion for gaming risking scandal with women in financial trouble and a single sitting loss around forty thousand dollars. Cars Daughter II St Petersburg June 1 czar’s eldest daughter ill with typhus. Count William Bismarck Dien Varzin Prussia June 1 Count William Bismarck son of the late Prince Bismarck dies after brief illness born 1852.
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Pekin
China
London
Cars
St. Petersburg
Willum Bismarck
Labor troubles spark steel scale changes in Milwaukee
June 1 reports from Milwaukee disclose the Amalgamated Association has finalized convention business. The special steel scale, not in wage lists, was adopted with a typical five percent rise. Other items cover factory refusals to close, glass plant operation into July, and armed guard activity at mills in Pensacola. Reports also note tunnel strike unsettled in New York, wage hikes at Union Pacific shops in Kansas City, and wage boosts for 3,000 workers at Youngstown plants.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Hartford City
Ind
Hraeford Glass Company
Hurrie Glass Company
Old L, A
New L. A
John L. Denny
Tunnel Birllee
Uiven
Kansas City
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Kan
Confederate Veterans Parade in Memphis closes reunion
Memphis Tenn June 1 veterans wrap up United Confederate Veterans reunion with a grand parade. After a day of business most veterans left on night trains while thousands stayed to salute old comrades and keep battlefield time, as 4 in 5 were in line.
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Memphis
Tenn
United Confederate Veterans
Ine
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Jamestown Street Railway
Youngstown
American Breed Hoop Company
Girard, Warren and
Greenville
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LMR
Ella Rice
Chelsea, Wis
Oman
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Lydia B. Pinkham
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Lynia 5
Pinkiait-Manicine Co
Tanzi Manuee
Trming CO
Pedtia
Hikiacia
Evel
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Wetmore
G. Wetmore Ropacce Co
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Waturo
Dr.o
Phelps Brown
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