News of the Day: wrecks and floods across regions
The week’s telegraph column notes a Boston and Maine freight wreck near Woodoonville New Hampshire after a washout. Floods in southern France cause greater damage than earlier reports. A Mina cyclone destroys most of the village, killing four. Alaska title disputes spark legal concerns while a large coal miners strike expands across several states. Dimmick dies in a Winona mine accident amid a shaft fire.
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Nnuth
France
Theodore Durrant
Durrant
Walle
San Quentin
Mina
Alaska
Posseesi
Belle of Bath Burned at Sea After Devastating Fire
Seventeen sailors aboard the American ship Belle of Bath report a rapid, deadly fire off Barbados after June 9. Leaking water forced pumps for nine days before the blaze forced abandonment. Lifeboats were used as the vessel burned and sank, with land sighted after 84 hours at sea.
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New York
Jules &8
Prince Line
South America
West India
Barbadoes
Belle of
Cod
Curtie
Curtis
Leeword
Bath
Battle ship Oregon honored with flag testimonial in Portland
In Portland, Governor Lord presented an American flag to the battalion of sailors from the battleship Oregon as a testimonial. Captain Albert C. Barker spoke, acceptance drew cheers, and an exhibition drill followed with precise trumpet commands and impressive calisthenics.
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Iver
Magni Portland
magnifi_wat
Ieee
Ehip Oregon
Failore
Immenes
Lord
Wm. P. Lord
Albert C. Barker
Oregon
Waa
Opening Preparations For Christian Endeavor Convention
San Francisco July 8 preparations are complete for the Christian Endeavor convention with about 6000 delegates due today and double that number tomorrow. Mechanic Hall is gaily decorated with a tented roof and new seating as thousands ready for concerts and meetings. Delegates from Foo Chow and Tokio arrive with flags and a silk banner for China missions. A mission exhibit and a historic mission bell will mark sessions, welcoming efforts praised by General Secretary Baer.
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San Francisco
Christian Endeavor
Ferry
Mechanica
Baer
Mise E. J. Newton
Foo Chow
Endeavor Societies of
China
Mise Carrie Hostetter
Tokio
Newton
Christian Endeavor Society
Foreign Missions
Foo Chow Christian Endeavor Union
Ling Muck
California
Missionary Extension Society
Mies M. L. Berry
Christian Endeavor Union
Im. Am Garret
Cccesion
Arbitrate urged by senators on miners strike
New York reports by the Journal and Advertiser quote Senators Hanna Fairbanks Turpie Lindsay and officials urging arbitration to settle the coal miners strike. They warn against harm to business, favor federal involvement and multi state boards, and foresee a speedy, fair settlement without a prolonged walkout.
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New York
Journal and Advertiser
Hanna Saye
Fairbanks
Turpie
Congress
Lindsay
Sherman
McKenna
Delegates Arrive by Train for Christian Endeavor Convention
The first of 40 trains bearing delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention reached San Francisco on July 8. Throughout the day more trains arrived and delegates were registered by about 200 clerks. Each person received a card with name address denomination share and San Francisco quarter.
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San Francisco
Great Convention of Christian Endeavorers
Bay
Snare
Aeronaute Crash Kills Two in Eureka California
In Eureka California on July 8 professor George Weeton an aeronaut and his assistant H Scottan from Aberdeen Washington were fatally injured in a balloon ascent. The balloon rose sixty feet with Scottan entangled in ropes. he died from fractures and bruises. Weeton clung to the parachute and was carried by wind into trees where he died in a crushed, mangled manner.
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Eureka
Cal
George Weeton
H. Scottan
Aberdeen
Wash
Scotton
Weston
Murdered child found after long chase in Missouri case
Portland report details Sandy Soper's confession and the revelation of a buried alive child. Dr. Kessler testifies the father tried to strangle the infant, then buried it as it suffocated and struggled for air. Coroner's jury rules murder by strangulation and suffocation.
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Portland, Or
Sandy
Soper
Missouri
Montgomery Gulch
Kessler
Debria
European Riots in India Put Europeans at Risk
Calcutta July 6 report details violent clashes in a Chilpore suburb as 24 native policemen are trapped and injured, with rioters taking dead and wounded. Riots subsided after a compromise on mosque demolitions, but danger to Europeans persists amid official absence and fear of a broader threat across India.
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Calcutta
Chilpore
India
European Citisene
General strike ordered by United Mine Workers
The national executive board orders a nationwide strike of about 875,000 miners in the Eastern Coal States to enforce agreed wage rates from the January convention. District presidents and officers are named in the circular, with Ratchford asserting summer is best to settle wages as shelter and clothing needs are lower.
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Columbus
United Mine Workers of America
National Executive Board
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
United Mine Workers
National
Fred Ditcher
David H. Jenny
Harry Stephenson
James M. Carson
Patrick Dolan
W. E. Farmer
W.@. Knight
James M. Careen
M. D. Ratchford
John Kane
W. C
Freddent Ratchford
Object of the Strike in Indiana Miners Walkout
President Knight of district 11 United Mine Workers confirms a nationwide strike involving about 100000 miners. He says the aim is to drive up wages by pressuring operators to pay living wages, not to attack operators. both sides blame overproduction and under consumption for the crisis. He notes miners are hopeful but unsure of the strike's outcome.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Knight
United Mine Workers of America
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