Week’s notable events amid accidents and unrest
A Cleveland steamship Ireland tragedy sees David T. Clough 70 found dead by hanging in a Milwaukee stateroom. Six Cleveland fireworks blast injuries ruin J Kraus & Sons store. Anton Fite vanishes with about 12000 from M Kaseman Co. picnic diners survive after food poisoning scare. Roosevelt fills isthmian canal board with Shonts Stevens Magoon Traines Endicott Warrod. Ebert Olson dies in a staged blast attempt in Roubaix South Dakota. Baseball league standings recap concludes the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David T. Clough
Cleveland
J. C. Gilchrist
Gilchrist Transportation Company
Gilchrist
Ireland
Milwaukee
J. Kraus & Sons
West Ninth — Street
Anton Paul Fite
Banding House
M. Kaseman & Co
Homestead
Ladies’ Aid Society
Jerome
Ohio
Marysville
Senate
Roosevelt
Theodore P. Shonts
John F. Stevens
Charles E. Magoon
Tpeter C. Traines
Mordecai Endicott
U. S
Benjamin M. Warrod
Ebert Olson
Roubaix
S. D
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Notable Early 1900 Crimes and Disasters Across Cities
Reports detail hangings in Alabama and New Jersey for murder, deaths of public figures in London, naval medical inventor and singer Manuel Garcia in London, and a sane diagnosis release in Ohio. Also covered are factory fires in Dayton and Ottawa County, a drowning near Cedar Hill New Mexico, legal contempt sentences in Toledo, and legislative prorogation in Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Richardson
Linden
Ala
Frank L. Foscue
Wilfrid Lawson
London
Manuel Garcia
Charlotte Bartlett
Cleveland State Hospital
Edward W. Brown
Freeheld
N. J
Rebecca Traynon
Long Branch
Pneumatic Tool Company
Gem City Tobacco Company
Dayton
Ohio
United States Gypgum Company
Ottawa County
Toledo
Leonard Poat
Animas River
Cedar Hill
N. M
Durango
Colo
Kinkade
Clarence Brown
T. I. Tracy
Icemen
Record Wheat Crop Seen From Jones Estimate
H V Jones reports a national wheat yield of 420 000 000 bushels for winter wheat, a 60 000 000 bushel rise and a record crop. Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan Oklahoma Texas Kansas Nebraska Missouri California and Canada show strong gains with good rains and favorable conditions boosting prosperity and rail traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. V. Jones
Minneapolis
United States
Jones
John Inglis
Wall Street
Liverpool
England
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
West
Southwest
Northwest
Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
California
Oregon
Canadian
Canadian Department of Agriculture
Manitoba
Canadian Northwest
Transandine railway begins next step to Andes tunnel
The first section of the Transandine railway reaches the foothills where the tunnel starts. A new line will cut six hours from Chili to Buenos Ayres. The Hudson Memorial Bridge at Spuyten Duyvil is assured at 2 500 000 dollars. Europe’s rail totals are shown with Russia at 35 000 miles and Britain at 22 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
Siberia
San Francisco
Harlem Ship Canal
Spuyten Duyvil
Transandine Railway
Chili
Buenos Ayres
Europe
America
Russia
Germany
France
Austria-Hungary
United Kingdom
England
Great Britain
Ireland
New York Central
Detroit River
Windsor
Detroit
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Sherwood
Shively
California
Mendocino
Humboldt Counties
Congress Passes Record Laws Big Rail Rate Bill Included
The just-concluded session enacted major statutes including Railway Rate Regulation and Pure Food measures. It expands the Interstate Commerce Commission to seven members, sets rate publication, bans rebates, and tightens enforcement. Also approved are the Panama canal funding, statehood plan for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Alaska measures, and new consular reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Commission
Senate Passes Public Buildings Bill Amid Conference Actions
The Senate reported the public buildings bill with a net increase of 4.08 million dollars and accepted conference reports on several measures including agricultural appropriation and Lake Erie canal bills. Fifty five bills passed, with actions on railroad rate, meat inspection, and deferral of certain conference matters before adjournment at 10 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Lake Erie
United States Court For China
Tillman
Minor Morris
White House
Trouse
Llouse
Charlies W. Dekin
Thomas Klenmessy
San Prencisso
Meade
E. Fo Brawe
Wisconsins
Commodore Perry
Niagara
Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors
Treme
Timothy J. Sullivan
N. Y
Treass
Tolman
Dailey
Scott
Fnmipossime
Penn Aerono
la Fallette
Tachine Ie
Iarbor
Sensie
Thouse
Congress
Lake Erie and
Ohio River Ship Canal
Alaska Railroad
Cordova Bay
Eagle
Yukon River
Alaska Central Railroad
Mississippi River
South Omaha
Neb
Bartholdi
Washington
Departments of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor
Senatorate
Committee On Rules
Committee On Printing
Government Printing Office
Fairbanks
House
Cannon
Messrs
Burleigh and
Bankhead
State, Justice and Commerce and Labor
Chicago Trade Outlook Brightens With Grain and Bank Gains
Midyear Chicago shows sound commerce with grain movement up 10 percent year over year and bank clearings up 10.2 percent. Weekly totals note grain at ports 77 050 798 bushels, lumber receipts 5 720 000 feet, slides 2 099 201 pounds, live stock 801 067 head. New York reports strongest fiscal year to date. railway earnings up 10.5 percent in June. next month’s interest and dividend disbursements around 60 million. Failures: U S 207. Canada 27. Textiles footwear and hardwareorders rise. country stocks decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner Weather
Chicago
New York
Mnere
United States
Canada
Dun
Review of Trade
Antisociological Society Fights Slum Curiosity in NYC
East side residents form a society to curb sociological visits and sign apartment hallways warning that peddlers slummers and sociologists are not admitted. Also notes include several incidents: Sparks from the Wires reports Albert Lewis 25 of Springfield Ohio killed by a circus train in Peru Indiana. Provo st and first streets Jersey City candle factory fire causing 125000 damage. W H Imbler 55 of Colwick Kansas killed by a switch engine in Oakland California. Atlantic City chosen for next meeting of the American Order of Steam Engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
New York City
Albert Lewis
Springfield
Ohio
Peru
Ind
Atlantic City
American Order of Steam Engineers
A. Gross & Co
Provost and
First Streets
Jersey City
W. H. Imbler
Colwick
Kan
Oakland
Cal
Acquittal in Wertz murder case at Newark
Levi Bevard, charged with killing Mrs. Wertz in Newark Ohio, has been acquitted. Other items note New Orleans begins systematic fever prevention inspections and passport demand rises in Washington DC with over 100 daily. A Chinese Eastern Railway wreck near Manchburia kills or injures about 100. two Steubenville laborers die after being struck by a switch engine. Demetrius Schlizzi of London stock exchange commits suicide amid domestic worries. Dr J A Copus of Muskogee Oklahoma accidentally shoots his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Bevard
Wertz
Newark
Ohio
New Orleans
Washington, D. C
Manchburia
Steubenville
Demetrius Schlizzi
London Stock Exchange
J. A. Copus
Muskogee
I. T
Toledo
Livestock and Grain Prices by City and Region
Market desk reports pegged Chicago cattle at common to prime from 4.00 to 6.10 dollars and hogs prime heavy 4.00 to 4.82, with butter creamery 17 to 21 cents and oats around 39 to 41 cents. Other cities list cattle, hogs, sheep, and staple grains with varied No. 2 and No. 3 grades across Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National League
W. L. de Chicago
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
New York
SL. Lentis
Dwe
Phil'delphia
Laston
American League
Phildelphia
Si Lainis
Wee
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
American Association
Law. le Columbus
Kansas
Toledo
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Nose
Louisville
Indianapolis
L. Des Moines
Sioux City
Omaha
Lincoln
Evey
Denver
Pueblo
Chicago
Ste
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Miller guilty of murder in Upper Sandusky verdict mercy urged
Willis Miller was found guilty in Upper Sandusky Ohio of murdering Celery King Johnston and the jury recommended mercy. Gov Frantz of Oklahoma paroled Ira O Terrill after a twelve year murder sentence in Kansas penitentiary. Police in Jersey City New Jersey investigate the death of Clark Rice son of a Kansas City manufacturer believed to be a murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis Miller
Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Celery King Johnston
Mercy
Gov. Frantz
Oklahoma
Ira O. Terrill
Kansas Penitentiary
Jersey City
N. J
Clark Rice
Kansas City
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The
Vaushn & Vanrest, Publishers
Ener Ee
Diana, A Ee
Massachusetts
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
New England
John H. Queal, Jr
George FE. Steaton
C. L. Smith
Oro Grande
Idaho
MR. Mitchell
Michael Sweeny
G Wns
Sweeny
Charles Sweeny
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Panama Canal
Americas
Indian Territories
Guthrie
Territories
Arizona
New Mexico
Consular Service
Isthmian Canal
Tawner
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Alaska
Alaskan
Niagara Falls
Osesepl
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