Record of the Week: Explosions, Tennis, Hangings and more
Siren of far nations report a blast at Irvine's Mills near Bradford Pa killing two men and wrecking a nitroglycerin wagon. The Doherty brothers lose the United States tennis title to Ward and Davis in Crescent Athletic Club match. Choate unveils Washington portrait in London Masonic hall. Chicago hangs a man, Toombs, for Carrie Larson murder after a brief plea. Navajo Indians face starvation due to heat and drought. A 19-year-old black man, Harry Benton, is lynched near Womer Ia for assaulting a four-year-old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doherty Brothers
All England
Holcombe Ward
Dwight F. Davis
Crescent Athletic Club
Kaybridge
Longwood
Mass
Cloudburst Drowns Four Near Raton and Tereco
A cloudburst at Bloosburg five miles west of Raton New Mexico drowns four people including Mrs Francesco Dominiquew and three children. A separate report says a family of husband wife and three children was drowned at Tereco. Rescue efforts found nothing after witnesses saw a wall of water.
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Bloosburg
Raton
N. M
Francesco Dominiquew
Tereco
Blossburg
Franceco Domingues
Terceo
Cholera Crisis Deepens in Blagovestchensk
A Berlin telegram reports Blagovestchensk facing an overwhelming cholera outbreak with 111 cases and 101 deaths between July 22 and August 8. Medical resources are deemed completely inadequate to cope with the epidemic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Blagovestchensk
Manila
Briggs washery burns in West Scranton loss put at 25000
The Briggs washery of the Ontario and Western Railway Company in West Scranton Pa is completely destroyed by fire. Origin unknown. Washery employed thirty non union men. Loss estimated at 25000. News from Manila discredited notes no local knowledge of reported land sale to an American syndicate and that such sale has been officially discredited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario and Western Railway Company
Scranton
Manila
Mada Ds
Erie
Erie Forge Company
Adopts All the Orphans from Minnesota Home
Michigan couple Mr and Mrs John Shandrow of South Haven adopt twenty two children from a Minneapolis foster home. The unusual batch includes baptized and unbaptized youngsters aged over three, as the couple aims to provide them a family. The Shandrows, devout Methodists, say they have longed for children and now take in all the siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
John Shandrow
South Haven
Mich
Shandrow
Wi Acre
Smith Powndling Hospital
Minneapolis
Shanidrow
Oil kills mosquitoes in Marion Indiana
An Indiana report credits Tudiana oil field with wiping out mosquitoes in Marion and surrounding towns. It claims the oil blankets streams and air, kills larvae and vegetation, and even prevents paint from drying as mosquitos cannot survive in Grant County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Tudiana
Grant County
Marton
Indiana
Wealth on Body of Woman Found in Alaska Bay
A woman’s body float ing in St Michael Alaska carried drafts and gold totaling fifteen thousand dollars. Identified as Becky a resident of Lower Yukon known by that name. The funds were turned to federal authorities as investigators seek the heirs. Becky had worked as a domestic in Seattle and earlier ran a boarding house in Rauport on the Yukon before drowning after falling from a wharf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Michael
St. Michaels
Alaska
Watian
Yukon
Becky
Heira
Recky
Seattle
Rauport
United States
Sleep Ends in Tragic Case of Aloysius Reiss
Aloysius Reiss died in Trenton after two weeks in a somnolent state his physicians attribute to araemic poisoning linked to Brights disease. Across Lake Erie the steamer City of Venice sank after a collision with Seguin off Point Rondeau three crewmen perished and passengers were saved. In Leavenworth two prisoners escaped. one was killed by a homeowner’s shotgun. On Philadelphia’s 12th floor a laborer killed by a falling blow. Pablo Mauras the bandit drowned during an attempted transfer. Kentucky fire devastation included multiple businesses at Lancaster with estimated loss near fifty thousand dollars. Burlington Limited robbery along the Chicago to Minneapolis line yielded twenty thousand in loot. A mercantile ore deposit was found north of Two Harbors Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aloysius Reiss
Aloysius Treiss
Trenton
Ned
Reiss
Brights
City of Venice
Lake Erie
Point Rondeau
Venice
Lake Superior
Right to end life argued in Fort Scott court
Tromer L. Cook, of Othick and Cook real estate firm, testified he has a moral constitutional right to kill himself. In Fort Scott, Kansas, he said he chose to end his life, was found unconscious after poison, revived by doctors, and jailed as authorities guarded him while his fate was being decided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tromer Ll. Cook
Othick & Cook
Depauw University
Fort Scott, Kas
Cook
Ife
Iola
Kan
T. I. Kirby
J. W. Kirby
Steamers Collision in Kingston Harbor Injures None
Two passenger steamers the Hamilton and the Kingston of Richelieu and Ontario Navigation collided in Kingston Ontario harbor. Both ships damaged no fatalities reported. Panic ensued as steam hissed from Kingston's broken steering gear causing passengers to rush to saloon and wharf, with several women fainting but all rescued.
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Hamilton
Kingston
Richelieu
Ontario Navigation Company
Ont
Mine Blast Kills Sixteen at Bowen No. 8 Mine
Fire damp and powder blast at Union Coat and Coke Co in Bowen Colorado traps sixteen men, with many more reported missing. The explosion filled the slope mouth and rocked surrounding buildings as night shift began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen
Col
Union Coat and Coke Company
Colo
Marion Man’s Roommate Elopes With Bride-To-Be
Miss Cora Minnick of Marion wed Walter Thompson in Indianapolis after Thompson, then Mann’s roommate, pursued her. Mann, once engaged to Minnick, sought to forget in California as Thompson and Minnick settled in Town.
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Marion
Ind
Cora Minnick
Walter Thompson
Indianapolis
Grant Mann
Minnick
Thompson
Waterloo Town
Mann
Town
California
Thirteen Die in Collision Between Freight and Work Train
A collision four miles east of Collins Iowa on the Chicago Milwaukee Saint Paul line kills eleven men outright and leaves about thirty seriously injured after two trains meet in a deep cut on a sharp curve. The wreck stems from a orders misunderstanding by the work train conductor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Collins
Iowa
Crowd watches Pittsburg house topple into excavation
More than 3,000 spectators saw a tall building on 6th Street in Pittsburg topple into a large excavation beside a new office block project by Henry Phipps. The saloon and offices occupants evacuated as the structure leaned and crashed into the hole around 6 o’clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
6Th Street
Allegheny Bridge
Vlenry Phipps
Peter 8. Muckestein
Train Robbery Near Savanna Halts Northbound Express
Six masked robbers derailed Chicago Burlington and Quincy Train No. 47 at 11 30 PM between Savanna and Marcus Illinois. They blasted the express car with dynamite, looted a safe of about $2000, and fled into the woods with one robber killed by return fire. Police and railway officials rushed to the scene to pursue the grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington Limited
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Limited
Chicago
Minneapolis
Savanna, Ill
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Chicaga
Savanna
Marcus
Brush Express
Tracy Kills Himself In Last Stand Near Fellowes Wash
Outlaw Harry Tracy, surrounded by a posse after hours of gunfire, shot himself in a wheat field near Fellowes Washington. Reports from Creston say Tracy eluded capture in a swamp before abandoning shelter and dying by his own hand. Sheriff Gardner's posse escaped unharmed as a large force converged from Davenport and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fellowes
Wash
Harry Tracy
Tracy
Gardner
Creston
Eddy Farm
Jack McGinnis
McGinnis
Davenport
Wild West
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Ribune
Denver
Alfred Wooley
Eife
Atoma
Irvine's Mills
Bradford
Joseph Gilson
Oscar Bergvall
Pennsylvania Torpedo Company
Gilson
H Bergvail
Rice Brook
Olean
Washington
Joseph H. Choate
Free Masons’ Hall
London
Earl of Warwick
Free Masons of
England
Lewis G. Toombs
Carrie Larsen
Toombs
Lewis
Carrie Larson
Durango
Navajo Country
Harry Benton
Womer
D. W. Fortson
Henton
Fred Heeron
Robert Johnson
Leavenworth
Carl Gitsch
Gitsch
Herron
Johnson
Corn- Snonwealth Trust Company
Philadelphia
Joseph Omeny
Walter Hoffman
Hin
Pablo Mauras
Romblon
P. 1
Sibuyan
Kentucky
Minnesota
Two Harbors
Minn
Duluth and Iron Range Railroad
Kansas
Pit
Breamers Meetia
Kingston Harbor
Ontario
Christenson
Ritchfield
Utah
Peter Christenson
Constantinople
London Daily Chronicle
Reshad
Turkey
Djimal
Techeragan
Young Turks’ Party
Virginia
Leesburg
Charles Craven
Craven
Samuel HH. Grimes
New Hanover County
N.C
Oceanie
Carolina Beach
Slamn
Luther Wallen
J. B. Wallen
Sneedville
Teen
W. M. Beardshear
William M. Beardshear
Iowa State College
Ames
Dr. Beardshear
Daniel Barry
Philadelphia City Hall
Camargo
Santandar
Spain
House
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Cal
Redondo Beach
Plaant
Combs Refining Company
Genoa
Naples
New York
Providence
Brava
Cape Verde Islands
Montana
John IF. Pina
Gus Hyatt
Desperado
Doe
Manchester
Tennessee Penitentiary
Nashville
Ed Carney
Joe Loss
James Work
Santa Fe Railroad
Carmen
Needles
Barstow
Colorado
New Mexico
Aaron Halle
Sing Sing
Mary McCarthy
Hecause
John W. Kirby
Burden
Harold Hartshorne
Lake Michigan
St. Joseph
Rob
Ill
Puranit
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