Andree Report and Other Daring Events In June Dispatch
From Wrangell Alaska H J Baron reports the Andree Arctic balloon expedition is likely dead a sealed letter washed ashore May 4 cites 74 north and balloon west of Iceland with the line Loam leaving balloon and provisions Andree. Also recounts Catholic riots in China four Christians killed threats of massacre at Foo Chow Wu Chow and ship Yuen We capsized near Anhu with seventy drowned. Mayor James Balbirnie of Muskegon shot and injured then died. Fire destroys Sportswoods Hotel Brownsville Indiana and several nearby properties. Preston Oglesby 11 dies of hydrophobia after dog bite dishes blamed for family deaths.
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Andree
H. J. Baron
Associated Press
Wrangell
Alaska
Skagway
Iceland
Stong Kong
China
Foo Chow
Wu Chow
Anhu
Ning Vo
President Gets Surge of Philippine War Commissions
The President is flooded with applications for commissions as about 10 000 volunteers are to be mustered for service in the Philippines. Congressmen press applicants for attention and the President asks visitors to file their papers with Adjutant General Corbin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Corbin
Detroit Arrives in New York with Gen McAuley’s Body
The U S cruiser Detroit under Commander Dayton reached New York from Bluefields where it protected American merchants amid Nicaragua's unsettled politics. It carried the body of Gen Daniel McAuley of Indiana who died at Managua. Floods trigger wrecks at Port Arthur Texas with houses flooded and fishermen missing. A clash between white and colored liners near Fredonia Illinois leaves two reporters dead and twenty wounded. Five men drown in the Mississippi River near Clarksville Missouri in a skiff overturn accident during river works.
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Detroit
United States
Dayton
New York
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Daniel McAuley
Indiana
Managua
Fredonia
Pana
Gold exports show no effect on home finances in June review
R G Dun and Company reports no adverse effect from a four million dollar weekly gold outflow as Europe needs money. U S revenue lags expenditures by under one hundred million dollars this year while war costs push total to two hundred thirty million. Iron production rises with strong demand and a ten thousand ton plate order shifts to Chicago. Failures total 178 in the U S and 18 in Canada, down from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Europe
New York
Jane
Cramps
Chicago
United States
Canada
Whole Lyons school board resigns amid costume quarrel
At Lyons Nebraska the school board resigned and a new board was appointed after a dispute over graduates wearing overalls and coat dating during the commencement. Parents were appealed to and tensions rose as admission fees were charged at the door and citizens confronted the event.
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Lyons
Neb
Federal court rules liability survives suicide in life policy
In Kansas City Judge Phil Lips ruled that a life indemnity policy remains liable despite suicide by the insured unless suicide was contemplated at policy inception. Changes in a company’s rules after issuance do not affect coverage. The decision could cost assessment firms about 50,000 wt.
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Kansas City
Phillips
Knights ‘Templar
Masons’ Life Indemnity Company of
Chicago
Miss Florman Finds Wealth in Atlin Quartz Mine
Miss Frankie Florman of Black Hills South Dakota has discovered a vast Atlin quartz vein up to 600 feet wide traced for three quarters of a mile. Assays by her father show ore values from 48 to 27 per ton on the surface. Frank Baker and William Partridge bonded the property for 200000 amid questions of the verdict.
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South Dakota
Atlin
Frankie Florman
Black Hills
S. D
Atlin City
Miss Moorman
Frank Baker
William Partridge
Navy weighs light draught cruisers for fast overseas service
The Navy Department in Washington considers fitting up light draught cruisers for special service akin to the Vixen at Bluefields. Proponents say such ships would save time and expense, rival battleships in rapid response, and reach distant ports faster. Vessels Hawk and Dorothea are named for possible use, with four such ships to be provisioned and held in readiness.
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Navy Department
Washington
Bluefields
Hawk
Dorothea
Ford Plate Glass Company to Build 3 Million Sq Ft Plant
Edward Ford of Toledo plans a new plant to be built at Toledo with a yearly capacity of 3,000,000 square feet of polished plate glass. Backed by $25,000,000, the project aims to challenge the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company after shifting soda ash contracts and Ford’s entry into the plate glass industry. The Toledo facility costs exceed $1,000,000 and is expected to begin operation this fall.
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Toledo
Edward Ford
American Plate Glass Trust
Fords
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Michigan Alkali Company
Wing & Evans
New York
Solvay Process Company
Syracuse
Brunner, Mond & Co., Limited
Eengland
Pittsburg
Ford Plate Glass Company
Ohio road absorbed as Wheeling and Lake Erie takes over
Stockholders of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad adopt a plan to absorb the Cleveland, Canton and Southern line. The deal funds include 15 million dollars in bonds to retire 6.4 million in existing bonds and expand equipment, plus acquisition of the Cleveland Belt and Terminal lines.
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Cleveland, Canton and Southern Line
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Road
Wheeling
Laledo
Cleveland, Canton and Southern
Cleveland
Discovery of Belgica Channel and Antarctic Lands
Dispatch from Montevideo reports M. De Gerlache leading the Belgica expedition. Outcomes include the discovery of a Belgica channel, a distant archipelago, corrections to British maps of Fireland and Shetland, a southern continent possibility from water temperatures, plus notable flora and fauna findings and unknown lands notably Danco Island.
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Montevideo
Belgica
Laplata
M. de Gerlache
Antarctic
Belgica Channel
Admiralty
Fireland
Shetland Islands
Twenty Miners Die of Thirst in Desert Trek
Report from San Diego states twenty miners bound for Sierra Pintada placers perished after losing their way in a desert. The party, aboard the schooner Thomas S. Negus, was en route with sixty prospectors to San Roque landing. bodies were found by another group heading to the same area.
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San Diego
Cal
Sierra Pintada Placers
J. P B. Cantlin
Thomas S. Negus
San Roque Landing
L. J. Allen
Negus
Murderer Clark Dies by Self Inflicted Gunshot
Stephen Clark who killed his daughter and fatally wounded his wife at Armour South Dakota likely died by his own hand. A man answering his description was found fourteen miles from Kimball leaning against a tree with a revolver beside him, the head blown apart. Authorities had searched the Missouri river bank for him but could not locate him.
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Stephen Clark
Armour
S. D
Missouri River
Clark
Kimball
Monument Topples Killing Boy at Wauscon Cemetery
A large monument toppled at a Wauscon Ohio cemetery striking and killing baby Ransom Terry, son of John and the events followed a burial of another child. The incident occurred as the family visited the gravesite. The report pairs other unrelated news items in the same column.
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Wauscon
Ohio
Ransom Terry
John Terry
Markets Review of Midwestern and Eastern Prices
Cattle, hogs, and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York show wide ranges by grade and region. Grains and dairy list No 2 red wheat 12¢ to 81¢, corn 34¢ to 41¢, oats 20¢ to 34¢, rye 59¢ to 60¢, butter 14¢ to 19¢, eggs 12¢ to 18¢, and pork products from $38 to $48 per hundredweight across markets.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Edge
Western
Indiana Neighbors News Highlights Dwellings Deaths And Scandals
A collage of Indiana items reports Redford may get a cement mill Evanaville hosts an October street fair Dr E A Dye disappears Mishawa hosts a Spiritualist blowout Richmonds Friends meeting starts July 24 Chinaman in Vincennes to wed a Black woman and other perilous tales Frank Mugg drowns in Lafayette James Nelson fatally injured by a train Columbus Company K reorganizes at One Hundred and Sixty first crime and misfortune pepper the column with canning factory output and court house bids amid sensational local notes
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E. A. Dye
Jefferson County
Mishawa
Friends’ Yearly Meeting
Richmond
Vincennes
Muncie
Frank Mugg
Lafayette
W. T. Russey
Delaware County
Company K
One
Columbus
NH. J. Shirky
Connersville
George Eben
Polk Canning Factory
Greenwood
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Denver, Tnd
Rorris & Woolley
Suly
Terre
Sainte
Wien
Muskegon
James Balhirnie
Mich
SW. Tayer
Tayer
Balbirnie
Brownsville
Ind
Sportswoods
G.W. Starvey
Charles Douthit
Bennett
Benny Campbell
Keller & Campbell
Preston Oglesby
Wildwood
Carter County
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Port Arthur
Texas
Mississippi River
Clarksville
Miss Florman
Millard
Manufacturers’ Railroad
Bradley
Charles Nash
Floyd A. Walworth
Jalil
Everett
Jacksonville
Pennsylvania
Poughkeepsie
Hudson
Wisconsin
Dutch Neal
Frank Neal
Dutch
Neal
Harry Peppers
San Francisco
Adelphi Theater
Boston
Benjamin Lang
Clara E. Lang
Lima
Mullen
Columbus Grove
Vixen
Ohio Railway
Ohio Road
Orange
James P. Vancaimp
Tom Connelly
Vancamp
Osgood
Albert Shaw
Mrs. Shaw
Key
Michigan Central
Hamilton
Spain
Saragosga
Plaza de la Constacion
Larper
Kan
John Kornstadt
Nora
Tony Kornstadt
Russia
American Ordnance
L. L. Driggs
Driggs Seabury Gun and Ammunition Company
Shanghai Daily? News
New Chwaeng
Kirin
Manchuria
William Galloway
Philadelphia
Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Philander Johnson
Cape May
Henry C. Loudensinger
Pension Committee
W. 4. Kirkpatrick
The
Philadelphia Press
Land Falk
Lena Falk
Put-in-Bay
Chicago Stock Yards
Mecca
Richard Wing
Warren
Stork
Marie
Indiana State News
Crimea
Redford
Evanaville
James Nelson
Furnessville
Anen County
Valparaiso
Lawrence Lamb
Kokomo
Wabash
Bartholomew County
Caylor
Dunkark
Noblesville
Charles Schaltze
Banning Company
Fort Wayne
Tne
Tudson Steart
Jonesboro
Ora Bennett
Arthur Bennett
Ora
Louther Schaefer
Christopher Schaefer
Marion
J. F. Curry
Minnie Lemmon
Lottie Sensmeier
Evansville
Fairmount
Congressman Steele
John Houck
James Johnson
Shelbyville
Brazil
James Ayer
Lexington
Johnsons
Johnson
Ayer
Wille Brown
George Brown
I. Horwitz
Max Cunopop
Cunopop
Horwitz
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