Wreck of World’s Fair Flyer Kills Vast Numbers Near Pueblo
Pueblo wires report the Denver & Rio Grande wreck near Eden seven miles north of Pueblo on a Sunday evening. Two passenger cars and a baggage car were swept away by a trestle collapse into Dry Creek. Seventy six bodies recovered and many more feared lost as sands drift over the scene.
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Pueblo
Col
Eden
Steeles Hollow
Dry Creek
Fountain River
First Street
Trains Collision Kills Four at Archer and Western Cross
Four people die and twelve are injured when a Baltimore & Ohio local passenger train is struck by a freight string on the Alton tracks at Archer and Western avenues in Chicago Tuesday at five. Victims include Mrs. John Swartz of Garrett Indiana and her four children John William and Earl. The father is hospitalized with both legs broken. Matthew Clarisey, the crossing tender, is under arrest with crew members questioned.
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Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
Alton Tracks
Archer and
Western Avenues
Mercy Hospital
Alton
Erie Railroad
Matthew Clarisey
John Swartz
Garrett, Ind
John
William
Earl
Invade Sacred City Lhassa British Take Thibet Capital
London reports Maj. Gen. MacDonald with 5000 British and Indian troops occupied Lhassa, the sacred capital of Thibet, at 00a last Wednesday. The event is described as the most stunning in a millennium of Asiatic history and marks the first time outsiders have entered the holy city. Lisbon records a minor earthquake at 11 p.m. Monday with no damage reported.
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London
MacDonald
Lhassa
Thibet
Agia
Portugal
Lisbon
Fleet sails for Smyrna amid U S demand for rights
Washington August 8 the European squadron under Rear Admiral Jewell was ordered to cruise Turkish waters to press U S rights on the sultan. The fleet will seize Smyrna if necessary to secure equality of rights for American citizens and institutions. The ships Cleveland Olympia and Baltimore are listed with Jewell commanding.
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Jewell
United States
New York World
Smyrna
Cleveland
Olympia
Dewey
Manila Bay
Baltimore
Turkey
France
Germany
Ville Franche
C. T. Jewell
Constantinople
Chicago Strikers Parade Flees the Stock Yards
Thirty thousand stock yards strikers and families marched in a labor parade in Chicago urging higher wages and school access. The strike widened the gap between workers and employers as other turmoil spread from bank runs to planned meat plant walkouts and a looming strike in New York.
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Chicago
Stock Yards
Drovers’ Trust and Savings Bank
Forty-second
Halsted
New York
Amalgamated Meat Cutters’ and Butcher Workers’ Union of North America
Union
Mania for killing girls and yacht race record set
George Fourcloud a Winnebago man aged 25 is jailed for the murder of Cora Elk the fourth girl he has killed in two years with no clear motive. In a separate item the yacht Voncedog wins the Mackinaw race beating Vannena by four minutes finishing in 38 hours from Chicago establishing a new race record.
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Pender, Neb
Pender
Neb
George Fourcloud
Cora Elk
John Hill
Mar7
Becora
Lucy Lebo
Mackinac Island
Mich
Chicago Yacht Clubs
Mackinaw
Voncedog
Vannena
Chicago
Newsboys Day at the Fair in St Louis Aug 16
Newsboys celebrate birthday of the National Newsboys Association on August 16 in St Louis with a special observance. In New York, the Republican state convention is set for September 14 at Saratoga.
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St. Louis
National Newsboys’ Association
Saratoga
New York
Baratoga
National League
Tog. Perct
Ss York
Sincinnati Pittsburg
Fierce Assault on Port Arthur Reported
August reports from Chefoo and St. Petersburg describe fierce land battles at Port Arthur with heavy losses. Chinese sources claim 10,000 Japanese killed and about 1,000 Russian losses, while Lieut. Gen. Stoessel credits Russian troops for repulsing July attacks and notes fleet support. Additional dispatches detail 4,000 Russian losses in late July to August 1, Japanese casualties likely similar, and Keller’s body arriving for funeral. Three Japanese vessels were damaged in the July 26 engagement off Port Arthur.
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St. Petersburg
Chefoo
Port Arthur
Stoessel
Haicheng
War Office
Keller
Liaoyang
Count Keller
Alexieff
Ames Seeks Congress Seat After Bribery Conviction
Dr. A. A. Ames former Minneapolis mayor convicted of bribery and ordered retried has filed notice to run for Congress on the Republican ticket from Minneapolis on August 5.
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Congress
Minneapolis
Minn
A. A. Ames
Raleigh Woman Leaps to Death from Asheville Cliff
Miss Ethel Deveraux, a well known Raleigh young woman and guest at the Esmeralda Inn, killed herself by jumping from a mountain cliff 200 feet high near Asheville on August 8, after a disappointment in love.
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Cliff
Asheville
N. C
Ethel Deveraux
Raleigh
Esmeralda Inn
Weather Bureau crop summary notes excessive rain and drought
Washington reports the weekly crop conditions ending August 8 show excessive rain in the central and east Gulf and Atlantic districts, drought in central valleys and upper lake regions, with relief in Texas. Cool in the Dakotas and Minnesota. frost in Wisconsin cranberry region. Corn suffering in Ohio valley and lower Mississippi, but central belt shows progress. Harvesting of winter wheat and oats continues. rust injures crops in Dakotas Iowa Minnesota North Dakota.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Central
East Gulf
Atlantic Coast
New England
Upper Lake Region
Texas
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Ohio Valley
Mississippi
Lake
Iowa
South Dakota
North Dakota
Deaths and crimes reported in several states
Death of former Senator G G West in Sweet Springs Missouri after weeks of illness. Born December 6 1830 in Frankfort Kentucky he served in the Missouri Senate and later the U S Senate from 1879 to 1903. Also reports of prison escape shooting in Hinton West Virginia a jailer and a trusted man involved. Aged father kills son in Waupaca Wisconsin over a family dispute. Fatal hotel fire in Glidden Iowa destroys the City hotel and five businesses with two deaths and $15000 loss.
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Sweet Springs
G. G. West
George Graham West
Frankfort
Center College
Kentucky
Transylvania University
Missouri
Missouri Senate
United States Senate
St. Louis
Gon
Waupaca
Wis
Edward Kemp
Blain
Kemp
Stevens Point
Iowa
Glidden
A. W. Hobbs
Drowning Tragedy Strikes Alton Beach Party
At Alton Illinois on a Friday night a party of nine including Michael Riley and six of his daughter’s friends bathed in the Mississippi River. Nine drowned when they stepped from a sand-bar into deep water amid steamer wash. One child, Mary Timing, survived after freeing herself and reaching shallow shore.
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Alton
Ill
Mississippi River
Michael Riley
Elizabeth Riley
Allie Syner
Lucy Pates
Lizzie Pates
Bessie Brum
Ruth Marshall
Riley
Mary Timing
Timmy
Mary
Destruction of Armenian Villages Reported Near Outchkilissa
London dispatch cites July 13 Armenian rebels attacking Turkish and Kurdish forces near Outchkilissa destroying villages and killing and outraging residents. Separate items note a Mossounzory attack by Armenian bands on July 25, many soldiers killed, and a force advancing toward Arjens.
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London
Tabriz
Persia
Daily News
Outchkilissa
Outchkiliasa
Koomlouboujak
Gougan
Karabazar
Sayto
Sassun
Antranak
Mossounzory
Goutchagh
Arjens
Insect bite blamed for Osceola youth death
The Week Ending Aug 10 reports Frank Arndt 21 Osceola Wis died of blood poisoning from an insect bite. Other notes include Colombia’s new president Rafael Reyes, British surgeon Sir William Banks death in London, and various fire, murder, and legal notices across the United States.
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Frank Arndt
Osceola
Wis
Rafael Reyes
Colombia
Senor Marroquin
William M. Banks
London
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
John Lyons
Paterson
N. J
John Christian
M. G. Bell
Mason City
Ila
Chicago
Albert R. Jefferson
Lake Michigan
Nathan Asher
Mandan
WN. D
Asher
Kansas
Belisie
Larned
Congress
Mamie Gilroy
New York
Paul F. Knefel
Joliet
D. J. Kennedy
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Manila
America Refrigerating Transit Company
St. Louis
National Committee
Cooper Union
New York City
Langford Wolf
Moneaqua
Ill
Saif F. Cole
Catskill
William Coates
Criminal Court
St. Joseph
Alfred Knapp
Columbus
Bogota
State Department
Snyder
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Ceneral Heller
Haichegg
Baseball
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Hinton
W. Va
J. Lovell
Floyd County
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W. M. Lewis
Altor
Ou. Louis
John R. Johnson
Kinloch Park
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Buren
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Logan
J. J. Snyder
Eeasvereeboves
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