Exploding Furnace Kills and Burns Workers at Carnegie Yard
World brief reports an explosion at the H furnace of Carnegie Steel in Braddock Pennsylvania. Eight men killed, three fatally injured, fifteen seriously burned. cause traced to an obstructed bell that trapped gas. Dispatch describes rescue attempts and follow up incidents including a near Grand Rapids train robbery, a cave in at Haddock mine, and other fatal accidents.
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Carnegie Steel Company
Braddock
Penn
James Harrison
James
Grand Rapids
Mich
Chicago & West Michigan Road
Tee Petoes
Kalamazoo River
E. 11. Rice
Timothy Murphy
W H English Victimized By Stranger For Bogus Mortgage
In Indianapolis, W H English a Han cock ticket vice presidential candidate in 1880 and noted Indiana financier, paid a stranger 500 dollars on a forged mortgage after the man posing as Thomas Bode offered security on forty acres east of the city. English later learned the mortgage was a forgery and the man was an impostor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
W. H. English
Hancock
Indiana
Thomas Bode
English
Bode
Standing of National and Western Leagues Up To Date
The record summarizes current standings in the National League and Western League with the latest club positions. It lists team names, win loss records, and points totals to reflect the up to date table and league rankings.
Taylor Granted Five Years for State Treasurer Default
In Pierre South Dakota ex State Treasurer W W Taylor was sentenced to two years at hard labor after judge Gaffy rejected a two year limit, noting Taylor’s attempt to force a compromise after raiding state funds. The crowded courtroom heard the judgment as Taylor offered no statement.
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South Dakota
Pierre
W. W. Taylor
Taylor
Gaffy
Fruit crop prospects in America August returns show larger overall crop
Official August returns indicate a generally larger prospective fruit crop nationwide. Apples show widespread favorable maturity in many states but notable gaps in Maine New Hampshire Vermont Michigan and Wisconsin with 28 to 49 percent of normal. The general average condition is 71.2, up from 44 last year. Peaches show high average at 83.3 but notable declines in Delaware and New Jersey with one third to about one third of normal crops. Conditions remain high in Connecticut and Georgia, with shorter Ohio and Michigan crops. Pacific coast states approach national average with rotting complaints rising in the South.
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America
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Michigan
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Iowa
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Arkansas
Tennessee
West Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
Missouri
Nebraska
Colorado
Pacific Coast
Ohio
Delaware
Connecticut
Georgia
Census shows few new MPs amid diverse professions
A London special to the New York World reports 100 new members out of 664 in Parliament. Professions listed include 150 lawyers, 54 manufacturers, 88 mechanics, 10 university professors, 31 journalists, 12 skilled laborers, 10 brewers and distillers, 44 army and navy officers, and 146 from gentry or peers' families. A Denver News brief adds Princeton expedition members were found alive at Fort Waehaki.
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London
New York
L’arliament
Aas
Mechanica
Army
Navy
Chinese Sneaking In and Labor Permits Examined
A period piece discusses illegal Chinese immigration routes to New York via Havana and Montreal. It explains how laborers gain mercantile status with a $25 payment and secure entry with affidavits. Inspections are bypassed as migrants roam on a $600 bond during a twenty day window to arrange stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Havana
Treasury Department
Williams
Montreal
Seven Drown in Ocean City Pleasure Boat Disaster
A small overloaded pleasure boat capsized on Gray's Creek near Ocean City Maryland during a fish fry with nine aboard. Seven people drowned, including members of an Frankfort and Selbyville Delaware family party, as women screamed and attempted to balance on the high side. Two other families mourn the loss.
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Ocean City
Frankfort
Selbyville
Del
Gray's Creek
Isle of Wight Bay
William Hudson
Ransom Appointment Declared Illegal by Acting AG
Acting Attorney General Conrad ruled Matt Ransom’s appointment as minister to Mexico illegal because Congress raised the salary by 5000 dollars while Ransom was a North Carolina senator. Auditor Holcomb’s questions over vouchers sparked the action. A broad mix of items follows including trade notes, a Denver hotel disaster, and other 1900s era briefs.
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New York
Washington
Conrad
Matt Ransom
Mexico
Congress
Hansom
North Carolina
Holcomb
Whisky Plant Auction Tops Trust Reorganization Bid
The McNalton receivership accepted a 9.8 million bid by the organization committee for seventeen whisky distilleries and related assets, a record industrial transfer. Financial experts call the nearly ten million sale the largest plant delivery in U.S. history, though legal actions sought to block the bid as a rehabilitation of the old trust tied to Greenhut and Morris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNaltn
Whisky Trust
Greenhut
Morris
Oil Refinery Fire at Findlay Ohio
An explosion and fire consumed Peerless refinery in Findlay Ohio with $60,000 loss, half insured. A benzine tank exploded and flames enveloped the building. Two still men, William Adams and William Bemis, were likely fatally burned as ten stills caught fire and tanks of crude oil ignited sending flames high.
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Findlay
Ohio
Peerless
William Adams
William Bemis
Explosion Kills Three in Morgantown Thresher Field
Reported in Morgantown West Virginia a boiler explosion on a threshing outfit killed three men and injured four others. One worker Curtin Ammons was torn by debris. Blair’s clothes were stripped except for his shoes. Additional item notes a Woolworth paper mill boiler blast in Castleton New York killing one and injuring another. A jail break at Decatur Indiana freed nine inmates with a posse forming, while wheel prices for Commercial Wheel Company in Indianapolis were set. A knife duel in Stineville Indiana left Deck dying and Culross gravely injured. Denver hosts the annual American Pharmaceutical Association meeting.
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Morgantown
W. Va
John Black & Sons
Curtin Ammons
John Blair
Woolworth & Co
Castleton
N. Y
Ed Johnson
Decatur
Ind
Aschbasher
The Markets Across U S Cities And Commodities
Markets report prices for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Buffalo Milwaukee and New York. Grain and dairy quotes include wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes with No 2 red wheat and No 2 white corn noted across several hubs.
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Chicago
Illinois
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Ciile
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Gumry Hotel Disaster in Denver Explodes in Midnight Fire
A midnight explosion wrecked the Gumry Hotel in Denver Colorado at 12 10 a m Monday. about sixty guests and staff are believed killed with many injured. Proprietors Peter Gumry and R Q Grenier among the dead. fire crews retreated as flames raged and debris trapped survivors amid collapsing walls and shattered plate glass.
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Denver
Gumry
Colo
Guceta
O. H. Knight
Lake My
18Th Street
Peter Gumry
R. QO. Grenier
Eden Musee
Tom Thumb
Gumry and Grealord
J. Gumry
State Capitol
Grenier
Totty Green Plans Summer Prayer Campaign
Totty Green announces a summer of prayer, saying it is cheaper than travel to Europe. In New York, John L. Sullivan's benefit drew about $6,000, funding at least two weeks of his endeavors.
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Totty Green
Europe
John L. Sullivan
New York
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Wilkesbarre
Haddock
Lucerne
Gertrude Clinton
C. S. Clinton
Loveland
Muncie
Misa Clinton
Wm. McCrory
Northern Pacific Railroad
Courdale
Hames
Marquette
Lawrenceburg
Aurora
East Lawrenceburg
Harry Becker
Wiliam Lambert
Bellefontaine
W. Cent. Gleveland
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Oston
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Louisville
P. W. Cent
St. Paul
Fils
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Milwaukee Coon
Terre Haute
Princeton Brudenta Gate
Lander
Wyo
Denver News
Princeton Geological Expedition
Fort Waehakie
Ransom
KH. G. Dun & Co
Texas
Sampson
Ordnance Bureau
Norfolk
Russian Department of Commerce
William L. Newlin
Theological Seminary
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
City of
Allegheny University
Father Wileen
Father Wilson
St. Joseph's Church
Clearfield
Mehaffy
Pittsburg and Eastern
Commercial Wheel Company
Stineville
David Culross
Charles Deck
Deck
Culross
American Pharmaceutical Association
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