Dynamite devastates Fredericksburg business district
Reports from Waterloo Iowa June 14 describe two hundred pounds of dynamite exploding wounding many and shaking the town twelve miles away. Other dispatches note a Sumatra earthquake destroying Korinchi with two hundred deaths and a tidal wave, Black Hand letters threatening locals, Detroit marking the press centenary, and a Santa Rosa gold strike near Silverbell drawing prospectors.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Fredericksburg
Sumatra
Padang
Korinchi
Palang
Stolen Diamonds Recovered. suspects held near Ely
Diamonds valued at 1500 were stolen from Clark and Linskoy’s jewelry store after workers tunneled in and cut a window bottom. They were found buried in Murrie canyon ten miles away. William Husay and C. Larsen are under arrest on suspicion of involvement.
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Ely
Nev
Clark & Linskoy
Murrie Canyon
William Husay
C. Larsen
Round the World Rates Subject of Meeting
In Seattle on June 15 the Western Transcontinental Passenger association representing forty railroads studied around the world rates for the first time. A statement said a world trip could be completed in forty-one days and a schedules and rates table was ordered. The fare is expected to range from 3600 to 800 for the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Western Transcontinental Passenger Association
Miners Rush to Rich Ground After Gold Strike Report
Hundreds of prospectors race from Tonopah toward Ellendale district after a surface ore body yielding tens of thousands of dollars per ton is announced. Townspeople rush, saloons open, lots sold, and a delegation of eighteen mining engineers visit the camp to assess the find.
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Silverbell
Tucson
Santa Rosa
Sam McEwen
Tonopah
Nev
Ellendale
Here
Salsbury Wash
Aeronaut Aims Atlantic Crossing in Airship Venture
Joseph Brucker, former Staats Zeitung editor and German commissioner to the St. Louis world’s fair, claims a cross Atlantic flight in an airship is feasible. He plans to begin from Cadiz in spring and land in Cuba or the middle states after winter build.
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Chicago
Columbus
Joseph Brucker
Staats Zeitung
Germany
Atlantic Ocean
Brucker
Wright Brothers
Count Zeppelin
Cadiz
Spain
Cuba
Middle States
Two Tramps Fatally Hurt in Train Fight
In Canon City Colorado yesterday a fight among tramps in a box car of a Rio Grande train led to two men being overpowered robbed and thrown from the moving car. Chester Freeland 23 of McKeesport Pennsylvania and Dennis McCarthy 25 of Staten Island New York died from injuries.
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Canon City
Colo
Rio Grande
Chester Freeland
McKeesport
Dennis McCarthy
Staten Island
Freeland
McCarthy
Armed men thwart jail escape attempt at state penitentiary
A prison breakout plan involving more than 160 inmates was foiled as 150 convicts remained under guard rifles after a quarry escape. Convict August Waller fled alongside a speeding trolley car while guards pursued him. accomplice Vatter was later captured after a two hour countryside chase ending in a farmer's shed.
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Vatter
Tempest Hurls Cars Off Rails In Texas Storm
A tornado and fierce windstorm wrecked trains and caused multiple deaths across western Texas. On the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient line a passenger train fell from a bridge near Knoxville and Benjamin, Texas, killing J. E. Stafford and injuring others. A section camp was destroyed at Deep Water. Hamlin and Lenders suffered severe damage with several dead and many injured. At Folsom a cloudburst flooded the area, forcing residents to flee and turning low lands into an inland sea.
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Kansas City
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
Brazos River
Knoxville
Benjamin
Texas
J. E. Stafford
Crowell
Orient
Deep Water
Tex
Hamlin
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
Big Springs
Lenders
A. Golurp
Haskell
Lueders
Hall
Folsom
Cimmaron
Powder Magazine Explosion Wounds Hundreds in Cracow
A Cracow dispatch reports 500 injured and three soldiers killed when a powder magazine near the railroad station was struck by lightning. The blast scattered 1500 projectiles as crowds gathered for a train, with hundreds of houses damaged and three destroyed.
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London
Cracow
Austrian
Poland
Deceptive Counterfeit Note Found in Washington
A counterfeit ten dollar national bank note bearing William McKinley’s portrait is traced to Citizens Central National Bank of New York City. Secret Service investigates its origin. the note, from the 1902 series, appears lithographed on two papers with silk threads, has poor numbering but a fine pink seal.
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Washington
National Bank
William Moe Kinley
Secret Service
Citizens Central National Bank of
New York City
Applicants to wed must be examined by doctors
Tacoma report notes the new marriage law requiring medical examination for applicants takes effect tomorrow. Prosecuting attorney rules licenses must be used immediately if issued, and vows that ministers and officials must enforce the disease disqualification, prompting many couples to hasten weddings.
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Tacoma
Railways Track Public Opinion to Guide Action
E. H. Harriman lines monitor press sentiment with monthly and biweekly reports. General managers receive current newspapers and periodicals, compile attitude records, and telegraph summaries to Harriman in New York, aiding friction detection and corrective steps.
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Chicago
E. H. Harriman
Julius Kruttschnitt
Harriman Roads
Harriman Lines
Kruttschnitt
General Managers
Old Soldiers in Gray Parade Streets of Memphis
General Frederick Grant reviews a large Confederate veterans parade in Memphis. About 10 000 veterans march in heat with divisions led by Maj. Gen. John McDowell. Forrest’s cavalry survivors follow and the Sons of Confederate Veterans close the procession. U S A, son of the federal commander, sits in the reviewing stand.
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Memphis
John McDowell
Forrest
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Grant
Appomatox
Ice Box Smuggling Taught to Hide Chinese Dread
In Chicago a smuggling case reveals that contraband Chinese were carried in an ice box on a Santa Fe train from El Paso to hide them. A cook testifies the ice box measured about four by four by two and a half feet and notes one smothered Chinese led to efforts to find another method.
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Chicago
Landis
Golden Gate Limited
Santa Fe
el Paso
Albert C. Hampton
Six Men Die in Wheeling Steel Furnace Blast
Six men were killed and fourteen injured in a blast furnace explosion at Wheeling Steel and Iron company in Wheeling West Virginia. About fifty workers were nearby when molten iron spurted from the furnace, burning arms and legs and showering workers with hot metal. The deceased were all foreigners. The cause remains undetermined.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Wheeling Steel 1& Iron Company
Coast Happenings Mirrored Here
A digest of coastal items reports Wells in San Bernardino ceasing flow after uncapping, Indians in Colusa County seeking 9000 additional acres, and a dentist Magoon breaking his wooden leg near Ely. Also notes vast fruit shipments from San Bernardino to the East, an escape of a leprosy patient in Visalia, and a wireless special train from San Francisco to Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
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Marysville
Cal
Colusa County
Ely
Nev
W. L. Magoon
Osceola
San Francisco
Sacramento
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
California Promotion Committee
Fatal Bicycle Shooting in San Jose
Frank H. McCleave a Palo Alto plumber was shot in the abdomen by T. R. Reidle a San Jose labor union man while riding bicycles in front of the new Masonic building. Reidle was arrested and jailed. the fatal shooting stemmed from a Saturday dispute over financial and labor issues.
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San Jose
Frank H. McCleave
Palo Alto
T. R. Reidle
Reidle
McCleave
Thisty
Two Linemen Die After Contact With Live Wire
Enid Oklahoma June 14 two linemen James Bloodsworth and Tune Weekly died after contacting a 2400 volt live wire. They hung suspended eleven minutes before rescuers cut power and lowered them to the ground where they died. Weekly tried to rescue Bloodsworth during the incident.
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Enid
Okla
James Bloodsworth
Tune Weekly
Bloodsworth
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Irwins
Detroit
Old Northwest Territory
Detroit Museum of Art
Gabriel Richard
Northwest
United States
New York
James Shea
Brooklyn
Shea
Baltimore
Mark Twain
St. Timothy School
Edward F. Martin
Martin
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Artesian District
Riverside
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Visalia
Hareer
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