Eight Die as Two Yachts Signal Peril at Anglesea Bar
A Sunday fishing trip off Anglesea New Jersey ended in tragedy as two yachts the Nora and Alvin P with a total of 34 aboard were dashed by a heavy squall near Hereford Inlet. Eight drowned and 22 aboard on one vessel with seven lost and twelve on the other were saved. Captain Henry St Ludlam and five crew members aided in rescue. The Nora carried Captain Herbert Shivers and 30 passengers. the Alvin P had 12 aboard.
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Hereford Inlet
Anglesea
N. J
Henry St. Ludlam
Frederick Fisher
Philadelphia
Herbert Hammell
Lansdale
Walter Snyder
John Fogarty
Haverford
J. Charkey
Jerry Donohue
Samuel Lodner
Woodbury
N. T. Anglesea
New Jersey
Nora
Herbert Shivers
Alvin P
Shivers
Hereford Bar
Wife and children slain as house is set on fire
Samuel Pearce, an oil operator and farmer from Venice in Washington county Pa, finds his wife and two children murdered and the house burning after an unknown man enters while he is away. Elmer Dempster, a local resident, is arrested after a confrontation and confession to the Pearce murders. A separate report notes Turkish troops dispersing a Greek band at Rakova near Monastir with five killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Pearce
Venice
Washington County
Fanny Pearce
Canonshiro
Washington
Panhandler
Elmer Dempster
Pearce
Sipe
Burgess Conley
McDonald
Meadville Men Fined in Government Lands Fencing Case
A. C. Huidekoper and J. C. Huidekoper of Meadville Pennsylvania and W. G. Clark of North Dakota faced federal sentencing by Judge Amidon for fencing government land linked to the Little Missouri Horse Company's western ranch. Huidekopers received $1000 fines each, Clark $800 and four hours in county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
A. C. Huidekoper
J. C. Huidekoper
W. G. Clark
North Dakota
Amidon
United States
Little Missouri Horse Company
Huidekopers
Clark
Death sentences for mutineers in Sebastopol court-martial
A naval court-martial at Sebastopol convicted seamen involved in the Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny of November 1905. Four condemned to death, one to life servitude, twelve to varying terms of penal servitude, and four hundred fifty to imprisonment. six acquitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sebastopol
Missionaries from Michigan Seek Converts in New Castle
Four long-haired missionaries from the House of David, a new religious sect, arrived in New Castle Pennsylvania heralding their presence with trumpet blasts. They claimed they would not die and were purified from sin as they sought converts. In Ohio a railroad wreck near Warsaw injured three men on the Toledo, Wabash & Western Valley line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of David
New Castle
Michigan
Beleve
Toledo, Wathouding Valley & Oblo
Warsaw
Storm at St Louis Kills One Man and Strikes Excursionists
A violent wind and rain storm hit St Louis and surrounding areas causing seven fires, downed wires, and damaged buildings. A man blown from a wagon was killed. The excursion steamer Liberty, crowded with excursionists, was driven across the Mississippi into a dike on the Missouri side, but passengers were later transferred to safety by the government boat Lucia at Alton Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Nadine
Liberty
Alton
Missisippi
Missouri
Lucia
Dowie Ordered to Settle with Attorney Craig
California supreme court upholds lower court order requiring John Alexander Dowie to pay attorney Hugh Craig 1761.90 with interest from 1888. Craig funded a San Francisco revival at the Grand Opera House, Dowie to reimburse from proceeds. outcomes affirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Supreme Court
John Alexander Dowie
Superior Court
Hugh Craig
Craig
Dowie
Grand Opera House
San Francisco
RECORD YEAR FOR COKE
The United States produced over 32,000,000 short tons of coke in 1905, the highest level yet and up 36.22 percent from prior years. A Geological Survey report will detail the year’s coke output and the strong rise in pig iron demand fueling the value increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Geological Survey
Color Line at Resort At Atlantic City Sparks Bathing Ban
Southern visitors threaten to withdraw patronage unless Black bathers are barred from the resort surf. A $10,000,600 beachfront compels all colored staff to give up bathing with visitors, with wholesale discharges threatened if not obeyed. The city maintains a segregated area with a Black lifeguard, but will not use it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Mon Holling
British Dreadnought Build and Navy Funding
Creat Britain will fund three additional Dreadnaughts and spend 34 million dollars to strengthen the navy. In Wheeling, minors and operators of the Fifth Ohio subdistrict settled a long strike, ending the dispute. A judge ruled John Alexander Dowie did not own Zion City and the property is in receivership. Three men died when a spreading rail caused a fast freight to derail into a Jersey City embankment. Two teens attempted suicide after parental opposition to marriage, by jumping into the Delaware River in Philadelphia. A court fixed dates for the divorce hearing of Countess Anna de Castellane against Court Loni, October 17 or 4. A Frisco train killed three young men near Tilsa. Annapolis Naval Academy student I. Midoliijuman Sk. B. Kildart died of peritonitis after an appendectomy. May Kiengner of Brooklyn, Hertha Smith of East New York, and George Lapp of Williamsburg drowned when a rowboat capsized on Lake Hopatcong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Ohio
Wheeling
Judge Landis
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Jersey City
Gustave Kathke
Billa Milter
Delaware
Philadelphia
Anna de Castellane
Court Loni
George Yo Reynolds
Tarry Brown
John Reynolds
Tilsa
I. Midoliijuman Sk. B. Kildart
Annapolis Naval Acadimy Qed
Academy Hospital
Revolt Delayed Amid Disaffection In Army Reported
The piece reports disaffection in Russia with leaders discouraged and claims of a reign of terror in St. Petersburg. Spies killed near Peterhof, 600+ arrests, agrarian uprisings in Moscow and Tver, and widespread tax refusals. Government expands wireless links to cut telegraph dependence while reform plans include land grants to peasants. An Industrious outbreak in Lodz ends with a factory burning, losses of $49,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Great
Peterhof
Moscow
Tver
Kronstadt
Lodz
HANGED ON ISLAND Condemned Man Spirited Away From Meb
William Lee a colored youth sentenced to death in Baltimore for assaulting two women in Somerset Md was hanged on Smith's Island by Sheriff Brown in the presence of deputies and a few witnesses The mob threatening to lynch him was outwitted and the execution was carried out without incident The steward captain transported him and the gallows from Baltimore and the scaffold was erected by a carpenter brought from the city after the prisoner confessed to his crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lee
Baltimore
Somerset County
Sheriff Brown
Smith's Island
Lee
Gallows
Baltimore County
Smith’s Island
Contracts for New Battleships Awarded
Acting Secretary Newberry executed contracts for two battleships, Michigan and South Carolina. Michigan will be built by New York Shipbuilding at Camden, New Jersey, while South Carolina goes to Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newberry
Michigan
South Carolina
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camien
N. J
Cramps Shipyard
Philadelphia
Cloudburst in France Leaves Many Dead and Destruction
A severe French storm from Modane to Bardonneche wreaked havoc near Mont Gents tunnel, destroying the village of Fourneaus and 22 houses. Fifteen people were killed and sixty wounded as property damage reaches one million dollars. Electric cables failed at Fourneagux cutting light and power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mont Gents
Erie
Fourneaus
Modane
Bardonneche
Fourneagux
Tragedy near Kerry Valley: Mrs Laaphrot shot dead
Mrs H A Laaphrot was shot and killed instantly while seated on her porch near Kerry Valley Arkansas. Her husband was reportedly fatally wounded as three mounted men opened fire. Five Woolbridge brothers have been arrested in connection with the crime. Two years prior Leaptrot allegedly killed a member of the Woolbright family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Laaphrot
Kerry Valley
Ark
Woolbridge
Leaptrot
Woolbright
Russell Sage Will Proceeds to Probate Hearings
The will of Russell Sage is filed for probate. It leaves the estate to his widow Margaret Olivia Sage after $25,000 is paid by each nephew and niece and $10,000,000 is left to sister Mrs Fanny Chapin of Oneida New York. Chapin has died since the will was made. Attorneys estimate the estate at $70,000,000 to $84,000,000 with about $10,000,000 in igana outstanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Margaret Olivia Sage
Mr Sage
Fanny Chapin
Oneida
Fighting with fanatics on Leyte island clashes with deadly losses
On Leyte Sunday a detachment led by Lieut Williams and 600 Pulajanes attacked 24th colored infantry and native constabulary. Lieut Worswick, McBride, and 12 privates died. 50 Pulajanes killed and 69+ wounded reported. Casulties and rifles captured noted. reinforcements sent as battle raged and a second clash followed with heavy exchanges and a rout of the attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willams
Leyte
Worswick
Clyttian
Warawick
McBride
Twenty-fourth Colored Infantry
Toloss
Damami
Caplan McMaster
Twenty Fourth
Major Neville
Constabulary
Bolos
McMasters
Bryan's Rider Adopted By International Union Session
William J. Bryan's proposed rider to the model arbitration treaty was discussed at a London session of the Inter national council of the Inter parliamentary union. The rider was recast to require inviting an international commission of inquiry or mediation by friendly powers before hostility, if not already in arbitration terms, and to align with The Hague convention article eight. After speeches by Von Plener and Bryan, the amended rider was unanimously adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Bryan
International Council of the Inter-parliamentary Union
London
International Commission of Inquiry
von Plener
Bryan
New Brick Trust Formed From 14 Plants in Merged Group
Announcement: brick plants in Findlay Kansas City Chanale West Superior Zanesville Rochester Chicago Kansas City Philadelphia Washington Toledo Cleveland Minneapolis Omaha merge into Hydraulic Press Brick Company St. Louis under Absorbing Company name. 14 firms join, capital stock of St. Louis firm raised to reflect exchange with others. Premier Stelypin states Russia will back revolution only if reform plan proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Findlay
Kansas City
Kan
Chanale
West Superior
Wis
Zanesville
Rochester
N. C
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington
Toledo
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Omaha
Hydraulic Press’ Brick Company
St. Louis
Forged U P Certificate Discovered For 50 Shares
The New York Stock Exchange secretary George W. Tly announced a forged Union Pacific 50 share certificate. Dated September 14, 1905, it bears the name Maranid Hannah and purported signatures of E. H. Harriman and Alexander Millar with official seal. It is unclear if more forged certificates exist and the price of China Pacific stock is 147.25 per share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pueble Railroad
George W. Tly
New York Stock Exchange
Maran Id
Hannah
E. H. Harriman
Alexander Millar
Honolulu Quarantine Eases After Plague Free Month
ALU shipping quarantine restrictions have been lifted at Honolulu as the city reports no plague cases for a full month. Authorities had previously barred through vessels and required fumigation of cargo and passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Drowning Report Near Rogers City Amid Boat Accident
Three people Michael Bannan aged 24 Hattie Bannon aged 14 and Edward Gryka aged 1 drowned when a small boat upset on Lake Ifitran near Crawhaed's quarry by Rogers City Meh during a night squall authorities reported the incident occurred near the quarry and lake shore with rescue efforts ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Bannan
Hattie Bannon
Edward Gryka
Lake Ifitran
Rogers City
Meh
Suil
Crawhaed
Six at One Birth Reported in Pennsylvania County
In Williamson County, Pennsylvania, a Black woman named AL Kingston reportedly gave birth to six children at one birth. All children were reported well formed and alive at the last account. No further details on dates or medical circumstances are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AL Kingston
Williamson County
Penn
Field Estate Faces Record Tax Bite in Chicago
Executors for Marshall Field face taxes totaling about 2.8 million as the Chicago board of review fixes personal property at 130 million and real estate at 50 million, raising total assessable property to around 180 million with interest and back taxes pushing the bill toward 1.8 million dollars. The action covers seven years of back taxes and targets untaxed personal property, with a valuation of 25 million for personal property on April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Field
Board of Review
Whicich
Mr. Field
Board’ of Review
Marshal Field
Tield
National Bank
Illinois
W. G. Beale
Father of 25 children seeks life sentence in court
Valentine Yonkowski of Brooklyn told Magistrate Furlong in Gates Avenue Court he is worn out with life and asks to be sent away for life after being arrested on abandonment charges. He was ordered to pay his wife $5 weekly, which he said he could not, and was admitted for six months to Kings County Penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valentine Yonkowski
Brooklyn
Furlong
Gates Avenue
Fatal Parliament Fallout Triggers Riots in Kharkoff
Following Russia's parliamentary dissolution, Kharkoff sees deadly unrest after four prominent politicians escape from prison. Police and soldiers clash with the mob. about twenty people are killed or wounded amid efforts to recapture the escapees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Kharkoff
Improved tone seen in wool market amid steadier demand
The wool market shows improved tone with mills not yet large buyers but more interest than months past. Most trade comes from other worsted manufacturers and pulled wools remain in steady demand. Ohio and Pennsylvania grades range eight to twelve with various price points. a tobacco box and deck of cards were found in a church cornerstone when Gravepoint Methodist Episcopal was torn down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Methodist Episcopal Church
Gravepoint
Columbus
2000 Men Implicated in New York Stamp Fraud Ring
Police allege 2000 men and boys in Wall Street district involved in washing and reselling State tax stamps. About 200,000 dollars lost to stamp frauds. 1000 dollars bail set for Turner examination in police court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivo
New York
Turner
Wall Street
Insurance company refuses 1906 earthquake claims
The Phoenix Royal Insurance Company of Vienna says it will not pay any logs growing from the April 1906 conflagration in San Francisco. Its earthquake clause declares all policies null and void due to the quake and resulting fire. A home office delegate issued notice to claimants stating the same.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poltolee
Phoenix Royal Insurance Company
Vienna
San Francisco
Home Office
Austria
Death of a Freak George Lippert with two hearts dies in Salem
George Lippert aged 62 died in Salem Oregon after living two weeks with a nonfunctional heart. The man known for two hearts three legs and 16 toes had spent years in show business and spoke five languages. Surgeons said the right heart failed due to tuberculosis and would not have affected the left heart if not for the consumption. Lippert had been part of PT Barnum's shows seven years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lippert
P. T. Barnum
Salem
Ore
Lippert
Federation Campaign Fund Seeks Labor Donations
The American Federation of Labor plans a political campaign fund raising drive aimed at 30,000 labor organizations. Appeals go out asking for contributions from $1 upward to support legislators and congressmen aligned with labor interests, arguing that impact requires expenditure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Federation of Labor
National Congress
Don Pedro Monte elected president of Chile for five years
Don Pedro Monte was elected president of Chile for the upcoming five year term. Other items note Mississippi district picks John Sharp Williams for congress, a deadly freight wreck near Valley City, a Beaumont rice mill fire, navy eight hour law extension, Filipino laborer resettlement plan, and lower post office costs for Q1 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Pedro Monte
Republic of Chile
Democratic Executive Committee
Eighth
Mississippi
John Sharp Williams
Northern Pacific Railroad
Valley City
N D
McFadden- Weiss-Kyle Rice Milling Company
Beaumont
Tex
Navy Department
Newberry
Washington
Violence erupts in Odessa after Duma manifesto
After the Duma issued its manifesto, an outbreak of violence against Jews rocked Odessa. Cossacks and rioters looted Jewish homes and shops as mobs attacked in Srednaia and Stepoval streets. Several Jews were killed and many wounded while police enforced orders amid panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Duma
Oillessa
Srednaia
Stepoval
Ice Dealers Indicted in Cincinnati Price Fixing
Sixteen indictments charging restraint of trade were returned by the Cincinnati grand jury. Ten individuals and five firms, all members of the ice dealers' exchange, face charges for a May 30 meeting at which a general price advance was decided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ice Dealers’ Exchange
Panama Bond Issue Oversubscribed After May Bid Rush
The Treasury Department announced the Panama canal bond sale was oversubscribed nearly fifteen times. Bids opened last week totaled 4145 million dollars, signaling strong investor demand for the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Drunken excursionists fire on crowd. two dead at Irenton
A steamboat Bonanza party sparked a fatal shooting on the Irenton shoreline as two men were killed and two others seriously injured. After the incident, authorities investigated the unprovoked exchange from the boat toward the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irenton
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Anglesea, N. J
Rakova
Monastir
Black Sea Fleet
Louis
Elijah 1
COKE
Sultan
Bu Hamara
Mulhua
Migs May Kiengner
Hertha Smith
East New York
George Lapp
Williamsburg
Lake Hopatcong
Halsey Island
France
Inter-Parliamentary Union
NEW Brick Trust
Stelypin
U. P
Judge
Boston Wool Market
Raisco
Federation Campaign Fund
Philippine Commission
Hawaiian Planters Association
Hawaii
Post Office Department
Ice
Panama
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