Happenings Preview From The Week In 1900s News
A roundup of world events and local incidents. China indemnity progress. Mrs McKinley homeward bound. French Moroccan tensions eased. Great Northern freight collision with dynamite car. Oregon battleship overhaul. a cold blooded murder of a 13 year old San Francisco boy. US duties on Porto Rico imports. Philippines civil government budget around 1.2 million. Tennessee mine explosion fatalities. Havana telephones higher than US cities. Philippines officials salaries law. Dr. Monroe decorated by Turkey. Lake Michigan hulk with seven bodies found. Rear Admiral Sampson to retire for health. Boxers likely to attack legations. America's Cup race set for Sept 21. France abrogates treaties with Tunis. Kalama suicide. Salem jail escapes. Leyte army frauds. Russian financier death risk. Senators Tillman and McLaurin resign. Filipino leaders surrender. Sengheny mine disaster 32 bodies. Oregon ore for international mining congress. McKinley pardons Nome receiver Alexander McKenzie. Sumpter district mining output high. Pekin guard tensions with Germans. St Petersburg newspaper banned. Albany trolley collision. insurgent leaders cases dropped. Kaiser Wilhelm steward jailed. Washington capital question settled. troops leave Pekin. King Humbert death. West Point cadets appeal. mysterious steamboat on Columbia. Midway robbery. Elizabethtown flood damages.
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Tennessee
Havana
Philippines Commission
Monroe
Columbia University
Washington
Turkey
Lake Michigan
Sampson
Kalama
Wash
Salem
Leyte
Philippine Islands
Tillman and
McLaurin
South Carolina
Cailles
Malver
Sengheny
Oregon
International Mining Congress
McKinley
Alexander McKenzie
Nome
Albany
N. Y
Carman
Carranza
Washington Capital
Thurnton County
King Humbert
Italy
Weat Point
Secretary of War
Electric cars clash near Albany killing and injuring many
A racing collision on the Albany & Hudson Railway near Greensh Spa sent two 15 ton electric cars into a high bluff after a head on crash at a sharp curve. Five people died and over 40 were injured as the lobby of the Albany post office became a makeshift morgue and hospital. Ambulances, surgeons, and trains carried the wounded to Albany as families searched for relatives.
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Albany
N. Y
Spa
Greensch
Albany & Hudson Railway
East Greenbush
Severe wind storm devastates Utah and surrounding states
A powerful May wind storm swept Nevada Utah Southern Idaho Wyoming and Colorado causing hundreds of thousands in damage and near total telegraph and telephone outages for about 24 hours. Ogden suffered major destruction with roofs torn off and lighting prostrated. Crops seriously damaged across Logan Hooper Five Points and nearby towns.
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Salt Lake
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Ogden
Baptist
Logan
Smithfield
Hooper
Great Salt Lake
New Mexico Mine Accident Claims One Life
In Santa Fe on May 28 a Santa Rita copper mine in Grant county saw a worker killed instantly and several others seriously injured while cleaning out blasts that had failed to explode.
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Santa Fe, N. M
Santa Rita
Grant County
Views of the State commercial and financial happenings
A long list itemizes growth and improvements across the commonwealth, noting Fourth of July plans in Philomath and Baker City, wool sales at Blalock, cattle and horse shipments, a fire at a Sandridge barn, a high school term, a Sunday train effort, mining company consolidations, gypsum hauling contracts, a fire loss in Oregon City, wool and grain prices, and various regional market standings for flour, oats, hay, hops, wool, butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, and beef.
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Philomath
Hillaboro
Blalock
Baker City
Susanville
L. Brooks
Sandridge
Imber
Huntington High School
Washington County Sunday School Association
Forest Grove
Inland Telephone Company
la Grande
Wallowa
Deep Gravel Mining Company, Incorporated
Wimner Bros. & Co
Waldo
Oregon City
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Huntington
Salem Way
Thomas Campbell
Oregon
Monmouth
Walla Walla
Graham
Wool — Valley
Young America
Mineral Oil Exports Rise Despite Falling Prices
Washington reports new data from the treasury bureau on U S mineral oil exports. From 1876 to 1900 the value of shipments neared $1.2 billion, averaging about $60 million annually, while volumes climbed from 204 million to 721 million gallons. Russia remains a major producer but American oil gains export value as refined products yield higher returns.
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Washington
Texas
Pacific Coast
Trea
United States
Russia
Allen
Bureau of Staliation
Explosion Injures Engineer After Dynamite Car Detonates
An accident near Skykomish on the Great Northern Railway involved a push car loaded with 48 boxes of dynamite. Freight train No. 15 struck it, causing a broad blast that wrecked three freight cars, blew 500 feet of track, and destroyed a steam shovel. Engineer John McGroaty suffered a scalp wound, tongue injury, and spinal damage. the watchman was stunned and a nearby shack was obliterated. The injured were taken to Everett hospital.
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Everett
Wash
Great Northern Railroad
Skykomish
John McGroaty
McGroaty
Strikers Less Sanguine After Week of Newark Machinist Strike
The Newark and suburban machinists strike nears week end with about 1800 idle workers. Strikers question success in forcing an hour day without pay cut as larger shops resist. American Engine works at Plainfield may join the walkout after accepting the nine hour clause yet cutting 15 cents from ten hour pay.
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New York
Newark
N.J
Plainfield
Homecoming of Volunteers Sails for Return
Manila May 20 It is reasonably certain the remaining volunteers will sail for home before July The Forty seventh regiment and battalions of the Forty ninth and Thirty eighth have sailed on transport Thomas The Ohio units today with the zor acond regiment find the Kilpatric k and Logan June 1 with the Forty third and Forty ninth regiments and two battalions of the sixth The Grant sails from Aparri June 1 with the Forty eighth regiment and two battalions of the Forty ninth
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Manila
Forty Ninth
Thirty Eighth
Thomas
Ohio
Kilpatrick
Logan
Aparri
Explosion at Richland Mine Kills 21 in Dayton Tennessee
A coal dust explosion at the Richland mine two miles from Dayton, Tennessee, killed 21 white workers and injured many others. The blast followed a failed dynamite shot and ignited dust that filled the mine, causing cave-ins and extensive damage as rescuers and relatives gathered at the mouth of the mine and local undertakers prepared the dead. All workers were Dayton residents employed by the Dayton Coal and Iron Company, which operates an iron furnace in Dayton.
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Dayton, Tenn
Richland
Dayton Coal & Iron Company
Ward
Dayton
Glasgow Capital
Ste
Presidential train nears home as it crosses Rockies
Ridney Nebraska May 28 The presidential train completes a smooth Wyoming run with elevations over 4000 feet and near 7500 feet before descending the Rockies at Sherman The president offers no remarks at stops yet shakes hands with nearby onlookers Crowds greet the journey and Mrs McKinley travels well The train due in Washington Thursday morning
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Ridney
Neb
Wyoming
Sherman
Rocky Mountains
Demands of Strikers Met
Dunkirk reports the Brooks Locomotive Works machinists strike settled. All strikers to be rehired without discrimination. Week consists of fifty five hours, with a ten percent wage increase. Substantial details matched the workers’ demands.
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Dunkirk
Brooks
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Junction City Bulletin
F. Bettersworth
Jn. Kalter
Miss Area
Sauese Bt
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Porto Rico
Philippines
France
Tunis
Sumpter, Or
Pekin
St. Petersburg
Novoe Vremyra
Columbia River
Midway
B. C
Elizabethtown
Tenn
Edward
New Mexico
Commonwealth
Oregon Line Company
Lime
Baldwin Sheep & Land Company
Hay Creek
The
Willamettes
Clackamas River
Board of Trustees
State Reform Schod
Portland Markets
Newark, N. J
Washington Thunday
Royal ‘Ulster Yacht Club
New York Yacht Club
England
Soay
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