Destructive hailstorm sweeps from Edmore to Niagara
A massive hailstorm devastates thousands of acres of wheat across eight to fifteen miles, killing four people outright and fatally injuring another in a boiler explosion on a fast Minnesota Central train near Milanena. Two trains wreck, one freighter destroyed. Names given for some deceased and injured. Rail accident tolls and costs highlighted. Baseball standings summary follows.
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Edmore
N. C
Lakota
Great Northern
Niagara
Minois Central
Milanena
Maloney
Chicago
Robert Henderson
Jackson
Tenn
A. B. Lynch
United States
Chaonian raid on Casa Blanca leaves twelve dead
Moroccan Chaonian raiders attacked Casa Blanca killing twelve and looting shops and homes. Separate items note Georgia Senate's Hardman-Covingtown prohibition bill passing the House 139 to 39 and various civil, political, and criminal actions across the United States including tax restitution, public celebrations, labor strikes, and violent incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morocco
Casa Blanca
Georgia
Senate
House
Numerous disasters and crimes flash across the country
Fires in New York tenement and Coney Island devastate Steeplechase Park. Brighton Turrance Works burns in Taunton. wrecks and fatal crashes plague Massachusetts and Iowa. Notable deaths include Charles Bradley in York and many others. Reports cover crime, politics, crime prevention, and social figures including Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes and Jacob Schiff.
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New York
Coney Island
Charles Bradley
York
Lehigh Valley
Rose Pastor Stokes
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Vorwaerts
George Thomas
West Chester
Thomas
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Isaac K. Funk
Barnardsville
N. J
Herbert Erbacher
Victor Erbacher
Anson F. Stokes, Jr
Yale University
Kuling
China
Warren B. Seabury
Yale
Arthurs. Mann
Mr. Seabury
Long Beach
L. I
Atlantic
John Griffin
East Aurora
Algonquin Park
Canada
Portsmouth
N. H
Puget Sound Navy Yards
Jose Antonio Ostes
Cornell University
Lake Cayuga
Windsor
Conn
Etta
Frank Prior
Palestine
Israel
America
Schiff
United States
Senator Pettus Dies After Tour. Train Incident Erupts
Schmul Winston Pettus, Alabama senator, dies in Hot Springs North Carolina after apoplexy attack. A Chattanooga livery fire drives 300 horses into a crowd, injuring many. Railroads sue in Judge Pritchard court over duress in a peace deal. Southern railroad president Winley arrested, freed by habeas corpus, then a compromise. In Mayfield Kentucky a man with a hatchet nearly beheads Edlis Odum after a quarrel over a new suit.
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Schmud Winston Pettus
United States
Alabama
Hot Springs
N. C
Chattanooga
Tenn
Pritchard
North Carolina
W. W. Winley
Southern Railroad
Series of racial violence and political tensions across states
A string of violent incidents and political clashes unfold nationwide. James E. Reed is lynched in Crisfield Maryland after firing on Officer John H. Daugherty who dies. Federal power faces resistance in the North Carolina rail rate dispute as Sanford and Governor Glenn act. An explosion devastates the Birmingham powder mills killing John D. Gilham and a black helper. Sheriff Belser executes Galvin Coleman in Montgomery after his murder of J. A. Finley. John Lockert is found severely whipped near Guthrie, Kentucky, for past remarks about tobacco beds.
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James E. Reed
Crisfield
John H. Daugherty
Daugherty
North Carolina
Washington
Sanford
Glenn
Birmingham
Ala
John D. Gilham
Belser
Galvin Coleman
Montgomery
Coleman
J. A. Finley
John Lockert
Guthrie
Lockert
Gasoline launch capsizes near Humber during thunderstorm
Ten men were aboard a gasoline launch that capsized in Humber near Toronto Ontario. Only one person reached shore. A heavy thunderstorm is blamed for the disaster.
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Humber
Toronto
Ont
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Alaska
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Santiago
Emilio Bagregro
Secadero
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Allerton
Cushman
Office of Public Roads
Washington
Multiple sensational items fuse across continents in a loaded news brief
A Berlin killer called Jack the Ripper targets children and warns police in a chilling note. Titian paintings emerge in Trieste as Paradiss uncovers two ancient works. Philippine Nationalists win a first general election with a large Manila majority. A New York Canada syndicate eyes 2000 miles of Brazilian rail to link Rio and Montevideo. A glass vessel near Glastonbury Abbey is claimed as the Arthurian holy grail and examined by Crookes and peers. An independent Polish Church archbishop is captured in Paris after fleeing St. Louis with parish funds and a girl. Henry Huntington faces murder charges after shooting his siblings at his dying father’s bedside.
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Havelock and
Alliance
Neb
Alliance Company
Charles Williams
Sioux City
Havelock
Butte
Mont
Montana
Willoughby Bayton Miller
Dental Department
University of Michigan
Alexandria
Ohio
Miller
University of Berlin
N. C. Brewer
Lake Shore
Clifton Boulevard
Cleveland
Ukiah
Cal
Watter Springs
Charles Sweed
Zanesville
William Sweed
Sweed
Joseph Birnberg
Birnberg
Iland
Bellingham
Wash
Birdview
Skagit County
Skagit River
Snohomish County
Index
Della Felters
Pearl Wheatley
Iowa
Kan
Oakland
President Pucket
Nelters
Pucket
Thomas B. Blick
Trardin Corporation Executive Committee
Scott
Kenton
Harriet Stanley
F.S. Sapp
Columbus
Black
Effie Squire Tuer
First Presbyterian Church
Jack the Ripper
Berlin
Milan
London Tribune
Paradiss
Trieste
Titian
Traci
Dalmatia
Philippine Islands
Congress
Manila
The
London Express
Glastonbury Abbey
England
Joseph of
Arimathea
Ambassador Reid
William Crookes
R. J. Campbell
Crookes
Archbishop Agen
St. Louis
Paris
France
Chicago
Henry Huntington
Douglas St. Georges Huntington
Versailles
Haywood Freed Not Guilty in Steunenberg Murder Case
William D. Haywood walks free in Boise after an Idaho jury finds no evidence connecting him to the murder of Frank Steunenberg. The acquittal follows months of testimony and a defense-leaning judge’s charge, with prosecutors vowing to pursue Moyer Pettibone.
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Boise
Idaho
William S. Haywood
Steunenberg
Leesburg
Ohio
Angle Island
San Francisco
Shepard
Thomas W. Lawsor
Boston
Arizona Smelting Company
Prescott
Ariz
J. C. Miller
St. Louis
Madison Lake
Minn
Miller
William D. Haywood
Frank Steunenberg
Haywood
Senator Borah
Hawley
Harry Orchard
Fremont Wood
Charles H. Moyer
Federation
George A. Pettifne
Denver
Gov. Gooding
Moyer and Pettibone
Borah
Pettibone
Friends of the Prosecution
Oil Trust Denies Conspiracy in Federal Case
The Standard Oil Company enters a general denial to charges of conspiracy stifling competition and accepting rebates from the Federal Department of Justice in St. Louis last November. The company argues pre 1899 operations should not face examination. It denies special rates in 1876 with Erie and New York Central and a monopoly of pipelines from Western Pennsylvania to fix railroad transportation rates.
First Rhodes Scholar to Finish Returns Home
William Crittenden of California, the first Rhodes Scholar to reach Oxford and to complete the full course, finished the three year program in two years and has returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Crittenden
California
Oxford
England
Russian minister opens Petersburg to Vladivostok rail service
The Russian minister of railways establishes direct trains between St. Petersburg and Vladivostok running biweekly via Viatka Perm and Toheliabirsk with no Moscow stop. In 1906 foreign-born Bohemians in the United States total 517300 with 40000 in New York 48000 in Texas and the rest across the West and Southwest. Half reside in large cities.
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St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
Viatka
Perm
Toheliabirsk
Moscow
United States
New York
Texas
Trade trends hold steady amid heat as July sales stay strong
Despite hot weather business remains brisk with heavy industry output steady. July demand in leading retail lines remains healthy and inventories are being prepared. Country merchants show confidence in the outlook, farm communities buy more, and visiting buyers increase. Mercantile credits stay satisfactory despite increased district failures while bank clearings rise 12.4 percent from last year.
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Chicago
Dun
Early crop gains and trade tone lift market outlook
High temperatures spur overall crop development and boost light summer wear trade and fall sample prepping. Fall goods shipments rise and collections improve, while iron and steel see a lull except for pig iron demand boosted by Minnesota ore strikes. Weekly U S and Canadian business failures fall. grain exports rise with corn and wheat showing sizable weekly and fiscal year totals.
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Iron and Steel
Minnesota
United States
Canada
Daily Market Summary of Livestock and Grains by City
Chicago and other cities report wide ranges for cattle hogs and sheep with prices from $3.00 to $7.50 for cattle and $3.00 to $6.90 for hogs. Grains show No. 2 wheat about 89¢ to 96¢, corn 58¢ to 66¢, oats 43¢ to 58¢. dairy and legumes also listed with various regional quotes.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St .Louis
Ste. Cincinnati
Detroit
Ile
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Ste
Health board bans kissing games for children
Across All Around the Globe Philadelphia the health board prohibits kissing games among children. President McCrea of the Pennsylvania railroad testifies in Philadelphia that enforcing a two cent fare would shrink passenger earnings. A Boone relic powder horn owned by Charles G. Shanks of Claysville Indiana is highlighted. A Cheyenne Tribune reader says Wyoming is heaven for men and dogs and hell for women and horses.
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Philadelphia Health Board
McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Daniel Boone
Charles G. Shanks
Claysville
Ind
Wyo
Tribune
Wyoming
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Kingman Star
B. O. Hudler
Kingman
Indiana
W. L
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Phil'delphia
Truv
St. Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Louisville
Kansas City
St. Paul
Omaha
Lincoln
Pueblo Annes
Des Moines
Myron T. Herrick
Wright
Gov. Guild
Massachusetts
Fitzgerald
Gov
Sheldon
Nebraska
Harriet McMurphy
Lord Sholto Douglas
Marquis of Queensbery
Empire
Klotz Mills
Simpson
Lackawanna Valley
Shirtimakers’ Union of
Contractors’ Association
L. W. Chamberlain
P. F. Weisner
C. A. Stewart
Urbana
Charley Bonier
Franz
Johanna Freher
Auburn
Lonier
Abraham C. Ruebush
Port Lavaca
Ruuebush
David McGlashan
McGlashan
Pine Street
Cambridge
Mass
A. J. Cunningham, Jr
Moertilla Dobbyns
Proctorville
Bastirn
Western
Bion J. Arnold
Wike’s Peak
J. Tom Johnson
Swan
Common Council of
Eugene H. Schmitz
Ezra E. Cuffall
Fostoria
Margaret Fealy Cavallo
Maude Vealy
Itugo Sherwin
Chicago Great Western Railway
Marshalltown
Anna Lowe
Little Rock
Ark
Southern
United States Steel Company
Thorold
Sarnia
Owen Sound
Sandwich
Sir William van Iforne
Percival Farquhar
William Lanham Bull
Minor C. Keith
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Montevideo
Uruguay
Miner
Ben
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