Rescue Twenty Two Death List From Johnstown Mine Disaster
At 1 am in Johnstown Pennsylvania officials report ninety dead and twenty-two rescued from the Cambria Steel Klondike mine explosion. Officials forecast at least thirty five more bodies to be recovered bringing the total dead to about one hundred twenty five. A maniac attacker confronted rescuers in No 4 heading before being subdued. Thirteen other living men were found in the same chamber as doctors arrived.
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Johnstown
Klondike
Cambria Steel Company
Powell Stackhouse
Cambria Hospital
No. 4
Patrick Martin
Peter
Philip White
Martins
Friars Must Surely Go
Washington telegram reports Vatican response to US proposals on friars in the Philippines. Secretary Root will brief President at Oyster Bay before replying. The talks focus on removing the friars and avoiding funds used to pressure parishes, amid Rome's stance under the Paris treaty. Negotiations hinge on the friars removal as the main objective.
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Washington
War Department
Taft
Vatican
United States
Root
Oyster Bay
Rome
Philippines
Bible for Public Schools convention urges Bible as literature
Minneapolis July 12 National Education Association closes at Exposition building with 8000 attendees. Resolution notes declining familiarity with the English Bible among pupils and calls for viewing it as literature to be read and studied alongside poetry and prose in schools.
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Minneapolis
National Education Association
Exposition Building
Committee On
Inauguration of a Porto Rico Auto Mail Service
Short telegrams note an automobile mail service starting between San Juan and Ponce in Porto Rico, plus various other items: Burke gives 4 million to New York for convalescent housing, July corn bids rise to 90 cents in Chicago, Ellis Island immigrant arrivals, Nast absent from Guayaquil, and assorted European and domestic happenings with notable deaths, fires, and political moves.
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San Juan
Ponce
Porto Rico
John M. Burke
City of
New York
Chicago
Denver University debt drive shows strong statewide support
Colorado citizens rally to clear the University of Denver of its 150000 debt by raising funds for endowments and operations. Early commitments total about 52000 remain, with gatherings in Denver and towns like Loveland Fort Collins Leadville Trinidad and Grand Junction. The campaign highlights prudent spending and aims to fund education across mineral arts theology medicine and law for about 1400 students next year.
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Denver
Colorado
University of Denver
Love
Grand Junction
Trinidad
Durango
Julesburg
Grey
Sprip
Colorado City
Cripple Creek
Friends of the University
Desperate Creditor Holds Attorney at Gunpoint
In Denver on Friday night Mic Keefe a former Park railroad fireman abducted A B Sullivan a prominent attorney and once wealthy real estate owner in his Ninth Street room threatening him with a revolver from Friday afternoon until early Saturday. Police intervened with help from Frank W Lee after a scuffle and three shots were fired. Keefe accused Sullivan of withholding about 17000 in savings he entrusted for investment and killed no one but kept Sullivan captive until debt was paid. Keefe is in jail awaiting trial.
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Denver
A. B. Sullivan
Mic Keefe
Park Railroad
Keefe
Ninth Street
Sullivan
Grant
Frank W. Lee
Lee
Arctic Steamer Windward Starts North
New York July 13 The Arctic steamer Windward arrived at Je t City and will commence commission and depart tomorrow for the far North. It came from Newburg New York where it has spent two months receiving boiler and machinery upgrades. Marie Peary, daughter of explorer Robert Peary, hoisted the club pennant at the fore-truck for the first time under a Congressional act granting an American r istry to the Windward amid the first flag ceremony.
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New York
Jet City
Comsion
Newburg
Congress
McKinley
Little Marie Peary
Des Moines Flood Reaches Highest Point Since 1851
Des Moines Iowa July 10 flood reaches peak at six feet above riverbed along levees guarding thousands of homes and factories. North Des Moines crews repair breaks to save properties while 400 residents abandon homes. Raccoon river rises threatening Keokuk and Western tracks and major plants. Machinery losses run into hundreds of thousands as water engulfs factories and industries.
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Des Moines
Iowa
South
Denver Considers Noxon Water Power Offer
F F Y Noxon of Colorado Springs offers to deed the Tarryall reservoir site with feeders to Denver if the city pipes the water to Deansbury in Platteam and grants him power rights plus disposal of surplus. He seeks a 60 day decision. attorney estimates plant could serve 500,000 people. Pipe length about 75 to 100 miles, rough cost near $2 million.
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Denver
F. FY. Noxon
Colorado Springs
Tarryall Reservoir
Deansbury
Platte Eam
Noxon
Wright
Board of Public Works
Tarryall
Longmont Merchants Clash In Baseball Fundraiser
In Longmont a charity baseball game between Main street merchants on the east and west sides raised funds for cemetery improvements. A 130 PM start led to a 27 to 27 tie at the fair grounds after a brass band procession, with receipts of 225 dollars, and a rematch likely in about thirty days.
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Denver
Denver News
Longmont
Longmont Cemetery
Main Street
Longmont Brass Band
Fairgrounds
Coercion Policy Attacked In Irish Estimates Debate
London July 11 Nationalists used the Irish estimates debate to attack British rule in Ireland. John Dillon charged the Irish constabulary with creating crime to justify coercion, citing cases of wrongful convictions. George Wyndham admitted some truth to specific charges but not to the whole force. Dillon’s motion to cut the estimates failed 195 to 102.
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London
House of Commons
Ireland
Irish Constabulary
John Dillon
Tionalist
George Wyndham
Dillon
Santa Fe to cords with new Galveston London steam line
Santa Fe officers in Galveston have learned a new steamship line will begin freight traffic next month between Galveston and London linking with the Santa Fe at Galveston. The move aims to open a channel for Colorado flour and other exports.
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Denver
Santa Fe Road
Galveston
London
Santa Fe
Colorado
Denver man seeks half of $400000 church gift in fraud suit
In Denver District Court lrred T. Henry files a complaint on behalf of Mrs. Henry Cole claiming her husband, during years of separation, placed all his Denver real estate in his name and then in 1901–1902 used a religious gift to the Veniel Trust Association to deprive her of her rightful half.
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Denver
T. Henry
District Court
Henry Cole
Cole
Methodist Church
Veniel Trust Association
Alo
Penlel Trust
Lightning Like Justice in Cheyenne Court
Art Funk, 38, arrested for criminal assault on two Lynde children ages four and ten. He pleaded guilty in county court, was sentenced to 14 years on each count and bound to the district court. Aimed to begin term at first but to start on the next term. sheriff sent him to the penitentiary on a delayed train. Funk, formerly a Denver saloon cleaner, accused of abducting the girls to his room then abusing them.
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Topeka
Kansas
St. Patric Catholic
Janesville
Wisconsin
John W. Greeley
Horace Greeley
Manchester
New Hampshire
Salonica
Turkey
Andover Theological Seminary
University
Princeton
New Jersey
Charles M. Schwab
Andrew Carnegie
Riverside Drive
Seventy-fourth Street
New York
Broderick
N. R. Cady
Augusta
Aikman
Jessie Morrison
G. W. Bradley
Lynchburg
Virgil
Daniel Boone
Lancashire
England
Duke of Almodovar
United States
Washington
Senate
Mark Twain
Huckleber Finn
Hartford
Connecticut
Lee Arthur
Louisiana
Herbert J. Davis
Chicago
Court of First Instance
Philippines
Lloyd Wheaton
Manila
Umes
Cheyenne
Wyo
Art. Funk
Dan Lynde
Funk
Jast
Scott
Rawlins
Penitentiary
Denver
Labor Leaders Asked to Back Colorado Tax Reform
Advocates for the Colorado reform appealed to Samuel Gompers, president of the AFL, seeking his moral support and possible funding. A large delegation met him on July 6 to explain the amendment and opposition, hoping the executive board in San Francisco will consider aiding propagand a efforts. State Labor Commissioner Smith Deave Austra nd Mr. Cregan led the delegation.
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Samuel Pipers
American Federation of Labor
Colorado
Gompers
The
American Federation
Inn Francisco
Smith Deave Austrand
Cregan
Delegaton of Friends of the Amendment
Big Floods Hit Kansas After Rising River Water
Special reports from Kansas indicate the Union Pacific tracks are submerged as the Blue River ford is covered to five feet. A soldier, William BR Rickey of Fort Bliss, drowned near the river. Trains are blocked and the Myer River gauge shows a dramatic rise. Many families flee as hundreds of acres of corn flood north of the city.
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N, Kan
Iran
Union Pacific
Blue River
William BR. Rickey
Eighth Cavalry
Fort Bile
Denver Markets Receipts and Prices to July 11
Comparative receipts for month to July 11 and year to date show beef and cattle quotations, with notes on beef cows, steers, calves, feedings, and stockers. Woolly prices for muttons, breading and grain products, plus regional wheat and feedstuff pricing, are listed with units and ranges.
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Hogs
Automobiles Expand from Cosmopolitan to Denver
John Brisben Walker, Cosmopolitan editor and owner, expands his auto mobile venture to Denver with a planned auto delivery firm and a retail wholesale operation. He files three Colorado corporations, each led by him, and takes Berkshire farm north of Berkeley as city growth nears. Attorneys Benedict and Phelps join, with Berke ley Heights Investment Company capitalized at 600000.
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Denver
John Brisben Walker
The
Cosmopolitan
Hudson
Colorado
Berkeley
Benedict and
Phelps
Walker
Berkeley Heights
Oleomargarine Tax Stands
Washington dated report states the internal revenue commissioner ruled oleomargarine colored with palm oil to resemble butter is taxed at 10 cents a pound. If the product uses any ingredient that yields a yellow color, it is taxed at a quarter of a cent per pound.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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Port of
Thomas Nast
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Swan
Somaliland
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Lake Lanao
Mindanao
Ann Eliza Walsh
Brooklyn
O. E. Miller
H. ©. Davis
St. Luke's Sanitarium
Sarah Bernhardt
Maude Adams
Swift & Co
Chicago Stock Yards
Denver University
Windward
Park County
Longmont’s
Manhattan
Nebraska
Lorado
Upland
Timothy
Clover
South Park
Elgin
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