Forest Fires Wipe Out Chisholm and Areas Near Duluth
Three days of northern forest fires push into Wisconsin and Minnesota towns. Chisholm Minnesota, population 4090, is destroyed with many residents left homeless. Bayfield Wisconsin suffers $700,000 in damage. Citizens flee as flames sweep through lumber yards, mining districts, and roads, with editor Oscar LaFrance escaping from a burning building.
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Great Northern
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Steamer Glenfarg Arrives Amid Harbor Chaos After Typhoon
The Glenfarg reached Victoria from Hong Kong with 3098 tons of cargo, three days after a devastating typhoon. Police launches picked up floating, bloated bodies as wreckage of junks and sampans drifted in the harbor. several corpses were seen near the steamer as it tied up.
Laboring man heir to $50,000 fortune found in Sacramento
A. Parish, a laboring man from Tehama County, received a letter traced to him. It states he is the heir to his grandfather’s estate in Gallipolis Ohio, valued at $50,000, with all other heirs reportedly dead.
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A. Parish
Aspear
Tehame County
Gallipolis
Ohio
Parish
Chinatown clash ends in chaos as Holy Rollers raid
A mob of Holy Rollers stages a night meeting in Chinatown prompting a swift raid and pandemonium. Police reply, but assailants vanish leaving bedraggled crowds and lingering odor and confusion.
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Chinatown
Roosevelt to Urge Costly Addition to Standing Army
President Roosevelt plans to urge Congress to raise the army from 60 000 to about 100 000, arguing the current peace establishment is insufficient for insular garrisons and potential war scenarios. He warns a larger force would strain training quality and cites needs at Pearl Harbor and potential Japanese activity in Hawaii. The proposal reportedly includes ten infantry regiments, five cavalry regiments, and several coast artillery companies.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Rlson
America
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Islands
Japan
United States
St Jerst
Blackfish Battle Halts Whale in Tacoma Bay
In Tacoma Washington two enormous blackfish a thirty foot pair attacked a sixty foot whale off the bay front. The fight lasted about thirty minutes with the blackfish leaping from the water and driving the whale toward shore until ten feet of the tail surfaced. The weary whale swam back to deep water as the crowd of around five hundred watched.
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Tacoma
Wash
Old Painter Killed in California Fall
Stockton reports painter W. J. Hickey died from concussion after a rope gave way while painting a roof. The incident marks a second fatal fall on the same building in recent weeks.
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Stockton
W. J. Hickey
Man Saved After Street Car Injury In Chicago
A man struck by a street car survived after Dr. C. H. Hall rushed to St Luke's hospital in a stranger's car to obtain a silver tube. He cleared the windpipe and inflated the lungs, despite internal injuries, and remains alive with recovery hoped.
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Pacific Electro
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E. H. Garrett
Chicago
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Decapitated Corpse Found Near Seattle
A man’s body was found wed morning in woods near Juanita on Lake Washington, his head severed and placed nearby with a jagged neck wound. Two Seattle residents hunting reported the grisly scene, with blood stains on logs and leaves indicating a recent crime.
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Juanita
Lake Washington
Hold Up Train of Sixty Brokers
Sixty prominent capitalists from New York and Boston aboard a special train bound for Cobalt were halted by Canadian customs at Niagara Falls. Officials seized wines and cigars claiming duties of about 1500 dollars, delaying the party until the commissary car was sealed and contraband locked up. The travelers, en route to inspect silver properties, appealed to the government.
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Mass Arrival of Eastern Emigrants to California
The first eastern trainload of the army of 100000 settlers to Southern California arrived in Los Angeles Friday night. For ten days more trains will run at capacity with extra coaches as the rush to the land of sunshine is expected to continue through September and October. Rates may not be extended next year due to eastern associations objections.
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Land of Sunshine
Open Bids For Building Of Thirteen Big War Boats
Shipbuilders gathered at the Navy Department to open bids for ten torpedo boat destroyers and three colliers. Firms submitted proposals under government hull and machinery plans and offered their own designs. Awards may be made this week to firms meeting specs, with speeds of 29 1/2 knots and vessel costs ranging around several million dollars per destroyer.
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William Cramp Sons
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Interior Secretary Sees Island Growth and New Crops
Secretary Garfield returns from a tour of the Hawaiian Islands reporting growing acceptance of American laws on immigration and land sales. He notes diversified farming beyond sugar including coffee, pineapples, tobacco and hemp, with coffee subsidies proposed. He warns coastwise shipping laws hinder island exports and plans to push for changes in Congress.
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Congress
Hides gold in pig pen and fools em
Frank Marks a Longsville farmer stored his wealth as gold coin under a pig pen floor fearing banks. Robbers searched the house and burned the barn and pen while they looted. Neighbors saved the house and Marks recovered a large lump of gold from the pig pen ruins.
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Frank Marks
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Cleveland
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Costly fire devastates Rawhide killing two and leaving 3000 homeless
A Saturday blaze in Rawhide leveled eight blocks of business, destroyed groceries and supplies, and caused an estimated 750,000 in losses with no insurance. Two dead, many injured, dynamite used to halt spread, and relief efforts rapidly mobilized from Reno.
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Dr. Garner
Rawhide Drug Company
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Rawhide Avenue
Hosal
Juildines
Collins’ Hardware Store
Reno
West Virginia Homes Without Water Amid Drought
A prolonged drought in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia has left many homes without water. Farmers haul water for miles as streams dry and reservoirs in Johnstown run near empty. Morgantown’s American Sheet and Tin Plate plant has suspended operations, with lumber, coal, and coking industries on Desker Creek idle.
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West Virginia
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Hickston Run
Morgantown
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American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Desker Creek
Dead man found in water bucket near Reno ditch
Mrs W G Alexander of Reno pulled up a bucket of water and found a dead man s head in it near her Orr ditch. The body drifted into the bucket head not identified and cause of death unknown pending investigation.
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Reno
W. G. Alexander
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