Watery Graves A Tragedy Of The Sea Off Marseilles
Two Fraissinet Line passenger steamers Inaularre and Liban collided off the coast of France near Marseilles. The Liban sank within seventeen minutes, carrying about 200 aboard, with 77 passengers and 17 crew saved. Rescue steamer Blechamp found 40 survivors, Balkan 37 passengers and 17 crew rescued. many perished in the sinking amid exploding boilers.
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Janet
Inaularre
Liban
Fraissenet Steamship Company
Blechamp
Tiban
Balkan
Fraissine
Reseus
Iton
Halt
Narrow Escape As Islanders Gut Off From Communication
Swollen Mississippi floods near St Louis with riverside island Black Walnut buckled by rising waters. About 200 men and women on the low island face imminent danger as rescue teams struggle to reach them. Current and bridge bottlenecks hinder efforts, while the valley’s wheat land and farms suffer extensive losses. East St. Louis reports labor shortages on the levee amid continuing high water.
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Mississippi
St. Louie
Black Walnut
Missouri River
Ural
Facs Bridge
Merchants Bridge
Bellefontaine
Mixeurl
East St. Louis
Kansas City Flood Losses Reach Millions Across Cities
The article details flood damages across Kansas and nearby areas, listing estimated losses by city such as North Topeka 500000, Lawrence 506000, Manhattan 150000, Junction City 100000, and Kansas City Kan 8000000, with crops losses around 6 million. Many small towns affected, widespread agricultural hardship looms due to late season and soil conditions.
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Ista
North Topeka
Lawrence
Ballou
Manhattan
Junction City
Abilene
Lindsburg
Hutchinson
Minneapolis
Atc
Kansas City
Kan
Roosevelt Attends Dedication of Grace Memorial Reform Church
President Roosevelt and family attended the dedication of the Grace Memorial Reform Church in Washington. The pastor Rev J M Schick read the consecration article and Rev BE R Bichbach of Frederick Maryland preached the dedication ceremony.
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Washington
Grace Memorial Reformed Church
Roosevelt
J. M Schick
BE. R. Bichbach
D.D
Frederick, Md
Fighting Bob in There In Far East Watch
Reports from Rear Admiral Robley P D Frans show Asiatic squadron assembling in Chinese waters. Kentucky Oregon New Orleans reach Che Foo Shanghai Monterey Pompey Villaboos sails for Nan Chang amid troubling Balkan violence and local unrest in Greece and Servia.
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Washington
Robley PD
Frans
Asiatic Squadron
China
Kentucky
Oregon
New Orleans
Che Foo
Monterey
Pompey
Shanghai
Villaboos
Kow-Kiang
Nan Chang
Devastated Pacolet Mill Settlements Shrug Yet to Flood Toll
Devastated Pacolet and Clifton mill areas in South Carolina face further horror despite flood relief efforts. Deaths may exceed fifty, property losses reach a million dollars as bridges collapse and communications fail. Union, South Carolina, is isolated while rail lines and mills along the Pacolet river suffer massive damage. Washington pledges relief goods and medicines to flood victims through the war department and General Chaffee.
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Clifton
South Carolina
Leosen
Fife
Union
Broad River
Spartanburg
Columbia
Lawson's Fork
Middle Tiger
Enoree River
Washington
War Department
Root
Chaffee
Department of the East
Atlanta
Gainesville
Count Caasiot Denies News Of Conger Statement on China
Fragmentary report notes Count Caasiot denying a correct news of Mr Conger’s statement on the Russian view of China. It mentions surprise that Miplates Loonger did not shake belief in the letter sent by the Russian charge d’affaires at Pekin to Chinese officials.
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Conger
Pekin
United States
Hay
Count Caasiot
China
Bir Gonger
Russien
M.-Piancon
Sabrina
Civil Service Commission member resigns to practice law
The Civil Service Commission announces the resignation of A. R. Evern to pursue a law career. The president indicates plans to promote Frank B. Hig Star and the Commission's chief remain under review this week.
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Civil Service
Frank Bf
Commision
Forest fires checked by welcome rain in New York
Across New York City on June 8 brisk showers started in the early morning and continued, lifting the smoke dense fog over the metropolis for two days. The weather service noted widespread thunderstorms from the lower lake region to the Atlantic coast, sparing New England, with grain fires reportedly subdued.
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Atlantic
Sandy Hook
Lower Lake Region
Ohio Valley
New England
Vatican Split Over Loubet Rome Visit Stirring Debate
The Vatican debates how to handle President Loubet of France visiting Rome as the first non Catholic leader of a Catholic country to be officially welcomed since the fall of the temporal power. Competing factions argue for or against admitting him. The king of Italy’s Paris visit is praised as a diplomatic win for France.
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Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Paris
Loubet
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Holy See
Quirinal
France
Presidenta of
Republica
Italy
Paria
National League and strike news from Chicago
Baseball scores from St Louis Brooklyn and Chicago with a 4 to 2 and 4 to 6 results plus American League and Association games. A general nationwide strike of National Biscuit Company plants is planned, issued by union officials after a convention decision to press the dispute.
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Cincinnati
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American Association
Toledo
Minneapolis
Loule
Milwaukee
Colt
Paul
Chicago
National Biscuit Company
Chicago Federation of Labor
McIntosh
Cracker Bakers’ Union
Harzbecker
Bankers’ and Confectioners’ International Union
Cleveland
Iesaldt
Mayor Seeks Textile Conference to End Strike
Philadelphia mayor Weav er sent a note to the joint textile manufacturers committee urging representatives meet him to arrange a conference between employers and employees. He admitted no power to force action but will push to end the strike soon. Paris deputies clash in chamber. de Villeneuve wounded in a duel attempt.
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Weaver
Joint Committee of Textile Manufacturers
Paria
Bereaux
Guyot de Villapegre
Chamber of Deputies
de Villeneuve
Lyons Youth in Manhunt Promises More Killings
In Loogootee Indiana on June 8 Arthur Lyons, who shot and killed his stepmother yesterday near Killion, remains at large as a major hunt sweeps Martin County. Lyons vows to fight capture and says he will kill at least two more people before being taken. Reports place him surrounded in hills twelve miles north of town, with pursuers building an encirclement. Also: Mrs Mary L Harrison widow of ex president Benjamin Harrison reportedly plans a world voyage, spending extensive time abroad, notably in Japan.
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Ind
Arrthur
Lyons
Iod
Eviday Jevening
Killion
Martin County
Hig
Wheeling
W. Va
Jenlousy
Uttle
Maynard Sune Day
Pala
Joseph Beachy
Michael Beachy
Joseph Reams
Beachy
Settlement in Light Promises Labor Unions in Bedford
Bedford Indiana reports labor unions meeting to end the stone lockout between workers and operators. No decision yet, but district meetings planned and a likely settlement. a division over grant of the proposed scale is central.
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Bedford
Ind
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