Spokane Elks plan street fair Jubilee at Interstate event
Elke at Spokane showcases Elks street fair and jubilee tied to the Spokane Interstate Fair. The Elks secure the old fruit fair site, erect a 10 000 seat main tent for the Royal Italian Band, with industrial exhibits, a Pan American Midway, international villages, and a hippodrome style program. The Jubilee includes a $60 000 temple dedication.
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Spokane Elks
Spokane
Elks
Royal Italian Band
Royal Marine Band
Chicago
Omaha
Cairo
Italian Band
The
Order
Reading Iron Company strike ends after 10 weeks
Reading Pennsylvania July 15 The 2700 Reading Iron company workers including tube works Ninth street and Olney street mill have ended a 10 week strike begun May 6 The new wage scale matches August 1899 levels with Puddlera at 4 dollars per ton and others in proportion The union remains unrecognized and the company reserves the right to hire any workers but all strikers will be rehired with no discrimination
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Reading
Reading Iron Company
Ninth Street
Olney Street
Puddlera
Plague at Cape Town Reports 714 Cases to June 15
Official marine hospital service advices state Cape Town had 714 plague cases by June 15 with 338 deaths. The report notes rising fatalities and details the outbreak's toll and mortality rate for the port city.
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Washington
Marine Hospital Service
Cape Town
Rain brings drought relief to southwest Kansas area
Reports out of Dawson dated June 28 note gold shipments outside this year total $5,000,000. Rain has relieved parts of the drought stricken southwest Kansas. Simultaneous dispatches describe heat in Berlin, sunstroke deaths, and violent storms across multiple regions.
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Kansas
Mose la Fontise
Butte
Dave Barry
Canada
Dawson
Berlin
Pleasant Point
Carberry Plains
Winnipeg
Frank Scott
Lewiston
Idaho
Alice Parsley
Morrow
Big Sandy
Montana
Missouri River
Judith
Hereford
Tex
New Rock Island
Mexico
F. A. McHaney
Deta
Cal
W. A. Womack
A. L. Hinchman
Grandmesa Lake
Idaho State Board of Pardons
Lemberg
Vienna
London Express
Wage Increase at National Tube Company Mill
The 4500 employees at National Tube company in McKeesport Pennsylvania received a voluntary 10 percent wage rise. The workers are unorganized though the Amalgamated association has been trying to recruit them. An advance had been demanded months earlier but refused.
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Pittsburg
National Tube Company
McKeesport
Amalgamated Association
Famine Threat Looms in Eastern Provinces
Famine is feared across large parts of the empire as the latest official report dated June 21 notes no rainfall since. Crops are believed to be largely beyond hope in many eastern districts after a rainless period.
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St. Petersburg
Surprise Capture of Scheeper’s Laager at Cambeboo
Colonel Seebel’s column surprised and captured Scheeper’s laager at Cambeboo on July 14, taking 31 prisoners and capturing ammunition and stores. Scheeper and most of his command escaped. No British casualties reported.
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Graaf Reinet
Cape Colony
Seebel
Scheeper
Cambeboo
Train Collision Near Wymark Kills Five Injures Three
Parsons Kansas July 16 two local MK&T freight trains collided on a bridge over the Arkansas River causing the bridge to collapse and both engines to plunge and burn. Five men were killed three others fatally hurt including Parsons residents and unnamed tramps. The conductor misread orders leading to the fatal encounter and swift fire followed.
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Parsons
Kan
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Wymark
L. T
Joe Morris
Pargona
James Levelle
Frank Fitzgerald
Joe Massey
Bean
Killarney
Arkansas River
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ohio River
Padens+ Valley
Ohio Valley Express
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Courtrite
Wheeling
William Boothby
William Day
Decree on Adula prize money awarded to Navy officers
Judge Spear distributes 950000 from the capture of the British steamer Adula during the Spanish war. The Adula, owned by Atlas Steamship and chartered to Don Jose Solis, was seized by Marblehead under Commander McCalla at Guantanamo Bay. Half goes to the United States, half to navy officers and enlisted men entitled to the prize.
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Mount Ayrie
Spear
United States Superior Court
Atlas Steamship Company
Don Jose Solis
Marblehead
McCalla
Guatanamo Bay
United States
Navy
Attempted assassination shocks Frazer River strike in Vancouver
In Vancouver on July 15 a man, likely union fisherman Michael Sullivan, tried to shoot police magistrate J A Russell as he left the police station. Russell thwarted the shot by knocking the attacker’s arm aside. the assailant fled up an alley. Russell has been a drum beater against fishermen’s arrests for conspiracy intimidation and kidnapping of Japanese.
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Vancouver
B. C
Frazer River
Michael Sullivan
J. A. Russell
Manuer
Creaaous
Sullivan
Judge Seller Dead in Suicide in Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville Indiana July 16 Judge James M Seller a leading attorney and figure in legal and political circles was found dying in his office He had taken morphine with suicidal intent and died before removal from the building He was writing a letter explaining his reasons for taking his own life
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Crawfordsville
Ind
James M. Seller
Indiana
Seller
Nebraska bank teller linked to Wyoming train shooting
Ned Hartley Copeland of Omaha once trusted teller at Nebraska National Bank for ten years until August 1899. He left on a summer vacation to the eastern states and has not been heard from since. He is connected to the Union Pacific train shooting near Rawlins, Wyoming, in which A. P. Rogers was killed.
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Chicago
Minnesota State Pardon Board
Cole
James Younger
Stillwater
Northfield
Minn
Port la Vica
Calhoun County
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
la Vica Bay
Glasgow
Mont
Griffith
Great Northern Express
Malta
Missouri River
Little Rockies
State Department
Turkey
Constantinople
Leishman
Ottoman Imperial Bank
Washington
O'Brien
St. Joseph
Kansas
Oun
B. H. Conger
United States
China
Pekin
Daufskie Beach
Savanah
Mme
Melba
Covent Garden
Coleman
Board of Pardons
Yast
Still‘water
Springfeld
Paul Hague
Zeno
Island Park
Pacific Coast
Dennison
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Carlisle Graham
Wilson
John S. Kimball
Nome
Seattle
St. Michael
Santos Dumort
St. Cloud
Paris
Eiffel Tower
France
Bastile
Middle West
Minnesota
Dakotas
Putnam B. Strong
S Department
Shanghai
Genoa
Berlin
District of Columbia
Copeland Killen Rogers
Omaha
Neb
Ned Hartley Copeland
A. P. Rogers
Union Pacific
Rawlins
Wyo
Nebraska National Bank
General Gomez Returns From U S Trip
General Maximo Gomez arrives back in Havana from the United States and says he is pleased with his visit. In St Petersburg women pay half the taxi fare charged to men.
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Havana
Maximo Gomez
United States
Gomez
St. Petersburg
Soft Coal Trust Plans Expanded to Include Transport Hubs
The Leader reports delays in forming the soft coal trust as insiders refine wider plans. The outline envisions close harmony between transportation and trading sectors. Key moves include tying Ohio river mines via Baltimore & Ohio to control coal transport across parts of Ohio West Virginia and the Pittsburgh district.
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Soft Coal Trust
Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio River
Baltimore & Ohio
West Virginia
Pittsburg
Butte Smelter Reopens After Eight Hour Dispute
Butte Montana July 15 After six weeks idle due to a clash with the employer over the eight hour rule the Colorado smelter has restarted with a full workforce. The company refused outside machinists the eight hour benefit causing a shutdown. Workers revert to the previous arrangement giving eight hours daily for all smelting staff at prior pay while machinists secure nine hours. Outside machinists work ten hours.
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Butte
Mont
Colorado
Journalists Home in New Orange Incorporation Granted
After a decade of effort by the International League of Press clubs, Journalists' Home association secures NJ incorporation. A $250,000 project funds buildings, mostly from a forthcoming magazine Bohemia set to publish next year. World authors and artists contribute. architects hold planning.
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Philadelphia
International League of Preas
New Orange
N. J
New Jersey
Journalists’ Home Association
Bohemia
Scourge of carbon cripples Mississippi crops and lives
The carbon scourge is causing terror across Bolivar Madison and Coahoma counties in Mississippi. It is so virulent it threatens crop work for the year as animals and people fall ill. Seven African Americans have died near Beulah, Bolivar County, and fear drives labor refusals among the local Black population.
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Memphis
Tenn
Bolivar
Madison
Coahoma
Mississippi
Beulah
Bolivar County
Excursion Boat Explosion Kills Two Boys in Sunbury
A Susquehanna excursion boat anchored at Market Street blew up with great force in Sunbury on July 15. Two boys aged 14 and 12, Allen and Artie Fetzer, were killed, and about a dozen others were injured with two fatally. One man remains missing, possibly drowned, as pilot George Frymire is also unaccounted for.
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Sunbury
Susquehanna
Market Street
Allen
Artie Fetzer
George Frymire
Terminus Wins Young Stakes at Washington Park Derby
At Washington Park a mile and three furlongs handicap derby for 3 year olds and up carried 5000 added. Pink Coat Gidney Lucas Robert Waddell among entrants. Terminus won the Young stakes Vesuvian second John Bright third. Time 1 59 1 4.
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Chicago
Washington Park
Pink Coat
Gidney Lucas
Robert Waddell
Terminus
Vesuvian
John Bright
Drowned on Wenatchee Ferry Sinking Man Missing
Frank Keifer working with Mr Morris on the Wenatchee ferryboat fell overboard during a crossing and drowned. The boat was behind the Boake men. Morris heard a splash and missed Keifer.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Frank Keifer
Morris
Keifer
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