Peace plenipotentiaries welcomed to Portsmouth
Portsmouth hosts a historic peace conference as the Russian envoy M. Witte arrives and the fleet nears the harbor. Overhead flags wave. militia guard duties begin. secret service and press corps mobilize. Ships steam in amid heat and fog while dignitaries prepare a cordial, secure welcome and formal breakfast aboard ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
N. H
M. Witte
Oyster Bay
Isles of Shoals
Portamouth
Plymouth
Fire on Kershaw Quelled After Five Hours at Sea
Captain Bond reports fire aboard the steamer Kershaw during a Baltimore to Boston voyage. Five hours of crew effort extinguished the blaze off Winter Quarter Shoal near Overfalls lightship. Cargo damage, mainly cotton tobacco and lumber, is heavy while ship damage is confined to saloon deck breaches and carpets. Dorchester stood by, escort ended as fire was controlled. ship to be repaired in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bond
Kershaw
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Baltimore
Winter Quarter Shoal
Dorchester
Merchants Line
Providence
Norfolk
Delaware
Herreshoff Boat Wins King's Cup in regatta
Cowes on August 8 saw the Royal Yacht squadron regatta open with the King Edward's cup race as the main event. The 52-footers on the queen's course highlighted Son ya, built by Herreshoff, as the winner, trailed by Moyana M., Britomart, Maymon, and Gauntlet in that order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowes
Isle of Wight
Royal Yacht Squadron
Moyana M
Britomart
Maymon
Gauntlet
Chief Hosmer to Reply on Lowell Gas Lighting Contract
Chief Hosmer of the lighting department plans a formal reply to Mayor Casey about a five year lighting contract with the Lowell Gas Light Company. He will issue figures in a statement soon and notes he did not sign the contract, only presented it for mayoral signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hosmer
Casey
Lowell Gas Light Company
John R. Shea
Wilds
New Hampshire
Kaiser Wilhelm III Sends Wireless Call From Sea Milepost
New York reports the Kaiser Wilhelm III in wireless contact with Siasconset Massachusetts at 6 30 this morning thirty miles east of the Nantucket lightship. The connection confirms ongoing voyage activity and maritime signaling between the vessel and coastal station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Siasconset, Mass
Nantucket
Bakers Strike Spreads Through New York City
The New York bread bakers strike expands to Brooklyn with 180 bakers quitting to join a mass meeting in Manhattan. Four additional small bakeries join the strike, and nearly all city union bakers are now on strike as kosher bread prices rise to eight or ten cents, up about two cents more. Baroness Friedrich von Eerde, long considered Germany’s oldest woman, dies in Cologne at age 104.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Kurtz
Bakers’ Organization
Friedrich von Eerde
Germany
Cologne
Costly Church Burned on Fifth Avenue Fire Ravages Saint Thomas
A major blaze tore through St Thomas's Episcopal Church at Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in New York, damaging paintings, a $20,000 organ and a $50,000 bas relief while threatening Rockefeller and other mansions. Fire Chief Croker estimated losses at a quarter million. Ludderman Mooney, aiding from a perilous scaffolding climb, was injured but saved the tower and lives as flames consumed the belfry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church
Fifth Avenue
53Rd Street
America
54Th Street
John D. Rockefeller
Wm. Rockefeller
H. McKay Twombley
Col
J. J. McCook
Daniel §. Lamont
St. Regis
St. Thomas's Church
Croker
Augustus St. Gaudens
Rockefeller
May Goelet
Duke of Roxburghe
Wu Ting Fang Not to Blame for Boycott Claim
Pekin August 8 The Associated Press correspondent reports there is no basis to the U S assertion that Wu Ting Fang former minister to Washington is responsible for the Chinese anti American boycott. The boycott agitation targets American goods and shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WU Ting-Fang
Pekin
Associated Press
United States
Washington
Ten Injured One Fatally In Railway Crash At Emporia
Emporia Kansas August 8 A switch engine crashed into a stock train way car injuring ten people and killing one. The collision occurred on the tracks of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe stock train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emporia
Kan
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Loomis Guests at Oyster Bay Luncheon With President
Francis B. Loomis assistant secretary of state attended a luncheon at Oyster Bay hosted by the president and Mrs. Roosevelt. Also present was Dr. Jacob H. Hollander of Baltimore who came to discuss his commission work on Santo Domingo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Francis B. Loomis
Roosevelt
Jacob H. Hollander
Baltimore
Santo Domingo
False oath arrest of Lowell agent shakes Beacon Hill
George W. Young, 79, a longtime legislative agent from Lowell, was arrested in Boston on charges of making a false oath before a bail commissioner. He allegedly claimed unencumbered Lowell property when securing a bond to dissolve an attachment in 1900. The case stems from a civil action and was aided by bail set at 3000 dollars. H. Theodore Fletcher prosecutes, with R. H. O. Schultz representing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
George W. Young
Lowell
State House
Young
Maj. Jones
H. Theodore Fletcher
R. H. O. Schultz
Beacon Hi
Central Albany store collapse kills many workers
Albany August 8 a wide central section of the John G. Myers Company department store collapsed from cellar to roof burying hundreds. By noon 25 injured with three deaths in hospitals and 110 unaccounted. Rescue efforts moved fast as fire police and city laborers dug through debris while relatives gathered in distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
John G. Myers Company
Bertha Cunningham
Myers
George P. Hilton
H. Kingsturdee
Edward F. Hackett
Robert M. Chalmers
Edward J. Horan
Horan
Dragged from Jail and Hanged at Waco Bridge
In Waco Texas at 2 a.m. about 600 citizens surrounded the courthouse and jail seized Sheriff Tilley, the jailer, and deputies, broke the jail open and hanged Hank Majors a colored man from the new bridge after hearing his confession. Majors had recently been convicted of criminal assault and given the death penalty but had been granted a new trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Tex
Tilley
Hank Majors
Majors
Death of George Lee under Suspicious Circumstances
In Nashua New Hampshire authorities will probe the death of George Lee found in an Antrim desert farm house last Sunday. County Solicitor Edward H. Wason and Medical Referee James T. Greeley, who went to Antrim for the inquiry, report a fractured skull from a superficial exam and a nearby box of tablets whose composition remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashua
N. H
George Lee
Antrim
Edward H. Wason
James T. Greeley
Golf Championship Qualifying Round Opens in Chicago
Thirty two of sixty six golfers from fifty three clubs began the eleventh annual national golf championship qualifying in 18 holes at the Chicago Golf Club. Medal scoring aimed for 86 as a threshold for match play, with S Y Heebner leading the opening pair J S Snowden of Old City and C A Brown of Birmingham among early entrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Golf Club
Links
S. Y. Heebner
J. S. Snowden
Old City
C. A. Brown
Birmingham
Ala
Keene Police Arrest in Horse Theft Probe
Keene New Hampshire August 8 local officers arrested a man believed to be part of a Massachusetts Vermont gang in a horse theft from C R Holden of Bellows Falls Vermont. He gave aliases James Morgan then James Sullivan, a name linked to a Springfield Massachusetts horse theft warrant. He was taken to Bellows Falls for arraignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keene, N. H
Massachusetts
Vermont
C. R. Holden
Bellows Falls
James Morgan
James Sullivan
Springfield
Mass
Burlington Shooting Mystery Baffles Police
Burlington police could not yet explain the shooting of Geo W Kelly by an unknown man on the city outskirts last night. Kelly was taken to the hospital with three severe scalp wounds, but his condition is listed as not life threatening and recovery is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington, Vt
Geo. W. Kelly
Kelly
Also Mentioned on This Page
Admead
Gov. McLane
Utrecht
Campoformio
New Hampshire Nation Guard
Navy Yard
Mead
Secret
The
Wentworth
Newport
R. I
Peace Commission
C. I. Hood CO
Hoodt's
Herreshoff
Committee of Investigation
Braden
Haverhill
Committee On
New Bedford
New Bedford Exchange
Board of Health
Bates
Alderman Grant
R. A Griffiths
Board of Cemetery Trustees
Robert W. Mountford
Griffiths
Wireless
Bakers
Washington Savings Bank
Central St
Lowell Trust Co
St. Thomas’s
Ladderman
Loomis
Ei-Azhar
G. G. Read
Middlesex
Merrimack Street
Lee
Keene
Lowetl
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!