Canadian Pacific Steamer Islander Sinks Near Douglas Island
The Islander, Alaska route steamer of Canadian Pacific Navigation, hit an iceberg off Douglas Island at 2 am last Thursday and sank with 65 to 80 aboard. Survivors report boilers exploded on sinking. Captain Foote perished with the ship. Passengers listed include Mrs. Ross and several others, with crew losses named.
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Victoria
B. C
Islander
Alaska
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
Douglas Island
Queen
Foote
Ross
Five killed in trolley train collision on Forty seventh street
Five people died and ten were injured in a crash between a Forty seventh street trolley car and a rapidly moving Pennsylvania railroad passenger train. The dead include Frederick O. Edwards and Harriet Sutcliffe. The accident occurred at a busy crossing with gates down as the train passed.
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Chicago
Forty-seventh Street
Pennsylvania Road
Frederick O. Edwards
Harriet Sutcliffe
Ida B. Osler
Willis Bowman
Luther Jackson
Mary O'Malley
Kate Greenfield
Marian Branard
Jamies Gillette
W. J. Fulton
Margaret Dwyer
Lizzie Coale
Ee Bigelow
J. Brosedowitz
Forty Seventh Street
Stewart Avenue
Hether
Albert Haas
Railroad
Bowman
Gage
E. J. Eckhard
Fort Wayne
F. McMahon
Fatal Explosion At Ohio Steel Plant Kills Three
Youngstown Ohio August 18 An explosion of ten tons of molten metal in the blast furnace department at the National Steel Co plant today caused three deaths and eleven injuries. The dead are Richard Richards Joseph Buggs and John Crinkshank. Two injured are in a dying condition and at least six others are not expected to survive. The accident occurred when machinery broke releasing metal into a water tank.
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Youngstown, O
Ohio
National Steel Co
Richard Richards
Joseph Buggs
John Crinkshank
Kruger Interview Credits Irish Help and Opposes Proclamations
The Freeman's Journal prints an interview from Hilversum in which Kruger thanks Ireland as "brothers in oppression" and urges British MPs to pursue justice. He says Kitchener's proclamations and Chamberlain's speeches won't frighten his people, condemns using natives, denies a Dutch conspiracy, and warns Britain’s promises may lead to land loss if loans are unpaid.
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London
The
Freeman's Journal of Dublin
Kruger
William Redmond
Hilversum
Holland
South African
Lord Kitchener
Chamberlain
South Africa
Great Britain
Ireland
Train Trolley Collision At Gravesend Leaves Two Dead
In a head on crash between a Long Island train and a 15th street trolley at Gravesend avenue and Avenue O, two killed and 25 injured. A Y shaped junction and a misplaced signal caused the collision. The signalman is under arrest at Parkville station. Brooklyn trolley crash adds another fatality. vonn Sirinek and Joseph Rosenbacher among the dead or injured with others seriously hurt but not fatally.
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New York
Long Island
Gravesend Avenue
Avenue O
Parkville
Brooklyn
Vonn Sirinek
Joseph Rosenbacher
Pilot boat James Gordon Bennett sunk after collision
New York reports the pilot boat James Gordon Bennett No. 7 was run down and sunk near the Scotland light ship this afternoon by the German steamer Alené of the Hamburg American line. Three pilots and the cook were lost in the incident.
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Mix
Godbey
Frank Hopkins
Alexander Dexter
Bennett
Eugene McCarthy
Walter Wells
Frank Clarke
Frank Eagan
Bensen
Brookyn
Sandy Hook Bar
Sandy Hook
Hopkins
Dexter
New York
West Indies
James Gordon Bennett
Scotland
Alené
Atlas
Cook
Kruger Voices Hope for Independence and Deliverance
The speech stresses timely aid for the Boers and insists on full independence. He defends actions amid farm burnings and camps, questions British awareness, and notes Mr. Redmond’s appearance as not indicating collapse. He mentions no definite plans about visiting the United States.
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Kruger
United States
Mr. Redmond
Marconi System to Aid Ophir off Newfoundland
The British Admiralty plans the Marconi wireless system at Cape Race to communicate with the royal yacht Ophir when it nears the Newfoundland coast in October. The move aims to avert accidents in waters where many vessels were wrecked this season.
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St. Johns
N. F
Admiralty
Marconi
Cape Race
Ophir
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
Newfoundland
Pope hosts reception on St. Joachim's Day in Rome
In Rome on St. Joachim's Day the Pope held a reception attended by twenty cardinals and about 150 archbishops and bishops. He appeared in excellent health and spoke of the church’s steady progress, noting gains in the United States and Great Britain. He chatted animatedly with the cardinals.
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Rome
United States
Great Britain
Honor for Archibald Fellowship in Royal Geographical Society
San Francisco August 18 James F Archibald war correspondent has received word from England that he has been granted an honorary fellowship in the Royal Geographical Society of London for papers and writings on South Africa and Cuba. There are less than twenty of these fellowships held in the United States.
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San Francisco
James F. Archibald
England
Royal Geographical Society of London
South Africa
Cuba
United States
Lightning Sets Fires In North Scituate And Mount Pleasant
A Providence Aug 18 report states during Saturday's storm lightning struck two barns in North Scituate burning one belonging to Rev Elisha Card killing two horses and destroying an ice house. In Mount Pleasant a bolt entered Fred Braytons home, scorched a bag of toothache medicine and exited unharmed with no injuries.
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Providence
R. L
North Scituate
Elisha Card
Fred Brayton
Mount Pleasant
Spanish minister seeks names in cigar strike probes
Tampa Aug 18 The Spanish minister in Washington asked Vicente Guerra Spanish vice consul here for the names of subjects reported by the citizens vigilant committee as leaders of the Resistencia cigar makers strike. Guerra has begun an investigation and called those who reported the matter to testify before him.
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Tampa
Fla
Washington
Vincente Guerra
Resistencia
Spain
Appointment of Dr J J Rodriguez as US delegate secretary
Washington August 18 Secretary Hay appoints Dr J J Rodriguez of this city as secretary of the United States delegation to the International Conference of American States to be held in Mexico City next October. Rodriguez is a lawyer who served as special counsel to the American peace commissioners in Paris.
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Washington
Hay
J. J. Rodriguez
United States
Mexico
Rodriguez
Paris
Tram Car Hold Up In Melbourne Suburbs
Four masked men armed with revolvers held up a Melbourne tram late tonight and rifled eight passengers of money and jewelry before decamping.
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Melbourne
Composer Audran Dies at 76 in Paris
Paris August 18 Edmond Audran French composer is dead Born April 11 1842 He gained fame with the opera La Mascotte and had a long career shaping light French opera across decades
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Paris
Edmond Audran
Sweden's Queen Sophia Ill Again in Copenhagen
Copenhagen reports Queen Sophia of Sweden is seriously ill again. The item notes a prior leg ailment and a cure claim from Dean's Ointment by C. W. Lenhart of Bowling Green, mentioning relief from itching and burning.
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Copenhagen
Sophia
Sweden
Dean
C. W. Lenhart
Bowling Green
Battle Ahead as Ecuadorian Troops Migrate toward Colombia
In Washington Aug 18 Captain Perry reports Towas boiler issues but hopes to sail to the Panama west coast amid Colombian Venezuelan friction. Quito dispatch claims Ecuadorian troops ready to invade Colombia near Pasto, while Colombian Minister Silva doubts government backing and links new expedition to internal upheaval. Colombian revolutionaries have long sourced arms from Ecuadorian sympathizers. three past expeditions failed.
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Washington
Perry
Towas
San Francisco
Navy Department
Panama
Department
Quito
Colombia
Pasto
Silva
Ecuador
Venezuelan Crisis Deepens Amid Invasions And Landing Reports
Reports from Curacao and Colombia describe President Castro of Venezuela sending arms and men to support a Colombian revolution. Emilio Fernandez and sixty partisans reportedly depart Curacao to invade Venezuela, with Segundo Rivera said to have landed. Passengers from the Canad note unrest in Venezuela and limited landings. An Ecuadorian force is prepared to invade Colombia near Pasto, signaling imminent clash at the frontier.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Haytien
Castro
Venezuela
Cucuta
Colombia
Emilio Fernandez
Caracas
Laguayra
Segundo Rivera
Colon
Galveston
Tex
Canad
Venezuelan
Duiz
Panama
Guayaquail
German cruiser Veneta ordered to Venezuela waters
Berlin reports the government has ordered the cruiser Vineta off the Eastern coast of South America to proceed to Venezuelan waters and stay ready to protect German interests if an emergency arises.
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Berlin
Vineta
South America
Venezuelan
Fatal carriage crash kills Mrs Saltmarsh in Alexandria
In Alexandria New Hampshire on August 18 Mrs Frank Saltmarsh was killed when a carriage driven by her wife charged by fright struck a pulp wood pile. Her daughter Miss Clements of Portsmouth sustained serious injuries. Mrs Saltmarsh was 46 and her daughter 18.
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Alexandria
N. H
Frank Saltmarsh
Miss Clements
Portsmouth
Two Strange Dreams From A Nightly Gallery Of Sleep
An elderly New Orleans Times-Democrat writer recalls two remarkable dreams. A ballet dancer emerges through a wall, then a Mexican with a knife appears and vanishes. The second image shows numerous buzzards in plug hats pecking at the narrator’s head as they pass by, leaving a vivid, unsettling memory.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Watchful coughs warn of big colds and death danger
It's the little colds that grow into big colds, the big colds that end in consumption and death. Watch the little colds. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup.
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Dr. Wood
Readers note Reade's Cloister and the Hearth ranked among great English novels
The Academy highlights Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth as rising in English esteem and likely a classic. It surveys its illustrated editions since 1893 and hints at renewed interest in Reade's works like Griffith Gaunt, while also recounting anecdotes about hymn humor and Stevenson’s New York visit with vivid detail.
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Academy
Charles Reade
Reade
Messrs. Chatto
Sir Walter Besant
A Plea for Cultivating the English Language
Alfred Ayres, once an aspiring actor turned elocution teacher, writes on good English in Harper's Magazine August issue. The piece critiques a learned dictionary maker and expresses Ayres’s measured, serious voice on language usage.
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Transcript
Alfred Ayres
Ayres
Harper’s Magazine
Cosmopolitan plans Pan American Exposition issue with photo spread
The Cosmopolitan will repeat its past success with a Pan American Exposition number more attractive than the World's Fair edition. Famous writers have been invited to contribute, and more than a hundred photographs have been prepared to convey the Exposition's marvels.
The Eternal City by Hall Caine Explores Samson Power
Hall Caine’s forthcoming romance The Eternal City frames Samson’s lifelong struggle with Philistine lords as a metaphor for the people’s power in the nineteenth century. The novel blends grand themes with a vivid human story, intense emotion, and dramatic mastery.
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Hall Caine
Samson
Realms of Gold by Lorenzo Sosso in press for early publication
Lorenzo Sosso announces In the Realms of Gold to be published by Elder and Shepard. The volume features The Visions of King Solomon, a long poem reworking Ecclesiastes to praise God's love through humanity. It includes other pieces such as An acreon in Old Age and A Pure Woman with sonnets and shorter lyrics.
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Lorenzo Sosso
Messrs. Elder & Shepard
Solomon
Ecclesiastes
Anacreon
Swiss Rail Link From Montreux To Interlaken Plans
The Swiss government approves a new rail line to connect Montreux with the Bernese Oberland and extend finally to Interlaken. The project aims to boost tourism by improving regional access and travel times between key alpine destinations.
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Montreux
Bernise Oberland
Interlaken
Deaf Highlander Piper Hopes To Relearn Life After Shell
A Gordon Highlander named Fraser was struck by a fragment of a fifteen pound shell at Modder River, becoming deaf, mute, and amnesiac. He survived, underwent surgery at Netley, regained speech and hearing, but memory remained blank for prior events. He later learned reading and writing, and planned to work hard to rebuild his education.
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South Africa
Gordon Highlanders
Frase
Government Hospital
Netley
Eng
Gordon Highland Regiment
Modder River
Fraser
Ambulance Corps
Bloemfontein
Cape Town
England
Boston Herald
Berlin Tram Lines Run by Horm Traction Declines
Only nineteen of the seventy Berlin tram lines are now worked by horm traction, reflecting a shift in the city’s public transport operations and potential impacts on service patterns and maintenance routines.
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Berlin
Horm Traction
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