Runaway Train Demolishes House In Spokane Tragedy
A 60 car coal train without an engine ran four miles down a grade through Spokane, crushing a six room house and damaging Crystal laundry. Four dead include Elmer Slee age 9 and William Thomas, plus two unidentified men, eight injured. James Slee escaped unharmed.
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Spokane
Wash
Spokane Falls and Northern
Great Northern
Crystal
William Thomas
Elmer Slee
Thomas
John Slee
Meyers
Crystal Steam Laundry
Slee
James Slee
Elmer
Clarence
Marlowe and Sothern to Tour for Three Seasons
London reports Charles Frohman has arranged a three season joint appearance for E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe under his management. They begin in New York mid September 1904 and tour the United States to San Francisco, concluding each season in London. The contract lists Romeo and Juliet Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew The Merchant of Venice A Winter's Tale and Hamlet.
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London
Charles Frohman
E. H. Sothern
Julia Marlowe
New York
United States
San Francisco
Perils of Mining Toll In Panther Creek Valley Disasters
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania on June 22 three men die one dies later as two coal mine disasters strike Lehigh Coal and Navigation company in Panther Creek Valley. A mine fire sparked deadly steam scalding seven workers. two more deaths follow from injuries and a gas ignition after a coal fall at No 8 colliery. Affected include Daniel Lewis and John Fornaget dead. Richard West John Black Fritz Labach John Vettick and Joseph Parker seriously injured. Daniel O'Brien killed Collins mortally injured. No. 8 colliery had been inspected by the strike commission last fall.
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Tamaqua
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Panther Creek
Daniel Lewis
Lansford
John Fornaget
No. 4
Richard West
Coaldale
John Black
Summit Hill
Fritz Labach
John Vettick
Joseph Parker
Number 8
Daniel O’brien
Daniel Collins
O'Brien
Collins
No. 8
Highways Washed In Mt Washington Region
Littleton New Hampshire June 22 heavy rains over the past two days have badly damaged highways in the Mt Washington area along the Ammonoosuc and Israel rivers. A temporary dam built by the Boston and Maine railroad and Mount Pleasant Hotel company to hold back floodwaters has washed away, increasing destruction. Gov Bachelder and several council members monitor the state road situation closely.
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Littleton
N. H
Mt. Washington
Israel
Presidential Range
Boston and Maine Railroad
Mount Pleasant Hotel Company
Galveston Cruiser To Be Launched Wednesday
Richmond Virginia June 22 announced tonight that the cruiser Galveston will be launched under government auspices on Wednesday next at 3 30 in the afternoon. Miss Zeeley of Texas will be the sponsor.
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Richmond
Galveston
Miss Zeeley
Texas
Yale Class Day Ends With Concert and Prom Night
Yale New Haven June 22 Festivities closed with a Glee and Banjo Club concert in Woolsey hall and the senior promenade in the gym. Rain shifted histories to the theatre. Yale Corp met on honorary degrees faculty appointments and administration. Law school anniversary featured Hon Whitelaw Reid with prizes awarded to George W Crawford Garfield P Jones and Stanley W Edwards.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Woolsey Hall
University Gymnasium
Yate Corporation
Yale Law School
Hendrie Hall
Whitelaw Reid
New York
Reid
Townsend
George W. Crawford
Birmingham
Ala
Joseph Barker
Supreme Lodge A. O. U. W. adjourns after long three week session
The supreme lodge of the A. O. U. W. met in St. Paul and adjourned after its longest and most important gathering. Key legislation includes revised death benefit assessments starting at age 24, larger increases at 35, with no rise between 18 and 24. An consulting actuary office was created and M. M. Dawson of New York was chosen.
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St. Paul, Minn
Supreme Lodge
M. M. Dawson
New York City
Former Teller Arrested In Vermont Bank Scandal
Howard J. Hill of Bristol, once a teller at the Farmers' National Bank of Vergennes, was arrested by Deputy Marshal Chapman on charges of abstracting funds. He was arraigned before US commissioner Merrill in Rutland with a hearing set for Wednesday. The bank was closed two years ago after Cashier Lewis and clerk J W Kedeham were convicted of diverting securities. both are in state prison, and the bank remains under receiver care.
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Rutland
Howard J. Hill
Bristol
Farmers’ National Bank of
Vatican Favours Merry Del Val as Westminster Archbishop
Rome June 22 The Vatican favors Mgr. Merry Del Val to succeed the late Cardinal Vaughan as archbishop of Westminster. Former apostolic delegate in Canada, Del Val is described as having a Spanish diplomat father and an English mother, with birth in London.
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Rome
Vatican
Cardinal Vaughan
Westminster
Mgr
Merry del Val
Canada
Holy See
London
Cardinal Wiseman
Seville
United States lien placed on warship Galveston
In Richmond Virginia on June 22 Judge Grinnan dissolved an injunction restraining the United States from taking possession of the cruiser Galveston. The ship shall remain property of the Trigg creditors until the case is decided by the court of highest resort. The Galveston will be launched this week.
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Richmond
the Chancery Court
Grinnan
United States
Galveston
Trigg
Chamberlain Blames Present Fiscal System
London June 22 Colonial Secretary Chamberlain told the House of Commons no effective steps to induce Germany to end Canada discrimination can be taken under the present fiscal system.
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London
House of Commons
Germany
Canada
Chamberlain
Removal pleas filed against two New York city magistrates
New York June 22 application for removal of City Magistrates John O Mott and Clarence W Meade was made to the appellate division of the supreme court. Affidavits by Jacob W Mack claim the magistrates are physically and mentally incapable of performing their duties.
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New York
John O. Mott
Clarence W. Meade
Supreme Court
Jacob W. Mack
City Club
Not a Relative in Utah Poison Case
The Rockland youth reported dead near Ogden Utah was not nephew of Congressman Chas E Littlefield but a namesake who visited the congressman with his mother last summer. He served as secretary to Senator Rawlins of Utah and was not a relative.
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Rockland
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Utah
Chas
Chas. E. Littlefield
Congressman Littlefield
Senator Rawlins
Doctor Price arraigned in criminal malpractice case in Boston
Dr. Walter H. Price surrendered to police after evading arrest for months and pleaded not guilty at arraignment in superior court. Prosecutors plan a trial within weeks.
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Boston
Walter H. Price
Massachusetts General Court Ends Week Amid Hooker Day Plans
Special Legislative Correspondence from Boston notes the Great and General Court aims to finish within two days, though they may delay to extend past Hooker Day. Governor Bates calls on Boston businesses to close Thursday for the Hooker statue unveiling, likely making it a holiday. Senate moves a coal dealers licensing bill to a third reading while the automotive bill draws debate and a stringent curb on curves and intersections set at eight miles per hour. Copeland.
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Boston
Great and General Court
Bates
Hooker
Senate
Soule
New Bedford
Copeland
Merrimack River Bridge Bill Passes In Suspension
The conference report on the Merrimack river bridge in Haverhill was instantly adopted under suspension of the rules. An order for payrolls and full session allowances for Newall and Newell was approved. The debate covered plumbers examiners, public health needs, and costs, with a House vote 72 to 40 to reject the bill as recommended. The Senate and House wrestled over soldiers relief funding with a substitute measure advancing to third reading by a close margin.
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Merrimack River
Haverhill
Nichols
Boston
Messrs. Newall
West Newbury
Newell
Reading
Charles River
Bennett
Saugus
Senate
MacInerney
Hatch
Everett
Craig
Lynn
Hayes
Lowell
O’rourke
Worcester
House
Ways and Means
Thorburn
Marblehead
State Aid and
Ripley
Chelmsford
Schofield
Ipswich
Thornburn
Kiley
Parker
Springfield
Harding
Chatham
Old Commonwealth
Stanton
Huntington
Thornton
Iron-Ox Tablets Offer A Nerve And Digestion Remedy
Sleeplessness and nervous strain blamed on digestive imbalance. Iron-Ox Tablets are advertised to tonify the digestive system, regulate bowels, and build nerves and blood without purgatives. Sold 25 cents for fifty tablets in a pocket case, by The Iron-Ox Remedy Co of Detroit.
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Iron-Ox Remedy Co
Detroit
Mich
Legislature Debates Licensing and Bridge Plan in 11 AM Session
At 11 o clock the session opened with nine senators present and a quorum at 11 40. A conference committee reported an agreement on the Mer rismack river bridge at Haverhill and the report was accepted. The ways and means committee favored a bill to license automobile use. Debate on licensing coal dealers included calls for per town licensing and potential costs from 50 cents to 5 dollars. Several senators argued for or against the bill, with some suggesting state level licensing to avoid local burdens. Numerous corporation law references were accepted or referred to the next General Court. Further measures included street railway land takings to remove grade crossings and proposed revisions to the automobile bill with varying speed limits debates.
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Merrismack
Haverhill
Ways and
Bemis
Norfolk
Chandler
Middlesex
Coal Investigating Committee
Frost
Essex
Porter
Gaylord
Hampshire
Apsey
Soule
Bristol
Coal Committee
Harvard, Lawrence and
People’s and
North Adams Trust Companies
Seaver
Suffolk
Fall River Trust Company
Dorchester ‘Trust Company
Senate
House
Pratt
Plymouth
W. T. A. Fitzgerald
Tufts
Worcester
Amendment Battles Over Registration and Penalties in House
The debate centers on amendments to a bill regulating highway machines and licenses. Proposals include shortening registration figures, locking devices in public places, and reducing first and second offence penalties. Several amendments pass or fail by narrow margins as the bill proceeds to a third reading and separate coal and coke dealer licensing measure faces referral debate.
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Howe
Essex
How
Sampson
Hampden
W. T. A. Fitzgerald
Soule
Bristol
Suffolk
Apsey
Middlesex
Riots flare in Richmond streetcar strike
In Richmond Virginia on June 22 the street railway strike grew violent as strikers and sympathizers halted cars and pelted them with missiles. Five arrests were reported as about a hundred men barricaded Main Street line routes in the city’s lower district leaving no streetcars running tonight.
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Richmond
Pole arraigned for murder claims wife killed man with mallet
Toni Torchi koffi, a Polish immigrant, was arraigned in Brooklyn on murder charges for killing John Schlagouski. He claimed Schlagouski's wife beat him to death with a mallet and admitted aiding her. Torchi koffi was sentenced to execution at Sing Sing the week of August 8. A warrant for Mrs. Schlagouski was issued and she was later arrested.
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New York
Toni Torchikoffi
Brooklyn
John Schlagouski
Torchikoffi
Torchikoff
Sing Sing
Post Office Officials to Submit Office Condition Reports
Washington June 22 The post office department will issue a general summary of conditions in cashier and finance clerk offices at first class post offices. About 230 postmasters have been directed to report. Postmaster Van Cott of New York has submitted his report but it will not be released until the others arrive.
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Washington
Post Office Department
van Cott
New York
Missing Edith crew arrive at Norfolk Island
Advices from Sydney report that the missing crew of the German bark Edith have reached Norfolk Island. The Edith sailed from Port Ludlow January 14 for Port Pirie and was lost on Nereus shoals in January. The majority of the crew were saved by the German ship C. H. Watsen from New York for Yokohama.
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London
Sydney
S. W
Edith
Norfolk Island
Port Ludlow
Port Pirie
Nereus Shoals
Hight
C. H. Watsen
New York
Yokohama
Hooker Day Proclamation Urges Boston Holiday
Gov Bates proclaims June 22 that Thursday will dedicate a statue to Major General Joseph Hooker and asks citizens to close state departments and city hall decorations city wide. He urges businesses to close and declare a holiday with festive decor throughout Boston.
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Boston
Bates
Joseph Hooker
Freight wreck near Rawlins claims four lives
Three trainmen and one tramp were killed in a freight wreck four miles east of Rawlins Wyoming on June 22. Freight cars broke loose in Rawlins yard, rolled four miles downhill and crashed into the freight train carrying the victims.
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Rawlins, Wy
Here
Rawlins Yard
Lynching of George F White Near Wilmington Del
A mob of about 4000 men and boys burned George F White a recently released Black man at a stake near Mason and Dixon line. The mob forced entry at the Wilmington workhouse, dragged White from his cell after his confession, and executed him with oil and fire. Police and guards offered little resistance as the crowd dispersed after the act. The incident followed delays in giving White a speedy trial.
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Wilmington
Del
Mason and Dixon
George F. White
Hiss Helen S. Bishop
E. A. Bishop
Price's Corner
Peter Smith
White
King Peter of Servia Leaves Geneva After Lavish Sendoff
King Peter I of Servia departed Geneva at 8 43 p m with a grand sendoff from the Geneva delegation and local crowds. In Belgrade officials and newspapers debate promotions given to Geneva officers amid political tension and calls for punishment of the assassins of King Alexander and Queen Draga. A public holiday is declared for the reception and officials weigh Russia and Austria demands while the city prepares further celebrations and hospitality.
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Geneva
Peter the First
Servia
Belgrade
Popovics
Peter
la Suisse
Col
Mischich
Federal Council
Switzerland
Peter I of
Narod Nilist
Alexander
Draga
Russia
McKinley Memorial Trustees Review Progress in Cleveland
The McKinley National Memorial Association met at Senator Hanna's offices to review work and decide on state action. President Mr Justice Day led the meeting as officers and treasurer Hyron T. Herrick reported about 509000 in contributions and discussed inviting designs for immediate inspection and action by the board.
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Cleveland, O
McKinley National Memorial Association
Hanna
Justice Day
Hyron T. Herrick
Dr. Thomas Helectrie Heals Croup and Sore Throat
Dr. Thomas' Helectrie marketed as a cure for croup sore throat and pulmonary troubles. The ad promotes its effectiveness for various pains claiming fast relief and health benefits from the monarch’s favor.
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Monarch
Thomas’ Helectrie
Root Gardner Fight to Award $1000 Diamond Medal
The International Athletic Club in Buffalo announces a July 4 match awarding a $1000 diamond medal to the winner, who will defend the trophy against all challengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
The
International Athletic Club
Johnson disciplines AL figure after Saturday game
President Ban Johnson suspended manager Loftus Burkett is fined fifty dollars and umpire Connolly received a reprimand after an investigation into Saturday's game in St Louis. The ruling comes after an early exaggeration in initial reports.
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Chicago
Ban Johnson
Loftus Burkett
St. Louis
Loftus
Burkett
Connolly
Johnson
Court in Mourning for King Alexander of Servia
London dispatch reports King Edward has ordered the court to observe a fortnight of mourning for the late King Alexander of Servia as nations react to his death.
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London
Edward
Alexander of
Servia
Relieve Coughs with Foley's Honey and Tar
Chronic bronchial troubles and summer coughs can be quickly relieved and cured by Foley's Honey and Tar. Available at Good ale's drug store on Central street El lingwood Co. at Merrimack and Central, Carter Sherburne at Merrimack and Bridge, and Falls Burkinshaw at 418 Middlesex Street.
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Foley’s
Goodale’s Drug Store
Central Street
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central Streets
Carter & Sherburne
Bridge Streets
Falls & Burkinshaw
Middlesex Street
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Sothern
Lehigh Company
White Mountain
W. E. Hicks
Merrimack Street
Fred C. Cuff
Dr. Lyon
Vergennes, Vt
Archbishop Vaughan
U. S
DR. Prici
Beacon Hill
George H. Wood
Central and
Merrimack Streets
Delaware
Root-Gardner
Norma
TRUE
Dr. J. P
True &Co
Auburn
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