Northwest Blazes. Loss Heavy In Each Case
Firemen killed while fighting flames in Detroit area. Marion Iowa fire destroyed a town block after gas and electric works explosion. Howard City Michigan lost most of Main Street including hotels and post office. La Moure North Dakota fire left about 40 buildings burned, total loss around 75000 with limited insurance. Courthouse among the ruins.
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Cepar Rapids
Marion
Daniels’ Estate
Howard City
Mich
Montcalm
Lake View
Read
Lacomber & Bates
North Dakota
la Movure
N. D
A. Hagerman
A. S. Howe
la Moure County
Firemen Killed and Injured as Mill Walls Collapse in Detroit
A Detroit blaze at E G Richards and Hunton Myles Works on Franklin and Rivard streets killed one firefighter and injured six others when a wall fell during a water-pressing operation. The fire destroyed Richards planing mill and damaged nearby freight cars with a total loss near 60000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
E. G. Richards & Co
Hunton, Myles & Weeks
Franklin and
Rivard Streets
Grand Haven
Milwaukee
Richards Planing
Eugene McCarthy
Henry Trapp
George W. Lyons
Louis R. Tate
Thomas Schieble
Charles Boeberitz
Second Fire Strikes Chicago Lumber District
A second blaze in the Chicago lumber district destroyed John Spry Lumber, A. J. McBean cedar posts, and P. Farrell cedar posts yards. The Ashland river bridge burned as flames spread across a 250 by 125 foot plot east of Wednesday’s fire. Firefighters withdrew earlier but returned as a northwest wind fanned the flames, injuring several crew and driving losses to about $200,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
CuicaGco
John
Boiler Explosion Kills Three Near Dahlgren Ills
A boiler blast on a farm two miles east of Dahlgren Illinois killed three people including engineer Bruce Miller and two young sons of John Underwood. Several others were seriously injured with two in critical condition and several with minor wounds.
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Dahlgren
St. Louis
Republic
Ills
Bruce Miller
John Underwood
William Cremens
Emer Hook
Strikes Signal Return as Rail Unions Declare Local Action
A. R. U. members in St Paul resume work as several railroad lines including St Paul and Duluth Omaha Chicago Burlington and Northern and Milwaukee report local strikes ended for now. Elsewhere judiciary committee moves to investigate Judge Augustus J. Ricks on Central Labor Union charges from Cleveland. Hunter's commission arrives in Des Moines to oversee post office fight, with Hunter set to take charge August 15 amid Democratic discontent.
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St. Paul
A. R.U
St. Patt
Chicago
Duluth
Omaha
Burlington and Northern
Milwaukee
Ricks
Washington
Judiciary Committee of
The
House
Augustus J. Ricks
Central Labor Union of
Cleveland
Representative Bailey
Texas
Johnson
Hunter
Des Mores
Eibeck
Sheriff arrests four in Brownton post office robbery
Glencoe Minnesota Aug. Sheriff Leitzel jailed four Brownton men suspected of robbing Goethe post office in Carver county Saturday night. Fifty dollars in stamps and clothing valued at 100 to 200 dollars were taken. property not recovered, likely reducing chances of holding the suspects.
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Glencoe
Minn
Aug
Leitzel
Brownton
Goethe
Carver County
Freight wreck at Alto Bridge injures three
A Oregon Railway and Navigation freight train derailed seventeen cars from Alto bridge, 96 feet high, near Walla Walla Washington. Conductor W E Watson brakeman David Wright and Fred Harrison injured but not fatally.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Alto Bridge
W. E. Watson
David Wright
Fred Harrison
Milwaukee Riot Over Smallpox Isolation Move
A mob of about 8000 people in Milwaukee confronted health officers attempting to move Fred Kembler’s child on Arthur street to the isolation hospital for smallpox. Police were overwhelmed. the removal was abandoned. A Kembler child had died of smallpox three weeks earlier. The family and neighbors vow to resist further removals.
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Milwaukee
Aug
Fred Kembler
Arthur Street
Kembler
Hospital of Smallpox
Governor Nelson inspects Red River ditches along Sand Hill Tamarack route
St Paul Aug 8 Governor Nelson and Red River Valley commission members inspect the Sand Hill and Tamarack river ditches and the planned ditch routes for next season. The commission is in session in the governor's office at the capitol.
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Red River
St. Paul
Nelson
Red
Milwaukee road picks Underwood as assistant general superintendent
W D Underwood current river division superintendent for Milwaukee road with HQ at La Crosse has been chosen by President Miller to succeed E W McKenna as assistant general superintendent. The second item reports a threshing boiler explosion in Montgomery Minnesota injuring no one but burning seven stacks of wheat and the separator.
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MccKenna’s Sticc
Milwaukee
W. D. Underwood
Milwaukee Road
la Crosse
Miller
E. W. McKenna
Montgomery
Minn
Frank Wessels
Receivers Authorized to Issue 1500000 in First Liens
Judge Foster of the U S district court ordered the Santa Fe receivers to bar 1 500 000 to pay wages taxes and expenses at terminals Receivers certificates will be the first lien on the property Grasshoppers threaten crops in Shelby and Tipton counties Tennessee Frost hits Michigan upper peninsula crops suffer from cold waves and forest fire losses in Ontonagon Gogebic Baraga counties
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Topeka
Kan
Foster
United States District Court
Tennessee
Memphis
Tenn
Shelby County
Tipton
Michigan
Ishpeming
Mich
Upper Peninsula
Ontouagon
Gogebic
Baraga
Wellman Polar Expedition News From Tromsoe
News of the Wellman polar voyage arrives via the Malygen with Captain Pedersen and the wrecked Ragnvald Jarl. Wellman and crew faced ice, built a depot on Walden Island, and pressed toward Danes Island while seeking open water and aid.
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Tromsoe
Norway
Malygen
Pedersen
Bottolofsen
Ragnvald Jarl
Wellman
Arctic
Ragnvald Jarm
Table Island
Seven Islands
Walden Island
Spitzenbergen
Daues Island
Mr. Wellman
Martens Island
Danes Island
Winship
Gilles Island
Hyerdahl
University of Christiana
Owen
Oates Wins Big in Alabama Vote as Democrats Sweep
Returns through midnight show Oates with a majority exceeding 20,000 and Democrats winning both legislature chambers with joint-ballot majorities over 10. Morgan’s Senate seat secured, Jefferson County backs the Democrats while white counties gain. Sayre ballot law used. voting slow but once secret. widespread African American support for Oates in the south and middle regions, Kolb favored in north.
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Alabama
Brraincham
Ala
Oates
Morgan
Senate
Jefferson
Tompkins
Democratic Committee
Kolb
Senate Sugar Schedule Near Final Form
Washington Aug 4 The tariff conference signals likely early agreement or a disagreement report. Senate conferees have agreed to present a sugar schedule as the extreme limit the Senate will accept. The schedule maintains a differential duty on refined sugar and preserves Senate protections.
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Senate
Washington
House
Big award in Emma mine case halves for Aspen workers
In Denver on August 4 Judge Riner ruled that Margaret Billings and other previously impoverished claimants receive 540000 dollars in cash and a one third interest in the Emma mine at Aspen. The decision follows a lengthy court action and is based on a master’s finding.
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Emma
Denver
Riner
United States District Court
Margaret Billings
Aspen
Bnt
Fires in St. Paul Tuesday Burn Major Fuel Yard
St. Paul firefighters battled several blazes with Monday's worst strike at the Northwestern Fuel company on Como avenue where a fire caused about 550000 in losses. The fire damaged cars on a sidetrack, part of the Como avenue bridge and an ice house at St Paul Lake Ice company, with other alarms producing nominal damages.
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Northwestern Fuel Company
St. Patt
St. Paul
Como Avenue
St. Paul Lake Ice Company
Leaving the Country Outbound Steerage Exceeds Arrivals
New York reports a July emigration surge with 19,968 total departures and 11,549 arrivals. Outbound steerage passengers outnumber arrivals by 8,419, reflecting continued flight of the idle elements amid low steamship rates and economic hardship.
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New York
Five Thousand Slavs Offered to Japan for War Service
Valen tine Nowacki leading foreign coke strikers proposes to supply 5,000 Slavs for Japan’s war with China. He will confer with the Japanese legation in Washington as lieutenants report broad desire among regional workers to enlist. The group, all adult foreigners in the coke region, sees easy mobilization of five regiments.
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Connellsville
Valentine Nowacki
China
Coke
Nowacki
Washington
Japan
Haggin
London
J. B. Haggin
California
Dynamite Plot Foiled On Eureka Train Run
A Eureka Missouri train heist nearly ended in catastrophe as bandits opened a dynamite car and placed cartridges on the rails close to the express car. The blast failed to ignite the dynamite and the entire 182 passengers and train escaped unharmed in what observers call miraculous.
Unsuccessful Hold-Up Attempt on Frisco Train No 3
An unsuccessful attempt to hold up Train No. 3 on the St. Louis and San Francisco road occurred after a 8:50 p.m. departure from St. Louis Union Depot. About 9:80, just before the train reached Eureka, details remain unclear.
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St. Louis
San Francisco
Union Depot
Eureka
Train Robbery and Assault at Eureka Station
Express Messenger Ferguson was shot at a Louis county rail car door by a masked robber who fled after being repelled. The train then suffered a deliberate explosion near Eureka station, damaging the engine but causing no injuries.
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Louis County
Ferguson
Eureka Station
Anarchists Arrested in Rome Deportation Plan
Six anarchists were seized during a secret conference in Rome. It is estimated that 2,000 arrestees from two months of raids will be deported, with a group of 50 already sent to Naples to embark for Massawa in the Red Sea.
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Rome
Naples
Massowah
Red Sea
Seaman Dies of Cholera Aboard Balmoral at Gravesend
The steamship Balmoral arrived at Gravesend from St. Petersburg reporting the death of one seaman from cholera aboard.
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Lonpox
Balmoral
Gravesend
St. Petersburg
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Warren Street
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