Gulf Storm Ravages Mobile Fort Philip and Port Eads
Weather Bureau notes violent hurricane near Port Eads with anemometer caps carried away and wind reaching 72 mph. Destruction extends to Mobile small craft lumber mills and gardens. Fort Philip quarters kitchens and mess hall damaged. rail line disruptions threaten mail flow from New Orleans to eastern towns. Damaged vessels include Mexican Gulf and Foster Price. Fort lower bay reports flooded camp and broken breakwater.
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Port Eade
Weather Bureau
Mobile
Fiat
Washington
War Department
Jackson Barracks
New Orleans
Fort Philip
Louisville & Nashleville
Northwestern
Isaac Cline
Mississippi
Port Eads
Ala
Marin
Mobile Bay
Coden
Mexican Gulf
Pat Lyons
Harold
Fruit Islands
Foster Price
Pensacola
Fort Morgan
Asa T Stowell
Round Island
Daphne
Fort
United States
Poe
Body of Another Victim Found Near Crib Disaster Scene
Cleveland Ohio August 17 the body of another victim was recovered Saturday near the holocaust site. The remains were terribly burned and identification is unlikely.
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Cleveland
British Steamer Knight Commander Sinks Dover Barge
The British steamship Knight Commander sailing from London to Baltimore collided off Dover with the barge Norman Little and sank it. The barge crew were saved.
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London
Baltimore
Dover
Norman Little
Mill fire leaves 120 men jobless in Sault Ste Marie
By the burning of the Bradley Watkins big lumber shingle cedar tie mill 120 men are out of employment. Loss is about $50,000, partly insured. Also reported: Stamboul the trotting stallion died Saturday at E. H. Harriman's Goshen farm.
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Sault Ste Marie, Mich
Bradley Watkins
New York
Stamboul
E. H. Harriman
Goshen
Secret Talks and Westward Push in Steel Strike
Reports from Joliet and Pittsburgh Aug 17 say strike leaders aim to win Milwaukee and Chicago support while secret discussions unfold. Union plans at Duquesne and Bay View reflect renewed effort to shut Carnegie properties, with officials warning of potential violence and widespread labor actions across mills and allied plants.
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Milwaukee Steel
Chicago
Ledger
Joliet
Pittsburg
West
Milwaukee
Carnegie Properties
Duquesne
Amalgamated
Shaffer
Bay View Lodge
Bayven
Lodge
Heanys
Government in the Dark and Panama Expedition Delays
Reports show no state department updates on the Colombia Venezuela troubles as the navy redirects ships toward Panama. The Machias and Iowa prepare to sail, Ranger delays at San Diego, and troops establish military posts along the Tacumna railroad as French cruiser Strher offers limited activity near Colon.
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Ranger
South
Panama
Navy Department
Iowa
San Francisco
Department
San Diego
Paseo
Sal O
Afong
Tacumna
Colon
Colombia
Galveston
Texay 17
Strher
Reciprocity meeting eyed by manufacturers group in September
The National Association of Manufacturers chief Theodore Search calls a special executive committee meeting for September 4 to discuss reciprocity in all phases and to issue a call for a reciprocity convention in New York on August 17. In naval gossip the Mayflower is to be repaired as McKinley’s yacht, with Dolphin serving as dispatch boat to Porto Rico. Dr N E Phillips reelected chancellor at Kansas Wesleyan University, turning down New Orleans University presidency offer.
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Shaffer
Tighe
Milwaukee
Monessen
McKeesport
Painter Works
New York
J Po Meageen
Steel Corporation
Morgan
FH Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Plains
London
Philadelpha
Ang Tt
Theodore Search
Natonal Association of Manufacturers
Navy Yard
President McKinley
Gov Allen
Porto Rico
Dolphin
Salina
Kan
N. E. Phillips
Kansas Wesleyan University
New Orleans University
Controversy Over Heir and Crown in Dim Gossip
The note discusses a rumored match and royal succession involving Princess Margy Teraf Conmanght and Duke Micheal, with a plan for a contested ceremony and a public sale to fund it. A California note mentions a carpet dealer’s relief, while Dresden pottery fire damages $50,000 of ware. Stanford faculty change and a Porto Rico coffee duty decision close the dispatch.
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London
East Liverpool. O
Dresden
May Spare Taku Forts
Washington reports Commissioner Rockhill has not told the state department if the protocol calls for destroying the Taku forts. Press advices say ministers omitted this provision, aligning with the government's long held doubt about razing forts and aversion to featuring it in the protocol.
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Washington
Rockhill
State Department
Taku
National WoC T U to Meet in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Texas August 17 delegates and visitors from across the United States will attend the National WoC T U meeting in Fort Worth November 15. All national officers and state presidents are expected. Charles Lutoway, famed organist of Paris, may provide services. The event is billed as the largest women gathering ever in the south.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Delas
Woc T U
United States
Charles Tuatloway
Paris
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