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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
1
A three day Confederate veteran reunion will begin Tuesday in Memphis. Organizers expect veterans from several states to attend and participate in commemorations and ceremonies.
Memphis hosts Confederate reunion with 35000 expected visitors culminating in the unveiling of the Stephen D Lee monument in Vicksburg. Memphis streets glow with electric flags and arches as veterans, Daughters of the Confederacy, and memorial groups gather from across the South for ceremonies and parades.
Zeigin and Sellers establish a Monroe plant to build motor boats from 16 to 40 feet, specializing in a 16 foot model priced at 125 dollars. They anticipate rapid output with several orders including a 25 foot launch due in two weeks.
Ten people drowned at Mandeville yesterday when the shore boat landed and the excursion craft collapsed. A train reportedly collapsed alongside the dock as the incident occurred on Lake Pontchartrain.
Ten people are dead and seven missing after a wharf collapse at Mandeville La when the excursion steamer Margaret landed. About seventy five fell into Lake Pontchartrain as crowds gathered amid heroics by onlookers and nearby residents.
Col Alexander McClure longtime prothonotary of Pennsylvania courts and influential journalist died at his Wallingford home at age 81. A famed 1848 Whig nominee for auditor general McClure helped break Pennsylvania from Cameron to back Lincoln in 1860. He later served as adjutant general during the Civil War drafting Pennsylvania troops.
Mrs Elizabeth Sharp wife of a politician and manufacturer killed her twelve year old son Harold last night and then shot herself. The tragedy occurred after the pair spent the evening playing and singing together in Salem Ohio.
Henry C. Frick and Pittsburgh steel leaders draft a temperance pledge workers must sign before being employed after Frick observed an intoxicated former employee near Carnegie Steel Company works. The pledge aims to curb drunkenness among laborers in the early morning inspection.
Mr Frick leads talks with steel company directors resulting in an agreement that all prospective workers must swear to abstain from intoxicants. Sixty thousand city employees will be required to sign the pledge.
A lightning strike hit a powder magazine near Cracow railway station causing a massive explosion. About 500 people were wounded, three soldiers killed, and four hundred plus houses damaged or wrecked as debris scattered through the crowd.
In Philadelphia on June 6 Mrs. Mary Atmerkjian was found dead at her home with a bullet wound. Her husband Krieger Atmerkjian, a prosperous Armenian, was alone with her and claims she killed herself, but he is being held by police.
Louisville hosts the thirty five annual conclave of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine drawing an anticipated fifty thousand to seventy five thousand visitors from the U S Canada and Mexico. Highlights include an electric patrol pageant parade massed band concert and various events on the Ohio riverfront with tourism and entertainment spending planned.
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