Empress of Ireland Sinks after Collision in Fog
Reports from Rimouski and Quebec recount the collision between Empress of Ireland and the Norwegian Storstad in the St Lawrence. Captains Kendall and Andersen blame each other as a formal inquiry is promised. The Empress sank with over 900 dead. Storstad’s actions are under scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Pacific Railway
St. Lawrence River
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Jer Storstad
H. C. Kendall
Thomas Andersen
Kendall
Rimouski
Storstad
Coller
Iiner
Andersen
Quebec
Dominion Coal Company
Empress of Ireland
Mner
Hner
Suffragette Hatchet Attack at London Gallery
A suffragette in fashionable London attacked a gallery attendant with a hatchet, destroying two paintings and wounding the guard Bourlet as others overpowered her. She left a note declaring militants have been too ladylike and vow to fight, mentioning a painting by Bartolozzi and a resolve to die for justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dore
London
Bourlet
Bartolozzi
Policeman Shoots Robber In Birdsboro Creek Fall
In Birdsboro near Reading Pennsylvania a man identified as Daniel X Bressler was killed after firing at Officer Lloyd during a second story robbery attempt at Focht and Lacey s hardware store Loot including revolvers and razors lay with the body in Hay Creek Police believe the victim was part of a two week robbery spree It was the gang s member feared to be involved in the crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Focht & Lacey's
Birdsboro
Reading
Lloyd
Daniel X. Bressler
Hay Creek
Land and Land Movement Across the Continent
An article notes that large portions of the United States were once covered by the sea and the land is now rising in some places while sinking in others. It argues minor land movements occur constantly and discusses curious natural observations such as a woodpecker tapping a tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Peilers
Woodpecker
Huerta Spares Tacuba Students and Deflects Assassination
In Vera Cruz President Huerta spared the Tacuba agricultural college students who plot to kill him. He confined them to Santiago prison claiming they are too young to execute the act. Huerta told friends he narrowly escaped death when two bullets struck the automobile he rode in. Mrs Eaton Re-Weds In Boston Mrs Jennie M Eaton, alleged acquittee of murdering her second husband Rear Admiral Joseph G Eaton, marries her first husband Henry Ainsworth in Boston after eight years apart. Rev L Morgan Chambers performs the ceremony then the couple travels to Colonial for the honey moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huerta
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Agricultural College
Tacuba
Santiago
Eaton
Jennie .M. ‘Eaton
Joseph G. Eaton
Boston
Henry”Ainsworth
L. Morgan Chambers
Colonial
Fla
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England
Canada
Marie Cannon
Harvey's Lake
Wilkes-Barre
Jeroihe, Malloy
King George
George
Europe
Russia
Laurel Scheid
Sweeton SQ
E.king St. Lancaster
Lykens Valley
Musselman Bros
Holland
Captain Kendall
Empress of
Ireland
American Press Association
M. C. Buckwalter
New Holland, Pe
Lehigh
Hager Store
Becana
Mane
Steinway
Weber
Steck
Wheelock
Stuyvesant
Stroud
Pianolais
Sunn
ASSO
Francesca-Heppe
Tage
Wes
Altea
Sicard
Bliss
Alonzo C. Bliss
Washington, D.C
A. L. Whitmer
W. Main ST
New Holland, PA
J. H. Townsley
C. B. Townsley
J. H. Townsley & Son, New
Holland, PA
Architects and Builders
the ‘Clarion
New Holland
J. Frank Brubaker
Farmers National Bank
J. E. Tierney
Wrath
Bottling Works
Weiler
Ricker’s
Ricker's
Pottsville Porter
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