Rockaway Beach Fire Destroys Hotels and Casino
A large fire at Rockaway Beach beginning about 4 am destroyed two blocks of hotels and amusements including the Casino and Museum. Ten volunteer companies fought the flames with low water pressure as residents fled in night clothing. Loss around 125000. several killed or injured, including Max Kasten and the McKrow family, with many rescued by police and fire crews.
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Rockaway Beach
Long Island Railroad
Boulevard
Pier Avenue
Henry Street
Tnal
Rockaway
Seaside Avenue
McKrow
Thomas E
St. John’s Hospital
Jianson
Martin
West Fiftythird Street
Manhattan
Baimbridge
Katherine
Arlington Hotel
Iing Podd
M. J
Boston
Kasten
George Herr
Madison Square Garden
Bouleard
Mousette
Katsen
Peterson
Queens County Water Company
Hammel
New York
Conneally
Tingley
Max Kasten
Kusten
Peter McEanendy
McDonald
Long Island
Long Island City
Eakin
Annex
Eakens
Eakins
Joseph
Edward Peck
Devery
Peter Brannan
Kerr Brothers
Remsen
Colonnade
Peter Brannen
F Annex
Mousette’s
Byrnes’s
Jenet
Peterson’s
Herr Brothers
Waters’s
John Wainwright
William Wainwright
Northern Securities Co. features in Morning Telegraph issue
Advertising pages and notices appear across The Morning Telegraph Monday issue. The text lists hotels pages and out-of-town buyers with references to intelligence and foreign mails.
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Eima Intelligence
Fig
Ires
Fin
Northern Securities Co
Telegraph
Coal Strike Sustains Tense Mood Across Anthracite Belt
Wilkes Barre Penn June 1 The eve of a pivotal week in the anthracite strike finds the region on edge. At 7 am the UMWA order to call out stationary engineers firemen and pumpmen unless wages and eight hours are granted goes into effect. Both sides vow to resist yielding and fear of disturbances grows while unions prepare to push for outside support and the companies mobilize guards and non union workers.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
United Mine Workers of America
Mitchell
Lee
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Charles H. Schadt
Lackawanna County
Scranton
Schadt
Susquehanna Coal Company
Alden Coal Company
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company
Nanticoke
Brotherhoods of
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Ashley
The
United Mine Workers
Fahy
Charles S. Wilson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Wilson
Railroad Brotherhood
Labor unrest looms as miners strike spreads in Pennsylvania
Scranton reports indicate Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson engineers will work while Ontario and Western crews stay idle. Firemen may quit and non union hires threaten tension. Sheriff Schadt refuses to swear in deputies, promising his own direction if needed. Shamokin leaders vow engineers and pump workers will stay away to keep peace as priests urge lawful conduct. Sheriff Deitrick and deputies patrol in Northumberland County.
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Scranton
Penn
Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson
Ontario and Western
Schadt
Shamokin
Samuel Deitrick
Northumberland County
Growth of Northwest Railroads Highlighted for June 2
A special article previews rapid growth in the American and Canadian Northwest and the substantial gains by the Great Northern Northern Pacific Canadian Pacific and Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroads. The Morning Telegraph will publish the piece on June 2.
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Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Morning Telegraph
Adv
Coal strike ties up Mahanoy Valley mines
Three fourths of day shift firemen hoisting engineers and pump runners at fifteen collieries in the Ma hanoy Valley quit work in a response to the eight hour day call. Night shift to desert at 7 am. Churches urge peace as coal companies prepare to cope with the strike with non union workers and guards patrol the mines.
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Mahanoy City
Penn
Mahanoy Valley
Hazleton Officers Targeted by Mob During Strike Action
In Hazleton Pennsylvania a deputation of special officers escorted by a coal company agent faced a hostile crowd of about 500 while boarding a trolley to Freeland. Police protected imported officers as workers jeered and several Hazleton House servant girls quit their posts. Around 800 people gathered near the Hazleton House as miners praised the action and Coxe colliery workers voted again to obey the strike order.
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Hazleton
Penn
Hazleton House
Freeland
Ferry
Coxe Collieries
Erie Railroad Mines Readied as Firemen Vote Against Strike
Firemen pump runners and engineers at Erie Railroad Company mines in Forest City Susquehanna County voted not to strike on Monday. The property is now fenced with eight foot barbed wire and guarded by a large force of coal and iron police sworn in by Susquehanna County authorities.
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Susquehanna, Penn
Erie Railroad Company
Forest City
Susquehanna County
Strike costs tally 14.85 million in three weeks
Figures from operators and miners show three week losses totaling 14 850 500 with 3 890 000 in miners wages 7 806 000 in coal price losses 904 500 in other employes costs and 2 250 000 in losses to business men.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
After Men in the East Miners Hired to Break Strike
Boston officials report operators hiring pump miners and engineers through E. H. Sheville to replace striking workers. He opened a West End hotel HQ and advertised for help with good wages and contracts. Blake Pump Company non union shops reportedly supplying hundreds of men to fill strikers’ positions.
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Boston
Mass
E. H. Sheville
West End
Blake Pump Company
Woman Arrested On Speedway For Refusing Commands
Miss Louisa Campbell of 31 East Twenty-seventh Street was arrested at the Speedway after refusing to leave the Victoria she rode when warned by mounted officer Wiener of East 150th Street station. Bail was posted at $500 for her Harlem Police Court appearance.
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Louisa Campbell
East Twenty-seventh Street
Speedway
Wiener
East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street
Miss Campbell
West One Hundred and Fifty-second Street
Miss de Regnier
Harlem
Skin graft plan involving 200 Wolff workers
Chicago report details a plan in which 200 Wolff Manufacturing employees will remove a 1 by 2 inch skin patch to graft onto Otto Basel a severely burned 15 year old. Doctors expect the operation to be remarkable if successful, though such burns often prove fatal. The note closes with music and a Day Liners ad.
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Chicago
L. Wolff Manufacturing Company
Otto Basel
Scientist reaches Pelée crater amid eruptive ash and mud
Prof Angelo Heilprin and three guides ascended Mont Pelée’s crater near Fort de France Martinique. Violent eruptions showered mud and ash as he observed three steam vents and a 500 by 150 foot crevasse. He crossed a dried Lake Palmisite bed and noted topographic changes from the May explosion.
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Fort DE France
Island of
Martinique
National Geographical Society
Angelo Heilprin
Mont Pelée
Heilprin
Philadelphia Geographical Society
Vive
Fernand Clerc
Ried
Prof. Heilprin
Fallaise
Clere
Lake Palmiste
Prof
Mont’ Pelée
George Kennan
Morne Rouge
Mr. Kennan
Broker Isaacs Dead in City Age Sixty Two
Montefiore Isaacs stock broker died yesterday in the city aged 62. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Metropolitan Union Whist Tuxedo South Side Sportsmen's Racquet and Tennis clubs.
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Montefiore Isaacs
New York Stock Exchange
Metropolitan
Union
Whist
Tuxedo
South Side
Sportsmen’s
Train service upgrade on Putnam Division announced
Improved train service on the Putnam Division of the New York Central at 155th Street and Yorktown Heights prompts readers to ask the agents for particulars.
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Putnam
New York Central
155Th Street
Yorktown Heights
Peace terms in Times and New York dispatch on Boer surrender
The Times editorial argues no substantial peace with the Boers without recognizing the extinction of the South African republics and incorporation into the British Empire. It credits Lord Salisbury and Lord Lansdowne for diplomacy and an amicable understanding with the United States shaping the surrender terms.
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London
Times
the Times
Louis Botha
Lord Salisbury
Lord Lansdowne
La Soufriére Still Active With New Eruption In Motion
Kingstown reports La Soufriére erupting at 3 this morning with thunder, earthquake shocks, and a tall vapor cloud visible from the city. Lightning in the crater, no damage, eruption lasts about an hour. Rain floods in windward St Vincent, Rabacoa mud washes structures. Reports Mont Pelee eruptions on Martinique May 27 send ash over Dominica.
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Kingstown
Island of St. Vincent
la Soufriére
Island of
St. Vincent
Rabacoa
Mont Pelee
Martinique
Dominica
St. Pierre
Eruption of Mount Redoubt Shocks Kenai Residents
Report from Tacoma dated June 1 describes a major Redoubt eruption near Mount Redoubt northwest of Cook Inlet Alaska. Ashes fell around Kenai sixty miles south as flames shot high and a dense smoke veil hid the inlet shore. Local residents report two months of activity, with the heaviest blast on May 3 and ash fall continuing for hours.
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Tacoma
Washington
Mount Redoubt
Cook Inlet
Alaska
Chico
Kenai
Endowment Progress at Swarthmore Faces Stiff Goal
Richmond Indiana June 1 Trustees of Swarthmore College report endowment pledges exceeding 350000. They must reach 600000 more to meet Dr Joseph Swains demand before he will accept the presidency and decide within two weeks.
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Richmond
Ind
Swarthmore College
Joseph Swain
Indiana University
Swain
Leaders Sign Agreement in London After Pretoria News
The Times reports peace in South Africa as Vereeniging delegates accept British terms and sign surrender. Crowds gather at Mansion House to cheer King Edward and salute the end of a war that lasted over two years.
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Associated Press
London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Lord Milner
House of Commons
Great Britain
A. J. Balfour
Edward
South Africa
Daily Express
Utrecht
Kruger
Transvaal
War Office
Buckingham Palace
Colonial Office
East End
Mansion House
Mecca
Joseph C. Dimsdale
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Max
Thomas F
Herkimer Street
Brooklyn
Frederick J
Grisis
New York Times
Gov. Stone
HISS
Victoria
Ady
Pelee
Mit
Broker Isaacs
London Times
LA Soufriere
MT. Redoubt
Endowment OF Swarthmore
Dr. Swain
Burnett
Dandrutt
Burgher Conference
Lord Mayor
Vention
Vereeniging
Kitchener
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