Two Powder Mills Blow Up Near Wilmington
Two Dupont black powder mills at Hagley Yard near Wilmington explode, killing Lawrence Cunningham and John Gillespie. Mills and nearby houses are wrecked, with debris hurled far and trees uprooted. Cause unclear. possible spark or grit entry. The incident disrupts the region and damages several nearby properties.
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Dupont Powder Company
Hagley Yarda
Mrandywine Creek
Lawrence Cunningham
Henry Clay
John Gilessple
Hazleton
Cunningham
Gillespie
Brandywine Creek
Frank L. Connable
Edward G. Bradford
United States District Court
Major General Wood Reprimanded Over Plattsburg Speech
War Secretary reprimanded Major General Wood for permitting an ex president to deliver a war speech to amateur soldiers at the Plattsburg training grounds. Secretary Garrison rebuked the eastern department head for the breach in protocol and authority.
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Garrison
Department of the East
Plattsburg Training Grounds
Tragic death at St Michaels as mother drowns with infant
In St Michaels Maryland on August 30 Elisabeth Kudritzky wife of brick works proprietor Hane Kudritzky drowned herself and her year old baby Haris. financial troubles and his brief Baltimore absence reportedly triggered the tragedy. Otto Kuhlmann ran the plant while Kudritzky sought work after leaving on a weeks voyage, leaving the family at the outskirts of town.
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St. Michaels
Elisabeth Kudritzky
Hane Kudritzky
Haris, Sr
Méedritzkys
Elizabeth
Wreckage Found Thought From Fruit Steamer Lost in Hurricane
A rescue party reported finding wreckage on Leesborn beach that may belong to the Maronline of the United Fruit Company, missing since the August 16 hurricane. Items include two lifeboats, mast sections, a cabin piece, and interior woodwork. In parallel dispatches, Prussia lists 40,245 killed, wounded or missing, updating totals to August 24 with further Bavarian, Württemberg, and naval losses appended.
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United Fruit Company
Amsterdam
Nieuwe Rotterdamische Courant
Navall
Earthquake Panic Shakes Rome Avezzane District
A violent earthquake in the Avezzane district near Rome caused great panic in the last twenty four hours. Damage reported to new ceramic dueling water facilities erected after a prior quake. The report mentions peach growers and distress along York County lines as conditions worsen.
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Avezzane
Germans Close In On Vilna As Front Holds East
London reports Aug 30 that German forces press the Russian retreat in eastern Galicia and along the Niemen toward Vilna. Russian resistance remains stubborn in Courland and at Kovno as German headquarters claim breakthroughs and Russian withdrawals extend across a broad front.
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Bieloviesh
Pripet River
Galicia
Kovno
Tne
Leopold
Germans Buy Up All the Benzol Output in Coke Plant
South Bethlehem Pa August. Jermans purchase most of the benzol from Lehigh Coke to supply a large benzol plant for a high explosive program for the English government. Benzol and other by products will be stored in multiple 190000 gallon tanks and other steel tanks. The benzol plant is under construction at an estimated cost near 400000 dollars.
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Bethlehem
da M. Schwab
Lehigh Coke Coke
Dhalla
Coke Company
Dyed Man Almost Died in dye incident at plant
William Downes of Marcus Hook, a Benzolt Products pipe fitter, was dyed by a blue dye flash while coupling links at work in Chester Pennsylvania. He became unconscious and was saved by a pulmonologist after physicians baffled by such aniline dye cases.
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Chester
Wiliam Downes
Marcus Hook
Downes
Benzolt Products Company
Eitel's Men Raid Melons in Norfolk Patch Destruction
Farmer Carey of Deep Creek claims three invasions by crews of the German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich damaged his watermelon patch. He estimates $200 in losses as sailors carved melons to test ripeness before the German commander promised appraisal and payment.
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Norfolk
Carey
Deep Creek
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Eftel
Pay For Artillery Camp in Harrisburg
Harrisburg August 2 payment of the states four batteries of artillery for service in the Tobihanna camp has just been made the first payment to militia organizations for camp service. The total payment was 1641.62 with Battery A 2145.52 Battery B 1857.00 Battery C 1884.40 Battery D 1756.00. Mother World Give Baby Away in Yonkers New York August 3 Frances Toman 54 Clinton street advertises adoption claiming the baby as a healthy boy and seeking a "beautiful, healthy home."
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Harrisburg
Tobihanna
Miliia
New York
Andrew
Frances Toman
Clinton Street
Yonkers
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