Record of the week notes surge in U S merchant fleet
The report highlights a peak year for American registry in 1900 with about 381 863 gross tons of new vessels and overall additions exceeding any year since 1856. Hawaiian and Porto Rican vessels show smaller shares while steel vessels for the Great Lakes dominate the gains. Oil fire at Standard Oil plant in Constable Hook New Jersey kills Charles King and injures three others. hundreds flee the blaze as twenty tanks explode.
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United States
Great Lakes
New York
Standard Oil Company
Constable Hook
N. J
Charles King
Harbor
Negroes Depart Glenview Over Racial Tensions
In Glenview Indiana the town sees a wave of departures as residents flee amid racial strife. A sheriff’s deputy Greathouse and Marshal Lockhart are cited in early incidents, fueling unrest and prompting many families to leave the area.
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Glenview
Ind
Ham Hay
Sko
Marshal Lockhart
Washington Statue Gift Ceremony In Paris
A Paris gift ceremony featured unveiling of an equestrian statue of Washington. The event included remarks by Gen. Ho Porter and Sousa's Band in attendance. An American women’s association funded the statue presented to France amid favorable conditions.
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France
Paris
Washington
Gram
Sousa
United States
Ho’ Porter
Crowd Attacks Toledo Laundry Over Chinese Atrocities
A mob of about thirty men and boys raided the Dorr Street laundry run by Lee Woo in Toledo. They battered the shop and sought to seize the Chinese man to kill him, claiming revenge for Chinese atrocities in China. Police intervened to stop the raid.
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Dorr Street
Toledo
Lee Woo
China
Collision injures ten near Remington and a judge dies by suicide
A head on collision of Baltimore and Ohio South western passenger trains near Remington Ohio left Mrs Agnes Evanfeldt of Cincinnati seriously injured and ten others hurt with minor property damage. Indiana judge Thomas B Long a noted 33rd degree Mason committed suicide at Terre Haute amid despondency.
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Baltimore & Ohio South= western Railway
Remington
Ohio
Agnes Evanfeldt
Cincinnati
Long
Thomas B. Long
Indiana
Indiana Grand Lodge F. & A. M
Terre Haute
Ind
Need For Troops Boosted to Counter Indian Uprising
Orders for General Wade to begin actions against the threatened uprising in Minnesota have been countermanded as Indian troubles have subsided.
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Wade
Minnesota
Pekin in Turmoil as Foreigners Are Said Killed
Report of a massacre in Pekin claims all 1,000 foreigners including 400 soldiers and many locals were killed after the legation was burned. Emperors Kuang Hsu and the empress dowager allegedly poisoned. Tientsin missionaries driven out as Boxers threaten further violence. Germany and China relations reach a crisis following the minister’s murder.
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Pekin
Kuang-Hsu
Tientsin
London
Shanghai
Admiral Seymour
Kwang-Su
Prince Tuan
Tacoma Streetcar Disaster Claims Sixty Lives
A crowded Union Traction Edison line streetcar plunged 100 feet down an Tacoma embankment after derailing on a sharp curve at 26th Street. Sixty people died and many were injured as spectators and rescuers rushed to aid victims and recover the dead. The wreck, No. 116, occurred as the motorman failed to cut current before descending Apex Hill, causing the car to leave the rails and roll down the slope.
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Tacoma
Wash
Union Traction Company
Edison
Apexa Hill
Tacoma Avenue
Fire's awful fury near Bayonne oil blaze roars
A massive oil fire near Bayonne New Jersey sweeps the area with 500 nets of oil-fed flame roaring skyward to 300 feet. Crude petroleum explosions send fearful reports as a river and bay witness the blaze. A thousand men fight the conflagration at the Stanford Oil Company works. Losses total about 3 million with several lives feared lost.
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Bayonne
Stanford Oil Company
German Indignation and Chinese Turmoil Roil Asia
Reports from Pekin describe chaos in government circles as empress dowager and Prince Tuan falter while German minister von Ketteler is killed. British, French and German legations remain intact. others destroyed. U S officials plan to boost forces in China as Boxers grow to about 50 000 and imperial troops could reach 1 752 000. A separate account details a tank explosion and subsequent fires at a plant site.
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Kiel
Germany
China
Berlin
Taku
Pekin
Tuan
Yang Lu
Washington
Stakes Hay
Long
Root
Baron von Ketteler
Chefoo
Tsung-i-Yamen
May Save the Oregon Battleship After Chefoo Dispatch
A Chefoo press dispatch urges the Navy to save the Oregon battleship sunk near Chefoo. Pumps keep water down suggesting hull breaches are minor as engineers and crew hasten repairs. Admiral Kempff reports favorably on the ship's condition, bolstered by Secretary Long’s reliance on the commander of the Japanese vessel that aided the effort.
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Chefoo
Navy Department
Navy
Oregon
Kempff
One Fireman Dead Eleven Injured In Pittsburg Plant Blaze
A fire in the Best Manufacturing Company machine shop on Twenty-fifth Street Pittsburg killed one firefighter and injured eleven as walls collapsed onto crews. The four story plant measured 100 feet square and about $300,000 in property was destroyed. Patterns and machinery valued at $100,000 likely lost. The blaze began at 6 18 and spread rapidly threatening adjacent properties.
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Pittsburg
Best Manufacturing Company
Twenty-fifth Street
Enock Arden Style Case Surfaces in Roberts County
In Roberts County South Dakota a case with Enoch Arden features unfolds. A man named Smith disappeared years ago and was believed dead in California. His wife married Robert Kennedy and lived with him until Smith reappeared demanding money for silence. She sought a divorce which was granted and she has since remarried Kennedy.
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Roberts County
S. D
Enoch Arden
Smith
California
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Boy of Eight Robs a Safe in Muncie
Eight year old Willie Brown confesses to burgling an uptown Muncie store after surrendering at police headquarters. He says he opened the safe with the correct combination and produced a large sum of stolen money, claiming expertise with locks and safes.
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R. G. Dun & Co
R. G. Dun &Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Pittsburg
Bessemer
Gray Forge
Chicago
United States
Canada
Muncie
Ind
Willie Brown
Pride
Flood Works Havoc Kills One as Grand Rapids Reservoir Bursts
A reservoir break in Grand Rapids Michigan unleashed a torrent that flooded a three block area, wrecking homes and farms. Newsboy Bert Botsford warned residents at 5 o clock saving many lives though one woman, Mrs. eer, is fatally injured. Damage estimated around $200,000 affecting about 9 000 people.
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Newsboy
City Water Works
Grand Rapids
Mich
Bert Botsford
Eer
Clancy Street
Increase in Pension Certificates Issued This Year
Commissioner of Pensions reports 105,567 pension certificates issued in the fiscal year, 15,006 more than 1899. Of these 40,687 were original, 4,352 restorations, and 60,578 increases. He notes original claims adjudication is nearly complete where evidence is filed. A dangerous hybrid animal in Wayne County Mo attacked a young woman, causing her death. Detroit Journal building fire destroys most assets, losses about 75,000. Rear Admiral Philip Wy died at Brooklyn Navy Yard from heart failure. He commanded ships in the Spanish American War.
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Commissioner of Pensions Loans
Philip
John Wy Philip
Brookly Navy Yard
Phill
Texas
Surrender of Philippine Insurgent Leader Declared By MacArthur
General MacArthur announces the unconditional surrender of General Alsino, a Philippine insurgent leader, along with sixty four rifles and ammunition surrendered to Allied forces.
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MacArthur
Alsino
Railroad sale and arrest noted in brief items
The Atchison Kansas Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railroad was sold at auction for 400000 to Luman F Parker representing the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railroad. Wells Fargo robber illy Stiles, a Tombstone fugitive, was captured near Casa Grande Arizona by Char Hood and Burt Glover. Wireless telegraphy planned to connect Chile with the Straits of Magellan.
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Atchison
Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Suthwestern Railroad
Aucm
Luman F. Parker
Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe Railroad Company
Wells Fargo
Chile
Straits of Magellan
Chilian Republic
Market quotations across multiple cities and staples
The market report lists cattle hogs sheep and grain prices in Chicago Indianapolis Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. It provides ranges for cattle hogs and sheep plus No 2 red No 2 corn and No 2 oats prices, along with butter eggs and rye figures, reflecting regional variations in late period commodity pricing.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
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Orland Zenith
Orland, Indiana
Vernice N. Briner
Tosm
Charles Dunlap
Winamac
Big Manon Ditch
Mr. Dunlap
Adams Street
Hoboken
Ife
Tien-Tsin
Jurga
Ere An
Kill’ von Kull
OHUAL
Jon
Mhsien
Gulf OF
Strat
Tao
Ithur
Etsing
W. A. Cargill Elevator Company
la Crosse
Wis
Litchfield
Charles P. Hughes
Fergus Falls
Minn
Manila
Philippines
College of Primary and Secondary Education
Taft
Civil Commission
Morenci
Ariz
Mammoth
Phelps, Dodge & Co
Hoo Kie
Minoa Group
Che- Os
Great Reservoir
Grand Rapids, Mich
Portioo
Wayne County
Jesse Osborne
Detroit Journal
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