Roosevelt Arrives in New York For Welcome in Gotham
Thousands gather as Col Theodore Roosevelt lands at Battery Park aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria to greet a notable delegation from across the Union. He tours the stokers in the ship’s hold and chats with workers amid the crowd, then presides over a formal deck reception for passengers.
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Admiral Dewey
New York Harbor
Olympia
Uh & Rush
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Jeff Nek Johnson
Teddy
Battery Park
Organi Tans
Fifth Avenue
Eighth
London
Theodore Roosevilt
Roosevelt
Vice President Sherman Cancels Duties Over Illness
New York reports Mrs Sherman ill with typhoid symptoms prompting Vice President to cancel all engagements. He will stay beside her until improvement, leaving Secretary Meyer as chief cabinet representative at the Roosevelt homecoming reception and others from Washington attending in lesser roles.
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New York
Sherman
Meyer
Taft
Washington
Millers Gather for Convention in St Louis
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Capt Archibald Butt were noted as expected attendees at the Fraternity of Operative Millers meeting in St Louis. The convention drew 600 millers at the Southern hotel while papers on wheat production milling economics and labor welfare were read by Purdue’s G I Christy and S J McTiernan. Mayor McCarthy of Frisco left hospital after an auto accident injury.
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Archibald Butt
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Operative Millers
Southern Hotel
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Andy Waters
G. I. Christy
Purdue University
S. J. McTiernan
EB. ©. Andrews
S. Thurston Ballard
Frisco
Indianapolis
Patrick H. McCarthy
San Francisco
St. Vincent's Hospital
mail by aeroplane bill would use planes for mail
Washington on June 16 Rep Sheppard of Texas became enthused by newspaper reports of Charles Hamiston’s round trip from New York to Philadelphia and back. He introduced a bill directing the postmaster general to study a practical method to carry mail by aircraft.
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Washington
Charles K. Hamiston
New York
Philadelphia
Sheppard
Texas
Fatal fire tragedy at Ni agara Falls Ontario workers perish
Twelve laborers employed by Ontario PowerCompany burned to death in a partially built tenement near Niagara Falls Ontario after an all night carnival and heavy drinking. Eight others badly burned were treated in Niagara Falls hospital. Fire spread through oil soaked floors as flames blocked exits and water protection was absent. Local chiefs led the effort and fuel supplies included about 150 barrels of oil and up to 15000 gallons of gasoline.
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Olls City
Ontario
Lessness
Ontario Power Company
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Swingley
Rucker
Lewis Arrives to Outline Settlement Talks With Coal Operators
Kansas City dispatch reports Thomas L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers of America arrived from McAlester to meet the Southwestern Coal Operators association and discuss a possible settlement between operators and miners. Utica horse death mystery follows a runaway horse that fell into the canal. a body surfaced with a union button and a letter reading Your Dear Wife Anna found in the clothing.
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Kansas City
Thomas L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
McAlester
Ohio
Southwestern Coal Operators’ Association
Utica
N. Y
Anna
Lorimer Ode ONeill Browne Conspiracy Alleged Testimony
Senator Lorimer will be called to testify in a bribery case involving Representative White. Browne and Lorimer face trial before Judge McSurely as Governor Deneen denies involvement. The defense hints at a vast political plot including Medill McCormick and the Chicago Tribune. Missouri cadet Barr wed Emma Glassow after West Point graduation.
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Sena
Willa Lorimer
Lee O'Neill Browne
Illinois House
McSurely
Charles A. White
Lorimer
White
Gov. Deneen
Wayman
Lormer
Browne
Tiase
Medill McCormick
The
Tribune
Busse
Missouri
West Point
N. Y
Robert W. Barr
Emma Glassow
Fire claims life as St Louis stockroom blaze rages
A warehouse fire at the Great Western Oil Company in St. Louis on Commercial and Walnut streets kills one fireman, while three rescuers are overcome by smoke and a Black man is badly burned. Captain Billy Flowers of engine company No 82 impresses the crowd as he assists the perilous rescue from a basement. Ten thousand onlookers line the levee as flames threaten nearby buildings.
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Great Western Oil Company
Commercial
Walnut
J. J. Roland
Engine Company No
Billy” Flowera
Engine Company No. 82
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