Waters Subside as Gulf Storm Impacts Alabama and Georgia
Reports from August 16 describe a hurricane moving northeast from the Gulf, with Mobile reporting no loss of life by 10:15 am and waters receding in its harbor. Communications via an untraceable wire reached Atlanta, while towns such as Meridian, Montgomery, and Knoxville logged heavy rains and infrastructure damage. Rail lines like Louisville & Nashville were crippled. a small tug crew was rescued after a capsizing near the coast. Weather officials noted the storm diminishing in the eastern Mississippi Valley, with trains halted and coastal crops damaged by floods.
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Mobile
Meridian
Fort Morgan
Point Clear
J Dunham
Biloxi
Stevenson
Southwest Pass
Alabama
Georgia
Ohio
Montgomery
Knox lite
NEW ORLEANS
gome
Mississippi sound
Louisville & Nashville railroad
Ala
Harbury
gulf
Mississippi valley
Cincinnati
Chinese Will Sign Protocol in Few Days
State Department reports from Rockhill indicate the protocol may be signed soon with Chinese plenipotentiaries. Dispatches say ministers drafted the preliminary protocol, and Rockhill plans to stay in Peking to witness signing. Also noted are other items from Des Moines and St. Petersburg, including alimony cases, a large sheep shipment order, and military movements to Panama.
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Gazette
WASHINGTON
State Department
Rockhill
Pekin
Rocknil
Americans blamed for monopoly in London meat markets
Report from London cites Irish and British farmers denouncing what they call American control of the London meat trade via a powerful local corporation. The Board of Agriculture will inquire into the matter. Grain markets in Chicago show September wheat opening at 72 3 4, with fluctuations and closing values across August and September dates. Cattle and corn prices noted for August and September futures.
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CHICAGO
Berkeley Blaze Destroys Mills and Starch Works
Fire at Niehaus Brothers planing mill in West Berkeley wipes out three acres of buildings lumber piles and finished stock affecting John Everding’s starch works and home. Extensive damage to Moore & Co El Dorado Oil Works Haywood Lumber Yards and Fiverding’s grist mill. Loss about 120000 with 100000 on the planing mills and 16500 insured.
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Gazette
BERKELEY
Cal
Niehaus Brothers Company
West Berkeley
John Everding
Moore & Company
El Dorado Oil
Fiverding
Ranger Ordered South for Panama Mission
The cruiser Ranger, now at San Diego, was ordered to Panama and is expected to depart without delay. She is a little over a thousand tons with a speed of six knots. The Philadelphia arrived at San Francisco and was ordered to Mare Island for overhaul to be ready to move south if needed. The State Department has received no new details on the Columbia Venezuelan situation beyond mass advices.
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Ranger
San Diego
Cal
Panama
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Samoan Islands
Mare Island navy yard
Navy
Isthmus
State Department
Columbia
Derrick falls injure two workers at Desert News building
A derrick used in constructing the Desert News building at Main and South Temple streets collapsed from the fifth story this afternoon, injuring two workmen one of whom is named Smith in serious condition. A dozen men nearby fled the wreck as iron and timbers tumbled, though the building was not badly damaged.
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SALT LAKE CITY
Desert News
Main
South Temple streets
Smith
One of Our South American Colony Dead
A letter from Ascension Paraguay reports the death of Frank A. McKean ex mayor of Nashua and former cashier of Indian Head National Bank. He fled Nashua in 1934 over a $100,000 bank shortage and had been in South America since. The note adds local items about post traveler Count Clerk Fogg and a marriage bureau license for Elle Riggs and A B Cooper in San Francisco, with a Reno birth notice for Patterson.
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NASHUA
N. H
Ascension
Paraguay
Frank A. McKean
Indian Head National Bank
McKeag
South America
A. B. Cooper
Elle Riggs
San Francisco
Admiral Schley Prepares Case Before Court of Inquiry
Admiral Schley arrived in Washington with his wife and will stay until the Court of Inquiry examining the Santiago campaign finishes. He will spend the interim preparing his defense with counsel Judge Jere Wilson Raynor and Captain James Parker, reviewing all facts of the contested campaign. He declines to discuss the case and follows the Navy regulation to register, though he has not yet appeared at the Navy Department. Parker is reviewing records at the Department related to the case.
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Schley
Santiago
Jere Wilson
Raynor
Baltimore
James Parker
New Jersey
Sehley
Secretary Long
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Navy Department
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bureau of navigation
Admiral Schley
Department
Parker
More Men Persuaded Leave Employment At McKeesport
The National Galvanizing Works plant at McKeesport wins the union strike, with 600 workers leaving and all McKeesport plants closed. Joliet’s front shift inspires steel workers to push for broader action as Milwaukee and Chicago mills brace. Reopen plans surface for other plants, while nonunion guards and rumored plant moves heighten tension in Wheeling and Homestead.
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National Galvanizing Works
National Tube Company
McKeesport
Joliet
Milwaukee
Chicago
steel corporation
Moneasen
American Tin Plate Company
union Carnegie
Lindsay and McCutcheon
McKeenport
Monongahela
Carnegie
Homestead
Duquesne
Wheeling
Riverside
California prune crop near one third of last year's yield
Spec ial agents of the California Cured Fruit Association estimate the California prune harvest at about 56 million pounds for this season, far below last year's 170 million. They report 38 million pounds current in association hands, with 93 million pounds in sight, and plan to handle about 41 million of the 55 million pounds coming crop. Prunes are selling rapidly, with old stock expected to be disposed of within thirty days at the 31 4 cerft basis.
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Gazette
SAN JOSE
Cal
California Cured Fruit Association
Hayes resignation not confirmed by Southern Pacific
New York August 16. No definite word on reports that President Hays of the Southern Pacific Railroad has resigned. Charles H Tweed, chairman of the board, says he has not been informed of any resignation by Mr Hays.
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NEW YORK
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Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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