Week’s Global News Covers Earthquakes Fires and Crimes
A digest of events reports a 14,000 death toll from a quake in Kara tagh Russia, fires in Iquique Chile and Toronto, floods in Italy, robberies and murders across the U.S. and Europe. Notables include Justice McComas death in Washington, a Rome municipal election win for anti clericals, and a German birth in Crown Prince Frederick William’s line. Marseilles hurricane damage and a Wells Fargo counterfeit note alert are noted.
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New York
Karatagh
Russian Turkestan
Valcombre
Spain
Iquique
Chili
Louis Emery McComas
the Court of Appeals of
District of Columbia
United States
Maryland
Washington
Columbus
William Hopkins
Frank Foley
Fernalda
Hopkins
Foley
Italy
Edmund A. Morrow
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
William Cline
Bolivar
Emanule Gianturco
Rome
Toronto
Anderson & Macbeth
John Bjorlin
Butler
Paul G. Thebaud
New York Commission
Paul, Jr
Giovani de Chichicia
America
Julie Wyman
Fred M. Underhill
Wilmington
Del
Rachael Nelson
Jefferson Ice Company
Chicago
Texas
Mme. Bressler-Gianoli
Armen
Manhattan Opera House
King Edward
Cullinan
Transvaal
Peace and Labor Rights at AFL Convention in Norfolk
The American Federation of Labor opens its twenty seventh annual convention in Norfolk Virginia with Gompers praising Virginia and the exposition. He defends labor patriotism, vows peace through organization, and comments on naval moves and a Fleet transfer to the Pacific led by a man called Fighting Bob Evans. The speech links military deployment to labor principles and readiness to act to protect worker rights.
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Norfolk
American Federation of Labor
Swanson
Tucker
Gompers
Virginia
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Bob Evans
Pacific Coast
Labor Movement
Burglars Torture an Aged Woman in Perinton Rochester
Two men forced entry to Mrs. Stella Mauthver’s Perinton home near the state road at midnight. They bound her to a chair and held lit newspapers to her hands and arms, burning her. After ransacking the house they found four dollars, beat her, and left her unconscious. neighbors found her Sunday. She is not expected to recover.
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Fairbanks
Circle City
Alaska
Behring Strait
Puget Sound
New York
Bank of England
Bank of France
National Bank of Belgium
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Davila
Honduras
Figueroa
Salvador
Amapala
University of Minnesota At
St. Paul
New York Stock Exchange
Spokane
Illinois
Stead
Economy Light & Power Company
Dresdent Heights
Albert Netzlinger
St. Louis
Lena Wunsch
J. S. Polk
Des Moines
Royal Society of Great Britain
Copley
Albert A. Michelson
University of Chicago
E. W. Morley
West Hartford
Conn
Guy Condit
First National Bank of
Northwest
Cortelyou
Minneapolis
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Ralph Campbell
McAllister
John Cotterall
Guthrie
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Daniel F. McMahon
Tammany Hall
Atlantic City
Hooper
Kankakee
Steven R. Moore
Lexington
Clyde Campbell
Michael Murphy
Marion Smith
W. R. Campbell
Clyde
Bourbon
Louisville
Buford
Honolulu
Guam
Manila
Harry Parree
Philadelphia
A. Judson Deesch
Parree
St. Viateur’s College
Bourbonais Grove
James W. Allaway
Los Angeles
Cal
Rochester
N. Y
Stella Mauthver
State Road
Perinton
Five Die In Hotel Garde Fire In New Haven
Five or more people perished in a hotel fire at the Hotel Garde in New Haven Connecticut. The blaze began in the fifth floor servants quarters and four suffocated while one man fell to death from a rope fire escape. The fire was contained by mid afternoon with damage estimated above $25 000. A separate item notes the Peoples Bank of Portsmouth Maryland? Virginia bank receiver action after suspensions due to defalcations.
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New Haven
Conn
Garde
Fremont Man Dies After Week on Peanuts Diet
Arch ie Venuto of Fremont attempted to live for a week on peanuts and died after four days of mental breakdown. The case notes a rapid descent into craziness followed by death in Fremont Nebraska.
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Fremont, Neb
Archie Venuto
Fremont
Venuto
Wyoming Town Devastated by Weekend Fire
A Worland Wyoming fire Sunday night destroyed the entire business district after starting in a grocery store. Omaha reports the blaze gutted shops and left extensive damage across main street with no immediate word on casualties.
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Wyoming
Omaha
Neb
Worland
Wyo
Scarce money days recalled in Audrain County tale
The Columbia Herald recounts a Missoy s tale of barter during hard money times. Old residents remember wolf scalps as a dollar bounty and venison hams and deer skins as media of exchange. A 1837 Audrain sheriff loaned coin to a friend but paid the state revenue with scalps, later repaid with the next settlement.
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Audrain County
Jefferson City
Ioan
Columbia Herald
Postum testimonials challenge coffee claims
A 1907 letter from the Christian Nation president defends Postum against coffee ads, praising Postum Cereal Co. endorsements. A Brooklyn subscriber, Anna Reeves, writes she cured indigestion with Postum, no nerves effect, urging others to "Prove all things" and share positive health findings.
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Collier's
Christian Nation
Worthy Christian Paper of
New York
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
Brooklyn
N. Y
Pritchard
Postum
Anna
Reeves
McDonough Str
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Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
Albert Krippendorfer
Cincinnati
St. Francis Hotel
San Francisco
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Jack the Ripper
London
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Unalaska
McCullough Peak
Superior
Wis
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Northern Cooperage Company
Minn
Wilkie
Secret Service
Fire Department
John Dewey
Henry W. Lyon
Navy
David J. Hill
Netherlands
Mr. Tower
Edward H. Hall
M. Lelas
Seine
Marseilles
France
Charles A. Perkins
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
West Wood
Boston
H S Duncan
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Cannonsburg Steel Company
Zagreb
Croatia
Hungary
Orphans’ Court of
Thomas W. Evans
Paris
Charles J. Glidden
Charleston
Tinois Traction Hne
Mattoon
Root
W. L Buchanan
Organized Labor
Admiral Evans
American Federation
Blaze
Virginia Bank
Peoples Bank of Portsmouth
Missouri
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