Notable early flights and trials across world events
France's Henri Farman makes two successful trial flights at Brighton Beach track New York. Arkansas Governor John S Little in St Joseph Missouri for acute melancholia. AFL President Gompers denies promising labor vote to any candidate. Novelist Rex Beach returns from Alaska with possible eye threat. Broker Frederick Dorr with multiple offices suspends NYSE trades for lack of patronage. Japanese noble Shegetaro Korikubo marries Miss Marie Louise Harrison of La Crosse Wisconsin. Arch ie Herron convicted of murder in New Brunswick New Jersey for the July 15 killing of Rev S W B Prickett. Prince of Wales visits Ste Anne de Beaupre shrine among crippled pilgrims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henri Farman
France
Brighton Beach
New York
John S. Little
Arkansas
St. Joseph
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Rex Beach
Alaska
Frederick Dorr
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Butte
Mont
Spokane
Wash
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Shegetaro Korikubo
Marie Louise Harrison
L. A. Harrison
la Crosse
Wis
Archie Herron
Miners entombed in Canadian coal mine rescue under way
Twenty four miners were entombed by a cave in at Crow's Nest Pass British Columbia. Twenty one were rescued after they survived on leaking air from ruptured pipes. Other items report a U S battleship fundraising in Ohio a Philadelphia Hamburg American pier fire and various deaths robberies and accidents across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General
Crow’s Nest Pass
B. C
Grand Army
Ohio
Philadelphia
Ralph Harris
Kansas City
Walloon Lake
Michigan
David Lamasuey
Burlington
Isa
W. B. Whitwell
Ripley County
Missouri
Bolivar
Zoological Gardens
Roberval
Lake St John
Canada
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
United States
United States District Court
Boston
Stafford
W Va
Carl Burton
University of Chicago
Aurora
Chicago
Leonard Hendricks
Cranst
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pau
Chillicothe
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Bonaparte
Lenox
Mass
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
William Oliver
Mason, Mich
Hague Park
Jackson, Mich
Trolley wreck on Brooklyn bridge kills woman and injures nine
A fuse blew on a trolley car on the Brooklyn bridge causing panic. a woman died and nine passengers were hurt in the jam. Elsewhere a car wreck near Paris killed G Winthrop Sands, stepson of W K Vanderbilt, leaving him maimed and burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Bridge
G. Winthrop Sands
W. K. Vanderbilt
Pensacola
Fla
Leander A. Shaw
Lilian Davis
Sayyid Muhammed
Mirabeau
Hamadan
Frank T. Wells
Kenosha
Wis
Cambridge
Mass
First National Bank
Frank Litzenberger
Eaton Lumber Company
Haton
Clare L. McNown
Eau Claire
Rice Lake
Wisconsin
James A. Crain
American Rifle Association
London
Bisley
Fle
Benjamin Hart
France
Turkey
America
Vigneaux
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
L. W. Blanchard
Harrison, Ark
West Virginia
Louis Bennett
Mehra
Austrian Tyrol
Lebanon
Tony” Martin
Quincy
Ill
J. B
Murphy
Peoria
Mexico
Comstock
Tex
John Schulte
Racine
Paris
Lepine
Canada
New York
Joseph Chamberlain
England
Independence Party
Chicago
Thomas L. Hisgen
Massachusetts
John Temple Graves
Georgia
Bryan
Andrew Bergen Cropsey
Bath Beach
Raymond Street
Brooklyn
Castro
Grenada
Antilles
Venezuelan Gulf
West Indies
Tragic accidents and crime sweep Iowa towns
Reports from Dubuane Dubuque and nearby cities recount a six year old boy slipping under a trolley car and losing a leg, a nine year old drowning by a bayou, a Buchanan resident killed by a freight crossing, and a Davenport barber dead after a quarrel with his wife. A dramatic wall-bullet incident in Union ends with a suicide and a perfect shot through a wall likeness. Additional items include court actions, a dairy milk price rise, a restaurant fire, mass saloon closures, embezzlement charges, and a horse theft spree culminating in arrests. Prices, fires, and regulatory changes shape a turbulent set of Iowa stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Fifer
Dubuane
Wayne Ramsey
Clarksville
Shell Rock River
George Sherer
Buchanan Wwnty
Chicago Great Western
Lamont
Ferdinand
Enright
John Boales
Rock Island
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Jewell
Lee
Burlington
Mulci
Civic Federation
Muscatine
Davenport
James McCreedy
Stewart & McCreedy
Washington
McCreedy
Cecil Decker
Lake City
Raccoon River
Grant City
Lody
Decker
John Lepley
Union
Lepley
Fernie Fire Devastation Kills Hundreds in Canada
Vancouver reports Fernie blaze may claim 200 to 400 lives with total losses feared over 10 million dollars. Winnipeg sends nurses and supplies. Vancouver commits 5000 and a relief train awaits. Loggers and settlers along the Fernie Michael line vanish or are missing. Refugees pour into Nelson. Cranbrook seeks urgent aid as fires burn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Fernie
Winnipeg
Elk Lumber Company
Michael
Nelson
Crowes
Cranbrook
Sampson
Cranbrook Herald
TENTS FOR SUFFERERS LAURIER AID TIMELY FIRE RELIEF
Premier Laurier pledged federal help for Canadian fire victims. Sir Wilfrid Laurier sent a message to Cranbrook requesting assistance and General MacDonald was ordered to place militia tents and military blankets in British Columbia at the disposal of the stricken. Militia authorities were directed to aid distribution and the cabinet council considered further aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurier
Ottawa
Ont
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Cranbrook
B. C
MacDonald
Militia Department
British Columbia
Food for Cranbrook Relief Reaches Fernie Victims
Relief from Spokane arrives for Fernie fire victims with tents clothing bread milk and other aid. Over 2,000 refugees cared for at Cranbrook after a special car delivered supplies. Citizens donate over 15000 in minutes as aid spreads from Spokane and other Northwest cities. Provincial officials seize arms sent with aid to Cranbrook amid refugee needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Fernie
Cranbrook
Bryan Beats Rosewater Protest Over Ballot Title
Lincoln Neb Aug 4 Secretary of State Junkin decided against Victor Rosewater’s protest on the proposed ballot title for presidential electors. He ruled the same men were named by both conventions for elector and that no protest was filed by any party member, deeming the conventions’ actions satisfactory to their voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Frazer
Shields & Cale
Andrew Bear
C. Thorpe
Swift & Co
Grinnell
Thorpe
Arthur Pressley
Stuart
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Rock Island
Fifth Street
Pressley
James W. Bollinger
Scott County District Court
Iowa
Leonard Smith
Princeton
Davenport Civic Federation
Smith
I. Petersberger
United States
Himsel
Pollinger
Oskaloosa
Hoover Distilling Company of
Eagle Grove
Henry Johnson
Wright County
Young Johnson
South Dakota
Electric Light Company
Renwick
Elmore
Minn
Bluesworth
Hagle Grove
Johnson
Reform School
Bryan
Rosewater
Lincoln
Neb
Junkin
Victor Rosewater
Republican National
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