Great Canadian Fire Devastates Fernie and Surrounding Towns
A vast blaze in Fernie British Columbia and adjacent settlements destroyed Fernie and damaged Hosmer Olsen Sparwood and Crow's Nest Pass area. More than 100 lives reported vanished with 74 in Fernie. 70 miles burned. rail lines damaged and troops aiding refugees. Fernie, a mining hub, has been rebuilt after prior fires but remains threatened as crews struggle against a gale and smoke.
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Ferenie
B. C
Canada
Fernie
Michel
Hosmer
Olsen
Sparwood
Canadian Pacific
Great Northern
Crow's Nest Pass
Ottawa
Ontario
Wilfred Laurier
Cranbrook
Kootenay Valley
Crow's Nest
Canadian Pacific Railway
Elko
Thomas Roberts
Liberal Association
J. H. King
Canadian Rockies
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Defies Commerce Commission
The Public Belt Railroad Commission of New Orleans challenges ICC authority over municipal railroads. The city owned belt line plans to handle interstate business despite a telegram demanding compliance with the 30 day advance rate notice. Officials say they will pursue the matter in court.
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New Orleans
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Belt Railroad Commission of
Public Belt
Belt Road
Belt Commission
Fourteen Killed in Mexican Fight Near Texas Border
A clash between Mexican troops and rebels near Comstock Texas left nine revolutionists dead and several wounded. Five soldiers were killed as the insurgents, about 100 strong, were cornered on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande six miles south of Comstock and escaped into Texas.
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Texas
Comstock
Rio Grande
Here
Senor Creel
State Department
United States
Urge
Arizona
First National Bank of Friendly
Garrett
Tacon
Washington
Juan
P. R
Catholic Church
Turkey
New Mundji Dey
York
Army sergeant completes cross country walk in record time
Sergeant Walsh of the United States Army on furlough from the Presidio finished a 63 day 23 hour walk from San Francisco to New York City claiming a record. He said the wager was to cross the great divide twice and noted he had already crossed west once. He lost fifty pounds during the journey.
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New York City
San Francisco
New York
Sergeant Walsh
United States Army
Presidio
Walsh
Thomas B. Dunn & Co
Chambers Street
Chambers & Co
Lawrenceville
Tenn
Cripple Creek
Col
Alice Hodson
United States
Railroads of
Arkansas
Vandevender
State Allroad Commission of
Parachutist Dies After 2000 Foot Fall at Hague Park
William Oliver of Mason Michigan, a young aeronaut, was killed during a parachute drop at Hague park on Vandercook lake near Jackson. As the parachute filled a side string snapped, sending him plummeting 2000 feet with the parachute trailing. He landed near a crowded merry go round and died five minutes later.
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Jackson
Mich
William Oliver
Mason, Mich
Hague Park
Vandercook Lake
Here
Oliver
Taft Bryan clash in 1908 campaign actions and events
The piece reports on campaign maneuvers including Governor Johnson of Minnesota offering to help, insurance rumors about Taft and Roosevelt, Texas district outcomes favoring Dies over Cooper, planned speeches by Bryan on Taft’s positions, and various political stunts such as a giant shoe sent to Taft and fundraising notes from Charles W. Bryan. It also notes Taft’s mishap in a Hot Springs telephone booth incident and a California politician’s death.
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Texas
Cooper
Beaumont
Martin Dies
Komise
Taft
Bryan
Topeka
Chicago
Savannah
Murray M. Stewart
Bryan Democratic Club
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
New York
William Jennings Bryan
Independence Party
Hearst
Union Railway
Washington
Bill Taft
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Hot Springs
William H. Taft
William J. Bryan
Denver
New York City
George B. Cortelyou
Hughes
Ohio
Charles B. Russell
James H. Budd
California
Stockton
Cal
Judge Taft
International Brotherhood of Steam
Republican Party
Georgia Court bans mail solicitation of liquor orders
The Georgia Court of Appeals rules that Uncle Sam cannot be used to solicit liquor orders via mail. Solicitation by letter from out of state is treated as in-state solicitation when opened in Georgia, making mail shipments of liquor a crime. The decision upholds state regulation and finds no interstate commerce conflict.
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Atlanta
Uncle Sam
Georgia
Court of Appeals
R. M. Rose
State of
Supreme Court
Congress
Russell
Large sum made by mail robbery arrests in NYC
New York police report two young men robbed mailboxes opened checks found in letters and cashed them with forged indorsements. They obtained between 7000 and 10000 dollars from over twenty banks in and near New York in six months. Six more men were arrested on suspicion. confessions led to custody. Ages 19 to 25.
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New York City
New York
Robert Cohen
William Bradley
Jupon
William Butler
John Ryan
John Ribert
William Esmond
Joseph Devlin
Joseph Sullivan
Young Cohen
Vigilance urged as fires target Millionaire Colonies
Incendiary blazes strike Long Island estates in North Hempstead including Vanderbilt Mackay Cochran Gould and Satterwhite properties. Over two weeks at least one fire daily with volunteers responding to as many as three fires in a day prompting talks of a vigilance committee.
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New York
New York City
Great Neck
Mass
Fort Washington
North Hempstead
Long Island
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Clarence H. Mackay
Bourke Cochran
Howard Gould
Satterwhite
Man Sheds Skin Like Snake in Trenton
William H. Cake, a linoleum printer from Trenton New Jersey, has repeated a bizarre condition for 53 years. He experiences chills and a drying, cracking skin shed that lasts about two weeks followed by relief. He has several children who show no symptoms. Specialists have examined him without providing relief.
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Trenton
N. J
William H. Cake
Cake
French Aviator Henri Farman Flies at Brighton Beach
Henri Farman, arriving from Paris with an American syndicate, staged a public aeroplane exhibition at Brighton Beach race track. The flight proved Farman can fly under good conditions and drew about two thousand spectators.
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New York City
Henri Farman
Paris
Brighton Beach
Express Thieves Arrested in Brooklyn Heists
Detectives report three men tied to a gang that robbed Adams Express trunks worth over ten thousand dollars using bogus tags and checks. A job printer allegedly coordinated the scheme with an accomplice at depots to divert trunks, with stolen goods traced to Brownsville. Alfred Wilfert John Cook and Alfred Moule are named in the arrests.
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New York City
Adams Express Company
Brooklyn
Express
Pinkertons
Brownsville
Alfred Wilfert
John Cook
Alfred Moule
Lloyd's declines insure sheath gowns from Paris
A New York department store imported Paris sheath gowns and sought a $10,000 policy to insure their popularity. London Lloyd's refused any coverage, and other firms followed suit. British insurers doubted the gowns would become popular in the United States.
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Lloyd'’s
New York City
London
Lloyd's
United States
Famous
Insurance Company
Paris
New York
Six Die and Sixty Hurt in Paris Strike Riots
Paris reports on the first day of a general strike by the General Federation of Labor of Paris. Six killed and sixty injured as transport and building trades halt work in protest of workers’ deaths at Vigneux. Clemenceau orders prosecution of riot instigators as a probe proceeds.
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Paris
France
General Federation of Labor of
Vigneux
Clemenceau
Proxy Candidate Preston Bows Out for President
Has Proxy Candidate M R Preston serving a Nevada murder term notified Socialist Labor Party leaders he will not permit his name to be used as a candidate for president. The party nominated Preston at its national convention and added August Gilhaus engineer New York as proxy for Preston on the ticket.
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New York City
M. R. Preston
Nevada
Socialist Labor Party
Preston
August Gilhaus
New York
Gould Road Meeting Notes With Rail Line Debt Plan
New York bankers Kuhn, Worth & Co and Blair & Co announced arrangements to meet 8 million dollars of Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad notes. No extra security would be issued, but the consideration enabling Gould road to meet the debt was not made public. Parties did not disclose whether the Gould railroads’ futures were affected.
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New York City
Kuhn, Worth & Co
Blair & Co
Gould
Leper Wife Fled With Veteran Across Border
Brigadier General David K. Wardwell, retired, a two war veteran, stole his leper wife from Los Angeles County Hospital and hurriedly crossed the Mexican border with her promising to live together until death parts them.
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Los Angeles
Cal
David K. Wardwell
Unknown schooner ashore off Cape Henry amid nor’easter
A northeast storm off the Carolina coast caused winds up to fifty mph at Cape Henry. An unidentified three masted schooner ran ashore at New Inlet 30 miles from Cape Henry as life savers stood by. In New Orleans four coal barges sank in the Mississippi River with cargo valued at 12000 dollars.
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Wilmington
N. C
Wrightsville Beach
Norfolk
Atlantic
Hatteras
Carolina
Cape Henry
New Inlet
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Monongahela River
Tested Torpedo Nets Show Promise for War Protection
Secret tests at Coddington Cove and Buzzard's Bay evaluated a new steel mesh torpedo net designed to endure torpedo blasts. Torpedo cats Morris and Gwynn fired from different ranges and speeds above nets, and underwater tests were run by submarines. Officials deemed results satisfactory for armor cruisers and torpedo boats protection.
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Newport
R. I
Coddington Cove
Buzzard’s Bay
Morris
Gwynn
President Roosevelt breaks Mayflower service for Caribbean need
The Mayflower yacht sails from Oyster Bay to Hayti to relieve the gunboat Patriarch at Port au Prince amid Caribbean tensions. Officials say limited small cruisers and gunboats are required, with plans to shift ships from the Pacific to the Atlantic for Americans interests.
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Hayti
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Caribbean Sea
Venezuela
Central America
Roosevelt
Thomas Snowden
Hayte
Patriarch
Port Au Prince
Navy Department
Pacific
Atlantic
Caribbean
Powderhouse Explosion Ravages Stanaford Town
In Stanaford Raleigh county 100 kegs of powder exploded wrecking nearly every building. Several people were seriously hurt including Postmaster Frank Munroe. Numerous residents were blown from their homes as damage reaches about $200000.
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Huntington
W. Va
Stanaford
Raleigh County
Frank Munroe
Six Die in Gate Riot at H. C. Frick Coke Plants
Six people are dead and 25 injured in a riot between Italians and Slavs at Gates near Masontown on H. C. Frick Coke company plants. Longstanding factional tensions between the two groups are cited as the cause.
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Uniontown
Gates
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Masontown
Smugglers Active Along Border Reported
Immigration officials along the Texas border say a coordinated smuggling ring is operating. In the past month carloads of Chinese smugglers have been caught at Alma Gordo New Mexico and Sanderson Baird and Toyah Texas with many more entries nearby or in transit. Officials believe trainmen and government officers may be involved and note that lawyers and court delays to forfeit bonds help the smuggling group persist after arrests.
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el Paso
Texas
Alma Gordo
New Mexico
Sanderson
Baird
Toyah
Legacy ends in death after spree in Phoenixville
Joseph G. Erb aged 37 died in Phoenixville hospital following a spree funded by a $10,000 bequest from his Swiss aunt, Mrs. Jane Pfau ner of Berne. A silk weaver by trade, he squandered the inheritance soon after receipt, costs and circumstances implying a fatal excess.
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Phoenixville
Joseph G. Erb
Phoenixville Hospital
Switzerland
Unie Inone
Kerb
Jane Pfauner
Berne
Lisbon Faces Water Famine After Main Break
Widespread disruption follows a principal water main break in Lisbon Portugal. Authorities warn residents not to fill multiple vessels before the reservoir could be filled, risking a citywide water shortage.
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Lisbon
Portugal
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Defy Commerce Commission
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Johnson
Minnesota
National Democratic Committee For
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Roosevelt-Parker
Lloyds
Taft Insurance
Ives
England
St. Louis
Hadley
Kinsey
Wilmington, N. C
Cape Dare
Rod Koy
Mabel Olmstead
Syeing Lake
Morristown
Logan
Hrmzil
William Koeman
Fruit Mercury
St. Johns
Mentionaniy Eneak
Wye Yu
Hammerr Rex Beach
Copper River
Seni
Andrew Burden Cropsey
Gertrude
Bath Beach
Kessler
Pygg
Takarado Oil Company
Namboku
Fuji
Bokugetsu Company
Yamato
Minku
Japan
Pacific Coast
New London
Conn
Navy
Newberry
Valparaiso
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