Rawhide Fire Wipes Out Rawhide Nevada Killing 3000 Homeless
A devastating blaze at Rawhide Nevada caused over 1 million dollars in losses and left more than 3 000 residents homeless. The fire started in Dr Gardner's office within the Rawhide Drug Company building and swept through the business district aided by a gale. Demolition of buildings with dynamite slowed the spread, and a relief effort quickly formed with funds and supplies from mining towns and the San Francisco Mining Exchange. The Press Times and Rustler offices were saved though their machinery was destroyed.
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Rawhide
Nev
Dr. Gardner
Rawhide Drug Company
Balloon Avenue
Rawhide Avenue
People’s Hospital
Collins’ Hardware Store
Goldfield
Cripple Creek
Reno
San Francisco Mining Exchange
First Bank of Rawhide
Bank of Rawhide
Press-Times
Mizpah Mercantile Company
Nevada Meat Market
Northern Texas
Richards, Marks & Co
Nevada Club
Downer
Kelly's Dance
Bluff Mining Company
Grutt Hill Properties
Grutt
Rustler
Trade Growth Across US Lines and July BLS Report
Washington D C July report from the Bureau of Statistics shows rising activity across several industries. Livestock at seven interior markets reached 2 784 193 head while July building, lumber, coal and pig iron outputs rose from prior months though below 1907 highs. coal shipments rose by about 1 million tons driving June to July gains.
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Washington, D. G
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
New York
Fatal Freight Wreck Near Scotland Siding
In Macon Georgia an extra freight engine derailed on a Scotland siding when a rail shifted while cars were moved. Fireman Tom Turner was killed after being scalded by the wreckage. Engineer T C Benett and Conductor J J Rhodes sustained serious injuries, Rhodes admitted to Macon hospital with others sent home.
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Macon
Tom Turner
T. C. Benett
J. J. Rhodes
Southern Railway
Scotland
Rhodes
Four Sailors Die From Fumes Aboard Puritan
Four men suffocated in the fore peak of the British bark Puritan at Botson Massachusetts. The victims named are Harry E. Olsen, Carl Morsen, Peterson Beck, and George Sunblade. A fifth man was partly overcome. The fire caused slight damage and is believed to be due to spontaneous combustion.
Political campaign notes and party movements
A collage of 1908 campaign items from national party figures. Bryan’s stumping and editorials across states, labor union responses in New York, Roosevelt’s feud with Hughes, and the formation of regional party offices and anti trust efforts.
Farmers' Union Sets New Cotton Price Plan For 1908 09
President Barrett reports a new convention plan to fix an adjustable cotton price and market controls. Delegates debated 12 vs 14 cents, adopting a temporary 30 day price with future adjustments by the national handling committee. Officers reelected include Barrett as president and Montgomery as vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Cotton Producers of America
Barrett
Farmers’ Union
South
National Handling Committee
Charles 8. Barrett
Georgia
J. E. Montgomery
Tennessee
R. H. McCulloch
Arkansas
W. A. Morris
Alabama
T. M. Jefferds
Oklahoma
I. N. McCollister
Louisiana
Federal Employees Warned on Political Campaigns
The Civil Service Commission states no reinstatement certificates will be issued if a federal employee resigns to run for office or engage in political activity prohibited by rules, and then seeks reentry after an unsuccessful candidacy. President John R. Black signs the warning letter outlining discretionary certificate issuance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Civil Service Commission
John R. Black
Aged Woman and Daughter-in-Law Perish in Lookout Mountain Fire
In Gadsden Alabama the 75 year old Elizabeth Mc Neal and her 50 year old invalid daughter in law Mrs Joe McNeal were burned to death when their home on Lookout Mountain eight miles north of the city was destroyed by fire.
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Gadsden
Ala
Elizabeth McNeal
Joe McNeal
Lookout Mountain
Government Cotton Crop Report Indicates Mixed August Condition
The department of agriculture reports that the average cotton crop condition on August 25 stood at 76.1 percent of normal, down from 83 percent on July 25 and compared with 72.2 on August 25, 1907. The August 25 figure also trails the ten year average of 73.9 percent.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Fears for the Acon's safety from San Francisco voyage
Gravest fears are entertained for the safety of the British steamer Acon which cleared from San Francisco for Sydney and has not arrived. The Lord Sefton of the same line reached Auckland reporting no sign of the Acon.
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San Francisco
Cal
Acon
Sydney
Lord Sefton
Auckland
Uncle Sam Stockpiles $500 Million in Emergency Vaults
Washington DC reports the United States government has $500 million in emergency funds stored in Union Trust Building vaults due to the Vreeland Aldrich currency measure. Armed guards guard both internal and external access as authorities await a possible crisis that may never arise.
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United States
Washington, D. C
Sam
Treasury
Union Trust
Seven Die as Sloop Capsizes Off Deer Island Maine
Seven summer visitors drown when a 35 foot open sloop capsized in Penobscot Bay off Deer Island. The drowning victims include Miss Alice Torre and Miss Eleanor Torre of Washington DC, Miss Kellogg and Lutie Kellogg of Baltimore, Mrs Lucy Crawley of Philadelphia, Miss Elizabeth Evans of Mount Holyoke, and Jason Hutchins of Bangor.
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Deer Island
Deer Isle
Maine
Penobscot Bay
Alice Torre
Washington, D. C
Eleanor Toro
Kellog
Baltimore
Lutie Kellogg
Lucy
Bangor
Haskell
Edward Crawley
Philadelphia
Crawley
Henry B. Evans
Holyoke
Elizabeth Evans
Samuel Haskell
Miss Evans
Saved from Death A Banks Lassoed From Precipice
A. L. Banks, Philadelphia resident, narrowly escaped a fatal fall on a San Bernardino slope. A rope thrown by William Rogers of New York looped him as his horse slipped toward a crevice. Banks suffered only bruises and shock.
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A. L. Banks
San Bernardino
Cal
Archie L. Banks
Philadelphia
William Rogers
New York
James Archer
London
Robert Shea
Mr. Banks
Banks
Rogers
Seven Million Women Join Geneva Council Meeting
The International Council of Women, founded by American women at the 1893 Chicago fair, with about seven million members worldwide, gathered in Geneva. The council prepares for the next year's women’s congress in Toronto with American delegates Mrs. Kate Barrett and Rev. Anna Shaw among attendees.
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Council
Geneva
Switzerland
International Council of Women
Hern
Toronto
Canada
Kate Barrett
American Council
Anna Shaw
Woman kills husband in Jonesboro affidavit
Mrs Arch Pickett shot and killed her husband in Jonesboro Arkansas claiming he was mean to her and abused her. She fled with her stepfather a prominent local farmer but both were later arrested and Mrs Pickett confessed to the shooting.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Arch Pickett
Anti-Bucketshop Law Goes Into Effect in New York
New York City's Consolidated Stock Exchange reports the anti bucketshop law enacted this year is active. Charles H. Badeau, president of the exchange, says the statute will boost business and that bucketshop applicants seeking direct representation have been rejected.
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New York
New York City
Hughes
Charles H. Badeau
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Consolidated Exchange
Amazon Wreck Off Port Talbot Claims Six Lives
The British bark Amazon from Port Talbot to Iquique ran aground near Port Talbot during a storm. Only five of the thirty two crew were saved, and six bodies have washed ashore with fears that the remaining sailors were drowned. The vessel went to total wreck after the night of the gale.
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Amazon
Neath
Wales
Iquique
Port Talbot
Mother of the Forest in Calaveras Grove Hit by Fire
Fire from a logging engine sparks reaches the Calaveras grove as forest rangers and settlers battle the flames. The great Mother of the Forest, 327 feet long with a 78 foot circumference, is burning and may be lost. Deer and a mountain lion flee the area as watchers fear for the grove’s remaining Sequoias gigantea.
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Sonora
Cal
Calaveras
Big Tree
Big Grove
California
Calaveras Grove
Alpine Ridge
Great Grove
Grant
Garfield
Forest Rangers
Plan to teach women to alight facing forward on Chicago streetcars
Chicago officials test a new method for women to exit streetcars facing the front rather than the rear. In pay enters cars with a front door handle inspectors noted women often turned to face backward when alighting. The fix removes the rear door handle and uses a forward operated mechanism controlled by the motorman so passengers exit facing forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago City Railway Company
Labor unions plan to oppose Louisiana freight rate hike
A New Orleans labor meeting formed a committee from railroad branches to visit Baton Rouge and ask the Louisiana railroad commission to stop efforts to raise freight rates. They warn a failed rate rise could trigger wage cuts for all railroad workers and will inform the Interstate Commerce Commission of their stance.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Leper Receives Army Pension Amid Legal Hurdles
John R. Early, a Washington leper and former U S army soldier, will get a $72 monthly disability pension. The case is before the judge advocate general to determine how a leper can dispense with the pension funds due to his illness.
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Washington, D. C
John R. Early
Washington
United States Army
Judge Advocate General of
Army
Building costs decline in 1907 across major cities
Washington report notes total value of buildings erected in principal U S cities in 1907 at 661,076,286, down 17,634,683 from 1906. New York leads declines, falling 141,591,982 or 26.94 percent.
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Washington, D. C
United States
New York
Brother of Czolgosz Sentenced for Vagrancy in Workhouse
Sharon Pat John Czolgoz, a brother of President McKinley’s assassin, was sentenced to the workhouse for three months on a charge of vagrancy. Police claim Czolgoz is insane and his case will be investigated.
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Sharon
Pat John Czolgoz
McKinleys
Czolgoz
Bargain Sale Trample Injury Hits Logansport Store
In Logansport Indiana during a five and ten cent sale on granite ware a shopper Miss Bessie Baker age 20 fainted after taking a dish pan. An unknown boy was injured with a fractured arm and many others suffered bumps bruises and torn dresses as shoppers surged through the bargain counter.
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Logansport
Ind
Bessie Baker
Global news notes mix of scandals and world tension
A patchwork of early 20th century items reports fraud cases linked to a Havana post chief, a grand march of global expos plans delayed for economic reasons, a Texas legal leader dying at cards, and a Falls New York oxygen plant blast. Also noted are mass mailings in Europe, rail incidents in Connecticut, battlefield-civil War relics unearthed in Manassas, and science and politics briefings across cities.
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Havana
Rodriguez
Rodri
Charles F. Neilly
J. B. Poston
United Commercial Revelers
Texas
Memphis
Tenn
Forrest
John G. Clifford
United Oxygen and Chemical Company
Falls
N. Y
Roger
Germany
Great Britain
Japan
Lasy Lane
Connecticut
Lake
Main Street
Manassas
Urbana
University of Illinois
Bremantle
Australia
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Andrew Carnegie
Maypole
Antonio
Tony) Pastor
New York
Irwin Shepard
National Educational Association
Department of Superintendence
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Niagaraards
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Nevada
Brown
Northern
Uniauditorium
Ada
Watkins
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Thomas E. Watson
Jay W. Forrest
National Committee of the People’s Party
St. Louis
Eli. W. Chafin
Prohibition
Spokane
Wash
District of Columbia
New York State
Eugene V. Lees
Kansas City
Des Moines
Debs
Omaha
Neb
Birmingham
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Frank H. Hitchcock
St. Paul
Minn
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Denver
Central Federated Union
Central Organization of the Labor Unions of
American Federation of Labor
Presbyterian Church
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Republican State Organization
Henry Waterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Bishop Walters
W. J. Bryan
Democratic National Committee On College Clubs
F. H. Weston
South Carolina
H. H. Wallace
Athens
M. T. Ormand
A. A. Murphree
Florida
Lake Lea
C. Irving Carey
Virginia
R, Eb, L. Saner
Joshua W. Herring
Maryland
J. W. Swartz
Democratic National Committee
Norman FE. Mack
Robert 8. Hudspeth
New Jersey
Oszuvul O Gai
Uimiod
Nemiypeyyo
William H. Black
William Hoge
Commercial Travelers’ Bureau
Union
Government Cotton Crop Report
Is A
Brother of
Czolgosz
ITE
Edwin Fithian
United States Navy
Bridgetown
N. J
Portuguese Chamber of Deputies
Portugal
Executive Civil Service
Census Bureau
Brazil
State Department
Chamber of Deputies
Wade H. Ellis
Ohio
Souls
Milton P.o.dy
Elis
Mit
Atte
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