Explosion at Cambria Steel rolls mine traps hundreds
Johnstown dispatch reports a noon explosion at Cambria Steel Co rolling mill coal mine near West Mont Howell. Nearly two hundred men were killed or injured. rescue attempts failed as gases halted entry. Officials and workers describe grim scenes and delaying recoveries into Friday morning.
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Johnstown
Cambria Steel Company
Mil
West Monthill
West Mont
Richard Bennett
John Meyers
Mill Creek
Cambria
Marshall G. Moore
al. G. Prosser
George T. Robinson
Tom Foster
Roberts
Sident
Powell
Stackhouse
Toa Fber
Floods Subside Lincoln Area Residents Return Home
Lincoln Nebraska dispatch reports eastern Nebraska flooding receding with residents returning home. State Engineer Dobson and City Engineer Campen compare flood depths to 1891 and record a right now flow of 10 135.6 cubic feet per second at Salt Creek, nearly double the old high. Rail lines south of Lincoln resume full service and Beatrice fire losses climbed to at least a quarter of a million dollars.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Neb
Dobson
Campen
Coppen
Beatrice
The
Pss
Salt Creek claims victim while bathing near Waverly
Clarence Auchmuty son of Mr and Mrs P B Auchmuty of Waverly was drowned while swimming in Salt Creek valley. He and comrades faced a swift current as they tried to rescue him. two others grew weary while reaching him, and despite aid, he disappeared beneath the flood. The death comes shortly after the family buried an elder son.
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Clarence Auchmuty
B. Auchmuty
Waverly
Strikes Escalate as Teamsters Shoulder Freight Strike
A Chicago dispatch reports freight handlers strike action shifting from scattered work to a more united stand as Teamsters individually quit, rejecting railroad union recognition terms. Railroads refuse compromise and workers return to barns amid growing union concerns and business unrest.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Teamsters’ Union
Vatican clash over Taft demands on friars in Philippines
Rome dispatch reports deep Vatican disagreement as Cardinal Steinhuber resists withdrawing friars from the islands. Pampella Serafino and Vannantelli favored concession. Gotti Vivesy Tuto opposed. Taft, awaiting Washington guidance, may accept a revised withdrawal terms. Anti Ireland faction sees this as undercutting Taft’s mission.
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Taft
Filara
Vatican
Rome
Vatican Committee
Pampella
Serafino
Vannantelli
Gotti
Vivesy Tuto
Steinhuber
anti-Ireland
Philippines
Washington
MUST PAY THE TAX ON PALM OIL COLORED OLEOMARGARINE
The commissioner of internal revenue rules oleomargarine colored with palm oil is taxed 10 cents per pound. Artificial coloring to resemble butter incurs the higher levy, while using palm oil as a coloring matter is not admitted as a component. One manufacturer plans to use palm oil for coloring.
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Washington, D. C
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Harvard President Chosen Leader of National Education Group
Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard, elected president of the National Educational Association in Minneapolis. Officers named include W. N. Davidson Topeka first vice president W. M. Beardshear Ames second O T Bright Chicago third C F Reeves Seattle fourth J Kennedy North Dakota fifth C F Ewing Cleveland sixth W N Shears Jacksonville seventh Marion Brown New Orleans eighth J D Pearcy Anderson Indiana ninth Helen Grenfel Denver tenth H R Sanford Penn Yan New York eleventh H H Francis Los Angeles twelfth Wallace D Nye Minneapolis
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Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
National Educational Association
Minneapolis
W. N. Davidson
Topeka
Kan
W. M. Beardshear
Ames
O. T. Bright
Chicago
Charles F. Reeves
Seattle
James Kennedy
North Dakota
Charles F
Ewing
Cleveland
Horse Attacks Stockman in Wellfleet Nebraska
Frank Marshall, a Wellfleet stockman, was mauled by an English stallion he was grooming, leaving a mutilated hand and fear of amputation as friends rushed to help. A separate report notes Frank Cullen’s jail-cell tremens incident ending in suicide by throat cutting. His Majesty prepares for a coronation update and doctors report good health. Cincinnati Traction strike struggles as leader Rixford claims charter removal by Mahone after slow enlistment.
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Frank Marshall
Wellfleet, Neb
Marshall
Frank ~Cullen
Peoria
Cullen
Buckingham
Snaploves
Cincinnati ‘Traction Company
C.E. Rixford
Amalgamated Association
Mahone
Rixford
Hastings Brawl on A Street Ends Badly
A midnight brawl in Hastings Nebraska leaves seven men in serious trouble. Andy Zigeler is badly stabbed in the right breast and neighbors aid the Crawford brothers as attackers flee. Zigeler’s wound is feared to have reached the lung.
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Hastings
Neb
Andy Zigeler
Lou
Will Crawford
Jirnes J .Fox
I. Webb
Herb Crow
Crawford Brothers
Zigeler
Crawford
Wheat yield expected despite heavy Nebraska rains
A Lincoln grain man reports two million bushels of loss from excessive rains and high water in Nebraska with 2 to 10 cent damage on the rest. He predicts an enormous total yield statewide from 50 000 to 60 000 000 bushels, driven by rain reducing wheat grade but boosting receipts. Oats and corn show mixed damage from flooding, with oats largely unripe and corn color retained where water stood.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Salisbury resigns as British premier. Balfour named successor
London dispatch reports Lord Salisbury quits premiership and A J Balfour is elevated to prime minister within 24 hours. Officials cite age health and long service as factors with the timing tied to the coronation and postwar context.
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Balfour
London
Great Britain
Lord Salisbury
Associated Press
A. J. Balfour
House of Commons
Lord Saisbury
Edward
South ‘Africa
Flooding Destroys Rail Line and Claims Local Deaths
Flood waters washed away ninety feet of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe track at Lake View Kaw near Lawrence as the river bed overflowed. A work train was stranded between breaks with no coal or water. The Kansas River at Topeka rose, a street railway pier collapsed, traffic halted, and local families fled flooded areas. Charles Kennedy, a Black man, was reported drowned in the river.
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Atchison,” Topeka & Santa Fe
Lakeview
Kaw
Lawrence
Acre
Santa Fe
Kansas
Topeka
Charles Kennedy
Lawyer Is Killed by Accidental Rifle Discharge
Brent K. Yates, 33, of Hiawatha Kansas, a Yale Law School alumnus and former Omaha attorney, was shot and killed last Saturday morning when a small target rifle discharged while he was alone behind his store. The bullet struck the stomach and likely the heart. he died within thirty minutes. Yates had left the drug business to run Yates Drug Co and was a noted Knight Templar.
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Brent K. Yates
Hiawatha
Kan
Yates
Yale Law School
Omaha
International Correspondence School of
Scranton
Yates Drug Company
Spaniard Sangerius Denied Landing From Cuba
Guillemo Sangerius, a wealthy Havana Spaniard, arrived from Cuba on June 1 seeking medical advice. A U S authorities' doctor found trachoma and ordered isolation in the Marine Hospital for Aliens, denying entry to consult U S specialists and placing him on a returning steamer under protest.
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Guillemo Sangerius
Havana
Senor Sangerius
New York
Cuba
United States
Marine Hospital Service
Senor
Money for State Schools Warrants Issued by Treasury
Warrants totaling 25 000 for each of the forty eight states and territories are issued from the U S treasury for agriculture and mechanical colleges. Funds come from public land sales under the Morrill act of 1890 with annual increases to reach 25 000 by 1900. Porto Rico Indian Territory and Alaska are excluded. Warrants go to state treasurers within ten days.
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United States
Treasury Department
Agriculture and Mechanical Colleges
Porto Rico
Indian Territory
Alaska
Wyoming Farms Listed In Census Bulletin
The census bureau records 6 095 farms in Wyoming covering 8 124 536 acres or 43 percent of the state. Farm wealth totals 26 265 500 dollars with livestock value at 39 145 877 dollars. Average farm size is 1 633 acres with only ten percent of land improved. Irrigated land rose by 372 292 acres since 1900, mainly on public domain, adding about 6 056 852 dollars to farm wealth at roughly 16 dollars per acre.
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Census ‘Bureau
Wyoming
Lost Money Rumor From Burlington Farm
Word from north county says G. W. Hughes crazy at Old-Watome asylum and his farm near Burlington is being dug for buried cash. Report claims Hughes had 800 to 1000 dollars, 400 found in a Burlington bank, and that the remainder may be hidden on his farm in an old bicycle tire.
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Kansas
Burlington
Kan
G. W. Hughes
Hughes
Oldwatomie
Death Toll Rises At Cambria Steel Mine Disaster
Johnstown observers recount a fatal day as a mining disaster at Rolling Mill mine traps workers underground. Rescue teams recovered eighty seven bodies by nightfall while rumors spread and ambulances ferried wounded to morgues and homes. Death toll could exceed one hundred fifty.
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Johnstown
Cambria Steel Company
Klondike
Falls Dead in Potato Patch Near Fremont
Clayton Mitchell, 27, was found face down in a rear potato patch at his Fremont home between Third and Fourth streets across from the former city hall. He had a fit likely caused his death, possibly strangulation ready, after returning from trouble to trade his bicycle. he had last been seen near the livery barn. He lived with his mother and two sisters Hilda and Ruby. The body was found by his sister at 10 a.m. Friday, suggesting death occurred the previous night.
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City Hall
Fremont
Neb
Clayton Mitchell
Mitchell
Hilda
Ruby
Third and Broad Streets
Boer Losses in War Record Large Casualties and Captives
Red Cross casualty bureau in Pretoria reports Boer forces suffered about 3 700 killed or died of wounds and 32 000 taken prisoner during the war with 700 deaths among prisoners. Boer field strength estimated at 75 000.
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Pretoria
Transvaal
Red Cross
Newell Probes Western Irrigation Question
F H Newell chief hydrographer of the geological survey has gone to the western states to make a preliminary investigation of the irrigation problem The irrigation law passed by the last session of Congress has made it necessary for the survey to determine the location of the reservoirs to be provided for by the law
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F. H. Newell
Geological Survey
Congress
Withdrawal of friars from the Philippine islands unsettled
An agreement to withdraw the friars could be set tied immediately if Washington accepts the Vatican's oral assurance of gradual withdrawal. Rome reportedly believes only President Roosevelt can decide whether such a promise is acceptable.
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Pmmpine Islands
Washington
Vatican
Rome
Roosevelt
Farmers Close to Wheat Harvest in Wet Fields
Farmers near Benedicta report wet ground but progress in wheat cutting. Threshing engines work to steam up as weather steadies, with fall wheat nearly all harvested except low land areas. If weather holds, threshers will begin next week.
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Benedicta
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Pennsylvania
Qother . News
Salt Creek Claims
Cardinals
Elliott
Mulion
Leasen
Sister
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