Norge Sinks with 700 Aboard in Atlantic Disaster
Reports from London cite the sinking of the Norge trans Atlantic liner off Rockall after striking rocks. About 700 emigrants including 296 Norwegians and 63 Swedes perish as lifeboats fail and survivors recount chaotic evacuations. The Copenhagen to New York service vessel built in Glasgow in 1881.
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Dy Scripps News Ass
London
Norge
Beechall
Scotland
Copenhagen
Weewel
Grimeby
Butt
Lewis
Hebrides
Standa
Rockall
New York
Insult Campers on Lake Washington Shore
West side residents and campers protest lack of police regulation of lake shore behavior during the bathing season. They report hundreds gather daily, with men and boys exposed in view of boats and homes, while rude and indecent remarks occur. They urge strict enforcement of existing bathing regulations.
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Lake Washington
Lake Shore
Woman Kills Neighbor as Fireworks Go Off
Ethel Berry, a colored woman, fired a revolver during a Fourth of July celebration and killed Mrs. Mra. Niesch on a Maynard avenue porch. Berry claimed the gun was not loaded. three women from a nearby brothel were arrested as investigators probe the accidental shooting. The coroner’s office moved the body to the morgue as police hold Berry awaiting charges.
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Litchfield
Chicago
Wabash
St. Louie
Tefire
Oro
Urald
Pierre
Montreal
CC. J. Luther
Milwaukee
Jacob Barder
Park River
Berry
Nicach
Maynard Avenue
King Street
Sixth Avenue
Niesch
Ethel Berry
Mayon
W. C. Hubbard
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Roa
Glasgow
A. Stephens & Sons
Pieter de Coninck
United Steamship Company
Landon
Lloyds
Stornoway
Cernova
Energie
Butes
Emigi
Ile of Rockall
Chicago Limited
James Sanford
Catur
Harles Gallas
A. Perkins
Florence Smith
M. M. Milla
Bridgeton
Iowa
Richard Noack
Harry Dietrich
H. J. Groves
Decatur
Milla
W. FP. Smith
Charles Ward
South Inglewide
Hosepital
WM. Bambaylis
J. P. Roberts
Catlin
Ind
Jefferson
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska
Chas, FE. Peabody
North
Sound
Golden Tunnel
Durango Bay
Bell
C. M. Howe
Idiot
N. Niesch
Ethel
Lice
N. Mesch
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