Hail and quake hit Idaho towns with varied damage
Caldwell faced a hailstorm that damaged fruit and left ground covered inch deep. Meadows Valley felt a minor earthquake. A child, Eliza Birch, died after an accidental shooting by a playmate in Pocatello. The Bear Lake bank forms in Paris with 25000 capital, and Orofino Bank files articles of incorporation for 10000 capital.
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Caldwell
Midvale
Moise
James A. Pinney
Meadows Valley
Claude
More
Eliza Birch
Pocatello
Payette
Payette River
Northern Pacific
Missoula
Lewiston
Grangeville
Hecla Mining Company
Burke
Paris
Bear Lake
Casula County
Nevada State
Kniaz Potemkine Sails as Mutinous Fleet Faces Crisis
Odessa reports the Kniaz Potemkine sailed Saturday toward Roumanian waters and has not returned. Mutinous crew aboard the George Pobledonostex reportedly plans to surrender to authorities, while Admiral Kruger's squadron departs Sebastopol leaving the Potemkine as the lone warship in harbor. Public calm is sought with a forthcoming proclamation and foreign consuls brace for possible danger.
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Odessa
Kniaz Potemkin
George Pobledonostex
Kruger
Sebastopol
George Pobledonostes
Kniax Potemkine
Wyize
Kniaz Potemskine
Secretary Hay Dies in Newbury After Sudden Decline
Secretary of State John Hay died at 12 25 a m in Newbury New Hampshire after a brief worsening from pulmonary embolism. He had spent Friday improving and by ten o clock night wished to rise from bed, while wife Mrs Hay and doctors Scudder and Murphy remained at his side.
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John Ashton
Idaho
Pocatello
Hancroft
II Ts
Charlie Decker
Payette
Galloway
Weber
Newbury
N. H
John Hay
Scudder
Indictments Grow Around Chicago Packing Giants
A federal grand jury named seventeen leaders in the packing industry for Sherman Act violations and four Schwarzschild Sulzberger officials for rail rebates. Indictments also issued against Armour Swift Nelson Morris Cudahy and Fairbanks canning, each with ten counts.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Schwarschild & Sulzberger Company
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Nelson, Morris & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
Fairbanks Canning Company
Tragedy in Idaho Town Ends in Shooting Death
Arthur Douglas, longtime Montpelier resident and former Denver Rio Grande telegraph operator, was shot dead at the home of Mrs. Caddie Shupe who claims Douglas killed himself with her pistol. Police arrested Mrs. Shupe for investigation. The report also notes a separate fire destroying Marshall pass snowsheds and buildings, causing substantial losses.
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Marshall Pass
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Fearful Flood Claims Large Loss in Guanajuato Mexico
Reports from Guanajuato Mexico describe a devastating flood starting June 30. Estimates say 100 to 1,000 people drowned as the city and nearby Marfil o were wrecked and water flooded streets, with dams potentially failing and transport networks disrupted.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Guanajuato
Lapila
Robinson
Mexican Central Railroad
Marafilo
Guana- Juato
Magoon Named United States Minister to Panama
President Roosevelt announced Charles E. Magoon as United States minister to Panama and governor of the canal zone. Magoon, then governor of the canal zone and member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, previously served as law officer for the War Department Insular Affairs Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Canal Zone
Panama
Isthmian Canal Commission
Largest check ever given in the United States
In New York the renewal of the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad loan for one year saw a check for 31 million dollars signed by President Clark pass through the New York clearing house. Financiers say it is the largest check ever processed there.
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New York
San Petro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company
Clark
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company
New York Clearing House
Multiple Aimsmen Die and Robberies Create Turmoil Across West
A roundup of western incidents reports Arthur Holmes killed by a live wire in Spokane, a Belt Montana bank burglary with about 1000 dollars stolen, drowning of three soldiers near Cheyenne, and Dr Mary Latham starving in Spokane prison after arson conviction. Also mentions Mrs Phoenix's claim, a violent coal camp duel in Sweetwater Wyoming, and various legal battles, thefts, and bear encounters across Washington, Montana, and Oregon.
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Arthur Holmes
Spokane
Belt
Mont
Company E
Eleventh Infantry
Sloan's Lake
Cheyenne
Mary A. Latham
Mrs. Phoenix
Goldfield
Columbia
Hayes
Multifold Early 20th Century Dispatches Across Nations
A夜collection of brief reports details a powder explosion in Emporium Pennsylvania leaving nine dead, widespread yellow fever in Panama, a passenger train wreck near Ellis Kansas with fatalities, and storms near Phillipsburg Kansas killing eight. Other items note hangings in Lancaster Pennsylvania, missing ship Glenburn, Cuban rice bill passage, and various military, political, and social developments.
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Emporium Pa
Panama
Tne
Ellis
Kans
Glenburn
Greenock
San Francisco
Liverpool
Lloyd’s
Grippenberg
Manchuria
Kuropatkin
House of Representatives
Cuba
Robber Masks Attack Near Chicago Bank Robs Messenger
In a bold daytime assault near the Corn Exchange National Bank and the board of trade Don Beemy a messenger for Bartlett Frasier and Carrington grain and stock brokers was sprayed with red pepper and robbed of more than 1700 dollars. The attacker fled and Beemy faces possible loss of sight from the pepper spray.
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Chicago
Corn Exchange National Bank
Board of Trade
Don Beemy
Bartlett, Frasier & Carrington
Grain and
Beemy
Bonaparte Sworn as Secretary of the Navy in Washington
Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland was sworn in as secretary of the navy shortly after 10 o clock Saturday. He then greeted naval and marine officers on duty and shook hands with the department’s clerical staff before resuming his work at his desk.
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Idaho State News
Samuel M. Hays
Boise
Bank of
Orofino
New Perce County
William Huffman
EM Huffman
Dewey
Thunder Mountain
Colorado
Welser
M. R. Neil
Cambridge
William Budd
le Bore
Nez Perce County
Post Falls
Kootenai Country
Supreme Court
School of Science
Granite Creek
Wallace
Kniaz Potemkine
Roumania
Hay
Charles E. Magoon
United States
Northwest
Sweetwater
Wyoming
S. Dominick Collett
William Remallo
Lawrence Vergiotto
Remallo
James S. Kears
Montana Society of Civil Engineers
Thomas ‘Crystal
Helena
Leslie
Great Falla
State
Denton
E. A. McDonald
Pure Food and Dairy Commissioner
Washington
National Department of Agriculture
Nevada
Montana
Seattle
Lillian R. McConnell
Robert J. McConnell
West
Walla Walla
Griffin
King
George Hammond
Bearmouth
Phillipsburg
Joe Riggs
Portland
Grant County
Oregon
Jack
William Booth
Arthur McFarland
Will McPhail
Saratoga
Wyo
Kansas
Illinois Central Railroad
Vine Grove
Lee Furman
John O'Brien
Lancaster
Samuel Ressler
Capetown
Chief Marengo
Karasberg
Southwest Africa
James E. Britt
Chand Splon
Kid Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Hayes Valley Athletic Club
Pittsburg Kans
Molly Pitcher
Carlisle
Patriotic Order of Sons of America
Jaszbereny
Hungary
London Daily Telegraph
Balyakoff
First Army
Kirin-Hailungcheng
Vigo County National Bank
Terre Haute
Ind
Conzman
Plankington
Artesians
S. D
Artesian
Erivan
Caucasus
Hongkong
Stockholm
Karlskrona
Gothenburg
Farosund
M. Nelidoff
M. Muravieff
Russia
Rome
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