Automobile Fire Destroys Oldsmobile After Water Tank Leak
A local auto owner, C. W. Anderson, saw his Oldsmobile burn to a total wreck after the water tank stop cock was opened, sending the engine and gasoline pipes to red heat. The loss is estimated between $1,200 and $1,400. Fire was contained after Anderson jumped clear, and nearby W. S. Hartsough transported the wreckage home. The incident underscores the danger of fuel ignition in overheated engines.
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Warner
Ole Swanson
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North Side Sewer Plans Ready for Rail Avenue Run
City engineer D C Washburn completed plans for a new sewer on Railroad Avenue West to Moccasin with a 24 inch pipe costing about 12000 and an 18 inch pipe cheaper. awaiting council adoption but likely to proceed. The project targets the north side area near the Milwaukee depot and faces opposition over health concerns.
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Washburn
Nue
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Milwaukee Depot
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Congress of Peasants Adopts Resolution for Action
The Congress of Peasants unions representing 24 provinces met in Helsingfors with delegates from the social revolutionary and labor parties and the Finnish Red Guard. It adopted a resolution for a general rising if Parliament dissolves, while awaiting a signal from St. Petersburg. Goremykin and most ministers attended the council session, showing liberals and reactionaries in a tense balance. Police counteraction reports surface against anti Jewish riots as authorities heed shifting official sentiment post Bialystok events.
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Russia
Congress of Peasants’ Unions
Social Revolutionary and Labor Parties
Finnish Red Guard
Helsingfors
Council of Empire
Goremykin
M. Stolypin
Constitutional Democrats
Bialystok
Perkins warns dealers on threshing outfit insurance in state
Insurance Commissioner Perkins issues a warning to implement dealers across the state and to Advance Thresher Company agents about submitting insurance applications for threshing outfits. The form blanks fail to name the issuing insurer, N. R. Mead & Son of Minneapolis.
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Pierre
Perkins
Mead & Son
Minneapolis
President Roosevelt Declines Bryan Reception Invitation
Oyster Bay July 6 President Roosevelt will not preside at the Commercial Travelers Anti-Trust League reception for William Jennings Bryan at Madison Square Garden upon his return August 19. Secretary Loeb stated the president had determined to refuse engagements during the summer and declined the invitation.
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Mutinies Plague Samara Garrison Rights Demands Rise
Dispatches report two regiments in Samara mutinying and delivering political and service demands. Officers promise to grant service reforms if troops return to duty, but mutineers insist on full compliance. Foment spreads to Odessa and Sevastopol as plans to proclaim a republic loom. News of Vingaostok unrest remains unconfirmed by authorities.
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Russia
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Odessa
Sebastopol
Vingivostok
Tobacco Trust Probe Opens Before U.S. Grand Jury
A federal grand jury in Nashville began an investigation into the alleged tobacco trust focusing on leaf tobacco growing in Tennessee Kentucky and nearby states. Fifteen witnesses from Tennessee and other states have been summoned. District Attorney A M Tillman and A D Lee Brock are aided by Henry W Taft Felix H Levy and Edwin P Grosvenor as special representatives of the United States government.
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Tenn
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ths
A. M. Tillman
Lee Brock
United States
Henry W. Taft
Secretary of War
Felix H. Levy
Edwin P. Grosvenor
New York
Carrie Nation in Trouble With U S
A federal warrant was issued for Carrie Nation by U S District Judge for sending obscene material through the malls in her temperance paper The Hatchet. Nation lectures in Texas and federal officers are to arrest her.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
United States
Reotthorn
Carrie Nation
Breach of Promise Item in Thaw Trial
In a thaw trial an honor for Mr and Mrs Longworth featured a reception by President Fallieres. They will also attend a garden party in the Bola de Boulogne where dancers from Cambodia will perform.
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Fallleres
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Cambodia
Deadwood Boys Die In Bald Mountain Explosion
Peter Barrie and Peter Reane went with companions to plant dynamite on Bald Mountain to celebrate the Fourth. The blast tore their clothes away and scattered their mangled bodies over about one hundred yards. They had been missing since Tuesday night and were found yesterday.
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Minn
Pioneer Press
Deadwood
Peter Barrie
Peter Reane
Bald Mountain
Barrie
Reano
Longworths Meet in Paris as Crowd Sees Roosevelt Daughter
In Paris on July 6 Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth were met at the station by Ambassador McCormick and the American embassy staff, with the Marquis of Chambrun and officials of President Failieres present. A large crowd gathered to glimpse the party as they proceeded to the U S embassy for a series of functions in their honor.
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France
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Ambassador McCormick
Marquis of Chambrun
President Failieres
Foreign Office
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Borges Is Sentenced for Larceny and Conspiracy in Ubero Case
Ferdinand B Borges once of Indiana and Ubero Plantation promoter was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years for seventy three counts of larceny and one count of conspiracy. Judge White called him a common and notorious thief for inducing investors with false statements about Ubero property. Former Congressman William D Owen also faces arrest in the case.
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Mass
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Indiana
Ubero Plantation
White
Superior Criminal Court
Borges
Ubero Company
William D. Owen
Italians Killed While Celebrating Fourth of July
Lead, July 6. The mangled bodies of two unknown Italians were found yesterday at Terry, three miles from this city. One man’s limbs were torn from his body, the other mutilated beyond recognition. They had been celebrating the Fourth of July and are believed to have died in a gin powder explosion.
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Terry
Denials Fly Over Nesbit Affidavit in Thaw Case
Conflicting reports surface about an Evelyn Nesbit affidavit tied to a breach of promise suit against Harry Kendall Thaw. District Attorney Garvan denies knowledge of the document, while Thaw and Mrs Thaw deny its existence. officials note a claimed interview with Evelyn Nesbit at Howe & Hummel may relate to the matter.
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N. Y
Evelyn Nesbit
Harry Kendall
Europe
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Pao
Harry Thaw
Mia Thaw
Thaw
Stanford ‘White
Howe & Hummel
Delaney Nivoll
District Attorney's
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Hummel
Ami Davit
Bohemian Divine Hasson Dies in St Louis at 76
Monseigneur Joseph Hasson, aged 76, rector of St John of Nepomuki in St Louis, a renowned Bohemian Catholic leader, died after a long illness. He founded the Nepomuk parish and established Bohemian Hlas, the first Bohemian newspaper in the United States. He earned the title of bishop in Bohemian American circles.
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Joseph Hasson
St. John of Nepomuki
Améria
Nepombk Pariah
United States
Tay
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