Nebraska Battleship Sets Speed Record Trial Off Vashon Island
The battleship Nebraska, under government trial board, completed fourteen runs over the Vashon Island measured mile with top speeds reaching 19.51 knots and an average of 19.237 knots on five fastest runs. Main engines ran at 125.35 rpm, exceeding the 119.85 rpm required for 19 knots. Next comes an endurance and sea test off Seattle. Only the Georgia among four sister ships surpassed this performance. Official contract trial to follow with a four hour at sea run maintaining 19 knots.
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Nebraska
Government Trial Board
Vashon Island
Moran. Brothers
Seattle
Wash
Vashong Island
Georgia
Panama Canal Sanitation Harms West Indian Workers
Health officials warn that perfect sanitation and clean quarters in the Panama Canal zone increase pneumonia and other lung diseases among Jamaican and other West Indian laborers. Colonels Gorgas and assistants note tropical fevers are banished but ventilation and diet issues threaten workers.
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Panama Canal
Gorgas
Canal Zone
Jamaica
Islands
Canal Commission
Remembered in the Will Joseph Jefferson Leaves Gift to Grover Cleveland
The actor Joseph Jefferson, in his 1899 will filed July 16 in Chicago, bequeathed to his friend Grover Cleveland a treasured possession. A 1904 codicil names Cleveland as the recipient of the speaker's best Kentucky feel, signaling lasting memories from fishing trips together.
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Joseph Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
United States
Jefferson
Chicago
Recorder’s Office
Kentucky
Penitentiary Death of Marsh Lindsay for Celery King Murder
Marsh Lindsay who murdered Celery King Johnson in Upper Sandusky Ohio died in the Ohio Penitentiary where he was serving a life term. Lindsay had escaped earlier and later surrendered in Columbus.
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Marsh Lindsay
Johnson
Upper Sandusky
Ohio Penitentiary
oJiinson
Lindsay
Columbus
Chicago Mill and Lumber Company in restraint of trade case
William B. Beckman of Blytheville Arkansas filed a bill in the United States circuit court at Chicago seeking an accounting a receiver for the Chicago Mill and Lumber company and an injunction against the Paepcke Leicht Lumber American Box Marked Tree Lumber Herman Paepcke Edward Leicht William Wilm Charles Weidman and all officers and stockholders restraining them from acting in a combination in restraint of trade. The suit alleges a pool since 1900 to unlawfully fix box prices with a stated capital of 260 million dollars and annual output of 25 million dollars. No United States judge was in court and no action could be taken in court in relation to the suit.
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Chicago
William B. Beckman
Blytheville, Ark
United States
Chicago Mill and Lumber Company
Paepcke
Wilcox Neb Fire Destroys Several Buildings
A major blaze in Wilcox Nebraska on July 14 at 1 a.m. destroyed four frame structures and a brick building including the Wilcox Herald office and the Exchange bank plate glass. Losses totaled seven thousand dollars to three thousand insured, with multiple properties, owners, and insured amounts affected.
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Wilcox, Neb
Wilcox Herald
D. C. Shuler
Hall & Hartley
A. Turmin
J. E. Selley
Exchange Bank
Balloon ascent ends tragically in Lake Manawa
Ollie Jensen, about nineteen, drowned during a balloon ascent at Lake Manawa in Council Bluffs Iowa. He had urged Thomas Andrews to permit daily rides with a promised signal by revolver which failed to fire causing the balloon to descend. Jensen disappeared in the lake and was recovered two hours later.
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Ollie Jensen
Lake Manawa
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Thomas Andrews
Andrews
Jensen
Start on 250 Mile Tramp From Fort Riley
Eight hundred troops from the Ninth and Thirteenth Cavalry begin a 250 mile march from Fort Riley Kansas on July 15 under Col. E S Godfrey. The advance will span thirteen days with stops at Solomon Salina Ellsworth Lincoln Minneapolis and Abilene Kansas for provisions and rest.
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Ninth Cavalry
Thirteenth Cavalry
Fort Riley
Kan
War Department
E. S. Godfrey
Solomon
Salina
Ellsworth
Lincoln
Minneapolis
Abilene
Fatal accident at Windsor plaster mill in New Brighton
Frank Getzner, a Windsor plaster mill worker in New Brighton Staten Island New York, was crushed by a stone crusher and ground to bits. Eight fellow mill workers were arrested charged with causing his death, claiming he was accidentally drawn into the machine as a joke.
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Frank Getzner
Windsor Plaster Mills
New Brighton
Staten Island
New York
Getzner
Omaha City Treasurer Hennings Ends Life After Primary Defeat
August Hennings, Omaha city treasurer from 1900 to 1906 and state Republican committee treasurer, shot himself at his home following a failed bid for the mayoral nomination. A letter to his wife cited political defeat and financial worries, while auditors found no misdeeds in his books.
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August H. Hennings
Omaha
State Republican Committee
Davenport Street
Hennings
Harry G. Counsman
Tom Hollister
A. H. Hennings
Sigbert Kahn
Fink
Mr. Hennings
E. A. Benson
Vigilance committee formed to shoot burglars in Richmond Heights
Twenty five residents of Richmond Heights near St. Louis organized a vigilance committee to patrol and shoot burglars on sight. The group plans armed patrols and seeks county sheriff support to protect homes in a suburb lacking police protection amid rising burglaries.
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Richmond Heights
St. Louis
A. L. Hughes
St. Louis ‘County
Eugenie Reaches Ischl Amid Final Visit to Austria
Former French Empress Eugenie arrived in Ischl Austria on July 11 and was greeted by Emperor Francis Joseph and Grand Duchess Marie Valerie. She requested a written pardon to see the emperor one last time to thank him for his kindnesses.
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Eugenie
France
Ischl
Austria
Francis Joseph
Marie Valerie
Doubt of Lasting Peace in Central America
Salvadoran anger at Guatemalans grows as Guatemalan revolutionaries seek an end to upheaval via peace talks aboard the Marblehead in Mexico City. Barillas is favored to lead a broad liberal program, with Toledo backing him. revolutionaries demand U S intervention for a full government change in Guatemala.
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Salvador
Republic
Mexico City
Mex
Guatemala
Marblehead
Central America
Cabrera
General Toledo
Barillas
General Barillas
Department of
San Marcos
United States
Sabrera
Regardo
Mexico
Toledo
Castillo
Peasants Attack Landed Estates in Voronezh Province
Dispatches report widespread peasant uprisings in Boransk area, Voronezh, covering 35 square miles. Twenty estates burned, several landowners killed, terror strikes towns as Cossacks try to restore order. Monastery treasures looted, $16 000 stolen. Agrarian congress at Reval debates land nationalization.
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Boransk
Voronezh
Russia
M. Krupenikoff
Simbirsk
Reval
Baltic
Treasury secretary offers deposit sharing with banks for bonds
The secretary of the treasury announces a general offer to designate banks as depositories for public money and to share one third of proceeds from Panamia bonds bought under bid. The limit is five million dollars per bank, and the invitation reserves the right to adjust bids above par to prevent bidder combinations.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Dreyfus Acquitted as France Restores His Rank in Army
The Supreme Court absolved Alfred Dreyfus of treason and ordered his acquittal publicized. Parliament moved to restore him to duty with advanced rank, amid a fierce clash between pro and anti Dreyfus factions and a fatal duel after ministerial insults.
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Alfred Dreyfus
Devil's Island
France
Supreme Court
Dreyfus
Count Esterhazy
Rennes
Sarraut
M. Pugliesi-Conti
M. Sarraut
Clemenceau
Thomson
M. Pugnesi-Conti
M. Millevoye
Jacquet
Picquart
Army
Chamber of Deputies
M. Pressense
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Tleship
Wilcox
Lake
Manawa
Junction
St Louis
Secretary of Treasury
Supreme Court Annals
Rennes Court
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