Numerous deaths and incidents reported across cities
Heat in Chicago kills four and injures fourteen. a Memphis lynching occurs as four Black men are executed. Drownings include Bernard Redpenning in Chicago and a pool accident at the Chicago Athletic Association. Navy adopts Ohio battleship. Parisians drown near St Nazaire. infant deaths in Cleveland prompt health inquiry. other fatalities span Washington, San Francisco, Rock Island, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ae & Peel
J. P Morrow
T. A. Albrecht
Superior Wie
Toots Taylor
M. Milla
Maj
Milla
Memphi
Tenn
Bernard Redpenning
Chicago Athletic Association
Navy Department
Train
San Francisco
St. Nazaire
Loire
Beverly Letcher
North Shore Railway
NorthWest notes and early 20th century region events
Postmaster appointed at Wollen Natrona county Wyoming while O G Johnson resigns. Dr Louis J Wolff of Silverton Ore named surgeon for Peary expedition to the North Pole departing from New York. Pioneer eastern Oregon stage man Joseph Keeney dies in Walla Walla. Gen Oliver Andton collapses in Seattle from heat stroke. Rancher J Lower dies by asphyxiation in a 90 foot well near Milton Oregon. Theben pulls into Tacoma with wheat loading orders before Mexican tariff. Fannie B Ainsworth dies in Portland aged 71. Martin Sawmill at Hog Valley burns for total loss, no insurance. Packing house plans for Baker City via consolidation. J Mueller liquor store robbed at Baker City. Montana Week at Lewis and Clark exposition postponed due to Governor Toole's absence. Doctor Jim found dead near Arlington with bullet wound. Dr Mary A Latham sentenced for arson in Mead Washington. Mining man Patrick dies at Rhyolite Nevada. A posse battles a madman near Douglas Wyoming. Stage robbery near Bourne Oregon foiled. Portland General Electric mortgage for 10 million to secure bond issue. Miners May and Cahill escape injury after caps explode in Bourne tunnel. George Wade, last uncaptured convict from McNiel’s Island, captured near St Helens by J Matthews. Paul Dion shoots at Nellie Mott in Portland. both survive. Federal court in Tacoma awards 210,000 damages to James Barber vs Northwest Improvement Co.
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Char B. Skinner
Wollen
Natrona
Wyoming
O. G. Johnson
Louis J. Wolff
Silverton
Ore
North Pole
New York
Joseph Keeney
Oregon
Northwest
Walla Walla
Gen
Oliver. Andton
Boston
Washington
Seattle
J. Lower
Stephens
Milton
F. Patrick
West
California
Colorado
Ney
Goldfeld
Converse County
Wyo
Litle Bar Elder Creek
Douglas
Bourne
Sumpter
Portland Oro
General Electric Company
United States Mortgage and Trust Company of
Death ends Gen. Blackmar's Northwest tour of G A R posts
Gen W W Blackmar commander in chief of the G A R died from intestinal nephritis during a tour intended to visit Grand Army posts across the Northwest. He arrived in Boise Idaho on July 10 and grew ill, with his wife requesting the public be kept unaware. Born July 1841 in Pennsylvania, he served from private to captain with Custer's regiments, fought in Antietam Stone River Chickamauga and Appomattox, and later served as Massachusetts judge advocate general before becoming G A R commander in chief. He is succeeded by John R King of Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackmar
W. W. Blackmar
Boise
Idaho
Northwest
Pennsylvania
Boston
Brimmer School
Bridgewater Normal School
Exeter
N. H
Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry
First
West Virginia Veteran Cavalry
Custer
Five Forks
Lee
Appomattox
Antietam
Stone River
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Shenandoah Valley
Richmond
Petersburg
Sailor's Creek
Appomattox Courthouse
Govs. Long
Talbott and Rice
Massachusetts
King
John R. King
Washington
Hingsham
Triumph for Beauty Frat Pride at Vienna Event
A fragmented report notes a beauty event at Vienna with a pork butcher owner voicing opinions on business and marriage. It mentions spivaree and widows displaying civility, a cook linked to a verdict, and a controversial elopement affecting judges’ decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Alphabetical Attributes In A Wife Contest
A recent competition lists a catalog of supposed virtues for a wife. It notes only one virtuous quality was found to be embersome while many listed traits include beauty calm dignity joy kindness loyalty obedience and steadiness among others.
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Foneph T. Honder
Indian Division
The
Interior Department
Thomas J. Parsons
del Monte Flour Milling Company
San Francisco Board of Trade
Indiana
Prince Hilkoff
Hamburg
Germany
Cleveland
Ohio
Richard Wareham
Knights of Pythias
Rock Island
Ill
Grand Trunk Railroad
Stilwell
Laporte County
Joplin
Calvin Rudy
Nebraska
Brnent M. Pollard
Netawka
Franely W. Brown
Pollard
BJ. Burkett
United States
Chapel of Women's Hospital
Perme
Italy
Charles Huntington
Louis Broker
Los Angeles
Cal
Nona Leslie
Huntington
D. Q. Iyes
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad
Omaha
St. Louis
Milton Knight
Baron von Ende
Baron Krupp
Cordoba
Buenos Ayres
Turon
Winiell
Dare
Bleas BheMel Stool & Iron Company
Birmingham
Ala
Littleton
Flat Top
Theben
Tacoma
Mexico
Fannie B. Ainsworth
John ©. Ainsworth
Portland
Martin
Hog Valley
Union
Baker City
Baker City Packing Company
J. Mueller
Toole
Montana
Jim
Darrington Branch
Arlington
Wash
Mary A. Latham
Latham
Mead, Wash
M. PF. May
Dan Cahill
George Wade
McNiel’e Island
Colunmbbia River
St Helens
J. Matthews
Wade
Paul Dion
Nellie Mott
Seattie
Diary
Dion
Barber
G. A
Venezuela
Wiliam J Calhoun
Calhoun, Leitard
Caleta
Tween Provident
American Asphalt Company
Calhoun
Frontier Supply Co
First National Bank
Kemmerer
Apital
Owni ‘Thos
Bneddon
John L. Lane
Arte
Europe
BRER
Milwaukee
Denver
Wm. O'Connell
Kemmerer, Wyoming
U. S
Attoheney
C. T. Gamble
Diamondville
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