Short News Notes from Across the United States and Abroad
A roundup of sagas include John Sharp Williams’s son committing suicide in Salt Lake City, a schoolhouse collapse near Hastings Michigan injuring children, New York civil service hiring rush for the licensing department, and a Rochester NY trainyard tragedy. Also noted are naval and political shifts, ship collisions, typhoons, miners’ strikes, and other local misfortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sharp Williams
Parley L. Williams
Oregon Short Line Railway
Salt Lake City
Hastings
Mich
Department of Licenses
New York City Civil Service Commission
New York Central
Rochester
N. Y
Lehigh Valley Railroad
United States
D. T. Phalen
Harvard
Phalen
Gloucester
Mass
Harry G. French
Deutschland
Nantucket
McKay
Alexander Johnson
Frederick K. Allen
Pelham Manor
Johnson
Charles Mayne
Nevada
Mr. Mayne
Sea of Japan
Lester May
Brooklyn
Ocean Grove
N. J
Joseph J. Fox
Messmer
Green Bay
Wis
Father Fox
Christina Gessman
General Slocum
Joplin
Missouri and Kansas Zinc Miners’ Association
Telluride
Col
Washington
Spain
Paris
G. H. Metcalf
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Chester
Parker Strong as Delegates Rally for First Ballot Support
In St Louis Parker maintains a solid lead with assurances of accessions from delegations after the first ballot. Opponents falter, Bryan’s influence wanes, and McMahon or Bailey to chair the resolutions committee while Parker holds 29 of 46 delegates amid at least four year convention debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Parker
New York
John A. McMahon
Ohio
Bailey
Texas
Resolutions Committee
William J. Bryan
Bryan
National Committee
Illinois
Hopkins
Indiana
Maine
New Jersey
South Dakota
District of Columbia
McGraw
West Virginia
Philippines
Porto Rico
John R. McLean
Tom Johnson
Populists Nominate Watson Tibbles For President Vice President
At the national convention in Springfield Illinois on Tuesday Thomas E Watson of Georgia was chosen for president and Thomas H Tibbles of Nebraska for vice president The platform calls for governmentissue money postal savings banks eighthour work day government ownership of railroads telegraphs and telephones and taxation of monopolistic privileges Ex Senator Allen withdrew his name and urged it not be placed before the Nebraska delegation
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Thomas E. Watson
Georgia
Thomas H. Tibbles
Nebraska
William V. Allen
Samuel W. Williams
Indiana
Watson
Allen
Dutch Expedition Fights At North Achin In Sumatra
Batavia dispatch reports an attack on Likat on June 20 with 432 A chine se deaths including 281 women and 88 children and 54 wounded. Seventeen prisoners taken. Dutch losses include an officer and 16 men wounded. On June 23 forces attacked Langatbars with 54 dead including 186 women and 120 children and 49 wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Batavia
Dutch East Indies
Achin
Sumatra
Likat
Langatbars
Trains Blown From Track Near Oakford Tornado
An accommodation train on the Chicago Peoria and St. Louis line was ripped from the rails near Oakford Illinois ten miles north of Petersburg. One passenger was killed and 15 or 20 injured as coaches and debris tumbled down a seven foot embankment after the tornado struck. Engineer escaped uninjured and express messenger Thomas Wiley died in the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis
Oakford
Benjamin River
Thomas Willey
Entries Begin For Rosebud Reservation Registration
The Rosebud Indian reservation opened registration on July 6 in Bonesteel South Dakota. A crowd of 316 waited through rain overnight and about 1 500 lined up at 9 am. J S Barnes of New York City was first registered at the hall door after 4 pm Monday. At the Baptist church women began registering early with a corral of old soldiers. Jennie Conway of Omaha was first to register there, with about 50 women in line by 9 am and a group of 25 old veterans nearby. Only a few Philippine veterans joined the queue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonesteel
S. D
Rosebud
J. S. Barnes
New York City
the Baptist Church
Jennie Conway
Omaha
Militia and strikers clash at steel works gates
Sydney on July 6 reports a violent clash as soldiers used bayonets to clear a path for Director Frazer a sales agent and the superintendent at the gates of the steel works after a crowd of strikers blocked access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
C. B
Frazer
Son Kills Father in Kentucky Bar Fight
Mack Hern of Paducah, 28, shot and killed his father James Hern, 60, a barkeeper, in Hopkinsville Kentucky. The motive cited was remarks about the mother amid a dispute after a divorce and remarriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinsville
Mack Hern
Paducah
James Hern
Lives Lost In Charlestown Grain Elevator Fire
Three people died after a blaze consuming the Boston and Maine Railroad grain elevator and three freight houses on Mystic wharf Charlestown yesterday. Firefighters fought the flames but could not save the victims. The blaze caused extensive damage to the facilities and disrupted rail operations along the waterfront. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire and will release details as they become available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad Co
Mystic Wharf
Charlestown
Tragic Norge Wreck Claims Nearly Seven Hundred
Crowd across the Atlantic recounts the Norge disaster. Of 774 souls aboard, 128 saved including Capt. Gundel, 646 missing with small hope of survival. Grimsby reports a granite memorial rises 290 miles from Scotland as bodies wash ashore and the Norge lies beneath.
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London
Norge
Gundel
Stornoway
Grimsby
England
America
Gundell
Rail disaster on Wabash line near St Louis
A Chicago limited train on the Wabash railroad wrecked inside Litchfield Illinois and overturned after striking an open switch. Seven of nine cars burned and estimates say 20 dead and 40 injured with three more deaths since. Most passengers were bound for St Louis and survivors rode on an Illinois Central service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Globe Democrat
Litchfield
Chicago Limited
Wabash
Illinois Central
Four Drown in Muskegon Lake Boat Capsize
A sail boat with seven pleasure seekers capsized on Muskegon Lake due to high winds. Four occupants died including Albert Kennicott and his wife, their daughter Linda age four, Georgette Emerson, and another passenger. Mrs Kennicott and Georgette Emerson clung to the overturned craft as the tragedy unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskegon, Mich
Muskegon Lake
Albert Kennicott
Linda
Adeline
Georgette Emerson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Trenton
Justice Lanning
United States Shipbuilding Co
Mad Mullah
British Somaliland
Dannison
Soo
Tony
Pullman Co
Pullman
Elmer B. Adams
United States District Court At
Joseph R. Burton
Kansas
Post Office Department
Supreme Court of the United States
Katie Winder
Frank Winder
Little Falls
Minn
John Kardasch
Winder
Kardasch
Williamsport
Alva Williamson
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Frankford
Pittsburg
Fred Balbach
Edward Kelly
Chicago Tribune
Corrina
Roign
Jonathan Riley
John
Utah
Electrical Vehicle Equipment Co
Edison Co
Vehicle Equipment Co
Texarkana
Tex
Sybil Pugh
Maud Pillow
Birdie Belle Pillow
Surrey
Aaron Vanderbrink
Paterson
Harry Demarest
Demarest
Otto Hanson
Chicago & Northwestern
Evanston
Hanson
Rosebud Reservation
North Sea
Uncle Sam
Edward Atkinson
Samines
Allen S.olmsted
le Roy
U.S. A
Paxton CO
Pope Bldg
Colorado State Bank
Burango
Colorado
Southwest Development and Exploration CO
Albuquerque
N. M
A. T. Drake
California
Drake
George B. van Cleve CO
Temple Court
Itzgerald & CO
Box K
Washington, D.C
A.N. K.C
Craggiets
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