Floods, fires, and crimes sweep 1903 headlines worldwide
East St Louis flooding drowns eleven and leaves 10000 destitute. Chicago waiter bribe claims amid restaurant strikes. West Point grad tally and Ark houseboat tragedy reported. Post office probe hints and San Francisco quake impact noted. City fires devastate Rochester and Mays Lick. Bank robbery and rail disputes echo across states.
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Loeb
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Bank of Commerce
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H. Miller
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Retail Coal Dealers’ Association
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Horton
Lacombe
York
A Week's Record Home and Foreign Items
A weekly digest covers industrial field news personal and political items plus happenings at home and abroad detailing business developments and international events in concise notes.
Rubens Capsizes. Crew Lost Amid Rescue Dramas
The Belgian steamer Rubens, sailing from Sunderland to Pillau, capsized and sank with the captain and six crew drowned. Seven others drifted in a small boat. one died from exposure, the rest were rescued. Dispatches report Kurdish arming amid tensions at Kha tut and protests to the Porte over Armenian incidents. A New York shooting killed Charles F. McFarland, and a suspect was taken into custody. Other items note candy firm incorporation, Chinese minister Chentung Liang-Chen’s White House reception, and a temporary closure of Elgin Loan & Savings Co with significant capital and liabilities. A Warsaw dispatch says a large Warsaw apartment building collapsed with nineteen bodies recovered. Capt. Dunlap reports Potomac ran aground near Lajas shoals. Ensign Abele confirms no injuries. Che Fanthor aids in Fajardo.
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Sunderland
England
Pillau
East Prussia
Constantinople
United States
Porte
Khaput
Charles F. McFarland
Anti- Policy Society
Criminal Court
New York
William Spencer
Spencer
F. Reboulin
White House
Hay
Elgin Loan & Savings Co
St. Thomas
Ont
Lokal Anzeiger
Warsaw
Germany
Dunlap
Naval Station
San Juan
Navy Department
Potomac
Laja Shoals
Fajardo Harbor
Abele
Che Fanthor
Fajardo
Notable Obituaries and Marriages in Early 20th Century
Obituary notes: Conrad Kahler inventor of newspaper folding machines dies in Chicago at 68. Ruth Hanna wed Joseph Medill McCormick in Cleveland with President Roosevelt and daughter as guests. Gen McCook dies in Dayton, Ohio. Maj Gibbes linked to Fort Sumter. John F. McKiney longtime congressman dies in Piqua aged 6? A fragment notes a pressman death in Columbus.
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Chicago
Ruth Hanna
M. A. Hanna
Cleveland
Joseph Medill McCormick
Roosevelt
Alexander McDowell McCook
Charles Craighead
Dayton
W. H. Gibbes
Fort Sumterbin
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John F. McKiney
Piqua
Pressman
Colum
Open golf title winner noted at Prestwick
Harry Vardon of London won the Open golf championship at Prestwick Scotland. Other items report the National Prison Association meeting in Louisville October 3 8 a new Yale hatless trend in Conn. and various international political and social notes.
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London
Prestwick
Scotland
China
National Prison Association of the
United States
Louisville
Conn
Yale
Jessie Morrison
Lansing
Kan
Olin Castle
Kufstein
Austria
Servian rulers assassinated in palace revolt
Belgrade reports King Alexander Queen Draga and several ministers killed in a royal palace uprising. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch proclaimed king by the army as parliament to meet June 15 to establish a provisional government. Powers hold mixed views on the crisis with Austria, Germany, Britain, France and Italy weighing in.
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Belgrade
Santos-Dumont
Paris
Alexander
Peter Karageorgeviteh
Turkey
Peter Karageorgeyite
Switzerland
Kishineff
Asia
United States
St. Petersburg
Cassini
Draga
Peter Karageorgevitch
Str
Mitschitsch
Kalimagden
Konak
Nikola
Nikodern Lunjevics
Zinzar Markovics
Pavlovics
M. Todorovics
Todorovics
London
Austria
Germany
Britain
France
Italy
Travelers' Protective Association picks Springfield as next meeting city
Fourteenth national convention in Indianapolis closes with Springfield Illinois chosen for the next meeting place. BE W Denham of Cincinnati elected president. June 13.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Travelers’ Protective Association
Springfield
BE. W. Denham
Cincinnati
Gfield
Declared of Unsound Mind in Fowler Case Verdict
A jury at Fowler Indiana found Mor Chase to be of unsound mind after a hearing on the case involving Les Fowler and residents of Tippecanoe. The proceedings concluded in Lafayette with the verdict reached Thursday.
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Fowler
Ind
Mo ‘R Chase
Mnd
Are
Lafayette
Les Fowl
Tippecanoe
Mob attack leaves five dead in Smith county ambush
In Forest Mississippi on June 9 a mob injured four Black men and one Black woman fatally and sent others fleeing after an ambush against Mr Craft and Mr Boyls. Police and county officials reported the unrest followed by Black residents ordered from the area.
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Forest
Miss
Craft
Mr. Boyls
Smith County
Roosevelt pressures ratification over Nicaragua route
Washington June 10. President Roosevelt threatens to end negotiations and finalize a deal for the Nicaragua route if Colombia does not ratify the treaty soon.
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Washington
Colombia
Roosevelt
Nicaragua
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