Coal mine deaths raise alarm in Pennsylvania report
The annual Mines Department report lists 1000 plus fatalities in 1908 with 557 casualties in anthracite and 447 in bituminous mines. Most deaths stemmed from carelessness or unavoidable causes, while some could not assign responsibility. Also, Seattle news notes plans for nine new steamships on the Seattle Orient route by 1909 with Osaka Shosen Kaisha as operator.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
James Roderick
Department of Mines
Seattle
Wash
A. J. Barling
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Settle
Orient
Osaka Shosen Kaisha
Japan
Anti clerical clash in Varazzo ends with casualties
In Spezzia Italy a violent clash erupted over alleged Salesian school abuses in Varazzo. A three way melee pitted locals carbineers and Salesians with stones and gunfire injuring four carbineers one Protestant killed and two wounded.
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Spezzia
Italy
Varazzo
Trade mood turns favorable across cities in 1907 outlook
Dun and Co weekly review notes uniform favorable comparisons with prior years. Western and southern crop prospects boost fall orders and confidence. jobbing houses plan winter trade, and factory orders remain plentiful. Ore strike settled, pig iron furnaces to hit new output records in second half.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Trial of the Connecticut Battleship Heads to Speed Run
New York reports unusual interest in the Connecticut as Rear Admiral Evans sails aboard for a Rockland Maine speed test August 8 and 9. The first class battleship built by the government aims to compare with the Louisiana built by contractors to prove government capacity.
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New York
Connecticut
Rockland
Maine
Evans
Louisiana
Brooklyn
Death ends a sensational Salem wreck case
Homer Jones Pere Marquette engineer is killed in the Salem wreck. The sensational divorce case against his wife, naming ex Senator George Nichols and others as co respondents, ends as Judge Sessions clears Nichols of the charges. The suit hinged on testimony from a woman connected to Mrs Jones and Lauster.
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Yona, Mich
Homer Jones
Salem
George KE
Nichols
Judge Sessions
Mr. Nichols
Jones
Charles Lauster
Saginaw
Snake in his nose shocks Danville teen
Sherman Gillians, 18, blew his nose and expelled a snake nine inches long from a nostril. The serpent, about the thickness of a knitting needle, coiled and stretched oddly. Physicians could not determine the creature's origin or why it appeared.
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Danville
Sisters Reunite After Sixty Five Years in Indiana
Brownstown Indiana reports Mrs Christina McCaffrey of St Louis visiting sister Mrs Matilda Mc Osker of the town. They last met in Ireland sixty five years ago after a separation when Mrs Mc Osker was nineteen and Mrs McCaffrey seven.
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Brownstown
Ind
Christina McCaffrey
St. Louis
Matilda Mc Osker
Ireland
McOsker
McCaffrey
Fatal Accident on Couronne During Target Practice
Toulon France Aug 3 Three men were killed and five others wounded by an explosion of a gun during target practice aboard the French training ship Couronne. Two of the wounded suffered dangerous injuries.
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Toulon
France
Couronne
Professor Harry A. Garfield elected Williams College president
Professor Harry A. Garfield chosen to succeed Dr. Henry Hopkins as Williams College president at Williamstown Massachusetts. He is the eldest son of the late James A. Garfield who served as president and was assassinated shortly after March 4 1881. Garfield graduated from Williams in 1885 and later practiced law in Cleveland before entering academia at Princeton starting in 1903.
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Harry A. Garfield
Henry Hopkins
Williams College
Williamstown
Mass
James A. Garfield
United States
Guiteau
Williams
Garfields
Garfield
Cleveland
Belle Hartford Mason
Mentor, O
Princeton
Governor Johnson lays down law for both parties in strike
Duluth reports a near end to the Mesaba strike as Governor Johnson’s proclamation sets ground rules. It restricts large marches and trespass on private property while preserving peaceful assembly and open roads. Haywood receives a warm welcome in Denver and Duluth.
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Johnson
Haywood
Denver
Duluth
Mesaba Range
The
Steel Corporation
John F. Johnson
Duluth and Iron Range
Mesaba
Northern
Great Northern
Harbors
Oneota
Allouez
Petriella
Rew
Denver unions plan massive welcome for Haywood arrival
Denver unions unite to honor William D. Haywood as he arrives from Boise Iowa. A 25 000 to 50 000 crowd is expected to meet him at Union Station and parade to his hotel while requests for speeches and a mass outdoor meeting are considered. President Moyer stays in Boise to avoid endorsing a display premised on innocence.
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Denver
William D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Boise
Haywood
Union Station
Moyer
Federation
Bm. F. Richardson
Darrow
Richardson
Three Girls Battle a Five Pound Bass in Canoe
Misses Hazel Strang Bertha Latta and Esther Burghardt paddled a frail canoe on the Wabash River when a large black bass leaped into their craft. The fish struggled but the three girls subdued it and cooked and ate it at Burroughs Island before continuing their trip.
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Lafayette
Ind
Wabash
Hazel Strang
Bertha Latta
Esther Burghardt
Burroughs’ Island
Mattoon trio claims world chicken dressing record
In Mattoon Illinois three workers at Lege Poultry House, owned by a Boston firm, killed picked and dressed sixty six chickens in two hours. Two others dressed sixty each in the same period, claiming a new world record surpassing the 1908 Armour Kansas City mark of fifty.
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Mattoon
Lil
Lege Poultry House
Boston
Armour & Co
Kansas City
Frank Scanlon
Electric shock horror at Mineola ties to measuring tape
George W. Weaner, an employee of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Co., was killed at Mineola, Alabama when a light cloth measuring tape coated with shellac was dropped over a high power line, causing a fatal electric shock.
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New York
George W.weaner
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
Mineola
L. AL
Markets HOGS Chicago Aug 3 1907 Receipts and prices
Chicago August 3 1907 official receipts yesterday 19405 shipments 5506 estimated receipts today 9000 market strong bulk 8600 to 8630 light hogs 605 to 650 mixed packers 8600 to 644 and shipping grades 8550 to 8630 pigs 575 to 630 parkers 640 to 645 cattle receipts 300 market steady sheep receipts 2000 closing market slow early prices notes on leftovers from yesterday 3885 remaining and figures for tomorrow
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Chicago
John A Babock Ghicago Ill Square Deal
John A Babcock offers a straightforward promise of a square dealing approach from Ghicago Illinois. The note emphasizes reliability and a simple, honest service tone.
Still the Police of New York Are Unable to Check the Wave of Crime
A brutal New York City crime wave prompts police to crack the case of the murdered child Katie Tietschler and a parallel attempted rape. Suspects include Anna Messner, Galetano Rippolone, and Giuseppe Bonanza, with Messner jailed at the Tombs after corroborating links and inquest bail default. Caseload includes a Swedish sailor Carl Nelson beaten by workers after denying guilt.
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New York
Katie Tietschier
First Avenue
White Chapel
Jack the Ripper
Tietschler
Anna Messner
Galetano Rippolone
Giusppe Bonanza
Karl Tietschler
Harburger
Rippolone
France Tests New Fleet Tactics In Mediterranean Maneuvers
Paris reports the naval committee endorsed Admiral Fournier’s new fleet tactics tested in Mediterranean maneuvers. They praise the theory but urge refinements and further trials before adoption. The system uses group maneuvers without signals or compass, with ships forming an isosceles triangle and pivoting around the flagship.
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Paris
Mediterranean
Fournier
Mutinies, Strikes, and Political Winds Across War News
At Seoul a Korean battalion mutinied and forty were killed or wounded by Japanese forces amid disarmament tensions. In Casablanca, France vows revenge for the bloodbath of a dozen Europeans, sending warships. Lodz sees renewed strike violence with thirty dead after rampages by workers and a troop clash. Oklahoma Republicans back Roosevelt policies as Taft’s name dominates the convention.
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Seoul
Korea
Casablanca
Morocco
France
Lodz
Russia
Republican State Convention
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Taft
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M. Edmund Rostand
Pere Marquette Railway
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