Crown at Sea Liner Goes Down
Italian immigrant steamer wrecked on reef off Cape Palos. Captain commits suicide after fighting to save passengers. Lifeboats launch and rescue teams scramble to recover survivors and assess damage. Authorities investigate cause and number of missing crew and passengers.
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Cartagena
Spain
Cape Palos
Sirio
Genos
Barcelona
Cadiz
Montevideo
Buenos Ayres
Hormigas Island
Coantge Bulclde
Sao Pedro
Mary
Simo
San Pedro
Miguel
Vicerta Licano
Phe Vicenca I'Licano
Rio de Janeiro
Arouda
Benedictine Order
London
Madrid
Daily Telegraph
Sino
Tragic Sirio Disaster Drowns Hundreds Off Cape Palos
The Sirio wreck near Hormigas Island off Cartagena claims 325 lives with Italian and Spanish passengers. Survivors describe brutal panics as boats filled, mothers and children suffer. captains and trawlers aid rescue while some officials and monks perish.
Shot Wife and Fled Train Tragedy in Virginia
Special to The Washington Post. In Lynchburg, Mr Case shot his wife on Monroe Street during a quarrel and fled on a Norfolk and Western freight train. He fell from the train at Halseys, fracturing his skull, and was brought back to City Hospital along with his wife who also is hospitalized.
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Washington Post
Lynchburg
Case
Glamorgan Works
Monroe Street
Norfolk and Western
Halseys
City Hospital
Nine Hurt In Collision At Silver Lake Siding Akron
An Akron area rail collision at Silver Lake left nine injured none seriously. A northbound accommodation passenger car overturned and another side tipped as a southbound train failed to heed orders. Passengers were trapped briefly before exits were opened.
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Akron
Ohio
Silver Lake
Here
Cleveland, Akron and
Fatal trolley crash shows misrouted orders on interurban line
Two Worcester interurban electric cars collided head on six miles from Worcester after a miscommunication at headquarters. One woman killed and four seriously injured along with multiple other passengers treated on site. Conductor, awaiting connections, received orders to proceed while the inward car was held, causing the crash on the single track. It was the road’s first accident since operations began in 1892.
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Bosted
Sperial
Washington Post
Worcester
Maas
Holden
Campello Presto
Boston
AL Dis Hertha Royce
Florence Johnson
Roland Johnson
Annie Royce
Carroll Adsit
Anotarman
John Holland
Jefferson
Rutland
James Gardiner
Nurse Lets Child Drown At Philadelphia Hospital
Special to The Washington Past Philadelphia reports a three year old patient, Margaret Krumberg, drowned after a nurse left her in a bathtub with eight inches of water. The coroner orders an investigation as doctors failed to revive her.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Margaret Krumberg
Margaret
Americans Say No Danger In Mexico City Visit
The American Ambassador reports no ground for alarm for Americans or foreigners in Mexico, noting tranquillity nationwide with labor unrest at railway hubs. Railway workers’ leaders deny any anti American movement, urging calm while unions walk out peacefully. Funds awaiting investment offer 2 percent interest in Union Trust banking.
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Mexico City
Thompson
Republic
Banking Dept. of Union Trust v
Rathbone 3 Fight for Vindication in Cuba Case
Ohio former director general of posts for Cuba Estes G Rathbone continues his bid to clear his name amid Cuban postal fraud cases. Senate document No 510 prints his fight against a conviction tied to his Cuba service and calls for congressional investigation. Rathbone alleges unfair trial by military governor Gen Leonard Wood and seeks due process under U.S. authority.
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Senate
Gen. Wood
Loie
Congress
Rathbone
Capitol
Ohio
Justles
Tied
Senate Committee On
Judiciary Committee
Maj.Rathbone
United States
Post Office Department
Cuba
United States Post-office Department
Washington
War Department of
Brothers Drown After Boat Capsizes in Newark Lake
In Brench Brook Park Newark on August 4 William Jacana twenty three and Abraham Jacobs seventeen brothers from 90 Howard Street and 4½ Bank Street drowned following a rowboat capsize during a posed photo. Photographer William Wuehols of South Twelfth Street asked them to pose for a picture and the boat toppled. Nichols a rescuer nearly drowned while pulling them from the water. the lake was dragged and the bodies recovered about an hour later.
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Sirio
Cartagena
Capes
Genoa
Cape Pulos
Hormigas Island
Barcelona
Cadi
Brazil
Hormigas Islands
Washington Post
Newark
N. J
William Jacana
Howard Street
Abraham Jacobs
Bank Street
Brench Brook Park
Park
Bloomfield Avenues
William H. Wuehols
South Twelfth Street
Nichols
Two Men Die in Chadwick Pistol Duel
In Chadwick Missouri Charles Freeman a merchant and Robert Keene eighteen were killed in a street duel. Freeman had earlier accused Keene of assaulting Freeman's daughter. They met and fired with revolvers. Freeman was shot in the forehead and left breast. Keene three times in the heart. Both died before bystanders could help.
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Springfield
Chadwick
Charles Freeman
Robert Keene
Freeman
Keene
Farmer Kills Friend at Birthday Party in Vineland Tragedy
Alexander Cordella, fifty, a prominent East Vineland farmer, killed neighbor Nicholas Berti, thirty, at a birthday gathering when uninvited Cordella shot him after Berti drove him home. Cordella fled, was captured after a mob formed, and requested a knife or revolver to die outside the jail. The incident drew deputies, farmers, and authorities to restrain the crowd.
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Washington Pagt. Vineland
Nr J
Alexander CordeNa
East Vineland
Nicholas Berti
Beloni
Cordella
Berti
Hia
Cordelia
Tagan
Joseph Spencer
Henry Tumey
A. Leverone
CordeNe
Spencer
Man Irks Roosevelt Visit After Sagamore Hill Arrival
Special to The Washington Fest reports Carl Cook of unknown origin forced his way to Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, sang boastfully, and was detained by Secret Service. Squire Franklin convened a session and ordered five days in Mineola jail for vagrancy, with no weapons found. The incident appears tied to a strong stimulant influence.
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Washington
Oyster Bay
Nui
Roosevelt
Carl Cook
Sagamore Hill
Cook
Secret Service
McQuade
Squire
Franklin
Mineola
Coot
Collision Kills Motorman Near Allentown
Two trolley cars collided two miles south of Allentown killing John Esser motorman of the Philadelphia car and injuring more than 40 passengers. Each car carried between seventy and eighty riders in the afternoon crash.
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Washington Line
Allentown
Philadelphia
John Esser
Unrest in Odessa and Rail Strike Threats Across Russia
Odessa reports interrupted telegraph links with Sebastopol and tense guard deployments as Cossacks bolster security. Rail workers fear call to strike amid suppression laws, while the council debates blowing bridges to halt transport. Reports from Voronezh Poltava and St Petersburg describe wider unrest and cautious responses by officials and workers.
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Here
Sebsastopol
Igat
Kaulbang
Sebastopol
Crimea
Jveeky Cossacky
Voronezh
Bolgusha
Poltava
St. Petersburg
Russia
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Reval
Council of Workmen's Deputies
Terroki
Finland
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Riga
St Petersburg
Crannstadt
Minsk
Poland
Thoversen
Novee Vremys
Japan
United States
Philippines
Hawaii
California
Uzovka
Baltic landowners push sale of crown and church lands
At a Baltic congress in Riga a resolution backed selling crown and church estates and expropriating holdings above a fifty acre limit. Nobility oppose land expropriation while peasants gain no more than fifty acres under the plan.
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Er Cossacks
Eimperor
Riga
Samara
Gov. Block
Yelisavetpol
Roosevelts Endorsement Questioned for Taft Successor
Kansas City August dispatch quotes Supreme Court Justice Brewer on President Roosevelt possibly supporting Secretary Taft as his successor. Brewer contrasts Roosevelt and Taft, praising both for honesty and integrity while noting Roosevelt’s impulsiveness and Taft’s steadier approach.
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Kansas City
Roosevelt
United States
Taft
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Bryan
White House
Bryant
Judge Brewer
Jess
Farent Chasing Elopers From Pittsburg to Isthmus of Panam
George W Wilson age 19 and Miss Helen Vante age 18 elope from Pittsburg on Aug 5 and travel toward the Isthmus of Panam where Wilson has a post in the carat service. Wilson’s brother reports the elopement and the father starts pursuit. police notified to warn the couple and prevent incidents as authorities in Washington take up the matter.
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Pittsburg
George W. Wilson
Helen Vante
Elemens
Wen
Panam
Hoong Wilson
George” Wilson, Jr
Central
Mike Ing
Elopers
Washington
Wilson
Lawyer Expires on Train Returning from Nova Scotia Trip
Curtis J. Hillyer a seventy eight year old retired Washington lawyer died at 3 am in a Pullman berth aboard the Federal Express train from Boston en route to Jersey City. He was returning from Nova Scotia with his son Edgar and daughter in law. Death due to heart disease per County Physician C B Converes. Hillyer born in Ohio lived in Washington over thirty years and once joined the forty niners mining gold then practiced law in Nevada Virginia City and counsel for mining firms before moving back to Washington. He leaves a wife and three sons in Raleigh Norfolk and Washington.
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Washington Post
New York
Curtis J. Hillyer
Twenty-first Street
Washington, D. C
Sennett
Federal Express
Boston
Hast
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
Hillyer
Edgar
Nova Scotia
Hughes
Washington
C. B. Converes
Hanson County
Hagar Hillyer
Ohio
California
Supreme Court
Comstock Lode
Nevada
Virginia City
Plood, Fair
Plood, Fair, and Mackey
Raleigh
N. C
Norfolk
Fatal fight over five cents ends in stabbing in Svangeline
In Svangeline Louisiana on August 5 a quarrel over five cents escalated to a violent encounter. H Greggs recently arrived from Pennsylvania was stabbed eight times with a carving knife and fatally wounded by W H Crouch. Greggs was alleged to be the aggressor.
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Svangeline
Ang
H. ©. Greggs
Pennsylvania
W. H. Crouch
Greges
Death at Colonial Beach: George Burch Drowns in Potomac
A 16 year old, George Colton Burch of Bl. D street Southeast, died in the Potomac at Colonial Beach while swimming with friends. Two companions and a crowd aided a two hour search before his body was recovered. His sister, nearby, fainted on learning of the tragedy and was revived. The accident dampened a holiday for the Burch family, with the father employed by Prudential Life Insurance and the son set to enter high school next fall.
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George Colton Burch
D Street
Potomac
Colonial Beach
Hbis
Teh
Young Burch
Roland Heller
Robertson
Burch
Ske
Sxpagein
St Johns
B Burch
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Miss Burch
Southern Railway
Colton
Beachfront venues ordered to close by 2 A.M.
Special to The Washington from Atlantic City New Jersey reports Mayor Stoy issued a summer order enforcing city ordinances on beach front districts below Pacific Avenue. Beachfront cafes and concert gardens must close at 2 A.M. to curb complaints about late-night noise from hotel patrons.
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Atlantic City
Washington Run
Stoy
Pacific Avenue
Chicken hoard of gold found in Atlantic Highlands tale
In Atlantic Highlands New Jersey on August 5 Mrs Spencer Mortiz was dressing three chickens when she found gold pieces in a chicken crop. Three small items were recovered including one toothlike piece. The oddly phrased report notes the chicken’s prior owner E P Magee and a Baltimore and Ohio schedule fragment mentioning travel dates and places.
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Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Spencer Mortiz
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