Falling wall collapse traps nine in Baltimore building
July 23 report from Baltimore recounts a three story brick building at 1702 1704 West Pratt street that collapsed during repairs. Nine workers were buried and injured while police and fire crews freed them guided by the victims cries. George Ford survived, describing the fall and rescue.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
West
Pratt Street
John Eisenhauer
Carpenter
Joseph Eisenhauer
Nremen
Soe
George Ford
Flo
Franklin Square Hospital
Ford
Probing Girl’s Death Sparks Insurance Inquiry
In Hagerstown Maryland July 23 representatives of several insurance companies arrived to investigate the death of Clara Truitt who died at the home of her school teacher Miss Jeannette Tivers near Marion. Doctors cite acute indigestion but relatives insist arsenic ingestion occurred during a personal crisis.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Clara Truitt
Jeannette Tivers
Marion
Hot lye water claims baby life in grocery order scene
Madeline Whickham, infant daughter of George Whickham, of Kitzmiller Garrett county, fell into a tub of hot lye water while her mother Mrs Whicham ordered groceries outdoors. Hearing the child scream, the father rushed inside but found the body hanging over the tub and死亡.
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Cumberland
Madeline
George Whickham
Kitzmiller
Garrett County
Whicham
Montgomery County Chatauque Set For August at Washington Grove
August 7 chosen for the annual chatauque at Washington Grove with the Anti Saloon League executive committee to meet there to set the date. Two new schools planned for Damascus and Germantown at about ten thousand dollars each. Gaithersburg high school to add rooms due to rising pupil numbers. St Rose Church Cloppers picnic August 18. County to sue mortgage tax delinquents. Voter registration books updated ahead of primaries. St John’s Forest Glen picnic and Knights address with leaders. Germantown Council Junior Order picnic in Baker's Grove with speeches by Merrill and Rev Parrish.
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Anti- Saloon League of
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Washington Grove
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Damascus
Germantown
Gaithersburg
St. Rose Catholi Church
Cloppers
W. Outerbridge States
St. John's Catholic Church
Forest Gien
Blair Lee
Knights
Brainard H. Warner
William A. Wimsatt
B. F. Saul
Howard Boyd
Susie Jones Held in Gold Theft at Alexandria
In Alexandria Virginia Susie Jones about 70 was arrested on a larceny charge for allegedly taking 440 in gold from Mrs. Virginia Smoot who boards at 321 South St Asaph. Banks were alerted to any 20 gold pieces and a store proprietor later presented a 20 piece he claimed to have sold to a black woman. Police say she confessed the room was grass and worthless but investigators point to more than 316 in clothing purchased with the funds.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Brrest
Alexandria
Susie Jones
Ferguson
Sampson
Neystery
Virginia Smoot
South St. Asaph Street
Moroccan prisons in Sultanate under Mulai Hafid vilest courts
A Washington Post despatch from London dated July 23 reports brutal conditions in Moroccan jails with bribery rampant and slave markets thriving. It details cases including the torture of Haj Ben Alissa’s wife and daughter and notes foreign observers’ evidence contradicting the sultan’s denials.
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London
Moroceco
Tangier
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Ben Atssa
Fez
Haj Ben Alissa
London Times
Morocco
Mulai Hafid
West Virginia rail survey and state notes
In West Virginia engineers study a line to connect with the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad on Cheat River. Former Gov. A B White received a letter from Col. Roosevelt saying he cannot attend the Parkersburg centennial. Fire Marshal Ellison cites June fire losses at 29607 dollars and urges banning ordinary parlor matches. West Virginia Mormons plan a fall conference at Fairmount led by Ben J Rich as Eastern States Mission president. The church seeks foothold in northern West Virginia amid southern strength.
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Kingwood
Cheat River
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Parkersburg
Charles A. Ellison
West Virginia
Fairmount
Ben J. Rich
Eastern States Mission
Church
District Naval Reserves Sailors Pay Theft Case
A woman employed by several locals in Alexandria is accused of taking money. She arrived recently from Culpeper, Virginia, and faces questions as authorities pursue repayment actions. The report also notes a runaway incident involving a two-horse team and a chase by the negro driver, ending with an entry into a Weson. A Washington Post special recalls the death of United States Senator Arthur Gorman’s sister Mrs Stephen Gambrill at 65 after a paralysis stroke, leaving four children and a husband.
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Washington Post
Leuvel
Stephen Gambrill
United States
Arthur
Arthur Puo
William G
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Miley Kate Gambrill
G O P Chiefs Abroad Discuss New York Tangle
London July 28 three top Republicans Hitchcock Wilcox and Barnes meet in London amid talk of a gubernatorial bid. Wilcox seen as party unity choice while Hitchcock declines comment and Barnes returns to America. Barnes warns against direct nominations and direct legislation as a threat to representative government.
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Albany
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Wilcox
Hitchche
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Thurlow Weed Barnes
Caronia
Paris
Wilcok
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Front
Taft
Hughes
Legislative Committee
Jealousy Sparks Southern Murder at Movie Theater
Mollie Gordon, a colored woman in Charlotte, stabbed Mary Brown at the ticket office of a moving picture house. Gordon fled with the knife, and Brown died from a severed jugular after running a block. Authorities say jealousy over alleged intimacy between Brown and Gordon's husband motivated the attack.
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Charlotte
N. C
Mollie Gordon
Mary Brown
Gordon
Government to condemn Belvoir tract for DC reformatory
Federal court in Alexandria hears condemnation action by the United States for 15,000 acres in Fairfax County Virginia to acquire the Belvoir or White House tract for a District of Columbia reformatory. The land is owned by 47 Otterback descendants none of whom live in Virginia. Judge Edmund Wada Jr will preside on September 2, with a fee simple title sought.
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Richmond
United States
Fairfax County
District of Columbia
Belvoir
White House
Ffty- Seven
Philip Otterback
Virginia
Suouan
Lve
Washington
Edmund Wada, Jr
Alexandria
Receiver for Rowland Telegraph Company Fails in Baltimore
The Rowland Telegraphic Company, formed about ten years ago to exploit the multiplex telegraph printing machine invented by the late Prof. Henry A Rowland of Johns Hopkins University, went into the hands of a receiver today. Assets are listed at 257,631 dollars and liabilities at 418,4b dollars.
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Rowland Telegraphic Company
Henry A. Rowland
Johna Hopkins University
Mabillies
Rowland Telegraph Printing Ma
Invention progress and death of Prof Rowland
A note on an electronic messaging machine that sent messages in fours as a series, with Prof Rowland dedicating his final years to the device before his death just as it neared market. Engineers later completed the project for production.
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Chine
Rowland
GIVES ENGLAND A SHIVER Marvelous German Concern Expands
Special Cable reports from London on July 23 detailing the Krupp firm’s growth and scale. Essen chamber data show May 1 employment at 68,005, coal use at 1,394,000 tons, coke at 77,000, gas for 2,904 lamps, and 22,207 workshops. Electric output reached 29,640,000 kilowatts, with cast-steel works housing 7,500 machines and 564 steam engines. Tests at Essen and rolling mill totaled 220,000, with 31,600 shots and 308,250 pounds of powder fired in 1903 as last year figures lag.
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London
Kruppa
England
Essen Chamber of Commerce
Krupps Forca
Chamber of Commerce
Central Electric
Essen
Terror of prison ship Loire report from Paris July 24
French convicts transported aboard the Loire endure harsh conditions on the voyage from Rochelle to the penal settlement. Five hundred prisoners are chained two and two and guarded amid four gun positions on deck. Food includes cod with rice or bacon and potatoes and provisions are issued twice daily. Hammocks hang in the cages and sleep is limited. Guards keep order with armed grape shot weapons and a hose connected to boilers for immediate retaliation on deck.
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Paris
France
Guiana
Loire
Tre de Re
Rochelle
Navy midshipman resigns after misconduct claims
Special to The Washington Post from Annapolis reports Navy Department accepted the resignation of Douglas B. Roben a fourth class midshipman who had previously failed exams and reentered the academy this summer. The notice notes misconduct claims and his voluntary resignation. A new fourth class midshipman named Newbridge Reynolds from Portsmouth, N H, was admitted.
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Annapolis
Navy Department
Douglas B. Roben
Roben
Patter
Pewpbridge Reynolds
Portsmouth
English King's Bench Burdened by 70000 Cases Annually
London reports judges fear overwork leading Parliament to authorize two new high court appointees at 25000 dollars a year with 17500 pension. King's bench handles about 70000 annual filings. 3000 set for trial, roughly 3000-4000 tried. Two thirds in London, one third on circuit. Judges average 120 trials yearly, work 36 weeks, five days weekly. health generally good with four sick days per year.
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High Court
King's Bench
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Chancery Bench
Joyce
Alverstone
Lawrence
Fights tram conductor in Florence over fare incident
A traveling American engineer, Terrey, slept on a Florence tram without paying. When the inspector woke him, he attacked the conductor, who retaliated with a revolver but caused only windows to shatter. Terrey was taken to the police station and the conductor to hospital. a police court sequel looms.
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Florence
Terrey
Fiesole
Richelieu Skull Sealed in Hidden Repository
Charles Normand of the French Society for the Protection of Monuments says Richelieu’s skull is finally in a secure place, though the exact location is undisclosed. The relic has endured years of upheaval since the cardinal’s tomb at the Sorbonne was created by Le Brun.
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Pari
Charles Normand
French Society For the Protection of Monuments
Cardinal Richelieu
le Brun
The
Sorbonne
France
Hurricane Havoc in Italy Destroys Towns and Kills Workers
A destructive hurricane sweeps northern Italy damaging Milan Como Barga and Erba areas. Saronne Lonate and Revell with 2000 people lose most of their buildings including Northern Railway workshops. Sixty workers buried. six bodies recovered. Rescue parties dispatched. Also reports US exhibit plans in Rome and two American engineers jailed in Saltillo Mexico for shooting a railroad foreman.
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Como
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Saltillo
Nelson Corry
Randolph Harrison
National Railways of
Francisco Cantu
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