North Atlantic squadron moves south to meet Isthmus tensions
Washington moves the North Atlantic squadron toward Hampton Roads as European warships are expected to rendezvous off the Isthmus of Panama. Officials aim to deter Colombia Venezuela or Nicaragua from linking with Germany Great Britain or France and to protect Monroe Doctrine commitments. The cruiser reinforcements from Germany France and Britain are anticipated. the Colombia minister pledged peace efforts while caution remains high. The battle ship and Ranger prepare to sail for Panama to safeguard American interests.
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Panama
Navy Department
Hampton Roads
State Department
State
Navy
United States
Colombia
Venezuela
Nicaragua
China
Germany
Great Britain
France
Isthmus
Colon
Hay
Six Die In Dynamite Explosion At Herkimer Roundhouse
Six lives are reported lost after a dynamite blast at the New York Central and Hudson River roundhouse in Herkimer New York. Watchman Gilbert and engine tender John Deck died along with four unidentified victims as the roundhouse burned and wrecked. Firefighters and local workers battled the blaze and search efforts fear more bodies may be among the ruins.
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Herkimer
N. Y
New York Central
Hudson River
Gilbert
John Deck
Bridge Building Gang
Deck
Fire at Powers Lake hotel drives guests from rooms
A number of Chicagoans narrowly escaped a blaze at Powers Lake hotel in Kenosha Wis. The fire, likely incendiary, destroyed the hotel and outbuildings, forcing guests to flee in nightclothes. Loss put at 10000 with partial insurance coverage.
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Fternorters
Kenosha
Wis
Fire destroys J Wright plant in Richmond blaze
Richmond August 20 a fire wiped out the J Wright plant of the Continental Tobacco Co early this forenoon. Insurance coverage and full details were not yet available.
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Richmond
J. Wright
Continental Tobacco Company
Two Soldiers Dead as Shell Explodes at Fort Riley
At Fort Riley near Sunction City Kansas two soldiers Henry C Watson and John J King were killed and seven injured when a seven inch 207 pound shell exploded while being placed in a siege battery breech. The unit was the Seventh Artillery under Captain Vandusen. Murray flykes and Charles Duncan were mortally wounded. Oil discovery reported near Evanston Wyoming toward the Rocky Mountains.
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Sunction City
Kan
Fort Riley
Here
Seventh Artillery
Vandusen
Henry C. Watson
John J. King
Murray Flykes
Charles Duncan
Evanston
Wyo
Rocky Mountains
Sweden Forms New Liberal Party in Parliament
A new liberal party forms in Stockholm to unite reformers for expanded franchise direct taxation reform and end to duties on life’s necessities. Norway and Denmark welcome the move as a sign of Scandinavian accord. Members pay one day’s income to the party treasury.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Ife
Norway
Denmark
Cuban Killed During Germ Mosquito Experiments
A Spaniard volunteer in Caldas yellow fever tests died from the fever four days after a mosquito bite. Dr. Harvard warns that experiments using mosquitoes may halt as more dangerous than expected. Two other bitten men show illness. two more have mild forms. The death marks the first since the board began trials.
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Havana
Caldas
Yellow Fever Board
Harvard
Baldwin Expedition Letter Describes Archangel Landing
A Baldwin polar expedition member's letter from aboard the America on July 29 reports the Archangel landing where horses and dogs were shipped. Anthony Fiala, the photographer, notes the banquet after which the voyage north began and all members were well and in good spirits.
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Baldwin
New York
Vardo
Franz Josefland
Anthony Fiala
Archangel
America
North
Presidential Appointments List in Navy and War
Washington announces new officer appointments across Navy and War departments. Navy promotes Howard Gage and William L Burdick to lieutenant commander with Percy Herbert named boatswain. Army colonel artillery corps John R Myrick and lieutenants colonels William Ennis Abner Merrill major artillery Thomas R Adams John A Lundeen William E Birkhimer Arthur Murray Henry L Harris.
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Washington, D. C
Navy
Howard Gage
William L.burdick
Percy Herbert
Boatswain
Treasury
Thomas B. Morton
District of Alabama
John R. Myrick
William Ennis
Abner H. Merrill
Thomas R. Adams
John A. Lundeen
William E. Birkhimer
Arthur Murray
Henry L. Harris
Centenarian of Acadian Louisiana Dies at 113
Pierre Gauichereau died in Breaux Ridge Louisiana where he had lived since moving from New York and France. Born in 1788, he moved to New York at 65 and later settled among Acadians. Neighbors noted his white hair and preserved faculties.
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New Orleans
Pierre Gauichereau
Breaux Ridge
France
New York City
Louisiana
Clairvoyant fleeces heiress in Fort Wayne scheme
Miss Jennie Ray, who inherited 1200 dollars, consulted Professor Mon Cure a clairvoyant. He advised depositing 5000 dollars in his safety box. She followed, then he withdrew the money and disappeared leaving her short of funds.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Jennie Ray
Mon Cure
Motorman Bowman Dies After Train Crash in Chicago
P H Bowman motorman of the car that crashed into a fast mail train died last night at Mercy Hospital. He had been watched by a policeman to testify at the inquest, as his statement was hoped to unravel the cause of the accident.
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Bowman
Chicago
P. H. Bowman
Mercy Hospital
Henry Zeigelmeier
Febel Phiacepka
West 21St Street
Phlacepha
Calumet Man Dies After Shooting Incident
In Calumet Michigan on August 21 George Casta attempted to shoot a hat held by Peter Gregorish while intoxicated. The double barreled gun discharged striking Gregorish in the side. He died at Calumet hospital about two hours later.
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Calumet, Mich
George Casta
Peter Gregorish
Casta
Gregorish
Calumet Hospital
City of Golconda Sinks After Squall Near Paducah
The steam boat City of Golconda sank in ten feet of water at Crowell's Landing after a sudden squall. Twenty were drowned including ten women. Captain Bauer and engineer efforts noted, with survivors from the cabin and wreckage recovered or saved.
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Crowell's Landing
Paducah
City of Golconda
Crowell’s Landing
Elizabethtown
Bauer
David Adams
Lucy Barnett
Smithland
Watts Davis
Stockman
Livingston County
Lizzie Graham
Trixie Grimes
Grahamville
Lon Hogan
Charles Slayton
Lola
St. Louis
H. E. Worton
H. S. Quartermouse
Hampton
Crowell’s
Red Hot Poker Case Leads to Child Protection Action
Daniel Blizzard a seven year old boy from Baltimore is placed in protective care after his mother is jailed for six months for torturing him with a red hot coal oil lamp and a heated stove poker. In Youngstown Ohio seven workers die and several others are injured when molten metal blast furnace machinery malfunctions at the National Steel plant.
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Daniel Blizzard
Society For Protection of Children From
Youngstown, O
Ohio
National Steel Company
Richard Richards
John Cruikshank
Mike Jorinka
Andy Kahut
Mike O'Brien
Joseph Bugos
George Malnik
Bargain Hunting Across Chicago Fruit Market Slow to Rise
In Chicago on August 21 dealers in Haymarket square and South Water street report no price increase despite high produce costs. Small dealers and restaurant operators hunt bargains, forced to supply fruits and vegetables at old prices amid the market tension.
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Chicago
Haymarket Square
South Water Street
Smallpox cases reported in Hall family at Berry
Springfield Aug 21 four members of the T B Hall family at Berry Sangamon county have smallpox reported to the state board of health. The oldest daughter contracted the disease from a fellow pupil while attending the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso Ind.
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Springfield
T. B. Hall
Berry
Sangamon County
State Board of Health
Northern
Indiana Normal School
Valparateo
Ind
Lynching of Two Negroes Shocks Pierce City Mo
In Pierce City Missouri on August 21 four mobsters abducted and lynched Eugene Carter and Godley from the jail for alleged assault and murder of Casselle Wilds. A third man Joe Clark is named as real culprit. a shooting spree injures a boy and wounds others as racial tensions flare.
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Pierce City
Eugene Carter
Godley
Casselle Wilds
Godiey
Carter
Joe Clark
Miss Wilds
Six Firemen Die as Tank Is Struck in Storm Fire
Philadelphia August 21 Six firemen are known to be killed and twenty three missing after a fire at Atlantic Refining Point Breeze plant. A lightning strike on a large tank triggered explosions of air and benzine tanks. The loss is estimated at 650000 as the blaze continues with all city firemen fighting to contain the oil. The dead include James Falls and John McCullen of engine company 49 and four Atlantic Refining employees.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
Point Breeze
James Falls
John McCullen
Why Madison Light and Railway dropped women conductors
In an appeal to the state tax board Indianapolis reporters describe C. J. Roberts and C. B. Johnson arguing that women conductors favored certain male passengers, arousing jealousy among male riders and reducing car crowds to single passenger conversations with conductors.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Madison Light and Railway Company
State Tax Board
C. J. Roberts
C. B. Johnson
Roberts
Democrats Elect a Judge in Peoria Illinois
Theodore N. Green son of the late Pekin judge N W Green won the Peoria circuit judgeship seat over Republican Franklin L Velde to fill the Shaw term by more than 800 votes in a surprising result.
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Peoria
Ill
Theodore N. Green
N. W. Green
Pekin
Thomas M. Shaw
Lacon
Franklin L. Velde
Velde
Union Leader Says South Chicago Workers Stand Alone
Pittsburg dispatch reports Amalgamated Association President Shaffer states the South Chicago workers who stayed at work are outside the union and may strike on their own. Four US Steel mills resume operations with south labor brought in, amid street disorder in Monessen and ongoing tensions with the steel trust.
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Pittsburg
Shaffer
Amalgamated Association
Chicago
Tigh
Duquesne
United States Steel Corporation
South
Painter
Clark
Monessen
Chicago Federation of Labor
J. H. Bowman
Steel Trust
South Chicago
Leaders Accused Over Steel Trust Money and Strike Split
Chicago dispatch describes South Chicago mills teetering as Joliet and Bay View workers strike. Amalgamated lodges Lakeside and Commercial lose charters. Vice President Davis returns to South Chicago to urge individualized talks. Rumors swirl of anti strike plans and a potential Sunday meeting as loyalists rally at East Chicago Opera House. Mass meeting endorses Shaffer’s charter revocation actions against disobedient lodges.
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Chicago
Steel
Joliet
Bay View
Steel Workers
South Chicago
Lakeside
Commercial Lodges
Amalgamated Association
Mud Lake
Michael Tighe
Davis
Amalgamated
East Chicago
Lakeside Lodge
Commercial Lodge
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Shaffer
Lake Lodge No
Emlyn Lodge
First Bloodshed at Crescent Mills in Cleveland Strike
The first bloodshed in Cleveland Colorado's Amalgamated Association strike occurred last night at Crescent mills. Two special policemen clashed with a crowd of pickets on Bessemer avenue near the mill. One picket suffered a severe scalp wound and possible skull fracture, another was struck in the arm and will need a sling for several days. The melee, about 6 o'clock, extended to the mill entrance and required Superintendent Button to end the hostilities.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, CO
Amalgamated Association
Crescent Mills
Bessemer Avenue
Button
Sheriff Mobilizes Militia After Critical Wellsville Crisis
Sheriff from Lisbon rushed to Wellsville as mill managers call for militia protection. Deputies are to accompany. authorities warn the situation is critical and require urgent action.
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Wellsville
Noradon
Lisbon
Loving Cup for Cervera Admirals Kindness Noted
New York Aug 20 Those leading the drive to present a loving cup to Admiral Cervera for kindness shown to Lieut Hobson and his men while prisoners at Santiago express gratification. Arthur Bird of Sidney Record started the movement and A P Clark reports growing testimonials including a letter from Secretary John D Long. Hobson has asked to head the subscriber list.
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New York
Cervera
Hobson
Santiago
Arthur Bird
Sidney
N. Y
A. P. Clark
President McKinley Visits Zoar On Short Outing
President McKinley spends Aug 20 at Zoar Ohio the historic Bavarian founded commune seeking religious liberty. Mrs McKinley joins with an informal party including Colonel Herrick Parmlee Herrick and Canton relatives as they travel by private car and plan to return to Canton State this afternoon.
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Canton
McKinley
Zoar
Bavannath
Myron T. Herrick
Parmlee Herrick
General Joe Knipe Dead in Harrisburg
Harrisburg Pa August 20 General Joseph FE Knipe longtime military figure and former Harrisburg postmaster died at his home in the city. He served in the Mexican War under General Scott and participated in Civil War battles with the Twelfth Corps from Chattanooga to Atlanta. He later led cavalry for the Army of the Tennessee and was connected with the state department at his death.
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Harrisburg
Joseph FE. Knipe
Scott
Twelfth Corps
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Army of the Tennessee
Johnson
State Department
Statue Transfer to War Department for Liberty Statue
The Liberty statue on Bedloe's Island may go to the War Department if General Brooke’s recommendation is approved by Congress. Secretary Root is expected to support it with funds to finish the statue base and approaches.
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War Department
New York
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