Slocum Disaster Toll Mounts With 632 Recovered
The General Slocum steamer disaster on Long Island Sound left 632 bodies recovered with 559 identified. About 300 remain missing as 36 bodies were found Sunday, and more victims were pulled from the water after the fire aboard the ship, which sank near North Brother Island.
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New York
General Slocum
Long Island Sound
Rick‘er’s Island
New York City
Long Island
Chicago
St. Mark’s German Lutheran Church
Lons Island Sound
Locust Grove
Third Street
Wast River
Knickerbocker Steamship Company
Slocum
Randall’s Island
Tere
Etnukea Meadows
Fidelity
Hunt
Ricker’s Island
Meads
North Brother Island
Manhattan
Furious Fighting Near Varangon Amid Russian Defeat
London reports 50 000 Russian troops at Varangon crushed by 60 000 Japanese under Nodzu. Russians abandon guns, supplies, colors. retreat north along three roads. Japanese report 1 000 own losses and over 500 Russian dead or wounded.
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London
Varangon
Nodzu
Kuroki
Shiuyen
Stackelberg
Kuropatkin
Liaoyang
Paris
St. Petersburg
L’echo de Paris
Stakelburg
Varangow
Stakelberg
Haicheng
Telissu
Mukden
Sluyen
Tokio
Vladivostok
Korean Strait
Japan
Kamamura
Hatachi
Sado
Izuma
Korean
Jung
Port Arthur
Hitachi
Sheriff Harris Shot Dead on Wisconsin Train
Sheriff G D Harris of St Croix county Wisconsin was killed on a Omaha bound train near Fall Creek after locating a burglary suspect. The shooter fled on foot from the moving train and later stole a horse and buggy heading toward Augusta. A large posse and armed men scoured the area but the fugitive’s identity remained uncertain, with reports tying him to a Havre Montana marshal killer.
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St. Paul, Minn
G. D. Harris
St. Croix County
Wis
Omaha
Fall Creek
Harris
Eau Claire
Hudson
Augusta
McMillan
Havre, Mont
Anniversary of Famous Battle Celebrated Across New England
The one hundred twenty ninth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill was marked Friday in Boston and nearby towns. Business paused as banks exchanges and mercantile firms closed for the day across several New England cities.
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Boston
Bunker Hill
Lynn
New England
Stock
Panama adopts dollar standard for its currency system
The Panama currency commission agrees to a coin standard equal in fineness and weight to the U S dollar and makes the U S dollar legal tender in Panama. Panama will re coin Colombian silver into coins the size of the silver dollar, with $6 000 000 total silver coinage and about $1 500 000 of it held as current silver reserves. A 15 percent reserve will be placed in a New York bank to maintain parity with gold, plus all seigniorage Panama earns will meet U S government requirements.
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Washington
Panama
United States
New York City
Bloodshed in Finland Revolt Claims Helsingfors
A Copenhagen dispatch reports a revolt in Helsingfors the Finnish capital. Swedish revolutionists sacked the governor general’s offices and killed 18 workers including Admiral Pinken’s son. Police offices were attacked and demolished. Information is suppressed. wider unrest feared.
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London
Express
Copenhagen
Helsingfors
Finland
Bobrikoffi
Admiral Pinken
Spurned by Revenge Raisuli Ends Kidnap Plot
London reports Raisuli sent a Tangier letter claiming revenge on the deposed Tangier governor drove the kidnapping of American Percival Perdicaris. The brigand cites tribal wrongs, says no enmity toward Christians, and warns the new bashaw must be just or more troubles follow.
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London
Tangier
Perdicaris
Raisuli
Daily Mail
Robbers Target Coast Limited Train in Northern Pacific Hold Up
A June 20 Missoula report describes a train robbery on the Coast Limited with the Express Company's safe containing 65 000 dollars. A $2 300 bounty is offered for each bandit, and posses pursue suspects with no arrests announced.
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Missoula
Mont
Coast Limited
Northern Pacific
Free Express Company
How to Keep a Baseball Score Pressbox View
Allan P. Ames explains the press or scorers box atop the grand stand offers the best view for recording a game. The official scorer must log every move, then provide managers with a complete figures sheet showing at bats runs baserunners and outs using simple symbols for quick accuracy.
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Allan P. Ames
St. Nicholas
How to Submit to magazines for literary aspirants
A guide urges aspiring writers to learn the craft before publishing and to study the best poetry. It advises submitting manuscripts without commentary, including name and address on the first page, one side only, with return stamps, and no extra notes or ribbons.
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Woman’s Home Companion
Automobile Consumption Cure
Dr Blanchet of Lyons promotes motor car exercise as a tuberculosis remedy based on his own recovery from long daily open air driving. He claims coughing lessens, sleep and appetite improve, with emphasis on staying warm and the lungs strengthened by high wind pressure from rapid motion.
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Blanchet
Lyons
London Mail
No Mistake. Bangs What a queer neck Jagesby has
A fragment from a Chicago Daily News item notes Bangs exclaiming about a peculiar neck shape or feature attributed to Jagesby, described as a funnel like appearance.
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Chicago Daily News
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J. G. Schultz
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G. C. F. Haas
Gen. Slocum
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