Fire destroys Sanitary Home Killing Nine in Chicago
A blaze at the St. Luke's sanitarium in Chicago killed nine men and one woman and injured about thirty as patients, many strapped to beds amid delirium tremens, fled or jumped from windows. The fire started in the basement near the elevator shaft, leaping to upper floors and engulfing the building before firefighters could contain it.
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Chicago
St. Luke's Society
James Newell
Alves
Permanent Arbitration Board Seeks End to Recent Strikes
Chicago employers of teamsters plan a permanent arbitration board to resolve disputes with drivers and staff after the successful state arbitration in ending last week’s strikes. A confidential circular from American Bankers’ Corporation outlines a nationwide bank amalgamation with one bank per center, capital 5.9 million, surplus 45 million. Washington delays banking law revision until December, and Rome reports the pope valued Roosevelt’s gift of a complete works set with mosaics from St Peter’s and the Vatican.
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Chicago
State Board of Arbitration
New York
North American Trust Company
D. Scudder
Broadway
Sone
American Bankers’ Corporation
Capital
New Jersey
General Corporation
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Rome
Roosevelt
St. Peter's
Vatican
Geologists Rise Crater Slope Amid Boiling Water Observation
A geologic expedition ascended 3200 feet up the crater side, carrying an aneroid barometer, and heard boiling water in the depths though fog hid sight. The five hour ascent and return raise concerns as Prof. Jagger warns ongoing activity could emit deadly gases with no warning, discouraging resettlement.
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Jagger
Darkness Over Mont Pelee Eruption Alarms Caribbean Inhabitants
Kingstown Jamaica? no, Kingstown St Vincent June 11 during Mont Pelee eruption detonations were heard across neighboring islands. Scufriere and dust obscured St Lucia to three miles. a steamship struggled to find Castries harbor. Three Americans Prof Jagger Harvard geologist Dr Hovey NY Museum curator and George Curtis ascended again despite dense dusty fog and perilous cliffs.
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Kingstown
St. Vincent
Mont Pelee
Martinique
St. Lucia
Castries
Jagger
Harvard University
Dr. Hovey
Museum of Natural History
New York
George €. Curtis
Mutiny in Oregon Penitentiary Ends in Deaths and Escape
A mutiny at the Oregon state penitentiary in Salem resulted in the deaths of three guards and the wounding of another. Two prisoners escaped during the riot. In New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson was elected president of Princeton University after Frank Laney Patton resigned.
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Salem
State Penitentiary
Princeton
New
N. J
Woodrow Wilson
Department of Jureisprudence and Politics
Princeton University
Frank Laney Patton
Third in camp at Lakeview ten day tour begins
The Third Minnesota National Guard regiment under Col C A Van Duzer arrived at Camp Lakeview Lake City Minn by special Milwaukee road train at 11 yesterday. It is two years since the unit was in camp here and many improvements have been made. Last year the regiment marched through northern Minnesota but this year will enter camp.
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Lake City
Camp Lakeview
Minn
Minnesota National Gunrd
C.A. van Duzer
Milwaukee Road
Ranp
Bitter Boer split widens after surrender contrast
Bloemfontein report notes a sharp divide among Boers regarding peace terms. Those who surrendered before peace refuse to greet earlier surrenderers, signaling lasting bitterness between the two groups as British and Boer relations shift.
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Duriaw
Bloemfontein
Gen Smiths Trial Records Reach War Dept In Manila Case
Records of Gen Jacob H Smith court martial in the Philippines for alleged cruelty in Samar have reached the war department. Papers were sent directly to Secretary Root who will present them to the President for consideration. No official comment is available at the War Department.
Burlington Hit By Heavy June Rainstorm
A severe rainstorm struck Burlington Iowa yesterday morning damaging crops and homes. Estimated rainfall ranged from six to eight inches causing notable property and agricultural losses in the area.
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Rison
Burlington
Iowa
Burington
Kron Prinz Wilhelm Sets Eastward Atlantic Speed Record
The North German Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm, capt. Richter, sailed from New York June 2 for Cherbourg and Bremen and arrived at Plymouth June 11 after five days eleven hours and thirty two minutes at Fa stone light. The voyage achieved an average speed of 23.68 knots per hour, the best eastward Atlantic record to date.
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Kron Prinz Wilhelm
Plymouth
King
Richter
New York
Cherborg
Bremen
Fastone
Atlantic
Melancholy ends in U S. hotel's tragedy
Miss Alice Levis, twenty three, daughter of a St Louis merchant, hanged herself in a New York hotel using a bath robe and towels. Extraordinary efforts were made to withhold the death from the public. Suspected due to ill health and a fit of melancholy.
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Maken Noone
New York
Alice Levis
St. Louls
Highwaymen Shot by Bristow in Kansas Incident
Des Moines reports from Talmade Kansas that two unidentified men attacked Claude Bristow while he hunted near a clump of bushes. Bristow fired, killing one man in the head and the other in the lungs, claiming both assailants were armed. He shows a head wound from the encounter.
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Kannan
Des Moines
Talmade
Claude Bristow
Cawker City
Kun
Bristow
Blow Breaks Skull as Youth Is Struck at Levee
Louis Beherer a sixteen year old son of Conrad Scherer of Winona Minn died after being struck on the head by another boy, Hadke, at the levee as excursionists landed from the steamer J S from La Crosse. He collapsed at home and died. post mortem showed skull fracture and brain clot.
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Winona Hoy
Winona
Minn
Louis Beherer
Conrad Scherer
Hun Byohn Haase
Scherer
J. 8
la Crosse
Hadke
Hewling
Krome
Heewae
Hailstorm Dumps Eight-Inch Circles in Dakota Field
A northwest storm tracked southeast of Lartmore and Thompson, Dakota, dropping heavy hail across a half mile wide path with large stones up to eight inches in circumference. Farmer Joseph Doyle was struck in the scalp by a hailstone while harrowing, with a severe bone-deep gash. Gardens suffer though crops not yet affected.
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Dakota
Grand Forks
N. D
Lartmore
Thompson
Joseph Doyle
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