The day saw another motor fatality in Manchester as a 22 year old from Beswick, riding on a motor trailer down the Ashton New Road, while getting a lift to work, slipped and fell underneath the wheels and was pronounced dead on arrival at Ancoats hospital
In Germany, It was announced that the Kaiser would pay a visit to the tomb of the murdered Archduke towards the end of August
The Manchester Parks committee were discussing a proposal to use part of Heaton Park for an aviation ground and there was also a proposal to use a small part of Southern cemetery for a tramway shelter.
Is a railway company liable for a passengers baggage? A case was being heard in Manchester County Court where James Fitton was claiming £29 from the Lancashire and Yorkshire company after losing his bag at Victoria Station after giving it to a porter for safe keeping while he changed trains.
Manchester Town Hall was celebrating 100 years of peace between the UK and the United States. It was in the interests of the city’s commercial community that relations should continue said the chairman of the American committee who went onto thank God for John Bright and Manchesters cotton spinners.
A fire broke out overnight at Broadheath station which completed gutted the building though the station master was able to save the books and papers from the booking office. The fire disrupted services between Manchester, Liverpool and Stockport.
The Manchester evening news reported on the season of the summer sales
In Manchester, its results are made visible to the mere man to whom the town is a mere place to work for the living by the presence of unusually large numbers of women in Deansgate, St Ann’s Square, Market Street and Oldham Street. Should he wonder for one moment why those streets are so abnormally crowded he has but to glance at any window to find the explanation hurled at him
It was a busy day for Stockport’s Magistrates as applications were made for thirty four singing and music licenses after the last sessions saw all such licenses abolished. However, once again they would be rejected, one of the petitioners saying that it was obvious that that the justices had made up their minds and to continue would be a farce.
Emily Pankhurst was arrested again that morning as she left the WSPU headquarters in London and was taken to Holloway prison. It was announced that she would once again go on hunger strike and she expected to be released in a weeks time to speak at a meeting in Holland Park.
That same day two suffragettes attacked the birthplace of Scottish poet Robbie Burns, and were surprised by the night watchmen as they were placing two large bombs against the walls , he caught one of the women but the other fled.
