A requiem mass was held at St Johns Cathedral in Salford for the late Archduke Francis Ferdinand.The Lord Mayor of Manchester along with the consular generals of Austria and Germany were in attendance.
The twelve year old boy described by a judge earlier in the week as a young highwayman after robbing children on Ashton New Road and Gorton was sentenced to five years in an industrial school.
There were reports of massacres of Serbs in Bosnia circulating with rumors of up to ten thousand killed and injured. Meanwhile questions were being asked in the Austrian Parliament as to given the conditions in Bosnia, how it had been possible to allow the Archduke to visit and how the Archduke was allowed to continue to drive the route after the first assassination attempt.
Two firemen were killed in Blackley after a wall collapsed while fighting a fire at a wall paper works. The works were totally destroyed after the fire described as one of the most disastrous in the history of the Manchester Fire Brigade, raged for hours.
The Ancoats Mill Girls Choir gave an open air concert at helmet street recreation ground. It was announced that they would be touring Germany later that year, while an exhibition of roses and summer flowers opened at the Botanical Gardens at Old Trafford.
Manchester was looking forward to another hot weekend temperatures as reached 79 degrees in the shade. The Manchester Evening news reported the men had begun to dress down for the new conditions and some of the ladies in white looked delightfully cool in spite of the suns hot glare.
However the weather was not good news for Mr Fred Crowther aged around 50 a well known tenor vocalist from Todmorden, who died of a heart attack thought to have been brought on by the heat
There was a letter of complaint in that same paper from the train goer whose rambling party, ten in number, had failed to get a seat in third class carriage to Stalybridge.
“The train came up with all the third class carriages nearly full and it was impossible for all our party to find seating accommodation there were quite a number of first class carriages empty but the doors were locked.”
