July 1st
The body of an unknown man was taken from the Rochdale canal at Union Street in Ancoats. He was around forty five five feet six inches with light brown hair and a moustache. He was dressed in blue trousers and waistcoat, blue striped cotton shirt grey woollen socks and lace boots and his body was residing at Faraday Street mortuary.
In the Balkans meanwhile the Manchester Evening News was reporting that following the assassination, angry mobs in Sarejevo had chanted down the Serbians carrying a portrait of the emperor while attacking a number of shops and businesses with Serbian connections.
Police and military were powerless to do anything while in Mostar Muslims had turned on the Serbian population, two hundred were reported to have been killed and wounded with the town in flames.
There had been an important arrest with documents obtained by the Austrian authorities that proved an organised plot and that those arrested had confessed that they had not acted alone.
Sir Robert Baden Powell was in Manchester entertaining by The Lord Mayor supporting his fund for the endowment of the Boy Scouts association
Speaking to the crowds he said it was with diffidence that he visited the city,Manchester might be said to stand alone in the country in the matter if education because of its characteristic spirit and enterprise, it had gone its own way and now others were following its lead
On Oldham Road, a man Joseph Morrissey aged 37 had been overcome by heat while walking along Henry St before being conveyed to Ancoats hospital and later to Crumpsall and an eleven year old girl who had disappeared from her home in boundary street Salford had been found found in a lodging house in Wigan and had been reunited with her parents
It had been the hottest day of the year though the barometer was now falling, reaching 77.6 F in the shade.
Lancashire cotton operatives were given an extra two days holiday per year at a meeting in Manchester while a dispute in Middleton with cotton spinners was resolved.
Meanwhile The Manchester Guardian, reflecting on the assassination worried about the revival of the peril that had recently seen Germany strengthen her army.
