John Ericsen, an 11-year-old boy from Butte, Montana, went missing. He would be found dead on July 8 under a pile of coal in a bin near the North Pacific roundhouse.[36]
In Scooba, Mississippi, Albert Rea, an African American man, was lynched for the alleged attempted rape of an 18-year-old woman.[43]
Lightning sparked a major fire in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, which destroyed a grain elevator and three freight houses of the Boston and Maine Railroad, caused three deaths by drowning and resulted in over $1,000,000 in damage. The fatalities were sailors from the Allan Line steamship Austria, the crew of which jumped overboard when the fire spread to their vessel.[44]
Large crowds of Jews from many countries attended Theodor Herzl's funeral in Vienna.[66] 6000 people followed the hearse to Herzl's burial at the cemetery in Döbling. Herzl would be reinterred in 1949 on the hill in West Jerusalem now known as Mount Herzl.[28][29]
In France, the government of Émile Combes ratified the law of 7 July 1904, prohibiting religious congregations from teaching and strengthening the secularization of education.[67]
Melissa Tiemann of Los Angeles, California, sustained fatal injuries when she fell from a streetcar and struck the back of her head on the ground, driving the teeth of an aluminum comb she was wearing into her skull.[68]
In Houston, Mississippi, Jesse Tucker, an African American man, was lynched before daybreak for an alleged assault on a white woman the previous night. The same morning, the coroner's jury delivered their verdict on Tucker's death while standing on the railroad bridge from which his body hung: "We, the jury, find that the deceased, Jesse Tucker, came to his death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties."[92][93]
American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his daughters arrived in New York City with the body of Clemens' wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, who had died in Italy on June 5.[108]
Jockey George Green fractured his skull in a fall on the track at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He would die of his injuries on July 17.[115]
The National Association of Colored Women met for its second session in a church in downtown St. Louis. The meeting had been scheduled to take place on the World's Fair grounds but was moved in accordance with a resolution introduced by Margaret Murray Washington, who objected to discrimination against African Americans by exposition officials.[116]
In the early morning, laborer Thomas Snowden discovered the body of Frederick Kent Loomis washed up at Thurleston Sands, Bigbury Bay, Kingsbridge, Devon.[142][143] Loomis had disappeared from the liner Kaiser Wilhelm II on the eve of its arrival in Plymouth, England on June 20.[142][143][144] The body had an abrasion under the right ear. There were no important papers on the body.[142][143]
The inquest into the death of Frederick Kent Loomis was held in the village of Thurleston, Devonshire.[158] Doctors concluded that Loomis had received an antemortem blow to the head sufficient to cause death before entering the water.[143][158] The verdict of the coroner's jury read, "Found dead, washed up by the sea in Bigbury Bay, Devonshire." In advising the verdict, Coroner Dr. Sidney Hacker stated that there was no evidence that the blow to Loomis' head was the result of foul play.[158]
In Longville, California, a fire destroyed the Miller Hotel, killing two children on an upper floor, who were believed to have set the fire.[159]
John R. McBride, 71, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon, died of a brain hemorrhage.[176][177]
In New York City, a grand larceny charge against boxer Bob Fitzsimmons for stealing a lion cub from a Coney Island animal show was dismissed. One of the show's managers had told Fitzsimmons he could have the lion as a joke. Fitzsimmons returned the lion to the show.[182]
Six people were injured in a scenic railway accident at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.[193]
In Bakersfield, California, Superior Judge Mahon sentenced James Cowan, who had been convicted of manslaughter for the March 11 lynching of James Cummings in Mojave, California, to eight years at Folsom State Prison. The jury which convicted Cowan recommended him to the mercy of the court. Judge Mahon expressed the opinion that the jury did not have the right to make such a recommendation and said that, without it, he would have sentenced Cowan to death.[194][195][196]
Peter Igelhoff (born Rudolf August Ordnung), Austrian pianist and light music and film composer; in Vienna, Austria (d. 1978)[198]
Marjorie White (born Marjorie Ann Guthrie), Canadian-born stage and film actress; in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (d. 1935, injuries from traffic collision)[199]
The French man-of-warMars, being used as an accommodation hulk for 200 marines in Toulon harbor, sank due to rats gnawing holes in its floats. All aboard evacuated before the ship sank.[203]
The 1904 Tour de France ended at the Parc des Princes in Paris, with French cyclist Maurice Garin apparently defending his 1903 title. On November 30, the Union Vélocipédique Française would disqualify the first four finishers, awarding the victory to French cyclist Henri Cornet. 19 years old at the time of the race, Cornet remains the Tour de France's youngest winner.[12][212]
The body of paleontologist and zoologist Rodolfo Amando Philippi lay in state in the grand hall of the University of Chile, viewed by 10,000 people.[207]
In Santiago, Chile, 30,000 people observed the funeral procession of paleontologist Rodolfo Amando Philippi, which included the entire cabinet and National Congress. According to researchers Alan R. Kabat and Eugene V. Coan, "It is safe to say that no other zoologist or paleontologist had such a large turnout at his funeral," with the possible exception of Alexander von Humboldt in 1859.[207]
Inventor Louis N. Filion demonstrated a rigid airship behind the field of the Shamrock Lacrosse Club in Montreal, Quebec. This was the first flight of an airship in Canada.[227]
Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment; in Huntington, Indiana (d. 1981)[233]
Leigh Jason, American film director and screenwriter; in New York City (d. 1979)[234]
On hearing of von Plehve's assassination, Pope Pius X reportedly threw his hands in the air and exclaimed, "How awful. Let us hope that worse events than war are not impending in Russia."[254]
The 1. FC Normannia Gmünd association football club was founded in Gmünd, Germany, by the merger of the Alemannia and Fortuna clubs.[260]
The United Russian Revolutionists held a mass meeting at the Cooper Union in New York City to celebrate Vyacheslav von Plehve's death. 5000 people were in attendance.[261]
A lion attacked animal tamer Captain Jack Bonavita, causing injuries that would lead to the amputation of his left arm. According to conflicting historical accounts, the incident occurred either at the Moulin Rouge in Paris or on Coney Island.[270][271]
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