The Brooklyn Daily Eagle highlighted several significant events in its historical reports. On this day in 1860, an explosion at a firework manufactory in Greenpoint injured a worker. In 1870, the paper reported on a massive fifteen-foot shark displayed in London. By 1875, New South Wales allocated funds for its representation at the U.S. Centennial. In 1905, President Roosevelt announced the formation of a special commission to evaluate plans for the Panama Canal. Lastly, in 1916, military inquiries were started to account for family circumstances of soldiers potentially deployed to Mexico.
About 7 o'clock last night an explosion occurred in one of the small buildings of Messrs. Bock & Puchta, fire-work manufactory, in Freeman street, Greenpoint, by which one of the workmen named Davick was slightly injured.
President Roosevelt is determined that whatever plan may be finally adopted for the Panama Canal, it shall be the best possible plan.
Colonel Sydney Grant of the Thirteenth Coast Defense command ordered a careful inquiry to be made last night in order that a complete roster might be made.
A fifteen foot shark, one of the largest, if not the very largest ever caught, is on exhibition in the London Museum.
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