Devastating Missouri Tornado Roars Through Kirksville and Newtown
A massive tornado tore through northern Missouri in April, leveling homes and killing and injuring dozens. Rescue work continues as authorities estimate a rising death toll with many missing and presumed burned in fires. The storm followed a path from Nebraska through western Iowa to the Missouri line, striking Kirksville Newtown and Lancaster while causing extensive ruin and distress.
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Kirkaville
Yercue
St. Louis
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri State Line
Harrison, Grundy, Sullivan, Linn
Macon
Shelby
Marion
Avest
Lewis, Fox, Adair, Sullivan
Putnam
Kirksville
Newtown
Tancaster
Blo
Terrible storm in Iowa devastates towns and lives
A violent midweek storm swept Merona county and the Soldier River valley, killing several, injuring many, and causing immense property damage. In Crawford county near Ute four miles from Ute the Peters residence was leveled with grain bins and barns destroyed. Debris, furniture, and dead cattle litter the area. A wealthy local woman Mandarasy was murdered and her house burned in a related crime. Other reports mention Japanese judges in England and the Toronto bicycle firm’s failure amidst broader disaster and crime coverage.
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Partans
Ute
Merona
Soldier River
Hanson
Severson
Harry Ferrn
George Ferrn
Trump
Schfvlds
John Amerston
Crawford County
Monday Peters
Eform
Peters
Grant 18 Honored at Grant Birthday Celebrations
In Philadelphia on April 28 President McKinley, cabinet members, and three generations of Gen Ulysses S Grant’s family attended a public meeting in Fairmount park where Miss Rosemary Sartoris unveiled a horse statue dedicated to her grandfather. A Spanish cannon captured at Santiago was presented to the park commissioners. Postmaster General Ferry Smith gave the day’s oration.
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Philadelphia
McKinley
Ulysses
Grant
Tosemary Sartoris
Gen. Grant
Fairmount Park
Galena
Park Commissionera
Santiago
Cervers
Charles Ferty Smith
Pittsburgh
Americas Republican Club
Joseph Wheeler
Winfield S. Schley
Wheeler
Admiral Schley
Bishop Turner Defends Moral Preaching In Georgia
Athens Georgia May 1 Bishop Henry M Turner preached at Bethel AME church and to white listeners at the courthouse urging Negroes to order and educate their children in law and religion. He criticized Georgia newspapers for misrepresenting preachers against crimes while claiming he preferred slavery’s protections to current conditions and urged return to Africa as divine will. Bishop Turner leads the AME church south.
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Athens
Henry M. Tuner
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Georgia
Mshop Turner
Africa
Bishop Turner
African Methodist Episcopal Chanch
Transvaal President claims top gold output in world
In Pretoria on May 1 President Krueger announced the Transvaal is now the largest gold producing country. He cited 1898 output at £16,240,080, a rise of £24,580,005 from the prior year, as the Volkes Rand opening speech highlighted. In Ohio, millers form a price combine.
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Pretoria
Volkesrand
Krueger
Transvaal
World News Blinked by Fire and Crime Across Cities
A burst of calamities and incidents from May 4 reports: bank robbery attempts in Blaworth ML. Cheyenne county fire destroying Cheeky 1.L.. Krupp dockyard fire in Bielorussia. mining floods kill sixty-two in Poland. tornado near Avyoea Tas. fires wipe sections of St Francis county seat Cheyenne. a 60 year old engineer John Webber shoots wife then himself in Weistsboro. Milan Missouri Gn projection of destruction by Gydlotte. fires destroy Welden's grocery and Novelty candy works in Pittsburgh totaling 200,000. spice acreage allotted to American exhibits in Paris.
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G. A. Shinkle’s Banke
Blaworth
Cheeky 1.L
Krupp
Germania
Bielorussia
Ktsuhinat
Poland
Avyoea
Tas
St. Francis
Féati
Cheyenne County
John Webber
Weistsboro
Ont
Tvorka
Pittsburgh
Barrison Gray Otis
U. S
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Denver
Mitchell Daniel
Leusblig
Gil
Andresy J. Biller
Bank of
Mary Spooner
New Bedford
Mass
United States
Mowell
Naval Retiring Board
Admiral Schley
Alexander I. Grupp
American ‘Rome Missionary Society
New York
Rochester &Gake, Ontario
Rochester
N.Y
Crime of a Fiend Deepens Dexter Murder Probe
A Dexter Missouri dispatch reports Mrs Jane Tettaton and her four children were murdered at their home 17 miles south of Malden with bodies burned in a late night fire. J Tettaton, a stepson, has been arrested on suspicion amid intense local sentiment and threats of lynching.
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Barnes
San Antonio
Moandaragy
Mandarasy
Iing
Louis
Post-Dispatch
Dexter
Jane Tettaton
Malden
Tettaton
Mill Blown Up in Wardner Idaho Mining Town
Reported May 1 1910 Michigan style? The Wardner Idaho area saw a violent clash between union and nonunion miners culminating in dynamite attacks on the Bunker and Sullivan mine and mill, killing one, wounding others, and destroying property valued around 250000. Suspected involved from Canyon Creek about 20 miles away. Local fire and destruction described across several incidents including Croton Michigan.
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Boise
Idaho
Union
Nonusion
Wardnex
Bunker Iw
Sullivan Rine
Canyon Creek
Wardner
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W. H. Reed
JNO
Cronin
Algona
Ehas
Maenissin
Algona, Lowa
Shelley & Petitrone
Rhle
J. B. Winkel
Towa
Timothy
Jigeods
John Hoohn
Oliding
Dodge
Fitksville
Missourii
Farinas
Callicothe
St. Paul
WOR
San Francises
England
Gatmenyt
Areca Thre
Thomiya
Baite
Nakashoji
Tokio
Vhonaki
Yokgiiamge
Imuyele
Toronto
Met
Oyale
Canada
Canillon
Thaning Mild Combe
Toledo
MacClaren & Sprague
Convern
Clube
Buues Elpiia
Ferears
Neinnath
Lea
Aston
Clevelan Westarn
Milwauke Wee
Delro
Minneapolis
Bobby
Ieee
Fftnon
Mixsport
Sirikery
Newaygo
Croton
Newaygo County
Nly Mineral Productions
Jisco
California
Mia.c
Wy Mannfield
Farrar, Bheat
Detroit
Mich
William
King of Reference
Werner
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Morocco
Ehlers & Cs
Iroquois Bicycles
Aleibonee
Iroquois Cycle Works
Wwe
Owe Golan
Ponts
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