Woman saves baby as husband badly hurt in Knox County wreck
Near Round Grove church ten miles south of Knoxville a runaway buggy accident fatally injured Mrs. Lyman Smith and left Mr. Smith with bruises. The couple were en route to a camp meeting in Columbia when the buggy tongue failed and the team ran wild. Mrs. Smith, holding their baby, threw it into the weeds before the buggy collapsed. He was dragged 100 yards and later freed by a bridge railing. Doctor C W Cornell from Knoxville said the woman has internal injuries and likely cannot recover.
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Knoxville
Round Grove
Lyman Smith
Lisle Crabtree on Trial for Cabtal Raymond Killing
In Omaha a general court martial for Corporal Lisle Crabtree of Troop DB Second U S Cavalry began at Fort Crook. Defense claims insanity as he faces charges of murdering Captain John C Raymond at Fort Des Moines on June 19. The panel includes Col Gardner and Lt Col Glassford with several officers listed.
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Omaha
Neb
Lisle Crabtree
Second
United States Cavalry
John C. Raymond
Fort Des Moines
Fort Crook
Gardner
Sixteenth Infantry
F. E. Butchan
Department of the Missors
Wiliam A. Glassford
Fort Omuha
J. M. Banister
Department
Omar Bunday
Inspector General’s Department
W. F. Blauvelt
W. ©. Bennett
L. B. Simonds
H. I. Dalton
M. L. Crimmins
FE. D. Warfield
George
Paymaster Shot To Death In Robbery
News from Rock West Virginia reports paymaster W. H. Oakley of the Franklin Construction Company was shot to death by an unknown assailant who robbed him of 2000 dollars in Bluefield West Virginia.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Rock
W. H. Oakley
Franklin Constction Company
Riot Dead May Be 18 Shoots to Kill Order
State troops deputies and special police under command ordered to fire at first sign of trouble as riots flare. Quiet prevails but the situation remains tense with reports of casualties and heavy security measures.
Riot Claims Two Lives in Pittsburgh Strike Clash
During a riot in Pittsburgh on August 24 a woman, wife of a striker, was fatally shot in the back while aiding her husband's cause. A boy beside her in the clash with state troopers and the mob of strike sympathizers was also fatally wounded by a rifle ball.
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Pittsburg
Stelker
Rioting at McKee's Rocks Leaves Dozens Dead or Wounded
Pittsburgh dispatch reports a ferocious riot at McKee's Rocks tied to a steel car plant strike. Six men are known dead, many others killed or mortally wounded, with extensive property damage and civilians injured. Troops arrived at dawn to secure the area as authorities vow to shoot at the first sign of trouble.
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Pittsburg
McKee’s Rocks
Bragcore
State Constabulary
Benzoate of Soda War At Denver Food Session
Denver August 24 The thirteenth annual convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments opens with welcomes from Gov Shaffroth Mayor Speer and Dr Hugh L Taylor. Debate centers on added sodium benzoate with Dr Harvey Wiley leading the anticipated meeting and a Thursday program of scientific speeches.
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Denver
Col
Association of State and Natornal Food and Dairy Departments
J. Q. Emery
Madison
Wis
Shaffroth
Speer
Hugh L. Taylor
Colorado State Board of Health
A. C. Bird
Dairy and
Michigan
Emery
R. E. Doolittle
New York
A. P Sy
Buffalo
A. B. Leach
M. EB. Jaffa
University of California
H. B. Barnard
Indianapolis
A. 8. Mitchell
St. Paul
Minn
B. F. Ladd
North Dakota Agricultural College
Dr. Barnard
Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
State Food Department
Harvey W. Wiley
Wiley
Air Mark Set In 57 Kilometer Long Flight At Rheims
Glenn Curtiss set a world mark by flying one 6 1 6 miles lap in eight minutes 35 3 5 seconds and Paulham followed with a 57 kilometer effort though Bleriot overtook him before the back stretch. A Bayard Clements dirigible balloon wrecked in Maisons Lafitte after wind tore it from 40 handlers. occupants swam to shore, none injured, with Colonel Nach claiming a 4 600 foot altitude peak on ascent.
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Rheims
Bleriot
Seine
Glenn H. Curtiss
Paulham
Blerjot
Lefebvre
Paris
Bayard-Clement
Bayard-Clement Company
Maisons-Laffitte
Col. Nach
River
Million Dollar Decatur Fire Strikes Hardware District
Charred ruins and smoke mark a $1,000,000 blaze in Moorehouse and Wells hardware on Main Street. Decatur declares a water famine, shuts off residential supply as reservoir dips to seven feet. Springfield provides four engines. Hotel engine room fire barely contained with guests panicking. rebuilding to start once debris cools.
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Decatur
Ill
Springfield
Moorehouse & Wells
Main Street
Cullen
Roosevelt Kills Elephant in Kenya Safari
Nairobi reports Theodore Roosevelt hunting in the British East Africa protectorate. He killed a good bull elephant as part of his Kenya safari. Edmund Heller and R. J. Cunningham are assisting with the skin, while Roosevelt pursues travel toward Mweru.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Kenya
Edmund Heller
ER. Jd. Cunninghame
Col. Roosevelt
Mweru
Odd Tales From Dispatches Mix of Feats and Follies
A tangle of curious brief items from Aug 24 includes George L Root a Chicago rail conductor driven half mad by tourist complaints on a coast trip. Loring Gillespie, seaman on the St Louis, rejects a $55,000 Chicago bequest for a life at sea. A hunter in Ohio kills a five lynx den leader after a three hour stand. A 110 pound bluefin tuna record is claimed in Avalon California. A young woman in San Francisco swallows five dollars owed to a taxicab driver and refuses stomach pump.
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San Francisco
George L. Root
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Kansas City
Avalon
Cal
L. G. Murphy
Lowellville
William Smith
South Carolina
Here
Rich
Loring L. Gillespie
St. Louis
Navy
Chicago
Gillespies
Lake Avenue
Virginia Wallingford
American Bar Association Opens in Detroit Session
Detroit hosts the thirty second annual meeting of the American Bar Association with lawyers from across the country. Frederick W Lehmann presides as the address highlights statute law changes. Tonight papers on French Family Law and Juvenile Courts are planned. Gov Augustus E Willson will deliver the annual address tomorrow.
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Detroit
Mich
American Bar Association
Frederick W. Lehmann
St. Louis
Congress
George Barbey
Court of Appeals
Paris
Julian W. Mack
Chicago
Association
Augustus E. Willson
Kentucky
Belle Isle
Detroit Boat Club
Detroit Yacht Club
Not Guilty Plea by Persch in $50,000 Trust Loan Case
Donald L. Persch pleaded not guilty to two indictments charging grand larceny in the first degree over the Joyce-Windsor Trust Company $50,000 loan deal. The arraignment occurred in New York on August 24 with prosecutors detailing the alleged scheme.
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New York
Donald L. Persch
Joyce-Windsor Trust Company
Honduran Debt Commission to Visit U.S. in September
Washington August 24 The Honduran government will appoint a commission to visit the United States probably in September to confer with leading bankers. The goal is to work out a plan for refunding the Honduran foreign debt.
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Washington
Honduras
United States
Requests Are Refused on Bleached Flour Seizures
Washington reports that requests by bleached flour manufacturers to halt seizures until a test case is decided were refused after a conference between Wade Ellis acting attorney general and Dr. H L Dunlop of the agricultural department pure food board. Four Fatally Burned in Sharon Blast Furnance.
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Washington
Wade Ellis
HL YF. Dunlop
Pure Food Board
The
Agricultural Department
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Atlantic Evening News
News Publishing Co., Publishers
Atlantic
Iowa
Wilk
Washington, D. C
Reynolds
Treasury Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Post Office Department
Hudson River
Kankakee
Ang
Geoge Granger
Gennevieve Rabin
Bt. Kavier Academy
Habble Avenue
Mound Grove Cemetery
Council Dglaifs
Ruth Purdy
Neola
Nerman Deukel
Lincoln
New McClelland
Burlington
Howard Lee
Conover
Marshall Jordan
Mount Pleasant
Lee
M'Kee's Rocks
Union
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Pressed Steel Car Company
Federation of Labor
Iron and Steel Workers of America
Pressed Steel
Car Workers' International Union
Sterm Center
Gulf
New Orleans
Galveston
Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Pioneer
Atchison, Kan
John P. Brown
Atchison
Imand
Orville Wright
Aeet Ahegho
Glenn Curtiss
1St
T. R
G. G
Roosevelt
Heller
Dispatches
Monster Fish
Meeting of Lawyers
Lehmann
Charleston
Burdette
Norfolk& Western Railroad
Sharon
Stewart
Chas. A. Grubb
C. B. Clovis
Mara
W. C. Heers
Dentibt Offee
Simney's Meats
Talaphome
Auscen
Max .Emmert, M. D
Surgean
Fifth Street
Offee
Waseny
Ruth Bell Ind
G. R. Miller
Atlantic, Lowa
C. G. Clark
Konda
Omine A
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic and
Hovan Hock
Omees
Houeo
Puoneme
LWA
T. B. Swan
Wille Dewey
Guardiaba
Lowa
C. L. Campbell
Omce Roond
Gilera
Wood & Savery
Jobin Hl
Ben U. Wood
AtUy-at-Law CW
Saveiy
Atlanitc
Dr. A. 5S. Mullins
Opera House
Charles D. Finley
Josephine Cook-Finley
Ruason
Gillve
Yih
Centaal St. Avantio
Tora
Butler
M. H. Butlers, Proprietor
Transtur Busindas
J. A. Giffen
Avumsor Ty Cehurmat
Furnitina Gampagy
W.M- Bailey
Yay Phong
Mussue
Chestnut St Atlantic
D. O. Herbert
Newt Estate
Mast Firth Street
Disbrow
Peane
J. B. Rockafellow
Attorney At Law
J. F. Reid
Garson Auellonger
Canada
Attunvle
Will
Balerno
Mene Musson
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