Desperate riot in Liberia Perry County Ind details emerge
Reports from Liberia Perry County Indiana describe a massive Fourth of July clash. About 1,000 participants, three killed, four fatally wounded, sixty seriously injured as clashes erupted between disturbers and German Catholics during a village picnic. Samuel Wilson led attackers wielding a knife. a German man killed him with a beer bottle blow after Wilson stabbed another. The riot followed expressions of anti German sentiment and intoxicated provocation.
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Chicago
Liberia
Perry County
Ind
Wiliam Lomax
Frep Kinami
Willliam Gore
Frank Hart
Peter Bennett
Robert Dodge
Abner Stroud
Samuel Wilson
Siberia
Par Gons
Wilson
Mystery of the River Tragedy In Des Moines Waters
Miss Reardon and Theodore Clark vanished after boating on the Des Moines river. The girl was found clinging to a capsized boat and drowned. Clark's body remained missing. Both about 24 years old, authorities continued searches for his remains.
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Orromwa
Miss Reardon
Theodore Clark
Des Moines
Lark
Clarke
Spain Will Take Part In Next International Monetary Conference
Senor De Lome the Spanish minister says Spain will join the next international monetary conference and favors broadened use of silver alongside gold. Spain's policy aims for both metals and includes colonial interests, with the Matin union concept to fix silver coinage by member needs. The aim is U.S. and major centers adherence, plus many smaller countries.
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Washington
Senor Depuy de Lome
Spain
Porto Rico
Phillipine Islands
United States
Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Seljan’s Murder Revealed in River Discovery
The brutal murder of John Seljan is solved as his dismembered body surfaces in the river near Omaha. Police charge Mato Mikan and wife, along with John Urban and John Drubnitz, all Bohemians, who allegedly seized $1000 in gold from the victim. Detectives report blood evidence and a possible confession forthcoming.
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Oana
Tronk
Omaha
John Seljan
Mato Mikan
Riter Buckovitz
John Urban
John Drubnitz
Seljau
Thirteenth
Pierce
Creighton Medical College
Chief White
Des Moines Mayor raids saloon drug store
Des Moines reports Mayor Hillis visits a noted saloon drug store with Editor Clarkson. police raid follows, liquor seized, and plan to close all similar venues discussed amid petitions and renewed openings after court findings. Also notes teachers convention success and multiple local incidents.
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Hilla
Des Moines
Hillis
Hillin
Clarkson
Register
A. M. Bilby
The
Federation of Churches
Morton on Moore appointment in weather bureau dispute
Bay news reports J Sterling Morton defending Moore on forecast merit, noting Moore’s rise from boyhood service and private unveiling of a weather forecasting system amid past political controversy surrounding Howgate’s sentencing. Also covered are Horace Hovan’s capture in Germany and other brief items on tax refunds, miner strikes, executions, Lamont’s Yellowstone stop, Irish nationalist funding, and several baseball results.
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Willis Moore
Howgate
Moore
Postmaster General laments New York jail break
July 6 dispatches describe Postmaster General Wilson condemning the escape of three Ludlow Street jail prisoners. He offers rewards and urges accountability, criticizing guards for letting prisoners alter appearance to thwart identification. The tale expands into a broader scandal with details of lax jail security and social mingling with visitors.
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New York
Wasuingeron
Wilson
Ludlow Street
United States
McFarland
Mpany
Killoran
Russel
Allen
Tlinois
Springfield
Various early 1900s items mix on irrigation, taxes, and crime
News briefs report the Kansas irrigation board opening a pumping station in Goodland on July nine, Peoria firms facing liabilities, the Modern Woodmen meeting in Mexico, Silver City NM refusing a tax for bond interest, a Rio Grande do Sul armistice, Judge S. B. Judge’s arrest in Portland, a New York syndicate buying Charleston utilities, a German American teachers congress, a Mississippian hanging for murder, and Denver murder of John J. Mannix with uncertain town ties.
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Kansas State Board of Irrigation
Goodland
Peoria
Uis
Woodman
Missouri
Mexico
Silver City
N. M
Rio Grande Do Sul
Brazil
Portland, Or
New York
Charleston
Teachers’ Congress
Louisville
Buffalo
Giil Puccins
Griffin Hulud
Grant Wilson
Vicksburg
Miss
Dr. King
John J. Mannix
Denver
Orange Blossom advertised as female health cure
An old advertisement promotes Orange Blossom as a direct applied remedy for female troubles. It claims to draw out fever and pain, reinvigorate the female system, and treat irregular menses, leucorrhoea, tumors, and other ailments. Sold by Vic Emmert & Co after mailing a dollar to Dr J A McGill & Co in Chicago.
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J. A. McGill &Co
Panorama Place
Chicago
Saleby
VIC Emmert & CO
Finchester Chemical Co
Agreen Druy
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Miner Irings
New Years
Henry C. Miner
August Daly
Miner
Daly
Roger la Hounte
Canada
Roger la Honte
Santa Rita
New Mexico
Perry
C. T
Hanson
Campbell Commission Company of
Kansas City
Central Loan and Trust Company of
Forth Worth
Tex
Otoe Reservation
Parsons
Kan
J. M. Reynolda
Frank Jones
Brightwood Hills
Battle
Catorois
John Willis
Lincoln Ridge
Tipton
Willis
Willie
Maffitt
Br. Louis
Democratic Executioe
Free Silver
W. Va
McCorkle
Pocahontas
Hitt
Nakxacanserr Pree
R. L
Gotschalk
Jackson, Mich
Juye
Thomas Phillips
Blaklava
Woodville
Buenos Ayrns
Garibaldi
Bryan
Lexington
Lexineter
Sioux City
National Infants’ Home
Duergos
Frank Smith
Dyersville
Woodbury County
S. Mour
W. S. Hoar
Red Oak Butter and Egg Company
Waterloo
National Educational Association
National Council of Education
National Council
New Oil Company
Caryennk
Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Company
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Casper, Wy
St. Louis
John Buckley
Kate Welch
Reno
Nev
Hibernian Bank of
San Francisco
Seljan
Uuls
Hooper
Maralailtown
Iowa
Srocesa
Rioux Crix
W. H. Hare
Sioux Falls
Manrsgatttown
Orlis
Adrian
Borumeroy
Lowe
Connelly
Fremont
Neb
C. D. Basler
Elkhorn
Utes
Mn Mindrells
Mabel
Ish
William H. Chapple
Dietrich
Prohibition
Lincoln
Justice
Supreme Court
A. J. Wolfberger
Regents
State University
J. J. Bryan
Polk County
Anna RB. Woodby
Des Mores
Appanoose County
Howard Watson
D. W. Burns
Watson
Marshalltown
Theodore Utz
Morton
Horace Hovan
Little Horace
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Imperial Bank
George Boston
London
Scotland Yard
Hovan
Stuart Bank
Big Ed Rice
Halifax
D. C
Bonda
First National Bank
WHI
Internal Revenue Bureau
United States Supreme Court
Congress
McCurkie
Monnie
Ala
Thomas Norville
Norville
Louis Coleman
Lamont
California
Daniel
Yellowstone Park
Boston
Cincinnati
Terry
Thornton
Morin
Dwyer
Murphy
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Jordan
Sugden
Cuppy
Zimmer
Kissenger
Ehret
Otten
Weyhing
Warner
Indianapolis
Grand Rapids
Damon
Joyes
Zahner
Detroit
Terre Haute
Whitehill
Lohbeck
McCarty
Roach
Prince Cantacuzno
Russia
Stuttgart
M. Kotzebuck
Pierswure
Pittsburg Press
Erie
Wheeling
Batdorf
J. ©. Batdorf
Mich
Charles Allen
T., Radway
D. Price
Weston
Hetty Green
Freeport
Ill
Hatty Green
America
Cara
Cuicago
Michigan Central
Indiana State Line
Union Stockyards Company
Hays
James M. Ryan
Telegraph News Abbreviated
Sak Vd
Ead
Ripans
Ripans Chemical Co
Br. Price
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