Cloudburst and Storm Leave Severe Damage Across Ohio
A violent electrical storm swept Ohio causing downed wires and rail washouts as crops suffered. Newark saw a seven foot pond rise in an hour flooding areas and drowning former councilman Frank Meneally while he tried to save property. A Simon Slough bridge washed away injured fireman Patrick Creem. Findlay sustained $75,000 in losses with an oil tank burning after being struck by lightning.
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Colursbue
Ohio
Newark
Frank Meneally
Simon
Patrick Creem
Findley
Ohio Oil Company
Severe Storm Causes Wave of Detroit Drowning and Deaths
A Detroit storm killed N. T. D Brieton of Cleveland in Belle Isle park after a lightning strike. Charles Arnold was badly shocked. A canoeist and a man in a rowboat disappeared after the squall. Two men tried to tow the canoe but the line snapped and the boat was lost downstream.
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Detroit
N. T. Dbrieton
Cleveland
Belle Isle Park
Charles Arnold
Gunstow
Elimination Trials Under Way for Yachts at Marblehead
Nine teen American sonder yachts rest in Marblehead harbor as the elimination trials begin to pick three boats to face the German team in the third international contest. The German challengers to the President Taft and Governor Draper cups also race alongside American craft amid a cordial mingling of Corinthian sailors at the Western Yacht club. Trials start today and extend through the week, with international races set to begin on August 30.
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Marblehead
Mass
Sonder
Taft
Vermilion River Tragedy Claims Two Boys Drown
Archibald Peterson of Beresford and George Robertson of Alsen drowned in twelve feet of Vermilion River during a picnic. Neither boy could swim. witnesses watched as the tragedy unfolded. Bodies recovered.
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Vermilion, S. D
Archie Peterson
Beresford
George Robertson
Alsen
Vermillion River
Michigan Man Shoots Wife Then Kills Himself
William Graulich of Lansing shot and killed his wife Clara A. Graulich, age nineteen, then drank carbolic acid and died. They married last October after legal trouble, with a history including time at the state industrial school for boys.
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Lansing
Mich
William Graulich
Clara A
Graulich
Whin Graulich
State Industrial School For
Detroit
Rioting injures many as Hibernians attacked at Portadown
Dublin August 16 A large excursion party from the Ancient Order of Hibernians was attacked by a mob of Grangemen in Portadown Armagh. Six hundred policemen were deployed to suppress the rioting and many people sustained injuries.
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Dublin
Order of Hibernians
Portadown
Armagh
Montana man beaten to death in box car attack
Granite Falls Minnesota August 16 A Great Northern engineer James Grantille of Havre Montana died after being attacked in a lone box car with a stove door and rock by a robber. John F Ruth of Milwaukee is jailed on murder for robbery charges after being found washing blood from his clothes. County officials launched a drag net and arrested suspects following the brutal assault reported by local authorities.
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Granite Falls
Minn
St. Paul
James Grantille
Great Northern
Havre
Mont
Minneapolis
John F. Ruth
Milwaukee
Wis
Granville
H. P. Bengtson
G. O. Homme
Ruth
St. Paul Road
Marshal Connor
Tragic Chicago multiple murder suicide of Handzel family
Mrs Marie Handzel fatally poisons herself and her three young sons in a bathroom by gas asphyxiation. The four bodies are found after her husband Joseph breaks in. She had been ill for some time and left four other children aged six to sixteen.
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Chicago
Marie Handzel
Joseph Handzel
Fight Duel on the Street in Grange Texas
E H Rice and sister in law Mrs A Smith fought a street duel with revolvers in Grange Texas over domestic troubles. Rice was shot three times at his home and remains there while Mrs Rice and her sister are involved in the case.
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Grange
Tex
E. H. Rice
A. Smith
Married cigar merchant drowned at Lake Minnetonka
Minneapolis Aug 16 John S Muir a cigar merchant was drowned at Excelsior Lake Minnetonka his wife who had married him three months earlier stood on rocks ten feet away powerless to help him
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Minneapolis
John S. Muir
Excelsior
Lake Minnetonka
Warships on the Way to Crete Amid Crete Crisis
A band of armed peasants seized the fortress at Canea to block removal of Greek flags as Britain France Italy and Russia order warships to Crete. The four powers seek to reoccupy Crete to enforce their wishes and may open fresh negotiations to settle the Cretan question and prevent further turmoil.
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Cenea
Crete
Canea
Powers
London
Turkey
Greece
Young Turkey Party
Bulgaria
Great Britain
France
Italy
Russia
Transmississippi Commercial congress opens in Denver
The twelfth annual Transmississippi Commercial congress meets in Denver this week with 1,800 delegates from the national irrigation congress. Topics include railroads transportation defense resources irrigation reclamation forestry and trade relations with Southern republics Hawaii and the Pacific coast. Attendees include Secretary Ballinger and Chief Forester Pinchot amid prior disagreements in Spokane.
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Denver
West
Panama Canal
Transmississippi Commercial Congress
Ballinger
Forester Pinchot
Spokane
National Irrigation Congress
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
Sermon in Summer Garden In St Louis
Rev Jacob Meeker of Compton Heights Congregational preached a fifteen minute sermon in a summer garden venue after trustees cut burning lights for Sunday service. About 1,000 people, including garden patrons and congregants, heard him from an improvised platform near beer tables, a theater and a dancing pavilion.
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St. Louis
Board of Trustees
Jacob EK. Meeker
Compton Heights
Three Men Fatally Hurt In Collision In Minnesota
Ortonville Minn Aug 16 A Chicago Great Western freight train collided with a motor car in this town. Three occupants of the car were fatally injured and three others badly bruised in the wreck.
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Ortonville
Minn
Chicago Great Western
Seven Deaths in Omaha From Heat Wave
Omaha records seven deaths on August 16 due to extreme heat. The day's high reached 96 degrees as clinics and officials urged residents to seek shade and stay hydrated to avoid heat illnesses.
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Omaha
New York and Other Cities Lagg Behind German Progress
A New York bulletion from the committee on congestion of population ranks American cities as behind progressive Germany by a twenty five year margin. It pinpoints New York as housing and sanitation problems chief, with Chicago Philadelphia St Louis and Cleveland trailing in order. The study urges block by block density analysis, noting extreme local crowds.
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New York
Germany
Committee
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cleveland
Icebergs Threaten Peary Relief Ship Jeane Near Labrador
New reports from Labrador arrivals show continued icebergs and floes along the northern Labrador coast. The ice conditions may seriously hamper the Peary relief ship Jeane, though there are no fears for her immediate safety.
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St. Johns
N. F
Labrador
Peary
Jeane
Old Time Telegraphers Convention Planned in Pittsburg
Pittsburg hosts the annual convention of the Old Time Telegraphers association with the military telegraphers and correspondents’ group on August 17 18 and 19. Notable members include Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison.
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Pittsburg
Old Time Telegraphers’ Association
The
Military Telegraphers
Correspondents’ Association
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Twenty Hurt in Chicago Riot by Polish Sharpshooters
Chicago on August 16 reports twenty people injured after a company of Polish Sharpshooters charged a crowd with bayonets. The clash followed a boy struck by a captain, sparking protests. Police arrested five soldiers. the riot spread as civilians fought back.
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Chicago
New York Schooner Annie Bliss Lost Off Cape Sable
Six crew members of the New York schooner Annie Bliss were rescued by the Gloucester fishing schooner Lillian after six men drifted at sea in an open boat for sixty hours. They were landed Friday morning, report says, following the loss reported near Cape Sable last Wednesday.
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Gloucester
Mass
New York
Annie Bliss
Cape Sable
Lillian
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