Wallaced Wallace and Montana Fire Ravage Idaho Town
Thirteen lives lost as forest fires reach Wallace Idaho and Missoula Montana, with $1,000,000 in property damage. West of Seventh Street the east half of Wallace is burned while fires threaten Crater Lake country and Medford Oregon. Firefighting staff and refugees surge inland as communications fail and 2,000,000 acres burn across the Northwest.
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Missoula
Mont
Wallace
Ida
Caver
Montana
Idaho
Seventh Street
Missoulian
Washington
St. Coe
Forestry Service
Bird Creek
Ian
St. Negis
Haughan
Oregon
Northwest
Albert F
Medford
Ore
Potter
Sary
Gwar
Crater Lake
Buck
George Walbillig
Adair
Milwa Road
Thompson Falls
Firefighters Dead in Wallace Idaho Disaster
Spokane report says at least fifty firefighters have died with several trapped in the hills. Losses near one million dollars, Mullan and Wardner in danger, boxcar specials ferry people to Spokane. Wallace hospitals crowded with canyon victims, nine unidentified bodies brought in, Wallace remains in danger and about seventy five families homeless.
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Mullan
Wardner
Spokane
Wallace
Barber Killed by Train Near Merrillan
A barber named Jack Hammon was found badly injured on the Omaha road right of way at Wrightsville and died after being brought to Merrillan. He reportedly fell from the roof of a box car.
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Merrillan
Wis
Omaha
Wrightsville
Jack Hammon
Minneapolis Bottler Drowns in Lake Accident
Minneapolis on August 22 reports Thomas Olmscheid of the Minneapolis Brewing Company drowned when his boat capsized on Ryan's Lake near Camden Place. Companion R P Foss escaped after clinging to the boat until rescue.
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Minneapolis
Thomas Olmscheid
Minneapolis Brewing Company
Ryan’s Lake
Camden Place
R. P. Foss
Woman Dies From Fright in Kingsbury County Storm Approach
Sioux Falls Aug 22 Fright from an approaching storm caused heart failure and the death of Mrs Lynne Johnson a pioneer resident of Kingsbury county She was fifty seven and had lived in the county since pioneer days with her husband.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Lynne Johnson
Kingsbury County
Young Husband Drowns in Mississippi Near Schroeder Farm
Louis Auge aged twenty five drowned in the Mississippi river near the Schroeder farm while his wife watched from shore. His body was recovered.
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Mississippi
St. Paul
Louis Auge
Schroeder
Fall of Nicaragua Regime Shrinks Managuas Defenses
U S dispatches report the Madriz government sinking as troops desert after a major Estrada victory. Granada is overrun as mobs loot, with General Mena leading rebels toward Granada and the capital path. Corinto guards protect American interests as Managua braces for further attacks.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Madriz
Managua
Toledo
Irias
State Department
United States
Alivares
Johnson
United Stae Corinto
Tipitapa
Mr. Olivares
Granada
Fernando Rivas
Mena
Victoria
President Madriz Defeated as Government Wobbles
News reports indicate President Madriz faces military defeat and a tottering government as loyalist forces suffer reverses. The crisis underscores political instability in the nation and signals possible leadership upheaval.
Taft to speak through letters and speeches amid Roosevelt rift
Beverly Massachusetts August 22 Taft refrains from public controversy as reports of a break with Roosevelt swirl. He works on a campaign letter for the Republican committee and a conservation congress speech in St Paul, aiming to define his administration and future congressional recommendations.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Roosevelt
Conservation Congress
St. Paul
Congress
Fargo Man Drowned In Sheboygan River
The body of M. S. Gillman of Fargo North Dakota was found in the Sheboygan river. He disappeared from the Hotel Foeste on August 14 and his death is believed accidental.
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Sheboya Wis
M. 8S. Gillman
Fargo, N. D
Sheboygan River
Foeste
Long journey for nought in Minot romance
Marcus Bunce of Groveland Mass arrived in Minot after a long journey to meet his promised bride from Ryder who had answered a matrimonial ad. He learned she had married a local worker two days earlier. Bunce demanded law action but left after the ring and money were refunded to the successful suitor.
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Minot
N. D
Marcus Bunce
Groveland
Mass
Ryder
Bunce
Northwestern governors plan active attendance at St Paul conservation congress
St Paul reports that after Salt Lake City talks, Northwestern governors will not only attend the September 5 to 7 congress but arrive early and stay late. Delegates Kellogg Beck Warner Wheelock say no hostilities, the event is educational and will yield recommendations for possible legislation.
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St. Paul
Salt Lake City
Conservation Congress
St. Pauli
Frank B. Kellogg
J. H. Beck
Reuben Warner, Jr
Ralph W. Wheelock
Eberhart
Colorado
Conservation Movement
Two Boys Die After Trains Stride Over Them Near Council Bluffs
In Council Bluffs Iowa on August 22 Roy and William Golden aged ten and twelve were found lying on Chicago and Northwestern tracks one and a half miles north of the city. Several trains had passed over them and the boys formerly lived in Des Moines.
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Council Bluffs
Chicago and Northwestern
Roy
William Golden
Des Moines
Roosevelt 10 Tour the West Sets Speech Plan Across States
Theodore Roosevelt starts a 5493 mile tour by private car and trains on Aug 23, delivering fourteen set speeches in fourteen states. He will also give many spontaneous talks from the rear platform and attend events in Utica Osawatomie Pueblo and Milwaukee before ending in New York on Sept 11.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Republic
Colonel Roosevelt
Ernest Abbott
W. H. Howland
New York
Frank Harper
Utica
Troley
Oriskany
Summit Park
Herkimer
Oneida
Mohawk
Douglas Robinson
Chicago
Omaha
Cheyenne
Wyo
Roosevelt
Denver
Pueblo
Colo
Osawatomie
Kan
Kansas City
Commercial Club
Panama Canal
Sioux Falls
S. D
Fargo
N. D
St. Paul
National Conservation Congress
Milwaukee
Press Club
Freeport
Ill
Hamilton Club
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Civic League
Unknown man killed on railroad near Larimore
The body of a man about forty was found on a railroad track near Larimore North Dakota with the head severed and one arm and leg severed. Believed to be robbery related. He carried M. W. A. cards in his pocket.
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Larimore
N. D
Engineer Fatally Shot Near Kinney Mine
Duluth reports engineer Alexander Moore of the White side mine at Kinney near Chisholm was fatally shot by Officer Tarley Sconer of Chisholm. Sconer is under arrest. Moore, driving in Chisholm suburbs, was shot after his horse ran away when the officer ordered him to stop.
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Duluth
Alexander Moore
Whiteside
Kinney
Chisholm
Tarley Sconer
Chishol
Moore
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