Havre Fort Assiniboine Hit by Severe Wind Storm
Havre Mont June 13 Havre and Fort Assiniboine suffered a damaging wind storm with an estimated 200000 in destruction. Buildings toppled flood waters broke through defenses. Several injured no fatalities reported. Rail line washed out hindering communication. Terror storm described as a sea between Havre and Glasgow.
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Havre
Mont
Fort Assiniboine
Bonaface
Great Northern Railway
Assiniboine
Harlem
Chinook
Glasgow
Second Cavalry
Second Infantry
Berwynd-White Coal Case Probes Harsimus Pier Fees
Interstate Commerce Commission hears on railways coal ties at Harsimus pier as Berwynd-White Coal Mining Co seeks charges. Testimony notes 7 cent per ton handling allowance, monthly coal ship bills over 700 dollars, and 17 thousand dollar monthly income from car handling. Witnesses discuss ship bunkers, weight estimates, and car allocations amid scarce cars.
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Philadelphia
Berwynd-White Coal Mining Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harsimus Pier
Pennsylvania Railway
T. J. Berwynd
Dowie Testifies in Zion City Ownership Case
Chicago June 13 John Alexander Dowie founder of Zion City and first apostle of the Christian Catholic church appears as star witness in the U S circuit court trial over Zion City ownership He is wheeled to the stand showing the toll of illness while recounting his life and the early Zion City movement and its opposition by General Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Christian Catholic Church
Landis
United States Circuit Court
Dowie
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
London Dinner for Longworth Draws World’s Elite
Dorchester House hosted Ambassador and Mrs Reid for Representative and Mrs Longworth. King Edward attended with notable figures from politics diplomacy and society. The event highlighted royal esteem for the United States and President Roosevelt’s daughter as guests mingled with ministers and leaders.
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London
Reid
Dorchester House
Nicholas Longworth
King Edward
Roosevelt
United States
Edward
Longworth
Fatal Stabbing Affray Near Monroe Roadhouse
In Chisholm two Italian men clashed on a highway near a roadhouse. Pietro Canalli stabbed Abel Sorpori twice, killing him. Canalli fled and remains at large with a shotgun and stiletto as excitement runs high while a missing boy is sought.
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Duluth
Chisholm
John Nahalovisky
Monroe
Pietro Canalli
Abel Sorpori
Canalli
Sorpori
Iowa City Editor Ends Life in Local Tragedy
E R Townsend former city editor of the Iowa City Republican shot himself in Iowa City. He was a prominent graduate of the university. Illness is given as the cause of the suicide.
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Iowa City
E. R. Townsend
Iowa City Republican
Iowa University
Fire Ravages Peebles Town in Adams County
Fire swept a large portion of Peebles in Adams county destroying fourteen blocks and causing losses over 15000 with practically no insurance coverage.
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Portsmouth
Peebles
Adams County
Massive Baltimore Dock Fire Destroys Essex Steamer and Barges
Fire at West Falls Avenue and Bleck Street harbor docks destroyed the Savannah docks of Merchants & Miners' Transportation and the steamer Essex along with six to eight cargo barges. Estimated damage ranges up to two million dollars as flames spread across the harbor and endangered nearby lumber yards. About forty crew members were aboard the Essex when the blaze started, with no confirmed fatalities.
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Baltimore
Savannah
Merchants & Miners’ Transportation Company
Essex
Merchants & Miners’ Line
West Falls Avernue
Bleck Street
Steamship Company
Meacham
Salisbury
Woman Charged with Manslaughter in Sioux Falls
Mrs Emma Kaufmann wife of Moses Kaufmann noted brewer is arrested on manslaughter charges over the death of Agnes Poirers a sixteen year old Austrian immigrant domestic in the Kaufmann household. Police say beatings due to temper caused the death. The Kaufmanns have long been prominent residents of the city.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Emma Kaufmann
Moses Kaufmann
Brewer
Agnes Poirers
Kaufmann
United States
Austria
Kaufmanns
Four Packing Firms Convicted in Rail Concession Case
Armour & Co Swift & Co Cudahy & Co and the Nelson Morris Packing Co were found guilty in Kansas City federal court of accepting concessions from the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railway on export shipments. The verdicts came after a 63 minute trial and the judge delayed sentencing until the Burlington case.
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Kansas City
Armour& Co
Swift & Co
Cudahy & Co
Nelson Morris Packing Company
United States District Court
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway
Smith McPherson
Red Oak
Burlington Road
Burlington
Doris elected grand patriarch at Odd Fellows encampment
Minneapolis June 13 R A Doris of Minneapolis was elected grand patriarch by the grand encampment of the Odd Fellows here Other officers elected are D S Whittemore Detroit grand senior C A Lammers Stillwater grand high priest G B McCulloch Brainard grand junior warden C R Wilkinson St Paul grand scribe W W Churchill Rochester grand treasurer R E B McFarlane Duluth grand representative
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Minneapolis
R. A. Doris
Odd Fellows
D. S. Whittemore
Detroit
C. A. Lammers
Stillwater
McCulloch
Brainard
C. R. Wilkinson
St. Paul
W. W. Churchill
Rochester
R. EB. McFarlane
Duluth
Four Brewer Boys Drown in Pond Sailboat Capsize
Four boys from Brewer high school graduating class drowned when a sailboat capsized on Hymes pond ten miles from Bangor Maine. The group of about a dozen youths were spending the day there and none of the four could swim.
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Bangor
Brewer High School
Hymes Pond
Man Kills Woman then Shoots Self in Troy
John Carter shot Mamie Stanton after she refused his attentions, then killed himself. The 26 year old woman died from three head shots while Carter died instantly after turning the weapon on himself in Troy, New York.
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New York
Troy
N. Y
John Carter
Mamie Stanton
The Idle Dream of Universal Marriage
A brief reflection on the impossibility of universal marriage. The fragment suggests a pessimistic view that social norms about partnership cannot be universally harmonized even as people form unions.
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R. R. Purphy
R. R. Murphy's
Austin, Minn
Havre, Mont
Fort Assini
Railroad
Coal Company
Eva
Zion
Dowle
Longworths
Iowa
Ohio
Hae
DRED
South Dakota
Packers
Baldwin Piano Company
Austin
Cressey
State OF Minnesota
Mower County
D. HH. Baldwin
Charles W. G. Cressey
Lillian Gritin
City of
Charles Cressey
W. F. Burna
M. S. Fisch, P. WH. Friend
Er. O. Hall
Fr. We. Mutcheers
Minnesota
Ming Cayenne
Washington Star
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