Storm devastates Wisconsin farms and towns in 40 minute fury
Prairie du Chien reports crops ruined and buildings wrecked as a four inch rain and hail storm lasts forty minutes. Damage extends to McGregor across the Mississippi with estimated losses of 200000 and 300600 dollars respectively, plus widespread railway washouts and power outages. A Chautauqua tent collapse at La Crosse injures many but no serious harm.
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Wis
Cassville
Lynxville
la Crosse
Winona
Mississippi
Dubuque
Lakota
Minn
la Crosse Interstate Fair Grounds
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Burlington
Milwaukee
McGregor
Devastating Minnesota Storm Causes Large Crop Loss
A fierce Saturday storm across Southern and Southwestern Minnesota caused damage estimated near 1 million dollars. No tornado touched down though winds rivaled one in places. hail shattered crops, barns caught fire from lightning, and farmer Carl Gramenza was killed by a lightning strike in Brown county. Minor injuries reported elsewhere.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Albert Lea
Carl Gramenza
Burns Township
Brown County
Woman decapitated by train near Columbus in suicide act
Mrs James Comstock of Sunbury near Columbus threw herself before a southbound passenger train. Her head was severed and carried 340 miles along the tracks, found after the engineer ran the route from Columbus to Cleveland and back toward Condit.
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Columbus, O
James Comstock
Sunbury
Columbus
Cleveland
Condit
Duel Ends in Two Cattlemen Deaths Near St. Vrail
Albuquerque June 22 two cattlemen named R. M. Sallier and Edward Jones were killed in a duel near St. Vrail New Mexico. Neighbors and rivals in a cattle trade they drew and fired simultaneously. Both men were instantly killed and described as wealthy and respected, with origins in a long standing feud.
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Albuquerque
N. M
R. M. Sallier
Edward Jones
St. Vrail
Bryan denounces anti injunction plank as fraud
Lincoln June 22 W J Bryan criticized the Republican national platform in general and the anti injunction plank in particular calling it a transparent fraud. He argued the clause pretends to aid workers while defending court powers and undermining laboring man’s position. He said the convention boasted of innocence while demonizing a straw man.
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Lincoln
Neb
W. J. Bryan
Assalia
Republican Party
Republican Convention
President Roosevelt on Vacation in Oyster Bay
On the second day of vacation at Sagamore Hill Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt attended morning services at Christchurch. Rev Washburn spoke on church confirmation. Secretary Loeb, amid heat, read reports and denied knowledge of any plan to appoint a national Republican chairman.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Loeb
Washington
Republican National Committee
Sloop Viola IL Narrowly Escapes Lake Michigan gale
In Chicago on June 22 the thirty foot sloop Viola IL, taking part in the Columbia Yacht club cruise to Michigan City Indiana, rode a violent gale on Lake Michigan. Its sails ripped away and the craft ran onto a sandbar three miles south of the harbor lighthouse near Michigan City. All aboard were saved.
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Chicago
Viola IL
Columbia Yacht Club
Michigan City
Ind
Lake Michigan
Sentenced to Death in Warsaw Plot Case
A man and a woman in Warsaw have been sentenced to death for alleged involvement in an attempt on General Klallon governor general of Warsaw. Seventeen other death sentences were announced from various towns and cities in Russia.
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St. Petersburg
Warsaw
Klallon
Russia
Two Men Die in Fort Williams Waterworks Blast
In Fort Williams Ontario on June 22 Frederick Jeffrey an Englishman and John Crowley of Hancock Michigan were instantly killed by a premature explosion in the Lock Limond waterworks tunnel where a large force is at work. William Jock was fatally injured.
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Fort Williams
Ont
Frederick Jeffrey
John Crowley
Hancock, Mich
Lock-Limond
William Jock
Brothers drown in Tittabawassee near Midland
Paul and Fred Foster, two brothers from Auburn, Michigan, drowned while bathing in the Tittabawassee River near Midland on June 22.
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Middland, Mich
Paul and
Fred Foster
Auburn
Mich
Tittabawassee
Here
Britannia Collides With Alpena On Detroit River
A heavy ferry Britannia collides with City of Alpena on the Detroit river after a signal misunderstanding. Passengers on Britannia panic, women faint, ambulances treat minor injuries, but no serious harm occurs to the crowd or crews. Suffragists aboard wore white and green sashes saying Vote for Women, creating a colorful scene as crowds watched.
Suffragette Demonstration Draws 500000 to Hyde Park
London June 22. A stunning demonstration in Hyde Park by suffragettes drew about 500000 participants. Diverse processions, each roughly a mile long, filled the streets as leaders and speakers urged women’s rights amid a day of intense activity and spectacle across the city.
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London
Hyde Park
Evils of Liquor Traffic Highlight Woolley Speech
John G. Woolley of Chicago spoke at the World's Temperance congress in Saratoga New York on June 22 urging prohibition and denouncing liquor traffic. Churches opened pulpits to temperance workers as the congress moved toward debates on the army canteen issue and the intercollegiate oratorical contest featuring contestants from New York Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan and Louisiana.
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Saratoga
N. Y
John G. Woolley
Chicago
Prohibition
World's Temperance Congress
Intercollegiate
Oratorical Society of
Eastern States
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Louisiana
Nordahl Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Helena Montana June 22 A Lewis town jury found Ole Nordahl guilty of first degree murder for burning a widow’s house that killed herself and four children. The motive was retaliation after she threatened to report him to authorities. Evidence was circumstantial yet strong including two left foot rubbers, facial scratches and blood on his clothing.
Duel in South Dakota ends in gun duel near Spring Creek
In Sturgis on June 22 E. H. Bald and Edward Graham of Lamp Creek fought a pistol duel on a ranch north of Spring Creek. The clash occurred on the ranch property with both men involved and no immediate details on injuries or outcomes provided.
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Sturgis
S. D
E. H. Baldwin
Edward Graham
Lamp Creek
Spring Creek
Roadside Fatal Shooting Sparks Bitter Rivalry
Baldwin was killed and Graham is not expected to live after a confrontation in the road. Graham alleges that Baldwin fired the first shot. The men had longstanding enmity and met in the road, leading to a fatal exchange.
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Baldwin
Graham
Paris Senator J D C Atkins Dies at 84
Paris Tennessee June 22 J D C Atkins a member of the Confederate congress and long time Tennessee congressman died at his home aged eighty four years He also served as United States commissioner of Indian affairs under Grover Cleveland's first administration
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Paris
Tenn
J. D. C. Atkins
Confederate Congress
Tennessee
United States Congress
Grover Cleveland
United States
Train plunges through open drawbridge at Cedar Point
In Sandusky on June 22 a Lake Erie and Western excursion train bound for Indianapolis plunged through an open drawbridge in the city east end. All passengers escaped injury while the engineer suffered serious injuries to both legs and internal damage and the fireman was cut and internal injuries. Both men were hospitalized.
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Sandusky, O
Indianapolis
Lake Erie and
Western
Cedar Point
Sherman Visits Cleveland With Herrick Backing
Representative Sherman of Utica visited Cleveland as the Republican candidate for vice president on Taft’s ticket. He stayed with former Governor Myron T. Herrick and met several friends of both Sherman and Herrick, but no interviews or press intrusion occurred.
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Cleveland
Sherman
Utica
N. Y
William H. Taft
Myron T. Herrick
Flerrick
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