Springfield Black Encounter Tests Militia as Tensions Rise
Aug 18 Springfield Illinois report notes 180 Black residents rioted near the state arsenal, firing near sentries and a factory, alarming officials. No injuries reported amid bullets from the militia. fears mount over future clashes as guardsmen may depart. Residents discuss racial tensions affecting politics and safety.
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Springfield
State Arsenal
Eb, C. Young
Eighth Straat
Jefferson
Madison
Deneen
Partien
Caida Caine
Cansie Reallan
Three Young People Perish In Lake Winnipeg Squall
Winnipeg anxiously awaits word on Edith Turneck and two others who sailed from Winnipeg Beach to Whitgwold Beach, four miles distant, and were swept into Lake Winnipeg by a squall. Search parties combed the lake through the night as officials feared the trio were drowned.
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Winnipeg
Fire Wipes Out Mountain Town in British Columbia
Duncans British Columbia August 18 Mount Bicker townsite once a booming mining hub was leveled by fire after days of unwelcome blaze. A hotel and schoolhouse survived briefly but the residential area burned, forty three houses destroyed. Fire is blamed on a careless berry picker who failed to extinguish a campfire while ignition spread along the West Holme district road to the town.
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Duncans
B.C
Mount Bicker
West Holme
Amelia Bingham Kite Sparks Ohio Campaign Buzz
In Bryan Ohio a giant 14 by 30 foot kite bearing Our Amelia for Taft flies over the town amid two political camps. Amelia Bingham's supporters say the kite signals Taft’s rise next November while Bryan backers insist the campaign is in the air and Bryan will win. Mrs Bingham, a Hicksville native, helped arrange the display at the defense company fair grounds during races drawing attention and comment.
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Bryan
Ohio
Taft
Amelia Bingham
Amelia
Hickaville
Defence Company
Murder secret carries 10 grave in Little Falls
Little Falls Minnesota August 18 William Golnik died at the local hospital from a Thursday night attack. His skull was crushed by an unknown instrument believed to be a hatchet or riveting hammer. Three people are suspected and an arrest may come tomorrow. He was 50, born in Germany, survived by a widow and six children.
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Little Falls
Minn
William Golnik
Ak Arest
Germany
Golnik
Throw lemons at suffragists in New York crowd scene
In New York on August 18 at a suffrage event, Mrs. Borrmann Wells and Mrs. Walls faced heckling as spectators hurled lemons at the speakers. Applause rose from supporters while lemons slapped windows and crowd noise drowned the women’s voices as they retreated.
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New York
All Street
Borrmann Wells
Prokern
Forest fires spread beyond control near Crankrock area
A report from Crankrock today states the fire unit Kimberly is beyond control and moving north toward Skobkymchuck. A second blaze burns one mile east of Mayie with another threatening Ryan. firefighters battle multiple forest fires as winds drive flare ups.
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Winnipeg
Crankrock
Moen
Kimberly
Skobkymchuck Crewk
Riot Among Harvesters Ends in Bloodshed and Attacks
Ten thousand harvest hands arrive over two days in Withines, Aug. 18, sparking a drunken, rowdy spectacle. Violent clashes erupt between laborers and foreign workers on the double tracking and infection gangs. Rocks hurled through train windows as tension rises, injuring Italians and a horse shot, while a woman fires a warning shot amid chaos.
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Withines
Man
Cardinal Gibbons Heads to Switzerland Amid Papal Honors
Rome August 18 Cardinal Gibbons left for Switzerland accompanied by Monsignor O Connell Bishop of Washington and several priests. The pope granted his request naming several ecclesiastics as domestic prelates to be called monsignor including Rev T L Lee Rev James B Makin Rev Geo Devine Rev William B Starr and others, with further honors announced for Bishop Joe.
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Rome
Cardinal Gibbons
Switzerland
Monsignor O'Connell
Washington
Louis O'Donovan
Baltimore
Germano A Traniero
Tolaten
St. Mathews
D. C
James ‘B. Makin
St Paul's
Geo. Devine
St. John's
Wiliam EB. Starr
Corpus Cfirlatie
Joe Wicir
Bal
Town Wiped Out by Big Fire in Gorebay
A telephone message from Gorebay reports that the business district of Manitou Taland has been practically wiped out by fire. The town, home to about a thousand inhabitants, suffered extensive damage to homes and light houses with at least one party injured.
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Gaulte
Maria Mich
Augis
Gorebay
Manitou Taland
Sare
Mite
Dusians
Cervera Urges Taft Election in Virginia Toast
Hot Springs Va August 18 Admiral Cervera, famed for the Spanish American War, writes to Taft expressing support for his presidential bid. Taft plans his Cincinnati acceptance speech and remarks that Virginia Republicans will hear his first political address of the campaign.
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Hot Springs
Virginia
William H. Taft
Cincinnati
Taft
Cervera
Wireless inventors link Paris and New York by radio
Paris Aug 18 naval lieutenants Colin Jeance and Mercier the wireless telephone inventors achieved notable success with their instruments yesterday communicating with the wireless station at Zien Finistierra about 310 miles distant Lieutenant Colin the chief inventor a noted wireless expert has installed a wireless station in the Eiffel tower and is overseeing an improved further plant making possible dispatches between Paris and New York
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Paris
Colin
Jeance
Mercier
Zien
Department of Finistierr
Eiffel Tower
New York
Milk adulteration scandal hits Crookston area
Crookston, Minn to Kennedy, Minn case shows 2 week old milk shipped into Kennedy. Deputy State Creamery Inspector Storvick filed papers, Carlson pleaded guilty, fined 15 dollars plus costs. Local trains idle Sunday allowed milk to remain unsold. Storvick warns heavier penalties for adulterators under state pure food laws. About 500 gallons implicated in St. Paul, Duluth and Minneapolis shipments.
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Crookston
Minn
Storvick
Discoverien
Charles A. Carlson
Kennedy
Carlson
Kenedy
St. Paul
Duluth
Minneapolis
Enoch Arden Style Wedding in Bellefontaine
In Bellefontaine Ohio on August 18 a wedding echoed the Enoch Arden tale as Malinda McCabe of Piqua married John Stewart of Covington at Rev B Smiths home for a second time after years apart. Stewart, believed dead during the Civil War, returned to find his wife remarried and she chose to remain with her new husband McCabe.
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Bellefontaine
Ohio
Enoch Arden
B Smith
Malinda McCabe
Piqua
John Stewart
Covington
Malinda Hildebrande
Jonm Stewart
Stewart
George McCabe
McCabe
Imttar
Aethawit
Evans retires from the U. S. Navy
Eureka Cal August 18 Three sharp earthquake shocks shook Eureka as RD Evans marked his retirement with ceremonies praised by sailors and officials. The quake, nearly as strong as the 1906 tremor, caused heavy property damage across the city and surrounding areas with Chimneys toppled and windows shattered across Blue Lake and Seary Ranch nearby.
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Eureka
Cal
Hureka
Fighting Bob Evans Navy Career Nearing End
Robley Dundlison Evans born 1846 in Floyd County Virginia served in the U S Navy from 1860 to 1908. He fought at Fort Fisher earned the nickname Fighting Bob while commanding Yorktown at Valparaiso and later the battleship Iowa. He retired from active command by age limits on August 18.
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Floyd County
Virginia
Samuel Andrew Jackson Evans
Washington
United States Naval Academy
Utah
Fort Fisher
Charlotte Taylor
Frank Taylor
Valparaiso
United States
Chile
Bob
Iowa
Sampson
Hampton
Atlantic
United States Navy
Descent of Time Erases the Name of a Great Admiral
Washington dispatch mourns as Father Time erases from naval records the name of the celebrated sea fighter Ameli a’s great Rear Admiral, with the report continuing on Page Five.
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Washington
Naval
Amelia
Chafin to Hear News Tonight on Prohibition Nomination
Chicago August report states W. Chafin of Chicago will be formally accused of the nomination for the presidency at Music Hall this evening at 4 o clock. Prof. Chas Branson of the committee of the Prohibition church will deliver the official address.
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Chicago
Motorboat Sunk Drowns Three in Niagara River
Three persons died when a motor boat was struck by a pleasure barge on the Niagara river near Buffalo. Victims were Mrs William Pagels Mia Charlotte Meyers and Raymond Pagels a 10 year old. The boat operator Henry Sheauss attempted a turn but too late. A second drowning occurred at Grand Isle as Mien Lacy Perry Sarah Disseway and Elizabeth Disseway perished while bathing at Lake Champlain.
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Buffalo
Niagara River
William Pagels
Charlotte Meyers
Raymond Pagels
Henry Sheauss
Grand Isle
Mien Lacy Perry
Sarah Disseway
Pittsburg
N. Y
Elizabeth Disasway
Brooklyn
Lake Chatmplain
Sicilian Crimp Artist Nabbed Near Eighty Seventh Street
Chicago police arrested Vicenzo Cranpa, a Sicilian alleged author of threatening letters demanding $1,000 from Italian grocer V Benedetto of 1737 Greenwood Avenue. Detectives trapped him in bushes near Eighty Seventh Street where he directed Benedetto to summon a box of money.
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Chicago
Vicenzo Cranpa
V. Benedetto
Greenwood Avenue
Eighty-seventh Street
Banedetto
Benedetto
Sherman Accepts Republican Nomination for Vice President in Utica
James Sherman accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination from a flag decked stand outside his Genesee street home in Utica. The event featured a parade, gun salutes, and remarks by local and national leaders, with Sherman pledging allegiance to any administration and Roosevelt’s policies. Stryker of Hamilton College announced the nomination amid a large enthusiastic crowd.
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Utica
James Sherman
Republican Party
Genesee Street
Chicago
Julius Co. Burrows
Michigan
Root
M. W. Stryker
Hamilton College
Sherman
Thomas Wheeler
Chas
Symonds
Taft
Roosevelt
Sherman Home
Republican Club
Haskell Charged With Criminal Libel
Omer K. Benedict editor of The Times was arrested in Oklahoma City by the Logan county sheriff on a criminal libel warrant issued by Governor Charles N. Haskell related to an editorial alleging a Kansas City conference on June 16. Benedict submitted to arrest and was taken to Guthrie.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Omer K. Benedict
the Times
Logan County
Chas. N. Haskell
Times
Haskell
Standard of Co
Coates House
Kansas City
Grievance of Hum Din Over Lost Bride Claim
An elderly Chinese man, Hum Din of Hibbing Minnesota, alleges he was deceived by a American girl in Ercanaba Michigan. She promised marriage but left with a diamond engagement ring and about 180 dollars from his funds used for a wedding outfit. The report notes the young woman’s name is not given.
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Taft
United States
Ercanaba
Mich
Hum Din
Hibbing
Minn
Becanaba
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W. H. Taft
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0. S. Navy
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