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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1896
Page
8
Headlines from Moscow report a vast panic on the Khodynskoye plain during a czarist ball aftermath. Official tallies show 1236 dead recovered and 286 seriously injured, but cemetery records and witnesses suggest 2000 to 3000 deaths. Rescue and identification efforts proceed amid widespread chaos.
Report of a catastrophic stampede at a vast royal feast planned for half a million subjects. Authorities describe the spectacle on the Khodijnskoje plain where booths and ditches created deadly bottlenecks. Masses surged toward the distribution of souvenirs, causing crushes and numerous deaths amid chaotic scrambling.
Thousands ride excursion trains to see quake torn St Louis after a Wednesday storm. Visitors from Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and Kansas City asked for missing friends as officials revise loss projections down from billions to about five million, with total damages near ten million including residences.
Sergeant Rhodes at a Wilkes Barre rifle range shot dead after signaling to shoot. G P Munn family of twelve killed in Lincoln Nebraska tornado. Cleveland fishing rumor denied. Professor Rodney Welch dies in Chicago aged 69. Henri Watterson in London refuses U S return. London census shows population rise. Pretoria prisoners released save four leaders. Escaped lunatic accosts. Emperor William orders banishment amid mismatch with empress. Health of a prince frail with fits of somnolence alarms family. Dr Chry forbids reception.
The report recounts the life of Montgomery a Kokomo pioneer and editor. A veteran of Mexican and Civil Wars, he published the Kokomo Daily Herald and Kokomo Tribune before moving to Mishawaka and Manistique where he used the name Major Clarke. His son later revealed his identity. they led a famous rival newspaper war. The elder Montgomery known as Major Clarke remained a respected county figure until his death.
Excitement runs high in Avilla over the assassination of Frank Badger. Ed Warner faces an insanity plea, a Swan indignation meeting denounces the crime, and calls for the murderer’s extreme penalty. Indiana Prohibition delegates return, Bentley nominated for president amid split from regulars. Quaker minister Rev Calvin W Pritchard dies at 62 from blood poisoning. Indianapolis pastor and Chicago Christian Worker editor. Sheriff halts Kansas City Indianapolis baseball game.
Saratoga New York June 1 The Presbyterian general assembly adjourned after rapid work finishing two items The committee to confer with New York home missions officers and a paper on licensure of students from Bestow College were adopted by a vote of 222 to 8 The assembly upheld the right of presbyteries to license candidates but urged adherence to past church rulings on education while refusing to endorse the constitutional sixteenth amendment.
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June 1 dispatch from Chicago reports Kate Field, famed Washington writer and lecturer, died May 10 in Honolulu after years of illness. The Times-Herald notes her career with the Washington Literary World and her contributions to press and literature. Misa Field served as her correspondent from the Sandwich Islands.
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