Destructive April Storm Ravages Northern Indiana
A fierce storm swept from southwest to northeast across northern Indiana on Tuesday night April 6. In Fort Wayne and Allen county, extensive property damage, downed wires, shattered glass and many wrecked buildings were reported, with livestock losses and heavy costs ahead as inspectors assess the full extent.
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Indiana
Allen County
Fort Wayne
Feru
Toledo
Rolling Mills
John C.C. Brown
Aurentz Confectionery
Calhoun Street
Aurentz
Pearl Theater
Railroad Y. ML. C. A
City
Wayne Township
Charles Springer
Springer
Springer Place
Huntington
Liberty Mills
Milton Bennett
Abolt
David Markley
Roanoke
Mr. Markley
J. T. Johnston
P. A. Randall
Coverdale
McMahen
Maysville
Fred Botheron
St. Joe
C. F. Swift
Oscar Jump
Super Education A Negro's Malady in Prisons and Madhouses
Louis O Graves a Yale graduate defended himself in a St Louis court claiming mental illness as the source of his forged check offense He testified to prison terms in Jefferson City and Chester five insane asylums multiple suicide attempts and said he had no memory of the crime He was remanded to jail for possible grand jury action
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Louis O. Graves
Yale
Taylor
Court of Criminal Correction
Graves
Jefferson City
Chester
Ill
Life's Work Ended for Charles B. Woodworth
Fort Wayne druggist Charles Beecher Woodworth died at 60 from Bright's disease and heart complications. A lifelong resident, he led in commerce and public life, serving on the city council and state board of pharmacy, managing the Academy of Music, and directing the Fort Wayne Mercantile Accident association. He was active in Scottish Rite Masons and various fraternities. Born December 3, 1848, he built a 33 year tenure at the Aveline House drugstore before moving to Berry Street after a 1908 fire.
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Charles
BR. Woodworth
Fort Wayne
West Wayne
Union Streets
Mr. Woodworth
Bright
Woodworth
State Board of Pharmacy
Old Academy of Music
B. S. Woodworth
Meyer Bros. & Co
Wagner Drugstore
Aveline
Aveline House
Berry Street
C. B. Woodworth
Benjamin
Wood
Revolution in Constantinople Grips City
Frankfort dispatch reports Constantinople in full revolution as troops move from the ministry of war to the mosque of St Sophia and surround the parliament. Officers lead two battalions demanding the dismissal of the grand vizier the president of the chamber and the minister of war.
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Frankfort
Constantinople
Frankfurter Zietung
Ministry of War
Divan
Jolu
St. Sophia
Tragic House Fire Ends In Fatal Burns To 15 Year Old Anna Lenk
Anna Lenk fifteen year old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Lenk died at St Josephs hospital from burns suffered while attempting to start a gasoline base burner with a match at the family home 1149 Grant avenue Friday morning. Her brother Peter narrowly escaped injury and a bystander plus neighbors and Dr George Studer treated the burning victims. Fire also damaged a rug and curtains and a field accident injured banker H W Lipkey.
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Anna Lenk
John Lenk
Grant Avenue
St. Joseph's Hospital
Peter
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Miss Anna
C. Stein
Garber
Lenk
George M. Studer
Mutinous Troops Parade in Constantinople
April 13 report says mutinous troops demonstrate against parliament building causing panic in Constantinople. Shops close across the city as the cabinet resigns and is accepted. Kiamil Pasha is said to be forming a new ministry.
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Constantinople
Kiamil Pasha
Turbulent unrest reported in Constantinople shocks London
London reports a code message signaling grave disturbances at Constantinople amid a weeks long bitter clash between the committee of union and progress and the liberals. The April 7 murder of Hassan Fehmi Effendi, editor of Serbesti, is seen as a political climax.
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London
Constantinople
Foreign Office
Committee of Union and Progress
Hassan Fehmi Effendi
Serbesti
Fires Devastate Rochester in Two Major Blazes
Two fires rage across Rochester causing over 1 million dollars in damage as gale winds hinder efforts. The Selden building at Gibbs and Main burned, threatening St Peters church and the Berith Kodesh temple. apartment blocks and numerous homes were scorched. A second fire at Nassau Street’s First Reformed church spread to nearby houses, with limited crews available.
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Rochester
Syracuse
Buffalo
Selden
Gibbs and
Main Streets
St. Peter's Church
Grove Street
St. Peter's
First Reformed Church
Nassau Street
Gypsy King of the Stanley Tribe Buried in Woodland
Dayton Ohio April 13 King Levy leader of the Gypsy tribe of Stanley was buried in the tribe's plot at Woodland cemetery. Large crowds from across the United States attended. Levy died in Georgia at age 96 and was interred in a vault. The old queen rests in the same plot from over twenty years ago. The present king is over seventy five. The Stanley tribe is the largest in America.
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Dayton
King Levy
Stanley
Woodland Cemetery
United States
Levi
Georgia
America
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Anna Angst
Madison Street
Charles M. Bell
New York City
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H' Rebekah Lodge
William BO
Charles 8
H. W. Lipkey
Uniondale
Wells County
York State
Lars
Stanley Tribe
Ohio
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