Storm's Wrath Kills Sixteen in Twin Cities Area
A devastating gale sweeping down the Mississippi valley overnight leaves sixteen dead and extensive property damage across Minneapolis and St Paul. Victims include Lorin Hokanson and George Kwenton at Tivoli theater, Viola Robertson age 12 at Good Shepherd Home, and several unidentified fatalities in St Louis Park, Waconia, and Minneapolis Junction. Names and ages detail a wide range of residents from Glencoe and nearby towns.
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St. Paul
Minn
Mississippi
Minnesota
Fort Snelling
Twin Cities
Lorln F. Hokanson
Brunson Street
Tivoli Theater
City Morgue
George Kwenton
Carpenter
Toronto Avenue
Tivol Theater
Viola Robertson
Good Shepherd
Albert Odho
St. Louis Park
Frank Hedges
Richard Hillisbiok
Minneapolis Junction
Minneapoli
Minneapolis
Waconia
Mary O'Donnell
Glencon
Cyclone Ravages Twin Cities Killing Several
A violent storm swept through St Paul Minneapolis and surrounding areas lasting about fifteen minutes. The storm peaked at ninety miles per hour with reports of a possible 160 mph gust. It tore through high rises near Fort Snelling and demolished sections of the Wa bash streets including Tivoli and Empire theaters. The House of the Good Shepherd dormitory collapsed burying fifty children and causing multiple deaths across the region.
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Twin Cites
United States Weather Bureau
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Waconia
Minneapolis and St. Louis
St. Louis Park
Fort Snelling
Mississippi
Missouri
Army Post
Wabash Atreat Bridge
Tivoli Concert Hall
Empire Theater
Dlut
Thirdstreet
Hih
East Third Street
Pioneer Press
First National Bank
East Fourth Street
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
House of the Good Shepherd
Donastory
Parker May Not Make Speeches
Conference discussions concerned the object and conclusions of the meeting. Chairman Meyer and Chairman Taggart conferred, with New York visitors paying respects to the national committee. Executive committee members arrived and then met after Messrs Murphy and Meyer departed.
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Parker
Meyer
Taggart
New York
National Committee
Messrs. Murphy
Roosevelt Resting At Oyster Bay On August 22
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt enjoyed several hours of recreation and riding in the saddle at Oyster Bay New York. The visit’s aim is to take as much leisure as possible while public duties are limited.
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Oyster Bay
L. I
Roosevelt
Payne in Chicago Conference With Republican Leaders
Postmaster General Payne meets with the Republican National Committee in Chicago to discuss the political situation in the west. He plans to depart tomorrow for Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Payne
Republican Naonal Committee
West
Wisconsin
Strike breakers abandon places in bitter labor fray
The異 article notes unions outside the Building Trades Alliance refuse to work with non union men though not from sympathy with the alliance. The Housesmiths and Bridge men are among those not joining the alliance. Subway tie up shows no settlement as a proposed conference with Contractor McDonald failed. Herman Meoystron, agent for a Portland nursery firm, was arrested in Decatur on embezzlement charges after allegedly selling $75 of nursery stock and taking the money.
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Nen
Building Trades Alliance
Housesmiths and
Bridgemen’s Union
McDonald
Herman Meoystron
Portland
Decatur
Radiator crush injures 14 year old at church
Otto Wiesenberg, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Otto Wiesenberg of 1142 Bar street, was severely injured when a nearly half ton radiator toppled onto his right leg at St Pauls Lutheran church. He suffered a compound fracture with bone exposed eight inches, was operated on for about three hours, and his father serves as church janitor.
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Otto
Otto Wiesenberg
Bar Street
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Hope Hospital
G. L. Greenawalt
E. H. Morgan
H. A. Daemling
Tne
St. Paul's Church
Thirty Thousand Men for Assault at Sea Port Arthur
Thirty thousand men for assault in their midst. Attaches were treated with consideration but could not fly the naval operations. Before leaving Lieut. Newton A. McCully, U S N the American naval attache, was quartered in an old town. A shell hit his house near Pigeon Bay while en route to take a junk for Che Too. Major Hoffman noted it was lucky for this season that McCully left when he did. Few women and children remain at Port Arthur.
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Newton A. Me
Cully
U.S. N
Pigeon Bay
Che
Hoffman
Dent. McCully
Port Arthur
Root Declines Governor Nomination in Open Convention Call
New York Aug 22 Senator Platt said Elihu Root declined to be the republican nominee for governor. Root states he will not accept if nominated and believes a convention in Saratoga will decide the candidate. Platt favors an open convention and notes Governor Noway also supports it.
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New York
Platt
Elihu Root
Saratoga
State Conference appoints ministers for next year in Indiana
The 65th annual state conference of the Methodist Protestant church in Elwood Indiana listed appointments for the coming year. President of the conference is W. W. Lineberry of Plymouth with district leaders including Heininger of Fort Wayne and several pastors from Altoona Berne Bryant Elkhart Harlan Kendallville Keystone Maples and others. Superannuates P F M Hussey and P E Lancaster and students at Adrian college P B Leach W L Heitz and P F Rogers were noted.
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Elwood
Ind
The
Methodist Protestant Church
W. W. Lineberry
Plymouth
Fort Wayne
Heininger
Altoona
C. A. Frassos
Berne
Bila Lehert
Bryant
G. W. Bundy
Elkhart
S. Heininger
Harlan
P. W. Boxall
Kendallville
BR. Williams
Keystone
W. H. Green
Maples
D. W. Bundy
Mnximikucles
Thomas Whittaker
Monticello
M. Hussey
P. E
Lancaster
Adrian College
P. B. Leach
W. L. Heitz
P. F. Rogers
Veterans association to hold fourteenth reunion at Lafontaine
The Thea Wabash County Veterans Association will hold its fourteenth annual reunion at Lafontaine on August 25.
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Thea Wabash County Veterans’ Association
Lafontaine
Clark Becomes White Elephant in Indiana Arrest Case
W C Clark was arrested Saturday by Captain Stall of the Pennsylvania police and held while authorities decide custody. A Columbia City hotel received a letter from a supposed Fisher Electric secretary with a $50 American Express money order stolen from Indianapolis. An express agent attempted arrest with a deputy sheriff, then rode to Fort Wayne where Clark was apprehended. He faces no local offense yet. express company agents plan to file a warrant for Indianapolis trial.
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Columbia City
Clark
Fisher Elect ‘Tric Company
Toledo
American Express
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Stoll
Allex County
Express Company
Springfield
Ohio
Richmond
Ind
Engineer Germain Expires Sudden Death in Fort Wayne
Roswell M. Germain a veteran Nickel Plate engineer and widely known railroad man in Fort Wayne died at Stony Island EL at 2 PM Sunday after a brief illness of three hours. Autopsy at Stony Island confirmed death from a brain blood clot. Remains were brought to Fort Wayne for the funeral service.
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Roswell M. Germain
Fort Wayne
Stony Island
Zermain
Illustrious Nickel Plate engineer dies after illness
Rosewell Mason Germain, long time Nickel Plate engineer and veteran of Fort Wayne to Stony Island routes, died after a congestive chill on Saturday. Born 1853 in Chicago, he began rail career in 1870 and served primarily in passenger service with a flawless record. He was married to Estella Piersol of Chicago about twenty seven years ago.
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Nickel Plain
Germain
Fort Wayans
Stony Island
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Michael McCarthy
McCarthy
New York State
Illinois
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Illinois Central
Nickel Plate
Nfs
Nickel-Plate
Garmain
Estella Piersol
Seventeen Cases in Police Court Sunday Trial
Special Judge William Ballou faced seventeen municipal court cases on Wednesday the most notable being Carl Daimbert charged with theft of about $70 from Mrs. Homer Reynolds. The money was dropped at Sonat’s drug store and recovered except for 20 cents after Daimbert concealed it in his room. Daimbert confessed after Teddy Kaylor implicated him. Daimbert, 25, from Indiana, recently relocated from Montpelier. Miller the junk dealer was fined $1 and costs for buying junk from minors and failing to keep records.
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William Ballou
Carl Daimbert
Homer Reynolds
Sonat
Calhoun Street
Teddy Kaylor
Daimbert
Kaylor
Dalmbert
Hops
Ind
Montpelier
Miller
William Miller
Russian cruiser Novik reported destroyed and sunk
Reported sunk forty miles from Tsingtau and then heading toward Van Diemen Strait near southern Japan to reach Vladivostok. Subsequent notes say the Novik reached Korsakovsk and may have passed Sakhalin via the Kuriles, avoiding Tsugaru Strait on its escape toward Vladivostok.
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Tisingtau
van Dieman Strait
Japan
Vladivostok
St. Petersburg
Korsakovsk
Sakhalien
Hkurile Islands
Lanosraise Strait
Tsugaru Strait
Vladivvostok
Consumption Threatened By A Military Cure Claim
Unger of 11 Maple Street Champaign Illinois writes he suffered a year of hacking confusion with consumption fears. He credits Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy after months under physician care, claiming it cured him and he has not been troubled since. Sold by Dreior & Bro.
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Unger
Maple St
Champaign
Ill
Foley
Dreior & Bro
Death in City for Germain Relative and Hospitalized Heir
Miss Amis Germain is now a patient in B Hospital after a recent surgical operation. Miss Estella Germain learned of her uncle’s death on arrival in the city from Like James Sunday evening. Two Germain brothers include a conductor and an engineer in Chicago and Alton service. Mr Germain was a respected citizen, well-to-do, and held in high esteem, with strong ties to the Masonic fraternity and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
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Germain
Amis Germain
Estella Germain
James
Chicago
Alton
Sonic
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Despondent girl drinks carbolic acid after love doubt
Bessie Tousley, 17, of 1223 Barthold street, attempted suicide by carbolic acid after learning the man she loved, James K. Pullen, had a wife in Detroit. Dr A G Merz saved her with heroic measures. Pullen, taken to the station, was released for lack of grounds. Mr and Mrs Miller, ill with smallpox, wereisolated last week.
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Bessie Tousley
Barthold Street
A. G. Merz
James K. Pullen
Miss Tousley
Pullen
Fort Wayne
Andrew Miller
Miss Hazel
Sinter
Dr. Merz
Borgman
Bible Meeting 18 Opens at Winona Lake
Warsaw Ind Aug 22 ministers who fear man not God were urged to defend Christ's divinity as Dr J Wilbur Chapman opened the tenth Winona Bible conference at Winona Lake before about 3000 people including 1500 ministers from many denominations. Seven devotional meetings were held and 2000 enrolled for Sunday school. Speakers included Rev James Gray Rev Joseph Odell Rev J S Mueller Rev Henry Montgomery and A P Fitt with Dr Torrey Around the World featuring Charles M Alexander and Robert Harkness.
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Warsaw
Ind
J. Wilbur Chapman
Winonia
Winona Lake
Chapman
Christ
Buddha
H. Hadley
New York
James Gray
Boston
Joseph Odell
Lonon
J. &. Mueller
Dayton
Henry Montgomery
Belfast
A. P. Fitt
Moody Institute
Chicago
Tor+rey
Charles M. Alexander
Robert Harkness
Tarray
Red Cross Specialists at Clinton Street Offer Free Chronic Disease Consult
The Red Cross Specialists invite those with chronic and obscure illnesses to call for a free consultation at 728 Clinton Street Fort Wayne. They advertise treatment for nervous and private diseases including catarrh constipation bronchitis and other ailments with X ray exams offered without extra charges. Hours are 8 to 12 and 2 to 5 with no Sunday hours.
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Berma
Red Cross
The
Red Cross Specialists
Clinton Street
Tito
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St Paul's Lutheran Church
Root
Romine
State Conference OF the
M. P. Church
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W.C. Clark
Stall
Pennsylvania, Police Department
Nickel Plaza
Stony Island Sunday
Ballou
Novik
Bible Meeting
Winona
Clinton ‘St
Bezenta
St. Perrks
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
B.R. Noll
East Columbia St
Broadway
Try the
Fort Wayne Trust Co
Cor
Main & Court Sts
U. S
William Stough
Syracuse
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