Destructive Fire Destroys Union City Block
A major blaze swept through Union City Indiana damaging the Pythian Opera House and multiple nearby businesses. Losses include Ross Harney Carriage $15,000, Prior livery barn $5,000, Adams livery barn $5,000, Lambert harness store $4,000, Wallace saloon $2,500, Wright furniture store $7,000, Anderson Bros. blacksmith $1,000, with the Big Four dispatch office and several frame structures burned and the K of P lodge and Catholic Church affected.
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Union City
Ind
Adolph Adams
Pythian Opera House
Siw. Ross & Harney
Charles Prior
Ian Adams
Webb Lambert
J. N. Wallace
Wm. Wright
Anderson Bros
Big Four
K. of P. Lodge
Catholic Church
Crop Prospects Across Indiana Ohio Michigan Report
Indiana reports large crops of clover saved, wheat harvest begun, corn and other crops in food condition with fruit less advanced. Ohio notes showers boosting corn tobacco and grass, clover barley and wheat harvest progressing, wheat well filled, rye ready, tobacco set, wheat harvest underway in the South. Michigan says crops fully up to standard with wheat oats corn and rye improving and some wheat beginning to be ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Crossing Horrors at Millard Avenue Tragedy
A CBQ train struck a crossing crowd near Millard Avenue, killing ten and injuring several others including Mrs Snc holson and two children. Police arrested Jane Webster at Lawn Gate station as the scene was attended by local caregivers.
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Sncholson
Millard Avenade
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road
Kiting
Cate Ehiltven
Thelraegiers
Childeen
Hemi O
Dnholsem
Pateonan
Millard Aagreitie
Janes Webster
Ohio Tragedy Details Involving Double Homicide and Suicide
An Ohio incident reports a man enacting a fatal act west of Ottawa then killing his wife and fatally shooting himself. In Greenshia towne a dispute preceded a murder and suicide. A separate event recounts an attack on Miss Larren Moore by bandits as she was assaulted and robbed. the suspect, Cory of Stexieg mpeedals, faces life in prison.
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Ottawa
le Lycris
Iis
Ale
Nasston
Hay
Cory
Stexieg
Bakers Ven
Pheim Hudhin Wonan Chen
South Carolina
Geordie
Detroit
Wstley Npperty
Louisville
Vien
Hhoek
Aneres
Athieta
Gat
Dallas
East Tennessee
Virginia
Fratture at Endhanaprota impacts East trade for Indianapolis firm
The Dob. Stone Furniture Company of Indianapolis has assigned liabilities amounting to 345 000% assets A UKM. The concern operated for about three years and maintained a large trade in the East.
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Dob. Stone Furniture Company
Indianapolis
Northern Buffalo reports malignant diphtheria outbreak
North Buffalo, New York sees a malignant diphtheria spread while Newport Minnesota reports rabies in suburban cows from a mad dog. Trinity College professor Samuel Hart named Bishop of Vermont. Francis Spies a Honduras consul commits suicide in New York. Massachusetts court allows sending a child to parochial school as compliance.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Samuel Harit
Trinity College
Hartford
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Seward A. Simon
Canada
Robert FE. Philips
Arthur Mead
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Charles River
Newton
Mass
New York City
New York
Academy of Medicine
National Board of Health
C. P. Kellogg & Co
Chicago
Lizzie Borden
Emma
Fall River
Borden
Lizzie
Western Iowa Republican Convention Set in Des Moines
The Iowa Republican Convention is scheduled to meet in Des Moines on Wednesday, August 16, with key officials and party leaders preparing for the gathering.
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Des Moines
Sloan, Johnson & CO
Omaha
Plankinton Bank
Milwaukee
George W. Sample
Pifgh Cavalry
Kansas
Rio Grande
Laredo
Tex
Melengo McLeod
Cal
Hoc. Prien
Carnegie Comepany
Ben Butterworth
Cincinnatin
Pindlas
Ohio
Heckert
Minnesota
Bene
Colt Boundless
By Cushing
St. Paul
Chicago
Inarshs Ost. Leonards
Clifford
Supreme Court of Olive
Deshiler
Haif
Willierh. Deshter
Martin S. Martin
Tacoma
Wash
Martin
Corlinot
Barco
Bros
Damier Dome
Wan
Fohewerk
Deentiur
Failine
Negra Bush
Bude Vail
Jiey
Thateler Coates
Denver
Colo
Barnabas
Providence
Wilgdim Plank Enton
Milwatukee
Tragedies and Disasters Reported Across World News
A crowded church in Borisoglebsk Russia saw 140 killed as thieves triggered a false fire alarm. In Liberia, William D. McCoy, a U.S. minister, dies, the fourth in twelve years. A robber attack on a Missouri Kansas Texas train near Stringtown fails to hit the freight engine. The British battleship Victoria sinks off Tripoli after a collision with Camperdown, with hundreds lost.
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Romano
Borisoglebsk
Russia
William D. McCoy
Monrovia
Liberia
United States
Alexander Clark
Town
Dyer
Stringtown
Tex
George C. Tryon
Mediterranean
Tripoli
Camperdown
Canadian Pacific cuts reach Pacific coast points
The article notes Canadian Pacific Railroad meeting Great Northern cuts to Pacific coast points. It mentions Moody Merrill, a missing Boston capitalist, possibly in Montreal after leaving May 27, with his son traveling there Friday. It also covers Princess Eulalia gifting a jeweled dagger to Robert A. Parke of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Parke's role overseeing the train.
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Canadian Pacific Railroad
Great Northern
Moody Merrill
Boston
Canada
Montreal
Eulalia
Robert A. Parke
Pennsylvania Railroad
L. Pe. Wol
Baltimore
Philadep
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Chicago
Pittsburg
St. Leonia
New York
Louisville
DUN & Cols Weekly Review of Trade
On Tire
Gibson
Frederickton
Njobl
Pardons Open Joliet and Chicago Haymarket Figures
Gov Altgeld pardons Schwab Fielden and Neebe and frees them from Joliet Penitentiary. The act cites unfair trials and prejudice, drawing sharp criticism of Judge Gary and Chief Banfield. A memorial service at Waldheim Cemetery honors Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Ling and Lingg with about 3000 attendees.
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Chicago
Schwab Fielden
Neche
Joliet
Altgeld
Schwab
Michael Schwab
Haymarket
Fielden
Neebe
Gary
Banfield
Spies
Parsons
Pischer
Lingg
sSehwab
Engul
Neede
Supreme Court of
Travis
Fischer
Bowes
Louis Ling
Gov. Oglesby
Dome
Celeshi
Osean No
Serbe
Waldheim
Watsons
Mage
Ling
Lchmidinger
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John Mark
New York Freiheite
Gray
Grinnell
Bonfield
Dorersy
Todd
Larren Moore
Cotheceity
Miss Moore
Min
Ana
Manta
Ing
America
Charles Piellas
Lansing
Mich
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Abilene
Hanford
United States Circuit Court
Seattle
Coolidge
N. M
Order of
United American Mechanics
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Maryland
New Jersey
Union
Leland Stanford
California
Ile
Adeline Evans
St. Louis
Mae. Union Depot
Janes
Kansas City
Mollie Irwin
Waterlow
Towa
Auto
Jones Company
Steech
Cedar Falls
Wis Ottley
Farr
Gare
Onaha
Misa Lyiat
Matilda Lelung
Comead Letiniv
Cnres
Marsa
Lehaig
Mars
Theodore Lechniov
Winona
Mito
Imi
Southern
Georgia Railway
Atlanta
Dauteouads
T. J. Foster
D. W. Lawrence
Mrs. Harden
J. B. Hunt
Connelly &Connelly
Owens
Forsythe Street
Brest
Ak Shipping
Ncinn
Cron Vt
York
Jolle
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