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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1893
Page
3
A string of calamities including a Michigan farmhouse burning with several fatalities, a destructive Iowa cyclone with mass casualties, and numerous fires and accidents across Illinois Indiana and Kansas. Reports detail storms flourished across Calhoun Cherokee Pocahontas and more with extensive property loss and many deaths.
Reports from Europe note a riot wave in Paris with 60 000 troops, a Yorkshire colliery explosion with 188 dead, and a cyclone in Pomeroy killing 75. Other items include a London royal wedding, a Don Juan ship fire with 155 drowned, and widespread fire losses across North America and Europe.
Desperate mutiny at Ionia Michigan House of Correction ends after a clash between seventy five inmates and guards. William Smith led the breakout using ladders. Oscar Miller was killed while Oscar Smith and Deputy Warden Rowley were injured. four convicts hurt as guards regained control.
News from Cano Illinois reports a negro arrested in Milan Tennessee as Miller's accomplice in the Ray sisters murder. Bardwell Kentucky officials notified as authorities probe a possible new lynching claim. A passenger conductor says the man confessed after being overpowered. Miller denied involvement but later contradicted himself. A woman later linked Miller to Kentucky sightings near Bardwell. The letter from Springfield Illinois on July Fourth is cited to place him near the crime scene.
Louis Napo, a lineman, was killed while fixing a supposed dead wire at the top of a pole in Toledo. The wire contacted a live line, burning insulation. his heel touched a grounded telephone line, completing the circuit. He fell and hung from a rope between poles, body burned from hands to foot.
At 4 20 a m Monday, 8000 pounds of dynamite exploded in a south Denver storage house. The blast shattered windows and doors, arousing the city. Two men are believed killed, with clothing fragments and a revolver found nearby. The cause is unknown, suspected to be tramp sabotage. Later in St Louis, Charles Hoyle assigns to Charles C Nicholas with mobilities and assets around 230000.
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