Disasters in Japan Reported After Earthquakes and Floods
The steamer Columbia reports severe earthquakes in Japan on August 5 followed by a tidal wave and floods. Sixty five villages inundated with many killed or injured. Lava from the eruption covers vast areas destroying villages and lighting is by artificial means due to ash clouds. Notes confirm widespread devastation and missing persons.
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Japan
Columbia
Tacoma
Yokohama
Mantu
Libog
Andree Will Return Explorer Baldwin States
Brooklyn observer reports Baldwin believes Andree will return safely from his Arctic search. He notes Andree is learned and ingenious, cites European discussions with scientists about warm upper air currents, and mentions potential land near the Arctic ice and the chance of a landing if descent occurs.
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Baldwin
Andree
Brooklyn
N. Y
North Pole
Europe
Moonshiners Kill Deputies in Polk County Texas
A clash between moonshiners and a sheriff posse in Polk County results in two deputies killed two wounded and two missing. The dead are B. F. Dodson and Joe Dodson. Wounded are the Renfrew brothers. Suspected moonshine gang led by Horace Bruce and John Church.
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Ae Oanet
Polk
Arkansas
B. F
Joe Dodson
Renfrew Brothers
Taylor
Seary County
Dodson
Horace Bruce
John Church
Kansas City Woman Seeks Heir Claim To Girard Estate
Edith Sigler widow of Frank Sigler of Kansas City asserts status as heir to the Girard estate. The 19th century founder left the fortune to the Girard Colleges and a line of relatives, but direct descendants ended with a grandfather and two uncles. The case centers on unidentified heirs and the estate valued at 20 million dollars.
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Kansas City
Girard
Edith Sigier
Frank
Schlatter in Chicago for two months with free receptions
Francis Schlatter the healer travels from Denver to Chicago and will stay about two months. He has set up there for the purpose of healing the deaf and the halt and will hold three free receptions for the public.
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Schlatter
Chicago
Francis Schlatter
Denver
Canton
Ohio
Farm quarrel ends in fatal shooting near Mor Minn
Fritz Juhene a farmer living seven miles north of Mor Minn was shot and killed by Gus Metag, who had rented land from Juhene. Metag requested to trash the harvested crop while Juhene refused, claiming self defense after a dispute over plowing.
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Fritz Juhene
Mor Minn
Gus Metag
Metag
Juhene
Duhene
Chicago Grain Movement Record Breaks Traffic Peak
Chicago grain movement into and out of the city reached a record high by Monday noon as more than five thousand cars of various kinds were received and dispatched.
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Chicago
Spain Hints at War as Cuba Rebellion Nears End
Premier Azcarraga told the Spanish cabinet the Cuban insurrection was nearing an end and Spain would do her duty if the United States showed any demonstration. In Stillwater Minnesota a $75,000 fire destroyed the Florence flour mill the Omaha freight depot and several cars of merchandise, reportedly starting from spontaneous combustion.
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Spain
Azcarraga
Cuba
United States
Stillwater
Florence
Omaha
Stillwater Minn
Work of Tramp Steamers Crowds St Michaels with Destitute Seekers
Treasury department reports many men bound for the Klondike arrive at St Michaels without provisions or money. Regular lines will not book unprovisioned travelers, but some tramp steamers offer passage for pay, creating a growing crowd dependent on charity for food.
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St. Michaels
Treasury
Klondike
Ward
St.Michaels
Populist Call Postponed After St Louis Meeting
The Kansas Populist state central committee delays issuing an address uniting Populists Socialists and allied groups until after the St Louis meeting. The move aims to aid striking miners and reflects a broader push to coordinate across states for a larger gathering.
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Kansas
St. Louis
State Central Committee of
Sagasta Seeks Autonomy as Cuba Situation Worsens
Spanish liberal leader Sagasta says Cuba situation worsens daily and vows to apply autonomy. He believes liberals will gain power sooner than expected and cautions about possible moves that could threaten the throne as opportunists await.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagasta
Cuba
Jes
Sacasta
Kansas Bank Robbery Ends in Explosive Vault Blast
Robbers blow the Hilendale Exchange vault at Kan with nitro glycerin three times, sending explosions for miles. Circling guards fire at the bank as the trio escapes through a rear door with $1,800 in cash and $700 in drafts. Sums include 128 silver dollars on a top shelf.
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Hilendale Exchange
Exchange Bank
Kan
Lost Rich Ore Believed Lost with City of Mexico
A report notes that about two thousand pounds of ore from Gold Lake Mining Company vanished with the steamer City of Mexico. Company representatives, including Ibald, are unsettled as efforts to recover the value of the shipment continue.
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City of
Mexico
Gold Lake Mining Company
Swineford
Ibald
Stens
Parrott Jr. Ends Life Amid Financial Woes In Atlante
George W. Parrott Jr., son of George W. Parrott of the Parrott Lumber Company, Atlante, reportedly shot himself in the head with a revolver after misfortune and speculation dissipated his fortune and led to self destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. W. Parrott, Jr
George W. Parrott
Parrott?’ Lumber Company
Atlante
Missing Sister Found Powers Huge Inheritance Case
Salvator Lesperges of Willismsburg New York, a builder, seeks his missing sister in Schlegel Hainault to claim papers proving her Dutch land inheritance. He hopes the discovery delivers titles to herself, another brother in France, and a pair of beneficiaries.
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Salvator Lesperges
Willismsbburg
N. Y
Int Schlegel
Hainault
France
Fresh Anglo French Russian plan on Turkey Greece indemnity
The report states Lord Salisbury proposes new terms for the indemnity settlement between Turkey and Greece. It suggests Great Britain, France, and Russia jointly guarantee the indemnity loan set aside for the settlement. Details on the regent’s role and obligations follow in the outline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Salisbury
Turkey
Greece
Great Britain
France
Russia
Demented Mother's Act Describes Flint Incident
Monday afternoon Mrs. W Z Hutchins of Flint acted in a demented condition. Michelorofur is the elder daughter who struck the mother in the mouth breast and hip. the injuries are likely to heal.
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W.Z. Hutchins
Flint
Michelorofur
Poison in the Melon Stuns Calloway County
A wholesale melon incident in Calloway County Kentucky leaves eight people affected seven dead and one in critical condition after a neighbor’s patch melon was stolen and poisoned.
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Calloway County
Kentucky
Double Chicago Tragedy in Cave Incident
Arthur Story and his wife were involved in a cave incident linked to Henry C. Dunker. The tragedy unfolds as investigations proceed to determine the cause and responsibility. Local authorities pursue details from surviving witnesses and compiled reports gather context for the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Arthur Story
Cave
Henry C. Dunker
Trish Dynamite Outrage and Peru Invasion Report
An early day dynamiting incident is reported in Laneboron County with injuries, while Bolivian Col Pande leads 600 men into Peru's Sandia province in a border incident.
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Trish
Laneboron
County of L
Peru
Col
Pande
Belivia
Peruvian
Sandia
Pointer Turf King Star Pointer Sets Record at Readville
Chicago stallion Star Pointer, a Tennessee bred pacer, clocked 1:59 1-4 for a mile at Readville with about 8000 spectators. McClary drove the runner to a sub two minute pace, posting a 1:57 mile and finishing in 1:53 3/4 with watches agreeing on the fast time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Star Pointer
Readville Mass
McClary
C. W. Marks
World Wheat Shortage Predicted by Hungarian Ministry
The Hungarian ministry of agriculture estimates a global wheat harvest far below demand. It puts 1597 1898 shortages at about 59.8 million hundredweight with total supply between 610 and 651 million metric hundredweight. Exporters like European Turkey Egypt Australia and Austria-Hungary will struggle. Britain India Argentina and Chile face reduced exports. United States and Canada favored.
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Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture
Turkey
Egypt
Australia
Austria-Hungary
British India
Argentina
United States
Canada
Chicago Picnic Disaster Kills One and Injures Eleven
A severe storm struck Laurel Wood Park Chicago on Saturday wrecking the dancing pavilion. One woman, Mrs Brown, was killed and eleven injured as the shelter collapsed in the crowd of about 300 picnickers, including 83,50 members of the Catholic Abstinence Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel Wood Park
Chicago
Cathtal Abstinence Union
Suspected Murderer Located Near Garden City
An August man from Owosso Michigan is suspected in the murder of a person found dead on Spike's Peak. He has been photographed and will be held subject to the sheriff of El Paso County Colorado's order.
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Owosso
Mich
Stat Garden City
Kan
Sosing
Onspike
Sioux City
Evans Abram
Yankton
Bradstreet's Review notes rising prices across staples
Bradstreet's Weekly Review reports an improving trade outlook despite prolonged soft coal strikes. Prices advance across iron and steel, lead, wheat and bread, wheat flour, corn, oats, lard, potatoes, butter, eggs, beans, cheese, leaf tobacco, wool, livestock, leather, hides, lumber, and linseed oil.
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Bradstreet
United States
Aeronauts Fatally Hurt in Toledo Parachute and Balloon Fire
In Toledo Ohio on Saturday Walter Steele of Columbus and Leroy Northcott of St Johns were severely injured in separate airshow accidents. Steele fell after his parachute partially failed and suffered a broken back and many broken ribs. Northcott inside a balloon during inflation was trapped when it caught fire and burned severely from the hips up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Steele
Leroy Northcott
Toledo
Ohio
Columbus
Steele
St. Johns
Mich
Chicago Couple Shot in Apartment Quarrel
Arthur Storey and his wife were fatally wounded after a quarrel with H. C. Dunker, a barber who had boarded with them. Dunker accompanied Mrs. Storey to the theater, then fired twice on returning home at their No. 5 Forty-third Street residence. Both were hospitalized with severe injuries and poor prospects for recovery.
Engine crash on Sand Mountain trestle in Tennessee
A Dade Coal Mining Co narrow gauge engine jumped a trestle on Sand Mountain Sunday afternoon near Chatta nooga Tennessee. It fell about twenty feet and rolled to the base, bringing down trees. Six people aboard. manager F H Connor of Chattanooga suffered two broken ribs and serious shock.
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Tennessee
Chattaooga
Tenn
Dade Coal Mining Company
Sand Mountain
F. H. Connor
Chattanooga
Four Fall Three Stories At Rock Island Site
A fall from a scaffold on a Rock Island Illinois construction site sent J. W. Schreiner, W. H. Willis, John Lowe, and Jove Crudup plunging from the third story to a stone sidewalk. Willis died within ten minutes. Schreiner, Lowe, and Crudup suffered serious injuries and were not expected to survive.
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Rock Island
Iil
J. W. Schreiner
W. H. Willis
John Lowe
Jove Crudup
Willis
Schreiner
Lowe
Crudup
Fire at Virginia Illinois Destroys South Side of Square
Early Monday fire swept the south side of a Virginia Illinois square destroying buildings. Loss estimated at 209000 dollars with 365000 dollars in insurance. Fire units from Springfield and Jacksonville assisted Virginia crews.
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Virginia
Ill
Springfield
Jacksonville
Market quotations for livestock and grains across major cities
A dense report lists prices for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. It also shows grain prices for wheat corn oats rye and cash butter and eggs by grade and region.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Rousseau Ranch Horses Slaughter Sparks State Veterinarian Battle
State Veterinarian Elliott ordered about 150 of the Rousseau herd killed for glanders after visits to the Cheyenne Agency. J M Treacy, hired by Rousseau, found only two glanders signs in over 1000 head examined and labeled the killings ruthless. Rousseau and others plan to seek damages from the state for the losses.
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Elliott
Cheyenne
Rousseau
J. M. Treacy
Sturgis
Fled harness maker Buckland revealed as Charles Heath in harsh disclosures
Aberdeen resident Charles D. Buckland, a harness maker, fled the country after revelations he had a wife and four children in Holl land Vermont and used the name Charles A. Heath. The case notes his desertion, a California move, and a possible Klondike rumor clarified by a Washington dispatch about Fort Meade gold prospects that prove the claim exaggerated and the wood reservation too small and poor for mining.
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Aberdeen
Charles D. Buckland
Warner
Brown County
Sophia Slack
Buckland
Holland
Charles A. Heath
Klondike
Heath
Randall Township
Washington
War Department
Government Wood Reservation
Fort Meade
Wood Reservation
Swan Signs Drilling Contract for Pierre Gas Well
W E Swan will sink a gas well for the Gas Well Company at Pierre to 2000 feet. Work starts as soon as materials and equipment arrive.
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W.E. Swan
The
Gas Well Company
Pierre
Hottest August Day Registers 102 at Rapid City
Temperatures topped 102 in the shade at Rapid City as August 25 brought the season's peak. A scorching south wind damaged corn fields in the area amid the heat.
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Rapid City
Weather Bureau
Clever Swindle in South Dakota Hits Local Merchant
A realized scam unfolds as a traveling representative from a Chicago paint firm sells a new paint and promises a free bicycle to one merchant per town. C M Sullivan pays cash for order but receives no bicycle or firm contact. The suspect is captured at Refeld and offers to settle.
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Fakir
South Dakota
South Duknta
C. M. Sullivan
Body Found In Boiler Near Redfield Foundry
The dead man, about 22 with dark hair and eyes, was found in an old boiler by the Iron Foundry works at Redfield. A bullet hole in the back suggests murder by three tramps after a quarrel Monday August 23. Sheriff Kemmerer has captured two of the trio. identities withheld.
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Redfield
Kemmerer
University Opens Fall Term With Staffing Gaps
The State University at Vermillion plans a September 6 registration and exams day with regular term start on September 9. Faculty notes include an unfilled botany chair, possible leave for Prof. James E. Todd, and several minor instructors to hire. Mrs. H. C. Stauffer will supervise vocal music and President Mauck will lead philosophy classes. Major attendance expected.
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State University At
Vermillion
Lemmen
Germany
James E. Todd
Department of
Geology and Mineralogy
H. C. Stauffer
Yankton College
Mauck
Resources and land use in South Dakota advance pamphlet plan
Land Commissioner Lockhart undertakes a state resources pamphlet beyond his official duties. He compiles data from counties to showcase South Dakota lands and prospects, stemming from the Taylor settlement and vast land under his control. Weeds devastate sheep herds in the ceded Sioux lands west of the Missouri River. A Nowlin County stockman loses thirty sheep in a single day due to a poisonous weed. experts debate whether loco weed or another plant is responsible.
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South Dakota
Lockhart
Department of the State
Taylor Settlement
Missouri River
Nowlin County
Humphrey Sues Porter Over Missing Cattle Deliveries
Isaac M. Humphrey, a western state cattleman, sues J. N. Porter of Arizona in the U S district court for South Dakota for 8000 dollars. Humphrey alleges Porter agreed to deliver 3000 head at ten dollars each but delivered only 735 head, seeking profit on the missing stock.
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Humphrey
Isaac M. Humphrey
United States Court For
Joyful cattlemen as prices surge nationwide
Cattle buyers push up prices in the boom, targeting Iowa cornfields while wheat men gain. Immigration to Walworth County increases as the Blue Blanket valley region grows. Indiana Dunkards, led by real estate men, settle in the tal section.
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Iowa
Walworth County
Blue Blanket Valley
Indiana Dunkards
Tal Section
Crow Creek Chief White Ghost Leads Sioux Visit to Rosebud
Crow Creek Indians led by White Ghost passed through Chamberlain last week en route to the Rosebud reservation for a two day feast and dance with a portion of the Lower Brule band whose home lies on that reservation.
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White Ghost
Loeal
Chamberlain
Rosebud
Peddler License Test Case At Fort Pierre
A test of the peddler license law was held at Fort Pierre. The state won the case on insufficient papers against C. H. Rankin of the Minneapolis Woolen Company who was taking clothing orders by sample.
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Fort Pierre
Age
C. H. Rankin
Minneapolis Woolen Company
Escaped Prisoners Captured After Jail Break at Pierre
Sheriff Strayer pursued and captured four escaped inmates from a jail break at Pierre. One was identified as a deaf and dimay Indian rapist. two others held petty offense charges. Authorities recovered the fugitives with aid from the Lower Co Agency.
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Strayer
Lower Co
Pierre
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