Brute's Fiendish Deed Kills Wife After Daughter's Wedding
A post mortem on Mrs. Frank Purcell reveals blunt violence and internal injuries. Jesse Purcell testifies that his father beat and kicked his mother during the hours surrounding the marriage ceremony, with neighbors corroborating parts of the account. Purcell, a long‑time mine engineer, was arrested and charged as the case unfolds amid community uproar and a burial at Union Cemetery.
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Washington
Frank Purcell
Purcell
Jesse Purcell
Noah Sutherland
Ino
McCord
Lemon
Hond
Ash
Tod
Cabel Col Company
Pugilistic Preacher In Camp Park Assault
Rev Stephen Clark aged Baptist preacher was knocked unconscious by two campers after ordering them from his private park. Police arrested Bert Rash and Dil Morrison of Manson and Morrison’s wife after the attack and ongoing injuries. The injured preacher’s condition was not updated.
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Frankfort
Stephen Clark
Kokomo Steel Plant Breaks Ground for $1.5 Million Facility
Ground has been broken for the Kokomo Steel Company plant in Kokomo. The $1,500,000 facility will employ nearly one thousand men and produce steel wire, rods and nails. The plant is to be completed and in operation by December 1.
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Kokomo
Kokomo Steel Company
Valparaiso Ex-Sheriff Sego Arrested for Forgery
Late Tuesday in Forter county ex sheriff Joseph Sego was arrested on forgery charges filed by Don A. Salyer of the Valparaiso Water Company. Authorities allege forged notes bearing the Biggart names and those of Jacob Chartier. Sego waived examination and posted $500 bond.
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Valparaiso
Joseph Sego
Forter County
Don A. Salyer
Valparaiso Water Company
Sego
Robert E. Biggart
Biggart
Robert B. Biggart
Jacob Chartier
Cornelius Corboy
Servo
John Leonard
Bego
Drayman Sego
Roby
Board of Trade
Memphis 3-year-old shot on through freight in railroad yard
Chris Washington of Memphis Tennessee, age three, was shot by a head brakeman while riding a through freight on the Southern railroad. The boy’s companions said the brakeman attacked over a payment dispute and a plan to go to Princeton for work. The incident occurred during travel from Louisville to Princeton.
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Chris Washington
Memphis, Tenn
Southern Railroad
Moa
Mabel A
Princeton
Summer
Louisvile, Hy
Trapped in Cabin as Steamer Golconda Sinks in Squall
Paducah special reports the City of Golconda disaster at Cottonwood Bar near Paducah. Sixty aboard. seventeen to twenty two dead. Officials say possible gross negligence. Debris and bodies recovered as wreck is dismantled in eighteen feet of water.
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Paducah
Golconda
Cottonwood Bar
Padaucah
A. A. Peck
Frank Enders
Charles Graham
Luther Graham
Trixie Grimes
Lucy Barnett
David Adams
Muncie Morning News Sold to George F McCullough
The Muncie Morning News sold on court order to George F. McCullough for 7800 dollars. McCullough, owner of the Star, will combine the Daily and Weekly News with the Star office to publish as the Star. He assumed control Tuesday night and is active in Republican state politics.
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Muncie
Ind
F. J. Claypool
Daily
Weekly News
McCulloch
Thy Star
Star
Daily News
N. F
Ethel
C. F. W. Neely Pet
Heath Brothers
Pression Traction Company
Republican State Politicis
Dynamite Explosion Wipes Out Bridge Crew in Herkimer
Five tons of dynamite exploded in the Mohawk and Malone round house in Herkimer New York killing six men who slept in a car on a side track. The dead include John Deck Levi Gilbert Lewis Jackson Harry Stansel James Nagel and Joseph Keller. Stansel a Syracuse University architecture student. Jackson Keller and Nagel were laborers. Nearby twenty five houses were wrecked or damaged with total property loss about 30000.
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Herkimer
N. Y
Mohawk & Malone
John Deck
Levi Gilbert
Lewis Jackson
Harry Stansel
James Nagel
Joseph Keller
Stansel
Syracuse University
Jackson
Keller
Nagel
Round
Scottsburg Funeral For State’s Largest Man
Edward Blakely, a very large local resident who recently died, weighed 345 pounds with a 66 inch chest. A special coffin was required and could not fit the country church for the funeral. Services were conducted under a tree with twelve men lowering the casket into the grave.
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Scottsburg
Edward Blakely
Five youths and women die in Cataract pool boat sinking
A boat carrying three young women and two Brazilian men sank in a thirty foot pool below the falls at Cataract on the Jiel river. Mrs Dean Miss Essie Wehrle and her sister and Messrs Schromyer and Wehrle were in the party. Two women were pulled out quickly but one woman sank after repeated rescues by Alvah Shaffer, a seasonal camper at Calis, a well known figure among visitors statewide.
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Brazil
Jiel River
Dean
Essie Wehrle
Messrs
Schromyer
Wehrle
Alvah Shaffer
Calis
State
Lynching of Alf Wilder Reported Near Whitesboro
A mob seized Alf Wilder in Whitesboro Texas and burned him near Net Half Miles East Son's Ranch after he was accused of killing Mrs Cald well a Grayson county farmer's wife. Authorities moved quickly to prevent further violence as crowds gathered and telegraph lines warned locals. The victim, only six months married, was killed in a crime that stunned the region.
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Dallas
Tex
Whitesboro
Alf Wilder
Caldwell
Grayson County
East Son's Ranch
Red Ranch
Meier
Dexter
Wilder
Red River Bottoms
Havoc of a Shell Kills One at Ft. Riley
Special from Junction City Kansas reports a tragic target practice accident at Ft. Riley where a seven inch 107 pound shell exploded during loading of a siege Battery O gun. Private Henry C. Watson was killed instantly. eight others were wounded, three fatally Charles Duncan John J. King and Murray Sykes named among the dying.
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Junction City
Kas
Ft. Riley Reservation
Seventh Artillery
Vandusen
Henry C. Watson
Charles Duncan
John J. King
Murray Sykes
Watson
Far North Horror Islander Sinks After Iceberg Collision
The Islander, a leading Alaskan route steamer for Canadian Pacific, struck an iceberg off Douglas Island in Douglas Channel at 2 am Thursday and sank, carrying 65 to 80 people. Survivors arrived Sunday aboard the Queen. Boilers exploded during the sinking. Captain Foote went down with the ship. Gold worth 275000 dollars was aboard, 100000 by passengers. Estimates vary on fatalities, with purser and officers awaiting official lists.
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Victoria
B. C
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
Douglas Island
Farallon
George McL. Brown
Canadian Pacific Railroad
F. G. Hinde-Bowker
British-American Corporation
London
Maghlen
Fight at Fortville Leaves Reed Wounded. Clarke Held
In Fortville a street fight left William Reed with a bullet wound and fractured skull and Max Clarke jailed at Greenfield with multiple knife wounds. The feud traces to years-old clashes with Reed’s brother. Reed, 25, single, is hospitalized. Clarke, 35, with a family, is charged with attempted murder.
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Fortville, Inc
William Reed
Max Clarke
Greenfield
Clarke
Reed
Young Reed
Murray
Fatal House Fire After Gasoline Cleaning Accident
Mrs Rolland F Ducomb died in a South Bend room explosion when she used a bicycle lamp to illuminate a space cleaned with gasoline. The blast wrecked the room and caused fatal burns.
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South Bend
Rolland F. Ducomb
Czar to visit France amid royal tour and maneuvers
Paris residents welcomed news that the Czar of Russia will attend the Rheims maneuvers closing ceremony after meeting President Loubet for a northern squadron review. The Czarina will accompany the visit, and the trip includes a stop to see Emperor William of Germany, casting a bittersweet note on Franco German ties.
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Paris
Russia
Loubet
Rheims
Dunkirk
Loubét
France
William of
Germany
Foss ambushed six girls with public kiss on street
Albert FL Foss filed affidavits against six society girls after they kissed him publicly on the street. Foss claimed he never before had been kissed by a girl and sought legal action. A justice of the peace ordered their arrest. they were released on bail.
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Taswell
Albert FL Foss
Foss
Passengers From Nome Bring Hard Luck Tales To Port Townsend
The steamer John G. Kimball arrived August 8 from Nome carrying passengers who report harsh straits ahead. Many had money in Nome but spent it seeking strikes and now face starvation as winter looms and local labor markets remain oversupplied.
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Port Townsend
Wash
John G. Kimball
Nome
Kimball
Culver Assembly Closes With Busy Cottage Sale
The Culver special marks the most prosperous season of the Maxinkuckee Assembly. About twenty lots for cottages were sold in the final days, most tenters have left the pew campground, and all cottages remain occupied.
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Culver
Maxinkuckee Assembly
Strike at Conkeys Plant Sparks Union Drive in Hammond
In Hammond Indiana last Saturday pressmen at W B Conkey Publishing formed a local branch of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union, a chapter of the AFL. Officers were elected but later discharged when the organizer learned of the move, and the whole force walked out demanding the right to organize.
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Hammond
Ind
W. B. Conkey Publishing Company
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
American Federation of Labor
Conkey
Braszil Special Fair to Be Held in September Week
The initial fair will run during the week of September with coal and clay exhibits. Two large arches will span Main Street at Walnut Street, built from local clay products and decorated with coal. Booths under the arches will showcase each mine or factory, and two miniature mines will be displayed on the street.
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Main Street
Walnut Street
Rescued From the Tunnel Deep Under Lake Erie
Two of a dozen workers trapped two hundred feet below Lake Erie by crib No last Wednesday morning were rescued late Monday afternoon. Adam Neat and Joseph Eugene were among the men affected in the water works tunnel fire incident.
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Cleveland
Adam Neat
Joseph Eugene
Water Works
Lake Erle
Crib No
Senator Fairbanks Hurt in Runaway Incident
United States Senator Fairbanks of Indiana was slightly injured in a runaway in Minneapolis on Saturday evening. He and District Attorney R. G. Evans were riding in a carriage when the team bolted. Both men jumped free before the horses ran away further.
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Minneapolis
United States
Fairbanks
Indiana
R. G. Evans
Swift & Co. office robbed of large sum in New York
Swift & Co. New York secretary treasurer John T. Hayden vanished after handing over the books to auditor John Chaplin. Loss estimated from 10 000 to 50 000 with some reports claiming up to 60 000. W H Noyes acknowledged Hayden's default and investigators alerted.
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New York
Co of
Swift & Co
Chicago Packers
New York Corporation
John T. Hayden
John Chaplin
Chicago
Hayden
Chaplin
W. H. Noyes
Lovelorn Couples Barred from Kentucky Marriages in Jeffersonville
Jeffersonville Indiana faces a marriage license crackdown as County Clerk Carr refuses licenses to out of state residents amid Attorney General Taylor’s probe of widespread indiscriminate marriages. Deputies gathered evidence on local lotteries, with potential sensational developments ahead as efforts to cleanse practices intensify.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Kentucky
Gretna Green
Carr
Taylor
Lockhart
Russia Faces Severe Famine Across European Provinces
London reports from Moscow describe a looming famine as nearly a third of European Russia’s provinces produce insufficient crops. Only two of seventy provinces show good harvests, with vast areas starving and about 43 million people affected. Heat, drought, hail, and pestilence devastate yields while rail and port constraints limit grain movement to the starving interior.
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London
Moscow
Russia
Siberia
New Laws for Printers at International Typographical Union Meet
The forty seventh annual International Typographical Union convention adjourned in Birmingham after adopting a constitutional amendment to apply plurality rule to president and secretary-treasurer elections. A proposal for a special agreement on label agitation was also approved.
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Birmingham
Ala
International Typographical Union
Cincinnati
Lawyers At Denver Attend Bar Association Conference
In Denver Colorado prominent lawyers gather for the twenty fourth annual American Bar Association convention. The eleventh annual conference of state commissioners for uniform legislation heard Denver clergy appeals to fix lax divorce laws. Discussion focused on whether to eliminate Section 1 which bars divorce for causes outside the state of residence.
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Denver
Col
American Bar Association
State Commissioners For the
Secret Service arrests three in San Francisco for handling bogus New Brunswick notes
Secret service officers in San Francisco arrested William Hogan and E W Smith after Frank J Perry provided information about a gang distributing counterfeit notes from the defunct State Bank of New Brunswick. Perry says Smith leads the operation. Hogan and Smith remain jailed while further arrests are anticipated.
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San Francisco
Cal
Secret Service
State Bank of
Willam Hogan
E. W. Smith
Perry
Federal Life Saving Service
Islander Disaster Death Toll Reported At Forty Two
Reports from Victoria B C give the Islander disaster death toll at forty two. Purser Bishop has gone to Skagway to secure a full list of passengers. The pilot Leblanc and officers deny intoxication claims and say the ship had adequate life belts.
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Victoria
B. C
Purser Bishop
Skagway
Leblanc
Government to end gambling houses in Mexico City
Mexico City reports that the cabinet will bar new licenses for public gambling houses and issue a circular to army officers. Officers found at gambling venues face dismissal and civil arrest. Effective September 16, public employees will also be warned that gambling leads to dismissal. merchants and bankers support the move.
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Mexico City
Reyes
Chicago Special Assesses Workers for Strike Fund
At a mass meeting Saturday night Chicago foremen voted to levy 50 cents per day from each working foreman to support strikers. The assessment targets those at work and aims to raise about 2500 dollars weekly for the strike fund, with payments not binding on national headquarters.
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Chicago
Ex Governor Stone in Serious Illness in St Louis
Former Missouri governor William J. Stone is reported Thursday night to be seriously ill with an acute attack of dysentery, a condition he has endured for three weeks while in St Louis.
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Stone
St. Louis
William J. Stone
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