Fugitives Recaptured After Long Ottumwa Jail Break
Will Day, colored, and James Wild escaped from the Wapello county jail in Ottumwa last Saturday. A pursuit across a corn field near Washington, Iowa, ended at West Chester at dusk when Sheriff Black shot Day in the leg during resistance. Both fugitives were captured and to be returned to Ottumwa.
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Will Day
James Wild
Ottumwa
Black
West Chester
Jackson
Garvin
William Day
Stanley Wiley
Wapello
Pope fears American Church cited in Farley cardinal bid
Geneva reports say the pope resisted elevating Archibishop Farley of New York to cardinal, sparking Cardinal Gibbons to depart Rome. Mgr O Connell relayed American Catholics pressed for Farley and another cardinal, noting Europe favored by Vatican. Vatican replies say Americans finished visit. Gibbons team left Lucerne en route to Brunnen.
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Tragic Laurel Mountain Fire Claims Five Lives
Marshall North Carolina August 19. Monday night the home of Wofford Tweed on Laurel Mountain burned killing his wife three children and Mrs Murray Tweed. Tweed was in town for court when he learned of the tragedy.
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Clothier Beats Little in All Comers Tennis Match
William J. Clothier of Philadelphia defeated R. D. Little of New York in the first round of the all comers singles at the Newport tennis tournament on August 19.
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R. I
William J. Clothier
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R. D. Little
New York
Race Troubles Hit Alabama Mines and Nearby Town
In Pratt City Alabama dynamite wrecked the home of Thomas Duggan a contractor for Tennessee Coal and Iron. Two of his daughters were rendered unconscious. A separate blast hit a Negro miner's home with no injuries. Two Negroes arrested. In Jellico Tennessee an armed group cleared a mining camp of Black residents ordering all Negroes to leave within three days. A cabin burned and six victims said to be cremated.
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Thomas Duggan
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Pratt City
Duggan
Knoxville
Tenn
Jellico
Lafallette
Wealthy society women charged with smuggling
Report in the Chicago Tribune alleges two prominent society women, Mrs. Emily Rockwell Chadbourne and Mrs. Gardner of Boston, were implicated in a major customs evasion scheme. Goods worth nearly 190000 were imported under false declarations, with 70000 paid in fines and 80000 more likely due if claims are pursued. Seizure of the goods already occurred, and indictments by a Chicago federal grand jury are anticipated.
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Chicago Tribune Today
United States
Chicago
Boston
Washington
Emily Rockwell Crane Chadbourne
North Shore
Richard T. Crane
Crane Manufacturing Company
Jack” Gardner
Chadbourne
Gardner
Ames
Womn
Struck Twice by Lightning Claims Iowa Woman
Mrs. Lillian May Scott of Vinton Iowa visiting Cuccuras Colorado was struck by lightning a second time and died yesterday afternoon. She had come to visit a sister and had just recovered from a first strike three weeks earlier. the body was sent to Vinton for burial.
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Pueblo
Col
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Vinton
Cuccuras
Scott
Colorado
Cuccaras
Franke clarifies purpose of Iowa Republican conference
Des Moines August 19 that the Iowa Republican conference set for August 25 will be open and unspecific in action. State Central Committee will run the meeting and seek suggestions for the campaign with free discussion and no vote. District conferences will follow and tickets will be distributed by committeemen.
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Des Moines
C. F. Franke
State Central Committee
Iowa
Holland in warlike mood over Venezuela dispute
The Netherlands' cabinet, in a nine hour session at The Hague, agrees on the terms of its reply to President Castro and moves to ready naval force. Two cruisers Holland and Utrecht prepare for Curacao with sailing set for August 29 and October 25, raising Caribbean strength to five ships. Officials aim for a peaceful show of force without a direct demonstration.
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Des Moines Merchant Faces Bigamy and Abandonment Charges
William M. Carley, a prominent Des Moines merchant, is held in 2500 bail in New York on charges of wife abandonment and bigamy. He denies any marriage to Miss Solomon, who is known as Mrs Carley in Des Moines. His New York wife claims she will prove he wed Miss Solomon, triggering bigamy proceedings.
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N. Y
William M. Carley
Des Moines
Miss Solomon
Carley
New Yorker
Gussie Solomon
Board of Education
Motive in Annis Killing Ties to Hains Divorce Suit
Boston August 19 The killing of William E Annis by Captain Peter C Hains may be linked to a divorce suit filed by Mrs Hains served in New York August 10 The suit contained sensational charges against Annis and called for a public hearing, suggesting motive.
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Boston
Mass
William E. Annis
Peter C. Hains
Prohibition Party Nominates Eugene Chafin in Chicago
Eugene W. Chafin accepted the Prohibition party’s presidential nomination at Music Hall Chicago before a large audience. The ceremony featured Prof. Charls Scanlon delivering the notification and Samuel Dickie of Albion College presiding as chairman. Chafin attacked both major parties over liquor interests and urged reformers to vote Prohibition.
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Music Hall
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition Party
Chafin
Chas Scanlon
Pittsburg
Columbus
Ohio
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
Nebraska
Chas. R. Jones
National Committee
Samuel Dickie
Albion College of Albion
Mich
Dickie
Scanlon
Emperor Donates Large Sum to Fight Tuberculosis
Berlin August 19 The Emperor donates 24000 dollars to Robert Koch for a fund to carry on work resisting the spread of tuberculosis.
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Berlin
Robert Koch
Explosions Cause Havoc In Two Nations
Detroit reports 13 men injured with six likely fatally after a dynamite blast at a drill vessel during Livingstone channel work. In Wigan England seventy miners entombed in the Maypole mine after an explosion, with eighteen bodies recovered badly mutilated as gases delay rescue due to a surrounding fire.
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Mich
Livingstone Channel
Wigan
Eng
Maypole
Corn Crops Get Soaking Rain From Storm
Weather eases drought across northern Missouri eastern Kansas southern Nebraska and southern Iowa with rain since early morning. Crops in St Joseph Missouri report soaking showers renewing prospects after a dry spell weakening heat and drought fears.
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Kansas
Nebraska
St. Joseph
Iowa
National Editorial Association Addresses by Lawshe and Schleicher
St Paul speakers included A L Lawshe third assistant postmaster general and John A Schleicher addressing the National Editorial association session in Minnesota on August 19.
Pepper Named Temporary Chairman at Democratic Judicial Convention
Des Moines Iowa August 19 I S Pepper county attorney of Muscatine was announced today as temporary chairman of the democratic judicial convention with the post to guide the event and agenda in Muscatine.
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Des Moines
I. S. Pepper
Muscatine
Return Home for 1500 Illinois Militia as Riots Wane
Springfield Aug 19 The Fourth and later the Third and Fifth regiments depart for home leaving about fifteen hundred militiamen on duty as investigators target riots. Cavalry remains in place while mining towns report disturbances and union officials seek to defuse tensions after a lynching case and cross racial clashes.
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Ill
Chicago Alton
Kankakee
Nelson
Scott Parton
Black Belt
Andrews
Deneen
Woodside
Tuxhorn
Poet Upson Drowns Self in River at Benridge
Minneapolis author Arthur W. Upson 31 unmarried and a former University of Minnesota instructor died by suicide. His body was recovered from the river at Benridge. Upson published several poems including The Sign of the Harp and Octaves in an Oxford Garden and was a Phi Beta Kappa member.
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Minneapolis
Benridge
Minnesota
Minn
Arthur W. Upson
Universit of
Upson
State University
Oxford
Phi Beta Kappa
Beta Sheta Pi
Weather Outlook Shows Cooler Temperatures Across Illinois
Tonight generally fair and cooler with partly cloudy skies in Illinois. Local showers possible this afternoon or tonight. Thursday expected to be generally fair and cooler with sunrise at 5 61 and sunset at 6 485 while the moon rises at 11 24 p m.
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