Muscatine Chautauqua Opens with Tillman Speech
The Muscatine Chautauqua opens at Electric park with Senator Benjamin R. Tillman as the first speaker. Attendees arrive by train and tents rise overnight as crowds gather for the program. Tillman criticizes Dolliver humorously and expresses admiration for Senator Allison, while the event features vaudeville in Washington and Indian demonstrations start to form the park ambiance.
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Muscatine Chautauqua
Muscatine
Pauchet
Benjamin R. Tillman
Henry Clark
United States
Wilton
G. M. Titus
F. D. Throop
Dusky Star Wounds Show Manager in Jealous Rage
In Webster City Iowa on July 18 special report says Mrs Dick Williams shot her husband the manager of the Coon town show at the carnival after jealous rage over another performer. The bullet struck his abdomen and he is fatally wounded.
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Webster City
Elks Parade Tops Reunion as 10000 March Broad Street
Philadelphia witnesses the Elks parade with over ten thousand members marching six miles despite heat. The same day the convention abolished wearing Elks teeth and banned black Elks lodges. Official election returns name Tener Leach Leickie Gray Shea and other grand lodge officers.
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Philadelphia
The
Elks
Order
Broad Street
Elks’ Convention
Lodges of
Black Elks
Grand Lodge of Elks
John K. Tener
Charleroi
Edward Leach
Battle of Words Over Haywood Fate in Boise Trial
Defense closes evidence in the Boise trial as arguments on Haywood's fate intensify. Prosecution and defense clash over key testimony and contested facts in the case that grips the region.
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Haywood
Deliberations Begin as Haywood Case Closes Evidence
The Haywood trial near Boise enters jury instruction phase after the defense rested. Clarence Darrow urged that deportations and Pinkerton investigations be allowed to go to the jury while the state prepares further rebuttal testimony from miners O M Sacket and William Stuart. The judge will hear both sides on materiality of the contested evidence before the jury retires.
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Idaho
Haywood
Wood
Hawley
Clarence Darrow
Cripple Creek
Pinkerton
Darrow
Colorado
Florence and Cripple Creek
Independence
Orchard
Western Federation of Miners
O. M. Sacket
William Stuart
Hau Admits He Sent For Woman In murder case
Karlsruhe July 18 The trial of Karl Hau formerly a professor of Roman law at George Washington University resumed He admitted writing the dispatch from Paris calling Frau Molitor to that city but declined to say if his wife knew the message had been sent He had previously refused to speak on the incidents.
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Karlsruhe
Karl Hau
Reiman Law
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
Frau Molitor
Baden Paden
Hau
Paris
Fran Molitor
Auto Wreck in New York Kills One Man at Coney Island Run
Two cars full of merrymakers returning from Coney Island collided head on at express speed early today. Thomas F. Donovan of New York died after being impaled on his own spokes. Injured are Chapman Ropes of Morristown New Jersey and an unidentified man. Donovan’s car had no lights.
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New York
N. Y
Coney Island
Thomas F. Donovan
Chapman Ropes
Morristown
N. J
Donovan
Chain gang for railroad men sentenced in Asheville court
James B. Wood and O. C. Wilson, both railroad employees, were found guilty in police court of selling passenger tickets in disregard of the new rate law. Each received three days on the chain gang. Wood also serves on the city board of aldermen.
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Asheville
N. C
James B. Wood
Oo. Cc. Wilson
Southern Railway
Chaoin
Wood
Stenographer Falls to Death from 15th Floor Window
In Chicago Miss Anna Normoyle, a stenographer, leaped from an open window on the fifteenth floor of the Masonic Temple and died on the rotunda pavement 110 feet below. No motive or cause is known.
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Chicago
Masonic Temple
Anna Normoyle
Fortune Waits Missing Girl
Mrs Susie Brandt of Columbus Junction has been missing for over a year after her husband’s death. An estate worth thousands will be hers as an equal heir, and authorities seek to locate her believed to be working in a Muscatine factory or nearby city. Citizens are asked to assist in the search.
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Iowa
Susie Brandt
Columbus Junction
Muscatine
Brandt
Floods Cause Huge Damage Across Western Pennsylvania
A week of heavy rains sweeps Western Pennsylvania Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. Bridges and buildings wash away and rail lines go out of service. In McOmbs West Virginia three children drown when their home is wrecked by flooding. Newburg and Cheat river valley report over half a million dollars in damage with houses washed away and rail lines down. Coleman Morris is killed by a lightning strike in Preston county.
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West Virginia
McOmbs
W. Va
Mary Ballard
Preston County
Clarksburg
Newburg
Cheat River Valley
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Coleman Morris
Two Japanese Fishing Schooners Seized Near St Paul Island
The Manning seized two Japanese sealing schooners within a mile of Seal Island of St Paul on July fifth. Both vessels were fully equipped for sealing with fresh sealskins found. The Japanese embassy has been notified. the case is treated as poaching and not likely to spark a diplomatic incident.
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State Department
Revenue
Seal Island
St. Paul
Itima
Sailboat capsizing sinks fourteen near Marstrand Sweden
Copenhagen reports fourteen people drowned after a sailboat capsized off Marstrand in Sweden. Authorities fear more may be missing as rescue efforts continue.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Marstrand
Sweden
Death toll rises as two noted Iowa women pass away
Iowa City reports the deaths of Mrs. Marcus Ranney widow of Mt. Pleasant asylum’s pioneer superintendent who died this morning and Mrs. David Griffith mother of Iowa football stars who died last night in the same city.
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Iowa City
Marcus Ranney
Mt. Pleasant Asylum
David Griffith
Iowa
Diver Leaps 30 Feet Dies After Daring Swim
Bohumil Kosderka custodian of the Iowa City bathhouse died after leaping from the Iowa river bridge arch above the dam. He had made four safe jumps that week from the bridge but failed from the higher arch. Immersed in the boil below the dam he struggled for about 150 feet and drowned in 12 feet of water. He was 37. A daughter, 10, survives.
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Iowa City
Bohumil Kosderka
University of Iowa
Iowa River Bridge
Emperor Refuses to Abdicate Amid Korean Crisis
Placards in Seoul call for death of Japanese officials as guards protect ministers. The emperor, upset by abdication advice, refuses to resign claiming hereditary right. Latest reports say the Korean ministry has resigned.
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Seoul
Funeral for Lieutenant Casper Goodrich Held in Atlantic Highlands
Lieutenant Casper Goodrich was killed in the powder explosion aboard the battleship Georgia. His funeral was held today in Atlantic Highlands New Jersey.
Heat Prostrations Plague Elks Parade Crowd in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on July 18 a heat wave triggers mass exhaustion among Elks parade spectators. About 1,000 people are reported prostrated by midafternoon as hospitals divert resources to treat the influx. The parade continues despite the illness surge and a thunderstorm looms.
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Elks
Shuts Window, Woman Collapses Dead in Silver City
In Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 18, Mrs. William Hall of Silver City died after stepping from bed to close a rain window. Authorities say she likely suffered a fatal shock from fright.
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Council Bluffs
William Hall
Silver City
Lumber Industry Faces Timber Shortage Across Nation
The 1906 timber output reached a record 37.5 billion feet from 21,000 mills, with lumber lath and shingles rising sharply. The Forest Service warns the U S could run out of merchantable timber, especially in the east, unless supply and usage balance improves.
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Washington Bureau Journal
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
United States
American Delegation Proposes Release for Captured Neutrals
The American delegation at the Hague Peace Conference presents a principle: if a captured neutral vessel cannot be tried, it must be released. The statement was delivered on July 18 in The Hague.
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The
Hague
Weather Report for Illinois and Iowa
Illinois: fair in the south and showers in the north tonight with Friday fair conditions. Iowa: fair tonight except showers in the extreme east, Friday fair. Sun rise 4 25 a m and set 7 21 p m. moon sets at midnight.
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