Wisconsin cities inundated as floods sweep Wisconsin
Shawano faces eight to ten inches of rain and rising Wolf River water threatening Wolf River Paper Fiber mills. Wausau dam breaks surge flood losses with multiple bridges washed out and power plants knocked out. Manitowoc endures record rainfall flooding yards and farms. several ducks perish. Green Bay suffers further storm damage with rail washouts and detours.
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Wolf River
Shawano
Wis
Wolf River Paper Fiber Company
Way
Main Street
Chicago & Northwestern
Shawaho
Vecil
Wausau
Wisconsin River
Pays
Wausan
Rathschild
Here
Prairie River
Algo
Eau Claire
Kelly
Merrill
Lightning Strikes Farm Barns and Homes Near Fond du Lac
Lightning damaged a large barn on the Otto Pfeiffer farm on the Hidge road, killing two horses and burning thirty tons of hay, with $2,000 loss. A home east of the Ridge road was saved with effort, while another Albrecht farm barn nearby was struck but not burned. Lightning also affected Neenah area homes and caused city flooding as a cloudburst hit the lake region.
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Spitheran
Fond du Lac
Wis
Otto Pfeiffer
Hidge Road
Henry Burns
Rtidge Road
Albrecht
Pfeiffer
Arthur Pitt
George Martin
Neenah
Judy
Lake
Wumnebuge
Twin Cities
Iles Isateovk
Ned Allis Leads Wisconsin State Golf Qualifiers
Ned Allis of Blue Mound Country Club Milwaukee posted the morning round low with a score of 0 over par as more than a hundred golfers from Wisconsin clubs began the qualifying for the state golf championship at the Mound Country Club. The field included J. P. Baker G. J. Carroll and many others with scores ranging across the morning. The first groups started at 7:30 with subsequent pairs every five minutes.
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Milwaukee
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Out House du
Wootun
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Gress
Graham
Tuxen
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Davis
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Zinn
Niemeyer
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van Anken
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Mann
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Nieman
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Ellsworth
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Kehler
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Veech
G. Yule
M.A. Carroll
Aon
W. B. Bullock
Haaper
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Pawan
Tue Mound Country Club
Democrats Assemble for Iowa State Convention
Cedar Rapids July 24 Democrats gather in large numbers for the state convention to nominate supreme court judges adopt a platform and plan the state campaign. Temporary chairman McGinnis will deliver the keynote and back national Democrats and Progressives.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Supreme Court
Harmony
OR. McGinnis
Leon
Huber
Tama County
Supreme Judgeship
Connor
Fort Doge
Reed
Des Moines
Theophilus
Davenport
Sager
Waverly
Train Wreck Near Lebanon Injures Passengers
A derailment of a east bound Kansas City to St Louis passenger train on the Frisco near Lebanon Missouri injures many passengers with no fatalities reported. A relief train was dispatched. An official report notes part of the consist derailed and confirms injuries to a baggage man and several passengers with cause undetermined.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Kansas City
Leper Not Bay City Man
Bey City health authorities wired the Surgeon General that the leper detained at Hoffalo is not and never was a Bay City resident and will not be allowed to enter Michigan. San Francisco authorities say the leper claimed to be from Texas and recommend his return to that state.
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Associated Press
Washington, T. C
Bey City
Mich
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Public Health Service
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Hoffalo
Bay City
Michigan
San Francisco
Cor- 2
Rice
Oper
Denver
Co. W. Won
San Franciacy
Texas
Roosevelt to address Chicago delegates at Progressive convention
Chicago July 24. Col Theodore Roosevelt will keynote the National Progressive party opening session at the Coliseum on August 5 between Taft and Wilson speeches. Des Moines delegates work on platform while Roosevelt trains progressives in Oyster Bay and Des Moines plan state conventions.
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Chicago
National Progressive Party
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Taft
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National Party
England
New Jersey
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Roomvelt
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New York
Tiwa Progressives
Des Moines
Jen
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Lawn
Frank Heandall
Cedar Raple
Chatiolan
Progressive Party
Frank Standall
Roosevelt Progressive Party
Wandall
Republican Party
Jossey
Woodrow Wileson
Democratic Party
Woodrow Wilson
Tr O
Wilson
National Committee
Bridgie Webber in Court Over Rosenthal Case
Justice Giegerich dismissed the habeas corpus petition by Bridgie Webber, a Rosenthal murder suspect, as the Sam Paul writ was adjourned. Investigators question the gray auto as a possible blind while killers hid in a hotel crowd. police circulated photos nationwide. Aaron Levy reports his home was broken into with no sign of theft.
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Associated Press
New York
Giegerich
Supreme Court
Rosenthal
Ouf
Cig
Aaron J. Levy
Shapiro
Libby
Mr. Levy
Hone
Forty Miners Die Trapped by Evand Station Flood
In Fayette County near Evans Station Pennsylvania a flood at the Superba coal mine trapped about forty miners this afternoon. Rescue efforts failed and reports indicate many may have drowned as water bursts through tunnels and the Cool Spring reservoir threatens downstream towns.
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Associated Press
Uniontown
Superba
Evand Station
Laltimore & Onto
Pennayl Valida
Lgvang
Minera
LSS
Buamesa
Dunbar
Evans Station
Pennsylvania Railway
Baaly
Mountaly
Lemontz
Youngtown
Mt. Braddock
Miciuicgan
Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan
Big Rapids
Pere Marquette Railway
Fire department move favors two platoon system
Plana for a two platoon system for fire departments were presented today by Fire Chief Clancy of Milwaukee and George R. Harmen president of the Firemen's association of Chicago before the convention of the Paid Firemen's association.
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Northwestern
Wawag
Wie
Clancy
Milwaukee
George R. Harmen
Firemen Sociation of
Chicago
Addret
Wealthy aviator injured in Hempstead fall
Gallardet, a wealthy amateur aviator, fell from about 100 feet at Hempstead Plains and was seriously injured. He was lying on the aviation field when the accident occurred.
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Associated Prevs
Hempstead
Boleon BF
Gallardet
Hempstead Plains
Burns Addresses Bankers at Wiscon Bankers’ Meeting
Detective William J. Burns told the Wisconsin Bankers Association convention in Milwaukee that private detectives are the greatest class of blackmailers and urged reform. He praised college men as detectives, argued detectives rely on common sense, and called for greater respect for individual policemen.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Clauss
William J. Burng
Wisconait, Bankers’ Association
Fire at Marcus Hook destroys Union Petroleum plant facilities
A fire at the Union Petroleum plant in Marcus Hook Pennsylvania destroyed warehouses, a barrel and tin factory, several tanks, part of the wharf, and damaged the Trinidadian steamship. Captain Swank and twenty crewmen slept aboard and escaped to a quarantine tug. townspeople supplied clothing and care.
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Maroun Hook
Pire
Union Petroleum Company Herdnfarly
Swank
Donte
Destruction on Porch Leaves Man Dead in Missouri
Kansas City July reports a shooting at Mrs Marihe Gury and Jank Faulkner on a front porch. Simon Gury, a Wise band member, orders wife and son inside as five shots ring out. Faulkner is wounded, Gary killed, and a letter implicates Faulkner in the home destruction. Faulkner expected to recover.
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Kansas City
Marihe Gury
Jank Faulkner
Simon Gury
Gary
Kraulkner
Justice Department seeks to preserve competition in newsprint market
In Washington July 24 representatives from the Americus Press Association and Western Newspaper Union met with James A. Fowler, assistant to the attorney general, as the DOJ nears Sherman Act action. The goal is to keep rivalry between plate and ready print paper suppliers from being crushed while planning a possible settlement.
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Steso
Washington
Strike on Duluth Docks Shuts Bay Area
About 300 Northern Pacific stevedores in Duluth Minn strike after pay dispute. Workers, paid 30 cents, demand 35 cents an hour. A compromise was reached with AL Goodell of St Paul approving a wage increase. Several steamers including Troy and North Ocean tied up awaiting settlement.
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Minn
Northern Pacific
C AL Goodell
St. Paul
Mini Eger
Northern Pacife
Viconte
Troy
Whesableton
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Octorara
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Allegheny
North Seat
Northern Wave
Chicago Fireman Killed In Auto Street Car Crash
Frank C. Hearing of the first department died instantly and several firemen were likely fatally injured after an automobile hose wagon collided with a street car near the city northern limits. The street car motorman was seriously injured as the wagon made its first trip on a fire alarm.
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Chiciago
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Lindloff Witnesses Inquest Into Milwaukee Poisoning Case
Milwaukee July 24 Twenty one with crabs scheduled to appear this afternoon for the coroner's inquest into the poisoning charge against Mrs Laulee Lindloff and Otto Lindloff. Witnesses summoned include professional men relatives and former acquaintances of Mrs Lindloff with one living in Milwaukee.
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Northwestern
Milwaukee
Wie
Julian Graunke
Gas Explosion Kills Three In Pennsylvania Mine
Three men die and four more may be fatally injured after a gas explosion at the Hillam slope of the Pelaware and Hudson mine in Ply mouth, Wilkesharre, Pennsylvania, this afternoon.
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Associated Press
Wilkesharre
Hillam
Pelaware and Hudson
Plymouth
Pirahany Takes Oath as Assistant Secretary in Washington
In Washington on July 24, Thomas W. Pirahany of Wisconsin, formerly secretary of the tabi board, took the oath of office as assistant secretary to the President. The ceremony formalized his new role in the administration.
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Associated Prose
Washington, D. C
Thomas W. Pirahany
Wisconsin
Tabi Board
Sloday
Ito
Tal
Akin Defies House Committee in Wilson Jasper Battle
Washington July 4 Representative Akin rejected a committee offer to hear his charges against Secretary Wilson over his son Jasper’s $10,000 year job with the Denver Reservoir irrigation company. The hearing room heard affidavits supporting Akin’s claim, Wilson denied involvement, and Akin vowed to pursue the matter on the House floor if needed.
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House
Akin
New Yorke
Omee
Hich
Wilson
Jisper
Denver
Ruby
Miesourk
Arthur Day
Jasper Wilson
Senate Finance
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Pureau
Tariff Board
Public Lands Service
Congress
House Committee On Agriculture
Wilton
Hoftin
Alabama
Hanford
Hanford Elu
Cub
Seattle
Taft
Oliler
Senate
Mexico
Fall
Americana
Roosevelt Ally Resigns Customs Appraiser Post
Wiltant P. Lueck resigned today as appraiser of customs at New Orleans. He was a supporter of Colonel Roosevelt. Joseph O. Thompson, Alabama Mississippi internal revenue chief, has been asked to resign and leads Roosevelt forces in Alabama.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wiltant P. Lueck
New Orleans
Luck
Roosevelt
Joseph O. Thompson
Alabama
Mississippi
Mr. Thompson
Municipal League Convention Debates Commission Form
Wausau Wisconsin July 24 Discussions on the commission form of government by prominent speakers occupied the attention of the municipal leagues convention today. The report notes topics and notable figures as delegates discussed governance structure and reforms.
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Wausau
Wis
Convention of Municipal Leagues
Eleventh Iowa District GOP Names Candidate On July 24
The Eleventh District Republicans meet in Iowa to name a congressional candidate. The race is between Leslie B. Francis of Sprutt and George C. Scote of Big Kity.
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Associated Press
Tremars
Congress
Leslie BK. Francis
Sprutt Hae
George C. Scote
Big Kity
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