North Dakota News Of The Week In Epitome
A roundup of notable deaths and events: Mrs. Henry Torphy dies at 100 in Rockford. Tony Pastor dies in Elmhurst Long Island. Samuel Staples dead in Wenatchie at 84. J B Foraker to speak in Columbus on emancipation day. Auguste Leguis proclaimed president of Peru. restaurant owner J Simeau dies in Monterey. William Bronson Sr dies in La Crosse. Richard Croker made honorary burgess of Dublin. Rev Thomas N Arnold dies en route to Ky funeral. James MacKin, Civil War veteran, dies at Sault Ste. Marie. Turkish newspaper expansion, China adopts Javanese monetary system. duel in Lisbon peers. cholera tolls rise in Russia. automobile hits couple in Dourdan. Coroner cites death by frowning in Iowa City. Winifred Parsons found dead in Paris. fire devastates Istanbul's Stambout district. Japanese soldiers injure former Chinese official per Pekin dispatch.
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Henry Torphy
Rockford
Tony Pastor
Elmhurst
Long Island
Samuel Staples
Colfax
Wis
Wenatchie
Wash
J. B. Foraker
Columbus
Ohio
Auguste B. Leguis
Republic of
Peru
Congress
J. Simeau
Monterey
Cal
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Bronson
Bronson
la Crosse
Northwest
Richard Croker
Dublin
Thomas N. Arnold
Christian Church
South
Frankfort
Versailles
Gen
Grant
Nicol
White
Pee Lock
Sault Ste. Marie
Jamee MacKin
Homer Hodge
House of Peers
Count de Lagoaca
Senor Monteiro
Russia
Thomas Lambert
New York
Henry Sands
Parle
Dourdan
France
Accidents Claim Several Lives in Far Flung Incidents
Drowning at Silver Creek near New Athens leaves H Susmicht Frank Eischau and George Eischau dead. Two Good children die in upper gory fire near Ethelbert Manitoba. Belleville factory fire destroys Jordan Shoe and Crown Milling elevator with $150000 loss. Four killed near Eugene Oregon after Southern Pacific Cottage Grove local train strikes a bull. Alex Milton paymaster for Canadian Pacifics double tracking killed with two assistants sixty two miles east of Kenora. John Stansberry dies after bee sting near Dublin Ohio.
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H. Susmicht
Frank
George Eischau
Silver Creek
New Athens
Peter Good
Ethelbert
Man
Upper
Gory
Belleville
Jordan Shoe Company
Crown Milling Company
Ew Rene
Ore
Cottage Grove
Southern Pacific
Alex Milton
Canadian Pacific Railway
Kenora
Loss Underestimates After South Carolina Floods
Augusta Georgia reports rapid receding floodwater and rising loss estimates. Mills and warehouses sustained severe damage, schools damaged, and a growing death toll near sixty. Thousands homeless as Cape Fear river floods Fayetteville area. crops damaged and communications severed. South Carolina crest may run into millions in farm losses across the Delta region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
N. C
Cape Fear
Columbia
South Carolina
Von Sternburg Laid to Rest at Luetzchena Castle
Baron Speck von Sternburg, former German ambassador to the United States, was buried in the family mausoleum at Castle Luetzchena after a solemn simple funeral ceremony in Luetzchena.
Summers Kills Woman Then Shoots Self in Belleville
In Belleville on August 30, A G Summers a 26-year-old brewery wagon driver shot and killed Mrs Eva Nein Binger 34 after she refused his attention and then killed himself with a self inflicted wound to the head. The tragedy ended when Summers died from the gunshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
A. G. Summers
Eva Nein- Binger
Bull Probing Race Riots In Springfield
In Springfield on August 30 a special grand jury examining recent race hate indictments has issued seventy eight true bills and remains in session with no adjournment likely before late next week.
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Bull
Springfield
Public Safety Incident in Ellendale Involves Black Man
In Ellendale North Dakota on August 30 Cicero Gainer a Black man was jailed on a charge connected to a public safety incident during a game in Oakes When a White itinerant man accused the Black man of witching dice the game escalated into a public disturbance and arrest followed
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Ellendale
N. D
Cicero Gainer
Oakes
Five Caramen May Be Drowned In Bay Rowing Accident
Five young men from a San Francisco rowing club disappeared after setting out Thursday afternoon from their clubhouse in a racing shell on the bay. Authorities fear they have all been drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Port Huron Captain Kills Wife Then Ends Own Life
Port Huron Michigan August 20 Elmer B Campbell a lake captain shot and killed his wife on a street near their home and then took his own life in a separate act according to early reports by police and witnesses.
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Hinealf
Port Huron
Mich
Elmer
Campbell
Lake
Abot
Keified
Bayside tragedy details emerge at preliminary hearing
New light from testimony at a Bayside preliminary hearing shows Thornton Hains told his brother not to kill Annie soon after a shooting. Both Hains brothers were remanded to Queens County jail without bail to await grand jury action. Captain Peter C. Hains advised yielding the weapon as the Bayside Yacht Club member described.
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New York
Bayside
Thornton Hering
Annie
Queens County
Long Island City
Charles Roberts
Bayside Yacht Club
Thornton Hains
Hains
Witnees
Peter C. Hains
Fine Cows Are Maimed in Malicious Mischief Case
Three valuable cows owned by John Rodemaker near Bassett in Nora Springs Iowa have been slashed with a large knife. Dr Van Amburgh of the county is investigating. Two cows possibly will die. One animal has a long slash along its side while another has a four inch deep neck cut and a wound behind a foreleg. Authorities are pursuing leads.
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Iowa
Nora Springs
van Amburgh
John Rodemaker
Bassett
Fire destroys farmer's grain crop in Minnesota
At Perham Minnesota on August 20 Thomas Mertz, a farmer west of town, lost his entire grain crop when a stack and wagon burned after he left to lunch. He was badly burned trying to save his horses. About 600 bushels were lost with no insurance. the fire is believed to have started from a spark from his pipe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perham
Minn
Thomas Mertz
Here
Thresherman Loses Limb In Erin Prairie Accident
New Richmond Wisconsin August 30 Conrad Deneen at William Meath farm Erin Prairie stepped on a threshing machine cylinder. Flesh stripped from left leg knee down bones broken. Dr F S Wade amputated above the knee. Doctors think he will live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thresherman
New Richmond
Wis
William Meath
Erin Prairie
Conrad Deneen
F. S. Wade
500 Offers of Marriage Hit Duluth Woman
Duluth Aug 30 Nearly 500 marriage proposals have reached Mrs Anna Rowe who hopes to file on a Fond du Lac reservation homestead opened Sept 15 An error in St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth papers had claimed she was unmarried triggering the flood of responses from across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Anna Rowe
Fond du Lac
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Fight Over Stolen Property in Sioux City
Two burglars stole valuables valued at nearly 600 from C. Frank Vonderam’s home in Sioux City Iowa. In the back yard they fought over the plunder in an early hour struggle.
Tragic Accident Claims FiveYearOld Lloyd Hogan
In Minneapolis on Aug 20 Lloyd Hogan aged five died after a gun accidentally discharged while he talked with a friend near a wire fence. The firearm’s trigger became snagged, causing a fatal shot.
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Killa Self
Minneapolis
Lloyd Hogan
Two Hurt In Collision In Mizinatopi Yard
Two railway clerk B Acker and F C Gill were painfully injured in a collision between a Spa and Chicago Great Western passenger train in the Mizinatopi street yards yesterday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
B. A. Acker
F.C. Gill
Crall
Spa
Chicago Great Western
Mizcinatopi Street
Forgery Charged in Athens Bank Case
Athens Michigan August 30 1924 Jerry Lewie twenty four year old cashier at Athens Savings bank which was closed by the state banking commissioner was arrested yesterday on a charge of forgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens, Mich
Jerry Lewie
Athens Savings Bank
Moorhead Normal Closes After Banner Summer Term
Moorhead Minnesota August 30 The Moorhead Normal School closed its summer session today after the most successful term in the history of the region. The small city school reported high enrollment and strong attendance signaling a productive season for local teacher training.
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Moorhead
Minn
Normal
Town erased by cloudburst near Trinidad Colorado
A cloudburst swept Solsom New Mexico milling camp near Mount Capulin killing at least 23 and leaving scores missing. The town was washed from the map as hundreds of homes vanished and relief rushes in from New Mexico and southern Colorado. Railroad tracks washed out for miles and a Santa Fe line carried a stranded 125 passengers.
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Trinidad
Colo
Solsom
N. M
Mount Capulin
Colorado New Mexico
George Wenger
New Mexico
Colorado
Santa Fe Railroad
Southern Pacific
Raton
Cholera Outbreak Hits Hogs In Redwood County
Hogs die by the hundred in a cholera epidemic spreading through Redwood County in the southern part of the state. Dr. M S Whitcomb, secretary of the livestock sanitary board, warns losses will be large unless measures prove successful as about 200 hogs have died in a few days.
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Redwood County
St. Paul
M. S. Whitcomb
The
Livestock Sanitary Board
Eta
Whitcomb
Banker George Weare’s Critical Condition After Operation
George Weare president of the Iowa State National Bank in Sioux City is in critical condition after a stomach operation. He has lived in Sioux City since 1855 and surgeons have given up hope. Weare came from Cedar Rapids and was a well known banker in Iowa.
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George Weare
Sioux City
Iowa
Iowa State National Bank
Mr. Weate
Cedar Rapids
Lightning Flashes, Wounds Farmer Manager in Wisconsin
During a storm in Almens Wisconsin on August 80 Mat Dold head of the Farmers store was entering the building when a lightning flash struck a telephone pole in front. It jumped to his face discoloring both eyes and skin but caused no other injuries.
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Almens
Wis
Mat Dold
Dold
Lineman Falls to Death in Wisconsin Power Station
Rhinelander Wisconsin August 30 High tension current from the power station caused Arthur Lord aged twenty one a Lineman to fall thirty feet yesterday his skull being crushed on the cement walk Local authorities reported the man was employed by the telephone company and the accident is under investigation.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Arthur Lord
Jinéman
Conductor Hurt as Box Car Door Breaks Through Window
Glenwood Mina Aug 3 A box car door fell through a window striking conductor 3 Ht ane during a passing train incident. He was injured and received medical attention at the scene.
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Glenwhold
Glenwood
Mina
Condittor
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Admitted to Private Sanatorium
Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw weakened by illness was moved to a West Sixty fourth Street sanatorium under the name Mrs Fitzgerald. Friends note nerves frayed and a breakdown looming as doctors had urged withdrawal from her whirlwind social life last week she was ordered there for treatment.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Fitzgerald
Istic
Two Killed in Collision Near Hardin Oklahoma
Fort Smith Ark Aug 30 South bound St Louis & San Francisco passenger train No 1 collided head on with a work train east of Hardin Okla Both engines derailed but cars suffered no damage Engineer A J Ballard and conductor Thomas Graham died The Antlers Okla agent failed to hold the passenger train as ordered.
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Oklahoma
Fort Smith
Ark
St. Louis
San Francisco
Hardin, Okla
A. J. Ballard
Thomas Graham
Antlers
Okla
Switch Operator Prevents Runaway Wreck Near Stapleton
Prompt action by a railway switch operator in the Stapleton signal tower derailed a runaway locomotive that had broken from Clifton roundhouse and pursued a local train. The near-miss would have caused a rear-end collision endangering 300 to 400 excursionists from South Beach.
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New York
Stapleton
S. I
Clifton
South Beach
Boy Torturer Fined $100 for Brutal Whipping Case
In Chicago on August 30 Joseph Caselboin an eighteen year old youth involved with another minor confessed to tying twelve year old Richard Eager and seven year old Richard Keenley to trees and whipping them with branches until blood appeared. Municipal Judge Houston imposed a 100 fine.
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Chicago
Joseph Caselboin
Richard Eager
Richard Keenley
Houston
Markets Update From Grain and Livestock Centers
Aug 30 reports from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Chicago Milwaukee Sioux City and Booth Bay list wheat oats corn and flax prices plus cattle hogs and sheep quotes. Notable values include No 1 hard wheat around 1.035 1.12 per bushel and hogs near 6.25 6.45.
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St. Paul
Northern
Minnapolis
Duluth
Chicago
Milwaukee
Northers
The
Reeves
Lambe
Sioux City
Iowa
Hogar
Booth Et Paul
Lyncher Mob Lifts Two Prisoners In Mississippi
Aug. 20 Escapes from Lyncher Ittabena. John Smith and John Williams, both Black men, were seized from the jail by a mob aiming swift punishment. Williams escaped. Smith is believed hanged and body dumped in a lake. Aug. 30 in Minnesota Carl Datsrom nearly loses head to a Newfoundland dog that mauled him behind Andrews Heating shops.
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Ittabena
Miss
John Smith
John Williams
Willams
Smith
Minnespalla
Carl Datstrom
Andrews Heating Company
Chéere
Rights
Big Garage Burned at Ball and Bradlora
Devils Lake North Dakota August 30 The automobile garage of Ball and Bradiora was burned yesterday. The loss is expected to be heavy and the fire department battled the blaze for hours. No injuries were reported and the cause is under investigation.
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Burnea
Devils Lake
N. D
Ball” & Bradlora
Dean's Kidney Pills Restore Mrs Rouse's Health
A Cambridge woman Mary E H Rouse recounts a five year struggle with a bad kidney fall causing constant back and hip pain weak appetite and disordered secretions. After using Dean's Kidney Pills she reports quick relief and full recovery. Bold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mary E. H. Rouse
Cambridge
Sayn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Swallows Lose Nesting Sites As Houses Replace Chimneys
The piece argues nesting sites determine swallow populations, noting the shift from chimney nests to narrow flues and the decline of suitable lodgings. It laments how modern buildings exclude swallows while sparrows occupy remaining prime sites, leaving the swallow unable to mount a robust defense.
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Swallow
His Great Act and the Moses Moment
A Sunday school tale presents Johnny answering a teacher’s query on Moses. He claims the most remarkable deed was breaking all the commandments at the same time, a humorous misstatement reflecting a child’s literal interpretation of sacred stories.
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Johnnny
Moses
Cure for Eczema With Cuticura Remedies
A Montreal mother recounts curing three daughters of severe eczema with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment after trying many treatments. She notes another baby with a skin fold issue that bled improved after using the products. May 21, 1907.
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Napoleon Duceppe
Daluth St
Montreal
Que
Coca the South American invig orant and its uses
A South American invigorant, coca, is described as a shrub grown in Peru and Bolivia. Leaves are yellowish and thick, chewed for wakefulness and fatigue resistance, aiding miners, soldiers, and travelers on long journeys. The plant can live eighty years and is cultivated from seeds sown in beds, reaching a height of about four meters in favorable conditions.
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Peru
Bolivia
Postum Coffee Substitute Praised in Personal Testimony
Reader endorses Postum as a coffee replacement, claiming it cured liver troubles and headaches. The letter, attributed to Ind. Jandy, cites better taste and stable effects, noting no caffeine or harmful substances. It mentions the Postum Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, and asks if others have seen similar benefits.
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Ind. Jandy
Postum Co
Rattle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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T. Jenkins
Folsom
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