Decatur Fire Destroys Moorhouse & Wells Store and Waterfront
A Sunday morning blaze began at Moorhouse and Wells hardware on East Main street Decatur Ill and raged until 4 pm. The $1,000,000 loss consumed eleven buildings and their contents with about 80 percent insured. Water supply collapsed leaving residents cut off and reservoir down to seven feet. A hotel engine room fire near the district ignited panic but hotel staff contained it. Springfield sent four engines to aid Decatur as walls fell and hose lines were buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moorhouse & Wells
East Main Street
Decatur
Ill
Decatur Hotel
Springfield
Cullen
Two Lives Lost at Opening of Indianapolis Speedway
The opening day of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway cost two lives as William A. Bourque driver of the Knox car and his mechanic Harry Holcomb were killed in a crash into the fence during the 250 mile race. Robert Burman won the event with a time of 4 38 57 amid several accidents. The American Automobile Association issued an ultimatum demanding track repairs and better oiling to continue sanction for remaining events.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
William A. Bouque
Knox
Harry Holcomb
Barney Oldfield
Demal
Louis Chevrolet
Oldfield
Robert Burman
Bourque
Holcomb
Stoddard- Dayton
Clements
National
Morse
American Automobile Association
Holecomb
Prize chickens hatch from eggs shipped to Chicago
A Chicago poultry scene notes fourteen live chicks found in a misrouted Missouri egg shipment marked strictly fresh. Incubator experts estimate a 101 degree heat was needed to hatch automatically. The chicks were placed with a firm’s teamster and then cared for by a Plymouth Rock hen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Missouri
Commission
Plymouth Rock
Fireworks display ends in drownings on Mississippi barge
A Burlington Iowa carnival fireworks show on a river barge ignited a gunpowder store causing flames and a mass plunge into the Mississippi. Five people jumped from the burning craft as spectators watched. two women, Mrs. Marshall Jordan and Mrs. I. D. Conover of Mt Pleasant, disappearances followed while others were rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Marshall Jordan
I. D. Conover
Mt. Pleasant
Conover
Spokane Falls and Northern Train Plunges Through Trestle
A southbound Spokane Falls and Northern passenger train plunged through a burning trestle two miles south of Dart's siding near Spokane Washington. Engineer Gillette and a mail clerk were seriously injured while the rest of the train stayed on the track. The bridge fire went unseen due to smoke from brush fires and the baggage and mail cars dropped into the ravine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillette
Spokane Falls and Northern
Dart
Spokane
Wash
Eck
Tesla Sees Path to Rainmaking Through Cooperation
Nikola Tesla writes to Geo G Matthews of Wichita Kansas predicting a final solution to artificial rain. He says he has developed electrical apparatus to control atmospheric moisture and that such a breakthrough requires many people working together. Tesla asks Matthews to report back on progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikola Tesla
Geo. G. Matthews
Wichita
Kan
Mr. Tesla
Mr. Matthews
Night of wild riot at Schoenstadt Pressed Steel Plant
A violent clash at the Pressed Steel Car plant in Schoenville Pennsylvania leaves one state trooper and one deputy sheriff killed along with three foreigners. Dozens wounded, ten fatally, as mounted troopers and deputies raid homes and arrest scores from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. in mill yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoenville
Sioux City Livestock Market Prices Report
Saturday quotations show beeves at 5.50 to 7.15 per hundredweight and top hogs at 7.60. The brief market update lists cattle and hog prices observed at the Sioux City exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Forest Fires Raging Near Spokane Destroy Vast Timber
Fires sweep forests northeast and southeast of Spokane Washington on Sunday consuming vast timber and forcing settlers to safety along the river. Losses exceed 1 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Trial Run Planned for Battleship South Carolina
The battleship South Carolina will make a trial trip from the Philadelphia navy yard to the Delaware capes on a Sunday, testing its performance and seaworthiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Philadelphia Navy Yard Sun
Delaware Capes
Hog Cholera Vaccine Proves Effective at Kansas City Yard
Tests at the Kansas City stock yards show hogs inoculated with serum by Dr. M Dorset immune to cholera. Dr. I R Baker, aided by Dr. J E Cooper and W B Niles, will report to the Agriculture Secretary on the complete success of the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Dorset
United States
Kansas City
I. R. Baker
Inspection Department
J. E. Cooper
W. B. Niles
Ames, Tex
Secretary of Agriculture
Government to Repaint All Mail Boxes Nationwide
Uncle Sam plans yearly repainting of mailbox in every town and city. The post office department will soon request bids for the job costing thousands of dollars. New paint improves durability but not yet to ideal permanence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Post Office Department
Fire Ravages Portsmouth and Berkeley Districts in Norfolk
A Friday blaze in Portsmouth, a suburb of Norfolk, Va., likely incendiary, destroyed over thirty houses. A second fire in the Berkeley tenement district at Liberty and Thirteenth streets burned twelve homes. Total loss exceeds 35000 dollars, mostly insured, leaving many families homeless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Berkeley
Liberty
Thirteenth Streets
Idle Steel Plant to Resume at Columbus Ohio
Carnegie Steel issues orders to start Columbus Ohio plant at once. It will take time to become fully operational and no steel will be produced before September 1. The Columbus plant has been idle for about two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Steel Company
Columbus
Will contest over Kansas City saloonkeeper's estate
Eugene Schattner sues to break the will of Charles Schattner a wealthy Kansas City saloonkeeper and politician who died leaving about 117000 to local charities and 25000 to black employees and others. He claims intoxication impaired his mind and that Mary E Yates and other black servants unduly influenced the will. The estate was about 200000 with legacies to a porter and a nurse as beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Schattner
Kansas City
Eugene Schattner
Mary E. Yates
Train Boiler Explosion Claims Two Lives Near Grand Ledge
A westbound Pere Marquette passenger train boiler exploded Wednesday night near Grand Ledge Michigan. Engineer Bradley and Fireman Graves were killed. A coach overturned and a sleeping car derailed in the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradley
Graves
Pere Marquette
Grand Ledge
Mich
Forest Fire Destroys Northern Timber Near Lake Coeur dAlene
Three hundred farmers and timber men battled a vast forest blaze occupying about three miles of fir and tamarack timber north and west of Lake Coeur dAlene on Friday. The effort aimed to stem the fire as it swept through the area damaging woodland resources.
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Lake Coeur
Auto Drops From Bridge Over Tide Flats
An automobile with five persons plunged from a bridge into Tide flats at Seattle Washington on Thursday. Four occupants are reported killed with unknown conditions for the remaining passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tide Flats
Seattle
Wash
Dawson Receives Chilean Welcome as New U.S. Minister
Thomas C. Dawson, the new American minister to Chile, was officially received by President Monte on Friday. The event featured speeches expressing cordial relations between the United States and Chile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Dawson
Chile
Monte
United States
Woman Shot On Lexington Porch by Strangers in Buggy
Mrs. George Eubanks was shot and severely wounded while seated on her porch near Lexington Kentucky. Two unidentified men in a buggy are believed to be responsible for the attack.
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George Eubanks
Lexington
Sultan Calls Off Fighting With Rif Rebels At Melilla
The sultan of Morocco sends a written order to the Rif opposition to suspend hostilities until an imperial mission arrives, aiming to halt the conflict tied to the Spanish expedition at Melilla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morocco
Melilla
Tulsa Businessman Shot Misidentified as Burglar
J. B. Shaver of Tulsa Oklahoma a local businessman and son of the Under Sheriff was shot and probably fatally wounded Thursday night by E Robert Taile a lawyer who mistook Shaver for a burglar Taile fired believing Shaver to be breaking in at his home or nearby residence
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaver
Tulsa, Okla
E. Robert Taile
Hudson Fulton Stamp Issued by Treasury Official
Acting Secretary Reynolds of the treasury signed an order for the issuance of 50,000,000 Hudson Fulton postage stamps by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds
Treasury Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Sugar Prices Advance 10 Cents on Thursday
All grades of refined sugar rose 10 cents per 100 pounds Thursday. Standard granulated sugar now listed at $5.05 per 100 pounds.
Millionaire Dies of Paralysis at Lake Harbor
Simon Gumbell a New Orleans millionaire businessman died Sunday from a paralytic stroke while spending his vacation at Lake Harbor Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Gumbell
New Orleans
Lake Harbor, Mich
Former Chicago Merchant Dies
John T. Shayne, once a wealthy State street merchant, died Friday in a Chicago sanitarium where he had resided since 1906 after being adjudged insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John T. Shayne
State Street
Police Station Tragedy In Wilkesbarre
George F. Marion, 52, of Atlanta shot and killed his common law wife in the chief of police's office Friday night in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Marion
Atlanta
Wilkesbarre
Fire Rages Through Underwood Destroys Five Buildings
A Wednesday blaze in Underwood, South Dakota left five buildings destroyed and a sixth badly damaged. Losses cited include Hinds' Land agency $500, Pigney's Drug Store $750, Warren Walker stock $1,500, Great Western Telephone office $500, Ole Madison's pool hall $1,000, Hazel ton store $1,200, Sioux Falls Brewing building $750, residents Myers $800 Kennedy $600, with various insurance gaps. Rebuilding to begin soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Underwood
Hinds’ Land Agency
A. F. Pigney
Warren Walker
Great Western Telephone Company
Fort Pierre
W. C. Myers
Ole Madison
Ira Hazelton
Sioux Falls Brewing Company
Walt Kennedy
Interurban Railway Plan Moves Forward to Bijou Hills
The South Dakota Interurban Railway company accelerates work on a Sioux City to Bijou Hills line. Roy Antibus of Roberts & Abbott engineers leads the first corps with Elk Point headquarters. A second corps will survey a 160 mile route, with permanent quarters planned midway between Sioux City and Bijou Hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Bijou Hills
South Dakota Interurban Railway Company
Corps of
Roy Antibus
Roberts & Abbott, Engineers
Cleveland
Antibus
Elk Point
Recriant Husband Found in Tabor by Fairfax Wife
Mrs Frank Knittel of Fairfax came to Tabor in Bonhomme county to locate her recreant husband missing for four years. She identifies him as Frank Brown living in Tabor with another wife, after fourteen years of marriage and about ten years of cohabitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor
Bonhomme County
Frank Knittel
Fairfax
Frank Brown
Pearls Found in Big Sioux River Near Flandreau
News of valuable pearls found in clam shells in the Big Sioux near Flandreau spurs many youths to search the riverbed. A government Indian school student at Flandreau discovered the most valuable pearl yet, estimated at 40 dollars, while Melvin Knutson found one worth 10 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Sioux
Flandreau
Government Indian School
Melvin Knutson
New hunting season delayed by new game protections
The September 1 start is postponed as quail remain protected until 1912 and grouse and prairie chickens until 1911. Shooting season opens September 10 and game wardens must decide “what is a duck” in many cases.
Elks Elect Officers at Deadwood Convention
Officers elected by the Elks at Deadwood include President R J Woods of Sioux Falls re elected Vice President M R Baskerville of Watertown Secretary Chester Snyder of Watertown and Treasurer Coler Campbell of Huron re elected Watertown will host the next convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Elks
Deadwood
R. J. Woods
Sioux Falls
M. R. Baskerville
Watertown
Chester Snyder
Coler Campbell
Huron
Postmasters Convene in Enthusiastic Huron Convention
A large gathering of South Dakota fourth class postmasters met in Huron for their annual conference. The meeting drew many postmasters and featured lively discussion and camaraderie among attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Huron
Aberdeen butcher ships Brown county oats on 14 acres
H. J. Lockington, an Aberdeen butcher and packer, reports the heaviest yield of grain in Brown county. On fourteen acres he threshed 1,598 bushels of oats, averaging 107 bushels per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Lockington
Aberdeen
Brown County
Labor Day Picnic Highlighted in Alsen Yearly Event
The big Clay County celebration is the annual Labor Day picnic at Alsen. This year on September 6 the program promises entertaining events and activities for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay County
Alsen
Clark County Horse Theft Suspect Returns for Trial
Edward Artus, son of Clear Lake residents, was arrested in North Dakota on Clark County authority orders and brought to South Dakota to face horse stealing charges. The stolen pet horse belonged to Hoeck of Clark and was sold to a Clear Lake man before Hoeck recovered it and intensified efforts to identify the thief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Artus
Clear Lake
North Dakota
Clark County
South Dakota
Hoeck
Clark
Tripp County Lands Draw for Remaining Names
Register T C Burns in Gregory announces the Tripp county land drawing will resume September 8 with 100 names called daily for twenty days except Sundays. The remaining land, priced at 4.50 per acre, has not been filed on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Burns
Register of the United States Land Office
Gregory
Tripp County
Burns
General Land Office
Water Works Improvements Petition and Bond Election
Residents of White Lake petition the city council to call a special election on bonds for a new municipal water system, estimated at 8000 to 10000 dollars. In Wagner, a special election is set for Monday August 23 to vote on 5000 dollars in bonds to extend waterworks, boost water supply for fire protection and domestic purposes, mature in ten years, interest not above five percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Lake
Wagner
Editor Carves His Fingers in Office Accident
Mark C. Matthews senior editor of Armour Herald suffered a severe cut to the index and second finger of his right hand while using a sharpened knife with a paper cutter. The incident occurred after he left the knife protruding below the pressure foot and forgot the arrangement. He will be laid up for a few days for repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark C. Matthews
Armour Herald
Mitchell Clarion
Railroad Rate Ruling Enforces ICC Schedules Strictly
Judge Jones of the state circuit court in Sioux Falls rules that railroad tariff schedules approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission must be strictly adhered to by both railroads and shippers in a suit by Great Northern Railway against Sioux Falls Produce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Sioux Falls
Great Northern Railway Company
Sioux Falls Produce Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tragedy As 10 Year Old Rides Freight Wagon
Monte Houchin, a ten year old Polish boy, rode a heavily loaded freight wagon when he fell beneath the wheels and was crushed. He died instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monte Houchin
Pollock
Drowning of 8-Year-Old Crowley at Jim River
Richard H. Crowley, eight, son of William Crowley of Madison Wisconsin, drowned while bathing in the Jim River at Huron. The boy was living with John Koerner and his wife at the time of the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim River
Huron
Richard H. Crowley
William Crowley
Madison
Wis
John Koerner
Tornado damages barns near Aberdeen with hail and crop loss
A small tornado moved eleven miles southwest of Aberdeen Monday evening, blowing down several barns and one house. It produced hail and damaged a few standing grain fields as farmers assess the impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
Pettigrew Draws No 879 in Flathead Land Lottery
F. T. Pettigrew of Sioux Falls drew number 879 in the Flathead land lottery, matching a numbered lot in the drawing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. T. Pettigrew
Sioux Falls
Indian Thespians Organize Pine Ridge troupe debut
About 75 Sioux warriors on the Pine Ridge reservation form a theatre group and plan their first show at the Stanley County Fair fall event to be held at Kadoka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Ridge Reservation
Stanley County Fair Association
Interstate Fair Opens With Government Exhibit And Igorrote Village
The Seventh Annual Interstate Live Stock Fair at Woodland Park Sioux City Iowa runs the week of September 20 featuring a major U S government exhibit on livestock diseases the Bontoc Igorrote Village from Luzon and a large horse racing program with record purses. The event showcases farm machinery flowers and arts with attractions from Canada Japan and Australia and a full Confederation of activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
Woodland Park
Riverside
United States
Interstate Live Stock Fair Associatio
Huron
S. D
Interstate Association
South Dakota
Interstate Fair Association
Woodland
Interstate Live Stock Fair Association
Department of Agriculture
Department’s
Bureau of Animal Industry
Iowa State Agricultural College
P. G. Holden
Morton
Luzon
Philippine Archipelago
St. Louis
Dreamland Park
Coney Island
Seattle
The
Star Rac
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Durkee & Nellor, Publishers
Fire Guts
Tesla
Ing
Kansan
Schoenville, Pa
Norfolk, VA
Anton Straus
Taoor
Minn
State Insane Asylum
Dawson
South Dakota News
Bucket Brigade
Blaze
Corps of Engineers
Dakota Elks
Acre
Tria
Tripp
U.S
Igoriate
International Bee Keepers’ Association
Fair Association
Canada
Japan
Australia
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