Tornado Death Toll and Destruction Hit Minnesota Towns
A tornado sweeping Tuesday night over Wilder Heron Lake and Windom Minnesota left ten dead and about 100000 in property losses. Killed were Mrs. Fritcher and relatives two miles from Heron Lake. Joseph Mathias died near his home. Gallagher family victims Ella Nettie and others injured. Westerman farm buildings demolished. Kendall farm losses reached 16000. two more deaths reported on Habberman farm. Windom area heavily damaged with scattered fatalities and missing bodies.
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Heron Lanke
Minn
Jos. Fritcher
Heron Lake
Joseph Mathias
Gallagher Famly
Ella
Nettie
Habberman Farm
To Get Her Gold A Robbery At Woodward Township
A thief burned Mrs. O Rourke with a lighted lamp to force disclosure of hiding money in Woodward Township Learfield. While Jee O Rourke was away a stranger bound Mrs. O Rourke and looted over 2000 dollars. Authorities offer a 500 dollar reward.
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Learfield
Woodward Township
Jee O'Rourke
O'Rourke
Miraculous Rescue After Roof Plunge in New York Tenement
Four year old Lizzie Yougeld escaped serious harm when a doll fell from a five story roof in Delongey Street. She grabbed clotheslines two stories below, bounced, and struck the pavement on her head, breaking the fall. A passerby woman aided the girl, who doctors reported had only minor bruises and returned to play within half an hour.
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New York
Lizzie Yougeld
Hae
Delongey Street
Lizzie
Hines
Riot flares in Chicago after factory strike clash
A serious disturbance erupted on West Baren Street Chicago when strikers from a Kilagi Switchboard plant clashed with escorting workers and girls leaving the factory. Shots were fired, several persons were killed or injured, and police made multiple arrests as two officers were badly hurt. Lord Colville Culross, lord chamberlain to Queen Alexandra and head of the Honorable Artillery Company, died in London after a long illness.
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Jared
West Vat Baren Street
Chicago
Kyilagi Switchboard Company
Lord Colville Culrosa
Lord Colville Culross
Queen Alexandra
The
Honorable Artillery Company
London
Burt
Tornado hits Peoria area with damage in Averyville
A powerful tornado swept over Penna and Averyville near Peoria, with heavy rain accompanying the storm. The greatest impact occurred in Averyville, a manufacturing village east of Peoria, causing substantial damage as crews assess the scene.
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Peoria
Penna
Averyville
15000 Miners Idle as Wage Talks Collapse
A special report notes 15000 miners in the Waits fed Mine Workers of America district idle as the old wage contract expired and a new one is debated. Railways concede to strikes, promising a per day advance while Burlington employees strike. Details remain fragmented.
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Hirmingham
Aja
Waits Fed Mine Workers of America
Uuuer
Wyoming mine disaster at Hanna kills hundreds at Union Pacific mine No 1
A vast explosion of firedamp at Union Pacific mine No 1 in Hanna Wyoming traps about 200 workers. Rescue attempts struggle as fires burn, with many bodies found near the mouth and hope fading for survivors. Investigators suspect lamp ignition of gas. the mine, opened in 1874, features 26 entries and a long incline.
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Wyoming
Hanna
Union Prelfie
Anme
Union Pacific Railroad
Novone
Honma
Union Pacific Coal Company
Receiver to be Named for United States Ship Company
Judge Kirkpatrick of Newark N I holds United States Shipbuilding Company insolvent and will appoint a receiver to protect bondholders. He read the case papers and found the directors failed to take proper steps to shield creditors and lacked funds. Counsel will nominate a receiver and present a name for court approval.
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United States Ship Company
Kirkpatrick
Newark
N. I
United States Shipbuilding Company
Louisiana Supreme Court affirms desertion law punishment
The Louisiana Supreme Court upholds a statute punishing wife desertion with imprisonment at hard labor. Deserter husbands were arrested but many punishments suspended as the law was deemed constitutional. The decision was advised to the appellate court amid expected improvements for husbands.
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Loutatana
Lousiana Supreme Court
Sewgio
Acapelle Court
Louisiana
Husbuide
Assassination, arrests sweep through states and courts
A discharged employee killed a state official in the Texas Capitol city. The assassin died by suicide after the shooting. In Portsmouth a citizen died from religiously charged distress, with neighbors fearing reprisals. John Roberts, linked to a double murder in Oklahoma, was arrested in Mount Vernon Indiana. Federal indictments issued in Baltimore against two federal workers for mail fraud. Northern Coal Dealers fined for restraint of trade. A mob lynched Andrew Diggs in Scottsboro, Alabama, after an assault allegation.
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Texas Main
State Comptratley
Tite
West
Woode Hill
Ik Kane
John He. Hoberts
Bear Sterting
Okla
Higginbotham
Gee
Mount Vernon
Jnd
An Oklahong
Roberts
Des Moines Railway Wreck Kills Engineer and Fireman
A freight and an incoming accommodation train collided two miles west of Des Moines on the Milwaukee line at 2 AM. Engineer John Erickson of Boone and Fireman James Howard of Des Moines died from injuries. several others were severely scalded or injured. The crash, blamed on late No 93 crews entering the yard, occurred on a reverse curve as both trains sped toward each other. Investigators awaited the outcome.
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Bonne
Milwaukee
Centrale
Des Moines
Madrid
John Erickson
Boone
James Howard
Wm. Lanning
Perry
Fred Selzer
Fire
No. 98
No. 62
No. 93
Evangeliat Sunday Revival Draws Centerville Crowd
At Centerville big tent 1500 men gathered for a Sunday revival led by Billy Sunday. About 100 professed conversion as business lawyers and professionals attended. People traveled 20 miles to the four week event. A $1500 collection was taken for Sunday. County officers and saloon petition supporters reportedly withdrew names from the petition amid renewed turmoil.
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Centerville
Billy Sunday
Moone
Thinks He Is a Locomotive Taken to Hopital
Walter Roger accused of insane delusion acts like a locomotive while traveling from Town City toward Independence. In charge of C. R. Stahl uaker and an attendant he was sent to an asylum after being adjudged insane by Town City commissioners. His home county is unknown.
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Walter Roger
Hopital
Independence
Roger
C. R. Stahluaker
State Board of Control
Ingane
Town City
Commissioners of
Capitol Roof Scam Reported Involving William Fenn
William Fenn claimed to represent the Tirald Peters en Company and contracted for the old copper sale at the state capital in Des Moines. Keon, a roof worker, vanished Tuesday and returned to Council Bluffs. Gighl found Fenn forged firm status, borrowed money on false orders, and misused funds since leaving Council Bluffs. Fenn has not been arrested as investigators probe the allegations.
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William Fenn
Willian Keon
tirald-Petersen Company
Les Moines
Council Bluffs
Gighl
Fenn
Fens
Citizens Threaten Lynching Over Telegraph Ring Change
W Richards living ten miles south of Curung stabbed a young man in the back after a dispute over a changed telephone ring. Neighbors debated lynching but older residents urged surrender to the Bedford jail. Herman Kruger, a Burlington shop oiler at Creston, was robbed and shot five times after resisting demands for more money, dying from his wounds. Lineman George Campbell, 28, of LeMars Telephone construction, fell thirty feet, striking a barn and sustaining injuries deemed fatal by doctors.
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W. Richards
Curuing
Richards
Hnd
Bedford
Herman Kruger
Buington
Creston
Kruger
George Cammpbell
LeMars Telephone Company
Grauuil
Davenport Counterfeit Ring Suspect Arrested
For several days Davenport merchants reported counterfeit money circulating in city bars and saloons. Officer Swanson arrested F. Emory, cited as a guilty party in the operation, with two others said to be involved but at large. Emory claims act was inadvertent and denies intent to deceive. The counterfeit silver dollars are crude but detectable.
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Davenport
Ories
Swanson
F. Emory
Emory
Strike Settled After Dubuque Street Car Dispute
In Dubuque on Tuesday night at 11, exultation rose as President Conehar of the Dubuque Club announced a settlement of the street car strike. The club offered its good offices for arbitration before its municipal affairs committee with Union Electric Company officers and State Federation of Labor President Urick and State Labor Commissioner Brigham present. Terms were agreed by 6, formal acceptance came at 11. The committee rejected demands to exclude nonunion workers and to force the company to explain discharge reasons.
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Dubuque
Conehar
Ife
Union Electric Company
Urick
State Federatiion of Labor
Brigham
Isk
Baby Kangaroo Born in Ottumwa Excites City
The first Ottumwa born kangaroo emerges Sunday in Carrie Nation’s Wallice show menagerie. The infant will ride in its mother’s pouch for four months and was named Ottumwa by onlookers, drawing great interest from the 673 employees and spectators at the shiny grounds.
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Ottumwa
Carrie Nation
Shiny Grounds
Carrie
Storm Lake Mother Seeks Daughter in Cherokee Case
Mrs Isabel Delp from Storm Lake traveled to Cherokee chasing her 16 year old daughter employed as a domestic. The girl reportedly consorted with a Black porter near a barber shop. Efforts to return her failed. The porter allegedly threatened to shoot the Storm Lake family if anyone interfered. A hearing against the man is planned.
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Storm-Lake
Cherokee
Isabel Delp
Storm Lake
Mra
Delp
Goins insane over baseball in Council Bluffs
A Council Bluffs youth, obsessed with baseball, has been declared insane and committed to St. Bernard's hospital. He refuses to discuss anything but baseball and when asked about the president he answered Raymond the Indian, who will be the best pitcher on earth.
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Council Bluffs
St. Gernard’s Hospital
United States
Raymond
Protest by Bridgemen and Surfacent at Marshalltown
Thirty one bridgemen and surfacers seize a Northwestern passenger coach in Marshalltown after being set out and told to unload They refuse to leave the car unless transported to Clarence or Clinton claiming they will stay three weeks or more unless moved back to Omaha or Clinton
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Marshalltown
Northwestern
Clarence
Clinton
Omaha
Climton
Twice Buried Alive at Hedrick Farm
A farmer A. S. Chacey near Hedrick was buried in a seven foot tile ditch when the banks caved in and crushed him. Rescued after a second collapse, he is expected to recover. Tornado from the southeast destroys a Daliver repair shop and slightly damages nearby buildings. no deaths. Burglars dynamite a Reinbeck hardware store safe, about $500 taken. bloodhounds brought to Waterloo to aid the chase.
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A. S. Chacey
Hedrick
Mr. Chacey
Daliver
Dalliver
Harpg
L. G. Waggoner
Rt. Worts
C. E. Sullivan
Reinbeck
Whier & Co
Aafe
Waterloo
Prosperity and Record Foreign Trade for United States
The United States reports a fiscal year ending June showing a record foreign commerce of 2.44 billion dollars, with exports surpassing Germany and domestic exports of Britain. Imports approach a billion dollars for the first time, while internal trade soars with rail freight revenue over 1.2 billion dollars, underscoring vast national prosperity.
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United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Emperta
Great Britain
Germany
Telegraphic Brevitica Fragment Summary
In Livingston Kentucky John Settlea fatally shot Joseph Mullins amid a series of brief telegraphic notes. Lima Peru reports Port Callao declared free from plague. British cruiser Berwick achieved 24.6 knots on official trial. A 27-year-old man named Rents was stabbed to death in Cleveland by his brother-in-law Jose Rhman, 28, as a crowd of 604 searched for the accused.
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Io & Brawick
Livingston
John Settlea
Joseph Mullins
Supreme Board of Health
Lima
Peru
Uaa
Callao
Berwick
Gleveland
Inlay
Jdse Rhaan
Georgia planter shoots disrupts revival in church
A Georgia planter, John Cash, entered a colored church during a revival and ordered the congregation to leave. Gunfire erupted, with about 500 shots, as Black worshippers demanded mercy while the preacher pleaded. Cash was killed. Henry White is jailed, others face possible prosecution. Nationwide racial tensions flare as mobs form in Alabama and Illinois.
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Georgia
Harria County
Georgis
John Cash
Cash
Henry White
Philadelphia
America
Larkinville
Ala
Andrew Diggs
Scottsboro
Woos
Diggs
Mi Alia Smith
D. O. Austin
Peoria
John, McCray
Murphy
McCray
Galesburg
Need 100 000 Men to Harvest Great Wheat Fields
A call from Kansas wheat counties asks for 100000 workers to harvest grain after machines. Farmers offer $2.50 per day plus board, with railroads providing low transport rates from other states. Shortages persist in Dakotas, Nebraska, Montana and western Canada as farms compete for labor.
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Kansas
Garmer
Western Wheat Belt
Khungas
South Dakota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Canada
Various global and local labor and industry figures
The excerpt lists investments, production figures, and union data: a $2 420 000 government printing office investment, a factory selling £10 000 worth of electrical flatirons this season, the Democratic Labor Union in Manila with 15 000 members, and rankings in shipbuilding with Pennsylvania New York and California noted. It cites a gradual drop in unemployed workers among British engineering trades and notes world crop consumption in the United States, Bohemia's industrial census with 469 827 manufacturers and 201 589 women, plus pension steps by the Chicago Printermen Union. It also gives wage figures for skilled and unskilled labor in Indiana and a brief city transit note about city plans for steamer dumps.
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Democratic Labor Union
Manila
Shipbuilding
Pennsylvania
New York
California
United States
Bohemia
Chicago Printeram Union
Indiana
Centa
Ste
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