Notable Obituaries and Global News Roundup
Edward Luckenbach dies in Brooklyn at 60, a leading Atlantic tugboat and barge owner. Plans are drawn to reseal American navy guns with telescopic sights. Pittsburgh Steel CO cuts prices after Steel and Wire CO move. A Rochester jeweler’s suspect confesses in gold theft. Swanton Bank closes by order of OCC. Italian bankers curb blackmail by criminals.
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Edward Luckenbach
Brooklyn
N. Y
Pittsburg Steel Co
American Steel and Wire Co
David Eber
Rochester
Eber
People’s National Bank
Swanton
New York City
August Anderson
Stark County
Indiana
Chicago
Anderson
United States
Court of Appeals
Secret Service
Atlanta
R. G. Lightle
Searcy
Ark
Lightle
T. M. Patterson
Colorado
Secretary of the Interior
Mesa Verde
St. Peter, Minn
Bertha Nichols
Ingebrid Erikson
Erikson
Margaret Dougherty
St. Louis
British Columbia
Fish Rock
Isaac Seligman
New York
Saranac Lake
Adirondacks
Destructive gale wreaks havoc in St Paul and Minneapolis
A furious Aug 22 gale near Fort Snelling tore down the Mississippi valley causing death to 12 and injuries to many. Bridges and buildings collapsed in St Paul with $1,000,000 in losses, then crossed to Minneapolis with near a million more in property damage and widespread communication outages. Stillwater and environs record 75 000 to 100 000 in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
Mississippi
Minnesota
Fort Snelling
Twin Cities
West St. Paul
Harriet Island
Wabasha Street
Tivoli Theatre
Lorin F. Hokanson
George Kwenton
Minneapolis
St Paul
Stillwater
St. Croix River
Revolt in Paraguay Halts Bombardment of Asuncion
San Jacimo battery clashes with Paraguayan revolutionaries who seize guns and set up a provisional government in Villa Del Pilar led by Gen Ferreira with Gonzales Novor as vice president. Soler seeks belligerent recognition while negotiations fail and capital residents face famine prices as imports stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Ayres
San Jacimo
Asuncion
Paraguay
Villa del Pilar
Ferreira
Gonzales Novor
Soler
Automobile wreck on steep Berlin hill injures Hartford men
An automobile with three Hartford men and a chauffeur crashed on August 21 near Berlin and Kensington after a tire burst. Edward Hale and N. B. Bernard were hospitalized with serious injuries while the chauffeur escaped harm. The car swerved into a trolley line and struck a telegraph pole before rolling onto its side.
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Berlin
Conn
Kensington
Hartford
Edward Hale
N. B. Bernard
Cordova Town Marshal Killed in Home Shooting
Cordova Alabama on Saturday night Town Marshal J McNelson was fatally shot when he went to arrest Avery over a owed fine. A mob shortly freed Avery from jail and killed him with stones and pistol balls. The officer’s wife witnessed the attack and restrained the Negro until help arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordova
Ala
J. McNelson
Avery
McNelson
Aitizen
Galveston completes world’s greatest sea wall celebration
Galveston Texas marked the completion of the sea wall, hailed as the world’s greatest structure of its kind. Gov. Lanham attended, praising the project and its strategic value as a modern port and rail hub near the Panama Canal. The wall, 17 593 feet long and 17 feet above low tide, cost 1 198 318 dollars.
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Galveston
Tex
Galveston Sea Wall
Lanham
Panama Canal
United States
Tremont Street
America
Gulf
State of
Texas
Galveston County
Fort Crockett
Deportees Plan Federal Suit Over Cripple Creek Expulsion
H N Heinerding er and J S Hall representatives of Inter State Mercantile Co are suing to halt mob interference in Cripple Creek and seek compensation from Teller county. Ex Gov Charles S Thomas will lead the federal suit and Plaints include damages from mob leaders. County Clerk Mannix and deputy Knox Burton reshuffle amid threats while Eugene N Engley vows to return and protect himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Denver
H. N. Heinerdinger
J. S. Hall
Inter-State Mercantile Co
Cripple Creek
Charles S. Thomas
Teller County
Thomas Parfet
Roosevelt
Col
Frank P. Mannix
Montrose
Knox Burton
Michael J. O’neil
Burton
Independence Station
Victor
Henry Robertson
Mannix
Colorado Springs
Eugene N. Engley
Waite
Western Federation of Miners
Botkin Sentenced to Life for Dover Poison Candy Murder
Mrs Cor Delia Botkin was sentenced by Judge Cook to life imprisonment at San Quentin for killing Mrs John P Dunning in Dover Delaware by poisoned candy mailed from San Francisco The jury had fixed the punishment and an appeal will be filed by her lawyers.
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Botkin
San Francisco
Cordelia Botkin
Cook
San Quentin
John P. Dunning
Dover
Del
Supreme Court
Two Men Killed by Train Near Plainsboro
In New Brunswick New Jersey on August 23 the bodies of two men were found beside the Pennsylvania tracks near Plainsboro. They appear to have been killed by an express train. Identified as Harry Peffly a recent discharged sailor from the cruiser Topeka and Harry Williams of Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania. Peffly enlisted in the navy at Fort Wayne Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Brunswick
N. J
Pennsylvania
Plainsboro
Harry Peffly
Topeka
Harry Williams
Mount Pleasant
Peffly
Navy
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Sweeping Reduction at Pennsylvania Railroad Shops
Altoona Pa Aug 23 The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. announced the most sweeping cut in worker time since 1873. Machine shop employees are to be divided into two shifts working every other day eight hours per shift. One shift works Monday and Wednesday and the other Tuesday and Thursday. The shops will close for the remainder of the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Tornado Hits North St. Louis Killing One and Pouring Damage
A fierce tornado struck North St. Louis causing one death John Ellington and about 50 injuries with extensive property damage estimated at 100000. A trolley car was buried under six telegraph poles and the Niedringhaus rolling mill suffered major losses. Venice Illinois reports one death Margaret Beal and ten others injured.
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St. Louis
North St. Louis
John Ellington
Herman Sauerwine
Illinois
Madison
Leiderkranz Hall
Madison Copper Works
Venice
Granite City
Broadway
Sommers Brothers
Niedringhaus
Ill
Margaret Beal
Review of Trade Reports Mixed Confidence in Improvement
R G Dun & Co weekly review notes confidence in trade improvement unsettled by wheat market volatility and labor capital discord. Crop estimates may drop though farm purchasing power rises. building activity and other sectors face delays. Some manufacturing gains, less idle machinery, and retail stoking jobbing trade. Wire products price cuts by US Steel subsidiary stir interest. Failures: 226 US, 24 Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
United States Steel Corporation
United States
Canada
Dus Tin Elected Commander in Chief at Sons of Veterans Meet
William E. Dust in of Dwight Illinois was elected commander in chief by acclamation at the National Sons of Veterans convention. George S. Geis of San Francisco was named senior vice commander in chief, M D Friedman of Birmingham Alabama junior vice, and Fred E Boston of Boston reelected quartermaster general. The next convention was set for Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
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Boston
National Sons of Veterans
William E. Dustin
Dwight, Ill
George S. Geis
San Franciso
M. D. Friedman
Birmingham
Ala
Fred E. Boston
Gettysburg
Rice Sues Standard Oil for 3 Million Damages
George Rice of Marietta Ohio filed in U S circuit court in Trenton New Jersey for 3 000 000 against Standard Oil Company alleging the rival used railroad rates to gouge customers opened grocery stores to destroy his competition and seized 4 000 customers an oil refining plant valued at 760 000 and a business worth 50 000
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Standard
Trenton
N. J
George Rice
Marietta
United States Circuit Court
Standard Oil Co
Female trouble not recognized as catarrh
An Milwaukee testimonial from Mrs. M Brickner praises Peruna for curing female catarrh by treating catarrh itself. The ad urges readers with similar symptoms to contact Dr. Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio for free advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
M Brickner
Peruna
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus, O
Queer Rules for Employes in New York Firms
A review of restrictions on facial hair in New York offices notes Coutts & Co. enforces a clean shaven look as an acceptable standard, once strict but now generally understood to be desired by the Baroness Burdett Coutts. Similar limits appear at Field Farmer & Co. stock brokers where mutton chops are banned to avoid past friction between staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Dodge
Saginaw
Mich
Thomas Knox
Lyndon
Ont
Jerseyville
Department of Livestock
Manchuria
Thomas Lipton
Dennys
Glasgow
George L. Watson
Bryant
S. D
H. S. Hilling
Chicago
Martin Zronsin
John Winan
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
William Marsh Rice
Marble Creek
St. Marys
Idaho
P. Bouly
N. Lindsay
Gordon
Bouly
Tyler
Lindsay
Panguitch
Utah
Mormon Tabernacle
M. J. Burgess
Burgess
John Lowther Welsh
White Marsh
Philadelphia
Mr. Welsh
Drexel & Co
Middle Atlantic States
New England
New York
Lake Region
Topeka
Kan
Baltimore & Ohio
Luke
Potomac River Bridge
Frank R. Kooken
William Franklin
Herbert Schmidt
William Taylor
W. H. Crittenden
New York City
Sherman
Conn
Schmidt
St. Louis
Dion
Wilbrod Frazer
Ottawa
Ovide Laforest
St. Andre Kamouraska
Notre Dame du Portage
Canada
Fraser
Public Works Department
Edward Whitman
Brooklyn
N. Y
Manhattan Beach
Whitman
Robert Armstrong
Armstrong
Jackson
J. M. Leonard
Leonard
United States Circuit Court
Coutts & Co
Burdett-Coutts
Messrs. Field, Farmer & Co
Pittsburg Man Fined in Canada for Overcatching Bass
A Pittsburg man was fined 80 dollars in Canada for catching 14 black bass beyond the legal limit. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the fine and jokes the man may struggle to convince others of his fish stories.
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Pittsburg
Canada
Chicago Record-Herald
Grape-Nuts Aids Child Health Says Postum Co
A doctor warns against improper food and praises Grape-Nuts for a four year old with stomach liver and kidney issues. The child improved after replacing sugar with Grape-Nuts natural grain sweetness and is nearly fully well. Postum Co. promotes The Road to Wellville booklet in each package.
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Denver
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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St. Paul, Minn
Alabama
F.argest
North
S&t. Louis
Review OF Trade
Sons of Veterans
M. Brickner
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