Lightning Strikes Gilsey House as Storm Rages Across Region
Aug 14 reports detail a severe electrical storm causing widespread damage from New York to New Jersey. Gilsey House was struck and foundations feared, while Benner the bicyclist and Thomas Dunn were each killed by lightning. Jets of destruction toppled trees and injured several, including Mrs. Bernstein and others near Hoboken and Orange. Joe Bernstein, the pugilist, and Jimmy Michael briefly escaped unharmed in a separate struck room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gilsey
Twenty-ninth Street
Broadway
KE. Benner
North Jersey Street Railway Company
Orange
N. J
Mary Lombard
Kohler
Newark
Bloomfield
Elizabeth
Bourne-Sehrymser
Front Street
Hackensack
Hoboken
St. George's Cricket Grounds
Joe Bernstein
President Huntington Dead in Adirondacks
Special to Evening Journal Utica N Y Aug 14 Callis P Huntington president of the Southern Pacific Railroad died suddenly at Pineknot Camp on Racquette Lake Adirondacks at 12 oclock last night heart failure the cause of death
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Utica
N.Y
Callis P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Railroad
Pineknot
Racquette Lake
Adirondacks
Cyclone Damage Hits Marion And Nearby Areas
A cyclone crossed southern Marion Sunday at 10 am wrecking homes and injuring residents. Baynard Floyde and Francis Mills families suffered wrecked houses and serious injuries. The State Normal College, Protestant Methodist church, Fifth Ward School, amphitheatre, and ball park buildings were damaged. Oil derricks and other small structures were destroyed. Local industry buildings lost roofs and walls. A separate report from Brazil notes a farmer Henry Baum missing, presumed dead, with his brother confirming the description. Ballington Booth spoke at a Chautauqua in Mowequa addressing Volunteers of America efforts in slums. Baseball scores from Chicago and other cities are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Baynard Floyde
Francis T. Mills
Marion Driving Association
Wisconsin Guards Make Night Camp in Thunderstorm Feat
Camp Douglas Wisconsin August 14. Battery A First Artillery Milwaukee men unloaded horses and artillery in darkness and rain. They pitched tents near dawn after a swift arrival, unloading began at 1 15 am and twelve minutes wetting horses took place. LaCrosse August 14 encampment on Battle Island opened with Winneshiek lineage recalled.
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Wisconsin
Camp Douglas Range
Wis
First Artillery
Milwaukee
National Guard
LaCrosse
Black Hawk Battle Grounds
Battle Island
Victory
Winneshiek
Massacre Threat Fears Rise If Relief Delayed at Peking
London dispatch cites Sir Claude Macdonald warning Ten days of food left at the legation and a possible massacre if relief does not arrive. The British envoy reports Europeans in danger and offers to escort to Tianjin amid growing hopes of American forces nearing Peking.
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London
Canton
Daily Telegraph
Claude Macdonald
Peking
Tien Tsin
Cawnpore
Chat
Washington
China
War Department
Ho-Si- Wu
Yang- Tsun
Yang-Tsun
Lang-Fang
Ho-Si-Wu
Chaffee
Imperial City
Root
Corbin
Chefoo
Iospian
Ho- Si-Wu
Peitsang
Yang-Psun
Mormon Converts Move to Great Salt Lake Region
Twenty five Mormon converts from southern Washington County will relocate to land near the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The small colony, about fifty members, has long been settled in the area, built a church a year ago, and has not practiced polygamy. They seek better prospects and community standing.
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Nashville
Washington County
Utah
Great Salt Lake
Ilinois
Hitler Goudland
Nephe
Dowieites persecuted in Ohio mob rule case
In Mansfield on August 14 Dowieites W C Dintus and O Moot traveled from Lima to Mansfield. Local officers moved them to Crestline to prevent clashes. They were escorted back, then removed again in a carriage. Dowie follower David Strauch was tossed into a fountain by a mob while admitting he ferried the group.
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Mansfield
W. C. Dintus
North Harvey
Hls
Oo. Moot
Lima
Dowie's
Zion
Lucas
Crestline
David Strauch
Central Park
United States replies to China's overtures outlined
The U S government releases its position on stopping hostilities with China. It states no negotiations while ministers and legationers are restrained, and calls for relief troops to enter Peking and escort foreign ministers and residents to Tianjin under agreed troop dispositions. The reply gains support from the major powers though not in a formal joint statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
China
Peking
Tien-L’sin
Europe
Washington
Streeter Arrested for Embezzlement in Allegan
Horace Y. Streeter ex water commissioner of Allegan village was arrested on embezzlement charges after a council led investigation found a 400.41 shortage. He posted 500 bonds to appear for October circuit court in Rockford Illinois. Nearby, a grain field fire near Davis Junction burned for hours with heavy farmer losses.
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Allegan
Mich
Hlorace Y. Streeter
Streeter
Justice Court
Circuit Court
Rockford, Ll
Davis Junction
Ogle County
Rockford
Italian man slain in New York with a vendetta pledge
James Stefano, an Italian, was stabbed to death in New York. His brother Angelo refuses to name the killer, declaring a vendetta. In Asbury Park New Jersey, heavyweight James J. Jeffries injured an ankle after a bicycle fall at training quarters. the injury is painful but not dangerous.
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New York
James Stefano
Angelo
James J. Jeffries
Loch Arbor
Asbury Park
N. J
Two Girls Drown in Necedah River
Sadie Lauk aged 9 and Libby Lauk aged 4 drowned in the river at Necedah Wisconsin when they fell from a raft they were playing on. The water was about four feet deep at the accident scene.
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Necedah
Wis
Sadie
Libby Lauk
Parting of the Ways They Are M and T at Indianapolis
Delegates to national and third party gatherings arrived in Indianapolis as factions discuss antiimperialist and pro Bryan alignments. The Nationals planned a convention amid calls from antiimperialists and a potential third ticket. Rosy prospects for Bryan drift noted by Widemann, with sessions set at the Commercial Club.
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Indianapolis
Gold Democratic Committee
National Party
Louis Rrihr Ich
Colorado Springs
Colo
Isaac H. Klein
New York
Anulla
Ryan
Widemann
Bryan
Nationals
Commercial Club
National Association of Democratic Clubs
William J. Bryan
William QR. Hearst
Denver
United States Monetary League
Topeka
People's Party
A. W. Buecker
Monetary League
National Committee
Rucker
League
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New York Way
President Huntington
Evening Journal
Brazil
National Road
Henry Baum
Pimento
Willian Baum
Schultz
Baum
Ballington Booth
Chautauqua
Moweaqua
Ills
The
Volunteers of America
Chicago
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Boston
St. Ouis
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cleveland
Buffalo
Detroit
Chicago Grain and Produce
Chicago Board of Trade
PRADO
Ohio
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N. Es
St. Louis Grain
Milwaukee Grain
Detroit Grain
Eith
Lou Couutse
Fourteenth United States Infantry
Almets
Great Salt Lake of
Steinitz
Manhattan State Hospital
William Steinus
Prague
Tandon
Vienna
Emanuel Lasker
Dowieites
Shina
Lucrezia Borgia
Paris
Yu Keng
Julie Czerwinska
Legation
Armani di Parma
Czerwinska
Julie
Kenosha
H. N. Beck
Christenson
Beck
Louis Towers
Jeffries
M&t
Beem
Hanna Bryan
Robert A. Widemann
Mel Whinley
McKinley
Lillian
Jewett
Anna
National Republican
Lillian Clayton Jewett
Joan of Arc
Anti Lynching League
Roosevelt
Hanna
Republican National Committee
Mason
Alaska
Seattle
Wash
Port Townsend
Skaguay
IP Invis
Racine, Wis
A. i. Case
Unifes @ment Workers
United Garment Workers of Amenen
Bamlet Hall
Portage County
Wis. Agriculture Association
Amherst
Jack Betts
Corinth
Miss
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Kwok
Chas. H. Keck
Prankstewart
M. Keck
I. M. Sproull
R. Powers
Kya
Reavy
Tan
Johnson's Bakery
Baird & Bailey
Harwood
South Side
Jnovan
T. M. Reynolds
Na HK
Johnson
Looda
Keck
Ldy
Washington, Ta
Cook & Sherman
W. Cor
Ashby
Nicola
Mirsch
A. S. Hays
Temple Building
JH. Stewart
Madelia
E. G Mason
Nelson
H. Knecht
Tondre
Beni
Side Square
Klein's Clothing Store
M. L. Logan
Joseph Pollard
Coffe
Hotel Allen
Optician
YEON
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
First National Bank
Marsh W. Bailey
City Hall
Iowa
C. J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Roar Alberson's Grocery
Tirswashington
W. H. Butterfield
Oratl's
P. J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
Rocky Mountain
Crark
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