Horrific hurricane destroys Red Bay and kills hundreds
Miami dispatch reports Red Bay on Andros Island swept away by a tropical hurricane. Eyewitness estimates about 600 dead with corpses scattered through debris. Winds near Nassau reached 90 mph with gusts to 105 mph. Separate report from Faulkton South Dakota describes a tornado killing 17 year old John Sherman and damaging crops.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Miami
Times Union
Dillon
Cocoa
Red Bay
Andros
Nassau
South Dakota
Faulkton
Barden Sherman
John Sherman
Eighteen Dead in Glamorgan Coal Mine Disaster
A blast at Liest colliery in Glamorgan shire waters left eighteen dead and sixty in grave peril. Rescue efforts saved five miners, while dramatic scenes showed families awaiting news as afterdamp hindered recovery.
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London
Liest
Glamorganshire
Three Winkle Boys Injured in Lime Kiln Accident
In Toledo on Thursday night the three sons of Martin Winkle from Lucky Ohio were badly injured at a lime kiln. The 6 year old was caught in the shafting and the two older boys, ages 11 and another, attempted rescue and suffered femur fractures. None is expected to recover quickly.
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Toledo
Martin Winkle
Lucky
Missing Molders William Swaidner and Lewis McCunne
Mansfield Ohio August 19 William Swaidner and Lewis McCunne molders of this city have been missing since Tuesday. A boat they hired was found yesterday in Lakeville Holmes County and a search has begun for their bodies.
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Mansfield
William Swaidner
Lewis McCunne
Lakeville
Holmes County
Ben
Fatally Injured by Hogs Near Sandusky
David Ewing, a prominent local resident near Sandusky, was fatally injured yesterday when hogs attacked him after a stroke of paralysis left him unable to seek help. He died before assistance could reach him.
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Toledo
David Ewing
Sandusky
General Joubert appeals to the Queen as critics accuse
The Cape Town correspondent reports General Joubert’s appeal to the queen, calling it a canting pamphlet blaming British oppression on Boers after gold discoveries in the Transvaal. He links Cecil Rhodes, Joseph Chamberlain, and Jameson to the “vile scheme,” and recalls the Applebee murder and Jack the Ripper crimes in London. William Blake finds his sister in Wisconsin after a forty year search.
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London
Cape Town
Daily Mail
Joubert
South Africa
Transvaal
Cecil Rhodes
Joseph Chamberlain
Jameson
Applebee
Jack the Ripper
Town G A R leads western protest against Philadelphia encampment rates
Des Moines reports the Town department G A R spearheading a united western protest against the announced rates for the Philadelphia encampment. Letters of protest are being secured from western states to be presented in Chicago in an effort to obtain a reduction to one fare.
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Des Moines
Western Passenger Association
Philadelphia
Chicago
Insane Ward Fire Kills Inmate at Stanwood Poor House
In Big Rapids Michigan on August 19 a fire at the Stanwood county poor house destroyed the frame insane ward. Adolph Murrin is believed to have died in the blaze while forty other inmates narrowly escaped from the main building.
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Big Rapids
Mich
Stanwood
Frame
Adolph Murrin
Murrin
School Furniture Fight Sparks Wisconsin Contract Case
In Racine Wisconsin Aug 19 Judge Siebecker will not hear arguments in the circuit court case of the A H Andrews company against the Racine board of education and others restraining them from awarding the school desks contract to the American School Furniture company. The injunction may be dissolved temporarily with no admission of the rival desks superiority. Affidavits will claim equality of desks and note that Racine Hardware previously supplied similar desks to Racine for 1.30 while the board would pay 2.10 in other cities.
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Vacine
Wis
Siebecker
Madison
A. H. Andrews Company
Board of Education
American School Furniture Company
Andrews Company
Racine Hardware Company
Racine Board
Would-Be Husband Kills Wife Then Ends His Life
Aug 19 report from Fort Wayne Indiana describes Charles Futter a barber who shot at his wife Carrie Futter during a divorce dispute. He missed and then shot himself dying within half an hour. The couple had recent marital tensions linked to alleged adultery and drinking sprees.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Carrie Futter
Charles Futter
Futter
Thomas Houlihan
Chicago
Houllside
E. D. Daniels
Nenes
Glorot
Elrop
M. Labori
Rennes
Picquart
M. Gast
Glovet
Soldiers' Home Inquiry Probes Treatment of Inmates
Milwaukee August inquiry into Captain Pollocks death at the Soldiers Home expands into a broad review of inmate treatment by officers. Commissioner Bloodgood opened the examination, revealing a fines system at the home with Governor imposed penalties on disciplined captains. Quartermaster Rowley testified fines were paid to the lieutenant of the guard and supposed to go to the Governor, though receipts were unclear.
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Milwaukee
Pollock
David Anderson
Anderson
Bloodgood
Quartermaster Rowley
Dreyfus Trial Heats Up As Picquart Testifies
Rennes Aug 19 Picquart concludes his testimony in the second Dreyfus trial. Roget and Mercier challenge him as he details the secret dossier and its contents including D- and Esterhazy references. He describes actions to protect secrets and the political pressure to hush the case.
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Rennes
Piequart
Lawyers For Prosecution and Defense
United States
Picquart
D'Avignon
Switzerland
Indications of a Murder At Paw Paw River Mouth
A dead man, age 55 to 60, was found at the Paw Paw river mouth in St Joseph Michigan. The body bears contusions and a rough beard, five feet tall, with clothing of good quality and initials M. B. G. on an undershirt. Identity remains unknown though several claim to recognize him. A street railway conductor reports a man fitting the description left a car two days prior, carrying a roll of money.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Paw Paw River
League ball scores roll in from New York and Philadelphia
Chicago dispatch lists yesterday's results across major cities with New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Boston, Louisville, Washington, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Chicago. In Des Moines Colonel L M Martin, manager of the Central of Kowas retires. eastern stockholders approve his policy and oppose successor Tittemore.
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Chicago
New York
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Boston
Louisville
Washington
Pittsburg
Baltimore
Des Moines
L. M. Martin
Central of
Kowa
J. N. Tittemore
Petition Hurdle in Union County Supervisor Charges
W C Lorimer filed petitions accusing Union county board of misusing public funds. County Attorney J G Bull advised refusing the petitions without secured bonds. Officers deem the charges groundless. Also, Walter Sterns Hale of St Paul married Miss May Louise Closser in Laporte at the bride’s bedside due to illness.
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Creston
W. C. Lorimer
Union County Board of Supervisors
J. G. Bull
Laporte
Ind
Walter Sterns Hale
St. Paul
May Louise Closer
J. A. Closser
Indianapolis
BE. D. Daniels
Hum bert Threshed Banner Wheat Crop in Perry County
English Indiana Aug 19 Louis Humbert of St Croix threshed Perry county's banner wheat crop last Tuesday. He yielded 706 bushels from fifteen acres, about 47 1 15 bushels per acre. The crop grew on clover sod turned under with no commercial fertilizer.
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Ind
Louis Humbert
St. Croix
Perry County
Piequart Links Esterhazy to Dreyfus Forgeries
Colonel Piequart explains how the secret dossier led to the conviction that the bordereau was written by Esterhazy and that anti Dreyfus proofs were worthless. He details meetings with General Boisdeffre and the handwriting examination by Bertillon, who identified the bordereau as Esterhazy’s handwriting.
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Pieequart
Dreyfus
Piequart
Esterhazy
General Boisdeffre
Colonel Picquart
Vichy
General de Boisdeffre
Bordereau
Bodies Found From Menominee River Tragedy In Iron Mountain
Two drowned men Mathias Swanson and Carl Nylander Jr. were recovered near the Horseshoe Race rapids after a rescue effort by Peter Rasmussen. Nylander was found later and Swanson’s body surfaced earlier. divers had searched Escanaba area. The victims were taken to Iron Mountain morgue likely for funeral services. The report also notes a second item Nashau flour mill fire destroying the Cooperative Milling Company plant with $30,000 loss and $7,000 insured.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
Mathias Swanson
Carl Nylander, Jr
Menominee River
Horeshoe Race
Peter Rasmussen
Swanson
Rylander
Nashau, Ja
Co-Operative Milling Company
cholera appears in Grant county Indiana reports safety of Vigilanea
Hlog cholera has appeared in Grant county Indiana. The Ward line steamer Vigilanea is reported safe and all well. The post office department refuses to willow the carrying of mail in automobiles. General Alger announced at Montreal Thursday that he is absolutely out of politics. George F. Knox died of concussion of the brain at Chicago. Knox collided with a tree while riding his bicycle. Armistead Taylor and John Alfred Brown were hanged at Rockville Maryland for the murder of Louis Rosenstein and his wife. While several lads were bathing in Walled lake near Birmingham Michigan a large pickerel bit one of them in the hand twice.
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Grant County
Ind
Vigilanea
Post Office
General Alger
Montreal
George F. Knox
Chicago
Knox
Armistead Taylor
John Alfred Brown
Rockville
Louis Rosenstein
Walled Lake
Birmingham
Mich
Afro American council debates vote power in Chicago
Delegates at the Afro American council in Chicago adopt resolutions urging the colored vote be used to secure fair ballot access and justice, while criticizing Republican leadership on army commissions and labor bureau staffing. A pledge to support candidates who promise voter protection is adopted amid calls for a middle of the road approach.
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Afro American Council
Chicago
Afro-American Council
Bethel
Thirtieth
Dearborn
Republican Party
McKinley
National Labor Bureau
J. D. Mahoney
Pittsburg
Colored labor woes cited in McKinley era council resolution
Rev Ransom from Chicago frames a National Afro American council resolution alleging discriminatory labor appointments under President McKinley. The measure calls for committees to engage organized labor and the national labor bureau, aiming to secure race blind, cooperative work by American workers.
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Mahoney
John F. Green
Washington
J. L. Lyons
R. C. Ransom
Chicago
Committee On
Chicago Colored Divine
Labor Commission
United States
National
Afro-American Council
National Labor Bureau
National Bureau
Ransom
McKinley
Booker T. Washington
Bishop Grant
Bishop Arnett
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Gol
William Blake
Friendship
William Black
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Blake
Indiana
Racine
Uts
Waterhezy
War Office
Schwarzkoppen
Paris
Pan
du Paty de Clam
de Clam
Intelligence Department
Tustemasy
Avignon
L Boisdeffre
Gonze
Gonse
Tunis
Henry
General Gonse
Beterhazy
M. Deblois
M. Scheurer-Kestner
Senate
Meline
le Clerc
Tripoli
Labori
Michigan
Martin
Banner
Ivestigates
Royal Baking
G. H. Pratt
I. Klein
THE
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington,owa
Joseph Keck
Preston
Chas. H. Keck
Casiner
Prank Stewart
C. M. Keck
Casey Bros
Feed and Sale Stable
Hotel Allen
Pr. M. McConaughy
Orrioen
Kleta'a
J. R. Burroughs
Orner
Southeast Corner Square
Columbia Corner
Waamignton, la
Das. J. H
H. C. Hull
Physicians and Surgeons
Wam Tod
Nat'l Hank
East Maton
Reef
Olllee
P. W. McElwain
Washington Lown
Marsh W. Bailey
Perio
Iowa
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Qopfice
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temeple
Washington, Lowa
W. E. Anderson, M.D
Qoprick
Klein's Clothing
Ida Bailey
Geo. W. Hay
Graham Opera House
Washington Street
Northwestern University
Evanston
Peet 1
Lothin
Waste Mall Co
Kemble
Kemble Flower Co
Oskaloosa
Lowa
Te Rogers
West Delon
Tatest
T. YT. Keeley
W. Washington St
H. Sanford
T. J. Dempsey
National Bank
Washington, Iowa
puRrus
Dons
H,. Young
W. KR. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
Cash
Q. T. Anderon
Asn’t Cash
Washington County
Capital
Ings Bank
Doa
Jos. Kee
Brea
A. Warre
O. H. Keenx
V. P
M. Keon
Ass't
Dalples
Schneider
First National
BANK
Wm. Blair
A. M1. Wallace
0. H. Keck
L. D. Robinson
Stewart
J. F. Henderson
W. H. Butterfield
Crall’s
Washington, T
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