Tornado Devastates Baltimore Area Killing and Wrecking Havoc
A July Baltimore tornado swept in at 1 40 pm from the southwest with thunder and lightning. Eleven people died and hundreds of houses were wrecked while business districts saw minor damage. Drowned victims include Roy Bateman and several Schuler family members. Many residents fled to higher ground as river levels rise and levees hold. The worst seems past if no heavy rains return.
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Baltimore
Baltmore
Olne
Harvor
Roy .Ateman
Joseph Cain
John Cain
Thomas Carroll
Harry McCormick
Mary Schuler
Harry S. Schuler
Olive Schuler
Charles Schuler
William Corntel
Charnes Schaefer
Flood Devastation On Mississippi Near Keokuk
Report from Neokuk July 21 describes flood conditions along the Mississippi in flooded districts from Neokuk south. Losses are estimated at six million dollars with potential for more as crops and properties remain underwater. Damage concentrates on the Missouri bank between Keokuk and Hannibal.
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Beenery
Mississippi
Neokuk
Mississippi River
Keokuk
St. Louis
Associated Press
Hare
Missouri
Hannibal
Des Moines
Alexandria
End of Their Romance: Ex Captain Strong and May Yohe
New York reports Patnam Bradlee Strong, once a captain and son of a former mayor, deserted May Yohe after a lunch at Delmonico's. He is accused of funding their life via pawnshop visits with Yohe diamonds pledged, with counsel claiming $100,000 of Yohe jewelry found, totaling $10,000 secured.
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Captain Strong
Yohe
New York
Putnam Bradlee Strong
William L. Strong
May Yohe
Francis Tope
Strong
Delmonico’s
Miss Yohe
Emanuel Friend
Scores of the Diamonds Expert Baseball Clubs Record
Scores from two days show numerous games across leagues. Saturday results include Cincinnati 1 at St. Louis 2 in rain six innings Brooklyn 4 at Boston 5 fourteen innings Pittsburg 0 at Chicago 5 and Philadelphia 4 at New York 3. Sunday matches feature Cincinnati ti at St. Louis 2 and more across Baltimore Washington Boston Philadelphia and Milwaukee areas.
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Brooklyn
Boston
Pittsburg
New York
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American
Baltimore
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Association
Kansas City
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Columbus
Toledo
Indianapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Louieville
Western
Denver
Omaha
St. Joseph
Des Moines
Colorado Springs
Peoria
Leoria
Archbishop Feehan Will Distributes Estate to Sisters
Arch bishop Feehan left a personal will with no diocese directives. The estate, valued under 125000, mainly life insurance, largely benefits his two sisters. Bridget Kavanagh receives 10000 and St Marys Training School for Boys at Freehanville gets 4000.
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Chicago
Feehan
Bridget Kavanagh
St. Mary's Training School
Freehanville
Drowning at Edwards Creek Near Galva Claims Two Teens
In Kewanee Illinois on July 21 Den Van arman and 16 year old John Stearns drowned four miles north of Galva after Van arman fell into Edwards creek. Stearns attempted a rescue but died as well.
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Kewanee, Illl
den. Vanarman
John Stearns
Edwards Creek
Galva
Mitchell Indorsed Plan Adopted for Mine Strike Support
The United Mine Workers adopt a funding plan to sustain the anthracite strike, authorizing $50,000 for districts 1, 7, and 10, plus a 10 percent assessment and a 1 percent weekly levy by several districts. Illinois pledges $50,000, Ohio $10,000, and Indiana and towns promise more. President Mitchell notes about $1,000,000 in union treasuries and urges broad public support and arbitration.
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United States
United Mine Workers’ Convention
Sul
United Mine Workers
National Treasury
Wilson
Posstile
Ilinois
Ohio
Town
Indiana
Mitchell
Wilkesbarre
Longshoremen Elect Keefe and Barter to Lead Expanded Union
Chicago delegates vote to form the International Longshoremen Marine and Transport Workers association with Keefe as president and Barter as secretary treasurer. Nine vice presidents are named. The group seeks a joint lake freightward wage conference and endorses union labor on ore cargoes.
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Chicago
International Longshoremen's Association
International Longshoremen, Marine and Transport Workers’ Association
Daniel J. Keefe
Henry ©. Barter
Detroit
John Walsh
Cleveland
John J. Joyce
Buffalo
J. Gordon O'Neill
Duluth
J. A. Madsen
Portland
Ore
Cornelius Wild
J. A. Owin
Galveston
Frank Morrell
Ashtabula
James McLaughlin
Windsor
Ont
J. Bd. Porter
New Orleans
Great Lakes
Gouger files suit over Populist committee contract
Helen M Gouger of Truetn Nebraska sues central Populist state committee claiming a contract for speeches and pamphlets with payments totaling 150 and 250 respectively was signed and later repudiated by the committee member.
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Nepadiars Linen
Helen M. Gouger
Truetn
Somatics State Central
Welle
Goroan Wapald
Nebraska
Gower
Itla
FASTER TIME 10 CHICAGO LINK PLANNED FOR MICHIGAN CENTRAL
In Grand Rapids Michigan Central plans a faster Grand Rapids to Chicago service. Survey shows five to six miles of new track and a connecting line from Grand Rapids to Kalama zoo. The route would cross to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and reach Chicago. A separate item reports a Macomb County farmer missing worker Sheridan Groat who left town with wages due and clothes remaining.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Grand Rapide
Chicago
Michigan Central
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Kalamaxoo
Lapeer
Douglass
Macomb County
Herve
Sheridan Groat
Hir
Groat
New York State
Soldiers wreck a house in Leavenworth riot
About 1,000 soldiers surrounded a Main Street resort and wrecked doors and furniture in retaliation for the stabbing death of Eli Loucks by Alegro. Police faced a panicked crowd as shots rang out and the house was later set on fire but the blaze was put out.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Main Street
Eli Loucks
FPF
Sixth Cavalry
Alegro
Drought and Earthquakes Featured in Headlines
A summary of scattered items notes Missouri counties enduring a severe drought reducing crops by half, the Bergenland arriving in Halifax with a broken shaft, and violent earthquakes tormenting St Vincent. Other items include retirements at the War Department, illnesses of Hilary A. Herbert, and royal visits to the US flagship Tenois.
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Roosevelt
Mayor Low
New York
Missouri
Bergenland
Halifax
Island of
St. Vincent
Lord Pauricefote
War Department
John R. Brooke
Hilary A. Herbert
Navy
Washington
King Oscar
Sweden
Norway
United States
Te- Nois
Christiania
Emperor William
Prince Adelbert
Khel
Massachusetts
W. Kt. Holloway
St. Petersburg
Germany
Zanzibar
Seyid Ali
Iowa
Golf Champion James wins at Glen View course
Louis James of Glen View triumphed in the amateur golf championship Saturday afternoon defeating KE M Byers of Pittsburg four up and two to go. James is 19 years old and the event was held on the Glen View course. In Peking officials notified powers that conditions for restoring Tien Tsin to China are accepted.
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Chicago
Louis James
Glen View
KE. M. Byers
Pittsburg
James
Peking
Tien Tsin
Filipinos Fiercely Catholic Yet Antipathetic to Friars
In an interview from July 21 at Powl Minn, Rev. Patrick J. Hart, a former chaplain with U.S. forces in the Philippines, describes Filipino devotion to Catholic priests while resenting friars. He cites landholding friars and rents, noting natives’ push for property ownership and independence, likening it to Irish landlordism.
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Powl Minn
Patrick J. Hart
Tan
St. Paul
Philippines
Annexation tensions rise over Jamaica plan offer
Reports from Kingston and other towns July 21 describe planter dissatisfaction with a 10,000 offer to aid sugar, urging annexation to the United States. The Sioux City deal seals the purchase of the city’s streetcar and gas electric interests, while other items note a fatal hatchet wound, Hibernian convention adjournment, a train collision injuring several, and local misfortunes including a collapsed tent and a failed mermaid garden project.
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Kingston
Jamates
Robert Craig
United States
Sioux City, Jr
Sioux City
Sioux City Traction Company
Sioux City Gas and Electric Company
Train wreck halts Southwestern train near Neardetown
A Washington service train carrying ten companies of infantry encountered a washout near Neardetown at 4:40 am Saturday. The foundation under the tracks loosened for forty yards and rails rose two feet, nearly derailing the engine. Soldiers disembarked and repaired the line for over an hour, saving the eighteen coach train.
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Fe Pertenen
Trouble Ahead for Her The Gtel Kerently Married at Indianapette
In Indianapette a dispute looms over the marriage of Moy Sam to Mike Minnie Downe. Chinese residents question the union and recount accompanying affairs, including a Chinese man with a white partner and a seven year old boy, while Pang Yim’s ten year old marriage is also challenged amid complaints of a wife’s departure with an American.
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Tivilanapolia
Moy Sam
Merrie
Mike Minnie Downe
Sam
China
Pang Yim
Cane Yim
Mise
Alice Norton
Ching
State gives up the job on Tracey hunt ends
Oregon convict Harry Tracey is finally cornered after a month of pursuit across Clark Cowita Lewis Thurston Meres Kitsap Snohomish and King counties. Counties spent 810000 with Oregon refusing reward payments to Mrs Wigwower for Merrill’s body aiding the fugitive’s drop in activity.
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Wash
Harry Tracey
Oregon
Tracey
Clark
Cowilta
Lewis
Thurston
Meres
Kitsap
Snohomish
Kiing
Wigwower
Chehalis
Merrill
Tracey Hunt
The Lincoln Wrestler and the Impeachment Case
In central Tineis, young Abe Lincoln gained fame for strength and wrestling. A circuit court in the thirties heard a trial to impeach a witness by exposing him as a braggart who claimed he had thrown Abe Lincoln in a fair race. The impeachment succeeded with no further witnesses.
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Abhahbam Lincoln
Tineis
Abe Lincoln
Manufacturers Form Combination Across States
The stogic manufacturers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia have formed a combination with one exception. Rubber trees have been found in German New Guinea though one producer remains outside the pact. The Fourth of July toy pistol tragedy in Chicago claimed fourteen children. The Egyptian sphinx is rotting as climate shifts from irrigation affect its environment.
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Ohio
West Virginia
German New Guinea
Chicago
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