East Side Shooting Ends Scrap in Des Moines
Ed Ellis aged 23 was shot and killed by warehouseman Charles Babishky after a crowd outside his office at 219 East Fourth Street attacked Babishky. Babishky says he fired in self defense to deter further attack. Ellis, drunk, had promoted the assault and lived at 411/144 Shaw Street. Coroner to hold an inquest. Babishky held on murder charge.
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Des Moines
Ed Ellis
Charles Babishky
A. S. Kirkhart
Bilis
Babishky
East Fourth Street
Hamilton
Jackson
Pettit
Harry, Davis and Bailey
Register and Leader
Ellis
Hel
Anderson Coal Company
George
Harold
Shaw Street
Lee
Dunn Undertaking Company
sHiel
Personal Briefs From Thursday's Daily Visit Notes
Miss Mapel Johnson visited her sister Mrs Henry Ingertson in town from Jewell. Miss Della Shafer returned to Blairsburg after a week with Mrs P H Morris. Mr and Mrs W J Streveler Miss Wilter Baker and Earl Baker of Blairsburg were in town visiting friends. Carl Cormaney accompanied Earl Baker home for a visit. Mrs J H Whalen returned to Williams yesterday.
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L. Hasty
Hilsworth
Ole Hollivan
Hagle Grove
P. Mathie
Smith Veach
Peoria
Chicago
Fairbury
Illinois
Davenport
Zoe Smith
Eagle Grove
Nettie Nott
Marshall
Minnesota
Drusilla
Ww.h. Dick
Washington, D. C
Rockwell
Mason
City
Clear Lake
Miss Dick
Mercantile
Leona Dick
C. A
R. M. Warfield and Son
Sioux City
J. W. Kearns
Herbert Bingham
Miller, South Dakota
J. S. Bingham
E. H. Hemmen
Elmore
Minn
W. J. Frakes
Mapel Johnson
Jewell
Henry Ingertson
Della Shafer
Blairsburg
P. H. Morris
W. J. Streveler
Wilter Baker
Earl Baker
Carl Cormaney
Eail Baker
J. H. Whalen
Williams
Comfort For The Veterans At Gettysburg Camp
Veterans from both sides converge on Gettysburg for next week’s reunion with 14 information bureaus and Boy Scouts guiding veterans to their tents. A 10 000 seat auditorium is being built, 40000 additional blankets were purchased for cold weather, and a dedicated telephone network links the camp to distant homes.
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Gettysburg
W. A. Wright
Winchester
War Department
National Park Commission
United States Signal Corps
Newman Named for Capital Position
Oliver P. Newman of Iowa, a Des Moines and Sioux City newspaper man, is appointed District of Columbia commissioner by President Wilson. He will join F. L. Siddons as a two man team to plan Washington as a model city and awaits Senate confirmation amid political opposition.
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Washington
D. C
Oliver P. Newman
Iowa
Des Moines
Sioux City
District of Columbia
Wilson
Newman
Oliver Pe Newman
Senate
Cummins
Kenyon
F. L. Siddons
Siddons
Eight Die In Ottawa Embankment Train Crash
Ottawa Ontario reporters say eight people were killed when the Canadian Pacific Western Express plunged an embankment into the Ottawa river near Miles west of Ottawa. Four cars fell into the river and two were wrecked on the track as the immigrant laden train derailed from a spreading rail. Eight bodies were recovered, including four men three women and a baby, with fears others may be trapped. total deaths estimated at fifteen.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canadian Pacific Railway
Here
Two inch rain brings mixed luck to Hamburg area
Hamburg Iowa June 27 With wheat near ready to cut and vegetation dry the two inch rain yesterday morning brings both gains and losses. Hail accompanied the shower and fine wheat fields flattened. Bert Carpenter loses a Missouri crop expected to net over $6,000 as farmers weigh rain's impact.
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Hamburg
Bert Carpenter
Missouri
Alleged Slayer Tries to Kill Self in Jail
James L. Bacon former Colorado legislator awaiting murder charges for killing his wife and stepdaughter by explosion was found unconscious in his Cripple Creek jail cell with deep abdominal wounds. He attempted hara-kari with a small pocket knife borrowed Wednesday under pretence of trimming his fingernails.
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Cripple Creek
Col
James L. Bacon
Colorado
Transfers kidneys curing rich men in Greek war tale
A Norfolk man publishes a letter from Greek volunteers recounting Dr. Valois Damien from Paris performing surgical experiments. The physician allegedly moved healthy organs from slaughtered soldiers to living patients at an invalid camp near Janina to save wealthy men.
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Philadelphia
George F. Viett
Norfolk
M. Cremedas
Cremedas
Valois Damien
Paris
Janina
Damien
Philates
Seventeen Dead in Buffalo Milling Plant Explosion
Buffalo, June 26. Seventeen are known dead and eighteen missing after the catastrophic fire and explosion at the Milling and Elevator Company plant. Nine of sixty hospitalised victims died yesterday as authorities revise the missing count downward and intensify search amid heat and smoldering ruins.
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Buffalo
Johnson in Canada bound for Europe
Montreal report states Jack Johnson the heavyweight pugilist admitted plans to sail for Europe next Tuesday to fight in St Petersburg next September. He also said he would not forfeit his bail bond due next November in Chicago on a white slave charge.
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Montreal
Jack Johnson
Europe
St. Petersburg
Chicago
Department of Justice
Can
Johnson
Cedar Lake
Ind
Charles F. McWoody
Canada
Mr. de Woody
Leaven- Worth
Benjamin C. Bachrach
Pugilist
Japanese Ordered Out of Hemet Town
Anti Japanese sentiment flared in Hemet California when a group of citizens ordered a Japanese apricot picking crew from Riverside to leave at once. The baggage was loaded onto a train behind them. No Japanese were left in Hemet after the incident.
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Riverside
Cal
Hemet
Tragedy at Des Moines Auditorium Claims Two Boys
Des Moines reports two youths aged 11 and 14 died after a 60 foot fall from a stage loft ventilator at the new Auditorium on Fourth Street. George Bracken 14 survived with injuries, recalling he and Ed slept atop the roof while climbing. Coroner James Lee investigates skull fracture and multiple injuries.
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Des Moines
George Bracken
Hahn
George
Fourth Street
Ed Ward
Harry. Goodrich
J. F. Nash
Bac
Guy KE. Clift
Eb.b. Winnett
Mercy Hospital
Newton
James Lee
Rebels Not Ready to Attack Juarez
Advance guards of Pancho Villa's rebels have not appeared near Juarez. Rebels say Villa is delayed by water shortages and cannot reach Juarez today, with Saturday night or Sunday the earliest possible strike. El Paso history notes casualties from Juarez fighting. Carranza emissaries seek to bar attack in the name of international peace.
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el Paso
Tex
Pancho Villa
Juarez
Villa
Venustiano Carranza
Carranza
United States
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Ploye
Him
William Markwardt
Bertha Ross
Grand Island
Nebraska
Ralph Moore
Alden
W. W. Scott
W. L. Whitham
Clara Rieck
Alice
R. M. Riley
O. E B. Sills
Goldfield
Berryhill
Kamrar
M. J. C. Gratiot
M. A. Finck
Galena
Geo. T. Chamberlin
Winnneg
Manitoba
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Alaska
Chugach National Forest
Bureau of Forestry
Chugach Forest
Aleutian Peninsula
Kadiak Island
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Bright
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Hara-Kari
Wil
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