Tornado Toll Rises Across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma
A May 15 report details tornadoes that struck Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma killing at least nine and injuring fifty five. Hollis Kansas was swept away three dead ten injured while a Great Bend area tornado killed two and injured twenty.
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Kansas City
Kanena
Missouri
Oklahoma
Mt. Washington
Fairmount Park
Hollis
Kan
Fred Jerdon
John Cyre
George Behkert
Eckestram
Fe Milesing
Jule
Great Bend
William Ackerly
Santa Fe
Frank Nicholson
Kingsley
Ackerly
Widow Kills Annoying Man in Kansas Town
Myrtle Brewer a widow from Little River is jailed in Lyons after confessing to killing Frederick Ann, a bridge carpenter. The body was found in Brewer's yard with a bullet wound to the heart, fired from a window in her house. She says Ann annoyed her and she was justified, having borrowed a revolver the day before. The community is greatly excited.
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Lyons
Kan
Myrtle Brewer
Little River
Here
Jai
Frederick Ann
Association to push federal supervision of food factories
Washington reports that at its next annual meeting the association of state and national food and dairy departments will seek congressional passage of a bill for government supervision of factories producing interstate foods. The proposal mirrors the meat inspection law and follows past victories on pure food and drugs acts. The group will also examine canning premises and probe use of benzoate of soda to hide decayed fruit and vegetables.
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Washington
Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments
Congress
Wilson
Funeral Sermon Heard On Deathbed In Gas City
Elias B. Burns eighty eight heard his own funeral sermon in his bedroom after doctors said he had hours to live. He summoned his minister Rev. Henry Schwan and forty friends to attend the service as hymns were sung and a sermon was preached.
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Gas City
Ind
Elias B. Burns
Drownings Of A Day In New York City
Three men drowned in New York on a warm day. Abram Rivera a student from a wealthy Guatemalan family drowned at West New Brighton while attempting to swim a pond. Two other unknown men died when a small rowing boat overturned in the Hudson River by a steamer wash.
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New York
New York City
Abram Rivera
Guatemala
Central America
West New Brighton
Hud
Horn Case Ready for Jury in Arizona Mine Scheme
Closing arguments concluded in Kansas City for the government against the Hort brothers 8 H Snider and Raymond May charged with the legal use of the Two Queens mine in Arizona. Leane J Lyons urged the case for the prosecution asserting a $6 000 payment for a half interest and a mine capitalized at 10 000 000.
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Kansas City
Hort Brothers
H. Snider
Raymond May
Queens
Arizona
Leane J. Lyons
United States District Attorney
Horn
Mr. Lyons
J. 8
Bottsford
Lost duke of Austria reappears in Chicago
Johann Salvator, claimed by some as the lost archduke, resurfaced in Chicago after vanishing from Painesville. He spoke with Austrian consul Otto Graf who doubted his claim and stated no action would be taken, as Salvator would return to his machine shop job in Painesville.
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Chicago
Johbann Salvator
Austria
Painesville
Otto Graf
Nothig
Painceville
Taft Receives Golden Key for Alaska Exposition
President Taft will open the Yukon Alaska exposition in Seattle on June 1 with a golden telegraphic key presented by Secretary Ballinger and Washington delegates. The key, mounted on Alaska marble and inlaid with twenty two gold nuggets, will be connected to White House telegraph wires for the inaugural touch.
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Washington
Taft
Seattle
Ballinger
Alaska
White House
Judge Dismisses Fraud Charges Against Diamond Coal and Coke
Cheyenne May 18 Judge Riner in federal court dismissed fraud charges brought by special agents of the government against the Diamond Coal and Coke company The salts were brought to compel the company to restore to the government several hundred acres of coal land in Uinta county alleged to have been obtained by fraud.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Riner
Diamond Coal and Coke Company
Uinta County
McCall and Warner Free in Mike Swindle Case
Judge Trieber of the federal court dismissed charges against Montgomery McCall alias F. M. Clark and Isadore J. Warner, linked to J. Maybray in the Mike swindle syndicate. They were accused of shipping matter forbidden by law through the express.
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Little Rock
Trieber
Federal Court
Montgomery McCall
F. M. Clark
Isadore J. Warner
J. ©. Maybray
Mike
Express
Daughter Charged With Father's Murder in Ramsey Jail
St Paul May 18 Louise Arbogast nineteen daughter of late Louis Arbogast wealthy butcher killed in his home last week is in Ramsey county jail under commitment from police court. She is formally charged with murder. It is believed the girl was insane.
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St. Paul
Louise Arbogast
Louis Arbogast
Ramsey County
Bail Plea for Morse Faces June Hearing
Counsel for Charles W. Morse, former banker, asked to admit Morse to bail pending his hearing set for June 1. About a score of New York financiers and businessmen offered to post $5,000 bail each. Decision was reserved.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Morse
Five More Turks Hanged in Parliament Square
In Constantinople on May 18 five additional men were hanged before the parliament buildings. The men were executed after being found guilty by court martial of complicity in the murder of their officers during the revolutionary outbreak of April 44.
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Constantinople
170 Mules Die in Fire at Kansas City Stock Yards
A fire swept the Kansas City stock yards burning seven stables and killing 170 mules. The vast loss included heavy damage to property and cattle facilities, with investigators assessing the blaze’s cause.
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Kansas City
Prisoner Halas Sentenced to Sing Sing for Murder
Captain Peter C Halas U S A was sentenced to eight to sixteen years in Sing Sing for the killing of William E Annis on the front of the Bay Isle Yacht Club list last August. He appeared unconcerned in court and sank into a chair after the sentence was read.
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William E. Annis
L. 1
Peter C. Halas
Sing Sing
Mrs Taft Suffers Nervous Break Down On Trip
Mrs Taft became ill with a nervous attack while traveling from Washington to Mount Vernon aboard the yacht Sylph with friends. She was rushed back to the White House. doctors say rest for a few days should allow her to resume social duties. President Taft released the official statement.
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Washington
Taft
Mount Vernon
White House
Mrs. Taft
Alexandria
Delaney Je
Moore
Political clash over Jefferson Davis portrait sparks House laughter
In Washington on May 18 Speaker Cannon blocked reopening civil war wounds. Hollingsworth of Ohio rose on personal privilege to object to Jefferson Davis portrait on the Mississippi battle cruiser silver service amid Southern editorials. The reading provoked laughter as unflattering epithets about Hollingsworth were aired in the Congressional Record.
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Washington
Cannon
Hollingsworth
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Congressional
Sherman
Ohio
Big Fire Destroys Fort Smith Cotton Press
A large blaze in Fort Smith Arkansas on May 18 destroyed the Fort Smith compress and its 5,000 bales of cotton. The fire caused about 200000 dollars in losses and is reported as insured.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Father and Son Slain Near Richmond by Rallsback
In Richmond Indiana on May 18 Kidh Meek and his son Raymond were killed a few miles away by Joseph Rallsback who was wounded in the leg. The assailant used a shotgun.
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Richmond
Ind
Kidh Meek
Raymond
Here
Joseph Rallsback
Rallsback
Body of Missing Boy Found in Newark River
The body of John Altmeyer, six years old, who had been reported kidnapped, was recovered from the river in Newark, Ohio, on May 18. Local authorities are investigating the case.
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Newark
John Altmeyer
Carn Marth Sinks After Striking Auderville Rocks
The British steamer Carn Marth ran ashore on the Auderville rocks off Cherbourg and sank with passengers aboard. Local reports confirm the disaster and casualties are feared.
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Binks
Cherbourg
Carn Marth
Auderville Rocks
Ali
George Meredith Dies in London
London reports the death of English novelist George Meredith this morning. He passed away in the capital, ending a long career in literature.
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George Meredith
London
Senate Debates Income Tax and Tariff Bill
Washington May 18 the senate held a long discussion of the income tax by major speakers and an extended defense of the pending tariff measure by Senator Depew. The session also included a lengthy review of the tariff bill's cutlery schedule before adjournment.
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Senate
Washington
Mojors
Depew
New Fleet Commander Seaton Schroeder Leads Atlantic Force
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder assumes command of the reorganized Atlantic fleet aboard the battleship Connecticut. The reshuffle detaches Captain Hugo Osterhaus to the second fleet division with the Minnesota as flagship. Schroeder, with a long naval record including service in the Spanish American War, is promoted to succeed Admiral Sperry as head of the great fighting force.
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Renton Schroer
Connecticut
Admiral Schroeder
Admiral Sperry
Hugo Osterhaus
Minnesota
Schroeder
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Havana
Cervera
Santiago
Guam
Pacific Ocean
Weston and Walking Across a Continent at Seventy
Edward Payson Weston, aged seventy, starts a 5000 mile walk from Portland to San Francisco to prove walking delays old age. He began on March 15 near his seventieth birthday, aiming for arrival around July 8, following a past Portland to Chicago trek that set a faster pace.
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Edward Payson Weston
San Francisco
Mr. Weston
Portland
Chicago
Maine City
Mr. Westen
Providence
Eo L. Ant
Boston
Washington
Governor Glenn Turns Missionary After North Carolina Tenure
Former North Carolina governor Robert BR Glenn has left politics to pursue mission work with the Southern Presbyterian church as its special representative. A temperance advocate and Presbyterian elder, he led state prohibition and sparked a federal rail rate law controversy that fueled speculation about a presidential run.
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North Carolina
Robert BR. Glenn
Southern Presbyterian Church
South Carolina
Glenn
Carolinas
Trees as Conservators of Public Health
Trees are described as conservators of public health and laboratories of nature. Their leaves absorb carbonic acid and emit oxygen, acting as sanitary agents that uplift health and inspiration for people living among them.
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