Demand for Oil Draws Tennessee Capitalists to Beaumont
Beaumont oil advance prompts Heavy freight demand as Tennessee capitalists and Senator McMillin Towne plan return for business. Oil firms Higgins J M Guffey National Oil and Pipe Line Sun Oil and Heywood report strong orders and expanding tank car and water transport capacity to meet rising southern and Gulf coast demand. Fort Worth discusses Swift packing plant plans in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
McMillin-Towne
Beaumont
Texas
South
Higgins Oil Company
Liverpool
Port Arthur
Mobile Transit and Fuel Company
Mobile
Ala
Atlantic
Higgins Company
Sun Oil Company
Toledo
Ohio
Jolly
J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company
Gulf Company
Morgan City
National Oil and Pipe Line Company
Kansas City Southern
Heywood Oil Company
Sabine and East Texas
Gladys
Death of a Young Woman in Sherman County
Sherman Texas June 4 Yesterday at her home nine miles northeast of Sherman Mrs Cherry aged about 20 died from a pistol shot said to be self inflicted The sister brought a green peach from the orchard The wife had tied her husband's cravat earlier and appeared cheerful The motive remains unknown and no cause is known for the act
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Sherman
Texas
McHinnery
Washington
McKimley
San Francisco
Rixey
McKinley
May Mean an Extra Session
Washington reports officials consider the possibility of an extra Congress session in July if Attorney General Knox determines the Spooner amendment limits the president's power on duties in the Philippines. A cabinet member cites the potential for emergency action if such powers are found lacking.
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New York
Herald
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Knox
Spooner
Philippines
United States
International Row Ends In Fatal Exchange In Tsin
June 4 report from Tien Tsin describes a clash between Allied troops and French soldiers amid house breaking. British fusileers fired in the air to deter the attack, then fought with about 200 Germans supporting the French. A Frenchman was killed and three wounded. four fusileers, five Germans, and one Japanese were injured before order was restored by a German officer and guards.
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Tien Tsin
Confederate Soldiers' Home Opens in Atlanta on Davis Birthday
The Confederate Soldiers' Home in Atlanta opened today as a public holiday honored Jefferson Davis birth anniversary. Governor Candler Clark Howell John D. Little and Mayor Livingston Mims spoke. The home sits five miles from downtown and sixty veterans were admitted.
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Atlanta
Confederate Soldiers’ Home
Jefferson Davis
Candler
Clark Howell
State Senate
John D. Little
House of Representatives
Livingston Mims
Beaumont Plans Mammoth Lumber Company Merger
A movement in Beaumont seeks to unite all local saw mills into a single mammoth lumber company with capitalization between 15 and 30 million dollars. One management team would run multiple mills to cut costs. Orange mills are reportedly not included in the plan.
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Mammoth Lumber Company
Beaumont
Texas
Orange
Fire in Jersey colliery at Wilkesbarre hard to stop
A ten day fire at the Jersey colliery of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania is beyond control. Water flooding the shaft offers no solution. Officials will seek new methods and may sink a new shaft to reach the fire and attempt extinction from behind it.
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New York
Jersey
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company
Wilkesbarre
Railroad Disaster Kills Two in Powhatan Crash
In Wheeling West Virginia on June 4 the second section of a Pittsburg Ohio Valley and Cincinnati railway train crashed into the first section near Powhatan. Amelia Chan is dead leaving a large family and John Meting is also killed. Over twenty persons injured.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Pittsburg, Ohio Valley and
Cincinnati
Powhatan
Amelia Chan
John Meting
Fire and burglary hit Jasper county seat in Texas
Fire started by safe blowers leveled Jasper town structures including the county treasurer J B Faircloth and post office with cash loot over 3000 dollars. Loss tallies run about 40000 dollars with rumors up to 100000. robbers sought private funds and fled as authorities pursue incendiaries. Train service to Jasper to begin Tuesday.
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Beaumont
Tex
J. B. Faircloth
Jasper
Jasper County
Post Ofice
Faircloth
Brown
Gulf, Beaumont
Kansas City
Great Tehuantepec Fire Claims Dozens Of Lives
Oaxaca dispatch reports a ten day blaze on a Tehuantepec isthmus coffee plantation area. Over seventy laborer families perished in huts as flames destroyed coffee and tropical crops including bananas and oranges. A tropical rain finally quenched the fire.
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Chicago
The
Tribune
Oaxaca
Mexico
Tehuantepec
Drowned in City Park Lake Before Large Crowds
William T Haute a 24 year old machinist and second lieutenant of Company B First Colorado National Guard drowned while boating with two companions at City Park lake in front of about 56000 spectators. The boat swamped and Haute who could not swim drowned before assistance arrived.
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Denver
Colo
William T. Haute
First Regiment
Colorado National Guards
City Park
Haute
Monument unveiled for Constable Pate Bain in Garland
A Texas marble monument honoring Constable Pate Bain was unveiled in Garland, twelve miles from Dallas, though rain fell on five thousand Dallas County residents. Bain died in a saloon back room on December 3 after being drugged, robbed, and set ablaze. Eugene Faulkner faces death, while W M Reno and John Chapman endure life terms. The Knights of Pythias funded the plain fifteen foot shaft with a simple inscription. R B L Knight delivered the oration.
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Pate Bain
Dallas
Texas
Garland
Dallas County
Bain
Knights of Pythias
R. B. L. Knight
Will Try Prayers In Eight Hour Day Rally
Chicago June 3 News says the Chicago Federation of Labor urged prayers from Presbyterians and all denominations for the eight hour work day. A telegram to the Pittsburg synod was prepared urging prayer and a vigorous national campaign. The move followed satire about union criticisms at the religious assembly.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
Federation
Pittsburg
Chicago Labor Assembly
Bowman
Fayring
Trolley Car Collision Injures Several in McKeesport
A collision between a United Traction trolley car and a train on the McKeesport and Bellevue branch in McKeesport yesterday left nine people seriously injured, with one child and Conductor Irwin Montgomery among the severely hurt. Montgomery may die from a spinal injury. others include a 3 month old infant, a 6 year old girl, and residents James Montville Tony Jordan James Smith.
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McKeesport
United Traction Company
Bellevue
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway
James Montville
Right Temple
Edna Fey
Duquesne
Tony Jordan
James Smith
Irwin Montgomery
Three Men Killed By Train Near Erie
Erie June 3. While crossing Lake Shore tracks at Northeast, east of Erie, Hugh Walters and Michael Findley were killed and Bruce Hazlett fatally injured when their rig was struck by a fast passenger train. All men resided in Findley’s Lake New York and were en route home.
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Erie
Lake Shore Railroad
Hugh Walters
Michael Findley
Bruce Hazlett
Findley
Lake N. Y
Global tensions and disasters colored the era’s news
Reports from across the world describe China accepting indemnity terms, lethal eruptions in Batavia, mass cults of events in New York, labor strikes ending peacefully, and a coal mine gas explosion in Dayton killing twenty one. Weather damage spans Texas to Nevada while philanthropy and politics shape local affairs in Birmingham and Ada.
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Iowa
Prohibition Convention
Des Moines
Carrie Nation
Dayton
Tenn
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
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Fort Worth
Edward F. Swift
Board of Trade Directory
Swift
Board of Trade
Mr. Swift
A. B. Causey
Jeff Davis Rifles
J. R. Faircloth
H. C. Howell
K. B. Seale
L. B. Scarborough & Co
Seale & Co
R. C. Lanier
W. P. Nix
W. B. Powell
Balke Bros
J. B. Lanier
W. Price
Blake & Neyland
W. J. B. Adams
N. M. Hart
S. A. Harper
Eddy Bros
Jackson Bros. & Collier
China
George Cadbury
Birmingham
Cyril W. King
U.S. District Court
New York City
Ernc Littman
Oldenburg
Germany
Princeton
Charles 8. Fairchild
Guv. Tilden
Treasury
Franz Schubert
Vienna
Wyssick
Thebe
Territorial College
Ada
I. T
Albert C. Case
Carnegie Company
American Cotton Company
New Jersey
Pennsylvania Railroad
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