Delta Floods Crescent Mississippi Delta Breached
The Mississippi delta suffers three flood breaks with main rivers gashing through Wayside and a point opposite Arkansas City. The flooded region stretches from Greenville to Vicksburg, threatening Greenville city and heavy cotton lands. 10,000 residents race to save homes as rail lines and plantations are submerged and relief efforts mobilize.
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Gunnison
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Berthshire
Yazoo
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Georgia Railroad
Ilinois Central Road
Laconia Circle
Ark
Greek Colonel Vassos protests Admirals over Crete clashes
Col Vassos telegrams King George accusing Greek allied admiralty of failing to stop Musulman rioters at Candamos and criticizing bombardment of Cretan Christians. He vows an energetic protest as he denounces foreign fleet actions and urges Europe to end a policy causing horror and population risk on Crete.
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Vassos
Crete
George
Cadamo
Malaxa
Canea
Oanea
Vascos
Chandler Tornados Wreck Town Leaves 170 Injured
Chandler Oklahoma endured a cyclone that leveled the interior boom town. Of 1500 residents, 26 died outright, 170 injured with 14 expected to die and 24 in serious condition. property losses exceed 500000 as fires follow the destruction. The storm caused a mass evacuation, with a ruined Main Street and hospitals improvised in surviving buildings. Official communication to Guthrie was cut. relief efforts mobilized with Guthrie club funding and Fort Reno supplies.
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O. T
Presbyterian Church
Mitchell’s Hotel
New York
Lincoln County Bank
Chandler
Guthrie
Cow Creek
Dale
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Horace
A. D. Kinney
Blizzard blocks western rail travel in storm three states
Severe blizzard halts all rail traffic across western Nebraska Kansas Wyoming and Colorado and cripples Oklahoma. Snow depths reach 2 to 18 inches as trains on the Burlington Union Pacific and Rock Island are abandoned or stuck in heavy drifts. Telegraph lines fail cutting communication with blocked trains.
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Nebraska
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Oklahoma
Burlington
Union Pacific
Rock Island
Holcomb Reprimands Thurston Over Recount Debate
Governor Holcomb replies to Senator Thurston after Washington dispatches feature his attack on recounts of the constitutional amendment ballots. He defends the recount commission and cites earlier Republican legislatures to justify the need for a decision on the new supreme court plan.
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Laxcom
Washington Dispatches
Thurston
Supreme Court
Governor Stephens Favors Facts on Licensing Bill
Jefferson City April 1 Governor Stephens spent most of the day hearing supporters of the horse breeders bill licensing pool selling and book making. He called the bill vicious but said he must have good reasons to override senate and house action. He believes it will not license prize fighting. Cyclone Damage in Kansas.
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Senate
House
Lee
Washington
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Ruiz
John RB. Day
Canton
Day
Pass the Tariff Bill Unbroken GOP Front Now in Force
Washington April 1. The Dingley tariff duties went into force and the Republicans showed an unbroken front while five Democrats including three from Louisiana and two from Texas approved the bill. One Populist Howard of Alabama voted for it. twenty-one opposed or abstained. Final vote 206 to 122 with 21 present and not voting.
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Alabama
Washington
Louisiana
Texas
Ala
Mays
Grosvenor
Senate Confirms Nominations for Public Posts
Washington April 1 The senate confirmed Joseph L Bristow Kansas to be fourth assistant postmaster general Henry Clay Evans Tennessee to be commissioner of pensions Thomas Ryans of Topeka Kan to be first assistant secretary of the interior Frank W Palmer Illinois to be public printer Western Senators urged McKinley to revoke President Cleveland s forest reservation order affecting 21 000 000 acres of public domain
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Senate
Thomas W. Cridler
West Virginia
Nathan P. Johnson
South Dakota
Sisseton
John A. Childs
Evanston
O. Weir
Rantoul
Ill
Henry L. Chesley
Sutherland
P. P. Corrick
Cozaa
WasHiInaton
Joseph L. Bristow
Kansas
Henry Clay Evans
Tennessee
Thomas Ryans
Topeka
Kan
Fiest
The
Interior
Frank W. Palmer
Illinois
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Clark
Warren
Mantle
Carter
Wilson
Pettigrew
Messrs
Turner, McDill
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Cleveland
South Dakota Flood Rises Across Jim River
Hunon April 1 The Jim river over half a mile wide and rising nearly an inch per hour. Ice moved last night gorging heavily and broken with dynamite. Cemetery bridge and another six miles downstream have gone out. High water mark of 1881 could be surpassed tonight. North reports heavy rains and all streams rising. the flood’s worst not yet reached. Continuous rain through the foren noon.
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Hunon
Jim River
Cemetery Bridge
Freight cuts and labor strike threaten Milwaukee brewery
Cut in freight rates Detroit to Cleveland from 31g to d cents per 100 triggers price movement. Milwaukee brewery workers demand 8-hour day at current 10-hour pay, with a strike threat. National troops defeat insurgents near Montevideo on April 3, with heavy casualties.
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Grummond
Cleveland
Detroit and
Milwauxie
Milwaukee
Montevingo
Proof of Sincerity and New Deputies Named
An Army officer tests the Mussulman belief in fate by shooting at his temple and then at a clock, proving fate may govern death. The stunt ends with the clock’s center dial struck as proof. In Omaha on April 1 United States Marshal Thummel announces James Allan of Omaha and George H. Palmer of Broken Bow as field deputies, with A. H. Coggeshall kept as chief office deputy.
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Thummel
Omaha
James Allan
George H. Palmer
Broken Bow
A. H. Coggeshall
Civil Service Commission
Ingalls Fires Broadside at Bishop McCabe in Kansas
Torrka April 1 John J Ingalls fires a broadside at Bishop McCabe of the Methodist Episcopal church after the bishop criticized Ingalls for reporting the Carson Nevada incident. The piece also notes that in 1890 there were 785 women professors in U S colleges and universities.
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Torrka
Kan
John J. Ingalls
Bishop McCabe
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fitzsimmons
Corbett
Carson
Nev
United States
Seven Brights Held Seats in the House of Commons
A note in John Brights era records states that at one period as many as seven of his relatives held seats in the House of Commons, underscoring the family’s political influence during that era.
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Home of Commons
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