Seven Dead in Texas Floods Raze Fort Worth Region
Seven people are reported dead and 5,000 homeless as the Trinity River floods Fort Worth and North Fort Worth after record rains. Rail service is disrupted. damage spans stockyards, streets, and buildings with widespread property losses and missing persons.
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Tornado Storm Sweeps Texas From Panhandle To Gulf
A severe wind and rain storm swept Texas from the Panhandle to the Gulf, at times turning into a tornado. Crops, trees, and shrubbery were destroyed, homes unroofed, and villages flooded by four hours of heavy rainfall, with Austin hit hardest and agricultural areas deeply damaged.
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Result of Cloudbursts Halts Oklahoma Rail and Gas
Heavy rain and cloudbursts across Oklahoma shut down every railroad in the state. The Missouri Kansas and Texas line halted after a bridge at Eufaula collapsed. The Clarksville bridge washout cut natural gas to Muskogee and other southeast cities, with repairs expected to take a week, according to gas company officials.
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Senate Approves 37 Treaties Five Nations Arbitration Step
The United States Senate approved thirty seven treaties in a session marking a push toward arbitration and international cooperation. Agreements cover arbitration with twelve nations and settlements with Great Britain on Canada United States disputes. Additional treaties from The Hague include debt recovery war laws neutral duties and Geneva convention matters.
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Adjournment Aim Sets Pace For Congress This Week
Washington May 25 Congress intends to adjourn as early as possible this week. Both chambers will focus on completing work already begun and settling differences in conference reports. Most effort centers on appropriation and supply bills with final adjournment likely on Thursday.
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Perjury charge looms as Wood-Platt case heads to grand jury
New York May 25 A new chapter in the Wood Platt divorce case opens this week with a possible grand jury consideration of perjury charges against Mac Wood former Omaha newspaper woman and lawyer. Bail offers and public interest surround the high profile proceedings with Senator Platt named in the ongoing dispute.
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Fugitive Kessler Ends Life After Doane Tragedy
Lipman Kessler, who fled after shooting Miss Nina T. Doane in her Brooklyn grandmother’s home and wounding her intended husband Thomas Faulkner, killed himself on Fulton Street. Police found his body on the street after pursuing him in connection with the crime.
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Nina T. Doane
Brooklyn
Lipman Kessler
Fulton Street
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Thomas Faulkner
Denver man killed in city street collision
Orson C Bartholomew sixty eight from Denver was killed when an electric car hit an automobile at Twenty fourth street and Indiana avenue Chicago Miss Margaret Hawkins and Bartholomew's brother aged fifty two were injured occupants of the automobile driven by L Bartholomew police reported serious injuries to Hawkins and Bartholomew while the dead man was identified by initials O C Bartholomew.
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Bodies Recovered Five in Fire Ruins Include Kirchmayer Rehmann
In Chicago on May 25 the bodies of three more victims from the Suess Ornamental Glass plant and J. C. Wintermeyer box factory fire were found in the ruins, bringing total recovered to five. Louis Kirchmayer and Joseph Rehmann, both glass company employees, were identified among the newly found remains.
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Tragic train tragedy claims James R. Sullivan
In St Paul on May 25 James R. Sullivan nineteen was ground to pieces attempting to board a fast freight at Highwood. Five companions refused the invitation and witnessed the accident unable to help.
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Gas Leak Fatalities Claim Chicago Carpenter and Daughter
In Chicago on May 25 a gas escape from an open jet in a kitchen claimed the lives of George Roberts a carpenter and his daughter Annie aged nineteen. Officials indicate the tragedy was likely accidental and under investigation.
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George Roberts
Annie
Wreck Injures Dozens in Philadelphia Trolley Crash
In Germantown along Chestnut Hill Avenue a northbound trolley jumped the track and collided with a southbound car. Three killed including William Allenbaugh. many injured with at least sixty hurt. Mrs. George D. Wagner identified. others unnamed hospitalized.
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Alexander McKay
William Allenbaugh
Fatal Train Crash Near Reynolds Neb
A head on collision on the Burlington line at Reynolds Nebraska killed passenger engineer George Finley and left three others injured. Among the injured were mail clerk David B. Hollinger and freight crew John O Donnell and John Storm. The freight crew tried to reach Reynolds to wait for the passenger before the crossing, rather than waiting at the first station east of Reynolds.
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Quiet Week Expected in Gunness Case
La Porte Indiana May 25 Digging for victims resumes and inquiries about men tied to the farm of horrors continue. Olga L Breverick of Minneapolis writes Prosecutor Smith claiming to have information on Mrs Gunneas and her three children who she says escaped and are hiding ready to leave for Sweden.
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Triple Farm Family Tragedy in Tennessee Shootout
A four party clash near the Nation home in Tennessee left William Hilton, his son Thomas Hilton, and Benson Nation dead. Thomas Nation, father of one victim, is gravely wounded. The feud began after an earlier beating of the elder Nation by a negro farmhand, leading to the deadly exchange of shotgun and pistol fire.
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TORNADO HITS WEST COUNCIL BLUFFS NEIGHBORHOOD
A tor nado of small proportions swept the western part of Council Bluffs demolishing barns fences and small outbuildings uprooting trees and breaking telegraph telephone and electric railway poles. It formed during a sharp shower and accompanied by a heavy rain over Western Council Bluffs and parts of Omaha. No one was injured.
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Court martial sentences revolutionists in St Petersburg
In St Petersburg on May 26 the court martial of eleven revolutionists including four women concluded with four sentenced to death and six to penal servitude. one was acquitted.
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Castro decree reopens La Guayra port to trade
Caracas May 25 reports President Castro decrees La Guayra port will open to United States and European trade and to coastwise and interior trade this week after no new bubonic plague cases in recent days.
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Jilted Lover Drives Girl to Self Inflicted Death
Waterloo Iowa May 25. Seventeen year old Bessie Cotter committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid after being jilted by her lover. Her sister found her dying in her room within an hour.
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Bessie Cotter
Telegraphic Brevities Protests Against Sunday Baseball
Protests against Sunday baseball continue to come in from clergymen to the war department. The National Good Citizenship league held its session in Atlanta Georgia finishing with a mass meeting at Wesley Memorial church.
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Hoyd Putnam Died of Brights Disease in New York
Actor Hoyd Putnam, a leading figure this season for the Lilian Rus sell company, died at his brother in law Lyman Craws home in Trvienge ton New York from Brights disease.
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Baseball scores from American Association and National League
In Toledo the score was 6 to 6 between Indianapolis. Columbus defeated Louisville 16 to 2. Milwaukee lost 3 to Minneapolis. In the National League Chicago beat New York 6 to 4 at Chicago. Cincinnati fell 0 to Brooklyn 2. St Louis 0 vs Philadelphia unknown.
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Market Quotations: Minneapolis Wheat Prices May 23
Wheat prices in Minneapolis quotes show July at 1.0569 leading on track values with No. 1 hard at 1.09 and Northern grades around 1.08 to 1.07. No. 2 era listed at 1.06 and No. 3 Northern around 1.03 to 1.06, reflecting varied grade bids.
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Northern
Market Report From St. Paul May 23
Cattle prices list choice steers from $6.00 to $6.75, fair to good. Cows and heifers range $4.50 to $5.50. Veals $3.76 to $6.06. Hogs $5.45 to $5.85. Sheep and lambs show $4.50 to $7.50, lambs $5.75 to $6.00.
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Wheat and Flax Market Averages From Duluth Report
Wheat futures show prices for No. 1 Northern around 1.08 to 1.11 with May and July contracts near 1.00 to 1.06. Northern values range from 1.05 to 1.09. Flax bids around 1.22 to 1.24 with May, July, and Sept contracts noted.
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Chicago cattle and hog prices report show gains and ranges
Chicago market report lists cattle beeves at 4 757 30 Texans 4 6075 60 Western cattle 4 5005 76 stockers and feeders 5 60 6 30 cows and heifers calves 5 00 6 60 hogs light 5 30 5 67 mixed 5 30 5 70 rough 5 25 6 36 pigs 34 10 5 19 good to choice heavy 5 85 5 70 sheep 3 75 5 25 yearlings 5 60 7 7 6 30 lambs 4 50 6 80.
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Wheat and commodity prices report from Chicago
Chicago market notes show May wheat at 31.0174 and July at 90 percent, with subsequent deliveries at 86 and 87 percent. Corn prices list May 7 cents and July 66 4? cents, with September 54 cents. Oats figures include May 4? cents and July 46 57 percent, while pork and dairy quotes list May pork at 18.424, July at 13.5714, butter at 18 28? and eggs at 164? per dozen eggs. Poultry quotes cover turkeys at 14 cents and chickens at 2.50 to 6.60 per dozen.
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One Killed in Riot After Slavish Wedding in Thoburn
At Thoburn mining town near Fairmont West Virginia a riot erupted after a Slavish wedding celebration. One man was killed two police officers and twelve foreigners were injured during the unrest.
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W. Va
Thoburn
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