Fire destroys New York car barn and power plant
Fire roared through the New York City Railway car barn and power plant on Lenox avenue near One Hundred and Forty-seventh Street. The blaze razed the block and wiped out over 300 cars and most of the plant except the electrical department. One fireman Captain J. Ryan was killed when a wall collapsed. several others were seriously injured. Initial reports claimed seven firefighters crushed by a falling wall.
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New York
New York City Railway Company
Lenox Avenue
J. Ryan
Four Frenchmen Arrive for Carnegie Institute Dedication
Four distinguished Frenchmen touring the United States arrived on the La Touraine to attend the Carnegie Institute dedication in Pittsburg this week. The visitors include Baron D Estournelles de Constant D L C Enlart director of the French Trocadero museum J Rais secretary to the chamber of deputies and Paul Doumer ex president of the French senate. Theo D Buhl of Detroit president of Buhl Malleable Iron Works and Parke Davis Co. collapsed and died of apoplexy in New York City while a guest at the Waixaho tr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Institute
New York
Pittsburg
la Touraine
Baron D’estournelles de Constant
D. L. C. Enlart
J. Rais
Chamber of Deputies
Paul Doumer
Senate
Theo. D. Buhl
Buhl Malleable Iron Works
Detroit
Detroit National Bank
Parke, Davis & Co
Waixaho*tr
Legislature Suspends Rule For County Depository Bill
In Austin on April 8 a heated House debate over suspending a constitutional rule ended with a 90 to 1 vote to suspend and the rule upheld by Speaker Love. The session then adjourned to resume in the afternoon, with the Dallas charter bill sent to the Senate and amendments including a recall proposal. Senate action included a 20 to 5 vote on Robertson's insurance bill and other measures affecting railroad reporting, ad valorem tax, and liquor taxes in local option districts.
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Austin
House
Representative Means
Love
Brown
Wharton
Alderdice
Reeves and McKenzie
Committee On Public Health
Dallas
Senate
Robertson
Texas
State Tax Board
Conductor Killed In Texas Train Wreck Near Wells Creek
Conductor T. H. McKeen of Palestine was fatally injured when the caboose of his train derailed near Wells Creek seven miles north of Palestine. He was alone in the caboose as the rear brakeman had boarded the engine earlier. Remains sent to his home. he leaves a family and had years of service with the Texas railroad. A separate South End freight wreck near Grapeland ditched ten cars with no injuries.
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Palestine
Tex
T. H. McKeen
Wells Creek
McKeen
Neches
Texas Railroad
Grapeland
Texas Capital to Organize Huge Lumber Company
Houston reports that a large lumber company will be formed with $200000 authorized stock to exploit Santo Domingo timber. The project is Texas capital driven with extensive timber stakes already made. The convention may move to Austin to seek tax relief during legislative adjournment.
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Houston
Santo Domingo
Texas Capital
Austin
Trades Excursionists Depart
Sixty eight Fort Worth business representatives left on a special Santa Fe train for a 1 600 mile trade excursion through west Texas and the Panhandle.
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Fort Worth
Santa Fe
West Texas
The
Panhandle
Closing law rigorously enforced in Austin on April 8
Fort Yin notes local 9 holds election on April 27. The terse dispatch records the strict application of a closing law in Austin dated April 8 and announces the scheduled election date for Fort Yin.
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Austin
Fort Yin
Thaw Trial Nears End as Delmas Addresses Jury
The Thaw murder case enters its final week with the jury locked up after the defense's 2 PM address. Delmas argues for acquittal on New York law while recounting Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's life as the trial closes in on its historic duration.
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Hamilton
York
Thaw
New York
Harry Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Justice Fitzgerald
Delmas
Allan McLane Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton
Stanford White
Fitzgerald
Jerome
Extradited Man Cannot Be Jailed On New Charge
In the Browne case the U S Supreme Court ruled that a person extradited from Canada on one charge cannot be imprisoned in another case. Charles C Browne, a New York merchandize appraiser, was freed by writ of habeas corpus after a circuit court order. Also, Mrs George B Cox of Cincinnati reports theft by sneak thieves in New York, with jewelry valued at $35 000 taken from her.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Supreme Court of
Charles C. Browne
New York
Peckham
Hough
Circuit Court
Southern District of New York
Browne
Cincinnnati
George B. Cox
Cox
Castro Relapse Report From Wellemstadt and Texas
A jumble of brief items notes President Castro suffering a relapse in Wellemstadt and a planned $40 000 hotel project in Plainview Texas. Other items report a train death near Guthrie Loraine, Texas bond votes for a $10 000 schoolhouse, and various local incidents across Oklahoma and Texas.
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Plainview
Tex
Hilton
Guthrie Loraine
San Angelo
Franz
Oklahoma
Waxahachie
Tulsa
I. T
Honduras
New Orleans
Mobile
B. M. Mitchell
Yoakum
Snyder
Fred A. Busse
Chicago
M. R. Williams
Muskogee
Indianapolis Typographical Union
Young Men’s Christian Association Fund
Louis Bossert
Nag’s Head
N. C
White
Woodward County
Hel Harrison White
Ed Smith
Smith
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C. E. Bullock & Co
Will S. Higgs
Ed Hall
Howell Bros
B. Kaczer & Co
D. Mike Jr
J. H. Mawhinney
Sanders Bros
Jno
M. Sebesta
TSI and Market Products
Higgs & Haygoods
D. i. Mitchell
FOLEY
Foley & Company
M. H. James
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
Bryan Street
Buhl
Robb
Ernest Alford
Castro
Wellemstadt
Ejoel
ROBDE
Blondwood
King Nut
Nutwood
Mary Glenn
Red Wilkes
George Wilk
Reagan,Tex
Bloadwood
Henry & Brogdon Bros
Bryan, Tex
S. W. Higgs
Bryan
Alwrasz
John Wittman
Ittman Merchant Tailor
S. H. Franklin
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