Fire destroys 265 derricks at Spindletop oilfield
A Beaumont dispatch reports a morning fire at the Hogg Swayne tract beginning near 1 o'clock. Loss estimated between 800000 and 1000000 dollars with 265 derricks destroyed and 200 wells out of production. Three blocks burned. no injuries. No extinguishing efforts possible within 100 feet of flames. Meanwhile in New York Mrs. Clarence V. Graham, missing rings, and possible knockout-drug incident, is investigated.
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New Orleans
Beaumont
Tex
Hogg-Swayne
Caldwell Oil Company
New York
Clarence V. Graham
Bellevue Hospital
Graham
Broadway
Madison Avenue
Cowboy Breakfast At Hugo To Welcome President Roosevelt
A request to entertain President Roosevelt with a genuine cowboy breakfast at Hugo Colorado on April 15 was received from Secretary Loeb. The presidential party will stop briefly to greet locals early that morning, with stockmen and cowboys from the region expected to participate in a breakfast laid out in cowboy style.
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Hugo
Colo
Roosevelt
Loeb
Loubet Receives Warm Welcome in Algiers Visit
Algiers hosts President Loubet with gala decorations and flags as crowds gather on Boulevard de la Republique and at the wharves. International greetings arrive aboard Russian, British, Italian squadrons and French flagship Dubayla with Moroccan commission aboard.
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Algiers
Loubet
Napoleon III
Boulevard de la Republique
Dubayla
Pelayo
Spain
Don Carlos
Miss Grace Bird Weds Henry Gilbert Hart Jr in Church of the Incarnation
Grace Bird daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Bird of Galveston Texas married Henry Gilbert Hart Jr at the Church of the Incarnation. The ceremony was attended by close relatives and a few friends with Rev. Wilmer Parke Bird, her brother, giving her away. The couple will reside in Utica.
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Galveston
New York
Grace Bird
Samuel Bird
Tex
Henry Gilbert Hart
Church of the Incarnation
Wilmer Parke Bird
Hart
Utica
Failed Purchase Talks Between Rail Firms Abandoned
New York April 15 A leading interest in the Rock Island company announced the proposed purchase of the St Louis and San Francisco road had been abandoned for the present Negotiations have been dropped but may be resumed The failure is not related to the Northern Securities decision It was a price dispute with parties failing to agree
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New York
Rock Island Company
St. Louis
San Francisco
Northern Securities
Sad end of a courtship in Georgia and Algeria voyage update
Ivy Dampier of Quitman Brooks county shot himself after a deputy sheriff with a warrant pursued him. Georgia Rogers, believed engaged to Dampier, shot herself and lies fatally wounded. In Marseilles Loubet and officials boarded the Jeanne bound for Algiers amid naval salutes. a large fleet of warships from Russia Britain Italy Spain and France awaits.
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Savannah
Ivy Dampier
Quitman
Brooks County
Georgia Rogers
Dampier
Algeria
Marseilles
Loubet
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Jeanne
Algiers
Russia
Great Britain
Italy
Spain
France
Doubtful Ratification of U S Colombia Panama Canal Pact
A Bogota dispatch reports ratification of the United States Colombia and Panama canal treaty is extremely doubtful, creating uncertainty over the pact’s fate.
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London
Bogota
Colombia
Shooting Brawl in Dadeville Ends in Deaths and Wounds
In Dadeville Alabama on April 15 a reckless exchange of gunfire erupted between 15 year old Ellis Berkstresser and older Bill Thompson. Berkstresser fired killing John Fuller with a stray bullet while both youths suffered wounds.
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Alabama
Dadeville
Ala
Ellis Berkstresser
Bill Thompson
Thompson
Berkstresser
John Fuller
Campau Awarded to Binghamton in Arbitration Dispute
Secretary Farrell announced the national board of arbitration has awarded Charles Campau to the Binghamton club in the dispute between the New Orleans and Binghamton clubs over his services. The decision is nearly unanimous. In Chicago a separate note reports N Greenfelder & Co has assigned, with stock inventory underway.
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Campau
Binghampton
Auburn
N. Y
Farrell
National Board of Arbitration
New Orleans Baseball Club
Binghamton Club
Charles Campau
Binghamton
Chicago
N. Greenfelder & Co
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Atlanta
Emory Speer
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Georgia Sawmill Association
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