Fire disasters across Manhattan and Toulon burn hundreds
Fire reports detail four Italians dead and 250 horses killed in a large stable blaze on Christopher and Barrow streets. Two fire engines wrecked, twelve firefighters injured, and $200,000 in losses plus additional fires on the Upper East and East Seventy-third Street. In Toulon, a massive arsenal fire endangers homes, destroys stores, and buries workers, with millions of francs in damage and several fatalities feared.
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New York
Upper East Side
Broadway
Middle East Side
Christopher
Barrow
Christopher, Barrow
West
Washington Streets
Palace
Knickerbocker
Madison Street
East Seventy-third Street
Toulon
France
Arsenal
Committee of Inquiry
Tena
City of the South boat owner fatally shot at levee
Walter Kirkpatrick, owner of the gasoline boat City of the South, shot Wiley Maynard at the levee near Chattanooga on April 23. Maynard died from shotgun wounds. Kirkpatrick claims self defense.
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Chattanooga
Walter Kirkpatrick
City of the South
Wiley Maynard
Maynard
Kirkpatrick
Reverend William W. Lord Dies in New York
Rev. William W. Lord, elderly Episcopal clergyman and confidant of Jefferson Davis, died Monday at the Hotel Clendenin in New York. A Confederate chaplain, he served at Vicksburg during the siege and later led churches in Charleston and Vicksburg after the war. Born in Madison County, he helped advance southern education before the Civil War.
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New York
William W. Lord
Protestant Episcopal Church
Jefferson Davis
Clendennin
Madison County
Lords of
Princeton Theological Seminary
Baltimore
Holy Trinity Church
Davis
Vicksburg
Christchurch
St. Paul's Chuch
Charleston
Lord
South
Republicans of Oklahoma to Oppose Constitution Fight
In Oklahoma City on April 23 a conference of prominent Republicans led by J. C. Johnson of Muskogee pledged to oppose the state constitution and refrain from fielding a ticket. Former Delegate B. S. McGuire predicted President Roosevelt would reject it and Congress would block its objectionable features. The Colored Protective League drew 300 delegates, resolving to oppose adoption, with Johnson predicting 46,000 Black votes against the measure.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
B. S. McGuire
Roosevelt
Congress
Colored Protective League of
J. C. Johnson
Muskogee
Johnson
Car Dynamited and Dynamite Found on Tracks
A street car was struck by dynamite near Montgomery Alabama in two locations amid a night of explosions. Sticks of dynamite were found on the tracks earlier in the evening before the cars passed. The Alabama Federation of Labor meeting expressed sympathy for the strikers.
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Montgomery
Als
Alabama Federation of Labor
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Cc. E. Bullock & CO
Southwestern Life Insurance CO
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Texas
Joe B. Reed
Friend-In-Need Society
Nee$wy
Kitcilit
Arsinal
Mr. Lord
Christ Church, Vicksburg
Wilson & Edge
E. J. Jenkins
Bryan
Southwestern Live Stock Insurance Company
Geo. A. Adams
Bryan, Texas
P. M. Raysor, M. D
Apanding Insurance Office
Parker Building
The
Oliver Typewriter
Tephone
Hrarn & Dansby
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