Race riot near Houston leaves one dead
A night clash outside Houston’s Fifth ward ended with Nelson Randle dead and two other blacks wounded, one possibly fatally, while a white man Hamilton suffered a severe thigh wound. Calls to police brought Sheriff Anderson with six officers who jailed eleven whites. Coroner J C Matthews began an inquest into Randle’s death.
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Houston
Fifth Ward
Nelson Randle
Bill Anderson
Anderson
Hamilton
J. C. Matthews
J. T. Jefferson
Henry Brantley
Beaumont
Louisville Storm Darkens City With Severe Tempest
Louisvill e experienced a blackout as ominous clouds unleashed one of the year s worst storms. The downpour began about 2 p m with 58 mph winds and a rapid 20 degree temperature drop in minutes. Lightning burned out telephones and toppled shade trees while streetcar service halted for over an hour.
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Louisville
Killing at pasture as Raleigh brothers fire at assailant
In Vinita on Aug 16 three Green Raleigh sons fled cattle in a pasture and hid in a field. A local colored man warned them to leave but they refused. he fired. The Raleigh youths fired back and the colored man was shot.
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Vinita
J. T
Qaktaha
Green Raleigh
Raleigh
Heat Wave Claims Several Lives Across Arkansas
In Little Rock on August 16 the state saw record highs. At Van Buren five railroad laborers collapsed with three fatalities and two survivors. Alma reported one heat death. One policeman was prostrated in Little Rock, and the day’s peak reached 104 degrees.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
van Buren
Iron Mountain
Alma
President orders biweekly casualty cables from Philippines
Oyster Bay reports that the president has ordered that the names of enlisted men who die in the Philippines be cabled to the United States once every two weeks. The practice had stopped after the volunteer army withdrew from the archipelago.
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Oyster Bay
Philippines
Death of Louisiana planter found dead at plantation home
Vicksburg Mississippi report that Thomas W. Jay a member of the police jury at West Carroll parish Louisiana a planter and businessman of large means was found dead in the yard of his plantation home a pistol bullet through his head with the weapon lying by his side Officials believe the death may have been accidental
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Vicksburg, Miss
Thomas W. Jay
Wast Carroll Parish
Louisiana
Drowned in the Brazos near Cameron three in peril
John Powers Jr. drowned in the Brazos River north of Cameron while swimming. His companions Joe and William McKay were nearly drowned while attempting a rescue.
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Cameron, Tex
John Powers, Jr
Brazos River
Cameron
Joe
William McKay
Waylaid and Murdered In Kentucky and Louisiana Deaths
Bud Singleton, brother of a man slain in Hancock County Tennessee, was fatally waylaid near his Middlesboro home. In Lake Charles a 22 year old, Lawrence Killeen, was crushed under a log while loading a car on the Calcasieu River Lumber tram.
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Middlesboro
Bud Singleton
John Singleton
Hancock County
Tenn
Smith Boys
Lake Charles
Lawrence Killeen
Calcasieu River Lumber Company
Control of American Shipbuilding Company S
A tentative stock offer for American Shipbuilding in Cleveland aims to shift control of the Great Lakes business. J P Morgan backs the deal as directors convene a special session to respond by early next month. The firm, with yards and foundries in Cleveland and multiple midwest cities, holds about 15 million in property plus a 3 million reserve, and could reshape national shipping interests.
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Cleveland
American Ship Building Company
J. P. Morgan
Great Lakes
American Shipbuilding Company
Lorain
Detroit
Wyandotte
Mid- West Superior
Milwaukee
Chicago
Buffalo
American “Shipbuilding Company
Atlantic
Mississippi
Town depopulated as New Hartford mill shuts down
Winsted Conn Aug 16 depopulation begins as cotton duck mill owners order Greenwood mills closed Sept 1 for an indefinite period. About 700 residents have left in two weeks and half the town population of 3500 may depart by next month. Signs of sale and rent appear. trucks haul belongings to the railroad. Greenwood plant will move to Talahassee Ala to cut costs. founded Hartford 1883.
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Winsted
Conn
New Hartford
Cotton Duck Combination
Greenwood
Dublin
Talahassee
Ala
Mount Vernon
Hartford
Electric chair debate on burial alive risk in electrocution
New York August reports F A Stratton of an electric light company argues murderers sentenced to die in the electric chair are not slain by current and would be buried alive without autopsy. He cites higher voltages experienced by linemen and fears prompt medical care could resuscitate some electrocuted inmates.
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New York
F. A. Stratton
Stratton
Sing-Sing
Sheriff Saves a Lynching in El Reno Oklahoma Aug 16
A 13-year-old girl near El Reno was outraged by a farmer. A mob gathered at the county jail to take the assailant, but the sheriff moved the prisoner out of town for safekeeping. The crowd dispersed when the prisoner’s location remained unknown. The culprit is married with two children and the victim was not expected to live.
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el Reno
Okla
John Carnahan
Archbishop Feehan Will Filed in Chicago Aug 15
The will of the late Archbishop Feehan has been filed in Chicago on August 15. Details of the bequests and executors are given in the document filed with the probate court. The archbishop served in the city for many years and influenced local church developments.
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Chicago
Feehan
Wealth Estate Bequeathed By Archbishop to Kin and Institutions
The will allocates a total estate valued at 125000 with the bulk going to two sisters of the testator Kate and Anna Feehan. Five figures are set for charitable bequests including 10000 to the Sisters of Mercy of Chicago for St Patrick academy and 4000 to St Marys training school for boys plus 10000 to Bridget Kavanaugh long time housekeeper.
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Kate
Anna Feehan
Sisters of Mercy of Chicago
St. Patrick's Academy
St. Mary's Training School
Bridget Kavanaugh
Alger Candidate for Senator in Detroit Announcement Expected
At a meeting of the State League of Republican clubs advisory council in Detroit Cadillac Hotel President Fenton said General R A Alger will announce next Monday his candidacy for the United States senate to succeed the late James McMillan.
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Detroit
The
State League of Republican Clubs
Cadilac
Fenton
R. A. Alger
United States Senate
James McMillan
Man Charged With Murder In Hobart Quarrel
C E Mc Hugh of Cooperton arrives with Dixon A Miner charged in the killing of E Wynn and wounding of Wynn's brother. The quarrel stemmed from stock and mining claims in Hobart Oklahoma on August 16.
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Hobart
Okla
C. E. McHugh
Cooperton
Dixon A. Miner
E. Wynn
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