Destructive Flood Near Kansas City Causes Vast Damage
June 3 reports describe extensive flooding along the Kaw and Missouri rivers near Kansas City. The Kaw current devastates bluffs and bridges while Missouri River blows through to Union Station. Kansas City relief centers at Convention Hall host hundreds of evacuees and charity workers.
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Kansas City
Argentine
East Bottoms
Kansas Iity
Hannibal
Missouri Side
Kaw
Union Station
Santa Fe Avenue
Mulberry Street
Missouri Pacific
Missouri
Convention Hall
Society Ladies
United States
B. F. Smith
Burlington
Clay County
Armourdale
Real Estate Listings in Byazos County Land Titles
A series of property sales offers. Listings include 105 acre tract near court house with 25 cultivated acres and rest pasture priced at 1500, 1.25 acres near schoolhouse priced at 750, six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street priced at 1260, quarter block near Allen Academy priced at 250, half block near Allen Academy priced at 500, school-house adjoining lots at 100 each, 13 acres on town south side with 4 room house priced at 1000, and 4 room house with outbuildings for 650 rented at 9 per month.
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Court House
Allen Academy
Disaster Toll Rising In Gainesville Tornado
Gainesville Ga June 3 The city of about six thousand faces an appalling tornado toll with deaths near one hundred and more than one hundred injured. Early estimates cite 100 killed 150 injured 20 may die, 500 homeless and half a million in property loss with no storm insurance.
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Gainesville
Topeka Flood Death Toll Reaches Forty-Eight
The Topeka flood toll stands at forty eight as the river recedes three feet. Refugees face great distress while Governor Bailey calls for state aid. Fifth deputy sheriffs armed with Winchesters head to North Topeka to guard property and deter looters.
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Topeka
Isan
Bailey
North Topeka
Kansas City Flood Relief Expands as Waters Recede
Kansas City Missouri reports improved flood conditions after four days of strain. Permanent steamer communication with Kansas City Kansas opened relief plans. Local men coordinate with aid from St Joseph and Leavenworth to provide food boats and restore business. Missouri river level 44.4 feet and falling. Kansas River also dropping. Weather bureau expects gradual decline as submerged building tops emerge.
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Kansas City
Kanesas City
Kan
Kansas
St Joseph
Leavenworth
Missouri
Wether Bureau
Co River
Train Safe After Burlington Sleeper Split Near Liberty
A Burlington passenger train from Chicago to Kansas City is reported safe east or north of Kansas City after tracks failed. The train arrived at Liberty, Missouri, with passengers split into two sections sent east and north to detour. Some riders found other transport while others rode on to towns east and north for connections. Sixty seven passengers from the Joseph and Grand Island train were later rescued near the Milwaukee bridge.
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Kansas City
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago
Liberty
Joseph
Grand Island
Milwaukee Bridge
Randolph
Burlington
Missouri River Flood Update Near St Louis Depicts Rising Mississippi
A Washington special river bulletin notes the Missouri River at Kansas City falling to 34.4 feet, while St. Louis reports 31.2 feet and rising water threatens flood conditions. Keokuk shows 18.5 feet, with the lower Arkansas near the danger line. Residents brace for possible rapid movement of flood waters toward St. Louis as upper Mississippi and Des Moines inflows pass.
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Washington
Missouri
Kansas City
St. Louis
Dubuque
Mississippi
Keokuk
Lower
Arkansas
Bowie
Cairo
Des Moines
Packing house disaster toll rises in Armourdale report
Kansas City dispatch on June 3 quotes Swift Packing superintendent Young estimating 25 to 30 bodies still in wreckage at the Armourdale packing house district. The steamer Columbia crew corroborates the count, while a rescued Chinese worker says three compatriots drowned.
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Kansas City
Young
Swift Packing Company
Armourdale Packing House
Columbia
Judge Caldwell to retire from Eighth Circuit bench
Little Rock reports federal judge Henry C. Caldwell will retire from the bench on Thursday. Caldwell, the last surviving Lincoln appointee on the Eighth Circuit, was named United States district judge for the district of Arkansas in 1864 and resides in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Henry C. Caldwell
Eighth Circuit
Caldwell
Lincoln
United State District
District of Arkansas
Fire at West Twenty Fourth Street building causes $50000 loss
Fire broke out in a four story structure at 225 to 285 West Twenty fourth street. The building housed a furniture firm and a silk mill and flames roared from windows and the roof, inflicting an estimated $50000 in damage.
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New York
West Twenty-fourth Street
Operatives Resume Work at Lowell Mills
Lowell Massachusetts reports indicate more than half of the workers at six cotton mills idled nine weeks have returned to their jobs before Tuesday night’s shutdown, according to mill agents.
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Lowell
Mass
Cleveland Leases Tyringham Sweet House
Former President Cleveland has leased the Tyringham Sweet House in Lowell Massachusetts. He is expected to arrive there on June 20.
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Lowell
Mass
Cleveland
Tyringham
Sweet House
No Third Termers Poster Circulates in Cleveland
In Columbus Ohio on June 3 delegates fill the Republican state convention scene as a citywide poster proclaims No third termers. It cites Gallant Foraker who faced a defeated bid for a third term and warns against jeopardizing Hanna's Tea election. The piece recalls 1889 when Foraker sought a third term leading to Democratic victory and Brice’s senate selection.
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Columbus
Gallant Foraker
Hanna
Foraker
James BR. Campbell
Calvin Ss. Brice
Booths Body Buried In Greenmount Cemetery
Baltimore authorities confirm John Wilkes Booth grave in Greenmount after exhumation in Washington. The body was identified by relatives and associates as Booth and reinterred in the Booth lot without a headstone.
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Baltimore
Enid
Okla
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
David F. George
Booth
Greenmount Cemetery
Washington
Booth Lot
Clara Morris Denies Lincoln Assassin Claim
New York report states actress Clara Morris denies identifying the body of “George” as Lincoln's assassin, countering circulating claims.
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New York
Clara Morris
George
Lincoln
Funeral Rush Cries Through Gainesville Streets
In Gainesville Georgia during June funeral crews and undertakers toil as hearses frequent cottages and cemetery visits. Doctors rush to care for the sick with outside physicians sought as needed. Almost one funeral per minute marks the day with many burials held without clergymen present. Grief and distraught cries echo from homes and scenes at Holland reflect the tragedy.
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Gainesville
Holland
Summer normal board list issued with numerous names
Austin June 3 Following are the summer normal board members with several names listed by last and first initials and teaching locations including Galveston Temple Fort Worth Navasota La Grange Hubbard City Bryan Merkel Harrold Jefferson Jasper Cooper Comanche Dallas Lindale Kaufman and Claude El Paso Colorado Nelsonville and more with multiple individuals named.
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Austin
Summer Normal Board
F. Kirk
Galveston
J. E. Binkley
Temple
A. F Burnett
Fort Worth
W. B. Bizzet
Navasota
A. Brown
la Grange Co
B. Cole
Hubbard City
I. N. Davis Sabinal
W. C. Davis
Bryan
Evans
Merkel
Mexican War Veterans elect officers in Texas
The Mexican War Veterans association in Fort Worth elected officers including President George P. Finlay of Austin and Vice Presidents Abraham Harris Fort Worth James L. Barry Walnut Springs J C Griffith Terrell John T. Noble Georgetown Alfonso Freeman A J Nave Columbus assistant secretary J Melton Fort Worth treasurer A Hereford Moulton and surgeon Dr J A Anthony Terrell secretary.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Mexican War Veterans’ Association
George P. Finlay
Austin
Abraham Harris
James L. Barry
Walnut Springs
J. C. Griffith
Terrell
John T. Noble
Georgetown
Alfonso Freeman
A. J. Nave
Columbus
J. Melton
Hereford
Moulton
J. A. Anthony Terrell
Fire at Arlington destroys multiple structures
A daytime fire in Arlington Texas caused extensive property damage with one building destroyed and another damaged. John Moore fell through a roof nearby and suffered severe injuries.
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Arlington
Tex
John Moore
Deaths in Vienna and Belgrade Rumors Suppressed
Reports circulate of King Alexander of Servia alleged to have died by own action at the Belgrade palace after an attempted poisoning plot. In Montana, the Great Northern search for Superintendent B. Egan, lost in a white hunt on November 4, recovered his body.
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Vienna
Belgrade
Servia
Alexander
Belton
Mont
B. Egan
Great Northern Road
Montana
Hill Goes to Husk Mantis Trip
Hill travels from Waxahachie Texas to Rusk in relation to the Bushy mantis matter. Cole W M C Hill is noted in the brief item as involved in the case or inquiry.
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Husk
Waxahachie, Tex
Cole W. M. C. Hill
Rusk
Cortes Case Reversed in Criminal Opent Court
Court reverses ruling in Cortes case as the Cortes appeal moves forward in Austin. Public records note the reversal affects the criminal operation matter discussed at the June session.
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Austin
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