Lane Still Lives Wife Hears He Was Murdered and Again Weds
In Zeigler Illinois Curtis Lane Jr a freight conductor on the Louisville and Nashville line travels from Fra Men Indiana to meet a man who claims to be his father Curtis Lane Sr disappeared in 1873 after leaving Nambly Station Kentucky and a Paducah murder confession tied him to an unsolved killing Mrs Lane Denton once believed him dead and remarried now learns of a possible wife and children and a new claim to kinship.
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Nashville
Zeigler
Curtis Lane
Earlington
J. T. Denton
Dentons
Curtis
Lane
Louisville and Nashville
Nambly Station
Hopkins County
Kentucky
Paducah
Desperado
eZigler
Great Damage Done Rio Grande Levees Break at White Spur
Over 100000 in crop and plant damage reported as Rio Grande levees fail at White Spur eight miles above El Paso. More than 1000 acres inundated and numerous families flee flooded homes.
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Te Paso
Rio Grande
White Spur
Woman dies during Mount Pisgah love feast
Lou Walden a 50 year old Black woman fainted at a Mount Pisgah Baptist church love feast in Fort Worth on June 3. She was taken to a nearby house where she died from heart disease, according to officials.
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Fort Worth
Mount Pisgah Baptist Church
Lou Walden
Sole Survivor of Sloop Disaster Arrives in New Haven
Edward Ruth of Brooklyn was brought to New Haven on the tug Wyoming as the sole survivor of a five man party. The other four members drowned when the auxiliary sloop Belle of Brooklyn capsized in heavy seas off Norwalk.
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New Haven
Conn
Edward Ruth
Brooklyn
Wyoming
Belle
Norwalk
Accident Kills Sister in Fort Worth Rifle Accident
Fort Worth June 3. By accidental discharge of a Winchester rifle Ernest Miller seven years old killed Buelah his sister aged five.
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Fort Worth
Winchester
Ernest Miller
Buelah
Man found dying in vacant lot two linked tragedies
June 3 in Birmingham J M Mosely an Alabama Great Southern railway shop employee was found severely injured with a crushed skull in a vacant lot his pockets rifled. His son J M Mosely was recently killed by a highwayman in town, linking the two cases in local sorrow.
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Birmingham
J.M. Mosely
Alabama Great Southern Railway
J. M. Mosely
Storm knocks down houses killing dogs in Lorena
A ten minute storm battered Lorena Texas on June 3. Four houses were blown from their blocks and moved six feet. One house collapsed onto fourteen dogs, killing three of them.
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Lorena
Tex
Newark Turn Verein Hall Fire Claims Three Lives
A blaze at the Newark Turn Verein hall on William Street killed janitor Joseph Honoka his wife and their child who died from burns and smoke as eight families on upper floors were rescued. The fire driven by a northeast wind caused extensive damage and required police and firefighters to contain the flames.
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Newark
N. J
Newark Turn
Fire in Oceanic Steerage Sparks Glucose Fire
A blaze aboard the White Star steamer Oceanic was spotted in the steerage around 1 am on Monday. It raged for about two hours, spreading from berths to the cargo in the afterhold where 187 barrels of glucose burned fiercely. Bedding and perishables in steerage were destroyed, with freight damaged. The cause remains unknown though suspicion falls on incendiarism.
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New York
Oceanic
Priest Persists After Violent Attack on Parish Residence
A mob of about two hundred gathered at the residence of R Vitus Hribar, pastor of St. Vitus Church, in Cleveland. Stones shattered windows and a riot prompted police to make thirty arrests as Hribar refused to leave the parish despite threats.
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Cleveland
R Vitus Hribar
St. Vitus’ S Man Catholic Church
Waterspout damage hits Kentucky region
Reports say Saturday night waterspout caused over 50000 dollars in losses across central and eastern Kentucky counties including Nicholas Wolfe Lee Grant Harrison Beny bon Montgomery Bath and others. Livestock hedges fences and small outbuildings were swept away. Trains delayed by landslides as bridges on the Lexington and Eastern railway near Lorient were washed out. Mail carrier Hiram Blair is missing in Nicholas county likely drowned or struck by lightning. John Crow and Henry Towles were badly injured by lightning.
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Lexington
Nicholas
Wolfe, Lee
Grant
Harrison
Benybon
Montgomery
Bath
Kentucky
Chesapeake and Ohio
Lexington and Eastern Railway
Lorient
Hiram Blair
Nichelae
John Crow
Henry Towles
Elevator Collapse Injures Ten at Goodyver Plant
A cable broke in the Goodyver Fire and Rubber company elevator in Akron on June 3 causing a two story fall that injured ten people, some seriously.
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Akron
Goodyver Fire and Rubber Company
To Have Paved Streets
Marshall Texas on June 3 reports three districts of the city will receive paved streets. The plan outlines new thoroughfares and improvements to drainage and traffic flow in the affected neighborhoods.
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Marshall
Tex
Drownings and accidents mark Texas and nearby areas
A condensed survey notes H R Tolex drowned in Galveston Bay near Pelican. A Brownwood Odd Fellows hall plans a 12000 building. Dairyman Peter Lay of Shreveport was swindled out of 800 by confidence men. George Seeligson of Galveston has a motor boat built at Oshkosh. Mayor Becker of Milwaukee weighs stepping away from duties for stage work. John Rountree of Troupe is implicated in an assassination, a man in Washington, Tex. killed by lightning while gardening. Strikebreaker W A Forgey wounded a protester and fatally shot. Two yearlings yoked near Paris, Tex., one struck by lightning. Civil War commander Captain W F Dement dies at LaPlace. services for McKinley held in Canton. Cornerstone laid for St Paul Catholic Cathedral at Commerce, and Arthur Langston loses both legs in a Cotton Belt switch accident but dies en route to hospital.
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H. R. Tolex
Galveston Bay
Pelican
Brownwood
Tex
Odd Fellows
Peter Lay
Shreveport
George Seeligson
Galveston
Oshkosh
Wis
Becker
Milwaukee
John Rountree
Troupe
Washington
Fritz Graeber
W. A. Forgey
San Francisco
Paris
W. F. Dement
Commandia
Dement
Masland Line
la Plat
Commerce, Tex
Arthur Langston
Texarkana
Wreck Near Lozier Kills Druggist and Injures Many
A Southern Pacific passenger train derailed near Lozier, ninety-five miles from Del Rio Texas, killing W B Jacks a Sanderson druggist who was en route to visit a fiancé. Seventeen others were injured including Chester Aldrich twelve. The wreck occurred after the train rounded a curve and cause is unknown.
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del Rio
Tex
Lozier
Southern Pacific
California
New Orleans
W. B. Jacks
Sanderson
Chester Aldrich
Big Springs
Jacks
de Rio
Smith Springs Surprise Floods County With Hidden Money
In Pulaski Tennessee on June 3 Willis Smith an 84 year old Fourth district resident revealed he had stored about 30000 in old coins in fruit jars at his Shoal Creek home. Fearing murder he moved the money to a local bank then withdrew after a cashier paid a check from his hoard, ending decades of keeping funds at home.
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Pulaski
Tenn
Willis Smith
Fourth District
Smith
Shoal Creek
Peculiar Position Sheriff Refuses to Countenance Liquor Sale
Parkersburg West Virginia June 3 Assistant Tax Commissioner Darst travels to Randolph county on a peculiar mission. Sheriff Helmick a strict prohibitionist refuses to take state money from liquor licenses or participate in any liquor business transaction. Saloon keepers are unsettled as the assistant commissioner seeks legal methods to compel sheriff to comply.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Darst
Randolph County
Helmick
Motorman Slain. Two Negroes Blamed
In Monroe a motorman was fatally shot near the track. He lived long enough to say two negroes committed the deed. A special to the Times reports widespread arrest and vigilante search as hundreds of armed men scoured the city following the incident.
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Shreveport
H. A. Nettles
Times
Monroe
Alfred Lee Tyler dies prominent capitalist founder of Anniston
Alfred Lee Tyler, founder of Anniston Alabama and founder of a large iron plant, dies in New York at age seventy three. In Stamford Texas a 530 acre tract near here sells for sixty dollars per acre.
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Anniston
Ala
New York
Alfred Lee Tyler
Stamford
Tex
Cotton Exchange Closed in Honor of Jefferson Davis Birthday
New Orleans observers report the Cotton Exchange closed Monday on June 3 to honor Jefferson Davis' birthday, marking a day of observance in the cotton trade community.
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Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Jefferson Davis
Dr Shoop Pile Cure Promoted By Dr Shoop
An advertisement touts Dr Shoop s Magic Ointment as an instant relief for piles. It claims the ointment must be specific to piles and explains using Dr Shoop s Restorative internally for older cases linked to liver and biliousness. The notice warns there is no genuine product without Dr Shoop s name and cites a price of 50 cents by M H James.
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Shoop
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