Fire devastates Pine Beach section near exposition
A major blaze in the Pine Beach area near the Jamestown exposition grounds destroyed 40 to 50 structures including the Arcade and Berkeley hotels. The fire, starting Wednesday, left as many as 1,000 people homeless with damages pegged up to 300000 dollars, largely uninsured, though grounds buildings were spared.
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Pine Beach
Norfolk
Jamestown Exposition General Grounds
Exposition Grounds
Pine Beach Hotel
Pine Beach Pier
Inn
Kentucky State Building
Milwaukee Cruiser Milwaukee Sent to Central America Mission
Washington reports a USS Milwaukee order to depart Mare Island to La Union El Salvador, with supporting moves by the Saturn and Yorktown. A Salvadoran import of troop movements and a suspected Nicaraguan expedition against El Salvador are cited as the cause for caution.
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Washington
Guatemala City
State Department
Salvador
Guatemala
Senor Mejia
Nicaragua
Figueroa
Zelaya
Monotombo
Acajutla
Mexico
Borillas
Cabrera
Central America
Central American
Milwaukee
Mare Island Navy Yard
Navy Department
Charles A. Grove
la Union
Saturn
Yorktown
Quiet Zones Established for Hospital Streets
New York aldermen approve an ordinance to create quiet zones on streets with hospitals. Signs will mark the zones and teams must move slowly and quietly, with no ringing of gongs except danger. Children are forbidden from playing in the streets. The measure follows the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise and awaits the mayoral signature.
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New York
Society For
Taken Back to Florida Negro Lawyer Faces Accusations
Houston, June 26. J. E. Bowman, a dapper Negro lawyer who came from Jacksonville to form a law partnership here, was arrested on forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses by local detectives. Sheriff Bowman of Jacksonville arrived with requisition papers and left for Florida with the prisoner.
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Jacksonville
Houston
J. E. Bowman
Fla
Bowman
Florida
Meridian Report Links Murder Suspect to Walter Lamana Case
A Meridian-based dispatch reports Frank Incarcerterre, accused of murdering Walter Lamana, spent a night in Meridian then fled toward Cincinnati. He was identified by five Meridian residents after his photo appeared in New Orleans papers. Tony Caruzo, a Meridian banana dealer, aided him and verified a Cincinnati-bound ticket.
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Birmingham
Meridian
Miss
Frank
Tony
Chicago
Caruzo
Cincinnati
Engineer Escapes Buried In Wreck Cab
Big Four northbound train No. 35 wrecked at Winbush Junction in Lafayette Indiana on Wednesday morning. Engineer Henry Higgs Indianapolis escaped uninjured after being buried in the engine cab. Baggagemaster George Decker Cincinnati injured and brakeman Charles Williams Indianapolis cut and bruised. No Pullmans left the track and no passengers were hurt.
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Lafayette
Ind
Big Four
Winbush Junction
Henry Higgs
Indianapolis
George Decker
Cincinnati
Charles Williams
Enraged Lover’s Deeds End in Tragic Murders
Milwaukee on June 26 reports a man shot and killed himself after failing to reconcile with his sweetheart. He killed Elsie Volkmann aged nineteen and her father, then died by suicide. The victims are Andrew Feine twenty five and Elsie Volkmann nineteen or Volkmann forty three. Feine and the Volkmann girl had argued.
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Milwaukee
Andrew Feine
Elsie Volkmann
Or Volkmann
Feine
Volkmann
Flood destroys Senecia church and endangers Guadalajara town
Rail of flood waters erases Senecia Catholic church established in the 1500s eight miles from El Paso. Río Grande high water threatens Guadalajara New Mexico. Also reports a telegram to President Roosevelt on telegraphs antitrust law and a farmer killed by lightning near Clarksville.
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el Paso
Senecia
Rio Grande
Guadalajara
N. M
Abbott Dies in Fort Smith at Forty in Heart Failure
W R Abbott, president of the American National Bank of Fort Smith and a major timber land owner, died Tuesday of heart failure aged forty. He was also president and promoter of the Central of Arkansas railroad then under construction from Dardanelle to Paris.
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Fort Smith
W. R. Abbott
American National Bank
Central of Arkansas Railroad
Dardanele
Paris
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