Windstorm Slays Fort Worth Dispatcher J H Young
Terrific windstorm in Fort Worth on Sunday night kills J H Young a 15 year Texas and Pacific employee and telegraph dispatcher at the Rio Grande division station. Debris damages streets, buildings, and telegraph lines. Waco reports electrical storm with property damage and fatalities.
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Fort Worth
J. H. Young
Texas and Pacific Tiger
Rio Grande Division
Texas and Pacific Company
Weather Bureau
Pullman Company
Texas and Pacific
Houston Street
Main Street
Cotton Belt City
Fort Worth National Bank
Fifth
Main Streets
Buckley
St. James Colored Baptist Church
Broadway Presbyterian
Presbyterian General Assembly
First Methodist
Wells Mission
Denver
Rock Island
Grand Hotel
Weatherford
Johnson House
West Bluff Street
Second Ward
Waco
Austin Street
Behrens’ Drug Company
Whorses
Chicago Lumber Strike Spreads as Teamsters Are Fired
The teamsters in Chicago faced a spreading strike after 40 workers were discharged for delivering to boycotted firms. Employers began the action, urging others to quit, with Edward Hines predicting city lumber yards would soon lack drivers and business would stall amid booming construction. Express firms refused reinstatement to striking drivers.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Rittenhouse & Embree Company
Edward H'ues Lumber Company
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Shea
Teamsters’ Union
Edward Hines
Lumbermen's Association
Mr. Hines
Express
Foreign firms may face void contracts in Indian Territory
Judge Raymond rules that T. H. Rogers Lumber Company cannot collect for materials in a case against A. S. McRae because the foreign firm did not maintain a local representative in South McAlester as required. Under Arkansas law governing Indian Territory, any foreign corporation must keep a local representative where incorporation papers were filed or all contracts become void if suit is brought.
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Muskogee
Raymond
Western District
Indian Territory
T. H. Rogers Lumber Company
A. S. McRae
South McAlester
Sisters Killed by Train Near Forest Glen
Dagmar E Turnberg and her sister Dora two young women stenographers were killed instantly when struck by a passenger train near Forest Glen. They were part of a group of five fleeing a freight train on the adjacent track. the other three escaped uninjured.
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Chicago
Dagmar E. Turnberg
Dora
Forest Glen
German Empress August Victoria’s Fall Slightly Serious
The accident to German Empress August Victoria, who fell downstairs Sunday, is not expected to have serious consequences. A forehead cut will likely leave a small scar, and vertigo may have caused the loss of balance on the stairs.
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Wiesbaden
August Victoria
Farmer Henry Jackson Fires Fatal Shot in Self Defense
Reports from Minor Hill Tennessee say Henry Jackson a prominent young farmer shot and killed George Brown a Black man and fatally wounded Ed Brown his son. Jackson surrendered claiming self defense.
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Nashville
Minor Hill
Tenn
Henry Jackson
George Brown
Ed Brown
Jackson
Youth killed by pitched ball in Brooklyn game
In Brooklyn a youth named James Miles died after a fast pitch struck him between the eyes during a baseball game. He wore no mask behind the bat and the skull fracture proved fatal within minutes.
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New York
Brooklyn
James Miles
Miles
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Syyspepsia
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Coryr
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Bryan
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Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Young
Ernest Neis
Young Neis
Neil
Foreign Corporation
Dagmar E. and
Dora Turnberg
Radium
Wireless
Marconi’s
Prof
Wm. B. Patty
Opera House
John Wittman
Styre
E. J. Jenkins
Buchanan
Ss. W. Buchanan
Bryan Steam Laundry
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