Train wreck on trestle blamed on crime mastermind
Los Angeles May 22 Train No 29 a Southern Pacific Coast liner wrecked at West Glendale after rails were sabotaged. One man killed and twenty two injured including a fifteen year old boy thought fatally. Wreck caused by hidden saboteur pulling wires at the trestle edges during approach.
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Los Angeles
Southern Pacific Coast
West Glendale
Here
Arroyo Seco
T. J. McMahon
Santa Barbara
Electrical Workers’ Union
Frank Nevler
Saw Gun Flashes Testimony From Elkins Before Senate
Herbert Elkins of Brownsville Texas a confectionery clerk testified before the Senate military affairs committee he saw two Negro soldiers fire shots from the alley toward the Cowan House group heard reports of additional shots and noted flaring from the garrison balcony before soldiers returned to the fort
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Herbert Elkins
Washington
Brownsville
Tex
Senate Committee On
Leahy Hotel
Fourteenth Street
Cowan House
Oklahoma Republicans claim national backing against new state constitution
Lawton Oklahoma May 22 J J Hammon chairman of the Oklahoma Republican central committee returned from Washington and said in an interview that national figures including Chairman Sherman assured Oklahoma Republicans will have national support in opposing the new state constitution. He claimed the Tulsa convention is indefinitely postponed and a state Republican ticket will not be nominated because the party cannot back offices defined in a constitution they oppose. He also predicted Congress will pass a new enabling act that winter.
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Republican Committee
Lawton
Okla
J. J. Hammon
Oklahoma Republican Central Committee
Washington
Sherman
National Committee
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Congress
Clash at Atlantic Docks Over Strike Breakers Fight
In New York on May 22 about 100 black workers hired to replace strikers at the Atlantic docks in Brooklyn clashed with an equal number of strikers and supporters including several Italians. The melee began as attempts to keep workers off the docks escalated into a street fight. One Black worker fired a pistol but caused no injuries. police separated rioters and arrested the shooter.
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New York
Atlantic Docks
Brooklyn
Father Arrested After Avoca Wounding in Jones County
News from Abilene Texas reports Tennie Vaden, a young man, shot at his home near Avoca in Jones County. A target rifle was used and his father R W Vaden has been arrested. The wound is believed fatal.
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Abilene
Tex
Tennie Vaden
Avoca
Jones County
R. W. Vaden
Six Miners Die In Runaway Coke Cars at Dayton
Six white miners perished near Dayton while returning from Dayton Coal and Iron company mines. About 200 men rode coke cars on a short line when two loaded cars—forced beyond a yardman’s control—ran down a 35 foot grade and crashed into the rear train. Engineer stopped the locomotive as the signalers failed. The deceased were John Teels Daly Green James Towery Elijah Huff Tom Jarmon Bert Best. Tom Nelson is critically injured and likely to die.
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Chattanooga
Times
Dayton
Tenn
Dayton Coal and Iron Company
John Teels
Daly Green
James Towery
Elijah Huff
Tom Jarmon
Bert Best
Tom Nelson
Negro convict Clyde Fitch sentenced for assault in Chickasha
In Chickasha Indian Territory on May 22 Clyde Fitch, a black man, was tried by a Negro jury, found guilty of assaulting a ten year old girl, and sentenced to life in the penitentiary.
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Chickasha
I. T
Cuba buys steam yacht in brief items
Brief items report Cuba purchasing a steam yacht, planned deportation of several undesirable immigrants at Galveston, every swinging sign removed at Clarkeville Texas, Cal Linsley’s suicide near Abbott Texas, reflecting a broad set of terse newspaper briefs. Lieutenant Governor Carter of Mississippi testifies in a federal Dallas court.
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Cuba
Galveston
Clarkeville
Tex
Cal Linsley
Abbott
New York
Carter
Mississippi
Dallas
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Howell Brothers
Cavitt’s Drug Store
Bullock & CO
Southwestern Life Insurance CO
Texas
Joe B. Reed
Friend-In-Need Society
Bryan
Hearn
Southwestern Live Stock Insurance Company
Geo. A. Adams
Pauper
Bryan, Texas
P. M. Raysor
M. D
Pai
GEO. A. Adams Insurange
KER
The
Oliver Typewriter
State of
Georgia
Clixton
Laura Moore
Manassas
Tattnall County
John Hare
Sam Padgett
Padgett
W. B. Pearson
James A. Daniel
J. L. Kennedy
Plem Padgett
Moore
Edwards
Reidsville
Hare
Monroe
N. C
Parsons Bottling
Main and
Austin Streets
Texas State Bottlers Association
Brazos
Madison Counties
Robertson County
S.H. Dunlap
Hastwell’s Book Store
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
Bryan Street
J. D. Ganter
Dunn & Daly
Holmes & Parker
W. C. Fountain
Crown and Bridge Work
Burt Norwood
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