Eight Die As Louisville Train Wrecks Near Union Station
A Louisville and Nashville passenger train departing Knoxville wrecked in Louisville yards one mile south of Union Station. Eight dead and twelve to fifteen injured. The smoker wheel flange failed near Magnolia Street causing the cars to leave the track and detach the engine baggage and express cars. Victims include William Pruitt of Lebanon Ky and a 12 year old girl Josie Speis with both legs broken. Charles Speis also injured. Mr Peis underwent leg amputation.
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Louisville
Nashville
Knoxville
Union Depot
Magnolia Street
William Pruitt
Lebanon
Bailey's Stock Farm
Josie Speis
Charles Speis
New Haven
Peis
Automobile Parade Highlights King Alfonso Wedding Festivities
At Madrid on May 28 the forthcoming royal wedding was celebrated with an automobile parade. About two hundred decorated cars carried the royal party and crowds along the streets to Pardo palace where Princess Victoria reviewed the procession. The king and princes drove their own autos and later met Parliament before a drive through the palace park. A kingly rifle misfire occurred when a game keeper was summoned to observe an eagle.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Victoria
Ena
Charles
Ferdinand
Infanta
Isabel
Pardo Palace
Palace Park
Army Officers and Privates Not Praised by War Dept
Washington May 28 Army officers and privates who helped fight the San Francisco fire and relieve suffering will not be singled out for special praise by the war department. Policy favors general commendation over individual recognition to avoid injustice to many deserving personnel.
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Army
Washington
San Francisco
War Department
Funston
Greeley
Jo Sawoctntae
California
Wreck Injures Mrs Brown and Ten Others on Choctaw Train
An eastbound Choctaw passenger train rear-ended Rock Island No 154 on the Enid and Lawton branch near Geary Oklahoma. Mrs Brown of Walter Oklahoma suffered serious injuries while ten other passengers were hurt but none seriously. The Choctaw engine derailed into a ditch as both trains suffered damage and the Rock Island bridge had washed away prompting the collision.
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Urge Geary
Okla
Brown
Walter
Amarillo
Tex
Memphis
Enid
Lawton
Rock Island
Geary
Revolt in Korea sparks seizure at Hongju guards
May 28 dispatches report incipient rebellion in Korea at Hongju where several hundred rebels seized the garrison. Hongju's walls hinder capture without artillery. Japan has sent a force per Korean requests to quell what is described as the most serious uprising to date. Separately in Havana, the British steamer America, from Buenos Ayres, reached quarantine due to two suspected bubonic plague cases aboard.
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Tokio
Korea
Hongju
Havana
America
Buenos Ayres
Senator Bailey Retained by Kentucky Racing Board
Lexington Kentucky May 28 Senator J W Bailey of Texas has been engaged as counsel of the Kentucky racing commission in its fight against the Western Jockey Club.
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Bailey
Lexington
J.W. Bailey
Texas
Kentucky Racing Commission
Western Jockey Club
Steadily Improving New York Report
May 28 report notes Sam Jefferson Davis shows steady improvement in condition amid ongoing medical updates.
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New York
Sam Jefferson Davis
Port Arthur Gift Canal Bill Reported Favorably
The Ways and Means Committee authorized Chairman Curtis to report favorably on a bill accepting the Port Arthur canal gift with amendments. The full committee voted for the bill except for Payne Dalsell and Grosvenor. Congress may consider the measure on suspension of the rules next Monday. Captain Jadwin sent a favorable Cove channel report to the War Department. The proposal would cut a channel from Corpus Christi to deep water at Aransas Pass. The bill authorizes War Secretary to acquire title to the port property and Texas waters control, related to a $1,800,000 project by John W Gates for the Kansas City Southern Railway.
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Rt al Ur
Washington
House ‘Committee On Ways and Means
Curtis
Port Arthur
T Bank
Payne
Dalsell
Grosvenor
Broocks
Secretary of War
Man Kills Wife and Man Then Takes His Own Life
Austin dispatch reports from Sutton county Texas that John R. Warren shot and killed his wife and Winburn Pierce on his ranch and then committed suicide. Pierce suffered advanced tuberculosis and had traveled for health. The article notes a family pattern of violence, recalling Colonel John D. Warren who shot his wife and killed himself years earlier.
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John
Warren
Austin
Sonora
Sutton County
John R. Warren
Winburn Pierce
Pierce
After Lynchers Twenty-Seven Charged With Contempt
Washington May 28 The government moves to punish those responsible for the Chattanooga lynching of Ed Johnson a condemned rape defendant Johnson had appealed to the Supreme Court Attorney General Moody filed information seeking rule on 27 named defendants as contempt of court charges.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ed Johnson
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court of the United States
Tennessee
Moody
State anti trust suit against rail lines heads for trial
The Texas anti trust action by the state against Missouri Kansas Texas Railway and Texas and American Express company et al. was moved to Tuesday for trial. The case, previously reversed by the supreme court, was decided in favor of the state with penalties over 1 million dollars. It began on demurrers and now proceeds on its merits before a jury.
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Supreme Court
Austin
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway O. Texas and
American Express Company Et al
Twenty-sixth District
Deplorable Accident Kills Austin Girl at Home
In Austin on Guadalupe street Val Lincecum, a well known citizen, accidentally shot his fourteen year old daughter Miss Willie with a forty four calibre Winchester while attempting to extract balls from the weapon. She was shot through the head and died instantly.
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Austin
Four Million Tariff Case In Philippine War Vexed
The case of War ner, Barnes & Co. and Frederick W. Lincoln concerns the validity of tariff collections in the Philippines under the 1898 executive order. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion. The monetary amount involved is about four million dollars.
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Philippines
Warner, Barnes & Co
Frederick W. Lincoln
Philippine
Fuller
Johnson Jerked Up After Jail Break Theatrics
A mob in Wadesboro North Carolina knocked Sheriff Boggan unconscious and forced entry to the county jail. They seized J W Johnson the man who earlier killed his brother in law Quinn Johnson placed him in a suburban tree and fired bullets into his body. In a separate note Edmund Blancs bay stallion Jurdy sold for 150000 to Argentine breeder Senor Luro.
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Raleigh
the Times
Wadesboro
N. C
Sheri Boggan
J. W. Johnson
Quinn Johnson
Johnson
Steed
London
Edmund Blanc
Jurdy
Flying Fox-Airs and Graces
Senor Luro
Dallas beats Cleburne in Texas League matchup
In Dallas two games, Dallas 6 Cleburne 2 and Dallas 3 Cleburne 1. Pitcher Pruitt of Dallas struck out fifteen in the second game. In South Texas League Beaumont shut out San Antonio 7 0 while Houston won 7 to 5 over Lake Charles and Galveston defeated Austin 5 2.
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Dallas
Cleburne
Pruitt
Temple
Waco
Fort Worth
Greenville
Beaumont
San Antonio
Houston
Lake Charles
Galveston
Austin
Wanderer in delirium: baseball veteran escapes sanitarium
Mike O Connor longtime baseball player escaped from an Austin sanitarium after a fever left him delirious. He was found wandering barefoot on the state capital grounds at dawn. Nurses report his exposure has not worsened his condition.
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Austin
Mike O'Connor
Witte and Wife Take Trip Abroad Amid Russian Crisis
Count Witte and his wife traveled abroad after visiting their daughter in Brussels. The couple plans German baths as pessimism mounts over Russia's crisis. The emperor's stance drags toward deadlock with possible elections or extended parliamentary talks as tensions rise.
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St. Petersburg
Count Witte
Brussels
Germany
Schooner Mabel Wilson Sinks After Lake Erie Storm
The schooner Mabel Wilson, 2500 tons, carrying iron ore from Escanaba, sank off Cleveland breakwater after a fierce Lake Erie storm. One sailor drowned. seven rescued by tug Lutz and lifesaving crew. Captain Gotham and Mate Gunnison were badly hurt and taken to the marine hospital. Owned in Detroit, the vessel hailed from Escanaba, Michigan.
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Lake Erie
Cleveland
Mabel Wilson
Lutz
Gotham
Gunnison
Marine Hospital
Escanaba
Mich
Detroit
Guatemala Faces Imminent Revolution Amid Regional Tensions
U S dispatches warn Guatemala may undergo a revolution threatening American interests. Reports cite unrest in the northern region near the Mexican frontier, stemming from internal causes and involving American railroad and dock properties held by Comics and Schmartz Co.
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Guatemala
Washington
Republic
State Department
Minister Comics and Schmartz Co
Tragedy near Lawn Ridge ends in double kill
Memphis Missouri May 28 James A Hatchhurst a carpenter shot and killed his wife then killed himself. They had separated. Washington May 28 The president nominated James W Ownby to be United States attorney for the Eastern district of Texas.
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Memphis
Lawn Ridge
James A. Hatchhurst
Ownby
Washington
James W. Ownby
United States
Eastern District of
Texas
Drowned While Bathing In Galveston
Galveston May 28 Charles Geiner of Houston with relatives at Delaware Ohio was drowned while bathing. Dallas May 28 two bullets were fired into a window at St Pauls Sanitarium at 2 am. No one was struck. Crosby May 28 postoffice robbed of 25 dollars and all stamps.
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Galveston
Charles Geiner
Houston
Delaware, O
Dallas
Crosby, Tex
Postoffice
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Rohde Building
Ursuline Convent
Texas Woman's College
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S. S. Ball
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W. Va
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Chicago
Emmel & Malony
Louisville and Nashville
Union Station
Kentucky
Automobile Parade
Mrs. Brown
Walter, Okla
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Johnson Jerked UP
Czar's
Winter Palace
Carson, Sewall & Co
Wilson Grain & Coal CO
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Silas &. Johnson
RYE
Montreal Rye Oriental Rye
EF. Rohde
Stevenson Machine
Bryan
Kutter
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Denison
St. Louis
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Ft.Worth
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DR. C. F. Andrews
Jenkins’ Drug Store
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Crown
Burt Norwood
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