Fire Rips Spindletop Heights Tank Farm in Beaumont
The Keith-Ward tract on Spindletop heights burned after a tank exploded at 11 40 pm Thursday. The area suffered near 300 000 dollars in damage as a Woodwell tank and Higgins No 2 tank burned, many derricks and tanks destroyed, and firefighters unable to stop the blaze. An oil crew built levees to confine the fire and a steam pipe system was planned to control it.
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Woodwell
Higgins
Tling
Keith-Ward
Higgins Tank No
Jennings
Grand jury resumes probe into city lighting deal
The grand jury reopen s its inquiry into the city lighting bill with eight subpoenas issued for Thursday afternoon. Delegates Kelly Hartman Eckert Sheridan and Lehman remain in hiding as circuit attorney Falk weighs using information indictments may be filed within forty five days. A $200 reward was offered for information leading to Kelly’s capture as officials report the corruption fund totaled forty seven thousand six hundred dollars.
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Delens
Memphis
Tenn
House of Delegates
Missouri
Circuit
Falk
Kelly
Hartman
Eckert
Sheridan
Lehman
Dyckmann
Charles E. Kelly
Arres
Combine
J. K. Murrell
Black Christ of Philippines deemed fake by priest
Rev Jos eph McQuaid at St Marys Cathedral in San Francisco called the so called Black Christ brought on the transport Bu ford a fraud. He said the real Black Christ of the Philippines is only a wooden sculpture, not worthy of special veneration.
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San Francisco
Joseph McQuaid
Church of Holy Redeemer
Phillipines Islands
St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral
Buford
Philippines
Unusual Forest Fire Smoke Delays Hit Astoria
Smoke from forest fires along the coast created a thick bank over Astoria causing business to suspend and lights to be turned on. Women at a packing house stopped work to pray as steamers on the Columbia River used searchlights at 11 a.m. The Portland and Oriental lines could not depart and interior property losses were reported.
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Astoria
Ore
Columbia River
Portland and Oriental Lines
General Chiceve Executed at Port au Prince
General Chiceve of the Firminist forces was defeated at Petit Goarve and executed in Port au Prince. August.
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Chiceve
Port Au Prince
Petit Goarve
Governor Names Eighteen Delegates for National Farmers Congress
The governor appointed eighteen delegates to the National Farmers Congress to meet in Macon Georgia from October 7 to 10. Congressman Slayden of San Antonio predicts Garner would beat Scott by more than five thousand. Henry C. Mathieu of Baltimore named Texas commissioner of deeds in Maryland. State Revenue Agent Cunningham notes the death of John W. Carter, tax collector for Kauffman County, on Thursday.
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Austin
National Farmers’ Congress
Macon
Slayden
San Antonio
Garner
Scott
Henry C. Mathieu
Baltimore
Texas
Maryland
Cunningham
John W. Carter
Kauffman County
Local Workers Keep Stand in Tamaqua Strike
Nearly all locals of the United Workers in Tamaqua reaffirmed allegiance to President Mitchell and pledged to stay out until coal companies grant concessions, signaling little hope that Mitchell and Governor Stone’s Harrisburg meeting will affect the strike.
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Tamaqua
United Workers
Mitchell
Stone
Harrisburg
Navy wires update on isthmus revolution near railroad line
Secretary of the navy reports Commander Potter aboard Ranger at Panama says revolutionists are close to the railroad line. Transit across the isthmus remains open. Dispatch from Commander McLean aboard Cincinnati notes departure from Cape Haytien toward Colon.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Potter
Ranger
Panama
Navy Department
McLean
Cincinnati
Cape Haytien
Colon
Princess Rospignos seeks church records in Rome dispensation case
Lawyers for Princess Rospignos formerly Miss Marie Reid of Washington ask Rome authorities to obtain the original registers of St Matthews Church in Washington and the Baltimore parish to support the claim that no dispensation for her marriage to Frederick Parkhurst of Bangor was granted.
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Rome
Princess Rospignos
Marie Reid
Washington, D. C
Frederick Parkhurst
Bangor
St. Matthews Church
Washington
Baltimore
Parkhurst
Dressmakers Plan Paris as Foreign HQ for APA
The American Protective Association convention decides to place its foreign headquarters in Paris. After president's report on advantages and possibilities, the plan is unanimously endorsed and assigned to a three member committee.
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Paria
New York
American Protective Association
Paris
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Wage Demand Pending
In San Francisco on Sept 12 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers plans to formally demand wage increases in January. The announcer notes ongoing labor action and potential negotiations ahead.
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San Francisco
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Sanitary workers strike leaves Santiago streets filthy
Sanitary employees in Santiago walk out after two months of unpaid wages. Streets remain unswept and rubbish uncollected for two days, leaving the city in a filthy condition.
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Santiago
First Woman Admitted to Maryland Bar in Annapolis
Etta Hayne Maddox of Baltimore appeared before the clerk of the court of appeals here and took the oath of admission to the bar becoming the first woman admitted under the law.
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Annapolis
Etta Hayne Maddox
Baltimore
Court of Appeals
Irish postulants sail for convent in Galveston
The Oceanic arriving passengers from Queenstown to New York include thirty Irish postulants bound for a convent in Galveston Texas.
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Queenstown
Oceanic
New York
Galveston
Tex
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