Oklahoma Tornado Kills 31 Injures 100 as Trains Blown Off Rails
A severe tornado across Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle leaves 31 dead and 100 injured by midnight. Altus and Kirkland report train wrecks and multiple towns lose buildings amid a cloudburst with four inches of rain in half an hour.
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RNADO
Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Altus
Kirkland
Tex
Rock Island
Eldorado
Calumet
Childress County
Texas
Lugere
Martha
Blair
Rocky
Sherman lashes Teddy on Grant third term claim
In Pittsburg on April 27 Vice President Sherman condemned General Grant's alleged third term bid as a grievous blunder and said the 1880 Chicago convention showed public attitude toward founders. He praised Grant's loyalty to the Constitution and criticized power ambitions while noting Washington's example.
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Sherman
Teddy
Grant
Pittsburg
A. S. Grant
Chicago
Americans Republican Club
Nev
High School Fashion Reform Sparks Debate
Chicago notes comment on Sterling High School banning high heels corsets and false hair as a health and morals reform. The Sterling move aims to curb vanity while Chicago schools resist the change, raising questions about uniform standards and female self expression.
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Chicago
Sterling, Jr
Sterling
Grim arrangements at Halifax for receiving the Titanic dead
Halifax N 8 April 27 reports grim preparations to receive the Titanic dead aboard the Cable ship MacKay Hennett. Identified victims like Astor Straus Miller Widener to coffins for relatives. unidentified moved to morgue or buried after a fortnight in local plots. Washington testimony says Mount Temple near scene but failed to reach in time.
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Halifax
MacKay-Hennett
John Jacob Astor
Isador Straus
Frank D. Miller
George D. Widener
White Btar Steamship Co
Washington
James J. Moore
Mount Temple
Senate Committee
Wousel
Mother Chains Child as Punishment in Utah Home
Neighbors rescue a nine year old boy chained to a floor with a heavy log collar in Salt Lake City. Mrs Rose Wingar says she followed a revelation urging harsh discipline to punish her children. She planned to bind a second child similarly as she faced the crowd.
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Salt Lake
Crea
Rose Winger
Coal Declared Contraband by Mexican President
An order by President Madero declares coal contraband of war and requires the Mexico & Northwestern railroad to refuse handling any coal. The decree, delivered to General Manager Ferris via the Mexican consul, affects Northern Mexico freight and may hit smelters and other industries.
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el Paso
Tex
Mexico
Madero
Ferris
Mexico & Northwestern
Tiggald Madero
Washington
Juarez
Chihuahua
Million People Starve in China Urgent Red Cross Appeal
An urgent appeal for aid to famine and revolution sufferers in China was issued by the American Red Cross. One million persons are in need, the relief committee at Shanghai cabled today. The famine, now at its worst, will continue through May.
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Washington, DC
China
Red Crogn
Bhapehas
Kentucky Going Too Strong on Whisky
Louisville reports distillers fear overproduction of Kentucky whisky from 1880 to 1893. Output has exceeded demand, with about 90 million gallons in the last two years and over 70 million in excess of need. Distillers urge curtailment to avert further depression.
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Loulaville
Kentucky
Man drinks 15 glasses of gin on wager in Wilkesbarre
Joseph Ogourkus died in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvan ia after consuming fifteen of twenty five glasses of gin wagered for a dollar per glass. He collapsed a few minutes after the fifteenth and before the sixteenth was served.
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Wilkesbarre
Joseph Ogourkus
Cyclone Lifts Schoolhouse. Pupils Unharmed
A cyclone in April 27 swept through the county lifting a rural schoolhouse with 12 children and the teacher inside. It carried the structure a mile before setting it down in a wheat field. no child was hurt while teacher Miss Clara Mills sustained severe injuries. The Algernon school was dismissed as the storm approached.
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Broken
Bow
Misa Clara Mills
Algernon
Bert Collins Found Dead in Chugwater Room
Bert Collins was found dead in his room in Chugwater after moving there to take a job with a stock company. He had lived in Cheyenne for over thirty years and was well known. A post mortem was scheduled in Cheyenne to determine the cause of death. He is survived by his mother and two sisters in Denver.
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Bert Collins
Chugwater
Mr. Collins
Agso
Cheyenne
Marly
Colling
Denver
Horgan Retains World Three Cushion Title in Bt. Laws
John Horgan, the world three cushion champion, defeated John Daly of New York in the final match at Bt. Laws Missouri to 48 with a total score of 140 to 182 after three games.
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Bt. Laws
John Horgan
John Daly
New York
All Women Lie Says Author On Married Life
New York April 27 Mme Karin Michaelis author of The Dangerous Age says all women by nature lie even to their husbands unless provoked by minor issues. She asserts habit formed in childhood leads wives to deception after marriage in a candid literary critique.
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New York
Mme
Karin Michaelis
Mine
Stangel
Jenkins Case Sees 10 Plead Not Guilty
Jenkins charged with the murder of his wife Jessie Jenkins who was killed Sunday April 14. Warren Jenkins to face Justice of the Peace Kiwarde next Tuesday at 2 PM for a preliminary hearing. County Attorney held him in county jail. defense appeals to the Supreme Court for writ of habeas corpus. Case to be bound over to district court. trial slated for June term. Jenkins maintains innocence.
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Jessie Jenkins
Warren Jenkins
Justice of the Peace Kiwarde
Jenkins
W. G B. Rogs
Supreme Court
Tid
D{shrier
Roosevelt Insane Says Watterson
Louisville April 27. Col Henry Watterson in the Courier-Journal accuses Theodore Roosevelt of madness and labels him an imitation Caesar. He argues the president’s quarrel with former President Roosevelt harms the nation’s dignity and warns of an asylum for the president to prevent irreparable acts.
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Louisville
Mareh
Henry Watterson
Courier-Journal
United States
White House
Nero
Theodore Roosevelt
Caesar
Naane
Hig
Burlington to Build New Depot and Office Structure in City
A conference in Cheyenne confirms plans to abandon the old Burlington depot on Capitol avenue and Sixteenth street. The Colorado and Southern and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will erect a new passenger station and office building near the current roundhouse. Temporary offices and move of dispatch records indicate long term permanence, though no leases have been terminated.
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U. 89
Burlington
City
Capitol Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Colorado & Southern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Cheyenne
Colorado & Southern Roundhouse
Twenty-second Avenue
Roundhouse
Kansas City Faces Bankruptcy and Payment Suspension
Kansas City Missouri orders halt on all obligations as deficit nears 7600000 with funds vanished. City employees face unpaid wages until June as administrator Edward Morey is summoned from Philadelphia to untangle the financial chaos.
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Kansas City
City
Edward P. Morey
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Edges Taft In Delegates Count At Convention
Telegram from Cheyenne reports Roosevelt with 261 delegates, Taft 103, and 112 uninstructed while 164 remain contested. Kansas and Missouri delegates show Roosevelt gains, plus local New York taft efforts falter amid intra party splits and a Barnes led delegation misgivings.
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Roosevelt
Taft
Cheyenne
Washington, D. C
Joseph M. Carey
Wyoming
Cummins
Kansas
Hadley
Missouri
Miasouri
Niederlaneus
New
Timothy L. Woodruff
Devoy
York City
Girl from Flint Wins Michigan Boxing Title in Seven Rounds
Myrtle Havers a 19 year old from Flint defeated Matel Williams 24 of Grand Rapids in seven rounds at a private gym in Baginaw to claim Michigan’s women’s boxing championship. Havers delivered a decisive uppercut and rights after Williams led in the seventh, ending the bout with Williams counted out. Friends carried Havers off and awarded her with a pink and white garland and a bronze medal as the new state champion.
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Baginaw
Mich
Flint
Myrtle Havers
Matel Williams
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Miles Willams
Dreamland
Mise Havers
Olate Hut
Trund Rapids
Mise Willame
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Moore
Japan
Horgan
Billiard
Watterson
William Barnes
Frank &. Black
Joseph M. Dixon
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