Austin Dam Disaster Leaves City Without Water and Light
Massive Colorado River flood wrecks the Austin plant, floods large areas of Williamson and Bastrop counties, halts trains on the International and Great Northern and Missouri Kansas and Texas lines, endangering public health and delaying news. About 30,000 people witness the ruin. hundreds of cattle drown, properties inundated, and recovery will take weeks.
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Austin
Tex
Williamson County
Bastrop County
Colorado
Associated Press
Citt« Gens
International & Great Northern
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Central
Texas
Train Wreck Near Twohlg Injures Several People
A northbound International and Great Northern passenger train derailed near Twohlg when rails spread at noon. Mail Agent 8 EB Bright suffered serious injuries and others were hurt. Rio Grande reports 26 feet of floodwater with submerged machinery and crop damage along the river.
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Laredo
Tex
International & Great Northern
Twohlg
EB. Bright
Rio Grande
Still Time for Farmers To Replant If They Can Get Seed
In Texas the rivers are falling with no general flood threat. Crops damaged over a wide area, but farmers may replant if seed is obtainable. Corn has been planted once and will need a third planting. cotton planting delayed by heavy rains. railroads have suffered losses.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Flood Devastates Crops In Smithville Area
Tremendous rains sweep section as Colorado River rises 38 feet by 7 pm flooding five miles of bottom lands. Over 5 000 acres inundated. losses exceed 50000 dollars with crops drowned. Rivers Brushy San Gabriel Little overflowed. water works and power plant flooded. no deaths reported.
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Smithville
Colorado
Austin
Everling
Cameron
Little River
Brushy
San Gabriel
Little Rivers
Tourists Face Washouts on Southern Pacific Route
A group of 25 California bound tourists and 25 Tyrolean migrants traveling to Hawaii endured a brutal storm west of Devils River. They pressed on to San Antonio by Ft Worth and Texas Pacific. Six washouts separated them from San Antonio and nine from El Paso causing extensive damage and delaying travel.
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San Antonio
Tex
California
Hawaiian Islands
Southern Pacific
Devil's River
Ft. Worth
Texas Pacific
el Paso
Here
Rio Grande floods devastate bottom lands and crops
Rio Grande City reports total destruction of the lower Rio Grande bottom corn crop. All bottom lands submerged with fences washed away and towns cut off. The river rises to forty feet at Colorado River, threatening Tobin addition and nearby cottages. Rail service largely unaffected with trains on time and Aransas Pass resume passenger runs. People move to safety as waters advance through the night.
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San Antonio
Tex
Rio Grande City
Rio Grande
International & Great Northern Railroad
Aransas Pass
Smithville
Colorado River
Gasley's Creek
Senator Penrose Aide to Quay in Controversy
Senator Penrose, Colleague of Senator Quay, assists him amid a brewing controversy. The article notes ongoing political maneuvering and public debate surrounding their alliance and influence.
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Quay
Columbus Printers Oppose Laylin for Secretary of State
Columbus Typographical Union No 5 adopted resolutions opposing L C Laylin the Republican candidate for Secretary of State. They accuse him of prejudice against organized labor and pledge to use all honorable means to defeat his nomination. A 25 member committee will liaise with party delegates to press the labor stance.
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Secretary of State
Laning
Columbus Typographical Union
L. C. Laylin
Republican Party
Friends of Labor
Bank Robbers Storm Clay City Vault Near Lexington
Expert bandits rode into Clay City on the Lexington and Eastern Railroad last night and blasted into the Clay City National Bank vault. They were discovered and escaped without being captured.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Clay City
Lexington & Eastern
Clay City National Bank
America’s German Torpedo Boat Bargain for Uncle Sam
The Somers Has Not Proved Remarkable or a Hoodoo Sailors Say She Is Not Proven a Reliable Vessel Yet The article notes mixed impressions of the torpedo boat with claims that it may still be a bargain for the United States under its procurement.
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Uncle Sam
Miners Strike Over Rock Falls Clearing Duty
Miners at the Fairmount and Catlin mines Vermillion County Illinois struck after operators offered to replace regular rock fall clearers with miners. The move left 18 to 20 workers jobless per mine as the entire workforce walked out in protest citing it as not customary and reducing earning time.
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Springfield
Ill
Fairmount
Catlin
Vermillion County
Falls of Rock
Platform on Which Five Men Were Garroted Carried Away
Five men garroted yesterday were buried in Ponce's potter's field. A crowd of relic hunters broke up the execution platform and carried away fragments. Some photographs of the execution were obtained. The executioners and garrotes were sent back to San Juan.
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Ponce
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Boers Advancing as Civilians Flee in British Disarray
London reports censored front news as Boers press the campaign with civilians leaving. Rail and telegraph cuts rumored, Husars missing amid Boer denial. Colville’s failed conference attempt due to cavalry shortage, Free State resurgence, and 6000 Boer troops with 10 cannons and 750 wagons claim a strategic feat at Colesberg and Stormberg.
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London
England
Bloemfontein
Cape Town
Hussars
Royal Irish Rifles
Colville
Reitfontein
Free State
DeVillebois
Colesberg
Stormberg
All Civilians Ordered To Quit Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein civilians including Lady Bentinck and Lady Edward Cecil are leaving per a general order. The Morning Post reports the city’s security remains, though telegraph and railway links may be disrupted briefly.
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Bloemfontein
London
Morning Post
Bentinck
Edward Cecil
Cape Town
Boer Successes Threaten Basuto Alliance Ties
In Maseru Basutoland on Thursday April The Boers reoccupy Ladybrand Thaba N'Chu and Bloemfontein water works seen by Basutos after British expulsion. Native opinion grows that British reverses sap their confidence and evacuation of Wepenor could spark further turmoil. General Brabant is urged to advance and push the enemy back.
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Maseru
Basutoland
Ladybrand
Thabda
Bloemfontein
Basutos
Wepenor
Brabant
Soobojo Slain Report Sparks Swaziland Unrest
A Swaziland dispatch reports So bobo murdered and his women bound, as unrest grows in the region. Boers allegedly seek passage armed through Swaziland while M q u esie and household were attacked, the kraal burned, and the chief’s son captured. natives are said to march and maraud.
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Lorenzo Marquez
Bremersdorp
Swaziland
M’quesie
M’quesse
Steyn Promises Readiness For Intervention At Kroonstad
President Steyn told the Free State Volksraad at Kroonstad that burghers are in a stronger position than at war start and warned surrendering burghers. He said Free State has borrowed a million from the Transvaal for war as England is cited in continued coverage.
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Steyn
Lorenzo Marque
Free State Volksraad
Kroonstad
Free State
Transvaal
England
Democratic Bolt Splits Marion County Conventions at Salem
In Salem, Bryan's old home, two rival Democratic mass conventions convened in a single park to select delegates for State and district events. A dispute over a permanent chair led to secret ballots and a split, with Hull and Hall factions each organizing their own convention and each naming delegates to the State and Senatorial conventions.
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Bryan
Same Park
Springfield
Iu.y
Marion County
Salem
Friends of State
Charles H. Hull
Henry R. Hall
Sandoval
Hull
Hall
Thomas E. Merritt
Romantic Elopement Unites War Veteran and Heiress
In Evansville Indiana on Thursday, Thomas Winfrey, a Spanish War veteran, secretly wed his stepsister Miss Sooditdcac in Jeffersonville. The marriage links two families of prominence, as Winfrey’s father is a Police Court Judge and the bride is heiress by her grandfather Will. Winfrey served as an officer in an Evansville military unit during the war with Spain.
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Commercial Tribune
Evansville
Thomas Winfrey
Miss Sooditdcac
Jeersonville
Ind
Winfrey
Singer
Willard Carpenter
Young Winfrey
Spain
Horse Dies of Fright in Columbus Evening Gun salute
In Columbus Ohio a horse ridden by James Tressin bolted when a soldier fired the evening gun at the United States Garrison. The animal lurched and died within minutes after racing a block with blood at the nostrils, despite efforts to summon a veterinarian.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
United States
James Tressinrider
Tres
Stabbing At Peru Hotel Ends In Severe Injuries
Frederick and Steven Titus brothers who own the Union Station hotel and restaurant in Peru were attacked around 3 am by two unknown assailants. Frederick was stabbed twice and is expected to die. Steven suffered an 18 inch back wound but may survive. Police report over fifty arrests with no positive identifications.
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Commercial Tribune
Peru
Ind
Frederick
Steven Titus
Union Station
Steven
Frederick Titus
Titus
Laylin Secures Bulk of Delegates for State Convention
L C Laylin of Norwalk gained the majority of delegates for the state convention last week winning Athens 10, Jefferson 11, and Crawford 5 with Adams 8 claimed. Mannington also has six from Preble. Senator Patterson indicated Laylin would likely be nominated for Secretary of State by acclamation.
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Huron County
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
L. C. Laylin
Norwalk
Athens
Jefferson
Crawford
Laylin
Adams
Mannington
Preble
Patterson
Pike
Senate
Insurgent Attacks Reported Across Philippine Campaigns
News from Manila April 8 describes ongoing clashes with insurgents. Capt Sturgis recon exposed an out post on Nevaliches road, two insurgents killed and ten captured. A Laguna detachment hid in a church at Paeto until reinforcements arrived. Lt Gordon with the 16th Infantry faced 250 insurgents, was wounded. An Eighth Army sergeant and corporal were killed at Capiz. Insurgents attacked Calbayon. Major Gilmore’s cook was killed during a raid. Reinforcements requested in North and Southern Luzon amid growing violence and killings of local officials friendly to Americans.
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Gordon
Sixteenth Infantry
Aparri
Cagayan Province
Eighteenth Infantry
Capiz
Panay
Calbayon
Samar
Gilmore
Forty-third Infantry
Young
Luzon
James Bell
Bataar
Kaiser Declines Pardon for German Officer
Berlin reports that Emperor William refuses to confirm a short imprisonment sentence for Lieutenant Prince Prosper Arenberg, condemned for last year’s murder of a black man in German Southwest Africa under unusually brutal circumstances.
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Berlin
William
Prince
Prosper Arenberg
Africa
Young couple elope to Cumberland Gap wed in surprise
Middlesboro Kentucky April 8 Wharton Golden Jr two years old and Sadie Rees sixteen eloped to Cumberland Gap and married Golden is nephew of Sergeant Wharton Golden a star witness in the Goebel assassination trial and Rees is cousin of Secretary of State Caleb Powers.
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Commercial Tribune
Middlesboro
Wharton Golden, Jr
Sadie Rees
Cumberland Gap
Golden
Sergeant Wharton Golden
Goebel
Miss Rees
Caleb Powers
Bipartisan talks aim at nonpartisan West Virginia Supreme Court
In Parkersburg on April 3 officials from both parties and several legal bodies met to craft a plan for a nonpartisan Supreme Court. The group agreed not to nominate at their state conventions and to call a special judicial convention to nominate candidates.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
John T. McGraw
Democratic Committee
Andrew Edmiston
United States
Attrney Gaines
W.N. Miler
W. P. Hubbard
Wheeling
J.P. Crogan
Kingwood
West Virginia Bar Association
Supreme Court
Fear of outbreak grows in Middlesboro Kentucky violence erupts
Civil tension flares after clashes between city police and county deputies in Middlesboro. Patrolman William Mosley is killed and Deputy Cecil is seriously wounded, leading Sheriff Broughton to swear in extra deputies. City Council may request State troops from Beckham as clashes threaten.
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Commercial Tribune
Middlesboro
William Mosley
Charles Cecil
Broughton
Beckham
R. N. King
Cecil
Bosworth
Charles Cousins
Board of Pardons
Cousins
Sao
Clash over Middlesboro offices sparks potential troop request
Reports from Frankfort indicate rival factions claiming Middlesboro city offices clashed. The Democratic side reportedly appealed to Beckham for troops to enforce authority. Beckham is in Shelbyville. Assistant Adjutant General Waring could not confirm official action but doubted troops would be sent if the request stands, which remains unconfirmed.
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Commercial Tribune
Frankfort
Middlesboro
Beckham
Shelbyville
Waring
Run Down by Bloodhounds in Au burn Murder Case
In Fort Wayne area near Auburn on April 8 William Davis shot and killed Steel after threats over Steel’s wife. Bloodhounds tracked the suspect to Davis’s house miles away. Davis confessed to the murder upon arrest.
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William Davis
FT. Wayne
Ind
Auburn
Steel
Davis
Plenty of Money Prosperity Shown by Treasury Statement
Treasury officials released figures illustrating growing revenue and budget gains. The report highlights higher tax collections, reduced deficits, and improving public finances across sectors, signaling stronger economic health for the coming year.
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Treasury
GurrenGy Increas ing Two Billion Mark Passed First Time
The report notes a historic milestone as a two billion threshold is surpassed for the first time in history. Financial indicators show continued growth and broad participation across sectors, signaling a major macroeconomic event with wide implications.
Mining Schools Gain Fresh Backing in Congress Bill
Officials of state universities seek expanded federal aid for schools of mines. A composite bill, drafted by the College Land Grants Association, would grant Ohio State University and other institutions $10,000 for year one, rising to $20,000 annually thereafter, funded by the general government. A Senate panel favored the measure after Captain Alexis Cope argued its merits.
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Congress
House
Senate
College Land Grants Association
Tillman
Grosvenor
Alexis Cope
Ohio State University
Cope
Senate Committee On
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