Floods Roar Through Louisiana Swamp Flood Ends Farming Hope
Destructive Red River flood worsens in Marksville and Jonesville areas driving about 2,800 people from homes or to upper stories. Levees near Moncla broken with 16 to 20 feet of water, swamp fever intensified by privation and exposure as area loses corn crops and livestock clings to improvised rafts and brush feeds.
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New Orleans
Black River
Louisiana
Jonesville
Marksville
Red River
Moncla
Missing Registered Mail Pouch Worth Up To Hundred Thousand
The Los Angeles to New York registered mail pouch carrying at least 50000 in currency and many money valuables is missing. Postal officials in three cities acknowledge a loss of a pouch possibly totaling 100000, with no public explanation from the Kansas City post office. General belief ties the currency to a Los Angeles bank shipment to its New York correspondent.
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Los Angeles
New York
Cal
Kansas City Postolice
Postoffice Department
Washington
M .H. Flint
W. J. Vickery
Kansas City
Million-Dollar Swain County Land Claim Prompts Legal Battle
The Harris Woodbury Lumber Company sues in federal court to block an injunction over a 78 000 acre tract in Swain county claimed by Coffin of Bryson City White of Mayaville Ky and Ramsey deputy marshal after a $100 bid at an execution sale. The bill notes a 1906 forced sale price of $449000 plus today’s estimated value surpassing one million dollars.
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Asheville
N. G
Swain County
United States
Ramsey
Bryson City
E. C. Coffin
Samuel White
Mayaville
Harris-Woodbury Lumber Comany
Harris-Woodbury Lumber Company
Cadets Reinstated at Clemson After April Prank Expulsions
The Clemson discipline committee reportedly reconsiders widespread expulsions from the junior through preparatory classes. About eighty to one hundred cadets applied for readmission, with many granted reinstatement under conditions over the past weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clemson College
Lemison College
Clemson Halle
Cal
Evans and Memphis Chiefs of UCV Conclude Birmingham Convention
The United Confederate Veterans adjourned in Birmingham after selecting Memphis as the next reunion site and electing General Clement A. Evans of Georgia as commander in chief to succeed the late General Stephen D. Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Memphis
Clement A. Evans
Georgia
Stephen D. Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Rival City Meet Selection Drives Southern Union Fight
The mee selection pits Memphis against Atlanta as the chosen host, with Virginia siding Memphis and Atlanta supporters conceding defeat. General Clement A. Evans, Georgia born, Georgia Law School graduate, rises as commander in chief after a heated vote. Conference attendees tally 2,350 delegates across 780 camps as Birmingham earns praise for hosting.
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Mphis
Atlanta
Virginia
Memphis
Clement A. Evans
Georgia
North Carolina
Georgia Law School
Thirty-First Georgia
Lawton
Gordon
Evans
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Monocacy
Gettysboro
Appomattox
George W. Gordon
Department of Tennessee
Irvine Walker
Northern Virginia
Cabell
trans-Mississippi Department
Birmingham
Jefferson Davis
Pardons End Long Prison Terms Of Powers And Howard
Caleb Powers and James Howard, once tied to the Goebel murder plot, received full pardons from Governor Willson after years in prison. Powers, jailed in Georgetown, and Howard, in Frankfort, plan to resume lives. Powers returns to Knox County, Howard to Louisville to join family and pursue prison evangelism efforts. Governor Willson studied all testimony and considered four Powers trials and one Howard trial before signing.
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Lexington
Caleb Powers
James Howard
Wiliam Goebel
Willse
Powers
Georgetown
Howard
Frankfort
Knox County
Louisville
Willson
Washington
Barbourville
America
William Goebel
Kentucky
State House
Taylor
Indiana
Goebel
William 8. Taylor
Indianapolis
Thige Country
Sage Plantation Gift Beautifies Central Park
Mrs. Russell Sage donates a mile long rhododendron bed in Central Park to New York City. The project, named the Sage Plantation, is expected to cost about $50,000 upon completion and will enhance the park’s famed breathing space with a grand floral display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Central Park
New York
Russell Sage
Sage Plantation
Irishman reports six men robbed him on Painter Mountain
W. F. Burns of Macon County North Carolina says six men assaulted him on Painter Mountain Greenville South Carolina and took his wife, beating him nearly senseless before leaving him in the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain
Greenville
S. C
W. F. Burns
Macon County
North Carolina
Painter Mountain
Thirty Year Sentence for Black Hand Letter Case in New Orleans
Alberta Pumelia an Italian was sentenced to thirty years hard labor in the state penitentiary for sending Black Hand letters to Italian merchant A Griffignadi and throwing a dynamite bomb at Griffignadi's house after demands for money were ignored. Judge Baker expressed regret he could not impose a harsher punishment.
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New Orleans
Alberta Pumelia
Pumelia
A. Griffignadi
Griffignadi
Baker
Pamelia
Hall proposes state liquor licensing reform plan
Spokane readers learn candidate Hall would abolish saloon licenses and replace them with individual licenses to drink. Each license would bear a photo and punish drunkenness by revoking the license for six months to a year, raising revenue and targeting sale only to license holders.
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Spokane
Wash
Hall
Bold torpedo test sinks not the Florida in Hampton Roads
In Hampton Roads a torpedo fired by Lieutenant John VY. Babcock from the Morris against the monitor Florida created a huge water plume but did not pierce her bulkheads. The vessel settled gradually and was towed to Norfolk navy yard for dry dock, with officials to inspect damage.
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Florida
Norfolk
Sewall’s Point
Hampton Roads
John VY. Babcock
Morris
Norfolk Navy Yard
Charles T. Baldwin
Florida Militia Captain Charged With Forgery on Railway Pass
Florida man John C. Dalton a captain in the state militia is accused by Southern Railway officials of forging a railroad pass. Dalton and his wife were arrested in Washington as they disembarked a Jacksonville train and detained on forgery and interstate commerce law violations.
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Florida
Southern Railway
Washington, D. C
John C. Dalton
Dalton
Jacksonville
J. B. Smith
Editor Sentenced to Two Years in Puerto Rico Libel Attack
Julian Aybar editor of a labor newspaper in San Juan Puerto Rico received a two year penal servitude sentence on two counts of libel. The attack was aimed at a judge who identified himself as the target. the supreme court upheld the judge's contention.
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San Juan
P. R
Julian Aybar
Supreme Court
Leiter Roughly Handles Photographer After Wedding
Joseph Leiter, famed as the wheat corner figure, married Miss Juliette Williams in Washington D C. After the ceremony the couple and the bride’s mother moved toward a restaurant when a local studio employee tried to photograph them. Leiter jumped from his car, rough handled the photographer, and smashed the camera on the pavement.
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Whips
Washington
D. C
Joseph Z. Leiter
Wheat Corner
Juliette Williams
Leiter
New York approves Agnes Hart track gambling bills by narrow vote
Governor Hughes signs the Agnes Hart race track gambling measures after a 25 to 26 Senate tally led by Senator Otto Foelker who traveled from Brooklyn on a sickbed and by Senator William C Wallace from Niagara Falls. Despite the law 15 000 to 20 000 spectators gathered at Gravesend race track where six races were run and six favorites won amid arrests for violations and jitters over betting rules. Allan Pinkerton urged calm as Detectives and police managed the crowd and Preston Cavanaugh warned bookmakers to avoid displaying odds or taking bets direct from bettors.
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Albany
N. Y
Agnes-Hart
New York
Hughes
Otto G. Foelker
Brooklyn
William C. Wallace
Niagara Falls
Gravesend
Richard Weldon
Carr
Weldon
Allan Pinkerton
Thither
John Cavanaugh
Texans Disarm Spectators At Murder Trial Entry
In Houston nearly a hundred guns were seized from spectators and witnesses before the R. O. Kenley murder trial began. Kenley is charged with killing ex County Attorney H S Robb at Groveton with a single shot and wounding Ranger J D Dunaway six times on April 26.
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Houston
Texas
R. O. Kenley
Kenley
H. 8S. Robb
Groveton
J. D. Dunaway
Fatal Practical Joke Ends in Victim's Death
Morris Caseberg aged 22 died at a Pittsburgh hospital after colleagues at Duquesne Steel Works allegedly inflated his body with compressed air causing peritonitis. Investigators probe the incident as a deadly prank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Morris Caseberg
Duquesne Steel Works
Prepared for Trouble Marines Rush to Panama
The secretary issued an order to hold three battalions of 411 marines each in readiness for a Panama cruise. The canal zone already has 280 marines with 100 more en route and 1,713 total ready force nationwide. Battalions will be drawn from Boston New York Philadelphia Norfolk or Washington with transports standing by.
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United States
Panama
Washington
D. C
Metcalf
Canal Zone
Philadelphia
Tacoma
Boston
New York
Norfolk
Solons Meet June 24 With Many Matters Ahead
Georgia General Assembly convenes June 24 for its second session since last year. Deaths reduce five members. successors will assume duties. Speaker John M. Slaton to preside in the House. Key bills include continuing the Western and Atlantic Railroad to the sea, anti-pass and anti-lobbying measures, railroad incorporation revisions, primary election funding disclosures, convict lease questions, pensions election, and a forestry study near Ducktown.
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Atlanta
General Assembly of Georgia
Akin
Bartow
Williams
Laurens
Neel
Way
Pulaski
Galloway
Walton
Senate
Martin
Whitfield
Hardman
Jackson
Steed
Carroll
John M. Slaton
House of Representatives
Western and Atlantic
Railroad Commission
Wright
Floyd
House
Alexander
DeKalb
Boykin Wright
Augusta
Shaw
Clay
McIntyre
Thomas
Ducktown
Tenn
Government Seeks Proposals for Georgia Public Building Sites
Supervising Architect Taylor announces Georgia site proposals for new public buildings in multiple cities. Each listing specifies lot size and a July 9 filing deadline. Cities include Augusta Bainbridge Carrollton Cedartown Cordele Dublin Elberton LaGrange Tifton Milledgeville.
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Georgia
Washington
D. C
Taylor
Treasury Department
Augusta
Bainbridge
Carrollton
Cedartown
Cordele
Dublin
Lot
Elberton
LaGrange
Tifton
Milledgeville
General McGlashan Drowned While Bathing at Isle of Hope
SavannahGA General Peter A McGlashan a Confederate veteran born Edinburgh May 19 1880 drowned while swimming at Isle of Hope near Savannah. He emigrated to the U S in 1848 joined Walker in Nicaragua filibuster eight years later and rose to brigadier general in the Confederate army. He was wounded at Sharpsburg and Cedar Creek.
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Savannah
Peter A
McGlashan
Isle of Hope
General McGlashan
Edinburgh
Scotland
America
Walker
Davis
Richmond
Sharpsburg
Cedar Creek
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Loeb
Hyman, Berg & Co
State
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Chicago
Ill
Morris & Co
Riverside
Kas
Binghampton
Clement A, Evans
Powers and Howard
William Gobel
Mrs. Sage
Consumers’ License
State of Washington
Labor
Joe Leiter
Gravesend Track
Solons
M’glashan
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