Cyclone devastates Chandler Oklahoma and surrounding areas
A deadly tornado struck Chandler Oklahoma and nearby towns causing massive destruction. Twenty five confirmed dead with 150 injured and many missing as buildings burned and telephone service collapsed. Rescue teams hurried to the hill town of 1500 amid widespread debris and fires.
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Gurnee
C. T
Chandler
Here
Mitchell
Grand Island
Kansas City
Journal
Guthrie
O. T
John Wood
Henry Mitchell
Tom Smith
John Dawson
Emery Foster
Baby
Kansas
Florence
Kan
Santa Fe
Great Bend
Wichita
Haven Box
Bloxton
Delta Flood Threatens Greenville Area as Levees Break
Memphis reports three Mississippi River levee breaks with one near Wayside 1200 feet wide and another 1000 feet wide north of Greenville. Towns fear breach flooding and rail lines may flood as 10000 residents race to save homes while Arkansas cotton land also risks inundation. Washington notes nominations for public printer and consular posts with party backing.
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Greenville
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Delta
Miss
Wayside
Arkansas City
Georgia Railroad
Laconia Circle
Ark
MM. Check
Kate Adams
Greeks Cross Frontier Into Macedonia Fight Report
Reports from Turkish headquarters at Elassona say Greek forces led by Alexis Taki crossed into Macedonia and clashed with a Turkish advance post near Greyena. Turkish losses were twelve killed and twenty wounded, German officer among the wounded, while Greek casualties were small. The crisis deepens as diplomatic efforts continue and Crete remains a flashpoint.
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Constantinople
Ite
Elassona
Macedonia
Alexis Taki
Greyena
Greece
Turkey
George
Crete
Thessaly
Railroads withdraw from regional associations crippling their activity
In St Louis on March 28 officials report major lines have pulled out of the Southwestern Traffic and Southern Freight associations following a Supreme Court ruling. Santa Fe Rock Island Southern Pacific Texas and Pacific Iron Mountain Frisco have withdrawn. Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain have also left, leaving the groups largely inoperative while others delay action pending a Monday conference.
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St. Louis
Supreme Court
Southwestern Traffic Association
Southern Freight Association
Southwestern Association
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Southern Pacific
Texas and Pacific
Iron Mountain
Frisco
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain Roads
Southern Traffic Association
Winter Wheat Reports Signal Third Short Crop
Caicaco March 40 The monthly crop report of the Orange Judd Farmer shows winter wheat condition at its lowest since 1885 with an average of 83.5, down from 87.0 last year and 85.8 in 1895. The past 16 years’ records suggest April usually higher than May, implying continued weakness and a third consecutive short winter wheat crop nationwide.
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Caicaco
Orange Judd
Morrison rails at rate fixing in antitrust debate
W H Morrison chairman of the interstate commerce commission sends The Journal a signed statement from Washington dated March 25 arguing that the Supreme Court Transmissouri decision also covers the Joint Traffic and the Southern Railway and Steamship association. He questions why antitrust laws exist if carriers may combine to keep up transportation rates and the cost of goods.
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Morrison
Atlanta
W. H. Morrison
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Transmissouri
Joint
Southern Railway and Steamship Association
Mysterious air ship seen across Kansas Nebraska towns
Reports from northern Kansas and southern Nebraska describe a mysterious air ship sighted repeatedly over the past week with townsfolk stirred by the strange aerial craft.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Nebraska
Very Weak Wheat Market Triggers Liverpool Decline
Wheat prices fell across the board with a 4 cent decline as weak Liverpool market and heavy northwest receipts weighed on futures. Corn oats and provisions moved little or rose slightly, while Chicago hogs cattle and sheep receipts show mixed gains and steady demand across market segments.
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Liverpool
Northwest
Todilige
Texas
Happenings From Home And Abroad Of March 25
A compact summary lists incidents from March 25 including Mrs. J J Bailey of Ida Grove Iowa shooting herself, Emil Gans killed by a train at Washington, Yellow Wolf of the Chickasaw tribe dying at 113 in Wichita, McKinley reprieving the Button murderers, William Wood in US Navy over Pearl Bryan case, Rudolph Spreckles winning a million dollar suit, Dave Miller knocked out by Elmer DeWolf at Weeping Water, Harry Staley going insane after calf attack in Warrensburg, a pulmonary disease outbreak at Prairietown, Moscow Indiana underground stream scare, ghost dance deaths near Perry Oklahoma among Otoe Cheyenne Arapahoe, San Francisco lumbermen seeking a trust, Japanese colonizing parts of Mexico, iron ore pool dissolution in Cleveland, Vandalia Illinois earthquake, robbers threaten Germain Catholic convent Fort Smith Arkansas, Mrs Sarah I Brown dies leaving 60000 to Methodist church, Michigan Baseball League formed, Henry Kremila dies in Quincy Wisconsin, Editor Post fined in Cleveland for judge criticism, William Painter dies in Altoona while protecting President McKinley.
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J. J. Bailey
Ida Grove
Emil Gans
Washington
Yellow Wolf
Wichita
Kan
McKinley
United States
William Wood
Pearl Bryan
United States Navy
Rudolph Spreckles
San Francisco
Dave Miller
Elmer DeWolf
Weeping Water
Neb
Harry Staley
Warrensburg
Prairietown
Ill
Moscow
Ind
Perry
Mexico
Cleveland
Vandualia
Tls
Fort Smith
Ark
Sarah I. Brown
Bloomsburg
Methodist Church
Michigan
Henry Kremila
Fremont
Xeh
Quincy
Post
Cleveland Recorder
William Painter
Altoona
Washington, D. C
Fifty second annual Town United Brethven conference opens in Summer
Presiding is Bishop K. B. Kephart of Baltimore with Judge Smythe of Morning Sun, Iowa. Sentences include Orman McPherson life imprisonment for murder of J. H. W. Finley, marshal. Ex-Auditor Moore faces Lincoln preliminary trial for embezzling 23,000 state funds. Kansas rail rates, Iowa tax bill, Illinois good roads defeat, and other items across states.
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Kk. B. Kephart
Baltimore
Smythe
Morning Sun
Orman McPherson
J. H W. Finley
Moore
Lincoln
Neb
Kansas City
Leedy
Iowa
Illinois
I. Hopp
Santa Fe
Mex
Joseph Davis
William Waller
Monroe
Reno
Nev
Atchison, Kan
Detroit
Harrison
Delta Chi
Ann Arbor
Mich
London
Duke of Leeds
Earl of Aberdeen
Canada
Indiana
Western Union Telegraph Company
Kentucky Supreme Court
D. B. Lent
Springfield
Central Presbyterian Church of
Denver
Wayward Topics Sweep Through National News Highlights
Reports from Wichita Missouri Kansas Texas North Carolina Indiana and New York cover election registration shifts crime indictments losses burglary and the use of electricity in railroads. The items mention a fort Scott resident's death a ministerial selection for Liberia and new antitrust legislation.
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Wichita
Kan
West
Primrose & Westein- Peele
Clifton
Kansas City
Texas
Indian Territory
George H. Drum
Fort Scott
Stirl
Bismarck
N.C
Federal Grand Jury
WH. Wight
Colorado Springs
J. Silas Harris
Negro State League
Liberia
Caleb Bernard
New Carlisle
Ind
Ewing Woods
Chariton
Charles Ellie
Harvard
Valparaiso
Silas Swallow
Harrisburg
New York
Amos Riggsoe
Young Boyd
R. Boyd
Mount Gilead
Hese McIntosh
Minor- Brooks Syndicate
Kentucky
Anthony Comstock
Ilinois Central
Grant
John Haunt
Columbia Ma Postponed Pending Supreme Court Appeal
Columbia Ma has been indefinitely postponed pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Columbia Ma. Me
Supreme Court
Diverse late 19th century incidents flood front pages
A broad roundup lists drownings near Coruna Spain and a Grantsburg log jam, plus government timber cutting in Ashland Wisconsin. Reports cover lawsuits against a Kansas City lodge, copyright debates in Guthrie Oklahoma Territory, deaths in Centerville Iowa and Sioux City, a killed Clinton Iowa youth, school board demands, floods in the South, currency bills in Massachusetts, mining camps on forest lands, bicycles in rail baggage debates, hiccups in Columbia Missouri, a railroad wage bill failure in Michigan, naturalization steps by Emma Booth Tucker, a beet sugar tax in Michigan, a meteor sighting in Anderson Indiana, a Trenton Missouri ax murder, and a Vanderbilt statue completion at Vanderbilt University campus.
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Coruna
Spain
Grantsburg
Wis
Ashland
Lena RK. Winslow
Kansas City Lodge
Knights of Maccabets of the World
Guthrie, O.T
Walker
Massachusetts
Shafroth
Colorado
Columbia
Michigan
Emma Booth-Tucker
United States
Anderson
Ind
G. Wilson
Trenton
Moretti
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University
Multiple small items summarize 19th century news blurbs
Kansas City commission merchant corners onion market as the steamer Clive arrives from Naples to New York. A string of fatal and near fatal accidents across Kentucky Iowa Pennsylvania and Illinois is reported along with public notices and local events.
Dying Havana Correspondent Ona Melton Among Tragic News From Many Cities
A collage of incidents reports Ona Melton near death in Havana and multiple deaths across the U S. Daring accidents include boiler explosions in Augusta Kentucky and a Chicago fire fatality. Also noted are drownings near Pensacola Florida and a smallpox case on a British steamer Breakwater arrival.
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Ona Melton
Havana
William Stevenson
Kinporia
Kan John Kinsler
Chicago
Penascola
Fla
Calvert Boone
J. R. Tucker
Augusta
James Landow
Bumpass Mills
Penn
John Clark
Sam Hotopp
Louisville
Webb McNall
Kansas
Plymouth County
Towa
James Bailey
St. Louis
Rheub Fulkerson
Cockrell
Columbia
Gainsville
Yex
Amos Riggs
Boyd
Mount Gilead
Orange Judd
Oskaloosa
Forfeiture Notice on Paw Sapa Bar Placer Claim
Morgen D. Jones of Gibbonville Idaho files a notice of expenditure on the Paw Sapa Bar placer mining claim in Beaverhead County Montana. He states amounts spent in 1804 1895 and 1804 and warns co owner W P Nelson must contribute within ninety days or lose interest to Jones under a revised U S statute.
Notice of Forfeiture to William Taylor heirs and assigns
We N Burnett and W Burnett heirs executors ad ministrators of Amesville Beaverhead county Montana notify that in 1892 93 94 95 and 1896 we expended 100 in labor and improvements on the Sure Pay quartz lode mining claim in upper Horse Prairie Beaverhead county Montana If you fail to contribute your 34 interest of 816666 toward these expenditures plus notice costs within 90 days after service the property will vest in us under section 2824 revised statutes US
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William Taylor
Burnett
Amesville
Beaverhead County
Montana
Upper Horse Prairie
United States
World News Offer Includes New York World and You Do Won Trial
The World offers a yearly combination with You Do Won Trial at a special rate. It emphasizes comprehensive coverage "All the News of All the World All the Time" and portrays itself as accurate fair and popular across states territories and foreign countries. The ad promotes a one year price of $3.00 for both papers.
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Thenion
Yuu Do
New Cure Proclaimed for Consumption and Related Ailments
A medical advertisement by T A Slocum M C announces a discovery claimed to cure consumption bronchial throat and lung diseases and general wasting. He offers three free bottles to readers who send address and asks to mention the paper.
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T. A. Slocum
M. D
Selentiat
Wil
Post Office
T.A. Slocum
M. C
Pinestreet
New York
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Shelbyville
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Sioux City
W. P. Nelson
Morgen D. Jones
Gibbonaville
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Fan Sapa Bar Placer
Pioneer Diggings
Big Hole Basin
State of
Paw Sapa Bar Placer
United Bracee
Morgan D. Jones
NEW York World
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East
Bimetallico Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Cushman
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F. R.C
Central London
Throat and Ear Hospital
Browne
Thors
J.B. Salisbury
Bishop
Ilinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
Nord
Cashman Drug Co
Vincennes
Dearborn Bt
Carthage
Salem
Ala
Vincennes, Na
D. Consumetron, Ca
Tribune Pub. CO
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DintoCon
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