Storm Kills Five in Three States
Tornadoes sweep across Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri with five dead and 66 injured. Towns Hollis Great Bend Holsington Pond Creek Wind Mount Washington Fairmount Park damaged. trains delayed. one town near Concordia reported swept away and three killed ten injured. Engineer William Ackerly and conductor Frank Nicholson were among those killed near Great Bend.
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Kansas City
Hollis
Great Bend
Holsington
Kas
Pond Creek
Okla
Mount Washington
Fairmount Park
James O'Gara
Mra
Mary Robinson
Mra. Ferguson
George Root
Newton Birds
James Agar
Ruby Ives
James O’cann
R. J. Jankine
William
Enid
Missouri Pacific
Burington
Santa Fe
Kansas
Missouri
Concordia
William Ackerly
Frank Nicholson
Jeardoe
Fred
Cyre
John
Tornado Damages Enid and Nearby Creek Areas
Severe weather rips through Enid Oklahoma and the Hunter and Ponk Creek vicinity with heavy damage. Thunderstorms sweep across Oklahoma City and surrounding areas.
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Enid
Okla
Oklahoma City
Hunter and
Ponk Creek
Oklahoma
Blackmail claims by Los Angeles coachman’s wife
Mrs Grace V Harper testifies the suit by coachman’s wife Jane Harris is blackmail. Harris accuses Harper of alienating her husband’s affections and insists jealousy drove the feud. Harper says she dismissed Harris after years of unfounded accusations. Harris demanded money to hush the matter.
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Los Angeles
Grace V. Harper
Jane Harris
Harris
Friends play Each Other in Roanoke School Altercation
In Roanoke Va on May 16 William Bailey and R M Young shot and killed each other during a school entertainment at Dryden while attempting to kill another man. The men reportedly argued with William Jesse over admission tickets and Jesse struck one of them.
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Roanoke
William Bailey
R. M. Young
Dryden
William Jesse
Jesse
No Cigarettes for Freshmen at Wisconsin University
The senior class at the University of Wisconsin with 6,500 students votes to prohibit freshmen from smoking cigarettes starting now. The decision aims to curb tobacco use among new students and maintain campus decorum.
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Madison, Win
University of Wisconsin
Dreyfus Scandal Echoes in Russian Court Trial
May 16 report from St. Petersburg shows Lopukhin, ex police director, jailed five years for betraying Eugene Azef to terrorists. Critics charge the court with aristocratic manipulation using agents provocateur to suppress reform and demand a Duma inquiry into Lopukhin’s alleged victimization.
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St. Petersburg
Dreyfus
Tair
M. Lopukhin
Sibtria
Eugene Azef
Lopukhin
Agents Provocateur
Old Couple Dead in Ruins Near Carmine Texas
Neighbors found the home of Mr and Mrs John Rudolph in flames two miles south of Carmine. Firefighters reached the scene as walls collapsed. The elderly couple were killed and burned beyond recognition. Authorities suspect robbery motive and arson to cover a double murder. A daughter Mrs John Divoky lives locally.
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Brenham
Tex
Carmine
John Rudolph
Mre
John Divoky
Baby's body found in suitcase at Jamestown station
A luggage case left in the Erie station waiting room was opened by the station master and revealed the partially decomposed body of a three or four days old baby, well dressed with a $10 bill pinned to the clothing. No claimant has appeared for the case.
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Jamestown
Erie Station
Cody Flies Nearly Mile in British Army Test
London May 16 Captain P F Cody, famed for failed army aeroplane experiments, reportedly completes a near mile flight at Aldershot in the presence of the Prince of Wales. Cody, an American, gains renewed notoriety after the test.
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Prince Seee Cody
London
PF. & Cody
Prince of Wales
Aldershot
Cody
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Arkansas
Nation’s Bank
Fayvet Peville
U. S. Government Depository
Conner-Fulbright Grocery Co
Oflmd
Enid, Okia
Coachman
Azef
Wae
Asef
Duma
Cravens & CO
E. Center St
Texas
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