Paris Flood Strikes City as 50 000 Soldiers Deployed
Paris faces record Seine flood with 50 000 garrison troops aiding municipal crews. Water reached 26 feet above low tide at Pont Royal, rising slowly as factories shut and power waned. Underground networks fill with water. sanitation and transport crippled. relief funds and Red Cross efforts mobilized.
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Paris
Pont Royal
Pomcata
Séone
Majesthe
Chatenton
Marne
Seine
Alfortville
Sar-Seine
Eron Auteuil
Woman's country home turned into ice palace
Waterbury Connecticut January 27 Mrs Elizabeth Barber of Harwinton left faucets running while away over holidays to prevent freezing. A drain pipe froze water overflowed flooding both floors and freezing interiors into an ice palace. Icicles hung from chandeliers and stairs. Parlor and sitting room served as a skating rink for neighborhood boys. On return the home was practically ruined though now a show place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury
Conn
Tsa
Elizabeth Barber
Harwinton
Insulted by Teasing Girl Friends Drives Woman Insane
Keokuk Iowa January 27 20 year old Lillie Nygren daughter of S P Nyeren is described as rapidly deteriorating after an embrace by a man and persistent teasing by coworkers at a wholesale house She is in critical condition and at Mount Pleasant institution doctors fear suicide Melancholia led to insanity and the case is set for commitment proceedings
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keokuk
Lillie Nyeren
S. P. Nyeren
Miss Nygren
Mount Pleasant
Preacher's Revelation Triggers Court Action in Oklahoma
Rev. E. J. Bulgin warned his congregation that the county grand jury may return 3800 indictments. He was cited to reveal his information source before Judge Shea. The judge adjourned the grand jury to next Monday and flagged possible dismissal amid public commentary on its actions. Bulgin has accused local officials of fostering crime and taking hush money from gamblers and bootleggers. An earlier shooting at the evangelist caused no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartleaville
Okla
E. J. Bulgin
Bulgin
Shea
District Court
Unionists Edge Opponents In Late Election Returns
London dispatch reports yesterday’s balloting yields across 49 constituencies. Unionists win 46 seats while Liberals take five and Nationalists three with Laborites one, boosting Unionists to 237 in opposition standings and Liberals to 207 under the government coalition.
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London
Jen
Take
Lberals
Nationaliste
Laborites
Gelshenattonistets
Asquith
Fife
East
Richard Burton-Haldane
Haddingtonshire
Church Embezzler Willing to Surrender in Pittsburg
William C Lilley former treasurer of the permanent temperance committee of the general Assembly and Pittsburg presbytery appeared in Pittsburg after months away He confessed to a $23000 shortage and was taken to Willis A Booth's home for the night A special annex of the presbytery will convene to act on Lilley case
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
William C. Lilfey
The
General RR rEly
Presbyterian Church
Willis A. Booth
Board ‘of Trustees
Presbytery
Presby
Lilley
Engine Toll After Central Limited Wreck Near St Johnsville
Utica note details a New York Central Twentieth Century Limited eastbound wreck west of St Johnsville. Fireman Melvin J Hanoville of Syracuse died crushed. Engineer John Scanlon of Syracuse tried to leap but was crushed between engine and tender. No coaches left rails though several derailed. many passengers suffered minor injuries.
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Utica
N. Y
New York
Central Twentieth Century
St. Johnsville
Melvin J. Hanoville
Syracuse
John Scanlon
Indian Notary John Colome Granted Bond After Forgery Arrest
Fairfax D. T. Jan 27 John Colome Tripp county Indian notary who faced forgery charges is released on bond. Preliminary hearing set for Bonesteel next week.
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Fairfax
John Colome
Tripp County
Bonesteel
Lusitania Delayed Landing Passengers by Gale
The Cunard liner Lusitania from New York arrived at Liverpool but could not land passengers or mails at Fishguard due to a fierce gale. The ship remains at sea pending improved conditions.
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Liverpool
Cunard
New York
Fishguard
Creamery Finishing Touches Near Operation in Castlewood
In Castlewood the finishing touches are being made to the new creamery which will soon be placed in operation here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castlewood
Vermillion officials call halt to farmer institutes
Bi Superintendent A Nenberlass suspends further farmers institutes until roads are in condition to warrant travel. The move delays planned sessions as the community awaits better transportation access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Nenberlass
Court martial to hear ballroom brawl scandal
Boston January report details a Charleston navy yard episode starting with a ballroom fight at a navy hop. Paymaster George Auld and Surgeon Ansey Robnett face charges of disrespect and assault. Dr. Edward Cowles and Rear Admiral Swift-linked figures are named amid secretary Meyer and Senator Lodge involvement. The Boston court martial begins January 31 with a roster of nine officers and a Marine judge advocate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Secretary of the Navy
Navy
Charleston
George Percival Auld
Wabash
Charleston Navy Yard
Ansey Hamilton Robnett
H. E. Ames
United States Navy Yard
Edward Spencer Cowles
Dr. Cowles
Read Admiral Cowles
Roosevelt
John F. Luby
Eugene P. Stone
George B. Wilson
Julian L. Lattimer
Victor S. Jackson
Herbert E. Stevens
Frederick A. Asserson
Edward E. Goodhue
Herbert J. Hirshinger
Marine Corps
Auld
Miss Ames
Swift
Ames
Lodge
Meyer
Judge Advocate General
Washington
Chinese Railway Loan Division Agreed Upon
A settlement on the Hankow to Cheh-chuen railway loan of 30 million dollars was announced in banking circles. England France Germany and the United States will each share seven and a half million dollars of the loan. Bond allotment details will be announced soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
England
France
Germany
United States
Japanese Arrested in Hawaii Under Plumage Act
Twenty three Japanese nationals were arrested on the Hawaiian islands under regulations restricting the destruction of plumage birds. They will be handed to the United States marshal in Honolulu for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hawaiian Islands
United’ States
Honolulu
Lennox Band Elects Officers for Coming Year
The Lennox band has elected officers for the coming year. President J. W. Latreille, Secretary Simon Smith, Treasurer Louis Jacobe, and A. B. Jacobs elected to lead the band, the pride of the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lennox
Lennox Band
Ihrdent
J. W
Latreille
Simon Smith
Louis Jacobe
Aeger
A. B. Jacobs
Peace Talks End as Madriz Declares Impossible
Managua report states President Madriz announced that General Estrada's reply ends peace negotiations and reinforcements have been ordered to the front for a decisive strike against the insurgent army. San Juan report notes Salomon Selva and General Medina faced court martial proceedings over executions of Grace and Cannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Managua
Nicaragua
Madriz
Estrada
San Juan
del Sur
Salomon Selva
Grace and Cannon
Medina
Zelaya
Forger Pettik Seized After Long Manhunt
Roy M. Pettik, 28, a Michigan attorney and alleged embezzler and forger, was arrested in San Francisco after a chance street meeting with a sheriff’s deputy. He reportedly forged a $3,500 mortgage, joined or deserted the navy, and has been eluding pursuers for years. He will be turned over to federal authorities.
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San Francisco
Michigan
Roy M. Pettik
United States Navy
Pettik
Ithaca
Gratiot County
University of Michigan
Virginia
Ichigan
Sher- ES Pettik
Liberal Showing Is Better In Elections
London reports show Liberals gaining ground in Saturday’s MP elections. They hold 15 of 17 contests, with one unionist and one nationalist winning the other two seats. Governing coalition totals place Liberals at 200 to 38 laborites and 69 nationalists, while the opposition Unionists total 219. David Lloyd George is re-elected from Carnarvon with a smaller majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
David Lloyd-George
Carnarvon
Complaints Entered Against Railroads
Ringsted stock men accuse Northwestern railroad of three weeks without cars for live stock while towns like Tenton receive cars. Dion based Farmers' Co-Operative Grain company charges Milwaukee railroad with denying grain cars since December 20, while Hartley and others get cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Ringsted
State Railroad Commission
Northwestern Railroad
Tenton
Farmers’ Co-Operative Grain Company
Dion
Milwaukee Railroad Company
Railroad Company
Hartley
Cold Weather Delays Death in Cemetery Suicide Attempt
Cincinnati Ohio January 26 Earl Kaufman 23 chose his father’s grave near Bethel for a suicide. Physicians say cold damp ground slowed the poison’s effect and a warm room would have hastened death. He left notes citing a quarrel with a young woman as motive.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Bethel
Earl Kauf
Kaufman
Suspected Train Robbers Arrested in Jefferson City
Two men were arrested in Jefferson City Missouri after a Missouri Pacific fireman identified a suspect in the Eureka train robbery last Friday night. Engineer George Lutes named James Hartley as resembling a bandit. the other man claimed to be Gilbert McPherson of Kansas City. They deny involvement and remain held for investigation.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Pacific
Eureka
George Lutes
James Hartley
Gilbert McPherson
Kansas City
Runaway Horses Injure Des Moines Railroad Man
Des Moines Iowa January 26 J P Anderson a well known railroad man was knocked down and probably fatally hurt when runaway horses struck him at Sixth and Walnut streets. One horse was killed after the animals ran a mile through the business district and were halted by a telephone pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
J. P. Anderson
Sixth
Walnut Streets
Trolley Jump Near Dravesburg Injures Ten
Ten persons were seriously injured and three possibly fatally hurt when a McKeesport-bound trolley car jumped a defective rail near Dravesburg early today and rolled down a 10-foot embankment. The injured were taken to a McKeesport hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
McKeesport
Building Collapse Buries Workers Near Charleroi Viaduct
A large construction building near the viaduct in Charleroi collapsed after weakened foundations from heavy rains. Twelve men were killed and about twenty others injured in the disaster reported January 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleroi
Belgium
Prince Franz Joseph faces million dollar court case
Paris reports Henry King of London sues Prince Franz Joseph for funds tied to his courtship of Miss Marjorie Gould. The suit follows Braganza Braganza's alleged $1,000,000 note signing for emeralds and copper mines, with ties to the fake Vanderbilt figure Lacen Stein, Pinkerton identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Fred Vanderbilt
J W. H. Vanderbilt
Franez Joseph
Bragansa
Inian
Anita Stewart
Pinkerton
Tennessee
Lacenstein
Vanderbilt
Two Women Rob Banker of a Roll
Warner M. Van Worden banker and Van Norden Trust president was held up and robbed of 28000 after leaving the Waldorf Astoria. Suspects Bessie Roberts alias Kitty Dowdell and Annie Williams alias Chicago Marie faced arraignment with bail set at 30000. Dowdell arrested, Williams later found.
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New York
Warner M. van Worden
van Norden Trust Company
Waldorf-Astoria
Bessie Roberts
Kitty Dowdell
Chicago
Annie Williams
Marsie
Dowdell
Roosevelt kills rhinoceros and other game in Belgian Congo
From Rhino Camp at Weadelail in the Belgian Congo a Smithsonian expedition report states Colonel Roosevelt killed three bulls and two cows of the white rhinoceros family and collected various species. Quentin Grogan recovered from illness as the party, including others in good health, faced a grass fire threat on their second day.
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Weadelail
Belgian Congo
Lake Albert
Rhino Camp
Smithsonian African Scientific Expedition
Colonel Roosevelt
Insane asylum in awful condition exposed in report
A New York dispatch summarizes a commission report on a state hospital for the insane noting 16 patients bathed in one tub, stacked graves, cholera hogs and corpses in same lot, vermin in wards, illiterate brutal attendants, poor food served in dirty dishes, and a high South Carolina death rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Board of ‘Regents
State Hospital For
South Carolina
United States
Gompers Case to Be Argued Next October
Washington officials of the American Federation of Labor see their appeals consolidated by the Supreme Court and set for hearing on the first Tuesday in the October term in the Bucks Stove and Range suit in the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court of the United States
Bucks Stove & Range Company
District of Columbia
Graham Chosen for Ballinger-Pinchot Committee
Washington January 1926 the House elected Representative Graham of Illinois to the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee replacing Representative Lloyd of Missouri. The selection was ratified without debate by a viva voce vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Today
Graham
Illinois
Ballinger-Pinchot
Lloyd
Missouri
House
Actor Whiting Dies in Toronto After Brief Illness
Toronto report states American actor Joseph E. Whiting died last night after a brief illness. He was a member of the Viola Allen company and was in Toronto at the time.
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Whiting
Toronto
Ont
Joseph E.whiting
Viola Allen Company
Vanderbilt with Negro Blood Has Bulge on Prince
London, Jan 25. Fred Vanderbilt claims he holds a valid claim to Prince Franz Josef Braganza and plans to press for $1,625,000 in bills from the prince or his relatives. He says he delivered 1,600 emeralds valued at $500,000 in exchange for the prince accepting bills for copper shares and remains in possession of $1,000,000 in copper-bill obligations, after returning $625,000 in emerald-related bills.
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London
Fred Vanderbilt
Frans Josef
Braganza
Emperor of
Austria
Franz Josef
Vanderbilt
New York
William KK
Duchess of Marlborough
Prince Franz Josef
Paris
Vienna
Bis
Prince Franz Jozef Braganza
Schloss-Liebenstein
H. T. Dunn
Hotel Esplanade
Berlin
William ‘King
The
Emerald Mines, Limited
Count Arco
Foreign Office
Esplanade
Dunn
Arco
Pendlebury
England
Doctor Krenn
Apel
Suit to block Chicago street railway merger
Clarence H. Ven der of New York filed in the circuit court to enjoin the proposed merger of several South Side street railways under the Chicago City & Connecting Rail name. Defendants include J Pierpont Morgan and other New York and Chicago capitalists. Ven der sues as a stockholder of the Chicago City Railway Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Clarence H. Vender
New York
Chicago City & Connecting
J. Pierpont Morgan
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Gompers
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