Storm Toll Rises As Wide Gulf Coast Storm Slams Texas
Dispatches report about a hurricane striking from near New Orleans to Brownsville with 25 known dead and property losses over a million dollars. The storm damaged crops, but warnings helped residents insure safety and reduce casualties as the center tracked near Bay City and Velasco and extended inland toward Galveston and Austin.
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Houston
Tex
Louisiana
Texas
Interior
Lesa
New Orleans
Brownsville
Generity
Bay Cly
Velasco
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio
Galveston
Bay City
Angelton
Columbia
Wharton
Columbus
Palacias
Eagle Lake
Weimer
New Uim
Schukenbure
Ailentown
Beasley
Kendleton
Sallime
Glidden
Markham
la Grange
Hirastrep
Campo
Yoakum
Garward
Matthews
Honus
Waelder
Flatonia
Austin
Trade Review Highlights Crop Gains and Market Uptick
Savarad Efreet reports improved crops and higher bread prices amid rising manufactured goods values. Retail clearance sales ease distribution while wholesale trade strengthens. Money demand grows for crop movement and labor strife appears as employers and employees clash in pricing era.
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New York
Savarad Efreet
Weekly Review of Trade Today
Louisville American Association Club Sold to Grayson
Tebeau sells the Louisville American Association baseball club and franchise to W. M. Grayson Jr of St. Louis. The price is understood to be between 45000 and 90000 dollars.
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Louisville
Louisville American Association
George W. Tebeau
W. M. Grayson, Jr
St. Louis
Alleged Black Hand Leader Arrested in Clermont County
Cincinnati July 24. After being trailed by federal officers since June 18, Salvatore Arrigo alleged Black Hand leader has been arrested at Go Ashen Clermont County.
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Cincinnati
Salvatore Arrigo
Go Ashen
Clermont County
Kidnappers Die in Tiflis Ransom Case
Six brigands in Tiflis were sentenced to death after being convicted of kidnapping a wealthy merchant to obtain a ransom. The case underscores harsh penalties for banditry in the region.
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Tiflis
National League games postponed by wet grounds
National League slate had all games postponed due to wet fields. In American League action at St Louis Washington defeated St Louis 9 to 4 with Bailey Criger Witherup and Street as battery. Chicago beat Philadelphia 8 to 2 as Krause Dygert Thomas Livingston Scott Owens and Sullivan played for Chicago. Detroit defeated Boston 8 to 2 in game one with Wood Donahue Mullen Schmidt. game two Detroit won 7 to 2 as Speer Stanage Collins Donahue pitched for Detroit.
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Chicago
R.H.E
Batteries Lead Scores Across Three Midwestern Games
At Indianapolis St Paul defeated by St Paul 6 to 0 in a battey heavy contest. Batteries for Bratteries led by Laroy Yeager Carisch Knepper Howley. At Louisville Milwaukee fell 14 to 2 as Hogg Puttman Hughes Schneiberg Moran powered the win. At Columbus Kansas City edged Columbus 4 to 3 behind Dorner Ritter Upp James. Second Game Columbus beat Kansas City 9 to 2 with Pickett Link Flaherty Sullivan key in offense.
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Indianapolis
R.H.E. St. Paul
Bratteries
Laroy
R.hle
Columbus
Kansas City
Pickett
Flaherty, Sullivan
Woman Murdered in Terre Haute Amid Slums Attack
In Terre Haute Indiana Mary Winters living in Jockey alley west end slums was found dead on an embankment near the Vandalia track. Charlies Gebhardt lay unconscious beside her and says a gang attacked them. Gebhardt’s head wounds are serious, Mary Winters died from blows to the head. Both about thirty.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Mary Winters
Jockey Alley
West End
Charlies Gebhardt
Weat
Martisville
Mystery Deepens in Death Near Greensburg Railroad
The body of an unidentified man was found beside the east Greensburg railroad track. An iron dock similar to a fireman pull-down device was located about fifty feet from the body, with blood spots hat and iron hook scattered westward along the track. The case remains unsolved.
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Greensburg
Ind
Depens
Double murder unearthed near Rayford along railroad tracks
In Huntington West Virginia on July 24 authorities found the bodies of coal operator John Welch and miner John Rogers near the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks at Rayford. Welch had a crushed skull and several hundred dollars on him though only seven dollars remained on his body. Rogers's body was found dismembered.
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Huntington
W. Va
John Welch
John Rogers
Chesapeake & Ohio
Rayford
Welch
Rogers
Unknown man found dead near Erie tracks in Decatur
The body of a man about 36 with a severe forehead wound was found in brush near the Erie tracks west of Decatur Indiana. He is believed murdered. coroner J C Grandstaff conducts examination. No papers or identifying letters found.
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Decatur
Ind
Erie Tracks
Here
J. C. Grand
Death by morphine swallowed by local iron worker
Kokomo Indiana July 24 Owen Sheppe a structural iron worker at the plate glass works committed suicide by swallowing morphine tablets He was twenty six years old and had been drinking heavily since losing his job Wednesday night
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Kokomo
Ind
Owen Sheppe
Plate Glass Works
A Boy and a Gun Accident Near Parmalnd
Munete Ind July 24 David Grove eighteen year old boy who was accidentally shot by his own revolver while driving to his home near Parmalnd is still alive but thought to be fatally injured.
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Munete
Ind
David Grove
Parmalnd
Uruguay Puts Forward Plan to Seek Six Million Dollar Loan
Uruguay intends to negotiate a six million dollar loan abroad to fund public works projects. The move aims to bolster infrastructure and accelerate development through external financing.
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Uruguay
Conferees Seek Quick Tariff Settlement Amid Lobbyist Discord
Washington July 24. Reports say tariff conferees hope to finish schedules on coal lumber hides oil iron ore cotton wood pulp and print paper today. The house must act before the senate, and Taft’s program to cut duties on raw materials is at stake. Lobbyists swarmed the corridors as clerks were barred from the chamber, yet conferees maintained a cordial front despite tense moments and loud exchanges behind closed doors.
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Washington
House
Senate
Taft
Navy rests case in Sutton death inquiry at Annapolis
The naval board of inquiry adjourned, postponing a verdict on Lieutenant James N. Sutton of Portland, deemed a death by own action two years ago, as lingering witnesses from both Navy and outside parties are scheduled. Key witness Roelker remains missing. Utley Cook Potts Coleman Fogg Kennedy Sutton and Mrs. Sutton plus her daughter are listed among remaining observers.
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Annapolis
Navy
James N. Sutton
Portland
Ore
Naval Board of Inquiry
John Hood
U.S. N
Court of Inquiry
Harold H. Utley
F. C. Cook
North Carolina
Europe
Utley
Cook
Jeonard
Roelker
Sutton
Templin M. Potts, Jr
Gilbert P. Coleman
Naval Academy
Frank Fogg
Washington, D. C
Charles Kennedy
Briand Forms His Cabinet in Paris
Aristide Briand succeeds in forming a new French cabinet in Paris as July 24 reports Briand's reshuffle. The move aims to stabilize government and pursue policy changes amid domestic challenges and international tensions.
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Briand
Paris
Aristide Briand
Belgian Worker Reunited With Wife Denied Entry
In South Bend Indiana a Belgian husband Joseph Vaneista, who saved for his wife Emma Vaneista to join him in the United States, faces her denial of entry in New York due to defective vision. The couple will return to Belgium after appeals provided no redress.
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South Hend
Ind
Emma Vanessta
New York
Atlantic
Belgium
Joseph Vaneista
South Bend
United States
Vaneista
Slenny A. Barnhart
Barnhart
Old Country
Automobile overturn near Crawfordsville injures Danville brewer
O W Cannon driver nephew of Uncle Joe Danville Indiana wrecked car jumped a ten foot embankment on the Indianapolis road two miles east of Crawfordsville John Noone a wealthy brewer of Danville Indiana was pinned under the turning machine and received a broken collar bone and shoulder bruises Ed Gilmore also of Danville escaped with slight bruises Noone taken to Culver Union hospital and expected to recover all were traveling from Danville to Indianapolis.
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CrawfordayiNe
Ind
O. W. Cannon
Joe
Danville
John Noone
Indianapols
Crawfordsville
Noone
Quiet at Indiana plant as injunction may be dropped
Had good effect at the American Short and Tin Plate plant in Flwood Indiana. No pickets and only one policeman at the gate. Attorney E R Call says he may ask to drop the injunction against strikers. The firm will not force it if granted unless trouble arises. District manager Thos O'Brien says he does not intend to take advantage and will rehire most workers in an open shop.
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Flwood
Ind
American Short and Tin Plate Company
E. R. Call
Thos, O’brien
Fort Wayne chooses mayor in tight Democratic primary
Fort Wayne Indiana July 24 in the closest primary ever Schmidt Democrat and city comptroller won the nomination by a plurality of four in a total vote near 6000. His nearest rival was Charles McCulloch president of Hamilton National Bank with two other candidates Jesse Grice nominated by Republicans over B. W. Skelton municipal judge.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
August M. Schmidt
Charles McCulloch
Hamilton National Bank
Jesse Grice
B. W. Skelton
Interurban Car Jump Injures Five in Seymour
Seymour Indiana July 24 five persons were painfully injured when an Interurban car jumped the track at a sharp curve. The car plunged down a fifteen foot embankment fifteen passengers were aboard and all were shaken up.
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Seymour
Ind
Two Boys Drowned in Lake Michigan at Indiana City
In Indiana City on July 24, Frank Banks age thirteen and George Stalger age ten, members of Trinity Cathedral choir, drowned while bathing in Lake Michigan.
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Lake Michigan City
Ind
Frank Banks
George Stalger
Trinity Cathedral Choir
Lake Michigan
Peruna Help Reported By Missouri Woman
Mrs. Sagerser of Kansas City Missouri writes that after nine years of grippe related head and neuralgia trouble plus catarrh she found Peruna relieved her symptoms and kept her from colds. She says she is nearly cured aside from some deafness and is forty six years old. A Tennessee woman also reports seven years of catarrh and stomach trouble cured by Peruna.
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Perma
la Grippe
Chicago graft case ties westside underworld to protection
Grand jury indicted Detective Sergeant Jeremiah Griffin on eight counts for alleged protection money from dive keepers gamblers and cocaine sellers in Chicago's west side levee district. He reportedly gathered as much as 156000 from underworld denizens while Louis Frank and Michael Heltler faced related charges for illegal houses. Witnesses include levee proprietor Monkey Charlie Morris Schatz and four detectives. Also noted is a separate brief from London reporting on the Indian student Madarlal Dhingeri sentenced to death for killing Lieut Colonel Sir William Curzon Wyllie and Dr Canas Lobaca after a swift trial.
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Chicago
Westside
Jeremiah Griffin
Griffin
Desplaines Street
Inspector McCann
West Side
Louis Frank
Levee
Michael Heltler
Mike the Pike
Charles Wanker
Charley Morris Schatz
Peoria Street
London
Madarlal Dhinageri
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Canas Lobaca
Electric Bitters lauded by Macon orphans home official
A Macon Georgia official at the Industrial and Orphans Home testifies to Electric Bitters nine years of use for stomach liver and kidney troubles. He calls it one of the best family medicines on earth and says it strengthens the vital organs purifies blood aids digestion and helps weak children and women.
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Industrial and Orphan's Home
Macon
Obas
D. Knoefel
CURRENCY CHAIRMANSHIP AND STATUES AT ISSUE IN WASHINGTON
Washington July 24 Special The article surveys possible changes in the banking and currency committee with Speaker Cannon considering New York’s Vreeland for chairmanship. It notes August tariff cases, impending statue plans for James Shields and future statuary hall additions, and talks of senatorship bids by David E. Thompson and Burkett.
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New Jersey
Joe
Vreeland
New York
Washington, Lee
Benator Shoup
General Shields
Washington
Cannon
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
Banking and Currency Committee
House
Illinois 19 face a special session
Governor Deneen plans a November reconvening to push for a direct primary law. House leaders oppose replacements, setting up a lengthy battle as he campaigns in September and October to win public backing.
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Illinois 19
Deneen
Hari
Springfield Society Agitated Over Park Pavilion Dance Ban
Springfield society leaders protest trustees of the park district for restricting use of the Washington park pavilion for a dance. The pavilion, central to their social events, faces boycott threats amid upheaval in the aristocratic residence district.
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Springfield Society
Springfield
Park District
Washington Park
Indiana to gain figurehead relic of the battleship Indiana
Representative Korbly secured approval to keep the two ton metal figurehead of George Washington from the battleship Indiana. The bust shaped relic, a Spanish-American War remnant, survived the Santiago de Cuba battle and will be kept in the state museum in Indianapolis as a valuable historic artifact.
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Washington
Indiana
Musuta
Indianapolis
Korbly
Nave
George Washington
Santiago
Foley's Kidney Remedy Delays May Harm Kidneys
Delay in starting treatment for a slight irregularity could lead to serious kidney disease. Foley's Kidney remedy claims to rebuild worn tissues and strengthen kidneys. O. D. Knoefel.
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Foley
O. D. Knoefel
Job Printing Offered by Tribune Company
In need of scything in the job printing line the Tribune Company offers a car for service. Its equipment is described as the most complete in the city.
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Tribune Company
Terse Telegrams From Early 1900s Media Mix
Nominations and arrests surface with Grane confirmed as China minister by the Senate. Week’s business failures tally 239, up from 206 prior and 363 in 1908. By Saul Byrd’s Denver arrest for Memphis 1907 murder. cotton world supply shows 2,625,458 versus 2,792,066 prior.
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Hester
Regional Livestock and Grain Prices After Market report
Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York and East Buffalo price quotes for wheat corn oats cattle hogs sheep and lambs across multiple markets. Prices shown include No 2 wheat 1.97 at Indianapolis and 1.16 at Cincinnati with various bid ranges and totals for cattle hogs and sheep. Toledo cash prices also listed.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Dr Kings New Discovery Said To Cure Consumption
A Washington North Carolina writer recalls his brother’s decade long struggle with consumption and illness. After trying many doctors remedies he found relief with Dr King’s New Discovery, using six bottles to regain health. The testimonial also touts relief for bronchial ailments and colds with a guarantee from Obes D Knoefel.
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W R. Lipecomb
Washington, N.C
Dr King
Obes
D. Knoefel
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