Three Die in Alton Asylum Fire
At the State Hospital for the Insane in Alton Illinois three patients in care taker’s house group No 4 were burned to death. Charles Sunderland 67 Henry Langguth 70 and Fyved Lange 50 perished in the blaze. Thomas Goin suffered extensive burns while trying to escape. Sunderland’s body was found in a bunk fastened to the wall and Langguth’s body showed fatal injuries from being pinned by fallen debris.
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St. Louis
State Hospital For the Insane
Alton
Tll
Charles Sunderland
Fyved Lange
Henry Langguth
Monroe County
Thomas Goin
Sunderland
Lange
Four Children Die in Farmhouse Fire Near Caddo Oklahoma
In Caddo Oklahoma four children Allen 5 Aline 5 Fred 10 and George Taylor 14 died in a bedroom fire on a two story farmhouse. Father M B Taylor tried to rescue them from the second floor but flames forced him back as the structure burned.
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Caddo
Okla
Allen
Aline
Fred
George Taylor
M. B. Taylor
Prohibition enforcement costs exceed sixty million dollars
Washington reports that total enforcement spending from 1920 through 1925 reaches $62,002,458 when including $58,350,000 in congressional appropriations plus postwar salary bonuses. The proposed $11,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1926 would push the six year total past $60 million.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Majestic Damaged by Gales and Laying Up for Repairs
Southampton reports a two inch by four foot crack found in the hull of the liner Majestic. The vessel will be laid up for repairs through April after a gale damaged it recently.
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Majestic
Southampton
Majesftic
Financier Holden Dies in Canton at 96
New Philadelphia Ohio financier Holden, 96, died in Canton. He helped fund the Civil War as a principal associate of Jay Cooke in wartime financing.
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New
Philadelphia
Harnes
fHolden
Canton
Jay Cooke
Coolidge Wins by Wide Plurality in Nation’s Vote
Complete official returns show Coolidge with 15,718,789 votes 54.4 percent while Davis gains 8,378,962 and La Follette 4,822,319. The tally marks Coolidge’s largest ever presidential plurality though his total trails Harding’s 1920 total by 438,411.
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Coolidge
John W. Davis
Robert M. LaFollette
Warren G. Harding
Harding
Davis
James M. Cox
la Follette
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Woodrow Wilson
William H. Taft
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Washington
Iolaho
Irish Free State defies Britain over League Covenant
Geneva reports the Irish Free State formally defied Britain by saying the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 must be registrable with the League of Nations. Dublin had registered the treaty, Britain claimed the covenant does not apply to relations within the British commonwealth. The Irish reply says further debate offers no useful purpose and maintains a firm but courteous stance.
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Geneva
Irish Free State
Great Britain
League of Nations
League
Dublin
Two Medals Awarded to Boy Artist in Brooklyn Contest
Duncan Campbell, a 10 year old Brooklyn schoolboy, received two gold medals for a lifelike tiger painting on a five foot canvas. The work was submitted in a contest among 8,000 school children.
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New York
Duncan Campbell
Brooklyn
SMU Dallas Receives Major Gift Valuation Near Million
Mr and Mrs R Harper Kirby of Austin announced a gift to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The property is valued at about 1,000,000 dollars and is expected to yield substantial revenue.
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Dallas
Tex
Southern Methodist University of Dallas
R. Harper Kirby
Austin
Woman Plunges From Moving Train After Car Crash
Mrs Kenneth Clark 18 is carried 12 miles on a Big Four engine after her car collides with a train at a crossing in Indianapolis. Her husband Kenneth 22 and Clyde Clark injured. Mrs Clyde Clark dies. baby 20 months old unharmed. Clark fell from the engine near Oakladon after holding on until exhaustion.
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Indianapolis
Kenneth Clark
Oakladon
Ind
Clyde Clark
Anderson
Five Die In Flood After Dam Breaks
Five people died and many homes were destroyed when the Norfork dam on the Holston River near Saltville broke amid heavy rains. A wall of water swept through riverfront dwellings, injuring several and threatening more structures downstream. Telephones warned residents as the river flooded, and the exact death toll was confirmed locally.
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Bristol
Saltville
Norfork
Holston
Mathieson Alkali Works
Herald- Courier
Abingdon
North Fork
Gun Elevations Now Rest With Congress
Washington says no action on funding gun elevation work for capital ships until Congress decides. London notes that altering guns to increase range could breach the arms treaty, and Washington will not respond while sentiment in Congress is unsettled. If funding passes, the President may still withhold approval and choose whether to upgrade old ships.
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D. C
Congress
Great Britain
London Foreign Office
Coolidge
Navy
Seven Year Battle Ends Over DC Power Rates Settlement
Washington report says Potoma Electric Power Co. will cut rates 25 percent immediately and refund 3 million dollars of accumulated surplus to consumers after an out of court agreement concluding a seven year dispute over electric rates in the national capital.
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Washington
National Capital
Potoma Electric Power Co
Salesman kills Postmaster in crowded barber shop
Lew Houston traveling salesman for a Memphis chemical firm shot and killed James W Ash postmaster of Charleston Mississippi in a barber shop. The killing stems from long standing ill feeling between the men spanning several years.
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Charleston
Miss
James W., Ashcraft
Lew Houston
Memphis Chemical
Trapper Held for Death in Minneapolis Jail
Tony Reamer trapper from the Northwoods arrested near Stewart Minnesota in the death of Mrs. Elsie Wheeler in the northwest Anglo country was brought to Minneapolis and placed in the city jail from Glen Coe Minnesota.
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Minneapolis
Tony Reamer
Stewart
Minn
Elsie Wheeler
Glencoe
Police Raffle Baby Found In Bergamo Park
In Bergamo a baby found in a public square was entered in a police raffle due to many applicants. The chief of police permitted the draw, and a childless couple won custody of the infant.
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Park
Milan
Bergamo
Kentucky Oil Magnate C T Collins Dead at 76
Louisville mourns as C T Collins chairman of Standard Oil Co of Kentucky dies at his home aged 76. He served as former president and led the board of directors of the Kentucky oil firm.
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Kentucky
Louisville
C. T. Collins
The
Standard OU Co. of
Oklahoma Fire Tragedy Kills Thirty Three at Hobart School
In Hobart Oklahoma a Christmas Eve fire at a one story school house killed 33 people and injured 20. Investigators blame window netting and crowding at the sole exit for the high death toll. Funeral services were held for many victims as the community plans a monument.
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Oklahoma
Hobart
Okla
Babb’s Switch Settlement
Babb’s Switch
G. W. Bates
Presbyterian Church
Little Cemetery
Oklahoma City
Anadarko
F. B. Gillespie
Chicago
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Mick
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Dixon
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Ala
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Mass
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Lincoln
Neb
Glendale
Cal
Centralia
Michigan City
Ind
New York
Radical deputy banished from Chile for sedition plot
Pedro Leon Algar do, once a radical deputy in Chile, was convicted by a court martial of plotting to subvert public order and instigate sedition among troops. He received a three year banishment from Chile.
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Chile
Santiago
Pedro Leon Algardo
Man and Wife in Auto Killed Near Livingston
In Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Lanham of this city were instantly killed when their automobile overturned near Livingston, Alabama. Four other occupants of the car were uninjured.
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Birmingham
Ala
A. R. Lanham
Livingston
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