Flood Devastation Feared Across East Tennessee and Virginia
News from Knoxville and Chattanooga reports rising rivers and extensive damage from the flood. Tennessee River at Knoxville reaches 33 feet, prompting concerns of drowned and displaced residents while several bridges are washed away. Elizabethton faces about 150000 dollars in losses as Holston River swells and rail traffic is impaired along the Southern Railway.
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KNOXVILLE
Teno
Tennessee
Virginia
Upper East Tennessee
M. ©. CARSON
RANKIN
MOLLEY TILLEY
GREGG
Elizabeth
SAMUEL DURHAN
Watauga
MILTON BOYD
Wallace
HENRY MASSIX
Sullivan county
JOSEPH HILL
Ripley's Landing
Washington county
Nolachucky river
Devault
Holston
Rogersville
Southern Railway
CHATTANOOGA
Tenn
J. A. Dodson
atl pointe
here
International Auto Mobile Contests Debate Rules Body
The Olympic Games committee met at the Automobile Club in Paris on May 23 to discuss L P Sheldon of Yale representing the athletic union of America proposing uniform international rules for athletic contests to replace varied country rules. The committee decided to study the proposal.
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Gazette
PARIS
Automopilobile Club
L. P. Sheldon
Yale
athletic union of America
Plucky Doctor Fends Off Four Burglars in Bank Town
In Waverly Ohio Dr W Wallace woke to intruders in the First National Bank and the post office. He fired on four burglars on the building’s second floor and a blood trail indicates hits. The crooks fled on a freight train. Also a gasoline explosion in Chicago killed Mrs Mushenberg and her baby in a fire at 667 Northwood Street.
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Gasette
WAVERLY
wT. Wallace
First National Bank
CHICAGO
Northwood Street
George Mushenberg
President McKinley Enjoys Busy San Francisco Day
President McKinley, after a restful night, kept a full schedule in San Francisco. He breakfasted at Irving Scott’s home, attended a federal department heads reception, reviewed troops at the Presidio, and thanked newspaper men for their kindness during Mrs. McKinley’s illness. He later met Union League Club, Onto Society, and Pioneer veterans, with General Shafter and Col. Girard at the reviewing stand. Min McKinley watched from a window. plans to depart for the war effort depend on physicians’ advice.
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SAN FRANCISCO
McKinley
McKintey
Irving M. Scott
Presidio
Philippinas
Union League Club
Onto Society
Palace Hotel
Pioneera
Canfornia
Pioneer Hall
wand Army
Loyal Legion
James
General Shafter
Vabinet
General Shatter
Col
Girard
military hospital
Min
White
atending
Strike Situation Widens Across United States
The Gazette report notes only minor change as carriage makers in San Francisco settle with employers, granting nine hours and wage gains. Four hundred workers affected. several arms shop unions sign. Across Washington, many firms sign the machinists' agreement, but large Cincinnati and Pacific Coast firms remain out. International Machinists head warns work stoppage will spread. strike headquarters move to Toronto.
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SAN FRANCISCO
wagon and carriage makers association
WASHINGTON
wikers
leavin
O’Connell
International Association of Machinisma
Cincinnati
Pacific Coast
Toronto
Utah Students Headed for Reno Debate and Track Meet
University of Utah debaters prepare for the intercollegiate contest at Reno Friday evening while the Utah track team arrives Saturday for events with the University of Nevada. Rideout and Home lead Utah in top form as confidence rises for first honors, with Nevada hosts to provide social and athletic hospitality.
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Gazette
SALT LAKE CITY
University of Utah
Reno
Utah
University of Nevada
RROOSA
Salt Lake
U. of N
Cuban convention tied on amendment amid Havana report
Havana dispatch says the Cuban constitutional convention stands fourteen to sixteen on the Platt amendment with President Capote opposing and controlling the deciding vote. General Gomez allies discuss municipal election implications as Conservatives delay action and Villandes and Florente prepare to respond to Gomez’s speech this afternoon.
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HAVANA
Mundo today
Capote
Gener
Villandes
Florente
Gomez
Anarchist Bresci Dies by His Own Hand in Prison
Rome reports Bresci, the assassin of the late King Humbert, killed himself in Santo Stefano penitentiary by strangling with a rope. He had shown extreme excitement and remorse, scratched vengeance on his cell wall, and had earlier attacked a jailer, prompting a straight jacket. Giolitti informed the King, who called it perhaps the best outcome for the unhappy man.
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ROME
Bresel
Quirinal
Signor Giolitti
Bresei
Texas Town Visited By Destructive Fire
A massive fire in Amarillo, Texas, began at 11 o'clock last night in Browns Grocery and Jacket Store, destroying the entire block and spreading to the Stringion and Hume warehouse. The loss is reported to be heavy as flames consumed hardware, leathery, and general leather manufacturing buildings. Separately, the mail steamer Relatag collided with the Hamburg American steamer Fuerst Biemark near Brunshauser. Relatag returned to Hamburg and Fuerst Biemark proceeds to New York.
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Chasette
DENVER
Colo
Amarillo
Texas
ays
Browns grocery and jacket store
String‘ion and Hume, deasers
jadderry
Relatag
Fuerst Biemark
Brunshauser
Hamburg
Bismark
Denver entertains Gov Nash party during westward stop
Governor Nash of Ohio and his party, traveling east from California, were hosted in Denver by the Buckeye Club and the Denver Elks. After a city drive and a public reception at the State Capitol with Governor Orman of Colorado, a luncheon followed at the Brown Palace Hotel. About twenty party members spent the day at Colorado Springs and Manitou, planning to rejoin the main group that evening.
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DENVER
Colo
Nash
Ohio
California
Buckeye Club
Colorado Springs
Maniton
Heavy rains raise Colorado rivers and flood damage
Owing to two days of heavy rainfall Cache Lapoudre river rises high for twenty years. Chambers Lake dam may have broken, destroying bridges in Larimer County and irrigation ditches. Homes evacuated as orchards lose leaves and fruit. alfalfa damaged. bottom lands flooded. Wheat markets in San Francisco and Chicago show varied prices as weather forecasts call for fair Nevada conditions.
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Gazette
FORT COLLINS
Colo
Cache Lapoudre
Chambers Lake
Laimer
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