Worst of Flood Comes When It Seemed Past
East St Louis levee broke at 1 AM driving five thousand from homes as the Mississippi rose to 37.9 feet. The flooded district spans Wilinois town to Denver side, with naval militia aiding rescues and guarding levees. Officials report 30 lives lost and thousands homeless across East St Louis and surrounding areas, as rising water threatens further devastation.
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D. H. Sherwood
John Koolish
Naval
St. Louis
Broadway
Wilinois Town
Ernor Northcott
Bowie
Madison Railroad
Granite City
Venice
Madison
Eads Bridge
Kansas City
Kans
Assi
Special Kansas session eyed for flood relief work
Topeka Kansas June 10 a special session of the legislature may be called to pass flood relief bills. Twenty five lawmakers have favorably replied to serving without pay. About $60 000 is in the flood relief fund and could aid North Topeka within weeks if continued. Prominent citizens and professionals spent the day shoveling mud and sand from north side dwellings as flood damage worsens under the mud.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
North Topeka
Train Jumps Track Injures Many in Kentucky Wreck
A north bound Louisville and Nashville passenger train derailed at Colesburg Kentucky atop Muldraugh Hill. Eleven hurt, including baggage master Gus Laman and engineer Harry C. Palmer. several reported fatally injured. Local officials say no passengers injured.
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Louisville
Nashville
Colesburg
Muldraugh Hill
Gus Laman
Harry C. Palmer
James E. Cowhern
Adams Express
John Keller
Louisville and
Embezzlement charge shrouds District auditor case
James M. Watson Jr a clerk in the District of Columbia auditor office and son in law of a wealthy retired railroad contractor has been arrested on embezzlement allegations. The sum ranges from sixty thousand to seventy five thousand dollars with a specific charge of eight thousand dollars. Auditors bond stands at twenty thousand dollars. Depositors may sue to recover funds deposited by property owners for improvements such as sidewalks alleys and streets including railroad crossing deposits. Watson held multiple business interests, including a news bulletin, a barber shop and a patent medicine venture amid district cooperative money lending schemes. The hearing touched on rail rates and the Reading interests with Commissioner Prouty debating policy impacts before adjourning.
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Washington
James M. Watson, Jr
District of Columbia
Watson
J. T. Petty
Railwa
Treasury Department
District Department
Board of Commissioners of
Petty
District Co-Operation Assation
Jett White Trial Opens as Accused Confesses Poison Plot
In Jackson Kentucky jurors were seated and testimony began in the Jett and White case. Prosecutor Smith announced that Mary McKnight confessed to poisoning her brother John Murphy his wife and baby, amid a murder case linked to lawyer My.
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Kalkaska, Mich
Jame Wt
Smith
Mary McKnight
John Murphy
Jett- White
Jackson
Jett and White
Substation fee case eyed in Washington report
Washington June 10 The payment of a hundred dollars to General William W. Dudley a local lawyer and former pensions commissioner in securing four postal sub stations in John W Stone s drug store has been investigated by post office inspectors Dudley admits the payment calling it legitimate and says Stone a Maryland Republican sought his help He says he urged Westmaster Merritt and that similar work for Dr Prentiss years ago was not charged Druggist Stove complains the station costing him $100 was moved across the street after nearly three months
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Washington
William W. Dudley
John W. Stone
Post Office
Dudley
Stone
General Dudley
Maryland
Westmaster Merritt
Stove
Cleveland guards relatives of McKinley assassin during Roosevelt visit
In Cleveland a large police detail will guard President Roosevelt on his western tour. Relatives of Leon Czolgosz will not be jailed but kept under surveillance during the president's stay. A brother of the assassin is held in Los Angeles as a precaution. Twenty plainclothes detectives will shadow Roosevelt at Union Station.
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Cleveland
Leon Czolgosz
Rhent McKinley
Pnt
Union Station
Mob fights for Dewey crowd in Lincern Neb
At dawn a mob of about 200 armed men attempted to seize Chauncey Dewey Clyde Wilson and J C McBride and lynch them in Lincern Neb The Star Atwood Nan special reports the fight was still in progress at daylight with authorities attempting to regain control and prevent bloodshed.
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Lincern
Neb
Atwood
Nan
Chauncey Dewey
Clyde Wilson
J. C. McBride
Opposition to Castro Ends in Venezuela Return
Willemstaad reports the revolution against Castro has ended as the generals who backed him return home. The movement in Venezuela is concluded with the rebel effort ceasing.
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Castro
Willemstaad
Venezuela
Embezzlement Case Along with Shooting Incidents Across Cities
A scrambled dated dispatch reports a coal railway embezzlement claim involving a district officer and a shooting of Nora Miller in Marion Indiana. It cites hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission, President Baer testimony on Reading Railway rates, and a wide list of scattered incidents from Harrisburg to Ottawa, Racine, Joliet and Chicago.
Cummins Addresses Lenox College on Trusts and Unions
Hopkinton Iowa June 10 Governor Albert B Cummins spoke to Lenox College students denouncing trusts and labor unions as necessary yet needing control He warned against excess power leading to commercial slavery and riot while expressing optimism that American youth will solve the troubles through institutions.
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Hopkinton
Albert B. Cummins
Lenox College
Hese
Nan
Governor Bailey Marries Ida Weed in Kansas City
Kansas Governor Willis J Bailey and Ida B Weed wed at First Congregational Church in Kansas City. The ceremony was simple with few guests. the couple left for Topeka after. Weed’s previous husband died five years ago. she has two children. Bailey dismissed rumors of an engagement joke during his campaign.
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Kansas City
Willis J. Bailey
Kansas
Ida B. Weed
First Congregational Church
J. F. Wiffeld
Bailey
Topeka
Weed
Allbert
Hanna McCormick Wedding in Cleveland Sees Roosevelt Attend
In a noon ceremony at Souls Episcopal church Cleveland Miss Ruth Hanna youngest child of Senator and Mrs M H Hanna married Joseph Medill McCormick of Chicago son of Ambassador Robert S McCormick. President Roosevelt and party arrived in Cleveland at six this morning to attend the wedding, the influx at the depot was small and the party was driven to the Hanna home.
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Cleveland
Ruth Hanna
M. H. Hanna
Joseph Medill McCormick
Chicago
Robert S. McCormick
S ‘Ouls Episcopal Church
Roosevelt
Hanna-McCormick
FATE OF RAILWAY OFFICIAL IN MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN FATE
Belton area in mountains near St Paul reports the death of Division Superintendent Egan of the Great Northern. Found beneath a fallen fir trunk after vanishing on a hunting trip, with rifle and compass missing. A glove along the path suggests he turned back toward safety but froze in the storm.
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St. Pauk
Grouns
Egan
Great Northern
Rocky Mountain
Belton
Bat Northern
Settlement of the Shopmen's Strike in Omaha
Omaha June 10 The last echo of the shopmen strike against Union Pacific ends as blacksmiths reach terms with President Burt and Motive Power head McKeen. Workers return to duty next Tuesday with reinstatement for those applying within 30 days, a 10 percent pay rise, nine hours per day, and discretionary handling of piece work and nonunion matters. Both sides appear satisfied.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
Burt
McKeen
Federal troops sent to Arizona strike action
Washington reports Acting Governor Stoddard of Arizona says 3,000 men, mostly foreigners, are on strike at Morencie. Acting Adjutant General Hall orders troops from Fort Grant and Fort Huachuaca to Murencie to protect life and property.
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Washington
Stoddard
Arizona
Morencie
Hall
Fort Grant
Fort Huachuaca
Murencie
Bids Accepted for Three New Battleships
Washington reports Secretary Moody has accepted the three lowest bids for the three 16 000 ton battleships. Awards go to Minnesota Newport News Shipbuilding company 4 110 000 Kansas New York Shipbuilding company 4 179 000 Vermont Fore River Manufacturing company 4 105 000. In New York City Representative George J Smith of the Eighteenth District has been taken to a Danville sanatorium for nervous trouble.
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Moody
Minnesota
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Kansas—New York Shipbuilding Company
Vermont
Fore River Manufacturing Company
New York
George J. Smith
Danville
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