Dayton Floods Prompt Widespread Alarm Across Rivers
A Mississippi border set of reports notes levee breaches causing flooding in Dayton and Howell Ingleside districts. No deaths reported as Evansville and surrounding areas battle rising Ohio river water and relief boats ferried food to marooned residents.
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Associated Press
Evansville
Ind
Howell
Ingleside
Ohio River
Wabash
Uniontown
Fair Grounds
Dayton Flood Risk Grows With Heavy Rainfall
In Dayton Ohio on April 4 or 5 inches of water in the Miami River threatens more flooding. A heavy downpour and clogged sewer intakes flooded streets including Monument Third East and West Main Wayne and Riverdale levees and guardsmen patrolled as Adjutant General G W Wood ordered levee surveillance. Similar conditions reported in Edgemont Piqua Bellefontaine Troy and other towns with forecaster Alps warning of possible recurrence.
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Dayton
Ohio
Miami River
Monument
Third
Main Street
Wayne Avenue
Riverdale
G. W. Wood
Edgemont
Washington Street Bridge
Piqua
Belle Fontaine
Troy
Mississippi rise prompts levee work from New Orleans to Vicksburg
In New Orleans the Mississippi crested at 15.8 feet after a three-tenths foot rise in 24 hours. Government engineers report active toping of levee low spots between here and Vicksburg and planters have moved labor to aid in raising dikes.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Mississippi
Government Engineers
Here
Vicksburg
Cairo Works To Stop Mississippi Bank Washout
In Cairo Illinois on April 4 workers rushed to shore up the Mississippi side of the city after high winds eroded the riverbank between Nineteenth and Twenty-fourth streets. Sandbags from the Ohio river levee were moved by automobile and life raft plans were prepared under U S A Lieutenant Buckner for potential flood danger.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Illl
Ohio River
Mississippi
Buckner
Item Sale Service Expanded To Citywide Drugstores
The Item sale service extends from today with drugstores listed in multiple blocks. Oakdale Pharmacy Crichton Pharmacy Pritchard Pharmacy Cewthon Drug Co Archibald's Drug Store Rutherford's Drug Store Central Pharmacy Clark's Drug Store Davis Chrector Store Weinacker's are named as outlets. The goal is paper availability across the city and surging coverage.
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Oakdale Pharmacy
Washington Avenue
Baltimore Street
Crichton. Pharmacy
Pritchard
Pritchard Pharmacy
Cewthon Drug Co
Plateau
Archibald’s
Government and Jefferson
Rutherford’s
Dauphin and
Hallett
Central Pharmacy
Spring Hill
Ann
Clark’s
Davis
Davis Avenue
Hospital Street
Weinacker’s
Government
Catherine
Montenegro King vows to seize Scutari and make it capital
King Nicholas of Montenegro declares in a dispatch from Cettinje that Montenegrins will capture and hold Scutari, viewing it as vital to their land and future. He says they prefer death to life under current conditions and that Scutari will be their capital.
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Nicholas
Montenegro
Associated Press
Rome
Scutari
Cettinje
Zeta
Europe
Rail disaster buries T P track. fireman killed in Louisiana
A landslide four miles east of Provincial Louisiana overturned part of a Texas and Pacific train, killing Fireman Lanier and injuring two other railway workers. The engine mail and baggage cars pitched over as tracks were washed out in fifteen spots by a wide rainstorm that swept northern Louisiana early today, causing extensive private property damage.
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Associated Press
Marshall
Texas
Texas and Pacific
Provincial
Lanier
Louisiana
Trouble Brewing for Montenegro
The five European nations plan a naval demonstration against Montenegro with a blockade of the Monte negrin coast. Instructions were telegraphed to ships to proceed at once. Russia cannot send a ship but agrees with the action.
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Y Associated Press
London
Montenegro
Russia
Many Applicants for Jobs in Magic City
Final action in the general city election was postponed to Saturday morning due to the large amount of detail to be considered by the Birmingham city commission. Between 500 and 1,000 applications for police positions were filed, prompting careful review by Judge Lane and the commission.
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Birmingham
Ala
City Commission
Exum
Lane
Department of Justice
Local ordinance targets liquor in transit to curb blind tigers
Eufala Alabama April 4 An ordinance introduced in the city council would revoke the licenses of draymen or hackmen who bring liquor into the city from a neighboring Georgia city without first reporting the consignee to the mayor. The measure aims to catch liquor in transit before it reaches the tigers alleged to be importing by the drayload under interstate shipments.
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Eufala
Ala
Georgia
Lawmakers Tackle tariff report as Wilson backs free wool
Washington April 14 Congress prepares the tariff bill report with an $80 million annual revenue loss from new rates. Proposals include free wool and a very low sugar duty. income tax schedules are outlined with graduated rates and a corporate levy. President Wilson favors sugar relief but may accept a temporary one cent net duty to satisfy Southern growers, with full removal within three years.
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Associated Press
Washingtonn
Wilson
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Cuba
Signal Honors Paid the Dead
The body of J. Pierpont Morgan arrived in Havre from Rome and was moved to the liner France for transport to New York. Infantry escort and regimental band gave military honors as mourning emblems draped the flags and a mortuary chapel was set on board the France.
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Associated Press
Havre
France
J. Pierpont Morgan
Rome
New York
Chopin
Olson Continues Trial Testimony On Illicit Affairs
St Paul April 4 Oscar M Olson college professor on trial for murdering Clyde M Dar lin, a laundry wagon driver, continued testimony about alleged relations between his wife and Darling. He said his wife claimed Darling had superhuman influence and hypnotized her. Mrs Olson was in court and expected to testify that evening.
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Associated Press
ST. Paul
Oscar M. Olson
Clyde M. Darlin
Darling
Demonstration for Nichlors by the Slavs in Spalato
A large crowd in Spalato, Dalmatia, cheered Austrian troops departing for the south in support of Slav races. Patrons acclaimed King Nicholas I Montenegro and King Peter of Bulgaria amid heavy police action. Twenty arrests reported as authorities moved to curb disorder.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Spalato
Dalmatian
Nicholas I
Montenegro
Peter
Bulgaria
Pensacola Police Active in First Quarter Arrest Totals
A Pensacola report shows 2,262 arrests from January through April, greatly surpassing last year's figures. Of those detained, over 500 were discharged, leaving police with a weak record on convictions.
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Pensacola
Fla
Pal Lumber
Weather Forecast Summary For Weekend
Weather outlook shows possible showers this afternoon, followed by clearing tonight and Saturday. Winds variable, mostly northwest. Temperatures cooler tonight, with fair skies for Saturday and colder conditions inland. Mississippi region expects fair weather tonight and Saturday.
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Mobile
Mississippi
Pensacola Pioneer Captain Saunders Dies After Stroke
Captain Eugene Saunders, a Pensacola gulf trade pioneer, died at his home on North Hill after a stroke. He built schooners Fannie Fern Ajax Eddie Houck and towboats including Jyno and Echo, co-founded FE Saunders & Co in fish shipping, and led the largest red snapper firm in the United States since 1868.
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Pensacola
Fila
Eugene &. Saunders
Gulf Coast
North Hill
Palafox
Whard
E. F B. Saunders & Co
United States
Mobile
Palafox Street Wharf
Welles
Saunders
Fannie Fern
Ajax
Gulf
Indiarola
Texas
Eddie Houck
Jyno
John Dialogue & Co
Philadelphia
Tu Lerettay
Simpson
Le-Roy
Capt. Saunders
Capt
T. BE. Welles
FE. E. Saunders & Co
Red Snapper
Sanders
Miss Emerson May Be Freed
London reports Reginald McKenna refused a private doctor visit for Zellie Emerson, a Michigan girl jailed for window smashing. The militant's mother met Dr Mansell Moullen who warned of serious health risks if not released. The home secretary said she may be released if she remains well behaved by April 9.
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Associated Press
London
Reginald McKenna
Home Secretary
Zellie Emerson
Michigan
Mansell Moullen
Emerson
Dauhter
Mexican treasury reserves show light balance for January
Mexico City April 4 The Mexican finance minister told Congress that the treasury balance at end January stood at 16,520,000 with 694,500 distributed to postal and telegraph offices. He described this as the remaining reserves of the Mexican treasury including 459,460,900 in monetary commissions.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Congress
Kendall alleges state senator tried to bribe over stock bills
George H. Kendall president of the New York Bank Note Company turned over documentary evidence to the state attorney general. Kendall says Senator Stephen J Stilwell offered a two thousand dollar bribe to advance stock exchange bills through committees. He also reports discussions of a large fund used by the exchange to influence outcomes.
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Kendall
New York
George H. Kendall
New York Bank Note Company
Kendall Gays
Stephen J.stilwell
Stilwell
New York Stock Exchange
German Balloon Sails Homeward After Normandy Landing
The German air cruiser Zeppelin IV was reinstate and departed for Germany at 8 pm. A French inquiry found the airship and crew guilty of no military observation, noting the crew tested the dirigible before German approval and had lost their way near a French garrison town. The officers were released from guard and escorted to the frontier.
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Luneville
France
Germany
Zeppelin Company
Lanveille
Glind
Avricourt
German Airship Secrets Revealed at Luneville
Berlin reports that the Luneville airship operation exposed conserved German constructional secrets behind rigid airship supremacy. Military circles blame ignorance for dirigible failures to the British Admiralty. A Mormon special correspondent notes hostile crowds at Luneville twice tried to damage the airship with sticks and knives, but were repulsed by a military cordon. The French authorities were described as correct.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Lunevile
Luneville
Evers Bailes with Disharmony Hits Chicago Ball Club
Chicago April 4 Alleged dissensions surface between Manager Johnny Evers and Chicago players as trainer Semmons resigns in anger and leaves at the railway station after a sharp clash with Evers. Semmons reportedly prefers Cincinnati and intends to join that team.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Johnny Evers
Chicago Chase
Semmons
Murphy
Evers
Tinker
Cincinnati
Vandiver Acquitted in Sloan Rowan Murder Case
A Montgomery jury acquitted Henry F. Vandiver a former wholesale grocer of Montgomery of being an accessory in Sloan Rowan’s murder. Walter Jones was hanged for Rowan’s murder and, before dying, confessed Vandiver was the mastermind behind the conspiracy.
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Ty Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Henry F. Vandiver
Sloan Rowan
Walter Jones
Rowan
Vandiver
Governor O Neal backs electric chair in death penalty debate
In Montgomery on April 4 Governor O Neal expressed support for the electric chair, citing the recent execution of Walter Jones and urging the coming legislature to consider adopting electric chair at Wetumpka. Officials broadly oppose hanging as a method.
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Montgomery
Ala
Walter Jones
Wetumpka
O'Neal
Etowah Citizens Push Appeal to Save J Smith from Death
In Gadsden Alabama April 4 strong pressure will be placed on Governor O Neal to commute the death sentence of J Smith to life imprisonment if the supreme court does not grant a new trial. A monster petition has been secured and a counter petition is considered as agitation grows over the case.
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Gadsden
Ala
Supreme Court
J. Smith
Pear
O'Neal
Patterson
Smith
Progressive caucus opens to the public at Washington
At the capitol, a rare open Progressive party caucus met with women attendees as delegates were scarce. Murdock of Kansas announced his bid for speaker and pledged a distinct party program backed by Roosevelt, aiming to force open caucuses and challenge old party control.
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Washington
Capitol
House Progressives
New House
Murdock
Kansas
New Party
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Hinebaugh
Congress
National Party
Roosevelt
Mr. Murdock
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Shepdore
Woman Charged in Husband Death in Chickasha
Chickasha Oklahoma April 4 Mrs R S Woodward and John Castiglio arrested on murder by poison charges in the death of Mrs Woodward's husband who died a week ago. He was a local grocer aged about 30 leaving a $19 000 life policy payable to his wife.
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Associated Press
Chickasha
Oklo
R. S Woodward
John Castiglio
Woodw
Woodward
Miss Ethel Roosevelt Weds Dr. Richard Derby
Miss Ethel Roosevelt daughter of Theodore Roosevelt married Dr. Richard Derby of New York at Christ Episcopal church Oyster Bay. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Dr Talmadge with assistants Rev Dr Cotton Smith and Rev Dr Endicott Peabody. two hundred guests attended. The bridegroom Roger A. Derby is named for tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Oyster Bay
W. Y
Ethel Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Christ Episcopal Church
Richard Derby
New York
George E. Talmadge
Cotton, Smith
Washington
Endicott’ Peabody
Groton
Mass
Pride
Helen Coster
Josephine Osborne
Gareth Packer
Sanea
Ka Langdon
Roger A. Derby
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