Mississippi Floods Rampage Across Louisiana Region
Widespread flooding from Cairo to the gulf leaves parishes inundated and thousands homeless. Levees fail at Melville and Elba, Atchafalaya and Baton Rouge threaten further devastation. Rescue boats save families as millions in damages loom and federal relief expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Vicksburg
Miss
New Orleans
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
Weather Bureau
Melville
Atchafalaya
Bennett Carre
Morrison
Plaquemine
Scott's Landing
Cypress Hall
New Roads
Third District
Point Coupee
Torras
Lettsworth
Opelousas
Elba
Red Cross Opens International Conference in Washington
The ninth international Red Cross conference opens in the Pan American Union building with delegates from nearly every civilized country and about 100 from the United States. Taft greets delegates as Surgeon General Torney discusses American Red Cross war service and navy relations occupies the afternoon session with Miss Mabel Boardman noted among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Red Cross
Europe
Pan-American Union
United States
American Conference Committee
Ernest P. Hicknell
Taft
George H. Torney
American National Red Cross
Navy
Mabel Boardman
Doctor Palmer narrowly avoids Titanic voyage fate
A message from Dr. W. B. Palmer editor of the Christian Advocate reports he missed a Titanic voyage due to a serious accident. He says he was shipwrecked near the Titanic sinking 31 years ago and escaped in a lifeboat during a previous voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
W. B. Palmer
Christian Advocate
M. EB. Church
South
Missouri
Taft Men Lead Delegation at Roosevelt Convention
Bristol Tennessee May 7 Taft Republicans of Washington County led by Congressman Sam R Sells entered the Roosevelt convention at Jonesboro and instructed for Taft and Sells The Sells organization recently put forward a Taft instructed delegation for the state convention Roosevelt leaders held an independent meeting with Judge H B Lindsay Roosevelt manager addressing it The Sells faction won the convention and drafted a Taft resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Tenn
Sam R. Sells
Taft Republicans
Washington County
Roosevelt
Jonesboro
Taft
Sells
H B. Lindsay
UNCOVERS CONSPIRACY Involving Meat Dept Officials
Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin says he has uncovered a nationwide conspiracy between beef interests and officials in the Department of Agriculture. He alleges secret orders allow inspectors to permit diseased cattle to be slaughtered and sold, with hearings set to begin in Congress tomorrow before the House committee on expenditures.
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Tricultural Department
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Omaha
John M. Nelson
Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture
Nelson
Department
United States
Congress
House Committee On
Meat Trust
Agriculture Officials Fight Probe Says Senator
A senator accuses department of agriculture officials and the meat trust of blocking an investigation. He claims officials are using their power to derail the inquiry and protect industry interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ling
Department of Agriculture
The
Meat Trust
Doctor Cook's Friend Dead
Capt. Bradley Sillick Osbon long time Arctic Club secretary died in New York at eighty five after a month illness. He stood by Doctor Cook during his discrediting and once sought to organize an expedition to recover supposed proofs of the North Pole discovery.
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New York
Bradley Sillick Osbon
Arctic Club
Osbon
Doctor Cook
North Pole
Flood crest passes Cairo as Ohio River recedes
The second Ohio River flood of the year crest at Cairo and fall to 49 feet. Action will be taken by Cairo business groups to press Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt railroads to resume service between Cairo and southeast Missouri points.
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Cairo
Iill
Ohio River
Iron Mountain & Cotton Belt
Missouri
Wytheville Loses Interest in Floyd Allen Trial
Wytheville Va May 7 court conv ened to a sparsely filled hall as the Floyd Allen trial began with little public attention and nothing notable occurring in the morning session.
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Allen
Wytheville
Floyd Allen
Baltimore votes Clark for president in state convention
Democratic organizers in Baltimore report a decisive Clark win across the First and Fourth districts with Clark gaining eight city votes for the upcoming state convention. Early returns from the Second and Third districts favored Clark while Roosevelt leads Taft outside Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Baltimore City
Champ Clark
Missouri
Clark
Wilson
Preston
Sonny” Mahon
Roosevelt
Taft
Astor's Will Sets Widow Income and Legacy
In New York the will of Colonel John Jacob Astor provides Mrs Madeline Force Astor with a $200000 yearly income from a $5000000 trust until remarriage or death, plus an outright $100000 legacy. The Beechwood Newport bride will receive the Fifth Avenue town house and stables until death or remarriage, with livestock, carriages, and autos allocated to her, to be reallocated on his death.
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New York
Beechwood
Astor Place
Newport
Vincent Astor
Madeline Force Astor
John Jacob Astor
Colonel Astor
William Vincent Astor
Astor Town House
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-fifthh Street
Titanic Victims Brought Aboard Minia After Search
The Minia arrived in Halifax with 15 bodies on board after continuing the Titanic recovery work off Newfoundland. Seven bodies were recovered in total from the voyage, two were buried at sea, and the body of Charles M. Hays, former Grand Trunk Railway president, was among those transported ashore in a special car.
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Halifax
N. S
Minia
Mackay- Bennett
Newfoundland Grand Banks
Charles M. Hays
Grand Trunk Railway
Hays
Rebels Shoot U. S. Soldier
El Paso Texas May 7. Feeling against Mexicans runs high after Private John Baker of the Twenty second United States Infantry is shot by two Mexicans hidden in bushes across the river. Baker is not seriously wounded and his unit calls the shooting deliberate.
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el Paso
Tex
John Baker
United States
Baker
Bees Sting Dog to Death in Illinois
Mount Vernon Illinois May 7 A bird dog owned by Asabel Free was attacked by a bee hive in play and stung to death The dog suffered greatly before dying in agony caused by the bee sting executed by the hive in attack endurance and fatal outcome reported by local observers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Ill
Asabel Free
Four Men Killed as Roof Slips at Hammond Substation
Four men were fatally injured when a concrete roof being erected on the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric plant substation in Hammond collapsed and pushed them to the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Ind
Northern
Indiana Gas and Electric Company
Wreck Kills Four Trainmen and Dozens More on Texas Confederate Reunion Trip
A Texas Confederate reunion special en route to Macon Georgia wrecked at Gunns Mill six miles north of Hattiesburg Mississippi. Four trainmen and at least twenty five passengers died with over twenty five injured. The engine baggage car and three sleepers left the track rolling down an embankment. Cause undetermined but speed and trestle crossing noted.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Macon
Gunns Mill
New Orleans & Northeastern
Hattesburg
James Cameron
Henderson
Tex
Billy” Wood
C. C. Jones
Merkdian
James S. Downing
Ananta
Hoone
Denham
Mansfield
Cumberland
Mattiesburg
General Homer Lea in frail health returns to Los Angeles
Gen Homer Lea longtime ally of Sun Yat Sen arrives in San Francisco aboard the Shige Maru from Shanghai after leaving Yokohama. He will be rushed home to Los Angeles where he is reported unable to leave his state room. Lea is credited with aiding planning of the revolution though not active in fighting.
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San Francisco
Yokohama
Homer Lea
Sun Yat Sen
Shanghai
Los Angeles
Lea
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George C. Squier
Major Squier
Signal Corps
London
Maj
Stephen Slocum
Gulf
Senate
Askeg
House of Representatives
Nevada
State Republican Convention
Indorses Administration
Fallon, Neb
George S. Nixon
E. FE. Roberts
H. V. Morehouse
Goldfield
R. B. Govan
Tonopah
Ww. W. Williams
Fallon
Mel Badt
Wells
Pan-American Union Building
T. R
Tennessee
Congressman Nelson
DR. Cook
Maryland
Eleanor Anderson
Mise Anderson
Frank Anderson
Ensign Rush Southgate Fay
Astor
Rebs
U. S
Texas Confederate Veterans
Hattiesburg, Miss
Charles Holmes
Bay Springs
Frisco
Sarah Hale Witthaus
Paris
Annie Wainker
Bertha Wainker
Katherine Gredewald
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