East St. Louis Flood Ravages City Suburbs and Railyards
St. Louis dispatch reports East St. Louis submerged by up to 15 feet of water across Mast Street area and beyond, with Broadway flooded, sandbag levees rising, and residents evacuated. A night of terror followed as embankments failed, cottages flooded to roofs, rescues by naval reserves and city services intensified, while food shortages and halted rail traffic strained relief efforts. Eleven deaths preliminarily cited, including several on the North Side, as authorities rush boats and aid to the stricken districts.
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St. Louis
Mast
Broadway
Eads’ Bridge
East St. Louis
Hingis
John Kool‘ish
KE. H. Sherwood
Lawrence Day
EK. Dempey
D. R. Webb
Mr. Dempey
Alton
United States District Attorney
Dyer
Kansas Floods Prompt Likely Special Legislature Session
Topeka Kansas June 9 it is believed a special session will be held within two weeks to appropriate funds for flood relief. Govorner opposes general relief. session would focus on rebuilding washed away bridges including 13 in Kansas City. Seed potatoes and other plantings are urged for Kaw valley farmers to salvage this season.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Kansas City
Shawnee County
Melan Bridge
Street Railway
Kansas Flood Losses Put At 12 Million Across 26 Cities
Topeka June 8 Kansas suffers more than any state from recent floods with a broad tally of damages. Principal cities list losses including Kansas City Kansas 8 million and Topeka 250000, crops under water worth at least 5 million with late season profits doubtful. Widespread farmer suffering follows as inundated farms yield little return this year.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
North Topeka
Lawrence
Hutchinson
Minneapolis
Emporia
Florence
Lincoln Center
Atchison
Burlington
AM City
Beloit
Seeehon
Kansas City
Confesses Her Crime in Michigan Poisoning Case
Kalkaska Mich June 11 Prosecutor says Mrs Mary McKnight has confessed to poisoning her brother John Murphy and his wife and baby Eight other deaths over 15 years may be linked to her alleged strychnine poisoning pattern The Murphy case sparked a wider inquiry with exhumations and sworn statements indicating possible family ties and mysterious deaths all connected to Mrs McKnight She acted voluntarily and appeared sane though under strain motive remains unknown
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Kalkaska
Mich
Smith
Mary McKnight
John Murphy
Grayling
McKnight
Eliza Chalker
Sarah Murphy
Mrs. McKnight
Balfour speech averts crisis in unionist cabinet
London June 11 Premier Balfour delivered a dexterous speech that eased cabinet tensions and relieved Chamberlain of a signing duty while signaling tariff policy remains shelved. Henry Chaplin's amendment failed 396 votes with unionists liberals and Irish members backing the government.
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London
Balfour
Chamberlain
Henry Chaplin
Chaplin
Great Britain
Ritchie
Rumor Claims Serbian King Assassination and Revolt
A Belgrade telegram reports Serbian royalty killed as soldiers surround the Kovark and storm the royal palace. King Alexander and Queen Draga are said to have been assassinated with ministers possibly slain, in the early hours between one and two.
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Servia
Cologne
Belgrade
Peter Karageorgevich
Kovark
Alexander
Draga
Roosevelt ends long trip with speeches and armory dedication
President Roosevelt completes a 14 000 mile journey across 22 states and two territories in 66 days. He speaks at Springfield Armory dedication in Illinois and at the tomb of Lincoln in Decatur. Back in Washington he receives throngs and urges a stronger navy and civic action.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Roosevelt
Washington
Lincoln
Springfield
Decatur
Danville
Armory
James Milliken University
Pennsylvania Station
White House
Grace Memorial Reformed Church
Four Drowned in Allegheny River Near New Kensington
Four youths drown after entering a boat below the Ninth street bridge on the Allegheny river. Albert Lusk, 30, and three boys Augustus Frank nine Joseph Frank seven George Adams nine, were among the dead. A camping party on an island aided in the drowning search after the craft drifted a half mile downstream.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny River
New Kensington
Albert Lusk
Augustus Frank
Joseph Frank
George Adams
Ninth Street Bridge
Lusk
Five Die In Fraser Des Moines River Boat Capsize
Fraser Iowa June 9 five men perished when a small boat capsized in the Des Moines river while crossing from Fraser. Victims were Thomas Coleman Andrew Marghona Steve Carmadine Carria Megalla and Nicholas Grometine all workers at Fraser coal mines. Coleman attempted to swim to shore but sank and body not recovered.
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Fraser
Des Moines
Thomas Coleman
Andrew Marghona
Steve Carmadine
Carria Megalla
Nicholas Grometine
Coleman
Forest Fires Cause Large Loss in North Duluth Area
Forest fires around Duluth Minnesota have caused about 100000 dollars in damage in the past week. Much standing timber has burned and several logging camps dwellings railroad cars and trestles were destroyed in the territory north of Duluth.
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Duluth
Minn
Here
Condition Of The Crops
The Weather Bureau reports heavy rains disrupted farming across the lower Missouri and central Mississippi valleys with record Mississippi River stages at St Louis and Kansas City. Drought persists in northern New England and eastern New York. rain is needed in parts of the upper lake region and North Dakota. Planting resumes in Nebraska and Iowa. spring wheat remains strong in the Dakotas and Minnesota. apples look good in New England and the mid Atlantic aside from Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Mississippi
Ohio
Tennessee
Carolinas
Georgia
St. Louis
Missouri River
Kansas City
New England
New York
Upper Lake Region
Central
West Gulf States
North Dakota
Montana
Nebraska
Iowa
Middle
Atlantic States
Dakotas
Minnesota
North Pacific Coast
Middle Atlantic States
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Indiana
Arkansas
Ohio Republicans Name State Ticket At Columbus Convention
The Ohio Republican convention in Columbus on June 5 adopted a platform focused on state issues and Roosevelt policies. Boothman withdrew for lieutenant governor but Hardin’s name may be presented. Hanna was pledged support for re election. Nominated: Governor Myron T. Herrick, Lieutenant Governor Warren G Harding, Auditor Walter D Guilbert, Treasurer W S McKinnon, Attorney General Wade Hampton, Supreme Judge Augustus M Sommers, School Commissioner E A Jones, Board of Public Works George H Watkins.
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Columbus
Boothman
Hardin
Roosevelt
Hanna
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Walter D. Guilbert
Caldwell
W. S. McKinnon
Ashtabula
Wade Hampton
Ellis
Augustus M. Sommers
Springfield
E. A. Jones
Stark
Board of Public Works
George
H. Watkins
Pike
Lynching of Wyatt in Illinois after school official firing
In Belleville on June 8 a mob of over 1,000 men seized E H Wyatt from jail and lynched him. He had shot Hertel, the superintendent who refused to renew Wyatt’s teaching certificate. The mob beat the body, dragged it to the public square, hung it from a telegraph pole, and burned the corpse after dousing it with oil.
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Belleville
E. H. Wyatt
Hertel
Wyatt
Breakers Hotel Fire Wipes Palm Beach Area
Fire at The Breakers, Palm Beach, destroys hotel building power house Cory's block of stores Casino south of the hotel and a large cottage. Some hotel furniture saved but damaged. Losses: Breakers 500000 furniture 200000 Casino cottage Cory block about 25000 other losses about 5000. Hotel insured for 300000.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Breakers
Tavo
Palm Beach
Cory’s
Town Talk and Global Tidbits Highlight Curfews and Paving
The item notes Fifeshire appoints a miner as a new justice of the peace and London's street paving uses two inch tiles. It also mentions Antrim resuming nightly curfew, Berlin taxing dogs, rising Moscow wealth disparity, Gaelic street plates planned for Kingstown, and grain exports from New Orleans exceeding five million bushels with 52 ocean steamers. Senator Paul Strauss of Paris proposals include mandatory sanitary records for dwellings.
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Fifeshire
London
Antrim
Ireland
Berlin
Moscow
England
Kingstown
Dublin
Canada Immigration Surges As Western Lands Draw Settlers
The Chicago Record Herald notes Canada expects heavy immigration this year with 40 672 arrivals in four months, led by wheat lands in the Northwest. Over one third come from Great Britain, 13 770 from the United States, and 10 285 from Continental Europe, signaling Canada’s growing population through Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic settlers amid fierce global grain competition. Government agents in Chicago and Kansas City offer pamphlets and low rates to free grant lands.
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Chicago
Ierald
Canada
Dominion
Committee On Agriculture and Colonization
Northwest Territories
Winnipeg
Great Britain
United States
Ireland
Europe
Chicago Record-Herald
Western
Crawford
West Ninth St
Kansas City
C. J. Broughton
Quincy Buildiing
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Western Canada
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