From the Flood Casts Appalling Losses and Rescue Tales
Reports from Hornsby’s Bend and Austin detail flood damage and rescues. Oswin LaFrance survived after clinging to a house and riding a tree for miles. Frank Kinney’s body was recovered. two Johnson boys drowned at the power house. City pumps and machinery demand. governor to use flood fund to aid destitution. Gen Funston faces potential court martial over executions of two Filipinos near San Isidro.
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Austin
Texas
Hornsbys Bena
Oswin LaFrance
Power House
Frank Kinney
Walter Johnson
Fenston Ia
Terewbt
Manila
Frederick Fenston
San Isidro
Funston
Holmes Harmon Returns After Twenty Year Absence
A white man named Holmes Harmon vanishes from Kings Mountain near Charlotte twenty years ago and reappears to find his wife remarried and his children grown or dead. He was wealthy at disappearance and now seeks old friends and kin.
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Kip van Winkle
Charlotte
N. Y
Holmes Harmon
Kings Mountain
Mr. Harman
Suspected Bie Burglaries Ties Montreal Portrait to Rail Station Robberies
Evan Jolly, a painter and decorator, was arrested in Montreal on April 9 and charged with three burglaries at the Canadian Pacific railway station in Joilet Quebec. The heists occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1909 with $600, $3500 and $7000 stolen and the station burned in the second break.
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Montreal
Evan Jolly
Canadian Pacific Railway
Joilet
Quebec
Huntington gains control of Houston Fat and West Texas railway
New York reports Huntington and associates bought a large majority of the stock from Blair & Co., finalizing control of the railroad last week. The price is said to be between 36 and 40, with details on remaining holdings unclear. The article notes the deal places the Southern Pacific president and his business circle in ownership. In a separate line, Baltic Sea wrecks are described as unusually numerous.
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New York
Huntington
Houston Fast and
West Texas Railway
GC. P. Huntington
Blair & Co
Southern Pacific Company
Blairs
River Rises in Lagrange Texas Amid Flood Vigil
At 7 pm the Colorado River reached forty six feet and kept rising slowly. Residents find relief as upper levels fall, while lower districts evacuate and move belongings. Boats operated near the public square and power facilities were inundated, with electric lights cut at 2 am and the dynamo moved to safety.
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Lagrange
la Grange
Texas
Colorado
Brazos River Flood Runs High Across Texas
Reported late last night the Brazos was rising six inches an hour at Waco, with the river within three feet of the highest mark at Hearne and flooded bottoms near Courtney. Hempstead remains in its banks but may overflow today while Central trains stay on schedule and International lines operate east of Hearne.
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Brazos
Houston
Texas
Waco
Hearne
Courtney
Hempstead
Central
Brazos Bridge
Ranchers in Convention Oppose Public Land Leases
About 500 Western ranch stock growers in Denver adopted resolutions opposing public land leases to cattle companies and opposing arid land cessions to states. They planned a permanent association for territory west of the Mississippi, seen as moving against the National Live Stock association.
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Denver
Colo
Mississippi River
National Live Stock Association
Wheat Crop Conditions and Livestock Mortality Report
The agriculture department reports April 1 winter wheat at 82.1 overall with strong conditions in western states reaching highs such as Washington 106 and Oregon 100. Rye stands at 89. Mortality for farm animals in the year ending March 31, 1900 fell below last year across most species, with horses at 1.8, cattle 2.3, sheep 3.8, and swine data incomplete. In New Mexico, a sheriff’s posse tracks fugitives Burt Avard Brave John and Bill Stiles after a jail break and murder of Officer Scarborough, with multiple posses deployed in the mountainous region around Deming and Silver City.
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Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
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Texas
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North Carolina
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A_ ren
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Silver City
George Scarborough
Birchfield
Deming
Blair
Grant County
San Simon
Scarborough
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Rescue by inspectors saves Mexican woman and five children
Custom Inspectors Ham Bee and Edwards returned from a country scout and report rescuing a Mexican woman and five children who were surrounded by rising waters. They converted a large gate into a raft and steered it through swift current to the small ground where the family stood. After the rescue the water receded, and it is believed much overflowed corn from the Rio Grande may reappear.
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Laredo
Texas
Ham, Bee and
Edwards
Whem
Rio Grande
Two Accidents Mar Rail Work Near Nacogdoches
In the Texas and New Orleans railroad right of way five miles from Nacogdoches a tree fell on Marion Johnson breaking his leg and injuring contractor James Ackerman who was knocked senseless with chest wounds and a scalp laceration. Doctors from town reported Ackerman’s recovery chances good.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
Texas and
New Orleans
Marion Johnson
James Ackerman
Accident Hits Boy in Brazoria County
Two youths playing with a pistol accidentally discharged it wounding Hurlbert near the hip and spine. The 38 caliber ball from a Smith and Wesson lodged near the spine and he was taken to a Galveston hospital for treatment.
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Alvin
Brazoria Co
Tex
Young Hurlbert
Smith & Wessop
Galveston
Colombian Revolutionaries Advance Toward Chiriqui Province
Kingston Jamaica April 11 A Colombia revolutionary expedition has started from a Central American port and landed at Marel 31 on Chiriqui's north Pacific coast. About 200 men with 6 mountain guns 500 spare rifles and ammunition march toward David the provincial capital likely to fall with light resistance. The Philadelphia sighted the revolutionary steamer off the Nicaraguan coast and followed to Punta Arenas. Panama authorities plan to dispatch troops to Chiriqui.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Colon
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Chiriqui
David
Herrera
Phidelphia
Ncaraguan
Punta’ Arenas
Panama
New Corsicana Cotton Mill Bid Awarded
The Corsicana Cotton Factory building committee opened seven bids for mill construction. The lowest bid of 15050 was accepted by a local firm, with work starting immediately. The brick and stone two story mill will front 220 feet on the Central railroad, 120 feet deep at the north, 52 feet at the south, and must be completed by August 10.
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Corsicana
Texas
Corsicana Cottton
Central Railroad
Union Depot
Flooding on Brazos River Eases Within Banks
Reports from Brazos river visitors describe water covering a wide area of the bottom and near the June rise height, with no rain and a northwest wind. Officials expect the river to return within banks in a couple of days despite last year’s flood losses and cotton replanting needs both upland and bottom.
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Brazos
Banka
Bryan
Texas
Brazos River
Texanette itemized notices from Texas city pages
Ex Governor Hogg in Austin Paris recruiting office opened Mineola cotton fire consumed 250 bales J Chapman Temple jeweler assigned Hr Pitcock Coryell county death Infant body found Dallas Two Chinese boys seek Fort Worth public schools J Fount Thomson Ballinger Confederate veteran dies in Ballinger Quinlan Confederate camp organized at Quinlan Hunt county State prospects for northern and eastern manufacturers Burglary at Corsicana shoe store $50 stolen W A Harvey son drowns in San Antonio Amelia Wilson burned Roxton bankruptcy petition Houston Galveston bankruptcy judgments Corsicana deaths 107 with 60 white 28 colored City Sexton Corsicana Gross discharges Paris bankruptcies Mary Louise Bresmond Edward Redeing Ode C Nichols Philppines Safer trades at Leesville fire curbs Insurance $2400 Goliad grand jury ill against Gerhardt family Mallory line Lampasas relaid Galveston dredges 25 foot channel Maxwell retrial Archer City not guilty Southern Telephone Co organized Cooper branch counties Fort Worth wage hikes for painters and helpers.
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Houston
United States
Galveston
C. B. Sutherland
Corsicana
Paris
Bryant
Federal Court
Mary Louise Bresmond
Edward W. Redeing
Ode C. Nichols
Denison Daily Journal
Thirty-Fourth Infantry
Philippines
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Leesville
Goliad
Charles Gerhardt
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