Murderer Robert Charles Shot by New Orleans Mob
In New Orleans on July 28 Robert Charles, the black fugitive who killed two policemen during an arrest attempt, was shot and torn apart by a crowd of about 20 000. He had slain four others and wounded a dozen more in a short siege inside a house at Clio and Saratoga streets, as police and militia struggled to subdue the mob and end the shootout. A militia crackdown followed with the riot quelled and Charles confirmed dead amid violent aftermath.
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New Orleans
Robert Charles
Charles
Clio and
Saratoga
Gaster
Protecus
Lally
Clio Etreet
Charles’ Room
Rampart Street
Saratoga Street
Charlies
Anderson
Alcker
William Proteous
Charles Wao
Winchester
Day
Lamb
Palestine Coal Mine plans stock issue and new line
Valestine Coal Mines in Palestine Texas submitted a subscription list signed by twenty charter members for ten thousand dollars in stock. Articles of incorporation were drawn and a charter will be applied for. A seven member board was elected. A civil engineer surveyed the area and found three miles to the International and Great Northern main line. A branch road will be built to connect the mines, and incline work to the surface is underway to haul coal in cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valestine Coal Mines
Palestine
Texas
Palestine Coal and Mining Company
C. d. Granger
G.L. Noble
A. B B. Hodges
G. W. Bordeaux
F. Hufsmith
J. W. Osment
William Branagan
International
Great Northern
Port Worth to Have a Fair in Fort Worth
Fort Worth plans a racing and fair association with capital stock of 385000. Efforts led by Mr Gee Gordon have attracted 10000 in subscriptions from three parties, signaling potential success for the venture. The project aims to form a fully paid capital stock company to run fairs and related events in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Worth
Fort Worth
Texas
Gee. Gordon
Gordon
Houston Scholastic Population Recount Delivers New Totals
The Texas State Department of Education completed a census roll check for Houston scholastic rolls. Names of invalid or illegitimate count children were struck. Corrected rolls show Houston total at 2402 versus 2745 last year, with Harris County excluding Houston at 1000 compared to 1120 previously.
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Houston
Austin
Texas
State Department of Education
Harris County
Jlouston
Trathans Refused Admission at U S Border
Four Italian laborers were denied entry by U.S. officers at Laredo Texas on July 28 for lacking sufficient capital to qualify for habitation in the United States.
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Trathans
Laredo
Texas
Tree crush injures Mexican laborer near Luling
At a wood cutting near Luling Texas Garvina Herrera was struck by a falling tree. The accident crushed his head and leg and threatened amputation, but doctors now believe his leg may be saved. In Montgomery a two year old boy named Lewis Harver, son of the Methodist pastor, drowned while bathing.
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Luling
Texas
Garvina Herrera
Here
Montgomery
Lewis Harver
Methalist Church
One Dead and Two Injured Fire Record in Fort Worth
Fort Worth reports three fires yesterday causing one death and two injuries. At 4 am a blaze at Walter Townsend’s residence destroyed the structure and contents valued at 6500 with 4500 insured. While fighting it, the National Hotel on Main street caught fire. Brick mason Tom Gibbons died, his body recovered in ruins with severe burns. Ruby Wendling was badly burned but escaped by leaping to a pile driver. An unknown man escaped with severe facial and hand burns.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Walter Townsend
National Hotel
Main Street
Tom Gibbons
Gibbons
Ruby Wendling
Fort Worth Considers Two Cotton Mills in Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas contemplates building two cotton mills with a $100,000 stock company and substantial guarantees. Mr. Evans oversees the first plan which shows strong progress and likely success. A second group, former Denison mill owners now in Fort Worth, seeks $10,000 or more in stock with rest from others, aiming to locate a second mill here aided by local support.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Ooo
Evans
Board of Trade
Denison
Fire in Mexican Mine Leaves Dozen Entombed
July 30 Monterey Mexico reports a blaze at the La Paz mine in Mat h Mu la south of Monterey. Eleven bodies recovered while many miners remain missing or believed dead as flames trapped others. Foreman Ramon Gomez entered the burning chamber to help but died from smoke. his body was recovered.
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Monterey
Mexico
Matehula
San Luis Otosi
la Paz
Ramon Gomez
Double Header Wreck in San Antonio Yards
In San Antonio Texas this morning Eastbound Southern Pacific freight No 246 a doubleheader with fourteen loaded and nineteen empty cars crashed into empty flats on the main line. Engineer Frank Brothy injured back Fireman Hayden fractured leg Fireman J W West scorched feet Switchman Fuller left in charge says crew did not respond to flagging signals lantern went out during relighting crash not fatally hurt
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San Antonio
Texas
Southern Pacific
A Wife Murderer at Large in Eldoria Kan
Otto Pennington shot and killed his wife in Owassa in front of two children and Mrs. Pennington’s kin, a struggle prevented further attacks and left others unharmed. Pennington fled. the case follows a lengthy domestic dispute. In San Antonio a black man attempting to rob Norris’ store was shot by the owner and died.
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Eldoria
Kan
Otto Pennington
Owassa
San Antonio
Texas
Charles Norris
Facts and figures from world events and statistics
A compendium notes grasshopper damage in Mississippi, Berlin's monuments plan, Milan riots costs, Japan’s cultivable land, England and Wales town populations, coffee’s effects, college tuition averages, Paris pet cemetery, Irish tourism, Italy population growth, Algerian petroleum, pearls in oysters, U S forest timber value, pneumonia mortality in the German army, soldier convalescent furloughs, Sweden fodder shortages, Transvaal mining machinery value, and Witwatersrand machinery holdings.
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Mississippi Delta
Berlin
Milan
England
Wales
Paris
Ireland
Italy
Algeria
Oran
United States
Sweden
Transvaal
Witwatersrand
Reflections of a Bachelor
A satirical note on marriage and love contrasts male and female judgments. The speaker satirizes bachelors, husbands, and social clubs, asserting that men gain courage or lose conscience through marriage while women judge men by bookish devotion.
The World Divided By What We Get From Each Other
A fragmented reflection on social norms and courtship from a New York Press reproduction. The piece mocks gender behaviors, dating etiquette, and the paradoxes of marriage advice, highlighting how women’s actions provoke mortification and men chase personal gain.
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New York Press
Notable Figures In Brief Historical Snippets
A miscellaneous collection notes Adelina Patti planning an informal visit, Senator Depew’s early legal earnings reaching 500 in six months. Pol Plancon sings opera in German, J Pierpont Morgan wins math prizes, and farmer Durham Bull of Missouri is named in local genealogy. The German emperor’s fort naming at Metz is announced, General Chaffee’s China assignment recalls Civil War service, Senator Morgan’s pansy gardening, Lord Pauncefote’s Harvard policy talk, and a Birmingham library founder credited with civic growth. Freddy calls to bedtime.
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Cederstroeum
Adelina Patti
Depew
Pol Plancon
J. Pierpont Morgan
Boston
Durham Bull
Greenwood County
Ann Durham
Jonathan Bull
Metz
Prince
Empress
Lothringen
Chaffee
China
Morgan
Alabama
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Sherry
White
California
Paul Jones
Belle OF
Bourbon
Barrel Goods Metropolitan
Waldorf
ALCON
Nay Bowles, Prop
Alpine
G. W. Blackburn
W. ‘van Sickle
L. N. Halbert
Brewster
W. H. Ragin
Brewster County
B. M. Hines, M. D
Hancock's Drug Store
Lord Pauncefote
Washington
Harvard
John Davies Mullins
Birmingham
Great Free Library
Great Britain
Freddy
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