Various Texas local notes and incidents from June activity
A roundup of Texas items includes Texanettes in Lamar county with 12472 school children and Leonard in Fannin county with a $2000 baseball park. Secretary of state reports 16661.50 in June receipts. Tarrant county lists 11421 scholastic age children. Interurban Dallas Fort Worth service starts. A Pittsburg house fire ends with women escaping. Marshall reports B Williams found dead with empty morphine bottle nearby. Bonham elects F B Foster as Orange Podeue schools superintendent. Orange mourns C Woodman. First National Bank of Ora n reaches 400000 capital. Guilty or not, various bonds, unions, and notices noted in counties including Lavaca and Greenville. United States court established in Houston. Talley appoints Highsmith to naval cadetship. Anatin Bank pays last state debt of 419798.98. Corpus Christi suspected assault leads to arrest. Nellie Cox dies in San Antonio. Ada Harker in El Paso deemed insane. Weather alarm cases in Galveston. Central Power to pump at Spindletop with new rods. A&P acquires Galveston area land for boring. Citizens National Bank Abilene application approved. Fannin County clerk Charles English appointed. Kilgore couple found dead near Kowle. gunshot wound. Palestine street workers strike for 25 cent raise. Hill County Sheriff arrests David McDaniel in Springfield case. McDaniel to Springfield by train.
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Talley
Highsmith
Atlantic and Pacific ON Company
Galveston
Citizens’ National Bank of Abilene
Capital
Robbins
Charles English
Fannin County
James Pp. Hargies
Pat Kilgore
Kowle
Texas and Oklahoma Farm Values in 1900 Census Data
Texas reports 352 1909 farms covering 125 807 017 acres about 80 percent of the state. Farm lands valued at 595 550 802 improvements 109 222 811 machinery 30 125 705 livestock 240 576 955. Louisiana lists 116 969 farms valued at 141 180 610 with total farm products 72 667 302 and 95 acre average farm size.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Texas
Bulletin
Territory
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Thunderbolt Strikes Down Five in Offerman Company Work
In Offerman Georgia a severe thunderstorm struck while workers from the Southern Bell Telephone Company laid wire. Three white men and two Black men were killed, with one white man and one Black man injured across two distant work sections. A single lightning bolt caused all seven injuries and deaths.
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Offerman
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Secon
Nine Black Picnic Tragedy Drowns in Red River
In Shreveport Louisiana on July weekend nine Black people from Pandora plantation drowned when a boat overloaded during a picnic on Red River. Five bodies were recovered with two survivors clinging to the boat. Named victims include John Edwards Mollie Edwards their children and Rosa Rivers with an unknown party. two children of Leroy survived.
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Shreveport
Red River
Pandora Plantation
John Edwards
Mollie Edwards
Edwards
Rosa Rivers
Leroy
Manila Cholera Record July Eight
Manila reports fifty new cholera cases and thirty deaths in a day. Provincial totals climb to 460 new cases and 335 deaths as the outbreak continues.
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Manila
T. and N. O. Shopmen Strike in Houston Over Wages
About 700 Southern Pacific shop workers in Houston walked out at 11 am after the company refused a 10 percent pay rise. The firm offered 6 percent with machinists at 83 cents per hour, and ten hour days remained. A final ultimatum failed to yield more, prompting the strike.
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Houston
Texas
Southern Pacific
W. G. van Vieck
van Vieck
Bodiess Not Yet Recovered
Galveston Texas July 8 The recent tragedy killing three men while bathing in the gulf drew warnings about surf danger and protection by ropes. It notes the men were outside the ropes and that recovery of the missing bodies has not yet occurred.
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Galveston
Texas
Gulf
The Texas Peach Crop Gains Momentum in Tyler
The Elberta peach harvest moves forward with twenty two cars shipped today and thirty scheduled daily this week. Refrigerated cars are iced from Tyler and other Texas points. The yield is almost unprecedented and prices match those of prior years.
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Tyler
Texas
Waco
Houston
Nallas
Castro moves to LaGuayra with guard from Caracas
In a brief Caracas dispatch President Castro departed not for Valencia but for LaGuayra with his private guard, altering earlier travel plans. In Davenport, Iowa the North American Turnerbund announced the National turnfest will not be held until 1905.
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Willemstad
Caracaa
Castro
Caracas
Valencia
LaGuayra
Davenport
Turnerbund
Western New York Floods Cause Extensive Damage and Loss
A severe wind and rain storm drenched Western New York with rivers overflowing and widespread destruction. Homes, barns, and livestock were swept away, bridges and roads buried, communications down, with Batavia and Arcade among hard hit areas and fatalities including Minnie Lopez in Arcade. Damages run into hundreds of thousands of dollars and rail lines are washed out between Batavia and Attica.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Wyoming
Niagara
Catarigus
Arcade
Minnie Lopez
Miss Loper
Miss Lopers
Yorkshire
Sandusky
Batavia
Tonawanda Creek
Erie Railroad
Attica
The
Central
Race riot among Slav and Polish miners in Vanderbilt area
At the Paul mines of the Rainey company near Vanderbilt Pennsylvania a Saturday night clash between Slavs and Poles left Mike Zovetchin dead and Victor Hennel dying. Thirty Slavs were injured. Poles Joseph Weilk and Peter Panik are charged with Zovetchin’s murder and Hennel’s wounding and jailed in Uniontown.
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Connellsville
Paul
Rainey Company
Vanderbilt
Mike Zovetchin
Victor Hennel
Joseph Weilk
Peter Panik
Zavetchin
Hennel
Uniontown
Frank Letkey
King Edward's Progress Praised In Latest Bulletin
London July 7 report says King Edward's recovery continues to advance. If this pace persists he may be transferred to the royal yacht at Southampton waters by month’s end. A 9 am bulletin states the progress is satisfactory in every respect.
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London
Edward
Southampton Waters
Unknown Man Found Dead Near Winthrop on Rail Line
The body of an unknown man was found on a Kansas Unity Southern railroad track near Winthrop, thirty miles east of Texarkana. Clothing bore the name Montgomery written in ink. The man is believed to have been killed, though details are incomplete.
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Texarkana
Texas
Kansas Unity Southern Railroad
Winthrop
Here
Montgomery
Fire destroys multiple buildings on Walas and Wabash avenues
A Chicago fire destroyed 305 307 309 and 311 313 Walas avenue causing more than 325000 in losses. Firemen prevented spread toward Siegel Cooper Co. department store as explosions blew shutters from Bosch Co. and a wall collapsed onto Kuntz Remmler building.
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Chicago
Walas Avenue
Siegel, Cooper & Co
State
Auditorium Hotel
Wabash Avenue
Auditorium Annex
Bosch & Co
Sion
Kuntz-Remmler Company
Aguinaldo Fears Assassination After Amnesty
Aguinaldo meets General Chaffee in Manila after amnesty is proclaimed. The guard is withdrawn and Lt. Johnson escorts Aguinaldo to a first face to face with the American general. Interpreting Lt. McKinley notes Aguinaldo seeks protection and prefers night visits.
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Aguinaldo
Manila
Johnson
Chaffee
W. E. McKinley
Ninth Cavalry
General Chaffee
Wright
Thia Aguinaldo
Woman Convicted of Forgery in Waxahachie Court
In Waxahachie Texas on July 7 a young woman about 20 years old was arraigned in district court for forgery the first such case in county history. She named Mary Strayhorn alias Mary McShe She claimed Choctaw heritage and pleaded guilty receiving a two year penitentiary term as tears fell in court.
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Waxahachie
Texas
Citizens’ National Bank
Mary Strayhorn
Mary McShe
State Penitentiary
Dillard
Cattle War Feared in Choctaw Nation
Ardmore I T July 7 grave trouble between cattlemen and Indians in the Choctaw Nation is feared after the killing of nearly 400 cattle in a week allegedly by Indians. The dispute centers on non citizens owning more than ten head per person and cattlemen’s alleged law violations provoking Indian hostility. Clarkeville. A large area of pasture fence has been cut in Pad Diwan nanney.
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Ardmore
I. T
Clarkeville
Pad Diwan Nanney
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J. M. Carnes
Alpine
Lamar County
Leonard
Tarrant County
Texas Railways
Mra
C. M. Copp
Fort Worth
Maxey
Eastland County
Eastland
Dallas
Pittsburg
Warrow
B. Williams
Marshall
F. B. Foster
Bonham
Orange Puede
C. Woodman
Orange
First National Bank of
Attorney / General’s department
Aname
Lavaca County
Greenville
Kendall
North Texas Normal School
United States Court For the Southern Diatrict of Texas
Central Power and Equipment Company
Palestine
Humber
Satterfield
Hill County
Blum David McDonald
Springfield
Sherif Padshaw
Mc Daniel
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