World events and local incidents across states
Birthday observances and dedications mark a quiet Friday. The Worlds Fair Missouri and Indiana State buildings opened. Pickling sluff worth $30,000 arrives in Waco. Georgia Democrats back Parker for president. Wynnewood may sell $15,000 in school bonds. A rejected suitor in Chicago fatally shoots and kills himself. A Shreveport hospital worker is jailed for robbery. A Korean Major and adjutant held in Seoul. A deadly Indiana lightning strike injures several near Booneville. Texas hosts gear for a national meeting in Cincinnati. A Texarkana cotton buyer is found dead. Mineral Wells Civile League plans a November flower carnival. Elizabeth Keil found dead from arsenic in Chicago. Postmaster General Payne eyed as Republican chair. Louisiana Purchase stamps released. Fort Worth stock totals top $20. Woodmen of the World plan a Texas log rolling. Oklahoma tornado hits Glencoe. several hurt. Idaho lynching of T. M. Myers follows killings. Russian relief effort wanes after Port Arthur fall. Heavy Oklahoma rainfall floods streets and basements. trains affected.
Floods Hit Black Hills and Northwest Regions
Heavy rainfall bursts banks of Whitewood Deadwood and city creeks causing property damage and two known deaths. Rail service halted as washouts close Deadwood. In Texas East Texas Press Association meets Beaumont with papers on Nacogdoches history and East Texas fruit and oil. editors tour city after sessions.
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East Texas Press Association
Deadwood
S. 1
Black Hills
Whitewood
City
Beaumont
Tex
R. T. Miner of
Hemphill
Eugene A. Wilson
Milner
R. 8. Bryerly
E. A. Buddenbrook
Index
R. B. Make
Jasper
Newsboy
G. BE. Watford
G. KE. Watford
Lufkin Tribune
Mira Emma D. Wilson
Nacogdoches Sentinel
Long G. Price
E. J. Kelle
Mysterious murder attempt targets Houston citizen
Capt. William Christian of Houston narrowly survives a masked assailant at his home on Clay Avenue between 9 and 10 pm. A bullet fractured his head skin near the ear. he was only slightly hurt. Christian, a respected preacher and Civil War captain, is tied to local civic life and cotton interests. Authorities investigated a car incident where he rebuked an insulting stranger, but no suspect was found.
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Houston
Texas
William Christian
Clay Avenue
Christian
Cant. Christian
Mouston
Lubbock Street Presbyterian Church
Terry
Texas Rangers
Houston Cotton Exchange
T. W. House
Train Wreck Kills Man in Cherokee Kansas
A southbound passenger train wrecked in Cherokee Kansas Sunday night when two coaches derailed at a switch and struck a freight. Alf Ridley, son of engineer Thomas Ridley, was killed and several others were injured while walking beside the track.
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Alf Ridley
Thomas Ridley
Young Ridley
Port Arthur Fall Expected by Paris Experts
Paris leading military experts foresee the early fall of Port Arthur and call the defense failure a grave blow to Russia. They compare Port Arthur to Metz and Sedan and criticize General Kuropatkin for a nonresistant stance, noting a shift in French sentiment and an official pessimism about Russia's reversals.
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Paris
Port Arthur
Russia
Metz
Sedan
Kuropatkin
Murder verdict in Texas carves death penalty for Hierholter
In Fl Pero Texas Henry Hierholzer was found guilty of murdering John Hoerr at a nightclub on a Saturday night and was sentenced to death. Hoerr, leaving the ballroom with a young woman, was shot in the back and died instantly. Hierholzer testified Hoerr was his closest friend and that jealousy over the woman drove the act.
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Fl Pero
Texas
Henry Heirholtzer
John Hoerr
Hoerr
Hierholter
Infernal explosion kills twelve at Independence station
A buried infernal machine exploded beneath the Independence station platform on a Cripple Creek Colorado railroad line. Twelve miners died, eleven instantly, one later, with seven or more injured. Most victims were nonunion Findley mine workers on night shift bound for Cripple Creek Victor. Fire officials and responders rushed to the scene as a special train carried doctors nurses and officers to aid the injured.
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Deadwood
Findley
Florence & Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Victor
Independence
Fruit Crop Sold Amid Peach Shipments From Crockett
W W Berry sold his orchard crop to the Natalie Plantation Company for 3500 dollars. The purchaser shipped one car of peaches to Kansas City on the 1st and another car was loaded Saturday. This marks the first carload peach shipment from any Texas point. The fruit is unusually fine and express shipments have brought high prices. Local truckers report cabbage car shipments beginning, with prices around 1 dollar per hundredweight.
Barbers Arrested in Cincinnati Sunday Law Clash
A score of barbers were arrested in Cincinnati for violating the Sunday law. The union voted to close shops on Sunday, many proprietors objected, and several were taken into custody on warrants sworn out by their employees.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Unione
Fine Rains at Paige in Texas Corn Crop Boost
Heavy rain visited Paige Texas Sunday evening and night. The rainfall promises a splendid corn crop and will aid other growing crops in the area.
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Paige
Texas
Cream Separator Planned at Flatonia Texas
Mr A G Kristik proprietor of the electric light plant figures on installing a large separator for cream and to buy milk from local farmers and ship the cream. A test with a sample machine last Saturday proved entirely satisfactory.
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Flatonia
Texas
A. G. Kristik
Electric Light Plant
Adams Found Guilty of Murder in Llano Texas
Llano in Texas jury returns guilt verdict Sunday against Polk Adams for killing Clyde Yoe in a street altercation weeks ago. The case also involved the death of S H Mosely, with Adams sentenced to ninety nine years in the penitentiary.
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Llano
Texas
Guilly
Polk Adams
Clyde Yoe
S. Hl. Mosely
Porto Rican Student Drowns in Susquehanna River
Caesar Vivian a Porto Rican student at Dickinson Seminary drowned while swimming in the Susquehanna River Williamsport Pa His parents had just landed in New York en route to witness their son's graduation
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Williamsport
Caesar Vivian
Dickinson Seminary
New York
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