Beaum ont oil analysis sparks refinery plans
Beaumont crude oil yields thirty two commercial products with asphalt residuum. A Chicago chemist joins an Eastern producer to study refining for Beaumont oil amid shifting analyses from worthless to potential fuel and light oil. Local oil men foresee capital interest and possible Standard Oil competition.
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Ality
Beaumont
Texas
Chicago
Trinidad
Beaumont Oil
Ohio
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Reeves libel suit against Sherman board of education
Edgar Reeves city assessor and collector sued the Sherman Board of Education for libel. Defendants demurred, arguing no cause of action and presenting reasons. Judge Maxey sustained the demurrer, saying the matter was not malicious and, if Abelous, privileged.
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Sherman
Texas
Edgar Reeves
Sherman Board of Education
District Court
Board of Education
Board of Aldermen
Reeves
Peru Withdraws from Pan-American Congress
New York May 21 Peru officially notified the United States that it will not participate in the Pan-American congress in Mexico City if arbitration is limited to future questions Peru Bolivia and Argentina favoring arbitration of present questions threaten to derail the congress Dudley American minister to Lima informed the state department Hill Pan-American diplomats to confer Chile refuses any arbitration beyond future questions a deadlock seems likely
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Peru
New York
United States
Washington
Mexico
Argentina
Bolivia
Tacna
Arica
Werg
Congress
State Department
Dudley
Lima
Hill
Chile
Texas humorist Col. Alex EB Sweet dies in New York
Alexander Ed win Sweet known as Colonel Bill Snort and Rev Whangdoodle dies of heart disease in New York at his home. Born 1841 in Nova Scotia he grew up in San Antonio Texas and served as a Confederate private. He later studied law and entered journalism, founding the Texas Siftings before relocating it to Austin then New York.
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Alex EB. Sweet
New York
Alexander Edwin Sweet
Texas Siftings
Bill Snort
Rev
Whangdoodle
Col. Sweet
Nova Scotia
San Antonio
Texas
Carlsruhe
Germany
Galveston News
Austin
Boundary survey trip on Rio Grande to Gulf of Mexico
Representatives of the American and Mexican boundary commissions travel in three boats from San Marcial New Mexico to El Paso and then to the Gulf of Mexico to survey 1500 miles of the Rio Grande. P D Cunningham engineer leads four assistants for the American side, with E Zayas representing Mexico. The mission spans about three months.
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Rio Grande
el Paso
Texas
P. D. Cunningham
San Marcial
N. M
Gulf of Mexico
E. Zayas
Mexico
Murderous neighbor slays couple and wounds officer in Sonsville
Ewart Conway aged 27 shot and killed C. W. Garrison and his wife in their Sonsville home after their families quarreled over a dairy dispute. Conway wounded Patrolman Ben Wallis before killing himself. The note left behind blames Garrison for the family ruin. Two bystanders witnessed Wallis's shooting.
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Sonsville
Ind
Ewart Conway
C. W. Garrison
Ben Wallis
Conway
Garrison
Kentucky
Wallis
Adam Crawford
Ed Davis
Walker
Machinists' Strike in New York Likely Averted
May 20 report says leading labor and employers expect no strike. J P Morgan might be asked to help keep peace, following patterns of coal strike avoidance. Meetings in the Metropolitan district show about half the machinists would accept a nine hour day and a 12 12 percent wage raise with at most 4000 workers potentially striking.
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Washhgoda
O'Connell
International Association of Machinists
Scranton
Central Vermont
St. Joans
Lehigh Valley Railway
Buffalo
Sayre
Willsbarre
Elmira
Delaware, Lacawana and Western
Secraton
Wilkeswarre
Gulf, Colorado
Sam Fe
Telegraph
Kesosha
Wis
Milwaukee
Wilmington
Del
Toledo
Auburn
N. Y
Anaconda
Mont
Denver
Col
St. Louis
New Orleans
Dagbury
Galveston
Tex
Women’s Health Protective Association
Audubon Society
New York
England
America
J. P. Morgan
Murder mystery at Ayres hotel in Washington
Washington May 20 The Ayres murder investigation yields no arrests as police pursue many crews. Dr Schafer finds hand imprints on Ayres window sill and fire escape stairs indicating another person. Jealousy is the sole motive suggested. detectives question hotel women and inspect rooms for blood. Coroner's inquest scheduled today.
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Washington, D. C
Ayres
Schafer
Wharton County's Bay Prairie Canal Nears Completion
Wharton County Gazette reports the Bay Prairie Rice and Irrigation company canal at Lane City on the Cane Belt measures 12 miles long with 100 foot base width, eight foot high embankments, 80 foot side ditches, and 7800 acres awaiting irrigation. Water is set to flow on June 20.
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Wharton
Texas
Bay Prairie Rice and Irrigation Company
Lane City
Damage by Storm Hits Denison and Indian Territory
May 20 reports say Red River is bank full and overflows flood bottom farms while Washita River breaches banks and ruins farmland. Inch bridges swept away and many cattle drowned as unprecedented rains bring more damage and warnings from Indian Territory.
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Denison
Texas
Red River
Washita
Indian Territory
Farmer Dies in Fence Dispute Near Winkler
Nero Killed near Winkler in this county J W Law son a negro farmer was shot dead at his home yesterday afternoon Washington Fowler Lawson's brother in law was seriously wounded The cause is a defective line fence and straying mules from Law son's property. The conflict arose from mules repeatedly jumping into Fowler's field.
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Nero
Corsicana
Tex
J. W. Lawson
Winkler
Lawson
Washington Fowler
Fowler
Man Found Guilty in Second Degree Murder Trial
In Weatherford Parker County Texas B W Cook was found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing T G Harcrave last February. The jury deliberated five days and assessed his punishment at confinement.
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Weatherford, Parker Co
Tex
B. W. Cook
T. G. Harcrave
R. W. Cox
Robert Davie
Plano
McKinney
Salado college to be rebuilt in Texas region
Texas news notes report Salado college's rebuilding plan and a new compress for the town of Terrell. Other items include taxable values for Cleburne, vote schedule for Schleicher County, and various local incidents such as drownings, wrecks, and legal actions across multiple Texas counties.
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Navarro
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The
Brazos Meduial Association
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Culberson
Upshur County
G. A. Rogers
School Board of
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Lynch Browder
Gordon
International and Great Northern Railway
Hearne
Nicholas Biuntzier
Corpus Christi
Nueces County
Hot Springs
Ark
June
J. L. Patterson
T. M. Cooper
Huntdale
N. C
Alvarado
Scurry
Austin Volunteer Guard
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Morgan
Hico
Jim Dykes
Angelina County
Rockland
Malcom G. Anderson
Kenneth Anderson
Republic of Texas
M. R. Fowles
Smith County
Garden Valley
Texarkana
W. L. Martin
Sallie Goss
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Dallas
Crowley
Halbrook
W. L. Murphy
R. ©. Lynn
Rufus Hardy
W. P. Sturm
W. T. Campbell
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