Multitude of Minor 1900s News From Across Regions
The report covers varied events from Oklahoma Supreme Court activity to asphalt projects in Little Rock, a Labor Day parade in Oklahoma City, a restaurant robbery in El Dorado Illinois, and casualties from a landslide in Trans Caucasia. It notes a statue unveiling in Water Town, a U S Supreme Court justice denying resignation claims, a dynamite blast at a pumphouse in Minoka, bank authorization in South Me Aleater Oklahoma, a high yield well in Decatur Indiana, drownings and deaths in multiple states, a Moroccan revolutionary movement, record disc throwing in Keokukla, and a large family obituary in Hagerstown. It also mentions duels in Colorado, an upcoming wedding of Secretary Hay’s daughter, insanity at a church in Maine, Labor Day barbecue in Los Angeles, land settlements in Yaqui valley, and various quick civic ceremonies and flour mill fires. Numerous individual names and places are cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Waehery
Minoka
City National Bank of
South Me
Robert Fitzhugh
Michigan
Arkansas
Helena
Ark
Mohammed
Morocco
Los Angeles
Cal
San Pedro
H. G. Otis
Nonunion
Los Anges Times
Yaqui River
Roberta
South Fulton
Tenn
Siloam Milling Company
Siloam
Seventy Eighth Company
Coast Artillery
Port Adama
Woman Fends Off Youth Gunman in Beaumont Attack
Miss Linda Dugat, 18, wrestled a pistol from a teen offender on Avenue C near Royal Street. A hand to hand struggle followed as she struck with the gun and choked the assailant. he bit her, escaped, and authorities pursue. The incident near Taylor's Bayou ties to local families Blanch ettes and Larghys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
Texas
Misa Linda Dugat
Clara Blanchette
Avenue C
Royal Street
Miss Dugat
Miss Duwat
Ahead Dugat
Taylor's Bayou
Larghys
Blanchettes
Jefferson County
Raid on Dallas gambling house nets arrests after grand jury indictments
A sudden 10 o'clock raid on a Main Street saloon in Dallas follows indictments from the grand jury. About twenty sheriff and city police officers entered to find gambling rooms in darkness. Seventy-eight participants surrendered. nearly twenty were jailed after bond posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Main Street
Sheriffs Department
Zacheas
Grand Jury
Frank Tousey Dead Publisher and Judge Founder
Frank Tousey of Newark has died from pleurisy. He founded a music publishing house and was a nephew of the late Sinclair Tousey, president of the American News Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Tousey
Newark
Judge
Sinclair Tousey
American News Company
Syndicate Buys Putnam Gazette in Strawn Texas
The Southwestern Publishers' Syndicate including the Strawn News Ranger Record and Brazos valley Beacon has acquired the Putnam Gazette. It plans further acquisitions to raise editorial standards beyond individual effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strawn
Texas
Southwestern Publishers’ Syndicate
Strawn News
Ranger Record
Brazos Valley Beacon
Putnam Gazette
Not Our Affair Says State Dept on Haiti Killick Incident
Washington reports the state department views the Haiti Killick affair as a matter between Germany and Haiti not involving the United States. No American interests are harmed and Washington has not recognized Haiti’s revolutionaries. The move is seen as potentially stabilizing for Caribbean and Latin American waters and prompting firmer actions by naval powers against interference with foreign shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Berlin
United States
Haiti
Killick
Phaeton
Ecuador
McLean
Haitian
Crete-a-Pierrot
Death by own action at Sherman Texas
Nine year old Charles Bruner committed death by own action at the Central hotel near the Union depot in Sherman Texas. His wife reported they were watching a train when he drew his hands up and sank onto the bed saying goodbye. She did not see him take morphine and learned of the act only after he collapsed. The physician said death occurred within forty minutes. Bruner was a bricklayer and contractor and had recently arrived in Sherman. His sole surviving relative is a sister in Illinois. He had a history of heavy drinking and family troubles were noted by the wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Texas
Charles Bruner
Central Hotel
Union Depot
Ilinois
Bruner
Panther Sinks Firminist Gunboat At Gonaives Harbor
German gunboat Panther ordered seizure of the Firminist Crete a Pierrot at Gonaives after warning the crew to abandon ship. Crete a Pierrot burned and sank during the boarding while Panther's crew took possession. Berlin later downplayed the act as not tragic and demanded satisfaction. Port au Prince reports calm with Firminist support waning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Haytien
Hayti
Crete-a-Bierrot
Gonaives
Panther 4
Port Au Prince
Cape Hayti
Markomannia
Hansel
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Creten-Pierrot
Hansen
Berlin
Associated Press
Panther
Cretea- Pierrot
Killick
Cretea
Crete a-Pierrot
Crete-a- Pierrot
Crete-a-Pierrot
Gas Explosion Hits Tank On New Orleans Riverfront
A lantern set by a worker atop a tank as fuel oil was pumped from a barge ignited gas and caused a blast that wrecked the tank and endangered six men. Injured include Harry Haley Pensacola chief engineer and C Moore Mobile first assistant, with four other engineers and three Swedish deckhands taken to Charity hospital in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patroleum
New Orleans
Monarch
Harry Haley
Pensacola
Fla
C.and Moore
Mobile
Ala
Joseph Pine
Jim Olsen
Kory Torlson
Bob Sealy
Charity Hospital
Affray at Nacogdoches ends with fatal shooting
In a West Main street shooting at about 6 pm Dick Crain and two Roquemore brothers clashed. George W. Clevenger was killed, Crain wounded but not seriously. Roquemores unhurt. Previous animosity traced to 1897 with Crain backed by Carl Butler and Horace Boger. No arrests reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nacogdoches
Texas
West Main Street
Dick Crain
Roquemore Boys
George W. Clevenger
Crain
Roquemores
Carl Butler
Larkin
Horace Boger
Baker
Roger
J Kersh Assassinated in Dickinson Texas
J Kersh, section foreman for the Galveston Houston and Henderson line, was shot dead yesterday afternoon from a second story window at the Fair Ground saloon. He was entering the saloon when two buckshot loads struck his heart. He leaves a wife and three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Kersh
Dickinson
Texas
Joe Kersh
Galveston, Houston and Henderson
Fair Ground
Kersh
Moscow
Eldorado land rush averted by lot drawing proposal
In Schleicher county near Eldorado a potential clash over two sections was prevented when a plan to draw lots was proposed by Mr. Coupins of Hood county. About fifty applicants sought the two sections and one party blocked the courthouse entrance with a wagon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Eldorado
Schleicher County
Coupins
Hood County
Court House
Floresville Man Survives Bat Blow to Head
James Hollingsworth suffered a fractured skull after a baseball bat strike in Floresville. The assault left him gravely injured but he survived the attack as authorities investigated the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville
James Hollingsworth
Train Shooting in Osceola Leaves Several Wounded
A fight aboard a passenger train near Osceola Arkansas ends with two men dead and two badly wounded. Baldy Taylor a Black man fires on white passengers, injuring H G Fisher and another Rosa Ark citizen while seriously wounding Chenault and Hume in a chaotic attack. Taylor is jailed as a mob forms to lynch him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Osceola
Ark
Baldy” Taylor
Taylor
H. G. Fisher
Rosa
Chenault
Hume
Fisher
Roa
Double Killing Rocks Voca Texas Farm Family
A farmer and his family were fired upon in a wagon near Voca McCulloch county. A Winchester rifle wounded two girls, one fatally, as Sheriff Denman and McCulloch deputies pursued the unknown assailant described as a dark complexioned man with a heavy mustache, about 45, who fled on foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownwood
Texas
Voca
McCulloch County
Denman
Akin
Posse
Sheriff Wall
Baptism Debate Denounces Infant Baptism as Heathenish
Rev Dr Robert MacArthur at Evangel tent in New York attacks infant baptism and baptismal regeneration calling it heathenish. He argues water on infants cannot save souls and condemning unbaptized children makes God tyrannical. He denounces the practice as a dark superstition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert 8. MacArthur
Evangel Tent
Young Men Released on Bail in Counterfeit Case
Tyler Texas September 8 Lloyd and Ike Music were brought before Commissioner Parrish after arrest in Nacogdoches on a charge of possessing and passing a counterfeit United States treasury note. They were released today with bonds set at $1000 each, amid a crowd of friends from their hometown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
Texas
Lloyd
Ike
Nacogdoches
United States Treasury
Parrish
Bing
Woman Knocked Down by Bicycle Rider on Main Avenue
San Antonio report says Mrs. C. J. Sleyer was struck and then run over by a bicycle rider on Main avenue this morning. She was badly injured and not expected to survive. The rider fled after the incident and has not been identified or arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
C. J. Sleyer
Main Avenue
Strike Ends at Katy Machine Shops in Denison
Denison Texas September 8. About 250 workers at the Katy machine shops reached a settlement last night and will return to work Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denison
Texas
Katy
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Alpine
Czarina
Russia
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Little Rock
Oklahoma City
Elwood& Cox's
el Gorado
Iil
Trans-Caucasia
Orange River
James Duffy
Hannibal, Me
Gov. Flower
Watertown
Shiras
The
United States Supreme Court
Charles Hinneman
Keokukla
David Gossard
Hagerstown
Winfield
Colo
Gus Sjostron
Sam Ameden
Chauncey Bennett
Alice
Hay
James Walcott Wadsworth, Jr
Mr. Jay
Lake Sunapee
N. U
KB. F. Snyder
Armatrong
Emile Chirlet
Germany
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