Jones testifies in Patrick murder case at Justice Jerome
Charles F. Jones former valet to William M. Rice described a plot to kill Rice with chloroform and forge a will. He testified Patrick urged delaying Rice's death and that a $25,000 Texas draft prompted plans to remove Rice. Defense will deny charges and attack Jones as a self confessed perjurer.
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New York
Charles F. Jones
William M. Rice
Jones
Jerome
Albert T. Patrick
Patrick
Rice
Texas
Cohen
Robert E. Moore
Dr. Kennedy
Texas Legislature Debates and Enacts State Laws
Texas lawmakers pass and consider numerous measures including a mineral survey, school land deeds, industrial school creation, asylum expansion, and railway finance. The senate and house amend and concur on multiple bills while debates touch on Galveston projects and budget items. A Vienna dispatch reports an attempted assassination of the czar, later doubted.
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House
Republican
Senate Committee
Senate
Conference Committee
Texas
Stewart
Fort Worth
Galveston
Parish
Dallas
Messrs. Shaw
Lively
Strother
Beaty
Hanger
Northern Texas Construction Company
Turner
Civil list committee recommends fixed total of 470000
A committee appointed to consider civil list changes proposes fixing the new civil list at about 470000 pounds, a net increase of 67000. Other items note Premier Waldeck Rousseau's serious tongue operation, Al Johnson's mayoralty bid price, Rev John Jasper's funeral, Madrid approving a peace treaty basis with the United States.
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Waldeck-Rousseau
Madrid
Cabinet Council
Spain
United States
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Bryan Grocery Company
Praitless
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London
Vienna
Grand Opera House
Haywood
the Children Violinists of
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J. Vernon Cosby
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Richmond
John Jasper
R. H. James
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