Real Estate Listings Include Homes and Farm Acreage
Advertising notes describe various town properties and farms for sale. Listings include a south block near Allen Academy with small cottage and outbuildings, several six room houses with lots, a brick cistern, and prices from 550 to 1600. An 800 acre Brazos Bottom farm is priced at 20 per acre, with sale in small tracts. Also mentions railfront lots, and a two story Fd Pochila residence with two lots.
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Allen Academy
Price
N. B. Cole
Brazos Bottom Farm
Otto Boehme
Pochila Place
Census Reports U S Wheat Corn And Other Cereals Output
Washington April 9 A census bureau report shows 2 053 892 farms in 1900 produced 658 534 252 bushels of wheat on 52 688 574 acres with a farm value of 369 956 320. It details barley buckwheat corn rye and exports totals for the nation and farm values across crops.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Loureau
Charleston Banquet Welcomes Roosevelt With Warmth
President Roosevelt attends a Charleston banquet marking a day of incidents, among a guest list over 300 officials and leaders. Mayor Smyth welcomes him. Roosevelt’s speech is met with close attention and frequent applause as a floral, violet strewn setting frames the event.
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Charleston
Roosevelt
Smyth
District Court Dismisses Major Master Plumbers Suit
In Austin the district court dismissed the suit against many Master Plumbers Association of Texas members for penalties totaling 44 million dollars for anti trust violations. District Attorney Warren Moore, who brought the action, obtained the dismissal. Three anti trust suits remain, including actions against cottonseed oil companies, likely to be dismissed soon.
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Austin
Master Plumbers’ Association of Texas
Warren Moore
Train wreck injures passengers near Bryan yards
Northbound passenger train No. 1 split a switch in Bryan Texas and collided with a loaded coal car on a siding. Engineer Wilson and the fireman leaped to safety as the engine was disabled. passengers were shaken and some injured but none seriously.
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Bryan
Tex
Wilson
Russian post repulses 600 Chun Chuses in Manchuria clash
In Kwang Tung Manchuria, 600 Chun Chuses attacked the Russian post on the Liau river. Chinese forces were repulsed with 20 killed. Russian casualties included two dead and five wounded.
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St. Petersburg
Kwang Tung
Manchuria
Liau River
Peace talks shown progress in Transvaal but Free Staters unlikely to surrender
The Associated Press reports negotiations look favorable for the Transvaal side while current advices suggest the Free Staters are unlikely to surrender in a mass capitulation.
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London
Associated Press
Senate hears report on Chinese exclusion bill
March 9 1900 Senate convened with Mr Fairbanks of Indiana reporting favorably from the immigration committee on the Chinese exclusion bill passed by the House. It was placed on the calendar.
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Washington
Senate
Fairbanks
Indiana
Committee On Immigration
House Representatives
Calender
Telegraphic Wireless Phone Claim From Stockton Worker
J H Lillie a telephone employee from Lodi reports he has discovered a new system for telephoning without wires while working on a barbed wire telephone setup for farmers in northern San Joaquin County.
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Stockton
Cal
J. H. Lillie
Lodi
Oldest Pennsylvania Railroad Conductor Thomas Gallagher Dies
Thomas Gallagher aged 78 died at his New Brunswick New Jersey home. He was the longest serving Pennsylvania railroad conductor, on the road since 1849 and near retirement.
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New York
Thomas Gallagher
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Brunswick
N.J
Gallagher
Fatal horse accident claims Roanoke man
Howard Tony, son of a prominent stockman, was killed near Roanoke Texas when he fell from a horse and became entangled in a rope tied to the saddle horn. The fatal incident occurred on a date given as April 9.
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Roanoke
Tex
Howard Tony
Here
Manchurian Convention Signed in Pekin
Pekin reports the Manchurian convention has been signed with ratification due in three months.
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Pekin
Begun Investigation Into Alleged British Post at Chalmette
Col E H Crowder of the war department arrived to begin inquiry into alleged British army post at Chalmette New Orleans. He opened an office in the custom house and will inspect witnesses and site operations, likely continuing a week to ten days. General Samuel Pearson offers services and evidence to substantiate neutrality-law charges against British officers and agents at Chalmette and New Orleans.
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New Orleans
E. H. Crowder
War Department
Chalmette
Custom House
Heard
Washington
Samuel Pearson
Louisiana
Delarey Charges Disbelieved by War Office in London
London reports say charges against British troops in South Africa attributed to General Delarey have not reached the war office and will be ignored unless raised in the Commons. Officials ridicule the charges as unfounded and likely sourced from continental quarters, noting Delarey could have informed Kitchener but did not. The matter is deemed of little interest in war office circles.
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London
South Africa
Delarey
War Office
House of Commons
Delaney
Kitchener
Methuen
Martinelli's Successor Contenders Narrow to Falconio and Zalinski
Rome April 9 The papal appointment to succeed Cardinal Martinelli as U S papal delegate narrows to Archishop Falconio and Monsignor Zalinski. Falconio is favored for diplomacy and learning while Zalinski is backed by Cardinal Ledochowski. Final decision postponed from June to October.
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Rome
Cardinal Martinelli
United States
Archbishop Falconio
Canada
Monsignor
Zalinski
East India
Cardinal Ledochowski
Vatican
Falconio
Monsignor Zalinski
Ledochowski
Martenelli
Shafter Rules Out California Governor Bid
Bakersfield April 9 Major General Shafter denies plans to run for governor. He says no intention to seek the nomination and would not leave the retired list to accept the office.
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Bakersfield
Cal
California
Shafter
President Roosevelt Attends Charleston Exposition Day
On President's Day at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition in Charleston Roosevelt reviewed troops from the Exposition auditorium platform. A sword was presented to Major Micah Jenkins by the president, with speeches from state and national officials. The day included a grand parade, tours of major buildings, and a luncheon at the Woman's Building.
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Charleston
Exposition Auditorium
Micah Jenkins
United States
F. W. Wagener
South Carolina
Woman's
Woman's Board
Exhumed Body Of John Leek Appears Undecomposed
In Battle Creek Michigan on April 9 the body of John Leek an aged black man buried six months earlier was exhumed for an embalming fluid test. The corpse is described as resembling black marble with veins of petrified flesh and shows no decomposition despite the long burial.
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Battle Creek
Mich
John Leek
King Leopold Faces Socialist Mob in Brussels Arrival
King Leopold arrived in Brussels from Biarritz to find a mob of socialists surrounding his automobile. The clash was accidental yet tense as protesters shouted Long live the republic and Long live universal suffrage while waving red banners near the royal carriage.
Rice heir Carrollson arrives as claimants mount
New York April 9. Contest for millions of William Marsh Rice to be resumed next week. Carl J Carrollson of Muncie Indiana says his father was John J Rice a son of Rice. He claims his mother resumed her maiden name after his father's death and he also took the name Carrollson. He will be among the claimants.
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New York
William Marsh Rice
Carl J. Carrolson
Muncie
Ind
John J. Rice
Carrollson
Arrest on Green Goods Circular Chase on Brooklyn El
A man detained in New York after a dramatic pursuit on the Brooklyn elevated line allegedly carried numerous green goods circulars. Police say the suspect identified himself as Bryan, later claiming the name Jason Brownlow, with packages thrown into streets recovered at the station.
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New York
Bryan
Brooklyn
Jason Brownlow
New York Inheritance Tax Take Totals 4 Million
State controller figures show last fiscal year's inheritance tax collections at 4.085 million dollars. Greater New York contributed 3.394 million. Notable payments came from the estates of William Marsh Rice and locomotive builder Jacob Rogers.
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New York
William Marsh Rice
Jacob Rogers
German Chancellor Arrives in Innsbruck for Conference
In Innsbruck Tyrol on April 9 Count von Buslow the German imperial chancellor arrived. He will not go to Berlin via Munich but proceed to Vienna for a conference with Count Goulachowski Austro Hungarian minister of foreign affairs.
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Innsbruck
Austrian Tyrol
Count von Buslow
Berlin
Munich
Vienna
Count Goulachowski
Attorney William Strauss Dies at 50 in New York
William Strauss, counsel for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad and land grant commissioner for the Texas and Pacific Railway, died at his New York home at age 50.
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New York
William Strauss
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Governor blocks Fitzsimmons fight in South Carolina
New York April 9 Gov McSweeneys declaration that the Jeffrey Fitzsimmons bout cannot be held in South Carolina dims Fitzsimmons quarters on Long Island. His manager says the fight likely moves to California with San Francisco still favored by the boxers.
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New York
Katy Stockholders Meet Elects Rouse and Directors
At the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway stockholders meeting in Dallas, President Henry C. Rouse and other longtime officials were re elected to their posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company
Henry C. Rouse
Strikers Refuse to Deal With Arbitration Committee
Providence April 9 Strikers of the American Woolen Company at Olneyville refuse to deal with representatives of the National Civic Federation arbitration committee.
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Providence, R
American Woolen Company Mille
Olneyville
National Civic Federation
Fisher Fire Ravages Tibbets Town Businesses
Fire swept Fisher, east of Bloomington Illinois, destroying all main street business houses with reported losses around 100000 dollars. Local authorities and residents assess the extent of destruction and begin rebuilding efforts.
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Bloomington
Fisher
Here
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