J. W. Batts Property Listings In Town and County
J W Batts offers South half block near Allen Academy for 550 with cottage tenant house and well. Six room houses with lots priced at 1750 and location four blocks from Main Street. N B Cole home on 2.5 lots priced 1600 with 6 room house. 800 acre Brazos Bottom farm at 20 per acre, sell in small tracts. Frontage on Railroad steel from Otto Boehme property and Ed Pochila place two lots with large two story residence priced. Also other city property available.
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Allen Academy
N. B. Cole
Otto Boehme
Ed Pochila
TALKING OVER PEACE AT CONFERENCE WITH BOER LEADERS
In Kleksdorp Transvaal on April 1, President Steyn General Dewet and General Deleary arrived with staffs as a flag of truce signaled the event. The Orange Free State envoys with Judge Hertzog and Oliver and six others joined the Transvaal group. A conference tent was set between towns with guarded, free communication for the Boer delegates.
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Kleksdorp
Transvaal
Steyn
Dewet
Deleary
Hopeful Feeling on Peace Talks in London
Government sources in London report peace negotiations will not conclude quickly and Boer leaders may push for amnesty concessions to Cape rebels. Observers say ten days could pass before a definite decision, though representative Boers at Klerksdorp bolster hopeful sentiment.
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London
Associated Press
Cape
Klerksdorp
Priest Deported From Guatemala Arrives in San Francisco
Rev. Francis Munoz, a Guatemalan priest, lands in San Francisco aboard the Acapulco after expulsion by Guatemala. He claims no knowledge of the reason for his deportation and arrived with no baggage. Friends suggest a possible grievance tied to President Manuel Estrada Cabrera’s earlier visit to Munoz’s station.
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Guatemala
San Francisco
Francis Munoz
Acapulco
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
Munoz
Cabrera
Casanova
Ten Battalions to Ireland in Coercive Move
A Pall Mall Gazette dispatch from Dublin reports 10 battalions of English and Scotch militia to be embodied and sent to Ireland within a month as the British government proceeds with coercion. Lord Londonderry warns he may resign unless active steps are taken to bypass the United Irish League.
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Toreland
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Dublin
Ireland
Lord Londonderry
United Irish League
Desperate Saloon Fight Ends With Injuries In Chicago
In a drunken melee at Michael Adonowich's saloon on the South Side, eight assailants clashed with a saloon keeper at 3 a.m. Two men were shot and two others badly wounded before arrests. several others were hurt but escaped.
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Chicago
Michael Adonowich
Desperate Battle Ends With Sheriff’s Posse Casualties
Knoxville reports show four posse members killed and two wounded in Scott County Virginia as officers attempt to capture Jim Wright, an escaped murderer from Hancock County Tennessee. Wright, once jailed for murder, was recaptured after the ambush linked to Sheriff Lagree’s death.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Scott County
Virginia
Jonesville
Jim Wright
Hancock County
Wright
Brushy Mountain
Lagree
Winter Wheat and Rye Conditions Reported for April 1
The agriculture department statistician cites an April 1 average winter wheat condition of 78.7, down from 91.7 in 1901, with state averages listed including Illinois 90 and California 38, while winter rye stands at 85.4, lower than 93.1 in 1901 and 84.8 in 1900, against a ten year mean of 88.1.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Tennessee
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
California
Oklahoma
Rumors of Peace Reported From London Front
London reports from Pretoria claim Boer leaders have accepted British terms and peace is arranged with terms sent to Boer agents in Europe. Various unconfirmed statements circulate in London and unverified telegrams reach figures like Frederick Rutherford Harris, but no official confirmation exists.
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London
Pretoria
Europe
Frederick Rutherford Harris
South Africa Company
Oklahoma City suit over merchant report damages
W N Elledge of Norman sues R G Dun Mercantile for 15000 claiming a March 28 report damaged his credit by implying he planned bankruptcy. The notice cites loss of credit and due claims paid, with the case filed in district court in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
OA. T
W. N. Elledge
Norman
R. G. Dun Mercantile Company
Eres
G. Dun Company
Fire destroys Columbus plow shop and warehouse
In Columbus on April 11 a blaze at the Southern Plow Works gutted the plow shop, consuming two blocks by 11 pm. A warehouse nearby was damaged, with total losses estimated over 200000 dollars and warehouse damage nearing 250000 dollars.
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Columbus
Southern Plow Works
Rhodes Burial in Matoppo Rock Tomb
Amid a vast crowd of soldiers civilians and natives Cecil Rhodes was laid to rest in his rock tomb at Matoppo on Thursday. The coffin was wrapped in a Union Jack and a wreath from Queen Alexandra was placed on it as the grave was filled.
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Bulawayo
Matabeleland
Cecil Rhodes
Mattoppi
Alexandra
Five New Gushers At Spindletop Oil Field
Beaumont Texas April 11 five new gushers all good average wells were brought in Thursday There are now 28 spouters on Spindletop hill Nine coaches filled with members of the Texas Lumbermen's association are here looking over the oil fields.
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Beaumont
Tex
Texas Lumbermen's Association
Reprieve Arrives Too Late for Fletcher Hanging
In St Louis on April 11 Fletcher, a Black man, was hanged at sunrise for the murder of 16 year old Louis Roth on August 27, 1900. A 15 day reprieve arrived after the fatal drop, and Governor Dockery later ordered a stay. the execution proceeded at 6 10 a m.
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St. Louis
Sheuty Fletcher
Louis Roth
Dockery
Jefferson City
Joseph F. Dickmann
Henry Fletcher
Folk
Fletcher
Roth
Jefferson
Jerson City
Filk
Wade Hampton Dies in Columbia After Illness
General Wade Hampton dies at 9 o clock in Columbia after a general breakdown following a recent serious illness. He celebrated his eighty fourth birthday last week, and his children were summoned to his bedside during a severe attack. He had rallied and was seen driving a week ago before his condition declined rapidly.
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Columbia
S. C
Wade Hampton
General Hampton
Infernal machine arrest in Quincy Illinois
Ulyses Simpson Grant West was arrested in Quincy charged with sending an infernal machine by mail to neighbor Charles Johnson. Police say West confessed hostility to Johnson. device included a wooden box with powder and ignition components designed to start a fire.
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Quincy
Ill
Ulyses Simpson Grant West
Charles Johnson
West
Johnson
Johson
Ware to Succeed Evans as Pension Commissioner
Eugene F. Ware of Kansas chosen by the president to replace H. Clay Evans as commissioner of pensions. Ware is a prominent Topeka lawyer. Miller confesses to the murder of Carrie M. Jennett in Detroit. Oregon Democrats nominate George Brown Chamberlain of Portland for governor.
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Miller
Detroit
Joseph Miller
Carrie M. Jennett
Oregon
Democrats
George Bw, Chamberlain
Portland
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