Real Estate Listings in Byazos County for Sale
Abstract Books of Byazos County Land Titles offered for sale by J. W. Satts. Properties include about 105 acres near courthouse with 26 acres cultivated and rest pasture priced 1500. 1.25 acres near schoolhouse with small cottage priced 750. six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street priced 1250. half block near Allen academy priced 500. 13 acres on town south side with new 4 room house priced 1000. 4 room house with facilities four blocks from courthouse priced 650. Joe B Reed home place quarter block and 9 room two story priced 4250. half block adjoining DC DeMaret place priced 500.
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Court House
Allen Academy
Joe B Reed
DC DeMaret
Course Triangular Second Race Programme
A brief listing outlines the programme for the second race in the course triangular event. It details the scheduled events and order of competition as announced for participants and spectators.
Reliance Beats Shamrock In Triangular Race Off New Jersey
The Reliance won a 30 mile triangular contest against Shamrock with a 1 minute 9 second margin after leading from start to finish. Both yachts sailed from the lightship and faced a southeast breeze shifting to west with steady progress on the second leg toward the finish.
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New York
Reliance
Sharrock Hs
Shamrock
Wringe
Cherbourg
Jersey Shore
Triple Tragedy in Orange: Stafford Kills Wife and Stakes
Charles Stafford shot and killed his wife and then fatally wounded William Stakes before taking his own life in Orange Texas. The motive is reported as jealousy with Stakes dying Monday after the 1 pm shooting. The tragedy ends with Stafford’s suicide.
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Charles Stafford
William Stakes
Orange
Tex
Stafford
Girl Burned To Death In Kerosene Fire Near Blossom
A twelve year old girl, daughter of Jacob Wolf, was killed when kerosene exploded as she tried to ignite a fire on August 5 near Blossom Texas. Her sixteen year old sister was badly burned trying to help. The house and its contents were destroyed.
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Blossom
Tex
Aug
Jacob Wolf
Craig Farm
Here
Death of Wilks Joshaway in Hempstead Field
In Hempstead Texas Wilks Joshaway a respected colored citizen was found dead in a field near his home four miles west of Hempstead He had been missing since Friday and searchers tracked the body by buzzards He was shot twice once in the body and once through the head Suspect Alex Lawder a colored man is jailed on charges of the shooting
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Hempstead
Tex
Sham Battle at Camp Mabry Draws Immense Crowd
Mi Camp Mabry Texas August 25 The sham battle drew a large crowd. The camp’s defense was by the Third and Fourth Infantry and Second Battery US Artillery under General J A Styron. The attack force was led by Colonel Henry Hutchings with the First and Second Infantry and field artillery battalion. Only three or four heat prostrations occurred, none serious.
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Camp
Mabry
Tex
United States Artillery
J. A. Styron
Henry Hutchings
Rock Island Lawyer Seeks Hearing Before Railroad Board
Rock Island general counsel M A Low requests hearing before the Railroad Commission in Austin to address a Texas charter forfeiture complaint. He asks the commission wait on action until he can appear and be heard. The commission has not acted yet.
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Rock Island
Railroad Commission
Austin
M. A. Low
Topeka
Kan
Government statistician to survey Kaufman cotton output
A. M. Somers, special agent of the agriculture department, will start collecting statistics on cotton production and gin output in Kaufman county starting September 1. His initial report covers output through August 31, with additional reports on October 18, November 18, and December 13 detailing cotton ginned in those months.
El Paso Auditor Shot Dead at Brewery Office
Frank D. Brown auditor for a San Antonio brewery was shot and killed in El Paso while checking accounts. Saloon proprietor Ben Massey was taken into custody on a charge of committing the shooting.
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el Paso
Frank D. Brown
San Antonio
Ben Massey
World Fair Prize Drill At Camp Mabry Names Competing Companies
Texas drill at Camp Mabry on Aug 25 features 20 plus companies including Greenville Rifles Fannin Guards Bonham Denison Rifles El Paso Barton Guards Port Worth Fences Allen Rifles Cleburne Victoria Guard Houston Light Guard and Wichita Falls competing for the World's Fair prize. Top scoring unit will receive the Galveston championship cup with awards sent by mail.
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Camp Mabry Tex
Greenville Rifles
Fannin Guards
Bonham
Lyon Infantry
Sherman
Paris Rifles
Denison
Border Rifles
el Paso
Barton Guards
Barwon
Port Worth
Allen
Cleburne
Guy Waggoner
Decatur
Governor approves textbook contracts for two publishers
The governor has approved the contracts of the American Book company and University Publishing company for furnishing textbooks after review by the attorney general.
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Austin
American Book Company
University Publishing Company
Whitaker Wright Trial Opens in Guild Hall Court
London August 25 The Whitaker Wright case resumed in Guild Hall police court with Wright appearing calm and confident. Prosecution opening by Horace Averys outlined Wright as managing director of London and Globe, British American and Standard Exploration, using names for stock speculation and fictitious dealings. Prosecution put the three firms together at 250000,000 and claimed Wright held only 2500 shares at collapse.
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Whitaker Wright
London
Whittaker Wright
Guild Hall
Wright
Horace E. Averys
The
Treasury
New York
London and Globe
British- American and
Standard Exploration
Averys
London and Globe Finance Corporation
Wricht
Negro Remembered Named Benefactor for Civil War Treated Wound
Daniel Prime of Easton Pa a sergeant in the Fifty fourth Massachusetts volunteers is said to have been bequeathed 5000 by Jonathan Moore of Jackson Michigan Moore a first lieutenant in the Eleventh Michigan volunteers aided Prime during the Civil War when Moore was wounded Prime tore his blouse bound the wound and carried him to safety in the Fort Sumter action Prime later received the generous bequest from Moore’s estate.
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New York
Daniel Prime
Easton
Jonathan Moore
Jackson Mich
Prime
Massachusetts Volunteers
Moore
Michigan Volunteers
Fort Sumter
Clerk Relieved In Arizona Over Double Fee Charge
W E Murphy a clerk in the surveyor general of Arizona office was relieved by telegraph from Washington and replaced by Thomas Armstrong. Murphy faced accusations of collecting double fees for certain work claiming funds shortfalls required overtime charges.
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Phoenix
Ariz
W. E. Murphy
Surveyor General of
Arizona
Washington
Thomas Armstrong
Murphy
Half Century For Blanchette
Beaumont Texas August 25 Judge Watts sentenced Kyle Blanchette to fifty years in the penitentiary for murder. Blanchette is a Negro and was recently convicted in the district court on a charge of killing W G Weaver a white man.
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Blanchette
Beaumont
Tex
Watts
Kyle Blanchette
W. G. Weaver
Attempted assault near Longview targets Bruton family
Aug 25 Longview report says Clay Perkins, a Black man, attempted to assault W. M. Bruton's ten year old daughter at her home seven miles north of Longview between 1 and 2 am. Tyler notes boll weevils from a cotton field near Rusk reached the city.
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Longview
Tex
Clay Perkins
W. M. Bruton
Tyler
Rusk
Yellow Fever Epidemic Strikes Merida Yucatan
Yellow fever rages in a western Yucatan town with a rising death toll of thirty three. The outbreak follows a recent cyclone that has left streets impassable and hindered authorities from stamping out the epidemic.
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Merida
Yucatan
Aus
Osage Railroad Company Incorporated In Indian Territory
Osage Railroad with capital of 220000 is formed to connect with the Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma system and extend northeast to the Indian Meridian in the Osage Nation Indian Territory. The new line will be a branch of the Missouri Kansas and Texas system. Kilpatrick Hanged. Robert Kilpatrick executed in Media Pennsylvania for the February 1900 murder of Elizabeth Bearmore. He is the first white man hanged in Delaware County in over sixty years.
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Katy
Guthrie
Okla
Osage Railroad Company
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
Osage Nation
Indian Territory
Indian Meridian
Missouri, Kansas and
Texas
Media
Robert Kilpatrick
Elizabeth Bearmore
Delaware County
Circassians Reported Responsible for Turkish Massacres
Constantinople August 26 three Bulgarian villages near Tscherkoskel in the Adrianople vilayet are reported massacred by Circassians. The sultan’s gifts of food and cigarettes to the Russian squadron off Inadia were refused by Admiral Kruger who would not permit them on Russian ships.
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Constantinople
Tscherkoskel
Vilayet
Adrianople
Iniadia
Turkey
Kruger
Fiery Pest Blaze Kills Forty to Fifty in Budapest Building
A Aug 25 report from Budapest details a fatal blaze in a four story building housing a fancy goods firm on the lower floors and flats above. Between forty and fifty residents perished, with fifteen saved by jumping onto canvas sheets as flames trapped others. Sixteen injured, including two children. Nearby Paris death of A S Mermod noted.
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Buda Pest
Presons
Trainer Suspended Over Drugged Horse Case
John Oliver Keine of Lexington Kentucky a trainer has been suspended for a year over alleged drugging of a horse. His stable recently earned about 100000 dollars in the first month of operation. Keine denies the charge and appeals to Duke Dimitri Constantinovich, protector of Russian racing.
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St. Petersburg
John Oliver Keine
Lexington
Keine
Dimitri Constantinovich
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James’ Drug Store
Bryan
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Paul Bradley
Sect’y
W. C. Fountain
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Cotton Statistics
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St. Louis
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Wash
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M. H. James Mai
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Keyan, Texas
Crown Cork System
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Alan
Houston
Texas Central
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Waco Houston
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