Houston Fire Rips Through Block Destruction Estimated At 400000
A blaze starting in a Dunn building upper story spread through three stories and into adjacent structures including Sweeney Fredericks jewelry shop and S L Sam Dry Goods. Fire controlled by 2 am after gutting the Dunn and theater buildings. High flames threatened the Houston theater as walls collapsed, wrecking much of the south block of Fannin to Congress.
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Houston
Frank Dunn
Congress Avenue
Sweeney & Frederick’s
Dunn
Cr. G. Seigling
S. L. Sam Dry Goods Company
Houston Theater
Harvey T. D. Wilson
Henry Prince
Wilson
Fannin and
Main Streets
Presson
Congress Avenues
Leary
Fox
Bach
Main Street
Throat Cut by Patient at Tex Insane Asylum
A Mexican patient at the Terrell Texas insane asylum attacked A A Bouts in the dining room with a bread knife, slashing his throat from under the right ear for several inches. Bouts, about 26, is badly wounded. the assailant escaped weeks ago and returned. The institution had been debating discharge as cured.
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Terrell
Tex
A. A. Bouts
Insane Asylum
card game fight leaves man paralyzed in Texas
in Silsbee Texas on December 2 George Jackson was stabbed in the upper back during a card game fight with another man. the knife wound severed his spinal cord and left him completely paralyzed from the wound to the toes. physicians state there is no chance of recovery.
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Silsbee
Tex
George Jackson
Jackson
Fatal Pastime Ends In Boy’s Death In Oklahoma
In Idabel Oklahoma Perry Andrews accidentally shot and killed Henry Martin while a group of boys acted as officers. Andrews was snapping a pistol when it discharged striking Martin. Separate dispatches note Congressman Hobson’s cotton stalk experiments with the Agriculture Department and a separate shooting in Wills Point Texas where Fred Pyle was shot by a fellow Black man at close range tearing teeth and causing minor injuries.
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Idabel
Okla
Perry Andrews
Henry Martin
Andrews
Martin
Wills Point
Tex
Fred Pyle
Printer Killed by Train in Eagle Lake
Eagle Lake Texas December 2. While walking along a Santa Fe Railway line printer J R Bell and two friends were struck by a backing train. Bell was killed and the two companions were injured seriously.
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Eagle Lake
Tex
J. R. Bell
Santa Fe
Williamson County Goes Anti
Georgetown Texas December 2 with three small boxes to hear from anti majority is 375.
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Williamson County
Georgetown
Tex
Senator Green Dies While Hunting in Texas
San Antonio reports Hon. Robert B. Green a Texas senator from this district died suddenly while hunting. The 44 year old holdover senator struck by rheumatism of the heart expired within minutes. If a special session is called an election would be needed in this senatorial district.
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San Antonio
Robert B. Green
Texas Senate
Utes
Supreme Court Rules for Railroad in Bitterman Ticket Case
The Supreme Court, in a decision by Justice White, ruled in favor of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in its suit against Marcus Bitterman and others who sold non negotiable reduced fare tickets. The case, heard in the U S circuit court for the Eastern district of Louisiana, sought to enjoin Bitterman and scalp ers from dealing in such tickets.
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Court of the United States
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Marcus K. Bitterman
Justice White
United States Circuit Court
Eastern District of
Louisiana
Bitterman
Louisville and Nashville
Populist National Convention Set for St Louis in April
Joliet reports James H. Ferris of the Populist national committee calls for a national convention in St. Louis on April 2, 1908 to nominate president and vice president. Delegation: two per congressional district and four at large per state and territory, plus one at large per 1,000 votes or fraction from the 1904 People's party ticket. A separate note from New York mentions a January 6 postponement and a 250-talesmen jury panel.
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Dallas
New Orleans
Houston
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Try This For Catarrh Free Tests By Mail
Free trials for Dr. Shoop catarrh remedy mailed to sufferers at no cost or obligation. The kit blends oil of eucalyptus thymol menthol wintergreen and petrolatum to provide relief for nasal and throat catarrh. For complete cure if stomach or bowels affected use Dr Shoop's Restorative and request sample and book from Racine Wisconsin.
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Shoop
Land Listings Near Edge and Bryan in Moses Hughes Survey
1476 acres of land in the Moses Hughes survey near Edge. Roger Boyle place two blocks from Main Street on the west side at price and terms reasonable. Half acre of land with improvements one block east of my home. Two small adjoining farms 50 and 46 acres each in cultivation and well improved three miles west of Bryan on Sandy Point road.
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Moses Hughes
Edge
Roger Boyle
Main Street
Price
Bryan
Sandy Point Road
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Texas Mutual
Smith Building
J. B. Hines
CRAIN
Curtis Comedy Company
Cavitt’s Drug Store
S. H. Franklin
Haswell’s Book Store
North Texas Insane Asylum
Negro
Washington
Congressman Hobson
Alabama
Department of Agriculture
Department
Senator Green
United States Supremes Court
the Supreme
St. Louis
New York
B. Hudson Bryan
Www
W. Wilson Franklin
Hudson & Wilson
Attorneys-at-Law
Bryan and Franklin, Texas
Brazos
Roberson
M. H. James
M. HH. James
James & Nunn
E. Rohde
Higcs & Haygood
Barusues
C.K Dunlap
M.l.robbins
Gen. Pass
Shoo
Dr. Shoop
W. H. Lawrence
Haswell
Stor
DR. J. F. Eaves
W. A. Watkins
Gordon-Sewell Gresory
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