Cause of Shooting in Cleburne Estate Row
In Cleburne Texas on December 9 a shooting occurred amid a dispute over a family estate. Suspect Curts Mason sought money from his fiancée Mrs W E Mason and her relatives, threatened violence, and fled to Denver before returning. He was captured near Granbury with no pistol and offered no resistance, asking first about the victims' injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleburne
Tex
Saterday
Mason
Attendipe Phyatteos
Magon
Granbury
W. E. Mason
Griffinth
Johnson County
Fort Worth
Sherif Swofford
Hood County
Five Negroes Shot in Waxahachie Dominoes Dispute
In Waxahachie Texas on December 9 five Black residents were shot during a dominoes quarrel. Graves family members including a Legro woman, two young daughters, a grandchild, and Richard Graves aged about fourteen were wounded. Richard suffered a severe injury as the shotgun blasted away the upper left arm. John Davis, a Black boy, was arrested and jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waxahachie
Tex
Graves
Richard Graves
John Davis
Parker Seeks Alleged Negro Wife Murderer in Texas
Arkansas Deputy Sheriff W H Fortune arrives in Paris Texas seeking Louis Parker an alleged negro wife murderer who attacked Fortune at Ashdown Navy 24 and fled Parker traced to near Paris took a mule in Red River county gathered more cartridges for his revolver and is believed hiding in Red River bottom A $50 reward is offered for Parker dead or alive a posse heads for Red River bottom
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Paris
Tex
W. H. Fortune
Ashdown
Ark
Louis Parker
Fortune
Ashdown Navy
Parker
Red River County
Red River Bottom
Red River
Kentucky Lawyer Seeks To Reopen Tom Bean Estate Case
Grant D. Lilly, a Richmond Kentucky lawyer, appeared before Sherman Texas Fifteenth district court to reopen the Tom Bean estate valued at over 1,000,000. He represents claimants from Kentucky, Virginia and Washington in a case involving the hermit beneficiary and disputed will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Sherman
Enacvor
Tex
Grant D. Lilly
Richmond
Fifteenth District Court
Tom Bean
Virginia
Washington
Bean
Census bulletin shows cotton ginned up to December 1
Washington reports the Census Bureau bulletin on this year’s cotton crop ginned through Dec 1 totals 8 854 bales versus 10 788 last year. Ginneries counted 26 876. Round bales are half bales. 154 241 round and 197 997 145 for 1906, 239 770 for 1905. State distribution lists Florida, Georgia, South Carolina totals. Ginned 7 300 665 bales to date. percent ginned 77.20 in 1906 and 82.8 in 1905.
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Census Bureau
Washington
Ben Island
Morida
Georgia
South Carolina
Texas Congressmen Seek Court Realignment and Trade Safeguards
Washington December 9 reports Texas lawmakers proposing a bill to detach Shelby county from the Tyler division of the Federal court and attach it to the Beaumont division. A Sabine Pass port of entry bill and a prison term for anti trust law violators are also introduced, along with land distribution reforms and railroad wreck prevention devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Washingeton
Howeur
Cooner
Shelby County
Tyler
Federal Court
Beaumont
Sabine
Sheppard
Cyclists Collide in Six Day Race
In New York during the sixth hour of the six day cycle race Harry Reynolds and James Benyon both suffered serious injuries in a collision while aiding each other. Reynolds sustained a severe forearm contusion and Benyon was bruised about the body and lower limbs, forcing both to retire from the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Reynolds
James Benyon
Reynolds
Benyon
Masons Wounded in Texas Clergyman Attack
Reverend W E Mason of Bart Henderson Street Baptist Church in Cleburne Texas along with his wife and his mother were shot after a revival service. A man fired at Mason wounding him near the ear and heart while also striking his wife and mother. A bystander A M Morgan fired back as the assailant fled. Mason alleged his brother Curtis committed the deed citing alleged mental derangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleburne
Tex
W.E. Mason
Bart Henderson Street
Mr. Mason
2. C. Mason
A. M. Morgan
Mason
Curtis
Mines Catch Fire in Monongah West Virginia Disaster
Fire at the Monongah mines halted rescue work on Sunday. The death toll from the blast was estimated around 391 by the Fairmont Coal company, though residents fear higher numbers. Many funerals were held at the Polish Catholic church as families await word. Women cling to the hope of survivors, tending beds and meals for missing husbands and sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monongah
W. Va
Fairmont Coal Company
Moore
West Virginia
Jaguar Attack at Lyrie Theater Injures Boy
Felipe Jiminez, an animal handler, was badly wounded when a jaguar reached through bars and tore his arm at the crowded Lyrie theater in San Antonio. He had been warned not to approach the cage as the animal was known to be vicious.
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San Antonio
Dec
Felipe Jiminez
Jiminez
Bishop Forrest critically ill in San Antonio hospital
San Antonio reports Bishop Forrest, leader in southwest Texas, is critically ill at Santa Rosa hospital with little hope for recovery. Prayers for his restoration were offered in every Catholic church Sunday morning.
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Bishop Forrest
San Antonio Hospital
San Antonio
Forrest
Santa Rosa Hospital
Texas
Passenger train fumigated in Victoria over smallpox case
A San Antonio bound passenger train was detained in Victoria for several hours and thoroughly fumigated after a white man on board was found to have smallpox. The passenger was held at Placedo, fourteen miles south, while precautions were taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Tex
San Antonio
Placedo
Assailant Slain and Bank Reopens In Kansas City Fallout
In Cameron Texas officers quelled a disturbance at a Negro restaurant when a Mexican attacker slashed City Marshal Hooks. He was fatally wounded by another officer. Constable Huffman jailed on $200 bond. In Oklahoma City a bank, the Kil dare State Bank of Kildare, reopened after suspending the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City, with owners reporting readiness to resume business in good condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Tex
Hooks
Huffman
Oklahoma City
Kildare State Bank of Kildare
National Bank of Commerce
Kansas City
Miners Union Fights Roosevelt Troop Move in Goldfield
The Western Federation of Miners denounces President Roosevelt s proclamation sending Federal troops to Goldfield Nevada claiming it protects property while miners refuse to accept worthless scrip. They reference Monongah WV deaths and accuse the administration of targeting the union to advance capitalist interests despite mining laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Dee
The
Western Federation of Miners
Goldfield
Well-Fargo Express Company
Monongah
W. Va
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Miners Protest and Walker Arrest in California Bank Case
San Francisco reports a dramatic bank probe as David F. Walker of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company is seized on a train near Santa Barbara by Assistant District Attorney PF J. Heney. The depositor committee exposes embezzlement at the Filmore Street branch, accusing officers of diverting deposits to stockholders and their own interests, with minor charges dropped in favor of felonious embezzlement tied to the Cotton estate funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Federation
San Francisco
David F. Walker
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Southern Pacific
Sant Mateo
Santa Barbara
PF J. Heney
Brown
Barnett Sunde
San Metoo
Walker
California Safe Deposit and Thwist Company
Filmore Street
California Safe and Deposit Company
Gustave Chevasuss
Fillmore Street
Francis J. Henry
Tragedy on Bilboa Avenue Ends in Double Death
Nashville report states machinist Frank Click shot his wife Ruth Click three times and then killed himself. The couple, married last July, had recently moved between Memphis and Nashville. No witnesses were present as the tragedy unfolded in a home of Sallie Hughes where Ruth sought refuge.
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Nashville
Frank Click
Ruth Click
Bilboa Avenue
Click
Memphis
W. R. Niblo
Sallie Hughes
Fireman Fatally Hurt in Yard Train Wreck
Montgomery December 9 A half closed switch caused a Louisville and Nashville passenger train to crash in the yards here. Tom Loving the negro fireman was fatally injured and three mail clerks badly cut and bruised. The engine struck a train of loaded cars and turned over.
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Montgomery
Louisville and Nashville
Tom Loving
Peary elected president of Explorers' Club
New York December 9 Commander Robert E Peary was elected president of the Explorers Club at its annual meeting but was unable to attend due to a sharp attack of quinsy confining him to bed Costa Rica Next Year International Sanitary Conference of American Republics meets two years hence at San Jose Costa Rica City of Mexico December 9 International Sanitary Conference to meet in Costa Rica in two years
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New York
Robert E. Peary
Explorers’ Club
Quinsy
Costa Rica
City of Mexico
International Sanitary Conference of American Republics
San Jose
Galveston to get new Colonial theatre in brief
Brief items report a proposed Galveston theatre named the Colonial, a Missouri dry vote in Mailer county, multiple homicides and accidents across Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas, a Santa Fe train death, a gas explosion at Minneequa Steel works killing five, layoffs at Houston Southern Pacific shops, and notable marriages and legal sentences from New York to Louisiana.
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Galveston
Mailer County
Missouri
Herman Bulgerin
Seguin
Tex
Potter County
Texas
Dallas
Calvert, Tex
Bettie White
C. E. Wheeler
Oklahoma City
Cyrus McCollum
Sapulpa
Okla
Minneequa Steel
Pueblo
Colo
Upshur County
Southern Pacific
Houston
Rube Waddell
Philadelphia American Baseball League
Mobile
Crawford
Edward Nelson
Felix Ball
Santa Fe
Celeste
Fayetteville
Ark
Charles Vaughn
Earl Spencer
Kansas City
Elihu Root, Jr
New York
Alada Stryker
Hamilton College
Clinton
Hahnville
Nicoline Gebb’a
Leonardo
Little
Walter Lamana
New Orleans
Louisa Taft
Milbury
Alphons Taft
Grant
Austria
Russia
Prominent San Francisco Financier Charged With Embezzlement
Dalzell Brown a leading financier and general manager of the California Base Deposit and Trust Company was arrested on felonious embezzlement charges. A warrant is out for W. J. Partnett a top lawyer and director. Brown awaits $100,900 bond as both are accused of hypothecating $306,000 of the Colton estate securities where Bartnett was special administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Dalzell Brown
California Base Deposit and Trust Company
W. J. Partnett
Brown
Bartnett
Colton
DROWNS LITTLE ONES. Grandmother Confesses in Somerville
Somerville Mass December 10 Mrs Emery Huntley walked into the police station and said she had killed two grandchildren Raymond Shomo six and Caroline Huntley four Their bodies were found at her home after being stupefied by illuminating gas and drowned in the bath tub She is forty five and has long been regarded as mentally weak
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Somerville
Mass
Emery Huntley
Raymond Shomo
Caroline Huntley
Mrs. Lucetta Irwin Dies in Paris Texas at 79
Lucetta Irwin sister of late Senator Sam Bell Maxey and last member of his family died at her Paris Texas residence Sunday at age seventy nine. Her Lamar county ties date back to 1857 and she lived there for many years.
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Maxey
Paris
Tex
Lamar ‘County
Lucetta Irwin
Sam Bell Maxey
United States
Teas
Fire destroys block in Pawnee. loss about 200000
A major blaze in Pawnee Oklahoma on Monday morning leveled an entire block, destroying the O P C H Department store Waring dry goods store Robinson grocery store Globe hotel Mentzer Bros hardware Masonic lodge building and post office among the burned structures with total damage estimated at 200000.
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Remengou
Pawnee
Okla
O. P. C. H. Deparrment
Waring Dry Goods
Robinson Grocery
Globe Hotel
Mentzer Bros. Hadware
Masonic Lodge
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Jaguar
Boy
China
Novelties Toys
Mi. H. James
Coryveahe
Peary
James & Nunn
Litauwors
Bae
E. Rohde
Mrs. Irwin
Higgs Market
W.H. Lawrence
Haswell
Stor
W.C. Fountain
Smith Drug Company
UAW
Mississippi
Alabama
George
Florida
Tennessee
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Shoop
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