Ballot Fraud Challenge Opens Gubernatorial Contest
In Denver on February 2 a dramatic committee room scene unfolded as Frederick Hummel, a Democratic precinct committeeman, identified his ballot among seventy or eighty suspected frauds. The opening of Governor Adams' contest saw ballots sealed for bipartisan openers under supervision, with residents of Precinct Eleven validating ballots amid expert findings of similar handwriting.
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Denver
Frederick Hummel
Mr. Hummel
Adams
Supreme Court Chamber
Ward Seven
Livingston killed in land line dispute near Rhine Georgia
Abbeville Georgia February 2 W Pp Livingston a bailiff was killed and five wounded in a discussion over a land line near Rhine seven miles west of Abbeville. The incident occurred as law enforcement responded to a dispute escalating into gunfire.
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Abbeville, Ga
W. Pp. Livingston
Rhine
Vandalia Railroad Retires Elder Workers in Indiana
In Terre Haute Indiana February 2 every man in Vandalia railroad employ aged seventy or more has been retired on a life pension. A Mark Twain Anecdote recalls Clemens as a Mississippi pilot who missed his boat and reported his timing to a superior.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Vandalia Railroad
Mark Twain
Mississippi
Mr. Clemens
Harper’s Weekly
Real estate listings in Hall's addition offer varied parcels
J. W. Batts presents multiple town blocks near Hall's addition with prices from 75 to 151000, plus 262 acres Caldwell pasture and 450 acres Kurten timber land. Homes include 5 acres with a four room residence and a 7 room brick home with outbuildings. Waterworks, cisterns, and easy terms noted.
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N. B. Cole
Hall
Caldwell
Kurten
Mistrat
Eigth
High License Measure Dominates State Affairs Session
Austin report shows the House State affairs committee taking up Love's high and uniform liquor license bill and bonds reform. Legislation moves to standardize tax at two thousand dollars, while other bills cover juvenile courts, train crews, carrier damages, land purchase limits, and court appeal procedures. No final action taken.
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Austin
House Committee On State Affairs
Love
Hancock
Messrs. Hancock, Cobbs and Greenwood
Robertson
Bryan
Taylor
Carswell
Wise
Hudspeth
Barcus
Courts of Civil Appeals
Ware
Sixty-Fourth Judicial District
Davis
San Augustine
Harris
Myrick
McLennan
Daring Escape From Huntsville Penitentiary
Two convicts escaped from Huntsville Texas penitentiary by overpowering the switch engine crew and driving the locomotive five miles before abandoning it. The engineer and fireman were injured leaping from the speeding engine as guards fired. One fugitive is Addison Tippens serving life for murdering his father. the other is Willis Jones also sentenced for life for murder.
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Addison Tippens
Willis Jones
Eastland County
Word Delight and a Razor Death in Two Texas Towns
In Paris, public school officials tested pupils by asking for a sentence with the word delight. A student offered a sentence about the wind blowing through a window and blowing out delight. In Alvarado, officers found E H Cundriff with his throat cut in an outhouse after he sought to exit during questioning, likely mortally wounded.
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Paris
Tex
J. G. Wooten
Iit
Alvarado
E. H. Cundrill
Cundriff
Brakeman Found Dead Near Katy Lake
Georgetown Texas February 2 brakeman on the Katy W B Hamilton was found dead at Katy Lake with no marks of violence. The body was taken to Granger for burial or examination.
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Georgetown
Tex
W. B. Hamilton
Katy
Katy Lake
Granger
Santa Fe Fireman Killed in Williams Arizona Wreck
Caswell Beckham, a Santa Fe fireman from Graham Texas, died in a wreck at Williams Arizona. He will be buried in Graham.
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Graham, Tex
Caswell Beckham
Santa Fe
Williams, Ariz
Woman killed at Hotel Roosevelt in Vinita
The wife of Charles Williams, a colored man who runs the Hotel Roosevelt, was shot four times and killed in the hotel. Williams is being sought.
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Vinita
I. T
Charles Williams
Roosevelt
Williams
Deputy Marshals Capture Suspect in Pulaski Killing
Deputy U S Marshal Bradshaw arrested in Coalgate Oklahoma for the alleged murder of an elderly widow in Pulaski Tennessee based on a warrant.
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Coalgate, I. T
United States
Bradshaw
Jim Faught
Pulaski
Tenn
Croker Returns for Son Frank's Florida Auto Death Funeral
Richard Croker former leader of Tammany Hall arrived in New York from England to attend the funeral of his son Frank Croker who was killed in a Florida auto accident while speeding.
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New York
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
England
Frank Croker
Florida
Shreveport Barbers Resume Work At Old Scale
Shreveport barbers return to previous wage scale after a strike. Texas land sales and leases for January total 219 thousand 754 dollars 3 cents. The forestry division of the United States land office has been abolished. An eight foot eagle was killed near Thorndale Texas. W P Ferguson suffered serious injuries after a fall while loading cattle at Bells Texas. A donor gave one million dollars to Union Theological Seminary in New York.
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Shreveport
Texas
Forestry Division
United States Land Office
Thorndale
Tex
Ellis On Stand Narrates Torpedo Boat Sighting
Paris February 2 The North Sea commission heard Lieutenant Ellis of the Russian battleship Alevander give details of seeing a torpedo boat among British trawlers. He described spotting the vessel two miles off ADMIRAL RANON VON SPAUN steering toward the squadron, its searchlights bright and heavy cannonade firing before the torpedo boat, damaged, moved to starboard and vanished.
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Paris
North Sea Commission
Ellis
Alevander
North Sea
Retirement talk swirls around Prince Sviatopolk Mirsky
Reports from St. Petersburg on February 2 discuss the retirement of Interior Minister Prince Sviatopolk Mirsky. The Novoe Vremya lauds his sincerity and unrealized hopes while noting his lack of self confidence to push his program.
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St. Petersburg
Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Novoe Vremya
Sviatopolk -Mirsky
Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Russ
M. Bouligan
Prince Mirsky
Nicholas
M. Muravieff
Russia
Rome
M. Manukhin
Muravieff
M. Swereff
The
Tsarskoe-Selo
Russian Casualties in Sandiapu Fight Reported
Mukden February 2 Russian losses in the recent fighting near Sandiapu total 13 000 killed or wounded with General Kondratsvich among the wounded. Japanese forces attacked the Russian left in ten battalions but were repulsed with heavy losses. Indications point to the Japanese likely abandonment of Sandiapu.
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Mukden
Sandiapu
Kondratsvich
Turmoil in Russian Industrial Centers Quelled
Reports reach St. Petersburg indicate riots in Russian industrial hubs have subsided. In Riga students and rowdies sparked violence with police, resulting in 53 dead and 150 wounded as police and troops fired back. Reval saw soldiers defend factories. three rioters killed and several wounded.
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St. Petersburg
Watts
Russia
Mhat
Coun
Riga
Reval
Mourning Colors Across Nations and Meanings
The passage lists mourning colors used in various countries and the reasons claimed for each choice. Black in Europe and America represents deprivation of light. yellow ties to withered leaves in Egypt and Burma. purple and violet signal royalty for French clergy and kings. Turkey favors violet. white stands for white handed hope in China. deep blue in Bokhara. pale brown from withered leaves in Persia. grayish brown for earth in Ethiopia and Abyssinia.
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Europe
America
Egypt
Burma
Brittany
France
Turkey
China
Bokhara
Persia
Earth
Ethiopia
Abyssinia
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W. A. Watkins
Rio
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Mexico
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Astin
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Brazos County
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Croker
Bells, Tex
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Union Theologal Seminary
Ranon von Spaun
Interior
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Texas Seed & Floral Co
Dallas
Erics
John Wittman
A. D. Scott
Defice
Doremus & Butler
Shaving
J. F, Ransome
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Ivy
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Mich
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