Denver Mail Train Robbery Net Cash From Registered Mail
Two masked bandits stopped Denver and Rio Grande train No 4 at Military Junction taking three sacks of registered mail and loading them into one sack before fleeing toward Fort Logan. They released two prisoners and fired at the conductor and crew. one package reportedly contained currency from Salt Lake City valued between 1000 and 5000 dollars.
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Denver
Denver and
Rio
Fort Logan
Salt Lake City
Texas House Passes Several Bills on Final Passage
In Austin on a busy Saturday the Texas House approved multiple final passage bills. Ridgeway compulsory education bill and Bowles anti raffle measure passed, along with railroad shop repairs in-state, permanent location of the court of criminal appeals, labor statistics bureau, anti blacklisting, and county exemptions for Collin Hunt and Ellis. An effort to exempt Fanning county failed. Governor signed a partition office measure for railroad commission and the Bryan Panhandle district court bill creating the Sixty ninth district.
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Austin
House
Ridgeway
Bowles
Court of Criminal Appeals
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Collin
Hunt and Ellis
Fanning
Munson
Robertson
Feath
Ersth County
Vaughan
Harmon
House Committee On Banks and
Ray
Baker
Hood
Nichols
Senate Judiciary Committee
Walter
Cathey
Bell
Senate
Harper
Hudspeth
Terrell
Bowie
Secretary of Railroad Commission
Colquitt
Bryan Panhandle
Sixty
DREADFUL DROUTH HITS TEXAS CATTLE ARE STARVING
In Llano Texas since fall the drouth has devastated range areas with withered grass scarce water and dying cattle. Cowboys chop leaves from trees for fodder while oaks stay green and valuable. Fort Worth reports George Gould denies plans to retire or sell his railways saying Harriman cannot acquire Texas and Pacific or any Gould lines.
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Llano
Tex
Drouth
Fort Worth
New York
George Gould
Gould
Harriman
Texas and Pacific
Lynch Victim Jake Wade Identified by Miss Newell
In Jacksonville on February 13, Jake Wade, a Black man recently arrested in Gainesville for the alleged assault on Miss Irma Newell at Lakeland, was lynched by a 25-man posse en route to Barlow jail after Miss Newell identified him. Wade’s body was found riddled by bullets in a tree.
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Young Lady
Jacksonville
Fla
Jake Wade
Gainesville
Irma Newell
Lakeland
Barlow
Newell
Patrolman Sentenced to Chain Gang for Extortion
Savannah police Patrolman L F Callahan was found guilty of extortion and sentenced to twelve months on the chain gang. The case held that he threatened to "run in" a negro unless paid one dollar, which the man then provided.
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Savannah
L. F. Callahan
Jury sworn in Cooper Sharp case in Nashville
The Nashville jury for the Cooper Sharp case was sworn in on Saturday after the prosecution backed a delay to allow witness gathering. Court set testimony to begin at 9 oclock Tuesday morning with jurors taking oath and kissing the Bible in a solemn ceremony.
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Nashville
Cooper-Sharp
McCain
Augusta fines seven men thirty million each for garbage
In Augusta on February 13 Recorder Picquet sentenced seven colored defendants to 210 million dollars total for violating local health ordinances by letting garbage accumulate. Each face 30 million fines but upon hearing the figures the men groaned and were told to deposit one dollar with the clerk to suspend the sentences.
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Augusta
Landis
Picquet
Newnan Judge Guilty of Keeping Whisky for Sale
Judge W B Dent United States commissioner in Newnan Georgia was found guilty in city court of keeping whisky for sale and fined 100 dollars Five barrels of whisky seized by the police were found to belong to Dent who admitted ownership and said he laid in stock to avoid Prohibition measures to deprive him of his toddy
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Newnan
W. B Dent
United States
Henry Smith
Smith
Judge Dent
President Roosevelt Receives Two Unique Presents
President Roosevelt and party arrived from Kentucky on Saturday with two notable gifts. General John B. Castleman of Louisville presented a thirty year old whisky demijohn. Kentucky postmasters, via Louisville Postmaster Wood, gifted a gold-mounted hickory walking stick cut from the Lincoln farm.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Kentucky
John B. Castleman
Louisville
John Morgan
Lincoln
Wood
Five acquitted in Waldron night ride killing case
James Ammons Jr Bob Self Bob Ammons and Wyatt Lee were acquitted after a three day trial in Waldron Arkansas over the October killing of John Bailey by a masked mob believed to be night riders. The case remains unsolved and heightened interest may lead to further investigation.
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Waldron
Ark
James Ammons, Jr
Bob Self
Bob Ammons
Wyatt Lee
John Bailey
Five Firemen Die In Milwaukee Plant Blaze
Milwaukee fire at Johns Manville plant destroys property valued at 200000 dollars. Roof collapse during rooftop attack kills five firemen Eugene Hackett John Kraft Leonard Curtis Assistant Chief Gunning and Calpain Hurley. Other items include protocol signing in Caracas and local murder case in Muskogee.
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Milwaukee
Johns-Manville Company
Nolson
Eugene Hackett
John Kraft
Leonard Curtis
Gunning
Calpain Hurley
Axorcide Must Swing
In Forsyth County Superior Court Charles Fodrell, a Black man, was found guilty of murdering his wife and was sentenced to hang on April 30.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Charles Fodrell
Forsythe Superior Court
Man Hurled 25 Feet in Street Cave Collapse
William Goff, 50, was struck by a street cave in Houston on February 13 and hurled twenty five feet. He suffered a crushed skull and a broken leg.
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Houston
William Goff
Dr J M Griffin Dies In Hillsboro Texas
Dr. J M Griffin a prominent physician in Hillsboro dies at age sixty seven after residing in the city for fifty five years.
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Griffin
Hillsboro
Tex
J. M. Griffin
Forest Castle Founders in Bay of Brest Loss
British steamer Forest Castle foundered in the Bay of Brest. Nine crew members went down with the vessel off Brest on February 13.
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Crown
Brest
France
Forest Castle
Bay of Brest
Let no man presume to give advice to others
A terse Seneca maxim warns against giving counsel without first mastering one’s own guidance. It stresses self-accountability and prudent action before advising others.
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Seneca
City to issue bonds for Water Light and Sewerage Plant
City of Bryan to submit a bond proposition to qualified property taxpayers at the March 1909 election. Bonds totaling $75,000 would finance a City Water Light and Sewerage Plant with $57,000 new issue and $18,000 for refunding existing bonds. Interest set at 4 percent semi annually. J. T. Maloney Mayor J. B. Hines City Secretary.
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City of
Bryan
J. T. Maloney
J. B. Hines
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