Rail work and mills mark Texas progress in 1900
The H and T C railroad unloads 80 pound steel rails at Hearne for construction to Corsicana. Bowie county towns Texakana DeKalb New Boston are building cotton mills. Texas rangers pursue prize fighters Choynski and Johnson after a Galveston bout. A horse in California fouls to finish a dead heat. August Brassart, Daguerre’s plate maker, is 81 in St Louis. England’s Prime Minister cites shared aims against liberty in modern wars. Farm and Ranch notes echo similar war justifications.
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Hearne
Corsicana
Texakana
DeKalb
New Boston
Bowie County
Bryan
Brazos County
August Brassart
Daguerre
St. Louis
England
Population gap in Navasota and Bryan reports
An official report arrives by mail showing Navasota at 3857 and Bryan at 3589, a difference of 1100 with Bryan 268 people smaller than Navasota. Earlier Washington dispatches had some figures bulled in transmission, prompting The News to reprint the mail list.
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Navasota
Washington
Mail
the News
Bryan
Reception at College Station for Miss Edna Foster
Miss Edna Foster sponsor of Company C hosted a Saturday evening reception at Col L L Foster residence in College Station. The event featured decorative parlors, music, a game called A Musical Romance, punch, salads and confections and was praised as one of the most pleasant functions at the Agricultural and Mechanical College. Rev R D Wilson returned from Houston after preaching and has received a call from a Baptist church in Dentonville Ark. An Easter egg hunter and a cake and bread sale are planned by Methodist ladies in the courthouse yard on the Saturday before Easter.
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Edna Foster
Company C
L. L. Foster
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Houston Post
R. D. Wilson
Houston
Liberty Avenue
Wilson
The
Baptist Church
Dentonville
Ark
Population discrepancy shakes Navasota census
Navasota Texas residents dispute census figures after the Galveston News listed 4957 in 2000, while the latest census for 194 towns shows 3857. Citizens seek clarity on the town’s true population amid local inquiries and concern.
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Navasota
Texas
Galveston News
Lemp
Taken from jail mob lynching and murder in Indiana
A mob at the Terre Haute jail hangs George Ward after a lynching attempt on him for the murder of Ida Finkelstein a 20 year old schoolteacher. Ward confessed to the crime claiming provocation by taunts and slaps. The assault also notes threats of further lynching in Irvington and Oporto diplomatic tensions involving Portugal and Brazil.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Ida Finkelstein
George Ward
Insane Asylum
Wabash
Ida Finklestein
Miss Finklestein
Union Hospital
Oporto
Portugal
Rio de Janeiro
Indiana figures in race for presidential nomination
Washington reports stir over Tom Johnson of Ohio and Charles W. Fairbanks as possible nominees with Indiana politics buzzing about Samuel K. Morss as a potential bronze mid ground candidate. Morss, former consul general to Paris, has never held office and now travels in Mexico or Central America awaiting a reply on his possible run.
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Washington
Tom Johnson
Ohio
Indiana
Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Samuel K. Morss
Indianapolis Sentinel
Kansas City
Morss
Paris
Cleveland
Mexico
Central America
Indiana Democrats
Congress
Insane Murderess in Union Town Strikes Again
Mrs. Wuersler, judged as insane, escaped guards Sunday night and broke into Peter Jacobs's home frightening inmates then visited Mr. Koester's residence. She climbed out a window to flee. Jury found the children died at her hands with finger marks on their throats indicating strangulation before being thrown into a well.
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Union Town
Wash
Wuersler
Peter Jacobs
Mr. Koester
Livestock and legal notes mix in Denver dispatch
Reports from Denver on the American Cattle Growers association debating join or oppose the National Livestock association. Also moves in Louisiana Supreme Court and a shocking incident in Pittsburgh involving a mother and two children on a river, plus Southern mills agreeing to curtail yarn production.
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Denver
American Cattle Greyners’ Association
National Livestock Association
Stock Growers’ Association
Cattle Growers’ Association
The
American Cattle Growers’ Association
North Dakota
Arizona
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
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Tunity
Wilson-Jenkins Druc Co
the Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
Choynski
Johnson
Galveston
California
College Station
Saunders & 77
Emmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Indianapolis
Dorothy Carter
Irvington
New Castle
Chicago
United States
New National Educational Association
Atlanta
New Orleans
San Francisco
King Edward
New York
London
the Tribune
Edward
Supreme Court
Trenton
Fidelity Trust Company
Newark
United States Supreme Court
New Orleans Debenture Company of Louisiana
State of Louisiana
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Pittsburg
Charlotte
N. C
Southern Cotton Mills
A. D. McConnico
Insurance
MI Fual Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia
Fidelity & Casualty
Marinns Casualty Accident Insurance Co
Candy Kitchen
Berwick Bay
Lowney’s
Gunther's
Burt Norwood
M.rt. James
Liza
Dray Line
F. A. Lee
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