Texas Legislature Fails to Do Much as Officers Are Chosen
The Texas Legislature second day adjourned after selecting most officers. The Senate completed organization and awaits business. the House still elects a chaplain. Several clerk positions and posts were filled, including sergeant-at-arms Jip Jones and reading clerks. Life sentence handed to Alien White for killing Louis Drunsdale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Senate
House
Pat M
Jones
Fields
Henry Purl
H. ©. Robertson
Bell
William Taylor
David Decker
Hardeman
Charles D. Kinney
Kinney
Taylor
A. H. Hudgins
Folk
Pauline Evans
Hopkins County
Earnest Kerr
Fayette
Woody Browning
Lampasas
John B. Greer
Jefferson
Bruce Sherrill
Hunt
Roland Villeneuve
Travis
Dan Edwards
Rusk
Peter Edwards
Morris
Frank Kelly
Caldwell
Harrison Welch
Denton
Tom Murchison
Houston
June Kimble
Eastland
G. 8
S. Morris
Cass
Robert Sloan
Washington
Emily Holcombe
J. K.P. Shirley
Parker
Senator Stafford
Pressing Treaty to a Vote in Washington
Washington awaits a vote on the peace treaty with Mr Davis seeking removal of secrecy. In Meridian Mississippi the Enterprise post office was dynamited Monday night, stamps money orders cash stolen, Thrasher Mead captured in Mobile after a fierce gun battle. About $1188 in cash and a large stamp stock recovered. Mead long pursued for railroad crimes across Mississippi Alabama, with 21 jail escapes. Rewards totaling $1000 were offered to the arresting officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Davis
Meridian
Miss
Enterprise
Thrasher Mead
Mobile
Rube Burrows
Mississippi
Alabama
Post Office Department
Express Companies
Alleged Robbers Case Progress in Macomb Trial
Mansfield Mo Jan 12 The cases of Jennings and Sheppard accused of robbing Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis trains at Macomb were continued. Quail hunter Kennedy alias Wright arrested in Kansas City and brought here pleaded not guilty and was continued. Fagley arrested at Phillipsburg in Laclede county and police now think the entire band captured. Superintendent Agee of the express company agrees with Chief Hays that Jennings alias Evans is Bill Ryan of the Jesse James gang, but others doubt it.
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Mansfield
Jennings
Sheppard
Kansas City
Fort Scott
Memphis
Macomb
Kennedy
Wright
Fagley
Phillipsburg
Laclede County
Agee
Express Company
Hays
Evans
Lynched Negro murder shocks North Carolina
Mrs. Nancy Welsh, white widow from three miles outside Harper's Cross Roads in Chatham County, was outraged and murdered Tuesday afternoon by Henry Jones, a Black man. Jones confessed, was taken to the scene, and hanged by about fifty men. The report follows other notices from Vermont and California on political appointments and state affairs.
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Gulf
N. C
Nancy Welsh
Harper’s Cross Roads
Chatham County
Henry Jones
Richmond
An Attendant Vessel Squadron Heads North From Callao
The squadron under Captain A. Bark er left Callao bound north on Wednesday afternoon. A Mena Arkansas telegram reports four men died from drinking wood alcohol mistaking it for alcohol. In Manila the war department has heard nothing from General Otis. An eloping couple aged around four years died in the Danelien wreck near Shamokin after their parents stopped the marriage.
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A. 8. Barker
Callao
Lima
Little Rock
Mena
Ark
Washington
War Department
General Otis
Manila
New York
Shamokin
Amon
Scern
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Batavia” Brands
Biowell Bros
Nernoles Livery Stable
W. T. James
Bryan
James Kernole
W.P. Franklin & Son
Mari
Odd Fellows Building
John Mike
Lowney
Wrandy
Enitchen and
Berwick Bay
SLAW
Bastrop
Tex
Sinks
Louis Drnsdale
Wil Compliment Murphy
Alany
Democratic Legislative Caucus
Edward Murphy Jr
United States
Desperado
Thrasher
Mead
Postoffice
Fifield
St. Albans
B. F. Fifield
Montpelier
Smith
Senator Morrill
Jonathan Ross
Supreme Court of
Vermont
Ross
St. Johnsbury
Morrill
Montana
Helena
Phelan
Sacramento
Cal
James D. Phelan
Bismarck
Indianapolis
Howard
Albany
Roosevelt
Owen C. Howard
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company
Barker
Peru
Iowa
Oregon
John B. Mike
Landreth
Laloor
J. E. Ponder
Prop’r
Otis
Bryan Water, Ice, Light & Power Company
Ben S. Read
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