Texas Railroads See Passenger Earnings Rise in Five Months
Austin reports Texas railroad passenger earnings for the five months ending Nov 30 1907 totaled 11 610 594 up from 10 328 034 a net increase of 1 282 560 over the previous year. The Postal Cable Telegraph company paid 408 taxes on gross receipts of 14 868 for the Texas quarter ending Dec 31. Attorney General Davidson accepts invitation to Port Arthur Sabine Neches channel celebration joining friends in Beaumont before the event.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas Railroads
Texas Lines
Postal Cable Telegraph Company
Texas
Davidson
Sabine-Neches Channel
Port Arthur
Beaumont
Baggage Car Burns Near Waco on Katy Line
A baggage car carrying 100 Shriners from St Louis Chicago and Kansas City returning from Mexico burned seven miles south of Waco on the Katy railway when a gasoline stove exploded in the car. The fire endangered the train but no one was injured and all clothing and effects were lost.
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Waco
St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
Mexico
Here
Katy
Tere
Dallas Saloon Crackdown After Court of Criminal Appeals Ruling
Chief Brandenburg files 183 complaints against saloon operators who stayed open past the city limit hours. More than forty defendants named with nearly 300 cases pending for businesses outside restricted areas. Daily notes log saloon hours and cases will be prosecuted to the end.
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Williams
Dallas
Brandenburg
Brothers Shot At in Kentucky Ambush Near Owingsville
Thomas and Munford Everman brothers were escorting five wagonloads of tobacco to Mount Sterling when attacked by armed men. Neighbors joined the defense and after about 100 shots the attackers were routed. No fatalities, but blood evidence suggested injuries.
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Owingsville, Ky
Thomas and
Munford Everman
Mount Sterling
Poermans
Lighthouse Hero Ends His Life By Self
Nils Nielson longtime light tender at Haven Breakwater lighthouse in New Haven committed suicide by cutting his throat after surviving two prior attempted efforts. Known for daring rescues in storms on Long Island Sound he earned a congressional medal two years earlier for heroism amid a solitary, troubled life.
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New Haven, Conn
Nils Nielson
Haven Breakwater
Long Island Sound
Congress
Thaw Trial Hears Albany Doctor Testimony On Train
Dr. Charles L. Bailey of Albany testified as the first witness in the Thaw case, recounting his April 1906 examination on a New York Central train between Hudson and Albany. He described Thaw muttering Shasta, signs of distress, and a morphine dose given with a porter present. Dr. Wagner later testified the prisoner repeated statements, while Thaw claimed Providence dictated events and that White’s alleged supporters followed him. Justice Dowling to limit each side to three alienists.
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New York
Charles L. Bailey
Albany
Vamada
Bailey
New York Central
Hudson
Pennsylvania
Thaw
Charles G. Wagner
Binghampton
N. Y
Wagner
Stanford White
Anthony Comstock
Jerome
White
Providence
Justice Dowling
Commission to probe cotton compression and transit rules
The Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington on January 23 denied a rehearing request in the Muskogee case but announced a general inquiry into cotton compression. The probe will study railroads compressors buyers and shippers, aiming to protect growers and consider broad rules governing cotton in transit.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Commission
Muskogee Commercial Club
Muskogee Traffic Bureau
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company
Bryan and Harmon Speak in Nashville Rally
Hon. W. J. Bryan addressed a large crowd at the Ryman Auditorium with Hon. Judson Harmon, criticizing Republican ascendancy and imperialism while praising Democratic unity. He lauded Oklahoma's new bank deposit safeguards and predicted imitators in other states as part of the Fowler currency bill debate.
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Nashville
W. J. Bryan
Ryman Auditorium
Judson Harmon
Mr. Bryan
Roosevelt
Wall Street
Oklahoma
Kenses
Illinois
Congress
Roxton merchant dies from dynamite stove blast
G D Terrell a Roxton merchant died in a Paris Texas hospital from a dynamite blast in a stove at his shop. A box deemed empty exploded causing碎 fragmenta to strike him tearing an eyeball out. The incident occurred in late January 23.
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Roxton
Elder couple die by carbolic acid suicide in Chicago
Chicago on January 23 reports John Glorian aged sixty eight and wife Mary aged seventy seven killed themselves with carbolic acid. The elderly pair had reportedly depended on neighbors for aid.
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Chicago
John Glorian
Mary
Eld
Lawton preliminary trial in Beau champ killing ends with denial of bond
Lawton Oklahoma January 23 in the preliminary trial of the Thomas brothers charged with the January 15 murder of Dr. F D Beauchamp the justice of the peace denied bond to the defendants and their lawyers asked Judge George Clark of Oklahoma City to grant bail in the case
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Lawton
Okla
Thomas Brothers
F. D. Beauchamp
Justice of the Peace
George Clark
Oklahoma City
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John Wittman
Merchant Tailo
E. C. Harder
W. Buckhaults
Harder & Buckhaults
Stevenson Machine and Repair Works
Bryan
Sarts
Texas Mutual
Smith Building
J. B. Hines
CRAIN
Tyler Haswell
Shriners
Court of Criminal Ap
Evermans
Shasta
Bryan and
Harmon
City of
Tennessee
Lamar County
Paris
Tex
G. D. Terrell
Houston
Moore
Aon
Galveston
Bank of France
James & Nunn
Furniture Line
Clon
E. Rohde
Higgs Market
Edinburgs
Zenetti Block
Hamilton
C.K Dunlap
Houste
M.l.robbins
Shoop
M. H. James
Franklin
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