Brazos County Land Titles Abstract Books for Sale
J. W. Batts offers in office the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles. Various parcels advertised: 105 acres one mile from courthouse with 25 cultivated, rest pasture. fenced with Gwires, price 1500. 1.25 acres near schoolhouse in southeast town with small cottage, tenant house and well, price 750. Six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern, price 1260. Half block near Allen academy price 500. About 13 acres on south side with 4-room house, well, cistern and out-houses, price 1000. 4-room house with pantry and hall four blocks from courthouse, rents 9 per month, price 650. Joe B Reed home place quarter block, 9-room two-story frame dwelling 4250. One half block adjoining DC DeMaret place, price 500.
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Brazos County
Court House
Sear School
Snall
Main Street
Allen Academy
Joe B Reed
DC DeMaret Place
Epworth Leaguers Open Sixth International Convention in Detroit
Thousands fill three meeting venues as 16 000 Leaguers gather for the Epworth League convention in Detroit. The event features welcome addresses from local and visiting church leaders, three keynote addresses, a large mixed chorus, and the theme of Waiting Witnessing and Working.
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Detroit
Epworth
Fourth and
Lafayette Avenues
Detroit Opera House
Central Methodist Episcopal Church
John Hillis
J. W. Black
Charles D. Tilman
D. G. Downey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Earl Cranston
D. D
James D. Potts
J. E. Wilson
Jacksonville
Fila
H. F. Featherstone
Hattiesburg
Miss
Alfred Brown
Windsor
Ont
A. T. Bliss
George Elliott
H. M. DuBose
Nashville
Tenn
Epworth League
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
William Sparling
Toronto
Balfour Refuses Debate on Colonial Fiscal Changes
In the British House of Commons on July 16 Premier Balfour refused to provide facilities for a broad general debate on Secretary Chamberlain's proposed fiscal changes. Sir Michael Hicks Beach pressed the issue, backed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Balfour said only a motion of censure would merit debate.
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London
Balfour
House of Commons
House
Chamberlain
Michael Hicks-Beach
Exchequer
Henry Campbell Bannerman
Henry
Woman Rescued After Attempted Self Immolation on Gulf Beach
In St. Petersburg on July 16 a young woman was found on the Gulf of Finland beach behind the Sergieve monastery twelve miles from the city with severe burns to her feet and limbs. Wearing a monk’s cassock, she claimed religious study led her to self immolation as salvation. She attended monastery services and set a funeral pyre, but could not bear the flames and collapsed attempting to return home. She may survive.
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St. Petersburg
Gulf of Finland
Monastry
New Russian Labor Rights and Police Reforms
St. Petersburg reports a new law giving factory workers the right to elect delegates to discuss with inspectors. A plan to form a rural police force will be launched in fifteen provinces, with $2,250,000 allocated over six years for broader completion. Over 320,000 men have been called to the colors to bolster the army and navy.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Desperate Fighting Between Police and Kellog Strikers
Desperate fighting broke out in Chicago on July 16 after noon and evening as Kellog Switchboard and Supply strikers clashed with police during freight dispatch to railroad depots. Police fired revolvers in one short fusillade with no injuries, then a later melee saw officers beat several protesters and leave others in the street until friends recovered them.
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Chicago
Kellog Switchboard and Supply Company
Veterans Meet Texas division at Sherman reunion
Sherman Texas July 16 large attendance at the Texas division reunion held in the chapel of the North Texas Female College. Dr J T Wilson opened the session as commander of Mildred Lee Camp Sherman and Bishop Joseph Key offered a fervent invocation. Mayor A A Fielder gave the welcome and presented city keys to the veterans. T J Brown spoke for Mildred Lee Camp and Charles Batsell for Dixie Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy welcomed the division. Miss Ethel Mills sang a solo. El Paso date shows a separate injunction denial in a different matter.
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Texas
Sherman
Tex
Texas Division
United Confederate Veterans
North Texas Female College
J. T. Wilson
Mildred Lee
Joseph Key
Southern Methodist Church
A. A. Fielder
T. J. Brown
Supreme Court
Mildred Lee Camp
Charles Batsell
Dixie
Daughters of the Confederacy
Ethel Mills
Sherman Camp
Wounding at Black Jack Leads to Arrest
In a clash at Black Jack twenty miles east of Nacogdoches Texas Westernigan was cut and possibly fatally wounded. Bill Carpenter was arrested.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
Black Jack
Here
Westernigan
Bill Carpenter
Ardmore Fire Causes Large City Losses
Ardmore Oklahoma Territory fire Wednesday morning caused about 40000 in damage. Ed Ringer fur nishing store suffered 13000 loss with 7000 insured. C W Hotchkiss jewelry stock 15000 badly damaged. H M Furman law library 5000 lost. Frank Frensley building 3000 destroyed. Sam Johnson roomer escaped. fireman Horace Kendall and Sam Sconyers injured by falling wall. Origin undetermined.
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Ardmore
I. T
Ed Ringer
C. W. Hotchkiss
H. M. Furman
Frank Frensley
Sam Johnson
Horace Kendall
Sam Sconyers
Bill Davis Killing Shocks Indian Territory Roadway
In Indian Territory near Canadian four miles west, Bill Davis was shot and killed by youth George Blanche after an encounter on a public road. Blanche says he acted to deter harassment, drew a revolver, and shot Davis twice, then surrendered to United States Commissioner Marshall. Also reported, Silas McCune learns he is heir to $12 000 from an Englishman’s Pennsylvania death.
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Muskogee
I. T
Bill Davis
Indian Territory
George Blanche
Canadian
Davis
Blanche
United States
Marshall
Nice Sam
Guthrie
Okla
Silas McCune
Pennsylvania
McCune
Lisle, Montgomery jailed without bonds in Guthrie killings
Ed Lisle bound over without bail for murder of Deputy U S Marshal John B. Jones in the Osage nation on July 4. W W Montgomery jailed without bond for killing County Jailer Jerry Emerson in Guthrie on the day Secretary Hitchcock visited.
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Guthrie
Okla
Ed. Lisle
United States
John B. Jones
Osage Nation
W. W. Montgomery
Jerry Emerson
Hitchcock
Three Men Alleged in Cross Slaying Sighted East of Lawton
Lawton Oklahoma July 16 three men alleged to have killed City Marshal Cross of Geary last Fourth of July were seen about twenty miles east of Lawton making their way back north. Sheriff Hammond with deputies went to Sterling to intercept and capture them.
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Lawton
Okla
Cross
Geary
Hammond
Sterling
Mrs Cole Bound Over In Hartshorne Murder Case
Mrs W C Cole was bound over by United States commissioners' court in Hartshorne for the murder of Mrs George Hart last week in Hartshorne.
Cleveland to Speak Before Chicago Club Next Fall
Chicago July 16 report says former President Cleveland will accept the Chicago Commercial Club invitation to speak next fall. The same dispatch states Colonel W J Bryan will receive an ovation here on Saturday from local Democrats and will signal his disapproval of Cleveland's presidential nomination.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Chicago Commercial Club
W. J. Bryan
Noted Educator Miss Higbee Dead in Morristown
Memphis notes the death of Miss Jennie Higbee, longtime principal of Higbee School for Young Ladies in the city. Higbee was a prominent southern educator, well known in Memphis and beyond.
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Memphis
Jennie Higbee
Morristown
N. J
Higbee
South
Austin Notes: Local option valid. saloons banned in Sour Lake
Austin reports the attorney general upholds the Sour Lake local option election and Hardin county sheriff is ordered to enforce the prohibition on saloons. The adjutant general ships band equipment and four colored militia companies to Houston for the July 20 encampment. The land office testifies in Kaufman county over a land occupancy case. Rolems notes 107 Confederate pension approvals.
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Austin
Sour Lake
Hardin County
Houston
General Land Office
Kaufman County
Rolems
Man Suspect Fled After Peach Orchard Sighting
Report from Manor Texas, near Austin, said a Negro man attempted to assault Mrs. Jim Giles but investigation found he went to steal peaches. Mrs. Giles saw him and he fled screaming, then the man escaped, and authorities do not believe an assault was planned.
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Austin
Manor
Travis County
Jim Giles
Sheriff's Department
Boy’s Face Eaten by Rabid Dog Near Manor
Austin July 16: The seven year old son of Will Neil, a farmer near Manor, had his face practically eaten off by a mad dog. The boy shows signs of rabies. The father took him to Chicago for Pasteur Institute treatment.
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Austin
Will Neil
Near Manor
Tle
Chicago
Pasteur Institute
Three Railroaders Hurt In Texas Train Collision
In Tucker near Palestine Texas the collision of International and Great Northern freight trains injured twelve miles from here Engineer Kunkle suffered a broken leg and other injuries Conductor Anderson and Fireman Neuburger were also hurt.
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Palestine
Tex
International
Great Northern
Tucker
Here
Kunkle
Lee
Anderson
Nuberger
Knapp Convicted of Quintuple Murder in Ohio
Alfred A. Knapp was found guilty of first degree murder for killing his wife Hannah Goddard Knapp. The jury, ten to two for no mercy, recommended death by electric chair with no mercy. Knapp confessed to five other murders in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Hamilton dating from 1894 to 1902.
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Ohio
Hamilton
Alfred A. Knapp
Hannah Goddard Knapp
Belden
Knapp
Erma Littleman
Cincinnati
May Eckert
Walnut Street
Jennie Knapp
Liberty Street
Ida Gebhard
Indianapolis
Hannah Knapp
Miami River
Lindenwald
Ohio River
Louisville
Americans Appeal From Russian Jail Over Sealing Venture
George McCamish, related to residents of San Rafael, reports two American companions and he were jailed in Vladivostock after entering Soviet waters while scouting for Kurrei Islands animals. They were accused of sealing, kept in a Russian cell, and starved, with no access to U S representatives. Washington action is sought.
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San Rafael
Cal
George McCamish
Vladivostock
McCamish
Yokohama
Kurrei Islands
Washington
Local Shop Ad Lists 25 Cent Boys Menswear
An old advertisement lists Coulter's 25¢ boys summer pants and 25c boys summer waists along with 8e ladies vests and B&G make corsets, indicating a mid-century sale of basic garments.
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B&g
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Franklin
Markel
J. W. Batts
Zach
Geo. W. Smith
East City National Bank
Simmons & Geue
W. C. Fountain
Burt Norwood
Darwin & Drummond
Dorsex & Belmont
Epworth Leaguers
el Paso
Annie M. Brett
Guarantee Trust Company
International Exchange Bank
Clarkfall, Hawkins & Franklin
Southern Telephone Company
Cross’ Slayer
Bryan
Austin Notes
D. Garrett Propriet
James & Hart
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Bryan, Texas
Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
Pete
New Orleans
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Pacific Coast Express
B. Morse
Traf. Mer
Houston, Texas
T. J. AO A
Coulter
R. G. Tabor
NEW York Life Insurance
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New York
Paul Bradley
Sect’y
Fort Worth, Waco, Houston and
Calveston
Ft. Worth
Waco Houston
Galveston
Austin, San Antonio
Mexico
Texas Points
St. Louis
St Louis
L. Trice
W.P
G.M
Waco
Denver
Denver Road
Texas Railroad
D. J. Price, G.P
T.A
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