Negroes Shipped From Lake Charles After Raid
Dispatches describe a July 16 city housecleaning in Lake Charles that forced about 100 Black men and women onto a passenger train to leave the parish. The group carried the body of a slain Jennings city marshal, with a white mob guarding them to the parish line. Some women were sent away in nightgowns, while others were spared if identity as Lake Charles residents could be shown.
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Lake Charles
New Orleans
Parish
the Picayune
Jennings
Lak. Charles
Philadelphia
Reading
Germantown
Pettus
Murder of General Koslov in Peterhoff Park
A St. Petersburg dispatch reports General Koslov of the headquarters staff murdered in Peterhoff park. A well dressed man fired three shots with a revolver. all hit. The suspect, arrested but unnamed, is believed a Social Revolutionary. He examined a photograph of General Trepoff before firing.
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London
St. Petersburg
Koslov
Peterhoff
Trepoff
SUTHERLAND NO MORE
Corsicana Texas July 16 Arthur Sutherland father of Bank Sutherland and treasurer of the board of trustees of the Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans home died here Sunday He was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in Texas and one of three men presented with souvenirs recently by the Corsicana lodge for long membership He was seventy two years old
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Odd Fellows
Texas
Corsicana
Tex
Arthur Sutherland
Bank Sutherland
The
Odd Fellows’ Widows and Orphans’ Home
Corsicana Lodge
Sutherland
Four Negroes Arrested for Murder Near Barbour Junction
In Charlotte on July 16 four African American men were jailed on murder charges for killing Isaac Lyerly his wife and three children at Barbour's Junction. One confessed the plan to abduct two surviving daughters and burn them alive but the act was not completed.
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Charlotte
N. C
Megroes
Barbour’s Junction
Isaac Lyerly
President Roosevelt Possibly Attends Texas Camp Mabry Visit
Report says President Roosevelt may join camp at Camp Mabry in Austin during the encampment and travel with Secretary Taft. The potential presidential appearance would occur in July.
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Austin
Roosevelt
Camp Mabry
Taft
Fire Rages Six Hours Destroys 275 Homes
A Sunday blaze in Nizni Novgorod raged six hours before being checked. It consumed 275 houses and left over 3,000 families homeless, with total losses estimated at 400000 dollars.
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Nizni
Novgorod
Murder Mystery Near Henkein Factory Entrance
A man found dead near the Henkein factory tunnel entrance in Houston shows head bruises and missing hat and coat with empty pockets. He is about 55 with white hair and gray beard. Harris county nears its first hanging in years after Marcellus Thomas’s murder conviction, to be sentenced soon. Frances Keithly, six, was bitten by a hog in Seabrook. lawyer Ben S. Campbell rescued her.
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Cornse
Houston
Henkein
Harris County
Marcellus Thomas
Ben Shropshire
Montgomery County
Court of Appeals
Criminal District Court
Frances Keithly
J. P. Keithly
Seabrook
Ben S. Campbell
Vaccination Expanded to Combat Cholera in Manila
The cholera situation improves with twelve cases and nine deaths reported on Sunday. Health officials, all vaccinated, report the vaccine acts as an absolute preventive and is offered free to residents to stop disease spread. The government laboratory in Manila produced the vaccine.
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Manila
Health Bureau
General McCaskey Arrives to Inspect Camp Mabry Work
Brigadier General W S McCaskey arrived in Austin to inspect preparations at Camp Mabry for the national camp of instruction. He spent Monday at the camp and was accompanied by Col Schulyer chief of staff Col Maus chief surgeon Lt Col Lenihan military secretary Col Leitch judge advocate general and Maj Case chief of commissary.
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McCaskey
Camp Mabry
Austin
W. S. McCaskey
National Camp of Instruction
Schulyer
Maus
Lenihan
Leitch
Case
Traveled Slowly Saves Train. Texas Elks Largely Escape
A Colorado and Southern passenger train carrying hundreds of Texas Elks to a Denver convention wrecked near Forbes Junction. Engineer Martin Custom was killed and Fireman Charles T. Garrett badly injured as the train slowed due to recent heavy rains, preventing a deeper ravine plunge.
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Texas Elks
Trinidad
Colo
Colorado and Southern Railway
Denver
Forbes’ Junction
Martin J. Custom
Charles T. Garrett
Gambling Paraphernalia Burned Before Large Sedalia Crowd
In Sedalia Missouri on July 16 an immense gathering watched as paraphernalia from a gambling house, seized during Rev. J Murdy's church era effort, was burned on the main street. Rev Murdy and Deputy Constable Wilkerson vowed to continue efforts to suppress gambling.
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Sedalia
J. Murdy
First Christian Church
Murdy
Wilkerson
Explosion at Ashland powder mill kills three men
An Atlantic Dynamite company powder mill near Ashland Wisconsin exploded on Monday morning killing three men. The dead are J L Pierce general superintendent, Wm Mace laborer, and George Woodist. Twenty others were injured in the blast.
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Ashland
Wis
Atlantic Dynamite Company
J. L. Pierce
Wm. Mace
George Woodist
Mother Visits Son at Tombs Prs on July 16
Mrs William Thaw of Pittsburg visits her son Harry K Thaw at the Tombs prison following her European arrival. The visit remains private as requests to meet in the consulting room are denied by corrections officials.
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William Thaw
Tombs
New York
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Europe
Josiah Q. Thaw
Prominent Alabama Lady Pettus Dies in Selma Residence
Mrs. Edmund W. Pettus, wife of United States Senator Pettus, dies at home in Selma at age eighty two after illness following return from Washington. The couple had been married more than sixty years.
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Alabama
Selma
Edmund W. Pettus
United States
Pettus
Washington
Congress
Child Fatally Scalded Near Skidmore Texas
The child of R. R. Allsup in the Olmos settlement seven miles west of Skidmore fell into a tub of hot water and died the next morning after suffering severe scalds.
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Skidmore
Tex
R. R. Allsup
Olmos
Lightning Kills Boy as Storm Sparks Fires in Bay City
July 16 report from Bay City says a tree sheltering youth Frank Matson was struck by lightning and died while four others were injured. Four houses burned, including Archbishop Quigley’s residence, causing about 10 000 dollars in damage. Confessed deeds noted. Sebastopol news: ex sailor Sherenko arrested, confesses to murder of Vice Admiral Chouknin.
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Bay
Chicago
Frank Matson
Quigley
Sebastopol
Sherenko
Chouknin
Fatal Lightning Claims Farmer On Porch In Oklahoma
Newton Tobrey was instantly killed by lightning while on his porch near Shawnee Oklahoma with his young daughter on his lap who was badly burned. The event occurred July 16 as a farmhand and wife and two other children were shocked. In Junction City a lumber yard altercation left T M Johnson dead after a 2x4 strike. A F Fowler was arrested. In Muldoon Texas W R Kerr was found dead in a schoolhouse from self administered carbolic acid.
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Shawnee, Okla
Lawton
Junction City
T. M. Johnson
A. F. Fowler
Muldoon
Tex
W. R. Kerr
Railroad firm accepts full responsibility for Plymouth steamer wreck
Salisbury July 16 London and Southwestern Railroad company accepts full responsibility for the wreck of the Plymouth steamer express and all legal consequences resulting. The statement aims to shorten the coroner's inquest time.
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Salisbury
Eng
London and Southwestern Railroad Company
Houston Victory in Car Service Headquarters Vote
Houston won the election to keep the Texas car service headquarters in the city. Thirty lines voted with Houston 18, Dallas 6, and Fort Worth 6 in the tally.
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Houston
Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
Pioneer Jesse Gibson Dies Near Tyler
Jesse Gibson, longtime Smith County resident since 1845, former slave overseer, helped erect the first courthouse, and a leading Mason and farmer, died on his Tyler area farm seven miles away.
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Tyler, Tex
Jesse Gibson
Smith County
Bryan Heads to Scotland and Ireland Tour
W J Bryan left London on Sunday and will visitOxford Stratford on Avon Edinburgh Glasgow and Dublin. He will return to London July 23 and then proceed to Hawarden.
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London
W. J. Bryan
Oxford
Stratford-on-Avon
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Dublin
Hawarden
Derailment Jury Blames Speed For Plymouth Express Crash
Salisbury July 16 jury finds the Plymouth train disaster derailment caused by the speed of the express. The verdict pins the accident on the train’s rate of travel.
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Salisbury
Eng
Plymouth
Thompson Bros Lumber Charters Capital Stock Filed
Thompson Bros Lumber company of Doucette in Tyler county has filed its charter with capital stock of $500,000. The filing was recorded in Austin on July 16.
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Big Corporation
Austin
Thompson Bros. Lumber Company
Doucette
Tyler County
Capital Stock
Crown and Bridge Dental Specialty Office Upstairs
Crown and Bridge work a specialty. Office upstairs above Burt Norwid's store.
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Burt
Norwid’s
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MO. M. Caldwell Jeweler
HasweEun’s Book Store
W. H. Lawrence
R. H. Harrison
Emmet & Maloney’s Drug Store
Bryan, Texas
R. Batte
Bryan
Brazos Bottom
Burleson County
Ross Perrino
Nadinda
National Toilet CO
Paris
John Wittman
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro
Court House
Yave
Brazos County
Pitts Bridge Road
A. L. Mondrick, M. D
James’ Drug Store
Sutherland NO
H. D. Evans
Indies of the Home Mission Society
Th Methodist Church
W. H. Webb
Monroe
City and Country Property
Ford
Ford’s
Wilson Grain & Coal CO
A. L. Spafford
Chester
Mich
E. O. Dewitt & CO
Emmel & Malony
Pioneer
Scotland
Kutter
Cole Hardware Co
W. C. Fountain
DR. Co. F. Andrews
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