For Sale Abstract Lands Near Byazos County Titles
In office the only set of Abstract Books of Byazos County Land Titles for sale. About 105 acres located one mile from court house with 25 acres cultivated and the rest pasture. Fenced with six wires. Price 1500. Nearby one and a quarter acres near schoolhouse in southeast town. Cottage tenant house and well on premises. Price 750. Six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street. Brick cistern on premises. Price 1250. One half block near Allen academy. Price 500. About 13 acres on south side of town with good new four room house well cistern and out-houses. Price 1000. Four room house with pantry hall and two galleries. Tub cistern bored well stable and garden. Located four blocks from Courthouse. Rents for 9 dollars per month. Price 650. The Joe B Reed home place one quarter block and nine room two story frame dwelling 4250. One half block of ground adjoining the DC DeMaret place Price 500.
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Court House
Allen Academy
Joe B Reed
DC DeMaret
Ciudad Bolivar Attacked From Two Sides
Reports indicate Ciudad Bolivar faced attacks from two directions amid unrest. Officials say security forces repelled one assault while a second force targeted strategic buildings, with civilian areas affected and ongoing curfews in effect.
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Ciudad Bolivar
Battle in Ciudad Bolivar Ends with Heavy Casualties
Fighting began Sunday morning as government forces and revolutionists clashed in Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela. By afternoon government troops stormed the blockhouse and captured the cemetery while the fleet shelled the government building. Over 200 revolutionaries lay dead in the streets.
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Soledad
Venezuela
Ciudad Bolivar
Associated Press
Rivas
King Edward and Queen Alexandra Depart for Ireland
King Edward VII Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria left London for Ireland with suites. Crowds gathered at Buckingham Palace and along the route to Euston cheering as they rode in state landaus escorted by household cavalry. The king wore admiral’s uniform.
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Great Britain
Princess Victoria
London
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Ireland
Buckingham Palace
Euston Station
Household Cavalry
Corpse Caper: Corpse Rises After Death Pronouncement
Rochester reports George Wilson once declared dead by attendants suddenly comes to life as the undertaker prepared embalming. The coroner orders embalming delayed for twelve hours after certified death. In Oyster Bay President Roosevelt mourns Pope Leo and sends an AP message of respect. Three New Mexico Railway contracts filed for locomotives and stock. Engineer Gerard dies after being struck by a sign on a bridge in Texas.
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Rochester
N. Y
George Wilson
Wilson
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Leo
Sagamore Hill
Associated Press
United States
Austin
State Department
New Mexico Railway and Coal Company of
New Mexico
Burnham Williams
Philadelphia
Appointment of Father Lillis as vicar general in Kansas City
In Kansas City Missouri on July 20 Rev Father Thomas Francis Lillis rector of St Patrick's parish was named vicar general of the Kansas City diocese by Bishop Hogan. Lillis aged forty one was ordained eighteen years ago by Bishop Hogan. In St Louis also on July 20 a toothpick machine capable of producing 1000 picks a minute with a distinct ad on each will be showcased at the World's Fair machinery building.
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Kansas City
Thomas Francis Lillis
St. Patrick’s Parish
This City
Hogan
Father Lillis
St. Louis
Santa Fe shopmen told their services no longer required
La Junta Colorado July 20 When the 200 Santa Fe shopmen who struck the cause of the non arrival of their pay reported for work Friday they were informed that their services were no longer required. The strikers declare they will attempt to call out all of the shopmen on the Santa Fe system.
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la Junta
Colo
Santa Fe
Fugitive Drowned After River Chase in West Virginia
William Vinson of Covington Kentucky was fatally stabbed by Gustave Epps a neighbor. Epps fled pursued by a posse to the Twelve Pole river where he drowned while attempting to swim to the far shore.
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Huntington
William Vinson
Cattlesburg
Gustave Epps
Epps
Twelve Pole River
Pope Lying in Coma as Vatican and Italy Brace for Death
Rome reports the pope in a coma with grave doubts about recovery. Doctors describe incipient cerebral anemia and exhaustion as he remains bedbound and aided by stimulants. The Vatican and Italian authorities tighten communications while President Roosevelt’s envoy extends sympathy and requests updates on the pope’s condition.
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Rome
Lappont
Associated Press
Centra
Vatican
Italy
Whipped Eight, Young Man Attacks Militia After Insults
Marvin Winton of St Joseph resented militiamen at Lake Contrary encampment insulting a girl he accompanied. He whipped eight uniformed men, then drew a knife and cut several before constables intervened. Beatings continued on a street car and a large mob formed before officers dispersed them.
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St. Joseph
Marvin Winton
Winton
Train Narrow Escape Near Clayton Amid Wisconsin Storm
Reports from LaCrosse Wisconsin describe a severe storm thirty miles south of the city washing out a small bridge and damaging crops. A freight train on the Dubuque division of the Milwaukee road narrowly avoided plunging through a partly washed out bridge near Clayton Ta reflecting the same weather event.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Here
Clayton
Dubuque
Milwaukee Road
Texas Briefs Reported From Several Towns
Cooper Texas hosts an axe handle factory. A train ran over a worker killing two Mexicans near Orange. F C Gavin dies in an electric car collision in Cleveland. Gas found on Cowbayou west of Waco. Prohibitionists win Hunt County election by about 1600. An elderly preacher dies at a camp meeting in Kentucky. Harstonville Kentucky postmaster Bennitz charged with embezzlement. Cincinnati rail crash injures two fatally and ten seriously. Henry Washington arrested for killing his wife in Mineral Wells. Charles Randle charged with assaulting a 13 year old girl remanded without bail. Mineral rights deal in Nacogdoches County worth 20500 dollars.
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Cooper
Tex
Orange
Gavin
Cleveland
Cowbayou
Waco
Hunt County
Texas
S. Osborne
Seventh Day Adventists
Lexington
Bennitz
Harstonville
Cincinnati
Henry Washington
Mineral Wells
Charles Randle
la Grange
Huntington
Nacogdoches County
Convention ends after six big Epworth League meetings
In Atterdel row Michigan the Epworth League convention drew about eight thousand attendees for a Sunday program led by F Diefendorff with hymns and exhortations by Rev G R Stewart. Another large prayer service closed the Detroit gathering with Denver chosen for the next convention and three sermon topics followed by the Holy Spirit descent.
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Detroit
Mich
Epworth League
Denver
Christ
Lynching at Basin Wyoming Ends In Double Death And Deputy Killed
In Basin Wyoming on Sunday a mob stormed the county jail killing Jim Gorman and Walters after entering Basin by night. Deputy sheriff C E Pierce was fatally shot during the raid as armed men battering the jail doors executed prisoners. The incident followed a wave of lawlessness in northwestern Wyoming with calls for militia aid.
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Red Lodge
Mont
Jim Gorman
Walters
Hoover
Hot Springs
Basin
Wyo
C. E. Pierce
Wyoming
Moffett
Montana and Wyoming Telephone Company
Big Horn
Pierce
Meade
Gorman
Four Die In Suburban Railroad Crush Near Avon Gate
Four persons were killed on the Cincinnati line near Avon Gate while walking on the tracks. Louis and William Murr aged fourteen and eleven along with two unidentified young men were ground to pieces on a curve as an outgoing excursion train passed and an incoming passenger train struck them. The Murr boys were the sole support of their widowed mother. The engineer said he did not see the group before the impact.
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Cincinnati
Avon Gate
Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Louis
William Murr
Murr
Fortune Fails Widow of F O Matthiessen in Morristown
The widow of F O Matthiessen former head of the American Sugar Refining company dies at her Morristown New Jersey summer home from appendicitis after an operation. Her husband died in Paris two years ago leaving an estate of 15 million dollars. With no children the fortune goes to Conrad H. Matthiessen nephew.
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New York
F. O. Matthiessen
American Sugar Refining Company
Morristown
N. J
Paris
Conrad H. Matthiessen
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Franklin’s Market
J. W. Batts
Byazos County
Zach
Geo. W. Smith
Shaving
National Bank
W. C. Fountain
Burt Norwood
Darwin & Drummond
Dorsey & Belmont
Propi
Reese
Cleburne
Gerard
Midlothian
Atreng the
Pope Leo
Coma
Washington
Loomis
Cardinal Rampolla
Francis B. Loomis
Thas
Rampolla
R Atterdel
Ontario
F. Diefendorff
Canajoharie
G. R. Stewart
Tenn
J. A. Lester
Nashville
Jennie M. Bingham
Herkemier
Auditorium
Epworth
Eleanor Miller
Hamline
Minn
T. E. Harrison
Ont
Iva May Durham
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. B. Spencer
Annie E. Smiley
Springfield
Mass
R. J. Trelaven
Toronto
Mady H. Dennis
Richmond
Ind
Joyce and
Gallowey
Lanten
Central
Simpson
M. H. James
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
An Bryan, Texas
Crown
Hutchinson
Bryan
New Orleans
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Krxpress
B. Morse
Traf. Mer
Houston, Texas
T. J. Anderson, G.P
T.A
Eselee
Fort Worth, Waco, Houston and
Calveston
Ft. Worth
Waco Houston
Galveston
Austin, San Antonio
Mexico
Texas Points
St Louis
TRICE
W.P
G.M
Houston
Denver Road
The
Texas Railroad
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