J. W. Batts Lands for Sale in Azos County Abstract Books
Auction-like notices list multiple properties near the county courthouse and town limits. Listings include 1% acres rural land with pasture and fencing, a cottage and tenant house with a schoolhouse nearby, a six room house with brick cistern, a half block near Allen Academy, 13 acres with a new four room house, and a nine to ten room two story home with ground adjoining DeMaret place, with prices ranging from 1250 to 94250.
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Schos
Susil W
Price
Main Street
Allen Academy
Joe B Reed
DeMaret Place
Preparing of Rooms The Vatican Conclave Prep Under Way
Rome July 27 The Vatican is being prepared for the conclave with rooms for sixty four cardinals on multiple floors around the San Damaso court and Loggia Raphael. Sistine chapel will host cardinal meetings and balloting while high mass is set in the Palatine chapel and Sala Ducale. Cardinals debate sending a note to the powers protesting occupation of papal territory. no decision yet, possible delivery Thursday.
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Rome
Vatican
Quirinal Palace
San Damaso
Pontifical
Rampolla
Sistine Chapel
Baldacchinos
Baldacchino
Palatine Chapel
Sala Ducale
Belvidere
Loggia
Raphael
Holy See
Leo XIII
Hooley & Co. Failure Shocks New York Stock Exchange
Announced Monday morning in New York July 28. The failure of E S Hooley & Co was announced on the stock exchange. The firm heavily eyed Evansville Terre Haute and Des Moines Fort Dodge securities. Hooley Brumley and Heinsheimer named among partners. Hooley & Co once prominent in Roswell Flower bull days. Market opened irregular then slid after the announcement. Evansville Terre Haute Railroad stock traded at 40 after last week 60. Ed S Hooley presides. Stow & Co had no interest in their securities. The Rock Island lease remains in effect. Another note on July 27 reports William A Bisset & Co of Boston and New York announcing their failure with few contracts outstanding.
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New York
E. S. Hooley & Co
Stock Exchange
Evansville
Terre Haute
Mr. Hooley
Frank Brumley
Robert H. Heinsheimer
Hooley & Co
Roswell H. Flower
Des Moines
Fort Dodge Securities
Hooley
Evansville and
Terre Haute Railroad Company
Ed S. Hooley & Co
Fort Dodge
W. L. Stow & Co
Stow
Rock Island
William aBssett & Co
Boston
New York Exchange
Transfer of Philippine command to Maj Gen Ware
Manila reports Major General Da vis retires for age and Major General James F. Ware takes command of the Department of the Philippines.
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Ware
Manila
Davis
Department of the Philippines
James F. Ware
American Cardinal Gibbons Takes Oath in Rome Visit
Cardinal Gibbons arrived in Rome and attended St Peter's as papal almoner Constantini officiated. He joined the contingent of cardinals at the consistory and took an oath to defend church rights and oppose measures against the papal states. He prayed at Pope Leo XIII's resting place and named Father Gaven as conclavist.
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Rome
St. Peter's
Mgr. Constantini
Church of St. John Lateran
Peech
Knights of Malta
Cardinal Gibbons
Congregation of Cardinals
Sacred College
Cardinal Oreglia
Pontifical States
Leo
Father Gaven
Lanier Convicted of Lunacy Over Confederate Home Complaint
In Austin on July 27 Jesse Lanier, inmate of the Confederate home for three years, was found lunatic after testimony showed his mind unbalanced. Lanier alleged mistreatment and said he had written letters to Governors Sayers Hogg and Lanham complaining.
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Austin
Jesse Lanier
Lanier
Sayers
Hogg
Lanham
Police Watch Ging for Noted Safe Blowers
Austin police received warning that a noted gang of professional safe blowers burglars and other criminals was en route. Officers are on high alert and keeping a sharp lookout.
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Austin
Pension rulings limit payments to ex-Confederates out of state
Chief Clerk Holmes of the pension department announces pensions will not be paid out of state to ex-Confederates. The July 27 notice clarifies that pensions are restricted to within state lines and will not be sued or issued beyond local jurisdiction.
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Austin
Holmes
Pension Department
Ed Langwell Dies Sudden on Train Between Austin and San Antonio
Ed Langwell of San Antonio died suddenly on a train traveling between Austin and San Antonio. The death occurred en route, with no further details provided at present. Local authorities were notified and the incident is being investigated.
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Austin
Ed Langwell
San Antonio
Here
City
King Edward and Queen Alexandra in Belfast Welcome
The royal visit to Belfast drew vast crowds and strict security with 10 000 troops 2000 blue jackets and 6000 police lining streets. The king pledged to pursue his mother’s example and keep peace and prosperity for Ireland as he and Queen Alexandra viewed a Victoria memorial stone at the city hall.
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Belfast
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Ulster
Ireland
Queen Victoria
DROWNINGS REPORTED ON Nazine AND Copper Rivers
News from Valdes on the steamer Excelsior reports several drownings in Alaska frontier waters. Miss Lou Wheeler August Recehle Henry Weidmer and Paul Weidmer died in the Nazine river while J Perry and Barry Russell and others perished there in an open boat. Burt Ford perished in the Copper river vicinity near the Chitina mouth when a raft struck a rock.
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Seattle
Wash
Valdes
Excelsior
Lou Wheeler
August Recehle
Henry
Paul Weidmer
Nazine
Burt Ford
Chitina
J. Perry
Messrs
Barry
Russell
Ford
Dan Ferguson
Copper
Dead couple found in Morton House murder suicide
A well dressed man registered as C Weise and wife from Syracuse at the Morton House. In the afternoon the woman cried out and three shots rang out. Both were found dead with the woman shot in the heart and a pistol by the man's hand. Police believe the man killed the woman then killed himself. Coroner believes they came from Schenectady.
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New York
Morton House
C. Weise
Syracuse
N. Y
Schenectady
Train Rams Electric Car Killing Three Near Lansdown
An accommodation train on the Vandalia railroad collided with a crowded electric car near Lansdown three miles north of St. Louis. Three people were killed and about twenty were injured.
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St. Louis
Vandalia
Lansdown
Here
Row at Camak church leaves two dead four fatally wounded
In Camak Georgia on July 27 a church disturbance involving pistols and knives caused two deaths and four additional fatalities among Black parishioners. The clash occurred during services at a local negro church. Police report no further arrests at this time.
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Camak, Ga
Mishawaka club birds set 606 mile record flight
Thirty three Mishawaka Beat ing club birds flew from Holly Springs Mississippi to Mishawaka Indiana a distance of 606 miles in fifteen hours Light rain fell in southern Indiana and the feat is claimed as a record.
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Mishawaka
Ind
Holly Springs
Miss
Indiana
Thirteen Die in Glasgow Rail Crash
Thirteen killed and a score injured when an Isle of Man excursion train collided with buffers in Glasgow. Cars telescoped in the crash. Among the dead were members of an entire family.
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London
Glasgow
Isle of Man
Texas League Scores From Dallas Fort Worth Games
In Dallas, Waco defeated Dallas 3 to 1. In Fort Worth, Corsicana beat Fort Worth 5 to 3.
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Dallas
Waco
Fort Worth
Corsicana
Houston
Galveston
Prison Break at Folsom: Warden and Officers Kidnapped
Eighteen or twenty inmates escaped Folsom prison between 7 and 8 AM. They seized Warden Wilkinson his grandson Henry Wilkin son Captain Murphy and two other officers. Guard Cotton was mortally stabbed. Sheriff and county constabulary hunted the prisoners who seized rifles from the armory.
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Sacramento
Cal
Folsom
Wilkinson
Henry Wilkinson
Murphy
Cotton
Sheriff's Force
Baseball scores from regional games reported
Shreveport beat Birmingham 9 to 4 in Shreveport. New Orleans defeated Atlanta 5 to 0 in New Orleans with 5000 in attendance. Memphis beat Nashville 3 to 0 in Memphis in the National League with 3500 spectators. Cincinnati defeated Philadelphia 9 to 1 in St Louis.
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Shreveport
Birmingham
New Orleans
Atlanta
Memphis
Nashville
National League
Enema
Cincinnati
Piliaubellia
St. Louis
Chicago First Game Detroit 1 to 0
Attendance 8200 reported for the Chicago first game where Detroit lost to Chicago 1 to 0. Chicago later won 4 to 2 against Detroit in the second game. A separate St Louis match saw St Louis beat Cleveland 5 to 3.
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Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Cleveland
Fortunate fall alters fate of a Bayonne patient
New York July 27 ten days ago Mrs Bridget Hurley of Bayonne New Jersey was ill and demented and leaned from a third floor window losing balance. She seemed certain to die but doctors now report the shock restored her lost powers and her recovery appears likely.
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New York
Bridget Hurley
Bayonne
N. J
Dora Cox Recaptured After Outlaw Gang Ties
Dora Cox, once a member of a territory outlaw gang, has been recaptured in Guthrie Oklahoma and placed in jail. The former horse thief was identified as an unlawful associate for several years.
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Guthrie, Okla
Dora Cox
Successful Operation for City Island Diver
Flaurand of New York underwent a successful operation after his neck vertebrae were shattered diving near City Island. Surgeons replaced broken ice with silver and set the neck in a plaster cast. He is recovering and expected to regain use as splintered bones heal.
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New York
Flaurand
City Island
Lands Withdrawn From Sale By Southern Pacific
San Francisco July 27 President Harriman orders withdrawal from sale of all Southern Pacific timber lands in Oregon and Washington and all oil lands in California as a precursor to the consolidation of the Central and Southern Pacific land departments following Jerome Madden’s retirement.
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San Francisco
Central and Southern Pacific
Jerome Madden
Southern Pacific
Harriman
Oregon
Washington
California
Fire at Alton steam laundry kills one and injures six
Fire in Alton Illinois on July 27 destroyed the steam laundry a row of flats a barber shop and part of a lumber yard. Officials say an incendiary start caused the blaze with one dead and six injured.
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Alton
Astley’s Circus Opens On Slalfpenny Hatch In 1770 London
The first English circus began on a London footpath at Slalfpenny Hatch in Waterloo Road. In 1770 Astley performed with a drum two fifes and one down. A sixpence charged for front seats, no tent or building, just a rope ring. He added conjuring vaulting and fireworks and later opened an enclosed ground with seats under a reef, naming it Astley's Amphitheatre Riding House.
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Rome
England
Waterloo Road
London
Astley
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H. B. Dorsex
Astir
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Hesselt
Racy
Texas
King Edward
Fast Flyers
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D. Garrett
Jae
Patro Rager
M. H. James
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Ambryan, Texas
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Pacific Coast
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F. B. Morse
T. J. Anderson
G.p.&t Ea
Houston, Texas
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