Crime Mutilates Couple in North Little Rock Suburbs
The aged wife of John Pritzke was found murdered and sexually assaulted in her North Little Rock home. Her husband lay badly wounded from an ax blow, with no clues yet as to the assailants. The crime occurred Thursday night and was discovered Friday afternoon after a nearby black woman heard distress calls.
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Little Rock
John Pritzke
North
Grant County
van H. Williams
Williams
Four Boys Shot by Desperate Farmer in Mississippi Hills
In Vicksburg on July 29 a truck farmer Ithamer Yerkes is hunted after wounding four boys under ten with a double barreled shotgun. Two victims are white, two are Black. the oldest, Richard Kendall, 9, died. Authorities fear lynching if captured.
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Vicksburg
Here
Ithamer Yerkes
Warren Colly
Frank Smith
Murray Foster
Richard Kendall
Yerkes
Desperado Captured as Lake Mississippi Shootings Link
A Memphis report notes Will Littlefield, a Black desperado wanted for the killing of three officers at Lake, Miss., is captured in the city. The other item describes investigators perplexed by the hanging of a girl found with a rope around her neck, with no marks of violence and the death still unsolved.
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Negro Desperado
Memphis
Will Littlefield
Lake, Miss
Desperado
Guzman Blanco Dies Ex-President Of Venezuela
General news item notes the death of Guzman Blanco former president of Venezuela. Other brief items report Meridian Mississippi beginning a $70 000 cotton mill project Sedalia Missouri infant body found in a well Dake Oklahoma Territory Lee Vance fatally shot and stabbed at a dispute near Sarcoxie Missouri and other assorted notices from across the nation.
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Guzman Blanco
Venezuela
Meridian
Miss
Sedalia
Lee Vance
Dake
O. T
Ozark
Sarcoxie
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Bill Rose
Kentucky
Andrew Carnegia
San Diego
Cal
Lillie Barber
Fort Wayne
Ind
Persia
P. B. Bennett
Galesburg
Ill
Chicago
George Ziegler
Venice
Marion Hay
Kewanee
San Francisco
Alaska
George Fred Williams
Cleveland
Ed Slaughter
Oronogo
Pittsburg
Andrew Cleveland
St. Louis
Sarah Parker
World's Woman Christain Temperance Union
Edinburgh
Scotland
Board of Review
McLean County
Illinois
Edwins
Elwood
Perry
Alabama
Davis
Walker County
Flornce
8. C
Catalonia
Galacia
Atalusia
Basque Provinces
Balearic Islands
Spain
Ruskin Cooperative Colony
Ruskin
Tenn
Multiple incidents and deaths reported across towns
George S Wyatt robbed at Cleburne stealing 12 dollars and 75 cents. Rev J B Sweeney headlines a Clarksville revival. A rail removed near Spofford and a coal train derailed with no injuries. Pre sidio county reports 30 smallpox cases traced to Mexico. J M Welch shot dead near Dew with no charges filed. Tabor and Wilson quarrel leads to Tabor being cut at Smithville. W L Reade injured after being run over near Chappel Hill losing a foot. Brown Harris killed in a well near New Butler due to fire damp. Jacob Jacobson, flood hero, dies in Galveston from fever after swamp rescue.
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Greorge S. Wyatt
Cleburne
J. B. Sweeney
Clarksville
Spofford
Presidio County
Mexico
J. M. Welch
Dew
A.B. Tabor
B. F. Wilson
Smithville
Tabor
W. L. Reade
West Lake
Chappel Hill
William Brown
Oscar Harris
New Butler
Jacob Jacobson
Texas
Galveston
Texas News In Brief Highlights and Disasters
Kaufman county census stands at 7074 and Harrison county assessment rolls total 4.5 million dollars. Texarkana readies for Labor Day celebrations on September 4. Greenville sustains five-building fire with about 9000 dollars in losses. Waxahachie Wheat receipts reach 195000 bushels. Henry Cameron killed by sorghum mill lever near Roane. Edward Jeffries badly hurt by a train at Fort Worth. he resided in Waco. A mule herd near San Antonio ordered killed for glanders. Burglars entered Rav residence.
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Kaufman County
San Diego
Harrison County
Texarkana
Greenville
Waxahachie
Henry Cameron
Roane
Edward Jeffries
Fort Worth
Waco
San Antonio
Rav
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D. J. Prich, G. P
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Bryan
Hartman
Wooten
Heenan
Missippi
Mississippi
Jackson
Rankin County
Sampson Hays
Corley
Hays
Hayes
Springfield
Mass
American Writing Paper Company
Old Colony Trust Company
Register of Deeds
Internal Revenue
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Modia
White House
John G. Mike
THE
People’s Crocer
Bryan Water
Lee, Light
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D. J. Price, G. P
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Teen
Minnesota
Michican
Wisconsin
Chas. B. Sloat
G.p.&t
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