Train Robbery Ends in Explosion and Escape Near Wilcox
Westbound express No 1 halted in rain near Wilcox Wyoming. Robbers blew open the express car and safe, wounded engineer Jones, and fled into the mountains. A posse led by Carbon County sheriff pursues. only four robbers seen, others believed to join later. Train delayed two hours to Medicine Bow.
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Omaha
Union Pacific
Wilcox
Wyo
Express
Carbon County
Jones
Medicine Row
Negro boy captured after assault near Rice Texas
Warren Bartlett a 14 year old negro boy accused of raping 6 year old Ethel Thedford near Rice is jailed near Lockhart schoolhouse. He admits guilt per officers, but age prevents capital punishment. The child remains in serious condition. Separately Findley, ex tax collector of San Luis Obispo, arrived in New York from Lima after vanishing with county funds. he faces requisition papers. Old Wall Street firm Morton Bliss & Co dissolves and a new trust company may absorb its business.
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Corsicana
Tex
Warren Bartlett
Ethel Thedford
Rice
Lockhart
Bartlett
Pannill
New York
Samuel M. Findley
Louis Obispo Couunty
Cal
Lima
Peru
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland
California
Findley
City
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Panama
Fidelity and Deposit Company
South America
Wall Street
Morton Bliss & Co
Rust Company
Organ
Trust Company
Bes
Mer
Alabama Duel In Athens Leaves Four Wounded
In Athens Alabama on Thursday night a street fight between the Yarborough brothers Bert Walter and Will and Charles Campbell plus Jesse Surginger left Bert Yarborough fatally wounded with a lung shot and Walter Yarborough mortally injured. Will Yarborough was shot in the breast with survival possible. Campbell was badly beaten and Surginger was arrested after firing five shots.
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Athens
Ala
Yarborough Brothers
Bert
Walter
Will
Charles Campbell
Jesse Surginger
Surginger
Yarboroughs
Campbell
Bert Yarborough
Walter Yarborough
Yellow fever worsens along Mexican coast with heat
Vera Cruz reports virulent yellow fever with high death rates and rising unease as summer heat intensifies. Families from Morida and other Yucatan towns flee inland seeking cooler areas while calls grow for Federal sanitation action. Louisiana Board notes inspectors found nothing suspicious in New Orleans hospitals and expects a final report soon.
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Vera Cruz
Mex
Morida
Yucatan Peninsula
Louisiana Board
New Orleans
Louisiana State Board of Health
Elisha Baxter Dies at Batesville Former Arkansas Governor
Elisha Baxter tenth governor of Arkansas died at his Batesville home. Born September 1, 1827 in Rutherford County North Carolina he led Arkansas during the Brooks Baxer war era and was recalled to office by President Grant in May 1874. Also in New York Sam T Jack wills his wife to his brother proposing they marry. In Eddy New Mexico Pecos Valley sugar beet crop now forecast at twenty thousand tons.
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Little Rock
Elisha Baxter
Arkansas
Batesville
Baxter
Rutherford County
N. C
Brooks
Grant
New York
Sam T. Jack
James C. Jack
James
Emia
Jack
Emma
Emma Ward
Niblos
Pecos Valley
Eddy
N. M
Governor Ellerbee Dying in Marion County
Washington Dispatch reports Governor W. H. Ellerbee is dying at his Marion County home after years of tuberculosis and a consumption attack on January 30, two days after his inauguration. The prognosis is bleak, with no expected recovery. Also noted is Lee Bivins’ acquittal in a Wichita Falls district court on an assault to murder charge stemming from a long trial.
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Ellerbee
Columbia
D. C
W. H. Ellerbee
Marion County
Sherman, Tex
Lee Bivins
Wichita Falls
Skid Ellis
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Bryan
Batavia
United States
Johnson Creamery
Dozier Bakery
Howell Bros
Nmirs
C. M. Proctor
Herbert Campbell
Kandy Kitchen
Lowney’s
Gunther
Togegg
Wyoming
South Bend
Ind
Klondike
Louella Day Underhill
Goshen
Chicago
Underhill
Little Ethel Thedford
Alabama
John B. Mike
The
Ori
Ginal
Garth, Howell & Webb
TUB
Bryan Water, Ice, Lights and Power Company
James & Castles
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