Tragedy on Mississippi Excursion Drowns Three Children
Three children die when a steamer Engle collides with a Hannibal bridge pier while a Park Methodist church Sunday school barge carries 250 youngsters toward Quincy. The barge wrecks and sinks after rescue boats save many passengers. Lonney Curts Laura Coppage and Harry Fichen berger are among the dead.
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Mississippi
Hannibal
Engle
Hannibal Bridge
Lonney Curts
Laura Coppage
Harry Fichenberger
Park Methodist Church Sunday School
Quincey
Local residents visit Austin and area towns in June 1915
Local notes show Will Bethel and J F Shaw in Austin and Mart respectively while Mrs Bessie Lawrence visits Navasota. Others talk of shopping at Norwood's Nor Organdies and Clifton style ribbons. Several visitors arrive in city from Corsicana Mexia Brenham Calvert Wheelock Hillsboro and Marlin as Emory Cole wedding events and commencements are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Shaw
Mart
Bessie Lawrence
Navasota
Norwood
George Lee
Wellborn
Mira
W. E. Harris
Benchley
J. J. Vandiver
Steep Hollow Way
Sis
Ida Dano
Franklin
T. D. Williamson
Capt
Robt. Hudspeth
Cleo Frost
Corsicana
McConnice
S. In
Monarch
Clarke & Fountain
S. 154
Maggie Belle Ross
Mexia
Jussie Finley
G. W. McMichael
Wootan Wells
Dick Lovett
Calvert
Casey
Hillsboro
Boxley Cole
South Front
Chatham Machinery Co- 176
Jno. M. Lawrence & Co
Carl Derden
W. B Philpott
John Ward
Marylin
Seth Mooring
Burt Norwood
Wm Koppe
Norwood’s
Local Notes From Bryan and Nearby Areas
Notices report Baylor visit by Nellie Jones Lille Yardley and Marion Ferguson. Albert Dunn out after bullet removed by Dr Fountain. Wedding cards announce Alice Pico to William Porter Shine in Bryan Texas. City Marshall Loftin returned with three negroes for grand jury in Dennis Malcom murder case. S P Price lectured on Fraternal Union insurance at K of P hall. Robert Batte eyeing mining jobs in the west likely Arizona. Prof W C Davis named to State Summer Normal Examining Board. will study in Chicago next week. Isaac J Knox's funeral arrangements after Beaumont death. Mrs Sarah Evans dies in Webb City Ark age 85. long-time Christian Church member. Bryan kin express sympathy.
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W. B. Loftin
Navasota
Pond
Dennis Malcom
W. C. Davis
State Summer Normal Examining Board
Austin
Davis
Chicago University
Chicago
Sarah Evans
D. Mike
Webb City
Ark
Christian Church
Bryan
Jury to be drawn from adjoining county for Monday trial
Ky June 4 Jett and Jackson White are brought in by soldiers. Sheriff Callahan greets them warmly. Defense and prosecution must agree on an ellitor. If no agreement, Judge Redwine will select and a jury will be drawn from a neighboring county for Monday's trial.
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Jett
Jackson
White
Callahan
Commonwealth
Bird
Anothe County
Redwine
Train Washout Disaster In South Carolina
A six mile excursion train from Sumpter to Columbia on the Atlantic Coast Line collided with a washout caused by a cloudburst. Conductor J. J. Clements of Wilmington died, four aboard perished including a woman, and about thirty passengers were injured. Surgeons rushed from Sumpter and Columbia to aid the injured. An attempted warning by a black passenger likely came too late for the engineer.
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Columbia
D. C
Sumpter A
Atlantic Coast Line
Clements
Sumpter
J. J. Clements
Wilmington
Frank Ross
Ross
Jones Aajaie Fass
Stipe
Bold Hold up Texans held up in New Mexico and Conductor
A party of four Hereford residents were robbed near Endee New Mexico by two men who had camped with them. An older robber guarded with a Winchester while the younger saddled horses and seized weapons before preparing to flee. They traded horses with J C Purcell a Choctaw railroad contractor and took his watch.
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New Mexico
Hereford
Tex
Endee
Winchester
J C. Purcell
Oil Land Deal Near Saratoga Involves Major Syndicate
A syndicate led by G. W. Meeker of Columbus, president of the Sour Lake Electric railroad, paid 110000 dollars for a 200 acre tract adjoining the Southern Pacific and Star Petroleum properties at Saratoga. The land sits about two thousand feet north of the Southern Pacific gusher. Beaumon
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J. Tex
G. W. Meeker
Columbus, C
Sour Lake Electric Railroad
Southern Pacific
Star Petroleum Company
Saratoga
Beaumon
Fort Worth to Host Ninth Mexican War Vets Reunion
Mexican War veterans pick Fort Worth as site for the ninth annual reunion with Waco Houston and Dallas nominated. Congressman Gillespie urged liberal pension policy as he addressed the group.
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Fort Worth
Waco
Houston
Dallas
Gillespie
Tragic Murder in Cleburne Leaves Woman Hacked
Laura Fugett, a colored resident of Cleburne Texas, was hacked to pieces June 4. A butcher knife killed her after throat cutting and disembowelment. Her husband Henry Fugett was arrested while en route to the jail.
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Cleburne
Tex
Laura Fugett
Henry Fugett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Colorado
Tris
Just
Sifipmmenti
NBC Soda
Graham Wafers
Nabisco
Wes
Chile
Neneby
Danby
Will Bethel
Wood
W. Wipprecht
Margia White
Brenham
T. F. Castles
James Duan
Wheelock
Emory Cole
C. B. Lewis
Ennis
Julius Zuleh
W. L. Zuleh
Willow Hole
Johnson Creamery
Howell Bros
Hodges
Brazos Bottom
Virginia Radford
Erin Bryan
Giddings
Arena
Preayeterian Generet Assembly
Virginia
DeWitt Carrington
Marquez
Alma Hinkle
Hinkle’s Ferry
Maybelle Hartman
Will Winter
Marlin
Wmn
Rigby
E. C. Harder
Ruby Connelly
Palestine
Home Mission and Juvenile Missionary Society
Ipyrica
L. J. Cox & Son
Parks& Waldrop
Men’s Outfitters
Nellie Jones
Lille Yardley
Marion Ferguson
Baylor University
Albert Dunn
Dr. Fountain
Alice Pico
William Porter Shine
Texas
S. P. Price of
DallAas
Fraternal Union of America
K.of P. Hall
Robert Batte
Galveston
Arizona
Isaac J. Knox
Beaumont
Eagle
Millican
Silsbee
Santa Fe
Heinz
Cross & Blackwell
Taylor’s
Luther Taylor
Levy Bros
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Bryan, Texas
Crown
Hutchinson
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