Belton Mid-summer Carnival Planned for July
The Belton community schedules a Mid-summer Carnival and Street Fair for July 15 to 19. Cuba ships sugar mustering export to the United States. E. P. Curtis considers primary election law reforms with a view to a state convention. Prohibitionists meet in Dallas July 4 with State Chairman E. H. Conibear urging full attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belton
Cuba
United States
E. P. Curtis
Prohibition Party
E. H. Conibear
Dallas
Senator Morgan Endorsed by Hoar in Canal Route Clash
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts hails Morgan as one of the greatest living senators and Americans. Morgan backs a Nicaragua canal while opposing the Panama route, seen as a key issue in his possible presidential prospect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan
Hoar
Massachusetts
Rain Drought Impacts Edge Farmers As Sermon Encourages Children
Edge Texas June 9 Farmers need rain as work slows while Rev Morphis delivers sermon at Sam Sunday and Sun choon presents an engaging lecture to local children. Mr James Murphy and family are mentioned in the report.
Local social notes and community outings
Sunday visits by Mr Will Carter and Miss Lizzie Kirk accompany a list of area residents traveling for visits and hosting relatives. Wheelock high school closing exercises drew a crowd. Families fished and blackberry hunted over two days in Robertson and Navasota areas. The Cedar Creek Bridge picnic is set for Friday July 4 with invites for baskets and a good time. Wilp Gooss.
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Will Carter
Lizzie Kirk
Bryan
Myrtie Henry
Ernest Beard
Wixon
Edge
Emma Elliott
Cottonwood
Sallie
Wheelock High School
Robertson County
Bundick Bridge
Navasota River
Cedar Creek Bridge
Wilp Gooss
Martial Law in Pawtucket After Riots Spill into Streets
rioting swelled as militia was called to quell unrest tied to United Traction strike. Deputy Sheriff William J. Welsh was arrested for shooting Venner Peterson and faced assault with intent to kill charges. mob violence disrupted stations and officials.
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Pawtucket
R. I
United Traction Company
Krimball
Haberly
William J. Welsh
Venner Peterson
Hanningan
Welsh
Shove
Anita Gets Injunction in Greenville Texas Local Option Case
Judge Connor grants an injunction restraining County Judge Thompson and County Attorney Mead from enforcing the local option law in Greenville County until the contest case is settled. W. F. Norman J. A. Brown and J. L. Beckman petitioned for the order after the May 3 election.
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Greenville
Tex
Cooper
Connor
W. F. Norman
J. A. Brown
J. L. Beckman
Thompson
Mead
Writ Granted for Trial in October Term
Marshal Sam Burks dies from accidental shooting by Mrs. T. E. Grayham in McKinney Texas. City hall and fire dept draped in mourning as the incident prompts calls for voter submission to county ballots. Mrs. Grayham, wife of MK&T railroad conductor, grieves at home.
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McKinney
Tex
Sam Burks
T. E. Grayham
Tragic Death Of Texarkana Teamster Louis Ott
Louis Ott a street department teamster was found dying in a lodging house on Thursday afternoon. An artery in his left arm was severed and a large amount of blood lost. He died shortly after. Ott, reportedly from Blan dersfield, Texas, leaves a wife and four children. He had been in Texarkana only a few weeks.
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Texarkana
Tex
Louis Ott
Blandersfield
Indian convention adjourns amid nomination claims
Advices from Tuskaloma report the Indian convention adjourned in a row. Dukes claims the nomination by a majority of four and McCurtain also asserts the nomination. Dukes and McCurtain both claim victory.
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Antlers
I. T
Tuskaloma
Dukes
McCurtain
Present action shows conclusive evidence of planned actions
The fragment indicates an intention to proceed, asserting that current steps demonstrate a firm commitment to move forward with the proposed plan. Specific details are sparse, but the tone signals determination to act.
Reagan Not 80 Well and Others Reported
Judge Reagan recovering from a fall remains in pain and unable to lie down comfortably while tensions over regular Tuskahoma nominees persist. John W. Smith of Fordland Missouri, an early Baltimore and Ohio engineer, died in Springfield after a fall and ties to the Harper's Ferry insurrection. Mississippi Supreme Court upholds the state primary law requiring nominating by primary elections, abolishing party conventions.
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Palestine
Tex
Reagan
Springfield
John. W. Smith
Fordland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Jackson
Miss
Supreme Court of
Mississippi
Fatal collision near Chattanooga ties up trains and kills four
On June 13 near Chattanooga Tennessee a collision occurred between the Jasper accommodation and a fast mail train on the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis line. Four men were killed and about fifteen injured none seriously. The wreck left several railway workers seriously hurt with names listed among the dead and injured.
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Pawtucket
Chattanooga
Tenn
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Hooker
Summit
Jasper
George Rollins
L. A. Rankin
James Bernard
Webb
George Ray
Fast Mail
J. W. Barker
Fred Thatch
Miller
R. R. Stover
A. W. Clark
All Must Close Operation in Texas
The Texas Third District Court of Criminal Appeals affirms a lower court verdict convicting Harvey Fullerton of Greenville for operating a bucket shop. The ruling threatens closure of stock exchanges and brokerage offices statewide, affecting 38 offices and yielding about 1228 dollars in occupation taxes, plus uncounted unrecorded firms. In New Jersey, Mrs. Andrew Mitchell and her 12-year-old daughter were killed by the Buffalo express near Boonton while crossing tracks, with the carriage crushed and bodies carried far.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
Third District
Harvey Fullerton
Greenville
Controller's Department
New York
Andrew Mitehko
Boonetown
N. J
Buffalo Express
Lackawanna
Swanee Robinson Shot by Constable in Texas
In Trenton Texas on June 18 Swanee Robinson about 25 was shot one mile north while Constable Jenigan of Leonard attempted to serve an arrest warrant. Robinson fled and was seriously wounded. The officer calls the shooting accidental.
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Trenton
Tex
Swanee Robinson
Here
Jenigan
Leonard
Robinson
Record of 1900s Briefs From Across The Nation
The itemized notes report a top cattle price of 7.65 per hundred in Kansas City Missouri a steamer named Roven a sunk after a tornado near Dubuque Iowa with the captain and three others drowned Major L W T Waller and Lieutenant J A A Day have arrived in San Francisco two black youths are whipped in Charlotte for killing a white girl details state the motive was to drive them from her premises coal mines in Fuller Kansas halted by a miners strike harvest hands in Kansas call for free labor to reap the wheat crop and Kentucky farmer William Keeting was struck by a grain harvester near Hopkinsville.
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Kansas City
Rovena
Dubuque
L. W. T. Waller
J. A. A. Day
Manila
San Francisco
Charlotte
N. C
Fuller
Kan
Kansas
William Keeting
Kentucky
Hopkinsville
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Gaane
Crane
Lawn
Muro
Bono
Huno
Rovard
Wilson & Jenkins
the Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
The
Marine Band of Washington
White House
Anita
Emmei
Prescription Pharmacy
Soc
Hunter
Chatham
Marshal Burks
Cen
Tral
Monroe Edge
Vice
J. A Myers
Militia
Houston
Texas Central
Dallas, Austin, Waco, FT. Worth
Denison
Houston, Corsicana
Rica
Robbins
F. B Morse
T. J. Anderson
Rob
Parsons Botling Works
C. G. Parsons
Ga Bryan
Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
Pny
Border
Tyler Haswell
Aines
Otto Boehme
Bryan, Texas
Henry & Brogdon
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