Man Confesses to Murder Fire Coverup and Theft of Furniture
In Bryan Texas on June 20 a negro man Andrew Dozier confessed to killing Annie Brigance the black cook. He burned the house and contents to hide the crime then helped save some of the belongings. He also claimed another man was present and was driven off before the fatal quarrel. Dozier warned his confession would be used at trial.
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Andrew Dozier
Nunn
J. W. Batts
J. A. Myers
Dozie
Palestine
Tex
Ed Matthews
Jim Stafford
Matthews
General Wood Returns From Cuba Visit
General Wood reports improving conditions in Santiago province after visiting towns and inspecting schools. He notes steady payroll of U S bounty payments, rebuilding efforts, healthy troops with no yellow fever since November, and progress on sanitary arrangements. He expects Harvard commencement and plans to return to Cuba around July 1.
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Boston
Jne
Admiral Dewey
Leonard Werel
Santiago
Wood
General Wood
New York
Admiral Sampson
United States
Cuba
Riot at Scovill Avenue line in Cleveland disrupts new service
A riot in Cleveland damages two new street railway lines on Scovill and Central avenues. A mob of over 2000 hurled bricks and stones at a Scovill car, injuring a motor man A J McGraw and a patrolman. Police arrived. crowd dispersed with no arrests.
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Cleveland
Street Railway
Scovill
Central Avenues
Pennsylvania Railway
A. J. McGraw
St. Louis
Wheat harvest underway across Oklahoma Territory yield forecast
Guthrie Oklahoma reports full wheat harvest with an anticipated 25 million bushels statewide. Separate note from Chicago indicates tuberculosis germs found in a herd of 92 cows entering stock yards. Washington notes Representative Cannon of Illinois expects no extra session of Congress this year.
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Guthrie
O. T
Chicago
Congress
Washington
Cannon
Illinois
Negroes moved to mines under federal injunctions
A carload of Fort Scott African Americans left for the Fort Fleming mines under Colonel J H Richards and federal marshal protection to prevent interference. Three hundred West Virginia miners arrived to be sent south likely to Indian Territory mines, with unknown destinations.
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Fort Scott
Kas
J. H. Richards
Missouri Coal and Mining Company
Fort Fleming
United States
West Virginia
Indian Territory
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Garlington
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W. A. Gray
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