For Sale Abstract Books Brazos County Land Titles
In office the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles offered for sale. About 105 acres near the courthouse with 95 cultivated and balance pasture. fenced with six wires. Price 8.00 per acre. Approximately 1.25 acres near schoolhouse in southeast town with small cottage tenant house and well. Prices for multiple lots include ground on Main Street brick residences. Quarter block near Allen Academy east front priced at 250.00. another near Allen with academy 500.00. Additional lots near school, four-room houses with outbuildings, each at 100. Rents 9.00 per month on a four-room house with pantry hall tub cistern bor. Various parcels include 13 acres side town with well and garden priced 1000.00.
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Brazos County
Court House
Allen Academy
Allen
Hundreds Displaced By High Waters Near Mesquite and Farnham
High waters north of the city in New Mexico drive hundreds from their homes. Mrs William McDonald of Berino seeks refuge in El Paso. Descriptions note homes abandoned from Mesquite and Farnham to White Spur with families in sandhills camps, extreme heat, ruined alfalfa fields, and scarce rations among Mexican families.
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Mexico
William McDonald
Berino
N. M
el Paso
Small Couple Weds In Height Based Match
Nocona Texas June 27 H L Bounds of Celina and Miss Claudia Drake wed here The bride stands forty eight inches tall weighs about ninety five pounds and is twenty nine The groom is fifty two inches tall weighs about eighty pounds and is thirty five They are native Texans Bounds a notary public owns valuable Collin county real estate. Twenty Four Killed In Las Esperantes Chihuahua mine disaster details worsen as death toll rises. Dr Blunt former state health officer dies at Laredo. He helped stamp out the 1899 smallpox epidemic. Judgment For Large Amount In Greenville Cotton Oil case W C Jones awarded 10518.33 for injuries from a bale fall.
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Nocona
Tex
H. L. Bounds
Celina
Collin County
Claudia Drake
Bounds
Eagle Pass
Mexican Coal and Coke Company
Las Esperantes
Chihuahua
Laredo
Blunt
Greenville
W. C. Jones
Consumers
Waco Woman Fatally Shot in Lexington
Miss Margie Miller, visiting sister Mrs Wainscott in Lexington Kentucky, was fatally shot in that city. She is the daughter of Captain Jack Miller of Waco and a society young lady.
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Waco
Kentucky
Privae
Margie Miller
Wainscott
Lexington
Miss Miller
Jack Miller
Beckham's Reply Declares No Right to Martial Law
Governor Beckham states he has no authority to declare martial law and would be impeached if he attempted it. He lauds Judge Redwine for handling Breathitt county cases and notes a special term to pursue crimes, asserting law is supreme. In Jackson and Louisville, Haddox vanishing sparks security moves and a jurist faces assassination threats, prompting militia guard.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Beckham
Breathitt County
Redwine
Breathitt
Louisville
Evening Post
Jackson
Cardwell
B. J. Ewen
Trio Strung Up in Georgia Lynching at Newton
Three Black men Garfield McCoy George McKinney and Wiley Anette were seized from Baker County jail in Newton and lynched by a mob after a disturbance near a Black dance. A white man Bullard assisted in calming the crowd but the mob overpowered the jailer and removed the prisoners. The incident occurred twenty one miles south of Albany, Georgia, amid heightened racial tension.
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Newton
Baker County
Georgia
Albany
Garfield McCoy
George McKinney
Wiley Anette
Here
Bullard
Man kills wife and himself in New Jersey residence scene
In Wallington New Jersey William Dessler shot and fatally wounded his wife then killed himself in the Hermitage home amid a struggle with his stepdaughter Lulu Miller who had followed him upstairs. Dessler had been estranged from his wife for over a year and had briefly run a failed Guttenburg saloon before returning.
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New York
Lulu Miller
Hermitage
Wallington
N. J
William Dessler
Dessler
Guttenburg
Rioting Chinese Coolies on Steamship Ching Wu
Mexican soldiers dispersed a riot aboard the Chinese steamer Ching Wu at Manzanillo. A mob of about 850 Chinese workers threatened the captain and officers, and the presence of troops prevented loss of life. Leaders were arrested.
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San Francisco
Peru
Mexico
Manzanillo
Coast
No Liquor in Bangor Drug Stores After July First
Bangor druggists announce they cannot fill whiskey prescriptions starting July 1 due to a Supreme Court warning on liquor law violations. The move follows February guidance and is expected to force many saloonkeepers out of business.
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Bangor
Supreme Co
Trains Collide in Des Moines Yards
A head-on collision in Des Moines between an accommodation train and a freight train killed John Erickson and James Howard and left five others seriously hurt. The wreck occurred when the outbound train pulled out without orders, assuming the freight train had pulled in. Injured include J W Morning engineer Fred Selser fireman M J Plynite conductor C W Robinson fireman and F W Rein brakeman. No passengers were harmed.
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Des Moines
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
John Erickson
James Howard
J- W. Morning
Fred Selser
M. J. Plynite
Two Train Crash Kills Engineer Fireman in Marion Va
A Norfolk and Western passenger train struck a cow near Marion Virginia causing the engine to derail and overturn. Engineer Spaulding and Fireman Hoover were killed while Express Messenger Otey and Wood were seriously injured. None of the passengers were harmed. Six pool rooms raided in New York City with 592 prisoners taken in the operation.
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Marion
Nor Ail
Kille
Nashville
Fenn
Spaulding
Hoover
Otey
Wood
New York
Tenderloin
Allens
Allen
Decorations Withdrawn by Roumania for Sixth Servian Infantry
In Vienna in June 97 the king of Roumania rescinded all Roumanian decorations given to officers of the Sixth Servian infantry whom he recently designated as honorary colonel. The Servian war minister will be informed due to King Charles indignation over the assassinations of King Alexander and Queen Draga, in which the Sixth infantry played a notable role.
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Vienna
King of
Naval academy candidates named as midshipmen
Anapolis Md June 57 The following candidates for admission to the naval academy have passed both mental and physical examinations and are now midshipmen He Pearuregarn Texas Humphrey Kentucky PD s Howard Texas BP L Turney Texas
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Anapolis
Naval Academy
Peaurégarn
Texas
Humphrey
Kentucky
PD. S. Howard
BP. L. Turney
Ship Stranded Off Texas Coast In Fatal Incident
Superintendent Kimball of the life saving service received a telegram from Saluria life saving station in Texas reporting the Mexican steamer Caramolapam stranded twelve miles northeast of that station. The captain was killed in the wreck. The crew of thirteen was in the air.
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Washington
Kimball
The
Life Saving Service
Saluria Life Saving Station
Texas
General Order to the Servian Army in Belgrade
King Peter issues a mobilizing address to officers NCOs and soldiers of the Servian army. He proclaims supreme command, praises past military merit, and calls for unity fidelity and loyalty as he guides them toward honor and glory with the refrain long live the hope of the Servian people the army.
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Belgrade
Peter
Servia
Cornell Victor as Yale Colors Top Thames in Regatta
In Poughkeepsie on June 27 Cornell dominated the intercollegiate regatta. The varsity four mile races saw Cornell first with 10 minutes 34 seconds, Penna second, Wisconsin third, Columbia fourth. Freshman eight oared two miles crowned Cornell first, Syracuse second, Wisconsin third, Columbia fourth, Penna fifth. Varsity four miles eight oared ended with Cornell first, Georgetown second, Wisconsin third, Penna fourth, Syracuse fifth, Columbia sixth. The Cornell colors led throughout all events, echoing Yale’s New London defeat before a long Hudson crowd. the freshman eight-oared course record also stood intact.
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Yale
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Cornell
Penna
Wisconsin
Columbia
Syracuse
Georgetown
New London
Hudson
Baseball scores and cotton sale report from New York
Baseball results from Texas and Southern and National Leagues note several games with rainouts in Nashville Little Rock and St Louis. A separate New York dispatch reports a massive cotton sale of about 90 000 to 100 000 bales at 13 cents earning roughly 10 million dollars for the New York purchase and 3.5 million for New Orleans buys Brown of New Orleans leads a group controlling about 300 000 bales.
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New York
New Orleans
Ee Brown
Brown
Richmond Shooting and Lynching Report From Deep South
In Richmond a 16 year old Lester Wilcox was shot by a soldier in Fulton after crying scab at a car and resisting orders. W M Tucker on a Main Street car was lightly wounded by pellet fire. A Jonesville Louisiana dispatch reports the lynching of Lamb Whitely a Black man accused of assaulting a white man.
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Richmond
Lester Wilcox
Fulton
W. M. Tucker
Pasenger
Main Street
Jonesville
Lamb Whitely
Smithland Plantation
Montgomery Landing
Concordia Parish
Memphis
Indian Chief Dragged to Death After Horse Accident
Vinita June 27. George Bear skin Assistant Chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians was thrown from his horse his foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged to death. His brains were knocked out by rocks scattered along the road.
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Vinita
J. T
George Bearskin
Oil Condemned in Guthrie Under Oklahoma Law
Deputy at Jefferson territorial inspector Beck Oxkla condemned 6000 gallons of oil owned by Waters-Pierce Oil Co that had been shipped into the territory for sale. The oil was turned back for removal from the territory under the new Oklahoma law.
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Guthrie
Okla
Terat Jefferson
Beck Oxkla
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Oklahoma
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