Looted Yacht Outfit Seized in Flushing Bay Raid
New York police raid at Flushing Bay entrance reports three men, Ernest Kraus and two Max and William, held on burglary and grand larceny. They seized a private yacht outfitting including a brass cannon and rope end. Loot valued at about $3000. yacht clubs Williamsburg Knickerbocker Bayside Manhass reported losses.
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New York
Long Island Sound
Flushing Bay
Ernest Kraus
Max
William
Williamsburg
Knickerbocker
Bayside
Manhass Yacht Clubs
Ten Die in Fire at Five-Story Tenement on Forty Seventh Ave
A blaze in a five story tenement at 372 Forty seventh avenue traps residents. Ten perish including nine Italians and one Frenchman aged five to sixty. Five injured by flying glass. two dozen escape or are rescued. Fire marshals discard incendiary theory tied to a Black Hand letter. Firemen use ladders to reach trapped occupants.
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New York
Forty Seventh Avenue
Ixcendiary
Jeffries Welcomed in New York After Four-Year Hiatus
Pugilist James Jeffries drew a crowd of about 2000 at Grand Central station in New York as he arrived with wife and sparring partner Sam Berger. He expressed confidence in his health but offered no definite plan to return to the prize ring after a four year absence.
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New York
James Jeffries
Grand Central Station
Jeffries
Sam Berger
Wisner arrives in Wisner & Co. case on bond
C. N. Wisner of Wisner & Co. cotton brokers, arrested in New Orleans on embezzlement charges, is released on $5,000 bond after a preliminary hearing in Memphis. Accused of selling Lancashire Compress machinery and diverting nearly $3,000 for personal use. Wisner declined to comment.
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Memphis
C. N. Wisner
Wisner
Train wreck near El Paso claims unknown rover and injures fireman
A Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio freight train wrecked west of El Paso. An unknown roan was killed and Fireman Felix Williams was seriously hurt.
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el Paso
Galveston
Karrisburg
San Antonio
Here
Fel x Wiliams
Miss Kendig Testimony Amid Texas House Inquiry
Miss Jessie Kendig testified about her stenographer position in the Texas House starting January 14 and paid $120 monthly. She described travel delays from Kansas City, a partial advance in February, and a held back fourteen days’ pay while others worked. She noted prior Texas work with Kennedy and Love and claimed prompt pay from Kennedy with no owed money. House revenue committee favored Mobley tax bill. a minority report will be issued. The House adopted a resolution urging Congress to appropriate $500,000 for Texas river improvements. passed barratry and tax collection bills.
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Austin
House
Kennedy
Jessie Kendig
Kendig
Kansas City
New York
Mart
Tex
Love
Waco
Texas
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Mobley
Congress
Cofer
Senate committee on Thomas charges expands witness scope
Austin reports the senate investigating panel may sit a week or longer and hear witnesses on street corners and hotel lobbies as well as in chambers. Dallas City Attorney Collins plans a bill to amend Dallas city charter to manage Trinity River sewage due to missing government dams, though bond amounts are not stated.
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Austin
Senate
Thomas
Collins
Dallas
Trinity River
Strong Issues Address on Prohibition Submission
Dallas report says Hon. Sterling P. Strong asserts the submission to a vote of the people is not declared defeated but merely postponed. He states the contest will be renewed before the next legislature.
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Dallas
Sterling P. Strong
Strong
Unionists Triumph In Church Union Case At Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Civil Appeals and affirmed the Marion county district court ruling in William Clark et al v G W Brown et al. The suit sought to recover church property deeded to trustees of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Jefferson. The decision holds Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly authority to union with the Presbyterian Church of the United States and says union transfers property rights to the United States denomination. The case involves over $1,000,000 in property.
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Supreme Court
Court of Civil Appeals
District Court of
Marion County
William Clark
G. W. Brown
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Jefferson
Presbyterian Church of the
United States
General Assembly of the
Church At Jefferson
Luther Burbank to Tour Texas for New Plant Varieties
El Paso reports that plant wizard Luther Burbank will visit San Antonio and west Texas in April to assess grafting material and study Mexican flora. He aims to turn thornless cactus and other plants into marketable food, viewing Texas as a promising field.
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el Paso
Luther Burbank
San Antonio
West Texas
Mexico
Texas
Merchants Clash With Santa Fe Over New Station
Weatherford Texas March 3 war between merchants and the Santa Fe railway follows a conference. Merchants threaten to move business to other lines unless Santa Fe builds a new station. The railway says it will consolidate the two old stations.
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Santa Fe
Weatherford
Tex
Santa Fe Railway
Arlington Club Maps Interurban Link to Cleburne
Arlington Commercial club appoints a committee to propose building the Northern Texas Traction Railway interurban to Cleburne via Mansfield and connect with the Fort Worth Dallas line. The club will raise funds for the project.
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Arlington
Tex
Arlington Commercial Club
Northern Texas Traction Railway Company
Cleburne
Mansfield
Fort Worth
Dallas
Escape by Narrow Margin
Wind at forty miles per hour toppled a two story brick building at Van and South Twelfth streets in St. Louis. Samuel Wolf his wife and seven children sleeping on the second floor escaped injury by a narrow margin.
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St. Louis
van and
South Twelfth Streets
Samuel Wolf
Legislature Kills Clayberg Anti Japanese Land Bill
In the committee of the whole the legislature defeated the Clayberg anti-Japanese bill by two votes. The measure, modeled after the California act, aimed to prohibit holding lands by Orientals.
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Helena
Bent
California
Boy Killed In Texas Accident At Ranch Move
Dalhart Texas March 3 An eighteen year old man transfers household goods from a car to a ranch near Wave when a shotgun discharged fatally injuring Alsen Oliver. The Oliver family is from Rockwell City Iowa.
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Dalhart
Tex
Wave
Alsen Oliver
Rockwellity
Viola Squire Objects to Personal Property Taxes
Viola Squire writes to the county treasurer from Chicago on March 8 asserting she is not technically or legally a citizen and cannot vote, and objects to being forced to pay personal property taxes.
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Chicago
Viola Squire
Senate Votes to Repeal County Local Option Law
Indianapolis March 3 by vote of 26 to 23 the senate struck and the enacting clause of the bill to repeal the county local option law.
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Indianapolis
Senate
University Club Plans $350000 Building
Washington March 3. The University club will erect a $350,000 building.
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Washington
The
University Club
Young Philadelphia Girl Dies by Carbolic Acid Suicide
Eleanor Fink, 15, killed herself after her father forbade her to elope with a boy. The Philadelphia tragedy occurred March 3 as the girl ingested carbolic acid.
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Philadelphia
Eleanor Fink
Blizzard Paralyzes Berlin as City Struck by Snowfall
Berlin endures a severe blizzard with heavy snow and traffic disruption. Fifty people are seriously injured after falls on icy streets amid the storm, as March 3 reports indicate.
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Berlin
Governor vetoes read-a-paragraph education bill
In Phoenix on March 3 the governor vetoed a bill requiring voters to read a random paragraph from the U S Constitution. The measure was overridden. The council amended the local option segregation bill and sent it back to the house.
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Paoenix, Ariz
Austrian Soldiers Rescued from Avalanche Toll Near Lafrann
A detachment of six officers and twenty five men from the Austrian army, overwhelmed by an avalanche near Lafrann, were rescued after taking refuge in a tunnel. The tunnel had been buried under snow.
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Innsbruck
Austria
Lafrann
Woermer Nominated For Mayor On Second Ballot
St. Louis delegates at the Democratic city convention nominate W. F. Woermer for mayor on the second ballot.
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St. Louis
W. F. Woermer
Twenty Prisoners Escape from Acapulco Fortress
City of Mexico reports twenty long term prisoners escaped from the fortress at Acapulco on March 3.
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City of Mexico
Acapulco
Tragedy Near Tracks In Texas Man Killed En Route To Mexico
J C Wilson of Haskell Texas was found beside the Southern Pacific tracks with a severed foot. He was last seen walking toward Mexico to seek work and was reportedly smoking a cigarette when the accident occurred.
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San Antonio
J. C. Wilson
Haskell
Tex
Southern Pacific Railway
Mexico
Mine Blast in Butte Diamonds Kills Nine Men
In Butte Montana on March 3 a premature blast at a diamond mine killed nine workers. The men were buried under a fall of rock and debris in the shaft area. The disaster prompts rescue and investigation efforts by local authorities and mining officials.
Poultry Market Prices and Demand Report
Egg market dull and down. Eggs, hens and fliers priced from $1.80 to $4.00, broilers $2.00 to $2.50, geese and ducks $3.00 to $4.00, guineas $2.00 to $2.50. Demand is excellent for all poultry. multiple bird categories listed with price ranges.
Real estate office in Taliaferro Building near Court House
An agent advertises a Brazos County real estate office in the Taliaferro Building opposite the Court House. The listing notes 37 people in the office and claims to hold the sole set of Brazos County Sami titles abstract books.
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Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
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C. EF. Bullock & CO
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