Texas News Roundup Signals Diverse Local Tragedies and Bets
A condensed Texas news brief reports a large ice factory at Taxas, a drowned man Jimmie Cox in Houston Bluff Bayou, Mennonite relocation near Angelo, J. M. Thompson founding Texas sawmill, and deaths including Edward Kendall nine, and a girl Anie Berwick. Fires and accidents touch Okemah, Gonza les, and El Paso. Court matters include Major Penrose acquittal, Taft's Panama voyage reception, and a man with four wives in a civil suit.
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Taxas
Sherman Elks
Texas Elks
Beaumont
Bluff Bayou
Houston
Jimmie Cox
Bluff von O
Angelo
J. M. Thompson
Texas
Okemah
I. T
Burnet
Tex
Hiram Dashiell
Lone Wolf
Okla
I. M. Murdock
W. L. Sledge
Edward Kendall
Pawnee
Oklo
Anie Berwick
Sabine River
Orange
Abilene
Lee Lane
Halliday
Gonzales
Powell Lumber Company
Lake Charles
el Paso
L. H. Schroeder
Eau Claire
Wis
Winchester
Thomas Oldham
Tarpy
Lamar County
San Antonio
Penrose
Brownsville
Double Homicide and Public Scandal Reported
In San Antonio real estate agent T. E. Smith was shot by E. J. Wilson who fired five times. A bullet killed Smith’s clerk E. Beversdorf, age eighteen, the bullet entering his heart. Smith died two hours after the attack. In Abilene ex Senator Burton claimed Roosevelt offered a pardon after his Ironton jail confinement and criticized the president while denying fraud charges.
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San Antonio
T. E. Smith
Moore Building
E. J. Wilson
Wilson
Smith
E. Beversdorf
Burton
Abilene
Kan
Ironton
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Tinsman Promoted and Staff Changes at Rock Island
Chicago March 25 announced at Rock Island system offices that W S Tinsman formerly Southwestern district superintendent will become assistant general manager with Chicago offices A E Sweet to replace him as superintendent of the South Western district Fort Worth March 25 William Thomason who killed County Attorney McLean seriously shot Hamil Scott and was wounded by Officers Lloyd and Bell died Saturday night His wife and a clergyman were with him at the end Fort Worth March 25 In Federal court J J Satterfield won 15000 against the Santa Fe railway for loss of a leg Ghent Belgium March 25 Women will be appointed policemen.
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Galveston
Tyler
Tex
Miss Bessie
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Federrico Mariani
Milan
Italy
Albert Roberts
Lockhart
F. Voight
Tom Washington
Houston
May Pullen
Taft
Charleston
S. C
Panama
Charles Wallace
Memphis
J. E. Rousch
Henry Heissel
el Paso
Gainesville
Roe Clark
Sam Davis
R. W. Hoskiss
Concho
McCulloch
Texas
C. M. Sammons
Waxahachie
Dallas
Dallas Knights of Kadosh
Francis Auntria
Tach
Tinsman
Chicago
Rock Island
W. S. Tinsman
A. E. Sweet
Fort Worth
William Thomason
McLean
Hamil Scott
Lloyd and
Bell
J. J. Satterfield
The
Santa Fe Railway
Central American War News Dampens New York Colony
News from Managua that Nicaragua's forces defeated Honduras at Choluteca and Bonilla fled unsettles New York's Central American community. Observers fear a Nicaraguan push toward Amalpa island and possible pursuit toward La Union, while optimism about a swift end to the war is tempered by the unsettled frontier. General Estrada and Ortiz led the Choluteca operation with Portillos de Namasique nearby. Pio Bolonganos, Nicaragua's consul general, called it a likely end to the war.
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New York
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Choluteca
Bonilla
San Lorenzo
Amalpa Island
Pacific
Amalpa
la Union
Salvador
Aurelio Estrada
General Ortiz
Portillos de Namasique
Tegucigalpa
Managua
Pio Bologanos
Singer Emma Eames Seeks Separation From Julian Story
New York March 25 Mme Emma Eames opera star seeks absolute divorce from husband Julian Story in New York Supreme Court. She has not lived with him and friends say a split was likely. Story claims innocence and says he learned of action days ago while explaining Mme’s artistic temperament. Born 1869 in Shanghai to American parents.
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Emma Eames
New York
Mme
Julian Story
Supreme Court of
Mme. Eames
Philadelphia
Story
Madame
London
Grand Opera
Paris
Shanghai
China
Jealousy Tragedy Ends in Two Fatalities in Nashville
In Nashville on March 25 Nettie Green, described as a negro woman, killed Mattie Goodc with a revolver and then drank carbolic acid, dying hours later in the city hospital. The crime occurred in an alley near Union Station, with jealousy cited as the motive.
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Nashville
Nettie Green
Mattie Goodc
eGreen
City Hospital
Union Station
Denial of Burton Pardon Offer by Pardons Chief
Washington March 25 Peyton Gordon head of pardons denies Burton was offered a pardon. He cites several letters to the department of justice asking for a grant but notes no indication Burton himself requested one and no reply was received.
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Washington
Peyton Gordon
Burton
Department of Justice
Famous Surgeon Von Bergmann Dies in Wiesbaden
In Wiesbaden Germany on March 25 Professor von Bergmann, renowned surgeon, died after an operation for appendicitis. The celebrated physician conducted pioneering work in abdominal surgery and trained a generation of surgeons. His death marks the loss of a leading medical mind.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Professor von Bergmann
France and Liam sign new treaty on trade and policy
Brief items report a France and Liam treaty, multiple fires in Pittsburg Texas with $250000 loss, Lawton Oklahoma cattle depredation by dogs, Santa Fe stockpens improvements at San Angelo, US food exports totaling $250 million, Virginia forest fires in Patrick County, Chinese revolutionaries sowing sedition, Miss Mary Lyles dead from carbolic acid, Lawton voting increase to 1550, Sam Persons killed switching in Pittsburg Texas, Nocona bank opening, compression prospecting at San Angelo, Ed Shanks injured near Park Springs, Osage payments total 2185, geese shot near Monahans, Vance life sentence in Reno for Sayre killings, large Spillman barn fire at Plano.
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France
Liam
Pittsburg
Lawton
Oklo
Santa Fe
San Angelo
Tex
United States
Patrick County
Virginia
Mary Lyles
Beaumont
Okla
Sam Persons
City National Bank of
Nocona
Ed Shanks
Park Springs
Tulsa
I. T
Monahans
Geoge Elmer Vance
Fl Reno
Walter Shehan
Henry Madoux
Sayre
J. E. Spillman
Plano
J. W. Shepard
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